skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like you did the right thing, you were concerned and kept an eye on things. Calling the police would have been overkill and maybe wrecked this kids' family life (like what happened in the article). Other than that, I see no problem with approaching the kid and saying something like "hey, you can get hurt playing in the street, please take this to your backyard", or something like that. As long as you don't try and start a conversation it's not going to be weird. If you have a kid he may even know who you are already. All of the kids in my neighborhood know me as "Edward's dad", even though I wouldn't be able to pick most of them out of a lineup.
A fast function to check your floating-point rounding mode
I've ridden on one of those boats when I was in Basel. It was incredibly calming to cross the river with no noise from a motor.

There are also I think five different cable cars in the immediate Basel area that offer some incredible views as well.
It helps to have rich and connected parents, it also helps even more to donate millions to politician's campaigns.
As noted in the article, the reporter confirmed out-of-band via email the day afterwards.
How is this a small tradeoff? You don't use punctuation signs when writing(even if it's just a title)?
Poorly designed, failure-prone, brittle internal tooling was a time and energy sink

Sometimes I get frustrated at my own job for some reason or another, but I appreciate learning that the grass isn't really greener anywhere else & even places where tech is the core business are having a lot of the same problems.
This simply isn't the case for the X-ray machines you'd find in a hospital or at a dentist's office. Industrial equipment though? Sure
Somewhat unrelated to this article, but could someone clear up a point of confusion for me?

There are people blaming the CTFC and Congress and the Democrats that SBF donated to for not regulating this.

But was FTX (the Bahamian entity) even under their purview?

AFAIK, you weren't even allowed to access FTX from a USA IP address, you had to use a VPN. You could access FTX US which was a different thing and offered a much smaller subset of the products FTX did (and that business seems solvent?)

Like what jurisdiction does the USA have over a crypto exchange elsewhere? I know anything that touches a US dollar can be tried in a Manhattan court and maybe he gets convicted of a crime and extradited here. But like Japanese banks touch US dollars as well, but the USA doesn't get to regulate them, right?
Your disagreement with their assessment is exactly why they say it should not be used. There are two equally plausible interpretations, and as a technical term, theirs is correct, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_curve
Yes, but that displacement troller has a hull shaped like, well, a proper boat (or ship). I doubt the troller would be making significant forward speed against storm wind and seas if it was wider than it was long, like this abomination.

It's like an upscaled version https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_monitor_Novgorod except made for parting schmucks from their money instead of serving some military purpose.

(Well, in it's defence it seems at least the submerged part of it has some resemblance to, well, a hull form. Or several hulls bolted together.)
If they kept the original correspondence then it would anyway. Plus this wouldn't be legally binding in a court room when Elon runs in and is like "I think the spaces match the one that I sent to this employee." That is not enough evidence to say that the employee did it when it is trivial for the ploy to be subverted by another employee just inserting a space in a random place.
They should all be in prison bud and they’ll get their turn - the wheels of justice grind slow but they grind exceedingly fine. To avoid bringing them in without a charge yet, which is one of your main objections, the authorities are preparing their cases before arrest. And coordinating with many different parties, governments and police forces can take a long time.

There’s no one “international police” and each nation has to coordinate - and acts at its own cadence.
Might as well write "violates laws of thermodynamics" because it isn't possible. The house is just using the heat that is produced within it to achieve a stable temperature. With very good insulation, you don't need much beyond the typical heat produced by appliances & people.
Don't be absurd, we are not talking about anything comparable to slavery.

I am asking - show me the person who found the better way.
tfw you forget the old friend you're dming on twitter about your life problems is now working as a reporter for vox and is going to post your whole dm thread as an article
My data - base (not a DB) is org-mode, org-roam managed, org-attached files. Actually org-roam use SQLite under the wood but I can say I do not use it directly...

In DB terms IF I have to write some personal software outside Emacs/org-mode I'll choose the simplest and lightest tools I can found, case by case, however so far I have encountered no personal cases...
> Anyone care to comment on what they are using for receiving emails in Python?

In most cases, you use an existing MTA (like Postfix or whatnot) and set it up to deliver mail to a Python script. Or, even less directly, you use an IMAP library to access mail after it's delivered to a mailbox, or use a mail provider which can call a webhook over HTTP when an email is received.

For the rare situations where you do really want to write your own mail server, aiosmtpd exists, and the migration process doesn't look terribly complicated: https://aiosmtpd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/migrating.html
> The Transparency International index is based off of a survey of residents asking questions about perceived corruption

That's very convenient for the US, and why it managed to avoid being #1 on the list.

In India a small businessman gets annoyed that he has to pay a $20 bribe to have an operating license issued, but it works. He will tell Transparency Intlt that bribery is rampant. In the US there is no bribe a small business owner can pay to make his business work because the multinational billion dollar corporation with offices on Wall Street, D.C, and every other major city has paid off the legislators and had them introduce laws that introduce a barrier to entry that no small business could ever scale. The US small business owner will honestly tell Transparency Intl that he's never had to bribe anyone.

opensecrets.org
> What do I get? A mapping? Maybe?

A mapped list/enumerable it was originally given. You don't think what you get when you add two numbers, don't you? Language just works certain way. Not understanding a simple building block of a language isn't a valid argument against it. All you essentially say is that you got so used to OOP concepts that anything else is hard to read. And it's ok, it's the same way for everyone... But it's not a valid argument to say that "fUnCtIoNAL bAd". The whole thing here boils down to what you already said - lack of experience.

My honest advice is - try to learn one functional language, like honestly learn and understand it, try writing something with it. It really does expand horizons.
both recorders work as USB drives, once a day upload all your files, but is just drag & drop
I have a home in Taos, New Mexico that stays around 74 degrees Fahrenheit year-round w/o the use of a heater. Completely off-grid!
> Google blames the issue on third-party licensing partners. "The lyrics displayed in information boxes on Google Search are licensed from a variety of sources and are not scraped from sites on the web," the company said in a statement.

Did you read the link?
Nvidia Earning Results Q3 2023
It’s a silly idea that being the second largest donor to a political party in the US buys you special favors? Why else would anyone give that kind of money to politicians without expecting something in return?
He wasn't arrested for "writing the code", but for direct involvements (and making large sums of profit) for money laundering. Whether he is guilty of that: we'll see what comes up in the trail, but he certainly wasn't arrested "for writing code".
> still not been arrested

"Under supervision".[1] Rumors that he planned to escape to Dubai. But Dubai signed an extradition treaty with the US a few months back.

Extradition to the US may be pending.[2]

This is the sort of situation where, if there is an arrest, the perp gets held as a flight risk.

[1] https://cointelegraph.com/news/sam-bankman-fried-is-under-su...

[2] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11433541/FBI-planni...
This is neat! Body doubling and time boxing are helpful for ADHD. Offering both on demand sounds handy.
Yup, he founded Alameda Research in 2017 at age 25 and FTX in 2019 at 27.
> This isn't going to happen overnight

What isn't going to happen overnight, justice? A fairer world?

I don't think a fairer world is on its way, I wish it was but the powerful won't be held accountable because people simply don't have the power to hold them accountable. We simply don't live in a just world.
That's interesting. On the other hand, I've seen code go through great lengths to not do a double assign.

I doubt it was easier to reason about at all. The code set an error var on a number of if / else conditions. They then used a separate flag, so that a double write wouldn't be necessary. ie.
int flag = 0;

int err; // notice no initializer

if(stuff)
{
flag = 1;
err = 1;
}
else
{}

if(other_stuff)
{
flag = 1;
err = 2;
}
else
{}

if(flag)
{
LogError(err);
}

I follow the "avoid double write" convention too, but in some cases, it can become very difficult to reason whether a local is uninitialized; this is a pretty terrible class of bug, because you work with garbage data off of the stack.

Setting to zero at declaration makes it much clearer that it will never be uninitialized, but it's essentially meaningless and arguably a form of dead code.

Maybe someone will suggest a redesign? More functions, smaller functions? It seems that there's a strong (though unpopular) argument that you should use medium sized functions, and some teams insist on doing this. In some cases, it can be easier to find the content, verify specifications.

Edit: On second thought I can see we didn't avoid the double write, just did it in a different variable. So I don't understand what the author's point is, lol.
The wire would need to be parallel to the water at just above or below it and would always obstruct other traffic. This arrangement allows the wire to fall onto the seabed so ships can easily pass in front of and behind the ship, given reasonable clearances.
Just to be clear, where do you think he is and who do you think would be arresting him if not avoiding it for what reasons?
I had, once, in a HN comment a couple of months ago. It said that he was lobbying on some political race, which is something he was doing because he believed in "Effective Altruism". This was presented as a good thing, as though billionaires giving money to politicians was a novel idea. I guess this is the type of person who found him worthy of mention.
SF Launches Guaranteed Income Program for Trans Residents
I've mistrusted SBF since this interview.

I was quite frankly shocked that I didn't see more people questioning his judgement/ethics after this and other strange statements
You want the engine in a place where the people who need to control it, or even kill it in an emergency, can feel what the engine's doing, and have control over that engine.
I got rid of my Echo mostly because of those types of responses. And also for how easy they make it for you to buy something accidentally off Amazon, or accidentally upgrade to Music Unlimited.
There is no meaning of "housed" that implies "owns a house".
That seems counter-productive and simple to disprove. I've done four tests:

* Grabbed the official RSS feed¹ via `curl`.

* Opened the front page in Safari with Private Relay² turned on.

* Opened the front page in a Chromium browser.

* Opened the front page on a phone, through cellular.

All showed the same content. Plus, you can revisit the front page of other days³. So either they don’t personalise the front page or they’d need to go to great lengths to conceal it (perhaps targeting specific users).

¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/rss

² https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212614

³ https://news.ycombinator.com/front
>I have never spent 40% of my time battling internal tools....

In my experience, not at Amazon, long tenure employees get used to the quirky tools but the impact on new employees can be massive. Same with bad code bases, bad documentation and so on.
Who Said It: The New Republic or Gawker?
It is a good way to turn optimizations into gross pessimizations.
But the ads they show will be based on your calls right? Because, how else...
> "Fuck off. Don't talk to my son."

That's the worst response. It puts them in the defensive.

If there is any "good" way, it is to be incredibly obsequious and deferential. Most of all, these kind of people just need their tummy tickled. "Yes, ma'am, will take it into consideration next time, ma'am".

Works great with cops too. They totally love that shit.

If you can, you can then nudge in right direction. "Have you met little Timmy yet? He's such a sweet little scamp, always wanting to ride his bike like his poppy". "oh you live here, i love that spicebush in your front yard. we've wanted to plant one too".

We have a busybody neighbor, she's always calling code enforcement on neighbors. I'm just really sickly sweet with her, I loath every second of it, but I don't think now she'll ever call inspections on us since we now have an expectation to chat when we cross paths.

Anyway, it's hard, and there is no "win" here. But if there is an angle, the angle is to treat them like dumb, stupid babies.
Do you absolutely have to follow/receive notifications for all 100 channels?
I wonder if it's an attempt to disassociate himself with EA. The general consensus on EA forums is anger and shame at how generally good ideas like treating charitable donations as an investment based on impact have been essentially hijacked and longtermism pushed front and center too.
> I can't easily identify whether or not I'm neurodivergent, because I'm not sure what it means or what the opposite would look like. Does anybody know?

The people who are claiming to be neruodivergent would say its quite obvious to themselves (FWIW, the general definition is roughly ADHD or Autism, both of which have more concrete definitions). I was assuming the statement was about other people verifying the veracity of the statement not yourself.

Of course, i don't know how you can easily identify if you are actually hungry, when you can't even tell if you actually have a stomach or are just a brain in a vat/plugged into the matrix.
Something that makes frontpage on Hackernews certainly should be newsworthy and not seeing other media or bloggers pick it up is a little surprising.
The line above was a movie-quote, I believe Cassablanca? Where the inspector/regulator comes out of the Casino saying that he's shocked to hear of gambling in the facility, flanked by two call girls.

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EDIT:
That being said, the level of shock here is warranted.

> “It’s definitely a mess,” says Josh Morrison, who heads 1Day Sooner, a pandemic preparedness research and advocacy organization that received $375,000 from the Future Fund and the FTX Foundation. During the pandemic, 1DaySooner became known for advocating so-called human challenge trials, which deliberately infected volunteers with SARS-CoV-2 to test vaccines.

So FTX allegedly donates a lot of money to various causes. Those scientists begin the trials (expecting the money to pay them back eventually), but... FTX goes bankrupt before it hands those scientists money.

That's... bad. I'm not in the scientific field, but it seems like these groups had reasonable expectation that some money was coming for them... and that money wasn't related to cryptocoins or whatever.
Well there's a sense of contrition there, so that's good.

However there's no reasonable excuse. You can't be like "aw man, I wish we'd been more organized". A big piece of this is on the investors. All those depositors would have been saying "Hey Sequoia and OTPP are in there, they must have checked things are sound". Was that foolish of them, to assume reputable investors had done their due diligence? You're between a rock and a hard place when you answer this. Either they should have all done their own DD, basically not invested because who can do DD as a little guy, or large investors are not responsible for what everyone else thinks they did, which is a rather major indictment of how our financial system works.

But back to SBF's explanation. It's just juvenile, basically the same as "mommy, you didn't make me clean my room and now I slipped and hurt myself". Whatever the laws are, when someone trusts you with their money, you are responsible for certain basic things like knowing where that money is. All the money in the world and they didn't think to hire an accountant and a risk manager. Or perhaps they did and those people quietly left, we'll never know.

About the regulators, it's quite the about-turn. He goes from saying it's a good thing (which was why CZ got pissed at him?) to saying it was just PR, and that regs basically don't work anywhere. I think this is also a juvenile view. You can make the case that it often leads to unintended consequences, and that it often causes problems, but you can't sweep all regulations in all sectors into the bin, there's just too much evidence that it sometimes does work. In fact you could say that the very reinvention of finance as crypto ought to motivate participants to look at what problems were found in the financial world that were addressed by regulation. Glass-Steagal, deposit insurance, central banking, there's a lot to read about.
Funnily enough -- I came across a prototype Pantech device and I suspect that it's not only disguised for the carrier, but also the design and number of the Os could help trace its origin.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/134172491386
Intriguing, can you share details or overview why it failed for you. Will be kind of gotchas for me
I'm not actually sure what a personal database is. If I'm writing software, I love SQLite, but I don't have any software developed truly for personal use, although my automation server project does run a porch camera.

But even in software it's not common that I need a DB, since I do a lot of embedded. Most software I write uses text, with an eye to version control and SyncThing sync.

For personal information management I use Obsidian/Syncthing to take relatively unstructured notes, combined with Google assistant for reminders. Various bits of non critical data lives in assorted apps and clouds, like Garmin connect and Google location history.

On the very rare occasion I have any personal use for managing structured data, I use Google Docs or LibreOffice Calc, but that doesn't come up a lot.

More than what tools people use to manage data, I'm curious about the data itself. I always hear about programmers using Awk and sed, and all kinds of talk about processing data, but I'm not sure what people actually do with structured personal data.
Elon increasingly looks like a child in the fog whose actions are driven mostly by emotions.
Java 11+ has factory methods for unmodifiable collections: https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/docs/api/java.base...
This is an interesting question. Doesn't Signal rather famously not track anything about who you're talking to? Reputational damage to Signal's brand aside, I expect it'd be hard to sell advertisers on a black hole.
Did he want more verbiage? “GIGO” is an acceptable comment if it’s applicable and that’s only four characters.
The end of ageing? The scientists behind the race to turn back time
Just tell them Chrome is going to become the next IE if everything only works on Chrome
Yeah society is horrible and narcissistic, so lets just make it all worse.
no .. another website .. a big library with thousands of videos and tutorials of everything
Crypto exchange and collapse, one cannot name a better duo.
Whenever they stray into US or an ally's jurisdiction, I'd imagine.

I suspect they're smart enough not to.
Sounds good to me. Soldiers controlling the thing can make smarter decisions if they aren't in imminent danger.

If you are standing post and perceive a threat you cannot afford to wait and see. This is just a piece of equipment and ROEs can hopefully be more relaxed.
You are arguing both sides here. You argue that moving data between discrete processors is bad then argue that sharing memory with processors is also bad. One of the two certainly MUST happen.

GPUs seem to on the right path here as the trend toward a thread manager sending data to various CPU/ALU/SIMD/matrix/whatever units.
Easy way to make the UI end in an inconsistent state: when somebody asked you to review a PR, you’ll see an “add your review” banner and CTA. If from that same page you add yourself as a reviewer the banner won’t appear unless you reload
What do you mean? It's a messaging platform with built-in integration to the largest social network in the world. I couldn't possibly imagine a more textbook example of lock-in.
My work life balance at Amazon as an SDE is great but I don't have 24/7 oncall, make of that what you will.

That being said, I agree that the internal tooling at Amazon is not that great. It's actually a place where newer employees tend to clash with older Amazonian because it compares unfavourably with GitHub actions or any modern CI/CD while being significantly better than anything that existed in the early 2010s.

I've heard a lot of testimonies of SDEs maintaining pipelines that are making them miserable.
Having two professors as parents isn't exactly 'well connected politically'[1]. Two senators, or two billionaires would be.

[1] I can't say I've ever felt that I was well-connected politically...
Wednesday is forest trip day, weather schmeather. Once after a stormy Wednesday the kindergarten stayed closed for the rest of the week as most of the involved - kids and educators - got a cold. Still Switzerland yes.
It makes a lot of sense given the nature of SBF’s charitable donations and the purported rationale(s) behind them. Kelsey Piper is pretty deeply associated with the EA movement, which is heavily interested in picking the right ways to deploy money to solve the world’s problems, and much of SBF’s charitable giving was too.
Seventy-five to one hundred percent of the author's complaints are addressed by the `fc` command and I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned yet. Fc opens $EDITOR and upon exiting executes the saved contents. It's great for editing a complex command, but perhaps a tad obscure.
This makes the assumption that capitalism exists in a vacuum: It doesn't. Companies aren't *always* trying to simply optimise for financial growth at all times. They're made of humans, some of whom aren't necessarily megacapitalists.
There's a short list of reasons to factor out a method. The most popular one is "if you see the need for inline comments for a block of code, maybe the code shouldn't be inline", but feeling the need to redefine a variable, especially in the middle of a function, is often a good indicator of a new scope starting. Sending variable foo with an increment, a merge, or a concatenation to another function is fairly readable. Having foo and foo' inline is quite a bit harder on working memory.
The Quarterly Revenue Trend[1] shows that the "Gaming" category is once again responsible for most of the revenue loss: $1,574M this quarter vs $2,042 in Q2. Of course, the "Gaming" category is known to includes crypto mining.

[1] Nvidia Quarterly Revenue Trend: https://s22.q4cdn.com/364334381/files/doc_financials/2023/Re...