skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The piece is well informed and aggregates a variety of sources only a few of which are not completely credible. the NYT literally refuses to use the word "fraud" or hint at criminality after Sam stole ten billion dollars from customers.
Stallman was right, continues to be right and will be right. Sadly.
So you’re claiming none of this is actually happening? Because that’s just flatly lying.
I hear you. The first rule is: "don't injure yourself". On feet: try out "Superfeet" insoles (not affiliated). I recently learnt about 'em and been trying for a month; they're working well for me. I have a flat left-foot, and it starts paining after 18K. And I limp a little bit for a day with pain, and it goes away. I hate this, and have lived with it for too long. Finally, I began with a specialist (podiatrist) to see if I can find a long-term fix.
Would you mind editing your original post with a clarification? Most will read it but not the replies...
I don't believe that government intervention is needed for banks to stay decentralised. The ability to send money between banks is just too convenient, why would they ruin it?
It has and multiple times at that. Least we forget it's the only way that any country, including the US, has ever industrialized.
This is awesome -- I've been following sourcehut's progress very closely, right from the beginning. You guys have come far, and have a bright future ahead. I'm looking forward to learning how you plan to adopt and run Kubernetes in your DC.
Also stoked for {names,mail}.sr.ht -- two services that I'll most definitely be using when they launch.
> Just do not store money in PayPal... sweep nightly if you use PayPal for business. They even provide tools to make this automated.

Is this new? Last time I used PayPal for an NPO, they had no such thing.
How loneliness is killing men
There was a VERY interesting article on HN recently about the risk-taking/compulsive side effects of dopamine drugs.
"Smoke" is often a good one to stump.
I can't think of any possible reason.

https://fortune.com/2022/11/10/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-joe-bid...
Also 1MDB seems t9 be somewhere between 16-50 B usd
The answer isn't all that valid. ℵ₀ is just a name defined by the statement "the number of integers is ℵ₀". You could also call it Bob. If you don't think Bob would be a valid name, you should reject ℵ₀ too.

The name isn't unique either; by definition, ℵ₀ is equal to ℶ₀. This should be a clue that the term ℵ₀ is not actually meant to identify the number in question. Rather, what's going on is that there is a conceptual system of ℵ numbers, and another conceptual system of ℶ numbers, and the number at index 0 in each of those systems is the cardinality of the naturals.
Ask HN: I have 24 hours to prepare for a job interview – advice?
In particular, the job is in a tech stack that I'm only entry-to-intermediate-level familiar with.

What's your advice?
bunq is awesome, but you don't even need a separate IBAN, you can (and should) simply decline SEPA direct debits ("SDD Core" for non-business, which has different regulations than B2B SDD).

And don't give them a SEPA mandate at all; there's a small link on the "add bank account" page that bypasses the SDD mandate while still allowing use of the IBAN for withdrawals.

Or, better yet... don't use PayPal at all. I closed my account years ago and don't regret it one bit.
Wondering what "long tour" means here, because you usually don't need sealant top-up very often - maybe once or twice a year in my experience. You have to pump tubeless tires regularly though (lose pressure more quickly than an inner tube), BUT in exchange you need a severe encounter with something extreme to get a real puncture. I had travelled with finger-sized nails in my tires without even recognizing it...
Any kind of generalization is somewhat inaccurate. Especially as individuals are not themselves categories. Individual posters may or may not fit into this generalization. It is simply my perception of the prevailing preferences.

Would it be more palatable if I had singled out individual users and their post histories?
Serato's great software.

I very much hope one day to see another integrated Be-inspired system emerge, in the vein of 00s era Apple (and the original BeBox). Narrow product line, tight hardware-software integration; striking, thoughtful and fun UI; notably different paradigm and features from the competition such that it scratches an itch the others are ignoring.

This bit of history gives me so much hope (tinged with sadness that it's just a daydream). If I knew more about OS or filesystem construction, or how to sell to VCs, I'd push the idea hard myself.
This is a highly inaccurate picture.

> His funding for Tesla came from the US taxpayers in the amount of $451 million.

This is wrong. Tesla was founded in 2003. Around 2009 they received a loan from the DoE for $451 million to build the Model S but this money they only started getting around 2011 if I remember correctly.

By that point Musk had already put in 90million of his own money plus some more money from friends.

The government just happened to have a program for this and Tesla took advantage. Tesla re-paid this loan in full ahead of schedule, so the DoE made a nice profit on this.

And btw, the same program made much bigger loans out for GM/Ford and they still have not paid it it back.

> But make no mistake, without that investment and the success of Tesla, Musk would not have a fraction of the "success" he appears to have now.

I don't think this is accurate. By that time Tesla had a number of funding option. It might have cost stock payers more or Tesla would have to pay more interest. Tesla might have been slowed down slightly but I don't think it would have changed as much as you suggest.

> SpaceX is something to appreciate as well, but as they say - it takes money to make money. Building a space company is even more crazy than an electric car company. So to do that, you need a TON of money or a lot of powerful investors (or both).

SpaceX was almost fully self funded. Musk initially wanted to invest 70 million $ but had to invest an additional 20 million $. He got some additional investment but not that much.

Until the received the COTS program they had very little ability to raise cash.

> Musk should have sat quietly with his successes in Tesla and SpaceX, but instead it seems he has bighead syndrome. He believes his wealth and success means that he is an expert in everything.

I think he believes he can become an expert in everything if he focuses on it.
The newer generation of grep-like utilities (ack, ag, rg) recurse through a directory parameter by default. Of course you could always do this with find.
Their released numbers. Least we forget this is the country that declared war on sparrows and lost.
Is there any island on Earth that looks like Minmus?
> I deeply oppose the reading of history that judge historical events and persons with today's moral.

Should we apply this logic to time only or space as well?
If Alameda employees tell Twitter DM groups of systematic traders what happened at Alameda, it's hearsay, but if they tell NYT employees, it's an exhaustively investigated report.
Prior to 2020 this was true; I think I got around 13% off my last new car. However since the pandemic shortages and with manufacturing delays, there is much less flexibility as the dealerships know the cars are going to sell either way. When I went to test drive a car recently I saw a couple getting a flat denial on any discount even after attempting to haggle.
Does it fix everything?
ESA has 7.
>3) They require creating an account to complete the purchase. I've cancelled orders over this one.

Likewise.
Restricting superchargers to Tesla customers could easily be viewed as an example of being customer-focused.
Writer sits at desk, reads a few press releases and posts by pundits, and pounds out a puff piece that adds little information and draws broad conclusions. NPR should be ashamed.
The current system lends itself well to memory constrained systems. Each source/ASM file gets turned into a single binary with just enough metadata to paste it together with another one. It caches nicely too.

Whole program optimisation is difficult to do without enough memory. Given machine code linking as how things are done, things like debug info got spliced into the same model. Shared libraries are a similar sort of incremental memory saving scheme.
Normally if your fund is out of money and your exchange is fine you could spin down the fund rather than stealing customer money from the exchange
It has numerous photos and text conversations that are timestamped and geo located to verifiable locations where he would be. The pattern of life seems reliable. It’s all rather tragic lots of drugs, prostitutes and mental health issues abound if you dig in. I don’t recommend it.
> If you choose a random number between 0 and 1 you'll need an infinite number of questions to guess the number.

How would you do that?
Ryan Salame, the co-CEO, donated heavily to the GOP.
Wait, Wasn’t Bitcoin Supposed to Solve This?
Not in the US they don’t: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuson%E2%80%93Moss_Warran...

Dealerships are paid by the manufacturer for new-car warranty service. My experience is they’ll go out of their way to get a warranty repair job as it pays them well and earns goodwill with the customer for a directly profitable job.
Now THIS is what I call a Frankfurt school of thought
https://archive.ph/EzP1S
Well, you need to think that LISP was a thing already before 1960. The only competitor at the time was FORTRAN. Even C was introduced more than 10 years later.

LISP had garbage collection and was designed for symbolic manipulation. Given that programs were just list of symbols, it was fully meta, from the beginning. This gave it a raw power that was decades ahead of time. Even nowadays, this malleability give Lisp languages the power to provide as libraries things than in most languages would require the modification of the language itself. For example, there is library for Clojure (a popular modern Lisp which runs on the Java and Javascript virtual machines) that adds type support. Think about that. Yes, I know. Mypy adds types to Python, but in the case of Clojure the language and runtime didn't need to be touched at for the library to work. You can basically do whatever you want as a library, because the core of the language is so powerful.

Another distinct characteristic of Lisps was the possibility to treat programs as living things you can just "talk to" through the REPL. Programs are developed in a more "conversational" way than with languages such as Java, Rust, etc. Some would say that this is a superpower and other would say that it's of marginal value. It just depends on the personal preferences.

Now, we are in 2022. Obviously, languages have evolved a lot and they are ridiculously more advanced that FORTRAN. Lisps don't have a clear killer feature that can't be found in some other languages and actually they normally lack some convenient things. There is no type system for Lisps that it's practical, convenient and with tooling support. That is a big disadvantage on an era where programs are big beasts normally done by several people mostly gluing together a bunch of libraries with big APIs that you need to explore somehow. Typed languages with accompanying IDE tooling (i.e. having a language server) offer a much quicker and effective way to develop than spending the day reading API docs.

Now, should you learn a Lisp in 2022? Well, I think there are some advantages of doing so. They have a lot of historical value and their simplicity and power are quite instructive, I'd say. Playing a bit with some Scheme (or Racket) can be very fun. If you are curious about Lisps and also functional programming, I'd suggest learning some Clojure. It's a very nice language and it really changes how you think about things, especially if you haven't been doing "hard" functional programming before.

Clojure general approach and concrete libraries as Reitit, Malli or Specter really can change how you look at things and give you a deeper understanding of other characteristics of your other languages of choice. It's a bit like learning some Japanese if you are a German or French speaker. It can help you understand, for example, how unnecessarily complex your verbal system is and how unnecessarily complex Japanese numbering system is. If you are a fish, it's difficult to understand what water is unless you get out of it. Maybe Lisps can be this breath of fresh air.
European cultures (if we're talking about the US) were never, and still aren't, accepted by indigenous people, much less cheered on. Africans were brought over as slaves and had all connections to their heritage and culture removed, Asians were harassed, sterotyped and made an underclass. Many immigrants had to change their names to "Americanized" versions at Ellis Island, especially Jews.

Yes, a lot of progress has been made in regards to cultural integration in the US, but that progress has been due to attempts to "regulate" cultural blending, rather than in spite of it. The US has had to be forced time and again - often with persistent struggle and at times violence - to live up to its stated ideals. Even today, the most prominent political movement across the US and Europe is explicitly Eurocentric and xenophobic, seeing immigration as a threat to cultural integrity and civil society and multicultural and multiracial integration is at best harmful, at worst impossible.
Looks cool! Couldn't find any info on privacy on the site, unfortunately.
A Merkle tree may show what crypto assets are held, but it doesn't stop the exchange from having a balance sheet with a negative $8bn entry described as “hidden, poorly internally labled ‘fiat@’ account”.

Until these crypto companies are audited by actual recognized auditors I would just assume that everything they say is suspect.
Fair enough. I think a lot of these concerns are based on misrememberings and misunderstandings. I think it would have been helpful to mention when you posted the link that you had misremembered it, though.
Is a both ways road.

Many brands learned, the hard way, that clients watch on internet but don't buy a new car by internet. Is a too expensive investment. Most people refuse to talk with a robocall and want a local dealership where they can return if they have troubles.

Brands are always trying to reduce the number of official dealerships, to discover later that their business has run dry, and are about to be eaten by a bigger brand. Is happening all the time.
There are probably much better sources for this than boredpanda but still:

https://www.boredpanda.com/laid-back-cat-statue-tombili-ista...
Yep, both em and rem are relative units, and rem is relative all the way down to <html> (ie, root).
haha i'd have stopped to watch that battle too.

since i live deep inner city i dont enjoy walking along the pavements/tarmac. to get to the woods i have to cycle. maybe i should get there and then walk a few miles.
Compared to the 85M they just had to pay to Arizona alone[1], this is an absolute bargain for Google. Not even 400M for 40 states, what a joke.

[1] https://www.engadget.com/google-arizona-user-tracking-suit-8...
That's not what's happening unfortunately.
I too once believed that newspapers were focused on providing quality information.
Oh wow. No guarantees, but they mentioned they achieved this on a single wavelength, and that wavelength multiplexing should be possible. Current Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) supports something like 160 channels. If they are able to combine both of these technologies - theoretically you are looking at nearly 250 Petabits per second on a single fiber strand.

Thing is, no one is pulling a single fiber cable. Modern fiber cables can contain up to a thousand fiber strands in a single cable although the highest strand-count single-mode fiber cable commonly manufactured is the 864-count, consisting of 36 ribbons each containing 24 strands of fiber. Even oceanic cables frequently have 48 or 96 fibers.

That means, again theoretically, a land based 864-core cable can carry over 200 exabits per second, and an oceanic 96-core can carry 23.5 exabits per second. That's bananas.

Edit:

Very large numbers are hard for humans to grok. Some context on 200 exabits - There are 335,591,597 people in the United states. If you were to divide the bandwidth evenly between all those people, each person would have approximately a 600 gigabit connection. An UHD Blu-ray (4K, HDR) movie is about 50GB. On this connection you could transfer that in under 1 second (hand waving away overhead, write limitations and connection/handshake delays).
HN has been going down the drain for years and it is especially vulnerable to certain online vocal minorities.
I'm confused, I don't see any memes in the article. Were they deleted?
United States. Australia and Canada seem to be much more serious in regulating rentals.
> if your system is running close to capacity, or at capacity, you're one hiccup of activity from disaster.

oh man if i could scream this to the roof tops i would

most people (esp managers!) just do not get this...
I can't believe 1982 was 40 years ago
You'll need to prove your identity for that request...
While others covered the guide part, I just wanted to note some context about punctuality. In case people didn't know, this is actually very culture-dependent. For example in Australia, guides organising meetings with
people from indigenous mobs sometimes refer to the meetings as running on "black man's time" . Essentially it means that the community comes first for them so when they have something else to do, it takes priority. The local person may turn up an hour late, or not at all, and it's not seen as lack of respect from their side.
> notably, if you're passing data into a function by pointer, it's not going to allocate

Isn't it still possible for the value to escape here? For example the callee could stick it until a global data structure.

In fact it seems like a pointer passed to a function would need to be on the heap "by default" unless the compiler can prove that it doesn't escape.
Alchemy is unscientific by its nature - let's mix random substances to get gold.
> FTX may be one of, if not the, biggest financial frauds/scandals in history. The media doesn't seem to be treating it as such.

Most of that wealth was manufactured in the crypto bubble, not actual money people worked for and put into crypto, just early stage ponzi investors that kept rolling their investment. The wealth, while apparently substantial, was never actually there, I think most understand that the mirage would have collapsed anyway if most investors would have attempted to exit earlier.

Basically, any early holder of Bitcoin today, while losing 70% or so of the peak value, is still a bazzillion basis points in the black, because they can get real dollars for what is essentially an early and rudimentary shitcoin with arcane limits, slow transaction times and extreme volatility, which is only used in the real world for speculation, money laundry and trading other shitcoins. Pretty ironic that's the "gold standard" of the crypto world, followed by an entire brown spectrum of shittier and scammier tokens.
In the context of browsers, these are both wrong.

em is an arbitrary font metric that actually has nothing to do with actual character measurements, and not even a particularly strong correlation. I measured the width/advance of m glyphs at font-size 16px in a handful of the fonts I have installed, and got values between 8.88 (Advocate, condensed) and 15.59 pixels (DejaVu Sans). The two monospaces I had were around 9.6. The regular serifs and sans-serifs were 12.01–15.59 with no obvious rhyme or reason. Some have different aspect ratios which lead to this, and some are just smaller or bigger than others at particular sizes by ten or even twenty percent. Font sizes are truly just fairly arbitrary numbers. (But there is the ch unit, which is actually based on font metrics: the width/advance of the 0 glyph. Also ex, the height of the x glyph.)

rem is root em, which for practical purposes means “not relative” in contrast to em, which is relative to the current or parent font size, depending on where you use it. (Sure, rem is still relative to the root font size in most places, and the initial font size in the root font-size declaration and in media queries, but it’s… less relative than em, if you will. Certainly thinking of it as “relative em” will lead you wildly astray.)
> The bike was taken in to a mechanic for a full tune-up seven times, and for small things a few more visits.

Considering this, a tubeless sealant top-up at each of these visits would have been no extra chore. Just sayin' :)
Right, too small by about three orders of magnitude.
No doubt, Kathleen Stock is a far more courageous woman than I.

But there are different ways to fight battles. Instead of
confrontation I don't even need to nudge my students to focus on what
is important, for us to safely ignore well meaning do-gooders and
direct all our energies into doing actual good. My strategy is
letting them become the change I want to see in the world - despite
indignant moralising from the sidelines that we are using "white man's
maths" to stop black children starving.

This week I am working with three women, all obviously > 140 IQs who
are the daughters of farmers in Africa. This is their big hope to
bring independence to their countries through agriculture and
AI. We're using machine learning to identify crop pests and select
seeds. That mean using mathematics.

But while I am teaching them segmentation and pattern recognition in
OpenCV I shouldn't have to worry every day that the department may
close, the professors are laid-off and I'll never get to see these
girls take back from the colonists what I think the world owes
them. Why? because academics can no longer focus on doing their job,
well and in good faith. The only dignified response is to smile and
get on with your project regardless.
https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/i-fought-the-paypal-and-i...
Ask HN: How ready for daily driving is Asahi Linux?
Been lurking the GitHub issues, Twitter and blog but haven't really gained a full perspective.

I'm in the market for a new laptop, currently using a Carbon X1 which I'm generally very happy with. I'm only interested in laptops that I'd run Linux on, but been trying some of the late Apple MacBooks and like the hardware, just the software seems to get in the way sometimes.

So came across Asahi Linux project, which seems to be usable for daily work, minus some missing things.

But does anyone use Asahi Linux daily here and can talk about their experience?
RISC is great for implementation and programming simplicity. But these are not the only variables one optimizes a core for. The higher-end the implementation, the more internally complex or special-case extensions it may include, from AES acceleration instructions to signed pointers.

ARM's popularity also stems from its licensing, AFAICT. You can license various ARM cores, from the tiniest to the beefiest, to include in your SOC or MCU, mix and match them on the die, etc. This is not true for any reasonably recent x86 architecture, either from Intel or from AMD.
My guess is that it gets treated as 55 separate optical channels each with their own receivers and that there is considerable multiplexing on top.
A refined pybabel JavaScript extractor powered by acorn for accurate parsing