skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering that his playbook when it comes to legal cases against him consists of 'delay everything until either he, or the plaintiff drops dead from a heart attack', this doesn't seem ironic. It's just how he operates.

While that is an excellent approach to take when some nobody is suing you in a civil court, criminal prosecutors often have a... Longer, more patient view on things. The wheels of justice grind slowly, and all that.

The better question is 'How is he still walking around a free man?', when he makes a habit of threatening witnesses and judges.
You have FU money saved, or rather, enough where you could live in a mid-sized US city in perpetuity off the interest on $4.5m - assume 5% per year on that and its $225k without touching the base.

You could literally quit and just start throwing spaghetti at the wall until you see what sticks (try 1 idea per month or two). You already have freedom sitting there.
SBF: needlessly gets himself thrown in jail

Galaxy Brains: Masterful gambit, sir
I think it would be fair to say that kratos was not the priority in 2022 in terms of code you can see not much was commited (https://github.com/ory/kratos/graphs/code-frequency) so I might have had a bad first impression.

A few issues on kratos that I consider relatively important are still missing / nobody from Ory is giving their input so it's hard to make progress and I would not take my time to contribute if I dont know if the owner are going to merge it.

An example that comes to mind is the OAuth email auto-verification or the search of users that is still super basic (we only recently got the filter of identifiers).
https://archive.ph/IiwFf
As a military officer who was watching CNN live from inside an aircraft carrier (moored) when he said that, being in charge of anti-terrorism on the ship at the time, it was absolutely foundational to my approach to so many things after that. Here's the actual footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REWeBzGuzCc

Rumsfeld was complicated, but there's no doubt he was very effective at leading the Department. I think most people fail to realize how sophisticated the Office of the Secretary of Defense is. Their resources reel the mind, most of all the human capital, many with PhDs, many very savvy political operators with stunning operational experiences. As a small example, as I recall, Google's hallowed SRE system was developed by an engineer who had come up through the ranks of Navy nuclear power. That's but one small component reporting into OSD.

Not a Rumsfeld apologist, by any means. Errol Morris did a good job showing the man for who he is, and it's not pretty (1). But reading HN comments opining about the leadership qualities of a Navy fighter pilot who was both the youngest and oldest SECDEF makes me realize how the Internet lets people indulge in a Dunning-Kruger situation the likes of which humanity has never seen.

https://www.amazon.com/Known-Donald-Rumsfeld/dp/B00JGMJ914
Published an article about the new Hashicorp's BSL license that combines some the thoughts in this thread: https://infisical.com/blog/hashicorp-new-bsl-license
The solution they went with, squeezing juice out of the system by finding performance optimizations, brings me so much joy.

It reminds me of Richard L. Sites's book _Understanding_Software_Dynamics_ where he basically teaches how to measure and fix latency issues, and how at large scales, reducing latency can have tremendous savings.

Measuring and reasoning about those issues are hard, but the solutions are often simple. For example, on page 9 he mentions that "[a] simple change paid for 10 years of my salary."

I hope to someday make such an impactful optimization!
I am confused.

> Same function interface as std::lower_bound, but 2x faster, and shorter. “branchless” because the if compiles down to a conditional move instruction rather than a branch/conditional jump.

Assembly programmers did "fastest branchless binary searches" using cmov decades ago and we didn't need to think about the compiler at all. I know, because I was one of them. Optimizing branches away was and still is a nice pastime. This is not new, or original, and I don't understand what's noteworthy about it.

"Elitist", you say? Well ... yeah! At least I know what I'm doing, unlike people who solely rely on and blindly trust the compiler to do their work for them.
> Cloud storage kills the need for small drives.

I'm not sure that cloud storage kills anything. There's reasonable mistrust in it and much of the world lives with unreliable infrastructure..
Traveling by boat is unsustainable. A plane can bring people across the Atlantic in 6 hours. A boat needs a few days. Consider how many boats we need to have several days' worth of air traffic floating around. And all the sulphur-laden fuels they use in international waters...

That along with the wasted time.. I think we should focus on the things we can replace.

Flying is bad but it's a huge benefit to our society. IMO it's the one we should look at last especially because the greener alternatives are still a ways away. Unlike most other CO2 producers like energy and automotion.
There was a 250M bond posted, IIRC - does this mean his guarantors lose the money?
Implementing something like an "id" locale is a great idea. Just don't call it that; it's the locale code for Indonesian.

Using a word that's longer than three characters like "identity" will help ensure that it won't conflict with a real locale.
I would add that there's infinite gradations to how and why. Answers for how range from the extremely simplistic: you put the pill in your mouth and swallow it, down to questions about the fundamental forces of the universe, and the nature of consciousness, neither of which are understood
Firefox Android had broader extension support before it was temporarily restricted, in response to an architecture shift. Still, there has been an addon capability for many years before Safari mobile saw any.
I of course didn't argue that his speech can't be restrained. I think there are limits, as you do. We just disagree over where the line should be drawn. Certainly you agree he has some right to talk about the case, when it's not witness intimidation, right?
> Doesn't the risk of lack of precision apply to both floating point and fixed-point? I'd think the reciprocal would need to be exactly represented in the type, or to have more bits than the original type to produce a correct result in the last bit (or two bits?).

Yes, but this was historically okay on an x87 FPU which had more precise representation than the common external formats.
are you only asking/observing yourself and your tech-savvy friends?

cloud storage doesn’t make local storage irrelevant. just less relevant. drives still fail, new machines are built, etc, etc. and when that happens to the average consumer, they don’t seek out the biggest drive available. just whatever is down the street.

and just down the street doesn’t want to stock dozens of massive drives, lest the average consumers balk at the prices.
It is normal in any language when you accidentally write an infinite recursion.
That might be necessary in the steady state but Sweden never redistributed as much wealth to the top 0.1% as the U.S. has in the last 40 odd years.

In theory the US could go very far taxing a much smaller base because it has allowed so much money to be redistributed to this tiny base.

But even ignoring that your comment is unnecessary. Even if a Sweden like social democracy is the goal (which it doesn’t need to be…there’s many stopping points in between), the US doesn’t need to do it overnight. Raising taxes on the richest and then increasing the tax rates on lower brackets gradually over the decades as needed is an absolutely fine way to head in that direction as well.
Samsung drives have been fairly bulletproof, even among their budget offerings.

I've recently had an unexpected run of failing WD Blue SSDs and just had a new Sandisk drive (not one from gparent) fail, right after I backed another drive up to it.
Source? Spent about 15 minutes looking into it and I can't find anything other than the general "these people did amphetamines!" stuff from December 2022
Also new to nixos but the first few hours was a breeze: installed x and i3, commented out, installed waylaid and sway, realised that my configs aren’t ready to switch yet (mainly custom xmodmap) so commented that back out, and i3 back in. I’m still left with a perfectly working system. Such experiments on Ubuntu normally left numerous irreversible changes (granted, mostly through lack of knowledge).

I do see the OP’s points though, people are the weakest point of nix ecosystem, and I wish both projects worked together to solve this, as the tooling/approaches have similarities
Same reason he sucks at League, he isn't good at everything.
I went to watch the latest Mission Impossible today and was chuckling to myself at how trivially easy it was for Ving Rhames to "hack into the satellite" multiple times. Maybe it wasn't so far off the mark after all!
> and say they would have approached their plans differently if they had a better understanding of what their employees wanted

The poor employers. If only there was some way they could have gained that understanding. Without actually listening to employees and taking them seriously, of course. Don't let's be silly now.
Doesn't this eliminate any managed runners since they'd compete with Terraform Cloud?
There are some criminals that are genuinely delusional and think they are right and just need to explain more - could some element of that be present here. I know I've seen good examples of that kind of behavior, where people behave ridiculously because they're blinded by thinking they're kn the right, but I'm struggling a bit to come up with one. Skilling maybe?
The judge cites this as a compelling reason to throw SBF in jail:

> Judge Kaplan: This defendant tries to go right up to the line - his use of the VPN to watch a football game over an account he wasn't authorized, there it is..

> Judge Kaplan: He subscribed from the Bahamas and used a VPN as if he were in the Bahamas when he was in Palo Alto and could have watched it on public TV. It shows the mindset. All things considered I am going to revoke bail.

https://twitter.com/innercitypress/status/169008001856562790...
> Some leaders lamented the challenge of measuring the success of in-office policies, while others said it’s been hard to make long-term real estate investments without knowing how employees might feel about being in the office weeks, or even months, from now.

In other words, the two most obvious objections to RTO turned out to be correct. That is, that when the leadership says that being in the office is more productive, they are speaking from desire rather than evidence, and that the sunk cost of a commercial lease had more weight in the decision than the employees' opinions did. Two things they could have avoided with one minute of reflection.

On the other hand, I'm pleasantly surprised that 80% of executives were willing to admit they could have done a better job. I'd expect most of them to say it went flawlessly, in a voice which echoed off the cubicle walls of a nearly empty office.
Oh right, I had WB-7 confused with Wendelstein 7.
I don’t think the intriguing part of SBF is the crime he committed, which is a pretty common one. For me, it is how he, after getting caught, hurts his own case being proactive in doing and saying stuff publicly.

The common type of white collar criminal remains in silence and follow orientations from their very well paid lawyers. And it is a pretty proven strategy that leads to minimal or no relevant punishment. If SBF was a common criminal in this sense, he possibly could leave all of this judged not guilty by the justice.
You're right, a great video, thanks for the top tip.

If nothing else, it provides complexity to the situation, which I felt was somewhat missing from the article.
No "Beating the Averages"?

Also, it's too bad it doesn't use PG's voice.
'Theoretically' is the right word for sure. iirc, the predecessor of the Wendelstein led to the bankruptcy of the engineering firms building the parts, because tolerances were so tight and they failed multiple times to land within the constraints.
and to subtraction or multiplication and further to counting
Damn. People having sex at home? How dare you! haha. STFU with this shit already. Orgs that embraced WFH are better than ever. What people do at home, is none of your god damn business. You can have a say, after you start paying 90% of the rent, at least from my perspective.
This reminds me of another old line:

"In a world without walls or fences, who needs Windows or Gates?"
"Work to develop a new version of TLS was started in 2014, mainly due to concerns that TLS 1.2 and earlier version implementations had been shown to be vulnerable to a range of attacks over the years. The work to develop TLS 1.3 [RFC8446] also aimed to encrypt more of the handshake so as to expose less information to network observers -- a fairly direct result of the Snowden revelations. Work to further improve TLS in this respect continues today using the so-called Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) mechanism [TLS-ECH] to remove one of the last privacy leaks present in current TLS.P:

Work on ECH was enabled by significant developments to encrypt DNS traffic, using DNS over TLS (DoT) [RFC7858] or DNS Queries over HTTPS (DoH) [RFC8484], which also started as a result of the Snowden revelations. Prior to that, privacy hadn't really been considered when it came to DNS data or (more importantly) the act of accessing DNS data. The trend towards encrypting DNS traffic represents a significant change for the Internet, both in terms of reducing cleartext, but also in terms of moving points-of-control. The latter aspect was, and remains, controversial, but the IETF did its job of defining new protocols that can enable better DNS privacy. Work on HTTP version 2 [RFC9113] and QUIC [RFC9000] further demonstrates the trend in the IETF towards always encrypting protocols as the new norm, at least at and above the transport layer.P:

Of course, not all such initiatives bore fruit;"

Indeed. People are still sending cleartext domain names in SNI. Are the alleged privacy gains of encrypting DNS traffic meaningful when anyone can see the domain names in SNI, when the user makes a TLS connection. Arguably cleartext SNI is even worse for privacy than cleartext DNS because with SNI anyone can see when the person is connecting to a website whereas DNS only tells them when the person looked up a name. Concluding that a person accessed a website from a DNS lookup alone requires some assumptions. Cleartext SNI requires no such assumptions.
I like to remind myself that very few people reach positions of great power after mediocre lives. Rather there’s a thread of talent that runs through government.

Once they’re in, the predilections that led to power often rear their dark long tails. But they’re all (even the ones I disagree with) talented.
Addition can be performed with circuits of depth O(log n), where n is the number of bits, and with a little more work also of size O(n).
We use GraphQL internally but I admit I am currently more biased towards REST after battling with GraphQL, building a OpenAPI-based company, and playing with ergonomic REST-based frameworks like FastAPI. I still think the GraphQL DX is still miles ahead of OpenAPI and I really admire the best practices in GraphQL prescribed by Relay. But right now, REST is king for me.

Your observation is sort of the point of this article. Everyone has their opinion but nobody is de facto right.
Would they only lose the money if he fled and didn’t appear for court?
That's a good point. I wonder how many of those '70s theorists of technology would have predicted that, 50 years later, UPS driver and plumber would be (seemingly) harder to automate than knowledge work. Not really to blame them; it's only obvious in retrospect. But I agree we may need to rethink some of the established analysis that was based on different assumptions.
This is the man who said he was willing to bet the destruction of the world against a 51% chance of the world being duplicated, leading to a (under certain questionable population ethics calculations) doubling of total utility.

His risk tolerance is either infinite or, more likely, he doesn't have a clue what it is so he treats it as infinite.
Yes one company, I was a generalist software engineer.

I agree that it'd be very weird for any of my colleagues to have touched Kubernetes or the build pipeline (unless that was their entire job). Large companies can afford to let people specialize, but that's not necessarily the case with smaller companies where people need to wear many hats.

It's just pretty apparent that I need to put on more hats to be a competitive candidate, especially when the hat I do wear usually isn't relevant to the companies that are hiring. Large companies also have plenty of teams doing more mainstream work (regular backend dev) even if it doesn't include k8s, so they all still have a leg up on me in this sparse job market.

Of course my problem might disappear when the market recovers and the large companies hire again, but I'm not going to sit around waiting for that.
New Orleans should probably worry about its murder rate instead of land politics in the Middle East.
It's probably only appealing to the tech set because he came from a upper middle family with law professor parents and fooled some silicon valley money... So basically he existed in the social circle of the academics and Palo alto tech elite.

It's a status thing as much as the crime. Who he had access to and what knowledge everyone involved could have had to detect it earlier. If that is real idk but that's the pitch

Crypto is a bit unique though. Not many markets would have tolerated this behaviour.
not if he shows up
No way.

Playing by the book it's an easy, open and shut case that he loses very badly badly. No other conceivable outcome that way.

His only option is to throw the book out and create as much chaos as possible so prosecutors are faced with the unusual and novel and make mistakes his team can capitalise on.

It's a long shot, sure. He's got nothing else. This lunacy is all 100% rational behaviour on his part.
I wish someone, anyone, would attempt to compete with Apple on single threaded performance in phone SoCs. Nobody is even trying. They all have business strategies that prioritize other things.
The problem, though, isn't the mere concept of trying to monetize open source work. It's the fine line between balancing profitability and openness vs deception and exploitation. Open source with community governance is clearly better at upholding ideals, but honestly, other models can work, too. As I see it today, the CLA is a major issue: it can be seen as insurance against existential threats for open source projects, but it's being used to make pulling the FOSS rug legal 99% of the time its ever exercised, it seems.

Only solution I can see is to stigmatize the CLA.
MIT grad that worked at Jane Street and made a Billion dollar “tech” company are things a lot of people would use as evidence of being intelligent.
Over the years I think I've encountered more pain from applications where the devs leaned on denormalization than from those that developed issues with join performance on large tables.

You can mash those big joins into a materialized view or ETL them into a column store or whatever you need to fix performance later on, but once someone has copied the `subtotal_cents` column onto the Order, Invoice, Payment, NotificationEmail, and UserProfileRecentOrders models, and they're referenced and/or updated in 296 different places...it's a long road back to sanity.
That's an unfortunate thing with how businesses operate. They shouldn't have to look like a fool in front of their board. Executives are not psychics. I get that their job is to foresee things like that, but sometimes you just.. can't.

Having everyone work in the office all the time was an accepted norm that everyone was ok with. Nobody (really) saw this coming and if they did, everyone would've thought they were nuts. If the CEO decided "hey let's try WFH!" they probably would've been removed by the board. So it's pretty unfair for the board to be like "this guy's an idiot for not trying WFH in the past!"

They could play it off as "wow turns out we were wrong about WFH, this is going to be great in the long term! Right now here's how we might use that extra space" - they could detail things like improving retention by bringing back private offices for people who want to work in the office, subletting the space, and other things.
"No battle plan survives contact with the enemy."

https://www.google.com/search?q=no+battle+plan+survives
He's on crazy stimulants.
>We will be one of those 20% companies
I don't think so. He hasn't fled. The 250M is to make sure his butt shows up.
Apple have already been shipping an equivalent attestation mechanism in Safari for a year.
> an understanding of digital identity that involves ownership of an email address and mobile phone rather than ability to sign a document.

Buying a SIM card in a great many countries today already requires showing state-approved ID and then signing a form that the shop clerk prints out. So, ownership of a mobile phone number does mean being able to sign a document. Are you concerned about SIM-jacking? I admit, I find the thrust of your post difficult to follow.
No, I am talking about the near-term viability of the San Francisco tech/commercial/residential space - where hotels with ~1,000 rooms are being fire-sold because the hedgies are losing ~52% of their bookings [0]

So, the overall "slurped up" (as opposed to 'trickle-down') economy is really weak currently, and they are not seeing a positive return for a while, thus - Market street is going to suffer.

Let make Zuck and Ellison and Benioff (the largest land owners in Hawaii) convert/rebuild Lahaina - but provide some housing in SF for refugees... :-)

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/park-hotels-leaving-san-francis...
It's our lived reality, not the SWE-centric reality. We don't really want new features, we want the existing features to work better. The voice output on Google Maps is simply bad. It calls out turns when there are other available turns before the one you're supposed to take, and doesn't say anything to disambiguate. It draws which lane to be in for your exit but doesn't call it out. It doesn't say what you need to know for compound instructions (e.g., exit followed closely by fork). You must look at the map to be able to follow the instructions. Apple Maps does these things better and that's why we prefer to use it (with screen mirroring to the car).

And yes, we even like the 3D view. It helps provide context faster than the 2D view, even if it doesn't always render the best information. Every product has room for improvement, and Apple Maps has been improving. Google Maps isn't usefully better now than it was in 2015.
I'm thinking about this quote for a while but have a hard time squeezing the meaning, or really the actionable part out of it.

The unknown unknowns quote brings the concept that however confident you are in a plan you absolutely need margin. The other quote thought...what do you do differently when understanding that your team is not perfect ?

On one side, outside of VC backed startups I don't see companies trying to reinvent linux whith a team of 4 new graduates. On the other side companies with really big goals will hire a bunch until they feel comfortable with their talent before "going to war". You'll see recruiting posts seeking specialists in a field before a company bets the farm on that specific field (imagine Facebook renaming itself to Meta before owning Oculus...nobody does that[0])

Edit: sorry, I forgot some guy actually just did that 2 weeks ago with a major social platform. And I kinda wanted to forget about it I think.