skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Grooming generally consists of showing kids porn, drugging them and then raping them and making them feel guilt over their own abuse so that they do not disclose it.

So it's understandable that people are concerned by people who want to give sexually explicit material to preteens.

And some authors of children's works have long attracted controversy, like Piers Anthony who had that hotline to contact him in his books (1-800-HI-PIERS) and who wrote extensively about child sexuality both in children's books (the "adult conspiracy" in Xanth) and quite explicitly in his adult works, like Firefly which has explicit sex involving a 5 year old girl.

Quotes of that and some similar works of his can be found here, you have been warned:

https://litreactor.com/columns/themes-of-pedophilia-in-the-w...
https://hradzka.livejournal.com/392471.html

I think it's fair to be concerned about such things, and I say that as someone who read much of the Xanth series as a teenager and only figured out how damned creepy it was a very long time afterwards.

Note that I do not claim to have any proof that he's a pedophile, nor do I have any evidence of him harming any kids. But at the same time, I think it's fair for people to want to keep their children away from dirty old men like him and I wouldn't give any kids of mine a Xanth book.
> SBF describes coins like a ponzi with no shame https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6nAxiym9oc

Just offering that just a few minutes into that video, I saw everything I hate about many youtubers' style, generally. I can't describe it, but there it is.

I listen to Odd Lots. Generally, that podcast keeps things thoughtfully presented. I remember that episode and it reinforced distrust of crypto.
> No, there's no world in which he is

Sure there is.

The scenario where he escape with a suitcase of gold to a country without extradition.

Or another scenario would be if he had serious blackmail on several key govt officials.
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Upper stage is now in fast fill at 58% liquid hydrogen filled.

Liquid oxygen for both upper and core stage are in stable replenish.
This is a good one. Also think about how confident you are you aren't breaking anything with your new feature, and how confident you would be that the next person won't break your feature.
Yes this is a use case but I would hardly call it the common one. I agree with GP, it really makes things harder to read not knowing if it's an actual method on a class or just a static helper function with syntactic sugar on top.

I have begun writing all static method calls as static method calls even when they are defined as extension methods. It's a little less terse but that's worth the decreased surprise. You can do this with the ASP.net configuration calls as well.
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I'm just saying that it's been 7 years since the fraud went public
I'd caution that the author of the article isn't too keyed into crypto either.

> A friend who is deeply involved in this industry told me of the clashing egos. “CZ helped SBF create FTX, let him grow it, and then when it got too big, he destroyed it.”

The situation was entirely the creation of FTX - CZ just amplified the alarm that was already ringing when Alameda's balance sheet issues came to light.

Tl/Dr; SBF ran both an exchange and a hedge fund as allegedly separate companies. His hedge fund made several highly speculative investments during the crypto bull run. They then started bailing out companies in the summer when the tera/Luna stable coin crashed. Along this time falling crypto prices were causing Alameda to get margin called. Eventually SBF took user funds from the exchange to meet the hedge funds margin calls. At that point it became a zombie company. Depending on what you read SBF had less than a billion dollars of assets to 10 billion of liabilities.

The scope of SBF's fraud is being actively uncovered by the community as we speak. It'll be a while before we know the full picture.

Painting this as crypto bro trader war trivializes it and reduces SBF's responsibility. SBF built a house of cards on top of fraud and eventually some wind knocked it down. The responsibility lies with him and his leadership team.
It may disprove it. Another possibility is COVID affecting the numbers from last year.

I'd like to see monthly numbers for at least a couple political cycles, or better yet for several stock market cycles.
Or, they run in to limits with Github and mistake them for git limitations...
Rex Stout loved to dish on the FBI before it was cool in his Nero Wolf books
The collapse of Binance will be the Enron moment. By magnitude, Tether is a much bigger "fractional reserve" (Ponzi) scheme than FTX.
>I can’t imagine what’s going on in his mind right now.

Massive amounts of Selegiline, probably.
It depends on the specific protocol (aka blockchain or token) you're using. For instance, bitcoin is very simply publicly visible, each transaction is broadcast in the clear and you can trace inputs and outputs online [0]

Other protocols, such as zcash, specifically obfuscate the inputs and outputs using cryptography, in ways that I'm not specifically sure how to explain, but are supposed to work.

In some ways to me this is unsurprising in a way different from the ponzi nature of crypto. I can't explain Ed25519 either, and I'd also get bogged down reading a paper explaining it. I can get my head around the basics of btc and pre-proof-of-stake ethereum though, this[1] 3Blue1Brown video went a long way.

Definitely not going to disagree that lots of tokens are ponzis, and lots of the tech and promises are imaginary vaporware. But there are some real pieces of tech in the mix too.

[0] https://blockstream.info/block/00000000000000000003590ca79f7...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBC-nXj3Ng4&vl=en
You should delete the app from your phone. An update has come out since this story broke that looks like a trojan that scans for wallet keys on your device. Also, don't go to they're website.

So, that's basically where things sit right now.
> I've had a hard time deciding whether the proponents really understand it (and all of its nuances) or if pretending you understand it in fact part of the game.

Along those lines, it always seemed like an Emperor's New Clothes kind of scam to me ("These are the finest hashes!"). There was always this dialog in my head when the crypto bros would extol it's virtues that went something like "Wait, it's just a hash, right? But what if they're on to something? Nah, they're not onto something... but they seem to be making money... but it seems like a ponzi scheme where the people who got in early can cash out, but the people who jump in later lose money... c'mon, how is it not a ponzi?"

> I don't understand crypto (didn't understand derivatives either)

Never invest in something you don't understand. That seems to have worked out for you as you didn't get caught up in it.
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The Monica dev mentioned Laravel in this thread. In Laravel, one also must start with defining a router.
A) Many large ships run with electric motors and diesel generators anyway, so it would be unsurprising if this ship did the same.

B) I'm sure they can carry fairly large swanky launches / tenders / whatever

C) This is interesting to me also. I suppose you could build a coffer dam around it anywhere you have a large enough shallow harbor. But even conventional large ships spend a lot of their time far away from any shipyard big enough to repair them, maybe it's just an accepted difficulty.

D) The $8-billion question, yes? The page doesn't seem to address this at all. It seems to be one designer's idle fantasy and a bunch of renders.
Hi Mitchell,

Long time listener, first time caller ;)

Just make sure to pass the parallels_tools_flavor as lin-arm vs. lin i.e.:

```

provisioner "shell" {
binary = false
execute_command = "echo '${var.ssh_password}' | {{ .Vars }} sudo -E -S '{{ .Path }}'"
expect_disconnect = true
inline = [
"mkdir /mnt/iso",
"cd /home/${var.ssh_username}",
"mount -o loop prl-tools-${var.iso_vm_tools}.iso /mnt/iso",
"cd /mnt/iso",
"./install --install-unattended --progress --verbose",
"cd /home/${var.ssh_username}",
"umount /mnt/iso",
"rm -rf /mnt/iso"

]
inline_shebang = "/bin/sh -e"
only = [
"parallels-iso.aio"
]
pause_before = var.pause_before
skip_clean = false
}

```

And from your Vagrantfile

```

guest.vm.provider :parallels do |prl, override|
override.vm.box = "./../../packer_aio_parallels.box"
prl.name = "#{server[:hostname]}"
prl.linked_clone = false
prl.update_guest_tools = false
# prl.check_guest_tools = false
# prl.customize ["set", :id, "--shf-guest", "off" ]
# prl.customize ["set", :id, "--shf-host", "off" ]
# prl.customize "post-import", ["set", :id, "--shf-host", "off"]
prl.memory = 1024
prl.cpus = 1
end

```

As mentioned here: https://developer.hashicorp.com/packer/plugins/builders/para...

Here's a gist as an example from PetShop:

https://gist.github.com/markchristopherwest/55558674c6fd2911...

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Ask HN: Getting a Technical Mentor as a Technical Founder
What are your thoughts about getting a technical mentor?

I'm working on a startup, and I find myself needing a technical mentor in the long run.

How would this play out? Is this like going to a CS Professor's office hours?
Why are you rewriting it from scratch?
I'm curious what this would be like without Dapper. Dapper's performance was awful compared to rolling our own mapping that generated a static collection of delegates. This was quite a while ago with .net Framework though.
Yes, I have a problem with overtly hostile responses to reasonable and polite requests. They could simply disagree in a polite and reasonable way.

More importantly (for our discussion), why would I have to share someone's values in order to think they're worth listening to?
GP is probably referring to the move away from the classic keyboard, which more resembles the IBM desktop layout (separated F keys in clusters of 4, standard home/end/pgup/pgdown arrangement, etc.).

To fans of that layout, the standard (still typical on desktops) was abandoned on ThinkPads ~10 years ago.
Click "changes" and you can click through to a highlight and explanation of almost everything in the scene.

Some of the changes are interactive. You can play the TRON game (even though the game isn't from TRON)
This is not really true. Charity Navigator incentivize that charities operate on a shoestring which is not very effective: https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_abou...
I swear I have seen a B&W candid photo of Hoover in his back yard wearing a dress. It was years ago, and I can't seem to find it with image search. It could have been faked, which was my first thought, but as far as I could tell, as a graphics professional, it did not appear so to me. It looked like it was his gag, like he put on a dress as a joke. iirc, Tolson was in the picture dressed causally, and they were both laughing, not very close to the camera, and the picture did not appear staged. It looked like he was hanging out in his back yard in a dress as a joke and I assumed it was the (false) source of the rumors that he was a transvestite, like, if someone had seen it in 1950 they'd be sure he was, but to me it just looked like a man in a dress goofing off, and there's a huge difference. He wasn't wearing makeup or a wig, and he was smoking a cigar. It would have looked like a Halloween scene, except Tolson was dressed normally.
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I encourage you to explore givewell's site. They are very transparent about their ratings and processes.
You can buy drugs on the dark net with them!
If the money was stolen, it was never SBF's to give. The law does have provisions that can force the clawback of stolen funds. But because we're talking about politicians here, I don't think anybody believes the law will be enforced equally to them.
I learned cvs, sccs, svn, bzr, hg, and git, in that order. I still find git confusing, and stick with Mercurial whenever possible.
> I don't understand crypto (didn't understand derivatives either). I have worried that my ignorance will cost me in investing — that people smarter than me are going to make bank while I'm derp-derping with my index funds.

Crypto requires a constant influx of new investment to continue making that number go up.

The FOMO narrative gets pushed hard for this reason. As long as regular investors are convinced they have to invest in crypto or else they'll miss out, the money continues to flow into crypto.

The problem with these collapses is that it breaks the narrative and makes people wake up to the reality of the game. That's one of the reasons the crypto industry is moving hard and fast to distance themselves from FTX and SBF.
My 2 cents as someone who billed engineering work (not software) for 5 years (again, my experience and it is totally industry dependent!)

For every two hours of billed work, there's an hour of non billable work. There's admin, billing, reporting, business development, etc. that comes with being a contractor ... and that's if you're efficient!

Do you only have one project / client at a time? If so, bill 40 hours and don't bat an eye. Bill at the highest rate you can. My guess is this is the salary at a comparable position divided by 2000 hours ($100k per year is $50 per hour) and add 30% to it or whatever your overhead rate is. If you're talking lawyer rates (~$400 an hour) then yea, you need to bill in small increments and hire out your admin / other stuff to a staff.

Once you dedicate over half of your working hours to a single client / project the rate becomes a comparable employee plus 30%.
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It's funny they unwittingly plugged FTX's game and didn't mention that he's been seen playing League of Legends.
How I bootstrapped to $288K ARR in 6 months in vertical SaaS
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His best chance of getting the least punishment is cooperating to the max.
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Likely this: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1591224814597189633
His latest words on that type of topic speak for themselves:

"This is far enough from my field that I would usually defer to expert consensus, but all the studies I can find which try to assess expert consensus seem crazy. A while ago, I freaked out upon finding a study that seemed to show most expert scientists in the field agreed with Murray's thesis in 1987 - about three times as many said the gap was due to a combination of genetics and environment as said it was just environment. Then I freaked out again when I found another study (here is the most recent version, from 2020) showing basically the same thing (about four times as many say it’s a combination of genetics and environment compared to just environment). I can't find any expert surveys giving the expected result that they all agree this is dumb and definitely 100% environment and we can move on (I'd be very relieved if anybody could find those, or if they could explain why the ones I found were fake studies or fake experts or a biased sample, or explain how I'm misreading them or that they otherwise shouldn't be trusted. If you have thoughts on this, please send me an email). I've vacillated back and forth on how to think about this question so many times, and right now my personal probability estimate is "I am still freaking out about this, go away go away go away". And I understand I have at least two potentially irresolveable biases on this question: one, I'm a white person in a country with a long history of promoting white supremacy; and two, if I lean in favor then everyone will hate me, and use it as a bludgeon against anyone I have ever associated with, and I will die alone in a ditch and maybe deserve it. So the best I can do is try to route around this issue when considering important questions. This is sometimes hard, but the basic principle is that I'm far less sure of any of it than I am sure that all human beings are morally equal and deserve to have a good life and get treated with respect regardless of academic achievement."

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-the-cult-o...
Similarly, seeing splashes of color on Eastern Michigan's gray field breaks my brain a little. It's like watching an old black and white film with only certain characters colorized.
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Sounds like a bunch of sociopathic, terminally online people found each other and started yet another hierarchical fund raising scheme.

What’s better than picking individual charities based on utility? Charity index funds. Also known as social democratic governments that collect taxes.
This is 100% true.

I'm a tab hoarder, and your comment made me realize that it's mostly because I don't want to lose the source of a interesting links.

So I just open in new tab or duplicate tab to preserve the original tab and it's history.
No, he was CTO of a 3 person startup. He was the ONLY one that knew how to code for a while. He did it pretty obsessively and slept next to his computer.
You don't get instant on with most hardware (some laptops have achieved it through CoreBoot, System76 sells some like that), but with anything that supports S3 and NVMe you can definitely get a reliable system where your laptop can sleep for weeks at a time. Just set up suspend-then-hibernate in systemd on a laptop with a fast SSD.
Totally agree. There are plenty of EAs, including myself, who use EA to direct their giving towards mosquito nets and not towards charitable organizations with overpaid CEOs or an otherwise terrible ROI.

EA is best as as critique of the narcissism of most wealthy western ‘altruism’. But all this mixing of billionaires, crypto, and long-termism has reintroduced narcissism into the community.
This is too cynical of a take for me. I fell down the rabbit hole after reading/watching some of Vitalik's writing years ago. I think it's worth spending a small, insignificant amount to play around with some apps that have a genuine purpose. These days I'm most interested in gitcoin.co grants and the use of quadratic funding to support public goods (eg: open source software). You can read a summary write-up of a previous round [here](https://vitalik.ca/general/2020/10/18/round7.html) if curious.
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You nailed it. It is all pretence. Cryptocurrencies have no intrinsic value. The Greater Fool Theory applies to crypto markets.
EA doesn't do that - it's a much smaller concept than utilitarianism. (Which also wouldn't always support that conclusion.)
I see a free market of ideas at work.

Why is the US government as-is a rational actor to get behind? More of its citizens in prison than China, it’s citizens vote against supporting each other through universal healthcare, and education, it’s opioid peddling execs, scandal plagued business leadership makes Mad Men look like Leave it to Beaver. China did not set the US on this path. It’s all homegrown.

Let such exceptional and gritty people be. Get some popcorn. Front row seats to the end of society are waiting.
No, because it's not actually possible without extra information. The codepoints in Unicode are the same if the languages use the same character (Han unification). With no extra information, if a string is only comprised of unified codepoints, it isn't inherently any one language, so you'd have to resort to a dumb external setting that lets users pick one font in that situation. Next best, you'd have to scan the entire string and find at least one non-unified codepoint and then use that to guess what language it is and then map the correct font for that language. Or, if you have external data such as an encoding string, file metadata, text source, you can simply obey what the metadata says.

Unification was done originally because early versions of Unicode were bit-constrained and there simply was not enough space to have separate codepoints for each language. This would need to be "undone" in some future version of Unicode and text encoders would need to make the backward incompatible change (in terms of rendering in unknown downstream software) of using new codepoints if this were to be done. Then the "proper" font would be deterministic.
These people are supposed to be some kind of geniuses but everything that comes out of their mouth is contentless drivel. Caroline says at best she's using elementary school math. The articulation SBF provided of how the system works was literally something like 'A box you put coins into and take money out of' which he then explained to be a ponzi scheme in everything but name. How on earth did these kids come to be in charge of such massive amount of capital? The whole thing defies logic.
Buy shares in Tesla. If Twitter succeeds Elon will need to sell less stock to fund Twitter.
Brazilian here. People are calling it a brazilian spring at least. There's no revolution, just huge protests. There's a lot of people gathered in our capital, I've never seen anything like it. They've been there for almost two weeks now and it doesn't seem to be slowing down. Traditional media is ignoring and minimizing the protests, the information is on social media and especially twitter.

There's all sorts of things being posted about the election. The most convincing analysis was posted weeks ago, showing that all older voting machine models, less thoroughly audited but still in use, held more votes for the winning candidate. The armed forces also released a report saying the voting machine software downloaded third party libraries from the internet during the compilation process and that code has not been audited. Today, the losing side requested that the results of those machines be disregarded, giving Bolsonaro the win.

The response to all this was not reasoned refutations but censorship. Supreme court judges gave themselves the power to investigate, judge and punish anyone who questions the results of the election. They are censoring everything related to this, claiming it is "fake news".

I submitted an article about the censorship here on HN as it was developing:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33312582

It's gotten worse.
> the in-crowd seem to get it, seem to understand it.

absolutely not speaking of anyone on HN (where people seem more learned and aware) but most of those who 'seem to understand it' on Twitter / Reddit etc. are just folks who have put in their money after reading fancy terms and want to 'pump' a given coin. So that they can validate their investments to themselves.

This is just my personal opinion so there's that. I have been wrong about lots of things, could be about this as well :)
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> Question: What does it mean for a news source to be reliable?
>
> Answer: A news source is reliable if it is a reputable source of news.
>
> Formal Definition: A news source is reliable if it is a reputable source of news.
>
> Examples:
>
> "The Washington Post" is a reliable news source.
> "BreitbartNews" is not a reliable news source.
>
> Q: What are some tasks for reliable news sources:
>
> A: Fake News Detection, Misinformation, Text Classification

What a world we live in.
Thanks very much for these!

So pleased to hear about the medical application, I never expected anyone would use it like that.
Except our metaverse doesn’t even have the Black Sun