skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless you think the new CEO's findings are incorrect (highly doubtful) or that FTX was buying houses for everybody except SBF himself (possible, but again doubtful), there is evidence right in front of you.
They did plenty of due diligence to protect their own interests.

Their term sheets gave them a big chunk of the "limited supply" tokens. So even if the business model was trash, they could cash out well before the market for that coin collapsed.

It is similar to when investment banks underwrite stock issues; they purchase a chunk of the stock directly from the company at an agreed-upon price. The company gets guaranteed funds, and the bank is free to sell the shares on a secondary market and potentially pick up a profit.

What's missing in crypto are the safeguards that ensure that banks + companies do not collude on pump and dumps in the securities markets. These include quarterly financial audits and oversight from a watchdog agency like the SEC. Obviously they are far from perfect, but considering the anti-regulation nature of US business (even after the Great Depression), the fact they even exist is a small triumph.
You don't understand Nevermind wasn't actually all that good Bandwagonesque BY Teenage Fanclub was actually better and more instrumental into turning the early 90s into an audio experience.
If you hate relying on optimizations in principle, I have nothing for you, but if you pragmatically want your debug build to be more like your release build, then there are options.

All the major C++ compilers support some variation on the idea of "Release with debug symbols". If you are using cmake or another meta build there are usually default set of options for this. If you are making your own build scripts then you might just add -d and -O2 to your Gcc of Clang flags.

The debug symbols will still consume space which will impact performance, but that is not likely to be a huge issue in all but the tightest performance regimes. And all the optimizations should be there.
The tricky part is, you never know how much load you can handle until it's too late- I figured I had more headroom LOL
> Isn't the whole point of crypto NOT to trust governments and centralized authorities?

Perhaps originally, but now it is simply a bunch of get-rich-quick schemes, or maybe more accurately wallstreetbets-style gambling. I.e. even if people know it's going to all go to shit, try to play the game long enough and get out before someone pulls out the Jenga piece below you.
search assumes you know what you're looking for. Its fine but I find it also hit or miss
Same with the toothpaste aisle, pasta sauce aisle etc. Sometimes personal preferences are part of the value prop.
Maybe a little more nuance? Some company cultures are very open and welcome critique. Other company cultures are downright authoritarian.

You're welcome to do what you want. To the extent it aligns with corporate culture, it may produce the results you want. But if it's outside the cultural norms... well, maybe you're the bomb-throwing revolutionary that changes everything, or maybe you're just fired.
> a goal of one focused task a day. If that only takes an hour, that's fine, I did the task.

It's a rare privilege to be able to rebalance your own workload like that. As a consultant, I have some ability to do this, but if I accomplish one focused task that takes an hour one day, I only get paid for one hour that day. I cannot make myself less busy without literally lowering my pay.
Didn't Lönnrot basically live on skis for a few years, collecting material ?
I play Unreal Tournament 2004, Unreal Tournament 4, Quake Champions, and Fortnite. I'm 47 years old.

I'm by no means the greatest aim, but I can hold my own against semi-pro players, players that typically compete for money in tournaments. I'm often accused of being a bot.

some tips:

1. Good equipment. I have 240fps monitor and wired gaming mouse. I thought I had it good with 60fps monitor but it makes a world of difference to have more.

2. Good settings. Your mouse sensitivity should be very low. I move my arm about 14 inches left/right to perform 180 rotation. It's a lot of movement and a bit of a workout, but it's the only way to make those flick headshots consistently. My mouse dps is set at 350, but really depends on your resolution also. My X resolution / mouse DPS = 4.8 (1680/350).

3. Good technique. Use your elbow and shoulder only for aiming. Do not use your wrist. Your wrist should always be straight.

4. Practice, of course! I play for about 20 minutes vs bots before I even go online.
> what role, exactly, did this billionaire have in making phones?

What role did the seed have in making the tree's fruits?

> Mr. Altman

It's PG who built HN. Wrote the software from scratch, too. And his role, as YC co-founder should have put him well above 1B. On paper, of course, as most billionaires actually are.

> Your arguments are tired talking points, crafted and sold by cynical goons.

Your arguments are crafted and sold by oppressors, dictators and tyrants everywhere. They propped a system that killed more people than nazism: communism.
ironically, I first heard about FTX and SBF in a hackernews thread about Coinbase layoffs.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31738029

Some gems:

"Yeah. FTX people clearly know a lot more about market making and how exchanges work. Makes coinbase look like amateurs.

... I agree and am in general a big fan of FTX and the guys that work there. The CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried one of these HFT guys from Jane Street and his net worth shot up from 0 to $24 billion in just a few years. He kept things super lean and focused. But in the last few months it looks like he's hired a PR team and is all over the place: podcasts, obviously planted news stories, etc. He even hired a head of fashion and luxury partnerships and even has an ad out in Vogue ...

This is the case for most market makers in whatever markets they're in. A crash usually produces a huge trading windfall, and then the subsequent "recession" leaves people with little money to invest/gamble with. FTX's traders are veterans of the industry, and they understand the need to be lean when order flow is light, and the need to make as much as possible when it's hot. Coinbase just watched the best two years of trading pass in front of their eyes, and failed to monetize it even to 10% of its potential. If they're lucky, they will get another opportunity to do things right in 5 years. But the trading graveyard is filled with people/companies like Coinbase who did really well for a year because they lucked into a good position, but who should have done 10x better. But then the real players see the opportunity, and run the Coinbases of the world off"
I hear what you're saying but its not exactly like the other concerns you mention. The obsession and amount of time dedicated to short reel feeds is unparalleled.

And is the culture generated on these platforms a good culture? Intellectually shallow, void of original thought, mob mentality. I'll pass.

Anyway, my concern is where it's leading us. From attention theft to decision theft.
> They read exactly like concerns over television, or cartoons, or comic books, or video games. "They'll rot your brain."

Why are you so sure they don't?

https://www.psychreg.org/political-speeches-simple-language/

> The research also showed that the reading level of the speeches changed significantly over the years. The analysis measured the Coleman-Liau readability index, which estimates the reading level of a certain text and associates it with the appropriate school grade. The analysis showed that the reading level of congressional speeches made by both Republican and Democratic legislators increased consistently from the eighth-grade reading level in the 19th century, to the 10th-grade level in the 1970s. But since 1976 the reading level of political speeches has been declining consistently, and as of the 21st century, it is below the ninth-grade reading level. The same trend was also observed with the vocabulary used by congressional members in speeches, which had been increasing consistently until the early 1970s, and then started to decline, and it is still declining, Shamir said.

> According to the study, the decline in reading level and vocabulary of the speeches can be related to the increasing presence of media – including live radio and TV coverage – in Congress beginning in the 1970s. Members of Congress started to gradually adjust their speech styles, addressing the public through the media rather than addressing their fellow legislators.

Anecdotally; television news today is much worse than television news in the 90s. And television news has always been low quality compared to newspaper reporting. Furthermore the rise of television news has a fair share of the blame for the decline of the newspaper industry.
Anecdotal, but related: https://seema.page/

Related HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30597187
I agree, I am super suspect of this article being true. Most of it is about training time. And Teens have much much more of it, given summer vacation, or, just not having any responsibilities ever.
Plenty of $400k+ salaries in fintech in Sydney ...
Isnt the UK struggling with poverty as well? Which first-world nations provide good QOL's without taking on multiple jobs while working for near-minimum wage? I understand a lot of the problem is companies not paying their fair share. Its an honest question though because I've thought about moving to more socialized country in the past but wouldn't know where best to go. And tbh it's not in the north american continent.
One time, right in the middle of a job interview, I took out a book and started reading. The guy said, "What the hell are you doing?" I said, "Let me ask you one question; if you were in a vehicle, and you were traveling at the speed of light, and then, you turned your lights on, would they do anything?" He said, "I don't know." I said, "Forget it then, I don't want to work for you."

- Steven Wright
Decentralized Storage Alliance
Ask HN: What are some alternatives to Twitter?
Looking for a social micro-blogging platform. I've heard of Mastodon. Anyone else working on a twitter clone of sorts? Which ones do you think will grow and last 10 years?
Poland strike: Cyprus-like incident or incorrect co-ordinates in the frame
I don't need strategies, I've made my peace with the fact that I'll never be good at FPS games. I just play to socialize with friends and press buttons.
At least some places do that. In Maryland, the limit is at most 10% by state law, though many jurisdictions set even lower limits.

Given that property tax is only a portion of the upkeep costs, that would translate into a much smaller proportional rent increase. To justify a 6% rent increase, that would almost certainly mean a property tax increase of well over 10%, so presumably your state doesn't set a limit or has a higher one.
I’d go as far as to say that the burden of proof is on anybody claiming that exercise is not as fundamental as eating, sleeping or breathing. So this study seems obvious or at least reasonable to me.
These are all mass-market cultivars. Get serious!
Are you looking for work? :)
>allows A level talent to maximize their time delivering value

A level talent is a bottleneck as they will move on for better opportunities. I wouldn't focus my company around that either.
We do a good job ignoring the economic issues of our neighbors, until it impacts our house.

Overall, people are pretty vocal about wanting a living wage, affordable healthcare, affordable education, housing, etc. yet we seem to constantly move in the opposite direction. IMO - our political machine has become too dysfunctional and no longer serves the people, or even make meaningful incremental progress. It's quite a damning time for our country and seems like some large correction would be in order at some point.
I guess I'm not totally surprised. Could you give a reference? I'm not sure what this would mean exactly or what the utility would be.
Have you even looked into APL's syntax? It is really simple.
I am always justified in expecting and demanding basic human rights to peaceful free expression and reporting, for myself and others.

I’m not (here) saying the USG has a duty to disclose, just that they have a duty to not raid and otherwise persecute journalists. (I also separately think they have a duty to disclose precisely what the tax money is being spent on, but that is a different discussion.)
Agree. When I stared reading the article I was exited at first. I generally agree that terminals have a lot of legacy issues from the past and could definitely use some innovation. But I don’t see the point why a terminal should require internet-connection at all. There is absolutely no reason any of the features Warp mentions, couldn’t be implemented in a way to work completely offline.
Good luck, but I don’t think any people using terminals as their daily drivers will ever use a product like this.
Information asymmetry is a classic example of a market failure. Markets with extensive baked in information disadvantages are by definition unfree. Just because other markets are unfree doesn't mean medicine isn't.
To be fair, for a while they were ALSO working on their own graphical source editor that allowed for type-correct transformations and assisted refactorings. They put that on the back burner specifically because they are trying to focus on fewer things :)

I think the distributed computing problem is pretty related once you have "content-addressable" source code. Agreed that it's a lot of work but I hope it pans out!
In many cases you just can't get them. My psych basically told me to just give up my career.
I have no problem with that. However, I guess in theory, someone is vouching for the cardholder --so it provides more information than just giving someone a lookover. Kind of like a "precheck".
No, it doesn't: Can't change between my accounts.
I feel like this was conceived of and written by people who don't play games.

There is a huge gap between progamers who practice against progamers with coaches pointing out where they are falling short vs playing against any random teen.

Having played games from childhood into adulthood I can confidently say I am a much better player now than at any point in my life whilst still playing less than I used to. If you were playing for the first time ever in your 30s then maybe the muscle memory and neural pathways aren't there, but that's just practice.
Once the snowball is rolling, any particular market maker becomes a lot less important. They come for retail, and retail comes because there's market makers.

Perhaps as a kick starter Alameda was important, but I doubt they were needed after the usual suspects came on.
Even if it were true as you say that there is an optimal amount of “slack” with which to operate, how does that mean being busy is a myth?

There are jobs where you can get hired and almost immediately be at the higher levels of busy as described here, and it’s not really easy to get an entire culture or organization to quickly buy into a new philosophy.

People have paid the price in health and happiness for surviving in these situations. Whether they could be handled in a better way or not, I don’t see how it makes any sense to call their business a myth.
My Observer bias of late has been about open or nearly open feedback loops. People don’t adjust their strategies when the consequences come due later. I’ve been on a number of projects and seen a few more where management keeps turning screws to get stuff faster and then goes pikachu face when the whole thing grinds to a halt. Few if any of them see themselves as the agents of chaos in this situation. It’s not their fault, it’s someone else’s. And even if you can document it, it doesn’t sink in. Because that was something they did years ago and we don’t think about old things.
I think the idea here is that pumping the economy full of helium will eventually be catastrophic. If this crypto crash is allowed to actually play out instead of getting bailed out it could prevent something far more damaging later on than even a million people losing their deposits.
Citation required. Where is the evidence for a soul? It isn't even clearly defined.
Its the inevitable conclusion of chasing easy money in the wake of the crypto asset bubble. Everybody got lazy.
One thing I learned when my son was born is eating well is really tough to do when your mind is somewhere else.

Mealtrains -- friend sourced meal prep -- are popular for people with newborns, but I've taken to dropping off meals (or sending GrubHub gift cards for friends who live out of town) to friends when I know they're going through a tough time.
This guy frags.
>see https://htmx.org for what I mean, they could implement this concept in the browser in a week, and it would change web development dramatically)

Yes. Has anyone ever purpose it?
tbh just play more reactive games like quake or csgo. Modern shooters don't sharpen your neural patterns the way classic gameplay does. More time trigger time less wandering around a map.
I'm happy to be wrong and learn about an uncertainty principle for the DFT. I'm just not aware of one. Your comment isn't very helpful for illuminating, absence any mathematical detail.
I get upset hearing news like this because it dismantles comfy beliefs. Some part of one's identity is inevitably linked to the national identity. I guess the way to not get upset is to remember that there are really no good governments. Any government, if unchecked by the people it tries to govern, will exploit and oppress while doing its utmost best to maintain a positive image.
isn't the point that mice and humans implement many of the same (pertinent) traits, in programming language terms, with regard to this topic, though?
Is Gimp.org Down?
It returns:

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Application is not available

The application is currently not serving requests at this endpoint. It may not have been started or is still starting.

Possible reasons you are seeing this page:

The host doesn't exist. Make sure the hostname was typed correctly and that a route matching this hostname exists.
The host exists, but doesn't have a matching path. Check if the URL path was typed correctly and that the route was created using the desired path.
Route and path matches, but all pods are down. Make sure that the resources exposed by this route (pods, services, deployment configs, etc) have at least one pod running.

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It resolves correctly to the right addresses (8.43.85.3|.4|.5 ), all returning the same error.
Also 'Words' at

https://justinjackson.ca/words.html
Parity is one of the cheapest thing you can compute in hardware
Out of scope for this article, obviously, but I would prefer a similarly written one on how to make your own netlify clone. At least the critical path where git push results in some server (I control) pulling the repo, doing stuff, and reporting the results in real time via a simple UI.
I'm still a bit lost. Maybe you can help me understand. From my perspective it looks like

1. TikTok is foreign owned and the line between the CCP and Chinese businesses is blurred.

2. TikTok collects a lot of data from its[US] users.

3. ????

4. Bad stuff happens.
Twitter is a counter example for your tech stock scenario. However, you could argue that its hyper-inflated Tesla stock trading for hyper-inflated Twitter stock, much like a BTC millionare, trading BTC for ETH.
The improvements made to the software by the developers over time.
The market is cracking down on these exchanges by bankrupting them. I'd prefer a privately run auditing and voluntary accreditation model.
Russia has controlled a substantial portion of the Donbas for 8 years and has simply let it rot. There's no investment or utilization of that industry.
It's the upheaval and the lack of security. Not everyone can get a job instantly, especially if they're older or fresh out of college.

Another reason to favor worker-owned co-ops rather than publicly-traded companies.
I keep thinking if we should accept the reality of Blink browser monopoly, especially with open source vendors like Brave and Qute and Apple and MS to keep Google in check. Dunno if Mozilla is affecting the web nowadays. I still test/develop my company's software in Firefox and try to sort out rough edges.
I don't know what you've heard and where you've heard it but there is generally a lot of misinformation floating around and most of it is being sponsored by lobbies with an agenda to keep the oil and gas companies going. So, I would suggest not taking any of that at face value. Including what you hear in threads like this or from me.

Vertical farms are essentially closed systems where nutrients, energy and some water goes in and produce comes out. There's a bit more to it of course but that's the general idea. They are climate controlled environments where light is provided via grow lights. In short, it uses energy which needs to come from somewhere.

You are confusing power requirements and greenhouse gases. Mostly these things use some form of sustainable power. Either sourced indirectly via some electricity provider; or directly with e.g. solar panels. If you think about it, the number one expensive consumable here is electricity and the cheapest way to produce it is via renewables. It's that simple. Why would you get more expensive energy if you can get it cheaper. Keeping all those ACs, lights, pumps, etc. going you are going to have to figure that one out or deal with competition that is smarter than you on that front.

There are probably a few farms that are forced to buy via the grid and are hopelessly dependent on their local coal burning monopolists. Not a great business plan but the good news is that coal is rapidly becoming a very unfashionable way to produce power due to the fact that it is expensive and dirty. It being expensive cuts down on energy margins and causes coal dependent producers to be dealing with awkward things like going bankrupt and being forced to pay more for their coal than they can charge for the resulting energy when wind is blowing and the sun is shining. Gas has similar issues, as people that pay gas bills these days can vouch for. Mine went up by 2x recently. Not great.
> the most overhyped apple of all time

Good to see they've got Cosmic Crisp properly described.
This article seems like pandering.

> Medical studies suggest that reaction times peak at 24 and go downhill from there

But if this peak is by a few percent, then why would a 35 year old be bad at video games? Also, if reaction times peak at 24, why would we be playing "superhuman teenagers", and not... superhuman early 20s?

Side note - I think in NHL hockey they see early 20s is the most athletic / fast / skilled time you'll ever have, not surprised to see this here
All I want to know is where are the servers with the adults on them? I have enjoyed the more realistic FPS, but the kids running around everywhere just cussing at everyone or using aimbots kind of kills the fun.
We have, though. Spark, for example, does this in just about every language. It's been around for ages, is liberally licensed, and deployed at scale in thousands of enterprises.
When my son was born, my friends without kids would bring food by and want to hang out, while my friends with kids would just text us after they left food on our doorstep.
I see you've reduced your position from "Bitcoin is a scam" to "Bitcoin has some potential vulnerabilities".

The 51% attack vulnerability is a well-known risk. It was described in Satoshi Nakamoto's white paper. In practice, it is highly unlikely due to many reasons which I won't elaborate here but I there's a lot of material about it online.

As long as there is more than one government, no one government can take control over Bitcoin. They can possibly outlaw its use within their own borders (with difficulty).
Please don't post HN threads flameward. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html