skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The policies were popular. 2017 saw the reversal of decline in Labour votes that started under Blair. Labour got more votes than any Blair election other than 1997.

There is a large constituency against the status quo in the UK. We have proof of that in the 2016 Brexit referendum, where 17 million people voted strongly against the establishment line and effectively against an economic model that we had had for 40 years. People voted in part to take back control, and what is nationalisation of basic aspects of our lives like water / housing / energy / drug manufacturing / transport etc if not taking back control?

Since the pandemic, the implementation of a chaotic version of Brexit, and the cost of living crisis. The underlying aspects of the 2017 / 2019 Labour policies are even more starkly relevant. Everything has been laid bare, and for some reason the two main parties are now completely devoid of ideas or vision.
Are they unwilling or unable? These stories don't show executives don't care or are encouraging it.
Why shouldn't we have ethical opinions about the economy?
Debunked: http://jpkoning.blogspot.com/2019/09/the-life-and-death-of-i...
Most hacking software is so incompatible with xp, I meant to write
> Not really. If you imagine a supply chain with raw materials at one end and finished products at the other, if every step along the chain is taxed even a small amount on their total revenue, the cumulative effect would completely dwarf the value of the final product.

Yes, and that’s why it’s weird that the most important resource for most big corporations is taxed like that. All the human labor gets taxed based on revenue and not profit, unlike all the other raw materials.
Auditing a firm is not an act of charity. It’s a contract. Binance has either asked zero accountants to audit their billions in reserves, or zero have taken the job. Mazars international probably got scared and leaned on the partner. The auditing of a firm this size is usually not a very big deal and nowhere near the capacity of a partner with all the roles below.
293,000¹ vs 184,000², so about 1.6 times the word count.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#Publish...

² https://www.anycount.com/word-count-of-books/harry-potter-wo...
“During the fall of Enron, Arthur Andersen, Enron's accounting firm, instructed its employees to destroy documents relating to Enron after Andersen officials learned they would soon be investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission.”

On that alone I’m surprised how it was unanimous on over turn for the Supreme Court. Obviously the documents did not show them in a good light.
0%!

I feel that recent Tip Inflation on Customer-Facing checkout screens is a concerted effort to move Employee Wages from Employer to Customer. It is certainly very awkward to have a nice smiling Employee swivel the screen to you, and you fear being judged for tipping 0%!

Software models for Distribution of Point-of-Sale UI is also far more efficient than Human Tipping Habits, and I'm sure in the 2 years they were introduced, Credit Card Co's and Uncle Sam enjoyed a boost in Non-Cash tips!!

If I sit down and eat, having food delivered to my table, I will consider tipping (only because I'm a USA citizen, in the USA) but not for my waiting standing up!

"We've got to tip, but it's got to be combined with telling employers that tips have to be on top, not instead of, a full minimum wage," [Saru Jayaraman, president of One Fair Wage] said.

Hilarious! Employers should pay Minimum Wage, and any Employees earning less than they deserve need a Lawyer or some new Job Applications
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They haven't done anything wrong AFAIK; they didn't sign off on an audit, and withdrew, which is the reality of many smaller accounting practices taking on unfamiliar clients.

Arthur Anderson knowingly fudged the numbers at Enron, and provided both accounting and consulting services, which was a big conflict of interest. The consulting arm came up with new type of revenue opportunities (energy contracts), and the accounting arm cooked the books to show that these were profitable.
I'm arm-chairing a bit. This is the type of problem I'd expect on a prototype, but not on a production level device - especially on a construction robot that will be clearly out in the weather.

It reads to me like they didn't properly spec/source components that were appropriate for the weather conditions these robots are likely to see. The fact that this issue was reproducible at refrigerator temperatures is even more shocking. 39F (taken from a photo) is not very cold.
I dont think its possible to make a compelling song in quite the same way. At Neptunely, we are pursuing a route that keeps the human in the picture. More of a collaboration. https://neptunely.com
End-to-end-encrypted means without significant, unexpected breakthroughs in mathematics, no one can read it between the sender and the recipient, even if the traffic pass through FSB, NSA, Telegram, Google and Facebook headquarters and they all conspire to break it.

Point-to-point-encrypted means it can theoretically[1] be read by the vendor (Telegram in this case) or anyone who can coerce the vendor. This is the standard for mail, online banking etc.

The reason for providing both end-to-end-encrypted and point-to-point-encrypted is that point-to-point-encryption is significantly simpler, which makes it easiee to create useful and or cool features.

[1]: vendors can do a nunber of things to make it hard/next to impossible for employees and others to access data, like for example restricting access to user data to service accounts, only allow debugging access in special circumstances and auditing such debugging access.

Telegram used to claim they solve it by sending/storing encrypted data through/in different data centers from the keys, and keeping these days centers in different jurisdictions. Done properly should mean that two or more employees across the company would have to conspire to get access to customer data, or two or more judges in different countries would have to demand data.

But unlike with end-to-end-encryption we have to take their word for it.
Exactly. However the serious participants in the cryptocurrency space have been begging for regulation.

The complaint however is that the regulations that have been proposed are trying to pidgeonhole the different parts of digital assets and decentralised finance (not defi but decentralised financial services as a whole) into existing categories that they don't cleanly fit in.

Cryptocurrency for example isn't a commodity (representation of a resource) or a security(representation of ownership/control in an organisation/system). It can never fit cleanly under one definition or the other. Some tokens would fit cleanly under the definition of a security, some under the definition of a commodity, and some cleanly under neither.

Likewise, node, relay, and validator operators for networks don't really fit cleanly under any given existing set of regulatory guidelines. Regulations for Money Service Businesses for example are overly restrictive and essentially outlaw any existing cryptocurrency operator from even attempting to operate in the US. It's not that the stated goals are impossible to comply with but rather that the specifics of the regulations are. Conversely, some of the much laxer proposed regulations wouldn't adequately cover operators and would leave the door open to abuses.

AML and KYC regulations are particularly problematic. They mean well and the spirit of the regulations should be adhered to but they have not been written in a way that is compatible with this tech. Networks with privacy preserving transactions can comply with AML & KYC. Projects on those networks can as well. It won't however be in a way compliant with the direct reporting of user identities. Even if you wanted to comply with KYC & AML, you physically couldn't. Instead you can build infrastructure to comply KYC and AML via DIDs, ZK-proofs, and conditional release of private information (via functional encryption and a number of other techniques).

There's a multitude of ways to handle the regulatory complexity without legally crippling privacy preserving & decentralised tech. It just requires that regulators actually work with the communities that have been trying to do things proper and kosher. Instead regulators have essentially ignored the industry's requests & proposals in whole, claimed to have heard nothing, and plowed forward with pushing regulations that would cripple the legitimately useful technology in the space.
You are conflating implementation tricks with language semantics. In Lisp, NIL is always an atom, never a cons.

Also, a dotted list is a nonempty list where the cdr of the last cons is not NIL. It is not a notational convention. A list (a b c) is not a dotted list, even if you write it as (a . (b . (c . nil))).
It's not really true any longer, but it was at one point. The head of the AFL-CIO admits here that unions were strongly anti immigration for decades. Only in the past few years have they changed their official opinion.

https://www.npr.org/2013/02/05/171175054/how-the-labor-movem...
It's what happens when business majors/MBAs take over, and I'm not being cliche. Such people prioritize the "business" and see the products as a means to a monetary end, whereas IMO it should be the reverse. The business is part distribution infrastructure part funding mechanism for the products, nothing more.
I think this article is just wrong, or at best describes the author’s experience in a dysfunctional org.

There are a lot of pathological metrics patterns. I used to work at a FAANG/MANGA that prided itself on being metrics driven; the challenge was that most people suck at picking metrics. The most common anti-pattern is choosing metrics based on what is easy to measure.

The most valuable metrics I have encountered are metrics that measure directly your teams success in their stated mission. The problem is a lot of teams have bad missions. I tried to tell every team that I worked with, that their mission should read like a problem statement not like a technology statement. For instance, instead of saying that “we are the team that owns the foo service“, the team needs to think about the business problem that inspired the foo service, and make solving that business problem their mission statement.

Once you have clarity on the business, problem that your team exists to solve, then you can start thinking about metrics that measure how well you are solving that problem. These are the most valuable kinds of metrics.

Now, the thesis of the article was that teams had too many metrics, and that this was bad. Once a team has clarity of mission, they have to implement technology to accomplish the business problem that is their mission. After you have clear metrics that tell you how well you were accomplishing your mission, then you need metrics to tell you how well your technology is functioning. Do not mix the two kinds of metrics. It is a happy coincidence if the technology functioning well directly, corresponds to how well you are accomplishing your business mission. More likely, the business metrics and the technology metrics need to be kept separate. You need metrics around the technology so that you can predict whether you are nearing a problem, detect whether you have a technology problem, And identify the nature of the technology problem that you have. Good metrics around technology will allow you to do all these things. You should not add metrics arbitrarily, but you should analyze your technology for where it is likely to break and prioritize adding metrics in that fashion.

My last point is about team just functions. Other anecdotes in this comments thread have described organizations that lacked clarity of mission or that had completely solve. Their mission yet did not pivot to a new mission. In those cases, you end up with a lot of make work, and that make work may consist in part of implementing new metrics. This is just plain org dysfunction and not really a metrics problem.
(But unlike Signal Telegram did agree to cooperate with Russian government to help fight 'extremism')

Even if you trust Telegram's e2e it's not on by default. Secure chats are second class and missing lots of features (plus glitchy, I lost multiple entire chat histories), so almost no one uses them.
Ouch. Thanks for that. I wonder why the normal customer funds segregation rules do not apply to crypto assets.
Wow can definitely relate to this being in a high level IC position, but not having enough influence on management to change the direction of the company. You sit on the sidelines knowing a decision is wrong, and after having said your piece you watch it play out over years, turning out exactly as you expected it to.

Bah humbug.
I was advised that generic advice isn't useful
That comment just shows me you haven't used Windows 10, nor have you used Windows 11. I mean, you're still talking about Windows 10 like it's a new thing. That OS came out 7 years ago!

The feature/enhancement list of Windows 10 and its constant iterative updates and now Windows 11 is probably hundreds of items. How am I supposed to communicate to you that it's more than just a new UI when an operating system is made up of so many different pieces?

It's hard to "win" against arguments like this because your side of the argument amounts to "I haven't seen it but I assume it has to be basically the same" or "from the screenshots I can see it's a new UI and it's basically just Windows."

Here's one: Does Windows 7 have any low-level optimization for big little architecture in Intel's new chips? https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-and-intel-confirm-wind...

To win this argument I'd have to come up with some big feature list and hope there are a few that resonate with you, but you can easily dismiss it as "I don't need that."

No, it didn't take me weeks or months to upgrade from Windows 10 to 11. I clicked a button and I walked away. The computer updates itself. Automatically, at night, when I'm asleep.

I upgraded to Windows 11 relatively early and nothing broke. No workflow was disrupted. Windows' backwards compatibility is legendary.

You're looking at this like upgrading isn't worth the lift, but that's backwards. Upgrading is so easy and just gives you more stuff with basically no downside (and Microsoft fixes big complaints about new releases quickly these days because they take feedback and release continuously – they have a whole app just for providing feedback).
Better is relative, but from Strapi and DatoCMS on the lower end to Contentful on the higher end, there's a whole lot of possibility outside of a first-generation, monolithic CMS like Drupal.

Drupal can do things, and in the hands of a developer who really knows the platform it can do things well. But I've been Drupal-adjacent for a decade and the vast majority of teams I've encountered landed on Drupal because a consultant they can no longer afford convinced them that it was the answer to all of their web publishing dreams and left them with hot mess. Especially in the civic and non-profit space the fact that Drupal powered the Obama campaign's web site kicked off a long era of cargo culting.
What does it even mean to audit a company that doesn’t follow or reconcile to GAAP (or equivalent)? Are there examples in any other industries?
yeah this is a major misleading headline. they did this for everyone, not just binance
The next decades might be wild
The article was written by Marius Hobbhahn.

Here is his public bio to gain a sense of his perspective.

https://www.mariushobbhahn.com/aboutme/

>I'm currently doing a Ph.D. in ML at the International Max-Planck research school in Tübingen. My focus is on Bayesian ML and I'm exploring its role in AI alignment but I'm also exploring non-Bayesian approaches. I want to become an AI safety researcher/engineer
Yes, and I think that's driven a novelty factor. If you spend all day on screens, it's the last thing you want to do more of. The paper book or vinyl record is special because it's disconnected and tactile.

I'm also gradually hearing friends come to realize that their ebooks and streaming movies may vanish at the whims of corporate licensing agreements, but their libraries of physical books and DVDs are durable.

Give it two more years and we might see letter-writing clubs emerge.
> Read the emails between Steve Jobs and Sergey Brin w.r.t high tech class action lawsuit. Read about Google hiring union busting consultant firms.

Worse still is that these firms have been caught collectively bargaining against workers through illegal secretive non-compete clauses. Wage suppression has been going on for years, even while these companies have been at the very top of thriving businesses.

It’s simply not a question of affordability. These companies did it because they could.

I’d also like to point out that much of the union activity of a hundred years ago was also about poor working conditions, and not just compensation. Much of that was quelled by increasing government regulations that protected workers against exploitation. Is the government adequately performing this job?
That's not enough information for me to understand what's wrong, but I suppose maybe I should find a Steam Deck and try things out myself. If you want to follow up privately, my email is in my profile.
From a developer standpoint, I actually really liked how composable GTK3 was. It's fair to complain about the stylesheets and the funky touch-centric interface, but it did still let you build GTK2-style apps. It was full of weird/nice features and felt like a decent iteration on GTK2. GTK4 has been a waking nightmare in comparison, and I'm not sure why they feel obligated to throw out so much of the previous toolkit.
I think the issue is less whether they're a monopoly in a legal sense, as much as if these companies really have a leg to stand on to complain about it. "We all decided to not really make a product in area X, and someone else did, so they're bad."

There's a case for the government or the market to want to have competition for Google Maps, but for 3-4 companies who all went "Eh, just let Google have a monopoly. Competing is too much work." to turn around and complain about it feels a bit rich. It's not like Apple and Google complaining about smartphone OSes, or Linux complaining about Microsoft or Apple.
Can you point to exactly where the government twisted arms? What Taibi published showed the opposite.
The reason China can do it is because they are an autocracy. Voters don't matter and their elections aren't as meaningful, meaning they can have projects longer than an election cycle.

If you want to get the West on a path this way, you have to get the people to have a change in how they evaluate their leaders. But first, you need to have the people trust in the leaders, which they don't right now for good reason. It is a tough nut to crack.

I'm not saying this in approval of authoritarianism btw. I think the results of that are worse, but it does have advantages (which is why it is attractive to some).
You need to be regularly updating the higher level packages anyway though, as they might contain vulnerabilities that are not due to underlying libraries. At which point, we might as well update them for library issues too.
Binary transparency is slowly getting more popular
I don’t really believe the line about Meta being the right place for it to happen. I think he very convincingly proved that it is indeed not so.
Seems innovation does require some agile leadership, and not an entirely flat structure which feels a bit like steering a boat.
For better or worse, whimsy and playfulness are majorly out in terms of design these days. I thought the page curl was a nicely done bit of frippery in an app that is really a pain to use. for me I’m afraid are many worse things about the app than removing that animation. Search is bad, no way to open more than one book at once, the list goes on.
How so?

I have solar PV on my roof and it makes no direct difference to the heating required. Except that I have a little generated energy that provides some warming inside from the appliances that it powers.
Huh, never heard it put this way. I guess it's true though.

Anyone disagree?
Please tell me, how is one supposed to engage with the "argument" that their personal experience and resulting belief is a "propaganda driven falsehood." That's not an argument, it is pure name calling, and doesn't even make sense as this person seems to be basing their beliefs on direct experience from their own professional life.
Ask HN: How to manage our digital assets (photos etc.)
I'm thinking about all the digital assets I've collected over the decades and looking into the future - I don't trust 3rd party providers to last the course.

Here's what I know:

1) Online providers don't last (or I don't stick): When I had a Nokia N95 I uploaded to Nokia Ovi (gone), When I had a camera, I uploaded to Flickr (gone), When I had an Android I uploaded to Google Photos (still there but I only just remembered), When I was naive I uploaded to Facebook (still there)

2) I've got lots of disks and CDROMs filled with photo backups

3) I want to be able to access these assets, and search them, must have face recognition and tagging (gotta find those cat pics)

I'm looking for two things:

1) Some suggestions for solutions for this.

2) I'm currently leaning towards running/building my own on AWS:
What metadata is useful for organising your own assets? What would make a great long term asset tool?

Cheers
If you have billions in reserves and operate all over the world, you might not go with Big 4, but you also aren't going to take your business to a regional branch office in South Africa.
Can’t be worse than windows 11.
Here's the un-editorialized full text from their SEC filing:

> Moreover, because custodially held crypto assets may be considered to be the property of a bankruptcy estate, in the event of a bankruptcy, the crypto assets we hold in custody on behalf of our customers could be subject to bankruptcy proceedings and such customers could be treated as our general unsecured creditors. This may result in customers finding our custodial services more risky and less attractive and any failure to increase our customer base, discontinuation or reduction in use of our platform and products by existing customers as a result could adversely impact our business, operating results, and financial condition.

> Further, we place great importance on safeguarding crypto assets we custody and keeping them bankruptcy remote from our general creditors, and in June 2022 we updated our Retail User Agreement to clarify the applicability of UCC Article 8 to custodied crypto asset — the same legal protection that our institutional custody and prime broker clients also rely upon. UCC Article 8 provides that financial assets held by Coinbase are not property of Coinbase and not subject to the claims of its general creditors. In light of UCC Article 8, we believe that a court would not treat custodied crypto assets as part of our general estate; however, due to the novelty of crypto assets, courts have not yet considered this type of treatment for custodied crypto assets

Source: page 96: https://s27.q4cdn.com/397450999/files/doc_financials/2022/q3...
Theres always a ton of negativity associated with gnome. I'm just a basic linux user who doesnt have any problems, doesnt think about this kind of stuff. I think that's basically a glowing review.
Another company is Fastmail. Usually loved on HN, not really talked about on Reddit (at least where I see it)
https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/why-procrastinators-procrasti...

It's old, but timeless, and I found it last month.

Naming these concepts has made them easier to identify and has put me back in the driver's seat