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carnitine··on Jane Street's "Figgie" Card Game
They provide a service to the market and that’s just a pretty basic description of it. Obviously they hope to make money from doing so, but so does every company.

No different to saying McDonald’s focuses on delivering quick and easy food to customers.

carnitine··on Formalizing 100 Theorems
That’s not true either. Coq’s logic is significantly different to HoL.
carnitine··on Formalizing 100 Theorems
They definitely don’t all compile to the same thing. Some do, most don’t.
carnitine··on Formalizing 100 Theorems
It also just follows from X being >= 30.
carnitine··on DALL-E 3 Is So Good It's Stoking an Artist Revolt Against AI Scraping
January 2023 is an age ago in terms of generative AI. DALL-E 3 has been out what, a month? I just tried and it generated hands no problem.
carnitine··on Copying Angry Birds with nothing but AI
You’re saying that based on what? All the code and assets are AI.
carnitine··on Ridiculous captcha at GitHub to reset your password
Dice is plural, and common games have you roll two dice at a time. So you’re looking for a pair of pairs.
carnitine··on Let's make a Teeny Tiny compiler (2020)
C is definitely a high level language.
carnitine··on Moody's downgrades US banking: ‘rapidly deteriorating operating environment’
Obviously not in reality, but their (wrong) definition refers to ‘time to do so’.
carnitine··on Moody's downgrades US banking: ‘rapidly deteriorating operating environment’
Under your definition they can just hold the bonds to maturity to be solvent.
carnitine··on Binance halts deposits and withdrawals for customers in the UK
No one is claiming it is a tautology for all X and Y, it just happens to be true in this particular case.
carnitine··on Astronomical Calculations for Hard SF in Common Lisp
Lisp is not very functional at all.
carnitine··on Argentina Wins the World Cup
How is it hilarious? I doubt the average English person is a massive fan of Canary Wharf and it’s owners.
carnitine··on FTX’s financial black hole leaves Binance balking at rescue plan
Tether can be liquidated via the Tether Foundation.
carnitine··on Binance to acquire FTX
How is a prop crypto firm a bank? Laughable
carnitine··on Multiple assertions are fine in a unit test
That has nothing to do with not knowing which assertion in a given test has failed.
carnitine··on Banks prepare to hold $12.7B Twitter debt on books until early 2023
They don’t need to claw back the money as long as Twitter services the debt.
carnitine··on A Geometrically Natural Uncomputable Function (2008)
Equality on reals is not computable.
carnitine··on The technology behind Bella Hadid’s spray-on dress
Would shredded fabric and paint ordinarily form a dress when sprayed?
carnitine··on Elon Musk sells $6.9B worth of Tesla stock
The whole point is that he secured funding from third parties for the Twitter deal. He was never buying it alone.
carnitine··on U.S. annual inflation rate drops to 8.5%
Why? That says financial assets aren’t included in reporting of inflation. Why would one think they would be?
carnitine··on Understanding Jane Street
Market makers and retail traders have aligned incentives. Stop scaremongering.
carnitine··on Understanding Jane Street
To even have those ‘best alphas’ in the first place and then select them in advance for your best fund is the impressive part. The returns are insane even if the fund is capped.
carnitine··on Understanding Jane Street
How exactly would this fraud work? Most HFT firms only trade their own capital and distribute gains internally, there’s no one to defraud. Also it’s been going on a lot longer than a decade.
carnitine··on West London faces new home ban as electric grid at capacity due to data centres
For ‘financial stuff’ where proximity matters (which is a small fraction of it) you would be colocated with the exchange, and there’s no need for that data centre to be in London.
carnitine··on Ask HN: Is there a bubble in the tech market? Is it about to explode?
What? The European economic outlook is substantially more dire than in the US. The knock-on effects of EUR depreciation alone will be massive.
carnitine··on Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement
That’s Musk’s fault. The market cap will be calculated the way it would in any other scenario. You’ve just made up some weird rule that doesn’t exist.
carnitine··on Brain.js: GPU Accelerated Neural Networks in JavaScript
Well no, but what’s your point?
carnitine··on Show HN: I stripped DALL·E Mini to its bare essentials and converted it to Torch
It’s not, it just makes it easier. Should be pretty simple to modify the code to work the way you want.
carnitine··on What it feels like when Rust saves your bacon
This seems like the opposite of a cautionary tale, if anything it makes Rust seem an even better choice.
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