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How many of these headlines do we have to read (representing multiple orders of magnitude LESS funds stolen compared to SBF) before SBF is in handcuffs?

This site hung basically every time I tried to use it. Only one out of nine attempts I made resulted in the page even decrementing the queue count. Curious if you could just generate a unique url to go back and see the results of a job waiting in the queue for a while?

It's a shame they won't be able to wire-tap thousands of residential homes anymore... such a shame...

The irony here is that TeamBlind is entertaining to most users (tech ppl with technical background) because it's degenerate and off the cuff. To limit ad spend on Twitter for "ethical" reasons is the most degenerately ironic take I've heard all year!

It's called having influence over US officials just short of bribery.

What kind of infra are you planning to use?

Wow, I interviewed with a few other hedge funds. Most at least bragged about their "internal custody infra" in interviews.

I cannot believe this guy "operated" a fund without any internal infra for custody??

EDIT - after digging through the thread it appears they "waited util monday" to attempt to withdraw? People in the know knew about this as early as the previous Friday. Moreover, how were they so poorly connected that they didn't even have a means to use Bahamian backdoors to pull out funds (IMO the only useful application of NFT's in recent memory ;) ).

Curiously I was able to pull out all of my Eth / Eth tokens from FTX.US but not chainlink?

Withdrawals were requested at the same time two days ago, glad I remembered I had some coins sitting around in those accts.

I would rather become a brick mason or plumber before I have to work with a VR headset on.

Zero doubts.

If this becomes any kind of norm for tech work I'm throwing my computer out the window.

I couldn't agree more ;)

I certainly agree - I still think most creators underestimate the necessity of putting in some leg-work to understand your audience and attaching your channel to a niche that has an existing audience at all.

Something that I ended up doing by accident was identifying a niche that a) was low risk (nothing political etc), b) had decent reach, and c) ended up with most of my traffic coming from "browse" and not "search".

Initially, I had no idea traffic coming from "browse" was indicative of content that would likely drive more long-term value outside of "news" videos.

Ironically, videos that feature community drama unfortunately still are my best performing videos.

To be honest, Oprah's content in my opinion was miles better than Mr. Beast's. She was at least conducting interviews, having conversations etc.

At least her videos weren't, "look at minecraft funny game - my friend made a poop sound hehe" or "omg look at kiddy pool filled with ORBEEZ FUN TIME"

Candidly, with a hilariously not successful youtube but a solid career - I find it funny to imagine Mr. Beast "spending hours" coming up with "next level content" which in reality you'd be better off just paying a 7 year old with jolly ranchers to do.

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Yes, but the reason he's giving away money is for views . It's why charity for views is in my opinion kind of degenerate - arguably using poor people to make money but saving face because giving away money.

As an educated person, it's actually insane how hard it is to create click-bait / engaging thumbnails and titles.

Thanks for writing about your experience! I think too many educated / computer science focused creators get demotivated when they see the kind of low brow "viral" content that's plaguing youtube currently (yes, I mean Mr. Beast). Mr. Beast type content is to me more mind numbing than TikTok - it makes creators like Logan Paul and low brow comedy podcasts look like academics in comparison.

I recently started dipping my toes in AI again, even building some tooling for GPU deployments for stable diffusion etc after a friend (less technical) ended up with a GPU mining farm that was burning a $60k hole in his pocket every month when ETH mining dried up.

As a result, I found a curious niche and started making admittedly not very good videos of me attempting to create more approachable AI text to image content for a slightly less technical audience.

I've been pleasantly surprised by how warm, interested and excited my small audience has been.

If anyone would like to check out the channel here's a link - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCttqpACIkQqh83L2cHrY9Gg

I'm working on some internal projects as a part of my channel, a big part are some active developments with the Stable Hoard project.

Edit - goes without saying, many of my early videos are really bad, my speech is hard to follow etc. Ironically since I'm full remote, this has actually helped rehab my speech a bit and give me something technical outside of work to do sort of creative things with. I'd be lying if I didn't intend to turn this into a revenue stream at some point, probably starting with a mailing list.

My utility recently made smart-meter metrics available (even raw data feeds) with 15min resolution for all energy use and pricing. It's been incredibly helpful, however my biggest electricity hog is my refrigerator.

However, the hardest thing to do when figuring out what uses / wastes electricity in your home is establishing a baseline with the most appliances / systems turned off as possible.

My apt is well insulated, but for me it's still crazy (even packing the fridge with as much thermal mass as possible), and furnace / AC turned off at the breaker my apt still uses around 8KWH per day. Water heaters and refrigerators have a long way to go! Curiously, leaving my AC / furnace completely off or on at about 80% cooling a 20F delta uses very little power, exciting how efficient modern climate control is :).

Not if the EPA / FDA have something to say about it. My brother lives in Rural Pennsylvania and the local authorities / FDA have been making rounds to homes with larger gardens asking them to "register" or sign agreements that clarify they will never share their produce outside of their own home. Under the guise that the government is providing free "soil testing" to ensure the dirt being used has been properly remediated. This is common in Pennsylvania since historically steel production has tainted almost half the state with heavy metal particulate.

If this becomes the norm in tech, I will throw my computer into the nearest dumpster and get a plumbing certification.

Maybe I'll start an organic farm. Going broke is better than literally being a digital slave to a billionaire.

In a word... Cocaine

Shilling what I like to call the "Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius 100x engineer" meme, yes a meme, of solo productivity is the last thing this community needs.

Yes, this happens - but 9/10 times for 3 out of 4 even above average engineers / founders this is a path to misery, failure and burnout.

Did anyone have an archive? :(

This kind of censorship makes me sad - I miss when the internet was genuine and mean.

I mean... you should dig a bit deeper. Jane Street (a top quant fund in NYC) has done exceptionally deep work with Ocaml and more specifically building pipelines AND custom hardware to run Ocaml on FPGA's and ASIC's.

Hey, would you be open to an interview? I've been moonlighting an generative AI channel - I've also been playing around with some schemes using stable diffusion in similar ways ;)

And they wonder why my generation hates boomers...

I'm young and I save / invest because I work my ass off.

F to U government who just plans on giving away free money to lazy or financially irresponsible adult children AND to boomers who've inflated the price of a good education / homes. I work to pay my way, but denying the boomer generation isn't a large part of how we ended up in this mess is irational.

I'd personally recommend switching to product eng or product over sales.

More leverage in general but specifically based in keeping SWE skills which carry a ton of value.

Just my 2c

I support this - require GAN, require USB C, start disincentivizing inefficient power wasting chinese garbage.

Dig the landing page can't wait to see how your development continues!

I think the bashing comes in when the topic of rigor / how good the university is comes up. For instance, how do you equitably discriminate to only allow smarter people into universities with an intentionally elevated amount of rigor?

This is inherently discriminatory since ironically enough the root of all inequality is endowed intelligence. The value of giving away free resources of high value is going to get messy, it's why the competition for scholarships to top universities is incredibly fraught with fraud.

This is such a hilarious joke. Wait until they claim the hacker "4chan" is making dangerous images online.... hahaha