skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you sure? FTX was collecting deposits in many countries, so I think they had to have local subsidiaries to enable that...The corporate structure seems orthogonal to their fraud
Soapbox is a phenomenal frontend
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I was just pondering this recently. A lot of today's microcontrollers have specs comparable to PCs during the heyday of the demoscene.
You could say this about a lot of his other decisions, but ending free lunch at a failing company seems very reasonable. Most people don’t get free food at work at all.
This reads like a no-true-scotsman. If you exchange USD for bitcoin assets with the intent to sell later at a higher price, you're semantically a bitcoin investor.
You are such a shitty parent! Is it really such a blessing that your child didn't learn to read, having twice as long as it takes some other children to master this skill?
I admire your tremendous expertise in regulatory arbitrage. I read the decision in Washington State Dept. of Licensing v. Cougar Den and now I want to become versed in some of those obscure treaties from the 1800s lol.
What a coincidence, I was just thinking about it this morning, but too lazy to Google. NOW this shows up on HN and it's not on Facebook.

What trickery is that?
> Elon Musk does.

Elon Musk doesn't own Twitter. Twitter owns him.

That's a rather fundamental difference.
I was able to look at one up close in a showroom. I was really impressed with the interior design and overall feel of the vehicle. Its definitely a niche market product in the US, though. The US is very much an SUV driven market.

I expect the Gravity to be very successful, especially if they can get their early software issues out of the way by then.
At some point, if one needs to twist and turn and restrict a definition until it fits an arbitrary target, it is at best useless by overfitting, at worst driven by ideology more than anything else.

Such a manipulation only leads to absurd situations, such as the famous Greek or Phenician colonies, from Marseille to Carthage through Odessa, not being classifiable as colonies anymore. Or the Russian colonization of Siberia not being a colonization anymore.

Talk about ‶European overseas invasions″, ‶European transcontinental settlements″ or whatever, but please don't hijack a word that has been used with a much wider meaning for centuries.
It took me a while reflecting on engineering and design practice to
come around to understanding planned obsolescence as a potentially
positive thing.

Imagine designing a very high quality metal chain. However, some of
the links need to be made of an inferior strength plastic, perhaps to
stop them corroding. It's therefore not worth designing the rest of
the chain to a higher tensile quality than the weakest links. To do so
would actually be very wasteful.

One must distinguish genuine design efficiency, which is a kind of
designed obsolescence, from strategic sabotage. That's what most
digital goods contain; remote kill switches, countdown timers,
deliberate weak fuses, remote updates that remove features, embedded
DRM and all manner of user-hostile shitfuckery that amounts to no more
than vandalism.
Let's just put this in real-world terms we all can understand here.
If I sign up to an MMORPG and I'm outfitting my Paladin, should I choose the "boiler plate mail"? Does a space matter?
Datasette is great for non-technical people to explore a sqlite database via a web interface.

My two recent Datasette use cases:

1) My sales team had to come up with a list of potential clients (businesses) that owned a certain number of vehicles, transported a certain kind of cargo, and operated in certain geographies etc. Excel could not be used, since the filesize was a couple of GBs. With Datasette, the sales team was able to create multiple filters without knowing SQL. It also created great looking interactive maps.

2) An elderly friend of mine wanted to explore his apple watch heart rate (EKG) data, since he was experiencing an irregular heartbeat. After importing apple health kit data into Datasette, my friend was able to ascertain the period where he had an irregular heartbeat. He also exported data for that time period and shared it with his doctor.
1.3 decades. More than one, less than two.
Sounds incredibly cool, to be honest I am a vim guy, but still is it your own script, is there any repo, can you share it? Also I was't aware that firefox stores open tabs in SQLite, can you point me what to type in Google to read more about it?
The Apple watch has literally saved 3 of my older relative's lives already. It's amazing technology!
I had a really dumb look on my face when I realized what a firmware is:

hardware - firmware - software
My poor beagle bone black is becoming more and more of a paperweight :’)
Laptop development is dead: why remote development is the future
I've been dual booting fedora alongside windows as a desktop since somewhere around 25 and have been pretty pleased with it. As others mentioned, I had some issues with nvidia drivers initially and have purchased AMD graphics cards since then partially due to that. I've found that fedora strikes a balance between up to date software and reduced requirement for tinkering that suits my uses better than alternatives I've tried as a general desktop.
They will have a plethora of scams that they have been paid to show you, since you've self identified as a vulnerable demographic.
I bill by the week only and generally tie it to functional deliverables. E.g, deliver x feature in y weeks. Instead of going back and forth on how I spent my time, it works better for me to invest the time to scope things out carefully ahead of time. This process also forces clients to think things through earlier on and do their homework on what they’re asking for.
I forgot about that. I don't have much at coinbase, but going to move that over to my ledger where it should be anyway.
Most searched for answer:

>The Battlestar is a fictional starship featured in the reimagined science fiction television series Battlestar Galactica. The starship was designed by Richard Hatch and the producers of the series. It was first shown in the pilot episode, "33", and has since appeared in all of the subsequent episodes of the series.
I lived down the block from that NYU makerspace and walked my dog past it every day.

I'm also a self-taught dev who's wanted to go back to college and get a degree for posterity.

So naturally applying to NYU made sense, get started on the education stuff I was putting off, get access to a really cool makerspace, etc. I talked to someone from admissions at the school, learned more about the process, but then we got to pricing and the fact I wouldn't qualify for assistance... well it turned out it was practically unaffordable for me, a senior SWE in NYC making a "FAANG-like" salary.

I say "practically" because technically I could pay it, but to what end? I'd be looking at over 150k over the next two years for a simple bachelors with no appreciable change to my career trajectory.

-

It really blew my mind. I was making what their graduates can expect to make years out of school and the math wasn't working, how is it supposed to work for someone coming out of high school?

The cynic in me would look at that makerspace that easily had *40k in Ultimakers that never actually seemed to be printing anything peeking out the window and think "is this what they're paying for?", but I guess on the flip side you get things like this post?

* Actually I went and looked at an old picture, I only counted 8 or so in view of the window...
i do think there is a separate problem entirely that regulations are often really hard to follow, i think limiting the involvement in lobbyists may help there, or at least some lobbyists...

(like, turbotax really should not have a say in how i file my taxes... or how hard it is...)
I think you care about his opinions because you continue to use them as a rhetorical appeal even after I point out that it doesn't work.

"Simp" is an ugly word that makes you look stupid, misogynistic or homophobic depending on your audience.

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. If you're not ready to watch a company collapse around you, then tech is a bad career choice.
Do you really *need* an 80A charger if you're charging daily and overnight?

240V * 80A = 19.2 kW.

The F-150 has a 98kWh battery.

At 80A it charges in about 5 hours, though you likely wouldn't see 80A due to needing a current spike safety margin.

If you halve the current, the car could charge in ~10 hours, and that's assuming you actually use the entire battery every day. I'm not saying it's ideal to have to charge every day, but IMO it's not a deal breaker. If you are fully charging every day, you can probably save a bit of gas money by getting an EV-favorable plan from your utility that encourages energy consumption at night.

Anyway, I own a Tesla and I love never going to a gas station.
Visualized: FTX's Leaked Balance Sheet
But we need Fullstack!!!1
So, corruption creates corruption?
Long time Ubuntu user turned Fedora user (35) and I haven’t regretted it for a second. Awesome desktop for people who enjoy GNOME.
I believe HPCVC charging is targeting up to 3 Megawatts for heavy vehicles 1500V X 2000A. This would allow a megawatt hour battery to charge in 20 minutes, still not as good a diesel pump which is probably closer to 6-10MW equivalent, I know I can put 60+ gallons in my tank in a few minutes with the high flow diesel truck pumps. Truly staggering amount of power.

To think of it another way a typical US home has 200 amp service at 240V which is 48 kilowatts or about 64 horsepower if you maxed it out. A 80,000lbs semi on flat ground no wind doing 70mph needs at around 200 wheel horse power to maintain speed so around 150 kw constant draw or about 3 houses full tilt.

Will be a while before this makes sense for long haul trucking, diesel well remain dominate for some time. Short haul urban where they stop and go at lower speeds and return to home base and can take many hours to charge seems obvious now, same with buses.
It's a bit weird at first, but think the Chrome extension "Most Recent Used Tab Stack" works ok. It keeps the tabs sorted by moving the current tab to the left. That being said, I also prefer Firefox -- mainly because of its container extensions.
So you're licking his boots for free then?
100%. We drive Subarus, highway and city. Have NEVER had an emergency brake triggered. OP is unsafe.
Hasn't advertising been around since way before the 50s? But anyways, I think the capitalist society cannot keep churning unless there are new products/services being created regularly...the whole thing is like a house of cards. If production slow down, people lose jobs, no disposable income, consumption goes down, etc...
Note that when you add "wiki" to a query on Google, you typically get a Wikipedia link first.
Sapling Source Control System
Yeah I was raised during the first (second?) gender neutral parenting fad.

Marketing is what killed it. Boys followed “He-Man” and girls “She-Ra”.

Come to think of it, those are the most heavily gendered characters in existence. Look at their freaking names!
Which Inreach model allows voice calls?
If someone bought US Dollars($) a year ago and wanted it to be a store of value, it is certainly not "whatever the holder wants it to be" for that person.

A lot of currencies are not a good store of value the last 18 months.
> The effects can be seen now in EU, where gas has been labeled "green", while nuclear isn't.

Gas plants have been labeled a transition technology on the path to a fully renewable grid, because they are cheap, fast to construct and can serve as peaker plants burning biogas. While they are currently burning fossil fuels, the emissions are way lower than for other fossil fuel plants - per each kWh produced, less CO2 gets emitted, and particulate emissions are additionally way lower.

In contrast, nuclear plants take an extremely long time to plan and build - the EPR design took almost two decades alone for building it in Olkiluouto and almost as much in Flamanville. Add to that the many years of bureaucracy in obtaining permits, purchasing land and other activities, and suddenly you're looking at 25+ years until the plant is operational, and dozens of billions of euros in sunk cost.

The future is many things, but certainly not nuclear fission!
I believe two were acquitted due to clear entrapment by the FBI, two more plead guilty before it came out that their group had been entrapped by the FBI (oops), and then two more were actually convicted despite the entrapment of the group, since they were considered culpable enough.

Meanwhile there were somewhere between 5 (all the FBI has admitted to) and 12 (based on testimony of those charged) people involved who were known FBI informants. So even if we split the difference, most of the people involved appear to have actually been FBI informants.

Meanwhile, Americans are still not allowed to hear why Ray Epps has never been charged as a primary instigator of January 6th.
If only there were a service that:

- Doesn't show ads, or steal your personal information.

- Has all the content from every major streaming service.

- Is scalable and efficient without a centralized single point of failure.

- Can be used with 100% free and open source software.

- Lets you keep your favorite shows forever without being subject to the whims of corporate licensing.
It's also not hard to find this information — the Chairman of the CFTC said this exact thing yesterday: https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/11/14/health-of-ftxs-us...
Beethoven did most of his composing on long rambles through the countryside. He carried notebooks in his pocket to jot down ideas as they came to him, many of which have been preserved.
It wouldn't earn them as much money.

The begging banner is deliberate, it is a data-driven marketing campaign, not unlike more traditional internet ads. A good thing about Wikipedia is that they are transparent about it, if you care to look. [1]

Now, the question "do they need that much money?" remains.

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising
Ask HN: Have You Read Bill Joy's 'Why the Future Doesn't Need Us'?
Bill Joy discussed the dangers of genetic engineering and nanotechnology in a Wired magazine article in 2000. How have Bill's concerns aged over the last twenty two years?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Joy#Technology_concerns
Would this ever be applicable to Postgres as well? Looks really neat
Same here. Interaction quality is roughly 100 times higher if I go by follower count Twitter vs. Mastodon.
Epic strikes back at Apple’s iOS “security” defense in appeals court
Every scam looks successful until it isn't. There's no reason to believe the Tether balance sheet looks at all better than that of FTX.
not so much prohibitive effort as both sides have chosen an edge vendor as their blessed edge solution
So when I ride the bus or train, I'm allowed to use my phone? What about when I use an uber (or lift or any of the many many other local alternatives)?

Not everyone that moves at driving speeds is driving, especially in places outside of America.
Having a news source that you can "finish" for the day, and that you trust will tell you tomorrow if something really important happens today, is important. I've found the NPR Up First podcast to reliably cover major event of the previous day. Marketplace from APM is also great, but tries to couch their coverage in economic terms. Both of these are radio shows by professional journalists and broadcasters that are available in podcast form.
https://archive.ph/KUlVY
> These influencers are taking over an increasingly large slice of promotional budgets

Here is what people have been asking for. Instead of tracking people and invading their privacy, real life becomes ads. Better?
I think you missed the point. Adding brake-based torque vectoring to ESC does more for crash avoidance than just ESC alone. It allows the vehicle to rotate faster by maximizing use of the available traction at all four wheels. Even drivers who know how to get the most out of their vehicles aren't able to selectively brake the inside wheels while turning. This isn't magic and won't prevent all crashes, but will prevent some.
You are still using infinite universes: expected value and probability still are calculated across an ensemble of parallel universes.
Yes, compare the earnings of NASDAQ with the "earnings" of FTX. Google the "founder". Watch the shit he talks about. Ask yourself - if he has that much time to be a clown what are the odds of him actually running a company that is worth that much money without a team?
Dali ;)

(or maybe they all did it)
Very cool. I don't see Waldo in the Changes log, but does that mean he's not there? ;)
They want to do that, pending what the bankruptcy court would decide which they have no power to influence.

Like the Kraken ToS.

> Ownership. Title to Digital Assets shall at all times remain with you and shall not transfer to Payward, except as provided herein. All interests in Digital Assets we hold for Kraken Accounts are held for customers, are not property of Payward. As the owner of Digital Assets in your Kraken Account, you bear all risk of loss of such Digital Assets. None of the Digital Assets in your Kraken Account are the property of Payward. Payward does not represent or treat assets in your Kraken Account as belonging to Payward. However, a court may disagree with Payward’s treatment of your assets and subject them to claims of Payward’s creditors.

https://www.kraken.com/legal

Which means that the current fad of "proof of reserves" means absolutely nothing without the liabilities side, both customer accounts and for the company itself.
Unfortunately not very reassuring for multiplayer fans considering the engine, out of the box, provides heavily unreliable defaults leading to poor gameplay results.

I am no longer surprised when I play something based on Unreal tech and it doesn't play well over networks.

Considering the available pool of skilled multiplayer developers, it's not a great sign for the industry.
Some of these are just people mangling data in CSV and not understanding what they're doing. Are they really specific to Excel?
> Employees don't own Twitter. Elon Musk does.

> He has every right, within the confines of the law, to choose how the company is run.

And the employees have every right, within the law, to question how the company is run, and the factual premises of decisions. And, sure, when he's broken internal comms he is free to shoot the messenger when disputes occur in public as a result, but that doesn't fix issues and it just makes it less likely the truth will reach him through the culture of fear he has created.

He can and has the right to stick his fingers in his ears and crash Twitter into the ground, sure.
DVDs. What you're asking for is DVDs.
I totally think that slate star codex blog post I read is a document, even though there is an app-like comment function I don't use. And I totally think Wikipedia is a bunch of documents, even though there is an app-like edit functionality that I rarely access. And I totally think Google is a service for (among other things) looking up recipes, which I think are documents, even though they sometimes have an app-like button to re-calculate serving size.

On the flipside, I think Whatsapp Web is an app and not a document, even though I know that it's implemented in what was traditionally a document framework.
How do you restart the train after stopping in the middle of nowhere ?
Which will prompt me to ask: what wiki?
> Do people not remember how insurance was like before the ACA?

I do. My wife and I went bankrupt with it, via $90k in copays and coinsurance.

We had good insurance, but back then insurance could have uncapped costs of this kind. As a bonus, they could a) set a maximum annual and lifetime amount they'd pay and b) decline to renew our coverage, leaving only high-risk pools (4-5x as expensive for premiums) available.

I have a zero-deductible ACA plan. There are plenty of them.
I assume that is only a list of the publicly listed shares BRK owns, since it totals to $345B and the market cap of BRK is ~$680B. They must have other assets for such a huge pricing discrepancy.
Super Mario Brothers 3 had the original (non-"Super") Mario Brothers arcade game embedded in it. (If the second player tried to visit the same spot as the first player on the map, it would jump to the arcade game like a little competitive mini-game.)
Yes, I'm sure.

For example FTX was able to claim, with a vague semblance of honesty, that it had assets to cover liabilities. But in fact what it did was transfer money to other companies that were part of the network, like Alameda, and get back tokens with a book value but no real market value, like Serum. On paper both companies had engaged in a fair transaction. In reality customer money got moved to another company that was then free to do with it what it wanted, all hidden behind the corporate structure.

Read https://archive.ph/TOgjK for Matt Levine explaining exactly how this actually worked.
> this is like asking me not to call the encyclopedia britannica "the encyclopedia" since there are many other encyclopedias in existence

If you have a physical set and it's the only encyclopedia in the house, it might be fair. I've never heard anyone generically refer to Encyclopedia Britannica as simply "the encyclopedia" outside of this circumstance.

> sure wikipedia is one wiki, but there's nothing ambiguous about "look it up on the wiki"

Hard disagree. With thousands of specialized wikis and in-house corporate wikis, it can never really be assumed to mean Wikipedia specifically, unless you're already on Wikipedia.
Paypal was still eBay's main payments processing provider until 2021-ish. Personal accounts are completely acceptable to use for receiving eBay order payments, and they definitely charge the transaction fees on sales. Lastly, sweeping should be available to accounts regardless of type, and you shouldn't have to talk to a person to enable it.
Do you have a pointer to where Scott Alexander told so?
Question: What is bigger than 0?
Answer: 0

Question: What is larger than 0?
Answer: Any number
I’ve been plugging Android phones into chargers and not expecting them to charge reliably as long as I’ve been plugging Android phones into chargers.
Actually, I'm not sure this is good advice. Two-way commiunicators are vastly preferred by Search and Rescue organizations.

The reason for this is that they can learn about what they need to do and who they need to send to you, because they can ask you.

If you have a broken leg, they'll send in 10 people to get you out. Dehydrated? Two responders and water.

Calls that come in from "dumb" communicators like PLBs are more likely to get a 1-2 person "hasty" team assigned to them who can arrive quickly then call in more reinforcements if necessary. A SAR org. isn't going to put 10 volunteers on a PLB call that ends up being a rolled ankle, at least not immediately.

This has the potential to greatly delay the time to care for you, especially for more severe emergencies.
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