skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an incredibly cynical reading of the article. It's also rather funny to make a claim about the entire article immediately after you say you stopped reading about 10% of the way through.
You went on a rant impugning the characters of the other people involved and making yourself the victim. All that really happened is you got a good deal for a bit of writing, $20k. You wish you had asked for more. Everyone here called your bullshit. Now you wish people just saw your attack on the other people as art or an emotional journey or whatever other nonsense. If you want to make art, then make art. But if you write an attack on other people’s actions, then expect people to be critical.
I'm not expressing any opinion one way or the other about the topic. Just laughing at the idea that the U.N. has any credibility whatsoever. Also laughing at the Musk hate. It's very in vogue right now with the leftist busybodies.
> I don't understand why we don't just teach JS or TS as a starting language.

IMO the main problem is pedagogical. JS is a vast sea of conveniences that contradict conventional programming practices. This is also the reason I hesitate to recommend R as a starting language, for all that it's the de facto language of statistical analysis. Both languages are hard to teach in a coherent way, because both have lots of gotchas and exceptions that aren't bad, per se, but in the aggregate impede understanding of fundamentals.

Just yesterday I was working with someone on fundamentals in R, distinguishing between literals, variables, and functions. He got the idea, and then we got to model specification (`lm(y ~ x)`) and I had to shrug and say, those "identifiers" are different. I shudder to think of trying to teach types with a beginning student in JS.
Yes, but only after you're formally charged. The prosecutors have to build their case before that happens, which will likely take years. They're also more than happy to have SBF free and talking to the media right now. He's giving them so much useful evidence.
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Something that is extremely common in the PHP community, and pretty much absent in any other programming community, is this knee-jerk aversion to the idea of learning another language, and this sort of derision to those who do.

Have you consider that people who learn other programming languages are not doing so in order to claim that they're better than PHP programmers, but for their own intrinsic reasons?

It's such a weird, fragile ego situation. Does everyone else have to pretend that PHP is the only language that exists in order to placate your sense of inferiority?
Hi Julian,

Thank you for your reply and for taking the time to read our comments. We appreciate your perspective and the insight you have provided on the situation.

However, I must say that your message feels very confrontational and pointy, and dismissive of the legal aspects of the situation. While we understand that the emotional and artistic aspects are important, the legalities of the situation must also be considered and discussed.

I hope that you can understand our perspective and engage with us on the legal aspects of the situation as well.
Do activities that require interaction with other people. Sign up for a dance class, or a hiking group or a book club or a marital arts class or chess club and commit to going two to three times a week. You’ll make a lot more friends not related to your job.
Most professional environmentalists (broadly speaking: ecologists, economists etc) I know believe we are not able to bring these problems under control or that the UN is able to do any good. As an example, the UN climate conference has failed to address reducing fossil fuel production across 27 annual meetings. At some point the UN will need to ask itself if it is part of the cure, or part of the disease.
I find a lot of 10/100 gear floating around in radio since nothing really needs bandwidth, just reliability!
In the US that's called "remanded without bail".

In the US when you're arrested you go to jail (which is distinct from prison, which is for long-term convicts).

When a person is arrested in the USA, one of the first courts is the "Bail Hearing" which determines how the accused person will be kept until their trial. They may be sent home, or given a GPS ankle-monitor, or they may be told they have to pay a large "bail bond", which is a deposit that they will lose if they fail to show up for trial and they will get the money back after the trial, or they may be just taken to jail until the conviction if the judge thinks they're too dangerous.
Using a reputable VPN who claims no logs still places immense trust in that VPN provider. If you're a journalist or political dissident, it's possible your life is resting on that trust.

Alternatively, You -> ISP -> Tor -> VPN and paying with Monero obtained over Tor without ever having disclosed your ID or any revealing info means:

• Your ISP knows who you are, but not what you're doing (no anonymity, yes privacy). The connection to tor establishes privacy from ISP.

• Your Tor exit node sees you're connecting to a VPN, but does not know who you are, or what you're doing (yes anonymity, yes privacy). The routing of Tor establishes anonymity, but not privacy from the exit node. The connection to the VPN establishes privacy from the exit node.

• Your VPN provider knows a bit about what you're doing, but not who you are (yes anonymity, less privacy)

This offers additional protection if your VPN provider is compromised / lying about logging (you have no way to verify at any given moment, only that they weren't in past incidents that have gone to court, but this is no guarantee they can't be compelled to start logging your connections).

This also offers additional protection if your guard node and exit node are compromised, which is sufficient to deanonymize tor users.

What it does not offer protection against is all ISP's involved selling netflow metadata to a single party who uses timing and packet sizes to correlate traffic across all of these connections, like Team Cymru does with their Pure Signal Recon product (formerly called Augury).

If that scares you, I'd encourage you to look up what company actually owns and operates torproject's website, and how many contracts they have with governments, too.
I did not know about him before this blow up, but looking into his history, he actually pointed that SBF and FTX is doing Ponzi scheme 7 months ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6nAxiym9oc
I wonder if he's that unknown to the average citizen now partially thanks to the interviews he's done and the resulting media attention.

For example this Yahoo News article about Caroline Ellison[1] has 1912 comments, which is fairly high engagement for Yahoo.

The top comment is somewhat telling for the layman's reaction: "It doesn't seem most of these people were anywhere near qualified or experienced enough to perform the roles they held."

[1]https://news.yahoo.com/caroline-ellison-one-central-figures-...
Jurors are told to only take into consideration what evidence is presented at trial.

If he admits to crimes during a podcast it's guaranteed jurors will hear it at trial. If he says he a "werry sorry little boy" during the podcast there's zero guarantee the juror will hear it and zero guarantee they'll take it into account at trial.

I'm having a hard time seeing how it's a good approach.
Double jeopardy also means no one gets to try again if it's fucked up.
> I’m absolutely astonished that anyone trusts Telegram for their communication

Why ? Are you russian ? Do you travel to Russia ?
A lot of people also trust WhatsApp and Signal for their communications and i'm sure that no western government will ever spy on them. I'm joking.

Just be aware that encryption is not useful when your OS provider has access to your keys.
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Actually, we're talking about both, and you are wrong on both counts.

If you weren't, you would be able to point to an existing system that has demonstrated the capability of classifying an image set on the order of iCloud's, without producing a false-positive. You can't, because such a system doesn't exist.

Even the "solved" problem of OCR isn't capable of such a feat: https://youtu.be/XxCha4Kez9c
I am polite but firm most of the time with agents, but I do get chances to talk with people who have the authority to change things. Raising a stink and ‘let me talk to your supervisor’ really can lead to tickets getting forwarded to people who can fix the process or at least give agents training in how to avoid or manage ‘lights on nobody home’ situations.

Lately I have been facing a breakdown in business processes with my local electric utility that first disconnected my electricity because one of my tenants made a mistake. I think they finally understand that I have three services at two houses at one address, but I went through two periods since then of getting no electric bill for months (which I won’t let slide because the last time they stopped billing me I got disconnected.) Getting that fixed involved waiting three hours on hold which got me talking to regulators again. The crew building the new deck at the other house has also deferred work because they have been unable to get through to anyone there who can turn the service off temporarily so they can work near where the wire comes in.
Brilliant and excellent write up.
There's a lot of conspiracy theory in there. All this stuff about intelligence assets and blackmail and murder to keep him quiet is all too exciting in a made-for-tv kind of way. How do we know he wasn't just some rich dude who wanted to bang underage chicks and thought he could get away with it? It seems like the occam's razor answer.
What people aren't seeing is that this opens coding to a large number of people that only need minimum skills to create a solution. A determined business user can put together an app that takes an expert now. No code is targeted towards the users that have a relatively simple app but don"t have the skills, budget or time to learn a programming language. I've known people that have put together the needs requirements and design an app but don't have the skills to write it. That's the ideal market no code is aiming to get.

Software Engineers will have their place but no code and AI is aiming for the masses.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1600877380683280384.html
Art is subjective. It fits well in the poem in my view.
Python was invented and heavily used before most people could even access the web, nevermind building dynamic websites. The web has always been churning heavily--HTML, browsers, JS, etc. changing and adding features etc. Web folks have always been dealing with churn. In contrast some people have scripted out tons of python code for managing computers, labs, etc. and they absolutely cannot and will not tolerate churn or things breaking with minor python releases.
> Republican cabinet officials, I should add.

It’s worth noting that the “right” doesn’t consider these people you mention as the “right”. It’s the same reason Joe Biden will say “MAGA Republicans”. The Republican base is almost entirely different than the elected officials (same with most of the left btw).

I recommend the book “the new right” by michael malice

The right views much of their political leadership with contempt. They equally view them as the “enemy”, perhaps more-so.

When people hear “he donated to both parties” what the people on the right here is “they donated to my enemies”. The “MAGA Republicans” mostly are concerned about illegal immigration, off shoring of jobs, corruption, globalism, etc. Republican leadership and SBF openly worked against their interest. It’s colloquially called the “uniparty” for a reason
Honestly, we have run into similar issues with GHA as well. I recently heard about Drone/Harness CI. I tried it last week and it is holy shit fast. Not sure how they do they do it without charging an arm and a leg. We are probably going to go with Harness. They are the only other platform other than Gitlab and GHA. Some competition is good.
Isn't that the point of being a teen lol. I miss that, lost with endless possibilities. Now I'm just lost and aging haha
He knows they can't do it server-side with E2E. That's his point. Apple can scan my encrypted files all they want.
Show HN: Web search using a ChatGPT-like model that can cite its sources
We’ve trained a generative AI model to browse the web and answer questions/retrieve code snippets directly. Unlike ChatGPT, it has access to primary sources and is able to cite them when you hover over an answer (click on the text to go to the source being cited). We also show regular Bing results side-by-side with our AI answer.

The model is an 11-billion parameter T5-derivative that has been fine-tuned on feedback given on hundreds of thousands of searches done (anonymously) on our platform. Giving the model web access lessens its burden to need to store a snapshot of human knowledge within its parameters. Rather, it knows how to piece together primary sources in a natural and informative way. Using our own model is also an order of magnitude cheaper than relying on GPT.

A drawback to aligning models to web results is that they are less inclined to generate complete solutions/answers to questions where good primary sources don’t exist. Answers generated without underlying citable sources can be more creative but are prone to errors. In the future, we will show both types of answers.

Examples:

https://beta.sayhello.so/search?q=set+cookie+in+fastapi

https://beta.sayhello.so/search?q=What+did+Paul+Graham+learn...

https://beta.sayhello.so/search?q=How+to+get+command+line+pa...

https://beta.sayhello.so/search?q=why+did+Elon+Musk+buy+twit...

Would love to hear your thoughts.
The issue with low code tools is that they typically solve the easy problem.

1.

What happens is that it is usually very easy to get a simple thing up. Then you try anything a bit more complicated or not standard or anything breaks and you spend way more time trying to figure it out than it would take to building the normal way.

2.

Another problem is that managers/CEOs think that if you have no-code tools you no longer need engineers.

Guess what. Software engineers do not just code. They know how to build stuff, which includes a huge amount of knowledge of how to construct maintainable and reliable systems. Put non-engineers on the problem and you will get an unmaintainable mess that is going to be failing a lot.

3.

You try to string your system from a bunch of low-code tools. You quickly integrated a dozen different online tools. Now you find out nobody can understand what is going on. If you hire a person, they will spend a huge amount of time learning all of those tools.

If you build an application let's say in Java, it is much easier to get around the system and understand how it works. If you can read and understand one module, you can pretty much read and understand all of them. But with low code tools strung together there is pretty much new problem, new language, new paradigm for every of those tools.

4.

Part of software development is ability to modify things in a safe way. Having test environment, code versioning, integration and deployment pipelines, etc. Having practices around building stuff. Almost no low-code tools respect any of it. At best you can build your own custom solution for each one but forget trying to prepare v2 of your system and deploy it in any organised way. Your production usually becomes your test environment and your deployments will typically result in some minor drama.

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I get the appeal of low/no code tools. It is super fun to get something working very quickly with no resources. If you have a simple problem that matches the tool perfectly and you will never want to make it much more complicated -- it might even be the best solution for you.

The issue is that management wants more and you will have to field requests for new functionality and requirements. And you will quickly find adding those will start taking exponentially more effort while you are necessarily spending time talking to your sales reps trying to figure out if/when they can provide the functionality. All this while you have trouble hiring and onboarding people to maintain it because there is just so much magic that only your initial staff is only ever able to understand what is going on.
Even if we take him at face value here (which we probably shouldn't) it isn't just money, he also made the rich people look like idiots. So retribution feels inevitable.
Link to the community standup which occurred moments ago that explains rationale and reveals the archictecture of their Gitpod Dedicated offering. https://youtu.be/B83zRiP9uk8
> There is one thing that works in tech, and boss man doesn't want to hear it: pay a small team of good developers a good wage and treat them well.

And have a compelling product ...
It creates work for already-overworked IT departments.

Think about the sales pitch of low code: Now your marketers and business people can put together solutions to automate business processes, without writing a single line of code (or while writing very few lines of code)!

Except yeah, weeks or months in, those solutions have to be maintained as the business shifts. Sales, marketing, and executives have better things to do than maintain a bunch of instructions for the computer. How will we handle this? Oh, I know! Let's throw it over the wall to the people who specialize in this sort of thing: the software engineers! I'm sure they won't mind prioritizing maintaining the automation we built in $LOW_CODE_PLATFORM over the backlog of other things they have to do.

What are you asking? Where are the debugging tools? Low-code is supposed to have no bugs, what do you need debugging tools for?

Version control? Pffffffff.

Oh, and while you're at it could you integrate the $LOW_CODE_PLATFORM stuff with our mainframe? The source of all truth for customer records is still in the mainframe and--you need to write an extension module to do that? In Java?
So our solution is to not modify or manage nature to our liking but instead to simply live in an 1800's coal town for 1 month a year?

We're not burning 1/100th of the forest every year, so we will never catch up.
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Aren't those assurances what you get by paying red hat?
> I think it's history that shows this and builds this low trust. The 2008-2009 housing and economic crisis had effectively no prosecutions that came to fruition

They must have been busy prosecuting and seazing assets from thousands of debtees.
So what exactly can SBF do? Is he likely to destroy evidence or start next scam? Okay, later might make some people take action.

But it is not like this is a violent crime where such incarceration is entirely possible.
Now add his co-founder, 24 millions
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/01/crypto-po...
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He is clearly making himself a scapegoat to protect himself from the wrath of the politically powerful. One thing to burn rich people, quite another to burn politicians who chair the financial services committee.

Anyone who says, “what’s he doing!? He must be stupid or crazy!” is either dishonest ir not very perceptive.

He is throwing himself under the bus in hopes of an eventual pardon or just to avoid pissing off the powers that be, who he helped secure with his kick backs (“contributions”).

But the foolish masses are likely to buy the whole, “he is stupid” narrative.

Clearly, he is not,
Number of hours I've put into Minecraft: hundreds.
Number of times I've seen (or cared to see) the ending: zero.
That's lowish to mid $$ for a senior dev (at least in the US).
Last year you wrote "maybe the future of all software - but I'm not ready to talk about that yet." Are you ready to talk about it?
While I do think that what Coffeezilla did was a terrific piece of journalism I still don't think that what SBF has fessed up to alone can be evidence of fraud. He has admitted to breaking the terms of services with his users but I didn't hear an admission of intent. He can still plead negligence in this case.

Don't get me wrong, I think that doing all of these interviews is really the nail in his coffin. I don't see how anyone can watch these interviews and not think that what this guy did was criminal. I could imagine in an alternate universe, where he just kept his mouth shut, SBF could get some kind of deal if he helps the bankruptcy courts claw back some of the assets improperly paid.

This guy is clearly a narcist who thinks that he will be able to win this in the court of public opinion by smiling at the camera and paying lip service.
The poster child for DeFi was never a CEX. The obvious poster child for decentralized finance would be the biggest decentralized exchange in the world , Uniswap.

I recognize there are tons of fraudsters who latch onto the vocabulary of cryptocurrency and twist it to trick naive consumers who don’t know the difference. Another example would be “staking” where the original intent meant earning proof of stake rewards without giving up your keys, but was frequently used as a marketing term for things like Blockfi where you literally transferred ownership if your coins.

Despite the manipulation around the terms, it’s unfortunate how a fairly technical audience like Hacker News refuses to have good faith discussions around this.

This crowd should know better than to call FTX DeFi.

This crowd should know better than to call fractional reserve interest programs staking.

I think this crowd does know the difference but chooses to ignore it in bad faith because of a general dislike of cryptocurrencies.

By all means call out the swindlers but a site called hacker news deserves better when it comes to using technical terms accurate and in good faith. And by calling FTX DeFi you’re doing neither.
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I'm good friends with many of my former coworkers from the office (boring FAANG 9-5 job, not a startup). It's easy to chat, make lunch plans, go drinking, etc when you're all working together in the same space. Having said that, we were all in our 20s and early 30s, so I think you're onto something. There are plenty of young people around to hang out with, but not so many middle aged ones.
I love your story and it resonates with situations I've been in, thank you.
His co-CEO donated $24 million to Republicans. Not that I think any of this has any relevancy. It's just more tribalism and distraction. I'm a bit sad that it's so prevalent on a site that values honest and open debate.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-team-amon...
Who spends 12k words to say "I'm not asking for anything"?

This is clearly passive aggressive gaslighting behaviour: "I'm really not mad or upset that I only got 20k. Really you guys. I see Notch in his nice house, how he doled out piles of cash to everyone and skipped me and it's fine because I'm happy for them. Really! I thought we were friends and clearly we are not but thats fine because I took some shrooms and now I'm at peace literally made of love. I gave them a priceless gift and it makes my heart happy to know that I contributed to this $2.5B project, even though I only got 20k out of it."

I attempt an abbreviated post, that might have been better received by everyone:

"I wrote the ending poem for Minecraft. I believe it was not part of Microsoft's acquisition due to some contractual fun and games. I'm really proud of my work, and I want to share it those that did not get to experience the end of the game. Here you go, and please enjoy."

FTFY
https://www.lawdepot.com/blog/are-verbal-agreements-legally-...

> When two or more parties come to an agreement without any written documentation, they create a verbal agreement (known formally as an oral contract).

I think that alone demonstrates that verbal contrasts with written.
Well it certainly looks like one, but this is still a useful bit of information.