skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why I'm very wary watching foreign developments in the payment space. Living in a country where contscyless payments and free instant transactions were a thing long before Apple and Google arrived with their products, these services seem to add very little except for a foreign third party. Sure, PayPal was around in case you needed to buy something online in another country, but I don't believe it's as deeply ingrained.

At the same time I read stories about other countries where people think it's completely normal that some third party app has replaced the bank's role as a payment processor, even going so far as to include these services within the banking environment itself.

The way I see a large amount of fintech is that business savy people see their banks struggle to get up to standards that were common elsewhere ten years ago and try to make a quick buck throwing together an implementation before the banks can get themselves together. These companies solves the needs of the end customer, but only patch over the underlying problems that keep building up because there is no reason to address them anymore.

How much can you really trust a company built on profiting off the failings of a basic institution underlying almost all commerce?
> Someone who preferred the security, privacy, and simplicity of a walled garden is potentially losing that choice.

That someone could still use Apple's app store and just ignore the alternatives, just like the large majority of Android users.
That's a false dichotomy. Apple can offer everything you have now while also giving users the option to sideload. Nowhere is it written that they have to be mutually exclusive.
If you are into podcasts, I found this episode looking at insurance (and reinsurance) for homes in Florida quite enlightening.

https://www.marketplace.org/shows/how-we-survive/risky-busin...
It wasn't clear from the opening who wrote this announcement:

> In December 2020, Ben MacAskill (President and COO of SmugMug + Flickr) asked me to return to the fold to figure out how to revitalize the Flickr Commons program.

So my brain decided that it was Stewart Butterfield, announcing his next move after leaving Slack. But, no, the "me" was Executive Director George Oates.[1]

[1]: https://www.flickr.org/about-us/people/
Last time I got educated on this subject (required class for a CCW about 20 years ago) just getting arrested was predicted to net you a five figure legal bill. Get indicted, now we're six digits and climbing.

These guys are going to spend a good bit more than that.
> The engineers working on this are innocent until proven guilty

I believe in due process [& friendship, too]. But alas for the engineers concerned, SBF does not:

https://www.businessinsider.com/ftx-collapse-bankman-fried-e...

"When asked to clarify whether they were both gone, Bankman-Fried said that Wang was "scared" and Singh was "ashamed and guilty" because FTX customers' deposits had been lost."

Isn't that a strange thing to say? Singh is the guy who made the change, per Reuters, and this snake knew that.
I still don’t understand the difference between "improving" and "fixing defects/gaps". There might be a difference in tone, but I see no difference in information content.
"I recommend calling the maintenance line."

(Sorry, i couldn't resist! :-)
No one is breaking the rules because they don't know them and nobody knows the rules better than those breaking them.
The west's framework is the best, but it needs to be a more equal alliance between western-aligned nations, rather than being so dominated by the US. The US, Canada, EU, UK, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Aus/NZ, etc. should all be a part.
Yeah. I wonder if we will see another vote for them to rejoin in the future. They are surely hypocrites though as Scotland was denied independence by the UK high court.
Each repetition can take a different path through the repeated expression. You don’t choose a value for the inner expression once and then repeat it; rather, each time you repeat you can select a value anew for the inner expression.

PS: This question would be more appropriate on stackoverflow.
It's all about getting picked up by an influencer of some kind, or going for the long haul with social connectivity.
It's a chicken and egg problem. If you post, nobody will see it because nobody knows who you are. So you have to spend a long time "engaging" or "networking" with a community you didn't really want to join in the first place just to make enough of a name for yourself so that someday when you have something to say, a few people will listen.

I'm too busy making stuff and hanging out with my real friends to go be fake with people just to market to them in the future.

I guess you could try to make as many games as possible, quickly, and hope that one hits just right, and then focus on it and make it better fast.
It's time to open gaming consoles up, too.
YouTube is getting progressively worse every year with ads, introducing unskippable ads, mid rolls, end rolls, several ads queued, etc. At times it feels plain hostile for the users, especially those who have been watching for a long time, before any of the monetization existed.

YouTube used to be totally different, also it was free with very unintrusive ads. It's hard to sell people on the current monetization model and a lot of the current practices to get you to pay just antagonize viewers. The content is also not always perceived to be worth your money.

There are also moral issues, like Youtube showing ads on demonitized videos, or on channels that don't qualify for monetization. Meaning not all creators even benefit from YouTube's ads.

But eventually it boils down to user experience. You can block ads and get a massively better experience for free, or pay to have an OK experience (sponsor block isn't included in YouTube premium).
That's the thing. You can do everything you can to educate your children and teach them right from wrong, but at some point they are free-thinking adults. Of course you would be distressed if they end up taking the wrong path, but underlying that you would know that you did your best and it's not your fault.
Plus Taiwan. Taiwan's economy is critically important to the west (or "the west") these days.
From another perspective, decoupling your domain from your cloud host means if things go wrong with your hosting you can still migrate to another host with a DNS change. I feel like I'd be more likely to have an issue with a hosting provider than a DNS registrar, but maybe that's a bad assumption.
Let’s say there are 20 different system used to make this ( laser powering, energy collections, target energy density etc etc ) , we only need to make 10 of those system 200 percent efficient to increase overall efficiency to 1000 times , within range of usefulness, I think we will be achieve this.
> Singh will definitely get prison time as well

Remember Alamada wasn’t a normal customer. It was acting as a market maker/counterparty of last resort to many other FTX customers. In that case there could be situations where ‘normal customer liquidation rules’ shouldn’t apply - it can go in the red temporarily to enable others to trade (and FTX to make commission).

From the facts in the article (which are obviously not complete) if I was Singh my defence would be I assumed/was told the changes were to support Alamadas role as market maker and their actual long term exposure was being monitored elsewhere.
Down to the trivia level for an entire global company, sure, but this is a lot more general and bigger. Like if you have rules against accepting gifts from vendors, maybe you don’t remember if the threshold is $10 or $15, but you shouldn’t need to ask to know it’s not $30k in a suitcase.
I posted one of the earliest comments saying forum.dev is obviously a premium domain. IIRC I was immediately downvoted to -1. To be clear I don’t care about losing some karma, I have enough to burn on 2000 -4’s. The point is if you try to pour cold water on an outage without hijacking a top thread, you’re likely going to sit at the bottom of the thread for a long time.
Treesitter?
So people with poor decision making abilities in one area also have poor ones in others. Not really shocking.
I understand Madoff's scheme started in 1960's/1970's. The feeders to the fund date way back. The SEC enforcement action in the early 90's wasn't directly related to the ponzi scheme, more aimed at the feeders. The wiki pedia article has this "Federal investigators believe the fraud in the investment management division and advisory division may have begun in the 1970s.[27][failed verification] However, Madoff himself stated his fraudulent activities began in the 1990s.[28] ". I would trust the Feds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madoff_investment_scandal
When I was training sysadmins back in the dark ages, one of the rules I taught was: know what good looks like in your logs. If you are scanning hundreds of lines of logging under duress to find a smoking gun, and you don't know the difference between what the logs normally show, and what you are seeing, you'll waste a lot of time.

Corollary is that good day logs should be minimal and "clean", e.g not logging a lot, or, logging nice and predictably (which makes them easy to strip out via grep -v, etc.)
I'm not sure how that contradicts what I wrote. It's above US median income, albeit without benefits. So, it's of course reasonable for someone to decide they don't need to work any longer with that income stream while others may feel differently.
I still prefer to have cat there because it is interchangeable with other output-producing commands and it can handle globs. In an interactive session I iterate on the last command many times, and if I decide to filter stuff can just replace cat with grep or if I decide to pull from a directory of files can add a glob, if compressed it turns to zgrep or zcat etc. With redirects I'd have to change the structure of the pipeline which wastes mental effort. IMO.
On the All In podcast Chamath used a term 'Fraudulent Conveyance'. The idea is that if someone receives money from a fraudulent actor, the entity that received the money has to give it back. Madoff was mentioned somewhere in the comments and the story is that people that got funds out of the Madoff situation before it fell apart had to give the money back.

We will see how it goes this time, but I suspect a lot of the donations will need to come back to the entity.
Taiwan has other problems that are similar to what Ukraine has faced from Russia. People would be crazy to immigrate there now and in the near future.
> What are these campaign finance charges doing here?

Sending a message.
If they can get a continuous fusion reaction going converting the heat energy from that to electricity won't be a problem. Getting a contained fusion reaction that gives out more energy than input is the problem how to convert that into electricity is not going to be a problem.
> Heard the same advise you got, make a community, join communities, post on twitter/reddit. As you said it just feels like fake advise.

It feels fake to let people know what you're working on by writing about it? That's what you and the parent are de facto saying.

How else do you expect them to find you?

There is no possible way around it. You have to tell people what you're doing. Repeatedly. You have to cultivate an interest in your thing. If one can't be bothered with that bare minimum building block, well, there obviously will be no successful outcome. It's definitely not build it and they will come (they don't know it exists until you show them). Give them a reason to care, cultivate interest, and they'll show up.
>We should be fixing the upstream reasons why TSMC didn’t want to build these fabs in the US

Good luck with that.

>Making sure local governments and NIMBYs have only a small amount of veto power

This isn't really possible politically in the US. The US is all about corrupt little local governments having lots of power; it's the whole way the country is structured. Americans have historically hated centralized government. It's also a big part of why the police in America are so awful: there's almost no centralization or standardization, so no power of the national government to fix the problems.
They'll get a sale from me here before too long. I just know I don't have time for another addiction right now, at least not until the new year. Probably quite a few people being more frugal now because of the holidays that will buy it shortly after. Wouldn't be surprised if it's 500k+ sales by the end of January.
Ah, I read the GP as a correction that it wasn't 2^16, but 2^31 values. The "doubling" was correctly stated, but the edit said they only had 2^16 values to work with. Almost certainly just a mistake in the post.
> the cost if something goes wrong would be greater because people have to trust the answers they get from Google.

Google already highlights all sorts of usually-irrelevant garbage in special boxes in the results page. Even a very basic LLM integration would rarely be worse than that.
Seems it would be useful to quantify what that environment specifically is, maybe find some ways to improve it such that the plants are hardier or have better yields.
I never successfully got into Dwarf Fortress before because the ASCII interface was just too hard to learn. I have had some fun with the new release.

I do agree though, whilst it’s made the game, for me, playable, there are lots of smaller annoyances that really add up once you’re a few hours into a fort. The UI is inconsistent in many areas. Sometimes you can view dwarf details, sometimes you can’t. Sometimes right click closes one level, sometimes it’s all of them, then for the squad menu you dismiss by the squad button/hot key again… Search is useful but not available everywhere.

I hope some of these annoyances will get resolved, but certainly it’s not a perfectly polished game either. It is still fun - yes - but I can’t help but be a little sad because it could absolutely be better.
For some reason, I've seen a lot of people try to make arguments around FTX that completely miss the scale and malfeasance that occurred. This wasn't a case of "oh, you got some esoteric GAAP depreciation rule wrong". This was an engineering leader putting a ton of special cases in the code saying "For our most beloved partner, none of the rules apply, including letting them take unlimited amounts of customer funds. Oh, and be sure to hide this from the dashboards the rest of the company uses."

This is not hard. Nobody needs to be versed in the ins-and-outs of jurisdictional compliance rules to see this was blatant and egregious.

If any of this looks remotely familiar to any software devs out there, you should really re-examine your morals. Or at least hire a lawyer.
I have been working in finance my whole life.

A senior developer of anything in this area would be expected to fully understand the risk implications of this. I have written the code to closeout positions automatically multiple times in multiple jobs.

It may have been possible someone directed a junior developer to make this change, but then it would be a case of hunting down who told them. If that happened in my team I'd be documenting everything I saw and running, not walking, not walking briskly, out the door.

This said, nothing is black and white. For example, due to immature processes, they might have told the developer that the main account was only one of many accounts they can call on, but the code only allows for one, so we have to make an exception. I'd still be freaking out.
It's infuriating for sure, but unfortunately it's the reality. If you gained from a Ponzi scheme that means you literally were given other peoples' money (directly).

I fully empathize with the absolutely epic degree it must SUCK to get a call and be told "yeah that 10% you've been earning for the past 20 years was actually someone else's money, you need to give it back."
Web3 isn't dead. It's just getting started
Most companies in financial services require training around compliance topics such as AML.

If you are trading or working with customer money, you usually have to take the Series 7 exam.

So I would say for regulated industries, programmers are expected to know some degree of financial law.
I've built ponds before, so I was already familiar with the process.

I don't know how much water you'd lose from soil percolation; I've always just used a liner. EPDM rubber is what most people use. It's not terribly expensive and can be purchased in surprisingly large continuous sheets, or multiple sheets can be glued together if you want to go even bigger.

I keep koi in my pond. Koi have particular requirements with respect to aeration and filtration and depth. If you're just building a general purpose pond those aren't as much of an issue. Be aware that if you use herbicides or pesticides that you don't want to end up in the pond, then you probably shouldn't design the pond to capture the maximum amount of runoff.

You'll probably want to at least get some mosquito fish to keep mosquitoes under control. Mosquito dunks are another solution -- they're these floating things you toss in the pond that contain a bacteria that's specifically harmful to mosquito larvae.

Some pond plants can survive a freeze (cattail, azolla, lily pads, horse tail) whereas others don't (water lettuce, water hyacinth, taro). I'll usually buy a clump or two of water lettuce and water hyacinth in the spring, and then by the end of summer I have so much I have to fish it out of the pond to keep it from taking over completely.
Assuming for sake of discussion he really is that dumb, then he was being used as a puppet by someone else. He'll need to identify that person or people and their stories and evidence supporting them will need to be compared with his.
He didn’t pay 44B. 13B are bank loans (that need to be paid back by Twitter, not Elon). For the other 31B he had some co-investors as well.

But yes, it was clearly a mistake.
I moved my domains to Porkbun over the last year and I’ve been pretty happy with them so far.
Maybe not! There was that case in 2003 where Bono of U2 said “fucking brilliant” when accepting an award, and the FCC ruled that it was not a violation, because it was not in the context of intercourse. But then later reversed itself.

https://www.rcfp.org/fcc-commissioners-find-bono-remark-inde...
> The real problem behind all these crypto companies is the people who make the money have no concept of what "integrity" is.

You don't need integrity while "the line goes up". Integrity is only for when it goes down. Until recently, the line has been consistently going up. SBF was banking on it going up forever. If it had gone up forever, he would not have been caught!

While the line goes up, integrity just eats into potential profits. It's an extra cost. No business willingly spends extra money they don't have to. That's why regulation and oversight is mandatory.

> ...he taught me that with customer money you cannot get even a single cent wrong.

SBF gave an accounting on FTX holdings with an error margin of "plus-minus 10 billion dollars".

Can you imagine having error bars 20 billion dollars in size!?

For reference, companies with market caps in that range include: Tata Motors, Best Buy, Komatsu, Zoom, East Japan Railway, Mitsubishi Electric, Delta Airlines, or Panasonic!

Sit down and picture telling someone with a straight face that you may or may not have misplaced "value" on the same order of magnitude as an entire airline, or an electronics manufacturer with a worldwide presence built up over seven decades of growth.
It's not just an additional service, it's liability.
> But the question was "is democracy compatible with freedom", and by definition it is not.

You keep skipping past this part, which was the question. I have no idea what election deniers have to do with anything. Maybe Thiel kicks puppies too, I dunno. It's just not relevant.
Both are fine for bikes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
Acquired taste, just like coffee or beer. They don't need sugar.
Pool Capital to invest in high grade VC and PE
I'd be interested in the theory. Their investors aren't exactly mom and pop operations. But I do agree that their promotion of SBF was asinine though that's all clear to the world now. And I'm not in favor of criminalizing bad investments. Sets bad precedent and incentives.
I think there's a lot of other things in society that are similarly unstable, I suppose. But I guess I'd say higher education in the US is in a bubble, and the kind of hypocrisy discussed in the article is one manifestation of it. It's one thing to rely on income inequality openly; it's another to preach one thing and practice another.

I don't think higher education is necessarily unique, but that doesn't make it anymore ok to me.
Not sure exactly what your use case is, but I use vidcutter for lossless clip extraction and it works great and does not require Electron (it's QT based I believe). https://github.com/ozmartian/vidcutter

To answer a point that's been brought up elsewhere in the thread, one nice feature of vidcutter is that you can either cut fully losslessly (on keyframes) or cut frame-perfect while only encoding the frames before and after the first and last keyframes in the cut.

The Arch Linux package for vidcutter is only 4 MB. It has dependencies, of course, but I already have all of them installed for other things. (There's nothing uncommon.) All praise to dynamic linking.
Not a chance. I believe we're all mostly out here trying our best to make the numbers add up, when we're not (judiciously, I hope) looking the other way because some particular numbers offend our sensibilities. People are complicated, and economies are made of people. Money isn't a law of the universe, it's a technology we invented and (mis)apply in accordance with our values and desires.
I've been using iwantmyname.com for ages and love them.
This article is pretty funny. The only data they provide is the price of the crop. They talk about extreme weather events and leave out the one piece of data that would confirm their theory, which is the aggregate yield of crops :O.

Absolute drivel.

Alternative title: Vegetable Prices Soar 40% as Morocco Beats Odds to Advance to Semi-Finals.
Yeah I disagree with the shade on vim motions. I'm trying to use them everywhere and even went looking for a vim and slack integration.

In fact I believe the motions are way more universal than any particular editor's key bindings. There's plugins and extensions for vim motions in almost all editor's I've used barring some database specific UIs.
URL seems to have changed to:
https://www.thediff.co/archive/a-solution-in-search-of-a-pro...

Link on this article took me to:
https://www.thediff.co/archive/a-solution-in-search-of-a-pro...
It is an advantage because taking money from stupid people is preferred
Any source of what brands/varieties are smoked vs not?

I’m able to get quite a few types imported from South America, but from my attempts at translating the packaging and trying to Google things, I can’t tell what’s smoked or unsmoked.
I'm not sure what you mean. If you are asking whether either Vim or Emacs use treesitter for syntax higlighting of LaTeX files, the answer is no at least not by default.
They claim that's not the case, at least with this new configuration. I'm not sure if I believe them, but this shouldn't be an issue. In theory.
To correct myself: 'ignition' is getting more energy output then input (if I understan correctly), and that is a first. Sorry for the confusion.