skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Page 19 seems to show that the newly generated money has to be backed by somebody's deposit and not just minted though. Like for any situation that doesn't involve you taking a loan from a bank to use that money at the bank the BoE paper calls out that the bank needs to get deposits from where you're sending the loan.

So, you buy a house using say Chase and the seller has Wells Fargo then Chase "mints" say 1M the money for your loan but then solicits 1M of deposits from Wells Fargo. like why does it matter if the 1m for your loan came from Chase depositors or Wells Fargo depositors? The point is that it's backed 1:1 by cash that came from a person which BoE example shows.
Oh yea, but funny enough a lot of the critiques were shared via the internal version of Google+ since people actually took the time to write things and it had a pretty good UX. I don't think it's a great comparison to Meta ... this is anecdotal, but it felt plausible enough as a product strategy and in a self contained org that I think most rank and file gave it breathing room and tried to be constructive (save for a few cases where they'd made some bad calls). Keep in mind it was a period of huge growth and experimentation across the company, so there was a lot to feel positive about even if you were skeptical of Google+, and it didn't feel like they'd bet the farm, in the same way it might at Meta.
That is absolutely not true. Enron leadership had very close ties with the Bush family and the Bush administration in general [0]. They arguably are one of the major reason why the California recall election of 2003 happened, and why Schwarzenegger replaced Davis.

Enron was arguably better at influencing politics than SBF and FTX which allowed them to run unchecked for far longer.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron#Enron's_influence_on_pol...
Napster, perhaps ironically, pays musicians the most. That honestly doesn't surprise me because despite it not being the same company now, it's roots are in music lovers instead of money.
If FTX Terms of Service state that customer assets belong to the customer--not to FTX and those assets are used by FTX for any purpose that is a crime. Full stop.
Don't y'all have previous employers you could return to?
Maybe don't use metaprogramming, then?

The Babel example problem in the article is a fascinating one because that's someone's metaprogramming that's just lost in the ether of time and the labyrinthine tower of a Babel install someone's too afraid to break to just tear down. Not only is it an unnecessary downlevel transform in 2022, but it doesn't look like any of the official transforms that common Babel transforms produced, so who knows what metaprogramming thought might be a good idea that delivers that from that configured stack?

As others have pointed out: JSX transforms have non-Babel options (also including Vite, esbuild, and Typescript).

As for other metaprogramming commonly done in Babel: I would point out that the Stage 0 Decorators that Angular was built on (not to be confused with the Stage 3 Decorators that might actually come to JS) have relied on very specific Typescript build options anyway and the double-up that Angulars tools by default do of also feeding that Babel is kind of silly.

One of those parentheticals also slightly buries the lede that there is a Decorators proposal at Stage 3 and likely to get added to Browsers "in the near future" for those that desperately want to do metaprogramming in JS to have metaprogramming in JS proper, no Babel needed. (There are Stage 1 proposals to offer even more meta- and reflection tools beyond that directly in the language.)

In 2022 though, it is worth asking what in JS needs metaprogramming? A lot of applications get by without it just fine.
Some orgs deploy Kubernetes on clusters of "bare metal" servers, which is very efficient and cost effective if done above some minimum scale that amortises the cost of the SREs needed to operate the beast.

However, the cloud is not just about compute. The ability to have zone- and region- redundant blob storage that scales to petabytes and has "many nines" of availability is very hard to emulate. Similarly, there are many other turnkey technologies in most clouds that have only complex and expensive on-prem versions.

For example, something like Azure Storage Account "Queues" are basically free and very easy to set up and use. The second you start looking at a highly available cluster of servers providing a queue or service bus, the minimum cost is orders of magnitude higher than a small Azure storage account.

And so on, and so forth...
That last bit is a big thing for me.

Using something like a cellphone as a web application server is obviously going to come with unique challenges and it's going to be a compromise in some ways.

For me, one of the biggest drivers for re-using technology like that is to extend their lifespan and reduce waste.
For sure, I hope you get some traction to your idea, it shows promise:
The antifa fueled BLM riots were some of the most damaging riots in the country’s history.

The national guard was called out in dozens of cities during these months long protests… Portland and Seattle were basically under siege. City blocks were literally occupied for many days leading to inability of police and medical services to respond on those areas.

https://www.axios.com/2020/09/16/riots-cost-property-damage
I have the opposite experience both with the interface and the recommendations. I look forward to my Discovery Weekly and often use the "Daily Mix" and "Radio from this track" features.

I usually pick off the songs I like from these recommendation-based features and then I go to listen to at least their album, while adding tracks to mood/subgenre-based playlists for other activities. I dedicate time out of most of my days to just listen to music while walking.

I don't remember ever seeing a bug on the android app. Which's a bit odd now that I think of it.

Really polar opposite experiences from both of us. It seems that they're catering to people with my usage patterns, however it may be that they differ from yours.
Allegedly.

(We should be extremely sceptical of anything SBF claims, rather than publish it as fact - which the headline does.)
A bit off topic, but I hope this thread will not be flagged as mine days ago.

Negative discuss about FTX is seems sensitive... I still don't know why many people still defense for FTX and SBF. Thousands of people lost all their money.
> The GP said "those claims are demonstrably false",

If you're going to quote me, please do it correctly. I said,

"I think both of those claims are demonstrably false."

You may not see a distinction between those two, but I see a large one.
If those Republicans were chosen because of their anti-Trump or other pro-Democrac stances then he was funding enemies of his enemies.
The US has the same laws. Jaywalking is hard to prove. The bigger the vehicle, the more responsible it is, eg truck trailers are responsible even if the car crashes into them. Cars Always yield to pedestrians. Cars and Peds always yield to bikes. Bikes have to yield to no one unless they are driving on sidewalk. Then they should not be riding.
> They have no problems copping CVEs on competitors like Mozilla, Microsoft, or Apple.... but squirrel away zero days on their own products for the better part of a year or more and then quietly publish blog posts without actually filing for a CVE.

This comes up from time to time, but I'm not sure it's actually supported by the evidence, and maybe it's just random anecdotes from people that are consumed and then become opinion. Project Zero reports on Google vulnerabilities often, and in fact just made a post critical of Android's security practices.[1]

I remember reading years back metrics on who they publish bugs about, and on looking, I see they published something earlier this year about the prior year in review[2] with data.

It's really not hard to look some of this stuff up to see whether your feelings are supported by the data. Maybe this changes your opinion, maybe it doesn't, but at least you have some data to look at now.

1: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11/google-says-google-s...

2: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2022/02/a-walk-throug...
For practical tasks, I would like to say FlanT5 11B which is 45GB but my experience is if you're using huggingface the usual way, it can initially take up to 2x the memory of the model to load.

GPT-JT was released recently and seems interesting but I haven't tried it. If you're focused on scientific domain and want to do Open book Q/A, summarization, keyword extraction etc. Galactica 6B parameter version might be worth checking out.

If our main language is not English one of the mt0 models might be worth a try https://huggingface.co/bigscience/mt0-xl

These models are distinguished by being able to follow relatively complex natural language instructions and examples without needing to be finetuned.
How to deal with teenage angst.
I think they are sueing (some of) them. There was a new yorker article (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/25/how-democracie...) on how apple and other tech firms are sueing NSO and some other actors under the grounds they are violating the Icloud EULA by using imessage to hack people.
Perhaps we're now almost ready for the E language. ;)
So is your revenue all ad revenue? How long did it take to earn? I'm curious because I'm also thinking of putting a lot of tech-oriented content on YouTube, and to make a bit on it (side hustle money), but I'm not sure what to expect. You have a lot of subscribers!
"Big tech" - particularly facebook and google, I think are widely considered to be at worst actively evil and at best responsible for the race to the bottom in the internet experience and public discourse that's happened over the last 15 years. But they also appear to pay really well, have locally cool problems to work on, and have lots of work that has no relevance to destroying society, e.g. all the AI research they both do, which I don't think it's possible to overstate how important it's been for the growth of the field, in a very good way.

So it's easy to see the dilemma in a sense. It's maybe really just a concentrated example of capitalism generally. All money has blood on it
> “The most important thing I’d want New York Times readers to understand is this,” Scott Aaronson, a quantum computing expert at the University of Texas in Austin, wrote in an email. “If this experiment has brought a wormhole into actual physical existence, then a strong case could be made that you, too, bring a wormhole into actual physical existence every time you sketch one with pen and paper.”

I love it. This "wormhole in a computer" business is a very long leap beyond the kind of is-it-or-isn't-it of, e.g., the "Chinese room".
I got used to them pretty quickly after some initial motion sickness issues and could wear them for quite a while. Multiple hours if I got super into a few games. I'm pretty excited for having VR replace multiple physical monitors. I'm gonna be looking for a new headset in the coming weeks to see if that's viable right now--maybe the new Meta headset. But if something is promising and can render text fairly well, I'm gonna give it a whirl and see how it goes.

Right now the tech obviously has a ton of comfort issues, from motion sickness to fatigue. But it's not hard to imagine a near future where it's a lot more comfortable to wear VR headsets and be able to do some novel things with them. I mean, the first "laptops" were quite burdensome.
From the article :

“Physicists reacted to the paper with interest and caution, expressing concern that the public and media would mistakenly think that actual physical wormholes had been created.”

Yet the NYT led with that headline, literally causing that to happen.
I watched the full NYT interview today and he's either an amazing well-coached liar (very possible) and or he really is a kid in way over his head, who got to take advantage of reputation circles (VCs, media, politicians, etc) to make reckless massive gambles without any adult risk-adverse old-school finance guys in the room.

Basically demonstrating zero personal responsibility for the the money he had control over.

Maybe more will come out to show he's is in fact a modern Bernie Madoff, with a grand hidden scheme at work to directly enrich himself, but that's not 100% obvious yet. I'm looking forward to what comes out in the future.
> If you don't mind me asking, what medicine were you prescribed? What kind of topics do you go over in therapy?

First of, I suggest you talking to your doctor about the medicine. For me, I use Vyvanse 30mg, but the same medicine can have a much different impact on you.

I do recommend therapy and really opening up to your therapist. I started out with current struggles, how I felt and handled, and then I talked about past events, formative stuff from my childhood and teenage years.

I also covered topics about inadequacy and frustrations with how I manage my time, my attention and my energy.

Before each sessions I make a list of certain topics I want to cover and I use it as starter, then I let the therapist guide me through some stuff.
I think he's saying that nobody internally thinks it will work, not that anyone internally thinks it will create the world of Snowcrash.
Tesla investors see negative impact of Elon Musk’s Twitter antics
I always enjoy Fly.io's blog posts; the friendly, casual tone coupled with real-world experience and strong technical chops of the staff add up to HN gold in my book. I'll def revisit their "treat pg as an app" approach next time I engage w stuff in that realm.
we were regularly putting models into production that on net reduced costs by millions of dollars a year over the cost of the work.

...

The whole Probability division was laid off as a cost-cutting measure

It's comical, I have to chuckle, even though deeper down I'm truly saddened. The short-sightedness and lack of understanding of upper management seems inevitable as companies grow.
Apple will pay up to $395 to people with broken MacBook butterfly keyboards
SF Supervisors Approve Killer Robots, 8-3
Hard to take anything he says at face value. He is a lying sociopath.

Are there independent records of these donations.
OK but what happened, for example, to journalism and these supposedly reputable publications like The New York Times that, instead of actually googling a little bit online (they'd have found in less than 30 minutes that SBF was fraudster and FTX a ponzi) and then exposing Ponzi boy decided instead to be complicit in the scam?

Is that funny too?
There is no bank in his description.
Photopea is almost more well known than gimp these days.
Also cost savings has a hard, well known upper bound but revenue growth is speculative with many opportunities for pleasant fantasy. Business leaders love the idea of being the visionary who takes a big gamble and makes it work.

Facebook is an example of where that breaks down: there isn’t an easy way to grow that much larger so they would likely see greater return from cost savings than they are likely to make from VR, but after a couple decades of thinking of themselves as this incredibly innovative tech company it’s hard to accept that they’re stable as an ad company.
Normally if the README contains the restrictions on contribution and PRs right at the top I think it should catch everyone’s attention (well, hopefully…).

IMHO, the ideal solution is for GitHub to allow restrictions on issues and PRs for public repositories. You could always make the repo private though. I don’t think there is a restriction on private repo’s right now in GitHub.
EVs are cool but for the vast majority of people they're just cars that do car things slightly differently.

And VR has been in some form of "cool to play with for awhile and then left on the shelf" for decades now.

It gets better each time, but it's still just a plaything.
"Don't buy Apple" is not actionable advice in a duopoly.
No evidence of any donation to republicans.
Europe currently, interested in remote for anywhere.

Would be really curious to hear what’s out there.
There's a lot of crypto people wishing they'd been nicer to people on the way up, because they're soon going to meet them again on the way down.
> you really need to use haskell.

Or Scala. They're the only two common-use languages I'm aware of whose type systems are expressive enough to define what a monad (or a category, or a ...) is internally. Of course you can identify particular monads (or ...) in any language, but you can't talk about them inside most languages.
In English, zero is grammatically plural. This isn't inherently true of all languages (that have a grammatical plural)--French, notably, treats zero as grammatically singular.
New device can make hydrogen when dunked in salt water
For me a book of chess problems to resolve like : "My 60 Memorable Games by Bobby Fischer" are book that i read to help me thinking and in "background" and inconsciously resolve my problems. It make me thinking in a way imaginative. I solve problem by really resolve problems but in a game : chess.
Spotify is the last subscription I'll cancel. It's been life changing since it came out.

I never wanted it to curate music for me, I wanted a massive catalog I can summon at will. The fact that it does an ok job at curating lists is just bonus.
Elastic.co lays off 13% of team
Enjoying pup recently myself. Used it for a little demo/post on shell packaging approaches in Nix this summer https://t-ravis.com/post/shell/no_look_no_leap_shell_with_ni...
No one who uses unique passwords can remember them forever. It's a compromise of post-it notes vs managers. Either that or do account recovery every time you need to do your taxes (SOL for encrypted files though).

I sadly write passwords down, but dream of a better option.
This seems a bit like a "doth protest too much" article -- while the things FTX did are no doubt shady, this article seems to be trying to heap scorn on FTX as if it is unique in the cryptocurrency space. (And there are factions within that world -- is FTX in a different faction than Coindesk? I'm not sure.)

It seems quite possible that a couple of years from now we'll find out that most major cryptocurrency companies were doing things similar to FTX. With that possibility, this article could be an attempt to avoid FTX bringing down other companies in the space.
What else to spend money on, than to ... influence Western culture and thought? If you only have a few billion you can buy a sports team, but if you have a few hundred, and still your youthful energy, what else could you do?
> Enron forgot to grease the right palms in Washington

What does this mean? Enron donated a ton of soft money and lobbied heavily. They had no shortage of friends in Washington.
a) It's 15% for businesses making under $1m and those on long term subscriptions.

b) Spotify takes a cut from the payment between consumer and musician so I assume they have no issue with it.
I'm using keepass2android offline on Android, with the password file synced using syncthing. Works great.

It also has autofill that comes up in any supported app when it recognizes a password field that it can autofill. Quite seamless.

It also took a little mucking around to install it's custom keyboard and I had to run some adb command to give it permission to auto-switch keyboards, but now it's setup it's pretty good.

You can open an entry in keepass2android, then it will auto-activate the keyboard and you get buttons so you can auto-type any field from that entry into anything.

On Windows I'm using KeepassXC and the KeepassXC browser extension. It hasn't been perfect, I had to manually enable simple http auth for that to work, and sometimes it seems to miss login fields.

Also I had to manually add the URL for some existing sites (I was using KeePassDroid only on Android before so the URL entries weren't filled).

There's no way I could find to go to a site, then I would like to just click a button and choose an existing entry to fill into it.

But once I've manually added the URL entries, it's pretty seamless and auto-recognizes that there are entries that it can fill.

Overall I'm very happy with the whole setup.
It doesn't run out of steam so much as it fits a particular scope better than others. We can bend over backwards to make it fit other scopes, like another commenter points out: FOMO is a headache, and social media could be called the aspirin.

I personally find that metaphors work best as mnemonics. Unless you're in health sciences, products are neither vitamins, nor painkillers. If this metaphor helps us remember to distinguish products that solve urgent and existing problems from products that are investments providing an ROI over time... Good enough for me.

Now about fear and greed. I agree with you. In fact, I do so because when I was in sales and marketing, I read a book that said that the four motivations that mattered were fear, greed, exclusivity, and belonging. The first two are literally what you just mentioned.

That particular simplification doesn't fit every situation any more than Maslow's Hierarchy does, but it's another surprisingly useful lens to use when looking at value propositions.

At the end of the day, all these rules of thumbs and metaphors are tools, if you find one that's useful, add it to your toolbox and figure out when it works and when it doesn't. The more of these you have, the more ways you have of analyzing a situation and coming up with a rough model for how it works.

So I agree with you: Fear and greed are the big sellers in B2B.
> the newly generated money has to be backed by somebody's deposit

Ok. Suppose I am a bank, and pg deposits $10. Then I lend to you, lesourac $9. This $9 is "backed" by pg's deposit. But I, the bank, only hold $1, and you, lesourac, hold $9.

In your head, you hold $9. In pg's head, he has $10 of assets. There are $19 of imagined assets running around, even though the "real" assets are only $10.

It's all good until pg pulls his $10 sooner than I expected, or if you, lesourac declare bankruptcy and default on your loan, and unable to pay back those $9. This is why bankruptcies are deflationary.

We could have a safer banking system if loans were from individual to individual, possibly mediated by a bank, and the lender fully accepted the risk of default.
Maybe I'm in a bubble, but most people I know who wear glasses don't actually enjoy doing so and would really rather not if they can avoid it. VR would have to be demonstrably superior to any alternative to justify wearing it for that long even if it was as light as a feather.
IMO there should be a way to allow power users such as yourself to customize your phone, such as how Google allows side-loading. But we can see that based on how niche side loading is that mass-users oriented businesses like Spotify and Twitter would not be happy.

As for users like myself, I'm very happy that Apple intermediates my relationship with big businesses, because in the sphere of negotiation and leverage, big businesses like Walmart or Amazon would win every time for people in my family. They will auto-accept all terms.
They try to hide this fact but the entire purpose of the Glimpse fork was the forker was upset about the name GIMP and wanted to rename it. No one cared and the years moved on so it's not surprising it's abandoned. See how they never mention GIMP by name and have a code of conduct as one of the nav bar links.
"I was too ignorant to run a giant investment company/pseudo-bank correctly" shouldn't get you off though. He needs to face the same charges regardless of whether he was malicious or stupid.
Docker (or rather OCI) is our first class citizen. The launchers for phoenix/rails/etc just generate dockerfiles and config by inspecting source code.