skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I follow pretty closely and have not seen any evidence or heard any rumors that there are any reputable banks with significant direct exposure. Many of the banks that might fall would be ones whose primary customers are people in the crypto space but really its all shrouded in mystery. VC firms and PE, on the other hand, are probably going to see a lot of bloodshed
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments, e.g. snark, putdowns, and swipes? You've been doing it repeatedly and we've asked you not to, repeatedly.

No one is saying you owe billionaire CEOs better but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Please enlighten us: in what “moral” way do you think people should be allowed to spend their own money?

However they like - if it doesn't harm others.

> There is a wonderful little story in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged

... Ewww.

So, tax-avoiding billionaires spending their ill gotten gains on giant sinkholes of money reminds you of a productive factory worker in a fictional story by a world renowned hypocrite?

I'm very confused why you think there's a connection, but I'd encourage you to think a little deeper and broader.
Exactly. If you're a nice, high-level developer, you probably think that GDB (or similar) sucks in comparison. You'd be wrong, but trust me, it's a hell of a lot better than the debugger for reality, which really sucks.

A lot of embedded C code looks like (to take some from an esoteric project I can share)

void eurotherm902s_set_xs( unsigned int xs, struct sp_port* port_choice )
//Set the extension status word
{
char buf[8];
assert( xs <= 0xFFFF );
sprintf( buf, "XS>%04x", xs & 0xFFB7 );
bvt3000_send_command( buf ,port_choice);
}

This is not interesting, nor is it intelligent, nor is it (arguably) safe. It is, however, fast and functional and directly talks to the hardware. The difficulty in doing this isn't understanding what is going on in the code. It's in working out what the <bleep> is actually happening if you see the right blips on a logic analyser and nothing comes out the other end -- and that often touches on physics as well as EE and computing. I personally really like it, but it's much, much more frustrating as far as experiences go (at least compared to Stack Exchange and "apt install $magic_package_version" to solve your immediate problem)...
That was my coach's rationalization for not sending me to state competition at the end of my freshman year, despite my quali's. I put a "head" onto his name when I said thanks, got in lots of trouble and went and got a job instead of further competition. Best decision ever. Thanks, Richard!
You absolutely do have to quibble over those numbers. Or do you not think we should be tracking asteroids either because they only kill 95% of all life once every few hundred million years?
This is the truth, about to raise and am looking for someone to help out. Let me know if interested!
I can teach a programmer the basics of how to use a scope in 10 minutes. The basics of C for a non programmer would take what - a week minimum?

Every scope made in the last 20 years has an autoconfig/autoset button...
To summarise: PowerShell is awkward.
Dell reaches $1B settlement over disputed 2018 stock swap
I get it is a strange idea. But putting a quote that doesn't really have any substance isn't really an argument nor adding value against it.

I think the idea of 4 days work week is asking to work outside the box for a moment on what benefits this could entail for different industry.

> To work all week is to surrender your will, working less is the core of motivating man

(see this quote disagrees!)
> `cmd-o` to open

I always use Command+Down.
It adds a layer where complex attacks can hide. I'm not so much worried about the 'insmod' as I am about long term data exfiltration being used against me. This certainly does seem to make that a little easier.
But I'm a green guy, we all know it we pull the yellow lever civilization will end!

A party that never loses an election has no incentive to do anything for the voters.
I moved around around a lot as a kid, immigrant family & all, but one year we lived in a house whose back yard opened up to a big park with a small playground, 2-3 minute walk from the gate and visible from the porch which I'd sometimes occasion while my parents were busy studying or doing paperwork of some sort and couldn't take me.

It only took 2-3 weeks before some Karen called the cops on me and CPS got involved. The process was insane and honestly pretty traumatizing to both me & my parents. The people were awful. the process was stupid and traumatizing and I suspect the stress it created, and missed work/study opportunites that it resulted for my parents had quite a bit to do with their falling appart & divorce a year or two later.

I think I was around 8 at the time too.
I exclusively work on microcontroller projects, and my experience is the same. I've only worked on one project that really needed my EE experience to write some drivers. Once the drivers are there, it's all application layer for the rest of the project, which usually go on for 1-3 years for a team of 1 to 12 people.
> I've just left a startup company who's entire backend was written ... by an agency. ... A new dev team was created to take over and it was a disaster.

I honestly think these are the important bits of this story. The startup outsourced their backend to an agency, then tried to replace the agency with a brand new internal dev team.

There's no way that story ends well, regardless of the paradigm the agency chose or how skilled they might have been (probably not very). Every codebase is unmaintainable when the team that built it is suddenly replaced.

Peter Naur had a lot to say about this in Programming as Theory Building [0]:

> The extended life of a program according to these notions depends on the taking over by new generations of programmers of the theory of the program. For a new programmer to come to possess an existing theory of a program it is insufficient that he or she has the opportunity to become familiar with the program text and other documentation. What is required is that the new programmer has the opportunity to work in close contact with the programmers who already possess the theory, so as to be able to become familiar with the place of the program in the wider context of the relevant real world situations and so as to acquire the knowledge of how the program works and how unusual program reactions and program modifications are handled within the program theory.

[0] https://gist.github.com/onlurking/fc5c81d18cfce9ff81bc968a7f...
I think they have to be somewhat not dumb and communicate with the car before it will close the traction battery contactors?
Yea, totally. I'm saying it's a strategy, not a reality haha.
This tells me you live in the US!
"Abuse of emergency services," but this isn't that.
When I write software, I know that users will do dumb things and it is my responsibility to write my code in such a way that they can cause no damage.

The legal system should have similar responsibilities. If citizens can report crimes, some citizens will incorrectly report non-crimes. If the legal system can't handle that, the that is entirely the fault of the legal system.
Move faster, wait less: Improving code review time at Meta
I mean someone could gather this info, the average working hours in China are ~10 more than the US and some European countries average lower.

Given humans are highly adaptable I imagine we will adjust to the new normal and keep finding time to mess around at work.
This article is complete nonsense and I’m glad I don’t live in Waco, Texas. Your experience was similar to mine I used to walk a mile to school or ride my bike to a friends and then walk. I pick my daughter up near a private school everyday and there are 100 or so kids walking under 13.

There are 8 year olds walking around my neighborhood every weekend and nobody bats an eye.
My take? Evernote failed because it's a Feature, Not a Company ("FNAC") [1]. There are lots of examples of this. Just because something is a good idea doesn't make it a viable standalone business.

Evernote was early in this space but it already competed with (for eample) sending yourself emails. Nowadays there are all sorts of alternatives like Apple has a note-taking app on their devices, which is just free (it might use storage but that's a minor issue). Likewise, you can use Google Apps.

Evernote's attempts to make it a business by introducing the friction of a subscription to get syncing beyond 2 devices (and other variants I'm forgetting I'm sure) just exposed this FNAC problem.

Now could this have been leveraged to build a sustainable business of which note syncing was a part? Maybe. But that's not exactly easy either.

[1]: https://bothsidesofthetable.com/explaining-fnac-feature-not-...
You're looking at it too literally.

Enforcing others to change their language is mostly about power. Any feel good explanations of why it needs to change is justification for executing that power.
Apple and Major League Soccer Launching MLS Season Pass in February 2023
Nobody is going to be patching calling programs like this. There may be OS emulation in machine mode (saving and restoring the register file) to pretend to be a "generic" RISC-V.
As someone who has been constantly annoyed for 20 years by Fortune 250 corporate IT policies, I see this slightly differently. All the confusing, contradictory, usually-non-specific-yet-sometimes-wildly-specific polices the IT department decrees come from some nice-sounding reason, usually from some white paper or consultant, or just some major screwup that caused embarrassment. But, like ISO9000 and SOX and all the rest, they inevitably wind up, as implemented, as make-work policy.

It's the same in government. Government is so large now, that every law that gets passed is now make-work law. And for all the same reasons that people with no critical thinking make it their job to enforce stupid ideas like "all code used for authentication in web apps must be written in C", people in the legal system, including and ESPECIALLY "soft" jobs like CPS, have to justify their existence by making the most work out of the least situation.

So I'll do you one better: it's the fault of politicians tugging on heart strings to pass overreaching, touchy-feely laws, that give government too much power, in order to get themselves reelected.
On top of its overall surreal basis, this case once again highlights why I can’t take the USA justice system seriously. Guilty plea shouldn’t exist in a civilised country. When you had plea bargaining, what you get is a mockery of justice.
> This isn't a normal market and regulators need to step up.

The most regulated housing markets in the US are also the most expensive. Please spare us from the "help" of regulators.
One is easier than the other and counts toward arrest / enforcement quotas.
Amazon Drive Is Shutting Down at the End of 2023, but Your Photos Are Safe
So what happened in 2008? Are you arguing that was about dividing lots ?
I didn't say I agreed. I'm just telling you why it didn't happen.

FWIW the UK and Canada (and maybe other Commonwealth countries) have had successful examples of public-owned companies. The US has no such tradition and is, therefore, culturally resistant to the idea.
Dynolog: Open-Source System Observability
I'm just a software guy and I don't claim to be saving the world with how I live my life. I like tech is all.

Maybe the woke people can go feed the homeless and stop making physics phds write ideological essays about social issues. Then everyone wins.
Just like russia was America's best friends during WWII, they still let them bleed dry before entering the war ensuring a sufficiently weakened Russia after the war.
I've been running Fedora Silverblue for about 3 or 4 years on my main laptop. Just got a notification that Fedora 37 is available. Clicked download in Gnome Software. Took about 5 minutes to download. Rebooted and now I'm on Fedora Silverblue 37. I don't know any other desktop OS that has this easy and fast upgrade flow. I'm loving it.
This is absolutely funny if he knows about the banking system of the UAE

Binance and CZ would be saints compared to them. He is an economist, he should know. Ergo, he must be an idiot
I'm also very interested in this, but particularly the book part, which I couldn't find on the website linked above, unless it only works with Kindle highlights?

I have a gigantic EPUB library and have yet to find a good way to export my notes and highlights from all these books (mostly read in KOreader).
Definition of scalability: (Change in performance) over (the change in something else).

As math:

Scalability = δ Performance / δ x

... where x can be almost anything.

Take note: performance == "throughput" in most cases.

THEREFORE, when scalability questions arise, you should be specific about which dimension of scalability is in question.

Some dimensions of “scalability”

* Number of customers

* Total number of users

* Number of concurrent users

* Number of locations where a business or application runs

* Size of the database

* Transaction volume

* Output volume

* Response time
Microsoft is leaving so much money on the table by not selling Windows LTSB to individual consumers.
Sometimes that makes it worse. You'll get founders who say "Well, when I originally wrote [our product], it was 1,500 lines of code, and I did it myself in a weekend. Why are you telling me a team of five needs a month to add a single feature???" Except, things are different now that the code base has increased 100X and the number of users has increased 10,000X.
CPS investigated and cleared them and then dropped the case. It's the cops and DA who kept going.
Could you help explain why the general consensus seems to consider Amazon as a just given backup and easy interview path (but the hard part is the actual job crunch apparently)? They still do leetcode screening don’t they?

IMO they’ve been harder than the others because the process is so automated that you either pass or fail on the code test. There’s no tech interviewer to give you a hint unless they changed that recently.

You don’t get to show off your leadership or any other skills this way. You either memorized the solution to the random leetcode problem you get or you fail as far as I understand it.
Airbnb is cracking down on party bookings and identity verification
> If you are using containers, always, always, always use immutable containers from Google Guava unless you have an exceptionally good reason.

I actually prefer pcollections: https://github.com/hrldcpr/pcollections

AtomicReference + immutable data types is a really nice way to program in Java, and is basically the way most Clojure programs are written.
It can be, which is one thing that made Bazaar so great, because you get a choice. But that's never the major issue when people start complaining about git. You can get used to and even start to enjoy staging changes. There's nothing enjoyable about the git cli's uncaring inattentiveness to user experience.
"Any proposal must be viewed as follows. Do not pay overly much attention to the benefits that might be delivered were the law in question to be properly enforced, rather one needs to consider the harm done by the improper enforcement of this particular piece of legislation, whatever it might be."

-Lyndon B. Johnson
The blogs claim WSL1 is still being maintained and there are scenarios where WSL1 still makes sense. (WSL1 has better hardware compatibility because it is not VM emulated hardware but direct access via the NT Kernel, as an example mentioned in other comment threads here.)

This seems like a case where they should have picked a different naming scheme rather than numbers like WSL-A and WSL-B or something.
Seems like the layoffs were not announced well, with many people still not knowing whether they are or are not impacted, and no clear message from the top. Shameful, especially contrasting to how recent layoffs were handled by Meta and Stripe.
Orange Micro
Yeah, I think it's a bit unfair to reduce this to the indifference of DAs. They focus on getting plea deals and convictions because that's what their constituents focus on. No DA wants to squeeze out a plea deal if their constituents are going to be angry & disappointed with.
District attorney is an elected office in Texas. McLennan County DA Barry Johnson should be called upon to explain himself to the public.

Chief of Police doesn't seem to be an elected office, but Chief Sheryl Victorian is still accountable to the public, and she should also be called upon to explain the policies of her department and the actions of her officers.

https://www.co.mclennan.tx.us/directory.aspx?eid=185

https://www.waco-texas.com/Departments/Police-Department/Chi...
Anyone have any comments about the term "highly sensitive person"? tia
> And it's perfectly possible to run hoogle locally and integrate it with your editor.

Interesting.

Could you point to some demo of such IDE integration? Never seen it.

I'm still struggling to imagine how something like "IntelliSense" would look like in such a system. Do you have e.g. any demo video you could point to? Curious to learn more!
have you used comet? it basically does everything you are asking and lot more user-friendly than MLFlow
The more your work is in creative output, the more likely you are to be working 100% of the time you're on the clock. Cognition is complex and most of it happens under the covers. Once you wake up, you load up your brains with concerns and don't stop thinking about it just because you aren't in meetings or actively coding. Your conscious thoughts are only one layer in a dense system.

Arguably, you can't turn it off when you clock out either. It's why I argue for a retainer model on intellectual workers.
Do you currently work there or are you part of the peanut gallery?

And please, I beg you, don't give me a tirade about politics or offensive tweets. I am not interested.

If Elon has wrong notions about spambots, checkmarks, which datastore to use, project deadline estimations - great, sounds like every company ever. He probably does, so what. And if I put you in charge you probably will drift away from reality in short order.

All you can do is push back and say stuff like: 'actually it will take x7 your estimates because of these concrete reasons' or 'that spam algo won't fix it because you haven't considered x,y,z here is statistical proof'.

Otherwise nucleus will get behind schedule:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddTbNKWw7Zs

If nobody believes you or listens, well you are on the record. Who cares. Maybe you get fired maybe you get promoted.

Twitter has been languishing anyway there is really nothing to lose by giving it a proper go. Sounds like fun to me actually.

All the whiners seem to be able to talk about is everything except, you know, the actual work.

Honestly the whiners can just bail already, quit the company and the website. Go to Mastodon and stop caring. Life is short.
Depends on the project. Most of the teams I've been on were 4-12 SWE for 1-3 EEs. These were usually mid-range microcontrollers with GUIs. It's typically only weaker, single-purpose embedded without an RTOS (like sensors or whatnot) that has 1 to 1 unless the company wants the project to drag on for half a decade.
Not necessarily. Spend it like a money - no capital gain. Trading is different story. It's like Forex trading. You get taxed on capital gains on Forex transactions as well.
https://archive.ph/aejHL
That's because gergov and tartoran were not making woah's point about people who don't have accounts at exchanges. They were making their own related point in reply, also about people who don't have accounts at exchanges, being damaged by price drops in the wake of problems at exchanges.

Are they allowed to do that?
> Fundamentally it's the fault of the politicians who passed the law and the people who voted for them.

When did it become illegal for children to be outside without adult supervision?
Yet I can't really fault a company for trying to hold people accountable for breaking their terms of employment.
I mean... this is a case where the police should also say "it's ok, it's not that far mr/mrs neighbor, you don't have to call us for that".

it's also a case if the police actually cuffed and brought the mom to jail, someone there should tell them they won't book them for something stupid.

If a DA is involved, it's also a case where the DA should say that they won't prosecute such a stupid thing.

This failure is not one crazy individual, but a whole failed system, from the bottom up. You'll always have a crazy neighbor, a paranoid cop, etc., but having a whole chain this rotten really sucks, and something should really be changed.
At this point it works really well as an Evernote replacement, including automatic OCR and search of scanned files – and it titles the note from the top of the OCR text, which Evernote never got working.
no not really. I mean ok if you stare into the sun long enough you’ll go blind and if you pump 300db into your eardrums with an ambulance siren, yes it can do damage. But your eyes and ears don’t ‘wear out’. For the most part they’ll regenerate continually but for instances where the hairs have been destroyed from infection or where genetics break the regeneration process. The studies reenforce the hypothesis that noise and not age are responsible for hearing loss, in spite of the fact that it’s the older patients that have it worse. its a bias they have, finding the conclusion before the rigor of an objective test.

And this matters. Because if you have a limited window to enjoy your hearing, you shouldn’t be listening at 50db, you should turn it up and get the full immersive enjoyment while you are able.
Regarding security and firmware updates, how secure would you say these devices are?
I remember being maybe 13 years old or so and asking my parents for Turbo Pascal for Christmas haha. I think it was Turbo Pascal 3? I eventually upgraded to the nicer one with the windowed system. Good times!
Okay, sure. What are the statistics behind TFA; how many moms are getting jailed for their kids walking to school? Should anybody care?
Isn't Comet a proprietary SaaS? I like MLFlow because I can run it on my own computer if I want to.
I always pronounce RISC-V in my head as "RISC VEE". Even "RISC OR" is easier for me. If they call the successor RISC-VI then I'll probably mentally autocorrect it to "RISC-VIM" anyway, it's a lost cause.
The closest thing is to

git branch <temporarybranchname>

git checkout <originalbranchname>

git whatevertomfooleryyouwant

And if everything is foobar

git checkout <temporarybranchname>

Or, if you think the liklihood of messing stuff up is higher than the likelihood of success, make your changes to the temporary branch.
FTX was in bed with regulators and SBF was calling for more regulatory capture. The "reasonable regulation" trope is fit for parody.
It isn't the neighbors job to be mentally functional. It is, however, the police's, DA, and CPS's job.
I use large language model for work and use Notion daily.

while I like the "AI" part (the large language model),
think it would be more interesting and productive to use same backend for full text semantic search & question answering or summarizations.

But it is cool to see Notion trying this way, kinda curious to see the results when so many people have access to this type of generative model.
I agree - problem is loads of people think they should write framework and not a simple CRUD app.

I remember one meeting where clueless business person told developers (including me) that we need an *abstract* solution for a problem.

It took me quite some hours to explain to other devs that for this business person abstract solution is not what they think it is. Business person wanted CRUD app where they could configure names for database entries where developers wanted to make some fancy data types to be used with parametric polymorphism.