skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This entire press release is a master class in misunderstanding the relationship between the CFTC, FTX, and FTX US (LedgerX).

FTX US was registered, licensed, and regulated by the CFTC as both a DCM (designated contract market) and a DCO (derivatives clearing organization).

FTX Intl bought LedgerX (the DCO and DCM) presumably as an entryway into the US marketplace and as an attempt to bypass the registration process for those types of entities, but FTX Intl was in no way registered, licensed, or regulated by the CFTC.

It's a shame LedgerX may go down with the ship, and their marketplace has a lot of opportunity.
No. Some NFTs are definitely art, like the ones by @beeple on Twitter. There are also NFTs that work as a membership card for a community, like BAYC. And of course there are scams too. You're oversimplifying.
The page you linked directly contradicts your interpretation:

> The 1% rule is often misunderstood to apply to the Internet in general, but it applies more specifically to any given Internet community. It is for this reason that one can see evidence for the 1% principle on many websites, but aggregated together one can see a different distribution. This latter distribution is still unknown and likely to shift, but various researchers and pundits have speculated on how to characterize the sum total of participation. Research in late 2012 suggested that only 23% of the population (rather than 90 percent) could properly be classified as lurkers, while 17% of the population could be classified as intense contributors of content.[9] Several years prior, results were reported on a sample of students from Chicago where 60 percent of the sample created content in some form.

This sort of "1% rule" claim, and other versions of it made by others who have replied, is not a possible counterargument to my claim. Moreover, behavior isn't the same as desire. It's ridiculous to say that Trump didn't want a second term as president just because he didn't get one, and it's not less ridiculous to say that a person doesn't want to post content on the internet just because they didn't post content on your website.

But more fundamentally it goes nowhere towards the "be part of a conversation" bit. "People want to participate, they want to be part of a conversation" means that, while it is true of people in general, it is truer of people who post content. The people who post content want dialogue, so they're going to post where they can get feedback. They don't want to just speak into a void. The rest of my comment can only have made sense if it was a general truth and its application to those who actually create internet content (even just a small throwaway comment like this).

Your kind of argument simply doesn't explain the death of the private website and the growth of social networks. It also doesn't explain why what grew up is interactive networks, not news aggregators.
Hmmm sounds like a massive waste of time to me.
It is more about how the project is developed and maintained.

For example, Vue is founded by a Chinese. But the development happens in English. Issue tracker, RFC, code comments, all in English. Therefore, people around the world would know what direction the project is heading towards.
https://archive.ph/2022.11.15-012001/https://twitter.com/Eri...
Rehearse what you already know and go into the interview with solid knowledge of the claimed skill level. Be honest about your skill level. A good interviewer will spot fraud and disqualify you for it.
These ideas are philosophically void, but really thrive in practice. I think it has to do with encoding population into discrete identities, this is why buraucracies love it, it's like building an API between populations and institutions. Instead of going through a process of representation (like a union or voting) you simply assign yourself a ready made identity and get represented.
Dialogs, modality and popovers seem similar. How are they different?
Ask HN: How Does Similarweb Work?
I'm a bit puzzled on how its possible to have data like https://www.similarweb.com/corp/ourdata/ has?

They say that their data comes from "Partnerships":

"Rich data pre-analyzed by global partners like DPSs, ISPs, measurement companies and corporate intelligence firms"

What is a "corporate intelligence firm"? What is a "DPS"? How can ISP's provide the data?

And from "Website & Apps Owners":

Data directly measured through first party analytics (e.g. Google Analytics) of millions of websites and apps.

But how? If they don't have access to a GA account, how do they know? Is if the website uses some third party asset (js, css, etc..)?
Dealership in Europe is not so good either. Real example: I bought a motorcycle from one of the 2 dealers in the country. I had to do the first oil change at the dealership in order not to lose the warranty (in my country, in US you can change the oil at home). They charged 100 EUR for an oil change, including 1h hour of workmanship, when it took less than 15 minutes from parking in front of the dealership to leaving the building with the work done and paperwork complete.

For a car, the oil change was 300 EUR at the dealership, same problem with losing the warranty. In that case it took one hour - no idea why because it takes just 10 minutes of actual work and there was no wait time to cool the engine and oil, they were almost cold.
Every company I’ve worked for has been overstaffed in engineering to one degree or another. The sad fact is that this is not a 1:1 type of thing… it’s typical for 80% of the output to come from 20% of the team. Many people coast along on their coattails.
> 8 years.

8 years is barely enough to start changing course in how things like energy production is organized.

Is there a specific reason you insist on this kind of velocity? Global warming is going to gradually increase as a problem over the next 200 years, if we continue our current course, it's not like the world is ending in 2030. In fact, on our current trajectory, the truly hellish outcomes are not expected until around 2150-2250 (based in IPCC reports).

But precisely because it takes so long to change course, we need to start turning the ship now.

> Tripling generation by adding 600GW is nothing.

Watts is not a unit of energy, it's a unit of power. Peak capacity is not very interesting. What matters is actual production as well as the cost of producing the power when there is demand (including the cost of storage, if needed).

Nuclear produced 2.8TW last year, which is roughly identical to Solar+Wind. That's about 10% each. If we add hydro to this mix (currently 15%), we have a total of 35%. The depressing part is that this has been relatively constant since 1985, meaning we haven't made any progress over the last 37 years.

https://ourworldindata.org/electricity-mix

However, if we restart investments in nuclear, while continue our renewable investments, we may be able to triple both over the next 15-20 years. If hydro remains constant, we may produce enough energy to cover 75% of 2021 consumption by 2040 (which would perhaps be 50% of 2040 consumption). That should be enough to replace most fossil fuels for electricity in the EU+US, at least.

To reach such a level is highly non-trivial, both for nuclear and wind/solar. For nuclear, it means a u-turn is needed on several fronts, and for wind/solar, there are economic and geographic limitations (some areas are getting saturated).

For this plan and time horizon, there are plenty of uranium deposits that can be mined, perhaps most interestingly for western countries, a lot of this is in Australia and Canada.

If we restart construction of nuclear plants, we will also drive incentives to go looking for more sources elsewhere.

As for your "Peak Uranium" hypothesis, I suggest looking at the history for "Peak Oil". Oil was predicted to reach its peak in year 2000, but the reality is that production is still increasing. I would be very surprised if the same is not happening for uranium.

And as far as I can tell, we DO need it (or nuclear in some other form), if we're supposed ween ourselves off fossil fuels this century. Wind and solar may be competitive in some locations up to some production volumes, but they seem to have very diminishing returns above some level, due to storage costs and available land areas.

Maybe we can, some day, have solar panels carpeting the Sahara or even in Outer Space, but that's definitely scifi.
That's why it is just one possibility. I usually only ever see people patting themselves on the back after the Nth time they're finally "proven right" about housing being over-valued. My point is just that you can be right about housing (or the stock market), make well-timed correct decisions, and still end up losing compared to the supposed "chump" who just went with the market. It all depends on your exact situation, exact market conditions, etc.

My guess is most people doing the back-patting have never run the numbers on an adverse scenario. They just see the top-line number dip and say "see, I was correct to wait!"

tl;dr: Run the numbers comprehensively for several scenarios. Include gains you missed out on, rates moving against you, your time horizon, risk appetite, etc. It isn't theoretical, real people have lost real money by being correct about a downturn.
The NYT is just lying. The people who controlled both FTX and Alameda stole funds from FTX (which FTX customers have claims against) and gave them to Alameda
The key word for looking into this is Tikanga (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikanga_M%C4%81ori).

It has become a common belief that it is the duty of New Zealand schools under the Treaty of Waitangi to integrate Maori culture into students' learning. This belief is talked about in this article, which is a very informative article about the current state of Tikanga Maori in New Zealand: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/447962/the-schools-walki.... It is clear that Tikanga Maori is being implemented in many of the science class rooms of New Zealand.
A centralised entity, which should have been regulated by another centralised entity, gambled away billions.

Seems like nothing changed since 2009.
I have had limited but direct experience with CFTC (because of a cryptocurrency related project I did for a client), and I was not impressed.

In this case, CFTC came at us with claims that we were breaking rules and then required us to prove that we were not. Just looking at our website it was very clear what we were doing and what we were selling (education content), and there was not a hint of anything to suggest that we were selling investments or commodities. Even still, we had to give our corp attorney annotated screenshots of our website, illustrating exactly what our business was, and have that sent back to CFTC.

After doing so, we heard nothing back from them. They should have been satisifed by what we sent (presumably they were), but they didn't even both to say, "Ok, you may go."

The whole thing felt really arbitrary and amateur.
Do all companies in the world have to adhere to US law?
There do appear to be similarities in the sense that the whole enterprise is based on the idea that the valuation of tech companies will always rise, so as long as you make sure you have hands in enough pies you will make money. What those pies are is basically immaterial.

But that’s where the similarities end. Crypto “investors” were putting in money into a scheme where the money’s only use was marketing so the next round of “investors” would buy at a higher price.

VC money was being used for building actual businesses that for the most part provided some value to their users, even if they were trying to make up for unit losses in volume.

Like, Bird may be insolvent and fold. But it did provide millions of real trips. What did Solana do that was of any use?
If those office workers wanted jobs so bad, they should have spoken up as amazon transitioned into a brand-knockoff cardtable at scale!

Though any staffer speaking out probably would have been PIP’d. Afterall, “leaders are right…a lot.”

I blame the warehouse workers! All that unionization effort could have increased their pick rate instead.
Wait until you see how many books are dedicated to the "element of" function! Or the antiderivative function!
Going through all their shenanigans, any legal activity on the exchange was rare. Extremely criminal behavior. SBF would buy tokens from his personal account, Alameda would then buy the same tokens, and then FTX would list those tokens after Alameda bought them.

Criminal beyond measure and it's absurd that all of these big name funds did not do even ten minutes of due diligence.

The Ontario Teacher's Pension Fund was "investing" in trash like this without even looking at their corporate governance. How do you treat a pension fund like that?
> The DK2 was a prototype wholly inadequate for and unscalable to the mass market.

DK1 shipped 56'334 units[1], DK2 shipped 118'930[2], CV1 shipped an estimated 547'000. That's really not far apart and CV1 was on the market for longer. DK2, or a slightly improved iteration of it, would have been very much serviceable as a mass market VR headset.

> The CV1 was legitimately expensive for Oculus to manufacture;

The BOM for CV1 was only around $200[3]. They did some unnecessary stuff to make it more expensive (wrap it in fabric), but fundamentally the CV1 was not a very expensive device. Not sure how they arrived at that $600 price, but that looked like they vastly overestimated how popular VR would be and tried to milk it for profit.

Meanwhile for a modern example, Pico4 has a BOM of around $348[4], while it's sold at 429€. That seems way more reasonably priced to break into the VR market.

> The exclusivity was also not solely Oculus's fault

They never provided anything to allow third parties into their ecosystem. Meanwhile Valve wrote the SteamVR driver so that Oculus headsets can be use in SteamVR. And the SteamVR/OpenVR runtime was open enough that anybody could write their own drivers or plugins for the ecosystem.

This issue isn't even limited to headset from other manufacturers, a lot of the video content on the Oculus platform wasn't accessible with Oculus's own headset, but limited specifically to their mobile headsets only. Compatibility to Oculus Go and Quest1 was also reduced or killed after the release of Quest2, despite the actual software being compatible (e.g. manually transferring .apks to Quest1 to play Resident Evil 4 works).

> People watch movies in VR all the time.

Bigscreen and VRChat exist despite Facebook, not because of it[5]. Anyway, I don't just mean watching old movies in VR, I mean actual made-for-VR movies. They had that with Oculus Story Studio, but they killed it and nothing really has replaced it. There are no new upcoming movies for VR. We don't even get Avatar2 in VR. With the amount of money Facebook has been spending I'd expect at least a VR-remastered version of Avatar2 premiering in VR. But we don't get that, if a want to see the latest movie, I still have to do that in a real cinema, not in a Metaverse cinema.

[1] https://www.roadtovr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/dk1-sold...

[2] https://www.roadtovr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/dk2-sold...

[3] https://hexus.net/tech/news/peripherals/95167-oculus-rift-co...

[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/AR_MR_XR/comments/xzkyop/pico_4_vs_...

[5] https://nitter.net/dshankar/status/1295825811748999173
Correct. Arrogance is not illegal (yet).
They accepted the risk of losing $100m because they thought there was a significant chance of getting a much bigger return. Obviously in this case the bet didn't pay off, but putting 0.05% of the AUM in a high risk investment is hardly a scandal.
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My PhD project is to work on language model capable of playing the answerer in a Twenty Questions game (reverse of Akinator). If you are interested you can play here: https://twentle.com It is meant as a party game to play on your mobile with the learderboard on a large screen (like Quiplash)

On the back-end is a GPT-3 model answering the questions with: never, rarely, sometimes, always or usually.
How a GPT-3 No-Code App was built and acquired
This is normal. You buy a car from a guy on the street, it could break on the drive home and you’re mostly shit outta luck. Even if you have a legal claim (and you usually don’t since the sale is as-is), it’s not worth the trouble and they’re likely to be judgment proof.

On the other hand, dealers usually include a warranty of some kind with their “certified pre-owned” vehicles. And as repeat players, they have a reputation to keep. The manufacturer also imposes further rules on them to protect the car brand.

Fwiw, I strongly oppose laws that protect the dealership business. But this specific thing you’ve noticed is not some grand conspiracy (how would that work anyway?). It’s just rational consumer behavior.
>What I do see is some use of te reo Māori which I expect, like any language, will influence the way that students learn chemistry.

Reminds me of the time when I had a software tutorial Google-translated from Farsi to English and it sounded like a magical incantation.
In order:

- go out for a run

- get a hot shower

- eat well

- read a book (non-technical preferred) or listen music

- have a good sleep

- have a great breakfast

- go for a walk

When you are back home, join the video call and rock it!
If they lost it through bad bets, who was on the winning side of those bets?
Fly.io (YC W20) Is Hiring Ops Engineers
Revolving door 2.0
Thanks, I knew about Process Hacker but not System Informer. It's all a bit weird: the download page for System Informer only lists Process Hacker binaries, for "legacy operating systems", while there are no binaries yet for "supported operating systems".
InnerSource Summit 2022
While Atatürk is likely the most well-known person named Kemal to date, it's a pretty common name, and it means something like "mature" or "complete" [1], which is sort of a good goal to reach, or a quality to advertise, for a framework.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemal_(name)
Well you can see lots of photos of his penis and face in the same picture. I think that's fair verification.
The application of mathematics is, however, not objective.

To use your last sentence about statistics, how you choose to handle variables, how they're put into regression models, and how those results are interpreted all have potentially subjective and cultural aspects to them.

As someone who works on mathematical and statistical models for a living, there's plenty of opportunities for subjectivity, from how methods are applied to what questions are considered important.
Exactly, I mean more "strongly typed". The opposite is JavaScript, which is weakly typed. When speed matters and every bit is important, it is a bad idea to write an emulator in a weakly typed language.

I have corrected the text.
i never bother capitalising things. i was pulled up on it once, ever.

that person was wrong. :P
Many of their customers (if not most, on volume) wired USDT obtained from other parts of the ponzi ecosystem, then traded them internally for dollars. This way, FTX could accumulate internal USD liabilities without ever having those dollars wired into their accounts. Even if we were to take at face value the $5 billion liabilities from SBF's "Excel ballancesheet", that's still less than a third of the loses.

Sure, Tether should have a 1:1 backing to real dollars or dollar denominated assets - but it's like the ponzi-world's worst kept secret that they don't, as we'll soon find out.
Doesn't matter. It's still a neglect of their fiduciary duties.
Almeda was also the market-maker backstopping FTX. They were using Alameda to provide backstop liquidity to FTX, i.e. absorb losses when prices went backwards quickly. Unfortunately, they were also loaning out huge margins, which means people on their platforms could rack up losses pretty quickly.

There he is a blog authored by SBF himself from like 2018 where he was touting their innovative market superior market-making approach, which ultimately boils down, they had automated circuit-breakers, and if the worst came to the worst, some robust 3rd-party entity will come in absorb the losses. He never explained why anyone would want to do that. (I wish I can find that article where he explained it). He probably was using Alameda as that 3rd-party entity to absorb the losses. And since they were also recklessly handing out margin loans for people to trade with, those losses can get really large really quickly if crypto prices went down and stayed down. If they rebounded, they will make a killing. Which is why hyping crypto and SBF so prices rebound is their only play.

yes, I am sure there was some frivolous spend there. But my strongest hunch is that majority of the funds Alameda lost was from backstopping FTX when prices went south. He thought he was too smart. he basically reinvented the wheel. he reinvented the entire financial system with himself and his company playing the role of the Feds, larger bank, smaller bank, and retail bank, stock market exchange all in one. The FED has the economic and political and military might backing him. Alameda has funds deposited by users, and some guy who thinks he is too smart.
i worked at be, in the year 2000, for seven months. i got laid off when the company went out of business and got acquired. a few relics from my time there.

my business card

https://platinumball.net/be/business_card.jpg

third floor break room. i saw jlg sitting on that couch, holding forth on the company, once or twice.

https://platinumball.net/be/break_room.jpg

a clipboard made out of a bebox motherboard. yep, i still have it

https://platinumball.net/be/clipboard1.jpg

https://platinumball.net/be/clipboard2.jpg

edit: ugh, some people are reporting my links are forbidden. i removed my .htaccess file, which had some rules forbidding hot-linking. maybe that will help?

https://platinumball.net/be
Companies run by US citizens and that deal in US dollars certainly do.
The secondary market for claims against FTX is pricing those claims at about 5c
Fraud upon fraud upon embezzlement upon fraud fraud.
I'm not sure you are replying in good faith.

But, you are still making the claim that a decentralized smart contract protocol would be better replaced with a centralized traditional database on a Raspberry Pi. We disagree.
IMO, Google started the decay of the web.

People started to think about linking as a way of "losing" Pagerank.

Stuffing keywords.

And the worst of all, content length. People started writing long articles to keep the Search God happy, most of the times with little added value and a diluted information density, making readers lose time to keep the Gods happy.

Then social networks took over and it was even worse. Most people ditched their own sites or never started one, a friend who is a photographer lost his FB/Instagram accounts a couple of days ago and now understands what I was talking about when I told him he should have some content in a domain he controls.

Instagram doesn't even allow more than one link.
Who pays for all that?

Like is the idea that the recycling companies are getting so much for collection that they can afford to pay to ship the stuff to China and landfill it there?
Thanks a lot. Touring bike then. I'll probably consult some bike shop owner to give opinions. BTW how did you train for the long ride? Did you go from say 100 and then inter-city?
https://www.timesnownews.com/mirror-now/in-focus/archeologic...
Insightful comment. It makes sense for the agencies to want control and no responsibility, the best of both worlds. If we are waiting for Congress to actually act, then nothing will happen. They are too busy empowering the executive branch.

Regulation won't be a silver bullet, plenty of scams remain in regulated finance that they are supposed to fix as well.