skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A more sinister reason to
advocate for a global remote workforce and geo
redundancy! Linux would be less affected than Windows most likely.
Smart contracts written i.e. for Ethereum use Solidity, which is not Turing complete. By restricting semantics you have finer control over potential slippages.

Besides, a language for smart contracts that is built around the domain is easier to work with than a general-purpose one. So your Q would then be: why not something like Solidity or similar? - perhaps somebody else can elaborate.
What's so hard about views:enumerate?
More serotonine migt help
Last night I re-watched the "The Good Shepherd" (great cast; Damon, De
Niro, Jolie). It reminded me of the price we pay for trying to do the
right thing in a world of shit. The quest to "avoid evil" can often
drive us into its hands, and we're left only to choose the lesser. To
"do good" is not the same. It almost always requires
sacrifice. Everyone has capacity for how poor, alone, and frightened
they're prepared to be in pursuit of "the good". Duty and unwavering
firmness of purpose remain unpopular, and something few people have
the stomach for today. But there can also be comradeship and a sense
of being part of something historical if you choose the harder path.
Glance for a moment at the Wikipedia list of profitable companies [0]. Observe that #1 is Saudi Aramco, which supports one of the more horrible regimes.

Now I'm sure we have a line of people waiting to claim that they are evil, but we're running an experiment in Europe to find out what happens when horrible regimes stop providing oil - turns out there are serious risks of people starving or freezing to death. The loss to living standards is incalculable but large.

There is a great reason that companies are freed from the requirement to be morally good - because human instincts are not calibrated to run an 8-billion-strong postindustrial globe. It doesn't work. If we let people do things completely on instinct most people will die quite quickly, and the leadership will turn out to be corrupt anyway.

We do things this way because a lot of experiments were run, and free market economics gets much better results than all the systems people swear do better. It harnesses greed to the cause of ... if you won't admit it is good you have to at least admit it is effective. Honestly, I think it is good too. Good and evil are not the right mental tools here, morals don't cope with the scale that humans need to operate on now.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_corporate_prof...
Except that FTX isn't "crypto" it is/was a centralised exchange, a company just like others. So whether you believe crypto itself is a scam or not, this is straight up old-style fraud from a company doing things they shouldn't, so not really the same thing.
I agree with a lot of what you said - that individuality is what drives us forward. But, in my view, acceptance of individuals and their damn unpopular opinions is exactly what is under attack.

The last 2 or 3 years were not a great time for the individual. The 'community' was stampeding, morality and freedom of choice went out of the window, and it didn't matter who got hurt. Everyone needed to do what they were told.

So, what I'm hearing is 'fine words' but these seem to go out of the window, when the s** appears to hit the fan.

Ultimately - this is a question of authority. Are you your own authority, or do experts (political, judicial, scientific, etc) tell you what to do?
My experience is any company can be viewed as evil. I’ve done a ton of computational work for pharma companies. We were trying to discover cures for diseases, pretty much a good thing, right? Don’t have to look hard to find people giving reasons why pharma companies are evil.
I guess you won't really come across all the cynical stuff till you become an engagement manager.
I only somewhat agree.

If you are tricked or scammed into believing an investment is better than it is, then some blame is on the one doing the defrauding.
It's fair to say my view would be biased. But probably not in the direction you would think.

I think we need to be more critical of what it means to see things "first hand". MBB are typically operating at the executive level and the motivations between executives decisions typically don't reach the "rank and file" of the organization (forgive the wording). In my response I mentioned that the cost of engaging McKinsey is so extremely high that there will need to be some type of rational justification for bringing them in (beyond just covering my ass).

That being said, I worked on a few projects where I wasn't sure whether the cost justifies the benefits but this was largely due to incompetence or overselling - never "pure graft".
> It generally takes a lot of motivation to convince your superior (and finance team) to pay the millions McKinsey would charge per week.

And an insurmountable barrier to then declare it was a waste of money.

ie once these initiatives start - they are inevitably declared successes because too much has been invested ( literally ).

So the consultants always leave with success declared, whether it works out in the long run I suspect the consultants will hardly ever know - just moving on from one declared success to another.
Note that if you don't trust the CA, you shouldn't trust the issue date either. A dishonest CA would backdate any certificates signed.

So having an arbitrary cutoff date in software seems unnecessary. If you still trust the CA to behave honestly for now, then you can simply instruct them not to issue any more certificates.

If you don't trust the CA to act honestly for now, then you need to remove them from the trust store entirely (and maybe use a whitelist of previously issued certificates if you believe they were trustworthy in the past).
“… confiscate bitcoin” was the first one I saw and is my favourite. Although it is not really true.
I don't understand your point. Are you saying the Ohio company is evil for not putting up a pride flag? Are you saying the Bay-area company isn't evil because they treated their higher-ranked servants well ?
What things did you purchase that enhanced the quality of your life in 2022?
Would love to know things that enhanced your work or personal life.
This reminded me of an epigram from Philip K. Dick:

> Another frame of reference which might help him would be the Doctrine of Original Sin. I wonder if he has ever heard of it. We are all doomed to commit acts of cruelty or violence or evil; that is our destiny, due to ancient factors. Our karma.
the problem we have is fact almost ludicrus in its simplicity.

organizing social and economic life solely around money (as the only serious means of keeping count) has been extraordinary effective - due to the ease and universality of its application.

its also been a complete disaster because you can't reduce our multi-dimensional moral landscapes into a single scalar.

alas, being the simplest system means it is basically acts like a social virus or a weed: it drowns any competing more complex structure. one "must work for" in order "to pay the bills". you could solve any of humanity's grand challenges and it would still not help you to even feed or warm yourself if not somehow translated into money.

that crushing simplicity and its inadequacy is destroying our souls.
As others have noted, these exposures are not all the same: for the large funds appearing in the diagram tens of millions are harmless losses, while for small imprudent entities smaller stakes can mean certain doom.

Adding enough context to classify FTX contaminations on the slaughter - useful lesson spectrum would be a valuable improvement.
> liquidated DC servers are stupidly cheap to purchase

Though not always cheap to operate, depending on your electricity costs.

I agree that liquidated equipment is great for these purposes (both servers, thin clients and small form factor office computers), but do a rough estimation of not just purchase cost but also yearly electricity cost. Some stuff is great, some stuff is being liquidated because of uneconomical TCO compared to newer equipment.
This podcast has been helping me, The Calm Living Blueprint: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-calm-living-bluepr... . Just start from the first episode
A most interesting list of why JavaScript still matters in 2023 and beyond
I suffered with this at the start of my career. I am a lawyer so it was not ideal. People want to ask a question and get an answer.

I found that it was being put on the spot that flustered me. I learned to respond by saying: "That's a good question. Give me a second to think it through". Then I would wait a few seconds, until I felt the tension ease. Then I'd invariably be able to give a better answer.

I did it to manage my anxiety but I also found that it helped convey a sense of authority and gravitas.

Over time I am not so anxious when being put on the spot, and so tend to launch right in, often to less effect than if I'd paused for thought first.
Javascript events contain both a key "code" (which generally corresponds to the position on the keyboard and/or the function of the key) and a character string which represents the text that should be added to e.g. an input box.

It seems this game appears to be using the text string to decode the key, so I can press shift+7 (the same key I press to get a "/" character) to trigger the right flipper. You can press whatever key-combination you use to get a "/" character and it will likely work as well.

That is lucky (many things use the code which can be hit-or-miss) in that we can trigger the right flipper, but, at least for me it is a very awkward gesture.

I think it would be nice to be able to change the player controls. I seem to recall the original game permitted this, but the menu option in this version doesn't seem to do anything except pause the game.
Try codingame.com.

You'll see those stats and others' solutions (well, not on all challenges).
I'd suggest that all investing is fundamentally "speculating on price".
Hindsight 20/20.

But how have they sized their bet? Maybe $210M is a drop in the $85B AUM bucket for them, and maybe even including this loss they get better returns than the market, from their investments overall.
The real world performance implication of tedious dependency management in C
If you put $1B of somebody elses money with no or BS research then it is still your fault.

It sometimes seems to me I put more effort into researching products I buy on Amazon than some of these do when transferring hundreds of millions of dollars.
Certainly not. You should only ever trust the media on certain topics and people don't seem to really understand public relations. Although the average journalist might just be click farming with outrage, there still is a story that mainstream media does indeed spin.

You might make fun of tinfoil hats but they actually are at least partially correct that not everything they are told is really objectively true. Doesn't mean the converse argument is true. What is mainstream media? It is not a trivial question to answer, but it might be sensible to look where "modern" media started. A good read would be the books by Walter Lippmann

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Lippmann

I don't think you can deny his influence on modern western nations. Chomsky has sensible critiques here. You should be able to extract what he says and its implications. You don't have to be a supporter of neoliberalism, but you might also want to look into Hayek. Their economic models aren't that important for the topic of media, although it is also one perspective.

One could have hoped that the listeners of media evolved in the 21st century but that was more or less empirically disproven in the last years at least. We have as much propaganda and artificial topics, what is deemed correct and important is mostly narrated. Some of it by accident and some of it is to push certain topics. This isn't a conspiracy and I doubt the average journalist really reflects about which topics he writes. It has been become some trivial game for them. You are on the correct team or you are not. I believe many journalists from larger publishers have some online groups to circle jerk where they feel smart being in on it. But their output seems quite trivial and it certainly does not inform the reader. Not the best economy for them, but I don't think you should listen to people uncritical of media at all. You should always reflect on why they tell you about x. There are some really independent journalists out there and in the usual case that they report the truth as they see it, they will come in conflict with mainstream journalists. This is almost inevitable. Again, that does not mean their stories are always true as well.
This is the result of the us protectionism.
> But state hindrance of Neuralink's research could delay or stop blind people from gaining sight and quadriplegics from walking and gaining independence.

That's not even what neuralink's most optimistic PR is talking about

This is what their website currently states:

> With a Bluetooth connection, you would be able to potentially control any mouse or keyboard with your thoughts.

Nobody's going to regain sight or movement, at best they'll gain mouse and keyboard control. And that's the positive side, god knows how it'll be weaponised by capitalism in the future
That's dumb FUD.

https://endthefud.org/control
> A 'I totally don't care about you fools'-attitude was my solution, too.

This attitude sorted my entire life, and it keeps solving more and more problems.

I am so glad that I adopted this mindset very early in life (late teens).
If you find the idea of climate change leading to societal collapse far fetched, you must surely find the concept of a rogue AI even more so - the science is much more solid and certain on the climate (and I don't think the science says the scenarios that lead to social collapse are as unlikely you think)

I also think it says more about our own human failings than the true risks of general AI, that we imagine it more likely to go rogue and kill us all instead of being more adept, more benevolent and capable at managing the complexity of society than our own feeble attempts.
Hopefully not because of this submission, some more updates started flowing on the Scaleway side [1], but nothing solving the issue.

The are some workarounds (from Marco@ [2])

> moving workload out of scaleway to other datacenters and keeping all cloudflare CDN and features working perfectly (seems to be affecting exclusively scaleway/online.net)

> disabling all cloudflare features (DNS only) (some people can’t do it as cloudflare could be integral part of webapps flow and servings)

But applying those can't be done in all cases (i.e. disables Cloudflare WAF, CDN, etc.).

[1] https://status.scaleway.com/incidents/y19hcz28rkwp

[2] https://scaleway-community.slack.com/archives/C7Z76CCUE/p167...
Ah yes I forgot Vivaldi - which I did use but it just leaked memory even worse than Firefox - running on macOS
Corporation dislike saying "they pay for user data". They prefer to formulate it as "they provide analytics". So nobody pays landlord, instead information is funneled for free to half a hundred of "analytics" providers, who then regurgitate that data a little, and THEN sell it if there are any buyers. Conglomerates which effectively consist of multiple different corporations-projects don't even need to do it, they just pass user data to the colleagues.

That's my guess about this situation.
FTX had enormous crypto holdings and made investments in companies you’d definitely consider crypto companies, notwithstanding that there aren’t any “pure” exchanges in the crypto world anyway—they all get their noses in it.
FWiW their exposure is relatively low, the figure quoted is an investment of "1 - 10 million", that's against all other investments made by that Testra fund of which many are on the order of 20 to 40 million, and a few at 100, 200, and 900 million.
Apple’s anti-union tactics in Atlanta were illegal, US officials say
Lol.. Twitter was flooded with screenshots of such articles (paid or otherwise) praising SBF.
Wait are you saying Musk isn't a genius but more of a master marketer !?!

When people will wake up it's going to be brutal. In 50 years we'll still talk about mars colonies and autonomous vehicles being "just around the corner"
Hopefully, $20 USB keys.
Compute limits what you can run realtime. Not saying self-driving cars would necessarily be here today with more compute, but comparing with language models, self-driving car computers could run only models like GPT-2. There's quite a big difference from that to ChatGPT. Is self-driving an easier problem that requires less than language models? Perhaps. language models somehow try to compress all the knowledge on the internet (not entirely successfuly yet), so maybe that somehow needs much more than self-driving, a single human can drive a car after all.
Elon Musk’s promised Twitter exposé is a flop that doxxed multiple people
Hey this is incredible, thanks for posting! I’ll see if I can pick up a copy for my bookshelf!
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I have noticed this as well,

GPT "corrected" a bug which wasn't actually a bug, and wrote some alternative code.

After a bit of back-and-forth, I convinced GPT that the original code did not have a bug.

GPT then told me that that was true, but its correction was better anyway, for a different reason, to which I was forced to agree. Funny behaviour.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwPtcqcqz00
FWIW, not supporting animations is very common. Most SVG files use SVG as a vector image format, and images in a strict sense don't move.
https://danhedl.medium.com/bitcoins-security-is-fine-93391d9...
people of certain class have shared interests, that's what makes a class. so they broadly act in the same way because they're responding to the same incentives, no conspiracy needed.
You can only be evil in the eyes of those you betray.
Just turn it off at the fuse.
The power of mentorship and the lonely process of building a tech company
thanks for building Kagi <3 – it's expensive but worth it imo
After scanning one QR code for a restaurant menu in 2020, I resolved not to repeat that experience. Subsequently requested and usually received a paper menu, even in 2020-2021. On the rare occasion that one was not available, a dish was chosen via Socratic chat (non-GPT).
>Then there are devices that expect power 24/7 like fridge.

I documented a bit recently as in France we will potentially have 2h power extinction at grid level during this winter. Apparently you can have your fridge safely keeping your food for up to 4h, but you should not open it during that period obviously — although since I don’t have any radiator in my kitchen I’m rather confident it wouldn’t be that problematic in the middle of a winter that is announced especially cold.
And this is why everything is moving more and more towards a "no possessions" kind of style.
There’s a surprising amount of old Unix software like Postfix, that by default doesn’t actually validate certificates.
Even simpler than bricking Apple, an attacker can now lock pick an apartment simply by finding a vulnerability in the app. He can do this with all the time in the world, from the comfort of his own home, and assuming zero legal risk or suspicion from others.

In fact this puts every cyber criminal in the world at exactly zero distance from your doorstep. And once they break into one apartment, they can break into them all.
I use Framer on some projects and I love its declarative approach to creating nice animations. It allows someone like me who doesn't know much about the topic to create really nice experiences.

But one thing that has been confusing me is its performance. The same simple animation might be smooth 60fps 9 times out of 10, but chug significantly the 10th time, on the same device etc. Any advice on how to profile this?
FTX wasn't just an exchange for crypto. they had their own crypto token, FTT. the whole fraud is based around the fact that the valuation of FTT was in reality fraudulent.
As libcurl is used on a wide range of platforms, they do need a generic fallback implementation. But yeah, SIMD would make sense where it's available.
I think your comment is a bit misinformed. Your reply is written as if crypto itself failed when it was the exchange that failed. They took client assets and re-invested into other companies which also serviced retail investors. This collapse is due to poor corporate accounting and controls.
Do you work remotely?
Those are some beautiful illustrations.
How could you detect secret preferential treatment? You could only do so after something happened to expose it.

From Wikipedia:

> According to John J. Ray III, Alameda had a “secret exemption” from FTX’s auto-liquidation protocol.

This could only become apparent once Alameda was not margin called when it should have been. Which is when something went quite wrong to trigger the need for the margin call.
I gave ChatGPT the 117 question, eight dimensional PolitiScales test
I trust the cryptography behind TLS. I don’t trust every website using TLS. The difference between end-to-end encryption and transport-layer encryption is the website operator can recover the plaintext. And the point of the comment I responded to was that Bitwarden data is not recoverable. I’m glad that you think E2EE is a waste of effort though.
Assumptions are why people are often mistaken, and lack of clarity in writing often exposes a lack of clarity in thought.

Regardless, I didn't make assumptions and covered all bases. Do get back in touch if you bother to find out what this free speech stuff is all about, otherwise you are welcome to leave it.
The cloudy layers of modern-day programming
I am a stammerer, so I have some experience with social anxiety and fumbling when asked impromptu questions in front of an audience.

In a situation such as what you're describing, and where I couldn't avoid answering, what ended up happening with me was that I would want to get the answer over with as quickly as possible. And that often resulted in fumbling, not thinking things through and generally gibberish coming out of my mouth.

The key for me was to slow things down. I know it sounds simple, but avoid rushing your response. Just take a beat. Make the answer deliberate, and make your brain think about the question being asked. When my brain started working on the problem of "answering the question", I found my anxiety was replaced by eagerness to answer the question. It also did wonders for my stammering, because when talking deliberately about something I was an expert in, the confidence comes naturally.

Easier said than done, but try slowing it down :)
If you reflect on trusting trust too long, you’ll drive yourself mad.
Logical Induction for Software Engineers
But gimp was never intended as a drawing tool
I really appreciate seeing articles about procrastination/willpower by very successful people.

Thanks Matt!
How do you solve the problem that is Twitter?
I don't understand when people design things without thinking about all possible scenarios.

What if I went somewhere and came back with a completely drained phone in the middle of the night? Should I wake up my neighbors and ask to charge my phone or should I sleep outside until the concierge opens their office the next morning?
> You sound young

Thank you :-)

> because it’s never so simple

I thought I made it abundantly clear that the reality of the situation overwhelms me and oversimplification is the only way that I could make work.
A stent for one of my heart arteries!