skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone on HN pointed out recently that a lot more Madoff ponzi money was recovered than one might expect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recovery_of_funds_from_the_Mad...
Strange this is getting downvoted here of all places. I like to think HN is a place that would enjoy this conversation regardless of their own view.

Let keep the good intent and intellectual curiosity please.
> 3. We believe our Prime and Custody customers have strong legal protections in their terms of service that protects their assets, even in a black swan event like this

> 4. For our retail customers, we’re taking further steps to update our user terms such that we offer the same protections to those customers in a black swan event. We should have had these in place previously, so let me apologize for that.

> 5. ...and it is possible, however unlikely, that a court would decide to consider customer assets as part of the company in bankruptcy proceeding

The term people might want to google is "bail-in". And it is likely that Coinbase has less protections related to that than a conventional bank.
Please define what you mean by CRT so that we know what you are discussing. (I don't mean acronym expansion, I mean substance.)
So I guess Hitler would not have been banned from Twitter under Elon Musks rule? Because inciting violence is free speech as long as someone else does the bad deeds.
I went through a phase where I'd taught myself to become limerent really quickly.

It got me in a lot of trouble so I quit.
As someone without 250k in the bank (or generally), FDIC insurance is quite reassuring. Banks pay into it like any other insurance, so it would take a huge money-doesn't-matter-anymore shock to overwhelm it. 2008 was pretty close! Crypto wouldn't do any good for me since the utility bills for all the internet infrastructure are paid for with real money (in the "most people exchange it for goods and services" sense).

There'd be nowhere to go where even a paper wallet would do me any good. You could execute a 51% attack on a solar-powered NetBSD toaster.
They won't ever fund their customer service operations to a high level in that you get great client care across the board. It costs them too much money. The best you could hope for is some kind of tiered class care.
Can you clarify? Historically many VCS/SCMs are self-hosting, but I’m not certain that’s what you are asking for.

Fossil is a SCM tool that also comes bundled with a wiki and other tools to document a project and store artifacts, if that’s closer to what you’re looking for: https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
Prices in US Outstrip Forecasts in Sign of Inflation Persisting
I agree. This is why labor unions need to be heard!
There's this dynamic of pay tending to be pegged to your job title. An engineer is an engineer is an engineer.

In SF bay area, entry level jobs at big tech are skewing high and experienced roles are skewing low. This doesn't come close to mapping to impact level usually and we just accept that because it's socially easy.

I've worked at startups where there were clearly >10x impact differences between two engineers and at most there was a 2x salary difference. As a startup, it's basically not worth it to hire junior talent anymore because they are not close to being worth the cost in most cases.
"In the 1960’s, only 5% of Republicans and 4% of Democrats reported that they would be “displeased” if their son or daughter chose to marry a political opponent (Iyengar et al., 2012). By 2010, these numbers had risen tenfold."

When you combine that with twin, adoption, or half-sibling studies which all show that political orientation is partially inherited, it's like we're splitting into two different species. Hopefully things will get back on track long before that.
I think it's really eye opening to me that he still only got a green card so far after 18 years. He's been going thru immigration hoops in the US for as long as it would take to raise an adult.
>> First off, you can have competition and cooperation. Take a look at any sports team. It's a highly competitive environment that's also highly cooperative. You can't win unless you play as a team.

Sport is probably the worst possible analogy for any fair economic system.
It promotes cooperation between people only as far as crushing your opponents team go. How exactly exactly promotes cooperation between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid within it's rules ? Who would want to live in a world where there is place only for one winner?

>> I'm racking my brain to think of one economy outside the US, UK, Germany, France, the Netherlands, etc, that isn't based on competition that isn't a morass of local bribes to the dictator's cousin's uncle or whatever. In China, for example, "common prosperity" is the cudgel wielded against any perceived alternate power center. It has little to do with actual prosperity.

I believe that corruption and bribes are orthogonal to economic systems. Capitalism is full of corruption and especially corporations are full of kick back schemes (I have seen few personally that would make comrade Brezhnev blush).
My personal standing is that corruption comes from people who have to much decision power and too greedy to play by the rules. Only proper build in control systems can restrict that.
You make valid points. I edited my post.
> Why are the two feelings in conflict? I can be concerned for the people around me AND be concerned that I'm making less than X times more than the average.

Because as a tech worker your salary is likely already well above the level that it would need to fall in order for us to achieve meaningful level of wealth equality (not complete equality, but equal-ish)

> making everyone an equal millionaire will never work

Yes, exactly. But could work is having a scale of something like lower middle class to upper middle class incomes and getting rid of millionaires entirely (or making them as rare as billionaires are today). If we want to bring people out of poverty that money has to come from somewhere, and if you're making 6 figures some of it probably needs to come from you.
And the crypto bros conveniently ignore that you can’t easily exchange your BTC for actual cash to buy real things without an exchange or a bank account.
Its like a version of math where you're representation of "2" is "++" so the expression 2 + 2 becomes "++" + "++".

"It is a wonderfully bizarre fact that each song of a combinatory bird is not merely the name of another bird but is actually a complete description of the internal plumbing of that other bird. That is, each song is actually a brain map of some bird. Since a song is a complete description of how some bird will respond when it hears another bird, and the only important thing about a combinatory bird is how it responds when it hears another bird, we see that songs and singers are interchangeable. So we can say that the birds sing birds to each other, or we can equally say that what we have is a bunch of songs that sing songs to each other! Combinatory birds exist at an almost mystical level. Their language has no distinction between verbs and nouns. A description of action can equally well be a name."

https://dkeenan.com/Lambda/

The bird K was defined as True, and KI as False (try not to think about the fact True(x) / False(x) evaluates to something).

The claim is that the bird M is logical OR. We can test this exhaustively. M repeats the first word twice, K omits the 2nd word, and I is just there. Leftmost bird is always the next in line for evaluation.

or(false,false): M(KI)(KI) : (KI)(KI)(KI) : I(KI)(KI) : (KI)(KI): I(KI) : (KI) = false

or(true,false): MK(KI) : KK(KI) : K = true

or(false,true): M(KI)K : (KI)(KI)K: I(KI)K : (KI)K : IK : K = true

or(true,true): MKK : KKK : K = true

So it works as claimed!
Will not any existing ORM that supports SQLite support D1? I looked in the post for details on how it extends SQLite (is the query language different or extended, semantics very different, etc.) but didn't notice anything.
Why would anyone just take that as it is?
> I don't see the political climate shifting hard right.

Supreme court repealing Roe v. Wade, Don't say gay bill, restrictions of voter rights, denial of 2020 election loss among top leaders in the GOP, the list goes on...

Not to even to mention the likelihood of conservatives gaining control of the senate and perhaps house in the midterms. This is what a hard right political climate shift looks like.

So, the unbanning is a response to this perceived shift - to get in good with the guys will soon be in power.
And also distinct from std::byte, which they are hoping will pick up aliasing properties of char, allowing use and also abuse of char* to be someday eliminated from new code. std::byte does alias everything, but no operations are defined on it except copying (and, weirdly, bitwise operators).
Unless there's something like byobu, I'll stick to tmux for the time being.
This article seems to be about ML but good old fashioned brute force searches are also possible.

It's trivial to find formulas that fit data to within the variable's uncertainties. You can easily drown in such output. There are two main challenges with this approach: 1. make sure you have the right "ingredients" (factors) for the search, and 2. filter the output so that human reviewers don't waste time on obvious nonsense equations.

Filtering output is not terribly difficult. Some assessment of complexity is required and depending on the formula a symmetry score might be useful. Some actual physics equations are quite complex so you have to be expecting a simple equation or filtering output will be less effective.

Making sure you have all of the right potential factors available is very hard. Expanding the input factor set extends the search space and time.
I am in France, and i can tell you, the government only really support "want to be a unicorn" or companies that are already established or company that generate a ton of local jobs.

I went to talk to our local chamber of commerce and industry, which handle navigating the subsidies, and their answer was "how many local jobs are you creating ? Just you for now ? Then we cannot help you, come back when you create a dozen in the region"
Same here (California as well)
I believe it's up to screen reader developers to come up with innovative ways of making the web as it currently exists more usable, rather than requiring the millions of websites out there to accommodate the technology's current limitations. In this case, perhaps screen readers need to somehow intelligently read nearby text when a control immediately receives focus on page load.
Or a browser extension that captures your text in a floating window just over the focused text field — user has to hit Enter/Return before it moves it from floaty window to web document.

(Wondering if some built-in accessibility features in the OS might have something similar.)
My story on “worse is better” (2018)
You make the best point on this thread I think. Inflation numbers don't really correspond easily to quality of life or day2day expenses, especially if you're making well above what's required to afford the necessities.

Getting a 4% raise on 150k salary in an uneven 8% inflation environment is a genuine meaningful increase, and will have you "keep up" fine in the short/mid term.
That would depend on whether they control the cryptocurrency I imagine.
First, super excited by having Cloudflare offer a RDMS (can SQLite be called that?)

This enables entirely new classes of applications where everything can now be hosted by Cloudflare.

Questions:

a. To help with concurrent writes, will Cloudflare be using WAL2 and BEGIN CONCURRENT branches of SQLite?

b. How is Cloudflare replicating the data cross region? Will it be Litestream.io behind the scenes?

c. Will our Worker code need to be written differently to ensure only a single-writer is writing to SQLite database?

d. How does data persistency and database file size get factored in? I have to imagine their is a limit to how much storage can be used, whether or not that storage is local to the Worker machine, and if its persistent.
Regardless of the legal technicalities that do or don't enable it, executing or imprisoning former heads of state is counterproductive if the goal is to ensure continued peaceful transitions of power.
There are some unions that allow supervisory employees to join, like AFSMCE (the largest public sector union in the US).
Monero is better for that, and the price hasn't crashed
> Not for commercializing IP.

Last time I checked it included commercializing IP, in at least Facebook and Twitter.
No, he's not silenced. He has a newsletter. But he isn't amplified to the heights that he was before either, and less likely to attract new followers. No one's reporting his newsletters.

I'm not looking forward to seeing responses to Trump tweets across social and news media when he returns. There was no escaping it then. The guy adores the limelight from daily controversies and he's going to capitalize on it again.
Do you also consider prisons a fundamental violation of human rights?
Is the Coinbase Wallet safe to use? What would happen if Apple removed the app, would people lose access to funds stored in that wallet?
OP was referring to the use case where webviews extend your native mobile app functionality.
Door hardware is harder than most kinds of smarthome gadget by a substantial margin. Failure has a much higher liability - a failed door (failing open or closed) renders the entire house worthless. Can’t say the same thing about an internet speaker.

I have an electronic door lock and it needs monthly fiddling to stay in alignment, and I need to push the door in to allow it to unlatch. The door system as a whole needs to be fixed here - but if such issues happen for a guest trying to check in, and the door is Airbnb branded - who is gonna get blamed? Even worse - a door that fails to latch for the night, and no one notices…

I think Airbnb has concluded (correctly) that this is a losing game.
For safety critical software for example upgrading the compiler means you need to recertify the product. That's very expensive.
It is probably because we don't understand finance, economics or their history. There is an obligatory xkcd somewhere but I'm too lazy to find it. Software people occasionally find great solutions for existing problems pre-tech X. As experts in tech X they tend to trivialize existing domain knowledge because obviously X has disrupted all that.

Edit: I got less lazy.
https://m.xkcd.com/793/
I wouldn't be sure what the man on the clapham omnibus thinks of that kind of disclaimer. He'd be exposing himself to considerable risk by relying on it
“everything is securities fraud” —Matt Levine
> Because as a tech worker your salary is likely already well above the level that it would need to fall in order for us to achieve meaningful level of wealth equality (not complete equality, but equal-ish)

Why would you want that??? I think it's awesome the common Joe can learn programming on the internet and earn huge bucks. Why cancel that of all things?

And then, I don't think your suggestion for equality would work. If my work was significantly taxed above $100K, I'd stop earning more at that point because work is very stressful to me and I'm not going to do it if I don't get the benefit of it; and I'd most definitely not go into any sort of risk (like starting a startup) in that world.

If I can't even bang on a keyboard without someone feeling entitled to get the majority of my product, well then I'm not doing it, sorry. Everybody would lose - I'd pay much less taxes overall, and innovation from my side would grind to halt.

(now I earn slightly less than $100k, but also live and work in Europe).
In germany, there is. What the courts will make of those laws is still TBD.

Regimes do copy these laws to put anti state opinions behind bars, though.

It's hard to find a middle ground, mostly depending on culture and acceptable offenses by both believers in a message and feelings of people hurt by offensive proposals or hateful speech.
Politicians don't have the right to be on a private website. They already have official channels to communicate.

Twitter has every right to ban Putin, or Trump, or Duterte, etc.
If Wells Fargo started offering 20% returns without FDIC protection I'd also be suspicious.
If I had any cryptocurrencies in Coinbase, I’d be transferring it out ASAP after reading this and the CEO’s response on Twitter trying to downplay the risk. That’s a red flag.
Take a look at the two tweets that twitter used to justify the perma ban of Trump. It's weak, at absolute best.

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspensio...

On January 8, 2021, President Donald J. Trump Tweeted:

“The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!”

Shortly thereafter, the President Tweeted:

“To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.”

Those two tweets are perma-ban worthy? I'm glad nobody has paid attention to what I typed into region chat in MMOs for the past 20 years...
That is extremely unprofessional behavior from that interviewer. But how did the other interviewers respond? I think that the "correct" response really depends on that:

* Other interviewers don't say anything -> ask what's up, and whether this means the interview is over. Point out that you don't feel comfortable continuing like this.
* Other interviewers show they are "on your side", i.e. as confused as you and don't endorse that behavior -> continue the interview, and maybe later try to figure out what happened. Consider it a yellow card (in Football speak). Make sure that you don't ever work with that specific person.

Of course, this is all easy to say from the comfort of my desk!
> That shouldn't happen.

Why? I have no problem with this. The problem is just if you're advertising that you'r safe etc. then when you lose it isn't just a loss, it's a scam. Most of the centralized crypto will hopefully be fully replaced with defi solutions in the near future.
You are not wiring $5000, you adding a new event to a globally-replicated Event Store database, while other people and entities are speculating on theses events using real money, money surrogates, and/or electricity.
I encourage everyone to read the original explanation for banning Trump straight from Twitter itself.

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspensio...

Now that we're more than a year past the election, it's pretty sobering to read the exact statements by Trump and how Twitter interpreted them as "We assessed the two Tweets referenced above under our Glorification of Violence policy".

One of the "damning" statements was “To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.”
How are you going to prove that there is a risk of bankruptcy today if the company doesn't go bankrupt today?

How are you going to prove that the phone calls and meeting with the Saudis didn't include funding commitments from the Saudis?

I'm not suggesting that these CEOs are 100% honest at all times, I'm sure they are not, but you need actual proof for fraud to have bet committed.
Usually "your lawyer" just refers to any lawyer you have a working relationship with, in my experience. I'm guessing this advice is for someone who finds the privacy issue especially heinous
That’s brutal. I can’t imagine laughing in someone’s face in any circumstance during an interview, and especially not in this job market.
> used as a justification to silence speech of others

I understand what you're saying, but that kind of behavior is often itself a form of intolerance that we should be intolerant of.
Heard yes, protected from firing? Not necessarily.
complains about six-figure pay while sitting at home at computer eating a snack while waiting for someone to review their pull request
An unregulated fractional reserve banking system with no minimum reserve requirements, and with no lender of last resort.
The government only intends to erode confidence in crypto.
> just uses their phone tethered over bluetooth

Carplay/Android auto are great too (which require a physical connection or wifi). I love using GPS this way because some apps take advantage of both screens -- the the phone itself can show a list of the turn by turn directions while the large vehicle screen can show a large map and lane guidance.
On the linked subpage with tech stacks, I don't see a way to filter for country. This is relevant because even though it's 100% remote, there are different tax rules or even difficulties working in certain countries.

Also, cool to see CHICKEN Scheme mentioned under tech stacks. Too bad there are no matching jobs (yet) :(
> while screenreader users would be 'teleported' (MDN's word) straight past it, missing the notice.

Autofocus in that case seems like reasonable and expected behavior. Isn't it up to the tools (e.g. screen reader, etc) to accommodate the expected behavior, rather than for the reasonable and expected behavior to change?
> and "z" command

I use zoxide now, it's slightly faster.
I do on my laptop Dev environments, but I do understand your point, it’s not a use case any but resource constrained devs do.
The screen reader could still choose to ignore the automatic focus and read the whole page instead.
I think moderation is at the discretion of the content provider. I endorse banning Trump and I also endorse unbanning Trump. That's how the first amendment works.
It’s a direct quote from the 2nd tweet in his thread.
Ask HN: User Provisioning at Startups
As we start to scale as a company, I've increasingly felt the burden of provisioning new users (from an IT / onboarding sense) into the various SaaS products we use.

I know Okta and SCIM can help with this for some tools but there seems to be a gap around certain things like Linear, Notion and others that make this a less than ideal solution.

What steps have other people taken to make setting up new users easier and more streamlined? What tools are you using to make sure that access is removed / granted when needed?

Is Okta inevitable or is there a nice solution based on Google Workspace that saves us?

I'd love to hear how you are all tackling this issue in startup teams (10 - 50 people) and what has worked and what hasn't!
It's wrong to do it on posts though. I have often responded to a comment with a rather heated reply before thinking better of it and hitting the Cancel button. I guess I like to vent but would rather my "venting" not end up in some site's DB.
>>Capitalism isn't a zero sum game

Maybe at this moment not, but I suspect that it has tendency to become one (when the tempo of inequality increase surpass increase of total wealth)
These types of wallets generate recovery seed phrases that are widely supported: When you install the wallet, you will be asked to write down a phrase, and you'll be able to type the same phrase into any of 20 other wallet implementations to recover your funds.
> It's a label used to attempt to silence or de-platform a dissenting opinion.

Right. Dissent != intolerance. Something that is just a dissenting opinion would not qualify as something we should be intolerant of, only actual intolerance.

A difficult, nuanced, fine-line to walk for sure.
It's a TikTok outrage account. They're not exactly playing 10D political chess, nor are they associated in any official way with the Republican party.
“War and rumors of war is incredibly profitable”
This is true for any brokerage account where you have margin enabled. Check your margin agreement carefully. Or better, disable
margin on your brokerage account

“ people with margin accounts end up as just general creditors in any bankruptcy and recover only a fraction of their assets after some years in bankruptcy proceedings. During bankruptcy, their accounts are frozen and no transactions are allowed”

https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20582

(sorry couldn’t find a better reference searching on my phone)