skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adam Neumann had a failed business model. He explained his business model. Investors believed in the business model. They invested. But the business model, and his PR image dents caused them to lose money.

Holmes had a vision of a business model. She explained her business model and brought on a board of directors of leering old farts. Investors also believed in the vision and invested in her to achieve the vision. She tried to achieve her vision, but failed miserably. Instead of telling investors and regulators and business partners about the failure, she hid the failure, covered up by using industry standard practices for medical testing, passing them off as testing from her products. As a cherry on the top, she also used her comically in-accurate products to give actual test results to patients. As a cherry on top of the cherry, all the while this was happening, she had an affair with another investor, went on a PR blitz of fame whoring and the like.

When the chickens came to roost, she pitched up her voice, started wearing feminine colorful dresses, got pregnant for sad puppy new mom face points.

She is a psychopath and a danger to society.
Quite unfortunate that the media, and all the famous people that pushed and benefited from this pyramid scheme get off scot free just by claiming ignorance.
Well apparently they didn't do it until he came along so....
Also might be just SEO squatting... May throw up a bunch of AdSense ads on their side, the fact that there is a duplicate site is a problem for you, do what the comments say with adversarial stuff and complain to as many parties as possible including DMCA, registrars and the Microsoft/Google deceptive Site lists, etc. Don't let your domain expire or you'll get it bought of you and content mirrored there too which is surprisingly common
Humans (especially on HN where it's semi-illegal) are also sometimes bad at detecting satire.
The announcement was from the new FTX under emergency CEO Ray, not the old FTX under SBF. And the Bahamas claims that the specific FTX company that did the transfers, FTX Digital Assets, was not a part of the bankruptcy proceedings and that SBF was still its CEO.

Finally, new-FTX did not say they were "hacked", only that the transfers were not authorized by them.
>How is it harsh to point out that this child will grow up almost to their teens without a mother around?

In this particular case I think the absence of the mother is a net positive for the child. Would you want to have been raised by Elizabeth Holmes?
Raymond! StuffIt! is still amazing code and a huge part of my early computer use.
> Worst case, they would restructure in chapter 11 and continue to operate retail as normal.

The market need that Carvana met was reducing the hurdles of buying a used car for those people who generally don't buy used cars. The biggest hurdle is financing. The second biggest is fear of getting a lemon, which is why they have those inspections, guarantees of service and taking the vehicle back. The last hurdle was doing this from the convenience of your home and not dealing with car salesmen. All of these were things that could be done by others, but with more frictions, and Carvana was lowering the bar.

In exchange for adding this value, they are able to charge a premium. That premium is not coming from expert selection of car inventory or buying the cars for less.

Unfortunately the cost that carvana spends to provide these value adds exceeds the premium they can charge. That was true before their margins contracted, and it's even more true now. In fact, carvana is being squeezed like a sandwhich, as as their funding costs are going up even as the willingness of buyers to pay a premium for carvana services are declining, causing the gross margins to go down.

Carvana's biggest cost is rising interest rates. They literally borrowed at 10% in order to extend 5% auto loans to their customers. This is the problem they are in. And there's nothing they can do about their funding costs - investors charge them a premium because it's not clear that carvana is going to be around. Declaring chapter 11 is not going to give them a lower cost of capital, so they will need to get rid of their fleet somehow.

Now whether the fleet goes for a big discount to end consumers has nothing to do with Carvana, because odds are some middleman will buy the fleet, rather than having them do a going out of business sale. We are talking about billions in inventory - an alarming accumulation of inventory:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/CVNA/carvana/inven...

At a higher interest rate, you need to move inventory more quickly, because you are effectively taking out a loan when you buy the car and pay for a warehouse in which it sits and does nothing. The cost of carrying that inventory is higher when rates go up. It is higher for carvana and for whomever buys the fleet. This applies to all inventory everywhere.

So, don't look for special discounts from carvana, look in general for falling prices in the sector as a whole, as dealers and manufacturers continue to get squeezed by the twin rocks of rising interest rates and falling demand.
Just to give an alternative opinion:

This appears to be a very ruthless hatchet job. It appears the elites set a trap and imploded her company. It appears her chief scientist Ian Gibbons was poisoned. The media said he died of suicide by tylenol poisoning. Very odd because that’s the worst way to go and Ian was a distinguished engineer and scientist who had his choice of where he wanted to work.

No one wants to talk about the board of directors either, given that these people were so well known and influential this seems… odd.

All her patents were gobbled up by the investors and her company imploded right before covid19 hit.

Even if her machines were only half functioning it would have been nice to have them on every walgreens and walmart in the age of a pandemic.

I feel very sorry for her. I’m probably the only one who thinks she’s a victim here. She tried to make the world a better place and give you access to your own health information. And because she made so mis statements that is typical of a “fake it till you make it” she now has to rot in prison and her children have to go without a mother.

I find this absolutely disgraceful. She would not have been so hyped if it weren’t for the media. They will of course never face any consequences. They get off scott free to pump and dump the next victim.

When do we break this cycle?
How about this? Frame one: man beats woman at chess. Frame two: woman shoots man with automatic pistol. Not sure how deep the original really is if you think about it...
> He is likely looking for people who have zero or less than 10 things to show.

If this were actually the goal, he could just find a couple hardcore coders who know how to use git and ask them to produce a list of commits by developer for every repo he cares about.

It's hard to tell if he actually thinks he can evaluate people via code screenshots or if this is another dumb hazing ritual, but I can't believe he's really trying to figure out who writes code from this.
Hmm I've never heard anyone bring that up before. I didn't really understand the decision, but it does make sense.
Take a look at whats up. I would use something like erlang.

The front end is less of a concern.

But in general the site is huge (at least 500K machines).
An on-prem CDN for enterprise level video streaming on LAN/WAN in and geographically distributed branch offices.

Used wowza, nginx, python-flask
Or read their patents.
The whole thing has been surrounded by misinformation, misdirection and outright lies. I still don't think there has been enough credible information released to form a complete picture at this point.
> I think getting pregnant was part of her plan to get away from prison. Well 11 years is still 11 years. Tough luck!

I think it's more likely she was worried she wouldn't still be able to have children by the time she got of prison. Probably a nebulous mixture of reasons, but I can't believe it's just a desperate ploy for leniency. It's not unusual for people to really want children, regardless of their circumstances.
Good point on cycling. I think it honed my intuition about gear changes too. I even had a Raleigh Chopper for a while. It sported an actual gear stick centred on the frame. I thought it the coolest thing anyone had ever sat on.
How much exactly?
What most of us want out of a payroll system is accuracy. I would be deeply alarmed if I found out the payroll department at my employer was putting in 80 hour weeks to get the checks out.
agree completely. and if you are using an intel cpu why the heck would you not use intel notation?
flexboxpatterns.com — I don’t have a way to measure its actual impact on folks, but it’s still kicking around and getting traffic after 7 years.
But it works 99.999% of use-cases as a business decision, what do you suggest windows should do to make it a better user experience for their customers?

> You should be constructing a response to a challenge from the other end, not a response to a simple GET like it's 1999.

Really? Isn't simple better here, why are you making this sound so crazy? Also you can turn it off.

The author also had a good response for spoofing question imo:
"So what if somebody spoofs it? Congratulations, you tricked Windows into showing a “full internet access” icon, and then when the user tries to go to a web site, they get an error."

You sound like a typical engineer who cannot see the bigger picture of business decisions.
Musk has already axed the Twitter ad exec he reportedly convinced to stay
> life←{↑1 ⍵∨.∧3 4=+/,¯1 0 1∘.⊖¯1 0 1∘.⌽⊂⍵}

> "Nope, it should be burned in fire."

With a glance at it, things jump out:

¯1 0 1∘.⊖
¯1 0 1∘.⌽
⊂⍵

that's rotating a matrix by one cell left, same, right: to make three matrices, then shifting those three up and down by one place to make nine with the 'surrounding squares' of each cell. Like so:

mat ← 3 3⍴ (0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0)
mat
┌→────┐
↓0 0 0│
│0 1 0│
│0 0 0│
└~────┘

¯1 0 1∘.⌽ ⊂mat
┌→────────────────────────┐
│ ┌→────┐ ┌→────┐ ┌→────┐ │
│ ↓0 0 0│ ↓0 0 0│ ↓0 0 0│ │
│ │0 0 1│ │0 1 0│ │1 0 0│ │
│ │0 0 0│ │0 0 0│ │0 0 0│ │
│ └~────┘ └~────┘ └~────┘ │
└∊────────────────────────┘

¯1 0 1∘.⊖ ¯1 0 1∘.⌽ ⊂mat
┌→────────────────────────┐
↓ ┌→────┐ ┌→────┐ ┌→────┐ │
│ ↓0 0 0│ ↓0 0 0│ ↓0 0 0│ │
│ │0 0 0│ │0 0 0│ │0 0 0│ │
│ │0 0 1│ │0 1 0│ │1 0 0│ │
│ └~────┘ └~────┘ └~────┘ │
│ ┌→────┐ ┌→────┐ ┌→────┐ │
│ ↓0 0 0│ ↓0 0 0│ ↓0 0 0│ │
│ │0 0 1│ │0 1 0│ │1 0 0│ │
│ │0 0 0│ │0 0 0│ │0 0 0│ │
│ └~────┘ └~────┘ └~────┘ │
│ ┌→────┐ ┌→────┐ ┌→────┐ │
│ ↓0 0 1│ ↓0 1 0│ ↓1 0 0│ │
│ │0 0 0│ │0 0 0│ │0 0 0│ │
│ │0 0 0│ │0 0 0│ │0 0 0│ │
│ └~────┘ └~────┘ └~────┘ │
└∊────────────────────────┘

How much work is that in Python? Compare with this Python Game of Life found on the internet[1]: https://gist.github.com/amankharwal/e04369de79c4060fb7edab5c... and see that this part overlaps with their line 8, finding the neighbours of a cell:

neighbors = [(1,0), (1,-1), (0,-1), (-1,-1), (-1,0), (-1,1), (0,1), (1,1)]

Quick, are their tuples correct or did I sneak in a mistake? Easier to eyeball ¯1 0 1 for correctness, right?

The whole APL expression is shorter than their line 14 to copy the board:

copy_board = [[board[row][col] for col in range(cols)] for row in range(rows)]

with its five variable names (easy to mistake col/cols and row/rows), four keywords, chained indexing inside a nested list comprehension. That's Followed by 12 more lines of code dense with 0s, 1s, <, >, >=, ==, row, rows, col, cols, neighbour, neighbours - quick are they all typo-free and all the comparison and boundary cases correct with no off-by-ones?

That leaves ∨.∧ as something weird, but it's short so you can try https://aplcart.info see if it's a known idiom or part of one, and if not it won't be much effort to type into a REPL like https://tryapl.org and play with. You can make some boolean arrays to try it in a few characters. What if you don't understand the Python code, how much more work is it to extract it into a test file and make test data and some print functions for it?

> "If understanding syntax is heaviest mental exercise in programming language it is unexcusably terrible. It should be considered torture to even require someone to read it"

The syntax is not the hard part, "how does this data transform solve the game of life" is the hard part, and hiding the data transform in a torrent of fluff like "(r < rows and r >= 0) and (c < cols and c >= 0) and (copy_board[r][c] == 1)" is inexcusably terrible. Details are what computers are good with, and what people are bad with. High level transforms is what people should focus on and tools should enable.

[1] https://thecleverprogrammer.com/2020/12/25/game-of-life-with...
I'm the father of 2 children.
Genie – Desktop application for every developers
Going to rehash debates that we've been having for many years, but the short answer is yes.

Existing renewable tech + storage will do the job just fine in most of the world, and at lower cost than nuclear.
“in the cloud” - is it a desktop app now? or is the world cloud synonymous with aws, and aws only?
Alexander Theroux wrote The Primary Colors and The Secondary Colors, neither actually histories, but quite amusing to read.
Well it seems it was SBF in the bed with the Bahamian government.
Today he fired the ad exec he convinced to stay and sent an Email to all staff to expecting random code reviews at any time when he walks up to their desk. So that’s good.
FTX chose to file for bankruptcy in America. There is a jurisdictional dispute between the US and the Bahamian court over where the bankruptcy proceedings should take place.

In my view FTX chose to incorporate in the Bahama's for a reason, and that reason wasn't the transparency and integrity of the Bahamian legal system.
deployments alone are a challenge. there are so many race conditions it’s sometimes impossible to do it reliably.
You can significantly reduce storage requirements by moving the solar peak to 4pm. Just install the solar panels upright rather than flat.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/a-d-possibilities-for-in...

It also impedes other land use even less and can go in places like highway sound barriers.

CSP with thermal storage is also cheaper than storage now in high resource/low cloud areas.
I've developed an application that presents information about a patient's circulatory system to anaesthetists during surgery to give them clearer information about the patients heart and vasculature so that they can make finer grained, individualised treatment decisions. There's currently only a small group of users, as we haven't been able to afford to go through clinical trials yet, but the evidence is mounting that it is getting patients through surgery with fewer complications and better prospects of a full fast recovery. I've been in the theatre and watched someone wake up after a 9 hour surgery and instantly be alert enough to say they'd like a cup of tea, which the anaesthetist attributed to the decisions he was able to make informed by the software. It seems as if it has already had an significant positive impact on the health of the people treated by anaesthetists using the software. If further studies support the anecdotal evidence from our users, the software might have a significant impact on millions of people.
Why do you want to block windows updates?
Hehe, well as with most things built professionally, I can't really take any credit for the concept or even the design, but I do take the responsibility of keeping it up and running pretty seriously.
The length of prison time seems to me to have multiple aspects to them beyond just rehabilitation or retribution. Often it seems like the purpose is to send signals in order to set social norms, to discourage future criminals, to remove threats, and fairness when compared to worse or lesser crimes. People often debate the rehabilitation vs retribution aspect, but I rarely see people discuss the others.
"or the reverse lights that only came on when they felt like it."

Quality engineering 8)

Are you really talking about a MG MGB? Mind you, your final para. description fits what the Morris Garage churned out back in the day.

I went to school in Abingdon (Oxon) which is where the MG sort of wobbled onto the roads originally.

I haven't seen a MGB for a while but I have driven a Midget a few times (I'm 52). My dad had a Midget back in the day after his Austin 7 passed away (it cost him £5) and the Midget was what he was driving when courting my mum. Apparently they had to use her tights to replace the fan belt when it failed (yeah, whatevs).

I was probably the result ...
I believe they hit http://captive.apple.com now (and that's what I use).
Even supposing it is, there's quite a bit of fun in reinventing things. Look how often people on this site post a way that they've recreated Lisp, for example.
You are missing the point.

The point is that free speech advocates do not argue in favor of DDoS attacks, or using sonic cannons to destroy houses.

They also do not support following someone around, all day, and not allowing them to run away from you.

Since free speech advocates do not argue in favor of this, it is dumb for you to argue against a position that nobody believes.
Donating to politicians can help with some things, but it's hard to see why judges, who he did not donate to, would be influenced.

Also, even if the politicians could help, they already have the money, and SBF can do nothing for them in the future, so they would have to help him out of some selfless sense of honor.
The OP comment here is clearly discussing culture and not the (say) Britannica definition of race.

You're the person that has raised the notion of race and started waving it about like Boris Johnson with a dead cat.
How can anyone work for him?
Algorithms heavily drive engagement and thus ad dollars, this is why all social media sites use algorithms and always will.
I found "White Fragility" provided an interesting insight into a blind spot in my view of the world but I don't see how her abusive-sounding corporate seminars are supposed to help anything. Even as she described them in the book they sounded disastrous.
It's Electron (Chromium & Node) running Angular. Has FFmpeg under the hood to generate screenshots. The full code is in the repo - see link above :)
Yes, the process was extremely valuable for me since I didn't know what was "wrong" but knew there was something. I looked up a psychiatrist experienced with diagnosis who recommended a professional IQ exam. There are very clear statistically significant differences associated with ADHD, which helped me accept "adhd" as a real thing. That part alone was worth it and the evidence was pretty undeniable.

I went back for a PhD program and got a diagnosis from the health services there, along with some CBT therapy.

I'd recommend going to a psychiatrist/ therapist with a good track record of diagnosing and treating adhd. Many doctors, even psychiatrists, are dangerously under-versed in adhd or even believe its fake.

haha and I feel the bit about cognitive loading.
I tried to search. Sadly can't find it at the moment.

But, there was/is a reddit thread that, without naming the company, originally asked is it normal for a company be "pumping numbers" in the medical field. It was an an engineer/scientist who asked it years before anything public. A number of commenters guessed it was Theranos, eventually the poster came back to confirm the suspicions while expounding on the whole experience.
The issue doesn't go away.

> more human friendly formats for display to end users.

This is what's doing the very heavy lifting in your proposal. Leaving aside not knowing when future leap seconds will occur (and thus getting mismatches when broadcasting to different computers that may or may not get the information about the leap seconds at different times) the sheer fact of the matter is that software developers are users too. They will take shortcuts and display TAI as UTC because "something, something people are lazy or uneducated."

We do not need leap seconds. We never should have implemented them. They are a scar on our software for potentially hundreds of years already for any application that seeks to have high accuracy over time.

Time is very frequently a join key or part of a join key in a database and these small differences mean countless hours wasted to investigate "couple of record" mismatches.

Just stop using leap seconds. We will be fine.
it's interesting, when I open http://www.msftncsi.com/ncsi.txt directly in Chrome it triggers a Translate this Page url bar icon and it prompts to translate between Hungarian and English. All that's in the content of the page is `Microsoft NCSI`
But StuffIt was by Raymond Lau?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StuffIt#Overview
Grindr's Stock More Than Doubles in Debut After SPAC Deal
I didn't forget it, and it's one of my favorites too -- but I don't know if it qualifies as the most impactful. People who use it love it, but it's not very widely used compared to, say, bsdiff.
To be slightly more precise in the point I was making: "AI now also includes what we used to call algorithms".
"You sound like a typical engineer"

I've been a Managing Director for 22 years. Make of that what you will, me old fruit.
Do you want your government spending millions of dollars chasing down people who have very little chance of being prosecuted?

I’ve read pretty deeply into Theranos over the years and if anyone is to blame it’s some of the top level engineering/science/executive employees who knew it was bullshit but stuck around (even with the constant threats and intimidation by Sunny Balwani who IMO is even more guilty than Holmes).

Wealthy investors buying into something the media and half-interested retired Washington DC power players, sitting on countless boards, who care more about dinner parties than technology isn’t that surprising or malicious.

You can maybe blame our current credibility systems for pushing it (just like FTX) but at the same time this is a classic human flaw to join the crowd and seek validation from celebrity. The fact it was a giant loser is plenty of disincentive for those in the future. Plenty of those wealthy people lost big… it wasn’t regular joe holding the bag.

The sheen of the genius tech entrepreneur (in this case with the added phoney multiplier of female tech CEO) has taken a big hit in recent years.
I've been using it on lots of Russian stuff and it's great, even translates for you.
I can barely wrap my head around the idea of living in UTC when I remember that, my friends and I already feel like the sun sets too soon these days. We're just so used to 9:30pm sunsets during summer!
Also, you don't need feedback per se. Just a rotating field will do. This is how ION traps work.
this seems like more of an IRC kind of place
Imagine how we would feel if we adjusted lat-long definitions instead of smearing or leaping time in order to adjust for the slowing down of the rotation of the earth.

Does that sound bananas to you?

Of course it is. That's what we're doing with leap seconds. Only some people smear and some people leap and they don't even do it over the same time or in perfect synchronicity.

Just ditch the leap seconds. They are not worth the cost.
Nitpicking: in modern car gearboxes the actual gears (cogs) are always engaged, and the grinding noise is made by parts that are sort of designed to take it.

If you grind them a lot they'll still fail, but until they do there's no degradation to the way the gears mesh and transfer power.
Your left foot is dedicated to the clutch in a car
Given the significant support for virtualization in macOS and the popularity of macs amongst unix devs, I am a bit surprised that Apple has not yet sherlocked the VMM configuration UI.
I owned 5 software patents. They are all hot airs.

Reading patent wouldn't help much.

You can go read any software patents and would be: wtf is this about?
SBF straight up said multiple times it was a hack in his leaked talks with a vix reporter many days alter