skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm imagining that $50 raised from 10 million people ($500m raised) would allow for an outright recap of the entire company, including bringing in new management that serves the users' best interests.

I agree it isn't ideal, but as a user, it's far better than allowing Evernote to get sold to someone whose goal is to raise prices and squeeze profits. Many Evernote users like me are in a situation where the switchover cost is several orders of magnitude larger than $50. So, the dynamics might look more like 1% of the user base investing $5000 each.
We have a lot of info on where the money went: A stadium name deal, F1 sponsorship, penthouse in a Bahamas resort, political donations, several DeFi ponzis that fell apart, acquisitions of BS companies, and similarly, bailing out numerous failed crypto projects over several years.

With such a large sum gone, the tougher question is "where didn't he piss the money away?"

We haven't seen as much commentary from him post-incident to reconcile who he appeared to be before the collapse, with who he apparently is. I think that angle is actually pretty interesting, but ultimately he sounds like just another deranged sociopath. No surprise there. Still interesting.
You're right about Casablanca:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjbPi00k_ME
learn vi
set -o vi
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China is the largest government creditor to emerging economies and it's been widely reported on and dissected. I don't need a senior associate at a think tank to tell me there are strings attached. Whataboutism doesn't make this any less concerning.
Saladin Was a Land-Sea Warfare Innovator of the Middle Ages
"argues", "contends"...

And even with those qualifiers, you are only talking of legislative decision to protect child's welfare in USA. Eg. a quick search finds legislation aiming to improve protections for children in UK 50 years prior to your "1870s": http://history.parkfieldprimary.com/victorians/lord-shaftsbu...

Legislation is only needed when a particular behaviour becomes incompatible with current values, or has long been incompatible but becomes so prevalent to need legal recourse to stop. Children were protected by their parents and families through the ages, and while it was certainly not universal, it was prevalent. Though, I do recognize that the very definition of who children were was different, as it was mostly pre-puberty children to be treated with more protection.
Are you saying that 25mph is inherently unsafe? What's the safe speed then, for a normal dry day?

Does this speed limit apply to motorcycles too?
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/
Mine just turns off even on flat ground when fully charged and ejects me forward. Started happening after about a week of use, just as I was getting comfortable, but it's just completely unusable. Maybe I'm a bit too big, or riding a bit too far forward or something, I don't know, but I feel a bit vindicated now.

What a waste of money, I'm glad I wasn't injured worse than just some scrapes and bruises.
I believe you've misinterpreted. You'll see that the Ford executive cited in this article predicts that 40% fewer labourers would be required to build them:

https://archive.ph/AhxYi
> only in English

> The standard medical terminology in other languages is "subjective symptoms" and "objective symptoms".

Brazilian here. We use the term sinais e sintomas, meaning signs and symptoms. Doctors learn these signs in medical semiology classes and through practice in hospitals.
This is 100% fault of CPS. Nosy neighborhood can dislike whatever he dislikes, it is fault of whoever administered policy.
My former mentor-at-a-distance Eli Goldratt used to say "Yesterday's solutions are today's historical curiosities."

I think he might have gotten that from a better-known aphorism: "Yesterday's solutions are today's problems."

Thanks for your comment. It was fun and inspired other fun comments.
Body doubling has been a game changer for me as well - really for any kind of task
Never been able to understand why these don't come by default on the Onewheels: https://land-surf.com/products/new-fangs-gt-built-tough-to-r...

I put these on mine and love em. They work well and prevent exactly what's being described.
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/

There’s a few, like less wrong, but this is the main one to many
His father is a lawyer so I’m confused about his behaviour. Does he think this will help him somehow, to appear like he’s terribly sorry about what happened ? Surely his behaviour is criminal?
well considering that they are enforcing the pomodoro trademark hard, maybe i should switch to pornochat.com
I think the pole in the center prevents your body from leaning forward more than the Segway will tilt (i.e. it can just tilt backwards, and push your body back where it belongs).

With the Onewheel you can just lean forward as much as you like, and the board is supposed to accelerate to bring your center of balance back into the middle.
They didn't look like they were having fun, tbh. If I had to grope 300+ people, some of them really not appealing, I wouldn't have fun too.
I cannot code in prod anymore and have definitely been looking to develop a habit like this. Any tips from you and others on:

a) How to make it stick

b) How to maximize its efficacy/efficiency

Would be awesome.
But that doesn't include video part of a videocall and in many cases (internationall calls) cost quite a lot still.

The main push from sms/mms and calling to messaging services was the free price and additional features.
I've read somewhere that a majority of the "damage" from a bike accident is actually the "head to concrete" fall distance, and that speed often isn't a major factor.
Plenty of info on the web about magic mushrooms. Pick some, dry them, weigh them, eat them. Easy!
Yes, this is why I updated the comment with the "abducted by strangers" statistic.
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> It's a direct quote from Murray Rothbard. So that's one at least.

Ugh. That sounds ugly. Which part is the quote?

I assume not the "Well, I personally believe.." part but don't see any quotation marks so hard to tell.
The big baddie here, IMO, isn't even git itself but GitHub. Many younger devs don't even seem to realise that they're not the same thing, that git can be used without GitHub.
I mean, it is. It makes family life significantly harder for period of time. It does matter.
No, actually what constrains (DT) fusion is that even if a reactor is produced, no one will want it.

http://orcutt.net/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/The-Trou...
If the world didn't have a plane the size of a 747 for 50 years, and didn't have anything comparable planned when the rebuild was initiated 10 years ago, I'd be pretty psyched.
No not at all, this is completely unlike the bizarro NYT piece.
any other notable challenges, and for those challenges are there any workarounds? Additionally, any timeline on improvements to those public APIs?

and am I correct to assume the public API is the same API for functionality that notion itself uses or are there unexposed features that only the first party client gets?
> FTX lent the money to someone else (even if Alameda Research is also owned by SBF), and that other group lost the money

One minor clarification: "lent" should be "stole". If I can't pay my mortgage, I'm not allowed to go break in to my neighbor's house to steal some cash that I'll "borrow" in the hopes of paying back later.

FTX's Ts&Cs we're very clear - customer deposits were not FTX's to lend.

This is a simple, straightforward case of fraud and theft. No additional "crypto-specific regulations" are needed to reach that conclusion.
What becomes clearer by labeling things with neurotransmitters? Did you just not know your own habitual motivations? In that case some technical jargon won’t make you wiser or smarter.
Nice! If the robots can sustain on solar energy, even better.
But then it would be a 5 wheel.
> In an email to staff, the owner of the social media firm said workers would be expected in the office for at least 40 hours a week, Bloomberg reported.

meh. He bought a company that isn't making any money that acts like its raking in billions every year, staffed with people who think of it as a lifestyle business.
Thank you! And best of luck with the mission.
> A stack of Apple laptops could work as a powerful supercomputer

Imagine a beowulf cluster of those. /s
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You appear to have forgotten, for example, the "40% of my time trying to tame the bad internal tooling I was forced to use…".
Oh my god, I upvoted you before reading the DMs. I... wow, yeah, they need duct tape.

EDIT: Okay I just cannot get over this, obviously I'm exaggerating but it's pretty much "I didn't want to do bad stuff because that would be bad, and then after I had personally done all of the bad things, I realized that I had, in fact, done something very bad."
There's a heap of videos showing serious crashes on youtube.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys3ivCUxIvY is titled "OneWheel — The Deadliest EV" and it is was published two years ago. It shows many short clips of some crashes in the first minute, however, beware, it is very uncomfortable viewing if you empathise with accident victims (I don't watch American pratfall TV programming for the same reason).

That video also talks about another design/usability flaw at 8 minutes 30.
I've hit 50 mph downhill on my bike just to say I'd done it. I started thinking of all the ways it could end badly. As soon as I hit 50, I was on the brakes.
Leverage is a fine choice of words. In financial terms, debt and equity are not that different. Particularly VC equity, which can have some debt-like qualities to it (liquidation preferences, etc.).

Also, many startup investments use debt instruments like convertible notes instead of direct equity purchases.
certainly pretty obscure. I'd been mucking around in shells for 20+ years before I found it. Now it's part of my core set of commands used constantly.
What I don’t like is the non-ergonomic way that text scrolls. If three lines appear then the cursor is moved down three lines. I’m always craning my neck to try and find where the input cursor is just to reset it constantly to the “top” of the screen. I’d love it if I could just “glue” it to the bottom or top so output doesn’t change its location constantly.
Evolution might hijack the firmware update process now.
I was using an e-bike on a road with some ripples (I guess they messed up during paving). I was thrown off of the bike, and my helmet prevented any serious injury.

I wasn't even going very fast.

The only solution to that (and the potholes) is larger wheels.
Not too long ago, my son was riding his bike down the street (which he's not supposed to do, he's supposed to stay on the sidewalk).

A driver yelled at him, something fairly vulgar like "get out of the fucking road, asshole!"

He came home and reported this to me. I was more gentle obviously, and told him that the guy wasn't very nice for swearing at him.

But honestly, I don't blame the guy, and I'm happy he yelled at him. I'm sure he'll remember that incident next time he's cruising down the middle of the road.
The world produces 700 cubic kilometers (at STP) of hydrogen every year. I assure you there are materials compatible with hydrogen, or else this would not be possible.
"A BBC TV show called Map Man, broadcast in 2005, claimed the London A-Z contains about 100 trap streets."

https://londonist.com/2015/11/london-trap-streets

Tangential: Are A-Z guides still a thing? I still have my old one from many years back when I lived there.
Just tells you a lot a lot what to expect in Metaverse and the experience there.
Why does anyone work there?
As the video points out (toward the end), since these robots recognize and work on each individual plant, they are much more able to deal with more biodiversity than our current methods, which can only scale for monocrops.
His lawyers should take away his electronic devices from him.
Agreed. If this is a problem inherent in the form factor, it should be advertised as such and we continue on, like we do with motorcycles, skateboards and so on.
I have two children in Montessori and agree wholeheartedly with the above.

I would like to emphasize the check for AMS or AMI. Any school can all themselves a Montessori school, so I'd make sure it's at least certified in one of those two (not familiar with SAIS so cannot comment on that).
Because it's all about cost. Those 400m container ships are ran by a low cost crew of 15-25 with some 3rd party maintenance personnel sprinkled in. Try fitting a more expensive fuel and more maintenance into that. On top of all safety concerns.

For ocean crossing vessels they are more closely looking at e-fuels and hydrogen since that gives the same benefitd at cheaper cost with not a too large change in the shore side infrastructure.
That's the proper mindset to have, i applaud him
Similarly feelings with the ML-based code writing tools. Where's the help with debugging??
Just be careful not to pick amanita which tend to be quite fatal.
> It's more efficient to cool and liquify air than to generate hydrogen.

I dispute this claim.
I'm more talking about "well it could work out" reasoning as to why ignoring the St Petersburg Paradox is somehow justified.
I have literally seen interviewees expected to come up with Floyd’s linked-list cycle-finding algorithm independently (or rather, pretend they did).
> what did he do?

FTX loaned money to Alameda, the crypto hedge-fund made a series of bets and probably put some cash in illiquid assets too, but mostly irresponsible bets. Crypto market collapsed, bets that were worth billions with a decent liquidity now became worth millions with not so much liquidity.

They turned to their most harsh competitor hoping for a bailout kinda like how Microsoft saved Apple in the 90s . All that didn't happen, it was the the straw that broke the camel's back.

That's about it, when you are leveraged adverse market events can literally put any company out of business, no matter how giant it is. Chapter 11 is not the end of the world for old companies making real stuff that people will always want (say General Motors or Hertz), but in crypto where everything is about reputation there is no way FTX will ever be heard of ever again.

In the case of the crypto market adverse events of massive proportions repeat themselves every 5 years or so. It happened this year , together with inflation. It was due, at some point the chickens had to come home to roost.....whatever the fuck that means lol.
Just waiting for the day when the robot decides we are also a weed.
I won't be surprised. Completely devoid of creativity and ideas
I saw parts of an interview where he openly states,in substance, that a Ponzi scheme is a valid investment, the new way of doing things. I was puzzled and took a mental note to check on how he fares I once in a while.

I had no idea the sums involved were this big, and the operation this much amateurish.
Ignoring the fact that it's a private company now with no publicly traded shares, Twitter loses $4 million per day. Before the buyout, most of its revenue (> 90%) based on ads. But now advertisers are leaving the site en masse and there's no real plan to replace that lost revenue, let alone make the company profitable.
Ask HN: Commit suicide (in terms of family time)
So, if you agree to work from the office and on “hardcore” mode, wouldn’t that imply that you are saying goodbye to your family in practical terms?

A simple back of the envelope calculation assuming that “hardcore” means 10h/day instead of the usual 8h/day:

- 10h/day at the office

- 25 min commute each way

- 8h/day of sleep

- 1h/day for chores (shower, dinner, breakfast)

That leaves you 4h/day to spend with your loved ones, plus weekends (unless “hardcore” also means working a little bit on Saturdays. Wouldn’t surprise me). And those 4h won’t be your best hours in the day (you would probably want to sit down at the couch). So anyone staying at Twitter would be committing suicide in terms of family and friends life.

I guess only people without family would consider staying.

Edit: my point here is not to criticise the employer who enforces these kind of practices (“it’s their company and they do whatever they want with it“), because I think that’s the easy path (in my opinion any employer who uses this kind of strategy is a dinosaur); my point is: what kind of employee accepts such a deal?! And we are not talking about any kind of employees here, we are talking about engineers working for (what used to be) one of the top software companies in the world. One may assume these kind of engineers can find work with better conditions anywhere.
As much as I love (and still pay for) Evernote, I've just now realized that I haven't added to my collection there over 6 months. Without intending to, I seem to have largely switched to just saving websites with the "SingleFile" extension for Firefox.
You can always charge an hourly rate for that duration of work whenever it comes up.
It's a bit of a balance. It's great to be able to keep up with the 25 mph/40 kph traffic on city streets, but small bumps in the pavement are rough and of course there's quadratically more energy to manage in the event of a crash.

I think we need to normalize the idea that riding a class 3 bike requires using at a minimum a full-face helmet, motorcycle gloves, and close-toed shoes.

Personally I'll likely keep riding my bike in class 3 mode since it results in zero speed penalty over driving in town (and often is faster thanks to bike lanes that bring you to the front of a line of cars stopped at a light, and can typically be parked steps away from the door of where I'm going).
> Because motivated, high performing people need to have control over their own destiny.

I don't quite buy this: Those same "motivated, high performing people" don't seem to have anywhere near the same "need to have control over their own destiny" when it comes to the commercial closed-source tools they use.
Show HN: Intents Operator, turns dev intent into K8s netpolicies and Kafka ACLs
Hey HN,

We’ve recently published an open source Kubernetes operator, the intents operator, that makes it easy to manage network policies and Kafka ACLs in a way that enables teams to control access without cross-team coordination, and keeps gradual rollout in mind, eliminating many points of friction with using network policies and Kafka ACLs.

The intents operator implements a concept called IBAC, or Intents-Based Access Control, for Kubernetes network policies and Kafka ACLs. For network policies, it means that developers that want to connect to another service, declare the intent to do so, and the operator creates appropriate network policies, as well as labeling pods and namespaces as needed.

For example:

apiVersion: k8s.otterize.com/v1alpha1
kind: ClientIntents
metadata:
name: intents-sample
spec:
service:
name: my-client
calls:
- name: web-server

The effect is that a single Kubernetes resource controls access - whereas with network policies, developers, often across multiple teams, must coordinate the contents and versioning of 3 resources - the network policy and labels themselves. We think this approach is a ton easier to reason about and work with, and that’s all us devs really want, right? Just let me get on with it.

We’re building more of this stuff, and think it should be equally easy to get access even when you need to access different kinds of services on different platforms. Securely accessing services shouldn’t be hard - it should be easy to do the right thing and hard to shoot yourself in the foot, and it should work with your existing infrastructure and development workflows.

If you too have felt the pain of managing network policies, have a look and let us know what you think!
Open source governance: Why less is more
As any article confusing life with literature (or philosophy), ultimately, confusing the author personal life with his ideas, or reaching conclusions between the two, this is mainly garbage. Live your life, read Nietzsche (or whoever else): does it make sense to you? That matters. As Wittgenstein put it, philosophy is like stairs. Once you reach a certain height, you can throw them away.
If only the CPSC had tested skateboards for speed wobbles, they would be banned.
There's no better or faster way to experiment with a TI-99/4A today. Besides the great hardware emulation, a huge collection of the software released for the platform is available right there on the site.
If you mean databases as in a "Personal Information System" (notes, tasks, catalogs, etc.), I use Grist and Tana.

Grist [1] is an "augmented" but still "classic" relational DB builder. It is (kind of) open-source, backed by SQLite, and you can self-host it. I like it because it is user-friendly while also being highly programmable (Python formulas, widget grid) and "data-friendly" (nice filters, Merge imports...)

Tana [2] is a less classic kind of DB. The main view is an "advanced" outliner (like Roam). But every line of text could also act as an "universal Form" and a "node" in a semantic graph DB.
Wherever and whenever you type, you can turn your unstructured, freeform blocks of text into "as you go" structured data. This works well for Evergreen-Notes [3], Tasks, Contacts...

A bonus : for any kind of references (and not just citations), Zotero is very flexible. As local/opensource personal DBs go, it is a solid bookmark manager and pdfs-annotations store.

[1] https://www.getgrist.com/
[2] https://tana.inc/
[3] https://maggieappleton.com/evergreens
What kind of kindergarten expels children? It sounds at best grossly incompetent. Are you sure there was no other bias that played a role in their decision? It sounds rather unlikely you were the cause.
Those are all good reasons to not want to use setAccessible, but they're not good reasons to be unable to do so.
This kind of stories is one of the reason I visit Hacker News. Thank you!

It's funny and annoying to read every week or so about another epic fail of a multi-billion "multinational information technology company". Good luck with outsourcing your critical services and medical data to neurodivergents.

Thanks again for making my day.
Seems like it should hoe each weed instead of spraying it. I guess that's a little harder to do. Maybe a lot harder.

Two other things I thought were interesting in the video. One, the idea of mapping the whole field is pretty cool. There must be useful things you could do with a millimeter-scale 3D map of an entire field. Two, this is happening in California, just a few hours' drive from Silicon Valley. I hope some of the engineers laid off recently find work in ag tech, because there will be huge opportunities coming with the rise of computer vision and (hopefully soon) robotics.
I've been on 4 different teams at Amazon (now migrating to a 5th). It depends entirely on the team and as well as your current level. Some do loops just like with external candidates. Others barely require more than a conversation with someone on the team -- though this one is a huge red flag. Teams looking for warm bodies are seldom good teams.

Most of the time its somewhere in between. You'll speak with the manager, speak with the team, you each review each other's artifacts, and if everyone's happy, you swap over. The balance of power is pretty nice. I've dropped out of the process many, many times after starting talking with management. Or even just learning more about what the team itself does (I couldn't live with myself if I worked on pre-roll ads, for example. So I noped out of that one).
That’s not an experiment, that’s a rise in pay-rate… it’s very much past due in a lot of countries for a lot of job categories.
Well if the weeds adapt into corn to outwit the robot that wouldn't be too bad.