skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm guessing he's spoken to lawyers, and what he says is a result of some locked in strategy. (Though he also seems to be a professional rambler and deflecter.) However, I'm surprised that SBF hasn't played a card like "while I didn't know it at the time, I have now investigated and concluded that..." to (a) show he was sincerely clueless and (b) set the stage for muddying what he knew before and after blowing up.

If I end up in SBF's situation (it can happen to anyone, right?) why should I not use this tactic? Would admitting knowing anything hurt his case, even if the knowledge was gained after leaving the company?
Babashka is a fast-starting scripting environment for Clojure
Dunno why but duped over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33907158
There are two main stages to get through, for him to go to jail and then for him to stay in jail long enough for it to not seem like a total farce. At this point, maybe the former will still happen considering that it's been a month and no one's forgotten about him yet, but the latter is still pretty questionable.

Plus, if you were to ask me, I don't really have a specific sentence duration in mind which I would consider to be sufficiently long, so it would entirely come down to my takeaway from whatever the judge says.

Eg if the judge gives him ~10 years stating that he did indeed intentionally fraud people out of $8B, it'd be okay. But on the other hand, if it seems like they're intentionally avoiding the obvious fraud to make his charges weaker, it obviously won't be satisfying.
My bet is that he tries his hardest to never set foot on US soil again. He flees the Bahamas to a country without an extradition treaty and who also doesn't want to prosecute him -- the Bahamas likely does. So in a way, I think he may avoid prosecution, but not because of US corruption, but because he flees.

This is also why SBF can not testify to congress in person as he will likely be arrested once on US soil as a flight risk. Also why he didn't attend the recent NYTimes event in person -- again he can not step foot on US soil right now or probably ever again.
I read the TOS. SBF is deliberately getting people to focus on "e-money" part rather than "digital assets" like crypto.

Y'all got tricked by focusing on the wires and fiat currency path. The TOS make it clear that's all play money. Only digital assets appear to be protected by TOS. Coffeezilla managed to lock him down on that by using the correct terminology and asset classes, but most of the interviewers did not.

Based on the TOS customers agree to, it's not clear to me there was ever any agreement Alemeda couldn't bet the farm using customer fiat as collateral. Digital Assets appear to only apply to non-fiat digital assets -- the TOS seperately defined fiat balance as 'e-money' with significantly weaker as far as I can tell protections.

That is to pin him on fraud it may be necessary to show those that delivered crypto outside of the margin / borrowing TOS had their money stolen. I think Coffeezilla got him to admit this, but even then I think he may have weasled out of it by only talking about dollars which don't appear to be protected by the contract. He is crafting a very carefully executed story where he tricks you into thinking you have a 'gotcha' but all he did was admit to stuff customers agreed to in TOS; and thus you see the real intelligence of SBF as a master of redirection shining.
He also donated a ton to Republicans. He was trying to buy crypto regulation. Those people aren't his friends. If anything they see him as an embarrassment/liability now.
The service has degraded for advertisers?
I will use Stripe as a payment gateway, but their fees are high at first sight. Many customers think as well. Instead, I'm looking for full-fledged billing software that can manage a few payment gateways and maintenance subscription payments like (ChargeBee, Rainex, Spreedly, etc).

Also, Adyen is a good decision, their solution is user-friendly and requires lower fees than Stripe.

Everything depends on the tasks that you are trying to solve.
What fknorangesite said.

That said, there's still a mall where I live, and it's becoming popular again. There's also many other places for teenagers to hang out at.
I'd say sometimes those services are successful but sometimes they aren't. It's not unusual for those things to claim "I am a human" but the human is nowhere to be found. For me it is a general pet peeve that everybody wants to open up UI elements that cover up whatever it is I want to interactive.

There's a bad idea which keeps coming back which are attempts to replace asynchronous communications (web forums, emails, ...) with more synchronous communications such as chat sessions, discord, etc. I can't wait until somebody tries making you go to a waiting area in "the metaverse" and spend an hour looking like a dork waiting for help. Lately I have been appreciating how you can a question to a site like

https://www.dpreview.com/forums

probably get a bogus answer in an hour but have multiple great answers in two weeks.
You're thinking of the seat, not the lid. Although women are wrong about this. The standard should be a single seat manipulation per urinary event. That's the only fair way to do it. Why should the men manipulate the seat twice and women never?
> Apple's proposed system did scanning on your device, whereas google's system does scanning in the cloud. That is the distinction.

No, the distinction is that Apple's proposed system only scanned photos you uploaded to publicly accessible iCloud albums and did so in a way that not even they had access to the results until you crossed the "99 images that match known kiddie porn" threshold. Even then, they had an actual human being review the situation to make sure there weren't 99 false positives on a single account before calling the police.

There was absolutely no possibility of calling the police for a single false positive, which is what Google is already doing today.
I agree. I also had to use a chat that put you on hold until an operator became free, while the site itself had a auto-logout if you didn’t click a box after X minutes waiting.
Traditional goal setting doesn't take into account trade-offs. You should be aware and discuss those while goal setting.

From the example:

Company Goal: Make more money

Sales: We'll help make more money by focusing on closing deals in our pipeline

Product: We'll help make more money by focus on new and exciting product offering in an untapped market

On the surface these both line up to the goal of "make more money" but there were unspoken trade-offs which undermined execution:

- Product didn't focus on current offering causing sales to flounder

- Sales wasn't focused on pre-sales of new product so new product isn't helping the bottom line either.
No, he's just saying that if you fall into 50 degree water in the middle of a six mile wide crossing without protection, and there's no one around to help you, there's a decent chance you're going to die. I hadn't seen them before, but those ads are crazy.
>I wonder whether someone who’s truly internalized these lessons will actually write a post like this.

I honestly do get what you're saying... but I think a post like this can only help people.
Ironically, one of the ideas is that your experience is not applicable to 99% of people, so for some, these ideas _are_ new :)

If someone asked you on the spot, what are your ideas for life, I feel it would be hard to really answer.

If someone asked this author, I think he would have the answer down pat. Almost exclusively because he wrote them down. It takes some organizational effort to write.
Can Tripping Save the Planet?
Synthetica: The first on-demand conference generated by A.I
A note from the creator: Everything, from the domain name, to the website HTML/CSS, the intro, session titles, agenda, speakers, the talks, voice, speaker appearance and video are all generated via A.I. Even the above warning was created by A.I.

I (Ben Hall) wanted to see what happened and this is the result.

This is the introduction it created:

Welcome to Synthetica, the first on-demand conference generated entirely by A.I. This groundbreaking concept is a thought experiment that explores the potential of artificial intelligence in the conference industry.

At Synthetica, all the speakers, sessions, and content are generated by AI, creating a unique and fascinating experience for attendees. The AI algorithms used by Synthetica are able to generate high-quality content that is engaging, informative, and entertaining, as well as the look, speech, and even the name of the conference itself.

The idea for Synthetica was conceived by Ben Hall, who saw an opportunity to push the boundaries of what is possible with A.I. in the conference industry. While Synthetica is a concept and is not designed to be a real conference, it serves as a glimpse into the future of A.I. and how it may shape the way we experience conferences and other events.

Join us at Synthetica and discover a new world of possibilities, where A.I. is able to create and deliver content that is indistinguishable from human-generated content. Explore the latest ideas and research in the field of A.I., and learn how this technology is shaping the future of conferences and beyond.
In Memory of a Giant ( Chris Seaton )
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contraposition

I imagine you’re remembering that P -> Q does not mean ~ P -> ~Q. That’s right, but you can absolutely get to ~Q -> ~P.
He admitted he secretly donated an equal amount to republicans: https://gizmodo.com/ftx-sam-bankman-fried-sbf-secret-donatio.... They have his money and don't need him anymore.
This would be plain security by obscurity which is the worst kind of security.
You might be interested to know that the term for avoiding bridges is gephyrophobia.
Four Paths to the Revelation
We'll see, but I think the more likely outcome is that the recipients of the donations will realise it's more harmful to stick their neck out for him than it is to just step away. To be honest I don't even who all the recipients of his donations are and what they could possibly do to aid him, people are acting like he's basically bought the US justice system and is basically as good as acquitted.
I don't know if courts would hold this conversation as evidence, but SBF's words are pretty damning. Congratulations to Coffeezilla for his careful study of the situation and very good execution of his plan. He was rather excited to have a chance to pin SBF down in their previous conversation, but this time he nailed it.
"The wheels of justice grind slowly, but boy do they grind." - Ken White
I thought it is going to be Q#
This is a false dichotomy. There is value in the normal social interactions of a workplace even if they don't become lifetime friends. Seeing people during the day, small talk, having relationships come and go - these are healthy and enjoyable things even if they never get deeper.
> If both parents have bipolar disorder, the likelihood of their child developing bipolar disorder rises to 40%

If both parents were traumatized as kids, and childhood trauma runs in families, then that adds no weight to claims that the disorder is genetic. To show a genetic origin, you have to point to a gene, not a pile of statistics.
*contempt
These documents seem to corroborate what people thought about ties to government and the press pretty directly.

Sure, we will see a lot of people that overshoot here, but it is a clear failure of the press that did not even criticise political influence on Twitter, carefully crafted messages that should deceive users. Especially since for the user it should look like there wasn't anything going on behind the scenes.

Many established papers were the largest conspiracy theorists when it came down to the Russian election interference. This was negligible compared to domestic US special interest, which was its won league entirely.
Sure but it is a simple result in Bayesian statistics that if event X increases your confidence in fact Y then ~X should decrease your confidence in Y.

For example, if SBF evading jail would increase your confidence in the statement "The US justice system is wholly corrupt" then SBF being sentenced should decrease your confidence in it.
What's the Least Impressive Thing GPT-4 Won't Be Able to Do
The banks are likely to make converting the unsecured debt a condition of converting debt secured by Twitter equity at lower rates. They can't be happy with their circumstances.
Actually he has several good points…

Source: I used to do security
Sorry, when I said "host" I should have clarified I'm including sleeping.

I live in Somerville MA, where $1M will buy you a 3-4br.

There are definitely cheaper areas than Somerville or Oxford. For example, https://ceealar.org bought a 17br former hotel in Blackpool (Northern England) which cost 1% as much (£140k). [1] My understanding from talking to people in the UK, though, is that for the kind of events they're looking to host proximity to London and Oxford is pretty important, and that's expensive.

[1] https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/58714915
These days, it is absolutely unheard of for someone to get a doctorate at age 21. I don't know whether it was unusual then.
r/ChatGPT r/openAI
Rocky McGaugh started building cAos-EL under the cAos Foundation which I created and led.

Due to my role with the cAos Foundation, I was part of the planning, inception, architecture, setup, leadership, management and led the project itself, but Rocky did 99% of the engineering work for cAos-EL-2 (later renamed to CentOS-3) and after Rocky was working on that, John Newbigin started on what would become CentOS-2.

Lance was there since the early days of the cAos Foundation, and he suggested the name "CentOS" (and he squatted and held the domain from the Foundation, which was how he took over the project), and he got involved with engineering/development of CentOS-3 after Rocky passed away. While I would agree, he is a co-founder, he proved to be opportunistic and acted very unethically and has been further demonstrated with the open letter sent to him from Russ Herrold (another co-founder) and the rest of the CentOS contributors for going AWOL, still holding the domain, and taking the project donations for years.

CentOS split off from the cAos Foundation (501c3) due to Lance's stronghold on the domain. To be clear, the separation was not mutual but it was cordial and sugar coated for the good of the project. I always enjoyed being part of CentOS and working on Linux distributions so not being part of CentOS was hard on me. This is one of the reasons why I announced a new distribution (Rocky) within 2 hours of CentOS being killed off, I was excited to do a distribution again! You can also imagine how and why I setup the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation different from the cAos Foundation to better protect the project(s).

One last point, just because I wasn't working on core engineering and development of CentOS doesn't mean I wasn't deeply involved for the first years of CentOS and not a reason to discredit my role as project leader and co-founder.
> iOS itself is proprietary.

That's not a reason at all.
The strange order of things, by Antonio Damasio.
It's about the development of emotions and feelings, culture and ideology, technology and whatever else makes as human through the lenses of evolutionary biology, namely through the development of the neurological systems. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32335976-the-strange-ord...
Others: The Wealth of Nations by Smith and the first books of The Capital by Marx.
Madoff donated a ton of money to Democrats. Elizabeth Holmes literally hosted a fundraiser for Hilary Clinton. Both ended up in jail.

On the other hand, pardons under Republican presidents tend to be a who's who of white-collar criminal shitbags. If I'm doing crimes, I know who I'm donating to! Just look at this list!

https://www.nytimes.com/article/who-did-trump-pardon.html
I’m not sure I’m tracking what you’re getting at.

International Style had its biggest impact in the US on NYC and just look down park ave to see those buildings getting torn down. Union Carbide being a great example.

And the brutalism point confuses me, since plenty of brutalist buildings have been and will be torn down, but I doubt Harvard is going to get rid of it’s Le Corbisier and I bet in 60 years people will talk about how lucky they are to have the only built example of his work in the Western Hemisphere.
Some people do not support law enforcement and a large number of people using Mastodon are pro-privacy and anti-surveillance. RPI's cavalier response to their concerns about a former surveillance officer being hired by a company that creates computers is a cause for concern.
Also:

- Show HN: Outserv – GraphQL Search Engine [for the blockchain] (1 Aug), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32302368 (11 comments)

- Show HN: I Built 0xFast Stream – 100x Faster Ethereum Block Downloads (22 Sep), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32940451 (8 comments)

- Show HN: 0xFast Indexed Streams – Search and Stream Blockchain Data (16 Oct), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33220456 (0 comments)
Google is bringing together its Waze and Maps teams, pushes to reduce overlap
Yeah sorry if I wasn't clear. That was my point. These are all the areas where Python is currently used, but there are better options for all of them now
> Ones I've used, as long as you've configured a way to resolve the user, it pops right up in the service side of the chat system.

Be scared of those. They typically use client side JavaScript to read a cookie to know which username is active.

There is usually no verification of that info, so obviously it could be faked by a malicious client.

The docs say that, but it's way too easy to just trust the info rather than setup a properly secure solution.
I never let call centers get away with asking me for account numbers over and over again without commenting on it; Amdocs and other vendors have had great software for keeping track of customer interactions between multiple people you talk to at a call center for 10+ years now. Management will make the usual excuse ("we can't afford it") but you can turn that around and ask "how can you afford to pay people to ask the same questions over and over again?"
> Why can’t either of these systems do what the Mac has been able to do since the 90s, and display the recursive size of a directory in bytes in the file manager

Many file managers can do that, although for obvious reasons it's rather built as a contextual action on a single directory than an always on feature than would slow down the filesystem horribly by accessing it recursively on many levels. On Thunar (XFCE's file manager) for example it's accessible from the contextual menu opened using the right mouse button on a directory name; other file managers would work in a similar way.

I'm sure filesystems could be modified so that any write would automatically update a field referred by the containing directory, so it would quickly propagate to the upper level, but that would imply many more write accesses which for example on SSD media would do more harm than good.
Guess: You are judging "7/10" on the basis of the guys' looks, moral integrity, or similar "it is all about them" criteria.

My judging criteria is closer to "would I introduce a granddaughter (who I would prefer to see in a good longer-term relationship) to them". My answer, given their current employment circumstances, is "NO". Doesn't matter if they might be the nicest guy in the world, look like the movie-star poster that my granddaughter put on the ceiling over her bed, or anything else. Their employer's ideal for work-life boundaries is "N/A, because you won't have any life for there to be a boundary". Note that I rated Elan at 0/10.
> What are you talking about?

I'm talking about the fact you said there's nothing wrong with the technology and in the same paragraph you said it's too expensive to store an image. Sounds like something wrong to me.
IIRC there was a WAD file that added Santa hats to all the enemies. Probably had festive weapons too. It’s been 25+ years.
She had similarly connected political board members: https://news.crunchbase.com/health-wellness-biotech/theranos...

Henry Kissinger (former United States Secretary of State);

Jim Mattis (retired Marine Corps four-star general);

George Shultz (former United States Secretary of State);

Richard Kovacevich (former CEO of Wells Fargo);

William Perry (former United States Secretary of Defense);

William Foege (former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).

She is like a little FTX in that sense.

But I don't believe the Clintons' are uniquely corrupt, rather just as corrupt as similarly powerful US politicians. I am not a believer if QAnon conspiracies.
I thought the story was that Heisenberg did not know either where the exam was, or when the exam was. :-)
iMessage is not SMS.
By that same logic, should we be profiling criminals? Or is that problematic?
> while I didn't know it at the time

In a court, under oath, this won’t fly.
BTW, that will be very counterintuitive for a performing player, because a performing musician will look both ahead and behind during performances. Adding more dynamism to an already stressful real-time flow is not good.

How do I know? I’m a double bass player.
There is nothing about it in the frontpage. TBH , for a "hacker" site that is weird because CGPT is da bomb. Instead the top spot is about some business criminal , which has very little to do with hacks
It’s not like he’s a guy who’s been on the political scene for decades. He just popped up in the last couple of cycles, and his money is gone, so he’s easily replaced.

Plus, whether he goes to prison or not, he’s made every politician who took money from him look terrible, so whatever “friends” he may have bought have little to gain from sticking with him.
Bernie Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison. He died there, having served 11 years of his sentence.
Show HN: Launch by Burb
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Plea deals? :)
> I guess it goes to show how low trust is in the legal system.

I think it's more about trust in propaganda. Both parties take a ton of money, and some of it always turns out to be from dubious people. A lot of those dubious people go to jail. But this "SBF hasn't been arrested in the first 20 minutes so Democrats are corrupt" line is one I've seen as a talking point all over the US right. But it never comes with any perspective.

E.g., we could look at Elizabeth Holmes. As Wikipedia says, "The credibility of Theranos was attributed in part to Holmes's personal connections and ability to recruit the support of influential people, including Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, Jim Mattis, and Betsy DeVos, all of whom had served or would go on to serve as U.S. presidential cabinet officials." Republican cabinet officials, I should add. It was more than 2 years between Carreyrou's bombshell article and her indictment.

Do I believe that she got a lot of money and cred from cozying up to politically prominent individuals? Definitely. Do I believe that delayed the investigation? No, complex crimes, especially ones with intent requirements, require patient, careful investigations. And I don't even recall anybody saying that she wasn't immediately arrested because she was politically connected.
That pattern preceded the ADA, as far back as I can remember. Wouldn't surprise me if this law locked it in after it became standard, though.
I think he was trying to express the importance of resilience. Things that happen, stay happened. So the best outcome for yourself following misfortune is to move ahead as best you can.

Personally, I don't think that stoicism is a good fit for modern times, because it conflates virtue with foregoing strong emotions, and leaving other people to their mistakes.

It does have its share of worthwhile lessons though, and if you dig a little deeper you'll find that it encourages guiding and explaining when people are wrong, rather than getting upset with them about perceived moral or practical failures.