skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This happened to me too! Only it was a large public company. Employee stock purchase plan was 10-15% discount. Between Thursday afternoon purchase and Friday delivery of shares, company announced earnings and shares dropped like 20%.
Yes it is possible to manage ... when you have almost no government run retirement system.
In country where the workforce pay for the retired, like France and a lot of European country, having your workforce shrink is a huge issue.
Yeah, it was quite a trip to read this article as a former Etsian (for context to unaware readers: Etsy was a somewhat frequent target of the blog in question here, along with obviously eBay).

I'm not going to pretend we didn't roll our eyes from time-to-time when a new article came out that seemed exaggerated, but the thought of retaliation never crossed anyone's mind.

I'm pretty sure we would've been summarily fired if we had even made contact with Ina, let alone any of the psycho shit outlined here.
Captain going down with the ship analogy for CEOs would be to personally pay from their own pockets or their future compensation any misdeeds on their watch. If this were to happen I bet we’d see companies immediately start behaving
The Economist being the economist!
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I'd be very interested in trying the browser version. I use Firefox on Linux, as do a number of our engineers. As long as you're not doing something chrome specific, I'll kick the tires.
Yes I call it a "privacy disaster" when your bank account requires your name and address so they can report interest payments to the government. Or when Robinhood/Schwab/Vanguard/Etc send the IRS a list of all your stock transactions for the year in a form 1099.
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Nobody cares about your story if you’re implying you’re a PI who does this.
Nice writeup, but the title flashes to '(1) New Message' and back twice a second. That's kind of silly in my opinion, from whom do I expect the message? I assume from the chatbot at the bottom right corner.

Even so, to talk to it I would need to grant it access to some personal information.

It all ends up leaving a bitter aftertaste. Whatever the message was, why not place it in a block of text somewhere less distracting.

I appreciate the writeup however.
Good thing they can afford great healthcare then.
How is a prior a heuristic?
Yes there is. The risk is halved, not zeroed.
Yes this happens all the time the client asks for the world but really just wanted an improvement.

The client has a problem and asks us for a solution. We suggest a simple cost effective solution, client insists on custom software developed to their spec they have "perfected". Client lists all their nice to haves as must haves so they get their moneys worth, not realising I just charge more for more work.

The software is delivered to spec, then the client realises that their spec doesn't work in the real world because they just assumed the best and forgot about edge cases.

Non-tech companies just don't get tech, instead of seeing building software like building a house they view it more like a wizard does magic then a website appears.
"They expect one of us in the wreckage, brother."
Would be a real shame if there was an employment gap on your resume, just because you went to prison for a year...
I found a copy on a PyPI mirror and at a glance couldn't find any of the malicious code mentioned: https://pypi.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/packages/99/84/7f9560403cd...

Also a copy of noblesse2, which I didn't bother to look into due to obfuscation: https://pypi.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/packages/15/59/cbdeed656cf...
It's the same thing which India did in order to distract commonfolks from the border skirmishes.
Not sure if this is a typo or a new solecism, but I think you meant "rampant" instead of "rampart".
> Excluding default apps

Which ones?

Matrix client, terminal, Firefox.
What do you expect it to be "encrypted" with? Unless the user is entering a password every time they start the browser, there's nothing unique to a system that other malware can't just extract and use to decrypt the database.
Employee stock purchase plans are different than stock options.
Anybody who has followed cryptocurrency in the last year knows that major US financial institutions and hedge funds have become heavily involved. The regulations coming are entirely to do with making the legal burdens of individual custody onerous enough that users place their coins on completely centralized exchanges to manage legal risk, all so these institutions have access to these coins for manipulation purposes like borrowing for shorting. The ONLY regulation you will see is on the average user so they can suck up coins like Daniel Plainview drinking your milkshake, NOT on market manipulation or trading habits of institutions which is the key driver of malicious activity and harm in the cryptocurrency space.
His NET approval rating (Approval - Dissaproval) is +8 which is pretty good for the current era of American Presidents.

I literally have no idea what would have to happen for a President to get a 65%+ approval or a net of +20 in this day and age. There would need to be a complete recalibration of the parties.
Now that you mention it. I have a Masters in electronics, and I did a lot of layouting in the last 3 years. Not that big or complicated, but it is becoming a significant portion of my engineering time. It is perceived to be cheaper to just do the layouting in house because our system is small and benefit from fast iteration.
> ... as bosses refuse to raise wages to attract employees

I see UBI as a very elegant solution to this problem. It levels the playing field for everybody. The problem with the current job market is that the negotiation power is not symmetrical.
Why don't tech companies pay their engineers to stay?
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If you treat infrastructure as a special kind of investment that requires a guaranteed return you will likely end up with shitty infrastructure.
This seems like the worst solution (besides doing nothing and boiling the planet). It seems like the best solution is transition heavy transport (trucks and rail) to hydrogen HEVs and personal vehicles to battery BEVs. BEVs work for regular people because every home has “refueling” infrastructure build into the wall, so even with zero public infrastructure like super chargers, most people can do most normal tasks with a BEV.

Trucks and rail need to go long distances and/or need quick refueling to get back on the job, making batteries too heavy and slow. Hydrogen fits the bill perfectly, and since commercial transport is already operating out of central hubs, whether it be train stations, shipping warehouses, factories, etc., so building hydrogen fueling stations is orders of magnitude more feasible than trying to come close to matching the convenience and ubiquity of the gas station or the overnight home charger for personal vehicles. Sure, hydrogen is expensive now, but as we get more and more penetration of solar and wind, we are having larger issues with excess power production with no way to use or store it. Producing hydrogen during times of excess power generation is a perfect solution.

The advantage long term is the hydrogen network gets slowly built out, allowing other uses for hydrogen fuel to become viable, including grid storage.
> Cultures that allow for open honest transitions are better places to work and easier companies to manage.

Executives and board members often talk the talk of openness, transparency, honesty, and directness. But it is usually one way. They will not stand for having honest feedback directed at them.

If you are an executive or board member, think about the last time someone directed critical feedback in your direction, asking you to take responsibility for a failure mode reverberating throughout an organization:

- Did you listen, or did you lash out?

- Did you think about your role, or did you blame someone else for being a bad leader?

- If you pushed someone out, were you open to discussing the debate that led to it? Or did you actually prefer for everyone to just stay heads down and move on?
Jason Schreier:

> Titles mean a lot in the corporate world.
Until 2018, Mike Morhaime was CEO.
When Brack took over, he was president.
Now, Oneal and Ybarra are described as "co-leaders."

> A clear glimpse at who's really in charge: Bobby Kotick

https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1422536264851640320...
By what mechanism, exactly, does this occur? What causes different races to commit crimes at different rates? It can't be genetic, since there's not actually any genetic markers which distinguish races (race is an illusion); so, what caused it?

The standard historical answer is that our society caused it, not just with slavery, but with redlining, ghettos, and voter suppression.
the allegations are coming from the WoW team for a major part, and he was the Executive Producer and VP of WoW for forever.
The fact that that this "fallacy" has just been coined in 10K years of human history should make us suspicious. The fact is, gratitude and volunteering are healing. Recognizing when others have it worse and helping is something we should all do more.
The client on Windows might be easier to use, again, I’m not the OP. I had trouble with it in general both on Windows and Linux.
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I am very much looking forward to a lower-birthrate future in which fewer people live better and more sustainably.

The problem is in the short/medium term, figuring out how to pay for all these checks that politicians have been writing over the last 50 years.

The problem isn't that "the young" have to support "the old", it's that a lot of promises were made on the assumption of indefinite growth.
> Why is that being treated as inherently bad, though?

We are not making this decision completely willingly, it is more just happening and it is out of the governments control. To me this means it is risky, and can we pull out of it? How do we pull out of this shrinkage?

I guess the good thing is that the developed world is all in this together, rather than only parts of it. That reduces the chance of massive disparities as a result of the changes it causes.

If would feel much more comfortable that we completely understood it, and how to control it.

There will be a lot of changes that will occur. For example conservatives are less effected by population shrinkage than liberals in the US -- probably just because conservatives are less likely to be city dwellers? Or maybe it is conservatives have different values... or a combination of values that effect whether they live in the cities.

Atheists have lower reproduction rates than those who are religious as well. (which probably correlates with liberalism/conservatism as well.)

I wonder if there are any genetic contributions to conservatism/religiousness? If so this may be a period of rapid genetic evolution...
Hmmm, well one doesn't pull obvious reasons out of ones ass. Obvious reasons are made obvious by simply existing... and the "Apple tax" seems like an obvious problem to me which is why I referred to it as being obvious in the first place.

Nobody said you or he couldn't use PCI-Passthrough? I honestly don't care what you do - but if and when that doesn't work for you and you come complaining, I'll be glad to share my own experience wherein I don't use such convoluted garbage and my stuff just works.

You yourself claimed he was sour and that you were pissed. Your words, not mine.

A crash a year or every other year is a problem and I'm absolutely, objectively certain of that. Sounds like you have the same problem since you think it's normal. I don't have these problems and I'm betting that's because I keep things very simple. So in my opinion, you're both probably doing something wrong.

> It's great that purchasing multiple devices for each OS suits you. Not everyone is you or agree on what a "simple" scheme is.

It doesn't just suit me, it's empirically better since my machines run for years without crashing. I'm fine with people not agreeing on what's simple because at the end of the day, my stuff is running fine and whatever you guys are doing is not working because you're pissed and he's sour with machines that you can't keep running properly.

I'm not trying to paint anything though. I do enjoy responding to angry frustration with cool, level headed guidance though because I find that it helps those who can be helped. Perhaps that won't work here, so I guess go ahead and get that last word in, I know it's important to some.
Java/Spring/Maven should have locked down dependencies by default. They have to go out of their way to not do that. Not that some people don't, anyway.

Typos:

> I stopped advocating for locking everything down.

started?

> Look down dependencies.

lock?
I have spent 2 years studying economics learning about Arrow-Debreu theorem, Hausman test and so on, and I still don’t understand why can’t Japan just print money and give them to people if they want 2% inflation.
That's exactly what happens. False positives with lateral flow tests are not unknown. In fact, if the prior probability of having covid is less than about 0.5%, you still have <50% probability of having covid even with a positive lateral flow.
That is true and you are lying.

Please show me a chart where competent governments like NZ, Japan, Australia, China and Indonesia are somewhat similar to incompetent ones like Brazil, USA or South Africa.
I don't think it's as straightforward as you propose. Debt is itself deflationary and dampens growth. Public and private debt are already at global highs. Every dollar of debt is far less effective at stimulating the real economy than in decades past. Further, how much infrastructure spending would stay in a local economy without a significant manufacturing base?

I don't have the answers, but this seems to be borrowing from a playbook written for a different era.
It's not clear that UBI would make negotiation power symmetrical per se, but if it were placed at a high enough value to take the bottom two tiers of Maslow's hierarchy off the negotiating table, that's a net positive for society regardless.
What I notice is that the most productive efforts of big tech are seemingly quick to be abandoned side projects. The real money is in adtech with is 90% zero-sum and 10% happily marrying the right companies with the right customers.

I don't really see Netflix as being as much of a problem compared to other "attention" companies because they screwed with the media cartels, have fantastic infrastructure, mostly sell long-form content, and denormalized ad-breaks. Compare to YouTube or TikTok.
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I don't really follow VR tech, were the people who already owned a occulus given a refund since their headset was useless without a Facebook account?
Bit of an advocatus diaboli, but… Crimes are crimes because they hurt people. Here we’re talking about just lowering company’s profits; same thing happens naturally due to market forces and nobody complains.
SDEs are the underpinning of most modern mathematical finance models; they're the underlying concept behind the Black–Scholes model for option pricing.
It has been in stagnation since the 80s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Decades_(Japan)
It's your lucky day for learning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_patrol
I understand what the author is doing. I said this earlier but it bears repeating, the author seems to be more concerned with having a concrete type than simpler code. A reference to `Maybe Cache` is good enough (and preferred). The top-level of your program is precisely where you want to have the flexibility to deal with the above.

Furthermore, my example is a much better illustration of the axiom ("Parse don't validate") than what the author is doing -- which is more like "Parse and validate".

You need to clarify "continuously guard". Sure you have to invoke methods like:

maybeCache >> useCache // map

instead of:

maybeCache |> useCache // not sure how Haskell pipes

Is that too difficult? The `Maybe` monad is specifically designed so that you don't have to continuously guard against the possibility of the value not existing. That is, you can "map", "bind" and "apply" functions to the value as if it always exists (and it handles the situation when the value doesn't). I also included a `case` block within which you can be statically certain a value of type `Cache` is available if you really need it.

The purpose of `Maybe` is to simplify code that needs to deal with a value that might not exist. Attempting to organize your code to avoid using `Maybe` is, by definition, going to be more cumbersome than simply leaning into the construct (that's what it's for!). It also better-illustrates how "parse don't validate" should work. Using an exception to guard against an invariant is... validating not parsing.

You don't need to defend the author here. It's just a matter of fact the the code provided could be organized differently according to a more idiomatic usage of `Maybe`, and therefore a more illustrative example of their own point. The choice to exemplify something else is unfortunate and the thrust of this entire comment thread -- I felt like I had to say something now seeing that link a second time.
"South Korea has plenty of problems, social and otherwise"

So does the US, and Japan, and ... basically every country. Each country is going to have pros and cons. Talking with my Korean friends, their perspective is that the US also has plenty of problems, social and otherwise. Are they wrong? And we've had discussions around e.g. why US cops are going around killing US citizens, etc.

The pros for Korea for me include hospitable people, great food, universal healthcare, and fantastic public transportation (you can get around basically the entire country via bus/metro/trains with a unified T-Money card). I also felt a sense of unity that I don't often feel in the US.

Some cons would include a work culture around working insane hours and compulsory drinking. Those are changing with the current generation though. Schooling is extremely competitive since everyone is trying to get into a handful of colleges in order to have career prospects with the large conglomerations. And having to worry about the air quality index is annoying from my US perspective.
If you're looking for C-like languages to study look up the plan 9 Alef language. It was a concurrent C-like that was designed to replace C until they realized its better off as a C library which is what plan 9's thread(2) is. It's mostly extinct but survives:

http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/2nd_edition/papers/alef/

https://seh.dev/go-legacy/
The idea that there can be a labour shortage in an industry that does not require specialized skills, at a time in history where capital has more power than ever is a total joke.
Well, at least someone has started the fire.
I hadn’t heard of this before, thanks for sharing.
So you are saying that the death numbers in Sweden and New York were artificially higher than they should have been?
> Anyone can upload anything to PyPI. This is kind of like saying that you detected malicious packages on GitHub - the question is whether anyone actually ran it.

There's a bigger social problem here. In many communities it has become completely normalized for any dependency to be just added from these types of "anyone can upload" repositories without any kind of due diligence as to provenance or security. It's as if these communities have just given up on that.

For example, if I suggest that a modern web app only use dependencies that ship in Debian (a project that does actually take this kind of thing seriously), many would laugh me out of the building.

The only practical alternative in many cases is to give up trying. It's now rare for projects to properly audit their dependencies because the community at large isn't rallying around doing it. It's a vicious circle.

This kind of incident serves as a valuable regular reminder of the risks that these communities are taking. Dismissing this by saying "anyone can upload" misses the point.
Law is code for society. Government is a fairly complex machine (organization).

Imagine joining a team using an entire toolstack novel to you. Just takes time to onboard.

As an activist, I got to know the laws, regulations, rules for my domain (federal, state, local). Utterly daunting, intimidating at first. Then over time, not so much.

I also spent a lot of time "popularizing" my activism. Much like some authors popularize science. No one expects to read popular science books and then be able to work in the field. But good communication can distill all the craziness to key points.

Same learning curve with every interesting domain.
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This junk is appearing on more and more web sites, at least this one is clearly a bot.

Plenty of sales sites will pretend a human is sending you a message, try and talk back and all of a sudden you're in a queue waiting for a reply.

Another anti pattern for web.
I type in this weird hybrid .. thing. I find it much more comfortable, though more error prone, than traditional home-row on traditional keyboards.

I use nearly all fingers, but where i really suffer is that i find key-combinations, notably alt+ to be really awkward because my hands are at a steep angle relative to the straight keyboard.

I live in Kakoune (vim-like) so "touch typing" is my bread and butter, but home-row just feels so bad to me.

I keep meaning to try a split keyboard with home-row. I suspect that's the root of my issue, and that my odd typing pattern is a result of trying to manually replicate a split keyboard. /shrug
One core issue is housing. And the core issue with housing is that prices are an arms race where everyone always wants more. Most people would have two or three kids if they felt like they could afford it.

The second core issue is modern dating. That one I don't know how to fix, but the essential issue there is the dynamics of dating not requiring commitment coupled with financial security for women mean long term pair bonding happens at a lower rate and later in life.
Yes, you can still read without an account. I just did it.
Crime-tracking app Citizen now includes a premium-priced safety help line
Crazy Bobby is not even a billionaire considering how unethical his leadership methods are.
No, you cannot overwrite a file on PyPI once uploaded, even if you delete the release first. This policy has been in place for many years.
This legislation will not raise more tax revenue like it proposes. It will stifle the US crypto industry and push it into friendlier jurisdictions. Ultimately it could end up reducing tax revenue compared to not touching the crypto industry.
Democrats are communists, got it. Right wing bs they been trotting out since the 60's.

Republicans are a modern day fascist party. I'm not gonna spam paragraphs of explanation, just look up any definition of fascism.

They're so far right they're the only mainstream political party on the planet to reject evidence of climate change.

The people the Nazis killed, besides insufficiency extreme Nazis (RINOS), were all the same people modern Republicans hate. Gays, scientists, professors, immigrants, socialists, and of course Jews.

You could toss a stone in any direction at a Trump rally and hit a white supremacist. White supremacy groups like the Proud Boys are hired to provide "security" for Republicans these days. They're brown shirts. Trumps GOP is modern day Nazi's. There's no point sugar coating it.
So most of those things amount to being “mostly new” and made recently, an advantage which will be lost until they keep replacing and rebuilding them.