skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To most people defi = blockchain-ized ponzi schemes. Programs that have you deposit assets in exchange for unsustainable 'yield' drawn from other deposits, collateralize by illiquid magic beans.

There were massive 'defi' failures earlier this year. FTX itself appears to have been primarily invested in varrious defi schemes while being short Bitcoin, resulting in the current insolvency.
I think of it differently. The internal tool building companies focus on 1 of the 3 legs of building.

1. building

2. marketing

3. managing

A lot of internal tools would be externally viable as well (not all).
He's turned a useful service into an opportunity to pay real money for a little blue gif. Like NFTs, except you don't even get a unique monkey pic.

Extremely Fungible Tokens.
Yes, we know. That's why I specifically said it isn't news until we find out where those 10,000 people are being hit.
It cannot stop transmission, clearly. The country is mostly vaccinated and cases continue, no herd immunity ever showed up.

The vaccines do reduce transmission in the minority of cases where full-blown symptoms last long enough that the reduction in infection length conferred by the vaccine is significant. But for most cases, they never progress to the point that the antibody response would become a factor, so most vaccinated people spread it just as much as if they were never vaccinated, in the early portion of their infection at minimum. So even if everyone got their booster today at the same instant, and every 6 months repeated that, it would still not stop the free movement of the virus among the population.

The only way to stop the spread is to do what China is doing, but with air-tight effectiveness, which is impossible.

That said, there's a big reason to get vaccinated and boosted anyway if you are in a risk group, since it is somewhat effective in protecting against serious and deadly outcomes.
> The fact is that we've turned into a society where we can't even be unified in trying to prevent disease

The vaccines weren't trialed and aren't approved to prevent the spread of the disease....so? I don't know about you, but I actually read the FDA's initial report on the Pfizer trials, and it was complete nonsense. They didn't even test each participant for covid, only some participants, with no clear reasoning as to which.

I'm never going to take experimental gene therapy drugs, it's just never going to happen.
Well, I can teach you how to do both of those things! :-)
Like everyone else is saying, from what I understand, going into ML as an ML expert only really makes sense if you have a PhD or at least a master's in the field from a well-known school. On the other hand there seem to be lots of ML companies who need more general software developers.
I'm Swedish. A full quarter of our population (1 million out of 4 million, back then) migrated to the US between 1850-1910. A large part of these were extremely religious people. Yes, Sweden had a famine 1867-1869, but my understanding is that this was a minor part part of the reasons for migrating to the US.

From my oversimplified perspective it's not hard to see how Sweden now is very atheist and the US is very theist, if you squint a little.

(Unfortunately we probably also exported many of our risktakers to the US...)
I recently spent four weeks interviewing before landing a job, which is not an unusual amount of time compared to years prior (at least for me). The company I joined went from first interview to a good offer in two weeks—they were definitely eager. I put my application out approximately 50 times. Changing my LinkedIn status to "Open to work" helped.

The biggest difference this time around: Several companies invoked a hiring freeze while I was in the middle of their interview process. I've never had that happen before, so it felt like a storm brewing. Some were nice enough to tell me right away, while others went completely dark for weeks before getting back to me.

Good luck with the job search! I know it can be utterly miserable, but stay positive and keep those live-coding skills sharp as a razor.
13 months, because that is when you would have over $1,000 in losses.
This argument has never made any sense. It's literal survivorship bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

You're saying "If you survive getting covid without serious injuries once, then you'll be less likely to get serious injuries on a re-infection later". The vaccine is to make it less likely that you get serious injuries from that first exposure.
WASM and IPFS: Serverless Search for Uncensored Web
Guide on how to create search index, put it to IPFS and use your browser to access it directly though IPFS HTTP gateway, without any server.
Show HN: I created a .NET task batching and management library
Why is that the case? Moderna is good for Americans under 30 but not Canadians under 30?
Bursting the Pandemic Bubble: Rate Hikes and the Consumer
Crypto Hedge Fund Stored 100% of Client Assets on FTX – Total Loss
This is kind of unbelievable - moreover the fact that Travis was openly shilling FTX a mere few months ago.

Stay frosty folks.
I have a friend who took time off around same age and became a commercial pilot. He enjoyed it but came back to dev eventually as he missed tech pay.
it's an amazing testament to bill gates's cluelessness that this entire 12000 word article about writing email over the internet, when the www was already three years old, doesn't mention the word 'internet' even once

nor, obviously, 'html', 'web', 'www', 'gopher', or 'ftp'
> Associations were stronger in men younger than 40 years for all vaccines. In men younger than 40 years old, the number of excess myocarditis events per million people was higher after a second dose of mRNA-1273 than after a positive SARS-CoV-2 test (97 [95% CI, 91–99] versus 16 [95% CI, 12–18]).

> The risk of vaccine-associated myocarditis is consistently higher in younger men, particularly after a second dose of mRNA-1273, where the number of additional events during 28 days was estimated to be 97 per million people exposed. An important consideration for this group is that the risk of myocarditis after a second dose of mRNA-1273 was higher than the risk after infection.

That's from the study you linked; for the group most at risk of vaccine myocarditis, the vaccine was associated with a higher risk than the virus. In this study, this was true for Moderna, with Pfizer being about equivalent risk to the virus (albeit without considering that the risk of infection remains after vaccination). However, there have been other studies that found this to be true for all mrna vaccines.

So to answer your question, its technically true, but only if you dilute the at-risk group by including the entire population.
> Should be max 100 devs and everyone else in sales and support.

People with no experience running systems at scale often underestimate the amount of effort required.
This sounds like nonsense to me. Tweets didn't bring down the stock price of multiple drugmakers, market volatility did. Pharma market cap will go up or down by more than that on a daily basis for a thousand and one reasons.
If you look at the American Bar Association model rules they say "a lawyer shall abide by a client's decisions concerning the objectives of representation and, as required by Rule 1.4, shall consult with the client as to the means by which they are to be pursued. "

This means there are situations where the attorney does not have to follow the client's instructions. The client determines the objectives and how to plead, but this doesn't mean the attorney is obligated to listen to the client's order about everything.
The journalism I'm impressed by is coindesk's. They broke this story and have been all over it.
This is the great thing about this whole event.

It's a grotesque level of criminal fraud, but unlike when that happens in traditional finance, there will be no bailout. These fraudsters will get wiped out and there is no one to appeal to who can save them.
You're in a good spot.

1) Talk to your wife, make sure she knows that layoffs happened at your company and that you were not affected this time round.

2) Calculate your monthly expenses

3) Work out your exact runway. How many months can you go without working.

If you want a longer runway then reduce your expenses.

Personally I felt completely secure when I bought my house outright, no mortgage. Everything up till that point was just incremental improvements.
Marketing Warfare by Al Ries and Jack Trout. I read the 25 year anniversary edition which revisited some of the advice these two giants of marketing gave some of the big brands of the '80s - PC vs. Mac, Coke vs. Pepsi, 7up vs. Coke, etc, etc.

I'm not a marketer but it certainly made a lot of seemingly incomprehensible status quos click.
In Australia it appears they're changing public messaging on vaccination for <30 yrs due to increased risk of myocarditis and lack of notable benefits[1]:

"One of the nation’s top advisers on vaccination says it is unlikely young people under 30 will be approved for fourth doses, as Australia turns its attention to antiviral access to tackle yet another Omicron wave."

"Former ATAGI co-chair and current member Professor Allen Cheng said the increased risk of myocarditis and the lack of notable benefit from additional boosters meant it was likely the recommended vaccine schedule for younger people would remain as is. Some are approaching a year since their booster shot."

[1] https://www.smh.com.au/national/why-you-won-t-get-another-co...
It's going to be one! https://theankler.com/p/hwood-ftx-frenzy-as-michael-lewis?sd...
Most of JS's trading interns and new graduate hires, are STEM grads at HYPSM schools. SBF going to MIT gave him a big leg up.
I fear your obvious sarcasm will still be missed... or overflown as one might say.
That seems like overkill for this particular case, but it's a very interesting technique, thanks for the link!
Meta gives up on Portal and smartwatch
So you have to buy a Mac to get your files?
I am very interested in knowing this, too.

I have so many interests, it's sometimes crippling.

How I somehow, barely manage the situation now:

- Do what I have a deadline for.

- Start or join a study group with enough members that at least 5% of them are seriously motivated. Or ONE serious study partner.

- Learn in the public. Pick a subject, force yourself to write and share summaries, notes, etc. publicly. And promise the next "issue" on a set date.

- Rather than finding a subject, find a person who matches one of your interests and learn that with them. Having a person keeps you motivated. And not continuing makes you lose face. I always wanted to learn German and Spanish. I am finally putting effort for German because I have recently reconnected with a friend who learned German in college. I started learning Guitar recently even though I am more interested in Piano because I have a friend who came back to town who is an okay guitarist, and can teach me regularly, rather than having to rely on Skillshare courses.

- Timeblock specific days and times of the week. Hell or high water, do that.

- Having specific goals help. "Have enough knowledge about this so I can write a Quora article in it", "Know enough about Fast Fourier Transform to be able to code it in Python and explain to a college Freshman", "know enough of X to be able to do Y". This removes the initial inertia.

- Another very helpful thing is- just starting. If you just start doing something you have waited for long to start you are building more inertia, and adding newer items. My advice to you and myself is to just start. When you start, you actually stop liking ~70-80% of the topics. That way you remove clutter. When you haven’t started something, you have a rosy picture of that. Once started, you know the reality.

These are the ways I try to deal with this. Would love to know better ways.
I was just in an awkward social situation the other day where someone left their phone on a table at a party and walked away to do something. Some guy was telling an interesting story and we were all trying to politely listen, but suddenly that phone started ringing at full volume. Everyone just kind of ignored it at first but it kept ringing. I was annoyed and wanted to reach over and mute/end the call, but, you don’t touch other people’s phones in polite society. Eventually it stopped ringing. Amazingly, everyone just acted like it wasn’t there. I guess we’ve all become accustomed to such things.
His parents are professors at Stanford. So yeah, of course he did.
ELIZA is Turing Complete
The big thing about remote work is it's going to be very difficult for people to advance up the ladder. A lot of remote work is freezing careers and org charts in place.
There's an official sign in Boston that advises drivers they need only travel 3,365 more miles to reach Newport, Oregon:

https://twitter.com/MassDOT/status/806867577112854529
Yes, "do this or you're fired" is a coercive tactic. People who are pro-vaccine want everyone to get the vaccine. They believe it is a matter of life or death (frankly, I agree with them, but I am trying to present this neutrally). So that level of coercion, "fear losing your job if you don't do this" is exactly what I'm talking about.

If people could be persuaded to do things that are in their interest via rational discourse, and evidence favored vaccines, it wouldn't be necessary to do that kind of coercion. (Nor would it be necessary to so strenuously resist getting them, you'd just say "here is the evidence I don't need to get this," and everyone would accept it and let you live your life.) That's my whole point.
I'm pretty sure Uber is now cash flow positive. I doubt they are doing to fail either.
The UK doesn't do that much domestic flying, only cities tend to have airports.
revered by the public but not by hackers

the 'dos isn't done until lotus won't run' rumor was 80s
Aside: it would be nice to have geographically local "web-rings". There was a sewing consortium place nearby that I randomly drove by, and also a local quilting specialty shop that I saw, why aren't they all connected to each other in a "makerspace" webring, or "craft" or "art" ring with like waypost signs: "next cool art store 3.5mi thattaway =>"

Same with craft brewing, or scratch bakeries, etc.

Technically it might be "advertising your competition", but in a different light, it's trying to expand the amount of time and $$$ that the target customer group is spending in _any_ of the specialty / niche areas.
Auto insertions or anything that does things behind the users' back should go die in a fire.
For billionaires.

It sounds like "We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas"

If someone is starving, and you have food to give them, you don't say "We could give them food, but that has it's own set of problems. I guess there's no way to solve the problem"
> I fail to see any evidence of "much reduced risk".

If you just do a basic per-capita analysis the reduced risk of death is in the range of 5-16x depending on age group and vaccinated or vaccinated+boosted. There are obviously confounding variables (do vaccinated people behave differently? are healthier people the ones getting the vaccines?) but I would argue that those numbers are a pretty big W for vaccines as far as risk reduction goes.

And of course that is just deaths. You could certainly look at numbers for severity of infection or long-covid outcomes to further measure the efficacy of the vaccines.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-compare-co...
Not true. You can buy generic insulin in the US for a reasonable price, it's the new stuff that lasts longer that is expensive.
It was transmitted unencrypted, along with traffic for many other protocols. I have not read the article, but the 1993 note implies this was a time when rsh, telnet, and ftp were still in common use. I don't disagree with you that it's a big leap to call it secure, but my point is I reckon he was not alone making that leap back then.
Wow, what a time warp that article was. I see many parallels between Zuck’s Metaverse and Bill’s information highway. You can try to predict what the future devices will look like, if the idea is already there, but it’s not cohesive enough to make a winning strategy.
Or the dirt cheap insulin does not work as well as the newer patented insulin that a private company paid to do R&D for.

There is nothing stopping Congress from passing a bill to fund insulin R&D that provides the newest insulin technology without being patented, but the fact that they do not and would rather sit in their pulpit and “grill” private company representatives proves that it is all a show.

We (sufficient voters) want to pay for nothing, but expect everything.
Note that the article doesn't say that the town has put up the money to keep it going. If it is driving tourism, they might try to organize a bit and raise the funds.
I also would ever use Robinhood instead of a reputable broker like TD Fidelity Vanguard IB etc. But not for the reasons you stipulated. Back office systems aren't put in place to "fleece" anyone.
As long as Google doesn't mistakenly add the nonexistent airport to their maps, it is harmless to some and amusing to others.
I was wondering if anyone would catch that! Yeah, it's definitely part of the "fiction" here. L-glucose can bind to some things, e.g. taste receptors. "Nothing in nature can interact with it" was definitely an over-simplification
I assume this is a reference to catching a child smoking a cigarette, and to punish them, and put them off doing it again, the parent forces them to smoke the whole pack of cigarettes one after another.

This (in theory) makes them feel sick and develop an aversion to the cigarettes.
It is telling that you're refering to adulterly as this innocent "perfectly legal", but "irritating" (LOL!) thing, given that within the context of the article, the mid 19th century, it was pretty darn far from "perfectly legal" to say the least, and has legal consequences even to this day.

Legality is absolutely irrelevant in any conversation about morality, ethics or societal norms and their decline and similar.
They are not laws of universe and are malleable, made up and thus completely irrelevant outside of context of seeking legal advice.

Legality of thing X, implies absolutely NOTHING about thing X, other than it being legal that is.

It's the hidden implicit implication (but "hey, it's perfectly legal", and therefore) which is particularly dishonest and insidious.

And in many cases a murder as a consequence of adultery would not necessarily be classified as "premediated first-degree murder" either.
Why the focus on the "addict"?
> gene therapy drugs

The use of this term to describe an mRNA vaccine suggests you do not understand how these vaccines work whatsoever. I am not surprised you didn't understand the FDA's report given that you don't understand how the vaccines work at all.
> There should be no context switch if you're full stack.

I’ve always considered myself full stack but I’m currently struggling pretty hard with parts of the codebase written in OCaml. There are challenges that are unlike others, so I don’t think it’s a good idea to generalize.
>Excusing criminality by saying “well, legitimate business isn’t totally ethical!” is nonsense gaslighting.

I think the point was not whataboutism, but rather that the sewer of filthy lucre that we call "campaign finance," regardless of who gives/receives such funds, creates perverse incentives in the political system and should be discouraged/done away with.

That's not a partisan take IMHO.
As the classic Twitter meme says: "I would simply…"
I know a lot of Americans who would reject Christianity and similar religions but have a pantheistic viewpoint and would say they "believe in God".
Well the interview process is more or less "are you good at probability puzzles and games somewhat related to trading."

A plausible story to me is that they were good at whatever they screen for in the interview and then at Jane Street they made a bunch of money. Then they attributed too much of that to themselves and not enough to whatever institutional processes and risk frameworks they benefited from. They bring themselves but not those processes to their own trading firm, and then boom!
A lot of reasons.

People don't like being watched. There's additional cognitive load in having to decide all the ways you might later regret giving that information away.

Once the information is out the door, it's out. You can't recall it. Apple or whatever company can have a change of leadership, mission or strategy that's incompatible with your values. But they still have your data and likely still can claim they have permission to use it.

For those of us who are older, it's also just discomfiting. We had at least a plausible illusion of privacy in our homes and our comings and goings. Now you have to take drastic and active steps to preserve privacy.

That's not to say I am fully against telemetry, but you asked why they're considered sinister. I think companies or organizations have a lot of work to do in order to comfort users.
'Brexit' is mentioned 3 times in the article.
Gotcha and thanks for being upfront about your reasoning.

I'll let others decide on whether they find that reasoning convincing!
You can't prevent someone from sending funds to a crypto address.

An address of an insolvent company may not be able to legally return funds; i.e. once they receive funds they may have a fiduciary duty to distribute them in a certain way, for example by order of a bankruptcy court.

tl;dr: They may only be able to ask people not to deposit, but not prevent them from depositing. And if users do deposit, they might not be allowed to give it back.
Apple's genius has always been to supply a relatively small number of models. It doesn't want to be the all-things-to-all-people company.

It works in parallel with Apple's approach to features. They don't want to be the company that does everything in a mediocre way. They want to provide a reduced feature set, and make everything easy.

That drives tech people crazy. Compare the famous Slashdot "Lame" pronunciation about the iPod. They know all of the things that technology can do, and want it to do all of those things. Apple, at its best, tries to restrict itself to the things most people want most of the time.

Apple doesn't always succeed, of course. It has lots of missteps. But when it does succeed, it's because of a combination of focus PLUS having that focus be on the right thing. Google and Microsoft will never say "We're not interested in that kind of customer".
If you felt that way about that issue, never ever look up the other single-topic issue they put out a decade or so ago about code and programming. The design of that one would probably make your head explode.
> “I remember, after Boulder approved same sex marriage certificates (back in 1975 or earlier!) someone doctored a photo of the sign to say something along the lines of 'Welcome to Lesbian Homoville' (I think it was quoting testimony from a city council meeting.)”

https://at.tumblr.com/thefuckingflatirons/boulder-welcome-to...
A father catches his young son sneaking a cigarette. To teach him a lesson, he says, "You want to be a smoker, huh? Well go ahead, smoke this whole pack!" He makes him smoke all of them, the boy gets horribly sick from it, and never wants to smoke again.

Essentially it's a metaphor for forcing someone to go all-in on something they wanted just a little taste of.
These fraudsters and others will get wiped out. That's the bummer about this whole event.

You may feel that the others were too greedy and naive, and therefore deserve what they get. Perhaps. But they're still getting wiped out, and they didn't participate in the fraud. (Unless you consider all of crypto to be a fraud...)
For new/supported devices I strongly recommend GrapheneOS.

The other projects who support some of these older devices have numerous issues as noted here: https://divestos.org/index.php?page=patch_levels#osSecurity

Edit: also of note: DivestOS currently provides monthly updates spanning seven versions of Android, I don't know of any other project doing that specifically.