skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tons of comments, here and elsewhere, that say that NYT should be really embarrassed by this piece. I thought the same after reading snippets posted by others, but after reading the full piece end-to-end, I disagree.

I think the article is a fairly straightforward account of what happened. I think there are places that it could have emphasized the fact that "borrowing customer funds" is accurately called theft, but it didn't come across to me as a "puff piece" that people are calling it.

For example, I thought this paragraph was pretty informative and actually extremely damning to the people involved - what is described here is clear theft, plain and simple:

> Around the time the crypto market crashed this spring, Ms. Ellison explained, lenders moved to recall those loans, the person familiar with the meeting said. But the funds that Alameda had spent were no longer easily available, so the company used FTX customer funds to make the payments. Besides her and Mr. Bankman-Fried, she said, two other people knew about the arrangement: Mr. Singh and Mr. Wang.

With that one statement I don't see in any way how SBF, Ellison, Singh and Wang avoid lengthy prison terms.
No, this is a matter of historical fact. If you disagree, bring it up with the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary.[0] Or, if you prefer, the editors of the First Folio, a 1623 compilation of Shakespeare's works;[1] not quite as early, but easier for us mere mortals to verify.

> For your sake (Iewell) // I am glad at soule, I haue no other Child; // For thy escape would teach me Tirranie // To hang clogges on them.

[0]: https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/200700#eid1288185420

[1]: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Shakespeare_-_First_Folio_fac...
That’s not correct. But assuming it is, how far are you willing to go? Skin color? Family education? Neighborhood a person grew up in? Gene defects? There are billions of reasons why two people are not completely equal.

In the end, you need 999 bureaucrats to make sure one person get equity.

One reason why communist countries are poor. Nobody produces things because everybody in working in the administration of equity.

And in the end, everybody is poor.
A lot of hiring process is less about finding the best candidate, and more about finding a "good enough" candidate with as high a success rate as possible. Hiring is expensive, so minimizing risk is pretty highly valued. People you already know are at least perceived as the lowest risk hires there are. So you hire people you already know, if you can.

One man's cronyism is another's CYA.
But there's the rub. It's impossible to determine through testing whether a particular AI system will actually have a lower frequency of errors than humans. You can program an AI system to handle certain failure modes and test for those in simulation. But complex systems tend to have hidden failure modes which no one ever anticipated, so by definition it's impossible to test how the AI will handle those. Whereas an experienced human can often determine the correct course of action based on first principles.

For example, see US Airways Flight 1549. Airbus had never tested a double engine failure in those exact circumstances so the flight crew disregarded some steps in the written checklist and improvised a new procedure. Would an AI have handled the emergency as well? Doubtful.
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/about/about.html

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Dangerous and self aware ;)
> What does this even mean? Why include it in the story?

I mean... it's an interview... with the guy at the center of all of it.

How is it not newsworthy to put him on the record? Where's the lack of integrity in that?

Anyone on SBF's side would try to get him to shut completely up. Instead the NYTs has made him feel comfortable and got him talking. He's going to hang himself with his words. They will be quote from this, using it against him at trial and sentencing, because there will be plenty of private communications counter to this, which shows a conscious effort to deceive.

Getting mad at the NYT over FTX is just weird.
git revert doesn't undo a commit though— it creates a new commit that undoes it. That might be what you want under some circumstances, but most of the time that I want to revert it's a commit I just made and haven't pushed yet, so I just want to pretend it never existed.
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> space travel theme restaurant

Planet Hollywood?
Can't hear your negativity over the sound of my bathtub approaching 100% capacity.
To be honest, I think this behavior is quite useful.

Staging just means "I'm happy with the changes so far but didn't finish everything I want in my commit; let's ignore this changes for now".

What `git diff` does by default becomes useful when you touch the staged changes again. Then you see only the new changes compared to the staged stuff. This helps building up a commit step by step, with some trail and error in between.

Think for example about something like: You use some tool to do some automatic changes. This creates hundreds of changed files. But the result isn't working. You could commit that, sure. But than you would need to rewrite history before pushing because creating not working commits is a terrible idea. Or you could just stage the changes for now. Than you can change / repair the still missing parts. Git diff will helpfully show you only the new changes but ignore the staged stuff as long as it's untouched. You would now for example easily see changes that you made to the automatic rewrites. Without the staging behavior you could only compare with a committed state, and drown in hundreds of changes that are unrelated.

The main problem with the staging area is that quite some GUI tools don't use it correctly. The tools try to "simplify" Git by ignoring how the stating area is supposed to work, or ignore it completely like the infamous JetBrains IDEs. (IDEA is the tool that needed almost 10 years to implement Git sub-modules…). I think the VCS handling in IDEA is on the surface very polished. But when it comes to something like the staging area the UI-wise very crappy VS Code Git support beats that by far. Sublime Merge does also the "right thing"™ and hides the staged changes at the bottom so you see only the the changes to the changes. Exactly as the staging area is meant to be used!
Another problem is that nearly everyone's "political" views have been reduced to just talking points and strange dogmatic behavior.

As a counter example consider someone who could no longer exist online even if he, sadly, had not passed: Erik Naggum

Erik certainly expressed political views in many of his comments, but at the same time it's very hard to box his thinking into any mainstream political narrative. I think today he would be both unwelcome on Twitter and HN or any more conservative sites. Erik represents a lot of what I remember and miss about earlier forums: strongly held personal beliefs that don't fit into any one particular bucket.

Individuals having diverse views within their own system of beliefs is what allowed us to have meaningful political discussions in the past because 3 people could talk about 3 different topics and the group could reasonably be split 2 vs 1 on all topics with completely different splits each time.
>it's only entrapment if the informants put some kind of unreasonable pressure on you to make you break the law, something that would tempt any reasonable person.

Like having a female informant sleep with you and ply you with drugs to get you to make statements that are later used to prosecute you? Let's remember no kidnapping took place here. These men were prosecuted for allegedly conspiring in a plot (that was never carried out), which was cooked up by informants and FBI agents.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/whitmer-kidn...
I have no sources on hand and no desire to find any, but I think that OW2 was a partial refactor of OW1, if that makes sense. They'd always planned to sunset OW1 for the release of 2.

Ages ago, there was a large update to OW1, which I believe had something to do with 'readiness' for OW2 in the form of major engine changes, etc. Nothing was really new after that patch, but it was massive, and may have actually been a full reinstall. Memory is flaky there, and I don't want to look for details while at work.

I'd bet $1 that the megapatch (and patches since) would have been designed with OW2 in mind, since OW2 took a long time in the oven. Extrapolating a bit, I think of it as running the OW2 engine in OW1 compatibility mode, or something.
Unfortunately you can't run git commands directly right now, since there is no .git directory at the root of the repo. Under the hood there is a .git directory hidden away somewhere under the .sl directory, but we consider that an implementation detail and are likely to change how we store the actual git data in the future. So we don't support people running git commands in there.
Question: Why is the metaverse a bad idea?

Answer: The metaverse is a bad idea because it is a bad idea.
I remember Atomic Cafe, when it came out it was pretty popular in Germany, where I grew up. At the time we were assuming we'd be the first to go, being right between the two big atomic powers. Everyone I knew back then assumed there's really nothing you could do, though.
Sure, that's their motives of course - to move people to a newer game and not have any distractions like lingering old stuff.

If you only played for free then it may sting but you have no right to compensation, only to annoyed venting.

But people are saying they paid $60 for it. They have a right to compensation. Moreover, it feels like this should not only be handled by individual damages related to the value of the product but also a fine or punitive damages related to what they thought they would gain from the scheme.
that's a fantastic use case!, the easiest way (and the one i'm currently using) is by upload the audio manually on :

https://replicate.com/openai/whisper
Exactly, stay off the exchanges unless you are converting
Putin. Miller. Gazprom [video]
many exchanges boast user stats and funding stats which don't match a corresponding increase in addresses, we can also corroborate this with the size of the exchange's known hot and cold wallets, and further corroborate this with periods of time later when many users do move funds to distinct addresses outside of exchanges, the difference with what remains on exchange we can (or have to) assume to be distinct users. finally, there have been periods of time when its not worth it to move funds off of exchange because the transaction fees would eat the small amounts that poorer/less capitalized users bought and hold.

that still leaves us with "most".

everyone knows the theoretical issues and incompleteness of this statistics collection - since there is no single public or verifiable stat to use - its pretty new to be a person that chooses assume its more likely that people are having distinct addresses on chain, than assume its more likely they're on an exchange

kind of funny how we go full circle here, but okay. hope that helps your reasoning. this article has no way of making its claims either, so there's really no point of appealing to either authority or bolster any opinion.
The very important point is that you probably have a known heart condition, if your doctor recommended this. The problem with many of these devices is false positives.
Hurr durr Elon bad all you want, getting fired for telling your boss to ‘kiss my ass’ is not cancel culture and neither is continuing to host that message.
It certainly isn't unprecedented, which is probably the worst part of the whole thing. That said, I think that it is at least a partial component of the OW2 backlash, so it's hard to ignore here :(
Guild Wars was great, arguably better than the sequel. I'm glad the servers are still up.
You'll be surprised if Aliens speak english
The only barrier for higher stakes applications is going to be the frequency of errors.

IE, "The only barrier to the software working perfectly is it's tendency to fail".

Which is to say this sort of argument effectively assumes, without proof, that are no structural barriers to improving neural network performance in the real world. The thing is, the slow progress on self-driving cars shows that reducing the "frequency of errors" can turn from a simple exercise in optimizing and pumping in more data to a decades long debug process.
Your original comment in itself is already dripping with ad hominem.
And they keep calling him stupid. It is actually quite entertaining.
Ask HN: What do I say on interview if I flew previous job, scared of a person?
Some time ago I was approached at work by a colleague who demanded a restitution for a slight, something related to failing to promptly (within minutes?) respond to a message in one of internal company tools.

I'm not neurotypical, so nuances of respect are lost to me. Handling high-pressure social interactions is also not my strong suit, so failed to deescalate it and it ended up with shouting (though one-sided, thanks god). My manager managed to break it up, but I was so scared of the guy that I resigned some time after.

This is a first time I have resigned before landing another job, and now I'm not looking forward for the interview question "why did you leave your previous company?". Any tips? I'd be especially grateful for advice from somebody who had been in a similar situation.

P.S: I'm looking forward to a new start and would like to leave the history behind, so I'm not going to talk to the previous company for any reason.
The GBC is quite easy to disassemble (If you have one of Nintendo's silly triwing screwdrivers). Give the pads under the buttons a rub with some isopropyl, and at an extreme buy some new conductive silicone pads for about £8 online.

No soldering required to get you back up and running.
rn setup can be hard - but consider the problem space - two different operating systems, two different build systems. if 1 day is the max you're willing to put in to investigate build/config errors, there are very few dev environments you're going to succeed in.

Take, for example, native iOS development. For any dev, that involves regular bouts of multi-day configuration hell. Xcode is a huge beast and cryptic for beginners. Add in multiple third party libraries like firebase and it's a tossup which is harder, native or RN.

Toss in Android support, which is the main reason to use RN, and then you will see an order of magnitude improvement in your RN config.

Toss in web support, which RN has, and you're in a deeper hell.
My Method for Rails Model Namespacing
NYPD Arrests Cyclist for Uncovering Obscured License Plate, Lets Driver Go
I think that is also largely colored by the fact that one «side» in modern US politics is objectively literally a collection of «bad guys». It makes it a bit hard to have serious political discourse when one of the sides is seeemingly trying to burn the house down rather than lose.

Also there was a ton of political stuff in the bush era as well. My theory is that you just dont remember it because there was still a solid foundation of political decorum and respect on both sides at that time.

Disclaimer: I am not american.
But I paid for OW1, right? They don't come and repossess my car when a new model comes out.
Does your boss publicly insult your work?

I'm not saying you're wrong, or that what the engineer did wasn't obviously going to lead to getting fired, but I can sympathize with where the motivation to respond came from. I'd certainly not be happy if some corporate raider fired my colleagues and then turned to publicly insulting my and their work.
Now I'm curious how boiler plate is made. Can't find much - its all code stuff per google search. Seems like its just hot rolled steel plate to a certain thickness.
Exchanges batch transactions specifically to avoid tons of transactions using ton's of addresses is perfectly fine however the address space is very very large.
Telling your boss to ‘kiss my ass’ is not standing up for your team, it’s perfectly normal grounds to get fired. But be sure to hire her if you think that behavior is normal, it’s a free world.
So pick another instance[1] or start your own? That's how federation works.

[1] https://join-lemmy.org/instances
I only bill focused time, and never charge for breaks or lunch. I also bill a lower rate (~50%) for regular meetings, and usually no charge for meetings with external vendors/parties where the client needs technical representation or exploratory discussions. I also don't charge for any research or personal learning time required to achieve the task I contract for.

This has let me keep my base rate quite high while not discouraging clients from utilizing me in other aspects of their business. This has gained me far more business than it cost in time, and made client relationships pretty amiable.

It works for me, but I understand that it would not for many. I primarily work on projects/industries I find interesting and have less financial pressure than younger devs.
Just to point out: you're comparing a news story to an opinion column.

I'm just calling for some critical thinking here! I get it, everyone's angry. But you don't have to let it turn your brain off.
More that objects themselves can't travel faster than the speed of light, but nothing limits non-objects. Spacetime may expand at whatever speed it would like to, including faster than the speed of light.

Imagine if you are on a sheet of stretchy fabric, that represents spacetime. If you stretch the sheet from corner to corner at and even rate, things at the edge travel faster away from the things in the center of the sheet. They themselves are not traveling, spacetime is expanding around them.
What’s your alternative? Everyone agreeing to sit round the campfire, hold hands and sing kumbaya? You can’t possibly be this naive.

There’s something uniquely frustrating about seeing somebody like you, who has a completely naive and childlike worldview, assuming that YOU are just a genius and everyone else is an idiot.
> Whenever something becomes cheaper (in this case, labor for art), its consumption increases. So in the future, because producing commercial art is so much cheaper, it will be consumed a lot more.

I'm not sure how that would apply here. There's never been a shortage of art. Art has always had more supply than demand, and now we just added even more supply to saturate the market. I was previously a more likely client for an artist than I am now where I can get my computer to spit out any image I want in like 30 seconds. But I have no more desire for art than I did before.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/816#issuecomment-6446...

> Edit: This comment was written at a time when Lemmy the software was practically identical with the lemmy.ml instance. At that time we barely had any moderation tools, so it was an easy way to keep some groups of users off the instance. Now its different, there are good mod tools, and many different instances. So we removed the slur filter in Lemmy 0.14.0 (instance admins can optionally configure one, which lemmy.ml does).

The comment was edited Nov 2021 to include this new context.
The corecursive podcast recently had an excellent episode about the history around Eliza: https://corecursive.com/eliza-with-jeff-shrager/
I see you're ready for the advanced course. Here's the continuation of that history: https://daily.jstor.org/the-birth-of-planned-obsolescence/ Planned obsolescence through advertising is still planned obsolescence.

TL;DR: It happened. They did it on purpose, that purpose being to make more money.
Where can I find paywalled truth… Maybe from some botique firms or newsletters but good luck identifying them
Is this tweet chain actually just an ad?

Seems odd to critique something then describe it as "database of over 150 million verified emails & mobile numbers"
There are exactly three possible outcomes: (1) most gain a little and a few lose a lot, (2) equal numbers gain and lose, or (3) a few win big and most people lose.

The system organization favors a few winning big, so the majority must ("inevitably") lose.
Everything Is Silicon Valley Now
Ham's greatest advantage is also its greatest weakness: being strictly non-commercial.
It can be easily reconciled if there are far more instances of false positives than true positives.

Remember that a 99% accuracy for a condition that 0.1% of the population has still means 10 false positives for each 1 early diagnosis.

I don't what the numbers are for the conditions that the Apple Watch can detect, just discussing the general principle. Whether it's more useful or more harmful depends crucially on the real numbers.
I remember doing these. Air raid sirens would go off, we would dive under out desks, wait until teacher said we could get up. Sometimes we did drills to all march, in an orderly manner, out of the classroom into the basement of the classroom building, or to the locker rooms at the gym. IIRC during the Cuban missile crisis we got sent home early one or two days, but my memory is a bit fuzzy on that. This was in Bethesda, MD, adjacent to DC.

I've lived near Camp David and Site R for 50+ years, so we always joked that if the missiles ever started flying, we'd be the first to know and go.
I usually despise comments that point out that two pieces of (almost always unrelated) software share the same (or a similar) name. That doesn't apply in this case—

Chandler has not only already been used for another piece of software, it has been used for something in what is roughly the same space. The other Chandler was discontinued >10 years ago, but I had to double check and triple check to suss out whether or not your Chandler is actually a reboot + a rewrite. And I'm still hedging (but I think the answer is "no, they're completely separate"). That's a confusing amount of similarity.

EDIT: it looks like this has been pointed out. Even though it's "just" a codename, I'd recommend changing it to something like "chauncey" or "bingaling" or "miss-bong" or "skidmark" or something.
The real Lemmy wouldn't have a rude word filter. He'd let you use the rude word, and if you got punched in the mouth for using it he'd use that as a teachable moment.

Be more Lemmy.
I went to school in the 70's and _we_ had no such drills, but being in tornado alley, plenty of those.

That said, I suspect these drills were more for theatre, like most of the TSA is now - put up a big visible show that you're doing _something_.

Reasonable people can disagree.
A more precise term would be statically typed. Types are checked at compile time. C has a fairly "weak" type system.

congrats on getting the Easter egg!
Google maps?

Please elaborate.
Emacs + Magit, and never looked back.
Automatic braking on my Mazda almost caused me 2 accidents.... because it breaks to almost a full stop on the highway for almost no reason sometimes (and someone was right behind me)
Some good things are happening
I wonder how this applies to the design of social media sites?

Automatic summaries of bias and fact check ratings for sites, authors and author affiliations?

Ability to filter on site and author/affiliation?
> you haven't presented a solution any single person can work with either- perhaps it is a difficult problem.

Exactly; it's a tough problem. Much as I admire my own intellect [/s], I hardly think I can come up with a solution by myself, no. If we were an "army of millions" who were thinking hard about the problem then we would have sporting chance I think - but we are not that many (which, again, is frankly baffling).

Other than that, for the record I don't believe this is a problem of morons vs intelligent people. Political leaders, leaders of the military, and the others that we might want to point fingers at in this context are probably highly intelligent. It's just that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

The initiative likely needs to come from people that are not already mired in the system.