skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If these companies assets or stocks go to zero or are locked due to fraud or something that makes the actual public stocks untradable, how do you get out of a short position? Borrowing and selling the stock means you can’t get it back to return to the original owner, and buying put options means you can’t sell the stock to the contract holder. Do you have to get out before it gets completely vaporized?
> 2. Your company produces something hugely useful / beneficial for society; in other words, it produces something hugely valuable.

2. Your company extracts value from everywhere it can, to the detriment of it's counterparties: employees, the environment, customers, partners, contractors

For one example: Amazon warehouse employees (contractors?) are not paid very well for very hard work. I'm sure someone has a comeback for this, but it is an example of value extraction.

Another: Amazon does not do a great job of policing counterfeits, to the detriment of customers.

Another: Sellers on Amazon have a variety of complaints, you can look them up.

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If the business existed for the purpose of being ethical, these conditions would not exist. The business exists for the purpose of extracting value.

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Edit: Put another way - If your company ONLY produces something highly valuable, then someone can simply create a competing product and undercut you.

An example of this is looking at drug prices when patents expire. Generic drugs can be sold for MUCH cheaper than the patent protected "name brand" drug. The product is highly valuable, but may not be high cost, unless it is protected in some way.

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Edit edit: If you want to defend these companies or capitalism in general, that's fine with me.

I would like to gently point out that sometimes we dance on very fine lines of morality in the course of doing business.
Hindenburg Research have a pedigree. I don't find these sorts of reports at all readable either, but that doesn't mean that the people they're aimed at (investors, etc) don't. I assume it's an industry style because it's worked for them in the past.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_Research
That is what people who have jobs with no insurance benefit do. So why not?
Capacity informs how well/fast you can execute through your priorities, which can sometimes mean that you should reprioritize according to your available throughput (“Capacity says we’ll have this 10th thing next year, we need it this year, let’s reprioritize). But unless you have specific time horizons for your wants/needs, capacity and priorities aren’t as related as most people think.

You should prioritize the things that will have the highest impact to your customers or your business. That could be:

- a mission critical infrastructure change
- a small bug that is driving people nuts
- a differentiating new feature
- a whole new product that will take a long time to build

Good prioritization facts in multiple criteria. Bad (most common) prioritization is a function of loudest voices yelling.
Looking back on that era, the hate towards hackers feels really misplaced. Yeah, at the time it was more local and more dominated by people doing it for the lolz but we kinda owe them a debt of gratitude. If they hadn't gotten everyone to stop being lazy about security we'd be in a very different place now, surrounded by rouge states and agencies launching hyper sophisticated attacks on infrastructure and data. That was also the era that trained the current generation of cybersecurity experts.
My point is “open source” doesn’t have any meaning in a legal sense. Even the Open Source Initiative is an “initiative”. It’s a word we use to describe a concept that describes specific licenses.

What does have legal meaning is copyrights and specific licenses, like MIT, GPL, etc.

For example, I could be a bozo and claim any software is open source. The open source initiative (and general public, HN, etc) might not agree and issue a public statement, but I’m not aware that they have any legal remedies unless they have a trademark on the phrase “open source”.
This is nice parallel with soft engineering staff. I often find that whoever does lotsa tinkering (building) can better which tool to use and why.
Linux tinkering being it window managers, bash scripts might sound like a waste of time to the most, but it offers intangible experience of knowing what software/stacks to choose and why. That is, such tinkering experience gives you 'intuition' about today's vast array of tools
Define fair? Internet is inherently both front loaded in terms of the substantial investment to build the network and fairly divorced from cost to maintain a given customers link. What's the fair price for access? The cost of access is negligible but the investment to build and maintain the network is not and without profits achieved now the network it would never have been built in the first place.
This is cope. Nobody goes around denying Down's syndrome exists, so when you say "they're denying genetics" you actually mean "they're denying it except for all the times they don't".

Nevertheless I do deny it. Genes don't cause anything, they just sit there in nucleuses. If you don't include the entire causal chain you're not serious either.
What’s the deal with special chars? A site made me use one today.
Oof, well, I was going to say,

> My prediction is that the "Hacking is Cool" dumb idea will be a dead idea in the next 10 years.

… that won't age well, and apparently, that didn't age well. It won't happen in the next 10, either.

Nor will good engineering: as an industry, we a.) dislike the very idea that knowledge is required for software engineering and b.) every "Rust fixes this entire class of bugs, permanently" "oh god not the Rust evangelists" … yeah, the bugs will continue.
You are addressing a seperate claim to the one made. The actual claim is that there are no ethical super-wealthy people, not that such a thing is a logical impossibility.
You need a moat. Often that
moat requires some questionable ethics
to
build.
Yes fascism has broad appeal without a cohesive ideology. It seems like in your telling that's a positive?
>Wouldn't it be more sensible to learn how to design security systems that are hack-proof than to learn how to identify security systems that are dumb?

Sure, but how does one get the knowledge on how to secure systems? Half the job of a security engineer is thinking like an attacker and trying to poke holes in it. Key mitigations like ASLR and stack canaries are so effective because they specifically block off key resources and techniques that attackers use. It would be downright impossible to invent these mitigations (or even meaningfully understand them) if you did not already have a firm grasp on memory corruption and ROP. I'm not sure it's an argument I actually care to defend, but I do honestly believe that you can't be a strong security engineer if you don't have a grasp on the techniques your adversaries use.
I have built my personal website with it and the DX was amazing! The only thing I wish it had was native client side routing w/o 3rd party plugins.
Has somebody crawled and made a corpus out of hacker news? Is it maintained?
I don't know what YC employees are called, but I really hope they're "Combinations".
Missed opportunity to call themselves "metahumans" and get the DC Comics lawyers after 'em.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27424195

4022 points|raxod502|2 years ago|1274 comments
To my eye it reads as a dense bullet pointed list of assertions followed by dense unbulleted paragraphs addressing the allegations in terse detail using extracts from several years worth of company reports, quotes from past employees and associates, court findings, criminal investigations, etc.

It's terse, but it does flow through the narrative and lacks anything that screams machine generated (IMHO, of course).
> in contrast to Capitalism's vague (but true IMO) "We'll make everyone rich"

> Just look at any internet thread about Communism today, haha. It's a very compelling fantasy

Yep, everyone is rich. That's reality, that is. No doubt about it.

Communism now, those guys are all living a fantasy.
You don’t have to because you don’t matter. Enough people will just nod and accept the explanation for why their tax dollars are being given to billionaires that your voice doesn’t matter.
If it is vaporised there
is nothing really to return. I presume the contract details what happens then.
If that's the case, then I will switch search engines.
From a reduce, reuse, recycle standpoint - iPhones just make sense.
My first response was also positive. Cleaner yet persistent nav to jump around quickly
Case in point: Blackberry Priv (2015) v. Blackberry Key2 (2018)

Both models are VoLTE compliant. AT&T whitelisted the former supposedly because they once sold/supported this model directly, but told existing users of the latter to replace their phone or GTFO.

I gladly took the GTFO option and switched to T-Mobile...substantially reduced my monthly bill to less than $17/mo per phone and saw improved reception at the office.
I think it's usually that the company's failure would have too large an impact on the economy or other dependent companies, so it will get bailed out by the dependents or the government.
Running Ceph on MiniKube
Get a recording of you asking them to confirm their refusal to accept cash payment for the pre-fee amount. They will either let you do it or you have good enough evidence that the managers not gonna make an issue when you have a recording that will make him look like an asshole in front of a jury and his boss.
I wonder how well we all think this article has aged?

"Penetrate and Patch" is supposedly dumb. But what do we practically do with that? We've seen in the last decade or so a lot of long-lived software everyone thought was secure get caught with massive security bugs. Well, once some software you depend on has infact been found to have a bug, what's there to do but patch it? If some software has never had a bug found in it, does that actually mean that it's secure, or just that no skilled hackers have ever really looked hard at it?

Also web browsers face a constant stream of security issues. But so what? What are we supposed to do instead? Any simpler version doesn't have the features we demand, so you're stuck in a boring corner of the world.

"Default Permit" - nice idea in most cases. I've never heard of a computer that's actually capable of only letting your most commonly used apps run though. It's not very clear how you'd do that, and ensure none of them were ever tampered with, or be able to do development involving frequently producing new binaries, or figure out how to make sure no malicious code ever took advantage of whatever mechanism you want to use to make app development not terrible. And everyone already gripes about how locked-down iOS devices are, wouldn't this mean making everything at least that locked down or more?
You mean there will be a Rust-2? Nice.
How will it affect India’s economy if the Adani Group crashes? India8is currently one of the fastest growing economies and wondering what effect this may have on the economy.
1. That presumes linking against libmysql and making bindings won't be a source of endless bugs :)

2. One of the major pitfalls with linking against c libraries that do their own i/o is that they don't play nicely with the go scheduler. That means the goroutines blocking on a c i/o operation will occupy it's thread for the duration of the call.
Nobody fights it
A single index.php file can generate more than $100k/month in revenue
When an investor buys shares of a company, the company doesn’t get that money, the other seller investor does. No investment capital is “contributed” to the company (unless the seller is actually the company itself).

These investors aren’t contributing capital to the company—they are betting on one square on a roulette wheel.
At least Monty Python knew Jaspers:
https://youtu.be/LfduUFF_i1A
An inside joke that at this point even most insiders will not get :) I love it!
In my experience narratives are as priced in as they are accepted, so in the interim between "you first hear of this" and "everyone believes this" there is opportunity - bearing in mind that the interim between those two things is shorter the more believable the new thing.

But for instance in the case of "there's a new plague and China is locking down" there were several months between first hearing about it and everyone recognizing it.
You Don't Want a Purely Biological, Apolitical Taxonomy of Mental Disorders
Software Defined Radio with Zynq UltraScale and RFSoC
Thank you. I purposefully tried to make my comment as easy to agree with as possible but apparently there are a LOT of people in denial because it got downvoted to oblivion and flagged.
Minimally, directly. But the hypernationalism has to stop. It’s reminiscent of how Wirecard got as far as it did.
> "We can't stop the occasional problem" - yes, you can. Would you travel on commercial airliners if you thought that the aviation industry took this approach with your life? I didn't think so.

This person has a fundamentally mistaken idea of how airliners and, therefore, security systems as a whole work. Yes, airliners have the occasional problem. That's why they have:

* checklists and inspections, to catch them beforehand

* communications, to catch them while they're evolving

* redundancies, to turn ramified problems nobody caught into annoyances instead of disasters

No matter how some people whine and moan, "Just Be Perfect" fails to be an actionable plan.

Also: Hackers will be cool as long as DRM and planned obsolescence/designed-in insecurities exist.
China and the Population Bomb That Wasn’t
You lose like 2 inches of text real estate on the left side under the navigation stuff (and the white blankness beneath it) I reckon most people are finding their way to Wiki directly from Google anyway so why waste so much screen space
Any shareholder in this fiasco who isn't a member of the family is the proverbial sucker at the table. Also, anyone who's lending money against inflated shares is going to lose everything.
Same! Learning it was fake ruined it. And then realizing that it’s in on being “fake” and that it’s a soap opera made me appreciate it a lot.

And “fake” may cover the results of the matches but it doesn’t cover how intense it is on their bodies. Olympic wrestling is probably a far easier sport on the body.
Linkedin and Salesforce PM's tend to be the stereotypical answer (products that haven't changed for years).
It’s so cringey
The earliest HDDs were not sealed and required regular maintenance to clean the heads manually; you were supposed to use ethanol or isopropanol for that purpose. There was a story from late Soviet times about this - since they lagged quite badly when it came to computing, even in late 80s there was still plenty of hardware around like that. And for every such hard drive, there would be accounting to track the amount of ethanol issued, so the engineers had to make do with what they could skim after the cleaning.

But then around that time some better stuff began to trickle in - instead of 3-5 Mb HDDs, you could get a whopping 30 Mb! Those were sealed and required no cleaning... but the legend goes that, in one such place, it occurred to the engineers that accounting doesn't know that. So, instead, they submitted a request to procure more ethanol for cleaning, on the basis that a 30 Mb hard drive would obviously need 6 times as much for servicing as a 5 Mb one does. It was approved, and the arrangement lasted until the head of the department caught someone drunk and traced the source.

(Another version of this legend has a slight variation in that the engineers submitted a request for more than 6x, deliberately making a mistake in math to make it look like a clumsy attempt to get more. Accounting promptly "caught" it and gave them a stern lecture about how they're not getting even one drop over what the proper number required... i.e. 6x.)
was the terrain modeling good enough at that time to really train you for that? Current MSFS sure but the version he was running?
I just don't buy into the connected-to-manufacturer iot silliness.

But I was bit in by this in another way. This happened with an AT&T dsl modem I had years ago. AT&T pushed an update and then my network stopped working. I had static ip addresses and all of a sudden I got no traffic. I went round and round and because the static ip devices were not their equipment, and I could connect out (on their dynamic ip) they washed their hands of it. What a mess.

(I had to delve into the internal router logs, and eventually figured out the pace 5268ac modem had a bug. even though the firewall was DISABLED, packets were blocked unless I enabled firewall "stealth mode")
Japan Has Changed a Lot
A lot of workers want to go back to the office, too.

The social, career, and daily experiences of in-person office work have a wide number of tangible benefits that can’t be replicated sitting at home on the computer.
Re read it. You are right, my bad. A bit grey. Not theft.
Pascal and C where the two most used languages in the kind of software development world I was living in around 1990, hobby, university and consulting, UNIX and some Windows. I remember reading one Oberon and one Modula 2 paper. I didn't know anybody using them to build anything real. Pascal had its heyday on DOS and Windows with Turbo Pascal and Delphi. It slowly faded away because everybody started building GUIs with Visual BASIC instead, or Visual C++ for the very technical people. Then came the web and Java and PHP and the early Linux corporate adoption and by 2000 it was buried under a geological layer.
Also, TCP is more like 2 uni-directional streams bolted together than a single full-duplex connection, which I've seen trip up lots of systems.
Yes, I suspect “The leadership has corrupt/naive/out of touch/power hungry elements, but our leaders are better than the other guys and my rank-and-file peers are great. Besides, the cause is too important to give up” is probably a near-universal sentiment among the politically active.
I also said super wealthy.
It really shows who the sober voices were: the people selling huge valuations had billion-dollar marketing marketing and were able to drown them out, but it’s not like there weren’t plenty of skeptics.

Unfortunately, there’s pare some powerful politics behind the dream: cars are inherently unscalable but everyone with an expensive suburban house wants to believe otherwise and since transit is coded poor in the U.S. politicians really liked the idea that they could do what the politically-powerful wanted by doing nothing they weren’t already doing. Why put effort into making buses efficient and annoying a bunch of car commuters when you can say FSD will fix it?
So the organisms aren’t half-dead after all, if your yogurt is a success. I always wonder how they can survive in a pill, on a shelf, for a year (expiration date is easily one year but I finish them in 30 days… but no idea date of manufacture so we can’t know how “old” the organisms are.
Modi used Adani planes during election campaign. Adani and Modi are close since his Gujarat CM days. He truly is too big to fail.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/fleet-of-3-aircraft...
https://www.wikiwand.com/ lets you customize how Wikipedia is rendered.

I find the defaults easier to read.
There is real opposition to Modi's authoritarianism in India, since as a democracy, states have some relative autonomy. Tamil Nadu's DMK party is really interesting in this regard, and have a history pushing back against Modi's hindi/hindutva nationalism.
UberEats calculates tip after tax, after Ubers fees, and excludes any discounts you received.
firmware update - now all the buttons are smaller and harder to hit!
TOTP is a popular MFA mechanism that is composed from a shared secret and settings (often communicated by qr code). Utilities like LastPass can generate TOTP codes for you if you share the config. The statement reads like any MFA config shared is potentially compromised and should be replaced.
Would love to know how you built this ( even at a high level )
you also referred to the link I sent and other ideas not in either while also making generalizations without supporting evidence

> "you wouldn’t be taxed on your interest, dividends and capital gains" -- the things that wealthy people do with their money

These are not things wealthy do with their money, rather the benefits of investing money into companies and properties. One would expect that purchasing a property would incur a consumption tax and the purchases made by the company with that money would also be taxed.
https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/CountryStatistics/CountryDetails....

There is not a single reactor on this list with an operation factor (proportion of hours delivering any energy) over 85%.

Storage, backup, and overprovision are part of any system. 24/7/365 nuclear is a myth.

Once you acknowledge that reality it becomes a calculation of total costs vs. total emissions abated. VRE is about 5x as effective by this metric without even using any strategy other than minor overprovision, existing w2e/hydro, and fossil fuel methane backup, because generating even the mythical 100% green energy starting in 20 years is far worse than generating >80% green energy starting in 2 years.

Even if the long term plan is all nuclear (this doesn't work with commercial technology, there's not enough U235) it's still optimal to max out the VRE pipeline first. The VRE will pay back before your nuclear reactor is done just by the money saved on coal and gas.
I think that interfaces in TypeScript unfortunately contribute to that confusion. I can do

interface Point2D {
x: number
y: number
}

And then I can do

interface Point3D extends Point2D {
z: number
}

And that "extends" really throws off many people because in reality the type of Point2D is implicitly

{
x: number
y: number
[anything_else in string]: unknown
}

So Point3D actually narrows the type of Point2D even though the notation suggests that it widens it. Fortunately, the type notation is less misleading because I can do

type Point3D = Point2D & {
z: number
}

Without any misleading "extensions".

It seems like it all stems from the tight coupling between types and classes in a typical OOP paradigm. When you create a class Animal you create a type Animal that should conform to specific rules, but when you instantiate that class you create an object that conforms to a narrower set of rules. E.g. an object instantiated from class Animal won't be able to woof() even though the type "Animal" easily allows it. This leads to the mental model of "extending" base class with new fields and methods. And even though it indeed extends the class Animal, it narrows the type Animal.
> This is often why it's best to end these relationships. Someone who has normalized abuse could change, but there is a very good chance that you shouldn't wait to find out.

Adding to this from my own experience.

People tend to need reasons to change, and an abuser has no such reason, as their behavior gets them exactly what they want from their victims and relationships. They could change if they wanted to, but why would they do that when they're already getting what they want?

Plenty of abusers like to paint "real abuse" as the expectations of treating their partners with respect and as equals, they are fundamentally opposed to the behaviors and beliefs needed to maintain healthy relationships. It is nearly impossible to change those deeply held beliefs, let alone address the behaviors that stem from those beliefs.

I agree with your premise, but I'd replace "very good chance" with "utter certainty" that you shouldn't stick around hoping that an abuser is willing to change.
Hindenburg Research is very real.
just because a lobby group exists to push the idea that everybody has a right to anonymity, doesn't make it true
Great job! Really enjoyed asking questions about Hitchcock. When technology is there, it can be integrated with a speech engine so that we could get the answers in his own voice.
Please post an update on HN once you have it working. It’s a fantastic idea.