skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a general financial instrument there seems to be too large an opportunity for fraud and scams that it seems to generally not be worth it outside of hedges against hyper inflation.

But the general idea of web3, personal ownership of data that you can seamlessly move to different interfaces, and as a way to trust documents still all seem like great reasons to have public ledgers. This may not be in the currency space, but I feel like general crypto is something I would like to see in the future.

I also love the idea of moving fully to stable coins for better tracking related to tax implications. I'm not sure of how this would work fully, but there seems far too much opportunity for tax evasion and fraud under the current systems and moving to a stable coin seems like it could aid in that regard.
came here to mention Perala
> On the other hand, if it had been heavily regulated from the get-go, there would be tremendous pressure to bail it out now, so maybe it's for the best that it wasn't regulated by the government.

This isn’t true at all. The FTX collapse is more akin to something like Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, which was significantly larger and did not get a bailout.

The financial bailouts you’re comparing this to were mostly loans that were paid back with interest, which init equivalent to the government handing money over to compensate for someone’s fraud.

The idea behind the regulation would be to prevent these situations from becoming so large in the first place. FTX deliberately avoided locations with regulation so they could perpetuate their fraud. So, no, regulations in the US would not have impacted how FTX operated in the Bahamas nor would they have any interest in bailing out a foreign company.

Finally, regulation doesn’t cause bailouts. There’s no rule that says regulated industries get bailouts while unregulated industries don’t. You’re conflating two completely different topics and trying to pass them off as one in the same.
Good to see that this is still going. Is Larry Polansky still involved? He was doing interesting stuff, including HMSL [1], when he taught at Mills College.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_Music_Specificati...
what's most likely is annual performance reviews are up and an agent wants a feather in their cap.
New scripting framework for automating macOS UI actions
Take it from the guilty cop's retirement fund and give them desk duty while their non-abusive colleagues are not punished. Never assume a problem is solved when you treat individuals the same based on statistics.
We built a new framework to automate UI actions on macOS This framework enables you to write automation for UI actions in more behavior-driven steps and not worry about UI system inconsistencies like retries, timeouts, etc. Right now, this framework is exposed to work in Anka macOS VMs. We plan to expose this framework to work on non-virtualized macOS systems.
The flavorless, hard apple you'd find in a school lunch. I remember chucking these into the trash in elementary school in the late 80s and early 90s, where it would land alongside dozens of other "thick-skinned, flavorless, mealy imposters."
I really doubt it - it was just a dumb unregulated offshore startup doing a bunch of stuff that's already illegal. SOX wouldn’t help since FTX apparently didn’t have anything resembling audited financials vs Enron, a public company that abused GAAP to generate misleading financials. It would be a much different story if FTX had gone public or if they had a reputable audit firm vouching for them.
No description on the home page, the documentation, Github page ... mentions that this is a Haskell-like language inspired by Haskell. No credit to Haskell while the code base is 99.6% Haskell!
> Crypto as a currency - I can't directly buy food, water, shelter, transportation, energy, or anything fundamental with it.

Cryptocurrency payments is a flourishing market, btw.
Earth is, and has been, being bombarded by icy comets daily to this day.

I wonder if icy asteroids did more to promote life than that?
Nice. Thanks for making it and it sharing.
IMO not bad form since it's useful for the average HN reader to have more choices. As a customer I want to see competition between vendors, that's always a good thing.
It was my understanding from lockdown that the UK had millions of apples frozen, and would essentially just cycle through - in other words every apple came from farm to freezer to shop.

I may have misunderstood
Got the exact same problem here
a major tenet of cryptocurrencies is decentralization and controlling your own ability to transact. using centralized exchanges is antithetical to this maxim because it gives these organizations power over you.
A Language for Making Languages for Making Synthesizers
> You couldn't trade them normally with the miners off but you could start mining up the day after.

So if we turn off all the bitcoin miners, it wouldn't be possible to transact. All you could do is look at it, like a read-only excel sheet.
The federal government would have to make an economic case for blocking or managing TikTok. I imagine they could make a national security argument, but that would be a lot harder. But I'm not a lawyer or politician, so that's just speculation on my part.
Async fn in trait MVP comes to nightly
McIntosh are my favorite and in the shit category. So, you peel it, no big deal.

Honestly, I don't think I can trust anything else on the site because of this review, unless it's completely meant to be some sort of joke...
Northern Spy is a fantastic apple. I can't remember what they taste like whole, but they make great cider, and they mature super late so you can have fresh cider right up into winter. Most of our cider producers switch to spy in late autumn and that is when the cider tastes the best.
As noted in the article you linked and this one as well [0]. There never was a real tulip fever.

[0] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-...
This feels like another drama in the style of SCO v. Linux. Lots of FUD, little to nothing for end-users to actually worry about.
3% to 5% of the world's GDP is linked to criminal activities [1]. Cryptocurrencies are a drop in the bucket here. It doesn't even register.

[1] And it's highly likely the CIA is still, in 2022, deeply tied in drug trafficking and drug money laundering.
With this logic, hydrogen is energy source then.
Gold is priced way higher than it's worth due to speculation, yes, but it does have intrinsic value in industrial processes and electronics. I wouldn't invest in shiny pebbles personally but there is a very real, fundamental difference.
Working for me here (Firefox/Iceraven Android). I remember the original post; congratulations on shipping! Looking forward to playing more.

Took me 68 moves.
Can you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. We ban accounts that do this repeatedly, and you've been doing it repeatedly. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
Weirdly, it seems that the equations for time work in either direction. Questions of causality aside it might be possible to get something to move backwards in time. Probably not anything living though. Or rather not anything you’d like to keep living.
Why would it? FTX wasn’t playing by existing US regulations anyway.

Even the most basic regulations would have squashed FTX’s entire fraud from the start. They weren’t bothering to play by any rules because they knew they could get away with it.
Maybe fortune tellers' insight is that it's as real as you believe it to be?
SEC filings? They never made any SEC filings

The vast majority of their business was based in the Bahamas and Antigua to avoid US regulators
Nuclear should be heavily subsidized regardless. Whenever they aren't needed for immediate demand, these power plants can be put to use for so many other tasks: desalination of water, energy storage in terms of hydroelectric pumping, direct carbon capture. Chemical fuel creation (hydrogen, ammonia, methanol, methane, etc).

If we want to unscrew ourselves of the ticking time bomb we set, we need all the "clean" energy we can get, and then some. Nuclear is potentially an existential requirement to the mix.
Criminals used yo go ppeacefully a lot more often. Seems the more they expect police to remove tgeir dignity, destroy their property, commit assault, and use deadly force, it's obvious those criminals will choose to play the same game.
Endemic in the industry. Especially at larger companies.

The gig I have been working at for a year, had a big ol document system. They're mostly written by folks who don't work here any more, and describe the previous generation of hardware/software.

They are a hint, a place to start, but every effort seems like starting over.
They are severely underrating cosmic crisp imo. It’s got all the flavor of the best honey crisp you’ve ever had with an unbelievably slow browning rate. You can cut one up and leave it out for hours and it’s still not brown.

My only beef with them is that they are too big. One cosmic is practically 2 meals.
And probably as an attraction for divers and others in the area.
The structural completions are way more useful than the entire function completions, even in IntelliJ, where autocomplete is already extremely high quality.

The part that I find unsettling when using Copilot is the risk that credentials or secrets embedded in the code, or being edited in (.gitignore'd) config files, are being sent off to Microsoft for AI-munging and possible human review for improvements to the model.
It's not just about the data that Tiktok pulls from its users, its also about what it pushes to them. Tiktok feeds in the US and the rest of the world tend to be wildly different than those in China. Douyin, Tiktok's Chinese version, primarily features content related to self-improvement, martial arts, life hacks, exceptional individual achievements, motivational clips etc. Meanwhile Tiktok in the rest of the world primarily features unhinged teenagers doing silly dances, random movie/TV show clips with cringy music added in, "reaction" videos and other immature antics. A clear-cut difference in priorities and intentions baked into their algorithms.
Is there anything like this, except a CLI tool? Something like yt-dlp. I know of curl and wget, but only the basics. I tend to use qutebrowser, which isn't supported, and I don't really expect it to be supported either. Something more neutral run from the shell would be great.
Idealistic solutions are vulnerable to this.

Decentralized solutions are vulnerable to this.

Idealistic decentralized solutions...
The best number I could find quickly for the current total grid-scale battery storage for Germany is somewhere around 750MWh[1], so they only need to build 13,000 times as much storage as they have as of 2021. That would also only give them a worst-case scenario of around 4 days of battery-only power. That sounds pretty optimistic.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.06762.pdf
Certainly you can build a server-side rendered web application without a strict separation between frontend and backend and you absolutely should do so if you can. The common separation in frontend and backend microservice is only because JavaScript is so terrible that it's worth the effort to use a different language for backend, but at the same time you can't go all the way because frontend-tooling for backend languages (i.e. Java) is even worse. Introducing this technical separation generally only causes more complexity, inefficient network communication and bad developer experience. It is a historic wart that will hopefully go away over time. As for "a DB where query schema is separated from storage via views": The usual pattern nowadays is to not share data wherever possible (by building self-contained microservices that are aligned with business capabilities instead of layers), have a private database per microservice (in which case it is pointless to do this view indirection) and then provide a stream of business events to other microservices who build their own replicated data model from that, thus decoupling their own data model from external influences. I haven't seen any modern company use views to decouple the schemas but I suppose it is the obvious solution in a 1998 world where everyone shares the same database. If you add asynchronous replication to that, it is basically identical to the modern event-based replication.
Spark still references functions by name though, right? So if a peer says "call this function" I have to trust both that peer AND whatever system resolves the name to some cpu instructions.

Plus you're significantly limited in how much you can memoize if you can have different versions of the "same" function.
This is excellent news, thank you so much!
This reminds me of AutoIt. It was a scripting language for windows that helped with UI automation, and it was one of the things that opened up the world of programming to me when I was 12.
> "too big to fail"

I get bailing out the banks.

But we can bankrupt the owners, in the case of partnerships, and cancel the shares of public companies.
I've just discovered this firsthand. Meal trains are awesome, but really challenging to have done right if you and/or your partner have serious food allergies. GrubHub is definitely good, but what's worked for us is a prepared foods service that drops off pre-cooked meals twice a week. Our friends and family gave us cash to help allay the cost of the service, but it's really not much more expensive than takeout.

We're in Seattle, and use these folks: https://www.westerlykitchen.com
It's interesting to consider how you might prevent training using a license without being too restrictive.

Here is an example of a license that attempts to directly prohibit training. The problem is that you can imagine such software can't be used in any part of a system that might be used for training or inference (in the OS, for example). Somehow you need to additionally specify that the software is used directly... But how, what does that mean? This is left as an exercise for the reader and I hope someone can write something better:

The No-AI 3-Clause License

This is the BSD 2-Clause License, unmodified except for the addition of a third clause. The intention of the third clause is to prohibit, e.g., use in the training of language models. The intention of the third clause is also to prohibit, e.g., use during language model inference. Such language models are used commercially to aggregate and interpolate intellectual property. This is performed with no acknowledgement of authorship or lineage, no attribution or citation. In effect, the intellectual property used to train such models becomes anonymous common property. The social rewards (e.g., credit, respect) that often motivate open source work are undermined.

License Text:

https://bugfix-66.com/7a82559a13b39c7fa404320c14f47ce0c304fa...
aka technology which exists on paper, maybe in one prototype sample.
99Wh Battery Linux Laptop
There are a handful of them at businesses and it's wonderful if your car can support it. We get about 60mph on those chargers, so even a quick food stop gets you 20-30 miles of range. 50% charge in about 2 hours!

Most public AC chargers around me are 6.6kw and it's truly a useless amount of power. It's about 20mph, so a 20 minute food stop is giving you ~7 miles of range. To get a 50% charge takes about 6 hours. Even in a 9-5 full work day you're not able to get a full charge.
> But Legoland Korea struggled out of the gate, too far from Seoul and too expensive for what was on offer, and it did not generate enough revenue to honor the bonds. Also, as South Korea’s real estate market softened, the value of the real estate backing the bonds began falling below the amount of the debt.

This is the heart of the problem.

I know the current South Korean president owes his victory in part to popular resentment in the face of the Moon administration's inability to stem the explosive growth of housing costs in Seoul.

Could it be that the target demographic for this Legoland just doesn't have enough disposable income or free time to make the asset profitable? It sure seems like it. Other Legolands around the world don't struggle with profitability. Distance isn't an issue for car owners. But cars are more expensive than ever. And shelter costs in SK are too high in proportion to household incomes.

Housing speculators and NIMBYs are going to kill capitalism.
+1000, Macouns from Rogers Orchards in Southington CT are the BEST apples on the planet
Seems this article completely misses the benefits of copilot. Its a massive step forward in productivity. For me, its about suggesting proper syntax across the various libraries we use. It really does cut time by 10s of percent.

I don't buy the argument that the risk of a yet-to-be-litigated case against a different company, who will certainly fight this hard; is greater than the productivity gain of using copilot.

Additionally, the security argument feels ridiculous to me. We lift code examples from gists and stackoverflow ALL THE TIME! But any good dev doesn't just paste it in and go, instead we review the code snippet to ensure its secure. Same thing with copilot, of course its going to write buggy/insecure code, but instead of going to stackoverflow for a snippet its suggested in my IDE and with my current context.
Of course, the ideal state is reasonable and good laws enforced uniformly.

The current policing system is non-functional without discretion because nearly everything is criminalized with overly harsh punishments.

Police are pretty terrible arbiters of discretion, but I would rather have that than the current laws enforced.

I am much more concerned about over enforcement than under enforcement.
As a tax lawyer, I am compelled to point out that Delaware is probably the worst place to organize an LLC. Delaware has a great volume of corporate tax law but most of it does not apply to the LLC form, which negates the only reason to go with Delaware versus another state.

If you are going the LLC route, either organize it in Wyoming or else in the state where you will actually be doing business. Wyoming LLCs have the greatest flexibility in terms of organizational requirements and capital structure (and the lowest tax/compliance costs for keeping it alive).

But no matter where you choose to organize your LLC you will need to register for business and file tax returns in the state in/from which you physically do business. You can't avoid that by organizing in another state or country; state of organization only determines what set of law applies to addressing conflicts between different owners in an LLC. If it's just going to be you, then your home state is almost always the best place to organize your LLC.

And if you are a solo founder, and you intend to run a lifestyle business (meaning, enough to replace your day job), the S-Corp is a better option than an LLC. It's not as organizationally flexible as the LLC but it's easier to understand, easier to maintain, usually much cheaper to maintain, and there are some tax benefits you can get that you don't get with an LLC.
The problem is I'm not big on devops, so I was just hoping "things will be fast enough"

I just modified the server to serve all images from a cloudflare-based source, hope that will help

Also, it's definitely not just static stuff, it tracks full statistics on how people did in the puzzles so they can compete, and I didn't go very deep on optimizing that yet
Honestly - I think this list prioritizes basically just "sweetness" and "crispness" (despite his claimed categories) which is fine - those are generally appealing things for eating. That said - many of the apples in the "shit" category are fucking delicious.

There are days when I want a sweet, crisp apple, and there are days I have a serious hankering for a good ol' granny smith.

Even the classic Red Delicious - which gets a really tarnished name in current pop culture is actually a damn good apple... soft, slightly chewy, sweet - but not too sweet, a little hint of bitter in the skin - it's just a different experience than the super sweet, juicy apples that start to just taste like apple juice.

Then again - I really like apples, and I'm vaguely suspicious that the site maker just likes sugar water.
You can run SingleFile from the command line actually :) See https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/single-file-cli
I must have misread, my apologies. I guess it's time to take a break.
No official word but reports of being unable to see connections, look at members of pages etc.
Then that flips it back to being very cool that he is putting his energy into carrying a few batons far enough for others to pick them up.
> One could argue that

Sure, but it always feels like the other person started it and did worse—so everybody always argues that.*

Let's assume you are right and the other person is wrong. Posting an unsubstantive snark is the worst way to respond. It poisons the atmosphere, evokes worse from others, and ultimately discredits your own position (which, if you're right, means you're discrediting the truth—and that hurts everyone**).

What you should do instead is one of the following:

(1) respectfully provide correct information, so we can all learn; or

(2) chalk it up to the internet being wrong about everything and just move on.

* https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

** https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
> have you ever been a police officer?

I like how you imply this would be disqualifying, only to follow it up with "i haven't".

If you amputate the wrong leg, I don't need to be a doctor to tell you "that's not great".
From the latest bankruptcy filing it seems like they had an Alameda bank account that they used for FTX deposits to save time as there was no FTX bank account at the time

It seems all $8B of deposits to this account were double credited to both FTX and Alameda
FTX is younger than Tether and it was actually subject to scrutiny.

Tether has also been subject to scrutiny and was found, at the time, to be lying about their reserves and backing. And this was before they printed a lot more! It doesn’t make sense to write them off as having withstood the test of time when they literally failed to stand up to the first legal scrutiny that got access to their books.
One of my memories of Saskatchewan in winter is all the cars left idling outside the movie theater because people were afraid to shut the engine off.
Regulations didn't stop Enron.
Why not let someone else do your job since you're just sitting this one out?
Yup. There is no chance in hell of them coming after USERS of copilot.
SBF got tons of pushback in the EA community. He gave jobs to some of the actual thought leaders so they tried to give him some credit, but there are tons and tons of posts on the EA forum about how Sam's extreme focus on long termism made EA too easy to meme on, and even more posts about how his political shenanigans were likely to cause major issues for the movement.
It's a programming language where the file representation isn't text of the code but ASTs and you can call things distributedly by a hash of that AST.

So I guess its different from apache beam in all of the ways.
Can someone make a practical reason for saving an entire webpage locally vs a PDF export in 2022?
Yes. Argentina is an example.
I just downloaded it, saw a login wall and noped out.