skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet try mentioning this when a new js framework gets released and submitted on here and your comment gets flagged almost immediately. FREE YOURSELVES MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS AND COME TO THE LIGHT, FOR PYSCRIPT IS HERE TO SAVE YOU!
I do agree IntelliJ's autocomplete is kinda crap out of the box. But if you turn off all the machine learning stuff it's back to being alright.

> I've seen juniors in statically typed languages like Java fail coding interviews because they couldn't remember any of the syntax, the knowledge was contained in the autocomplete and didn't transfer to a whiteboard.

Is this really a problem? How much Java code does anyone write on a whiteboard outside of an interview or teaching setting?
But that's just the latest Stockfish, after LeelaZero implemented AlphaZero strategy and beat Stockfish, and then Stockfish had to add neural networks to its code to stay competitive.
Well, I'm only interested in the part where they provide free arbitrary meals on demand. The economics of that are intriguing, but, hey, since I'm clearly a poor soul to save, they can't deny me this right, right ?

Where do I sign up for your totally-not-a-cult thing ?
No one should have to watch She-Hulk.
So the "real problem" here is that the WSJ wrote "FTX is was today valued at 32bn after raising money from Sequoia Capital, NEA, IVP, Iconiq Capital, Third Point Ventures, Tiger Global, Altimeter ..."

Filthy scamming reporters
Analysis of nanoscale remnant seawater from the Devonian Period
But do they know the speed of light?
I agree with your general point but feel that the Netherlands are a poor example to use given their history of colonisation in Africa.
So, lets imagine you have been running this continuously from the beginning and there is absolutely nothing fishy on the chain of the events of the ledger that makes this proof. All customer deposits (1B worth of coins) are backed by respective assets (1B) in the portfolio. Unfortunately the business has been run badly, and in addition to this portfolio, the exchange has assets of one worthless laptop, but there are some tax liabilities worth 2B and an just found loan payable to Italian Mafia worth also 2B. Tax authorities file for bankruptcy.

1. How does the exchange ensure money is paid to the customers instead of Mafia or tax authorities?

2. If/when it can't, how these liabilities are included in the proof of liabilities?

(note: this is a real and difficult problem. That's why there are laws, regulations and deposit insurances around customer funds in finance, which, yes, fail occasionally. I just do not see how that can be solved by blockchain.)
Further to what others have said, JetBrains literally stopped sales and R&D in Russia after the conflict started.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2022/03/11/jetbrains-stateme...
Great response, thanks very much!

I will probably travel a bit to see.
This situation could be contrasted with the other (successful) distributed consensus policy - democratic governance.

- No applications in commercial environments.

- I've seen 10-20 people in my life who can explain the details of why Democracy is a good choice. Most people, for example, fail to identify that the typical democracy is much better at fighting then winning wars than any alternative.

Blockchains could turn out to be similar technology. It is still too early to write them off. There just needs to be one big application, and it'll be something simple but also something that hasn't been done before because it was impossible to organise.
Ah, so _will_ be. Thanks a lot, looking forward to it!
Some of these are quite subtle. I've come around. I appreciate being faced with lots of side by side examples, and enumerating the number of good decisions design benefits from.
Brutal, an OS built on top of a capability based micro-kernel
Huh, interesting. But in 2013 he was 19 years old. I'm not willing to ascribe such malice to a 19 year old for something like this.
Yes - it's a Rorschach test.
Special mentions #2 looks like it might be useful, but rightly produces errors in C++ (and warnings in C). OTOH, `__builtin_constant_p()` is true for other things than constant literals.
Whilst I am from Southern UK, I live in the North East UK. Accents here are strong and vary quite a bit. DO NOT confuse a Geordie for a Mackem (or vice versa) at all!

It is interesting that there is a lot of slang that I had never heard befote moving here, but slang from the South is more widely known. A coworker suggested getting 'ket' for a meeting. I did not know 'ket' here means sweets (candy)...
Note: on iOS's App Store searching for Briar shows Signal for me.

https://i.imgur.com/5YiR1Xk.jpg
My "implementation detail" comment above does not refer to the quality of engineering overall, but specifically in the context of competition. Yes, when comparing electric cars, the quality of the electric engine is a very large element; but it is much smaller if we're comparing all the elements that matter to someone buying a car (quality of body construction, interior finishing, steering etc).
The page literally says we don't even know what language he spoke.
> why do you think any of the marvel movies or shows are targeted to kids younger than 10?

* Merchandise targeted at little ones. Toys, costumes, Lego…

* Avengers Campus in Disney California Adventure, next to all the kiddie IP

* Precedence: No f-bombs in the films, no blood, no sex, etc
Feedback culture: the 4-step guide for a motivated team
The problem is not the ones who want to publish if their balance is missing. The problem is the ones who want to hide their balance is missing.
A few thoughts having gone through a similar journey from 0 to several million in revenue.

- The main thing when you are small to focus on is accurate high quality bookkeeping, rather than broader accounting. Almost all of the points you listed above are generally considered bookkeeping concerns (which ledgers to use, debits, credits, etc). So in terms of material to read and learn, bookkeeping is your starting point.

- Most small business accounting software will take care of more than half of the points above automatically - Xero, Quickbooks etc, just pick one and use it - but it is always useful to somewhat understand the underlying principles.

- The only accounting principles you really need to know are having a decent understanding of the balance sheet, P&L and cash flow statement - which are all interlinked. It is wise to be be able to understand each line item on them and to know how changing a figure in one would change figures in the other two and be able to do that even with just pen and paper. This is just useful as a business owner, and is quite a large topic which requires some study and practice.

- Actual statutory accounting I would entirely leave to a 3rd party as it's mostly just for tax and GAAP filing purposes. From day one I just hired a small external accountant and at year end gave them access to our books and let them prepare our filed accounts, I also paid them to file the quarterly tax returns even though our accounting software prepared the statements. That was a good choice as after we'd grown eventually I ended up having the accounts audited by PWC and it meant I could just point them at our accountant and leave them to it. It also means you won't make any silly filing mistakes.

- Set calendar reminders and do your bookkeeping, payroll etc every single month like clockwork, for years I just did it on the 28th of every month, and only later once we were large enough to hire an actual bookkeeper did we start doing it weekly.

- Lastly, once you're under way the things to keep your eye on as a small business is: your cash flow, your working capital requirement (keep it as low as you reasonably can) and your debtor and creditor days (which is part of your working capital requirement). Those are the things most likely to cause you issues.

Also, don't worry too much about it, it's a learning curve - as long as you improve your skills and tools in line with revenue it will be fine.
I have a Garmin Fenix GPS doodad, and I regularly get lost in the UI. Great watch though
The money supply is not observable. Prices are observable. People care about price stability not about stability of the money supply.
The EskomSePush guys are national heroes
He was able to convince Steve Jobs to sell Pixar, Lucas to sell Star Wars, somehow get Marvel and Sony to co-produce Spider-Man (with the help of Kevin Feige), and also to buy 21st Century Fox from the Murdochs. That requires some skill and even empathy when required. For example, it had become very obvious Lucas wouldn't be able to direct his long desired sequel trilogy, so I am sure he must have used empathy as a part of his negotiation. Allegedly,he was able to get a handshake deal that they would use Lucas's script ideas for Ep VII (which they dropped once the deal was done)
Blockchain in itself is nothing else, just a chain of blocks (linked list of bunch of data with cryptographic hash of the previous block stored in the blocks).

It's an amazing data structure, but putting money in it is no different than putting money into hash maps (which is another great data structure): it doesn't make sense in itself.

What some companies and VCs really want to do (and are doing) is reputation laundering: invest a bit of money in some crypto tokens, and sell them to retail investors for much higher price.

Of course after FTX collapsed they have to wait a few years to do it again.
Welcome to the life of someone actually called Alexa.
They are clearly talking about a tech corporation.
This did give me a chuckle! I think the user base is different though from the OP.
Recent AV Advancements Indicate an Evolving Industry
If crypto is used mainly for criminal or other illicit activities, isn't the crash of crypto a basically good thing, by destroying the monetary resources of criminals? Similarly to how the issuing of new banknotes makes older banknotes less valuable and therefore harming mainly those who transact with a lot of physical cash such as cartels.
That's an interesting point. Timing isn't as important here in Sweden, but I can take my bike on the train. I've taken my bike on trains in Denmark, Germany and Sweden. And yeah sure it's off by a few minutes usually, sometimes by more than that. But I enjoy the freedom and laid back attitude more than extreme punctuality. I just realized this.
I think that the headline is misleading here. I don't think that this is how the housing market is driven in these places.

If I choose a random street in inner London (UK) then homes on that street are worth approximately £1 million.

One way to buy one of those houses would be to have a deposit of around £100K, taxes of about 50K (very rough estimate), a mortgage of £900K, and an income of around 200K at a 4.5x multiplier.

But I don't believe that the majority of purchases in that part of the market function in that fashion. Instead, full cash purchases or >50% deposit purchases are fairly common. The money comes from savings and investments, either inherited or via saving for tens of years, trading up from a smaller place or in a different area, homes bought decades earlier, etc.
God I hope I can get my diagnosis soon. You describe me to a T right now and I'm 27.
One startup from Hamburg that I know uses medical students for this, and from what I always hear, their training dataset is their most valuable asset.
Flying less or more generally consuming less is not going to solve the climate crisis. We need to go to net zero emissions and then to net negative emission, we need to capture the excess of GHGs to go back to a level where warming stops.

If we divide, let's say, by 10 the emissions, we are still emitting too much.

The only solution is too eliminate completely the use of fossil fuels. For flying this means zero emissions planes (electric, hydrogen, ...) and/or synthetic fuels.

Synthetic fuels is probably the fastest path to net zero emissions: no need of new technology, no need even to build new airplanes.

Synthetic fuels is quite easy, if electricity is cheap enough synthetic kerosene will be cheaper than classic kerosene. Luckily, thanks to renewables, electricity is becoming exponentially cheaper.

Several companies are on the path of producing synthetic fuels cheaper than fossil ones. One example in mind: terraform industries in Pasadena.
The waning days of DEI's dominance
I wonder if there are evils in the world not caused by "neoliberalism".
I've mentioned this before but there are serious warnings against getting tested in Sweden.

I was told that it can affect my health insurance, my mortgage and that I can't hold certain licenses (Pilot, HGV).

There are some direct consequences to being diagnosed and some indirect ones; and they warn that once the process of getting diagnosed starts; it cannot be stopped.

So, of course, I didn't seek a diagnosis- despite having many ADHD markers.
> Depositors were depositing their FTX money directly to Alameda's bank account and nobody noticed.

FTX and Alameda didnt realise either. What makes you think that a journalist would have figured it out?
Bitcoin actively took a decision to not be a currency but to be a "store of value".

It cannot function as a currency because it's too slow (you can't wait for ~10 minutes to see if your transaction for included in the block in order to pay for a coffee).

In order to separate State from Money, we need a currency. Until I can buy a coffee with my hypothetical FreeCoin, I need to rely on fiat currency supplied by someone both I and the barista trust (like a government).

This isn't huge, it's shit
I think you’re just describing merkle trees; and “blockchain” in popular usage includes the consensus mechanism (mining or otherwise).
> The 'DeFi' systems you mention are not in control of vast sums of money, like the exchanges are. People want to use the exchanges and solving the problem by telling people to do other things isn't effective.

Uniswap alone has settled over a trillion USD. The current DeFi ecosystem on Ethereum (even now in the current market) has tens of billions of in value locked. I do not know what would be vast sums of money, it's still small in comparison with traditional finance but the technology is a few years old.

> This seems to me to be a problem with society and not with technology, and trying to apply technological solutions to problems that have existed and will exist as long as people exist, seems to be arrogant and ineffective.

Indeed, the fundamental problems are societal and human in nature. The point is minimizing the surface area where that human intervention can cause damage. If your argument held any merit we might as well get rid of double entry accounting. After all, it's just trying to apply a technological solution to human problems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-entry_bookkeeping

> Since we have been iteratively working on financial systems for a lot longer, it seems practical to work to progress that way instead of wiping everything and starting from scratch, where we are reinventing the wheel and all of the tragic consequences along with that.

It's not reinventing the wheel. It's building a stronger foundation. I'm going to assume your field of expertise is CS, if it's not, hopefully it will be useful for someone else. Imagine the same argument brought to progress in programming language design. What's the point of Rust? We are just reinventing the wheel, considering how much has been built in unsafe languages like C or C++ we might as well keep iteratively building on them. Humans are still making programming mistakes. We don't need no memory safety in programming languages.
> I am 25.

I am very interested in your generation and the phenomenon of nascent
tech rejection. I think it may be a great hope for us finally solving
many problems in software engineering that are more to do with culture
and society than bits and bytes.

There's a famous Douglas Adams witticism:

1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and
ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and
thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can
probably get a career in it.

3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural
order of things.

He was absolutely spot-on for my generation. But this doesn't hold any
longer, and I've been pondering why.

I think my generation saw tech as a hope, as rebellious and
progressive, and exciting from the get-go. We were raised on mostly
optimistic sci-fi and ideas of space exploration etc.

Today, kids are born into a world where tech represents a threat.
It's systems of control and stuff that makes their parents
unavailable, frustrated and sick. They inutially accept that until
reaching teens when they become rebellious and independent thinkers
who reject that way of suffering and subjugation.

Am I close to the mark?
2 years ago i try to register, not working.
Write some mail to support, no response.
Hello GitHub CoPilot. Have convinced myself and am also willing to pay for it. I can't understand Kites Argument, that their users did not want to pay.
"Proof of reserves" including Vitalik's heath robinson crypto schemes, provide minimal assurance to exchange users. Why?

It's what one would call a "limited assurance engagement" in audit parlance. In other words, it provides assurance over a small subset of the balance sheet of an exchange - only the customer deposits and the exchange liabilities pertaining to said customers.

However, there are a few red flags which no-one seems to raise:

1) The customer deposits should be off balance sheet if they actually were held in custody. If deposits are not off balance sheet then customer assets cannot be held in custody. Instead, the customers are a creditor of the exchange.

2) From the terms and conditions I've read for various exchanges, customers are typically not treated as a preferential creditor.

3) In the event of an insolvency, customers are treated pari passu with other creditors.

4) To get sufficient assurance that the exchanges can honour their customer liabilities, we need to see ALL of the liabilities, not just the subset relating only to customer deposits. E.g. Who else is money owned to? Did they issue debt? Did they borrow from a bank? Are there any legal provisions? Etc...

5) Given the legal treatment of customers as unsecured creditors, without entire visibility of the balance sheet, the "proof of reserves" report is pretty much useless.
How useful is the temperature sensor? On my Garmin 935 not that much, it's too affected by body heat. Unless I'm swimming, this it the only case when it tracks ambient (i.e. water) temperature correctly, and rather quickly.
god I clicked in and suddenly an hour went by, this is brilliant
This may be selection bias, but the people I knew who consumed weed were too relaxed to consider driving.

I do think we can agree that the weed <-> tobacco comparison is not very useful, as weed is more closely comparable to alcohol.
Ask HN: Why isn't remote work advertised as a pro environment initiative?
No form of transport requires less energy than telecommuting. Why aren't there Zoom/MS Teams/Slack bill-boards on 101 and 880? Where is everyone's outrage at needlessly requiring people to move themselves into offices and the congestsion, waste, and environmental damage it causes?
The Avengers being a crossover is okay with me, but when the solo movies require in depth knowledge of previous unrelated projects is where I need to draw the line. The biggest failure for me was the Doctor Strange 2 movie, where the Scarlett Witch became a murdering sociopath off screen,though I was able to enjoy the movie regardless.
Anecdotally, I know it is growing steadily. I just bought an inverter which supports Solar charging. New shopping malls are built with solar, etc.

Worth mentioning that this is only really an option for middle class people and up, a sizable portion of the population barely have roofs let alone the money to put solar panels on them.
Help Wanted: Unable to compile curl 7.84 for Mac(ARM64)
> The only issue that stops us from using DeltaChat (or email in general) is that we both have email hosting in Europe while we live in the US, so neither of us, being frugal in principal, wants to send information to Europe and back in order to tell the person 100 ft away to come help bring in the groceries.

The Briar page seems to suggest messages are routed through Tor:

> Briar uses the Tor network to prevent eavesdroppers from learning which users are talking to each other.

How different is that?
Honestly I think this is a pretty common problem. Management can be a very competitive branch of the tech organization. There’s only so many positions and everyone (mostly) is motivated and wants to be next in line.

If you’re comfortable and don’t want to make a move, don’t worry about it. But since you’re asking, I’m assuming you have some ambition. You’ve got the play the game. Show your value to the organization. Act like the individual the role asks for. Advocate for yourself and your team. It’s hard at first, but gets easier.
We don’t even know whether there are infinitely many decimal Repunit primes (https://primes.utm.edu/glossary/page.php?sort=Repunit)

Even if that were true, we know there always is a prime between n and 2n (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand%27s_postulate). Since there’s a factor of about 10 between successive repunits, the repunits themselves are already spaced further apart, let alone those that are prime (for which the first filter is “for R(x) to be prime, x must be prime”)

So, no, they aren’t equal.
Floaters Turns Ocean Waves into Renewable Energy
> You are talking about the IT-people, right?

absolutely not.

> How much do they handle media questions, PR related to global IT security events?

You don't need thousand people for that and It's their job anyway!

Listen, I come from what the average American would call "a socialist" country, at least regarding the labour market and organization.

I understand the social part of employing more people than necessary, it's a kind of redistribution that many countries won't or can't do through proper taxation.

I also understand that sometimes it's about resilience, two of everything is better than single points of failure.

But, it's ironic that these observations come from the POV of an American company.

It's ironic that people are leaving Twitter because Musk is asking them to work hard, meaning they aren't actually doing it, according to his standards (he's a terrible boss, no doubt!), but also meaning that Twitter is probably doing so bad because they focused on the wrong thing, like Facebook with the meta fiasco.

The American dream is not about 28 days of paid vacation, maternity leave, life-work balance, it's about making as much money as you can in the fastest way possible.

In its original formulation In such a country the talents, energy and perseverance of a person ... have far greater opportunity to display than in monarchies

You want a better life balance, better working hours, less staying in the office and more paid time to raise your kids?

Come to Europe!

For much less money of course.

Because you can't have both.

So yeah, it might be easier to do something with 3 people than one, but most of the time too many people are enemy of the efficiency.

You know what took the most part of upgrading the log4j incident where I work?

Coordination between too many levels of hierarchy.

That is actually the worst part of working in large companies, that's what actually stifle innovation and paralyzes them.

Twitter was already doing bad, it's been doing bad for years.

I left Twitter (as a user) 5 years ago, because it was already terrible.

I'm no Musk fan at all, but at least he's making things clear: if that's the end result people are used to, we don't need that many people to achieve it, we simply need motivated people (by money).