skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These sound like pretty standard interview questions to me. Would be a little weird if you're being asked to answer these in written form, though (instead of as part of an interactive conversation). Perhaps there's a bit of a disconnect between the person who came up with these questions, and whoever's running your interview process? Like these were written up to interview a more senior hire, but are now being repurposed as part of an entry-level test?
When I was in highschool I wrote a Tetris game for the TRS-80. My clever hack was that I could make it twice as fast by keeping the state of the falling shapes in video memory instead of a separate object model. In an early version of this, I failed to completely draw the "cup" the objects were falling into, and one fell straight through the bottom into system memory and crashed the machine.
Paywall workaround for the above WSJ article: https://archive.ph/20AU0
My wife grew up in Silicon Valley, born there a few years before it became known as Silicon Valley. Her sister (my SiL) was born and raised there and by the time she died at 55 a few years ago she was essentially just couch surfing, house sitting and (we suspect) occasionally sleeping in her car. Because she wasn't a tech worker she couldn't come near to affording rent. My wife had invited her to come live with us for a while (in a much lower COL area) but she just couldn't do it. She didn't drink or do drugs so that wasn't the reason for her near-homelessness. She grew up there and felt like she had roots there and she didn't like the colder climate we live in. I think sometimes we discount the idea that someone could be tied to a geographical area, that they could feel like they have roots there.
I think the long-standing MOBAs such as League and Dota have a unique advantage in this area.

Many people grow frustrated with playing the game themselves, with most games being ruined by uncooperative crybabies or just straight trolls. Losing at 10 minutes but being held hostage in the game regardless is incredibly frustrating.

You don't have these issues while watching someone else play, or watching a tournament. So its become quite common to continue watching these games even if you barely ever play them yourself.
I can’t wait until tether finally implodes. That will absolutely destroy the crypto market.
I’m aware of Mazars and their position. I didn’t say they are fly by night, I said they aren’t as reputable or established as the big 4.

My point stands that if you want to assuage doubts, you don’t hire the #11 [0] (or #21 if just looking at US revenue [1]) firm to do it. This would be simple to get PWC or someone. But a firm that big isn’t willing to touch this kind of operation.

[0] https://big4accountingfirms.org/the-top-accounting-firms-in-...
[1] https://www.accountingtoday.com/the-2021-top-100-firms-data
The Times and Washington Post perhaps but I haven't seen any puff pieces from WSJ about SBF. In fact quite the opposite. The WSJ seems to be decidedly anti-crypto. The most recent piece concerning him before this announcement was titled:

"The Rise and Fall of Respectability":

https://archive.vn/AiEEO#selection-109.5-109.40
This is just trolling and typical of people who just want to shoot down what others have done because they cant or haven't created anything themselves. How about showing a positive solution instead of the equivalent of finding reasons why we can't do anything. If everyone had this attitude we'd still all be hiding in trees somewhere
This article reports on:

- commingling of funds between Alameda and FTX

- conflicts of interest between the two, including SBF's relationship with the CEO

- use of customer deposits to pay off loans for Alameda

- that FTX and SBF are under investigation
Caroline and Sam Trabucco were co-CEOs. He too will face the full scrutiny of the DOJ.
It's really strange how people allow their political ideology to color their thinking.

Musk a "sociopathic cult leader?"

He gets this label apparently because he believes in the marketplace of ideas.

That's now equivalent to sociopathic tendencies?

And because a lot of people agree with that freedom of expression (sort of the reason the U.S. was founded, and the thing that a lot of people have fought and died for) he's a cult leader?

Roughly half or more of folks in this country tend to agree with him on a lot of things. That's a cult? They are all just dumb or something? From Locke to Sewell, they are brainwashed cultists too?

Or is it maybe possible that reasonable people can disagree?
My criticism is painfully characteristic of HN, but to be blunt: the results of this are ugly.

I'm a recreational CAD user and recently I've tried to add more decorative flourish to my designs using ZBrush as a final processing step. Some recent examples: I've tried to add decorative moulding style carvings into a bracket. I've tried to fashion the ends of a workshop hook into rainforest vines. I completely suck to be clear.

My dream workflow for AI sculpting is an img2img/StableDiffusion style interface where I can select portions of my model to alter and iterate on the prompt, within something like ZBrush. "The moulding texture is good, but I'd like a more Greek inspired style", "Can you make the bark texture on this wood deeper?", "Can you turn this neutral face into an angry grimace?"

A simpler version that would still be really awesome is being able to generate texture brushes like [1][2] to easily sculpt with via prompts. "tight, densely packed neat feathers" or "the texture of a blanket with large, loose yarn knitting".

[1] https://youtu.be/VeC6WEZzbTM?t=26 (ornamental trim demo)

[2] https://environmentdesign.gumroad.com/l/mDbSP (rock textures)

(no affiliation with either)
"Luxury" in housing is a pricepoint, not a level of amenities. In most cases, the prices were going to rise anyways because it is the area is desirable. If building a "luxury" unit would raise property values, Detroit would have had a solution to their woes long ago.

The solution to expensive housing isn't to prevent development, but to allow for denser development. When given the choice between low-rise and mid-rise, developers will tend to chose mid-rise, as it allows them more money on the same lot size. More supply can bring down prices. Even renters who can't afford the newer more expensive unit benefit, because the folks who move into the new units must vacate their unit first [1].

[1] https://research.upjohn.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1325...
Unfortunately, titles do matter.
If you think this is a good idea, [I think] you need to understand the discipline of psychiatry better.

My impression is that anything about you that is non-functional to you as a rational, self-interested agent in the world is a disorder, example [1].

Read about how they characterize delusions [2]. Essentially, if you don't preface everything you say with the words "I think", you are deluded.

It's an interesting field, but [I think] it's dangerous to put too much power in the hands of this field. [I think] it blunts a lot of normal humanity.

[I think] having suicidal thoughts is a normal part of an open-minded human life. [I think] going through a very bad near suicidal crises should be able to happen without the state labeling you in a fashion that can absolutely ruin your life should you decide to return to it. [I think] allowing people the privacy of their own minds is an essential human freedom, that we abandon at our peril.

In addition [I think] forcing people to state "I think" at the beginning of every sentence they say is a way to limit their persuasive power. Which is an interesting norm, but [I think] it needs to be universally applied as otherwise [I think] it can be used as a way to detooth opposition to authority.

That said, I wish all people tormented by their own minds the best possible future. I think therapy can help, as can reaching out to people who love you, if you have any in your life. But I think if you don't want to tell your therapist about your suicidal tendancies because you're worried about how a nervous bureaucracy will respond, I think that's your right.

Involuntary psychiatric care is no picnic. Having your freedoms taken away from you because of things you said, and finding you can't find the right sequence of magic words to leave is about as frustrating a position as a person can be in. What you might view as a serious bump in the road is viewed from the outside as a whole new social trajectory for you.

The people I met in there told me everything would get better once I just accepted I would never leave. That this was my life now. To stay calm, I did have to imagine a life where I never left, and figure out a way to be okay with that. It's a very hard mental exercise if you've ever wanted good things for your own life, and it doesn't surprise me not everyone can manage it without acting out.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrupulosity

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3016695/
I wonder whilst seem silly anyone fly 64 days of Microsoft flight simulator of a Cessna 172. (You may say it is easy, just trim … you do not know how unstable the thing it is and especially if you use real weather and not sure any affect of air traffic … or real people air traffic).
Have you SEEN how much it costs to make phone calls from jail? he wouldn't be able to afford it, anyway.
Relevant: Suicide Linux

https://github.com/tiagoad/suicide-linux

https://esoteric.codes/blog/suicide-linux
I can promise that airplane mode does not fully disable the cellular radio, at least not on Samsung phones. Repeating a comment above: I can verify they do in fact receive data - I worked an immersive art project that had 100 Samsung cell phones that were in airplane mode, and we found out the hard and noisy way that they were still able to receive emergency and AMBER alerts (U.S. alerts that notify of potential child abductions).
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I would argue this is a problem that can’t be solved. At the scale of youtube, it is virtually impossible to provide quality customer services.

Some have proposed to break it into multiple entries, but it couldn’t help either. Each entities still have to deal with the complexity of international copyright laws.
Laughable propaganda. Find me the video. And not the MSNBC interpretation on it. Putin didn’t even want to annex the eastern oblasts of Ukraine until very recently, after his hand was basically forced. It’s well-documented that he even told the representatives not to hold referendums on joining Russia prior to the most recent ones, when it became clear there was no other way to protect the Russian-speaking citizens there from their own country’s aggression, which killled over 10k of their civilians before February 2022.
My wording may have been unclear in retrospect- I meant that I would not take a position in a firm that did not have market fit unless it was for whole percentage points. If they have market fit, it's a different story.
My experience with DragonRuby was really poor. I was dismayed how restrictive it was (e.g. with libraries). Images were particularly painful and I was annoyed that the toolkit couldn't dynamically resize them for me (nor could I pull in ImageMagick). Perhaps it was trying to deal with sprite sheets and having to hardcode pixel offsets. Yes, it uses Ruby syntactically, but it doesn't feel like Ruby to me as far as ecosystem and productivity go. This was a few years ago - maybe this has changed. I probably wouldn't give it another go, but I'd love to see something built in DragonRuby hosted online to see what it can do.

Godot, while not perfect, fit my expectations better. I found myself simply using the prebuilt abstractions I was already building by hand in DragonRuby. Things mostly work. When it came time to cross-compile for hosting on itch.io, I was really delighted by how easy it was to get my games in front of people. That quick feedback loop got me hooked for a while.
You know how the filter gets yellow after smoking? It’s not tar, it’s a coloring applied to the filter to make smokers think the filter is doing something.
That's a good point. I guess I hadn't really thought about how performative discussions on public forums are. Maybe embracing that more deliberately somehow could produce a worthwhile difference?
seriously.. bring some evidence. onshore wind is just not going to happen it just has too many problems. and offshore wind is more expensive, less reliable and takes roughly the same time to build as nuclear. Denmark is currently planning to build a 3Gw energy island that will cost a whopping 40bn dollars and is planed to be finished in 2033. insane if you ask me
It’s a little bit innocent to think that SBF isn’t intelligent; he’s extremely adept at lying and manipulating. And on top of that, intelligent enough to create a large crypto exchange. It’s his morals and impulses that got him into trouble.
> His two successes, Tesla and SpaceX, are companies he purchased.

Musk himself founded SpaceX, rocket engineer Tom Mueller was his first employee. He did not "purchase" SpaceX from anybody.

Tesla was founded by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning in 2003. In early 2004, they brought Musk on as an investor, who provided such a large share of the early investment (Series A onwards), he soon owned the majority of the company. Eberhard and Tarpenning would continue as CEO and CFO until they had a falling-out with Musk around 2007/2008, and Musk used his majority ownership to fire them. Under the terms of 2009 lawsuit settlement, Eberhard, Tarpenning, Musk, Ian Wright and J. B. Straubel agreed among themselves that all five can be described as "co-founders" of Tesla. If someone pitches a startup to a venture capitalist–which is the role Musk was playing at the beginning of his involvement in Tesla–who through providing the bulk of the Series A funding (and subsequent funding rounds), ends up with majority control, is that accurately described as a "purchase"? For anyone other Elon Musk, I doubt people would use that word.

> He hired people to tackle hard problems, yes, but what has he done personally?

Doesn't that describe many founders? For a founder/CEO, a very big chunk of their work, is making sure they pick the right leaders beneath them, and making the right picks vs the wrong ones can be the difference between a runaway success and bankruptcy.
Paparazzi invade into peoples lives and don’t allow them any sense of normalcy in either public or private. They capture intimate moments, draw focus to people’s bodies, and stir up media frenzies about mundane aspects of being human.

Posting ADS—B data is not anything close to resembling that. Elon Musk claims to have “started” Tesla in the name of sustainability and yet personally is responsible for dumping more carbon in the atmosphere than god knows how much compared to the average person. Pointing out this hypocrisy with publicly available data is not a bad thing, and is nothing like the paparazzi.

> Putting someone's life in a spotlight without their consent

Elon Musk acquired Twitter supposedly in the name of free speech. He then chose to post borderline transphobic thoughts on Twitter because he knew it would stir the pot amongst his ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY MILLION Twitter followers. He then chose to go on stage at the end of Dave Chapelle's set in front of a _lot_ of people, and was booed by a large percentage of said people. When someone decided to post a video of this on Twitter, that persons account was banned.

Does that sound like someone who doesn't want to have their life put in the spotlight? Or does it sound like an attention seeking hypocrite who is using his money and power to try to silence people who question his extremely questionable actions?

There are millions of good hills to die on. I have no idea why one would choose to willingly throw themselves onto a mountainous pyre of bullshit.

The rich and powerful do not need bootlickers to defend their shitty actions.

And I say this as someone who until recently thought he has caught a bit too much flak for some of his immature antics.
Bernie Madoff sat on SEC advisory committees and was the onetime chairman of Nasdaq.
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Honestly, probably futzing around with Prince of Persia level assets in ResEdit to bypass the piracy check, as a child. My capacity for pride diminished with exposure to the world.

More recently, replacing `7z.exe` with a PowerShell script that logged input, to get archive passwords for an obfuscated data format. Not technically impressive at all but a few days were saved and lolz were had.
I would argue for an AI (I wouldn't call these language models that, but fine) to be controlled they need to understand (or have similar “reasoning” properties). Just because we anthropomorphize these models doesn't mean there is actually any reasoning skills behind them.

You can't control these language models in the same sense that you can't control random number generators. You can only change the output once it's done.
The most recent GSL videos on Youtube can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/@afreecatvesports432/videos

The average viewership is 20k, with a peak of 32k.
As others have mentioned, there is circumstantial evidence in that she was photoographed recently at a Lower Manhattan Starbucks quite close to the Southern District of New York (who would handle any Federal prosectuion like this as it realtes to securities fraud).

But you have to look at the larger picture: The Federal prosectuion conviction rate is 95%. The Federal government is very good at getting prosectuions in cases they choose to prosecute. They tend to plea out cases that are riskier. A key tactic in doing this is they get one or more cooperating witnesses. That witness gets a better deal in exchange for their testimony that pretty much turns the case into a lock.

It's classic Prisoner's Dilemma. The first to take the deal is always the best off. Lawyers know it so if their clients are at risk, they'll tend to push their clients to be the one to take it. Ellison will most likely have direct knowlege of the situation and will be able to produce evidence such as emails and texts.

Importantly, she's not the main guy. It's SBF who opened up custodial assets to be used in that way (or so it seems). That's the primary offence here. It's a bit like how in a murder case the cooperating witness might be a driver or a witness but unlikely to be the actual shooter. They may get embroiled in a felony murder conviction otherwise thanks to the US-specific pecularity (and some, including myself, would call a miscarriage of justice) of felony murder but that's another story.

So Ellison fits the profile of an ideal cooperating witness, there's supporting circumstancial evidence and the fact that Federal prosecutors indicted SBF so quickly further suggests a cooperating witness with firsthand khowledge or they'd otherwise be mired in subpoenas for communications, conducting interviews and otherwise building a case.

A criminal indictment represents the end of the investigation, not the beginning. SDNY has already built their case to their satisfaction. People seem to think an arrest happens and the investigation continues. That's not how Federal prosecutions works.
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data corruption is slightly orthogonal to data loss.

If your filesystem silently corrupts some data in a way you don't notice, you might just replicate the corrupted data to your backup system over time. And in that case you will still have lost it.

Data loss - e.g. due to a disk failure - is a lot more obvious.
Because technology was never the problem. All it did was morph some things in to different shapes with similar functions and features, and that doesn't actually change anything.

Education in itself doesn't need disrupting. If anything, it needs stability.
Found out recently that utilizing Snowflake from Spark that you still cant represent higher than int32 normally, driver doesn't support it.

I think its in the works but it makes me laugh that the big data folks never really cared about a number bigger than 2.4b or so.
Nan, you probably would not.
Do you have somebody in Vietnam or Venezuela, with a small army of mercenaries, and that you trust enough to hide those stashes of gold ?
I don't get why you need to do so. RAID is not a substitute of backups, and shouldn't used that way. Meaning that of course you have a backup of the data that you can recover from.

RAID is used for two things:

1. improving the performance of slow disks (at least the read performance)
2. having 1/2 disk fail with your system remaining completely usable, till you replace the faulty disk as soon as possible.

The second point is fundamental to me: there shouldn't be any disruption of service whatsoever, meaning that only the sysadmin should notice the fault (beside maybe a reduced performance of the system since you have 1 less drive). Database transaction that were in progress when the disk did break shouldn't fail, writes/reads on the FS shouldn't fail, the only thing that should happen is an alarm triggered in the monitoring system to inform that a disk needs to be changed as soon as possible.

Having a RAID with manual recovery... it means that you could end up a Saturday evening in front of a computer to bring a system back online, and still some data corruption may have happened.
Arrested is great progress. Now lets see him convicted and sentenced, and ideally not allowed to suicide his way out of the process.
If we continue on the blackbox path of "train, punish and hope it works" then that is true. But that doesn't need to be the case. Neither human or machine intelligence is magic (probably), so with sufficient understanding there isn't anything fundamentally in in the way of controlling it.

Higher levels of social organisation are primarily about more sophisticated forms of control and organisation. Today we're already much better at it than 500 years ago.
> Good luck sending somebody shells or gold to make a payment.

Good luck sending somebody crypto to make a payment.
I wonder if anyone has ever tried negotiating an inflated title as a severance benefit. That would really push this to the next level.
> For me this doesn't mean I only do the "fun stuff" - it means I need to see results of my effort, and those results need to be meaningful.

You nailed it here - anticipation for results is one of the greatest motivations I can have. If it's not there, things get really hard. I don't think it can be sufficient on its own, but it sure needs to be there.

That said - some kinds of what's essentially busy-work can be pretty rewarding in this regard too. There were periods where I caught myself doing plenty of non-creative and rather trivial distro packaging at work just because it was providing me with a quick feedback loop. It wasn't interesting or challenging, but a meaningful chunk of work could be completed before I got bored and seeing it done was rewarding enough to keep going.
Shorter guy who owns hundreds of millions of pounds worth of commercial buildings: "letting employees work from home would cut into my profit margin, and it must be stopped!"
For the curious, the full book is available on the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/dissertationsmor00beat
I agree. They are in general easily net-positive for most traditional applications.
Right, and those completely vary from country to country. Trying to get one website to support the common authenticated payment systems worldwide is basically impossible unless that website is Google.com.