skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Where did all the money go?

One theory is that the crypto quant funds figured out how to exploit the Alameda FTX market maker starting in 2020-2021 to take tons of money from Alameda. But FTX couldn't just turn off the Alameda market maker because most of the FTX trading volume, and therefore FTX revenue, was these crypto quant funds taking money from Alameda. So if they turned off the Alameda money spigot then their revenue would drop off a cliff and they wouldn't be able to raise more money from Sequoia or the UAE. And the value of FTT was tied to the trading volume and was a huge portion of their assets, so if volume fell they would be insolvent.

Basically they turned customer deposits into revenue at pennies on the dollar.
This wouldn't make me blink.. Jan, Feb.. but if someone just said Mar for March I'd blink twice.
As more brands pull out of Twitter, SpaceX buys big Twitter ad package
This is why I like https://github.com/openrewrite so much. One gets to tell users how to rewrite code automatically. It makes refactoring almost as easy as in a mono repo.
I think 20k/50k + an additional 100k from covid is pretty nasty, so I don't think it's the same at all. It's not like flu and covid are the same disease. I'm thinking covid will just add tens of thousands (or up to 100k like GP said). Sucks.
Because search engines (Google) and centralised blogging services (WordPress, Tumblr, Flickr, later Twitter, Facebook, etc.) offer better user experience and discoverability than webrings.
"Test" is the second item in that list
Are you lonely doing this out there on your own?

and are you sad to be outside the great game, so to speak, that maybe less smart, and certainly far less virtuous men will outcompete you on by merely showing up?

I'm a woman trying to figure out the different natures of men that are drawn to go live in the woods, it's really hard to tell apart the Walden types from the Kaszynski types

(as I rambled about here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32681450)

and come to think of it, neither of those men had children... maybe there's a tiny sliver of deadness in both those ways of being, idk
The core of ponzi schemes is recruitment. There is no recruitment happening here, just terrible business
> All of these things have one thing in common: distrust. Some movements come from the distrust of governments or taxation, others come from the distrust of central services.

How about resiliency? Participation from community members? It's not always distrust that drives decentralization.

I think James C. Scott's book, Seeing Like a State is worth mentioning, since it discusses the failure of centralization in more ways than simply distrust. Here's a long-form essay summarizing the highlights: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/07/26/a-big-little-idea-call...

This isn't really a new idea. In building architecture, Christopher Alexander spent a lifetime writing about this. You can see some of the highlights in his keynote speech to OOPSLA '96: http://www.patternlanguage.com/archive/ieee.html ... His ideas enable end users (residents) to be able to change their built environment while still maintaining a cohesive architectural design. Sadly, his groundbreaking ideas on pattern languages became watered down into HOA design regulations; software engineers did not heed what he talked about in that keynote; and Human Computing Interaction design dropped end-user-customizable software (like Hypercard) in favor of designs that favored aggregators, because it is more profitable (not necessarily more resilient, or better for society)
The Montessori model
Gold experienced a surge in the 1970s. It peaked at $850 an ounce in January 1970, and dropped to less than half.

In inflation-adjusted terms, it never got back to that level. Today that amount would be around $3,200. The current price of gold is about $1,800.
I agree with this on both counts. It's rare to see a relatively low profile project like MikeOS remain supported by the original developer for so long. For Mike, this really is a labour of love. And Mike was also a great podcaster and should try getting the gang back together for a Christmas special. With Pink Ponies, naturally.
You're trying to do "appeal to emotion" argument, doesn't work super well here.
I always love having an excuse to repost this: https://www.cameronsworld.net/

This is my idea of the personal web.
> The seemingly random, yet beautiful grain, in wood.

Fractals, my friend.
Gotta find myself a niche like that.
Nim is interresting. Its easy to read (and write) about pros. But what are cons?
Hard to tell but probably around 300K.
Pretty thin skinned for a claimed free speech absolutist.
Exactly. Another situation is a multitenant system where some tenants are much larger than others, triggering larger queries which potentially have a larger performance impact.
New Reddit it like that. Page randomly resets no matter what you’re doing. Dumps you back at the top and asks if you want to install the app.

They are desperate about getting you to download their app.
Wait, is that something you seriously do?

Can you elaborate more? Which celebrities? How do you or they know what will annoy them the most? How much do you pay?
I really like webrings, I wonder why they aren't as popular any more. I wonder if I should create something that lets you make your own webrings, just define a list of sites, add the link, and that's it.
/Schenck/ and /Abrams/ were overturned via the Brandenburg v. Ohio decision of the Supreme Court of the US in 1969.
I'm not a big fan of speed limits and speed traps, but some people just have an mis-calibrated sense of what's safe. Heck, even if you're well intentioned, calibrating to "safe" yourself is very hard because hitting and killing a pedestrian even once in a lifetime is way too much.
The “not your keys” group understands that a centralized exchange is not crypto currency.

If all you’ve done is reinvent the existing monetary system minus all regulation, oversight and value, you’ve invented absolutely nothing at all.

Except, perhaps, a novel new way to convince rubes to give you their money.
I had COVID twice, never got the vaccine (still haven't), and I was diagnosed with Myocarditis. I personally know 2 other young (< 30) males that have as well. Not "my buddy's friend" but first-circle of separation friends. All 3 of us got diagnosed with it. No other heart-related issues.

I might say there's a "statistically insignificant increase", but to say there's no increase is just factually wrong. (And statistically wrong too).
You don't even need a buddy for that. Just make another anonymous address to buy your token from yourself. Or a dozen, it doesn't matter.
Heh, I'd get a kick out of seeing "twitter with downvotes" but one would have to admit that those two sites have a vastly different mental model and thus I wouldn't expect just a reskin to get it done
Kraken, Coinbase and Gate.io publish proof of reserves with liabilities
Silly ask but is this similar to Atlassian Assist? https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1220442/atlassian-ass...
Same as others. I took it as an opportunity to work with Rust and enjoyed it a ton! Crafting Interpreters has been ported to any language you can think of so try that approach out!
> Historical nerd: traditionally wordprocessors have auto-inserted non-breaking spaces before colons, why should I care now ?

Because I don't want to switch locales in order to write short bits of text in another language. I don't even want to have to switch keyboard layouts -- just use compose sequences for diacritical marks and so on. And I don't use a French locale, but I do write French text sometimes.

I would imagine that in Europe this is a big deal. So many Europeans are multi-lingual... But you don't expect a Spaniard to switch to a French locale to write in French and vice-versa -- that's too disruptive.
Fentanyl vaccine potential game changer for opioid epidemic
Not if they do it like this. Things like this need a phase out and guidance for those that need to migrate.
Oddly enough Portland, Oregon is named for Portland, Maine. If the coin toss had gone the other way it'd be named after Boston.
I just spent the evening turning mine into text files. Turns out I don't have any pictures worth keeping in them.
Looks like it: https://docs.hylang.org/en/stable/api.html#let

I recall hearing it had been implemented a while back, seems like it's true!
It's shitcoins all the way down.
> Oddly enough, this can be a sign of an excellent business. Microsoft originally provided some very mediocre products, but in a world fulled with absolutely shit products, being predictably mediocre was astonishing! Before 2000, when Microsoft produced a lemon, they always seemed to recognise the problem and then replace it with something that was crappily useable (and they also had a few products that were actually good).

People in here including me dream of living in an era where there is such a giant leap such as the leap to GUI provided by Win95, or even the revolution of the chip.

If you didn't like being around when Win95 was coming out, I guess living in today's timeline where innovation has reached stagnation must be pure hell! /s
They mean the period from roughly March 2020 to ... hmm, about Omicron.
From my reading of the update log, it looks like the last change was from Candlej
I'm not a gold-bug, but LIRP & ZIRP have been catastrophic for the economy. Theranos, Crypto, WeWork, Housing bubble, "big tech" i.e. advertising, Meta and it's 'verse', ridiculous VC ESG greenwashing, the list goes on. Meanwhile companies delivering value now have had to compete with these "growth" companies for capital, so they've gotta shrink margins for higher returns.

I agree most of these 'documentaries' are bunk, but there are legitimate criticisms of CB policy and the mainstream macroeconomics that advocate interest rate intervention. An equilibrium interest rate and its predictable boom-bust cycle honestly seems preferable to what we have now. You watch bloomberg and it seems like everyone and everything hangs on the next rate decision as if we were in a centrally planned economy. Wait a minute...

What I really want to know is how Greenspan went from writing 'Gold and Economic Freedom' to playing fast and loose with easy money.
Why is it? It seems reasonable for them to grow after the pandemic ended and people switched to remote
It is a rare but known side effect of even regular flu vaccines causing myocarditis, e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6786665/

>The true incidence of myocarditis after influenza vaccination may be underestimated because of the subclinical and nonspecific clinical manifestations of myocarditis. A prospective study about the incidence of cardiovascular adverse events after smallpox and influenza vaccination revealed that the rate of clinical or subclinical myocarditis and pericarditis after smallpox vaccination was approximately 1:5,500, despite the fact that the rate of troponin elevation was 1:200 [9]. Similarly, 2.6% of the influenza vaccine cohort showed new onset cardiac symptoms, such as chest pain, dyspnea, and palpitation, but no case of clinical or subclinical myocarditis and pericarditis
> C is fast because it's close to how CPU and memory actually work.

Out-of-order execution, cache hierarchies, branch prediction, virtual memory, pipelining, vector instructions, ILP, NUMA are all pretty transparent to the C spec.

Trying to accommodat hardware quirks with C feels like blackbox engineering. It's certainly better than with managed languages but still....
> It's really a bit surprising that noone told him that his tweets are worth anything only because people reading them can know they come from Elon not some guy who paid 8$ to call himself Elon on Twitter.

I'm aware of no less than 3 formerly verified individuals who did tell him[1] before the feature launched, and he responded by banning them for impersonating him and instituting a "no lying about who you are" rule that empirically works on an honor system, or upon pain of forfeiting $8.

1. "Showed him" would be more accurate, but he shockingly failed to grasp the point they were making.
I'd much rather they finish getting the lead out of aviation first.

The amount of fossil fuels input to agriculture is about 10x the energy output in the food supply, it might be possible to reach parity when you're not worried about shelf appeal, etc... but that ignores the fossil fuels used as chemical feedstock for fertilizers that are required for industrial agriculture.
The early adopters who were in the space pre-2018 or pre-2020 are a small minority of count of crypto participants today. (Not to mention the fact that all of this has happened many, many times throughout financial history for hundreds of years.)

But for the majority of participants today (aka dumb money retail), this is their first experience in getting rekt. Many of them will likely wash their hands of the entire space.
In a way it is, but I haven't done anything in the past few months, so it kinda faded. Made $250 from "buy me a coffee" this year, and yeah, I paid taxes on them.

I basically send an invoice for each tip I receive. Talked a lot to my accountant about this, and she said that if I don't invoice the people sending me these tips, I'm doing fraud, and can pay huge fines once I get caught. I think only as an NGO you're allowed to receive tips w/o paying taxes on the amount. I have an LLC, so I have to invoice every income.
This is all a big pain in multi-lingual documents. What, am I supposed to switch locales every time I switch languages? No no, that's absolutely not OK.
I often do the opposite: "best [search query, usually a product] in the world".
Winter Will Be a Major Factor in the Ukraine War
Eh, I've waffled a couple of times between "pass values by default" and "pass pointers by default". Ultimately, I don't think there's a really good answer except to understand escape analysis and get comfortable with the escape analyzer. Notably, "using pointers" doesn't inherently put pressure on the GC, but rather allocations put pressure on the GC and there are plenty of instances where pointers don't put pressure on the GC at all (notably, if you're passing data into a function by pointer, it's not going to allocate, but it may if you're returning a pointer to "a stack-allocated value").

Notably, if you're defaulting to values, you may still have a bunch of allocations when you try to implement interfaces, which usually (always?) requires implicitly boxing values; however, if you pass a pointer into a function that takes an interface, I don't think it gets moved to the heap (but I'm not sure, which is why Go programmers need to be comfortable with profiling the escape analyzer and also why it would be great if Go actually had explicit semantics for allocations).
The industry has been waiting for something like this. What an exciting project!
What was the problem you learned that caused the first marriage to spiral?
> What Sequoia was reacting to was the scale of SBF’s vision. It wasn’t a story about how we might use fintech in the future, or crypto, or a new kind of bank. It was a vision about the future of money itself—with a total addressable market of every person on the entire planet.

> “I sit ten feet from him, and I walked over, thinking, Oh, shit, that was really good,” remembers Arora. “And it turns out that that fucker was playing League of Legends through the entire meeting.”

> “We were incredibly impressed,” Bailhe says. “It was one of those your-hair-is-blown-back type of meetings.”

https://web.archive.org/web/20221027180943/https://www.sequo...
Don't start nothing, won't be nothing ;-)
It's interesting the narratives you hear with regards to antivaxxers.

My sister is vegan and is in many vegan, all-natural, etc Facebook groups. She told me there's a lot of overlap of people there and people who chose not take the COVID vaccine.

One of her best friends is a teacher in Canada from Trinidad; she grew up without vaccines and similarly never gave her child the COVID vaccine

These two examples just seemed very different than the typical "antivaxxer" I hear about. Although it still seems premature to call someone who only doesn't take the first mainstream mRNA vaccine an antivaxxer.
It’s also substantially more expensive to add in than putting up a new speed limit sign.

“Change the speed limit” by changing a sign and “reengineer the road” are just different propositions entirely.
I've also had chest pains.
France is a nation of "not invented here syndrome".
There's a bar I walked passed at some point that had a sandwich board out front that said something like: we are known for friendly women, free beer, and false advertising.
Sure let me "tailor my CV" to a role just to get ghosted or offered laughable salary. I'm just gonna make friends of random people from that company that don't know me, presumably by cold approaching them via LinkedIn? Lol
What a nightmare. I would never own a Tesla even if I get it for free.
>have added tremendous value to ... society in general

[citation missing]
Ah, near first hand experience. Unfortunately that wisdom will be lost in another generation, and to even most contemporaries that did not experience it, it's just another story. History will repeats and teching history will not help.
The best companies in the world are run by enlightened dictators (2016)
You can transpile to Python. You get a bunch of necessary symbol definitions but that's about it.

I doubt anyone uses hy in production for completely other reasons, would love to be proven wrong.
Nothing specific, just the way its written made me think about this.
(They're not located on Jane St)
Harvard requires all students to be up-to-date on their COVID-19 vaccinations including the bivalent Omicron-specific COVID-19 booster.

https://www.harvard.edu/coronavirus/covid-19-vaccine-informa...

Yale students will be required to get an updated, bivalent COVID-19 vaccine booster by the start of the spring semester.

https://yalecollege.yale.edu/get-know-yale-college/office-de...

Tufts University followed suit on Sept. 16, announcing it would require students, staff, and faculty to get the omicron vaccine booster by Dec. 2.

https://coronavirus.tufts.edu/healthy-at-tufts/covid-19-vacc...
The market cap is not money the company can spend. It's the current share value of the company...
If that’s true, then “crypto” is just traditional finance with extra steps (and near-zero regulatory oversight).
Now tell me how Bolsonaro, who gave the 2019 keynote at Davos, fits into the conspiracy.
If the risk of myocarditis after covid vaccination is lower than the risk of hospitalization due to covid infection, mandating vaccination is still good public policy. It ultimately shifts the risk around, it is true, but it still improves the odds of survival for the people who will contract myocarditis also, because there was significant risk of covid crashing the medical infrastructure. This is the part of the story people seem to forget... It wasn't the primary risk of fatalities due to covid that triggered mandatory quarantine and vaccination policies, it was the threat of saturating healthcare facilities to the point where people would die of myriad preventable conditions.

In the United States, we are still short-handed because nurses retired and nobody is stepping up to replace them.
> but paste is... CTRL + P (pegar)

... Oh, for fuck's sake! What English word do they think "V" is short for in the first place, there?
Are there laws on requiring crypto exchanges be 1:1 ?
It’s a great platform but the total lack of revenue transparency indeed makes you wonder what is driving the valuation…
Let is indeed there now.
To be fair, it’s quite common for them to be generated by someone in finance and then distributed.

Of course, it also happens sometimes that they are cooked in some specific way, and that is used to hide that fact.
Well, I'd rather ride in an Uber than a cab and until very recently stay in an Airbnb rather than a hotel. For better or worse, they truly did disrupt those industries for consumers, much as non-customers might complain.
No one's lying but one of the grandparent comments said that they would change careers if they needed to send out 100 applications for a job search. If 100 applications is necessary for even a good developer without a strong network, that's a misleading recommendation.
Kudos to you. I'm not a good enough developer to offer you any feedback but completing projects is very hard.
Well, there are entirely distributed, remote-first companies like Automattic, Zapier, GitLab, or Basecamp. I'm certain each of those also employs junior engineers.

Therefore, someone claiming it doesn't work, is effectively saying it doesn't work for their company, which in turn gives rise to questions as to why that's the case:

Is their company and its work truly that unique and special that it can only effectively be done synchronously and in person?

Or is it rather that the company in question itself has an underlying organizational problem?
If you ever consider a career change, the parasitology field could advance from your intuitions.
People use Python in production, why not Hy?
Canadian taxpayers will, one way or another, bail out the teacher's pension fund that invested in FTX

https://decrypt.co/114235/ontario-teachers-95m-ftx-pension-f...
Guava, but it's not fully typesafe.

Mutable is not part of the Java meta-language used for typing.

ImmutableMap implements Map

https://guava.dev/releases/23.0/api/docs/com/google/common/c...

and throws exceptions on mutation.

https://guava.dev/releases/23.0/api/docs/src-html/com/google...
But the practical necessity of having a smartphone and some internet access has only resulted in cheaper devices and services that fit the needs of the poor. It was a pretty big thing during Covid lockdowns in rural parts of India for instance, where extremely cheap smartphones and internet access made it possible for some amount of remote education to be pursued entirely remotely.
>there's no actual monetary losses

Average daily volume of Ely Lilly is 3 million shares - at $356 price/share that's $1,068,000,000 traded each day affected, not to mention stock option premiums jumping due to heightened volatility, etc.,. I'm pretty sure there were some actual monetary losses in there.

This company is doing the same thing plenty of other companies and people are doing, this company just went through a bit worse before it made that decision.
The question is, did the VCs get tokens along with their investments? They may have already made money from selling them before the collapse while giving a sheen of respectability to FTX. That would make sense because then they wouldn't need to do any diligence.
That's what the CDC claims now.

Earlier in pandemic 196k post Covid patients were monitored a year... "We did not observe an increased incidence of neither pericarditis nor myocarditis in adult patients recovering from COVID-19 infection."

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35456309/
I run a small-to-medium (based on your definition) website that is entirely ad-supported. It occasionally peaks into the large territory.

It's not really "viable". This may be because of the industry it's in, which doesn't really purchase online advertising, and therefore cuts into the overall earnings potential.

I run it for fun and for certain incidental benefits, not for the $$$
A two week stay at the hospital may have amounted to over $170k at the optimistically low end.
Outstanding work! I'd say, disrupts your competitor's archaic methods perfectly! ....& I've always found that extra reports, op research, trends, and current stats factor greatly into some rounds. A paywall web journal to accompany you data is not out of the question if you are able to provide more relevant info than most free sites.
Ex.
https://firstsiteguide.com/startup-stats/
https://www.embroker.com/blog/startup-statistics/
https://clara.co/astonishing-facts-about-startups-that-will-...
>"I've been using my own domain for my email for over two decades."

Same here since the end of the 90s. Completely agree with the rest of your post.