skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of the above.

Alameda Research was clearly in the top of the worst hedge funds ever, and clearly they had terrible controls and accounting.

However, without (c) you don't get this epic disaster. From SBF's tweets it is clear that they were aware they had to keep customer funds segregated.

Remember the time they tried to pretend that USD is protected by the FDIC?

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/19/crypto-firm-ftx-receives-cea...

Well, actually it was protected by the FDIC, but not from FTX.
I'd start with with a lot instead of al(l)ot from allocate...
Not to mention "working 100 hours a week" is very different when you're the boss and set what your output is expected to be. Working 100 hours a week at the top is very different: it's voluntary (meaning he knows he doesn't have to if he doesn't want to, which means he won't feel trapped doing it), a lot of those hours are probably things like meetings or reading emails or whatever (not suggesting it isn't important, but it isn't the same as doing more involved engineering work for 100 hours a week by any stretch), etc.

And that's assuming we even believe Musk actually genuinely works 100 hours a week. I am sure he is around his businesses and stuff for that time, but I wouldn't be surprised if he took long breaks between doing anything of real value regularly which massively dropped it
The innovation has been so good, I got to skip most of the fiction entertainment outlets.

I would suck at pop culture trivia :)
Yup, and the other flipside is devs being extremely nitpicky and regurgitating irrelevant Amazon principles BS in code reviews because they're trying to get promoted.
While true, at that point in time the parents were also similarly terrified.

Schools educate children to fit into society.

That was society at the time.
Youtuber Moore's Law is Dead claims this is on purpose to allow AIBs to clear out their existing oversupply of 30x0-series cards.
I still haven’t made up my mind about musk. He seems truely « high tech » driven, but i’m still unsure whether he’s not mostly about marketing ( aka: whether most of his strength isn’t just to leverage the elon musk brand ).

Has anyone here worked with him and can give any feedback about his true technical or management skills ?
4 deaths might be quite a lot for such a relatively low volume product.

By comparison, some car models have recently had their death rates drop to zero after nobody died in them over similar periods of time. And these figures are mostly user error. Deaths due to product failures of automobiles are usually pretty notable and are acted upon by regulators.
Is that an announcement or a marketing jargon dictionary? I had forgotten this app even exists, but I can see why.
Thankfully Nvidia has picked up crypto’s slack with a pretty not-sane MSRP for the 4090 :)
No, it's an Ed25519 library _and_ a Gimli library. Gimli can be used to make a wide range of functions, including MACs, hashes and stream ciphers, just like SHAKE.

(That is not an endorsement.)
Thats awesome, I am looking forward to watching the launch from the facility here in the Cape. I will cheer it on for you!
lol I bet they are working for free too
> whichever window for a given app was current when you last switched away will be current when you switch back

The problem is “for a given app”. If I want to switch back to the previous window, I have to use a different shortcut depending on whether that window was from the same app or not. Similarly, if I want to switch back to the window before that, I may have to first use one shortcut to switch back to the other app, and then use the other shortcut to switch within that app. If the windows represent documents, this roughly means that when switching between documents, you have to use a different shortcut depending on whether the type of the document you’re switching to happens to be the same or different from the one you’re currently on. This isn’t really intuitive, and arguably entails more cognitive overhead.

I agree that a lot comes down what you’re used to, but there are also good reasons to prefer one approach over the other.
I don't know why the CPSC has singled out Onewheel. If they're going to try and regulate this new class of mobility they need to do better than phoning it in. This feels just as random and absurd as the clampdowns on Juul. Don't buy Juul, but do feel free to buy flavored nicotine from these thousands of other less scrupulous vendors.

There are absurdly under braked e-bikes with 30+ mph motors, electric scooters with 40+ mph motors, "unicycles" with 40+ mph motors, and even competing "onewheel" type products. Based on the arguments provided in the linked article these are all worthy of regulation. I disagree with the premise, but if they're going to regulate one they should regulate all.
> The parents were forced in to two weeks of supervision, requiring another adult around them 24/7. The innocent parents, who had not actually done anything wrong.

> How is that not "overzealous"?

I didn't say it wasn't overzealous. I said it wasn't one of the horror stories about them being overzealous. I was specifically referring to the power to "destroy families". That didn't happen here.

> "Wallace and her husband could not be alone with their kids for even a second."

>

> That sure sounds like 24/7 monitoring, even if it's not the government doing it.

At best that's 24/7 for 14 days. In truth though, it's not monitoring at all, as there was no monitoring requirement, just that they couldn't be left alone with the kids. I mean, they literally considered a sleeping grandmother somewhere in the house to be sufficient. It's certainly intrusive and unpleasant, but it's not 24/7 monitoring, nor is it a slippery slope towards that.
Amazon Senior Engineer talks openly about his exact compensation levels
Anyone who expects employees to do that, for any amount of pay, is delusional and needs psychiatric treatment. Seriously. That dude is nuts. People like him aren't some entrepreneurial heroic archetype to be held up as a paragon of virtue worthy of celebration and emulation; they're a menace to society and should be heavily regulated, if not jailed outright, for weaponizing their enormous economic power to force people into slave-like labor conditions.

Doesn't matter if you're making $150,000 or $150,000,000 a year - no amount of money is worth 18 hours day, 7 days a week working conditions that this guy likely expects as a bare minimum.
This seems extremely similar to https://github.com/jedisct1/libhydrogen -- X25519 and Gimli. (well, and the name...). It also appears to pull from its test suite and aim for compatibility in some ways.
In most programming languages, the order of the two statements would be well defined, and neither would be dead code.

Trying to make all statements implicitly concurrent unless they have explicit dependencies is a terrible way to complicate your life. That in some cases you can optimize the code (or the CPU will do it for you) by executing it in certain other orders where it is safe is supposed to remain an invisible optimization.

It is obvious to everyone that distributed code, eventual consistency, and other similar non-totally-ordered examples are much harder to get right than procedural code. Even simple print-based debugging/logging becomes excessively complex if you get rid of the local total ordering.

Even most network-based computing is done over TCP (or, more recently, QUIC) exactly because of how enormously useful having a total order is in practice (even if it's just an illusion/abstraction).

> PS: There is a well-defined answer in this example; since the "INSERT" query is dead code, it should never be evaluated ;)

It's only dead code if you assume Haskell's bizarre lazy execution model. In virtually every other language, unless the compiler can prove that query() has no side effects, the INSERT will be executed.
You're missing the fact that those shortcuts are not discoverable.
To be fair, the AVR and STM8 code I’ve got out of GCC and SDCC when feeding them normal (non-8-bitter-adapted) C also sucked—though not to the point of building strings—because the default promotion to int required by the standard really hurts when the minimum required 16-bit int does not fit into a register.
Travel to an area where they are legal, buy them from a store, rent a cabin out in the woods or take sufficient camping gear.

Relax and enjoy the outdoors, ingest them orally or drink them in a tea.

Don’t think too much about it and just use it as a time for reflection and to get out in nature, which is always valuable with or without mushrooms.
Call a local paper in the area where it happened and suggest they cover it?
So you're saying is that a defense for fraud is stupidity? Oh dear god, it can't be that simple can it?
They say the ferry uses 150-200 kWh a day. If those numbers are right that wouldn't be a very big battery pack. The Hummer EV, for example, has a 212 kWh usable pack:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORKuZxrFr6A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9IUOR8lG3E

Still, it's a cabled ferry anyhow so also having a power cable makes sense.
This reminds me of a speculative/satirical social productivity suite I prototyped with a friend in school, including a 30-minute game where you race to check off tasks against a friend, and send taunting photos every time you did.
Accidental tech billionaires like Craig Newmark?
Are there others like Craig Newmark, who started Craigslist as a free newsletter and seems to have sort of happened into becoming a billionaire.

Craigslist does not seem like it was too focused on scaling or innovating - it only ever had one funding round - and that was after Newmark left as CEO. It really seems like Newmark happened into a viral success and tons of money.

Are there others like this? If not billionaires then big successes
Yeah, I'm lucky in that my city's done a fantastic job of creating bicycle infrastructure - between dedicated trails, clear bike lanes, and streets that have been designed & designated for bikes, it's rare I have to interact with fast-moving traffic (the rare times I do are just as unpleasant as everywhere else, of course).
> Not sure what what the people pushing this narrative aren’t understanding

They are clouded by anger and frustration, I’d wager, many folks lost money in this fraud. Some maybe caught up in the mob mentality and excitement around taking SBF down.

Anything short of absolute demonization is not good enough when you’re mad, I suppose.
Wow, thanks for that fact!

>It is possible that rye traveled west from Asia Minor as a minor admixture in wheat (possibly as a result of Vavilovian mimicry), and was only later cultivated in its own right.[0]

Also found this about rye while looking that up:

>Recently, scholars have discovered that rye, more than other domesticated crops has followed a weedy species type of domestication process--from wild to weed to crop and then back to weed again.[1]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rye

[1]https://www.thoughtco.com/rye-the-domestication-history-4092...
> (I'm sincerely interested. The CPSC article clearly infers a situation in which it suddenly stops. Is this confirmed?)

The first few seconds of this 2-year-old video shows it happening to Adam Savage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys3ivCUxIvY

What I'm finding after some light digging is that this "nosedive" problem has seemingly been injuring people for years. There's apparently even a small ecosystem of add-on products that purport to address it: https://www.badgerwheel.com/shop-online/badgersense
Fascinating use of modern computer vision techniques equipped with modern robotics. Challenge of course is scale and getting farms to integrate such features into pre-existing processes over time.
"Hey kid, are you alright?"

"My mom made me walk home because I was mean to my siblings."

"Where do you live?"

"That house over there."

Alternative, less dumb reality:

"Carry on."

A bit more concerned, still less dumb reality:

"I'll walk with you."

Dumb reality:

"I am calling the cops!"
My Slack notifications are on only for DMs and mentions, and only during office hours. If there is a crisis afterhours, my teammates/manager have my phone number.
These search results do not appear to describe a flaw in the product. I watched a bit from one of the crash compilations and would describe every crash I saw as rider error. Many of them were attempting stunts, holding cameras while riding, or both.

It may be easy to make such errors, but the same could be said of a unicycle, skateboard, BMX bike, or any of many other vehicles generally seen as safe enough for sale to the public.
I don't know, it looks like a half-baked idea, like everything surrounding crypto-currencies. Someone probably came up with this proof of reserves idea, and everybody else said yeah let's do this, because it sounded like it does what they wanted to do, except it doesn't.
Every billionaire is an accidental billionaire.
I asked what we should call "a particular strand of left-of-centre thought, with a great deal of contemporary influence". Your answer ("knee-jerk" which "doesn't have a specific axis connotation") isn't actually answering the question I was asking, because a term intended to apply to people with widely differing ideologies (obviously) isn't appropriate as a label for one particular contemporary ideological stream.
Surface Melting of a Colloidal Glass
I'm envision that classic "look down and see a pile of rope unspooling around your leg right before you disappear out of frame" shtick.
Would be super cool to have an autonomous robot that could get a 'kill list' and destroy every invasive plant in an area while leaving everything else unharmed.

Could be a fantastic diversity-enabling tool.
Interesting, I was told the opposite by my managers...
Or with a thicker cable they could charge cars while they cross the channel.
> Devs were proficient in CVS, SVN, HG, BZR, GIT as a standard

That's completely made up on your end. I've been doing FOSS for 17 years and the vast majority of people were barely competent with any of them at all beyond whatever their chosen ponyshow was (including off-brand ones like Darcs and Monotone), and any switching from a persons preferred one to the use of another project was often met with grunting and complaining, if it was done at all.

The reality is we only think this because we saw people do this, at great cost of their own time -- but that's the literal definition of survivalship bias. For every 1 person doing this 50 just stuck with whatever they used and wouldn't bother. I've literally seen people refuse to contribute to a project over tabs vs spaces, and people still do this with git vs hg today, just not as much today.

More people use Git and contribute to FOSS in a single day in 2022 than every developer who knew all these tools combined back in 2008 or whatever. Whether this is good or bad is up to you, but you don't need to make up claims about developers being epic journeymen in the past and mastering 50 version control tools to do a single days work. They did not.

> Things really became one-sided after github started gamifying open-source contributions, and when a new generation who perhaps grew-up in a more competitive academic setting took it as an opportunity to make their resume more impressive.

Sorry, but I consider this to be a similarly made up claim that's just sour grapes. I've been using GitHub since 2008, I'm one of the first users. GitHub didn't even have "gamified" social features until the past 3-4 years IME (what, stars are about it?), and before that its product was pretty poor in some key areas like code review and project management, org permissions, on-prem control, etc. I didn't even use GitHub commercially until like, 2018, because most orgs had setups that were better in some key areas. But it was pretty easy to use and get started with, which mattered, and still matters, and soon enough nobody could compete with the same ease of use for free projects.

If I had to "blame" "someone" in this vein, a better place to start: global monetary and fiscal policy for the past 20 years resulting in software development becoming one of the only places with rising wages to meet cost of living demands in places like the US -- resulting in an influx of new blood to increase their wages and quality of life, combined with political choices like low interest rates, and huge explosions in demand for software devs for things like VC adventures, etc. Subsequent developments like bootcamps designed to churn devs out to match rising demand, etc which solidified platforms like GitHub further as it was easier for them to paper over these fundamentals when there was a clear winner (git/github) to focus on and ignore everything else. Forest vs trees and all.
Surprised I didn’t see gaslight or projecting mentioned
"More good" reeks of nerdy utilitarianism which I completely reject. What makes me value the soccer team is love and kinship and vitalism. Mine extends to the local boys playing soccer. I want to see them thrive. I do not care about the malaria net folks. No ill will - I just do not care, I want them occupying no part of my brain.

And certainly no dorky nerds unable to comprehend human reality and attempting to force everyone in their abstract streamlined toy-reality with Philosophy 101 word games will change my mind.
> At the point CPS got involved, they were investigating the home of someone being charged with felony child endangerment. We don't know what CPS polices demand n that situation, or what alternatives were available to the family, but after hearing what options they had the family agreed to the safety plan. If the alternative was "this or we have to remove you or your children from your home" I'd say it was the right choice.

It's also worth noting that CPS's investigation would no doubt serve as helpful for the parent's defense against the charges.
It's natural selection and perhaps it's more likely that they will go extinct in such a scenario.
I don't think this is what's happening, at all. Here's a deep dive into what's actually happening, which is people ignoring built in safety, overpowering the motors ability to keep them upright: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGn7iPN07XI

The motor is at maximum power and speed when this happens.
I could be wrong, but I do not believe ActivityPub spec actively outlines suspension rules, instead letting servers decide how to moderate their content. Same with clients on top of ENS and the blockchain.

These moderations already exist on services built on top of ENS, like tornadocash.eth.limo which fails to resolve because the .limo domain is following US sanctions.

> In the example you gave, an impersonator is subject to the rules of their Mastodon instance

Just to point out, the impersonator can self-host, so Mastodon protocol has no course to expel them except for each other instance to suspend the impersonator one at a time, or to come to consensus on large blocklists.
your problem with terminal is that you don't grok vi
I am afraid that people will mostly have more fear and mistrust of the government, not of their over-reach.

And that fear needs to grow a lot before any action will be taken, so it's still a net loss for the present time.
The EA eschatology is pretty much Christian eschatology, except they aren't at all sure their savior (a Friendly, Strong AI) will come. There's a good chance of just getting the Beast and the Harlot instead.

Hence the obsession with AI safety - Christians just have to work to bring Christ's kingdom to where they are. The EAs have to make sure nobody summons a vengeful demon overlord while they're slowly crafting their own all-loving, all-powerful digital deity.
I've certainly seen this with the rent-a-bikes - there were rent-a-ebikes in my area for a while, and those folks were frightening.

Of course, we've still got the rental e-scooters, so our supply of "people riding way faster than logic, wisdom, their wheels, and the surroundings would suggest" is still adequately supplied.
The US legal system needs to start going after VCs that invest in criminal companies. They may not be breaking the law themselves, but they profit off lawbreaking, and they're the ones with the deep pockets. (Isn't this the whole point of RICO?)
Yep, and if you don't look for them, you can be darn sure someone else is looking for them. I heard about an incident from a friend where a GitHub repo was created accidentally public (ran out of private repos and I guess the failure mode back in the day was just make it public) and that repo had developer level access keys in it. Some enterprising fellow was scanning public repos for this, grabbed the keys, opened thousands and thousands of the biggest GPU machines they could get on AWS and started mining bitcoins. They were nice enough not to delete production to make room for more bitcoin miners.
"I don't understand why now?"

Bureaucratic inefficiencies.

"Is there a bug with onewheels that are causing this injury/death?"

There was an issue that the community referred to as "ghosting" whereby the board got a bit out of control. This was fixed with a firmware update. The boards also nosedive when approaching top speed. Some people consider that a bug, but it's just users neglecting instructions and warnings.
Unlike many here, I think he has a point. The entire finance industry is corrupt. People have been trying to make more money by being over leveraged for some time now. Anyone remember 2008? Regulation helps, but not most obviously people find ways to get around that.

It doesn’t, by any means, excuse what he has done. Yet the conversation delivers a very authentic insight into how people at the top of financial institutions with the goal to earn unreasonable amounts of money the get rich people richer actually think and act. For that it’s a great piece.
You're not wrong but historically a lot of money has been made selling thing to people who don't RTFM. I mean a lot.
Yes, but you need an apple device for facetime, and how many people actually have Duo installed?

If your grandma has facebook and all her friends have facebook and all your friends have facebook... how many of them can you move over to Duo (r signal, telegram, matrix,...)?
Finally I know the name now - thank you!
I've been waiting for the promised glut of cheap RTXes but somehow it hasn't materialized. Maybe the miners can't easily liquidate?
I'm wondering if there is some kind of mass insanity occurring in the world right now with this and the behaviour of numerous influential figures.
It's possible that the board just fails for any number of reasons.

I had a Boosted Board fail on me once. No idea why. It just powered off randomly while I was riding. Wasn't going downhill, wasn't full battery, wasn't a depleted battery. It was a bit scary to suddenly feel the power go out, but I was able to safely come to a stop. I was probably going about 15 MPH. I never figured out what happened. It turned right back on. This was the first time the board gave me pause. I kept riding for a few months until I did actually get hurt—100% on my own stupidity. I tried to go over some train tracks while leaning too much on the front trucks and was going fast, but not quite fast enough to cruise over them, and the wheels properly got stuck in the tracks, so I got to experience the fun of flying. Fortunately I was not critical injured, just extreme bruising. Helmet 100% saved my life though.

This is the same kind of thing that can happen with a OneWheel—only no user error is needed for it to happen, merely a power failure. OneWheel either needs an integrated solution that allows you to roll out in the event of a power failure, or some kind of redundancy to ensure the probability of a power failure is effectively zero. Anything less leads to (preventable) death.
There is a plant that mimics the shapes of other leaves - even if the leaves are made out of plastic. Pretty fascinating, the same photoreceptors suspected to enable this have been found in other plants, but the others don't use it to engage in mimicry.

Weeds adapting to look like non-weeds is highly plausible, IMO.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8903786/#:~:tex....