skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was this actually theft? The smart contract basically said “ask and you shall receive”.

I’m trying to think of a banking analogy. Maybe their website has a page that says “enter your checking account number to get $1,000”, but the web service had the authorization code commented out. If someone discovers that and tells their friends, have they stolen from the bank?

Note that I’m thinking of “theft” and “stealing” from a legal point of view. The moral angle may be very different.
Legacy reasons.

You can trade outside of market hours just fine and many products (e.g. E-mini S&P 500) trade all night. It's just that a lot of companies publish news right after the market closes so prices are more volatile. And people sleep or play videogames at night so there's less liquidity.
I would argue you'd see the exact same thing, and this is another reason it's a great parallel, see this summary from 2017:

https://carbontracker.org/reports/no-country-for-coal-gen-be...

> provide a tool for investors who have exposure to US coal power to make their portfolio compliant with the Paris Agreement in an economically rational way;

> detail how an outdated regulatory framework is one of the only reasons why uncompetitive coal power continues to operate in the US; and

> highlight how phasing-out coal power could save US citizens money and make the US economy more competitive

> Given the current political backdrop, the assumptions underpinning our analysis are deeply conservative: no Clean Power Plan (CPP) or carbon prices and only well established environmental regulations, originally drafted in 1970s.

Plus, you're talking about nuclear being replaced with fossil fuels, which is the exact opposite of what would happen if we abolished subsidising fossil fuels.

On slavery, people still argue that slavery made the US rich, or enabled the Industrial Revolution or various other contrarian "thing you thought was bad was actually good" takes, but I believe the standard view is that, while it might have helped get things going, it was eventually, at the time of the civil war, a net negative, even not accounting for costs of the war, and that afterwards the economy grew faster without that deadweight.

(The book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism_and_Slavery covers this.)

I'm sure there were people arguing at the time of abolition that it was a necessary evil too though:

> Defenders of slavery argued that the sudden end to the slave economy would have had a profound and killing economic impact in the South where reliance on slave labor was the foundation of their economy. The cotton economy would collapse. The tobacco crop would dry in the fields. Rice would cease being profitable.

> Defenders of slavery argued that if all the slaves were freed, there would be widespread unemployment and chaos. This would lead to uprisings, bloodshed, and anarchy. They pointed to the mob's "rule of terror" during the French Revolution and argued for the continuation of the status quo, which was providing for affluence and stability for the slaveholding class and for all free people who enjoyed the bounty of the slave society.
> But the fact remains that women and minorities are at a significant disadvantage when it comes to just about all aspects of life

Erasing women increases this
Update: She's just landed in Taipei
This sleight of hand would work, if only it weren't for the constantly backward-looking statements on the part of the "progressors" in your examples.

The definitions are not the only thing that matter: how those who propose particular social transformation (or lack thereof) talk about those changes (particularly w.r.t. history or an imagined future) is just as important.
This is really interesting. I wonder if it would be possible to extend this functionality to services such as Discord?
I need something like this too. Because I've been spending times ordering food for almost half an hour.
You absolutely could keep adding momenting in just the right way. Though I will add, as spin goes up, so does frame dragging, which makes it actually difficult to hit a black hole as space begins spinning with it.
It might not be related, but wasn't there a period of a few years where he couldn't speak at all?
> The comic where a character identifies as a "birthing human" isn't punching down at trans people.

Yes it is. It's literally The One Joke™, with a thin veneer of corporate policy wrapped around it as plausible deniability.
That sounds crazy desperate from Oracle’s side to lure in customers from larger cloud providers and avoid getting sucked further into irrelevance. Better to pay up and get a proper dedicated instance that you control (I use Hetzner dedicated servers and they are great).
Don't rely on any free tier if your work is important at first place. That's a realistic take, and don't use a VPN to connect these services either, Oracle knows it.
> If you're worried about society changing, there is no definition of the word "progressive" you fulfill unless it's your tax bracket.

If you saw the "progressive" movement take a turn toward something you consider immoral, like say, eugenics, would you consider yourself non-progressive for opposing it?

Or does "progressive" include some kind of moral judgement, which leads to a "no true Scotsman" situation, where "only social changes which I personally consider morally good can be considered progressive, anything else is conservative or regressive"?
The issue isn't so much with Dilbert as the context Dilbert is in.

Let me try to explain this.

The sarcastic "I am X identifying as Y" joke is a good example. The structure of the joke is Y is something no one will seriously identify as. This means "X = Black, Y = White" pattern matches.

For the LGBT "context", the common usage of sarcastic "I am X identifying as Y" translates to "I don't think transgender identities are valid". The Non-LGBT context doesn't assign a specific meaning to the phrase.

This sets up a scenario where one group has a rule saying "X -> Y" and another has "X -> ?".

And here's where the problem comes in. Comic strips have limited bandwidth and they rely on context to be understood.

So when Dilbert says "I am Black identifying as White", the LGBT context immediately translates this to Y, wherewas the Non-LGBT context does a page fault and looks elsewhere for what it could mean.

In isolation, this looks like LGBT people are being overly sensitive, but every human is "overly sensitive" in some way. We all operate in our own context based on what we've experienced.
How uninviting our industry must be to women when our term for someone that's been in it a long time is greybeard
I've taken unconscious bias training. I thought it was very good. I remember catching myself in some meeting talking over a quiet woman who had probably been wanting to talk for quite a while. My brain remembered the training, I shut up, and let her participate in the meeting as an equal. Without the training, I would probably be silently making people miserable. Now I don't do that, as much.

You use the word "pseudoscience" to describe the training, so it's unlikely that you're receptive to this anecdote, but just wanted to share my perspective. Being cognizant of your flaws is the first step in fixing them. I really don't think some training along the lines of "hey, you might be doing this without noticing" is the worst thing in the world. At worst, you waste 45 minutes you were probably going to spend arguing with people on HN. At best, you might make yourself more enjoyable to work with. To me, it's worth the gamble!
The software engineer’s guide to the Amazon behavioral interview
It might sound crazy but I bought a Tesla mainly not to go through the dealership hell. I hate hat hate the whole thing so much!
The man hasn't worked a corporate job since the 90s by his own account. His perception of the current corporate culture seems to be based on media reports and grievance anecdotes.

It is VERY clear that he spends most of his time at home making content. This isn't a dig, this is an observation about the amount of time he spends live-streaming from his home.
Disclaimer - I don’t work for Hetzner.
to be fair it's really funny
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The free tiers are marketing (and quite powerful at that) - I'm surprised Amazon doesn't match it, but AWS is the big fish in the pond.

If you start playing with a free tier cloud and decide to "go big" you're almost certain to keep using that cloud and begin to pay. (This is the reason that Google will give out nearly infinite "credits" to startups for their cloud, I hear).
> Is that conservatism?

No, because it doesn't rest on the fundamental assumption that the past was right, nor the corresponding political will to return to "the way things were."

History is a record of advances and regressions. Referencing history does not fundamentally result in a conservative political outlook; what makes an outlook conservative is the one-dimensional (and frequently reactionary) analysis that things must go back to how they were, or as closely as possible.
It is, but I’ve watched companies who were doing well start hiring younger, cheaper -10x developers and people losing their incomes, pensions etc. because they listened to the ’cheap’ and trendy-seeming who were eager to people-please and ignorant of their ignorance.

The reverse is true, of course. ‘Expert beginners’ and those just looking to avoid any hard work or responsibility until they retire are equally as dangerous.

If you’re a non-technical business owner, manager or anyone else who relies on tech and the people who build and run it, it is completely impossible to choose wisely, as you simply don’t know who to believe.

I’ve got myself to positions of high trust in companies and then found my advice ignored both when I warn against:

1. Hiring those I can see are not just bad value but going to destroy tech and teams through arrogance and being given more responsibility than they should have (yet).

2. Leaving the dangerously incompetent ‘seniors’ and workshy in positions where they are either preventing any kind of growth or, worse, accelerating a death spiral which ends in either zero ability to compete or a tech disaster of some kind (lost or corrupted data, breach, etc.)

If you’re trusted, that doesn’t mean that your advice to spend some time building smaller teams of actually competent people - or whatever your proposal is, will be heeded. The smell of money over a short term (or lack of it) are usually going to win.
Is it theft? If you go by the whole "code is law" (is that still a popular catch phrase? I don't keep up with crypto much anymore), then this is not theft. The contract let this happen, so it's legal.

Edit: heh, I see a lot of HN had the exact same thought process and we all commented at the same time. I'll leave this up anyway.
Yes, I mean, I came to Google through an acquisition (of an adtech company) and it was pretty clear to me that the goal of the whole process was a) make your company go away and stop your customers from using you instead of us and b) get as much of your talent out of the job market as possible.

They totally didn't care about our product or the productivity of the employees they brought in. They let us sit and twiddle our thumbs and "rest and vest" for at least a year, after making a big show for the DOJ about how this aquisition wasn't an anti-competitive move ([1])

And I hung around there moving protobufs around and fixing the odd bug for 10 years but getting paid stupid money to not go and do anything for anybody else or keep on top of industry trends etc. (Not claiming I'm some shit hot engineer, just speaking for my personal situation)

I don't think most people who are 'organically' hired into Google see it this way because for them it's a thing they seek out, a life goal they pursued. For me it was always in the back of my mind.

Which is one of the reasons I eventually had to leave despite it putting my family in a more precarious financial situation. It wasn't a place I was ever going to find meaning in my work or feel like I fit in.

Re: startups and compensation one major thing that has changed since 20 years ago is that it is simply not possible to become wealthy (like "I can afford going to retire wealthy" or "I can now afford to seed my own startup wealthy") out of the equity package that a startup will offer unless you're the cofounders or a founding employee. The packages they'll offer will be a fraction of a % of equity, which if you're really really lucky will turn into a few hundred thousand in an exit after busting your ass for a few years. From a strictly financial POV there's no reason to choose working at a startup over a FAANG. Most will simply not offer anything to make it worth the risk. You should only choose to do it for lifestyle or enjoyment reasons, really. (That said, I'm working for a startup again right now.)

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/source-justi...
After this post I think I'll paint my hair next time I search for a job.
> And he does not try to shove any particular political point of view at the expense of basic humor

Have you seen the new Beavis and Butt-Head movie, it was very much more explicit in making lazy political jokes, albeit mostly for one filler scene.
I do cancer research. You're right, the technical skills for basic wet lab stuff are not hard to learn. The hard part of cancer research is not learning how to pipette, it's learning how to ask and investigate worthwhile questions. Experimental design is subtle and requires wide ranging knowledge of sources of biological and technical confounders. Growing cells might be easy, but do you know how to debug a fluorescence microscopy experiment; in fact, do you even know how to recognize that it needs to be debugged? This is stuff you can learn over the course of a few years in a phd program, but it takes longer to become a true expert. Finally, what do you investigate? Cancer? What tissue type, which cell type, which proteins, DNA structures, or RNA structures are most important and least understood? Just absorbing a small fraction of the literature so that you don't ask stupid or boring questions is a lifelong task.
This is a perfect example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31239403

A highly respected and intelligent individual being delusional and refusing to acknowledge it.
The vast vast majority of Europeans don’t have unlimited data plans with unlimited tethering. Not sure why you would think they do.
There is no trickery. Uber did lose $2.6 billion in the quarter but it also turned cash flow positive and posted $382 million in free cash flow.
Hypothesis would be to avoid South China Sea, instead choose a detour to get covered by all US arm presence in the the Pacific and Okinawa.
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You could just as well be describing "micro-aggressions" which are literally small and/or petty transgressions. Would you agree no one should talk about those too?
With how the average cop/soldier of american origin acts, half of them would have fired the bullet before you finished the sentence "domestic terrorist".
"Cloud provider: AWS originally, and with so much custom infrastructure built on its APIs, unlikely to ever change."

Who cares? It literally doesn't matter unless you are doing something very, very specific with ML. As far as line-of-business projects go, every service you need has a direct equivalent. Also, NO ONE EVER SWITCHES CLOUDS, this is a TERRAFORM MYTH. Terraform being USEFUL in Cloud transition is a MYTH. I have direct experience with this where a corp started competing with Amazon (once Amazon went into groceries) and had to move to Azure. This is the ONLY instance where it made sense.

"The underlying database: Mongo originally begot more Mongo, but switching any database anywhere is unusual."

RDS is best 90% of the time.

Other than that, just keep it modular. Definitely no MVC front ends married to the BE - API always.
> But as for "could"? Shit you can do that at Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta

Yes, these are some of the highest paying companies on the planet. Your statement is not a put-down of Jane Street.
There is a reason technology that requires high levels of stability is mired in layers of approval, review, regulation, etc. It doesn't change much if at all once it works, because the probability of introducing a failure mode is so high with software.

There's a point where this level of of negligence should rise to criminal liability, no different than if someone wrote code for a new boeing that was so bad it moves beyond incompetence.

We are at this point, and crypto companies need to be held criminally liable for these hacks. If not at least, should be required to carry insurance and pass stringent security audits no different than other high value systems. This is pathetic, and it's not the first time, second time, or third time it happens. I do hope crypto dies. It's been co-opted by grifters and thieves, and even when it's not, grifters and thieves end up stealing the money anyway through hacks like this. Things like this could be somewhat remedied by teaching people to refuse to deal with coins that do not post several independently verifiable third party security audits but alas people don't care anyway.
That's literally what journalists do. At least good ones. The entire point of this thread seems to be that a lot of journalism is low quality and pandering to emotional responses, which is certainly true. But the solution isn't to just shut yourself off. If you read the NY Times, Washington Post, maybe long-form stuff in the The Atlantic, New Yorker, Economist and listen/read to NPR and local public media you'd be well-informed and only feel outrage if something outrageous happens.
Front running is illegal. However, making a better price prediction than the rest of the market and trading on it is not the same thing as front running.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/frontrunning.asp#:~:tex....
True. And people can submit your resume internally. I've been rejected by Google three times (I have the letters) and I've never applied for a job there. Thanks, geniuses.
BP sees biggest profit in 14 years as energy bills soar
Scott Adams is yet another one of the media “renegades”, who posture themselves as a secret source of knowledge, rather than a bad actor feeding on widespread doubt and distrust. Typically, their content is misanthropic (aren’t the sheeple libs stupid?) and hyper-focused on ephemeral culture war noise (look at what libs of TikTok found!).

These people fixate so much on narrow issues that they totally miss larger cultural trends that refute their apocalyptic fears: Biden won, Eric Adams won, the SF education board was recalled, wokeness/CRT bills passed in many red states, roe v wade overturned, etc etc etc.

Adams is a fucking idiot. Most of the “intellectual dark web” are as well.
Yes, I imagine that would be counted as stealing, if it wasn't intended.

However, if the bank had spent large amounts of time absolutely promising irreversible transactions, and publicly opened itself to attackers, then - no, that's just an intended operation of the system.
Everyone who goes to a coffee shop with their work laptop is probably connecting to a VPN over open WiFi.
I have no sympathy for the end of a speculative trade engine that's been almost exclusively used to scam people. Watch the "Line Goes Up" video, it explains it very well. It's not perfect, but provides plenty of background on crypto in general. (Despite the title)
Why don't manufacturers just increase prices temporarily to neutralize supply and demand?
Ask HN: How do you create your Gumroad tutorial product?
What are the steps you take to create your gumroad tutorial products?

* book
* video course

What is your method for updating the content?
This is akin to complaining about Rage Against the Machine getting political
Both Google and Meta have reached out to me directly for an interview in the last week. When did this hiring freeze begin?
They have to wait for the person on the plane to disembark and find a pay phone to call back to the home office to let some one know they landed safely.
Ironic as during normal times Toyota dealers are among the worst for dealer markups. Look at markup history for Tacomas and 4Runners.

During the supply chain issues they've been the worst in SoCal. We wanted to buy a Sienna earlier this year and they wanted $15k over sticker and a non-refundable deposit with a 90+ day wait.

This is a dealer problem, and Ford is the only traditional auto manufacturer pushing back.
>> "FYI you’re on a platform that invests in startups, one of the most successful being a cryptocurrency exchange that went public and is responsible for the growth of cryptocurrency with the masses."

The difference is YC has a long string of non-crypto successes. So when they do invest in crypto, people are less suspicious of it than they would be some random person plugging their crypto project.

Coinbase fills a need created by the chaos of crypto, the very chaos that causes the problems people criticize it for, and it does so reigning in the BS and creating a safe space for the few useful (or at least innocent) things like speculative investing and exchange. It's not like a DAO where you're counting on someone to write a good Ethereum contract that won't be rules lawyered by someone to take all the money. At this point the only thing that distinguishes it from a real bank is it handles crypto. Even the USD is FDIC-insured!

Try again.
I don't think it's propaganda.

Put yourself in place of a 30 year old who has only known a world where you're a highly in-demand whatever "in tech". You've never seen a day since you graduated where you're not flooded by recruiter emails. You've never worked a job that isn't 30 minutes of work and then the rest of the day is posting "day in the life of a FAANG employee" Tiktoks or being a paid activist.

What's coming is nearly unimaginable. At some level you know it's theoretically possible, but before your eyes even accept that reality you're going to go through some painful stages, beginning with denial.

I don't fault anyone, especially anyone who graduated in '10 or later for this. I just hope they are preparing for this.
Projecting the exec's effectiveness onto the exec (e.g. "A/B/C Player") is woefully unfair, and my acquaintance & I would never intentionally suggest otherwise. Their effectiveness (positive, neutral, negative) is determined by a great many factors outside the individuals control -- e.g. company's size, growth rate, org structure, personnel, industry, etc.

The exec's success or failure isn't an indictment of their abilities, just that they're (in)effective in this organization at this particular moment in time. It's on the founders / CEO to recognize this, manage expectations, continuously communicate, and ultimately to force a transition if necessary. Luckily, most execs know the score. This is also why exec's have such generous exit packages: both parties can admit they made a mistake & separate amicably.
Its pretty easy to find flaws or old parts in any stack. The trick is figuring out which ones need replacing, in which order, with an ROI you can justify. Most of the time you can’t because that same time is better used for other things.

Its not to say it’s not possible. Just that most ic’s, managers, pms, etc dont build careers on proactive technical debt.
The isolation is the main pin point why I was looking at firecracker.

Thank you for linking gVisor, went through the docs real quick and it looks very promising for my use case.
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