skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You misunderstand a lot about what went on there.

One, there is no question that Sarao had nothing to do with the flash crash. The cause of the flash crash was a fund manager adding an extra zero to a trade they were making. The reason Sarao was blamed was to put pressure on him, and because the SEC needed to blame someone for there total failure to properly manage markets (the person who prosecuted the case against Sarao was the person responsible for monitoring electronic trading, she built a huge media profile through this case...no-one ever asked why the only person they charged for this was a disabled guy working out of his parent's bedroom).

Two, Sarao did go to jail in the US and the UK. This in itself was pretty unusual because he admitted to the crime, the crime had never been charged criminally, he explained to prosecutors exactly what he was doing, and he had relatively severe mental health problems which (given that he was totally compliant with prosecutors) should have meant he was never extradited (I believe he was in jail in Chicago, and he became very unwell whilst there). He was extradited to the US because prosecutors wanted to see him suffer (this is also why their first contact was a dawn raid on his parent's house), and it worked because he ended up signing a plea deal for something that he was very unlikely to actually get found guilty for (the case went on for something like 10 years).

Three, the reason why Sarao was charged was because people at HFT firms were losing money due to spoofing. That was it. The person who notified the SEC worked at an HFT firm. Ironically, Sarao himself also attempted to notify the SEC about things HFT firms were doing...nothing happened with that.

Four, people have been spoofing for decades. When markets were still a mix of open outcry and electronic, the largest traders were all spoofers. Saying that spoofing is illegal relies on the notion that once you enter an order, you must have the intention of trading at that price...do you know how to measure intention? The practice was only made illegal when the market went full electronic, and the order book data was being used by HFT firms.

Five, the reason why Sarao didn't go to jail was because the case against him made no sense. He was spoofing, spoofing is illegal but when the SEC raided him (again, highly unusual) he thought that the SEC was actually investigating his previous communications about HFT firms...it wasn't. He gave huge amounts of information to prosecutors about what large firms were doing, apparently he sat them down and went through hours of examples of market manipulation...no cases were brought as a result of this.

Sarao is the archetypal of example who was forced to serve real time at the behest of HFT firms in order to further political aims.
The comment could be parsed two different ways, so I wanted to know how I should understand it. Thanks for the reply, this makes sense.
Secular doctors were also terrible: before the late-19th century, seeing a doctor was more likely to shorten your lifespan than lengthen it. Unless you needed surgery, which meant that you were in serious trouble anyway, so even with the extreme likelihood of infection your odds were a bit better than just leaving it alone.

As far as I can tell, before like 1880 they prescribed mercury for everything.

Even though they were universally terrible, when you read their writings they're no less confident in what they were doing than modern doctors are.

My favorite historical doctor was Benjamin Rush, a "founding father," who was hilariously bad at his job even for the time.
I run HomeAssistant as the brains of my IoT. It connects to my Mikrotik router via api and treats every connected device as a presence sensor (this is mostly automatic aside from initial setup).

From there you just treat the presence sensor like any other sensor in your automations.
For something like SSE to work you'd need both wasm and wasm2c to support it.

Wasm doesn't support all of SSE, but wasm does have SIMD support which is a portable subset of common SIMD instructions. You may lose some performance there, but wasm is adding more instructions to help (see "relaxed-simd"). There are also headers to help translate between SSE and wasm SIMD for existing code where possible.

wasm2c does have support for wasm SIMD, although I believe it is not 100% complete yet.
Funny, I am currently listening to this book on Audible. A lot of people think that it's a book about manipulation but it's really not. It's a book about leadership through reciprocity. If you want people invest in your goals you have to contribute to theirs.

Win Your Case by Gerry Spence is also a favorite of mine of the same vein but applied to confrontational situations, but the advice are based on the same foundations.
Fair enough haha, thanks this is a great list, Foundation has always been something I wanted to read.
So I'll start by saying I detest the snake-oil salesmen professional scam artists that are "Agile consultants", as they have now begun to leach onto DevOps which honestly is in large part has the same end goal of agile. These people are largely talentless hacks and parasites that extract value from coporations that are making money and then move onto the next victim while the actual engineers deal with the infection their ideas have left.

That being said the issue I've seen and read with waterfall is that it is very slow and cannot adapt very well. Which honestly is a super great thing in certain fields, like avionics, NASA moon landers, those kinds of things, because with this lack of speed and rigour you also get a certain level of assurance and quality and predictability, assuming things retain a certain level of consistency.

However in the world of newly emerging markets and the .com bubble and the new SAAS bubble being slow is a death sentence because at this point it is better to spray and pray because their are plenty of VCs willing to handle you fistfuls of cash to shoot at the wall because they are hoping to get in on the next big Facebook or Google (in reality now they are just hoping you will get bought by FB or Google which is another rant for another time.)

That being said agile offers flexibility and adaptability in return for offering less predictability. This causes a huge rift however when you have in house tech resources, that are part of a larger organization that needs all the assurances and predictability promised by waterfall, but the in house resources have to compete against SaaS opponents that management is all to happy to use a credit card to purchase.

The end result is tech teams saying they are agile by which they mean they respond to whoever is yelling the louadest and success is determined not by value but instead by politics and in the meantime no one is taking care of the customers because and you end up with everyone's data getting resold a dozen times, having more security holes than an Alabama "don't shoot at signs" sign, and companies spending several million dollars a year to keep some rusting old COBOL application running because it is the only thing they know for sure works right now.

Sorry I might've been unloading some baggage in this post.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29462176
The fact that the bar for data privacy should be very high for the daycare shouldn't diminish the need for data privacy in the daycare-recommended parent group.

I've broken contact with a reasonably tech-savvy part of my family. I have to decide between being informed about current events and hoping the next Meta leak doesn't have my full name, number, hometown, and possibly group memberships.
The ideas are timeless but the translated prose can feel dated. The Gregory Hays translation though is very readable.
:waves:

You can cite me for one! I didn't even grow up on it, it was honestly a more recent thing for me to pick up seriously, I wrote significant amounts of JavaScript, Ruby, Go, Rust and various LISPS before I seriously used C in anger. Nowadays it's the language I reach for second most often after JS and it's honestly something I often really look forward to writing. I love how it just gets out of my way and lets me do things, it's so fucking refreshing.
This can be said of the latest 2 decades of windows. Every version adds boths stupid warts and new tech, and could be good enough for the next 10 years.

Windows 2000: works, so let's start here

Windows XP. Advances like stable DirectX and in SP3 reasonable internet safety. Stupidity like fisher price theme, DRM and FS virtualization. Administrator, meet System.

Windows Vista. All new graphics driver architecture. But obsolete grandfathered in hardware and video driver instability. Trusted boot and further DRM integration.

Windows 7. Let's call this a rebranded Vista Service pack. Drivers get a bit more mature, obsolete hardware is gone, and a few rough UI corners get polished.

Windows 8. Nobody wants a tablet OS on a desktop, we get it anyway. Can't remember anything positive of this one, but there must be something.

Windows 9 doesn't exist, Microsoft wands the number 10 like Apple.

Windows 10. Microsoft actually shoved this on people's PC even if they didn't want it. Ads. Tracking that can't be disabled. But also cool propellerhead stuff like WSL.

Notice the pattern: Every time some nice new tech;for the enthousiasts, but less and less control for the end user.
> Burma has a strong, nation-wide oppositionary movement, which is now trampled by an even more powerful, and cutthroat Burmese army.
>Without two things aforementioned, the balance will change. An aid of small arms supplies will be enough for the opposition to win, and unite the country.

This sounds a lot like what I remember hearing about the Iraq invasion, how we would be hailed as liberators.
Literally the only snark and aggressive comments being made are coming from yourself.

I’m not going to stop chatting to other people on this subject because you’ve decided to troll me over a difference of opinion.
The Harry Potter series remains the most enjoyable books I've ever read. The Pillars of the Earth comes close though.

Terrific sci-fi reads were Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Hyperion, Ringworld, and to a lesser extent A Deepness in the Sky. Also Excession, whose human characters are poorly developed and written but whose world-building and AI characters are amazing.

Terrific fantasy reads were The Time-Traveler's Wife, as well as The Name of the Wind and its sequel The Wise Man's Fear. The latter two have rather bad writing and TERRIBLE female characters, but the story is extremely engrossing anyway and some of the ideas are really original (the Cthaeh!).

Catch-22 was an amazing read as well. Watership Down, After Dark, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, and Blood Meridian all dazzled me.

Oh, and The Sandman, Watchmen, Maus, and Persepolis for graphic novels.

For short stories: MMAcevedo (https://qntm.org/mmacevedo), The Last Question by Asimov, The Library of Babel by Borges, and The Dead by Joyce (whose final sentence is my favorite of all English-language writing).

Lastly, The Design of Everyday Things changed how I saw man-made items.

Edit: I almost forgot-- Ecclesiastes, from the Old Testament. I am not religious and this work stands out strongly from all the other writings collected in the bible. It's a poetic work on finding purpose in a world that lacks any inherent meaning. Considered one of if not the most well-written book of the entire bible. Recommend the NIV translation.
This meme needs to die.

BF doesn’t get to respectability-wash their garbage by hiring some former NYT employees.
That's like hard negative mining. You can also train a weak model and filter out the examples it manages to predict correctly to come up with a harder dataset.
> BIOGRAPHY: The Power Broker by Robert Caro - one of the greatest biographies you'll ever read. Long but absolutely first class. I've been meaning to read his trio of books on LBJ but that on the laterbase.

I started reading this based on another recent recommendation on HN. So far, I'm absolutely loving it. I second this recommendation (based on what I have read so far)
Yes the people in what’s likely the most lucrative industry in human history have it good. For now.
Because WSL is not Windows. It's a fantastic tool but it's not actual native Windows support. I use Windows to develop software on a daily basis, and I don't have WSL installed at all.
A Confederacy of Dunces is amazing. It’s in my top 5. Not in the same vein but I read Flowers for Algernon for the first time as an adult and it really touched my soul.
XLA only optimizes quasi-static code, which does not include adaptive numerical solvers like those for ODEs. It's a generally good assumption for ML though, but there are ways to break it. I wrote a piece showcasing some ideas around that: https://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/useful-algorithms-that-a...
One company I had just left laid off half the staff. HR said there was an offsite meeting and divided everybody into two buses. One bus went to a offsite location to get laid off, the other went to a different offsite location where the layoffs were socialized. The buses went in different directions.

I got a bunch of messages from my former team during the bus ride; half were on one bus and the rest on the other bus. They were texting each other (and me) and quickly figured out what was going on, and which bus was the layoff bus.

Then they all had another half hour on the buses ...
What a bullshit reason. This is why we can’t have good things.
Right. And the idea that this coalition often pushes that they’re the party or faction of the government not intruding isn’t really accurate.
Generic GPU Kernels
Not sure if you've ever worked on complex systems before, but features simply don't exist in isolation. Features interact - sometimes in complex ways, sometimes in unexpected ways. The cost of supporting user-facing toggles for every feature in your product grows exponentially.

If you've ever maintained a system that uses developer feature flagging, the cost is large and typically this is for feature flags that should only exist for a matter of weeks or less.
Currency debasement always caused people to want to move to cities where the currency was being issued.

Without currency debasement, people may have been incentivized in the past to move to cities for certain industries where knowledge was highly specialized (the company needed to be in a big city with many people in order to tap into a larger talent pool).

Today, where most intellectual work can be done remotely, it doesn't make sense to move people geographically to specific geographic areas.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29450818
Thought experiment: What if that owner hadn’t acquired that land?

Turns out… it’s still right there!
It’s nothing more than a lame attempt at blameshifting. If he really thought these employees were stealing, why would he want to retrain them for another job as he claims?
It escapes . . . as a gas . . . in an already highly pressurized environment . . . that is already containing a large amount of high-pressure hydrogen sulfide that cannot escape as it is?

I'm pressing X to doubt.
wait, didn't we have that subprime crisis, because rising interest rates caused people to default on their mortgages? Will we have a rerun of this?
I prefer this response:

> X wasn't really designed/is not very suitable to do Y. Why did you resort to do Y with X?

It opens a lot more possibilities and doesn't sound too hostile. Maybe you get to learn that Z which is made to do Y is broken. Maybe a part of that person's workflow requires X specifically. One can learn a lot of things this way.

Consider a person asking about using some surgical equipment on themselves (though they likely wouldn't ask it on StackExchange). Normally, you shouldn't perform surgeries on yourself, but what if you're stranded in Antarctica during the winter night and your life depends on it?
I can vouch for Forward Email (https://forwardemail.net/). It's easy to set up if you have your own domain, you can continue using Google Mail if you like (for both receiving and sending), their message size limits are higher than Gmail's, you can set up multiple aliases and (optional) catch-all addresses, and they offer a free tier if cost is an issue. The big advantage of the reasonably-priced paid tier is privacy: paid subscribers don't have to put their real email addresses in the DNS records to configure the forwarding. It also helps to ensure that the service will remain viable into the future.
Wow, this is beautiful! Thanks for doing this. I would almost use this daily, except that there are a few things I noticed that would be good to improve (just one person's opinion — hope these are received in the intended spirit):

- If the browser window is narrower than about 1024px, there are no margins around the body text and the text width slider has no effect.

- As the browser window becomes narrower, the body shrinks but the contents sidebar doesn't shrink.

- The measure feels a bit small to me. It looks like the body text width is limited to 660px — having a limit is good, but it feels tight, especially when there are embedded figures and infoboxes. You could try making the measure a bit larger, or perhaps letting the figures extend or sit outside the main column of text when the window is wide enough.

- When you turn off the sidebar by clicking the three-bar icon, the sidebar just leaves an empty space instead of providing more space for the body text.

- As the window becomes narrow enough, the search box becomes unusable.

- The page indicators like the "featured article" star, the protection icon, and the Spoken Wikipedia button are missing.

- The home page, talk page, history page, etc. don't respect the typography settings.

- The menu option "View history" is inconsistent with the other options; next to "Talk", "Edit", "Watch", simply "History" would work better.

- When you scroll down, the page title scrolls off the main body, but remains at the top of the table of contents. Somehow this feels backwards to me, and it's not immediately obvious that you have to click the title in the table of contents if you want to see the intro section. Perhaps the page title could be sticky, and the first section could appear as "Introduction" in the contents? Something like this? https://imgur.com/a/kqaNbWo — I'm not sure where to suggest that the page title should go; you might have to try a few options to find one that looks right.

Sorry that turned out to be a long list, but overall the page does look a lot nicer and easier to read and navigate. Hope these ideas are helpful!
I have a solid CS background and tried once to read GEB and while very enthralling I could only get about a quarter through. I will have to try that one again. Cheers.
It put me off until I read that part about the code that's laid out being optional.

They're not forcing anything on anyone. I'm perfectly fine with that.
Wrong. They returned the profits, and paid two fines on top of that.
No, $25M is the open market price for a license charges a company to pick up a license. Looks like someone sold a license for much more (0). Only 22 licenses for companies in Florida have been granted (1). In Florida, companies have to vertically integrate their whole supplychain and not mix with any other cannabis company. It takes opening like 50 dispensaries under a license to break even. Florida sells $1.2B of cannabis a year & $500M in acquisitions were completed in Florida last year.

(0) https://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2019/10/15/fo...

(1) https://mjbizdaily.com/florida-medical-marijuana-operators-b...

(2) https://mjbizdaily.com/cannabis-msos-on-buying-spree-in-flor....
The MySQL storage engine API system is both a massive enabler or really cool stuff and a big restriction on how the optimiser can work.

Fascinating trade-off from which many things both good and bad spring.
The other thing with five whys is many times the root cause is beyond your teams control. Unless the entire management chain from the top participates you'll not see the organizational change needed. And even then, upper management might just consider the reasons for the failure as a cost of doing business and won't want to change it.

That being said, the process at least forces the team to look at root causes beyond what is visible on the surface. It's a good start but it isn't perfect either.
Kids (and GPT) say the darndest things...
> the country largely does support the Taliban.

It did not support Taliban. It has done so after 2 decades of Karzai, Ghani, and complete incompetence of US at building a political system, and the government from scam artists, and then doing god knows what with them.

Just like in Iraq.
I see, thanks. I don't totally agree, though. The comment implied that SQLite's test suite being proprietary is what "kept SQLite out of the browser" by preventing forks, when what kept SQLite out of the browser was just that there were no other high-quality embeddable SQL libraries. Perhaps the test suite being non-proprietary would have allowed for easier forking, but the lack of an available open test suite certainly doesn't *prevent* forks of a public domain codebase, and nothing prevents competing embedded SQL libraries other than the lack of motivation to compete with SQLite.

Even if SQLite's test suite was open, I wouldn't see any big forks taking off, because why would you really want to build a competitor to something that's already super easy and free to use, extremely high quality, very high performance? What really is the drive? If SQLite ever does something the community really doesn't like, then a fork would be worth starting, but unless that happens, I don't see any point, and I really don't see that happening any time soon, given the consistent quality and power of SQLite.
I believe those texts are specifically set either on Wikidata, or via the template "short description" at the start of the article. Only where those are missing should it fall back to the beginning of the article text.
Title describes my current job. Basically a thin agile wrapper around a broken waterfall process with gargantuan releases plagued with heisenbugs and shoddy QA. It's fun but I'm still not sure if it's a viable project or a death march.
Bearing Witness to Svalbard’s Fragile Splendor
Thanks!

If that's the case, we probably need to re-think through those policies if we think that they should not apply equally to "virtual" spaces (like Google/Youtube accounts).
Recently there's been some folks "backfilling" CVEs. For example, the last one on that list was filed in 2021, but was fixed in 2015. The second to last one was filed in 2021, but was fixed in 2020.
Got you, fam.

https://encyclopedia.marginalia.nu/wiki-start.html

(I built this mostly for myself, because I find it incredibly difficult to read text that has hyperlinks and images in the text)
> If a company told me they were going to fire me in two weeks, the worst risk the company would be taking is that I might just decide that they can't fire me in two weeks because I quit.

Maybe that's just a German thing, but here you'd (usually) be loosing the severance pay and some social benefits if you quit instead of being fired w/o direct cause.
I don’t get why people buy into this narrative. 5-10% of the content the BF organization puts out is respectable. Ok, it’s still 90% trash. The markets are treating it as such.
XLA.jl was kind of a solution looking for a problem. If you want fast code in Julia, you can just write Julia.