skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Something worth at least $8.5M is a minor trivial "misstep"?

For a company with probably ten million affected customers within the relevant jurisdiction, yes. The fine itself categorises this matter as a trivial misstep.

Also your logic is weird. You’re using the assessed punishment as justification for why the assessed punishment is insufficient.
> You’ve never had to fight for basic human rights as a white straight person.

Look for the etymology of the term "slave". You will be surprised.
I feel like this used to be a bigger issue, now virtually all motherboards have an M.2 A/E key slot for a wifi card and the Intel ones are pretty bulletproof and dirt cheap, in my experience.
> I need to know everything that’s going on in my code. I need simple, straightforward function calls. Nothing else! I want to be able to start at main() and trace through the code. I want to look at callers and find where every parameter came from. Reading code is hard enough already. Magic frameworks make it harder.

But these frameworks aren't magic. They're just code. Sure it means you have a bit more code to read through to work out what's causing a problem but it's still just code. The time cost of potentially more difficult debugging when things go wrong is nothing compared to the time saved not having to wire things together manually.

I also find DI frameworks actually encourage good design by making it easier to write small, single purpose classes. You don't need to spend time working out where to initialise them so they can be passed to all the dependent classes.
You have an IRC channel too ? or maybe hang over #prolog on libera chat ?
We're talking about people, not economies. Financial incentives work up to a point, and then they start perverting behaviour. Better motivations for people on an individual level within an organization are autonomy, mastery and purpose, eg. give them an objective that seems meaningful, and give them the freedom to master the skills needed achieve that goal in a way they know works for them.
It is 100% free! For b2b I was thinking about also selling flowers through the App but not much more. Any ideas?
Great question. As a founder and CTO, I too have been through this. Couple recommendations:

Books:
-The Personal MBA by Kaufman is a great start
-Financial Statements: A Step-by-Step Guide to Understanding and Creating Financial Reports

Next advice is to learn investing. I’ve learned a ton by studying public companies, listening to earning calls, reading 10Ks, etc..

Audible books are great for consuming biz books on marketing, mgmt, teamwork, etc..

Founders podcast for just learning entrepreneurship and it being awesome.
It seems to be mostly a case of, as various product sets evolve, you sometimes end up with adjacent products that are probably too similar. This has happened with the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro at various times. In general, Apple seems a lot more guilty of being slow to upgrade niche segments (smaller laptops, high-end desktops, smaller phones) than the other way around.
Bolsonaro can concede and quit and move to Florida, but most people aren't rich enough to quit and move to a supposedly still-free country on another continent, but still have to deal with all the issues they were dealing with over the past decade.

I suspect that a lot of these "Bolsonaro supporters" don't see this as being about Bolsonaro vs. Lula, but about a whole abusive state system versus themselves.
Second dotbot.
Yeah, that was the first thing I did when I got Dall-E access. Basically just fed text from Zork room descriptions into it.

As somebody who eagerly bought into Infocom's advertising back in the day, about how the best adventure game graphics were always going to come from my imagination, it's sort of disillusioning how well it worked. E.g., https://i.imgur.com/xxPn3Mh.png is better than what was in my mind's eye at the time, notwithstanding the Escherian chair. I honestly don't know if I want to watch that video.
Haha yes I was thinking strategically alone in my own response to this anxiety. Assuming nuclear state A is willing to become a pariah state in exchange for destroying nuclear state B, the calculus still doesn’t make sense.

I think you are correct in the additional psychological analyses, no sober minded human would willingly fire a nuclear weapon when not forced to strategically, and the economic costs of becoming a pariah state are far too high for state A to even come to the conclusion that it’s worth it to destroy state B (see Russia becoming a pariah state in early 2022 and quickly becoming shut off from the world economy, even from traditional Allies).
I want to highlight Dylan Beattie while we're posting our favorites.

https://www.youtube.com/@DylanBeattie

His song DMCA is my little favourite, but "You Give REST a Bad Name" is also excellent. And he does perform at conferences! (Mostly .NET ones)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSKp2StlS6s
I'm curious about, specifically, which files you (and the sibling commenter) want to manage outside of the home directory. Is it OS package-manager configs?

This is highly dependent on distro, but for any use-cases where editing /etc/ is the recommendation, I have found that either:

(a) It's a development environment thing (e.g. httpd vhosts) & thus I see it as quite separate to "my dotfiles" (a personal machine env thing): I try my best to manage dev env stuff from project-specific repos wherever I can (i.e. a bash script to dispatch required local /etc/ changes in a repo "./scripts" dir or similar), or otherwise if it's a more significant set of configs, Ansible.

(b) It's a specific app that is recommending doing things the "Wrong Way™". There's often a workaround to get it to use $HOME or $XDG.

(c) It's OS package configs. I've found that things like repo & key installs are well suited to chezmoi run_ scripts. For anything more advanced or esoteric, I guess that may be an exception.
Coordinating how we expend resources, and on what, is always the biggest problem, by far, and that would be true under any system I can think of. Money is a very imperfect solution to the problem, but that doesn’t mean money is the the problem.

A lot of people’s thinking about these issues essentially starts with “assume a benevolent dictator.” That’s a big assumption!

Fewer gripes about capitalism; more grooming of the global bug tree.
MKBHD perfectly describes Apple's product strategy and why it has been so profitable for them.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XeDPwpIFs-I
If nothing else will compel SF to change its ways, the cold financial realities will.
Do you have a source for that? For example, can I take upskirt shots because they're in public? Public restrooms also have an expection of privacy, even though they are public. There are many different laws that are privacy related that deal with public spaces.
valuations are dropping across the board in tech (including as drastic as 378>120 for FB), so at least some of that is general market-related
Thanks, appreciate it a lot!

This is a really good point, and I am on it to change this! Thank you for your input again!
Finding ways to overcome the effects of childhood and ancestral trauma, so we can stop perpetuating it.

Although there are lots of therapies which claim to do this, I don't believe that most of them work very well. We've hardly begun to recognize this problem, let alone solve it. But once you start to recognize it, you see that its effects are so profound that little else is of primary importance.
I see many fatalistic posts.

Of course, saying "we are doomed" is the easiest way to continue to do what we are doing. It's just a defensive mechanism at this point.

We should be stopping the production of plastic and replace it with bioplastics immediately.

Difficult? Yes. Impossible? No.
Lou Keep.

Also known for :

https://loukeep.substack.com/p/vagaries

But especially :

https://samzdat.com/

They might not have expertise, but they know how to write. And (from my own, admittedly layman's searches) I haven't seen anything contradicting the main claims.
> Mercurial has been around for approximately the same length of time, and from a UX perspective, I find it to be much superior to Git

I started using Mercurial as the first serious DVCS I used (dabbling earlier with things like bzr) and my experience doesn’t support this at all.

I think it’s hard to underestimate the degree to which familiarity skews these assessments, especially with the additional confounding factors of project custom and experience. If you first used Git when contributing to a larger or more complex project than you were used to, it’s easy to misattribute the challenges to the tool and forget that everything got easier with experience using any DVCS.

This is especially true for the not uncommon case where the problem is really that someone has strong opinions about how they think the tool should work and refuses to learn its actual design - I’ve known multiple people who ranted about Git who were also the guys who hacked up their development boxes before saying a project was too hard to install (“Python packaging is terrible!” “Didn’t you use sudo to overwrite /usr/bin/python with Python 3 right before getting all of those Unicode decode errors?”), or, in one notable case, say Debian packaging was broken after they manually upgrade MySQL and somehow managed to render the system unbootable.
How do you shield a radio receiver from electromagnetic disturbances on the antenna?
Oh sweet! Will look into it, thanks a lot!
Feel like this article is trying to tie many disparate complaints about people filming in public together.

It at one time criticizes the surveillance state and then also tries to connect it to the "man on the street" format.

Seems simply like a compilation of complaints by someone who doesn't like to be filmed in public.
>It's hardly as absolute as you make it sound.

Can you cite legal examples of exceptions? I know the police tried real hard to ban people filming them and failed. As annoying as these people are, public photography as a freedom of the press right a large net positive IMO.

https://www.acludc.org/en/know-your-rights/if-stopped-photog...
> invest in much lower risk investments like money market funds and high quality commercial paper, which tends to have very low returns

As I wrote in the other comment: Coinbase says the tens of billions of USD backing their USDC are in short term US treasuries. ATM the return on these is 4.7% yearly? 4.7% yearly they pocket on more than $50 billions. Without giving the returns back to the USDC holders (as far as I know people keeping USDCs in their own private wallets do not get any yeld).

Or is Coinbase not actually putting these tens of billions in short term US treasuries (which mean they'd be lying)?

Or am I misunderstanding what's the yearly return on these short term US treasuries?
Your insight in one link.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law

And the industry supporting that 90% is having problems.
Color me surprised.
That's not a fair summary of his views.
There seems to be some stagnation in pijul. I don't know if that's normal in this kind of project or if it's a indication of the future.
Yes, otherwise mothers could be arrested for taking a picture of their kids and publishing it on Facebook because some guy was walking in the background.
One can be entirely wrong about one thing and right about another. Here he merely stated a fact.
Maybe it's not accurate for someone who lives in Twin Peaks and never leaves their house, but anyone who goes to any part of the city that could be called "downtown" sees needles and human waste every single day, and is very likely to have their car broken into if they leave it overnight.
I've lived in SF for over 6 years, in at least 10 different neighborhoods from fidi to Mission to lower pac heights. This is completely accurate in my experience.
And presumably 0 of them died, or there would be mention of deaths.
# Save the repo to `~/.dotfiles`; the `--bare` option prevents Git from making
# a mess of your home directory.
git clone --bare ... ~/.dotfiles

# Set up an alias for this shell session (it's also in ~/.config/aliasrc).
alias dots='git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles --work-tree=$HOME'

# Make sure we don't show untracked files in `git status` output.
dots config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

# Checkout all local files.
# NOTE: This might overwrite existing files, or you might need to stash files
# before proceeding. Look before you leap. If you have an existing setup,
# consider checking out individual files as needed and testing the
# configuration piecemeal, instead of doing a complete checkout.
dots checkout

# Make sure we can access remotes properly. The `--bare` option requires us to
# do this manually.
dots config remote.origin.fetch "+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*"

# Make sure we are set up to track the remote `master` branch. Again, this is a
# consequence of cloning with `--bare`.
dots branch --set-upstream-to=origin/master master
dots switch master

# Fetch to make sure everything is configured correctly.
dots fetch origin
Why is this top comment? How is it relevant to the topic?

Or we have now a new Godwin, where it’s enough to mention that someone doesn’t give enough lip service to support Ukraine to discredit his opinion on anything?
> Nestable comment syntax is also nice. At least some MLs (eg SML) has it, that I know of.

Scala has it too. (But OK, Scala is a kind of ML).
I’m not an expert on these kinds of devices so take this with a grain of salt, but it’s my understanding that while radar cannot be shielded, sonar can.
The scale of the problem is pretty bad when you have to specify "surviving" retail locations.
> This is probably a horrible idea, but then again, the standard workweek that most in office workers adhere to right now isn't super stellar or efficient either...

Yeah but at least they get to see their spouses and children every day.

Despite the narrative about tech workers you see in the media, the vast majority of them are normal people with families who work normal hours Monday through Friday and are satisfied with their work-life balance.
Yikes. I was being sarcastic to make my point. And if highlight the “jokes aside” in the second paragraph, you’ll tell me I wasn’t funny?
The ones filming aren't courteously approaching people to ask a question; they are provoking a reaction.

This trend isn't new. I've seen people swarmed by TikTokers on the street once or twice, then asked questions to make them look stupid and laughed at. I too was mobbed by a hardbass crowd when that was a meme on social media about ten years ago. I was on a second or third date with someone at a restaurant, and it wholly ruined the mood when my date and I were made fools on some video that luckily never went viral.

It's not strictly dangerous or harmful, but it's definitely not a social interaction most people want. When you are the subject, it feels like you've been taken advantage of against your will, and publicly humiliated. And if the video goes viral, that's exactly what you will be.
The first dependency injection framework i learned was Nucleus [1]. An unusual feature of Nucleus is that it has no type-based autowiring. You write a little properties file for every component, and to inject a component into another, the recipient uses the path to the other component's properties file. It is shockingly basic, but it works really well. Everything is explicit, but simple enough that it's not laborious to use. Having multiple instances of components is trivial, because they're just separate properties files. Indeed, the driving use case for Nucleus, the ATG commerce framework (since bought by Oracle) had multiple instances of many classes (eg the generic ORM repository class, for different siloes of data). I was really surprised when i first used an autowiring dependency injection framework, where this is either impossible, or you have to jump through hoops to do it.

[1] https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E41069_01/Platform.11-0/ATGPlatfo...
There was a man on the moon once. Does that mean people can go to the moon?
That makes no sense. The immediate result of the Industrial Revolution was a significant improvement in the material well being of vast classes of people.
I'm sorry, but this point is trite and incorrect. Humans can manipulate concepts and compare them to other ideas. Which is why we're able to fact check and cite sources, where language models cannot.

It's true that I'm just putting one word after another right now, like a language model. But I can combine those tokens into higher level abstractions like facts and ideas, which I can then compare with other facts and ideas. If ChatGPT could do this, it wouldn't be plausibly wrong nearly as often. Instead it's just "what word is statistically likely to come next?"
You're confusing a synthetic collateralized debt obligation (CDO squared) with a credit default swap (CDS).
I suspect that one issue is that you can buy REALLY cheap and terrible laptops and run Linux on them. You can't buy cheap Apple products. Therefore people compare the crappy touchpad from a $300 laptop with that of a $1,5000 MacBook or whatever they cost now. Obviously, that makes the Linux one look bad.

But the high-quality laptops that e.g. most devs on Linux use have had great touchpads for a long time.
> Also, you can short crypto on CME. Is that rigged too?

I think your first point is fair, but I think you're overselling things here. Yyou can only short Bitcoin, not all crypto, but the real issue is that the Bitcoin futures curve is in backwardation, which implies a certain financing cost to go short.

The settlements for the various contracts can be found here[0]. Nearly all of the volume is concentrated in the front month contract (Jan 23 at the moment), so if you want to be able to trade any size at all, you'll have to do so by selling that contract.

However, the issue is that the future price is consistently lower than the spot price. So if you bought a Bitcoin today and then sold a future for the front month (i.e. so you locked in the price you could sell the Bitcoin at in the future), you would be guaranteed to lose money.

And you will effectively have to do exactly that every month: as your short contract approaches expiry, you'll need to roll it over for the next month's contract. As the front month gets closer to expiry, its price will trend to the Bitcoin spot price, meaning you'll have to buy it back at a higher price then you will get when you sell the next month contract.

I don't have access to the historical settlement prices for the CME contracts at the moment, so I can't estimate the exact roll cost you'd pay over the course of a year. If we guess that it's about $100 each roll, then you'd pay $1200 over the course of the year per bitcoin (as well as having to commit 50% of the price of bitcoin in margin).

The OP posted 185 USDC net as collateral and has a short position of 450 USDT, which he's paying about 13% on. In the CME case, the collateral requirements are higher (50% of the notional shorted) but the financing cost is lower (less than 10% of notional shorted).

[0] https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/cryptocurrencies/bitcoin/bi...
> If you issue a stablecoin and you know you are solvent, then you can hint to the market that maybe you're not, and buy (your own) assets that you know are worth $1 at a discount, making a tidy profit in the process

This doesn't seem like a particularly great strategy, compared with the alternative of running a stablecoin and exchange that doesn't look dodgy (or indeed an actual fraud which is at least insanely lucrative). Don't think earning the spread on deviations from the peg (which Tether-believers compete with you for) is really all that great compared with the returns from having a lot more trusting customers paying a lot more in fees to use your exchange and the returns from safely investing a lot more USD given to you in exchange for Tether. And that's before taking into account the downsides of running something that looks like a criminal operation, like dealing with investigators
It was very noticeably slower on all but the smallest projects. I started with it but switched to Git later for some open source work and that was one of the first impressions I had.
I very recently put some effort into tidying up my dotfiles, and have a brief writeup at https://chatwithsysop.com/blog/2022/12/31/dotfiles-cleanup (none of this was done with the academic rigor required to withstand a deconstruction by HN, it is just a log of one person's experience with a weekend project).

I chose to use yadm (http://yadm.io) for no particular reasons beyond that I found it first, and it seemed reasonable. It's more just a wrapper around putting GIT_DIR elsewhere.
> this will result in the days the responsible C-level staff gets jailed. This would be simple and very effective.

I really recommend you transfer your hatred and sense of injustice to companies that are right at this moment poisoning environments - even in the US - and actively covering-up chemical leaks, or the pollution of people’s drink-water, or allowing workers to use carcinogens that executives deny are dangerous.

Some pathetic technical contravention of a trivial rule by Apple here is not worth your energy and passionate hatred.
Ask HN: Leadership Progression, Isn't this a demotion?
I currently work at an agency and it's coming up on 10yrs that I've been with the company (actually longer about 10.5yrs started off as consultant) and 10.8 years since the company was started. We just brought a CTO on board which the CEO looked to my approval prior to offering him the role. Prior to bringing the CTO on board the CEO was acting in the role of the CTO with the VP of Tech and myself the VP of Engineering assisting.
During the time the CTO was being interviewed I just so happened to have my review with the CEO and he presented me with a question on my next steps and growth with the company. As the company is growing the CEO is also establishing an org chart that he's been working on for over 6 months.

My understanding of my role as the VP Of Engineering is that I am tasked with establishing the engineer practice, hiring of engineers, solving issues at the organizational level and managing other managers/leads etc.

The CEO's vision would be to have people specialize in one area with me being presented the role of "Head of Backend".

The question I'm trying to gain clarity on is what is the difference between VP of Engineering and Head of Backend given that we have multiple engineering disciplines (React Native, Frontend and Backend).

Right now I wear the following hats:

- Lead on projects max of 2 (small PM tasks, full feature coding , PR reviewing, system Architect, direct client engagement among other tasks), consultant of many. This also includes managing the Frontend teams, getting company to start using Storybook and componentizing our design

- Part of a team of Sr Engineers to redefine our engineering departments and design practices/work flows(building tools, documentation, best practice / structure). This team was something that the CEO and myself came up with over the past year.

- Hiring Backend developers, 1:1 and mentoring. Solution Architect/Problem solver (may be brought in to help solve full tech solutions no matter the discipline. The issue usually starts as a backend need and then goes into Frontend or Mobile implementation/needs)

The issue I'm having here is how to decide on what my next steps are but also if I choose Head of Backend could that be seen as a demotion or should it be seen as a restructure in limiting the need to wear multiple hats and having a clear career growth path.
> Helicopters are only used if the suspect flees.

Unless you're in Northeast LA and then you have police helicopters flying over head at nearly the same time every day for years
That is not the bet they are taking, the r/r is completely different.
I've just (literally a few hours ago) started a tool trying to follow those principles.

https://github.com/woile/npt

I still don't know if it's worth, I have to experiment a bit more with it.

I have to say I'm still struggling with the flake:/