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There is a lot of wisdom in the old ways.
The galaxy brain take is that Craig Wright actually is Satoshi Nakamoto and his inept attempts to prove his identity is merely another layer of op-sec. After this ruling anyone who even attempts to reveal his true identity will be dismissed and ridiculed.
Because we really do live in a society. Believe it or not you were once someone's expensive and serious responsibility that others had to pay for. And in the future those expensive and serious responsibilities are going to be the tax base that's forced to pay for your care.
If it doesn't work it doesn't work.
I love these guys. I'm not sure what learning this means for my fan ship. They never struck me as a particular no-frills aesthetic type of group. I wonder if they made this themselves or there's some story behind it.
When the url changes I redirect, what do you do sir?
Ellsberg is in many ways to mold from which modern day whistleblowers were cast. Edward Snowden said in an interview recently that when he was debating internally about whether or not he should become a whistleblower, knowing the ramifications it would have for his life, Ellsberg was what gave him the courage to do so. It was nice to learn that while in exile Snowden was able to get connected with Ellsberg and develop a friendship with him. Unfortunately Snowden and other modern day whistleblowers seem to have suffered more than Ellsberg who got off on something of a technicality.
From the IRS's website: A taxpayer is insolvent when his or her total liabilities exceed his or her total assets. But if you're a bank it's a different story, because it's unclear what your assets actually are. It's possible that your liabilities are secretly also assets, that's what happens when you get a bailout. Because of that it's somewhat meaningless to call a bank insolvent. But if we want the term to have meaning for banks, and we take the simple definition that the irs has then I believe all of the banks are insolvent. None of them have enough assets to cover their liabilities.
https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/what-if-i-am-insolvent
Companies break their fiscal years into quarters in different ways. Best I can tell they do this because there's an incentive to be offset from your customer's fiscal quarters. Being offset means each one of your quarters you get a chance to sell into the budgets for two of their quarters. Which gives you more "at bats" each quarter to make a potential sale.
I'm not totally sure if this actually makes sense and is net positive for the business. But this is the reasoning I've heard from sales people for wanting to offset quarter schedules.
ChatGPT is happy to oblige:
Silicon Valley Bank, founded in 1983, has had a long and incredible journey leading up to its acquisition by the FDIC in 2023. As a bank that specializes in working with the technology and innovation industries, it has been at the forefront of many of the industry's most significant developments.
The bank started its journey as a small community bank in Santa Clara, California. At that time, it was known as the Santa Clara Valley Bank. The founders, Bill Biggerstaff, Ken Wilcox, and Bob Medearis, saw an opportunity to create a financial institution that focused on serving the unique needs of the technology and innovation industries.
In the early years, the bank faced many challenges as it worked to establish itself as a leader in the industry. One of the biggest obstacles was convincing investors and regulators that the bank's specialized approach to banking was viable. The founders knew that they needed to build a strong foundation and establish a reputation for being a reliable and trustworthy financial institution.
Over the years, the bank grew and expanded its reach, opening offices across the United States and in key global markets. It also broadened its focus beyond just technology and innovation to include life sciences, healthcare, energy, and more. This diversification helped to insulate the bank from the ups and downs of any one industry and made it more resilient in the face of economic uncertainty.
Throughout its journey, Silicon Valley Bank has remained committed to its core values of innovation, excellence, and customer focus. It has always been willing to take calculated risks and to push the boundaries of what is possible. This approach has paid off in many ways, as the bank has been recognized as one of the most innovative and respected financial institutions in the world.
In 2023, Silicon Valley Bank achieved a major milestone when it was acquired by the FDIC. This acquisition was a testament to the bank's success and the strength of its business model. It also signaled a new era of growth and opportunity for the bank, as it now has the backing of one of the most respected regulatory bodies in the world.
Looking ahead, Silicon Valley Bank is poised to continue its incredible journey and to make an even greater impact on the world. As the technology and innovation industries continue to evolve and grow, the bank is well-positioned to help fuel that growth and to support the entrepreneurs and visionaries who are driving it forward. With its deep expertise, strong relationships, and unwavering commitment to excellence, Silicon Valley Bank is poised to remain a leader in the financial services industry for many years to come.
On an entirely silly tangent. It's a bit of a shame that Karpathy stopped working at Tesla. Just because having a guy named Karpathy working on car pathing was such a great example of nominative determinism.
This feels a lot like the old canard that there's no such thing as altruism because altruistic people get joy out of acting altruistically and thus their altruism is really just selfishness. Which is ridiculous because the act of taking joy is itself the altruism, i.e. an altruist is the type of person who can take joy in things that benefit others rather than themselves, the joy doesn't negate the altruism, it is the altruism.
That being said EA has clearly gone completely off the rails and FTX should be the final nail in the coffin. It's become a way for nerdy people to do stats and thought experiments and pretend they're doing something altruistic. EA will never be net positive given the massive negative that's been done by SBF and FTX.
This story looks like it was a hoax, it has an editors note now.
This is the type of feat that sets you up to marry the lovely Penelope.
Yeah something weird is going on here. My first thought was that Willis has aphasia so maybe he forgot he signed away the rights. But I'm pretty sure the statement came from his rep. Unless they're blatantly ripping him off though they'd have to have permission even to use his likeness promotionally.
DVC is great for use cases that don't get to this scale or have these needs. And the issues here are non-trivial to solve. I've spent a lot of time figuring out how to solve them in Pachyderm which is good for use cases where you do need higher levels of scale or might run into merge conflicts with DVC. There's trade-offs though. DVC is definitely easier for a single developer / data scientist to get up and running with.
The rest of the internet when workers get laid off:
Those poor workers, I hope they'll be able to find something new and provide for their families.
Hacker news:
Good, that company had too many employees anyway.
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It seems like if Nieman wants to clear his name he should offer Carlsen explicit permission to say whatever it is he can't. If Magnus is bluffing and that information doesn't amount to much he'd wind up looking a lot better.
I did not know that! That's great actually
I'm incredibly excited to see Godot getting an organization like this behind it. Godot is an amazing tool. It's cliched to complain about names on hn, but every time I see W4 Games I think it's a company to help me cheat on my taxes.
Lèse-majesté is the crime of "offending majesty." It's been an awfully long time since it's been a real law in Europe but I guess anti-royals are pissing the state of enough that they've decided to revive it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9
Godot is a fantastic tool, feels a lot like how Blender felt in the early days. Pleasant to use at really productive. I hope adding a company on top of it doesn't throw the baby out with the bath water. Certainly the creates deserve to be able to make money off of the great engine they created. But opensource business models can be hard to get right, and I'm not sure if there's an example (yet) of one work in game engines. Still they seem to be doing all the right things and getting the right people into the company to help them. There's a number of things that could be added to Godot now that they have a company behind it, most notably support for consoles which require expensive developer licenses purchased from the console makers.
The fact that Google's execs only care about this now that the economy is turning indicates that the execs have been coasting too. This isn't a problem you want to solve once it hits the breaking point due to external factors. You want to constantly solving it at a cultural level.
We are doing a whole bunch of performance testing on the new 2.0 engine that we released at the end of 2021. We'll be publishing those.
I was at Airbnb when we open-sourced Airflow, it was a great solution to the problems we had at the time. It's amazing how many more use cases people have found for it since then. At the time it was pretty focused on solving our problem of orchestrating a largely static DAG of SQL jobs. It could do other stuff even then, but that was mostly what we were using it for. Airflow has become a victim of its success as it's expanded to meet every problem which could ever be considered a data workflow. The flaws and horror stories in the post and comments here definitely resonate with me. Around the time Airflow was opensource I starting working on data-centric approach to workflow management called Pachyderm[0]. By data-centric I mean that it's focused around the data itself, and its storage, versioning, orchestration and lineage. This leads to a system that feels radically different from a job focused system like Airflow. In a data-centric system your spaghetti nest of DAGs is greatly simplified as the data itself is used to describe most of the complexity. The benefit is that data is a lot simpler to reason about, it's not a living thing that needs to run in a certain way, it just exists, and because it's versioned you have strong guarantees about how it can change.
[0] https://github.com/pachyderm/pachyderm
The implication is that because this rule is from 1992 (which I guess is considered ancient history), arguing that it should be implied here is essentially saying that central banking was solved in 1992. It's a bad argument.
Recruiting, and maybe HR.
They can only burn the honest validators stake on the softfork though. The main chain won't be impacted.