skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Federal prosecutors have seized nearly $700 million in assets from FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried in January, largely in the form of Robinhood stock, according to a Friday court filing.

It's like once you enter the world of like... alternative finance (not your typical boring mutual fund/ETF), you have to dive in head first with no alternatives. Gotta love crypto. Gotta love a brokerage that front-runs your limit orders to predatory market makers so they can scalp it. Gotta YOLO 0DTE for tendies (aka be a "degen" at r/wallstreetbets).

> and assets deposited at crypto exchange Binance.

The same competing crypto exchange ran by "CZ" who helped "mastermind" the collapse of FTX?

> Bitcoin rises 6.2 percent to $22,401

Slightly unrelated but on the same page... why? Just... why? lol Let it die already?

> The most recent asset seizure reported by the DOJ took place on Thursday, when prosecutors seized $94.5 million in cash from an account at Silvergate Bank which was associated with FTX Digital Markets, FTX's subsidiary in the Bahamas.

They're totally going to work diligently to get that money back to the 1-5 million users FTX had, right? https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+ftx+customers
Too much I think. I’d have given them like 10-15.
I don’t see an upgrade option though.
it's not toxic if you do it for good reasons. it's toxic if you realize that you can't get promoted doing what you like and take a job you hate and are bad at just to get a promotion. it's totally toxic if your idiot MBA management creates a culture of that.
> A bunch of barrels less or more over the lifecycle of the plant

So, ah, where are those "few" barrels getting stored?

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/18/nuclear-waste-why-theres-no-...
It's a great product. Some day. But now that the honeymoon is over, it needs a whole lot more going on to justify that kind of price. Come back when there's more improvements than a couple months of a public alpha behind it.
You said:

> I pay about half in rent what my neighbors do.

I assumed that most of your $4,000 a month was going towards rent, which would mean your neighbors are paying close to $8,000 a month. That's a very large number so I asked about that.

This was apparently wrong enough for you to want to correct me (without saying what your neighbors actually pay). That made me then try to understand if you have really high fees. This also doesn't seem to be the case.
We use them in nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers, so the tech seems feasible - not sure why commercial use for small reactors is such a difficult stretch.
Thanks for the kind words, I'm very glad you like this!

It would be neat to be able to "show work", but I'm not entirely sure how to achieve that in a way that adds enlightenment instead of confusion in the main workflow. A blog post about how it works under the hood would definitely be a good thing, though, you're absolutely right.

The "d" suffix in estimates exist only to keep older plans valid -- it meant "8 hours", but since not everyone agrees that's the length of a day, I removed it from the documentation pretty early -- before budget and spent tags even existed, so they never had it at all. We all pretty much agree on what an hour is, so that's the one true unit for now, anyhow.

I'd love to chat more -- hit me at info@doomcheck.com and I'll respond directly!
That's why it's important to have a multitude of energy sources on a competitive power grid. The nice thing about SMRs is you can build enough of them to make the overall output consistent as needed, even with a higher tolerance for failure of any individual reactor.
How is this #3 on my HN today? Is it supposed to be a lesson on how NOT to write?
I think the text is useful for describing the ultimate goal, but agree that visual suggestions would make it easier to figure out what the problem is about.

For example, I read this as a variation of the knight's tour but was confused as to why they didn't highlight the visited squares. (Answer: it isn't a knight's tour since each square will be visited more than once.)

Another example, the description itself didn't quite make sense since it mentioned a sequence but didn't really say that certain squares must be skipped. (In retrospect, the answer is obvious. The queen makes certain squares invalid destinations, along with being invalid intermediate steps to that destination. But it won't be obvious to some people upon initially reading the instructions.)

Finally, the purpose of the square shown in the completion gauge isn't explained at all. Since it is not explained, I did not link it to the description of the goal.
I fondly remember that blog post, having a play, and my sheer delight in finding it worked. I've always thought of it as the April Fools' joke that kept on giving.
Yeah I'm done with those screens that flip around and ask you to tip everywhere. My default is now 'no tip' unless its a traditional tipping situation. Most of the time those 'tips' aren't going to the employees, it is just predatory capitalism exploiting another revenue stream.
The problem I've found is that it gives you the name…but not the path. I've ended up seeking ways to turn it off every time I've run into it.

FD: CMake developer
In that case Rickover's observations don't apply at all:

(1) It is simple -> nobody said NuScale's reactor is simple. It took NRC about 6 years to approve it, and in the process NuScale had to produce about half a million pages of documentation

(2) It is small -> not really. It is smaller than full size reactors, but then it delivers only 50 MW, not 1GW. Per unit of electricity delivered, it is most likely somewhat larger than a full size nuclear power plant

(3) It is cheap -> relative to what? it's not that cheap. If anything, see the comments in this thread, it appears to be expensive

(4) It is light -> this does not apply here. Rickover was concerned with submarines, where weight was important. This is not a reactor designed for submarines. I don't know how light it is, but nobody cares about this

(5) It can be built very quickly -> well, if the first one is supposed to get online in 2029, that does not seem to be very quick, does it?

(6) It is very flexible in purpose (’omnibus reactor’) -> NuScale's reactor is designed to generate electricity. That's it. What is flexibility in purpose?

(7) Very little development is required -> NuScale has already worked for one decade on this. It will take until the end of this decade to see one come online. Nobody claimed "very little development is required"
It will use mostly off-the-shelf components -> not really. NuScale will use a Korean manufacturer that is accredited by NRC to manufacture componenets for nuclear reactors. There's nothing off-the-shelf about this.

(8) The reactor is in the study phase. It is not being built now. -> it depends what "being built now" means. NuScale can't start building before it has all the approvals. It is working on getting these approvals, if this counts as "being built now", then it's being built now.

More to the point. Rickover was talking about a completely different context. People venturing cheap ideas, while he needed concrete reactors for his submarines. We are in a different world. NRC is extraordinarily stringent. The fact that NuScale got their approval is a phenomenal achievement. This should not be dismissed with the same tired old quote from Rickover that gets posted on HN almost every time we talk about nuclear reactors.
Interesting how so many of these didn't work in Safari in 2020, but all of them do now. Good progress for interoperability, I guess.
At its core, ffmpeg is pretty much an audiovisual codec Swiss army knife. And that kind of Swiss army knife approach to a diverse-format landscape tends to arise pretty spontaneously. ImageMagick, for example, covers the same ground for image formats. Or disassemblers, where virtually every project ends up in the land of disassemble-all-the-architectures-in-all-the-object-formats pretty damn quick.

What's unusual about ffmpeg is its lack of a real competitor.
This! I had long put off a degree I wanted to pursue. At 32 years old, I was thinking, it will take 4 years and I'll be 36 when I get the degree. My mom, of all people, said, well if you don't get the degree, you'll still be 36 in 4 years. :-)
Yeah I know, but I wish that weren't so.
Just the most contrived nonsense that lets them keep their frontier mentality with no consideration to how much their lifestyles are subsidized by the people they loathe. It’d be funny if it weren’t so pathetic.

Actually seems fitting that the county I chose was where those morons had their national park takeover that got some of them killed. “How dare you pay us millions of dollars to maintain this land!” “Freedom!!!”
It’s very cool.

However, it crashed my iPad Safari, the first time I ran it (worked the second time, though).
Yeah, the trickiest part is getting new users to check in their keys to git if git is authenticated with ssh keys. And if you need sudo to install keys, you've gotta use autopw[1] or something similar, and at least autopw is single threaded, so if you've got more like thousands of servers, it's a bit messy. Smarter people than I setup full automation for this kind of stuff, but then you have to trust the automation.

[1] https://github.com/jschauma/sshscan/blob/master/src/autopw
George Santos' Twitter account mysteriously suspended
Modern day MFT cameras like Sony's A7 series have amazing low light (the older A7sii is still my favorite) for doing live views when attached to a telescope. it then can be used as your day-to-day camera at other times for multipurpose use. for DSOs, they are great. for solar system objects other than the moon, they're a little underwhelming since the actual object will be such a tiny percentage of the image.

one thing to remember when buying gear is to only go as big as you can carry/assemble by yourself. getting something that requires 2 people to lift/carry means you can't use it unless you can convince someone to go along with you, we let's face it, it's definitely a hobby that leans towards the soloist. for someone like you that can do it from home without having to travel every. single. time. might be a bit less of an issue. just general advice for others that might come along

the only regret i have in buying my gear is that i'm at least 4 hours to a class 2 site, and i no longer have a car of any type let alone one that fits all of my gear plus camping equipment.
My Intel i7-4790K is able to run this at 1080p and 30 fps (specifically 60 with drops to 30), on a build of Chromium that has hardware acceleration disabled.

I don't know if this is thanks to the speed of the app or Chromium's software renderer or just (semi-)modern CPUs, but I am super impressed. I had no idea you could do something like this without a GPU!

Edit: Whoops, I lied! I knew something had to be wrong here, so I checked. GPU Compositing is disabled. However, chrome://gpu reads "WebGL2: Hardware accelerated but at reduced performance" (whatever that means).

When I fully disable hardware acceleration, performance dips to something in the range of 1 fps. So, basically what you'd expect, and a lot less interesting!
Tech Layoffs Shock Young Workers. The Older People? Not So Much.
> From a worker perspective, line and middle managers look like bosses. From an executive perspective, they look like workers.

A former employer had layoffs this week. Of the people I knew who were laid off, at least 60% were management. Many of them were at the Director level and up to VP and even an SVP.
I grew up in the sticks of Australia, and the Milky Way has always been a full and vivid texture of stars in my memory. Living in cities now I sometimes forget what I am seeing is the same night sky just much less vivid and visible. I should make an effort to see a clear night sky more often I think.

Looking at the map, it was class 1 (artif brightness 0.067)
I've got some answers to your questions:

Q1. Is there any hope for someone like me?

A1. Yes, just don't be a victim.

Q2. Is there any reasonable path to starting over?

A2. Yes, depending on how you define "reasonable." Also, you don't have to "start over."

Q3. Where do I even begin?

A4. Start with something small that interests you. "Follow your weird" (http://lib.ru/STERLINGB/story.txt).

Q4. Will tech companies ever consider hiring someone like me?

A4. Depends on the company; depends on you and how you "pitch" yourself. Again, don't play the victim.

Who the f*k am I?

I'm 59 years old and I've been working in this industry since 1988 and I sincerely believe you make your own opportunities.

I guess you can say that I've had 5 careers over the past 35 years.

* 1988-2014 - Help Desk -> Software Developer

* 2014-2023 - Project Manager, Scrum Master

* 2009-2015 - Smartphone Software Developer (P/T)

* 2016-2022 - Startup Co-Founder & CTO (P/T)

* 2018-2020 - Open-Source Project Administrator & Developer (P/T)

I don't have a Computer Science degree though I did attend RPI, left after less than a year, and ended up getting a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Film & Television from NYU. I've read a few books and taken a few classes but a majority of my programming, software development, and project management skills I've learned on my own, sometimes at my day job; sometimes in the early mornings and evenings after the 925.

I've been very lucky over the years but I've also tried to be prepared when new opportunities come around (which includes seeing them for what they are and what they might be). Everything builds on what came before.

Right now, my next plan, my 6th "career," is to continue the project manager-ing since it pays the bills but move back into programming the things I wanted to code 42 years ago--games, interactive fiction--and learn some new stuff like HTML/CSS/JS and machine learning. I don't think I'll end up programming for other people or other companies but we'll see...

Your experience is worth something but only if it's worth something to you. And it can be worth something to someone else at some other company.

Good luck.
Man, I can feel it from here. I had that same feeling when I was in the service - moral hazard is real, y'all.

at the risk of sounding like a plug, there were a bunch of folks at recurse who were in your position and specifically went to 'get the magic back'. Something to consider; take a sabbatical, focus on some fun stuff. I'm sure your presence and experience would be appreciated.
42 - The answer to life, the universe, and everything?
Hehe, you're one of those "Senior WebGL developers with 30 years of experience".
> but I think it should be obvious to anyone that development of new content needs to be paid for somehow.

I think decades of free player created mods, patches, skins, textures, and maps should make it obvious to anyone that the development of new content doesn't need to be paid for with credit cards and in-game currency. Providing players with tools to generate their own new content increases the longevity of your game, increases the number of players, gets your bugs fixed at no cost, and can even give companies a way to spot amazing talent. There are still people making content for UT99! Some companies don't just make it harder for people to create new content, some file lawsuits against players creating content.

Although modding communities have done amazing things, that doesn't mean developers shouldn't continue to create cool things too and I haven't really heard any complaints about expansions as long as they are seen as worthwhile and are genuinely new additions to a game and not just large parts of the story paywalled off for a quick buck (still looking at you, mass effect).

DLC isn't something that really needs to exist to fund games or to make sure that there is amazing new content for gamers. It's generally just a scam used to bleed whales and make gamers feel bad thanks to FOMO and their increasingly strained budgets.

Why is it that I can still buy DRM for skyrim, but I also need to install a free community written patch to fix a massive number of major bugs?
I can’t say. I’m just a hobbyist dilettante here. Maybe that other book is great too but I don’t know it. One fun thing about a language so deep down the rabbit hole as Idris is the mean caliber of people involved is higher than average.
That’s a very valid point. Thanks for reminding me. I was thinking of the mean distribution.
Interesting. Don’t see this option.
T-Mo, under the metro brand.
Neat.Thanks for tracking these down.
My laymen understanding is that it's trained to learn the mostly likely next word in a sequence of words. So when you feed it a prompt, it's looking at the combination of words in the prompt and predicting the next word, then repeating that sequence until it feels like there are no good words left to predict. In essence, all of it's responses are generated based on probabilities from prior learning on the fly, not necessarily repeating training data verbatim. So it's likely at some point in this sequence-guessing game, it predicts the wrong words too. Thus hallucinating an answer that sounds plausible in the context of the sentence structure, but isn't factual.
i've never understood the uplighting. what are they lighting? air doesn't light up unless is it's foggy. is it cheaper because they can just put the fixtures on the ground? it is just so ineffective i honestly struggle comprehend the purpose
I think this post is brilliant (really cool) for more than one reason.

You give hope to the underachievers that they can better themselves (related: my GPA was lower than yours :)).

You give great advice on mental illness (if I may editorialize: seek help if you think you may need it; it changed my life like I think it changed yours).

I see so many posts from FAANG employees... I don't think that I could pass the IQ test for being a janitor at those places. /shrug. So happy to see "regular?" people here.

My "Grass Is Greener" syndrome says that I almost wish I was still bartending...
It was an online store I bought something from quite a few years back. I would hope most stores are using more modern back ends nowadays that doesn't allow this to happen.
Anyone can be judged for anything.

It's always interesting that some focus more on those who speak their minds about something than the actual actions taken that are being criticized, as if the real problem is people having opinions and speaking freely about them. It feels like the root sentiment is "X can do whatever they want, but you're not allowed to do the same by saying anything about it."
> everyone hired after date X

In one case of layoffs this week, I know of people who were laid off that were in the first ~100 employees. I speculate that this specific layoff was purely financially motivated.
One Woman Is Holding Politicians Accountable for Nasty Speech
The Ingenious Design of Airplane Tires [video]
FreeTaxUSA can be confusing though. It makes it quite unclear what is contributing to what portion of your tax bill. I like it better than the other more popular, mainstream options, but its usability isn't great. I never have full confidence I'm paying the correct amount or getting the correct amount as a refund.
The key to low power is to put the micro in a sleep state as much as possible. You have to rethink running things in a loop and make it interrupt / event driven.

Set it up to wake from sleep on some interrupt, do your processing, then go back to sleep. You can setup a timer interrupt to wake periodically to do processing as well.
Summarization.

Roleplay exercises - practice difficult management conversations with an employee, for example.

Brainstorming ideas.

Explaining well known concepts - especially if you ask it to invent analogies or mnemonics.

Helping come up with names for things.

Puns, surprisingly.

Finding and fixing bugs in code.

Generating test data, and examples generally.

Telling stories.

Showing examples of formal writing that you haven't encountered before - I've used it to help me see what things like grant applications and sales manuals look like.

Games - so many fun games you can play with it.

Those are all examples of things I've used it for just in the past week.
It depends upon what you are trying to visualize. If you are trying to visualize the pattern of the knight's moves, e.g. how to reach a specific square using a sequence of moves, then highlighting the target would be more valuable. The displacement matters, not the absolute positions. The absolute positions are more of a hindrance since it makes it more difficult to generalize the sequence of moves.
Dressing up with nice clothes is not bikinis. Some fluff and weird ears is not in any way like a bikini.
The damage might be permanent and irreversible psychological and emotional scaring. The trigger warning needs to come before the objectionable content is seen of course.

https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-teaching-excellence/trigger

A trigger warning is a statement made prior to sharing potentially disturbing content. That content might include graphic references to topics such as sexual abuse, self-harm, furies, violence, eating disorders, and so on, and can take the form of an image, video clip, audio clip, or piece of text.

In an academic context, the instructor delivers these messages in order to allow students to prepare emotionally for the content or to decide to forgo interacting with the content.
It was cold enough for the man spraying her to wear 3 layers of clothing while doing it.
Do you have any idea where they started applying the word "hallucination" to making stuff by an LLM? It seems that the more proper word, would be confabulating. B/c everything that the LLM does is a "hallucination" but a confabulation completely made up and the model thinks it accurate - much like a person who confabulates. A person who hallucinates pretty much knows that they are hallucinating at some point.
Speaking of cousin languages, it looks so much like Haskell.
> you have the reason misconstrued

I don't believe my post suggested any reasons.

> it guarantees a reliable floor competency

I disagree. FAANG experience only demonstrates that, at one point, somebody believed you could do the job. There are dead-weight employees at FAANGs (and everywhere of course) who don't really have much competency (or perhaps one very specific competency that's only valuable in that specific role at that specific company, and virtually nothing else). There are also people who were once terrific, but have burned out, turned focus towards their family, were amazing at some obsolete tool/language, etc, started (or stopped) using drugs regularly, etc

I do agree that recruiters are not looking for rockstars but just anyone to fill a spot.
The simple answer is “no”.
Way to prove you are human if AI can pass Turing test
surprised that HN didn't filter out the emoji in the title... I've had HN strip out unicode or whatever in posts.

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I looove this. I agree with the other commenters that this has a special feeling. And that the future for web games is bright. (For as long as Google is spearheading features with Chrome.)

I guarantee this game wasn't built with Unity: 1) Unity bad for building WebGL games. It does multiple conversions to make a WebGL build. Unity offers live editing in its application, but that doesn't apply to web; whereas modern threejs/babylonjs systems offer hot reloads. 2) And Unity is just unpleasant and bloated generally, for the last few years.

Plug for my game[0] if someone wants to see another WebGL experiment (that I devoted 10 years to...better not to ask lol). PS - WebGL supports WebXR, I've been in my world in VR!

0: earth.suncapped.com
& that free service was offered only through a special link from IRS page. TurboTax intentionally named products like Turbo Tax Free yo confuse users with actual IRS page linked to Turbo Tax Free File.

The cherry (or pepper) on top, after certain years (in 2022), the discontinued that option, & progress by IRS for automated taxes were already lost.
...unless it's an electric shower?

(Much as I'm tempted to agree they were a bad idea, we're kind of past that point and it's sort of fine... A bad idea well-executed?)