skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Economically speaking insider trading represents a net positive for the market as it brings information onto the market sooner, allows it to reach a better price sooner.

No, economically speaking insider trading just hurts the market, as all free market models work only in so far as all actors have equal access to information. Unequal information makes the market less efficient. Hidden information that is not used in trades doesn't affect market efficiency, as all actors get a chance to decide a new price once the information becomes public.

> The only people hurt by insider trading are those to whom the person doing insider trading has a fiduciary duty, which for a Coinbase employee would be Coinbase itself.

No, the people most hurt by insider trading are the cpunter-parties to those trades, who are acting on inferior information. It is a type of fraud - I'm acting as if the publicly known information is up to date, but in fact I know something the rest of the market doesn't about the value of the good I'm trading. It's like selling beans that have been publicly shown to be magical, while I happen to know the public show was staged and they are in fact normal beans.
China has pioneered a law to empower people over algorithms?
A month ago, China made effective a new regulation that will force companies like Alibaba, Tencent, or ByteDance to give users the option to turn off recommendations, among other measures targeting algorithms to protect minors and the elderly, ensure fair pricing, prohibit fake news generation, or reduce addiction.

Is this the beginning of a world optimized for well-being instead of engagement?
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I wonder if the nocoiners here are aware that YCombinator is incubating a lot of crypto startups. Coinbase is a YCombinator company.
Are there a lot of businesses in the space not attempting to service lots of new coins that are generally characterized by lack of novelty, lots of marketing fuel, or where if there is novelty vis a vis cryptocurrency, it isn't highly questionable?

For better or for worse, it seems the case that most businesses in the so-called cryptocurrency space are working with some pretty dubious "assets" with some pretty dubious backers, which would make your parent comment pretty accurate.
Very nice! I was expecting a 300 MB app running in the browser but... this is refreshingly minimalistic.

One could use this when introducing someone to programming. Exactly the kind of stuff I was looking for, as I try to teach a few things about programming to my little cousin. But I find most Scratch-like [1] applications are really cumbersome.

[1] https://scratch.mit.edu/
Ask HN: Personal Task/File Management
I'd like to find something for iOS that does the following: stores documents so I can access then easily (e.g. scan of my passport); handles tasks where I can set deadlines and keep track of progress (much like a bug tracker); store this information securely and not backup to the cloud; sync to my Mac across the local network.
In this case you mean Wikipedia editors will start making their content more attractive to advertisers?
Ask HN: Does anyone have advice on the Intel Capital funding process?
Well, they did bury it. First, there were media figures (the wife of the editor of the Sun, for instance) at the parties, so obviously they didn't report on it at the time, and I remember when the first leaks started coming out, Laura Kuennsberg presented it as a 'Westminster drama' kind of story. It's impossible to imagine that media figures did not know the parties were happening at the time: Allegra Stratton is married to James Fortsyth (the editor of the Spectator), for instance.

I think the point is, british people generally have a lot of tolerance for amateurism, well-intentioned muddling through, and honest mistakes. That's a deep part of the culture. What they cannot stand is people who behave as if they are too important to follow the rules everybody else follows. That's why queue jumping is sort of like human sacrifice in the UK. When you combine an instance of this trope, with a traumatic national moment, it's going to have way more psychological impact than simple incompetence, no matter how much more damaging incompetence actually is.
How about no.

This strategy is the childish equivalent of "if i can't have it no-one can."
> They'd be loose TSMC in either case.

TSMC would be chinese, and the taiwanese too. It's not like they are gonna kick everyone from taiwan and claim the earth.

> If Chinese would knew that TSMC is blown up once they start invasion,

I'm not sure, they'd still be better with taiwain under their control than not.
No contradiction.

The mainland knows it needs to develop its own semi industry. It's already having issues because of US sanctions, and would likely face even more sanctions if it decided to invade Taiwan, not to mention the risk of destruction of Taiwan's facility, indeed.

On the other hand, as things stand destroying TSMC would hurt everyone, as you say. China is working on reducing that hurt because it is obviously sensible to do so, the US are also working on reducing that hurt for the same reason. But the historical and political forces are such that I don't think China would be deterred because Taiwan planned to blow up TSMC facilities...

So, IMHO this is just the US trying to make sure that China would not get TSMC fabs as that would be the worst outcome for them, not a deterrent.
I assume that's the point of the system - there are some long stretches of pipe at any place that pipe does anything there'll be some form of access point. So you get to the access point push fibre through to the next point (which could be a half a mile away in rural areas) and then do whatever termination you need. Repeat until broadband.
I mean, most legit exchanges are not 'rooted' in scams, even if some of their employees take advantage. The only way you could say Coinbase were 'rooted' in that is to assume your premise: that crypto itself is a scam.
1/ "Using 378.5W measured system power per TPU v4 chip, this leads to a total effective emissions of 271.43 tCO2e. To put this in perspective, total emissions of a direct round trip of a single passenger jet between San Francisco and New York (JFK) is estimated to be 180 tCO2e (Patterson et al., 2021), and total emissions for GPT-3 are estimated to be 552 tCO2e (Patterson et al., 2021). All of the energy use and emissions for PaLM training and the experiments described in this paper are compensated with renewable energy sources (Sustainability, 2022)."
To add to what you're saying, forex explicitly does not have insider trading rules. The problem is it's treated as a general asset.

It feels like there should already be rules in place to handle if, for example, an Amazon exec went and bought property around an area prior to Amazon announcing their new HQ.
Same here, would like to try out without having to schedule a call. I'm asking for an invite. Email in profile. :-)
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I do not have much elaborate setup & sharing it because everyone is:

I have all my password recovery unique codes in Google Keep. That way if something happens to me my wife can use my phone or my primary password (2FA'ed with the phone) to get access to email, account details etc. She can perhaps reset the password / access the account & close it permanently after whatever needs to be done. (I do not keep the passwords - just the unique security keys different accounts provide at creation)
Not all of us live there or want those rules
HN has hated Bitcoin since before there was any reason to hate it. In the very early days there was a positive attitude. However, since the price started to reach double digits, the attitude became sharply negative and that has stuck for the last 10 years. Some HN thought leaders declared Bitcoin a tulip bubble when the price was 1000x smaller than it is now.

There are legitimate criticisms of cryptocurrency but the attitude here is more of a hardened loathing punctuated with a minority of more open minded people.
You're very naive if you think blockchain technology wouldn't become more privacy-friendly to the extent that governments trying to have power over it practically need to give up because it simply would become economically infeasible for them to do that.
"but the west wouldn't have access either."

That simply isnt true, TSMC are building manufacturing capacity in Arizona/Texas at an impressive clip, it has been pitched as capacity expansion, but there is obviously a strategic fall back element to the expansion gained by having the processes, chip lines and IP associated with a duplicated offshore location (which the US would be ideal to safely house).

https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-tsmc-looks-doub...
As far as I understand it is still compile time checked, hence it is a form of static polymorphism. The fact it is still runtime dispatched it is just an implementation choice.
I don't think most exchanges are rooted in scams no - I'd say they're rooted in a greater fool scheme, given that the main purpose of buying crypto is to sell it for profit and it isn't really used for exchange outside a few niches like darknet markets.
Someone show him U+29B0 REVERSED EMPTY SET.
Yes, Portugal is among the countries that does not extradite own citizens

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition#Own_citizens

Edit: Actually Portugal seems to make an exemption for terrorism or international organised crime. The second one might apply here.

https://fra.europa.eu/en/law-reference/constitution-portugue...
I don't think that accepting cryptocurrencies is quite equivalent to accepting funds from the Kremlin, North Korea and Drug cartels.

It's more equivalent to accepting donations in roubles, in North Korean won or in the form of legal drug caches.

It's not about the source, but the means of the payment. I can imagine people accepting money from dubious sources, but not via dubious means and vice-versa.
Nor sure what this article is trying to convey?
Is it about grepping wrong defaults for bash?
Is it about mentioning the protagonist as much as often?
I've read it twice now, and I feel ignorant.
>There's no insider trading laws in commodities or real estate, have those markets collapsed?

I didn't check, but is this really true? If a mining company executive knows that for whatever reason they will see a 10% drop in yield next quarter, but it's not public knowledge, they can buy futures, no problem? All the execs can get together if there's something going on and invest on that info as long as they're investing in the commodity, not stock?
Why is the SEC so slow to regulate cryptoassets? Literally everything that they combatted for stocks and traditional assets is now taking place in the crypto ecosystem.
Use them when you need them...

If you're not sure if you need them, you don't.
If you see yourself using reflection to implement a datastructure, you already know that you do. I don't get the nonsense around generics, it's so obvious to me...
> the Academy largely votes the way the critics tell them to

This is absolutely not the case. For example "Oscar campaigns" have significant influence on the Academy, and they happen after the critics have given their verdict.
> I do accept donations on good faith, but I can't in good faith accept crypto donations as there is no uncertainty about where they come from.

If I murder a drug dealer, steal his briefcase stuffed with 100-dollar bills, and eventually donate some of that money to you in USD, you will happily accept it "in good faith". But if I work hard as a nurse, exchange some of my hard-earned savings into Ether, and donate it to you, you will refuse because "there is no uncertainty about where they come from"? I'm confused. How are you certain that the USD donations are clean money, and certain that the Ether must be dirty money? I guess just the vague association with "crypto" is enough?

Just admit that this is about ideological purity and nothing else.
> most tech workers at fb would probably be due a few 100k more per year.

so what happened to the providers of the capital that facebook was built with? How come they don't get anything from those profits?

I think your ideology is clouding your judgement on what counts as "fair", and this is making you think that workers who don't get 100% of the profit of the work they produce, must be underpaid or somehow is being exploited. The idea that capital provided upfront (to pay those workers, as well as plant and equipment) isn't in your line of argument at all.

> Without the labour of their workers, facebook does not exist.

without the upfront capital paid by the shareholders, facebook would not exist as well. It's both, together, that makes it work. The deal the workers accepted was to be paid upfront, at a fixed amount, for a fixed amount of work (counted by time, usually). Then, the shareholders gets the profit from the difference in sale price of the work. They take on the risk that the work is worthless in a changing world, a risk that the workers do not take (unless the worker chooses to accept payments in shares). I don't see this as exploitation.
Then I think you are assuming your premise/begging the question. You constructed the conditions in a way that leaves no room for a valid example. If you think crypto itself is a greater fool scheme then purely definitionally there can be no example of a non-greater-fool-rooted crypto business.
Sure, it might be temporary, but it makes government's job much more difficult as opposed to traditional centralized systems.

And as web3 progresses, the line between the Internet and cryptocurrencies will blur even more, making it hard to define laws around crypto without banning access to the Internet in the first place, which will make their job even harder, which is good in terms of taking power back from authoritarian goverments.
> You know that Russian tanks are throwaway tanks. Low quality, cheap and fast production, built to abandon.

Russians could've easily lost as much even with better military hardware.

Most of Russian military hardware losses are not from battles, but from soldiers routing, and abandoning their vehicles, which are LATER destroyed, or captured.

Most Russian tanks were disabled by artillery, and missiles, not tank vs. tank battles. No tank in the world would survive a 40kg missile, or an artillery shell hitting its roof. So, the quality of hardware is irrelevant.

What is really low quality is the Russian military leadership.

The key here is to understand that losses do not come from 40kg missiles themselves, but from Russian generals knowingly sending their troops into ATGM, and artillery killboxes, and from Russian troops knowing their generals intentions, and acting accordingly (routing upon first battle damage)
Did he present anything non-public or develop some kind of cryptocurrency client or novel way to launder/hide money that wasn't already public/known at the time?
I'm not sure either of your comments are productive here. You assert that it would be hard to find any crypto business that isn't 'rooted in some kind of scam'. But where's the evidence that coinbase for e.g is 'rooted in a scam, greater fool scheme or ponzi'? There are scammy activities in so much of crypto, but what is pointing to the most visible, normie-facing, publicly traded and regulated American crypto company, being 'rooted' in scamming or ponzi schemes? Because this post suggests a bad actor within or close to the company, or at worst the company knowingly associating with sketchy tokens, rather than the entire company's activities being fundamentally rotten. I know HN likes to be extremely skeptical of crypto, often rightly so, but your comment isn't exactly nuanced.
> find a crypto business that isn't rooted in some kind of scam, greater fool scheme, pyramid scheme, or the like.

> If you think differently, all you need to do is provide some evidence.

So is this product a 'scam' then? [0] [1]

[0] https://skiff.org
While your point is absolutely true, note that life expectancy shouldn't be taken as the literal age most people die. It is the expected value of your age at death. Just like the expected value of a coin flip being heads is 0.5, but no coin is ever 0.5 heads.

Life expectancy at birth in the times before modern medicine has always been dragged down significantly by the huge rate of infant mortality. It was more common for a family to have 1-2 dead small children in their past than not. People who lived past 5 or 10 or so would often live to see 70 or so, and 80 or 90 year olds were not unheard of.
I would be interesting but basically useless.

- Requires a custom kernel to run. Although most of these patches are probably floating around the kernel mailing list in some form or another.

- Requires Google's RPC and authentication system. (I guess GRPC is open source now, IDK if piper has switched, but you still need auth)

- Requires Google's group membership seefvice.

- Requires Google's storage engine. I don't remember if they have migrated to spanner yet but even then it would be using internal spanner APIs not the cloud ones.

There are probably also more less obvious ones but the point is that when Google writes software to run in Google production it is based on top if a mountain of infrastructure. I'm not sure the design of Piper is in any way novel enough to be worth it. I mean piper works and scales well but I don't think it is a fantastic VCS.
Some time ago I have in fact written a small utility based on fzf that solves this problem by letting you comment aliases in your shell config file and fuzzy-search through them:

https://github.com/nmaggioni/wat

The tag system is especially useful to me when I know the general concept I'm after but don't remember the exact wording of the command.
Interesting, are there any CLI interfaces that nicely hook into this? Ideally we almost need a GIT like push / pull to share secrets on developer machines.
one really big spreadsheet
$ cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 16269536 kB

Thanks, earlyoom looks interesting. But as I know where my memory usage goes (Firefox, mostly) I think I'll just write a script to kill Firefox if I run out. Much better than waiting for the scheduler to kill KDE out from under me!
If it really disables recommendations and just displays content in chronological order, it would be quite nice. Although technically the differentiation isn't trivial. Is a simple search optimized for relevancy an algorithmic suggestion? I would say yes, even if it is clear what is meant in spirit of these laws: Suggesting buzzing content to increase engagement.

Looking at Google results that clearly favor media outlets compared to any other content, something similar could maybe bring back better search results. I am amazed that Google sabotages their primary product in such a way.
Looking up the two locations, there are long stretches with minimal developed housing. A few towns and not many farmlets.
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I think it works pretty well. It is available for MacOS (keychain) and Windows/chrome too.
Exactly, couldn't have said it better myself.
The biggest problem I have with Git is the strong commit ordering. This leads to lack of tracking through cherry-picks which has very real friction for a fairly common workflow.
Totally reductionist on my part, but when you've written assembly by hand you realise that loops and jumps cannot ever go away regardless of the higher level abstractions.

At least I'm not aware of any CPUs that are not imperative in operation.
> Insider trading makes markets more efficient as the information enters the market earlier, allowing them to reach the correct price sooner.

How exactly do you think this happens? If I know that a stock is about to rise significantly, I can just buy it at the current price all the way up to the day the information becomes public, and I will not have changed its price at all, but will profit massively off of my inside information.

The market will not reach the correct price until material information becomes public.
That or making articles purposefully structured so that the user has to jump around a few links and earn more ad views.
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Why not Annalang?
>What do we most associate with this era? Robber barons, utility monopolies screwing people over with ruthless business practices, confidence men and literal snake oil quack medicine.

Speak for yourself. Most well read people associate it with urbanization (made possible by industrialization of agriculture) and huge standard of living improvements that came with the long tail of industrialization. Such "luxuries" as off the shelf clothing, meat products, electric lights, etc. etc became readily available to the common man at a price he could afford at that time.
> Economically speaking insider trading represents a net positive for the market as it brings information onto the market sooner...

However, insider trading erodes confidence in the market and therefore reduces the number of people contributing to and learning from pricing signals.

Trust is a big deal.
Yes, migraines are weird. I am kind of lucky in that mine are neither frequent nor as bad as those by others. For me it manifests as a headache in a distinct spot 9 out of 10 times and I get very sensitive to sound and light (auras are usually very light or not there at all, no nausea or puking). The good thing is that a) I can just take a mild dose of ibuprofen and b) go into a dark, silent room and sleep it off most of the time, on the other hand when I tried triptanes? that didn't work at all. Also I only have a few every year and not multiple times per month like when I was a kid or teenager.

For me the difference is usually easy. If it's a headache-headache, it's annoying and you can function (even if it hurts). If it's a migraine then I simply can't work or do any fun thing anymore, not even watching something or reading.
I have learned that the more I mention cryptocurrency or even decentralized anything the more likely my comment is to be buried. So I would say cryptocurrency enthusiasts are sort of suppressing themselves.

I have been running a business with payments in micro transactions on Algorand for a few months. It's not something that would be remotely possible without cryptocurrency.

It's true that there are a lot of scams and nonsense, but I know for a fact that there are real artists using smart contracts to sell their art frictionlessly and engage with their community in ways that are again, impossible without this technology.

But to go back to the original point, writing this kind of thing on HN, there is a real chance the comment will be downvoted quite a lot.
>Some of the flexibility in C++ here is desirable, much of it is either wanking or outright dangerous. C++ will allow a float generic for example, which is obviously a footgun because good luck explaining why Thing<NaN> and Thing<NaN> are different types...

It's not nonsense, there are legitimate use-cases for floating point template params. A classic example is something like generateInlinedVersionOfFunction<someInt, someFloat>() that generates a class or function with some particular values inlined for efficiency. Using nan as a template parameter is stupid, but it's not especially more dangerous than using nan in general, since any issues specific to its compile-time usage will manifest at compile time, not runtime.

It does nobody any favours to just dismiss advanced features Rust doesn't support as dangerous and unnecessary just because most Rust programmers haven't come across a use-case.
It bothers me very much that people who don't even understand the basics of Python want to teach complex concepts. This is why there are lots of misconceptions and terrible code in Python.

__init__ is NOT the constructor in Python, the object is already created at the time when __init__ is started. Maybe this detail doesn't matter in this article, but still teaching the wrong thing.
Clearly useful for typesetting reflections of mathematical proofs. /s