skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Gibson is one of the most respect law firms in the United States

Notable cases [1] includes:

> The firm is representing Chevron in its long-running, $27 billion environmental dispute in Ecuador

This is the case of Steven Donziger. I highly recommend you look into it because it's another travesty of justice. Donziger helped the Ecuadorian government secure a multi-billion judgement against Chevron for pollution. Chevron responded by finding a judge to appoint Gibson Dunn to engage in private criminal prosecution alleging fraud in the US for a case in Ecuador. Donziger spent years in home detention and had an $800,000 bond for misdemeanour in refusing to turn over his laptop to that court even though said laptop was clear work-product (and thus covered under attorney-client privilege) with the Ecuadorian case.

> The firm represented George W. Bush in Bush v. Gore

Okay...

Here is perhaps the most disturbing entry:

> Gibson Dunn is representing the plaintiffs in Haaland v. Brackeen pro bono in seeking to overturn the Indian Child Welfare Act.

The law firm isn't even paid on this one. Free of charge they are trying to end tribal sovereignty [2].

> Well, sounds to me like Nelson took the kickbacks

Why does it sound that way? No, seriously. Amazon has seemingly made false statements regarding money paid ($16.5m) and kickbacks received without providing any evidence. Any claims they have made would be documented in the affidavit, which both Amazon and the DoJ have fought to keep sealed.

And if that's the case why were no charges ever filed?

This is an opportunity for introspection here. Please, for your sake, ask yourself why your kneejerk reaction here is to side with Amazon.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibson_Dunn#Notable_cases

[2]: https://lakotalaw.org/news/2021-09-17/icwa-sovereignty
Merry Christmas!
And thanks.
I really like this article, but there’s something the author is not considering:

https://lee-phillips.org/lispmath/
Apparently having the tooling greater than the universe doesn't fit into that goal, bumps off.
This article goes through the steps I went through to upgrade to PHP 8.2, from local development environment, dependencies, testing and deployment to Laravel Vapor.
Yes, and there are two ways we can respond to such a discrepancy. But the trend is that people seem more concerned about equity of punishment rather than improving the system for everyone. The words people use when calling out the bias do matter. Instead of asking why this rich person is getting special treatment, we should ask why aren't these poor people also being treated humanely.
I can guarantee that none of the managers I've interacted with who used "learnings" were making a reference to the Bard of Avon.
The narrator is similarly inseparable from the performative work (as, say, an orchestral recording of a symphony), the only difference seems to rest in who has the power and incentive to claim royalties.

None of this explicitly follows from first principles, it's all just negotiation for what, through the vehicle of contract law, will get enforced by social convention and the fist of the government.
Which is why you shouldn't include implementation details in your URL.
Is this incorrect?

https://www.konicaminolta.com/instruments/knowledge/light/co...
Sounds like you were motivated, hard-working, and played the game as best you could.

Though it sounds like you might've overlooked two of the most important ingredients entrepreneurs need when getting something off the ground:

- vast web of influential family connections
- inherited wealth

Maybe go back and try it with these two?
A huge number of those examples is for a reason that makes my skin crawl every time I think about it.

Your privacy is simply too valuable to allow you to keep it.
Using Drones to Monitor Volcanoes
The market can stay irrational for much longer than you are solvent.
Discussed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4796586 (2012, 1 comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4915328 (2012, 133 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6953774 (2013, 102 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20142828 (2019, 86 comments)
China estimates 250M people have caught Covid in 20 days
He was pushing for absurd regulations himself, such as KYC for front-ends of decentralised exchanges, so it is no surprise that they weren't his fan. More importantly, people who are in those groups tend to be aware how much he stinks of government corruption given his family ties, religion etc. - so it has always been assumed that he will get unfair treatment - and now it is seemingly turning out to go as expected. He is part of 'the establishment' that acted against the interests of the space. Regulations are also seen as only protecting the interests of the traditional financial system rather than actually protecting people; that's exactly how it seems to go so far
Metal API. I can not understand why they did not just go with Vulkan.
The taxation part is a burden no matter the outcome. It’s not optional, it’s a duty as a citizen to give a chunk of your money to the government. That is the load we are obligated to bear - a burden.

Also, you’re romanticizing what happens with tax money. When a major portion of it is going to a military I have no say in, I don’t get warm fuzzy feelings contributing my portion to the feds.

> how do we build a stronger representative government in the United States (where I live) when we're so divided and distrusting?

You’re assuming the conclusion here. Many people want a much weaker federal government and your question can be rephrased as “how do we make the anti-government people go away?”
Ask HN: How do you usually handle refactoring in VS Code?
I come from a Jetbrains background.
I'm trying to migrate to VS Code, and i've come to appreciate it's modularity and the overall quality of the extensions.

One thing that's been bothering, though, is that i see very few refactoring options, and they don't work reliably.

For example, i was working with a Typescript project (which is basically the main language of the VS Code ecosystem), and when i tried to move a type definition to another file, i discovered you only have the option to move it to a new file, in the current folder, with the name of symbol. This would mean I'd need to either create a separate file for this type (plus some other symbols if i want to) or handle the import and export changing myself.

I won't talk about the error i get if i don't select the symbols' export statement, because this is not discussed anywhere and may be something that only happens to me.

I tried doing this said refactor in Webstorm, and it was just a matter of hitting F6 and choosing the target file. I also tried searching for refactoring extensions for Typescript, to no avail.

This is really bothering me, changing import statements manually everytime i want to move a symbol sounds like a very tedious task.

So, I'm wondering, since a LOT of devs use VS Code, is this just how it is? Do you just get used to manually refactoring? I'm also using the Python extension, and it doesn't even give me any move refactoring options.
I use Feedly for RSS exclusively. Works great, simple and clean.
https://archive.vn/RNW0l
I conjecture the connection to the liquor license is not accidental.

The various articles and discussions about this issue have carefully avoided mentioning what precisely the "personal injury" lawsuits have been about that started the whole issue.

The law firm in question won a $20 million judgment because a club in NYC owned by MSG served alcohol to a person who later drove drunk. Here is their own advertisement of this case: https://www.dsslaw.com/case-results/20400000-million-drunk-d...

In general, they often sue restaurants and bars for serving alcohol (to impaired individuals): https://www.dsslaw.com/car-accident-attorney/drunk-driving-a...
Sadly this is not sufficient. Tools like the Netlify CLI, Mattermost, Bitwarden, and NetData are all open source, but will all still spy on you.

Good luck getting patches accepted upstream that remove such malware features.
This was also a specific argument FDR made in the fireside chats against child labor: ethical business owners who try not to use child labor are being put out of business by those who do, so we need to step in and correct the market to allow for the ethical to compete with the unethical.

Edit: As a brief aside the Fireside Chats are pretty remarkable pieces of public communication. I just can’t imagine a public leader speaking with such a blend of clarity, compassion, and force as what he did. They’re not particularly shallow or short on details, either! He spoke like an adult to a nation of adults - really refreshing.
There is always going to be financial incentives to do User-Hostile stuff. Collecting user data to market to them and increase LTV is a no brainer for most product / general managers.

There is a market solution to counter the financial motive of making User-Hostile software: Make the lack User-Hostile software a MARKETED FEATURE.

- It should be promoted on product description details

- Hardware review sites should actively make note of it

- There should be curated sites / lists that feature products that are not User-Hostile

- There should be a certification body that has a logo that gets plastered on devices / software that has been certified.

Don't blame the guys whose design products to maximize consumer LTV - they are just doing their jobs.
There is a lot of nuance in this discussion that someone inexperienced could misinterpret, you’re definitely right about that.
> you can't really call it "wrong"

I can call censorship wrong whether private or public, thank you very much. And I can agree and actually support their rights to do it as a private company. There's no contradiction there.

> you can't ask someone "please take this political spectrum questionnaire"

I'm not saying they should, I'm saying that it is an extreme hypocrisy that the pro-diversity, anti-systemic bias crowd seems to be completely mum about their own glaring systemic bias. There is a very high value in having viewpoint diversity where there are people in your organization capable of offering insights where the majority has a complete blind-spot. Instead viewpoint diversity is squashed and people who don't toe the party line are vilified.

Genuine disagreement should be embraced in organizations but all too often people are not afforded the dignity of their own sense of judgement.
"Wikipedia is not for sale."

No, but Jimmy Wales clearly is.

Why isn't there a "shut up and go away and never bother me again" button?

Because it's gotten to the point that I have just started avoiding Wikipedia.
That’s a novel idea I would’ve never considered. I’ll search for a repo I could “adopt” for the community.
If you want to call it that - it's more of a forum, than modern social media. I meant Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, et. al.
Tolkien also kept using the word "Gnome" to refer to a particularly high-class subset of the Elves. That, too, reads very strangely, because it puts me in mind of garden gnomes. I have no frame to think of the most beautiful Elves -- including Elrond and Galadriel -- as "gnomes".

He eventually gave up on that and used "Noldor", a term he'd been kicking around for a while in various contexts. That's much more comfortable, but he kept using "gnome" way longer than seemed reasonable.
Made a mega comet across our living room window with 2x esp32 and 2x 300 RGBW strips.
One in a star 5 points 10 segments.
The other strip as a 2 pronged tail on the comet (2 segments) which becomes more wiggly (turbulent) with distance.

This project totally made my Christmas
I could spend ages playing with the settings and mixing the right colours & speeds...

Setting the 2 to sync with each other or do their own thing is sooo easy, even my mother in law enjoyed controlling it.

Even a wee 24 rgb LED ring can have cool effects with this superb software
Long term capital gains.
I agree, this is super cool but it's not 100% peer to peer as WebRTC requires a central server to establish the connection as far as I know.
I fear that's a very narrow view of mathematics. Nevertheless, most of the time you can see the output of what you created while programming, check if it's the correct result, etc. I don't think it's like that in math, where you deal in a much more abstract realm.
The drivers are not embedded in the hardware. They are gigabytes of additional downloads.
I remember searching the internet for 25 minutes for each of them after discovering (annoyingly) that the installer that is given is not actually going to work offline. The ones you link work, but you really must search for it; its not presented as an easy to find option at all.

which is not my default expectation possibly because I was raised in the late 80s/early 90s.
It has a 4.6 rating which is good, especially if I can't recall ever being bothered by those automated rating popups.

I use it everyday and works fine, "some" might be a small but vocal group? Might not be representative for a common user.
I think Yegge is actually completely correct. I started to learn to program when I was 14, and once I understood the concept of functions, I found it much easier to do my calculus and physics work. Fundamentally I understood how to break things down into computable steps.

Granted, I think get the impression we might be overloading the term "mathematics".
As a user - how does one even attempt to get their portion of the payout?

Instead of the settlement paying off lawyers and the remaining scraps being distributed as 1 cent to each consumer - the settlements should go to fund some sort of oversight board - sort of like the SEC/CFTC but for social media. That oversight board can then sprout and grow and then look for future funding by taxing social media companies.

Or fund some sort of healthy social media consumption education organization - kind of like what we already did/do with the cigarette settlements/taxes.
My own requirements almost never play a part, in the very large majority of cases I either get no response or rejected after the application or ghosted or rejected after a pleasant conversation with an internal recruiter. However my requirements are that the work is remote, actual software development work, not abusive and not in a small handful of areas.

I don't want to make this about me, largely because there's a lot I won't share due to privacy concerns. However, I've had plenty of happy coworkers and managers over the years and can definitely be some random IC on some random team.
I don't read RSS on mobile. Only at a desktop when I'm ready to read.. otherwise I just end up mindlessly scrolling.
SBF's case is not analogous to a bank robber paying his bail out of the duffle bag used in the robbery. It is plausible that SBF had assets prior to misusing customer funds. The presumption of innocence should not just be a nice story we tell ourselves.
Law professors make much better money than most academics, with starting salaries more than double what humanities professors make. These are also senior professors who have been at Stanford for a long time, making good money and presumably investing along the way. SBF's dad is a famous tax law professor (he 'wrote the book' on federal income taxation that's used at law schools all over the country), so he understands finance/investing better than most academics.

I would guess that their net worth was north of $10M just based on those earnings, subsequent investment, and their house (which is apparently worth $3M+).

Of course, SBF has had some incredible arbitrage wins over the years, and he presumably offered his parents the opportunity to run a million or two through his money making machine. If they were more conservative with their gains that he was, they could easily have $20 or $50 million. I agree it's unlikely that they have 10 figures, though.
Been there, done that, stopped updating when the layout got around 52 Gb. Decided to download only relevant workloads, which proved to be a failure on each reinstallation, even with all the recommended and optional workloads included as per MS docs...
The way I mitigated this problem was to periodically check places like Reddit or Slashdot, noting which sources were cropping up for things I found interesting, and then adding those to my feed reader, skipping the middle man.

Once a week or when I ran out of feed I’d go hunting for more. The friends aspect diminished greatly but I had plenty to read.
whenever I fly into a new European country/city, I wonder if I'll have to set up yet another account with whichever localized version of "RideDirect" is currently operating there before I can leave the airport

since the riders are the ones paying for the service, it may be more impactful to make an app designed for them, which then plugs into the independant smaller networks of drivers seamlessly. then I can fly into Hamburg and just tell whichever service is operating in that city that I'm around and need a ride.

maybe even let them compete for the best fare...
Heh, the web dev geek in me made it so that the first thing I noticed about the page was the old school web page layout using tables.
If he could have stashed even $10M he could live very comfortably in many parts of the world. Especially in the crypto world where it's much easier to move money across borders than it used to be, this should have been easy to do. SE Asia has to have at least one country that won't extradite.
Thoughtbot only has two jobs listed at https://thoughtbot.com/jobs, so it's not really a "job shop" if I understand what you mean. Could you please explain a little more?
You are welcome take a look for yourself and ponder whether you'd take business advice from him.
Last week I tried to find all of the Odd Lots podcast episodes with Matt Levine as a guest. This turned out to be impossible in the Google Podcasts app that I normally use - you cannot search a podcast for keywords, and searching all podcasts gives you the wrong results. Incredible for a company that built their business on searching.

So instead I imported the Odd Lots feed into my tt-rss instance and immediately had the answer.
One of the first AI proposals was from Oliver Selfridge. He called it Pandemonium because it was a set of demons (into processes) and the loudest demon was successful.

In response, Paul Smolensky made the “Harmonium”—which was the first restricted Boltzmann machine. There whichever process produces the most harmony among the elements was successful. It’s still a really great paper.

Harmony maximization was the same as free energy minimization. When Smolensky and Hinton collaborated (they were both Postdocs under David Rummelhart and Don Norman at UCSD), they called it “goodness of fit.” Still used today!
RISC is not about the number of instructions but rather what the instructions do. The famous example of CISC gone to its logical extreme is the VAX's polynomial multiply instruction, which ended up being almost a full program in a single instruction. RISC tends to go the other way, focusing on things that are easy for hardware to do and leaving anything else to software.
I am perplexed:

>A: None: yellow is a primary colour for light

Weren't primary colours (for light) red, green, blue?

https://science.howstuffworks.com/primary-colors.htm
Fair enough, "return" is not the correct word here. Maybe "we will solidify the importance of clickbaity headlines"?

I first noticed the up-tick of clickbait headlines in the salad days of RSS. Due to this, I tend to ignore headlines these days, because I was trained to assume the headline was complete nonsense. So my internal metrics are a bit wonky.
The reality is that SBF is getting the kid glove treatment because of his connections.

Posters here are merely pointing that out.
This article lost me in the first two examples.

Defaults are fine, but as a user I'd like a choice to enter my own donation amount.

I've always found the touted toggle box control to be ambiguous compared to the old-fashioned checkmark in a box.
Circa 1999 one of the popular machines in my uni's computer club was the BeBox - it had a solid web browser, it was fast, it had the cool CPU usage indicator on the front, and it was *nix enough to compile most stuff or to work on assignments in ANSI C. And it was just so snappy, it could do more than one thing without getting janky.

A real shame that they faded out. I kind of miss those days with all the different and varied workstations – Be, SGI, DEC, HP, IBM, Sun, ...
Do you mean the research paper that's linked first in the part you linked (on praising children, measuring motivation of those children, not any results in tests not to even mention effect (or lack of it) long term on life) or the author that's mentioned there (with a large 'Criticism' section in their page that comes down to 'doesn't replicate' - and even that detail aside, this 'research', too, was about school performance with no clear ecological relevancy to the topic at hand)?

I did see the link. Nothing about success, tiny bit about school performance. Have you seen the link?
I don't really understand the appeal of early boarding. I want to spend as little time on the plane as possible.
The place you would find such stories are the google forums where google and their volunteers have a vested interest in pruning such complaints.

Most normies don’t get locked out because they don’t use 2fa, don’t change devices and use a single easy to remember (probably easily guessable) password for every account.

Getting locked out of google is most likely the result of using security best practices like installing a 2fa app on a device that gets lost. Or a misplaced yubi key, etc…

Good advice is to print out one time use codes, and store them somewhere safe, like a safe. Physical security is much better in a digital world than digital security.
Congressional reps want more time for laid-off H-1B workers to find new jobs
It’s not I/O (the “I” displays with serifs for me), it’s |/⭘ (line and circle). As a mnemonic, you can think of it as 1 and 0 (for on and off).

The standby symbol ⏻ combines the two.
ttRSS, because RSS2Email is next to useless in the modern crappy feed usage where full articles are NOT on the feed... While as a concept it's very nice since I use notmuch, so I can manage mails and especially search&tag them very well.

I've used elfeed, it demand too much time to skim many posts, similar to Miniflux who is quicker but still demand too much time. ttRSS allow to scroll marking read, that's enough for me. Feeds nowadays simply have much value as a tool, but too little values per mean post.

Gnus with scoring is nice, but again too slow to skim, even with scoring help.
Original title compressed due to HN limits: "Congressional representatives want more time for laid-off H-1B visa holders to find new jobs"

Document sent to USCIS by Reps Anna Eshoo and Zoe Lofgren asking to extend grace period to 120 days: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23512402/lettertodhsu...
That is a good example of why ethical businesses should support regulation.

Another one is the capital markets. The most popular stock markets tend to be the most highly regulated both internally (that is, by the markets themselves) and by government (e.g., the SEC). Why? Because strong regulation enables consumer trust. Look at all the foreign companies that list on the NYSE, for example: https://www.nyse.com/listings/international-listings

Smart businesses support things like standards, certifications, and good regulations so that they are competing in a fair arena and don't have to compromise on their principles.