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> Tether's 'market cap' is like 60 billion or whatever, I think most of that was just created out of thin air, but I think some of it was exchanged for real dollars, like a few percent, maybe a couple of billion dollars. In which case, when the fraud comes crashing down, they will have stolen hundreds of millions, to maybe a couple of billion dollars.

> Imagine if somebody stole a piece of art worth hundreds of millions of dollars...

Buy some bs art for peanuts, get bs appraisal that it's worth millions, donate it to some bs gallery and reap tax deductions. Art was turned into a tax evasion scheme, and it compromised any value it ever had.
I always peel granny smiths, so much better imo.
Links would be helpful.
So your solution is to basically have them as "untouchable caste" that is supposed to pay taxes but can't vote, despite being born there and living there all their lives. Ideally if they just disappeared. And you don't see any issue with that. You are basically confirming all my arguments so far.
Object oriented? Unison looks pretty functional to me. And I don't see the content addressability, which is arguably the most important part.

Anyway, you'll very rarely see completely novel ideas in this space. Good combinations, compromises and applications matters a lot. Look at your favorite applied Merkle tree tool.
Very interesting stuff. The kind of domino effect shown here is a really great example of how much of modern economics is based off of mutual trust of the parties involved, and how that trust binds together so many disparate individuals, companies and other groups that you wouldn't otherwise expect to be involved at all.
It's almost like these departments add little to no value and are easily replaceable?

But also, recruiters are effectively HR. Nobody is sad to see recruiters let go...

I say this as a person of color.
> Sure, if we pretend that gold stops having ANY use outside of being pretty

I fail to see the purpose of this 'pilot amor'. There is no reason why gold would stop being useful beyond being pretty. This fiction you've come up with doesn't even make any sense and certainly has no relevance to the discussion.

However, that doesn't mean there is always a user available. When we saw the price of oil go negative there were still just as many uses for oil as there ever was, but for various reasons there weren't buyers in that moment. Gold is not immune to the same.

In case you are still confused, let me be clear: Price and value are not the same thing.

> IOW, stop posting fiction.

Sage advice.
Saving a few percent on 1 watt is a few tens of megawatts tops.

You'd save orders of magnitude more by not forcing them into the trash heap with repair-hostile design, extreme fragility in the name of thinness that noone asks for and everyone immediately gets rid of with a case, and forced obsolescence via software updates
Absolutely! It’s helpful for us to keep the long tail of usecases in mind tho as we prioritize, so we can capture aspects of those. We’ll ofcourse never be able to replace a full custom bot. However, bots coded for specific uses come with its own set of challenges (eg. managing a backend server, logging, relying on someone else to update basic things etc.) which we hope to mitigate.
I fear this is another setup where you're not buying a product, you're actually financing a company that is going to pay back the loan with a product that they haven't built yet.
There is so much variability in the kind of work people do it's hard to make a rule that fits everyone. For knowledge workers I think 40 hours is near the top of productive time you are able to wring from people. Certainly some individuals could work much more if engaged, but on the whole, without a strong incentive otherwise, I think 40 hours is a maximum limit.
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> Is there a perfect O/S?

No, they all suck. Some just suck less than others. Not always the same ones by the same criteria.
I am a longtime django user my self(since v0.95) and rocket comes pretty close to it.
Spam filtering continues to work great for my gmail account.
Tangentially related: has anyone found luck with book clubs?

My friends have a few, but I'm not terribly interested in science-fiction (further narrowing the pool I imagine). I'm not limiting myself to book clubs full of programmers, but I suppose it'd be nice to discuss tech-adjacent books, e.g. Bostrom.
I burned 3 billion tons of coal and all I got was this lousy javascript.
The crappy cases will always exist, and that’s known to VM architects and it’s not a bug.

I think this is very much the lens of the VM developer. From a different POV, why isn't it valid to ask, "Why can't this also be fast?" Why is that a feature and not a bug?

Essentially this work is like criticizing a professional gambler for his biggest losses when the gambler is ahead in the average

The losses are still losses. Maybe we should try to eliminate the "gambling?"
The two areas of managing source code and distributed computing are not as disjunct as you make them in the context of Unison. They follow from the underlying principle of addressing functions not by their name but by a hash of their normalized syntax tree (ie their code).

There are a bunch of cool implications for distributed computing, namely that you can easily distribute fine grained parts of your application across servers and that you can cache the result of expensive calculations.
> With Certificate Transparency you would just have a nice log about it afterwards.

Fear of consequences is a powerful thing. A rouge cert issue basically kills the CA.
You could argue that the resurgence of neural networks being the dominant paradigm in "AI"/ML is a partial comeback of cybernetics (dynamics of simple systems leading to complex behavior). I'd like to understand the history of cybernetics better, but my current impression is that much of cybernetics, or at least ideas in the spirit of cybernetics, just became rebranded after the original practitioners died.

I agree with your general take though. The history of aviation safety is a good example of taking this systemic way of thinking to heart, but most other fields don't seem to take such a wholistic approach in their analysis. I.e. part of the reason planes are so safe nowadays is that the people in the field worked really hard to understand the systems from their basic mechanisms to the psychological and physiological effects on the pilots/crew (granted wanting to not kill people is a great incentive to figure this out). I'm sure there are other examples of intensive analysis throughout the system, but that's the only good example I can think about.
I still don't understand why that would cause testing to be hard, but since you won't explain it... I guess it leaves me thinking the problem might not be entirely them.
Because for the most part, meat is carbon neutral. Meat is not and has never been the problem.

Look at it from the standpoint of the carbon cycle. For example, where does the carbon in the methane originate? It is carbon that originated in plant matter consumed by cattle. It originates in the atmosphere, and goes back to the atmosphere. We do not feed petroleum or coal to cows. So net-carbon increase from cattle production is very minimal.

Going after foot production is insane.
He was talking about money, but I think meant wealth based on the context of his response to the OP. They are almost interchangeable, but not in this context.

> Unsold stock should not be quantified until the moment it is sold.

I don't know Elon Musk's finances, but I imagine that he's got a bunch of stock, (let's say) an amount of cash in the tens or even hundreds of millions and debts well above the amount of cash he has on hand. If you don't count unsold stock, then Elon Musk is poorer than most college students.

I agree the numbers are misleading (e.g. Bill Gates money is very diversified and he has already paid many of the capital gains on microsoft stock sales, so comparing his wealth to Elon Musk's with a single number is quite misleading). But you have to count unsold stock for something.
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Does that laptop support Linux? If not, I'd expect a key reason is simple; it likely is not using all of the power saving functionality supported by the laptop. This might include things like S0ix, throttling, proper sleep states, etc. There's a lot of factors going in, and I think by and large it is not actually an endemic issue with Linux itself. Consider for example that x86 Chromebooks have no issue fully exploiting modern x86 power saving features and getting good battery life.
In a way it has. Just not directly. Everyone is abandoning (for example on iOS) imperative style (Cocoa and UIKit) for React style (RxSwift, ComponentKit, SwiftUI). It's the biggest shift in native UI programming in more than a decade.
> The organic apple had significantly better flavor.

What are you concluding from that? You can get the same apple 1 week apart and have a significantly different experience.

Or you could get the same apple at the same time from different batches and have a significant difference.

Or you could get two apples from the same batch at the same time and they could vary a lot.
why would anyone trust a dude who is dressed like 3 year old?
It is stating the truth. If you don't like it, don't participate on the market. If you don't like it and insist on participating on the market, you will get scammed.

None of that has any ethical or sociological consideration inbuilt. It's a simply observation of the system.

Anyway, yes, that means the system is bad. But this is an ethical and sociological consideration.
Well one of Discord's main demographics (which they intentionally target) is kids, who often haven't used any other VoIP application outside of a phone.
They wouldn't have had any business if they weren't fraudulent. Most of the actual customer interest came because they were paying people 8%/yr on deposits, because their exchange was paying high rates for total dogshit scamcoins (presumably because their market maker Alameda was buying that dogshit), and because they were offering derivatives products like perpetuals that are live grenades.
Does the solution to your problem have to be free (as in $0), or are you willing to pay? Are any of your friends in countries under sanction right now (like Iran or North Korea)?
Hi Steve. See my reply in above thread to Shin which calls out alot of the operational improvements we've made. Just an FYI, there's also been significant changes in how we price so it's now alot easier to start small, get started quickly and decrease the time to value with more mainstream skillsets. With the new product strategy we're seeing alot more buy side clients (hedge funds/asset managers) use kdb+/q for their workloads with KX Insights.
"Competition" is not a desirable property in a cryptosystem. The fact that it's a property of WebPKI at all is a historical quirk of CA organizational practices and the (entirely artificial) market for certificates.

In other words: we should be seriously cutting down the number of trusted CAs.
But the only thing that matters so far is Tether's market cap... which has barely moved through the latest shitshow.

Whoever buys tether (and who is it? really? I don't think it's retail investors...) doesn't seem to be in a hurry to convert it to cash. I'm assuming it's mostly or all related to criminal activity, so they can't actually cash out?
What blows my mind is that SBF is going to investors asking for money in his billion dollar "no you can't look at the books" crypto hedge fund while looking like he's playing hookie from his math class and playing video games during the pitch meeting and the supposedly very serious Wall Street types went "Wow! This guy is amazing! All the money he wants and more!".
It can be pretty tiresome and there are some topics I just never bother reading because they are inevitably full of humanbot autoresponses. Anything to do with note or mail apps, for example, will be just packed with readers taking their own particular dog for a walk, regardless of its relevance to the topic at hand. Pub bores, the lot of them.
A sole proprietorship is the simplest thing that might work.

I know it is not a popular suggestion, but it can be a good choice when there’s not a whole lot of uninsurable liability, few assets, and limited working capital.

Since anyone can sue anyone for anything anyway.

YMMV…but YAGNI also often applies.
This is a huge security issue according to Turkish law (called KVKK).
They should report this security breach here https://www.kvkk.gov.tr/veri-ihlali-bildirimi/ but I haven't seen anything reported from them.
Last time I checked, USA have predominantly privately owned companies. So if people are not earning enough then it is kind of a problem between employee and employer.
Chamath Palihapitiya has an uncanny ability of appearing when others are left holding the turd bags and then waxing some insight of how they foresaw something. All he cares about is being in the news cycle and making money, he did the same thing with the GameStop short squeeze..
I think that interpreting the results can be confusing. Companies can certainly check their own domains regularly, but as an ordinary web user, it's difficult to determine from CT logs whether or not example.com that you are about to visit has a fraudulently issued cert or not. Maybe they happened to legitimately switch providers that day. You weren't in the meeting, you don't know.

(I know that CAA records exist in DNS, which are a good signal. But there isn't DNS change transparency; every DNS reply can be unique, so someone can easily serve a faulty CAA record to an evil/hacked CA, and you wouldn't notice. DNSSEC exists to solve this particular problem, but is its own new and exciting set of problems that I have yet to fully understand.)
As a bag holder, I often find myself attracted to dark mode websites, where I make my purchase decision based on how I feel about the CEO's haircut.
I wish I could set my browser into a mode where CAs are an opt-in.

I enable this setting and at first I can't go to Google unless I enable Google's CA. The go to Amazon and get the warning, get displayed what I will be enabling and have the ability to use Google to search if I will trust them. So I enable DigiCert Global CA in order to use Amazon, and ask myself why the hell I need to trust that 3rd party.

And so on. This way I would never have Hong Kong Post Office's CA enabled in my browser.
This, I have to imagine, would come down to soft power. To my knowledge, it’s /very/ rarely free to move wealth across borders. So if a country were to strongly incentivize investment a certain way all of a sudden, it would be ideal if the political leanings were aligned with yours. Perhaps that might mean investing/holding your wealth in a country where there are likely to be further breaks for renewables. Who knows.

This isn’t a super thought-through response. Would be curious to see if people have ideas to add.
I encourage anyone reading that post to read some of the others on the forum as well.

> Alameda and later FTX are founded explicitly as Effective Altruist organizations, although they rely on commercial investment and seed funding. Early employees are mostly or all EAs. The hiring process filters aggressively for goodness of fit a lot of which is to what extent someone is an EA. They pitch FTX and Alameda as places to go work if you are looking to do good.

> SBF is influenced by his longtime friend Will MacAskill* and others by the principles of Effective Altruism.

* Will MacAskill is the co-founder of EA, close friend of SBF for 9 years, and the one that was trying to get Musk to accept an investment from SBF for Twitter.

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/f9rFsbsd4rGLQfpQg/...
And nobody is going to comment on the name? I think they really missed an opportunity here. Why not Scrotul?
Archived: https://archive.is/2wG0k
thank you for the update, this does seem to be a real difference between nuscale and conventional nuclear
> wholly owned and based in the EU

I believe anf.es is

> strictly offline signing of certificates

CSRs, signed certs, certificate transparency log entries, revocations etc have to get between the signing device and public some how. You can create a gap, but then you have to bridge it somehow for this data.

Do you want an organization that prints out and types in every request going across that gap? You're probably not going to find that.
From the official FAQ [0]:

> Other than the filter, what other measures can I take to assess code suggested by GitHub Copilot?

> You should take the same precautions as you would with any code you write that uses material you did not independently originate. These include rigorous testing, IP scanning [emphasis mine], and checking for security vulnerabilities. You should make sure your IDE or editor does not automatically compile or run generated code before you review it.

I think lots of companies do run tools such as BlackDuck and others to scan their entire code base and ensure (or at least have some ass-covering) that there is no accidental copyright infringement.

[0] https://github.com/features/copilot#other-than-the-filter-wh...
If you're using Warp it's likely you're not taking your privacy seriously anyways. It only supports MacOS, which has telemetry like OCSP that is impossible to disable.
The Facebook/Google crazy level of perks with 3 meals provided very day, dry cleaning, massages, etc.. ? Free alcohol in the office? That stuff can go, and people will have to deal with.

Some of the other stuff like untracked/unlimited PTO (It's never really unlimited) and free coffee and snacks is nice to have.

I'm in my 40s. I started internships in 1996. All this free food and alcohol, etc.. didn't exist till around 2010.

We would have occasional "hey we're working late so we're getting pizza" in the 1990s and 2000s. We would have "hey we're having a BYOB in the cafeteria friday afternoon." Not this constant culture stuff that constantly wasted tons of money. But Coffee has always been free & around.

It does seem like younger workers who have only experienced the current environment have gotten entitled to it. We used to have crunch time and working weekends and all that nonsense and we didn't have the perks. Sometimes the companies ran out of money anyway. Tougher times can kind of suck. But it still makes these jobs great. They always paid really well. You were still sitting in front of a computer and not stuck doing physical labor.
The end of crypto? No. But could it become the Magic Cards, AOL, or MySpace of this generation? Sure. They may even have the staying power of MLM companies like Amway.
Ha! Did not know that. Not necessarily dispositive though. Also, I believe they are a public benefit corporation so that would also cut in favor of my point...I think
I’m still surprised that in the year 2022 people still pay enough money for certs that CAs manage to exist providing SSL certs. EV and OV is effectively dead (and was never a good idea anyways), so who exactly is paying for their certs?
Disney makes Mickey Mouse cartoons and uses it as branding. It doesn't have value just because Disney thinks it could sell the rights for more later. In fact, they don't ever want to sell it.
If we want to set sail on the ocean, we do not take a basket and start work to stop it from leaking. We build a boat.
What were the major end user scams in web 1 and web 2?
I recall ad fraud (click farms etc) and maybe some early ecommerce buy but not receive goods but nothing at the scale (even adjusted for web 1 adoption in the 90s) at crypto frequency/scale. Identity/credit theft maybe?
And these people are young. Bernie Madoff at least had the smarts to be old before he was caught so life in jail is basically a whatever for him.
Max effort 500m row on a C2 is a special kind of awful
> FTX’s list of investors spans powerful and well-known investment firms: NEA, IVP, Iconiq Capital, Third Point Ventures, Tiger Global, Altimeter Capital Management, Lux Capital, Mayfield, Insight Partners, Sequoia Capital, SoftBank, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Ribbit Capital, Temasek Holdings, BlackRock and Thoma Bravo.

- https://archive.ph/1tjP5

This is an extraordinary number of high-profile companies which either failed to do due diligence, or were knowingly, deliberately doing shady dealings.

Not great to have to choose between incompetence and shadiness at any of those, but those are the two options, and each should be investigated for throwing their [customers'] money into an obvious scam.
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Can you explain why you consider it to be worse?

eBPF is also working on signed programs [0]

[0] https://lwn.net/Articles/853489/
For me it's the exact opposite: I can't get the Linux battery life on Windows without turning Windows down into a stutterfest. Windows is also noisy as hell.

It all comes down to driver support. If you manufacturer doesn't have proper drivers, your experience will suck. It says a lot about Lenovo that open source Linux drivers work better than their proprietary ones, but that probably comes with the territory if you combine Intel and Nvidia.
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I once took a year of oud lessons, and the nuances in microtonality really blew me away.

There were all sorts of things in the aural traditions, like scale X having a fractionally sharper 3rd ascending than scale Y, but with both notated in the same way.

But a lot of the larger subdivisions (i.e. quarter tone sharp/flat notes) were surprisingly natural to learn, and no different to semitones (from a listening/playing perspective) after a while.
You can't do this directly in your browser, but you can do it with your system certificate store. Lots of people disable these small, low-volume CAs.

(I wonder if there's a tool out there that does so automatically? Something like Filippo's mkcert but for automatically pruning the CA store down to just the ~dozen major operators?)
At least one person seemed to know what they were talking about. Unfortunately the comment was flagged, which is interesting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31738560

> Very different approach to Bryan Armstrong, who’s more of a Bitcoin “believer”

The fact that you think this goes to show just how little you know about this ecosystem. And Bankman is the worst type of con-artist, he is going to use his billion(s) to influence US politics rather than build viable technological solutions. Armstrong has been the source of ire since the Segwit wars where he scammed and peddled Bcash on unsuspecting noobs using the 'legitimacy' of being the only YC backed and US sanctioned exchange. It's been a series of horrible UX after bad business strategy.

Armstrong is what I expected when SV entered this space and played the typical VC game as seen with the buy-out of 21 Inc. I kind of respect him for hustling the SV crowds with such an absurd IPO valuation, but he is immensely foolish if he did not cash out then and there and anticipate buying back under this bear market to recapitalize and sell more of his worthless shares as they cratered in price.

Again, HN is pathetically out of its depth when it comes to this Industry that it's hard to take most of you seriously on anything else.
Agreed, I think it's great to have really cutting-edge, highly experimental sort of research languages that explore new paradigms. Doesn't mean you have to like the language, but I think it's good that some people are doing this kind of work as a going concern and not just some repo that was pushed up once somewhere and languishes. He's got some interesting ideas in there related to effects system, etc.
If you start using emojis with coworkers you interact with frequently in a way that seems useful, at least some will start using them as well.

I always use conventional comments (https://conventionalcomments.org) because of a similar issue, and whenever I join a new team, I find other people start doing it too, without even explicitly pushing it.