skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry, I have no patience for "rich man bad" takes on copyright.

Copyright law protects the smallest against the biggest. If some company comes and steals my product and outspends me on marketing, how do I fight back without copyright law?

Say someone stole the book I wrote and passed it off as their own - how does open sourcing it help me?

The chief purpose of the DMCA was to clarify legal liability and penalties for digital copyright infringement brought on by the disruption of the internet. How does that keep anyone rich? Who is that taking money from? Who is made poorer because people are able to create and sell their own works in the manner of their choosing?
They bought assets and loaned to customers … pretty standard stuff
According to Wikipedia[0] it also featured as Thinko the robot in the 1960 movie "Sex Kittens go to College[1,2]"

Also this is an excuse to repost the Old Robots website which has an Elektro page[3].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektro

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_Kittens_Go_to_College

[2]https://youtu.be/KLV6KBXZ5_M?t=4963 (nsfw, if the title weren't enough of a giveaway, but I mean is your job really worth not seeing Mamie Van Doren do a striptease for a robot and his wacky monkey friend?)

[3]https://www.theoldrobots.com/Electro.html

We can hide in this thread from all of the economics majors on HN.
I bought a block of Renshape for $80 in design school (a lot of money to me then) and have carried it with me ever since, waiting for the perfect design and also for my modeling skills to be worthy of this goddamn blue monolith.

Wait, I can afford a CNC mill now…
Isn't the CRO and other CxO positions considered officers of the corporation by law? I'm under the impression that there isn't any kind of liability clause that would get a corporate officer out of hot water with regulatory bodies should they decide to pursue charges.

If that's not correct, I'd love to be enlightened.
What insanity? Being asked by your PO to work on the actual stuff your team has agreed to work on in the sprint planning , you know the stuff that management thinks will actually happen? If you don't tolerate this, it's certainly better for both sides to depart.
I've had a great experience with my local credit union (https://www.bvscu.org/) for banking and lending, your experience may vary but I think it's worth looking into local credit unions.
I just want to say that the usual interpretation of "individual contributors" is not that they work alone. Almost by definition a Senior and especially a Staff+ engineer gets to deal with a lot of other engineers, hardly working by him/herself. The more you go up the IC ladder the more your job becomes influencing the technical direction of your team/org. It's a very social job.
It is very popular to pin this all on "greens."

While it's partially true, blaming the greens and now foreign powers is also a very convenient narrative for the fossil fuel industry.

There is more to the story. Sometimes the enemy is closer to home.

> As part of reporting called “Pay Dirt,” The Daily Beast’s Lachlan Markay released some exclusive research entitled “Inside the Gas Industry’s Plan to Sink Nuclear Power,” about the corporate front groups that arose to do political battle over proposals by a number of states to prop up nuclear power plants struggling in the wake of dirt-cheap natural gas. In particular, he delved deep into the American Petroleum Institute’s organization of opposition to Bill 11, Pennsylvania’s proposed legislation to stave off financial ruin for Pennsylvania’s nuclear power plants through an initiative called No Nuclear Bailouts. Markay was able to access the API’s Power point plan detailing a host of activities, including “grassroots” activism, legislator “intercepts, and the engagement of third-party groups and “key influencers” in its attempt to sway policymakers. This is just one example of how the API has sought to bolster its own market share by working to undermine nuclear energy.

https://climatecoalition.org/who-opposes-nuclear-energy/
We can only hope the books will be used for good, and not for training AI to enslave us.
Sorry, you need to contribute more in order to not have your retinas burned at night.
A pass to strip some type annotations isn't a poor reimplementation of Lisp, jeez.

I know the quote you're referring to but you're stretching a mile to get there.
Everybody got bailed and and essentially nobody went to jail. Of course no lessons were learned.

SVB though sounds like nobody should go to jail it was just really bad investment decisions.
No one should get arrested for expressing their opinion.

That being said, just because you can give someone the finger, doesn't mean you should.
I can confirm knowledge of this as well
I have the most esoteric financial law trivia question.

If I deposit a dollar in my bank account. Do I legally own that money? Or do I have a legal contract with the bank that they’ll give me back that money?
Australian here. I find the excessive emotive flair throughout the judgment as pressing the boundaries on occasion. A court is supposed to act impartially and emotions kept in check. This kind of language could be appealable in Australia, see for instance, this news report from yesterday:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-10/dismissal-of-assault-...

Maybe it's just more common in Canada for judges to be more forthright with their opinions.
https://darkreader.org/

Also, enable Night Mode, NightLight, Night Colo[u]r, flux, redshift, or whatever other tool you have on your system for making your displays warmer.
Thomas Middleditch shouldn't earn a living ever again because he made a woman at a nightclub feel uncomfortable?
I'd love to dive there someday.
My old place was on a Stroad with cars flying by at 40+ mph. I hated the car noise with a passion. I'll take children having good time over traffic noise any day.
Because people can’t see the future and you’re talking do we forgo $1b a year or not in that spread. It wasn’t the MBS that got them into trouble, they were supposed to hold those to maturity. It was something else they did that led to that forced liquidation
It's good advice. I'd be lying if I said I hadn't ignored it.

You try living pure when a package like quagga is EOL and you have a tonne of vtysh scripted dependency on it, but it simply won't build on clean debian.

Pure debian is great. Oh, wait, I need that 60tb ZFS Filestore which ran for a decade on another OS.

Pure debian is great. On dells with binary blob depending Ethernet cards (btw "pure" debian now supports black magic binary on iso distros.. so there's that)

It really is good advice. Right up until 3am when you run out of choices.

This is St Augustine "God, make me pure but.. not yet" advice. It's good advice. Stay on the path if you can. I just couldn't.
I’m surprised that you were downvoted, because you’re totally right. UTF‐16 can represent almost a 21‐bit range—yes, greater than 16—thanks to surrogate pairs. The largest codepoint representable in UTF‐16 is U+10FFFF. That’s why UTF‐8 dropped the 5‐ and 6‐byte sequences, why even UTF‐32 is limited to 21 bits, and why U+D800 to U+DFFF (the range UTF‐16 uses to encode surrogate pairs) are explicitly disallowed from being represented in UTF‐8 and UTF‐32.
I would recommend checking out Charles Schwab or a local credit union.
I have account at Schwab (investing and general checking), local credit union (for a credit card and business checking), and Wells Fargo (because an account was opened for me as a toddler).

Wells Fargo is by far the worst but I just hold minimums to prevent fees (fees having a checking account is the most rubbish thing ever) to avoid a hit to credit score.

Schwab has a good mobile app and website, great customer service, and offers great checking accounts (full atm reimbursements and no fee international, no minimums to open an account). I have found the Chase app to be pretty poor.

Just some data points and I’m speaking about what works for me. Super happy I went to Schwab but do your own research if desired
This card looks attractive for travelers (and likely some non-travelers): https://creditcards.wellsfargo.com/autograph-visa-credit-car...
But at the end of the day is this living?

I also passed through a phase in which I felt like I had to account for every second in a day. Not anymore.

I try to keep my calendar open and prioritize things that I really enjoy doing + self-care.
It's the one that the General Assistance office put me in. I'm scared that if I go to another one they'll either cut my benefits or do something that will put me on the street. What they do at the shelters is that they do "intakes" from 4 to 10, which means that if you line up and they have a bed they'll let you in. What this means in practice is that if you line up and they happen to like you then they'll let you in. Given that there aren't enough beds to go around, and the staff aren't being paid, this means that some of the shelters have incredibly weird ways of dealing with "clients".

Back in December there were these torrential rains so a bunch of us stayed in St. Mary's when they opened up beds in the basement. As far as Sanctuary on 8th street is concerned, when St. Mary's was full some of us went there. It was being run by a group of latinos, some of whom didn't speak English (or pretended not to). They appeared to be saving beds for latinos. Given that there are shortages of places to stay and they may have been ex-homeless themselves, I don't know that I blame them. But it means that the entire system is being run on an old-school graft basis.

At MSC South they feed people 3,000+ calorie meals (ENORMOUS amounts of food) and had us eat at schoolchildren's desks.

I wish I was joking. It was insane and disgusting. I felt incredibly uncomfortable.

There isn't a word for it other than to say that I was worried that the staff might be conducting some sort of psychological experiment on the poor.

They also don't allow people to stay inside the building the entire day (they kick you out at 7am and then you have to line back up at 4pm and hope you get in), which means I have to find shelter in a public building - the only one being the library and a couple of "community spaces" at the bottoms of office towers. While I spend the day worrying if I'll have a place to stay that night.

Not usually a big deal, unless it rains, or I'm being followed by aggressive homeless in the public parks...

I could line up at General Assistance and see if they'll put me in another shelter (with a permanent bed), but my case is on the fifth of April and I don't know if they'll move me. They tried to deny my benefits with three days notice because I didn't have paperwork that showed that I have under a certain amount of money - even though they only told me that was for a $100 stipend. Which, I mean, come on. $100 isn't going to change my situation. So given that, it looks like someone at the office was either incompetent, or, more likely, they attempt to give people incredibly short notice on denying benefits in order to push people back out onto the street so they don't have to pay for shelter.

I'll go and ask again and look into this tomorrow, but I don't know if I move if my situation will become worse. If moving is even possible.
Any SC that would rule against that hand signal as anything but speech would be clearly making new law. There are strong forces that would like to do this, but at the moment the SC majority+ is not. Sign language is language.

To the other side... it may be worth attempting to rewrite the sign dictionary such that dissent is assult. Billions of $ already are spent on it monthly.

It's a long road to the SC. I think that is a feature.

Fire*3 might need another look https://youtu.be/4Z2uzEM0ugY
A likely outcome is everyone is going to be made whole on Monday. The feds will find a buyer to take on the deposit accounts and people are going to wake up consumers of Goldman or whomever instead of SVB.

Look at history and for example what happened to WaMu. It was literally one day.
Can you please make your substantive points without name-calling ("what an absurd statement") or swipes ("It's obvious that you don't share his viewpoints, and so you're simply slinging mud")? The site guidelines specifically ask commenters to avoid those things, and your post would be just fine without them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Incorrect. I am being gassed with marijuana every night. If I was not being gassed with drugs continually I would be happy and healthy.

How would you like to sleep here? https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-1563-e080-bd24-09330776...

That's the thing about cameras. You no longer get to call the poor insane when they can document the ways they are being screwed with. Ain't technology grand?
It sounds like you're saying "if you don't sell you can't lose money"
> Also, for those of you who didn’t live through 2008, there were plenty of people who assured everyone that everything was OK right until the music stopped

In the 2nd or 3rd week of the 2008 crash starting, they put on CNN this guy who predicted the entire crash years ago and wrote a book about it. And also 3-5 finance experts. All of them were laughing in the guy's face as the guy explained what was happening, why it was happening and what exactly was going to happen very soon. They were discrediting, belittling him and assuring the public how everything was totally okay. All of them were actual prominent personas in finance, with education, experience, credentials and whatnot.

Things happened exactly as the guy wrote in his book and explained on CNN. Everything came crashing down.

What's unforgettable is how all the actual experts with credentials were reassuring the public that everthing was ok SO hard to the point of laughing in the guy's face...
> It all works out and is essential for "debugging" problems (when money appears to go missing -- or worse, materializes and you don't know why).

That's equally true in programming. The problem is that it only helps you debug problems that it created or participated in...

The difference in accounting is that it's not "two entries for the same thing". It's a credit and debit entry. It's a source and a target entry. It's two different entries for two different things, even though some of the details (like the transaction that they actually relate to) will be shared.

(And they're treated as separate "rows", rather than as additional columns on a single row, because it's a many-to-many relationship. Very database-designy!)
https://www.sgrlaw.com/does-the-money-in-your-bank-account-r...

> At the moment of deposit, the funds become the property of the depository bank.

> Thus, as a depositor, you are in essence a creditor of the bank. Once the bank accepts your deposit, it agrees to refund the same amount, or any part thereof, on demand.

At least in New York state, the answer to the first question is no. I imagine it's the same everywhere else.
A donation to a cause is now a "violent crime"?
USDC has already depegged. Game over for USDC. We won't know what happens in the real world until next week, but this weekend is going to be interesting for crypto.

Bets on which crypto exchange is going to shutter next?
Or maybe you just don't understand it? The whole point of USDC is to have exposure to USD and the US banking system, which is supposed to be stable compared to other banking systems around the world. Could that maybe be why it's called USDC? Hmm.

If the US banking system starts failing, it absolutely should affect USD stable coins backed by exactly this banking system.
Seems to just mean 30 days of average outflows, i.e. a bank should be ok for that long without any money coming in via new deposits, loan repayments, etc. Of course the issue is when you have larger-than-average withdrawals...

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/liquidity-coverage-rati...
This is complete bullshit. There’s no model with explanatory power.
Does it help in some way? Or is it just a preference?

I don't think that most people give it much thought.
Well SVB can't raise the interest rate they pay to depositors much without taking a bath, and I don't see why someone would want to keep their money in the bank once it is paying a notably lower interest rate than most other banks. Maybe some more time or wider spread of people wanting to withdraw would've kept them alive long enough to salvage something. But they put a huge amount of their money into this bond that they will be stuck with for a long amount of time. I dunno bank run almost just seems inevitable here.
You have a legal contract with FDIC which insures all deposits upto $250K is what I know. If the bank goes bust FDIC owes you your money under 250K.
I’ve read that Schwab checking has NO fees. If you overdraw, the check/draft doesn’t clear and you don’t pay any fees to Schwab.
Most of the top 20 are household names. Many in the top 50 as well. However, a few are top ranked because they have strong regional presence in tech/finance capitals and Silicon Valley is of course one of them.
It takes a certain amount of time to confirm it went off rails in the first place, no? They're not going to make every payment twice from two different banks and then reverse one after confirming delivery.
A Lot with a Little
The only account I have with Wells Fargo is my Micro Center card, because I have a Micro Center spending problem and the 5% discount is nice to have.
Why even call them R13/R14 then? Intel specifically assigned a stack and frame pointer on x86, and there are even special instructions to work with the former, and addressing modes for the latter (BP/EBP/RBP uses the stack segment). Interrupts and exceptions will also implicitly use the stack pointer.

It's odd because ARM seems to be trying to present itself as being a RISC, when the architecture appears to be slowly becoming something else. The allowable addressing modes with each instruction in A64 clearly shows this.
So having a non-political organisation drawing electoral maps with near to identical numbers of people within these zones who vote preferentially sp that their least popular candidate loses is gerrymandering?
Deploying more capital, steady lads!
It comes up a lot. The only answer I have is that if you are using Firefox and you have the addon uBlock Origin [1] then you can change the color or look and feel however you like.

Tools -> addons and themes -> uBlock Origin Preferrences -> My Filters

# HN Color
news.ycombinator.com html:style(background-color: 080808 !important)
news.ycombinator.com hnmain:style(background-color: 121216 !important)
news.ycombinator.com .age:style(color: ccc !important)
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news.ycombinator.com .comhead > a:style(color: dedede !important)
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news.ycombinator.com .hnuser:style(color: ccc !important)
news.ycombinator.com .subtext > a:link:style(color: ccc !important)
news.ycombinator.com .subtext > a:style(color: ccc !important)
news.ycombinator.com .subtext:style(color: ccc !important)
news.ycombinator.com .title > a:style(color: ccc !important; background-color: 000000 !important)
news.ycombinator.com a:link:style(color: bdbdbd !important)
news.ycombinator.com a:visited:style(color: adadad !important)
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[1] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...
It’s trading at 5-7% discount on multiple exchanges.
TIL there's a food market on the dark web.
Why is the warrior against anonymity uses an anonymous account?
And some people I’ve met just don’t give a shit. When I tell them about the scandals, the attitude is “so what? Didn’t happen to me. And It’s a hassle to switch.”
Well the point is that it isn't supposed to matter. If they're backed 1:1 as claimed (BIG IF).

Technically, anyone left holding a USDC should be allowed to go to Circle and say HEY give me $1 for each.

Let's see how that goes. Stablecoins am I right?
"FDIC employees" doesn't sound accurate. They are still employees of the same bank, just that the bank is now run by the FDIC. They are not all suddenly Federal government employees.
OK, sure. It’s a distinction without a difference though. If you read pg. 5 of that document, it explains how the effect of market forces results in essentially the same net effect for an individual bank as if they did “lend deposits”.

This, plus the other effects (like what the BoE calls “prudential regulation”) are the reason why you don’t see banks with zero deposits and a trillion pounds of loans.

Credit vs quantity theory of money is basically a concern of monetary policy (like: what is the expected effect of quantitative easing?) and doesn’t really bear on decisions at the level of individual banks or borrowers: things look consistent with both theories.

Like: it doesn’t matter whether classical or relativistic mechanics are “true” if you’re only following the flight of a baseball.
All cars have seat belts. It isn't effective policy to require them.
To make what this guy did legal would require overhauling 300 years of law.

It's a ridiculous position. Especially given the hypocrisy in supporting copyleft, which lets people distribute works gratis with heavy restrictions, and ripping off other peoples work who didn't want any part of that, while getting mad that people aren't following the copyleft restrictions.
Yeah, I just treat credit and debit as opaque blobs. They're words, I don't really know what they mean, but I know one means "side A" and one means "side B" ;)
> And the judge seems to think so as well, but it seems all he could do in his position, was to metaphorical throw the case out of the non existing window.

Judges aren't prosecutors, by design they cannot bring charges against people. Otherwise the prosecutor/judge separation would be a nonsense.

> if I am ever charged with something, I hope I am to be judged by someone like him

Unless you're a crazed and/or paranoid nightmare neighbour :D
Does its execution time vary based on the content of the query?
Wasn’t sure on this but according o NerdWallet Schwab will not charge an overdraft fee if they’re able to transfer funds from a savings or brokerage account. Not sure about specifics.

Schwab doesn’t have anything obvious on their site about overdraft but I’ve never paid any fees to them for anything

https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/banking/overdraft-fees-wh...
https://archive.is/8X3up
Steam announcement post:
https://steamcommunity.com/games/1118310/announcements/detai...
There are three articles about this on the front page of the New York Times right now. It’s going to be widespread knowledge very soon.
Don't put words in my mouth! What I wrote was "it's in everyone's interest that people keep keeping their money in a bank". Which is different.
In what universe is the US banking system more stable than other places in the world? Compared to 3rd world countries?
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I saw some video where someone made welding mask with smartphone instead of dark window and using just camera preview, surprisingly great results as it was able to darken image enough that you could clearly see through arc.
probably doing some software magic could help with part where you also could see environment around