skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They were a few middle-class techy hubristic kids who figured out how to game the crypto system years ago, via leverage and arbitrage opportunities, to make millions during crypto tradings early "easy pickings" years, on crypto platforms which would later be their direct industry competition.

They then transitioned to become part of the system themselves, as an Exchange ... while continuing to expose funds (their own, and their customers) to high risk-reward scenarios, again/still, on their competitors platforms. What else is there?? in the small pond that is the crypto-verse.

That degree, and unwise configuration, of exposure is what caused the collapse.

I don't believe that Ponzis central tenet - to sustain only via new entrants - was ever their long term business tactic. The fact that Alameda/FTX ended in the final flailing desperation of an extremely poorly piloted sinking ship was its own indictment, but that doesn't make them 'a Ponzi from the beginning'.
> and not other "news" sources

I mean I really enjoyed this piece too, but it's not really news. HN really shouldn't be relied upon as a singular news source. There's plenty of things you should know that aren't the intellect candy that HN promotes
As a feat, I like this. It's cool to see what can be achieved with composition. That said, I don't care much for the comparison to Slack etc. No engineer wants to be on the hook for a bunch of things cobbled together like this in production. How are you going to hire talent? How do you test the thing? Debug it? Logs? Analytics? This piece replicates (some of) the chat functionality of Slack et al but the chat functionality is not 100% of these applications. They're built in completely different environments, and so to attack the status quo as bloated seems like some kind of warped Stockton Rush esque take on things. Don't get me wrong, there's bloat in software, but "look ma', I built a submarine from bits and pieces - told you those fancy submarines are stupid" doesn't seem like the put-down I think the author would like it to be.
It isn't just aesthetic. I can't stand living in dense housing because, always knowing there are people nearby takes such a mental toll. I finally live somewhere not at all dense and it is paradise by comparison.
The point, is that the steel needs water to rust. The cracks allow the water, but supposedly the Roman concrete self heals and water does not continue to penetrate. One assumes, therefore, limited rust (perhaps). In practice this may not be the case, but surely someone has tested? Steel has the right properties + price; if you can keep the water out.
Blaming single family homes is a crowd-pleaser; but the first example mentioned is of a house that cut energy use by 85% while still being a single family home.

The problems are not a lack of regulation but too much, which drives the push for all the sameness you see in construction methods; it's stagnation.

If you don't believe me, go to your library and leaf through the IRBC, the international residential building code, which is incorporated by reference into building code ordinances everywhere...
> The US also doesn't show evidence for PRC nationals prosecuted for photographing sensitive infra. They're not releasing said photos, only allegations/prosecutions because of course not.

That's provably false.

> And in Michaels case, involve literal people with acknowledged intelligence backgrounds. which is close to smoking gun threshold.

Smoking gun in what way? When you look at the geopolitical issues at the time, it's obvious they were arrested with the intent to put leverage on Canada, whether they are spies or not is irrelevant. In fact them not being spies, but related to connected people is actually even better.
> But rebuilding American cities with functional parks and high-density housing and everything in walking distance is deeply unpopular because

Because you'd need to bulldoze everyone's existing houses to replace them with the high density housing to be able to use that city space.
https://0xzhangke.github.io/
Hi clipsy, it wasn't a cut off, it was just that there were enough people with higher grades taking the spots. If some of those people didn't want to be there and didn't take the spots that they earned, I'm sure they'd have reduced the entry requirements. Best of luck in your future endeavours.
Yeah, so long as it is not my state and I have plenty of states to move to without that problem. I can tolerate others wishes so long as it doesn't infringe on the minority's rights. The government has always had the right to censor content deemed harmful.
Would solid state drives be affected?
I was pitching a related concept to a young investor lately, and she had not heard of IRC. If you stick around long enough, all that is old is new again. If you can profit from this, it's great. If you can't, it is a source of frustration.
If you add up all the people that had live in a district where the Tea Party was active, or served in the military, or in government where budgets, decisions, negotiations, etc. were affected by the Iraq war or the Tea Party, it’s probably a decent minority. Now add in anyone who works in health care or received a large medical bill. Then add in their families and friends. That’s got to be a large minority either directly affected or one step removed.

Obama got elected 2 years after this article with these 3 issues core to the debates. I’m guessing that some people who weren’t directly affected based their votes off of the news.

I see what you’re saying that a lot of knowledge isn’t useful day to day, but I actually do use my knowledge of WWII and evolution as foundations of some of my ethical and political views, which I’m sure emanate out into the world via my votes, purchases and conversations.

I agree though the line between news and entertainment is blurry and some people might follow just for the sake of not being out of the loop socially.
might as well just switch to dwm, dmenu, and st?
https://amols.blog

I generally write (intend to) about engineering work in early stage startups, MLops
Before this pilot crashed his plane, he said into the black box that when a man kills his wife, it's the wife's fault. This is excellent evidence that that sexism is alive and relevant in our world.

The fact that the pilot ranted about his female co-worker for 30 minutes, after engine start, in violation of cockpit hygiene rules, is how we know that the pilot's sexism is relevant to this plane crash.
https://ankitag9.substack.com/

Recently started writing regularly. Have decided to focus on technical nuances and programming mental models learned the hard way, things I wish I knew in college or early career.

https://ankitag9.substack.com/p/startup-prerequisites-part-1 - About my learning from running my startup for 5 years.

https://ankitag9.substack.com/p/perspective-newsletter-3 - The latest one I wrote on LLMs

https://ankitag9.substack.com/p/what-is-in-the-box-ask-airpo... - About the breakthrough brought in by Airpods.

https://ankitag9.substack.com/p/our-shopping-problem - Thinking about TAM
The left column of my Ubuntu machine is filling up with useless directory icons from pseudo file systems that contain Canonical's "snaps".
I’m having trouble parsing your comment. What behavior falls under “men being humans”? Like, “we’re all flawed” or the killing-your-wife idea from the article?

Also obviously on board with the other comments explaining that bad childhood experiences are not an excuse to form beliefs you know to be biased and false.
Biden should just go ahead and wipe the debt. It's an exclusively executive branch power, the judicial branch can't interfere.
Is the aircraft in this image real?
Mathcad is the only thing that comes to mind. It is very unique and a massive productivity boost for engineering calcs.
Does it need to be open source, or just free to use ?

There are a few free tools out there.
Uber now maintains gomock, a golang mock library
This is pretty cool. Only need to (re) solve the discoverability problem and we will have a better social network than twitter and reddit back
what about manufacturing things locally, so they don't have to be transported across the ocean?
I think it was Ayn Rand who said that with her death all life ends. Well it did for her thankfully not for the rest of us.
Apologies for my misinterpretation; I can't honestly say I agree with your overall point of view but my objection was misguided.
Also related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35120084
What is a modern webserver? I only use Apache or nginx... anything cobbled together with nodejs or go doesn't count.
And dopplegangers are living proof that God does recycle faces. Somewhere out there in amongst all the people who have ever lived are people who look just like you.

I distrust numbers like the ones they use in this analysis. There are so many unknowns and unknowables that the best we can hope for is to SWAG (Scientific Wild-Ass Guess) a few numbers and call it good. I think that is what we have here. It serves a purpose even if it is more likely to be wrong.
I think the real problem is going to be increased volatility in the work market. You get a chaotic situation in which the bullet that strikes you is the one you would have never guessed. For example, it could be that short term, the increased productivity squeezes workers in every industry and the concern becomes increased competition. You aren't getting replaced by AI, you're getting replaced by someone who out-competed you.

The market may adjust over the longer term, or it may just continue to be volatile as the rate of change accelerates. In that case, we can't fix the work market, and we instead have to address the need for people to feed themselves another way.
My point is, fraud happens everywhere, but in crypto it is much harder to get away with it and leave with illicit funds in your pocket without getting caught.

As soon as it hits the exchange, it is frozen, traced and whoever sent the transaction will be traced down and caught.

Unlike in the FinCEN files which the banks and criminals were all making money by processing trillions worth of transactions and a former US Treasury official who blew the whistle on this mass fraud was sent to prison [0] over the regulators not doing their job and instead was supporting criminal financing.

So why wasn't this corruption stopped earlier?

[0] https://www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/fincen-file...
Finger and whois.

It was solved over 40 years ago.

That's the thing with social networking. There's a few core problems and it's been solved many times. Such as in 1973 at Community Memory in Berkeley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Memory

Or through newspaper classifieds ads, French salons, compuserve, bars, aol, cb radio, friendster, phone phreaking party lines, dialup bbses, icq, irc, myspace, Facebook, netnews, whois/finger/talk/uucp. If you read Carolyn Marvin's book, "When old Technologies Were New" (1988) you'll see her documentation of this in its first digital form - via lonely telegraph operators chatting with each other in the 19th century.

It's the network, not the medium, that matters.
Well I don't really mean white, but more of pick a default theme that works in both day and night and stick with it. So that it's all kept very simple. You could use a dark theme as the default as well, but light mode tends to be more accessible in more situations so I prefer light over dark. As an example, I think the Solarized Light palette is pretty usable in all situations.
Lol. Aren’t you afraid you’re going to forget about those bugs and merge them in?
HTTP basic auth? It works well on everything except iOS.
Cool.

_proceeds to sign up for slack._
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I'm good with everything around teams and software. I have extensive experience leading people, communicating vision, ideation, design, and everything pertaining to software as a product. I am also professional level CG artist. I have been working in technical VFX production for 15 years, then in software dev for VFX for five, then as a manager in geospatial mapping/map rendering sector for another five years. I've been consulting/freelancing after, since 2020.

Languages: English fluently, German natively.
Firefox's version has now overtaken Chrome's version
After many years, Firefox's recent release (115) has now overtaken Chrome's most recent version (114)
True. But they never seem to convey more than "character X is worried about potential event Y."
This is my experience too. Paying $20/month for GPT-4 has been absolutely worth it. It barely hallucinates at all; the results aren't always perfect (and the September 2021 knowledge cut-off can be frustrating given how quickly things get out of date in the programming world) but it's more than good enough. I don't remember how I ever got by without it.
You should check out the comic series sandman. Or the first season of it on Netflix. The whole thing is about dreaming.
Strange article I must admit. They describe common pitfalls as:
1. People don't have their phone on them all the time (some don't have a smartphone)
2. New users don't understand these methods of authentication
3. General much more complicated than a basic email/password combo

However, recommendations were to use Apple's authentication methods that are not device manufacturer agnostic, download and use a password manager (complicated) or use 2FA apps.

All of these require a smartphone and are additional methods of authentication.

Overall, you need MFA and try not to use SMS MFA.
Semi-related: Having no windows machine or console, I recently tried out one of those gaming streaming services to play Diablo IV and wow: 10 bucks/month to be able to play it without the need to tinker with anything or building a PC.

Getting 30ms latency is good enough for this casual gamer.
US Pilots do use Mayday, but I'm not sure what the percent is. If you are squawking the emergency code you should at least use Pan-Pan, right?
There's already other ways to reinforce concrete, one I know of is embedding kind of fiber-glass mesh in it instead of rebar. I quick google suggests that this might be called Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) reinforcing, or possibly that's a different thing I'm not really an expert.

I assume you could use a whole bunch of different materials really, including other metals that don't rust in the same way as steel does.
They didn't heal, a full rupture is a full rupture.

They showed that for younger patients they can, through physical therapy, replace the ACL stability function with overcompensated proprioception and musculature.

I wonder what the outcome of this would be as patients get older and start to lose muscle mass.
No you actually do not. My neighborhood is an old late 19th century suburb that slowly urbanized and is now "downtown". A lot of the original housing is still there but now converted to an office building or restaurant with a facade. The only thing stopping this in many modern American suburbs are useless zoning codes.

When you mention allowing businesses in subdivisions people act as if you're suggesting a McDonald's and a Walmart instead of a local breakfast shop and cafe and a small salon and a cute general store. But that's really all thats necessary. It takes just a tiny bit to turn a house into a suitable business.
> I can tolerate others wishes so long as it doesn't infringe on the minority's rights.

Well, you're fine with infringing on the minority's rights in this case, since it obviously infringes on them. Unless of course you think the government should take on the role of censoring what the minority sees.

> The government has always had the right to censor content deemed harmful.

First: does it? [0]

Second: this is nothing more than the usual "just think of the children!" excuse for banning legal speech, a standard tool of censors.

[0]: https://reason.com/volokh/2023/07/04/july-4-injunction-bars-...
Wow that is one of the most informative HN posts I've read to date.

Thank you for sharing.

What are your thoughts on TOST? Further, when you talk about your purchaser not using your end product isn't that most SaaS businesses e.g. the person who purchases a crm will likely not be the user.

Lastly, I'd sincerely appreciate your thoughts on the supply side of the industry if possible. My email is in bio.
It all started this year, just a few months ago, remember? It will get only better from here, don't worry. Or do, not sure. Anyway, you can't avoid it.
They have an installer for Autodesk Fusion 360:

https://usebottles.com/app/#fusion360
https://grgv.xyz/blog/
You despise MFA until it saves your arse
Big emphasis on “kind of”.

“Here’s how to make $2 million dollars over night”

_reads article_: “have $4 million in the bank…”
They have a bunch of "installers":

https://usebottles.com/appstore/
In this context, would Kubernetes be an orchestrator for application containers or system containers? Or both?
Can you name a few (open source or not)?
e.g. `/org/gnome/desktop/interface/gtk-theme` is to be replaced with `/org/gnome/desktop/interface/color-scheme`

That's an ominous sign of things to come --- no more themes, all you get is (some) colours to choose from. It already happened to Windows.
Dreams are just stories. Through the lense of the audience they undergo the same critical scrutiny as any other story. It's not good enough to put a stamp 'dream' on a story that doesn't make sense and think the audience will be ok with it. IMO dreams are good in novella format where the line between reality and fiction is blurred out, like the work by Jorge Luis Borges.
Governments, also populated with prople, are somehow less fallible?
While the subreddit is great, I think the original article still holds true for normal conversation. Your average person does not give a single shit about your dream and vice versa. Its value as a conversational tool is low and should be probably avoided unless specifically someone asks about your dream. The average person should probably never share their own dream unsolicited because there is a high chance it will add no value to the conversation whatsoever.

I don’t know if I agree with the article in that somehow these creative minds have more special dreams either. I just know that layman’s dreams, including my own, almost always bore me to tears and aren’t the parable or allegory we might think they are, if even that

I might sound slightly bitter but I’ve had literally hundreds of conversations over my lifetime hearing people sharing their dreams and I can easily count on one hand the amount of times that a productive or interesting conversation has emerged as a result.
Happy to hear what good free tools are out there too. I know Zoom supports this on their free personal tier, the meetings are just capped at 40 mins.
Good coders will be competing against people who can use prompts in cumulative sessions to code and maintain projects in depth, not people who can make requests of an LLM.

This differentiating factor is what will wear out a less-experienced LLM user. They will make bigger claims or set expectations higher, and suffer more for them. The details that matter, yet were missed, will stick out more and more, as more experienced LLM users flex that experiential factor in a variety of ways.

For this reason, front end will absolutely still be a thing. And it'll be a much better, deeper thing, thanks to those who are a good fit for a kind of LLM-coding mindset.

However, this also depends on the type of coder. You can start from interpretation of the project spec as a logical code of sorts, or you can start from the spec as more of a visualized outcome.

If you work in the latter style, your survival key, so to speak, may simply be stringing together support requests you make to various LLM-interfacing vendors. A COTS-integrative style / opportunistic approach to coding, which has always been a thing.

Along the way, this kind of person usually integrates the NIH logical style a bit, and vice-versa, or they'll suffer through their respective blind spots. Same story, new layer of abstraction that's really cool.

(Plus...survival may still depend on who you know, not what you know, for a lot of people)
https://archive.is/aZVks
I hate billboards, but I also think they're fascinating. They immediately show you what a city is about. I live in San Francisco these days and it's always funny to me driving around seeing billboards for cloud services, financial services, investment banks, SaaS, Napa wineries ... I grew up in Texas and it was always megachurch, porn store, strip club, megachurch ... I lived in Hawaii for a few years and the complete lack of billboards was so very nice.
The article does not mention the app gsettings (in package libglib2.0-bin, at least on Ubuntu 20.04). Perhaps it came along after the authorship of this 2018 article.

Anyway, gsettings provides a convenient CLI to a fair amount of customization -- I have myself a script of over 20 invocations to set various look-and-feel tweaks. To get yourself started, have a look at the output of gsettings --list-recursively.
> White House opens the door to study blocking sun’s rays to slow global warming

For many years it was dark. And then, one day, it was suddenly light. /s
If you have ergonomic issues with mostly white screens, it should be the job of your operating system or web browser to police this. It wouldn’t be difficult to implement a feature that sets a maximum total luminance for each page. Perhaps even automatically inverting the colours if it’s over a certain threshold.
The first amendment begins with "Congress shall make no law..". The whitehouse isn't congress, neither are the courts and both can arguably censor free speech within their authority. For example, a judge can punish you for wearing the wrong cloth (purely out of self expression) or for insulting him in court (pulic venue).

Unless there is a different law preventing them, the first amendment cannot be used to conclude the WH can't ask companies to censor things. Unless of course there is some interpretation of the amendment that expands it to mean "congress and executive branch but not courts".

What WH or courts can't do from what I understand is implement or enforce a law or executive order that restricts speech under congressional authority, that is under authority granted to them by federal law not by the constitution because I'd imagine then it could be argued they are exceeding their authority since "Congress shall make no law"
The more I have looked into this over the years, the less concern I have in these events being a major issue.

There is two things that puts my mind at ease.

1. Our electrical infrastructure, while flimsy in some ways is a lot more resilient than we take for granted. It is said the power grid fails in theory but works in practice. But given forward warning, it is possible to shut off or limit the energy flow prior to the event - it will mean voluntary blackouts for a few hours but it is better than a forced blackout for a few months.

2. The forward warning is actually really good now even being up to 2-3 days in advance, just look to any Aurora prediction site, we are all over tracking this stuff. For all the fear of a repeat Carrington event, we would know it is coming and deal with it.
Can an asteroid hit the earth?