skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know how it works. They get 10 to one leverage while the government effectively insures their counterparty risk for free.

That's absolutely ridiculous. Where do I sign up. I want to gamble other people money at 10 to one leverage and nobody suing me if I fall.

My cushion if I make a margin account at the bank is what, 2 to 1? Do you know the interest rates you pay for these margins? Compare that to interest rates the banks give their customers.

They are absolutely privileged, by law. You as an individual or even as a corporation don't get this privilege.

Why is it in their interest not to risk it in a ridiculous way? If I had several margin accounts of 10 to 1 that can only go down to zero, the highest return isn't by spending it wisely. It's by spending it in the most risky way, getting that sweet 10x on that risk and the rest can go to zero for all I care. I don't even need a positive expectation value investment to have a positive expectation value from this shenanigan.

Even investing in an unfair coin toss of 40% to double, getting free 10 to one margins my expectation value is an absurd 400% return starting from what should be negative expectation value investment.

The banks have privileges that are absolutely rigging the game in the most distorted ways possible. The shareholders equity doesn't justify their privileges.
Why in the world would you use a third party for this?
Vinyl sounds worse anyway. It’s just fashion.
Correct me if I am wrong but wouldn’t the best solution to the “Accessing state after changing it” problem be to pass a callback as the 2nd arg to the “setState” function?

https://beta.reactjs.org/reference/react/Component#setstate
You are thinking of a nation - and even a single bank - as a closed system. But this is an oversimplification that makes it impossible for you to make steps in your understanding of how this all works.

I've worked for a bank, both on the 'banking' side and on the IT side. One of the first things that gets drilled into your head is that banks create money. With every loan on the books more money gets put into circulation. There are some restrictions on how much you can put into circulation and there are some restrictions on how much cash you have to have on hand compared to the number of deposits that you have lying around.

But a bank could easily (as long as the bank is 'solvent' according to the rules set by the local central bank) write loans well in excess of it's deposits, technically it need not have any deposits at all.
> so maybe make sure you close the door properly.

Incidental, and didn't get the chance.

Crammond opened the clamp that was keeping the trunk sealed before Diver 4 (Hellevik) could close the door to the chamber.

The better advice is to make sure your crew is well-rested and your equipment has failsafes in place.
They are only mildly similar in appearance, and they have wildly different uses and purposes, all attested for hundreds of years. Unification would very obviously be a terrible idea. ASCII unified these and more for technical reasons, and it meant that nuance or correctness was occasionally lost, people doubled and/or tripled the character to make dashes, and the results were just plain ugly.

Look, even that HYPHEN-MINUS unification that ASCII foisted on us is problematic without considering dashes, because HYPHEN and MINUS SIGN were often fairly different in appearance, and still should normally be at least somewhat different, even after a few decades of misuse due to the bad unification. A hyphen is much shorter, typically lower-placed, and in serif fonts often slanted (the left end lower than the right), whereas the minus sign is the horizontal half of a plus sign.
The driving issues are the area per employee in the working area, the number of employees present, the volume of the employee conversations, and the sound absorption of the office surfaces.

Meta packed lots of people into small spaces where everyone has crappy for audio phones in an industrial look with concrete floors. It was worse than a trading floor imho
Traute Lafrenz, the last of the White Rose anti-Nazi resistance, dies aged 103
SVB claims are trading around 60¢ on the dollar. Nobody should be more than a few days delayed on near-term payroll.
Many would, I suspect, echo your thoughts. In terms of the people you're not sure how to describe (the 'vast ocean'), I'm just wondering how these ideas might find effect politically were they to be held by candidates. Clearly ascent to executive office would have to entail being economical with the truth (lying) to the electorate. Not that much of this does not happen already - some might think.
Can you point me to the Wikipedia page for the Theory of Optimal Workplace Layout?

Because if this is a theoretical problem, with clear definitions, parameters, boundary conditions and objectives, which has already been solved, so that non-experts [such as CN] can just look up the solution, then I'd also like to see this!
I meant tools that you can use with your Newsletter like growth, referral or maybe management tools.
That sounds delightful! I started my current role 100% remote in 2020 but missed being around people. 3 days per week in the office in 2021 was awesome, and there were typically only a handful of people in the open office environment with low cube walls. In 2022 groups started coming back consistently, with Wednesdays being most loud.

Noise canceling headphones are a must. I can hear everything from all around and it's overwhelming at times.

In my prior role I shared a huge office with 2 other people, and later had a large office to myself with a big U shaped desk, small circle table and chairs, a whiteboard, and coworkers right across the hall. It was a great work environment.
To my surprise, no spaces around mdash is the general recommendation.
Top and bottom border sprites were trivial. A single poke turned off those borders.

Side border sprites were trickier as you had to catch the raster and, to prevent flickering, time your code with a few “nop” instructions.

Then there’s the full screen scrolling trick. Not the 8 pixel shift. I mean full screen scrolling. It used a “bug” in the VIC.

Mayhem In Monsterland been an actual real world use: https://youtu.be/ldo2ewLBt3Y
People collect much stranger things, like sports cards. Having a physical copy of a piece of art gives many people a nice feeling.
… the knowledge sector completely disregarded any realities about how human brains actually go about the difficult task of creating value through cogitation…

This, why are knowledge-based companies so bad at designing work for the brain’s best capabilities?
What’s even more impressive is this part

> This was hacked in an evening
When every new hire runs "npx create-react-app" without thinking as the first step of any solution to any problem, avoiding unnecessary complexity because you don't chase fads seems like a superpower.

There are times where React/Vue/SPAs are warranted. It's not 100% of the time, however.
I, like you, love to build. And I always end up building for others since my ideas have no business potential.

Some ideas I was helping to build were not ideas I would personally call as worth to be built, and yet they ended up to be profitable due to good marketing and sales. I guess my corridor is too short so I have no idea what really good idea looks like...
North Korean hackers target security researchers with a new backdoor
Using an en-dash like this – you see – is the usual British style.

The unspaced em-dashes—like this—is typically American.
You can still get something similar: https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/potentiometer-knobs/0223742
> even today, a discerning viewer can still tell CGI apart from live action

You can tell BAD CGI apart from live action.

https://youtu.be/bL6hp8BKB24
I guess they respected their own recommendations: "when you're trying to illustrate what a hyphen looks like" was not one of the recommended uses of a hyphen!

I should also note that this whole point seems at best a point for typography geeks. These are three almost identical marks that have very similar uses. I am completely convinced that no one has ever disambiguated a phrase by noticing that something is a hyphen and not an en-dash or vice-versa.
Once you know roughly how ChatGPT works under the hood (see ChatGPT API), most of these claims on ChatGPT seems to emerge from us humans being easily tricked by our own anthropomorphism.
It's said later in the article that you'd need two colors with similar brightness to avoid perceivable flicker. CRTs did have some afterglow but it wasn't even for a full frame, let alone two.

https://youtu.be/3BJU2drrtCM?t=2m20s
LOL! Looks like some people are silently getting butt-hurt over a simple challenge asking them to differentiate between front-end and back-end dev. If front-end dev is not your cup of tea, that's ok. Just be honest with yourself about it. Using only html, css and a sprinkling of js is not front-end dev, it is web-design.
> I assume it makes sense for Spotify to optimize their costs by suggesting stuff they pay less for.

Pay less for? Payola is legal again; these are paid ads.

Ever wonder why random bad hip hop is injected into playlists it has no place in? It's the label paying to promote the artist.
Let me extend the Free Beer analogy.

Suppose the bar where you serve free beer:

1. is an eyesore

2. serves beer I hate

3. bars the entry to vendors that serve beer I love

Then I think you'll find I can do much better than simply being silent about the apparent conflict:

1. I can protest your bar.

2. I can promote the belief that your bar is an intolerable eyesore.

3. I can campaign to have the bar removed from the town square.

In that way, I work to restore access to vendors I love.

That is why I believe it is necessary to picket and complain about this mechanism, reduce the reputation of any author who seeks to profit from it, and foreground the damage it causes: to highlight the fact that it makes it harder to find writings that are genuinely for the public good.

A writer can arrange for their public writings to be fully free. Many writers do that. It's not a privilege. It's a choice based on the writer's values. It is choice based on the value of not extracting profit from the Public Good.

There is simply no excuse for marketing and SEO spam in writing. Writers who choose that route have no more valid reason to expect an income than writers who eschew it. Indeed, writers who do it have reason to expect a loss of reputation.

Again, when writers choose that route, they make it harder for honest writers to have their writings seen. Therefore, writers who choose that route have reason abandon that route and seek a more honest monetization route. Finally, writers who refuse to do that have reason to expect my boycott.
I'm sure that's a ton of fun for anyone trying to write a natural language parser. LMAO using the end brackets as start brackets and vice versa.
>Illness as we know it could potentially disappear, treatment could be nearly free, we'd never need to run real world clinical trials ever again, etc

This is magical thinking. Real physical science and experiments will always be necessary until we have the computational power to simulate the physical body completely, something which would require exponentially more computational power than an AGI is expected to need.

Plus, fundamentally in nature there are many "chaotic" processes that are impossible to accurately simulate more than a few seconds ahead due to the amount of computation required growing exponentially with simulation duration.
I am sorry to be blunt but you seem to be misinformed.

> We need to support the case when a person wakes but-naked in a corn field

DIDs can have a controller, and the controller can be your "real-world" identity... If that is government-issued, you can recover it the same way you recover your identity today in case you lose all your documents. After that, you regain control of all your other DIDs (which you keep to ensure anonimity, e.g. you can have a different DID for each service you sign up with).

> Are any of these EU ID initiatives completely interoperable with the email system? If not, they are useful only for purely official interactions with the government, and solve nothing outside of that realm.

That's plain wrong. It's already possible to use DIDs to sign up with any business you want, though admidetly as the specs are still in flow, there's no much out there other than lots of PoCs - but those already show it's absolutely possible and desirable to use DIDs instead of email addresses... private accounts are an actual liability for most businesses (except those selling your data for marketing purposes, of course).

> Also, because most such ID initiatives are actually X.509 tokens

Where did you get that impression?? There are several DID methods and the most popular so far have nothing to do with X.509 certificates (I think that's what you meant by "token"?). Many are using JWKs (JSON Web Keys) as most alternative solutions do. Check the current registry of DIDs here: https://www.w3.org/TR/did-spec-registries/#did-methods

The EU seem to be using both Web DIDs (no blockchain) and [EBSI](https://ec.europa.eu/digital-building-blocks/wikis/display/E...) (EU blockchain initiative).
It's very mediocre, cookie cutter, dumbed down, hitting you over the head with social messaging movie. And so boring too. I've never been able to sit through it without falling asleep.
It invented "Seentiment"?
You also don‘t endlessly build strawmen on HN about people using TIG welders where a hammer would suffice
There is curious semantic shift taking place for the meaning of the word "algorithm". It's a little surprising to see the ACM accepting the "newspaper meaning" of the word rather than the more formal "computer science meaning". The "algorithms" this paper refers to are programs based on machine learning models for the purposes of prediction and decision making.
Aniston has a long history of loving mechanical computers, from this device to the far more popular nomograms and slide-rule-esque Flight Computers. My dad was a pilot from the 70s to the late 90s and always said that the one advantage they definitely had over the electronic equivalents (which were in t he background pretty much that whole time) was that they'd be guaranteed to never fail in an electrical failure and were incredibly robust, both physically and to the design limits of the plane.
Anyone serious downloads lossless or 320kbps mp3s which are indistinguishable in all cases by humans from lossless/uncompressed. The distinction is irrelevant.

CDs are inconvenient low density storage.
Tim Cook bets on Apple’s mixed-reality headset to secure his legacy
For a somewhat more advanced (and IMHO much more beautifully typeset) but still succinct overview of em dash (and some other dashes) in practical use, see https://twos.dev/dashes.html.

Suitable for those who are familiar with punctuation basics but may want a refresher, and AFAICT gets some things more correctly (e.g., the numbers in a range are generally separated by a figure dash, not en dash).
You have no idea how bad it can get. I hate hate hate anything Ruby. Rails itself is a good idea, but you basically get 0 editor support even with tooling and you barely know the structure of your objects.
All fair and good, as a noob I ask what else should SVB have done if not invest in Treasury Bonds (which according to OP are lowest risk)?
Vinyls have one other weakness though, wear and tear. The more you play it the worse the sound quality gets.
We said the same thing, in one way or another, about indexing and searching the web -- privacy/anonymity, spam/seo, algorithms, bias, corporations.... So today one can build their own crawler and search engine with great opensource software, yet a vast majority is querying a web index through third parties as the computing power required (well, mostly storage and networking) remains brutal, and then all those nitty-picketty details about crawling one needs to painstakingly figure out.

Even if by Moore's law we get that great power in our own computers, enough to run a today's chatGPT clone, there will always be a commercial version that is 100x more awesome out there built by actors with immense compute power backed by rivers of corporate money.
The goal of fuchsia is/was to create a better platform for future products - a lot of engineering goes into securing the linux base of android which is not free. There was also talk about being "better at modern hardware", "lighter weight", etc ideas but I generally feel that claims like that from any software/platform are questionable: they're not really measurable, and what is "good" could easily be different in a generation or two of hardware/software changes.

The more robust security basis for the platform is a much stronger claim, and remains true as hardware and software change around it. E.g. we can improve the security of a platform by adding CHERI say, and that improves the security of a linux+android based system, but fuchsia would also get those wins on top of the existing more secure basis - the gap may be reduced but fuchsia stays ahead.

So the goal is to create a platform that is more profitable in the long term, so not "fake work".

It would appear that Google decided that there has not been sufficient evidence of success to warrant any further investment, but that does not mean it is "fake work".

Such a definition of "fake work" would mean that any project that you should never do or attempt anything if you do not have guaranteed success.

Note: Google's business model is ads. Android exists for the purpose of selling ads. The long term goal of fuchsia under this model would be a cost reduction in the maintenance of some android style product (whether it would still be branded android shrug). That's the business argument for fuchsia, and it would appear that google has decided that it doesn't think the end result is likely to warrant the cost of getting there. I think that's a shame, and I feel bad for my former coworkers, but I can't say "companies should be required to continue developing projects forever, even if it appears they won't succeed in their goals" because that would also be dumb :-/
Interestingly, if I copy that first character in the table early enough in the page load, it's a hyphen. If I copy it later, it's an en dash. Considering that this article is from 2010, I assume there's some JS added in the last 12 or so years that's autoconverting it.

EDIT: Wayback confirms it's supposed to be a hyphen: https://web.archive.org/web/20120120121527/http://www.punctu...
http://archive.today/8mQZ6
Was looking for a teacher through one of those aggregator websites. Found someone near my location, but the website needed my card details to get the teacher's contact info. Ended up googling their name and contacted them directly.
Enjoyed the content of the article, but its credibility is diminished a bit by its numerous typos.
You can actually measure the amount of dollars a language / framework / tools generates in real business applications by looking at how hated it is on HN.

React generates billions of dollars every day.
The only CDs you can trust are those of classical music. The CD format is really allowed to shine with classical music and vinyl cannot come close. Having said that, a good vinyl record will still sound remarkably good.

But for popular music all bets are off. There were some great CDs released prior to the 90s and a few here and there since but most have had numerous "remasters" issued since. Unless you know what you're looking for you'll probably end up with something crap.

It's unfortunately the strengths of CD (and digital in general) that become its downfall. CD will happily and faithfully reproduce clipping and other unnatural waveforms. Vinyl simply can't be abused to such an extent which is one reason it often sounds more pleasing to the ear.
Non paywall link to Chomsky's essay:

https://dnyuz.com/2023/03/08/noam-chomsky-the-false-promise-...
Which one of these, then, is for minus?
Modern react apps all use Vite, which is incredibly simple.
Yes I do. What an awful standard.
An example from the article:

Looks good: “Sometimes writing for money—rather than for art or pleasure—is really quite enjoyable.”

Unreadable: “Sometimes writing for money-rather than for art or pleasure-is really quite enjoyable.”

Yes, punctation does matter.
(In French the em-dash is almost inexistant; we use parenthesis instead usually.)
this was the way my small business operated. except we all worked for the company, of course. it's pretty great to just outfit the office how you see fit. i had a couch in my office and would just take naps whenever the hell i wanted.

it was awesome for years until they decided to triple our rent when our 5 year lease ended. this was in 2016. we transitioned successfully to wfh. i have absolutely no sympathy for the hurting CRE business these days, they dug their own grave through an insane amount of greed brought on by super favorable tax treatments.

i still take naps on my couch though, so that hasn't changed.
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Every sweatshop is an open plan. Open plan was never trendy. It's a way to cut cost. Calling it trendy is like saying starving people are on a trendy diet. That's just insulting. Everyone wants their own office. A cubicle is the next best thing. Open plan is the worst and cheapest option. I've never had a boss who didn't have his own office. Going from cubicle to open plan is an obvious downgrade.
Yeah I get the same vibes when people come with advice like "you don't need to use soap to wash yourself" oh no thank you
The Sun I think.
You can still throw in something like Vue later, easily. It is one script tag away. That is what most do not get. You can go the traditional template rendering way for as long as it serves you well and then you can still have interactive components, when you really need them.
I was expecting a transition into "creative reviews", written from the perspective of some sort of zany character on vacation, such as a half drunk island-hoping writer disillusioned with being in a tourist trap for a week, or a review of an art gallery attic full of hipsters and music the world isn't ready for yet.
> America basically hates Silicon Valley now (sorry you should accept this)

"technocensors", "chain makers" etc. are some of milder expresions on ZeroHedge... Perhaps that's what you deserve working for enablers of totalitarism...
I also avoid em dash for being too big and prefer just using en dash when I would have used it
Solar panels are already being put on fertile land (in UK), so if that land can get dual-use and not waste it's potential for food provision then that seems more optimal.

That said, these threads always confirm in me a belief that we need to cut human population replacement to save the planet and our own species.
Wow! It sounds even worse.
The issue isn't that cubicles are good, they aren't. The issue is that open office plans are worse. If your work is calls and emails that can be chopped up in 10 minute increments then an open office is great because that how long you can concentrate between distractions, if you need to think they are productivity killers that would give mandatory shots every 10 minutes a run for their money.
If you loved authors who work towards the Public Good more than you loved authors who are complicit in predatory UX/SEO, then you would not blame me for this problem. Any writing or code I put out into the public is under a copyleft of creative commons license.

You would blame the authors who choose to profitize the Public Good, rather than arranging fair and equitable methods of earning a living. You might blame the systems that make it seem like there is other no choice. But you would acknowledge that there is a choice, and many authors choose it.
One thing I don’t get is why do banks need to buy treasuries and not just keep it all in cash?