skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's one theory.

Of course, given the depth of financial depravity on display here and the incredible thinness of the financial defense, one must also entertain the theory that they did do the due diligence, they were aware of how dangerous this was, and they invested anyhow for other reasons. And that those reasons are probably not good.

There have been many cases where companies go to great lengths to do accounting alchemy to fool even very smart auditors, but we are clearly not dealing with that here. Binance or whoever was offering to buy FTX out literally figured out within single-digit hours of looking at FTX's books that they were not interested. A person skilled in the art can literally glance at these books and figure out that they are worthless. I do not believe there is any credible theory that any investor could possibly have been unaware of these issues.

FTX's books don't so much have red flags as that they are printed on red flags, with ink derived from red flags, a custom-made red cover made out of more red flags, and each page, when opened, has pop-up red flags along with a little electronic speaker that plays Red Flag by Antigoni while you get sprayed with Red Flag perfume [1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKk91x0Yg7Q
I think one way to start addressing this would be to increase the payouts people receive for abusive police behavior and have those payouts taken directly out of the police pension fund instead of normal taxpayer money.
For how far? For example it doesn't extend to the atlantic ocean.
Pretty much most M&E oriented tools can be added to this list for the 3D and Visuals section. We live for nodes!
TikTok is mostly harmless when considering everything its peers do (i.e. the same things).

The mass surveillance done by more or less all popular social apps on phones (and beyond) is a problem, but that problem is everywhere. It would be good for all of us if tiktok was treated fairly, and by fairly i mean the FUD about surveillance and manipulation should apply everywhere and be regulated everywhere not just the Chinese state sponsored kind.

Enact data collection laws, local storage laws, etc. and apply them everywhere. Then better regulate and control the agents of foreign powers that overly influence business done in America.
It's likely different problems in the same field (eg complaining about reliability vs arbitrary caps). The quality isn't as much the problem in the US specifically as the red tape around these companies creating local fiefdoms of captive customers is. They treat their customers like ass because they know they can.
Yes. It's new enough that you will find a bug or two, but it's about as closely integrated as Javascript.
You bought into that narrative too eh?

You're correct that in Africa, in places where Ivermectin is regularly deployed due to parasites had much lower rates of COVID and death from COVID - but no, you're wrong - that's not where those 93 studies were conducted.
EU proposes KYC on self hosted crypto wallets
> FTX was the antithesis of cryptocurrency

Not really.

The narrative around crypto sells the idea of decentralization but doesn't deliver.

(1) Put money into anything and people will show up to try to get as much as they can. That is: money is a centralizing force.

(2) Crypto, the technology, doesn't have a mechanism in place to resist centralization -- one person or entity can own as much as they can get their hands on.

Just (1) and (2) means centralization is built-in to crypto.

There are some accelerants too, though:

(3) Crypto resists regulation. What people think of as the decentralized nature of crypto is actually about resisting intervention by external parties. Obviously, that can be good, but also lets people buy, sell, trade, borrow, accumulate crypto without limits.

(4) Crypto is confusing. I think this lets people believe the things about crypto they want to believe, leading the the wildly optimistic narratives around it.

As long as there is money in crypto, you will see the same thing keep happening: money goes in, crypto moves around, for a while everything seems to be following the narrative, then, suddenly, the money is gone, the crypto is gone or worthless and we have some more threads about it on HN.
Almost no one doesn’t mean no one. There’s been so much growth in the industry in the past 20 years that even if everyone working in 2001 was still working now, I wouldn’t be surprised if they were a small minority compared to the sea of new talent
If "eliminating the need for trust in centralised entities" is an absurd claim and a lie, then it follows that there exists a centralized entity you need to trust to use Bitcoin. What is that centralized entity?

PS: When people say that Bitcoin is decentralized, they also mean it in the colloquial sense, not only in the CS academic jargon. Entities like PayPal or the Federal Reserve Bank are centralized and require trust. They have to be run by trusted people. In contrast, Bitcoin isn't run by anyone. It is governed by a protocol which is mostly set in stone. No centralized party can suddenly decide to "print" more Bitcoin or freeze accounts. This is what people mean.
Per other commenters, Granny Smith gets downranked for being a mediocre apple for eating plain in-hand, but it's great for using in salads. We have a Granny Smith apple tree and we dry all the apples in a dehydrator and it makes the best apple chips.
Also interesting.
Is this the same thing.
https://i.redd.it/qofb7x8zmj0a1.jpg

Citadel Securities has in their books securities sold, not yet purchaed. $65 billion. How is this not the same thing ? lol
Many of the things done at FTX are already a crime. The laws simply aren't being enforced for the mega rich.
> A quick question - how can a person born in a Baltic state and living there their whole life end up without citizenship?

It should only be possible, if that person was born in Soviet Union (that is, before 1990), and doesn't speak the official language of the country he / she is living in.
>threat it poses with manipulated social media trends

;)
Piggybacking on this link, since many seem not to have read the article.

But this is one of the most pro-crypto articles I've ever read. It may as well be a submarine, in the PG sense.
Show HN: A privacy-focused task manager
This is primarily a forum for nerdy stuff. The crypto space is much more on-topic for discussion here because of its technical origins, so it gets discussed more. If you want more discussions of other topics, post about them, and they'll get discussed if other people also want those dicussions.
Here's the thing: the public doesn't need Bitcoin. The public needs quite a few of the services and functions that the existing financial system provides. Bitcoin on its own is unable to provide many / most of these.

The last handful of True Believers can shuffle Bitcoin among themselves indefinitely, this is true. But does that have any more significance to the world than a multiplayer game someone creates for only them and their friends to play, handing game items back and forth among themselves?
The space that allows people to be awful is the same space that allows them to be wonderful - discretion to step outside the bounds of the laws as written and act on them as they believe to be moral or ethical.

I won't disagree with you on the point that we have numerous examples of police abusing this.

I will note that we are primed by our current medium to only see the examples of them abusing this.
Hah, “You’ve been eating trash”
You'll just need to accept my self-assessment, or not.

"Desperate" is a funny word. In another comment I compared this to buying milk when you need it. Maybe some people wouldn't call that desperate.

This all highlights the differences between being able to do the job, signaling that you can do the job, and being able to get hired to do the job.
So I really hate TikTok I think it is a major security risk; however I've recently become worried about the actual mechanism of enforcement getting rid of TikTok.

It seems however we do it, blacklisting IPs associated with TikTok, messing with DNS, or pretty much any other actual enforcement mechanism sets a dangerous precedent. I then wonder what happens if we allow the government to start disallowing certain apps for "National Security" reasons, just like when we decided that the NSA should be able to listen to any electronic communication without a warrant to "stop terrorism".

Don't get me wrong I despise TikTok and the CCP and think it is bad for mental health and is a weapon of psychological warfare by the CCP, but I am worried about the precedent set by allowing the federal government to ban or make illegal an app and how that will be abused in the future.
Yea, let's give power to multinational agencies whose leadership can't even be voted for. No thanks.
Would you support banning it if it primarily was helping your political opponents?
I was under the impression that was a hastily prepared document for essentially marketing purposes when they were shopping around for a buyer/savior, and the fact that Binance looked at it and quickly nixed any thought of a deal speaks for how well it worked for that purpose. But I assume there are more detailed docs internally, though I'm sure those will be problematic too.
Anyone know what payment processor they used? Did they take USD etc? That's probably how their real identities got exposed.
This really isn't accurate at all. I'm in very strong aerobic shape and 95% of my max heart rate is not at all sustainable for more than a few minutes, and it is also a deeply anaerobic activity. VO2Max != max heart rate. Your heartrate @ VO2 max is typically much lower than your max heartrate. Max genuinely means max in this case, as in, literally the highest you can get your heartrate up. By definition, you are way above your VO2 max in that situation and it is not going to be sustainable for long at all.

Something like 90% approaches what you're talking about, maybe being sustainable for 15 minutes or so, but that 5% makes an enormous difference.
I did a taste test some years ago and Fuji won by a good margin. And this was in the US even -- I've heard they're better in Japan, but I was really pleased with their quality here. BTW, all my testing was with organic apples, if that makes a difference.
If it was up to me it'd actually be at least GPLv3 and likely AGPL haha but many were involved in licensing choices and this is where the common ground landed.

And the player is what actually contains most of the interesting algorithmic "meat" ; a company could build a custom DAW on top of it without much trouble for instance.
I agree that you should maintain backups, but I wasn't focused on the data loss specifically. Rather even if you do have backups, your computing devices/infrastructure being taken is its own disruption.

Also backups make data loss less likely but don't eliminate the chance. The FBI can still raid your house, your friend's house, your safe deposit box, and freeze your cloud storages all at the same time.
Shut down HN, Reddit, etc for the security of the American people!
Yeah, not saying it’s a perfect rule, just making the point that the parent’s 160-170bpm is lower than what I’d expect his max to be, using the rule of thumb a lot of people know.

(And for what it’s worth, my max heart rate is the same when cycling or running, within a small margin of error. I’ve never thought to ask anyone if it’s the same for them - I will do now!)
Are you saying that crypto (or blockchain) cannot compete based wholly on its merits?
Swimming can work as well, but only if you have good technique. I'm not a great swimmer so when I'm panting by the poolside it's because I wasn't breathing correctly, not because I was exceeding my aerobic capacity. Highly trained competitive swimmers don't have this problem.
MotherDuck, the Docker for Data
I couldn't find any such comments, but this one from August 2021 aged really poorly:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28798944
The thing with people getting laid off is I think many of them are in the position where the only place they would fit in is a mega tech corp. And since all the mega tech corps are doing layoffs, it really doesn't seem like it's going to be that easy for them to find a job.

For example, if you've been working on a database system for 8 years, there aren't that many companies that need to develop their own internal database system so the matches are slimmer. Or if you've been doing SRE on 1k k8s clusters, there aren't that many companies that are doing k8s at that scale and working at lower scales is completely different.

Another thing with going from a mega corp to a startup/smaller business is the expected performance. Mega corps are slower with low acceptance of errors while smaller businesses are faster with a higher acceptance of errors.

This doesn't even factor in that it also seems like smaller companies are also doing downsizing at the moment. I'm seeing smaller companies add in policies which are clearly designed to make people want to quit to companies getting rid of all of their remote devs because they're the easiest to fire. The job market doesn't look good right now.
It's truly disheartening that TikTok usage is even framed at a NatSec issue when we should be self-limiting in the first place. The amount of individual attention that has been robbed from our population through scroll-feeds is sickening. Monopolizing the attention economy will lead to the monopolization of the decision economy. Those who are neck deep in social media will begin to give away their own free will without realizing it.
The thing is, is that this guy has been documenting shit since the 90's. Why the raid now?

Disclosure, that's why. Look at the continuously delayed congressional report. Bet many of you haven't heard of that.

There are people in the highest levels of the US Military who don't want it to happen. There are people who do. We can only wait and see if Full Disclosure happens.
Intel ME is a "hidden processor" on every modern Intel x86 computer, and the modern versions of Intel ME are based on MINIX. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine

SQLite is used by e.g. browsers, phones, and many desktop apps.
As for an explanation, this tracks with the five factor moral foundations model[1] and specifically with the loyalty (and possibly authority) factor(s). There's a profound difference between those who primarily conceptualize morality through individualizing foundations(care & fairness) and those who primarily conceptualize morality through factors(loyalty, authority & sanctity)[2].

The police are systemically biased toward selecting for members who favor authority and loyalty. It should come as no surprise that those values are reflected in behavior like this.

Personally, I'm curious to engage with and hear from those who hand out such favors. How is it justified?

1. Graham et al., 2013; https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2184440

2. Graham J., Haidt J., & Nosek B. (2009)
This again...every single time we get the death of Bitcoin articles.

And every single time the honey badger of financial networks just doesn't give a shit.

The tech is solid, people are not, this is not a new information
let heap_value = vec![the_struct];

Based on another comment addressing this, I don't think the original commentor was making assumptions about the shape of your data.
I don't see how the conclusion the author comes to doesn't supports the title of the article:

"There are approximately twelve thousand Mastodon servers at the moment, so the fact that forty-five of them block one server of journalists isn’t really the end of the world."

I'd say <5% of Mastodon servers blocking this journalism server means that Mastodon is working as expected, and is relatively welcoming to journalists.

And this is the cover article for the top level journal's website.
The US after successfully chaining and regulating a "natural monopoly" in telecom in a way that granted them some of the highest quality home service in the world: what if we broke it up into a hundred pieces and made it more free marketer?
MSN Messenger was my true first client. ICQ, YIM, AIM and the likes for those. My prediction of things for next generational of things:

Skype turned into Teams

MSN Messenger turned to Skype,

Discord will turn in to MSN

Ventrilo/Mumble morphed in to Discord.

TikTok will turn in to Discord

???? turns in to TikTok
And by definition, a Ponzi must continue to expand, and expand quickly. Regulators are literally waiting until cyrpto completely runs out of possible new customers to intervene. The government is maximizing the damage that crypto does.

Thank god we haven't gotten to crypto for kids yet, but crypto bonuses on credit cards is getting very close.
Because advertising works https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/23/big-oi...
> "go read the actual contract or the actual code"

Okay, so I did and it says this:

> Whenever, in the interests of national defense, the President defines certain vital military and naval installations (etc)

Has a President defined Area 51 as a protected installation under this rule? If so, where?
Show HN: Animation CPU
Any suggestion would be awesome :)
I used to tackle this issue by spending more time warming up than actually exercising.

I am now using specific strengthening exercises from the kneesovertoesguy program to make my lower body more robust. I am not spending a lot of time on this but am seeing encouraging signs where I can engage in more vigorous activities with less warmup and less pain. If you have any pain (other than muscle exertion pain) during exercise, or even joint discomfort, etc, that's a potential road to injury that you have to step back and address. I stopped lifting heavy weights for now while I focus instead on improving my weak spots.
I think you should get a basic understanding of the technology if you are going to comment on it.
Median household income in the US in 2022 is $78,000. The average American has adequate income and can't justify pirating movies, books, music, porn, etc. on the basis of poverty.
I think you should allow yourself the kindness to recognize what you went through with not being able to get diagnosed as a traumatic event, because it was.

I feel for ya. Even though I'm medicated for my pretty bad ADHD when the medication wears off at night I still have to set limits on myself to basically limit social media and other things in which I interact with other humans. Because otherwise I know I'll wake up the next morning regretting most of the interactions because I just say dumb stuff. But I recognize it and it's something that you could do even when you're not medicated. I know it's extremely hard to do without proper medication, having that external help with your executive functioning, but you can get yourself quite a bit ahead by implementing a whole lot of mindfulness. And I'm not talking about the tranquil internet kind of mindfulness I'm talking about the put your foot down on yourself kind of mindfulness. You have to be strict with yourself and you have to be honest with yourself in setting limits and in setting boundaries.

Notes are good. Rabbit holes are good. Oversharing is good mattering on the setting and I still make mistakes with that and that's just the thing that you're going to have to learn that you do and recognize when you do it.

Another thing I have to add here is that; only you are ever going to believe how bad you actually suffer from ADHD. Don't let anyone else in your life tell you that you're more capable than you know that you are. I know that sounds really backwards but people with ADHD are really insecure and they're constantly bombarded with normal people telling them that they have potential. There have been moments in my life where I've been set back because I listened to people who told me that I'm not as disabled as I actually am. I have to follow my gut so often with what I know I go through every day.

But from the get-go we're at a deficit here and on those days that we have the energy in our tanks to be at 100%, we're still not even close to fully well-rounded enough to be at a normal person's 100%. The best way that I've been able to frame this in these modern times that we're now in is how people are reacting to getting long covid. How normal people in quotes react to getting long covid when the symptoms of it appear to be extremely similar to having ADHD with a bit of depression and how people are just like I can't work anymore I can't do this I can't do that and a part of me wants to go up to them and be like well there's your eye opening experience this is what it's like for someone with ADHD who is depressed...
Not every one is a higly paid software developer in a tech hub. If you live paycheck to paycheck in an area with high unemployment, have kids, and your health insurance is tied up with your employment, getting sacked can be pretty scary.
> the FUD about surveillance and manipulation should apply everywhere

We're already here.

> and be regulated everywhere

This is where we need to be.
At least you don't have to write your own DOS extenders nowadays :)
That's actually a great idea. We use schemas for the categories it detects but could tie them to wikidata entries which is far more generalizable. Will look into this!

We're also aiming to explore using large language models to support/improve this.
In the US, maybe. Not so much in Europe.
After a recent devastating family tragedy, a friend reached out and said "we are paying a lawn service to mow for you."

It was unexpected, related to something I had posted about trying to fix our riding lawnmower, and honestly took a huge chore off of our plate at a time when we needed to focus on family.

I've appreciated so many things people have done for us, from just a message, card, shoulder to cry on, or visiting at the hospital or attending a funeral. But I was taken aback at how important and meaningful that concrete and thoughtful help was. I'm now trying to look for ways I can offer something concrete and thoughful whenever possible.
This isn’t particularly helpful for the OP, so sorry tlhunter, but for anyone else reading, please don’t bother with Stripe Atlas or a Delaware company.

Just form your private business with your local corporation commission.

You need to understand basic corporate operations to do business, and jumping immediately into all of this extraneous work is completely unnecessary for small private businesses.
This looks like an an attempt to capture some revenue, while providing similar benefits to those standby passengers get.

I’m general, travel that can only be books day before is not great for planned trips. However, lots of people use it to see places and do things they otherwise wouldn’t have. ( I’ll go to Denver for lunch) ( I’ll fly to see a long distance partner) ( so and so is playing a concert I want to go to and the tickets are cheap).

From frontiers perspective, the marginal cost of anther pax is small, compared to the sunk cost of running one flight.

Why is this different than airpass? Airpass allowed unlimited travel on any days with very few restrictions. This doesn’t allow booking ahead, or on busy days, thus if you really need to travel, you will have to pay.
One struggles to imagine how "terrorists" will take advantage of grainy pictures of Area 51. Perhaps now that TFA has informed them of its existence, they'll leave an IED outside the front gate?