skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's become clear to me that they're extremely pragmatic and want to support innovation and create a level playing field for everyone

USA has by far world's most byzantine and bizarre securities laws.

To me, this doesn't seem to be going well along that statement.
Really?

@tcrowe appears to be a troll. https://github.com/tcrowe
Fraud Case in Charleston, S.C., Shines Light on Web’s Dark Corners
Kinda interesting they limit who can invest in things, yet you can go to the casino or blow all your money on lottery tickets. Seems like just another way for the rich to keep getting richer. Also always found it odd, the age for lottery and casino were different too, at least in the US. 18 for lotto, 21 for casino.
This is basically Matt Levine's argument [1], though he calls it a Certificate of Dumb Investment:

To get that certificate, you sign a form. The form is one page with a lot of white space. It says in very large letters: “I want to buy a dumb investment. I understand that the person selling it will almost certainly steal all my money, and that I would almost certainly be better off just buying index funds, but I want to do this dumb thing anyway. I agree that I will never, under any circumstances, complain to anyone when this investment inevitably goes wrong. I understand that violating this agreement is a felony.”

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-09-24/earnin...
[2]: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-19/privat...
Does anyone here know if entities are required to actually verify their customers are accredited investors (eg with brokerage statements, bank statements, paystubs, etc.) or can they just take the person's word on it?
I also flagged this submission. The title of the submission makes it clear that it was posted to gawk/make fun of the person posting it. They state in their manifesto that they are living in a shelter, so presumably they are already in a place where they can get help.

There are already some rude and callous comments posted on Github, and I don't think we need to bring any more there. @tcrowe is using it as an opportunity to grandstand and I don't think any more attention is needed there, either.
For simple graph diagrams it's easy enough to open up a separate graphviz .dot file, write up a graph specification, run it through dot or neato, and include the .png in your markdown file. And then automate this with a Makefile.
None. And this is exactly the problem: Tesla might have a nice piece of silicon there, but that doesn't solve the problem of still being far, far away from having a working algorithm for level 5 self driving. They have a supercomputer in their cars, but can only run minesweeper on it, so to speak.

Their hardware (maybe, at best) solves one of the easy pieces of the self-driving puzzle. It doesn't get them any closer to solving the hard parts. But it sure helps from a marketing perspective, which is kind of important if you want to continue selling a $6000 feature that essentially is just a promise for the future and thus requires buyers to "believe".
Space junk raise concerns as more and more satellites are launched
I think Matt Levine has a good explanation about accredited investing and what private markets really mean:

> But in fact the main thing that distinguishes public and private markets is not their legal status—private markets are mostly open to accredited investors, while public markets are open to everyone—but the fact that private companies get to choose their investors, and public companies don’t. Hedge funds, for instance, are mostly open only to accredited investors, but not all hedge funds are open to all accredited investors. The very best hedge funds mostly aren’t open to anyone: They are at capacity, won’t take new money, and mostly manage money for their own very rich employees. Other hedge funds with long track records of good performance are open to big institutional allocators who can write very large checks. If you are a dentist making $205,000 a year, and you want to invest in hedge funds … someone will definitely sell you a hedge fund! It will not be Renaissance.

Just because we legally allow people to invest in whatever they want doesn't mean it will make equal footing between investors. The investments that will accept the people who are currently 'non-accreddited investors' are going to be the worst of the private investments; it will do nothing to help the little guy compete with the rich guys.
Tether on Algorand-cements it’s position as a major Ethereum challenger for 2020
> I think the issue is that supporting 32-bit apps in MacOS isn't free. So there's a cost/benefit analysis to do.

The cost benefit analysis should be as follows: if I know Apple is going to kill compatibility with a large range of software on a whim (ie, not because of a huge and unavoidable underlying hardware transition), I'm going to stop investing in Apple's platform, and by extension stop buying new Macs.

This is in fact what I'm doing.
Not Fake News

https://www.theblaze.com/news/bloomberg-triggers-bipartisan-...

[..]While speaking at the University of Oxford Saïd Business School in 2016, Bloomberg was asked if Americans living on the coasts — who are generally more liberal — could be unified with those who live in middle America, who are generally more conservative.

In response, Bloomberg implied that anyone could be a farmer because it requires a low-level of intelligence to be successful.

I could teach anybody, even people in this room, no offense intended, to be a farmer.

It's a process. You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, add water, up comes the corn. You could learn that. Then we had 300 years of the industrial society. You put the piece of metal on the lathe, you turn the crank in the direction of the arrow and you can have a job. And we created a lot of jobs. At one point, 98 percent of the world worked in agriculture; today it's 2 percent in the United States.

Now comes the information economy. And the information economy is fundamentally different because it's built around replacing people with technology and the skill sets that you have to learn are how to think and analyze, and that is a whole degree level different. You have to have a different skill set, you have to have a lot more gray matter.[..]
Where's the problem, specifically? You appear to be an idiot.

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Editing in reply to 'dang, who has banned me:

That's hilarious. You didn't even have the decency to reply to either of my two emails, but you come in here publicly and ban me, glibly posting a generic link for justification, because you personally dislike me. Guess what removing intelligent provocation does to communal "curiosity", you slippery quentye. Why don't you find a different job?

I've done nothing wrong.
With exception of the directional keybindings. I wonder how it came to be that the defaults are "jkl;" for the directions instead of the "hjkl" used by everything else (vi(m), less, shells, repls, etc.).
Oooo, I haven't tried the AFB entrance location yet.

My first launch/landing was an F9 which I saw from the Port Canaveral causeway, and I've now seen FH launches/landings from both the "feel the heat" banana creek viewing area, and from the employees-and-friends bleachers at the turning-basin next to the VAB.

The "Feel the Heat" tickets are fairly close to the launch, but pretty far from the landing. Even the turn basin is equidistant from the launch, and only a smidge closer to the landing.

LZ1 is just really far away no matter what, but I think the causeway actually affords a better view of the landing. It's definitely worse for the launch, though.

Bein' a Detroiter and only catching a launch when I'm able to travel for it, I think I've been lucky so far!
I'm sure this is right. You don't have enough statistical mass with any click by itself, but in the aggregate you can detect fraudulent activity with a high degree of certainty.

Google's plan is to make it sufficiently expensive to avoid detection in the aggregate that selling fake clicks isn't a viable business proposition. The fraudsters have inverted the game: they can't beat Google's detection algorithms, so they can't sell you fake clicks, but they can sell you protection from their fake clicks.

Google's move at this point seems to be lessening the punishment for fake clicks so it's still not economically viable to sell them but also not economically viable to use them as a threat.
I would argue this is Tesla's real business - battery production. I don't believe they intend to stay in the auto market forever. They're in the market to create demand for quality electric cars, goad the traditional auto makers into making them, and then selling those traditional auto makers the batteries they need to make them work well. I believe that is Tesla's long-term business plan.
really fucked up

One notable example of this in our industry is Terry, who built TempleOS.
Did that for a small Ivy-based project (Ivy is a simpler maven replacement) that had security implications.

We had a task every month for one developer to go manually upgrade one or two dependencies and commit the changes after testing (java libraries tend to upgrade much slower than Node).
Paper has little substance but was removed from Research Gate

https://flutrackers.com/forum/forum/-2019-ncov-new-coronavir...

https://web.archive.org/web/20200214144447/https://www.resea...
The SEC doesn't make the laws, though. I tend to agree with both of you and I don't think that's a contradiction.
Presumably you mean unix time as a numeric scalar in the JSON. That is still not self-describing - is it time, or just a number? Which scalar data type should your parser use? And is it seconds since epoch or milliseconds since epoch?
Have you figured out how to make i3 move the mouse pointer to the area of the newly-focused window when you change window focus by keyboard? AwesomeWM does that out of the box. i3 doesn't and it's very annoying, because then when my table makes a microscopic movement and causes the mouse to move, suddenly what I'm typing is diverted to another window and weird things happen.
Great! I really like the idea, but for users that are addicted from social media or from visiting that "one and only" website this isn't enough. They will uninstall extension, remove /etc/hosts or move to another browser to look on Facebook.

I once knew a guy that beat his own dad with a keyboard when he threw away his computer because he was spending all his time scrolling through FB. Internet addiction is very hard, extensions are one way to solve them (noprocrast setting on HN is another one...). Good that someone is tackling this problem. :)
You're ready for a promotion from software engineer to senior software engineer once you've spent hours debugging some piece of software, only to realize it's actually working as intended.
The point is that if a law enforcement person lies about finding something due to their dog, the problem is juries [reasonably] trust the law enforcement personnel are telling the truth about what they find afterwards, not that they trust the dog's instincts. Indeed your average jury is almost guaranteed to have someone with enough interest in dogs to know they sometimes react to things other than suspicious substances.
There are issues with the CBD market both in bad claims about what CBD can/will do, and bad claims about the actual content of CBD product.

That's not a reflection on CBD itself.

Texas specifically is working on adding legal requirements around purity testing and what claims can be made. While there's a downside of cost I think that strategy is the most worthwhile.
"18.2.2020" seems easy. I once walked into a meeting room where the whiteboard said "Deadline: 4/7/3". No idea what I was reading.
This is something safari has being doing by default for more than a decade (I think from the very first version).

Firefox has been doing it for a while now as well iirc.

Chrome only appears to be doing it now that they’ve got people logging into their browser, and even if not, sending a unique ID to googles servers - some far more powerful and persistent than anything a cookie ever gave.
I understand the reason - I'm saying the name is a joke.
Doesn't your hosting platform (Wordpress/Blogger/AWS/etc.) help identify the spam bots and stop them in the first place?
Diversity and Inclusion in the Tech Industry
From a Slice of Pizza to Flight Tickets – The Evolution of Crypto Purchases
It has shut down some but it mostly seems to issue nominal penalties.

For example, the EOS ICO unlawfully raised over $4 billion dollars. The SEC settled with them where they paid the SEC $24 million and the SEC agreed to take no further action.

The only lesson here is that if you're going to ignore the law and sell sketchy assets with over-hyped claims to unsophisticated investors in the US... make sure you raise enough that the cost for good attorneys few million to the SEC is just a rounding error.
https://www.itglue.com/
YC has always funded startups where the initial idea seems small but the founders seem effective and it's possible to imagine a path from the small thing to a big thing. That's one of YC's favorite kinds of startup to invest in. The fact that they seem odd and not worth funding is an advantage!

Actually, if you read http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html and http://www.paulgraham.com/altair.html, this startup is the sort that pg was writing about. That's why I told these guys to include the bit about solving a problem they themselves had; it's a classic marker. See also http://www.paulgraham.com/organic.html: "Don't be discouraged if what you produce initially is something other people dismiss as a toy. In fact, that's a good sign."

It's a fun exercise to imagine a path from the small thing to a big thing. Can we do it in this case? I'd say so. Online distractions, addictions, and the exploitation of human attention by big-tech companies are a big deal. Reclaiming control over time and attention could be something that a lot of people care about.
A failure is a change to learn, but a success is a chance to save 20 million dollars. Musk is philosophical about failures, but it's not a thing he's chasing.
h for help and your fingers rest on jkl; not hjkl if you are typing with proper form
Yeah I’m wondering what was written on the “how does this become a $100m business” field on the YC application form.
Why would they obligated to do business with someone who sues them?
Probably just QWERTY "home row" layout
I think as well as several app developers using the AdMob sdk have been a victim of similar practice by malicious parties. 3 years ago, google suspended my admob account for fake activity even though I have never ever clicked on the ads nor did I use anything other than the test ad on my devices. This has happened to several developers and google doesn’t want to help. Back then, I got a 30 day suspension but since then, I have completely stopped using ads and solely rely on in app purchases. It’s less money but it’s at least reliable.
Implementing a tech solution might still be more doable than trying to educate a million people.
They can take a person's word.

I signed up for a few sites, to check out various opportunities, before I was actually an accredited investor. It's all "self certified." I am actually one now, FYI.
Off the shelf parts can beat a custom ASIC? That is news to me.

Remember this isn't about the power of the ASIC processing, it is about minimizing the power consumption of the chip so the EV range is affected as little as possible.
The showroom comments are true for the US cars, but the China made ones are impeccable.
It’s jarring to me that you’ve figure out that you shouldn’t handle schizophrenics by being rude to them, but that you’re jumping to calling another person, presumably not schizophrenic, an idiot. I think generalizing “don’t be a jerk” to pretty much every situation is a helpful extension.
Some parts of Python are good for readable code, some - not.

I bemoan lack of nice chaining. Some libraries provide APIs that allow chaining, e.g. Pandas. In other cases, I often find JavaScript (map/filter) and R (dplyr pipe operator) pipelines nicer to read.

However, Python 's Zen of Python can (and IMHO: should) be adopted to other languages.
This product may cure cancer.

* This has not been determined to cure or prevent any condition or disease by the FDA. Please note that Prop 65 of California law requires us to disclosure that this packaging may contain a known carcinogen. Long disclaimers are really hard for the average consumer to read and parse in any meaningful way and by using both small text and dense fonts manufacturers are able to make disclaimers extremely ineffective.

Legal does not imply ethical or moral.
That's like 5 coffees worth of bandwidth in some countries, especially where mobile data is concerned.
OTH, I'm connecting from a ship in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with metered data. I regret loading that page.
Happy i3 user for 7 years, thanks to all of the developers. i3 is incredibly smooth to use. Looking at the bug fixes I've only ever hit one in the wild:

> move workspace to output: don’t create duplicate numbered workspace

and didn't even realize it was a bug, always thought it was an issue with my configuration.
Ok, I had to look that up.

Business / $12 month

"Unlimited cloud storage (or 1TB per user if fewer than 5 users)"
Take a look at the network tab for your average site with a 'hero' at the top.

Crying can be therapeutic, I am told.
HDMI and 4K/60Hz is problematic on other platforms than just Linux, in my experience. It just doesn't work well enough yet for most people and most computers/screen combos.

Using 4K and 30Hz is like using your desktop through a VNC session, it's absolutely horrendous.
There's nothing like that in YC application form.
It’s even crazier because automatic fingerprint matching is controlled by a small cartel of awful companies.
If you're using Yarn using the offline cache and checking that into source control is a great way to not only prevent the reliance on NPM always being online but to also make sure everyone is using the exact same versions of dependencies.

https://classic.yarnpkg.com/blog/2016/11/24/offline-mirror/
I recently saw someone playing around with i3 and xzoom to make fractals and video feedback, seems fun- https://twitter.com/maxbittker/status/1228241766240768000
As a native Cantonese speaker learning Mandarin since I was 5, you think I'd have some advantage (which I do - vocabulary is largely similar), but I still struggle greatly with communication the more informal it is. Learning from language teachers is almost similar as reading travel phrasebooks - those situations are too forced and not realistic enough. Most communication involves lots of jokes and nuances where the topic isn't even clearly defined, unlike business settings.
There's a time and place for grandstanding.
Based on their AI chip presentation, the important thing is that they have a software/hardware integrated design relationship. Your comment assumes they do this once and never again.

I seriously doubt Tesla is not actively improving the chip, and if they need a fundamentally new software approach, then they have the process/iteration loop established.
tcrowe is known to me for his past behaviour of harrasing lgbtq members of the node.js core development team and stalking them on social media. very unfortunate if he has schizophrenia but bigotry is not a symptom of it.
Maybe the URL can be replaced with something more decent than techcrunch, like Arstechnica: https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/02/spacex-making-rocket...
Sure thing. But that is allways the thing with ransom. You don't know if paying once is enough. But also the criminals know, there is only a certain amount of money to be extracted from their victims.
Ask HN: How to prepare my first annual review?
I am a mid-level developer, in my previous companies we didn't have annual reviews so this is the first for me.

I was told that this were bonuses, and raises are "negotiated".

How can I prepare to optimize the outcome to my benefit?
See also Mark Miller's adages: https://web.archive.org/web/20090215132813/www.caplet.com/ad...
When you do the investment deal, you have to certify that you are an accredited investor (e.g. you'll get a SAFE and an "Accredited Investor Questionnaire" or similar document). They won't require proof beyond that (e.g. bank account statements, W-2), but if you lied about it you'll likely have zero recourse if shit hits the fan (which is the only time you would need it). I would also say that most of the time the parties involved know each other trust each other enough to where in practice this shouldn't be a big deal (if you have questions about the money or if someone shouldn't be able to do this, don't take their money).

It's the same logic used when cashiers ask you what your age is when purchasing alcohol: if you give them a fake ID and they accept it, that's on them, but if they ask you and you lie, that's on you.
There was no publicly available data that pointed humans can safely go to space and return inside a cannonball, eject and land via parachute yet Gagarin did just that.

Every new step in space race was pushing the limits of what was thought possible. Of course no one will take on these type of risks today but with enough testing the risk can be reduced and mitigated.
I'm hoping we get an info-dump into the public channel on the nature of the recovery failure.

Footage from the drone ship before they cut away due to no landing to show indicated the sea had larger swells than I remember seeing on previous attempts and some water striking the camera lens from somewhere. I wonder if they aborted the landing because they couldn't guarantee the drone would have the right attitude to receive the rocket at time of touchdown?
It seems that the intention was to emulate Vim [0], maybe the author was not familiar with it and made a mistake?

[0] https://github.com/i3/i3/commit/6d0071db197031845b5f77febc22...
Having just dealt with the HDMI cable 4K refresh rate debacle, I can say that it is indeed a mess. The only way to make it worse would be to incorporate USB-C somehow.
Spammers on GitHub – Despicable
You can fix that with:

focus_follows_mouse no

It doesn't do what you wanted, but I also can't see why anyone would want a window to focus simply because you hovered over it.
> They had a form of crypto key exchange which guaranteed peace between the tribes.

Could you expand on this?
The Omega Tau podcast did an interesting episode about weather modeling at the European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasts

https://omegataupodcast.net/326-weather-forecasting-at-the-e...
I was okay right up to the never complain part.

There is a lot of fraud that goes unpunished because the victims feel hopeless and embarrassed. As a result, it's a lot more attractive to defraud people.

A dumb investment might be dumb, it might be likely to be fraud. But if it turns out to actually be fraud, the victims should still be able to seek restitution or otherwise you are giving a free pass to commit fraud and creating a huge economic advantage for people willing to do it over people who aren't.
Exactly that! You can start from simple extension and in few years have full fledged solution for internet addiction worth millions. For this to happen you have to find great founders, that keep on going no matter what. :)
Any idea when it will be out on Steam?
i3wm does this for me. I don't see anything special in my config that would be enabling that. When I move to a window via keyboard, mouse will center on that window.
i am always surprised when people do not have

noremap ; l

noremap l k

noremap k j

noremap j h
There any further details on this, like which specific lib so we can view commit history?
Yeah but what about relativity?

ISO8601 won't scale to universe-level applications!

:)