skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>So too with Twitter. Regardless of whether one believes Musk’s motivations to be on the side of the angels, privatizing Twitter will not attenuate market signals but intensify them. Investors in Tesla, whether or not a margin loan is in play, can lean on Musk to make changes to the platform that meet their needs and desires. The same goes for his equity investors. One of them, hypothetically of course, may be a billionaire 2020 election denier that would seek to amplify certain voices over others.

>The fatal flaw in Musk’s vision of Twitter as public square is in his acquisition. The beauty of the square lies in it belonging to no-one and everyone. Twitter as a publicly traded company falls short of that ideal, to be sure, but concentrating ownership moves it further still.
There is an out which is self-publishing. That's now entirely cheap (read: you can do it yourself for free).

You don't get the publisher money, but it's an option available for you, and you have somewhat the same chance (read: zero) of striking it rich and becoming popular.
Coinbase doesn't offer the leverage that offshore exchanges do. FTX was popular originally because they offered 100x leverage, later reduced to a maximum of 20x. They also had better spreads, probably because they were making their own market and had inside info. I think that people generally didn't expect FTX to be high risk. It's got a profitable business, all they had to do was not embezzle customer funds.
Note a small detail you left out: all this happened to AVIF _after_ it was enabled by default in Chrome...
I'm not sure what you are saying.

Mozilla didn't support WebP for years. I'm fairly certain one of the official reasons they gave for not doing it was that it wasn't a massive jump in quality over JPEG, which obviously would have been good for the web if it was true and motivation for them to support it sooner than they did.

Notably, when they did add it, Edge did so around the same time, which seems to me suggests some politics in the background, (not in a conspiracy sense, just an agreement based on interperability) which I suspect might apply this time too.
Maybe it's the same Euphemism Treadmill that George Carlin performed[1] about, how "Shell Shock" evolved into the softer, jargony "Post Traumatic Stress Disorder"

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuEQixrBKCc
Granted. It's fair to stuff them into SQLite or some other kind of composite file but you trade one problem for another. The same content-addressible indexing still makes sense.
denial is a powerful drug,

you are surrounded by people celebrating your genius, everything you touch turns to billions and billions

it is easy to see how someone gets disconnected from reality and ends up living in the metaverse of their own genius
> But most of these companies are so big that it just works as a moat to keep out small competitors in that space.

Google is among the biggest and Google Analytics is getting absolutely shredded in the EU. How's that moat coming along?
is this finally the straw that will expose the massive Tether/USDT fraud?
> Calling someone "homeless" reduces them to that thing and implies it's a permanent identity, but calling someone a "person experiencing homelessness" at least invites the possibility of seeing that experience as temporary.

This is an obvious form of virtue signaling. It sends a message that you care … a tiny bit, but only in a meaningless way that distracts from the truly complicated problems facing homeless people and the pathetic attempts to help them.
They were talking about stuff like Celsius. I don't think FTX was itself offering yield-farming products, just letting people trade those tokens. "Yeah, the stuff people trade on my platform are probably Ponzis" is definitely not great publicity, but it's not obviously admitting to your own crimes.
Webp's lossy mode may be uninspiring, but it also has a good lossless mode and supported both lossy and lossless transparency.
I don't mind, but it seems the root problem might be the people chanting that we need more people to increase GDP.
Planes have a huge impact on both the climate and economy, and I don’t think the joy of occasional sightseeing is a strong enough argument against pursuing efficiency gains.
That one is easy... FOMO - Fear Of Missing Out. People see the 10,000%+ returns extreme early adopters obtained and think they need to get in before the good-getting is done. Most of the time they're wrong and just throwing money into dark pits...

"Gamified" trading apps like Robin Hood have made it all too easy to feel much lower risk that it is in reality though.

For the rest, crypto can be part of a diversified investment strategy. Not all crypto is outright scams... but you do need to be able to handle the volatility.
In Chile is common to eat Cochayuyo, a type of kelp without air bladders [0]. Some people are dismissive about its taste, but personally I love it on my Charquicán [1].

It is very cheap and readily available at most fish markets through all the country.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durvillaea_antarctica#Chilean_...

[1]: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charquic%C3%A1n
> (The government) could also communicate to the list of shop owners that they are to stop using the platform.

They just did. It's called a fine.

> He is suppose to be busy selling coffee so that he can bring in more tax revenue.

He is to bring in tax revenue AND follow the law. If the government was just interested in tax income, drugs, racketeering and murder-for-hire would be legal as long as they filed taxes on that income.
I have only dabbled in Rust and have no experience with C++/Java/Go. Can you help me understand how those languages would be more memory safe than Rust? My understanding was that safe code was a solution to memory leaks. What’s the benefit to safe rust code if it isn’t getting rid of memory leaks?
If you weren't already aware, Scrapy has strong support for this via their HTTPCache middleware; you can choose whether to have it actually behave like a cache, choosing to returned already scraped content if matched or merely to act as a pass-through cache: https://docs.scrapy.org/en/2.7/topics/downloader-middleware....

Their OOtB storage does what the sibling comment says about sha1-ing the request and then sharding the output filename by the first two characters: https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/blob/2.7.1/scrapy/extension...
Recently? That's been her main hobby-horse for years.

Don't get me wrong; I'm a big admirer of hers.
Quite a few well capitalized projects launching on the Cardano blockchain looking for Haskell devs right now.
That's an excellent idea.
Doesn't this reduce (from the slightly convoluted shop->Shopify->CDN case here) to simply using say AWS as an EU company, or just being a US company?

Assuming you have some kind of PII to store, the US CLOUD Act essentially means AWS (or whatever US company) can't possibly (no matter which region you use or anything like that) GDPR-compliantly act as a third-party data processor or whatever the terminology is?

In which case... someone (as in country, legislation) is clearly going to back down? UK government sites take plenty of PII and run on AWS...
*Liza

"3" like letter in Cyrillic alphabet is "z" in Latin. You can hear it when pressing the sound button in here:

https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=en&text=%D0%9B%D0%B...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ze_(Cyrillic)
Twitter Blue signups unavailable after raft of fake accounts
That's why it's the beans+rice combination that's complete, because they're complementary in composition.

But the truth is that you don't need to eat them in the same meal, and most people don't have a shortage of grain in their diets if they aren't going out of their way to make it so. Porridge in the morning and lentils at lunch and you've done it.
On the topic of a “forced” C++ to be close to rust.

I guess technically if you forced all allocations to be in unique_ptr<> and then used std::move every time you passed it as a parameter, you would kind have the first part of rust (ownership rules) down.

But the borrow checker? Not sure how that’s possible. It might be (and in fairness, you could require all references to be const)

But I am not sure if there’s a way to do the usual 1 and only 1 borrowed mutable value. (Unless someone can think of a way?)
In Edinburgh (2013) we did get Haskell as the very first language of the very first course (yes, functional programming before OOP!). Having coded before, I was pretty confused, why would they do that, but it ended up being an amazing equalizer. We all started at similar levels of understanding and ramped up together.
Harvard Study: CBD May Significantly Reduce Anxiety with Minimal Side Effects
Respect to the cadaver was teached in our first dissection class and not even once any incident like that happened. On the other hand, I've seen a lot of disrespect coming from veterinary students, which brought me some disgust.
An alternate conspiracy is that what Musk is doing is working. He signals to the company that the era of "move fast and break things" has arrived, he creates a ton of drama and attention which may drive, he tests a personal theory about what would work, and he starts to build understanding about the limits of the business.

I have no idea what's really going on - but I'm interested in the results. I think 3-5 years will reveal whether this was a catastrophic mistake, a brilliant plan, or something in between. "Launch a new feature, observe the problems, throttle the new feature while you resolve the problems" doesn't seem obviously insane to me.
beans != beans + rice;

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33564109
Lithium car batteries can be cycled 1500-2000 times. Fossil fuels get 1 cycle. 3 orders of magnitude is a categorical difference.

[1] https://www.midtronics.com/blog/do-electric-car-ev-batteries...
There is a six character difference discounting the fact that one calls the type i32 vs Golang's int32; four are punctuation that may or may not be required for ability to parse correctly and 2 are from "fn" -> "func." Each of the common tokens is arranged in the same order relative to one another. If one affords themselves the use of "type i32 int32" in Golang, then it is

fn add(a: i32, b: i32) => i32 {
return a + b;
}

vs

func add(a i32, b i32) i32 {
return a + b;
}

Compare with a syntax like C, C#, or Java where you have tokens in the declaration in almost the reverse order

i32 add(i32 a, i32 b) {
return a + b;
}

The two (Golang and Wa) are certainly distinct, but I would say they are closer than simply both being C-style for this particular case at least.
As with most Google companies the packet promotion process is decreasing the quality of the product and the user experience.

YT is clearly pandering to advertisers. I feel a little (ok, a lot) of schadenfreude every time I hear about a move that makes advertisers uncomfortable..

The internet used to be made by users for users. Commerce has ruined software development and the general experience on the web for many.

I can’t think of a world where uBlock doesn’t work anymore. I think I’d leave the business and find a new career doing something physical where I don’t have to be subjected to this crap.
> Zuck spending $4b/quarter on the Metaverse entirely unproven, something any lean startup VC would know is a terrible idea

I'm skeptical of the Metaverse, but everything is unproven until someone proves it. Does every lean startup VC know what the future of computing looks like? If they don't, I have no idea how they would know that the Metaverse is a terrible idea.
I think he just though that he will never get caught, it was working for a long time, why would it fail?

Also why are there no lawsuits yet? Since FTX clearly broke its own T&S?
Google is really bad at customer service I agree, but at least they’re not going to send masked men to your house at night.

I guess I just find the equivalence distasteful.

Though I do think google is effectively a utility company with some of the services they provide. Maybe there should be regulation on how much recourse people should have when they’re banned from necessary parts of their life like their gmail account
This is a really strange take, because Apple does not support JPEG XL and was never going to support it. And since nobody else can bring that support to iOS either, the format as a whole is dead to the web.

(And, uh, I don't know where you're getting webp from here. The competition for this generation of image formats is AVIF; AVIF has been blessed by Apple, so no matter how distasteful it is that's what we'll get.)

> They did not show this restraint at all when it came to implementing and pushing their own formats.

JPEG XL was largely a Google-created format.
Single C source file. Very cool, it's one of those "let make the decision easy for you" moves, where you might be hesitant to include a scripting lang in your project.

The docs mention you can embed Zuo almost as an afterthought, but surely that's the main point of it?
That’s actually just a tiny, tiny subset of the overall Enron corporate structure. The chart you linked just shows the capitalization and ownership of one of the off-balance sheet structures that Enron used to conceal debt. This structure was capitalized with Enron stock, which worked great as long as the price kept going up, but once the value of that stock fell beneath a certain value, the single-purpose entity used here became insolvent and accounting rules (finally) required that that debt be consolidated back onto Enron parent’s balance sheet.

It’s a situation with many interesting parallels in the crypto industry. Not only does history rhyme, but sometimes it really does repeat.
The world is run by people. Those people are no smarter than you (person reading this comment right now).

I believe this personally and I’m confident Steve Jobs meant this literally. The reason I’m confident is Jobs said this in 1994, when the conventional wisdom was that both he and Apple had failed. Toy Story wouldn’t be released until the next year. iPhone (the device that convinced people Apple was right about Human Centered Design) was 13 years away. NeXT was failing.

Here is the link to the original video posted by the Santa Clara Historical Society.
https://youtu.be/kYfNvmF0Bqw

Edit: fix video link
how much did they pay him?
I like to think of Steve Jobs as one of the greatest adoption success stories.

https://www.theladders.com/career-advice/this-is-what-steve-...

When he talks about his father, there was a moment where he realized he was smarter and at the time I found it to be an asshole move (I can’t find the quote and story anymore).

But looking back I think he was truly honoring his adoptive parents in his own brusque way.

In anycase: Someone “less intelligent” (Paul Jobs) indirectly had a major impact on company values and world impact.
> You're right it has not been demonstrated.

That's right. Quidsi had no particular insight into Amazon's cost structure.
> An interactive tool with audio examples demonstrating downbeats, offbeats, and different swing ratios can be found on our website (https://www.ds.mpg.de/swing/swingratio).

This is great!
You’d probably like ApplePay. A great payment flow and the protections of being able to charge back or rectify problems.

Also, no need to deal with insane price fluctuations and collapsing exchanges impacting the price of pizza.
Well, i strongly disagree with all of that.

Or at least that it should affect what your employer gives you.

It's straight up discrimination, and some of it (e.g. based on parental status) usually illegal.

Taking care of the sick, elderly, and children is a social issue, and belongs with the state. Not by illegal arbitrary discrimination.

Also imagine how humiliating it would be for someone failing to conceive to see insult to injury that they don't get a bonus but their team mate does.

Paying someone less for doing more work (i.e. not picking up from daycare) is incredibly disrespectful and demotivating.

I hear all the time that someone asks for more money because they just got a new house. Like... What? Your employer is now responsible for you choosing to live beyond your means?
But since it's the team that does YouTube search that explains the delay...
The main attraction was access to pretty much any shitcoin and advanced leverage+trading features:

- multiple sub accounts
- 20x leverage with tiered liquidations
- you could use your portfolio as collateral
- advanced trading tools

This is why it was so shocking to see them collapse for doing such a stupidly bad thing, the guy seemed super smart (albeit vegan+commie).
From a "trader" perspective, the best policy if you are bribing is bribing any current AND future candidates, discounted by some factor for probability of being in power at some point in the future, and discounted by the time value of money (so people currently in power gets more.) That's probably the type of amoral, risk reward based thinking that goes through someone like SBF's head.

Source: was a quant at some hedge fund in a past life.
No, the processing of personal information is a concern too.
Actually maybe it wasn’t clear because of the parent comment I commented in, but we are a EU company, but for our server hosting we use a US provider.

Do you know if that that makes any difference?

As a EU resident myself I completely understand, it just is a bit tough to make the changes as a small company, but if it’s legally required we’ll make them ASAP.
RIP Comrade Laika.
And with Meta you can live your wildest illegal dreams without risks!

See? The metaverse isn't useless after all.
That's fair -- I thought that by highlighting the correct term, against the parent's description with its mislabeling, that would be enough to make the point, especially since a) the issue of "Ponzi" misuse comes up so much, and b) one could just look up the terms and compare. But, to make it explicit:

Ponzi scheme: Taking later entrants' investments to pay earlier investors on the false pretense that the venture's activity generated the returns.

pump-and-dump: Duping others into thinking an asset has value so that it can be resold above its legit worth.

The original description given clearly fits pump-and-dump better[1], since it's based on making an asset seem valuable:

>>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.

For tptacek's part, he could have defended his claim by presenting a substantive understanding of the distinction and justified the label in his own words. Or, somehow indicated this was a point of contention at all. Or done anything whatsoever beyond arguing, in effect, "the perp used the label, therefore it must be accurate". That does not advance the discussion, or indicate a prompt for the kind of contribution in the first half of this comment.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33562224
Because memory leaks are memory safe in rust, they just cause a performance hit.
Instead, Shopify is legally considered to be the owner of the user data

As I see it, Shopify's role in this situation is more likely to be considered a data fence: because of the lack of processing agreement, they're not allowed to process any data (more accurately, the shop owner is not allowed to give them access to any data). The data that they do have through services they provide is illegally obtained; that doesn't mean they suddenly own that data.
No 800 pound gorilla has taken the language under its wing, so really difficult to build mindshare. Without a Google, Microsoft, etc who can throw unlimited funding to have full time developers polishing rough edges, writing docs, or implementing libraries, a new language is always lacking vs established alternatives.
No it isn’t. Where does such a statement even come from?

That’s like saying the goal of socialism is to starve everyone.
I think he probably thought the value of the coins would keep rising. Hell everyone who bought in at sky high prices thought that.
I don't know about you, but when I think about the cruelty and sadism of the 20th century, I think about all of the wars and mass murders. Animal cruelty sort of pales in comparison to all of that. I'm not saying this to deflect from your question; I literally think this is part of the explanation.

Going back to poor Laika for a moment, you could adapt an old, morbid joke: "we're going to murder all the kulaks and one dog." "Why the dog?" "Why the kulaks?"
Ask HN: If GDPR is enforced, could we just cut the transatlantic cables?
Looks like the GDPR implies that no tcp packets are allowed to travel to the US, even if the user gives their consent.

That's how I read the recent rulings that using fonts, CDNs, analytics from US companies is illegal in Europe. Because all infrastructure in the US is under control of the US government.

Under this interpretation of the GDPR, what legal ways are left to send tcp packets from Europe to the US?
I was recently working with a bunch of pseudo-terminal stuff, so I was curious about how unbuffer works. One thing that stuck out to me in the manpages is this:

Caveats

unbuffer -p may appear to work incorrectly if a process feeding input to unbuffer exits. Consider:

process1 | unbuffer -p process2 | process3

If process1 exits, process2 may not yet have finished. It is impossible for unbuffer to know long
to wait for process2 and process2 may not ever finish, for example, if it is a filter. For expediency,
unbuffer simply exits when it encounters an EOF from either its input or process2.

Why does unbuffer care whether or not process2 exits? Can't it receive the EOF from process1, send it to process2, and then wait for process2 to exit? If process2 doesn't exit after receiving an EOF from stdin, then what's the issue about simply letting the pipeline hang? Isn't that what would happen without unbuffer?
Yeah! I was thinking "ah the room isn't sealed, nor is the house for that matter" but I can probably get interesting measurements with a simple CO2 meter.
>"We have reached an agreement with Tron to establish a special facility to allow holders of TRX, BTT, JST, SUN, and HT to swap assets from FTX 1:1 to external wallets. This functionality will be enabled at 18:30 UTC, November 10, 2022."

These centralized coins are hilarious. How can you negotiate a special facility to swap to those assets when they're presumably gone? Also now that they've filed for Chapter 11 won't all these 'activities' and withdrawals be frozen?
It’s already heading in that direction. As an example I only use the Slack web interface and have many user scripts to modify my experience.

I think the increased adoption of WASM will be a net negative for users.

I’m heavily opinionated on communication centric UX, it should work for me not the other way around.

I disallow all notifications, for example. I refuse to be forced into engagement..
This is almost exactly what I tell my younger folks who are concerned they're not authoritative enough to share an opinion or lead a project. I cured my Imposter Syndrome not by gaining confidence but realizing that everyone else was just guessing too. My guesses were at least as good as theirs.
Perhaps Coinbase will set a record by being the first crypto exchange that folded the proper, legal way! /s
It's not hard to understand. Meat tastes good and is satisfying to eat, and is the preferred centerpiece of many cultures' meals. So there is a market to find substitutes that will have the same appeal. Not that I think crickets or algae fill the niche, but at least people are trying something. Vegetarians saying "why doesn't everyone eat just plants, I do it" are ignoring culture and projecting their narrow view onto others