skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much does one of those soldiers get for ratting him out to whichever country/cartel is willing to pay 0.0001% of that as a finder’s fee or agree not to notice that all of his stuff went missing shortly before capture? If you’re hiring mercenaries willing to stand off law enforcement, what keeps some of them from realizing that they can kill you and get their money all at once?

This is the prepper fallacy: stockpiling riches but not allies makes you a target, not safe. Maybe you can get away with it if you’re an incredibly charismatic cult leader but most people are going to be much better off with friends and family than a pile of Krugerrands and guns.
I was a junior freelancer. Barely knew what i was doing with web development. Was given SSH credentials to a server hosting a WordPress site. Had to change a bunch of lines in a bunch of files. Hundreds of them.

Took two hours to begin learning about a sed command.

Spent a half hour testing it locally on the MacOS terminal. I didn't wanna screw it up. Made several mistakes on local. But eventually I think I got the hang of it.

Now it was time to run it on live. I'm nervous again even though I just spent a while testing. Ran the sed command to search and replace text.

Worked like a charm.

Pretty much a trial by fire moment. No mentor to show me how. Just me and my ability to read to documentation and apply it. That's all I had at my disposal.

I know server admins do this shit like in a couple of minutes but at the time this was me venturing into servers and making a change on live site and reading a man page and blog tutorial. So for me it was a big deal. It taught me not to fear to learn the shell.

I've done way harder things since but I still remember this moment of almost a decade ago.
This is the guy that's bragging about committing fraud on live interviews... even after the screwup he didn't have the wherewithal to have an escape plan.

Then again, realistically a disappearing act of this magnitude would likely require access to a lot of trusted people to pull it off. Plastic surgery, boat captains, someone to plant false leads, security, etc.
Indeed, which has nothing to do with booting.
So am I to assume you have read the entire source code of any cryptocurrency you put money in to prove to yourself there is no "backdoor"? And you argue every user of cryptocurrency should do the same? i.e. "don't put money in X if you have not read and verified the source code of X and committed to reading every code for every future update of X, and also verified that the nodes you are talking to are running the same code X, and in the future will keep verifying that the network is not pulling a sneaky on ya?" In which case, I strongly agree with you. Moreover, with such a great user interface cryptocurrency will surely replace traditional finance any day :)
Cooperating with investigators is a good thing, and we should (to an extent) reward it.
> Why did he stay in the bahamas? Was he allowed to travel?

He answered this question at the beginning of this interview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGNiYt1GN_4

"from my perspective, it's not about looking to go home.... this is were I've been running FTX from.... there are still things that need to get done."
Exactly what was the meaning of "it" there? Reaching breakeven? Or reaching practicality? These are not the same problem!
That's insane, what are some of the jobs that you conned your way into?
College is not just about getting an education. An equally important part of a traditional college education is finding out who you are as a human being. Living with others full time, perhaps for the first time. The growth I experienced in those 4 years of college was unlike anything else in my lifetime.
As a libertarian the last two years has caused to be actively stop reading 'right leaning' papers. I remember when the Right made fun of the Left for being the whiny, constantly claiming they're oppressed, do nothing but complain group. Take all that and ad a ton of hate and anger and you get 'news' from the Right today. I had to drop cable to do it though. I could not stop going back to Fox and getting worked up about BS. Then I had to add all my old Right wing websites to NextDNS because I kept getting drawn back. Just like if I was in a cult. I'm so much happier now.
The right has been villainized for a very long time and for good reason. Left-leaning people discovering that their side is just as bad and untrustworthy when given enough power is, I believe, the reason people are pointing it out. The left were supposed to be the good guys. You don't begrudge the scorpion for stinging as much as the frog that promised would lead you to a more fair and just land, only to carry you to scorpion island.
So then what's the problem?
I qualified with largely. Rule 29 requires more than the judge disagreeing with the verdict. Basically the judge must find that there’s NO WAY a reasonable jury could find the defendant guilty.

But if the prosecution’s case was that weak, the judge probably would have granted the defendant’s Rule 29 motion at the close of the prosecution’s case.
Saw that in the last few days he said something about not wanting to come to the US because he was 'scared of the paparazzi'.

"Prosecutors" also begins with the letter "P, but...
> That's the only purpose for it.

That's not the only purpose for it. There's three reasons I can think of that you might set up a RAID array:

* You want better uptime. (your use case)

* You want to protect from data loss. (my assumption was that this is the most common use case, but I could be wrong. This also helps with uptime because there's nothing worse for uptime than having to restore lost data from a cold backup)

* You want better performance, data integrity be damned. (RAID 0)

Booting a RAID array with a failed disk is a bad idea if you care a lot about not losing data, because now you're one less disk failure away.
"they only prosecuted him because they don't want to look guilty for taking his bribes".
And yet here I am, flesh and blood. I can't prove it; it's late 2022. Oh well.
NIF people like to call this the “target gain”, but someone there has been whispering “net gain” to the journalists, in their ongoing campaign of deliberately deceptive hype. But “target gain” isn’t even (pellet output)/(laser output). The denominator is laser energy deposited in the hohlraum; the rest of it doesn’t count. And this deposited laser energy is estimated based on a model of laser deposition—it’s not measured. (At least, this is the way it was the last time I bothered reading a paper from NIF. I got bored with it a while ago.) The modeling codes are classified; no one without a need to know gets to examine them, and they are not well benchmarked. So the actual target gain is likely < 1 in any case.
For me, this discussion brings up a question I've had: How well do the HN remote batches work compared to the in-person batches?

My hunch (and it's only a hunch) is that there's something essential about in-person learning that technology, to date, hasn't captured... and that's why it hasn't disrupted higher ed.
I should hope so. The timing of their intimate relationship will play a big part in the entire timeline. What a hot mess.
It's the testimony they are going to read tomorrow. It's a good idea to have something prepared so you don't stumble over yourself like SBF is everytime he speaks.
What about signaling of not just acquired knowledge, but the ability to apply it in a meaningful way?

in other words - education and what it measures (grades) may or may not correlate with a successful person.

is there a way to measure or predict if a person is or will be successful? And this isn't just for hiring, it is also part of a good feedback loop for helping people get an education.
She is not personally named as owning money in the FTX bankruptcy documents. Other executives had taken out 8-9 figure loans.

I don’t think this is being reported correctly - it’s not her personal account most likely Alameda.
looks like a path issue

https://unovis.dev/gallery works, while

https://unovis.dev/gallery/ does not

you need to navigate to https://unovis.dev/ and then click "Gallery" for it to segue you to the former
I’m not sure I like the name “Bike Shed Painting Simulator”. Let’s spend some time coming up with something more succinct. Should we schedule a meeting to discuss?
>I have no idea how you think highschoolers are running around casually with bank checks.

I don't! They aren't! I wasn't! Nobody does that because they cost (at least then) several dollars.

The point of my anecdote was you use a bank check once and you learn about scams and laundering money, so you don't "run around casually" using them.

Probably there are more high schoolers "running around casually" with credit cards than there were 25-30 years ago, but in any case I didn't have one.

I certainly never again tried to use a check that wasn't for an exact amount.

By the way, some people do or did use personal checks at the grocery store and get cash back - I don't know if you can still do that and I never have tried it, but it used to be a thing.
The document is from the future, obviously.
Bernie Madoff was a bit before my time. Was he heavily involved with politics/political figures, to the degree of SBF?
Eh, they can certainly go down. Newer diesel locos meet more stringent emissions standards and consume less fuel, and the cost of diesel fuel is pretty expensive.
I'm seriously medically handicapped and have terrible eyesight issues. I typed the wrong password at first.

I still had 1 percent power on my phone earlier and was previously able to get a code on it and I hoped I could get one last code before it outright died, so I said "Yeah, sure, send it to my phone" since they don't really want to do it another way.

So then I had to ask another way when I couldn't get to it because that is when the phone gave up the ghost for good. And then they said "We shall send you a link in 24 hours." So I moved the sim card and got text messages saying "Was this you?" and I said "Yeah, it was." and cancelled my "account recovery process" and tried to continue setting up my new phone because the old one is dead.

And this is when Google decided I must be a for serious criminal and told me "We shall send you an email in 72 hours."

So I'm quite upset at this point.
I was thinking something similar, that being intelligent doesn't mean you're smart, but I think "wisdom" says it better.
Problem is that support people mistakenly resetting account auth when the attacker calls up and social engineers them is a bigger and more common issue than people’s only device dying. Not to say that’s not a thing that happens, but it’s a smaller of the two problems.
Someone else is still controlling the network updates and the "tokenomics", or even hard forks! See Ethereum DAO hack hard fork, for example: https://www.gemini.com/cryptopedia/the-dao-hack-makerdao
What a time for Popehat to quit Twitter: https://popehat.substack.com/p/goodbye-twitter
See edit. TL;DR: Nowhere did I say that the alleged criminal acts of SBF of JE are "comparable". To say that is an extremely gross and unfathomable misunderstanding of what I was saying. I'm not sure why you would do that, to be very honest with you.
Easy: higher ed is all about the credential.
I'm not claiming banks don't serve a good purpose.

I'm not claiming anyone should hold all their net worth on a blockchain.

But blockchains do have extremely desirable properties in preventing fraud _on the chain_.

I would love to have mathematical proof that my government is not fraudulently misusing my tax dollars, at least at some level. Who wouldn't?

I would love to hold some portion of my assets in a way that no one, even the government, can seize it or freeze it. What if my government is Cyprus in 2013? What if my government is the 1940s Nazi government? I want to be able to flee the country without losing my livelihood to tyranny and abuse.
If you’re depositing into a bank or exchange it’s not like 1 person is controlling that entire entities wallet(s). Deposits have the same risk of being misused in crypto as in fiat.
I don't see title inflation being too big an issue at large companies. At my megacorp we have fairly well defined expectations at each level and managers calibrate across teams. It's basically:

- junior, fresh out of school and is basically expected to do whatever task they are told to

- mid, a few years in and can define their own work within a project

- senior (many stop here), can manage their own projects, but limited influence outside the team. Expected to mentor juniors and work with partners

- staff, a lot less coding, lots of digital ink spilled recently on what staff engineers do :) basically influence the entire team and help set technical direction

- principal, basically a mega staff engineer, influences a larger organization. Called in to solve the hairiest problems.

- senior principal, can bend spacetime at will
How many of those other countries have people who lost money? What are the odds that some of the people he ripped off have very muscular friends who want to have a private chat about repayment timeframes? What are the odds that they know the kind of people you’d need to get fake ID or live undercover?
I've participated in a few Give Camps (https://givecamp.org). They meet on a weekend, bringing charities and developers together so the charities can have a new starter web site, app, or upgrades to an existing site.
I stopped eating breakfast, instead having a small sandwich at noon and another 2pm. Lost 10-12 lbs over about 6 weeks and have kept it off.
Engines were likely made by engineers before engineers started operating them.
On the bright side I’ll have to devote less time to blocking Mr. Beast if the influencer thing tails out. I really hate that guy, every time I see his face I block the entire channel. Like playing wack-a-mole though.
Yep. And he lives in a $40M penthouse apartment overlooking the ocean. That is sure to get people riled up (a jury - if it every goes to trial).
US freight locos are different, if only because US rail safety regulations until recently prioritized buff strength whereas European and Japanese regulations do not.

(Buff strength is a terrible way to maintain safety. We moved away from it in automobiles decades ago for a reason.)
> Plus, prosecuting her may not even look all that good, for identity politics reasons.

Strongly disagree with this. Look at how they threw the book at Elizabeth Holmes (vs, say, Adam Neumann, or any other male founder from the last decade plus). If anything women have been getting it harder.
My experience with SuddenLink was also similar. Their voice driven menu was so much accent sensitive that my English with Indian Accent was not getting recognized most of the time, & then system was simply disconnected after saying, please try again.
Reminds me of the times other HN threads were full of people saying tick tock is perfectly safe and does not send all your data to their servers, hahaha.
Fusion could end up being a useless waste of effort, not a strategic imperative.
Hi Doreen, I am sure many people recognize you as a long-time HN user! I hope someone from Google can reach out to their accounts team on your behalf.
"it had an eclectic résumé that included, in 1966, helping to recover a 70-kiloton hydrogen bomb that was dropped when two military planes collided over the Spanish coast."

That doesn't sound right. 70 kilotons would be very small for a hydrogen bomb. Indeed, one Wikipedia article says it was a 1.4 megaton bomb, twenty times the number the Wired article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSV_Alvin#:~:text=On%2017%20Ma....

And this other wikipedia article says: "The Y1 nomenclature indicates a W28 warhead with a yield of 1.1 megatonnes of TNT"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_Palomares_B-52_crash
In 1978 Linotron 606 phototypesetters had an intermittent problem that sometimes a small section of text would appear as if the letters had been chopped up in a blender. Nobody could figure it out for about 6 months. Turned out to be a bug in the routine that handled disk errors when the character vector data was being downloaded from disk. The character buffer that contained the character vectors had a blank scan line used for white on black reverse video background placed at the beginning of the buffer. The routine that handled disk errors just refilled the buffer from the beginning without the blank and so all the addresses of the start of each of the characters was off. My favorite actual hack came a couple of years later at Bell Labs Naperville where I made the curses library terminal version of Space Invaders play PacMan instead.
Somebody quoted further up:

> The NYT profiles I've seen is pretty clear that Alameda and FTX were mingling customer funds, that he refused to answer questions about the handling of funds, and that he was under investigation.

>> But he would offer only limited details about the central questions swirling around him: whether FTX improperly used billions of dollars of customer funds to prop up a trading firm that he also founded, Alameda Research. The Justice Department and the S.E.C. are examining that relationship.

OK no quote, but if there's no information why should they quote three repeated "no comments"? If he did not answer the question there's nothing quotable there, that doesn't make it a puff piece.

Maybe coinbase has political motivation to call reporting from certain media puff pieces?
This question is 100% acceptable and encouraged when it is presented as evidence of racism. For example, if someone says "The lower average IQ of black people is evidence of racism against black people". That is fine.
Did this ever backfire when it came time for the interview or was the cramming always sufficient for you to pass as qualified?
There's no mathematical law that blockchains will survive forever or hard forks will retain the worth of the token.

I never argued for that and I'm not arguing that that is the case.
You could print them and store them in a safe, or in your parents' collections of old embarrassing photos of you. Just an idea.
> People in jail and prison testify in court all the time.

I think the point the GP is trying to make is that his arrest does not obligate him to testify in front of anyone: his "right to remain silent" and all that. Prior to being arrested, voluntarily testifying (or complying with a subpoena to do so) before Congress could have been useful to him if he could manipulate things well enough to get the heat turned down. (I don't think he'd actually be successful at that, but that's another story.)

Now that he's in jail, he may actually listen to the advice I'm sure his lawyer has been giving him all along: shut the hell up. And he's perfectly within his rights to do that. Even if he is hauled before Congress, he can simply assert his 5th Amendment rights after every question, and that might actually be the best move for him now.

Edit: re-reading the GP, I realize what you were objecting to, the "I'm pretty sure the house cannot make him testify if he is in custody" bit; I agree with you in that I don't think that's the case. Still, though, even if Congress can force him to testify, they can't actually force him to answer questions. They technically couldn't do that before, but now that he's been arrested it's likely even less in his best interests to talk.
Squirrels are dinosaurs, confirmed.
It's a smaller of the two problems for the company. If you are really poor, losing access to your online life because you couldn't pay your phone bill or something can be a huge, huge problem.

I have been homeless. I'm not currently. But this is an extremely stressful situation that could do all kinds of damage to my life if I can't get it sorted.
Yeah! I get my information from the most unbiased sources I can, like Fox News and the daily stormer!
Imagine thinking people actually want self-custody. Look around, people want centralization. The fringes who constantly parrot “not your wallet, not your coins” will forever be in the minority as mom and pop don’t trust themselves to any kind of cold storage.

Crypto-obsessed will forever live in this fantasy world.
You are both right, honestly.

Much of the value of higher education as it is structured is the credentialing and the networking. Everyone knows what a bachelors is, a master’s is, a doctorate is. This is important. It means something.

However you are also right that education works in person for a lot of people and there are a lot of values there. Community colleges are an under utilized resource to learn.

Making money by educating people is a bad business. It is expensive and time consuming and the more you try to cut expenses the worse the education gets. Non-profit is the right model for it.

If you really want to make money off the back of education build something useful for colleges and universities. They are big complex organizations with specialized needs where off the shelf solutions don’t cut it and there are enough of them to make a nice business out of if you come up with a solution that is dramatically better than what is out there. A lot of the technology solutions that are used barely work but there are few options.
It's interesting, as the closest analogue to this sort of argument can be seen with how support for gun rights are often framed in America. In that argument, one has a tool that can provide positive outcomes (protection of self and others) and negative outcomes (homicide, suicide, manslaughter), and emphasis is placed on the user's role in any negative consequences. In America where this sort of thinking is widespread we have more guns, and thus have far more negative outcomes than the societies that more strictly regulate guns, and thus have fewer guns in general.

I expect we'll see a similar split in how AI is treated by societies, with more negative outcomes being seen by societies which regulate AI less.
Hopefully not for long. That should be sold off as part of the bankruptcy.
Beyond a reasonable doubt?
> It's really strange how people allow their political ideology to color their thinking

I think that it is you that is trying to make this political. I referred to two specific people, one of which is supposed to be "not left, nor right". So why are you trying to paint it political?

If anything I explicitly said in the post you replied that I find it sad that people are all about politics these days.

Since you support freedom of ideas I ask you to respect my opinion about Musk, which has nothing to do with his claim of "marketplace of ideas" but a lot to do with all the other opinions he posts online.

I would go into detail what are the things that he says that make him appear like a "sociopathic cult leader" to me, if you want. But by your message it sounded like you are sure that I don't like Musk because I don't support free speech. So, not sure it's worth continuing the discussion.

I'll just leave this here for reference:
https://www.psychmechanics.com/characteristics-of-cult-leade...
-- my reading of this is only that the business empire as a whole was poorly managed - ftx.us was included in the ftx.com bankruptcy to avoid a run on the bank - if they were trying to avoid a run on the bank - wouldn't it further indicate the ftx.us platform indeed had funds? - most of this document is concerned with ftx.com not ftx.us --
I carefully store backup codes on my Bitwarden vault so I know where to find them. Also, I use Yubikeys for 2FA, those are reliable enough and you don’t need to rely on phones that could break.