skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Offering to pass the name around in your circles or keeping ears open at your company, that would be actually helpful. I've always found "let me know how I can help" code for "don't bother me" in America.

Especially bad and a red flag: "If you've got time this weekend we can grab lunch." The fellow might be in crisis now, but don't bother me until the weekend.
I came across this really good summary of FTX's fraud on Reddit the other day:

"SBF/Alameda's initial strategy was arbitraging price differences between US and Korea/Japan. The different crypto exchanges in different countries would have different prices for the same coin. In theory this was possible but in practice it was basically impossible. They lost money in Korea due to capital controls, they made some money in Japan but still lost money overall due to the enormous amounts they had to borrow and the high interest rates they were paying.

The arbitrage strategy wasn't working so they switched to shilling shitcoins. Basically they would create a new token backed by say $5m seed money, put like 1% of the total number of tokens created on the market, then use their own money to pump up the token price by 100x. Since they owned and controlled 99% of the total amount of tokens, this was easy to do. Now their initial $5m is worth $500m, but only on paper because liquidity on these tokens is tiny and if they actually tried to sell it would immediately crash.

Alameda did this in order to get loans using the tokens that they created and pumped as collateral. Then they took the borrowed money to make large directional bets on crypto prices. However it turned out they were bad at trading crypto and took billions in losses and the margin calls started coming in for their loans.

At this point Alameda was stuck, the collateral backing these loans were all shitcoins and if they started selling them the price would crash causing the entire company to go under. Since SBF couldn't meet the margin calls by liquidating the underlying collateral, he and the other founders decided to steal money from customer accounts at FTX to meet the margin calls. Basically they would give Alameda their own FTX token(FTT) and then have FTX loan customer funds to Alameda using the tokens they just gave them as "collateral". It was essentially the same scam as the one they pulled on lenders, only now they're doing it to customers while promising they would never touch customer funds.

Alameda kept losing money and eventually the scheme was discovered and it ended up being they stole something like 2/3 of the customer funds at FTX. Current estimates are at about $10 billion they lost gambling on crypto with customer money. It was a classic case of a gambler kept doubling down and borrowing and stealing until it came crashing down."
There is a long history of the "Block Size wars," and there are many arguments that I won't repeat or summarize here.

Two of the most important (IMO) however, are:

1. Small blocksize permits anyone to run a full validating Bitcoin node with minimal consumer hardware (including a Raspberry Pi).

2. As the block subsidy decreases, fees will become more and more important component of miner revenue; gigantic (or taken to the logical absurd, unbounded) block size means no fee market will emerge.
What constitutes a "scam" in the that paper? That paper treats all USDT (Tether) transactions as "not scam".

I think that remains to be proven and I don't think it's anywhere near certain.
While I agree, you should also always maintain backups of your data.
What a bizarre conclusion-jump. More than one person in the world is named Prager, you know.
IMO, do not expect to do this right after unboxing. Realize that figuring out (and strengthening your muscle to use) the correct form takes a bit of time, and if you jump into a 5k row and you aren't feeling it in the right places/it's super easy, you absolutely are not using the right form. Rowing targets muscles most people never use, especially in your back, and it should be quite fatiguing.
> The vast majority are not performing egregious violations of civil rights. What we see in the news are the exceptions.

I can not see it this way, and I have earned that honestly. I have lived much of my life in poverty and addiction and across decades and dozens of interactions, not a single cop treated me with dignity and respect while I was homeless. Now I can code, can afford a dentist and $300 boots, and we get along fine! The violations are not the exception, they are build in to the system. The violations against people like you, against who I am now, those are exceptions. But in general? No.

I'm not arguing for lawlessness here. I am saying we should not be funding a hostile paramilitary force to harass the citizens we have already failed in other ways.
Emulator can be a program with some type of linked list, whose core can emulate computations, which may be stored on various types of memory. In some types of emergencies when all CPUs and RAMs are busy, it can be handy. Maybe part of computational operations (like comparisons) can be done by CPU. Truth tables are essentially the already computed results of basic AND/OR/XOR operations, so at least these operations may be emulated on a storage via selection of a predefined result of computation. But whatever (I hope I won't run out of functionality provided by 2 cores).
Customers demand it, but customers are not willing to pay for it.

With a choice to pay $1k "with a small probability of surprise bill" or $5k all-included most patients will prefer the former.
Most governments that are so bad you need crypto are not that bad because of repression necessarily, but because of corruption or incompetence. Corruption or incompetence doesn't care enought to "shut down the internet" and if they do odds are a bad job will be done of it.
Ask HN: Will Gmail spam filtering ever be fixed?
I've been getting a ton of spam on my gmail account for a while now and my curiosity led me right back to HN where apparently people have been noticing this for months already - as of 57 days ago. Did anything ever come of this thread? Will spam filtering ever be fixed on gmail? I always thought gmail spam filtering was supposed to be the best - is there a better option I should be considering?
Let's face it. Most programing jobs are a bullshit job. I've been chasing obscure bugs for weeks and ended up fixing a few lines of code some guy wrote years ago and it improve the software so little. It's really difficult to keep the motivation besides the money.
Show HN: A self-hosted OpenAI Whisper API client
Whisper is awesome but CPU is slow and online demos are even slower...

It's much harder to get excited about one of the best ASR implementations I've encountered if using it means getting results for 10 seconds of audio takes 3 minutes (or longer).

Additionally, sending audio off to some random cloud is kind of creepy to me so I'm using whisper-asr-webservice[0] to host my own on hardware with an RTX 3090. On this hardware Whisper ASR is anywhere from 5 -20x faster than realtime depending on various conditions.

So anyway, last night I decided to throw this horrendous shell project together[1] to more easily make use of my self-hosted instance.

A casual glance will show I'm not exactly an expert developer by trade... I'm hoping HN might be interested in working on this with me.

With that, I've disabled auth for my self-hosted Whisper instance for HN to play around with until it possibly gets beaten on so badly I have to re-enable auth:

BASE_URL=https://whisper.tovera.io ./asr.sh

(read the docs in the repo)

In terms of me not storing your data for this (I don't) I guess you'll just have to trust me?

[0] - https://github.com/ahmetoner/whisper-asr-webservice

[1] - https://github.com/kristiankielhofner/whisper-asr-webservice-client
> The idea of using a Vec would be nice—if only the boxed item were an array! It’s a struct, you see…

Vectors of length 1 are still vectors :)
Hey folks, Jim at Linode here – wanted to offer some general information about our abuse practices and policies:

When we receive a valid abuse report that resolves to one of our IPs, we open a ticket (and send an email) to let you know. The ticket provides details about the abuse report we received, how to resolve it, and the timeframe in which we need a response before we remove access to the abusive content.

Since most abuse reports we process are the result of a system compromise and aren't intentional, we can be flexible. If you need additional time to investigate an abuse report we've sent you, all you need to do is respond to our ticket and ask.

If you dispute the validity of a report or believe an abuse reporter is acting in bad faith, that's feedback we listen to – you just need to respond to our ticket.

In general, if you're communicating with us and acting in good faith, we'll work with you on these matters.
Such life... But there are many reasons.

There is a lot to teach ! hw knowledge, asm, C and scripting languages at minimum. Then Lisp and functional languages and rest. And that just a syntax that takes years to be proficient with. Then you discover that all of them are full of if's and loops (or recursions) and you start to smile from language flame wars. But still you need to concentrate on syntax of one or two languages. So, years.

Then there are algorithms - for all kind of things. Years.

And then there is domain of the problem ! Totally not related to languages syntax. Simply - programmers are in much worse position then journalists :) And domains are not part of uni program. Except some like eg. databases.

Also: on first year in uni we had fellow who learned good programming skills before, in a mid school. And he asked: I know how to program, why I need all that math ?? And dropped. And on the other hand - few years into uni one of professors said: there is no point to be a programmer without somekindof algebra. So what actually "skill of programming" is ?

So 5 years of learning programming is just not enough. Maybe joining some existing long term project could help - like kernel or some game. That is, without dropping CS :)
The disagreement is about the difficulty of "proving"

It's not, it's just a turn of phrase you've latched on to. There's no discussion of a standard of proof, etc. The comparison between the Szilard Einstein letter and 'AGI safety' is specious and it's one you brought up! You have to outright misrepresent what the letter was about just to make it. It was not a letter about a 'hypothetical danger they had no way of proving'. There just isn't any reasonable reading of the letter, the context, the history in which that's an accurate statement.
Double nope. Both collecting sensitive information and/or transferring sensitive information to a foreign nation are espionage. Further, the information need not be classified, the entity the information is transferred to need not be foreign, and foreign nations need not be adversaries. You hand over a document from the US military to a US newspaper - espionage. You draw a sketch in a notebook of a military base - espionage. Listening in on government frequencies to get information for a domestic terrorist group - espionage. A sketchy dude gives you a briefcase and tells you to hand it to another sketchy dude - potentially espionage.

Mishandling of classified documents you had clearance to see, or aiding a foreign adversary are related crimes.
> Until there's a blood test or concrete psychological proof, its just simply not a disease

Again, you versus the entire medical community. I am saddened to see you making such strong claims from a position of such ignorance.

You're talking about self-diagnosis, and I'm talking about medical professional diagnosing the disease.
The great part about this is that you are not forced to use cryptocurrency. It is entirely voluntary.

I like cryptocurrency as an open platform. I don't have a problem with the market clearing out the speculative mania. I do disagree with detractors who admit that they have no use for cryptocurrency demanding regulation. If you like regulated markets, stick to them. If you love the security of the petrodollar, good on you. Live and let live.

Can I just publish a few cryptogames without the obscene generalizations?

The worst part of this is that the entire FTX debacle comes on the heels of SBF demanding even more regulatory capture. Shades of Bernie Madoff. The insider connections to regulatory bodies and SEC board members. History repeats itself.
I need a clarification please: was Z-Library a commercial service?
These numbers are in the thousands so the Assets - Liabilities should be in the billions and not millions.

However, they did not do accounting for customer funds at all.
> had the title been “Ranking apples”

That gives a totally different meaning though
How many klicked thinking it was something related to apple
This might be why they were so slow to add hardware av1 decoding to their SoC. I guess legal compromised and said "you can implement av1, but we're still keeping the patents" and now we're in this situation.
The catch is that even if your net worth is a certain amount on paper, you can't necessarily realize that as cash.

Take Elon Musk, for example. A lot of his wealth is in Tesla stock. But he can't sell that stock without also affecting its price. If he decided to sell all of it tomorrow, the price would plummet and he would only receive a fraction of what it's worth today.

This is what a lot of these companies are doing. I can create 100 tokens and sell you one for $1. In theory, my "net worth" is now $99, since I have 99 tokens that are worth $1 each. In reality, if I tried to sell all 99 of them, I'd quickly find that people are actually not willing to buy all of them for that amount.
Throwback to when HN was praising FTX for running so 'lean' and 'efficiently,' only hiring the bare minimum to be successful.
we also thought that at first but we checked (there's only 5 of us) and it wasn't!
It’s really not that close IMO. Diesel is more analogous to SQLAlchemy. It doesn’t have the nice distinguishing features of the Django ORM like model-based schema generation and auto-generated migrations; it’s on you to ensure your struct lines up with the DB table, and you have to write the SQL for up/down migrations by hand.

The API layer options I have seen are more like Flask rather than generating full APIs from the model schema.

I’d love for this to be the case but Rust is not close to having a Django yet. Part of the problem is that structs are very inflexible; there is no equivalent of the metaclass manipulation that Django does.

You could perhaps build something equivalent with macros? But there is lots of syntactic sugar in Python like descriptors that let you generate really clean class-level APIs.
The video details explain the process. Basically manually retuning note by note (probably using melodyne/autotune or similar).
Modern polling is hard because people tend to distrust elites more than in the past. It's a fundamentally unsolvable problem to elicit attitudes from people who lie to you, lie to themselves and make up opinions on the spot.

That said, modern polling uses a host of techniques and is of course not tied to landlines. Companies use access panels of available participants, f2f sampling (walking to random people's houses, but that's expensive of course), and in particular statistics such as poststratification.
No, not really.

But we have to be honest with ourselves. Crypto failed.

It was supposed to allow people to make transactions without trusted institutions, and the manipulations of the Federal Reserve.

Unfortunately it's been subverted as a security.
Aka a drug dealer?
> maybe we should try to be aware when actions we are considering doing would stray into delicate global balances that we don't understand

If they are that fragile they’re hugely susceptible to bad actors and we’re fucked anyway.
Great, that means someone might get some money back when they are sold.
It should be perfectly claimable within the scope of the trademark.

Peloton is general purpose term from bicycle racing, but Peloton(tm) is trademark covering e.g. stationary exercise bikes: https://trademarks.justia.com/857/75/peloton-85775447.html

I think you're arguing that "Pomodoro timer" has become Kleenexed. That's a huge risk to take, given how narrow the audience for such is to begin with. The average layperson can use the word "Kleenex" for any product in that category, but the average layperson hasn't even heard of a "Pomodoro timer".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleenex#Kleenex_trademark
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark
hah, thanks. It was inspired by one of Michael Crawford's [0] usernames at K$5 (kuro5hin.org), Zombie Jesus Christ. At first the other K5 users thought Taxi Cab Jesus was just trolling Michael. But really the point was to post diaries about my days in the taxi. I was focused on more than the bottom line, and spent a little extra time, as needed, to help my passengers through their days.

Mr. Crawford had aspirations to solve all the world's problems, and sometimes had a messiah complex. Mr. Crawford was brilliant (dropped out of CalTech), but troubled, on account of his poorly-treated mental illness. I visited him in the San Louis Obispo County Jail [1], because I was in the area and it was something B.J. (Biblical Jesus) said to do.

My old kuro5hin.org [RIP] diaries and stories were reposted at https://www.TaxiWars.org/

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=MichaelCrawford

[1] My comments on Michael Crawford's obituaries: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19489570 / https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=30747&cid=819975
A quick question - how can a person born in a Baltic state and living there their whole life end up without citizenship? How is that democratic? Don't you see any problem there? That doesn't happen even between Romanians and Hungarians that are often at each other's throat for similar historical reasons.
>I know acceptance is growing, but 10+ years later, crypto still has extremely limited acceptance for daily goods and services. It is almost exclusively held as an investment.

Which makes sense considering its volatility. Why would I make transactions with a unit of currency that sees hundreds of percentage change over just a few years?

And as others say, there is no real value to it other than speculation. This gets argued to death, but it's true. At least fiat has stability, and the USD is used to settle basically all energy (and most commodity) transactions. Do people actually expect the commodity market to be settled with crypto in the future?
What does effective altruism have to do with VCs that invested in FTX and their due diligence? If anything effective altruism is downstream from that.
In this case, I think that having more people constructively engage with the fact that these "shrill and urgent criticisms" are the reality for the vast majority of Americans would make for a positive change.

If the vast majority of bank tellers sucker punch you in the face after completing a transaction, the correct response is to implement a sweeping reform of bank tellers - not to do a deep dive root analysis on the positives and negatives that bank tellers add to the banking experience.
I would argue that discord and IRC, are email too. It's just the protocol of communication dictates. They all carry data to a username@somewhere; whether it a tld, username or id.

IRC enables Text & Attachments in text form (ie links)

Email Enables Attachments in visual (html emails)

Discord Enables Voice, Text and Attachments (Asynchronous sockets)

That's all it is. Present a Video, Picture, Voice to your visitor and you've got a new product. Just as facebook,twitter,myspace have been.
There are a variety of reasons:

"It's just a job" is a nice idea, but since it's something I do 8 hours a day 5 days a week I try to make it something I enjoy. I enjoy meeting with my coworkers each day, and like the projects I'm doing. I also probably care the least about my job of most of the people I know. For some of my FAANG friends working at a FAANG has been a life long dream. Sure it's easy to say "work shouldn't be important!" but for some people it is.

Most obvious financial insecurity: The tech market is shrinking (I personally think it is collapsing, but that is not a necessary belief to feel grief). Many of the people being laid off right now (and in the future) will have much stiffer competition than before. I have a recently laid off friend who just had a baby. His partner doesn't have a high income job. That's a lot of added stress. To add to this most FAANG employees might not see nearly as high comp as they're used to.

Then there is the serious loss we're going to see with any of our friends that are foreign nationals. I have a few friends on H1B visas. They're a big part of my life, own a home and plan on staying in the US indefinitely. They assumed they were on the path to a green card, which is reasonable given the market when the arrived at the US. It's very possible they will be forced to go back to their home country, never to come to the US again. Not only do these people have a justified reason to grieve, but any of their friends do as well.

And big picture: we're potentially seeing a change in the entire industry, on par with the dotcom bust (maybe worse, maybe better). I'm guessing you're too young to remember but for many people getting laid off in 1999-2000 was the end of their tech career. To get a sense of how big of an impact this has, consider how many of your coworkers are from the dotcom era? I'm guessing not many. The tech industry was huge and exciting then, just like it has been recently. A lot of people got wiped out and never returned to the high times of the late dotcom period.

There's honestly a lot of grief to be felt right now, not just for those being laid off but for those impacted by it indirectly (plus I think we're all waiting for that meeting if we haven't already had it).
The documents themselves are the log. You don't need "zk rollup on L2" to make a verified chain of documents. All that's left is the distribution method.

For that, you put them on your website, using proper security. You put them somewhere where you (and your users) have legal recourse if something goes wrong. That is the safest place to put your public keys.

Also, if your keys are compromised, a blockchain solution is completely and forever corrupted. A website is only corrupted for a few hours until you regain control.
Yes, that's precisely my point. If you're going around actively gathering information about military secrets (such as the appearance or capabilities of aircraft in Area 51) and sending that information to the enemy via a public website, then that's espionage.

I think modern technology has made things a bit less clear-cut in some ways, because advances in technology have made a lot of things that were previously military secrets (e.g. troop movements) arguably not secret anymore (the enemy obviously already knows where that army is, it's clearly visible by their satellites). I think aircraft hidden in Area 51 definitely don't fall into that category though.
The legal definition: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/espionage
I love the assortment of projects you've been working on, and great design!
Love the idea but my data having to live on someone else's servers makes it an unfortunate non-starter for me
Some of our professors would give us a "translation key" between new and old editions of textbooks, so we could work with used ones. For example, which exercises are assigned (in new editions they rearrange the exercises, for no apparent reason but to make the old editions obsolete...).
I found more than half of the content of biographical articles was completely, risibly, wrong. Confident and plausible-sounding assertions of birthplace (wrong), websites founded (wrong), etc. Galactica.org seems to have gone inactive now; at the time of writing, the function no longer works:

https://galactica.org/?prompt=Jimmy+Wales
> What's the case law on this?

Many people have been prosecuted for this sort of thing, and it hasn't been declared unconstitutional.