skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The hackers aren’t the ones running the receiving accounts, those are offered by finance professionals taking 20-60% and paying out in cryptocurrency.

Making money “disappear” after a couple of international transfers isn’t particularly difficult.
Europe is sanctioning the hell out of Russia, and yet Gazprom would pay huge penalties on violating a contract. If anything this story shows why it's unlikely they blew up the pipeline. After that whole legalese theater, they just decided to turn off the tap. As simple as that. And just as simple to refuse to pay any fees.
Yes, Genomics may be important, but are there really that many jobs for software developers? (same could be said for many other important fields - I recently saw an article about how software engineers should move to green energy - but who is going to pay them?)
The socially awkward and the easily car sick will avoid these like the plague, considering the seating arrangement.
It would be cool if they had a direction...aka let's build on mach...oh that's old let's make Hurd NG....wait even less people work on that one? ...ok let's get back to mach...and what do we do now?

Having a kernel without goals is like a sandbox without having fun, no one cares.
maybe you thinking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coreboot?
Everyone that thinks it's obvious the US or some other ally of Germany did this is completely ignoring just how big of a risk this kind of action would be. There is an enormous difference between an enemy/opponent like Russia destroying infrastructure and an ally doing this. And no, this isn't the same as eavesdropping on the phones of politicians and other stuff the US has done to its allies.

There would be a minor benefit to the US when destroying the pipelines, but a vastly larger risk if it became public. The benefit is really minor, it's a bit of profit for the gas industry. And even that small benefit requires the assumption that Germany would have dropped support for Ukraine to get Russia to deliver gas again, which is extremely unlikely.

Even if you consider the US to be very ruthless, the cost/benefit ratio simply doesn't even come close to anywhere where this would be a rational choice for the US to blow up the pipelines.
I don’t know what happened but after Covid no one talks to me anymore.

Prior to Covid I could go out to a bar, strike up a convo with someone (or vice versa) and just chat about stuff, sometimes awkward sometimes not. Now though, no one seems to want to talk, bot sure if something about my demeanor has changed or something. I hate going out now because it usually just involves me slamming down drinks to kill time.
money mule bank accounts arent exactly growing on trees
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Be helpful if you could elaborate on those choices
unix timestemp is unaffected by DST
My point was that Elon's notion of separating "freedom of speech" from "freedom of reach" is already counter to the basic ideal of freedom of speech. By this same standard, the US government could claim that a law preventing sales of a particular book would not put them in breach of the 1st amendment, as they are still allowing the book to exist.
Yes, some of this thread has very questionable advice. I already provided a suggestion and rationalised it. It seems you have become annoyed at me pointing this out.

Instead of asking me to explain why OP should prioritise styling, why don’t you explain how styling allows OP to build financial calculators? Form over function is not a good thing and I would expect HN readers to understand this?
Back of the envelope calculations don’t seem to bear out what you are saying.

NS1 carried around 600 twh of energy per year. Current estimated wind energy production in europe is around 380 twh with 236 gw of wind capacity, so it would need to multiply this by a little over 150% to replace NS1. The EU is installing wind around 18 gw per year, or 8%. At this rate it takes around 20 years to replace NS1. However, the EU intends to increase wind installation to 30 gw per year. At that rate it takes 12 years to replace NS1.

That seems a reasonable medium term target.

(This calculation isn’t taking into account that much of that gas is used to create electricity, which loses half the energy in conversion.)
I did do this, there were a lot of great people on my team but it paid (a lot) less and is more stressful than just building another CRUD app.
Ah algebraic effects systems, if only more languages had them. Then we wouldn't need keywords like async, mutable, immutable, etc, or function colors at all. Rust is beginning to add something like this.
Indeed. Nonetheless, that sabotage seems to be a fact. I'd completely forgotten about the story in parent's wikipedia link; the similarities are striking. But in Georgia, they struck Georgian electricity distribution at the same time as pipelines; in the Nordstream attacks, they're not attacking European electricity distribution.

So why blow things up, when you can just turn them off?

Maybe for show. By blowing them up, they demonstrate that they'll never be turned on again. What's that good for? It shows Russia's contempt for the cancellation of NS2, for business with the West in general, and for sanctions. Perhaps it's a muscular display of their power in the field of energy.

How can you show off, if you're going to deny that you did it? Well, it won't be the first time. There has been a number of murders by poisoning recently, just in the UK, that were pretty obviously Russia, that are denied by Russia. But the purpose of those murders was likely meant to intimidate - they needed to be obvious. So I recognize the MO.

I still think it's Biden, based on nothing at all. Except that he more-or-less promised he was going to.

These pipeline explosions ocurred in the "exclusive economic zones" of Sweden and Denmark respectively, so I understand. They are being extremely guarded about their investigation, refusing all requests to observe. Including from Germany, who are part owners. I think that's interesting, given that one early suggestion was that "Sweden done it".
I've tried quite some alternative OSes in local qemu VMs.

HelenOS was one of the few that actually worked.

It feels very snappy. Seems also quite robust. I didn't manage to crash it just by playing around, like it's the cases with most other "toy OSes".

One of the most "promising" OS projects out there, imho. (Promising in the sense that it seems to be at least a serous project with constant progress since many years already).
> What has changed other than the verification thing?

Nothing. People describing what has changed since Musk took over offer vaguer symptom lists than Morgellons sufferers. If anything, right-wingers who fell for the huge anti-Musk media campaign are getting upset because nothing at all seems to have changed other than the unfunny Babylon Bee getting their account back.
The no engagement is kind of the point. Twitter is a massive rave, Mastodon is a quiet houseparty.

If you follow lots of people, use hashtags, and the like; you'll get engagement but not virality - which is, IMO, a good thing.
This is an insight that I think most closely hews to the the reality of the current situation at Twitter, and at larger companies in general. There is a need for people at all levels of skill and competency because there are tasks and problems at all levels of difficulty and importance. It's essential to ensure your organization is matching the right people to the right problems, and that your leadership is creating the right incentives so that this happens more often than not.

This is incredibly difficult and I think more represents the ideal, rather than a consistently achievable reality (at least I have never actually seen this in my own experience). Inevitably your upper leadership becomes infiltrated and then taken over by people who's primary skill is gaming the system of incentives. Once entrenched, they are difficult if not impossible to remove, and jealously gatekeep against anyone more competent that might threaten their position from below. New ideas and reforms are seen as threats, as most of the leadership is only interested in these things to the extent that they might provide an opportunity to increase their own social status, wealth, or power. In a company, this is takes on the form of the depressingly banal, but it is as true at the highest levels of power in every state and such things are behind many of the human-initiated catastrophes we see throughout recorded history.

To your point about the 90/10 ratio, I really don't get the sense that Elon thinks this way at all, however. I also agree that I don't think he is really getting the people he wants. As you said, those that would be most likely to stay under these circumstances are those who can't really go somewhere else (like those with a visa) or who are workaholics. Neither of these neatly intersect with the group of productive and skilled engineers and support staff. Instead of gross competency you are selecting for the desperate and the pathological.
Another one for the US/UK would be to prevent Russia from selling to wider markets at inflated prices, which has been the only thing preventing their economy from collapsing.
Fair points - there is too much editorializing, and I had missed some of it.
Yes, in pure/applied math, we know a lot about various cases of approximation. But in practice there are more cases of approximation, and, right, the Euler equations are another such case. Or, to be a little flippant, generally in applications to real problems, we look at a lot of the features and throw out some, modify some, and actually honor some!!

So, a question is, can we improve our ability to make such approximations and know something about the accuracy of the solutions we will get? E.g., for the Euler equations, will that approximation of an "incompressible" fluid ever work in practice and, if so, when and, there, how accurate can/will it be?

Or, what about, hmm, just to be picky and pick something, friction on the side of the tube? What if the tube is not a perfect tube?

A few grains of dirt: What if the liquid is water but, like most real water, has some solids floating around in it? Right, we can say, so there are a few grains of dirt floating around in the water, and they won't matter -- to be picky, that's an approximation, and we are likely correct, but where is an actual math theorem that says we are correct or how correct, i.e., accurate, are we? Right, a few grains of dirt -- we don't much care. But that's practical judgment and not really theorem/proof math.

And similarly for other approximations we get as we throw out, modify, or honor real features?

So, as stated, this is too difficult as a pure/applied math research direction. Okay, ..., then, is there anything at all in that direction that might be not absurdly difficult as a research direction?

Or, to be simplistic, we work hard and get a numerical solution to a boundary value problem. Now someone tweaks the boundary. Can we say that our numerical solution is only tweaked? Or, when can we say that small changes in the problem statement will result in only small changes in the solution? Right, we are into some topology and looking for a case of continuity .... Hmm .... If we had some linearity ...!!! Right, the two pillars of analysis are continuity and linearity ...! But here with Euler we were considering nonlinear partial differential equations!

Again I ask, is there any hope we can do anything for some corresponding math??
(Disclaimer: Hate musk, disapprove of Mastodon's fundamental architecture)

I haven't noticed anything get worse yet. As usual, I get about one spam DM per week. As usual, the app freezes or crashes about three times a week. As usual, the app takes seconds to load what I click on about 5% of clicks.

I'm worried it's not sustainable, though. At this point the vast majority of employees have quit. Musk's attempts to retain them suggest he doesn't understand his employees' thinking, suggesting he'll continue to have problems.

So I'm continuing to use Twitter while actively looking for alternatives.

When I tried mastodon it completely failed to provide the basis functionality I expect. I think that's because it's technically decentralized, but they've then built a centralized service through social coordination on top of that. And that's the worst of both worlds.
Finance noob here, and purely out of couriosity, but could someone explain what the actual legal status of FTX' deposits is now?

From what I got, crypto exchanges spend a lot of effort to not be banks in a legal sense, so the special protections for customer deposits with traditional banking don't apply - the deposits are technically owned by FTX, not the customers.

On the other hand, customers do appear to have some claims in the bankruptcy proceedings, enough that the SEC seized the funds. So it's not just "you pay me, I make number go up" either.

Were the deposits just treated like loans to FTX?
ahhh, I read too fast. Thank you for this.
spiegel posted this a few months ago, claiming that the CIA warned the germans that the russians had intelligence that the ukrainians were planning to sabotage NS:

https://archive.ph/v7FL4

>The Germans were warned in summer by the CIA about a possible attack scenario on the Nord Stream pipelines. U.S. intelligence claimed to have intercepted Russian communications in which concerns were expressed about possible Ukrainian attacks on Western infrastructure. The Ukrainians allegedly tried to rent a boat in Sweden for this purpose. The CIA did not consider the scenario of a Ukrainian attack to be very credible, but the mere fact that the possibility of an attack on Western infrastructure was mentioned by the Russian side prompted the Americans to warn the Germans about the scenario.
It seems the Media are now touting new platforms that they believe they can control. Thats how they made twitter famous in the first place

I wonder if they have asked Matt about his free speech views
The UK would create unnecessary pressure on its own gas market by taking it down, so no. If the US did it, then it was most likely a CIA op done through third parties and they won't get caught, not anytime soon anyway. But the US does things professionally and they would have blown up all the pipes as opposed to 3 out of 4, so it's probably not them. Poland? Possibly, but it takes a lot of guts. If they did it, na zdrowie to them. I'd say that it's most probably Russia who did it in order to blackmail Western Europe during the winter
and be able to declare force majeure on the contracts and also blame the UK/anglo saxons. Also how it was done, sloppy, with lots of explosives is typically Russian.
Is it feasible to do any meaningful work in this field without joining a team? (e.g. as a solo hobbyist/entrepreneur)
Yes, let's be happy that our personal preferencea are validated by food poisoning incidents.
Super Mario Bros was based on this, I think.
Apache Mesos is an OS??
Cloudflare's default settings are very hostile to RSS feeds in general. They block these as part of bot blocking. Which of course is silly because these are intended to be accessed by bots. Even Cloudflare's blog RSS feed is affected by this.
Can you put into words the symbolic notation you have in your comment? I think I understand pretty well what you mean, but for the avoidance of doubt, explain what the notation means, and then I will indicate all the assumptions on which it is relying.
Not everyone uses social media to maximize engagement.
You might have bad information. Very little of the software I run on my Mac comes from the App store. Even if your assertion were accurate... You'd still be able to use Safari, and web browsing accounts for the lion's share of most people's computing needs. So the score is:

Windows 11: lay-users can do literally nothing of value with their computer without signing in to an account they probably don't want

MacOS: lay-users can use the internet and download software provided outside of the app store without signing into an account that they probably don't want

Calling these equivalent would be quite an exaggeration.
Thanks for the kind reply and pointers to information. But if the Fediverse is not trying to take off, how can you you describe it as “mechanisms in place already to achieve what this new thing is proposing to do.”? This new thing has ambitions at Twitter scale and beyond.
> but several apps refuse to work properly if "internet" isn't detected

For me it's very bad code smell when the developers try to check some sort of a global flag ("has internet") instead of just perform the action (eg send http request) and fail gracefully
DEA’s most corrupt agent: Parties, sex amid ‘unwinnable war’
F. The parent article mentions solutions are often custom made by one person. Can problems in the field be reduced such that extensible open-source frameworks could be applied? The way we have frameworks for webdev?
A railroad bridge
Expectations mismatch. That post was not a single-point essay, it was a pastiche of current event topics.

You can try to make a pie crust with a hammer, but a rolling pin works much better.
In addition to genomics, the other area that could greatly benefit from professional SWE experience is imaging. Many of the most effective techniques today combine microscopic images with genomics- for example variable transcriptomics approaches. Imaging is a more natural fit for people who like to work with dense, visualizable matrices, although genomics data is now trending more towards matrices (all genes x some observable metric).
As an aside, note that the ongoing geopolitical conflict between the USA and Russia revolves mainly around the global oil & gas market, IMO (which is somewhat biased as I focus on energy issues). In particular, it's over where the revenue from oil and gas sales is deposited (hence the related currency flow controversies).

This has been an ongoing point of conflict for the past two decades, dating back (IMO) to Putin's rejection of an Exxon bid for majority ownership in Russia's largest oil company in 2003. Exxon did go on to build the Sakhalin-1 project for Russia (comparable to Shell's involvement in Sakhalin-2) in the following decade, so it wasn't yet a complete split (that has now occured with Sakahalin, as Russia is in complete control of output and Exxon/Shell etc. have left as of 2022).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakhalin-I

Blowing up major pipelines is a serious escalation, however. One step beyond that would be blowing up LNG tankers (which would also include loss of life, i.e. the ship's crew, assuming this was done offshore - near-shore would be much worse).

The real prize in this conflict is control of and access to the European energy market, and control of the resulting revenue streams. Of course, Europe would be better off with massive renewable build-out, but for whatever reasons European leaders have been slow to adopt this strategy, and now they're in the unenviable position of having to pay premium prices regardless of which supplier they eventually turn to. Interestingly, such a move would like cause a collapse in world oil prices to the point that expensive-to-operate fossil projects (US & Russian LNG projects that is) would likely become mutually uneconomical.

Regardless, reckless escalation of this nature is a bad idea, and should not be encouraged or cheered on.
> $5 in a supermarket is neither rare nor luxurious, by definition

Nor is buying a Lexus (by Ferrari's standards) since its essentially just a Toyota with a nicer interior and more gadgets.

People are dumb.
Even if they Did write unbreakable code, that doesn't mean they were still necessary. It just means they did a good job.
Since the company is privately held, I'm not sure what market cap has to do with it. This is entirely about debt and profitability.
"Solved" means having a solution to a problem. In context, we're talking bout whether or not neural networks can detect truth better than "decades of work by experts to reach consensus." So, in this case, solving would be detecting truth better than the status quo, not detecting truth 100% of the time. In the example of Go, the problem was "playing Go better than the best humans." So in that sense, the problem was solved. Adding your own, unfavorable definition of "solved" to the discussion is unwarranted.
Oh man, you missed some history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZgxeX2dCnQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvjwXhCNZcU
Lies are not an allowable expense.
The last sentence wouldn’t happen. As if nothing else happens until then and workers aren’t worked so much harder than is sane. Good luck with your prediction.
I’ve genuinely consider it but after several years of trying to go back I’ve come to the conclusions schools hate non traditional students.
That’s not my whole premise; just the latest example.

If there’s currently nobody at all (outside work and family), go out with coworkers. Invite their friends. Go hiking or skiing or something. There are tons of activities out there.
Apple only allows running software on Apple devices if Apple has signed it, and the SDK for watchOS has some artificial limitations.
There's no way this stuff like "office closed lol nevermind 3 hour deadline to get to the office" is anything other than him either: (a) throwing a tantrum because something has pissed him off in this process and he wants to publicly exert authority, or (b) intentionally trying to push headcount down to 0 so that he can say something like "welp, guess I'll just have to fold Twitter into Tesla and have the FSD people maintain it as a side project"
“…the evil authoritarian beast just across the way”

Can you say what this is referring to, because I’ve read the piece and I can’t figure it out.
There is no such thing as neurotypical: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191008-why-the-normal-b...
The socially awkward seem to ride buses with little fuss, I’m sure they’ll figure this one out too
Adding to a public ledger needs some mechanism to deter people from junking up the system for everyone. In Bitcoin/other crypto, that's mostly represented as a flat "gas" fee that is added on top of your transaction. This is also easy to control because the only thing Bitcoin is storing is account balances. For pretty much everything that isn't solely relegated to storing numbers, moderation becomes an immediate issue since everything is immutable.

So, yeah, I think it is all about cryptocurrency. Trying to build anything other than a public bean-counter would probably prove insurmountable.
I think this was it more than anything else. It wasn't even just a mandate or just porn, they ran some sort of "is this image mostly skin color?" check against posted images and automatically locked down accounts with matches. Got a huge number of false positives and didn't even notify the owners.
This man has no idea on cryptocurrency. It's just the chip for the new "casino" game.
So how much does he own now? Does he own more than previous Twitter CEOs did?
Legendary story, we've used your spam filter contributions - thank you!
8 years for fraud

2 years for theft of Steve Job's wardrobe

1 year for that ridiculous baritone voice
There is also a research group: https://health.google/health-research/genomics/
This sounds like a nice way to keep yourself trapped in an information bubble. I live thousands of miles away from the nearest English-speaking country in a society pretty different to what you'd see in England or the US, yet spend most of my time in the English-speaking section of the internet precisely because of that (reading pretty much anything that comes by, targeted at as diverse groups as possible).
HL7 is't technically an academic file format, it's an industry standard interchange format for health data.

DICOM is for radiology.

RDF and SGML, well, they're from the same era as XML, so yeah.
I welcome any and all efforts by our local governments to build better bus, subway, and train infra. Any day now…