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Powdering7082on "Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Executive Order

Because his current actions appear consistent with attempting to perform a coup

Powdering7082on "Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Executive Order

I'd really expect that he is actually at a loss on all of those except for SpaceX which has a clear path towards being cash flow positive if it isn't already

Powdering7082on OpenAI O3-Mini

That would be 12%, why would you assume that is eaten by statistical noise?

Powdering7082on In Defense of Y'All

I have noticed a large uptick in usage of y'all in the PNW in the last 7 years.

I personally think at this point y'all doesn't need to be defended, it is on it's way to winning regardless of what NYT Opinion pieces think.

Although reading the original NYT Opinion piece I do also agree with the premise that "you guys" has largely been drained of it's masculinity.

Powdering7082on ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas_war_crimes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_war_crimes

One side committing war crimes does not mean the other doesn't as well

Powdering7082on Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction

Being able to stay in the country is also tied to employment for plenty of people

Powdering7082on Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend (2016)

I agree, I am not a proponent of TDD or anything, but cleaning & restructuring large code bases without tests is a recipe for an outage/regression

Powdering7082on Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend (2016)

Pretty wild that none of this talks about testing or observability. Tests are also something that you need to pay to maintain, but they give the ability of reducing the risk that you broke something when you removed it. Additionally when you've exposed your service to potential external callers you need to both have a robust way of marking some calls as deprecated, to be deleted as well as observing whether they are still being called and by what.

I recently did our first semi-automated removal of exposed graphql resolvers, metrics about how often a given resolver was already available so parsing that yielded the set of resolvers I *couldn't* delete. Graphql already has a deprecated annotation, but our service didn't handle that annotation in any special way. I added observability to flag if any deprecated functions have been called & then let that run for sufficiently long in prod, then you can safely delete externally exposed code.

Powdering7082on Bitcoin puzzle #66 was solved: 6.6 BTC (~$400k) withdrawn

Unfortunately I couldn't find a better writeup, although I remember it.

The basic problem was that they transferred into his "cold wallet" https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/investing/hot-wallet-vs-c...

He didn't want to have the signal be that he was happy holding SHIBA and was uncomfortable with that much power & control over SHIBA. So he wanted to be able to transfer his SHIBA out to a hot wallet and then burn most of it and donate the rest, given the amount of money involved he took extra steps like buying a new computer to generate the new keys, airgapping it from the internet while it held the cold wallet keys etc

Powdering7082on Bitcoin puzzle #66 was solved: 6.6 BTC (~$400k) withdrawn

> Vitalik got indirectly pwned

How exactly was Vitalik "indirectly pwned"?

Powdering7082on Bitcoin puzzle #66 was solved: 6.6 BTC (~$400k) withdrawn

> there's no chance to stay safe when you put that kind of target on your back.

Vitalik Buterin seems to be a counter example here, his net worth peaked around $1.46 billion. He has some interesting writing on how he stays secure. At one point the SHIBA token sent a huge amount of funds to his cold wallet and he details what he did to securely access those funds:

https://decrypt.co/91000/ethereum-founder-vitalik-buterin-du...

> The funds, he said, were initially in a cold wallet in the form of two numbers written on separate pieces of paper. Buterin said he had to combine the two numbers to get the private key. "One of those numbers was with me; the other number was with my family in Canada," he said. "So I had to call up my family in Canada and tell them to read their number to me."

> Buterin said that he entered the numbers into the computer he purchased from Target after putting the two numbers together. "I sent my ETH out by generating a transaction and then on a computer that I bought from Tarjay [Target] for about $300 bucks for just this purpose."

> Before disconnecting the laptop from the internet entirely, Buterin said he downloaded a program to generate QR codes. After generating the Ethereum transaction, he scanned the QR code with his phone, copied it to the laptop, and then put it into etherscan.io/push Tx. Finally, Buterin said he began sending out the tokens.

Powdering7082on Bitcoin puzzle #66 was solved: 6.6 BTC (~$400k) withdrawn

24h Volume: $9,800,480,342

Liquidity of less than a million worth of BTC hasn't been a problem for a long time

Powdering7082on Supreme Court overturns 40-year-old "Chevron deference" doctrine

Why even have an executive branch? Surely everything can just be done through our efficient judicial system and wise legislative system

Powdering7082on Claude 3.5 Sonnet

> GPT-5 only began its training several weeks ago

Source?

Powdering7082on GPT-4o

Wow from adjusted ELO of 1144 to 1790, that's a huge leap. I wonder if they are giving it access to a 'scratch pad'

Powdering7082on GPT-4o

Wow this versioning scheme really messed up this prediction market: https://kalshi.com/markets/gpt4p5/gpt45-released

Powdering7082on Apple introduces M4 chip

Also they don't have to pay either the capex or opex costs for training a model if they get user's devices to train the models

Powdering7082on How to Use JSON Path

I am kind of surprised that they don't mention jq at all, it seems like a similar tool that is fairly wide spread.

Powdering7082on A leadership crisis in the Nix community

The issue isn't whether Anduril can use the the software. They can.

This stemmed from whether they can publically attach their name to NixCon, which is fundamentally a social event.

Powdering7082on Canoo spent double its annual revenue on the CEO's private jet

yes it's clickbait-y, but it also seems a bit like it's burying the lede with the fact that the CEO is self dealing on top of it.

> Canoo reimburses Aquila Family Ventures, an entity owned by the CEO, for use of an aircraft.

Powdering7082on MTA board votes to approve new $15 toll to drive into Manhattan

Yeah last time I rode in a minibus (guagua (sp?)) was in the dominican republic. It was a 4 door sedan carrying ~9 people. I had shift the car into drive from park because the driver didn't want to reach across the lap of the female passenger who was also sitting in the drivers seat with him.

My memory was that the car had many warning lights on and turned off while we were driving. Somehow he was able to restart it without it being in park while we were coasting.

It was extremely cheap.

Powdering7082on MTA board votes to approve new $15 toll to drive into Manhattan

I agree directionally, but fares only make up 23% of MTA's operating budget

https://new.mta.info/budget/MTA-operating-budget-basics

Powdering7082on Phind-70B: Closing the code quality gap with GPT-4 Turbo while running 4x faster

Do you use Go? It makes sense to me

Powdering7082on The Ladybird browser project

Taken from the FAQ of serenityOS:

> Will SerenityOS support $THING? > Maybe. Maybe not. There is no plan.

Powdering7082on Prediction markets have an elections problem

I made pretty good returns (e.g. 40% annualized) during the 2020 election on predictit.

I even found a pure arbitrage opportunity.