skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, that's not how stock buybacks work.

First, stock buybacks are not tax exempt. If a firm earns $100 in profits and buys back $50 of shares, it still pays the corporate taxes on $100, not on $50. Unlike paying interest, corporations don't get to write off money spent on stock buybacks. So it doesn't affect their tax situation.

Second, for the investors in the company, the total aggregate amount of taxes is paid whether the investors are holding 10 stocks and get $1 per stock in dividends, or if they are holding 5 stocks and get $2 per stock in dividends. The number of shares outstanding does not raise or lower the ultimate value of the dividend stream, nor the tax obligation applied to the dividend stream.

What if a company never pays any dividends and just buys back stock? Then it's value is just the terminal liquidation value, and each time investors sell stock back to the company, that is a taxable event for them, probably taxed at the long term rate which is the same as the dividend tax rate, up until the company winds down, in which case the rest is taxed at the long term rate. The set of taxable events is the same as if the company had paid dividends, but the difference is that investors self-select as to who realizes the gain and who doesn't.

Really this is the difference when companies buy back stock -- some shareholders don't want to take any gains, while others do. The total gains are the same, and the total paid to the government is the same, and the time it's paid to the government is the same, but investors can sort themselves into those who want to to take the gain and those who don't. You get to decide when you want to take the gain, and this optionality has value for you. It's as if you could signal to the management -- don't pay out a dividend, re-invest the money that you would have paid out this quarter so that I'll get more later. That's basically what is going on for the individual investor, but for the government, they still get their quarterly taxes paid just in terms of capital gains by those who sell their shares.
The problem is that ad revenue so often becomes the escape hatch from an economically hard problem.

Need more money? Economic model not quite working? Companies face this all the time. Some solve it innovatively, survive, and show everyone else the way forward. Others fold or pivot.

But ad revenue short-circuits the hard process of economic innovation by tempting tech companies to take an easy way out, even when the problem is solvable without it.

(All of this wouldn't really be a problem if the ads business model weren't inherently adversarial against users.)
I guess not since they changed the definition of recession to be something else than two subsequent quarters of negative GDP growth.
Rubber-hose cryptography: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-hose_cryptanalysis
> For example, both of them need to separate themselves from their work, and approach the craft with humility, so that they can maintain an open mind, listen to criticism, and find opportunities to make their work better over time.

That applies to ≈everything. If I didn't know the context, I'd assume you were talking about sports.
To me the real question is why isn’t bitcoin skyrocketing in value? If crypto is susceptible to inflation worries, what is the point?
There is some value to brand recognition and being well known. I doubt it's 16k of value however.
A lot of key personnel quit during the last few months. They likely knew about the gap.
I am pretty convinced Amazon the stock is going to be a big bargain within the next couple of weeks. At somewhere around $700-800B it’s going to be less than intrinsic. These are global enterprises with significant TAM in a world where more than half of the population will experience significant increase in standard of living in the next decade or two. All they have to do is hold market leaderships as monopolies.
> …did not really hurt ordinary people.

Are you sure about that? Really, think about it…
There are _some_ cases where the transaction is legal but can't run through traditional payment networks. I agree it's quite a slim use case, a bit like downloading linux ISOs over bittorrent. But it does exist.
Lovely story, great to see someone who built skills for evil putting them to work for good.
I've worked remotely for Australian, UK and USA based companies(spanning about 15 years) and the camera on or off has been highly dependent on the individual teams and managers involved. That even includes 1 on 1s meetings; the first few generally have the camera on and then after that it seemed more based on if I took the initiative to turn my camera on first.

Even when it comes to job interviews, I've had a large number of them that didn't even set up a video conference call until the 2nd or 3rd round. Some jobs(particularly contract/consultant) only required phone interviews and my first video call was during a team introduction.

While not having to worry about turning a camera on is nice in some respects, I personally found that the companies that had the cameras on more often than not seemed to have a more pronounced company culture and more engagement between managers and employees. It doesn't however seem to affect the amount of work getting done or the inter-team cooperation but having the camera predominantly off does seem to require people that can handle social isolation better.

Humans are fundamentally social creatures so using a camera while working fully remote can really help some people on a psychological level not feel socially isolated from others.

https://publichealth.tulane.edu/blog/effects-of-social-isola...
None of the tier 1 tech stocks have any chance of bankruptcy.
The GP forgot their password, couldn't get back in, and made up a story to mask their shame.
Show HN: Noticing and preventing network requests should be easy
Amazing work! It's nice to put a name to it :)
That's right. I am free to believe whatever I want, and I am free to share my thoughts directly related to the OP, in a sincere and respectful manner -- quite in contrast with how you've responded. Take your vitriolic sentiments elsewhere.
"Why doesn't git bisect work?"

"well, it landed on this rebased commit that's huge. I guess it was a kind of useful, just not as useful as we'd like".
This is the tweet that's been credited with starting all this.

https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1589283421704290306

For context this tweet is referring to reports that a very large percentage of Alameda's holdings are FTT.
> The problem is that your config file is telling the runner how to reach the goal rather than what the goal is.

The real-world alternative is a partial rewrite of your CI infra, which usually not feasible.
Biden says Elon Musk’s relationships with other countries are worth looking into
You were told fortune favors the bold, but you should have instead invested in gold.
The person who called you out sounds like a loser who spends too much time in their weirdo bubble online or in some sort of extreme activist community in person. This sort of thing has been leaking out into the rest of society lately and when it does we should ridicule it and the people who hold those beliefs. Commence the downvotes.
> You need whichever exchange you entered the position on to exist, and ensure payout when the position is closed/expired. FTX is irrelevant.

You need that if you're long, unless you have ownership [almost always true...] in which case you can just close out your long position on some other exchange. You don't need it if you're short, because you get your payout immediately when you go short; closing out a short position is always a loss for you. (You profit when the loss from closing the short is smaller than the gain you got when you took the position. If you never need to close it at all, that's the best-case scenario for your short position.)
FTX was #2 globally. Binance is #1. I'm not sure exactly what ranking mechanism is used to determine that, but that seems to be consensus from a variety of sources.
I don't know who, maybe Trump? Biden? But it wouldn't be allowed if some weren't allowing it.
Surely you mean ISO and not ANSI? Were such ugly hacks already a part of C89?
I exchange BTC for USD and visa versa all the time. So, yes. You know this, though. It's not a fringe currency any more.
I meant my response more to the last part of what I'd quoted, the "because in the end it doesn't actually matter.".

Over the past few months we've been trying to formalize our git usage since we're split across a bunch of teams, and on this particular issue I've found a very hard split: People on the new-feature-development teams love squashing and squash-merge, people on the maintenance teams who have done work in git repos for a while are almost all against it (of the ones with no opinion, several are still only working in svn repos so haven't had a chance to form an opinion), but most people on the maintenance teams don't really speak up about it so our company-wide guidelines remain heavily in the squash-merge camp.
> If this many people were to loose their jobs under my authority, I think I would at the very least loose my job.

This doesn't seem logical. Companies aren't some static things. Especially social media companies, which usually have very short lives. A corrective, appropriate, action, in response to a changing market, could very easily be a reduction in headcount.

All evidence suggests Facebook has no future [1].

> But honestly a business leader that screws up so bad

What's your metric for screwing up? Is it short, medium, or long term? Should short term goals/profits be the only goal of a company?

1. https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/11/teens-abandoned-facebook-p...
Most renters have little control of whether they have access to an EV hookup. This opens up the market to street parkers in the right climates.
And on Homebrew, and packaged for Arch and Gentoo, and other comments seem to indicate that there are outdated .debs for Ubuntu/Debian, and not-outdated ones if you are okay with a third-party repo (which isn't that big of a stretch…?)

That seems pretty well packaged, honestly.
I'd want to be very careful with the "look how smart we were" posts. Everyone and every business has ups and downs, just because you can temporarily look good and brag when others are down doesn't mean you should
Over the last 14 years I have driven less than 22 miles per day on average. Considerably less if you cut out long road trips and the six months i commuted 80 miles per day. A solar car with these specs would easily have handled my driving needs without charging on 90% of my days in the last decade, likely considerably more.
Looking to convert, but I still can't understand how this is more performant. Docker Desktop has lots of engineering going into performance crossing the host/VM barrier. IIRC lima just pipes over SSH. How could that be faster?
Simple, just recharge it like any other electric car. The main point of solar on cars is so you don't have to bother recharging just for your daily driving around town.
Giving my tax dollars to Ukraine without forcing Ukraine to negotiate an end to it is not "doing better".
You're mixing up responsibility and restitution. "It's my fault" is exactly taking responsibility.
Have you considered using a handle that isn't a derogatory term?
you can read here for free https://decrypt.co/114057/twitter-registers-payments-busines...
Why? What is "real worth" in your view? These little companies have a handful of paying customers who have decided that there is some value there. That validates the idea, and if you're skilled at scaling businesses up, why not buy a proven out idea with some existing customer relationships.
I'm really not interested in beating a dead horse. My only point is that using one survey from an unsuccessful implementation of communism, is not a sufficient critique of capitalism.

I no longer buy into either ideology as inherently good/bad anyways. At the end of the day, the powerful will exploit any system to their own benefit. I do believe that Communism is inherently dangerous, but only because it relies on an involuntary contract from everyone in the system to participate in a specific way. That contract violates the human impulse to act in their own short term rational interest. So you need to enforce rules, and that means establishing a more authoritarian governing body. Communism demands personal sacrifice of the accumulation of private wealth- and humans are naturally selfish. It just doesn't scale well.
I agree "liquidity" is a cop out implying they need time to sell things.

In my case I deposited some USDC coins and have asked them to return said USDC coins but it seems no. I think theft is a more accurate term. As in we stole some customer funds to gamble with and having lost them need more funds to cover it up. Not really "liquidity".
Why such cynicism in the comments? This is a pretty cool achievement, even if it's incremental or lacks present application (I'm not qualified to say either way).

I'm cheering them on!
welcome to the 21st century. you may want to reply with an even bigger virtue signal
GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)
Save London's Gas Lamps: Campaign Grows to Keep Our Heritage Glowing
You can finally disable Snap updates
Always in awe of process people even when insolent. ;)

In my experience, people who throw around the H word these days are the same lamers you get stuck beside in a plane for 8 hours... talking at you about bitcoin. Talented artists can learn programs with ease, but software guys usually suck at making content that sells.

This guy is far more interesting, and perhaps an exception:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBCYvoC4muc&t=90s
> When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.

~ Humpty Dumpty
For a company in the economic shitter this is a very bold plan. Pivoting!
Not when your infrastructure includes your data store, though

Then the service is no longer stateless.
It is another story in EU how we see US as policeman/bud of the world.
Solving Problems
Is it just me, or is this email wildly unpersuasive?

Is this a side effect of the control structure he wields over the organization, therefore he doesn't actually need to build consensus towards a common goal? It seems to fall into a weird in-between communication style - not quite elevator pitch, not quite status update.

I'm honestly confused why/how a major CEO communicates in this way.
The advantage of a solar car has little to do with saving trivial amounts of electricity. IMO, the best use case is for a hybrid which isn’t generally plugged in as now you’re saving gasoline which could quickly pay for the panels.

More widely for EV, there is no need to worry how much charge you lose when parked for long periods. Not needing to worry about running the heater or AC during a traffic jam. Being less dependent on the electric grid during a natural disaster is an edge case, but still very real. Less real but still marketable is the prepper end of civilization argument.

And of course long term things start looking even more interesting as panels improve.
The sad truth is on average advertisers will pay more for your attention than you’ll pay not to have ads. So people continually complain about YouTube ads but ignore their option to pay to have them removed.
Because the supply curve would shift.

And a base value of zero is way different from any positive value, in so far as it can drop 90% an infinite number of times, but something with some use aside from exchange will drop only till it hits the market price of that use.
Let’s make that a uniform policy across our elite, including Biden.
It’s usual to talk in “brut” in France, and it means mid-tax. 60k€ “brut” = 90k TCO = 45k€ in the pocket of the employee.

That’s already a good salary for a mature dev in France (Paris +20%), and going above requires being intrapreneur/team lead/low manager. Americans usually say it’s shit pay.
I live in a suburb. Despite nearly every house having a garage, almost everyone parks in the driveway or on the street and uses the garage for storage or other purposes. And the way the trees (minimal, and mostly in backyards) and houses are laid out (primarily single story ranch houses) I would estimate that most vehicles spend at least 60-70% of the day in sunlight (particularly so during the mid-day period where the highest irradiance is available) if not more. And conveniently this suburb is about 10 miles away from a handful of different office hubs. A car like this would be a massive hit here. EVs are already taking off (I am seeing a ton of Bolts). Not having to plug in every night would certainly be a popular selling point.

Just because it doesn't work for you personally doesn't mean it is a bad idea.
> I don't know what BTC can be used for, maybe it will be kept for historical purpose.

That doesn't make sense to me. That's like keeping a phone number for historical purposes; it doesn't mean anything if it doesn't work any more. Old stock certificates are usually worth something, but a hypothetically crashed bitcoin is less like a stock certificate than it is like a memory that you once owned stock in a company that no longer exists, and a slip of paper with your old broker's number written on it.
It's been a lot of years, but some of the handwaving there was editorial on my side. I can't remember exactly which projects they propped up as their examples. That said, I wouldn't recommend record/replay for Gmail, for example, so I do believe they meant smaller and simpler ones.

I also think (but am hesitant to assign to them because obviously I built this up in my head over the last ten years too) that part of the argument was that this enabled testing earlier and for smaller projects than people normally bothered testing--for example, internal-facing tooling. Whether or not they said that, I think that is one of the big advantages.

Also, left unsaid, this was for situations where a very small number of critical path UI tests are sufficient for the moment and you're not re-recording a huge suite if something breaks. Of course, if you're familiar with the testing pyramid, you probably know that only having a small handful of critical-path tests running E2E via UI is your ideal, period. Most organizations who do it at all heavily over-test via UI automation.

Your point is well-taken, though. By the time your app is that complex, I'd say you're probably in the position of creating those long-standing tests I wouldn't recommend recording.
Isn't it the case that you can throw a rock anywhere in Italy (and Europe in general) and find some priceless historical artifact?
>It often feels like this in the US. We (educated, well paid, middle class people) do have a closer cultural experience with the true elite. But despite the similar cultural experience the economic underpinnings are very different. Paying your bills from the wages of your job is categorically different from getting yield on an investment.

Sure the "elite" and the "well educate and paid but still laboring for money" classes have very different economic reality but the cultural gulf between the techie and the plumber is an order of magnitude greater than any differences the "elites" and the "just barely not's" have.
There is still a tiny chance. Crypto has 0 chance of bankruptcy.

This is because cryptocurrencies aren't even companies; they have no directors, no board members, no debt, no assets. It's impossible for them to go bankrupt.

Also, companies can become nonviable and be shut down. On the other hand, it's almost impossible for a crypto to become nonviable... There will always be some tinkerers willing to run nodes at a tiny annual loss. PoS cryptos are very cheap to operate.
Well electricity in the Bay Area costs about $0.50 per kWh (or $0.25 per kWh at night using the ev2-a plan, though it makes everything else more expensive).

Having a car that can gradually recharge itself over the day can actually save hundreds of dollars per month (my last bill was like $600), without having to deal with the hassle of installing rooftop solar and having to pay extra money just for having solar installed [1].

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/11/04/california-set-to-rel...
Nobody will borrow you a Bitcoin because with price that could go up by few hundred percent you might not have money to buy it back to give it back. It would need to be guaranteed by the third party that can force you to pay back by liquidating some of your other assets.
Baldrick, the ape creatures of the Indus have mastered this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4IQjUpTNVU
> How can DD find a hole within a day of announcing? It seems too fast.

CZ: “Can I see your balance sheet? Oh, it says here you have $10B in assets and $16B in liabilities. Welp, good luck finding a buyer, I withdraw my LOI to purchase FTX”
Read this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31352108

It talks about how the author waiting too long to ship and regretted it.
UX is orthogonal to the thing most web-based software companies optimise for. Unless users are paying for the service, what the company cares about is user engagement, not user experience. It's not that every software company ever doesn't know what they're doing, it's just that what they're doing is _at best_ tangentially related to improving UX. It is clearly not in the user's best interest that they feel compelled to check Facebook frequently throughout the day, or spend hours scrolling through their feed. You can spin that as the company just improving the experience so that people want to keep using it, but fundamentally it is intentional psychological manipulation.

Within a university, research with human subjects is required to pass an ethical review before it is allowed to proceed. Given the scale and impact of the research conducted by Facebook on its users, it is entirely reasonable to hold them to the same standard.
> That's what I recall as well. I wonder what happened.

I think the biggest factor is a kind of 'paradox of choice' effect, where any online community feels less worthwhile just because there is such a huge variety to choose from. If I look at my Discord now, I'm part of a few dozen servers now, which all at some point seemed interesting. But that interest was fleeting, because... well, how important can they be, if there are a few dozen of them in my list, without me even looking very hard?

So I think on the one hand, it's fine to be a bit nostalgic for an old internet that simply won't exist in that way again. But on the other hand, it's probably also a matter of personal choice and a willingness to engage with the small communities that still exist, which could probably revive some of that old feeling of connectedness.

I think I was pretty lucky with this post, because I managed to capture people's attention in a place that's maybe a bit unusal for this kind of interaction, which made it more singular and 'worthwhile' again. But that can't be repeated at will, of course.
The staff are sacking bitcoin.
IBM pushes qubit count over 400 with new processor
From the link:

> It took a minute to summon the picture on the latest and greatest iPhone 14 Pro, uses about 2GiB in-app memory, and requires you to download about 2GiB data to get started. Even though the app itself is rock solid, given these requirements, I would probably call it barely usable.

also

> Even if it took a minute to paint one image, now my Camera Roll is filled with drawings from this app. It is an addictive endeavor. More than that, I am getting better at it. If the face is cropped, now I know how to use the inpainting model to fill it in. If the inpainting model doesn’t do its job, you can always use a paint brush to paint it over and do an image-to-image generation again focused in that area.

Seems very worth a try. I'm downloading the model right now, it's going a bit slow, ~2MB/s.