skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yeah, SBF was not lying about FTX having the money.

Yes, he was.

The reason people are being made whole now is that a couple of years down the line, some of his investments and acquisitions are now worth considerably more than they were at the time of bankruptcy. But at that point t FTX was insolvent and SBF was telling lies all over the place.
It would be ideal for large new social platform (like Reddit or Twitter). Easy to type and pronounce, short. Probably not trademarked or copyrighted either.
that's the point of the story: keep it simple, keep launching.
This is so weird because despite being so plentiful, the EU has still to throw money at Russia for all kinds of stuff related to nuclear energy. Imagine that: we have all kinds of sanctions on Russia here in the EU. The tone is aggressive. There is fear of a Russian invasion into EU countries, and we still have to get that stuff from Russia.

So it seems not to be such an easy solution.

It gets even worse for poor countries which jumped on the Rosatom train being fully dependent on Rosatom tech, fuel, personal.

Even if it wouldn't be for that, it's far away from the availability of sun or wind.

Here is a nice read on the topic:

https://www.tortoisemedia.com/2024/04/16/russia-is-earning-b...
Y2038: Why Steam started picking a random font
I only learned like 4-5 of those shapes, and kept restarting the game until I got one of those. :)
Back in the good old days, when kids had attention spans!
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FTX didn’t have their BTC though. That’s part of the problem.
The nuclear exit began in earnest in 2011.

Lets have a look at how the German electricity production has shifted over the years:

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/p...

- Fossil gas: 2011 -> 2023 = stable.

- Coal: 2011 -> 2023 = large reduction

At the height of the energy crisis when half the French nuclear fleet was off line due to corrosion issues.

Germany temporarily reopened a few mothballed coal power plants to keep the lights on in France.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/15/business/nuclear-power-fr...
Opening a demo chat app URL in Private Mode in Firefox results in perpetual "Loading..." screen and the following error on the console:

Uncaught (in promise) DOMException: A mutation operation was attempted
on a database that did not allow mutations.
A communist government will manage to convert any riches into abject poverty. Every single time.
such one word domain would easily go for ~3k on open market.
That's memory mapping. This is memory paging [1]. I.e. Windows pagefile.sys, Linux swap, macOS swap files. iOS does not have swap files, only memory compression. If you're on a Mac, open up Activity Monitor, go to Memory, and at the bottom there is `Swap Used`. That doesn't exist on iOS. So, if more memory is used than available, applications will need to free memory or be terminated. Unlike macOS, where some used memory will be swapped to disk to allow other stuff to be loaded into memory.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_paging
without air superiority both sides have extreme artillery dependence
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i18n is also a type of contribution!
It does make me wonder what the next Language of the Moment will be that has everyone on HN salivating, hailing it as the replacement for all else.
Telescreen and you have to pay for it. "The future is so bright I don't need my eyes to see it."
Time Is Money: The Social Benefits of Time-of-Use Tariffs (2023)
But you said they technically can. Can you technically do this on iOS? Lack of technical knowledge means jack shit. Write documentation for laymen as to how to do it, because they could; make it simpler for them if you so wish. Or can I make a website that has a direct link (just a tap away) to an APK and have users install that on Android? What about an app for iOS? It is a matter of "difficult" (arguable) vs "impossible", is it not?
Samsung issues public apology as earnings disappoint
Apple Potentially Facing Worst Leak Since iPhone 4 Was Left in a Bar
This story displays the typical murderous human idiocy that you can also see in the history of major and minor royalty of the middle ages just happening in days not years and on the scale of dozens of humans not hundreds or thousands.
https://archive.ph/f6e7Q
While this is inevitable, I wrote a blog post once upon a time about the trend this generates and why I'm worried about it.

In principle, wars between armies are proxy wars between nations/governments/etc.

A long time ago (Sumeria maybe), soldiers started to fight soldiers, and civilians could get on with civilian life while fighting continued (farming, production, etc.). Now obviously that doesn't mean that no war has ever had civilian casualties, or that armies have never targeted civilian populations, but it made warfare a fairly symmetric endeavour. Rather than having your farmers hacking at each other with hoes until there are no farmers left, you can pit some of your strongest and best trained men against your enemy's strongest and best trained men, and accept the results of that to avoid total annihilation of your whole populace.

But that only works because both sides have skin in the game, and people are dying on both sides.

If we move to a model where a stronger power can fight a war remotely with no risk to real people, then the only way to take the war to the enemy will be to target civilians. Terrorism, asymmetrical warfare, etc. will be the only way to respond to drone strikes and the like.

I don't know what the answer is, but it worries me.
The usage limit makes this almost useless. Secondly, is there a search functionality where I enter the SSID to find the location? That'd be cool.
I am a serious sucker for science fiction, but I find the alleged inevitability of glorified chatbots dominating humans to be quite a colorful thought experiment.

That said, some part of it is true. There will be a stupid "AI" that reduces your credit score to some value. There will be no recourse and no human you can ask how the score was calculated, you have no method to correct false information. Perhaps it is just because you are ugly, verified by the ugly algorithm. Perhaps you aren't visible enough on social media,

Here you are indeed slave to the machine, but the news would perhaps just be, that this is already the case anyway.
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> You owned a claim to the very specific asset you deposited in an exchange, which is how segregated accounts work.

Maybe in a real bank you do. Not in cryptoland. "Not your keys, not your coins" as they are so fond of saying.
Take everything you said and then question why the author even referenced the situation.

If you agree that there needs to be a stronger connection to establish a connection, then why even mention the situation? Do you think the author did it out of complete randomness?
Oh my, priceless! :))
Even that article says the assets there are not enough to come close to liabilities.

FTX was insolvent at that time.
Fifth Generation was the weirdest. Prolog was the way to true AI. Except no sane human can write prologs longer than one page. Seemed like dead end at the time.

In 1970's was one AI success story. Finnish language spell checker was considered Hard AI problem and I saw Fred Karlsson on Xerox Lisp machine demo in Stockholm. Fred realized however soon that all you need is hard work and fixed rule-based state machine written in C.
On a high level, it solves a similar problem: a full backend so you mostly only have to write a frontend.

But Jazz does so in a completely different (local-first) way: it implements shared state on top of CRDTs and implements user identity and permissions based on public-key cryptography. This means you can create, store and share data from the client (even while offline) while still benefitting from cloud storage and real-time sync between devices and users by default.
The equivalent to passport in ruby is called omniauth. Having used both, don't really find a huge upside in the former compared to the latter, just different APIs.
US judge orders Google to open up Google Play to rivals
$6bn out of twelve is very much not having the money.
That looks very interesting.

I think these sort of activities must come from outside because the core Rust team has currently no experience in these areas.
What do you count as iterations? There's never been a violent throwing out of capitalism to be tried with a different version of capitalism. The throwing out of capitalism has been to replace it with something else, not more capitalism. And has the horsepower been put into developing capitalism, or has it been put into making more money for the people wielding it, rather than developing the best system there could be?
Lithography? Its less a design style, but more the fact that lithography is easier of you only have 3 or 4 colors.
Failing Forward: Lessons from My Startup Journey with Creative Log
That's how a lot of laws work. There's always an element of subjectivity. Is that guy a murderer? Well, did he intend to kill the victim or was it an accident? The court is supposed to decide whether he intended to, using the available facts, but nobody involved can read minds so it's really a guess.

If you didn't want to be convicted of murder, you wouldn't walk right up to the line of what constitutes murder. You'd stay far away from that line on the legal side. Same for companies, if the system is doing its job.
Discussion (537 points, 13 hours ago, 414 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41769657
I don't know how bankruptcy documents work, but this is not a filling, it's a general-audience article.

The truth is if you had one Bitcoin in FTX, that was worth 20k. You might have bought for more or less than that. Now it's worth 60k. You didn't get the 20k back immediately (in which case you could have repurchased the Bitcoin immediately and not lose anything).

- If you bought Bitcoin above 20k, you lost money, whereas you wouldn't have otherwise.
- If you would have kept your Bitcoin, you would have 60k now. You didn't get a choice in the matter.

The problem if of course "what is money" — the thing you owned was a Bitcoin, and now you're getting back its value from back then in dollar terms. This value changed meanwhile, shocking! But quite clearly, most people would have had more money now if that hadn't happened.

So while it's possible that some people would have sold lower than 24k (it didn't stay that low very long), most people wouldn't have, and so they lost money, in the commonly accepted undertanding.

Imagine the government seized your house 10 years ago, then paid you back today its price from 10 years ago +20%. Did you not lose money?
CL it's much more cohesive than Scheme. They Schemes are barely compatibles upon themelves with ice-9's on Guile, SRFI's and whatnot.
The story about pc stores is way off. First there was steam, and for many years it was the only store.

Many launchers came to be, with half assed community features. They didn't want a thriving marketplace, they wanted a piece of the pie. People hated them and they died.

Recently epic store came, with a billion dollar Corp behind, and they are fighting the long battle. The free games are a nice thing (usually older offers or curated indie stuff), but the exclusive business sucks. Luckily it seems unpopular, and fewer brands esnt to adopt it - some are so strong they can do it, but others found out that they can lose their loyal costumers and fade out, eg Borderlands.
Just wanted to apologise to everyone for this, this kind of stuff drives me nuts and I'm not sure how I never noticed - it seems to be a result of how we use the iframe to render the chat example. Investigating!
We have solutions in the US, but politicians keep playing games. Yucca mountain has been authorized and de-authorized back and forth for decades. It isn't an engineering problem at all.
you replace nuclear waste (that can be reduced with purex or reused with fast reactors) with non recyclable toxic renewable waste in much greater quantities
For accidents - just need to build newer reactor models. ap1000 is a marvel of engineering
Not to go off topic but isn't performance metrics your responsibility ? Those are small numbers in reality, but if you are not performing your own tests and trusting the maintainer/publisher instead then you're not doing your 'day-job' properly.
Thanks, whoever you are!
hey Jacob, Flo here -- i'm the author of this story. thanks for your comment.

you're spot on. most people overthink Product Hunt too much. now, think SEO. from my perspective, when you launch on Product Hunt, your objective shouldn't be the # of upvotes you get or the spot you rank.

keep it simple. launch to get discoverable. repeat to stay accountable and top of mind.
"The beginning of infinity" by David Deutsch is the definitive book on Optimism.
Thanks, Timo! Couldn't ask for better early adopters than you guys
The analogy is more like an easier to implement version of a system(Custom Frontend Data Store) is worse than the standardized system (Database) rather than one system(database) being implemented on top of another system(filesystem).

The database has more features relative to filesystem, so we wouldn't miss the filesystem whereas a powerful indexing system is a feature in database missing in frontend data stores.

Some other examples below(Firefox plugins which are file browsers, FTP clients, C programs informally implementing subset of Common LISP features).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule

https://wiki.c2.com/?GreencoddsTenthRuleOfProgramming
> could have switched to food crops at any time

They started. But as the article mentions, that happened amidst a drought and the beginning of the war, which destroyed distribution.

> slave economy was also unable to supply its army with shoes, uniforms, guns, cannons, powder, etc.

Sure. Not arguing for the strength of the Southern economy. Just pointing out that their farms were more efficient. But not because of slaves. Because of the thing this article is about.
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My point isn't that GDP per capita is the end-all-be-all of quality of life metrics. It's that pointing out that Russia and India are at the top of the GDP list, and therefore GDP per capita (your previous comment seems to conflate the two) is a flawed metric, is such a poor argument that you're not giving the pro-GDP side a fair shake and possibly misrepresenting their argument. No "line goes up" or "GDP = quality of life" proponent thinks India has high quality of life because their country level GDP tops the list.
there are two: Pirsig's "Zen..." and Thoreau's "Walden...." the quality which is defined is not the quality, and the sun is but a morning star. iykyk. no posturing intended, just answering the d*n question.
a far cry from zero, and the CZ tweets triggered a run. How many other exchanges have enough assets on hand to cover every depositor at once instantaneously? Even mainstream banks cannot cover everyone (this is what a bank run is and is why central banks exist to provide a backstop in such an event).
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update: it's not the amount of people in it that broke this room https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41775047
100%. keep it simple and enjoy your launch day :)
Thanks, Aaron!
Wow this sounds very smart.

Do you have any tutorial somewhere on how to use Falcon for this? I am getting some strange errors that would probably be covered in a basic tutorial already.
- The works of Richard Feynman: All are very nice reads.
- The Idea Factory (Jon Gertner): The only book I’ve read more than once and gifted to several friends and acquaintances.
- The Silmarillion: Incredible World-Building
- The Master and His Emissary (Mcgilchrist) Dense, but rewarding. Considerably changed the way I think.
- God’s Debris (Scott Adams, yes, THAT Scott Adams) Read it in undergrad and not sure if it was a JIT kind of thing, but it impacted me.
That is still not the fault of Facebook. It is the fault of people writing these comment and those that respond to them and want to kill other people. That they now have a common platform of communication is a fact everyone needs to adapt to.

You might level the criticism against the advertising industry. This is a legislative issue.

To accuse Facebook to help a genocide is just distracting from the guilt of those that attempt genocide.
why bury precious fuel? Use purex or fast reactors, vitrify rest, put in casks and deal with it at least till transmutation research advances
ten years ago, when Product Hunt launched, people said the same about TechCrunch.

history will tell.
> But in 2015 with the introduction of the iPad Pro, Apple decided that the iPad was going to replace the Macintosh.

Although that is an intriguing (and controversial) possibility, Apple has never explicitly stated that. What they have done, is continued to heavily invest in the Mac lineup. IMO the ‘Pro’ in iPad Pro is meant to target creative professionals, not all the types of professionals (for e.g. programmers).
Because it's a distraction.

Global warming and other environmental crises are unfolding right now. While exploring possible future technological advances which would make coping with it easier is certainly a positive and useful pursuit - it cannot be the _main_ pursuit when facing those crises and challenges. That is:

1. We should not divert the discussion from present to possible fortuitous futures.

2. We must not confuse action with prospects.

3. We must not think of the two as "either-or". We can reduce emissions _and_ do R&D for new tech possibilities.
Let me use this moment to turn your attention to the superior successor of Thunderbirds...Terrahawks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaOQA-wcm2w

The opening sequence 3D wireframe graphics were rendered on a cluster of prototype ZX Spectrums and were the inspiration for ILM's groundbreaking work on Tron.
Serious question:

Can you really call it stable if it is updated every 6 weeks?
4-legged robot mule with ordinance. I mean, they are already putting rifles on the robot dogs.
As always, Raymond is right. (And as usually, I could guess it's him before even clicking the link.)

That said, 99% time when doing upper- or lowercase operation you're interested just in the 7-bit ASCII range of characters.

For the remaining 1%, there's ICU library. Just like Raymond Chen mentioned.
x32 ABI support exists at least in the kernel of Debian (and Debian based) distributions, and I know because I've built Python versions (along with everything else needed for specific workloads) as x32 executables. The speed difference was minor but existing, but the memory usage was quite a lot decreased. I've worked with a similar ABI known as n32 (there was o32 for old 32, n32 for new 32 and n64 for fully 64-bit programs) on SGI systems with 64-bit capable MIPS CPUs; it made a difference there too.

Unfortunately I've read articles where quite-more-respected-than-me people said in a nutshell “no, x32 does not make a difference”, which is contrary to my experience, but I could only provide numbers where the reply was “that's your numbers in your case, not mine”.

Amazon Linux kernel did not support x32 calls the last time I tried, so you can't provide images for more compact lambdas.
> far cry from zero

Straw man. You said SBF "was technically not lying about FTX having the money." He was. If you ask me to hang on to your $12 and I spend half of it, I don't have the money.

> How many other exchanges have enough assets on hand to cover every depositor at once instantaneously?

All of them. Exchanges and clearinghouses in a proper financial system are fully collateralised.

> this is what a bank run is and is why central banks exist

Banks are leveraged. FTX was not supposed to be levered. It should have been able to survive a "run," because it wasn't supposed to have asset-liability mismatches.
Meteor works on top of a traditional backend (typically MongoDB afaik?) to give you full-stack reactivity.

Jazz implements essentially a distributed database with permissions based on public-key cryptography, so you can meaningfully create, edit, share and store data on the client (even while offline), which gets synced to other users and devices (and stored in the cloud) whenever you're online
> FTX faced no such regulation and if you sent them crypto you no longer owned it. FTX did.

This is at best only partially true, you own a claim on the underlying asset.

This is not a matter of regulation, it's a matter of your contractual agreement with FTX.

I don't know how more regulated brokers work, but I also doubt you own the asset outright, you also probably own a claim, which is why if the broker goes bankrupt because of fraud you might not recover it.

Regulation wouldn't have changed anything here: as FTX simply broke the law, which they could have done regardless of regulation & reporting requirements (e.g. WorldCom, Enron, ...).

What they did was not legal, even wrt to what regulation they were subjected to.
What about UFO? Not puppets (though by the Anderson team) but live-action with sexy ladies in purple wigs and somewhat creepy vibe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_(British_TV_series)
nuclear is not much more expensive, it's cheaper. It's just harder to scale
If the waste is your concern - nuclear is better. And no, you can't just bury renewable waste, it too contains forever toxic materials that can be dispersed in soil and water. Amount of mined stuff- nuclear is better, amount of land used- nuclear is better
No matter how you turn it, renewables were and will be more expensive for germany https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03605... https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/germany-rejigs-sprea...
Depends on the market, even the C++ wannabe replacements are implemented in compiler toolchains written in C++.

It gets a bit hard to replace something that your compiler depends on to exist in first place.
Amazing initiative! After hearing this I'm definitely keen to try out Clerk for my next project
but they aren't
Export any Kindle eBook as text/PDF/ePub/AI audiobook
I had a lot of fun w/ this project :)

It works by logging into your Kindle web reader account using Playwright, exporting each page of a book as a PNG image, and then using a vLLM (gpt-4o or gpt-4o-mini) to transcribe the text from each page to text. Once we have the raw book contents and metadata, then it's easy to convert it to PDF, EPUB, etc.

The repo supports a few different options for TTS providers to generate audiobooks from the resulting text.

Would love feedback && thanks!
Notes on Richard Hamming's You and Your Research
> We’re still in the very early stage of drone development for warfare and Ukraine is using a lot of civilian gear. Now the armed forces of the world are plowing their funding into R&D I expect them to develop quickly.

I'm not sure that follows.

Military drones like the Predator have been around for 30 years - at a cost of $30 million a drone. US military contractors are many things, but they're never cheap. And at that price, you don't have many and so they're never where they need to be.

The battlefield impact in Ukraine has been because for $500 you can strap a grenade to a DJI Mavic and you've got 60,000 times as many of them. And sure it's got much less range and inferior sensors and less jamming resistance and so on - but the price lets it be it's in the right place at the right time.

Defence contractors aren't famous for their cost-effective practices, so I'm not sure they can improve on the most important aspect of these drones.
This wouldn't help because it would still not have enough Bitcoins to pay its customers.
> You owned a claim to the very specific asset you deposited in an exchange, which is how segregated accounts work

There weren't segregated. The segregation claim was made by an entity in bankruptcy. FTX's customers have unsecured claims.

> if FTX froze in time and did nothing at all, its assets would've recovered completely that 8 billion gap in its funding

The FTX estate barely held any crypto when it went under.