skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because the law isn't computer code and there are always grey lines. From Matt Levine:

>But there are also a lot of places in securities law where the rules are a little bit vague and you are operating a little bit on the cutting edge and the best practice is to pick up the phone and call the SEC staff and say “hey what do you think about this?” Sometimes this is fairly formalized: The SEC staff issues “no-action letters” (you send them a letter saying “is it okay if we do this,” and they send back a letter saying “if you do that, we probably won’t sue you,” which is almost as good as them saying “yes”) and “telephone interpretations” (you call them up and ask “is it okay if we do this,” they say “sure seems fine” or “no that’s bad,” and then they write down the question and answer so other people with the same question don’t have to ask it again). These are places where the rules are unclear, or they are clear but applying them as written would create bad results, so the solution is to ask the SEC “is it okay if we do this” and they just tell you.

>Crypto people want rules! I don’t mean that they want to be regulated; I mean, specifically, that they want rules. They want published, objectively specified, open and transparent rules, so that everyone is on a level playing field to do crypto stuff that complies with whatever the rules are. I don’t mean that everyone in crypto wants that: Informal regulation favors the well-capitalized and the incumbent, and if you’re a big crypto firm on good terms with the SEC (which might be an empty set) you might prefer informality and opacity. I just mean that, philosophically, crypto people should want open transparent rules for permissionless innovation. That is how the crypto system is designed to work, and they should want the securities laws to work the same way. And in fact Coinbase Global Inc., which is maybe the closest thing the US crypto industry has to a big regulated incumbent, has sent the SEC a petition asking it to make rules for crypto securities.

>Temperamentally I do not think the SEC likes this, and I think that Gensler means what he says about “working directly with entrepreneurs,” and I think that this is a reasoned choice. Look at how crypto often works in practice. People write smart contracts with immutable public code, and then other people hack them to steal their money. That could be the SEC! If you are the SEC, and crypto people say “please write clear transparent rules so we know what is and isn’t allowed,” you might hear that as “please write clear transparent rules so that we can game them.” This would be a reasonable lesson for the SEC to take from (1) the history of crypto’s “code is law” philosophy ending in hacks, (2) the history of crypto firms ignoring the US securities laws, and for that matter (3) the history of traditional finance firms trying to game the SEC’s rules. Crypto is a wholly new area for US securities regulation, and if you try to write all the rules from scratch in one go you will get things wrong. And then people will ruthlessly exploit whatever you get wrong.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/securities-law/matt-levines-mo...
It's an employers market right now. With 11k laid off from Meta, and thousands more across tech, Twitter will have no issue finding staff if it needs them (assuming this decision causes even more to leave).

I'm not convinced that Twitter actually needs more than 1k staff though. 100 infrastructure engineers, 600 platform engineers, and 300 support staff should be all it takes to run a lean ship doing what Twitter does.
I've made a career as a mechanical engineer. My experience has been the opposite of yours, actually, it's been similar.

I've worked at companies that had positions and work cultures like you describe. I've also worked at amazing positions with extraordinary cultures and compensation.

I've been told multiple times, by multiple people that "your smart, you should go into finance". Each time it was right before a big crash, where finance bros were looking for work.

Over the years I've focused on keeping myself busy working on new things, learning new skillsets, and bettering myself. It doesn't really matter that specific discipline you practice, if you are the kind of person that continuously adds to and refines their skills and track record of delivering, that person is then able to charge a premium for that skillset. It doesn't matter if your a jeweler, writer, chef, mechanical engineer.

All this to say, I'm a mechanical engineer, I've designed a ton of cool things, I do it every day. I deeply love it, and get better at it every day because I want to.

I have been fortunate to also have risen above the negatives the commenter above mentioned (low pay, lack of upward mobility, working on not fun stuff like file transitions or whatever). I started in a lower opportunity area, worked my way up through those types of jobs, was able to move myself and my family to a higher opportunity area (SF bay area in my case) and now I lead the design and company building efforts l, do thebfun stuff and contract out the boring stuff like file transitions and sheet metal manufacturing to companies in lower cost of living, lower cost to do business, lower opportunity areas.

All this to say I think that each technical discipline you can choose outside of academia focused things, has pretty equal opportunity, it's far less of a factor than the other factors in your career like location and the types of companies you are working at.
How ironic that crypto bros (like me) want a libertarian-yet-democratic user-owned form of currency without government intrusion, and then something like FTX not being overseen by the government tanks all cryptos.

When pretty much any company or industry gets to a certain valuation size, it seems that oversight is an absolute requirement lest things go south quickly, whether intentional or negligent. Government oversight isn't a guarantee of fair play, but it can lessen the risk.
All it takes is one person to notice for a #fediblock notice to propagate. The more instances, the harder it is to hide.
See https://www.pressestelle.tu-berlin.de/newsportal/internation...

Guess it was for English only
Show HN: Twitter Like News App
Hi everyone,

My name is Stuart and I've been solo developing a news app (and now newsletter) for the past half a year or so.

tl;dr (current status): an app with a Twitter like feed of news events. The posts are 1-2 sentences, only actual events (no opinion, analysis, roundup, evergreen, etc), categorized into feeds, and tagged (lets you dig wikis or find events for a given entity). There is also a newsletter I just launched that is a bit cleaner in terms of UI, but with less features.

longer: My goal is to make it easier to stay informed and access information (not such a hot take that news and media suffers from a UX issue). What that will look like in the long term, I can't possibly know. Although I have many theories, all I can do is iterate and keep an open mind. My first attempt at cracking this is to shorten the unit of information from an article to an event, thus saving the reader valuable time and mental energy. If you want to read more about how I do this check out https://www.airvue.blog/p/approach

I'd love to hear your feedback on the idea and/or app (forgive the janky UI).

Thanks,
Stuart

p.s. if this sounds like something you'd like to work on, don't hesitate to reach out. I have an engineering background but would love someone else to hack with

newsletter link if interested: https://www.airvue.app/subscribe
Unlikely. A more calculated move would be to first remove remote work, then reduce headcount to the level you want. The other way not only are they paying larger severance, but also aren't sure what number of people they end up with and what teams will disappear completely.
Even if you cut the conversion at half it's still too high. Realistically speaking, anything above 1% is highly optimistic.
He’s more like Nick Leeson than Bernie Madoff.
Maybe they just check if your real name matches your twitter display name
Salvation
One thing that's always been a source of a tension for me is how to handle navigating around a "web of documents".

There are limits to what you can do with "in-band" links in the text before they get to be contrived, awkward, and non-discoverable.

Users seem to have a revealed preference for on-page links to barely-related URLs and want those links to have some spatial consistency over time. So that means adding some "fluff" (nowadays presumably nested in a <navigation> tag) to every document.

One past experiment with out-of-band navigation was framesets, but they had some significant issues (not least of which is that the URL pointed to a container rather than the contained document).

Are there some other interesting experiments with out-of-band navigation? Or is adding some semantic tags to HTML as good as it gets?
Sure, but lots of other kinds of financial institutions reinvest customer funds and don't die.
> The slow decline of the UK is really heartbreaking to watch as someone who always looked up to the UK gov as a model of sobriety and rationality.

This must be a joke, right?

BoJo was literately taken down for partying with colleagues during the lock-down mandates, Sunak was there too. And to be honest, I don't think sobriety is even the Anglo-Saxon lexicon; they're regarded as the worst tourists in Europe because of their rampant and belligerent alcoholism: they're only slightly behind the Russians in that regard.

Brexit was inevitable, they were never really an EU state in anything but name: they had the strongest currency which they were never going to give up, no Schengen agreement but benefited from it as well as the free-trade zones and cheap labour policies from mainland Europe that created lots of resentment--lots of Polish, Czech workers refused to go back during the massive shortages (truckers, nurses) during COVID because of how they were treated in the run up to Brexit. Ultimately the UK suffers from a very insular Island mentality that makes it questionable if they're even European at all--by contrast I think Wales, Ireland and Scotland are definitely European cultures.

Look at my recent post history, I'm not exactly an Anglophile but I've lived and worked in the UK and spent lots of time immersed in the many sub-cultures of the UK one of the reasons it's odd culture appeals so much to me is that it's likely the only modern analogue of the US and it's foreshadowing the fate of the US if things don't get corrected.

It's a cautionary tale and it's political upheaval and overall decay in influence and subsequent loss of both soft/strong power is worth studying. There was nothing slow about it;s decline, after the end of WWII it was apparent and obvious to see the sun had set on Britannia and it went to it's Pirate roots and served as a money-laundering hub for the elite and corrupt: there is a reason why it was called Londongrad by Russian oligarchs.

Adam Curtis is really good at detailing how it happened, Bitter Lake and Hypernormalization is a good start.
> How can you tell?

What kind of credit card they have. How they decide what to order. Their mannerisms.

Even the most low-key wealthy people act differently than poor people. Spend enough time around both and you can tell, even if they're dressed identical.
> HN simply can't appreciate the great working conditions the IT industry has compared to other industries

These conditions don't happen by accident or by the goodwill of employers. They happen because people in the industry have such a hard attitude toward management. Stop pushing back and all these conditions will suddenly disappear.

Your example of nurses is a good one. In some countries they have excellent conditions. In other countries, they have very poor conditions. Their impact on society is the same everywhere, but different historical events have allowed them to have their current work experience.
https://muskmessages.com/d/34.html
Locally, onsite on the company's own servers? Or locally, as in "deploy it to servers in one of the European AWS regions".

If it's the latter, it likely easier. If you already have CI/CD, you are probably automatically deploying to different lower environments, and to production. Like this, you would need to set up additional production deployments to other regions. It has a cost, but you might be able to build on top of a lot of what you've already built.

If you need to deploy the software to on-site servers at some company, and it's not on the same cloud host as you are currently on, and you won't have access to the servers the same way you have access to your current production servers, then t's a much different ballgame.
SEC only enforces the law via civil means, so they do not do handcuffs. Handcuffs would be FBI territory.
Would be awesome to have another password that on input shows a fresh profile and wipes the 'real' profile in the background.
Price discrimination based on who cares enough to jump through hoops, similar to coupons
I wonder if you've read Turn the Ship Around [1]? It's one of my favorite leadership books and tells the true story of the Navy captain who was put in the awkward position of running a submarine class that he was not familiar with.

He adapted to the situation by leaning on the expertise of the crew in a way that was very different than the normal command-and-control style of leadership. It sounds like what you describe in type 1.

[1] https://davidmarquet.com/turn-the-ship-around-book/
Why can't you? Steeper banks will be a small problem, but people ride rollercoasters and most of the time planes fly straight.
> It’s been a few short weeks. He had to cut stuff (as others like Meta are) to ease the cost drain.

I mean, the massive increase in cost is a result of Musk's debt purchasing Twitter.
companies mad hired to offset productivity declines

so many of that decline is because people can’t be trusted to workout without being baby sat
What's your average visitors to signup rate? SaaS freemium business model
Mark is smarter than I thought.
don't forget news and oil and food.
Your entire reasoning behind your comment indicates you don't understand this point I'm making about leadership. You're talking about a "new plan" as if we all agreed that Twitter was doing so badly that it needed a 180. You use "dissidents" and "better team" as if it's a fact that things are so bad and the team is so inept that Elon could do nothing but burn the place to the ground and make a phoenix from the ashes.

My point was that the organization/ship is more than it's current head, it's a massive organism and if you make systemic changes that affect a sick or even healthy organism massively you tend to just destroy/kill it rather than improve it. The best way to fix/improve something so large and supposedly unhealthy as Twitter is by small or medium steps that are well-thought-out, over time.
The only steelmanned argument for civil asset forfeiture goes back to its origins, when it was used to seize smuggled goods on ships. Since the ship's owner was almost always a wealthy person living in a different country making them almost impossible to go after, and the smuggled goods were missing tax stamps etc. making it clear that they were being illegally smuggled, the government would simply seize the goods. That's literally the origin of civil asset forfeiture in the US, and all of the horrible and unjustifiable examples of it that we see nowadays grew out of that much more limited and justifiable example.
Characterizing Emergent Phenomena in Large Language Models
I am one, I hang out here, Hackaday, the sparkfun and adafruit blogs, there is a solid design focused blog thing called "solidsmack". There is a cool podcast "being an engineer" (I'm one of the guests!).
If only we could set a specific password that if used would wipe the entire device..
Maybe in reality, he didn't layoff as many people as he wanted to? The rest will fire themselves...
Scan codes might be the main solution, but why are arrows not a solution? If the keyboard has no way to input arrows, I'm sure it's by user's choice, who's very aware of that :)

Even controllers assign buttons a meaning, rather than location.
If you are new to HCI, I recently wrote a blog post about applying HCI methods to your work. I also list some further reading at the end.

My HCI toolbox: Methods for designing and evaluating UIs
https://austinhenley.com/blog/myhcitoolbox.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33552970

from page 21 of https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23112929-elon-musk-t...
God how can I downvote this. Did you even read what the OP said? So in this case the "dissidents" are people that appreciate incremental change, like their opinions to be valued in their respective field of expertise, and possibly appreciate being able to work from home?
Part of the depositions for the court case. Dan luu put them on his site.
You would be paying Apple for the cost of using their platform.

No different to how you pay a percentage of sales for using most game engines.
This is super cool, thank you!
True, and to be fair, CO's have "own the place" power most times (while underway at least).
I started playing once the game hit almost a $billion. I won $8 over the next four drawings! Of course, I spent $40. :)
> Alameda’s CEO is Caroline Ellison

Just search for that Ellison young lady online. She's partly responsible for fraud that saw $10 billion of other people's money go into the ether. How come that kid (she looks to be under 30 years of age) was put in charge of a multi-billion dollar company is way, way beyond me.
Different trade-offs. It is much easier to pursue cache-efficiency in a cooperative multitasking setting than with preempt threads.
Yeah, I’m not a twitter exec but presumably would be making decisions off of more than just a TikTok video. I don’t think any of your argument is counter to mine.

It doesn’t take a genius to observe that there may be some fat to cut.
Yes. And somehow the same people would feel offended by the idea of there being 10x POs / Teamleads / VPs etc.
Can't tell if this is snark, but gotta hand it to the Twitter Bootstrap project for making off-the-shelf CSS libraries acceptable.
> In fact, DMs between Jack and Elon indicate that was entirely the plan - to promote Jack's BlueSky venture.

That's not the impression I got from those texts.
The FTC is an independent federal agency, and the President doesn't have the same amount of control over it that he has over federal executive departments.

For example, the President could fire the Secretary of Labor at any time, for any purpose, because executive department heads serve "at the pleasure of the President." The same is not true for FTC commissioners, who are statutorily protected from firing except for "inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office." SCOTUS held in Humphrey's Executor v. United States (1935) that an FTC commissioner could not be removed by the President for policy reasons, because it was explicitly granted non-executive powers by Congress.

His power to issue Executive Orders to independent agencies is unclear, and often Presidents will "recommend" they do things, rather than "direct" them, as he would an executive department.
It took me like 5 minutes to understand what the product does. Why do so many landing pages NOT TELL YOU WHAT THE DAMN THING IS? Are we just expected to know?

>VOCALOID6 is an AI-based technology created by Yamaha to fully support the musical expressiveness of creators from all perspectives, offering an even more natural singing voice than ever before together with unprecedented freedom to express your vocal ideas. This product lets you express your ideas on the spot in vocal form while producing music.

What does this even mean? It reads like GPT-3 output.
The real question is, will it last longer than the lettuce though... https://lettuce.wtf/
They're referring to generator functions. A generator function typically open a resource and then use a for loop to read (for example) a line at a time and yield it. once you yield, control returns to the caller (like a return) but subsequent calls to next on the returned expression pick back up at the yield point. So function calls maintain state-behind-the-scenes. It's not just a simple call-and-return model anymore.

To me this violates a core principle: the principle of least surprise. It completely changes how I have to reason about function execution, especially if there are conditionals and different yields.
Efficient Single-Image Depth Estimation on Mobile Devices
> What was the point of the loyalty card then?

the main point of loyalty cards was (and still is) data collection (which you've managed to work around) but they are also being used to help condition the public into accepting the idea that some people get (or even "deserve" to get) different prices than other people for the exact same items because of who or what they are.

For example:

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/supermarkets-introduce-perso...

https://risnews.com/safeway-offers-personalized-pricing-prog...

Businesses always try to frame this as allowing them to offer "deals" to you, but honestly what they want is to raise prices just for you. They stand to make a killing on personalized dynamic pricing. It could massively inflate their profits (entirely at your expense) but what has been standing in their way so far is that consumers find personalized pricing to be invasive, unfair, and discriminatory. Businesses are working very hard to get the public to accept personalized pricing though and loyalty cards/programs are seen as a way to help that.

Unless you like being ripped off and being taken advantage of, try to resist and push back against personalized pricing when you see it.

See:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41272-019-00224-3
That's what I do at taoofmac.com internally. The whole thing is a mix of Textile, Markdown and HTML
This is basically iPhone/iOS and AppStore/Safari.

There's been a lot of talk globally but I'm still waiting to see who will be the first to move on Apple's rent seeking tactics.
don't forget that the Marshall aid also prevent a massive economic crisis in the US.

After world war 2, employment collapsed because of the downturn of the war economy.

From a realpolitik perspective, its a smart move. Using the marshall aid to get influence in europe, prevent your main competitor from gaining further foothold on the continent and also having market (which requires a near complete rebuildup) for your economy to divert to after the collapse of the war economy.
Man, that's an interesting point

I could imagine putting up with a lot of shit from Elon if I believed I was building a better future for humanity in the process, but it's hard to see how a social network is accomplishing that
>Interesting strategic window: You can't innovate and software engineer using 1950s style "butts in seats". Maybe this is a signal twitter isn't going to innovate, develop, and maybe even operate, internally, at least going forward.

Companies like twitter don't innovate, and never had. They're based on very simple ideas and features and network effects. They got big because it was a catchy idea ("be a smartass with one-liners and gossip with famous people"), but there's no innovation beyond that. Nothing that needs any big brain or creative genius anyway. Same for Facebook, Instagram, and so on. It's all about getting the VC money and traction, the innovation is 1% of the whole thing, if that.
Trick Shot to the Fucking Space
Seems like he's trying to speed run employees jumping ship - I'm surprised he didn't try these tactics for a month or two before firing a bunch of people and paying severance.
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You don't think I know how bonds work? Yet you agree with me?
it's threaded with the option to use 1:M, N:N or N:M. It's a mental model that includes both asyncio and threads, while async will always only be for IO-blocking calls that can be multiplexed.
Man, I'm starting to think that you can't take this guy at his word.