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>It's amazing what's connected to GPS that ought not to be.

Is there a practical alternative for high-accuracy synchronisation? You could make the case for a backup shortwave receiver, but I'm not sure that's any more reliable than GNSS.
Yes. Ulbrecht deserves his sentence.
Yet in 2008 crisis nobody was sentenced for more then 15 years
I dont't see instant transfers on that page. It says "within 24 hours" and sometimes even "within a week".
> get a job elsewhere

I haven't asked, but they're probably okay with that too.
It's not really propaganda, I think it popped up mostly because typical finance leaders are seen as being on the older side. As a Patrick Boyle video on the issue had put it, they had barely been in finance long enough to be trusted with the morning coffee run.

"Kid" is meant to be derogatory, highlighting the absurdity of traditional investors trusting openly irresponsible people with such little experience in such a heavily experience and regulation dependent field like finance. They behaved like spoiled children, with all the drugs and sex going around within the company, gaming while talking to investors etc. It doesn't make SBF look better.
Which sounds like self managed quite complicated distributed infra..
The best I can do is lead by example and continue to hound my children to think critically and be mindful of the moments they find themselves in, with the hopes that one day it will all become a chore they're no longer interested in chasing and be born into real life.

Technology isn't the problem it's how it's used and encouraged. Society deserves the right to fight back against unfettered profiteering.
thank you a lot!
You sound like someone that didn't lose millions due to SBF's negligence.
The judge felt if the sentence were too short he'd do it again.

Also - the real reason he's getting such a heavy handed punishment isn't because he stole money, it's because he stole money from the rich and the powerful.
Are you aware of Google's guidelines on link spam? https://developers.google.com/search/docs/essentials/spam-po...
What threeio said is right. Technically, encoding data digitally isn't encryption and is fine, and there are digital modes used by Hams. But if you were to come up with your own scheme I could see some sweaty old timers try to accuse you of encryption just because their $3k Yaesu can't decode it. There's a good reason why a lot of recent innovation in the hacker and maker spaces has been in unlicensed bands. The rules for the Ham bands were written decades ago when just trying to talk to people around the world was considered experimental. Now its trivial to do that with HF with the right equipment and a bit of reading. The FCC tends to neglect the ham space which is both a good and bad thing. Lack of attention means people are probably getting away with doing a lot of harmless things they technically shouldn't be. But it also means we are stuck with rules from the 1930's.
See PurpleRamen's comment above. Blockchain != cryptocurrency.

For blockchain, there exist some good (and legitimate) applications.

Cryptocoins otoh... lots of gray area there. If not outright Ponzi schemes.

I hope some day, some crypto coin(s) will fulfill their original promise. But that day is not today.
Of all the things on my worry about list if any combination of the unholy trinity of superpowers start messing with eachother for real, gps/glonass coverage, Elon Musk and TV is really far down the list.
It baffles me how this happens time and time again in companies as they grow (albeit rarely with this level of human life consequence), and nobody ever seems to learn from it.
They do say that reality has a left leaning bias... Personally I find these quadrant visualizations a bit misleading (regardless of where you sit) because the "centre" is not so much a neutral point as it is the centre of the "Overton window".
I luckily have one where I live. I love the prices. They’re always $2-4 and makes it so easy to find something you would never otherwise stumble upon.
I'd guess it's because anoraks/botanics/intellos/Geeks/geeks are pretty familiar with low-subculture-on-the-totem-pole becoming a unifying scapegoat, so it's an appealing idée fixe. (or is that merely recapitulating what you just said?)

On the other hand, I've been in the tech scene for nearly 4 decades, and this discussion is the first time I've encountered Girard (at least that I remember).
I’ve been paying multiple people and teams remotely via btc in the past years. Even if you can send a wire, sometimes it can be cheaper/easier to send crypto. But in many cases it’s not even possible to send large amounts of money without incurring massive fees (international paypal, western union, etc). Moved hundeds of thousands of dollars this way by now for purely legal economical reasons, helping a bunch of people make money they would not make otherwise.

Edit: relatedly, not everybody wants to pay their local taxes (and who am I to judge people in various life situations?). This itself is a _massive_ saver for the folks. Send somebody $5k usd a couple times and their bank will start asking complicated questions.
America's new innovation hotspots, mapped
> He mocked him in weekly meetings whenever he dared contribute a thought, assigned a fellow manager to spy on him and spread rumors that he did not play nicely with others, and disciplined him for things like “using email to communicate” and pushing for flaws he found on planes to be fixed.

Sounds like a regular middle manager in any tech company. Sad unfortunate effect of the power asymmetries in corporate structure: managers have all the power but very few checks to keep them accountable. I’ve seen the same thing happen again and again in different companies (including to me), thankfully none of them building planes.
I don't understand enough about the subject to say, but to me it seemed like yes, other models have better metrics with equal model size i.t.o. number of neurons or asymptotic runtime, but the most important metric will always be accuracy/precision/etc for money spent... or in other words, if GPT requires 10x number of neurons to reach the same performance, but buying compute & memory for these neuros is cheaper, then GPT is a better means to an end.
NVD program manager discusses slowdown and consortium at VulnCon
At least it’ll encourage the kids to learn a little about computers while they scramble to get around this issue
At functional companies, raises and promotions are both connected to scope of contribution.
Navies still train in using the sextant:

* https://www.npr.org/2016/02/22/467210492/u-s-navy-brings-bac...

* https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/canadian-nav...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_navigation

Note that there are 'machines' (Nortronics NAS-14V2) that can look at the sky and return lat/long:

* https://timeandnavigation.si.edu/multimedia-asset/nortronics...

* https://maritime-executive.com/blog/automated-celestial-navi...
Solving the "Are You a Millionaire?" Problem with ZK Certificates
Your guess is as good as mine, but I guess they use it to justify their targeting. What the AI tells them to target, they target. If the AI is inaccurate—which it probably is—even better, the results are the same. Whole neighborhoods are carpet bombed, massive civilian casualty rate, but the optics are better. And hopefully they don’t get charged at the Hague.
Someone asked whether companies act out of altruism and you replied to say that they do (or did). A bit of a rug pull to then say 'who cares, the outcome is the same'.

But the outcomes are not the same. Tracing the conversation back, the top level comment pointed out that we should expect companies to give their profits to investors because they operate for profit. A company that exists to benefit society would be expected to put its profits towards bettering society, or at least towards its own ability to do so.

I argue that benefits to society are a side effect of profit-seeking, which capitalism takes advantage of to great effect. A company with no interest in improving the world will nevertheless wind up doing so, because they'll make money in exchange for providing utility, because the system is designed that way. Expecting a company to behave to benefit society instead of for profit will give you bad predictions when the two are at odds.
Or Charles Kushner or Paul Manafort or Roger Stone or Conrad Black or Steve Bannon or Elliott Broidy..
That's the million dollar question. Why talented people are forced out? Like managers/other key members have a mission and if you somehow not fit in their "world view", you get hell.
Of course, and that right there is luck of the draw. Didn't list the specific thing I need help with? Might not make it to the list of 20 I look at. Not because I wouldn't hire someone for not listing it, or demonstrating they can Lear quickly but jiet be cause I have a limited amount of time.
> The only reasonable answer crypto advocates can ever offer is “decentralization” and the lack of trust required.

That a very big "only". For me that's the killer app. I do not trust financial institutions and the ones that I trust do not want to accept me as their customer.

> “the average person doesn’t care about decentralization”

It's like saying "the average person does not care about a system of interconnected computer networks that communicates through TCP/IP". The average person cares about watching reels on Instagram or sending messages through WhatsApp.

> That’s what blockchain technology is: interesting research which will never be popular

I have no doubt that someone said the same regarding the Internet.
RTO it's such an emotional affair that most people just can't think rationally. Exemplar motivated reasoning.

I work in a hybrid mode and it's so obvious to everyone how in person communication is more effective. People will often say "let's discuss this once I get to the office" all the time.
If their vision is "applications" it feels like any price is too high. Would you sign up for hn if it cost 5 cents? Even though that is nothing in terms of money (for most of us), the friction of money actually being involved in and of itself probably makes it not worth it. Especially when its just a silly internet thing.
Thanks for the kind words. I've dabbled!
https://boilingdown.ghost.io/deluge/
https://boilingdown.ghost.io/sunspot/
https://boilingdown.ghost.io/grow-up/
Been there, done that.

Nothing beats industrial Minecraft (in it's prime, which it isn't in atm as far as I konw) IMO.

Not even close, when considering the ability to add magic/farming/computer stuff.

Though Minetest[0] has some pretry cool packs.

[0]https://www.minetest.net/
No, that's bad for us, as we would be on the hook to subsidize his upkeep.
I want him to join the working poor. I'd accept him getting EBT or Section 8 as part of his sentence...maybe.
Modularize NixOS and Home Manager – Great Practices [video]
It would be awesome to have a map view where I could visualize the itinerary and the times and distances between each place.

It's a lot easier to plan an itinerary (especially one when driving over many days) when I can see where and when I'll be with the distances and travel times. Creating overly ambitious itineraries where there's not enough time at each place can be a problem.
The point of the system is to remove threats from society. It should be long enough such that the person will never pose a threat to society again. Justice was served in this case.
Perhaps because the senior people were at a higher pay grade? If you bump off the expensive employees, your overhead goes down. Better numbers next quarter so you get a bonus.
It is probably because there is a difference between getting mugged and being scammed. With falling victim to SBF's scheme, you probably believe you are partly to blame and you had to face that fact yourself, did some work on it mentally at the very least in the background. Him getting punished does not make a difference, you probably punished yourself and that is what mattered. With a violent mugging encounter, you are blameless, so you need to see the other party get punished to process and to feel that the world will get slightly better / safer with the delivery of the punishment.
As far as I know, Optimism has fraud proofs on Sepolia testnet right now
Airbus has a limited production capacity, and they are maxed out with this scandal.

So Boing is still getting orders, because the world need planes.
Something tells me that even if/when the optimistic or SNARK-based EVM verifier is production-ready, the person you're replying to will still feel somewhat unconvinced.
It's a side effect of reducing the power of those awkward people who want to spend money on well designed aeroplanes.
This is really cool and inspiring. Looking forward to trying it on the 8086:es my kids have.

Slightly related noteworthy project:
http://svardos.org/
The intention wasn't to destroy institutional knowledge. The intention was to cut costs in the short term, largely through outsourcing and turnover. Why pay a senior engineer a huge salary when you could replace them with a consultant in their twenties? They just didn't think or care about the consequences.
The Cautionary Tale of Wirecutter and the Internet's Favorite Wok
Those old engineers cost too much! And we already know how to build planes. So, we can ditch them, my quarterly KPIs look good and with the money freed up from pushing them out it can land in my bonus check!
Stock price gains.

Fire all the longest-tenured, highest-salaried employees. Now you have a company that appears to look similar but with millions of dollars fewer per year in headcount expenses.

Boeing's stock price went up 10x in the time frame covered by the article. The people responsible for gutting the company have cashed out.
F-16s "Sitting Ducks" for Russian MiG-31 Fighters?
They changed the law in 1984 - but if you were sentenced to prison before that, you can still be paroled..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_parole_in_the_United_S...
Those slap-on-the-wrist punishments are reserved for members of the already-wealthy elite.

SBF was an outsider who stole from these people.
I'm not a lawyer and this isn't investment advice so don't sue me if I'm wrong but I'm not sure this qualifies as insider trading in the way that would be illegal for public markets.

Aren't most investors in private companies privy to information that isn't entirely public?

I can see how this feels a bit different because DataBricks might be the size where it might trade with a decent amount of liquidity, but certainly in smaller rounds it's got to be pretty normal.

Maybe if she bought it secondary and the person from whom she purchased the shares was witheld this information they could sue?
Many cases where a recovery from backup is needed are due to PEBKAC.
Isn’t this just forcing communities to flag when they contain adult content? X has always allowed adult content to my knowledge, either that or they’re dreadful at taking content down.
The current market will not last forever and once it turns around we're probably looking at a Great Resignation on steroids given the pent up demand for changing jobs.
silk smitha? hmm wasnt she a south indian actress?
>I know many people on HN hate the idea of RTO

The six months we were WFH were the worst six months of my career. Nothing got done.

Granted, I am in a specialized field and most of my work requires calibrated equipment in purpose-built labs but so many people just wanted to sit at home and click around on Digikey and complain about SolidWorks being slow on their laptops.

I could never do the kind of engineering that doesn't result in a physical object that exists in the real world. The group photo at the end, standing next to a new thing that nobody else on Earth has ever seen, makes dealing with all of the PMPs worth it.

edit: and software guys need to put on some god damned clothes and come into the office, too. I'm not paid enough to troubleshoot over email or slack the hacked-together nightmare of a virtual environment that "works on my machine" but throws ten thousand errors when set up on a test stand.
Money is not just paper with pictures on it. Money represents human labor. So him stealing billions effectively destroyed thousands of lifetimes of labor. If anything, his sentence is extremely light.
Thanks, all of you.
Everyone has only 1 life, imprisonment of a life is one of the ultimate forms of torturing. This basically is killing his most meaningful years away.

I can only agree this form of imprisonment for murderers, rapists, ones who physically and mentally hurt people with permanent losses.

Ones can argue that he mentally & physically hurt others, but we need evidence. We should have a better system to force these individuals to pay back or make up the losses. Of course, he will never be able to pay back all the losses, but at least that's a better punishment and I'm almost certain every prisoner will agree to do. They will absolutely trade all of their finances for x years in exchange for freedom.
Also ref https://archive.is/9WwPe

> Every time a MiG-31 takes off from a Russian military base, an air raid alert is issued across the entire Ukraine...

Would love to see a confirmation source on this bit.
Who told you it's a game?
That depends entirely on what they are listening with. One sub set of ham radio is called fox hunting which is a gameified form of radio direction finding. Some guys are really good at it. If you annoy one of them and they are persistent they can potentially track you down. The Feds of course have very sophisticated tools far and above what's available to you but if you've drawn that kind of attention you are already in deep trouble and looking at jail time. Powerful software defined radios like the RTL-SDR are inexpensive and with a PC can be used to scan broad swathes of spectrum and even decode and store transmissions. People can setup their own DIY listening posts this way. For someone with the right setup and looking at the right time they would notice you are using an encrypted transmission. To figure out where you are would involve repeated detections from multiple points. An adjacent topic is pirate radio stations. The Youtube channel Ringway Manchester has a series of videos about historical UK pirate stations and their stories. You might find it interesting.
If you're in the Bay Area and like visiting bookstores that have been around awhile, there are quite a few good ones here:

* Bell's books, Palo Alto, ~89 yr. [1]

* Moe's books, Berkeley, 65 yr. [2]

* Green Apple Books, SF, 57 yr. [3]

* City Lights, SF, 71 yr. [4]

* Recycle Bookstore, San Jose, 57 yr. [5]

* Feldman books, Menlo Park, ~25 yr. [6]

* Borderlands, SF, 27 yr. [7]

* Friends of the Palo Alto Library (Fopal), Palo Alto, ~54 yr, [8]. This is a used book sale (2nd weekend of every month) and not a bookstore per se, but it gets a special mention because of the price and breadth of books/topics. Esp. good for technical books (I have a $2 hardcover CLRS from here) - these are hard to find elsewhere. Los Altos library also conducts a pretty big sale, but that's not as frequent.

I'm sure I am missing some!

[1] https://www.bellsbooks.com/about

[2] https://www.moesbooks.com/

[3] https://www.greenapplebooks.com/store-history

[4] https://citylights.com/our-story/a-short-history-of-city-lig...

[5] https://www.recyclebookstore.com/about

[6] https://www.feldmansbooks.net/home

[7] https://borderlands-books.com/v2/about/history/

[8] https://www.fopal.org/history

Edit: added fopal.
That doesn't answer the question I asked regarding the specific claim that maintenance standards have fallen.

For example, it's possible maintenance standards never changed and the old bridges simply got older and more exposed to risk as the years went on.
Show HN: Untree: like gron but generalised on indentation
Somehow I loved U.P. but watching this reminds me of old text-based adventures with contrived arbitrary obstacles which would only be funny if you didn't spend many hours getting by them. Or a detective novel with an obscure unguessable resolution.

It's like training the three laws of robotics into something that communicates in literally and doesn't have any sense to be cooperative. But every now and then will let you know how it's being uncooperative by saying "btw, humanity's dead again." I guess I don't like hard puzzles that are hard for their own sake.
How the Atlantic Went from Broke to Profitable in Three Years
Highly recommend reading Scientific Freedom (published by Stripe Press in fact) which touches on the important topic of the shrinking freedom in professionalized scientific research:

https://www.amazon.com/Scientific-Freedom-Civilization-Donal...
if labor has so little bargaining power this suggests a huge over supply of labor which contradicts the low unemployment rate.

is this happening wide spread or is it just undocumented workers? I would assume, undocumented works have to put up with such mistreatment but everyone else who's not on a H1B should just be able to get another job, right?
In most of the places it’s trivial to exchange crypto for local currency in p2p fashion, often for cash.
30 years ago in 1994 we had 1 micron chips. Can you print your own 1 micron chips at home today? No. You can make PCBs at home today but no chips.
> the common man isn't testing ChatGPT for quality

Neural networks are a connectionist approach to cognition that is roughly similar to how our brains operate. Humans make mistakes. We're not perfect. We ask someone for advice and they may confabulate some things, but get the gist of it right. A senior developer will write some code, try it out, find a bug, fix it, try it again, etc. We don't develop a fully working operating system kernel on our first attempt.

Chain of thought prompting increases LLM output accuracy significantly as that is how you get an LLM to "think" about its output, check its output for errors, or backtrack and try another strategy. With the current one-token-at-a-time approach it can only "think" when generating each token.

Next generation models could integrate this iterative and branching cognitive process in the algorithm.

> After the hype dies down a bit, we'll likely have a better understanding of what advances in this field we really have.

LLMs can already do many natural language processing tasks more accurately and competently than the vast majority of humans. Transformers were originally designed for translation. (GPT is a transformer that knows many languages.)

BTW I tried the blue sun question with Chat GPT 3.5 and it easily figured out the Mars solution after I suggested that I may not be standing on Earth.

"Several celestial bodies outside of Earth could potentially exhibit conditions where the Sun might appear blue or have a bluish hue. Here are a few examples:

Mars: Mars has a thin atmosphere composed mostly of carbon dioxide, with traces of other gases. While the Martian atmosphere is not as dense as Earth's, it can still scatter sunlight, and under certain conditions, it might give the Sun a slightly bluish appearance, especially during sunrise or sunset.

Titan (Moon of Saturn): Titan has a thick atmosphere primarily composed of nitrogen, with traces of methane and other hydrocarbons. Although Titan's atmosphere is much denser than Earth's, its composition and haze layers could potentially scatter light in a way that gives the Sun a bluish hue, particularly when viewed from the surface.

..."
> they are very clearly using the presence of their OS to boost Edge market share.

They went through an antitrust trial for this in the 1990s, so they can't get in trouble again - it would be double jeopardy.
Link: https://archive.ph/YRUNj
Human Breast Cell Atlas Project