skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In that case you hopefully have colleagues that are able to help on those questions.

And if predecessors have moved on, teams should typically be empowered to make changes to the codebase which make the code understandable and maintainable for them (but sure - I am fully aware about that these changes are not easy to get prioritized in a business sense).
The thing that this piece really got me thinking about is how many other crypto companies are the same ponzi scheme because they are counting made-up things as assets on their balance sheet.

In other words, suppose I create token SCAMMER, and I say its supply will be capped at 1 million tokens (or 10 million, or 100 million - that's the "nice" thing about crypto, I can kinda choose whatever number I want), and then I'm able to sell 10 of those tokens for $100 each. According to FTX math, I now have $99,999,000 of assets on my balance sheet, but of course if I actually tried to sell a lot of my "kept" tokens I would tank the SCAMMER price.

Even better, and I think what is probably more common in the crypto industry: suppose I get my buddy to create a SUX2BEU token. I tell my buddy I'll by 10 SUX2BEU tokens for $100 each if he buys 10 of my SCAMMER tokens for $100 each. Now suddenly we can both say we have huge assets on our balance sheets! Until, of course, someone decides to pull aside the curtain covering the wizard.

So many ponzi schemes on top of ponzi schemes...
I do get your point related to litter, but there are times when - like with intentional misspellings or intentional wrong grammar - jokes can be made which are harmless to most but recognized as fun to a few.
Options trading: The Bible of Options Strategies

Each trading strategy spread type comes with a legend icons that tell you their purpose, like a tropical island emoji tells you its for unlimited capital gains, and an arrow emoji tells you what market direction it is about, and you also get a feel for its risk before hand, and you could flip through many strategies and narrow down on something that meets your objectives even though you never heard of it before, and learn more deeply about it. Then you could see how other strategies were just variations and tweaks to the prior one.

But the real difference was that when I was trying to learn about options, most literature was telling me about what happened at the end of the trade, at "expiration", but practically nothing about options trading involves exercising an option, its so tone deaf. Options trading is about trading the price differences as they fluctuate through their life span. This book was good for acknowledging that.
If "stay away from people who might be sick" is an idea you think scientists made up just now, I'm not sure what to tell you. It's not that big a stretch to "anyone could be sick because we don't know how this disease works yet, so stay away from everyone."

Not advocating for social distancing as a policy at this point in time, just saying, it made a lot of sense from a risk-prevention perspective at the time.

But again, this is my point. It's trivially easy for me to provide a logical explanation for why social distancing was a sensible tactic. You are (probably) not going to be persuaded. You (probably) like your evidence because it matches how you feel, and I like mine because it matches how I feel.

To be clear, I don't mean this in an aggressive way - I don't think it is bad that you don't agree with me on this in some kind of a moral way, at this point. I just don't think any sort of evidence-based argumentation will bridge the gap between us.
I'm NOT a developer. I'm actually in tech support. I can write scripts, identify bugs in code, and am up to date on cloud and k8s, but mostly I don't write code, I debug systems, write up bug tickets, and deal with customer issues. Even with these less impressive skills I was able to land 3 offers above 150k base comp for TECHNICAL SUPPORT in the past month. It's still a seller's market for skilled people in tech. Yes you need to pump out as many applications a day as you can -- the vast majority will never get back to you, will ghost, or will freeze midway through the pipeline. But there are still plenty of offers going around and only so many people who can credibly do the work.
>Not at close to the same rate, no.

That is highly debatable, especially with the current (weaker) strains. Unless you have comorbidities or are otherwise in a high-risk category the chance the Covid will kill you is near 0.
Is it possible your recs are just to support the “We can’t find anybody so we have to hire foreigners” narrative.
Seems pretty obvious that the answer is debt. For example, Uber has $11 billion in long term debt as of 2021:
https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/uber/financials/...
To add to this, centralization has been such a big part of the past 20 years with Social Media that it's hard to put the genie back in the bottle. It has and continues to be an "and" proposition -> social media presence + "personal"/brand/corporate/? website must go hand in hand.

The people who get the flywheel right get an outsized piece of typical mind share and opportunity.
yes, and the sender was entirely unauthenticated, bgp was and is entirely unauthenticated, and dns was entirely unauthenticated
I found it a bit puzzling that France was the other economy. Given that Germany is actually higher in terms of GDP its hard to tell what this really means. There's always been more pessimism for future returns of German companies and/or much more of the German economy isn't in public stocks? Or is it simply that Germany has more markets so the US in these comparisons would be separating NYSE and Nasdaq?
I am not sure if Fresh would be a direct competitor since it does not and will not[0] support client side routing. In every company I worked for in the last few years white flashes on page navigations were absolutely unacceptable.

I still like the framework, but it probably targets a more specific segment of the market. I think aleph.js[1] is more like next and then there is the esoteric ultra.js[2] which kind of tries to do something similar and be super bleeding edge.

[0] https://github.com/denoland/fresh/issues/403#issuecomment-11...
[1] https://github.com/alephjs/aleph.js
[2] https://ultrajs.dev/docs
Well... according to CICP themselves, as of October 1st 2022, they have only paid out 6 claims for COVID-9 vaccines - ever. Which, even by this NBC News article standard, is low. However, 5 of them were for myocarditis, 1 for anaphylaxis.

https://www.hrsa.gov/cicp/cicp-data
It may be easier to find 2 or 3 projects/engagements that are 10-15/hrs/week.
Where good return == lower than inflation rate. TIPS are positive rate now but unless in a tax advantaged account could fail to keep pace with inflation too.
You can spend many hours at Heathrow waiting for someone to show up. And that's if they are arriving on a flight.

FWIW, the UK is full of disused airports. Like if you search Google Maps for the nearest airport thinking "I'll have my jet pick me up there" it's probably now an industrial park built on top of a crumbling WWII airstrip. They built a lot of airstrips during the war, so the Luftwaffe couldn't bomb them all.
Not him, but I had arm pain for over a year, under the injection, along with extreme weakness in a particular muscle/motion, from the first shot. I couldn’t sleep on that side at all, and could barely sleep on the other. It eventually went away, but I was terrified it was permanent.

I did not get the boosters. I’ve had people say I’m anti-vax, from this.
Thanks. I do have some "name-drop worthy" customers (e.g. Zendesk, Twilio etc.).

I have tried that approach, but it's hard to get time with them. I suspect I'd need a bigger pool to pull from.
The news here is that amazon is going to start the 2 month+ WARN period for a much larger set of orgs this week. Amazon Care/Health Service layoffs are old news.
Is it possibly this discussion? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27463732

There are people talking about heart palpitations or pains, yard to say if that's enough to say they had myocarditis though.
Yeah, there is a difference between sharing accounts for access to [CONTENT] vs, say, [CLASSES]...

So, yeah - a professor/instructor should allow MAXIMUM two people... but for things like PRIME and NTFLX those are usually familial shared and thus if you have ten fn kids... they should all be able to have access, however, maybe NTFLX should just ask "how many people in your family? and then add a dollar for each profile.
> What other course of action would you recommend

Regulation and enforcement is the only answer.

You cannot blindly trust in the continuing good intentions of executives who have as much power as Tim Cook does.

Meta and Alphabet are already committed to profiting from users' private information. Apple is not, at least not yet.

I'd be happy to have laws that enforce (at a minimum) the natural implications of the good behavior that Apple has claimed in marketing for years. But this would destroy Google and Facebook.
Firefox on iOS uses webview for page rendering, but the url suggestions (which seem to be the cause of the crash) are separate and are handled by firefox's code.
I don’t think malice was intended but your response seems shaming. Try instead thinking why others might not know something you consider to be obvious.
Stock prices don't move unless people are selling. So shareholders absolutely lost money.
Nobody has any idea what is coming. And I mean that literally in all ways.
He doesn't look like he thought much. At all.

But maybe that's some genius plan with a spectacular outcome that I fail to see.
What do CC and BCC mean in emails?
I made a comment elsewhere about the balance sheet. When I looked at it, it indeed looked like something Sam Bankman-Fried just typed into Excel on the weekend of their emergency meeting.

How in the world is a balance sheet not a report that is generated by a system, viewable by any executive? Did they not have a CFO or any finance people or accountants?
They should have done actual verification like many financial accounts do (you upload your ID and answer questions on your past). Musk is ex-payments professional and should have known that gaming payments to adversely attack verification was bound to happen. His assertion that lords and peasant system needs to be dismantled is absolutely correct, however. Twitter has largely turned into message distribution system for 1% and that's limiting its growth. Blue checkmarks bestowed by some opaque priesthood at Twitter is not 21st century.
Reading material can't be a Show HN, so I've taken that out of the title.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Rarely do I get any agreement on these ideas, so many thanks for that.

Unsurprisingly, I am interested in some clarification:

> If I put a disclaimer in front of everything I state (when I perceive the I talk about to always be some form of a hypothesis based on the data that I currently have), it tends to slow down discourse and get very messy.

The domain of science typically involves overwhelming (in a text conversation scenario) amounts of complexity as well....but they realized the problem, found a way to manage it, and went on to produce amazing results. Unfortunately, science does not have mastery over all of reality (confident claims and perceptions to the contrary notwithstanding). Perhaps something similar could be done in other domains.

As it is, it seems to me that thinking on top of approximations of reality that are perceived as reality itself is sub-optimal, and dangerous. I think most people could appreciate this in the case of science, but in other domains it is very often considered absurd.

> In my mind, because I've already accepted the potential for bad data-- that's how I approach others works/papers.

"In my mind" - watch out! :)

> There are no absolute truths in anyone's words (or very likely period).

Disagree - if one has decent skills in set theory, abstraction/decomposition, and tautological framing of ideas, it is not difficult at all to achieve absolute (but vague/non-comprehensive) truth. That's not the finish line, but you can get WAY further down the track than someone who does not have such abilities.

> I understand your concerns around this (and at least from my current understanding of our social/political issues) and I agree. It is extremely dangerous and detrimental to hold beliefs like that.

And as far as I can tell: this is the methodology of the vast majority (90%+++) of people....and some of these are The Literal Experts, or people who believe they know The Way humanity needs to go to solve climate change. What could go wrong!!??
That sounds nice, but it can be a bad really limiting to have high expectations of only getting jobs that initially appeal to you for multiple reasons.

1. Time spent researching or preparing for a job doesn't guarantee you anything.
2. Sometimes the most appealing jobs are the most competitive, meaning you might have less of a chance of getting them and they might have worse comp or quality of life
3. Some positions on websites are already filled or cancelled.
4. Not everything on a job listing is accurate and you can only get a limited sense of what the job will be like after talking to people during the interview process.

Definitely play up your strengths and be selective and discriminating. I've got some jobs through network and some through scattershot, but never have got an offer after sending out only 10 applications. Most companies don't even respond.
Ioannidis was wrong, though. Drastically so. Analyzing excess deaths make it very clear it's not the same severity as severe flu; see the chart half-way down on https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm.

At the time, he wrote (https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-a...):

> Some worry that the 68 deaths from Covid-19 in the U.S. as of March 16 will increase exponentially to 680, 6,800, 68,000, 680,000 … along with similar catastrophic patterns around the globe. Is that a realistic scenario, or bad science fiction? How can we tell at what point such a curve might stop?

It did exactly that.
Not quite. They wanted a new set of rules, ones they wrote, just for crypto. Here they are: [1]

What Coinbase wanted:

"Our financial regulatory system is predicated on the
ongoing existence of a series of separate financial market
intermediaries — exchanges, transfer agents, clearing houses,
custodians, and traditional brokers — because it never
contemplated that distributed ledger and blockchain technology
could exist. A new framework for how we regulate digital
assets will ensure that innovation can occur in ways that are
not hampered by the difficulty of transitioning from our legacy
market structure."

That's exactly how FTX got into trouble. They were an exchange, a transfer agent, a clearing house, and a broker. Also a market maker and a trader. No separation of functions or funds. Blockchain didn't help.

"Responsibility over
digital assets markets should be assigned to a single federal
regulator. Its authority would include a new registration process
established for marketplaces for digital assets (MDAs) and
appropriate disclosures to inform purchasers of digital assets.
Additionally, in the tradition of other markets, a dedicated
self-regulatory organization (SRO) should be established to
strengthen the oversight regime and provide more granular
oversight of MDAs. Together, they should formulate new rules
that permit the full range of digital asset services within a
single entity: digital asset trading, transfer, custody, clearing,
settlement, money payment, staking, borrowing and lending, and
related incidental services."

Again, note the "full range of digital asset services within a
single entity".
And again, that's the problem, not the solution.
That's close to a traditional "bucket shop", a fake broker that pretends to do trades but really just makes entries on its own books.
They wanted a "new registration process" with "appropriate disclosures". That means
a "litepaper" instead of an S-1 filing under penalty of perjury. And a "self-regulatory organization". Also, although they don't say it here, they wanted regulation by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, not the Securities and Exchange Commission. The CFTC only regulates what are basically derivatives. The underlying assets are something real, or at least semi-real like ETFs. So the CFTC isn't set up to evaluate initial public offerings.

There's more, but you get the idea. They wanted to go on with what they're doing without having to disclose much, be audited much, or be responsible for much.

It's now clear that regulation of crypto requires the two basic SEC functions - disclosures from issuers, and separation of functions and outside audits of those who handle other people's money.
Lack of the first one is why crypto has "rug pulls", and lack of the second is why it has exchange collapses.

[1] https://assets.ctfassets.net/c5bd0wqjc7v0/7FhSemtQvq4P4yS7sJ...
My lease ends in July, I can afford to pay it off savings until then. After that I can move in with my parents and help them out around the house/property for reduced rent until I get a new job.
I think it refers to the old punishment for a kid caught smoking. You catch a kid smoking a cigarette and then sit there and force them to smoke one after another until the whole pack is done. They get really really sick.

So the analogy is take something you like and then force it on you 24x7x365 until you hate every moment of it.
I have no real philosophical or financial -besides a few BTC bought years ago- stake in crypto's success or demise, but it seems that there is an unsolvable marketing problem in this space: how to nudge considerable behavioral changes needed to move a critical mass of retail investors/users from traditional banking/finance to "defi".

This kind of shift is more like a social movement but VCs don't fund education and organizing (hallmarks of societal shifts), they fund growth (if not for a single company then for a sector).

So crypto should really be more hobbyist than mainstream right now (which is what I think I hear crypto enthusiasts screaming about amidst all the fallout).

But the current reality shows us that crypto-as-a-hobby market would not be big enough to realize the crypto-as-a-new-paradigm vision, hence the celeb endorsements and positioning value propositions against centralized banking features to raise the money/interest needed to build out the vision.

It's the standard startup journey, except that marketing for growth/adoption naturally places the business at odds with the ideals of the technology.

Just my two cents!
The list isn’t subjective, it’s just “ Startups with $3 bllion or more in cumulative losses.”
A battery is a capacitor.
It's a combination of the two reasons cited by others here.

1. They may have revenue which is adding to total cash pile; and
2. They may have taken on additional debt

Maybe obvious, but probably worth repeating is that raising capital does not raise debt for your company (i.e. you're selling off a piece of your company, not taking on debt which you have to repay). I'm assuming that the "Funds raised" column is the amount they've taken in venture funding, and not debt. If it does include debt, you can ignore point #2.
I think an issue with this expectation is the assumption that our current set of technology was made for its utility alone. The reality is that most of the innovations of the 20th and 21st century only came about if they had a strong profit angle or lopsided military advantage to go along with them. As such, it's hard to actually do what you propose when everything we have is only stuff that was good enough to make a profit at one time. It's not like a bow and arrow or the wheel, fundamental tools that were built for their own merit, not because the bowstring company had a patent and legally set the standard for what sort of arrow is to be sold in stores or anything like that.

So then we have to take a step back and ask what is actually innovative about our global culture's technology today? Is the 4k TV really that innovative? IMO not really, you are using more energy now to watch the same movies and TV you might have been watching a decade ago. It's not like the bow and arrow, imparting a novel function that didn't exist before. Its just an iteration on existing ideas, just slightly different enough to market on that difference and convince people to sell thing x that does y for thing z that does y. Even when we do work hard to further the capabilities of these innovations, e.g. computers being so much more powerful than they were 15 years ago, are we really reaping that fruit? Or is everyone still using microsoft word, email, and light web browsing like they were doing 25 years ago with hardware that's at least an order of magnitude less powerful?

Real innovation is scarce imo, since we don't invest in innovation, we invest in profit and innovation comes as a side effect, if it comes at all.
OP here. I don't feel comfortable applying for a job in connection with this anonymous handle, but I've been checking the HN hiring threads since I've started my job search. If you post your job there next time, I should see it and apply if I'm still looking and it's a good fit.
Back office systems are exactly where Citadel, the market maker, could put a tiny little window to peep at data they shouldn't, so they can frontrun every trade retail investors make!!

The secret ingredient is crime ;)
How ia a market maker robbing retail investors? Is that even possible?
At some point, one has to consider that the crazy highly salaries of last years gold rush was putting a dent in shareholder value, and so Something Had To Be Done.
> You want auditors who check everyone, not just the most likely or most "profitable" targets.

Do you? Don't you in fact want the auditors to find the most fraud per hour worked?

The problem the US has now is that for example IRS audits go after the poor because the rich have too annoying lawyers. This is the absolute worst.
Wow, I interviewed with a few other hedge funds. Most at least bragged about their "internal custody infra" in interviews.

I cannot believe this guy "operated" a fund without any internal infra for custody??

EDIT - after digging through the thread it appears they "waited util monday" to attempt to withdraw? People in the know knew about this as early as the previous Friday. Moreover, how were they so poorly connected that they didn't even have a means to use Bahamian backdoors to pull out funds (IMO the only useful application of NFT's in recent memory ;) ).
The concept of "belief in God" is slippery and full of cultural baggage. Does it mean following a traditional religion and assuming all its belief structure? Does it mean a vague feeling that there may be some kind of deity out there? Does it involve a belief in fate or karma, or being judged by some supernatural entity? Does it include the Eastern concept of God being one's own innermost essence? Surveys like this are, at best, Sunday supplement amusement and little else. USA Today is the perfect place for them.
Wouldn’t you be filing “on the behalf of another person you believe has been such a victim?”
As someone that has probably read less than 10 fictional books in their life, I can see where he’s coming from.

Like, I’m literate and basically read stuff all day. And I can get through a textbook as a part of a course, but force me to read a novel and by page 7 I’m falling asleep and losing track of the characters.

I’m on the fence about borrowing/buying a book that was based on a podcast series because I fear 90% of what it covered was in the podcast.
Ah, my bad. I didn't realize this was an official category. Thanks for correcting