skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1591091209157898241
I'm really skeptical of Binance, whilst I would never accuse them of anything specific, I have no proof. Their structure, governance and business model combined with their refusal to meet basic regulatory requirements makes me feel uneasy.
His parents are probably going to invoice him for legal advice at this point.
What is the implication of this to embedded software platforms like Xilinx VITIS or TI's Code Composer Studio? Both tools are based on C/C++ so why would these platforms not have switched to C# or Rust earlier? Sorry for the simple question as Im a simple hardware guy but do you see a scenario where future platforms of these tools are based on Rust?
Shopify is a Canadian company, does this change anything?
I meant your original post. You went out of your way to either gaslight or mock others who were sharing their troubles. Why?

Edit: I see you've edited your comment to answer my question. Well, all I can say is that's an interesting choice from someone whose bill rate is so high.
A brief history of the mortgage, from its roots in ancient Rome
As always, the question must be asked: Why this instead of Org mode?
Yeah! That was the tweet that made me suspect an anxiety attack / some other health condition.

The weirdest part is that all 23 tweets were posted simultaneously at 8:13am. So he had the opportunity to say nothing; he could’ve clicked “save draft” instead of “tweet all”.
Moreover, from a simplistic traditional economics perspective (which these companies love to tout so much) it's allegedly the most optimal / best thing for society as a whole when people leave jobs for higher-bids.

[Though in this case it's probably just perpetuating a search monopoly that is leading to a terrible user experience]
this story is ridiculous when so many monkeys are / have been killed right here on earth victim of various drugs, vaccines and cosmetic tests.

they'd squeeze anything to make russia/ussr look bad, however little.
I don’t think you’re right about that? What I got from the article is that customer data is processed and stored in the EU, it doesn’t go through America. However, static assets are downloaded from CDNs operated by American companies (CloudFlare/Amazon/Fastly).

> The data protection authority justified this with the fact that US authorities could access personal data (probably primarily the IP address) for criminal purposes on the basis of the CLOUD Act, among other things. This occurs regardless of whether data is stored on servers in the USA or Europe.

I have to imagine the particular bureaucrats the author was dealing with are somehow wrong here? Otherwise this implies that a European business cannot use basically any American software (directly or even indirectly, like this case), even if that software fully conforms with processing and storing all data in Europe. The fact that American authorities could coerce any American company into turning data over, even if it’s stored in Europe, is enough?
Well if you want to return to Emacs, I can attest as a former long-time vim user that the emulation layers for vim modes in Emacs are fantastic! They're really the only good part of vim, as the configuration language was always a bit less desirable than elisp, imo.
"Your honor, whatever I've said should not be used against me in the court of law"...I can't make up this parody if I was a scriptwriter.

Here's another...SBF has stepped down, and his replacement is John J. Ray III, a famous bankruptcy lawyer who helped clean up Enron...yes, that Enron.
DPAs do not protect against ramifications of the CLOUD act. See this thread (mainly the reply to it)[0]:

SCC = standard contractual clauses, aka DPA/GDPR clauses that govern when and how data transferred to the US is used.

> The ruling on Schrems II (the court case that struck down Privacy Shield) did not state that SCCs on their own would be sufficient. It said that SCCs + "additional safeguards" would be allowable. There have been several rulings already that SCCs on their own are not sufficient.

> The "additional safeguards" must include a risk analysis of US access to EU residents' data. Every court case I've seen from Schrems II onward identifies the US CLOUD Act as the privacy risk to address. CNIL is basically ruling that you cannot transfer data to a US company subject to the CLOUD Act, and an SCC cannot deal with that. This still leaves open the possibility of using US services that are not subject to the CLOUD Act. This is consistent with all rulings to date.

In summary, Schrems II + this ruling[1] mean that US corporations can't be involved with EU at all besides via licensing software to a completely independent EU corporation (which isn't a given either, though, since the US company could threaten withholding software updates/revoking the software license to pressure the EU corporation to hand over EU citizen data to US Law Enforcement - or otherwise implement a backdoor at the request of US Law Enforcement).

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30286642

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30284372
Poliastro is a phenomenal bit of software. I only ever had the opportunity to use it once for a real project, but I really enjoyed doing so.
One more down, a few still to go.
Not at all surprising as Google has been slowly removing all features that let you control your viewing experience. I’m still annoyed that they removed subscription collections over 7 years ago. They publicly promised to replace it with something better, but that never materialized[1]. I would bet money on these sorting options to never return no matter how much feedback users send in. Google has a history of lying about listening to user feedback.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19952930
How many times are we going to allow someone to slice us with weaponized stupidity before we realize that willful ignorance is actually a powerful tool in the malicious actor's/white collar toolkit?

On the street, the cops/court'll beat you with "ignorance of the law is not an excuse".

In the board room, the corporation can do no wrong, here's your settlement, chapter 11 plox.
For people who are unaware, Shopify is a Canadian company and they use CDNs just like most of the highly trafficked websites in the world. Most CDNs just happen to by owned by US based companies.
It is possible for multiple things to be sad.
Does any one know if the Privacy Shield V2 will address this?
I would say "never" is a more likely ship date. Apple has no experience in server-based businesses and isn't even a dark horse. They're not in the race. Apple has never built out or sold server infra at any significant scale or success and this is the key cost factor and therefore profit determiner in server business success.

All of Apple's business models are based on a walled garden philosophy which is incompatible with a successful search business. Apple's view of search is like AOL's and will succeed about as well.

Apple's biggest problem is not that it can't compete in search. It's that the company has too much money. That, combined with penis envy, compels them to think that they can and should dominate every sector of our lives.

Apple made that money by selling boutique hardware and premium media to an enthusiastic audience. They should stick to the game they know and forget search, cars, health, and whatever else they're blowing cash on.
Show HN: Pickcode – A new way to introduce programming to kids
Hello HN, I've linked a tutorial from Pickcode, where students are guided through making a chatbot that plays mad libs. Pickcode is designed for introducing programming without block coding, in a way that's closer to Javascript or Python. I made Pickcode based on my frustrations teaching beginners in both block coding and in Python.

The link here is to just one lesson, and I have a few more that you can find on the site. I'd love feedback from HNers with kids age 10-13 or so, or HNers who can put on an intro to programming hat.

On the roadmap is adding more complex use cases for your programs (like drag and drop web apps), and obviously many more lessons.

If you're a teacher and interested in using this with students, email me at charlie@pickcode.io
FTX the exchange appear to have lent client funds to Alameda research.

The loans had very poor collateral behind them, meaning that FTX were exposed.

It is not currently clear if or how Alameda lost the $billions of client assets, or if they are just illiquid.

There is noise that the client assets were spent on things like the summer bailouts of defunct crypto firms, but I think we are just speculating at that point.
To be honest, this sounds like Airbnb for hotels, and wouldn't work long-term either. Conference rooms in hotels are specifically booked for business events, and the hotels aren't exactly losing money on those bookings.

Hotels also have an image to maintain for their target guest demographic, so they wouldn't want a gaggle of Bankman-Fried lookalike startup bros streaming in and out of their premises daily. At least the MLMs that book hotel conference rooms ask attendees to dress accordingly.
He had $16b in Magic Dollars(TM) and he can have the same amount in the same token tomorrow if he wants, though.
I concur with author's words here

> and the performance of your product can't be exponentially different from your opponent's, or you won't even have a fight

... but then the same author goes to include the table where Firebolt claims to beat the dust out of Snowflake by a factor of 50x to 6000x.

I am not affiliated with any of those two companies nor any other DB vendor, and the same type of wishful thinking can be found in blogs from pretty much any other DB vendor, but I'd really wish these type of things to become a thing of a past.

I get that they have to sell something to their investors and customers but anybody who knows a thing or two about the domain knows that these type of speed ups aren't possible without trade-offs. People aren't getting any more smarter any time soon.
From the Sequoia article on SBF / FTX, it's very likely to be able to trade internationally because each country requires you to have a bank account in that country to be able to access their markets.

In the Sequoia article, SBF gained his initial funding for FTX from executing trades from the US to Japan, where BTC was overpriced because no one bothered to arbitrage it because of the setup difficulty. The way he did this was by contacting a friend to open a bank account in Japan and manage the funding over there while he managed the account US side.

I am sure some of it is normal corporate shell game but I'd imagine at least 50% of this setup was for regulatory purposes. Even small fintechs will have "shell game like" company structure to please regulatory forces that require having certain things be independent from the consumer platform even if the two companies are working towards the same goal.
So much for tech working for us, even in the slightest.
"We know what you want, and it's what we want to show you"
The language is limited, but I do not find it limiting.
With all of this popping up: how are you even supposed to run an internet service in the EU? Do you have to write all pieces of the software yourself or what? Since all the big services seem to be off-limits.
The world is run by people no smarter than you
Fantastic! Thank you so much.

I think it's a fairly common situation that people using programming tools (VS Code, git, vim etc) can go for years without realizing there is a built-in feature that can solve exactly a problem they always struggled to solve. I'm not sure how to surface that sort of functionality in the tool, but I'm glad HN is here to point it out. One similarly cool thing I learned in a recent comment is that if you press dot (.) on Github web interface, it will launch an in-browser VS Code instance to edit the file you are viewing. Nifty!
More competition in any of those industries is good for me, the end consumer.
Even on my phone I prefer landscape. The few shorts I’ve seen would have been better if they were landscape. The ones I saw could have been trimmed down to 1:1 or 4:3 and would have been essentially the same.
Akino Arai also had a haunting song about the Sputnik 2 mission as a metaphor for a breakup.

Translation:

With enough air and water for seven days
And someone's uncompromising wishes
The laika dog on Sputnik
Doors which will never again open now close
To think that I must go on living
In some distant place unfamiliar to you
That we can never feel the same things
I don't think you understand the industry. Reliability is qualified through testing, certification and support. It isn't a function of marketing.

Marketing gets you to the testing table. But better not have any skeletons in the cupboard.

Edit: I suspect you're confusing engineering for the niche sector of makers, the latter of which are driven by fads and marketing (sorry if I piss anyone off there).
Does this generalize to every US hoster, when used by an EU publisher?
I mean, it's impossible to get consent or even information disclosure for the exposure of IP info, since the consent banner logically is loaded over that IP connection.
To be fair to the guy, he wasn’t afraid to admit it in some very public interviews. But yeah, don’t feel sorry.
Apple coming to search market is a huge blow to privacy. Apple becoming an ad selling company would be horrible for privacy.
I think that would need to go hand in hand with social change to allow people greater quality of life outside of consumerism (e.g. greater economic stability, autonomy, home ownership, access to education, etc.).

Right now it seems that the social contract is "give up your autonomy and stability to capitalism and in return you get to consume lots of stuff". If we remove the "consume lots of stuff" part of the equation, then I doubt people would be happy with the "give up your autonomy and stability" part.
Quip: "Unsung Heroes"? It's called the Silent Service for a reason.
Twitter should add Miranda warnings to the before-you-tweet prompts. It would be a reasonable use-case for ML classification.
>still an unresolved issue

>This is just false

>Its a political problem
Why would an organization donate to BOTH competitors sizeable amounts like this? Okay, it's more to the dems, but quite a sum for the gop as well. Do they just want a soft landing regardless who wins? Wouldn't that be the same if not funding at all? Or maybe not, they can tell later any winner "look I paid ya"...
It's unregulated and decentralized, and banks are not your friends. To be honest, they're not, but that doesn't make any of this Ponzi 2.0 economy great.
Show HN: Wanderlog Chrome extension – see Southwest fares on Google Flights
I often fly out of Oakland, a big Southwest hub, and normally look for my flights on Google Flights. I got annoyed at the having to search Southwest separately from Google Flights, so built a Chrome extension to show the search results without having to open another tab.

It works without any server-side scraping using background tabs and hidden iframes, so nothing about your search hits any servers other than Southwest’s.

Can you help try it out and let me know if you run into any issues? It had a bunch when we launched it earlier this week, so if you run into any, please email me at extension-support@wanderlog.com!
The message on the page:

It's a busy day! There are currently 512 people in front of you. Please keep this tab open!

Estimated wait time: 7 hours, 7 minutes
There are 4 sections in the EuroNCAP tests (European safety standards). One of them is about damage done to pedestrians and cyclists. The others are: adult occupant, child occupant, and safety assist features.

The latter includes the annoying seatbelt warning, that's why most (all?) cars sold in Europe have it.
What do you even need a blueprint for? The guy did an interview with Matt Levine and laid the Ponzi scheme straight out: scammers make boxes that pay fake coins when you store your money in them, they put so much money into the boxes that the fake coins seem valuable, then they rug pull everyone and move on to the next one. That's how he described his own business.
> Salary matters suck for everyone, I hate dealing with this aspect of my job. Everybody just wants wants wants and act like children when they don't get.

Does everybody do this or is it just you? People are paid market rate if another business thinks you are worth more they will offer you more. You then go to your boss and ask them to meet or exceed the market rate for you.

If you sell yourself as just another developer don't be surprised if your boss puts that expectation on your salery.
shenanigans (no "c").
Which is what, exactly? Living in hiding?
My mortgage is at 2.625%. If I have the cash, even 1 month T-Bills are paying a higher rate than that (about 3.6%). Assume I have the cash to pay it off -- I'm strictly worse off if I pay off the mortgage vs. even investing in 1-month t-Bills.
Twitter has suspended the launch of Twitter Blue
This is correct and only one half of the downsides of WeWork’s model. WeWork assumes the risk spread between a traditional commercial lease and a basket of short-term leases. The stability and creditworthiness of the short term leases is up for debate.

So as they scale they’re signing up for a huge liability with a fairly uncertain stream of cashflows on the other side. Since there are only so many high-quality businesses that want temporary office space at a WeWork in a given area they also need to accept additional risk as they grow revenue regionally.

Add to this the intense correlation of WeWork’s customer base to firms dependent on VC$ and you’ve got a lot of correlated risk sitting on one side of a nasty liability. Not good stuff.
Yeah I was at a startup where maybe 10% of engineering had used go before and 20% had used Java before (it was a PHP monolith so most people were PHP developers). The Java code that was written was pretty awful (I was hired probably due to my java experience, so I had a decent idea of good java). However, the Go services were actually really good. There is something about having a simple language that works really well for backend CRUD services.
It's almost as if he's doing things that have real consequences for the world we live in!
Just bumping this up from comment below:

>> This was about FTX International. FTX US, the US based exchange that accepts Americans, was not financially impacted by this shitshow.
>https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1590709195892195329

So, SBF seems likely to have flat-out lied, right up to the last moment. At this point, why would you choose to trust any crypto company that wasn't perfectly transparent in how it holds assets, backs coins, what it's borrowing on, etc?

Do we blame individuals or the technology that enabled them? I don't know. I do think we need to get back to building useful tools that people need.
> you can use up all available memory in approx. 64 quick steps by: Type 1 character; Undo to beginning; Type 1 character; Undo to beginning; etc

This is fine because "undo to beginning" isn't a single action. Each time this loop runs, the user spends more and more time mashing undo to get back to the beginning. The number of actions in the history is only increasing by a constant amount per user action.
I hope people realize the problem with having a market for medical innovation, backed by patents and copyright as the way of financing medicine, this level of price gouging and capitalization on human suffering can only exist with the current IP laws, and we see a great reduction of price in countries that break those patents and allow for pharmaceutical manufacturers to produce medicine disregarding IP lawfare.
To clarify: Shopify is a Canadian company (edit: but as mentioned elsewhere in this thread: they send data to CloudFlare, CloudFront (Amazon) and Fastly, which are US companies.)
Downbeat delays are a key component of swing in jazz
Few understand.
Safe and fast: Pick 1 has been the standard for a while. Rust is both, but this doesn't mean the others aren't safe.
While this is true, it is too easy. The privacy angle lives in the minds of Europeans, while US people seem to care a lot less.
Though the intentions of GDPR were good, Following the GDPR to the letter is not feasible for any company that isn't a monopoly. We're in a situation where no one is following it all the way as it's not even clear what that means.

More of the same will continue and the GDPR will only be used coercively as an attack against competition or companies others don't like.

It's really a major blow for small businesses that want to work in the EU. EU desperately needs more small tech business so it's quite sad.

I would love a law that said what people think GDPR says. That you have to tell people if you were selling their data to third parties and to please not do that. This is simply not what GDPR is in practice.

The road to hell is paved with good intention.
Thanks for sharing that video.
But that only moves the problem somewhere else, because insurance is a moral hazard. Someone who would otherwise be cautious to prevent harm has less incentive to do it because when the harm comes the insurance pays.
Editorial: One Year of the Kyiv Independent
> degrowth / massive reductions in consumption

Although it can appear a bit disingenuous for activists to disguise their primary goal...their primary goal can be valid if taken from their perspective...

Population will be 10bn by 2100.

Then there's 2200, 2300, 2400, etc.

The need for degrowth does seem inevitable eventually does it not?

From a middle-class perspective: everything is about ambition, climbing the corporate ladder, wealth building, and then hoping for your children to exceed you in these aspects also. Addiction to growth. Many of these people are not okay with being a high achievers and not being rewarded for it - i.e. capitalism.

Activists are usually lower income with fixed horizons/needs of income/status/lifestyle.

So it's easier for them to identify with the average global citizen...who is already very poor.

- 3bn live on < 2USD per day

- median world income = 850USD

- avg world income = 7000USD

The activists are identifying as "world citizens", whereas Westerners identify with their income bracket in their wealthy country of choice.

> cheap GHG emission-free energy.

The reality is that even if climate change is resolved, there will still be a push for degrowth until the end of time...unless we find a new planet to inhabit.
Why does every tool need to justify itself against an arbitrary program that many people have never used?

Why emacs at all? Why use org mode in emacs?

I'm not against it; I've just never used it.
Lighting is a very small fraction of our energy usage (about 5%): https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=99&t=3

If we built our houses right, we could drastically shift energy usage requirements for heating and cooling to daylight hours (utilizing thermal mass storage like https://www.steffes.com/ets/ )
Urine is only 2% urea. DEF is 32%.
Thank you for clearly illustrating the toxic attitude that I was referring to.
Their salesforce don’t seem to be particularly motivated. I was recently looking to upgrade to a permanent office. Filled in the form a few times, left voicemails but never heard anything back.

Their competition seem much hungrier and willing to negotiate to get the business signed.
SBF's announcement of Chapter 11 proceedings today explicitly includes FTX US:

https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1591089317300293636
Not OP but I get tons of videos I've already watched. It's funny how terrible their recommendations are at this point :)
Being a Veteran in Today's America (2018)
Especially on twitter, where by default you only see the first few tweets of a chain.

"Here is a bunch of information about the ongoing potentially criminal collapse of my company - oh by the way I'm a bad dev so some of what I said above might be wrong, don't act on this information."
Mapping Out the HPC Dependency Chaos