skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you look at crypto's daily price action, the majority of it is attributable to trading and speculation. I think this is pretty common knowledge.

If you feel stocks and equities is gambling, then you might also feel that this sector of crypto is gambling.

But there are other sectors of crypto that don't register on this price graph, maybe because price is not the only metric of their success, or because their volume is lower. Smart contracts, non custodial wallets, ENS, trustless payments, DEXes like Uniswap, are all interesting and valid use cases of crypto and blockchain tech.
Nice bag you are holding there. Where did you get it?
I prefer [a, b) intervals because they encode two pieces of important information directly:

1. The first element (a)

2. The length (b-a)

Which are what we most often need.
Neither is twitter. Twitter isn't Facebook or Google. It's not even Reddit or Pinterest.
Why use something that leaks anything by default? What a twisted thinking.
Duplicate thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33697469
I don't know man. His last pure software company was PayPal and they fired his ass from the CEO role and put in a competent CEO (Peter Theil) to right the ship and sell it off before the 01 crash.

Tesla and SpaceX have been wildly successful and he will forever recieve some well deserved credit for their successes but at the same time I think its pretty bad that Tesla (and SpaceX) have had multiple near death experiences and some them could have been avoided if it weren't for incompetence.

I followed the Model 3 production religiously and the amount of dumb mistakes they made even after other industry experts were yelling at them about imminent iceberg collision is just unbelievable. In fact the Model 3 production, with its horribly designed body that he wasn't keeping on top of and Musk's stupid attempts to automate all of assembly should be entirely attributed to him. It was so bad it was worse than even the shortseller's worst predictions.

I guess you can give him a pass for near bankruptcy #1(Roadster roll out) and #4(COVID lockdowns). Not sure about #2(Model S early sales woes and potential acquisition by Google)

All I am saying is that he fucks up A LOT and has thus far managed to stave off the consequences of his decisions but many occurrences have been down to luck and luck is something you should never bet on.
I am more surprised it is about numbers. I found it more important to take care when dealing with date ranges in databases. And SQL "BETWEEN" lures you into using [from, to], which is great way to shoot yourself in foot. So just my 2 cents:

- what are you going to do when you need to split [a,b] into multiple parts, for performance reasons? [a,c], (c,b] ? Can your codebase handle different interval types? Having [a,b) everywhere is simpler

- stuff like 23:59:59.999999999 is code smell, well until database rounds it up, to next day, then it turns into bug
Matt did call it a Ponzi scheme in so many words:

> I think of myself as like a fairly cynical person, and that was so much more cynical than how I would have described farming. Like, you're just like "well, I'm in the Ponzi business, and it's pretty good!"

You can listen to it right here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZYqL79GDXU&t=1633s
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They may have meant comorbidity, which afaik is relatively frequent. And I'm not sure it's misdiagnosed that often just because of ignorance, but then again I'd probably fall into the ignorant(or rather uneducated) category myself in this field.
> Ought we now simply drop all consequences for crime or asocial behavior in general, because the people engaging in such literally cannot stop themselves? I'm certain you don't agree with that. So the question then becomes where do we start, where do we stop, and why?

Not all consequences but rather all punishments. Like you said, widespread full rehabilitation may be impossible (partial sure but fully for 100% of individuals is unlikely) but outside of even attempting rehabilitation, some of the major mechanisms by which crime can be prevented are by reducing the individual's exposure to opportunities that put them at risk of committing a crime and by providing off-ramps for de-escalation before something actually happens.

In the case discussed by the article, this likely could have all been prevented had authorities contacted the individual's legal guardian and caretaker. The FBI should have easily been able to tell that this individual had a caretaker and was not fully independent. They could have worked with the caretaker to direct the individual away from these behaviors and towards safer/healthier outlets. Had things not gotten better, they could have escalated the situation to the point they eventually did but that should not have been a first response.

While non-neurotypical individuals certainly don't deserve immunity from consequence, we as a society should at the very least try to limit the opportunities for unnecessary escalation that may occur. This should be the case for all individuals but doubly so for non-neurotypical individuals who may not fit the standard mold despite being able to live a safe non-disruptive life when given some amount of accommodation and assistance.
If you want to learn more about video synthesis, this is a good place: https://modwiggler.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=48
That's what i keep saying to my children. "You have no idea how difficult a game can be if you haven't wasted weeks as a child, trying to get the black and white car in ridge racer."
He meant SBF’s net worth was near zero or negative.

Most people, even rich people, do not carry much cash in their pockets…
Of course if datetimes are involved, you need to go up midnight. So you’re back to +1 and a half-open range
std::map has very different characteristics though. Do you mean std::unordered_map?
You can be very talented at your job but a shit worker.

I much prefer working with good people who are average coders than brilliant coders who are insufferable colleagues.
200 years is long enough to sell it off without depressing the price.
It’s got to be at least $5-7 to take my payment, pick, pack, and deliver it.
Money will never compensate fun. It's just what you do so you can eat at all. I have not met a single person who on their deathbed thought "I could have had more fun, but that's fine because I have money".
Back in my day we called them visualizers
I disagree. This article is extremely poorly written and is in fact rambling; it's hard to understand where it's going and what its point is. The only (mildly) useful part is the extract from the interview with Terry Duffy.
Note the development toolchain, at https://hub.docker.com/r/jackasser/boozify
That's too much micro management :(
You need to invest part of this money in better windows and insulation.
This definition is not necessarily wrong. It’s easier for them to argue that they need telemetry to provide (and improve) their own services than it is to argue some third party advertising behemoth needs it. The former is perfectly acceptable, also according to the GDPR (first party advertising is also A-Ok according to he GDPR, btw).
Extremely Linear Git History
Isnt more healthy and natural to invest time in building real relationships and conversations instead of virtual ones?
LOL no. Rich people don't have money, they own companies. In fact they go to nearly absurd lengths to avoid having money as much as possible.
Old and scarce wines you have to pay for because there just are only so many bottles to be had. You pay for the craft, where it came from, the heritage, the tradition, and for the fact that there's a limited supply that has an expiry date as well. You pay for the privilege of drinking that and reducing the finite supply.

It's like people buying a vintage car. It's worth a lot more than the sum of its parts. Because there might only be a handful left to buy. And it might have been owned by interesting people. It goes to the highest bidder. Same with a original paintings by some of the old masters. You might not be able to tell them apart from a good forgery or replica. But they are one of a kind and that drives their value. Scarcity.

Wine snobs of course are just that, people pretending to taste subtle differences that would probably fail a blind test. But there are undeniably wines that are very tasty and wines that are very much a bit bland and underwhelming (or hangover inducing). And there's a wide variety of different wine with very different flavor profiles that are pretty easy to tell apart. So, with some training identifying the difference between those is not that hard. There are grape varieties, yeast varieties, different aging and blending methods, soils, climates, etc. A good sommelier will be able to tell those apart. And a regular drinker will also taste the difference. And a wealthy drinker will seek out the rare experiences that are there to be had in the form of overly expensive bottles that provide just that.

I'm perfectly happy to drink cheap wine and I do so regularly. The mass produced stuff tends to be stable in quality and perfectly drinkable. I live in Germany and I noticed my local supermarket has Rumanian wine from only a single vendor (red, white, and rose). Affordable price and I figured they would not bother stocking it if it was really bad. So, I've tried them and while it's not amazing, it's very drinkable. There are also some local German wines that seem popular and are very drinkable. When in doubt, go for the bottles that are nearly out of stock. Trust your fellow drinkers to know a good bar-gain.

I do enjoy the occasional expensive bottle where you take a sip and notice that "hey this is some really tasty stuff". Not sure if I would pay 40 euro for it but I do enjoy it when I get served some. And I'll spend a bit more when I have dinner guests.
I'm guessing they don't call it just that because of the modular nature of a programming language and because it depends on the user configuring it, rather than just hitting "Play".
"...Because there is no central authority controlling who can participate, decentralized consensus systems must defend against Sybil attacks, in which the attacker creates a majority of seemingly independent participants which are secretly under his control. The defense is to ensure that the reward for a successful Sybil attack is less than the cost of mounting it. Thus participation in a permissionless blockchain must be expensive, so miners must be reimbursed for their costly efforts. There is no central authority capable of collecting funds from users and distributing them to the miners in proportion to these efforts. Thus miners' reimbursement must be generated organically by the blockchain itself; a permissionless blockchain needs a cryptocurrency to be secure.

Because miners' opex and capex costs cannot be paid in the blockchain's cryptocurrency, exchanges are required to enable the rewards for mining to be converted into fiat currency to pay these costs. Someone needs to be on the other side of these sell orders. The only reason to be on the buy side of these orders is the belief that "number go up". Thus the exchanges need to attract speculators in order to perform their function.

Thus a permissionless blockchain requires a cryptocurrency to function, and this cryptocurrency requires speculation to function

Why are economies of scale a fundamental problem for decentralized systems? Participation must be expensive, and so will be subject to economies of scale. They will drive the system to centralize. So the expenditure in attempting to ensure that the system is decentralized is a futile waste."

https://blog.dshr.org/2022/02/ee380-talk.html?m=1
Most people's lives don't rely on software to continue in any material way, outside of some extremely specialised circumstances (e.g. medical equipment). Just because someone's life is impacted by software doesn't mean that you should then suddenly enshrine their approval as the word of your lord. Candy impacts people's lives too, but we do not view it in nearly the same way.
He was referring to SBF’s description of Defi. SBF wasn’t describing FTX in that quote
>But the company had pushed back against requirements to switch its phones to the standard, saying that “strict regulation mandating just one type of connector stifles innovation rather than encouraging it, which in turn will harm consumers in Europe and around the world”.

If corporate innovation in ports means keeping Lighting in iPhones and Airpods and such in 2022, when you already have moved most of your products to the other "one type of connector" already, then fuck it...

You're just using it as a price differentiator (cheap vs premium iPads) etc.
Our very own JGC wrote this book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003WUYEN4/ The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive It's not only UK, but also some places in Europe and the US, but has many UK places.
My dad is 71 and we just did an awesome remote wilderness adventure together.

He just said if he could have his life over again he would work less and do more fun stuff. I take that to heart.
Exactly. This is really nastly. The good guys "win", but the bad guys made money off the good guys and they are not even required to pay them the profits...

This is a win for crony capitalist practices in software, signalling: don't worry your profits are protected!

Disgusting.
These days I use way less boost that I did 10 years ago, simply because the language comes with more batteries. But I never regretted using boost.
My day job requires daily updates, where we do the same. It's part of working remote.

I also have to write about what I'm planning on doing on the given day.
> Others are the golden threads of this world, holding it together at the seams with no more than a dozen people knowing about it

This is literally __alloc_pages() in the Linux kernel.
Bicycles aren’t very useful vehicles compared to cars

That depends on your criteria. For journeys where they are a viable option bikes are usually much cheaper, healthier, less dangerous, more efficient and cleaner than cars. Of course that doesn't include all journeys that people need to make but it does include many of them.

which is why a very small share of the US population uses them on the roads in the first place.

Somehow I doubt their lack of utility is the reason that almost nobody in the US rides bikes on the road.
Well, half of the staff prepares for some conference, meetup, tech talk, or helps organize one, or does 20% time, or sits in unnecessary meetings, or sits in necessary but inefficient meetings, or is on PTO or on unpaid leave in some retreat.

Plus above a certain headcount the communication overhead becomes seriously large, so just to compensate for the lost velocity you need to break out into smaller more agile more autonomous teams, which further increases the coordination requirements (thus the comms overhead), but allows overall throughput to scale.

And the leading edge technologies commonly used require a large headcount to begin with. (I mean just to start running something twitter/linkedin sized requires at least 1 engineer/million users, so a few hundred folks is a given. You need someone who understands networking, from BGP to TLS to VPN to whatever, internal IT, CI/CD, ops/SRE ... at that scale if you use anything, you need an expert for it. You use Kafka with a hundred millions of users? You might need at least a few people who actually know what the fuck a partition means. Unless you want to just directly give all of your money to Jeff in the form of egress fees, you might need folks to setup CDNs, and whatnot.

So without naming names, ina big password manager company (around a hundred million users?) a few years ago there was a certain rewrite project. 3+ people worked on it for 8-10 months, then it was put on hold temporarily. And then obviously nobody speak of it ever.

It happens that there are inefficiencies that for months not one line goes into production from certain individuals.

It was bad management, yes. But if good management was easy to find then we would be talking about different things :)
The bigger question is why such a large bank does not have solid off-boarding procedures.
It depends. Settlements can stipulate anything. If you loose in court, you usually have to pay the winners legal fees, but the cap is what's laid out in the Rechtsanwaltsvergütungsgesetz and depends on the value of the dispute and other factors (how complicated the legal matter, ...). The winning party would still need to pay the share above that.

If you loose/win partially, the court decides on the share of cost that each party will need to pay.

The difference to the US system is that the potential costs of loosing a case can be determined pretty well in advance and that the other side cannot threaten to rack up infinite costs by racking up lawyer hours.

> edit: corrected the spelling of Rechtsanwaltsvergütungsgesetz
Cloud Load Balancers in general have limited feature sets or don't work at all without handling TLS termination.

Terminating TLS on the LB doesn't preclude you from also using TLS or mTLS internally though.
Maybe they're referring to fortified wine, which is made in parts of Eastern Europe?
The Zip2 application ran on a single PC. Technology has changed a lot from the early Java days(I think what Zip2 was written in). Perhaps this helps explain some of his public mistakes in understanding the codebase of Twitter.
Windows is now entirely an internet service as you need a microsoft account and internet connection to install it.
Musk antagonist George Hotz hired to fix Twitter search – he’s got 12 weeks
Some trivia: the "DS" in DSID is "Directory Services", which is a giant Apple-internal database. Apple employees and contractors have a DSID too. It's basically a database of all people that Apple knows, and it's very old.
Wine quality ranking (and price) in France is less interested in what tastes good and more interested in what is most distinctive.

A lot of fine wine is priced on geographic prestige / scarcity. For example, there are many hectares of land that can produce Chablis (much of it perfectly fine to you and me), but only 1% of the wine producing estates of the region have Grand Cru status. This status is a combination of competency of the wine producer + geography of the estate (more so geography). The chablis grand cru producing estates sit at the top of the appelation, and all the environmental variables (“terroir”) of this micro area and the expression of these in the final product contribute to the wine being considered more distinctive.
Champagne is one of the most expensive and luxurious wine in France.
>Why would I help them better their software?

Because you too benefit from the software you use getting better.
One thing I'm bit confused about is the relationship between oklab(/oklch) and different colorspaces; are srgb-oklab and p3-oklab different things? Or is oklab something that exists independent of srgb/p3/whatever? In web they seem bit intermixed in a confusing way. And does HDR add yet another dimension here is needed for "full" color specification.
Writing as Microcosm 2: A Door Will Open
The console wars of the 90s-10s were insane, albeit tepid compared to the various vying powers of 80s. Crazy that modern hardware can emulate all that came before, but doesn't out of legal reasons.
And why is it that you can deliberately and measurably and - to some degree - reproducibly modify your behavior over the course of time? How is it that I am a vastly different person from 5 years ago, and I know that if I want I can become a completely different one in ~ 1 or 2 years? Which one is my "true" behavior and which ones are my "fake" ones? All feel natural to me...
I imagine the infrastructure implemented is fairly complex, this post does outline that it's not a super simple operation. It also alludes to there being more business units than just the core application.
Back in the Pleistocene I worked in a ColdFusion shop (USG was all CF back then and we were contractors) and we had two guys whose job was to bounce stacks when performance fell under some defined level.
Efficient In-Place Scheduling for 3D Mesh Graph Computations
For sure, it's not an emulator.
The "light on in current room" works for me. Maybe you have "overloaded" the "light" name.
I'm not saying they express themselves in the same way, I'm saying they're related, probably more closely than we know now.

Sincerely, a non-ADHD autistic person with an ADHD + autistic girlfriend.
All companies I’ve worked at, startup to FAANG, have tried their best to reduce attrition and retain employees by providing growth opportunities.

Changing jobs is a skill/knowledge net-negative for the employer, and can be negative (outside of salary) for the employee as they have to relearn everything (relationships, tech debt, processes) etc.
A boss asking you what you did all week, once a week isn't micro management. Can you think of any job where you don't update your boss at least once a week.
SBF was the second largest individual donor to the Democrats in 2022, giving about $40M this election cycle. I presume that the vast majority of that money is gone, spent. I don't realistically know how people could give it back.
Only if ill-intended parties pressure those advertisers and effectively threaten them with that bad publicity for sticking around. It changes the game when there is coercion by third parties who are more than happy to see Twitter collapse if it isn't governed by their desired policies and worldviews.
Cliche answer; but depends on your lifestyle and what you’re willing to send.

I just spend a month in Tokyo, my serviced apartment was around $2,700. Daily lunch via Uber eats was between $12 and $25.

Going out for beers would be from $5 to $11.
Eating out also just varied, but usually eating at local restaurants was probably around $15-$20.

Public transport was pretty cheap, usually between $3 and $5. Took a taxi late at night a couple of times, averaged around $25.

(This is all with the current exchange rates)
This case was brought in a German court. There is no case law in Germany - decisions do usually not bind other courts, even lower courts (unless you're at the highest possible level, Bundesgerichtshof or the constitutional court). This settlement comes with pretty harsh conditions and pointing to it can be useful as a deterrence.
Yes, and you should be very worried about it. If you have it you will not be able to change your behavior and you will have to rob banks all your life to thrive /s
People forget that even without salary an employee still costs quite a lot of money.
>removing engineers won't instantly crash the product. It'll happen slowly

It's amazing to me how many people following the Twitter saga, some familiar with or actually working in technology, thought that Twitter would crash within days of the engineers being fired. And because it didn't, the job cuts are justified.
Even if the hardware is sold at cost, you still have to pay for running the service.
USA at some point had an anti-missile system that needed periodical reboots because it was originally designed for short deployments, so the floating point variable for the clock would start to lose precision after a while.
Never had that, must be a thing they do in the US.
> Rechtsanwaltvergütungsgesetzt

German spelling bees only last one round
Well, debugging a company in prod mode like this is adventurous. Just like we remove code to see if things break, and put it back piece by piece until it's not. That's how some of us get rid of bloat. (Yes, I'm aware of orange and apple comparison)