skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Strange (re: The Guardian, not HN). By today's 24-hour news cycle standard, this is arguably "old news". These documents have been available for at least 24h. I know because I submitted them to HN yesterday.

Ellison's Plea Agreement

https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/r478tCuj...

CTFC v SBF, Ellison and Wang Amended Complaint

https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/rRCRC2hQ...

Wang's Plea Agreement

https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/rWKaiz60...

EDIT: Also, I submitted the SBF Appearance Bond and Bail Disposition since there have been a number of stories I have seen today struggling to understand SBF's $250M bond. As the documents show, the parents are paying the bond with the equity in their Palo Alto home next to Stanford valued as "$4M". Payment is not due until Jan 12, 2023. Meawhile SBF is released to home detention. There are also two other unnamed individuals who are listed as FRP besides SBF's parents. As one can see on the form, one is a family member and the other is not. Who is this other person helping to bail out SBF.

SBF Appearance Bond

https://ia804708.us.archive.org/26/items/gov.uscourts.nysd.5...

SBF Bail Disposition

https://ia804708.us.archive.org/26/items/gov.uscourts.nysd.5...
Frankly these companies operated as criminal enterprises, intentionally creating programs and taking action to evade law enforcement officials in multiple countries.

The companies and the executives responsible are criminal should be treated as such. The companies should be destroyed and the executives imprisoned. Any early investors/VC funds that provably knew the illegality of the company's actions should suffer the same fate.
Because Vulkan didn’t exist when Apple developed Metal.
I have always wondered why "x" and "conspiracy to commit x" are different counts.
I'm using meson, since I started a new job a few months ago and so far I find it to be absolutely delightful, especially compared to cmake.

There is almost always only one certain way to do something, which makes it easy to learn, but sometimes frustrating to use, if you're not doing it the "meson way".

I also like the .wrap file mechanism to manage dependencies. It's simple, yet powerful enough for our small team and so far we didn't have the need to use a more complex solution.
And the ones that make money whose products sold to those "I bought shits from this popular guy", "I'm trendy now", too much bias.
I wonder how much TSMC pushing back 3nm plays into this? Weren't they projecting 3nm risk production to start at the tail end of 2021 originally?
It screams on super underpowered hardware. That’s a nice benefit over just about any modern OS.
lvgl uses SDL2 could get access to 2D acceleration I think.
It is excellent to see a modern browser on Haiku, but one thing remains:

If we get a web browser with advert blocking, it will be ready for the modern web.
I would personally give up the “thriving” market if it meant software was developed with users interests in mind. Much of the tech growth in the U.S. doesn’t actually result in higher quality of life in the long run
I Make Music with AI
Google must be delighted that ChatGPT is tanking their own product by making it 'safe'
He's a PVP gamer who can't even get out of the bottom-most tier of League of Legends. [1] I very much doubt he's trying to game plan anything of this kind of sophistication.

[1]: https://www.ft.com/content/23ab2258-ce03-4fbb-a9b2-7d9ec6e3d...
I remember how Print Shop-made banners were all over my elementary school in the 80s. The fonts became instantly recognizable to me. It was easier to make banners then than now, because continuous-feed printers were more prevalent.
> These USDTs can then be spent to pump up various other crypto assets

So why don't they do that now? Why are the crypto prices at two years low?

This is the age old ZeroHedge conspiracy recycled - if the stock market goes up, it's because of WOPRs (their name for HFT algos) and the Fed plunge-protection-team, but if it goes down it's because of healthy market forces which are calling the Feds bluff.
Two C64s Plus a Pile of Floppy Disks Equals One Accordion
Facebook makes about $200/yr per USA/Canadian user. So probably start there.
Now they do (previously they claimed 1:1 with actual dollars in a bank account, but failed to demonstrate that). But that 80% "Commercial paper" is suspicious as hell, considering it would make up more than half the total market for said paper (so 'liquid' is already questionable), and no-one else in the market has heard of them.
The point of these regulations is acknowledging and asserting that users (and people in general) matter more than a thriving market for tech and innovation - yes, user-hostile software benefits the market, but that's a cost we aren't willing to pay.
Related:

Jukebox - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23032243 - April 2020 (130 comments)
What is hard about the following?

# project/meson.build
project_plugin_dep = declare_dependency(
include_directories: plugin_includes,
compile_args: plugin_c_args
)

# plugin/meson.build, repeated for each plugin
shared_module(
'plugin',
'plugin.c',
dependencies: project_plugin_dep
)

Without having seen what your user-defined function does, this is the best equivalent that I can come up with. If your plugins exist out of tree, then Meson can consume a pkg-config file. Postgres is slowly moving to Meson and uses out of tree plugins.
FTX might have been a money-printing machine, but the situation with Alameda is a lot less clear. Being a market maker is hard. If you make a mistake, you can lose a lot of money. It's probably easier to be a crook.
> * Written in C89 (ANSI C)

Just why. C17 exist.

Why is is that some developers stick with C89, whilst in the C++ community, unless you work for some really backwards company, you adopt the latest standard before it's even officially nailed down?

C89 needs to die. Stop supporting it.
That's crazy. I'm thinking Hanlon's razor applies here, there is absolutely no evidence that tether is legit.
Thank you for your thoughtful reply. Is it fair to say that Nim and Dart share similar mission statements? Any idea of a comparison between the two?
Ya, it's one of things you have to make a team/org-level call on.

For me, ruby is full of a lot of little conveniences that shouldn't necessarily be used in production systems. I always cry loud that code should be quickly "scannable", and the data-structures we choose to use can help a lot in the quicker understanding an unfamiliar piece of code.

But I stress again: these types of decisions are best left up to the team or org. It's ultimately low-stakes.
Doing things that don't scale – can we apply this to funding as well?
I have been watching the video series where Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel talk about stuff. I am really intrigued by the notion of "doing things that don't scale". Can we apply this to fundraising as well? What I mean is raising funds from a pitch competition instead of a VC?
Freakonomics did an episode about Google and it made the same point. Ad space is worth to much
If by learn you mean rote-memorize some syntax. I doubt most people who have never touched it will manage to use or even understand enough about pointers and arrays and stuff in a single day. Get some stuff to compile maybe, yeah.
I don't think it's a huge lift to restrict a language model to "known" good facts from search results. And to have it cite sources.

I made a proof of concept this weekend - https://github.com/VikParuchuri/researcher . There are some issues, but it's very useful.
That's not a problem as long as people exist outside the US.
> muon analyze - a static analyzer for meson.build files. Capable of doing type inference, checking unused variables, undeclared variables, etc.

Whoa, that's fancy! That whole project seems neat, thanks for pointing it out
I agree that corporate press releases usually bury the lede and, in the case of negative stories, are often outright misleading. For that reason we often change them (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...). I've used your suggestion above. Thanks!

If anyone suggests a better title (i.e. more accurate and neutral), we can change it again, and if there's a better third-party article that covers whatever the latest news on this is, we could switch to it.
Choosing Java made a lot of sense when Android got started. The binary architecture for mobile devices was not standard in any way, ARM, MIPS, x86 were all in common use at some time or another. And nowadays AArch64 (which is not the same as older ARM) is quite widespread. Plus there was nothing like WASM back then, so if you wanted binary independence for apps and the like you were stuck with something very much like Java.
Yes, of course, we actually have tried to analyze the dataset from hacker-news too, see this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34110321
Ah I see. I might try that with another language then! That makes more sense.
End-of-Year Journaling Prompts
But gitlab is not in our list yet.
Absolutely! Is there anything more painful than a progress bar that "hangs" at 95% for 30% of the total time?
Where are all the Tether holders complaining that they can't convert it into dollars?
"Two peoples, divided by a common language."
Ops people cost money, and MediaWiki is a flaming garbage heap to operate (with utmost respect to those who tirelessly work on it). Developers who work on editor tools also cost money, as do lawyers for major jurisdictions in which Wikipedia operates (hint: there are many). Grants and appointments provide essential depth to Wikipedia; what's a history article without historians helping out?

Re paycheck to paycheck: look, I'm not a finance guy, but I have it on good authority (sorry, no links) that the current campaign's performance is having _some_ effect; you're welcome to tell them it shouldn't, I guess?

Sure, there's some stupid money (and the recent upheaval is helping with that), but there's a lot of non-stupid money, and it's not like they're epically mismanaging the money.

Apologies for the lack of sources, but everything relevant is public, I think, and you've found the budget already.
If Tether put all its money into low-yield short term US treasuries, the founders could pay every employee $10MM USD a year and still be paying themselves $1 billion USD a year.

That is a phenomenal amount of risk free income. That's putting the founders somewhere high, probably first 50 names high, on the Forbes 400 list.

That seems foolish to risk to commit crimes.
It's crazy. It wouldn't let my children make up a rhyme about farts earlier. And anything (innocuous) combining humour and religion now comes back saying the subject is sacred and shouldn't be disrespected.

I'm all for respecting the holy, but the idea of a future in which we're content-policed by brainwashed AI is horrifying.
Me too, the problem might be that the costs to run queries might be really high?

I made some back-of-the-envelope calculations as https://beta.sayhello.so (based on ChatGPT) results are often better than Google.

The energy alone will be really high for the amount of queries I do in Google. No idea how to make this sustainable.

Hopefully I'm wrong, or more efficient GPUs/TPUs come out in the near future.
You need to use UBSan, then you get the bounds checking in GCC. I added this in 2015.

https://godbolt.org/z/8ncEK3K5b
the thing is.. ChatGPT doesn't have to compete with perfectly correct information because the information you search for on Google is often wrong(=SEO spam) too and you have to sift through a lot of garbage or misleading links there too. Sometimes literally, because you get a forum link with a bunch of people saying wrong things and then finally someone says the answer. That's similar to what you have to do on ChatGPT to doublecheck or ask a follow up questions or read more or treat a piece of information with a dose of healthy doubt. Both ChatGPT/Google are very useful and they both produce imperfect results and they both require some human thought.
> I have always wondered why "x" and "conspiracy to commit x" are different counts.

Conspiracy requires at least 2 people.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22767267
This is very cool! It's nice to see other implementations outside of ChatGPT.

I noticed that it doesn't always cite sources, so I assume that some results are coming straight from an LLM, and some are web search + LLM.

If you're always looking for sources to be cited, I built a project this weekend that will summarize a topic and cite sources - https://github.com/VikParuchuri/researcher . It's definitely slower than this implementation, but it is self-hosted and hackable.
I realize that replies like this don't necessarily help, but I'll try. We're not in contact, let alone cahoots, with FBI or any other government agencies, or any other organization for that matter. I think there have been a handful of subpoeanas (maybe 3 or 4) over the years, related to ongoing investigations, but nothing memorable.

We don't have any problem with people criticizing the FBI or anyone else, as long as the comments stay within the realm of thoughtful conversation and don't cross into flamewar or fulmination (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). That's not to protect the FBI or anyone else—it's just trying to prevent HN from deteriorating (too quickly).
https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2022/comp-pr2022-2...
Their general council, Stuart Hoegner, was head of compliance at Excapsa. Excapsa was the parent company of Ultimate Bet, an online poker site where they created a backdoor so that some favored parties could see their opponents cards.

There's a lot of analogs here.
For Dissecting DOS, I recommend eBay, but it is available on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Dissecting-DOS-Code-Level-Operating-S...

The original companion floppy for that is available on archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/dissecting-dos-companion-floppy-...

Understanding Microprocessors is a small book, and currently unavailable anywhere I've seen except for eBay, but it's also normally quite inexpensive.
Why? Most people don't care about this and only use the port for charging.
They have a bigger problem. If I find answers, I see less ads.

As the web has disappeared, Google’s focus changed from information to pure paid placement. You sorta get the information that you need, but not really.

ChatGPT will turn into an even bigger shitshow, as at its heart it’s a bullshit generator. But it will kill Google.
To answer that question you first have to figure out who they are. Tether mostly moves around, people don't hold it.

That is to say, exchanges like Binance are heavily dependent on USDT. Those are the only venues you as an individual have to exchange tethers for USD (of course this is not the same as a redemption which is solely at Tether's discretion). Why would the exchanges ever come to Tether for the cash knowing they weren't good for it when revealing the pantslessness of the emperor would take them down too?

It is my opinion that Tether succeeded in doing what the Luna Foundation Guard was trying to do - they made all the 'industry' players so dependent on their continued existence that anyone blowing the whistle would take out the whole space. This in turn makes sure nobody gets within a few hundred yards of a whistle.
I was reading you comment and the obsidian note taking app came to mind in regards to how supporting foss makes an impact over time. Look at valve supporting Linux and look where we're at today with Linux gaming. I think you're right It makes a difference over time. Look at all the gamers using the steam deck. They don't even know the platform is based on foss. And that in and of it self has the impart to change where we are headed. The masses don't really need to know what is happening. They just benefit from the supports of foss
If you can't be a shining example, at least be a terrible warning.

I laughed.
Same. I think it would be cool but really most of the stuff is not that useful.

Just like physical stuff I have - happened once or twice in my life when some small thing would be useful if I would keep it.

LRU - last recently used is sorting algorithm for my life.
As far as I know, gitlab does not provide open data to users
> The guy's a pvp gamer at heart so probably min-maxing with his lawyers what he can do as a criminal informant.

What? That's such a bizarre idea.

Do you think the lawyers go "thank god this man plays Starcraft, so he understands the need to have a strategy in court!"
To me, this is the key thing. Brain has been getting one-upped by OpenAI despite being an absolutely enormous org including some of the most credentialed ML researchers in the world. It is sort of embarrassing that tools like Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT are coming from other places.
What do you mean? They also have sth like ChatGPT, called Lambda, and that was quite some time before ChatGPT was released. They basically have all the fancy large language model things as well. They are always at the state of the art and usually way beyond internally.

The bigger problem is, how to make this into a product. A product where you can show ads. A product which will not create all kinds of hate.
I mostly agree and I'm actually amazed at how FTX was doing crazy shit instead of just making exchange money the legal way, but... isn't it super-expensive to truly back up tether with cash? I mean, it's kind of an extraordinary claim that they have a few bil of cash stashed in a mattress just sitting there backing things up 1:1 ready to get withdrawn any second.
Tesla EV production capacity (2023): ~2.3M cars/year. Market cap: $388B

Mercedes EV production capacity (2024): ~1M cars/year. Market cap: $65B

The EV production edge and first mover edge is gone. So where is the edge/premium?

* FSD
* Battery production capacity
* US charging network
* US chip supply chain
* Free advertising on Twitter
* No costs for winding down internal combustion business

What else?
It even has a debugger and an auto formatter. Meson is getting an auto formatter in https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pull/10971.
I'm in all in favor of strict gun laws, but your arguments aren't entirely correct.

That "side effect" is is not because of impulse buying and getting guns on short notice. In fact, there's a mandatory waiting period in 1/5th of US states (10 days in California) specifically to prevent that situation, which seems like a _very_ good idea to me. It's about a) getting them without learning a large amount of material (not everyone memorizes things as easily as engineers), and b) without approval buy someone who might actually object.

To get a gun in France, you need a hunting/sports license. The hunting license requires a 1-day theoretical and practical exam, as well as a medical exam that is specifically meant to verify if the physical and mental health is compatible with the stated purpose of the purchase. Whereas in the US, you need at most a trivial knowledge test (firearms safety certificate, with questions like in which direction to point the gun. possible answers: safest possible direction, up, down, north (!) [1]) to buy a firearm (hunter's safety education is only required to purchase a hunting license, not a gun).

And regarding your third point, sure, but the solution to that is to provide a better, legal, safe and professionally supervised pathway. Anything else makes as much sense as writing a law that bans cancer.

[1] https://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/firearms/forms...
I don't expect them to wow us again. Most of their gains were from buying the best TSMC node and putting memory on-package.
Nice UI - Please take also a look at Geeonx cross-platform C GUI library for Windows and Linux with GUI designer https://www.geeonx.de
At present, ChatGPT is very hit or miss. I've definitely used it to do some things that I couldn't have done with Google. But I've also struggled for periods of (wasted) time trying to get it to help with things and having it completely fail.

Google is right to worry about tech like this but I'd say they still have time to react.
You said "open", not "public".
A few of those users are well known in their own right. Seems they value being a contributing member of this site. They often come by to comment when other users drop their name or link to their articles.
Go cardinal!
Is z-library back up somewhere?
So some of them are guidelines, others are rules, but which is which is not for us to know. This is obviously very healthy and constructive :)
I'll turn this around: you've never told someone to go fuck themselves?

I would say that I've used it more IRL than online!!

I don't think it is a thing to commonly use in conversations, no. When people are discussing things in good faith, it is inappropriate. But there are times when it is appropriate, IMO. You're having a good faith discussion here I think, if I just replied "fuck you" yeah. It would be pretty mean.

Also, sorry, I should have elaborated: by "fuck you" I don't always mean literally fuck you. I also mean phrases like "You obviously don't want to have a conversation about this" etc.. which are dismissive and against the guidelines of HN (I have been rate-limited for this type of speech, btw)

Sometimes it is appropriate, even if that appropriateness is only like you're saying: advertising to people like you that you don't want to converse with me. Good! :)

Much worse for me to just "obey the rules" and troll you in good faith while adhering to the guidelines, IMO. Much more toxic, too.

It is like your coworker who, every time you try and have a constructive conversation with, says "I'll set up a meeting to talk about this" or "we'll discuss it on standup" or "send me an email about this" or whatever - and never follows up.

Polite, appropriate, work-safe - but much more toxic than if they would just say "we're not doing that b/c of XYZ, sorry" (which is long-form for "fuck you").

So yeah, it should be OK to say "fuck you" on a healthy forum! ;)
If you add warnings, it will also tell you that the ARR_LEN macro is wrong...
"There is no doubt that chatGPT is the future."

Why do you say this? It's going to be one of many similar products, even then, it's impressive, it's fun, but is it really useful yet? I think we have to wait and see?

By the way, I like ChatGPT and have a lot of fun with it.
No. Focus distance is very different than depth of field. If your film plane is perpendicular, it is very easy to have things very close to you be outside of the depth of field and so be blurry. Tilting the lens tilts the plane of focus so can encompass things very close to you on the ground. Of course that will make things at the top go out of focus so you have to be careful.
Same! When it's $100 I want to buy, but if the price falls to $80 i want to sell.

Presumably i bought because I thought it was worth more than $100, it would only make sense for me to sell at $80 for a reason other than the price: fundamentals change, some bad event happening. If the only thing that changed is the price, I want to buy more at $80!
If you think you have nothing left to give, look at the success of this very submission. You hit a nerve. It would be interesting to learn more about the specifics of your venture and learn more about your lessons learned. Wish you all the best.
Which is the big problem. ChatGPT will produce something reasonable if it's seen good content on the indicated subject. Otherwise, it just makes up plausible blithering, including fake references.

Useful for fiction, advertising copy, and literary criticism. Not so good for fact retrieval.
People are building a lot of services off of their (paid) API using text-davinci-003 and a few others which have very similar capabilties.

I am hoping that ChatGPT will also become an API but using the existing ones its relatively trivial to build services. The main challenge for me is that the Codex API has a very tiny rate limit. But anyway text-davinci-003 is very similar in capabilities and output to ChatGPT.
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