skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The US is roughly of a mind that the Chinese people deserve free and fair electoral politics

The US could care less about the chinese people lol, they only care about maintaining power and hegemony.

Tell that to the democracies the US has toppled...
The article starts its point-of-view in 2017. Even by then, there were indicators times had changed. The regulatory and political environment was very favorable in the Clinton, Bush, and Obama years. The Internet was privatized rather quickly and without much room for public comment.

The reasons listed in the article apply for people who watch very closely—for most people who are not very tuned in it's a result of public opinion being swayed in the other direction by political figures. Whether it's due to wariness of a increasingly consolidated and powerful sector, collection of personal data, or because of perceived censorship, it adds up.
Horses, unlike humans, are incapable of specializing in new or complex tasks and have a very narrow set of tasks they can accomplish even with a lifetime of training. The argument holds almost no water unless you assume humans are only good for a single, maybe two, tasks and are incapable of learning or being trained on other tasks if the task they were performing was made redundant.

We didn't cull switchboard operators and calculators when we automated their jobs through technology. They found new jobs.

> Leaders can extract value without worrying about the people's wellbeing.

Historically this has had limits. After those limits have been reached - leaders quickly find themselves 6' under ground if people even gave them that courtesy. There are parts of the world where this has already happened - this century, maybe even this decade. Consider yourself quite privileged if you live in a part of the world where the mere thought of this seems outlandishly absurd and unrealistic.
But there are also sub-divisions. In most sports, the best female athlete knows she won't ever beat the best male athlete, so they generally compete in separate divisions. I think people will still want to be the best human, even if just outdoing their personal best isn't a good enough reason. No one can run as fast as a motorbike, or a cheetah, but they still run.
Money, Motivation, and Terrorism, Rewards-For Information Programs [pdf]
You think all train and bus passengers should have their phones locked because of moronic drivers?

Better option is to roll out the phone detection cameras and hand out 10 year license suspensions.
Thinking that one single person could end an entire religious movement with 'arguments' is totally naive. Neither thinking that Reagan wasnt on board with them for speaking up against certain personas. Birchers were behind most of the administration and the circles that got that administration elected then, and they are still the spearhead of the more extreme American conservatives today. One can argue that the group is not as clear cut as it was because they meshed with a lot of other groups like the Evangelists. But the origin of what is the American reactionary movement is those Birchers.
Consul’s autopilot feature makes life a little easier by automatically reaping failed instances:

https://developer.hashicorp.com/consul/tutorials/datacenter-...

Paired with cloud discovery, it makes for a tolerable operational experience when instances are expected to occasionally disappear.
State Department bounty program for cybercriminal tips has ‘born fruit’ FBI says
I feel like half the business models of VC companies these days is simply regulatory arbitrage
> Better question on that front is how it’s legal.

Because, when, after allowing FDIC broader discretion to decide how to resolve bank failures so long as at least insured balances were covered from the creation of the FDIC, Congress narrowed that discretion in 1991 by adopting the least-cost rule which normally prohibits FDIC from committing more from the Deposit Insurance Fund than necessary to cover insured accounts, they also permitted the FDIC to choose a higher-cost resolution when the required set of officials certified the existence of a systemic risk. (The system risk provision itself precedes the least-cost rule, but when the least-cost rule was adopted, the procedure for systemic risk waa changed and the system risk privision was made an exception to the least cost rule.)
Are you sure there isn't east bloc propaganda left you haven't gobbled up?
I disagree with the premise. In my eyes, it was always hated.

The narrative from my perspective (admittedly supported only by anecdata) is that people in the industry felt like it was loved because they loved themselves and only listened to themselves and others like them. Much in the way a CEO in a room full of yes-men might think the whole world loves them.

Maybe what's happening now is the yes-men are gone and the hate is finally coming from inside the house?
Some first-generation RISC processors, e.g. MIPS R2000, shipped with hardware multiply and divide, or even optional floating point.
That's cool, but this is why people hate tech. Even if all those other things are sweet, they have little if any noticeable impact on my daily life.
> Its just SV and its very... Clintonesque(?) brand of doublespeak

Wow now. That's an interesting and a very good way to describe the problem that plagues SV in general...
I would have thought that if we’ve learned anything in the last 100 years, it’s that prohibition of, well, anything, simply does not work. We can only try to harness the thing to improve mankind as much as possible, and regulate/control/obsolete it as much as we can otherwise. I would say this is especially true with technologies.
Imagine how fast public transport would improve if we just skipped fines and handed out multi year license bans instead.

Would disproportionately affect rich people living in suburbs.
A fizzing crackling sound?
Call me crazy, but this makes me think that there’s a chance that Barney Frank may be equally unqualified both to regulate banks and to manage them!
Had they been marking their holdings regularly they would have sold their depreciated holdings sooner when losses were smaller, instead of waiting until they had to to cover withdrawals.

Deposit interest is not fixed so that wouldn’t make them go under, they’d have to reduce their interest paid.
Yes, and the cost of living in those places are much cheaper.
I appreciate your response here - and I agree, it's the regressive behavior and condoning/blind eyes that are the root of the issue.
For sake of reference, in the 1950s my parents both took their theses to a typist, which was the standard operating procedure. You could do it yourself, but multiple copies were needed, and only a typist could do it accurately enough to trust themselves with carbon paper. Correcting mistakes on carbons was a mess.

Chemical diagrams, graphs, and equations, were all done by hand.

Theses were shorter.
Absurdly, people think speed or red light cameras that automatically ticket are some insane thing. Here in Chicago people complain that you get a ticket for going 6+ mph over the speed limit, as if that is somehow not really speeding...
I do think those things are great but I would say that culture is substantially worse. People are less kind/patient, more disrespectful, more isolated, more narcissistic, less family oriented, more politically combative, have shorter attention spans, and are less happy than prior generations.
GPT-4 Designed a Programming Language
Eliciting Latent Predictions from Transformers with the Tuned Lens
ssping and good ol' winnuke ah and 'land'.. ... oh memories.
I would hazard a guess that 99% of the population doesn't know or care about FOSS.

> Clintonesque

Eye-roll.
As best historians can determine, fiat currency originated in 11th Century China; with absolute confidence we can say it didn’t originate in 20th Century Britain.
Alloy, mostly used for modeling and analysis but see the program verification section about halfway down this very long page:

https://alloytools.org/citations/case-studies.html

Linked at the top of that page is a book about Alloy. There is also a book about TLA, mentioned in another comment here.
I've been a software engineer for awhile now, about 13 years full time, and I've grown to dislike the tech industry, but a large part of me wonders if I've simply become cynical enough to realize that tech isn't any better than any other industry like I previously thought.

I like my job, I've made a lot of really great friends, and I love hacking on software, but I've grown incredibly frustrated with how every tech company tries to convince me that I am saving the world by making the rich executives even richer. I hate that there's this bizarre culty loyalty expected of you at all times at FAANGs. I despise the double standard of "taking responsibility" that workers are supposed to have that executives simply lack.

Honestly, despite having worked in the industry full time for 12 years at the time, it took me being fully laid off last year to truly realize that it's ok for me to roll my eyes when given the typical bullshit; it's not a problem with me, and I suspect most professionals in most other industries have been doing that for forever.
Perhaps, but as I said I also see it around me. Many of their problems also arise from computers. There are two way I see people dealing with this:

- It's normal, I don't need to do anything. These people are the ones who were born 90s or later. They see computers as a simple fact of life.

- It's not a problem, at least we have something. These people will generally be older and I think fail to see the incredible potential benefits of tricking a rock into thinking for you.

These are all generalizations of course, not social facts but simply representations of how I experience reality. The thing that really ticks me in the wrong is that people in other industries don't always see the things they do as a net negative for humanity.

For instance, most types of engineering such as civil, eletrical, chemical, etc. have real net positive benefits in the way I and everyone around me experiences life. I've never seen a civil engineer say they hate how we built bridges. I've met very few computers scientists who were confident about the way we deal with computers.

Anyways, this is just a long way of saying I agree, but that I don't think it invalidates what I talked about tech companies not being a net positive.
Well, you'd hope someone who used to regulate banks (and will never go back to regulating them) would be a good candidate for managing a bank.

In practice, yeah, it probably never happens.
Just fine x% the value of the car being driven.
Raft is amazing and totally frustrating.

I think I understand how you're using it and curious if you've considered how AWS STS API manages their cross region syncing gets solved.
This would seem to address the form of the censorship employed, whose outcomes have been controversial.[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34691246
The impact of bank closures on crypto
In a matter of 5 days, the crypto industry lost 3 of its closest banking partners.
The Ron Conway Bailout
I agree with you, but I don't think we're ever going back to simpler times. While I'm not religious, I have often wondered if this is what the "Garden of Eden" story warned us about. Or more cynically, "Industrial Society and Its Future".
In the late 60s, my mother typed my father's thesis -- because she knew how to touch type and he didn't.
Something I recognize, when I talk to those born after the mid 90s, is that some of them get a large amount of anxiety from social media. Blurring the separation between online/real life/personas.
Amusingly there was a word processor called T3, which emulated the Selectric. The Alt button (if I recall correctly, since I used it for my thesis in 1993) switched to the Symbol type ball. Some combination of arrows moved the cursor up and down by a half line. There were macros for some big symbols like the integral and sum.

After a bit of practice, it was remarkably quick for doing equations. It used its own font, that looked like a mono-spaced Times Roman.
Realistically NYC is as large as it is going to get, in that it has shown itself to be a product of a bygone era and has been surviving on that image. 2020 shows that it was unsustainable and as we move forward, it continues to make bad choices with its budgeting and taxes. We don't need mega cities, least not one that is 110% predatory. The money sloshing around there is better spent else where unless you're trying to launder it.
Some jurisdictions have 0% capital gains taxes. Would be great for those people.
The weird thing is that I never needed computer assisted navigation until it existed. In my local area I simply remembered where streets were, and when traveling I used a map book.

I also cherished photos and put more effort into taking them. Now I just spam the photo button and wait on Google to select the best one to automatically improve and remind me of later. Even then, I have so many that I never find myself flipping through them like I did with physical photos.

I read encyclopedias. The many volumes were an invitation to knowledge, dillineated by pages and sections. Online knowledge is an endless pit of knowledge of questionable value.

Really, it wasn't bad. I'd say peak value was around 98 or 99. Before XMLHTTPRequest became popular, when the web was still mostly documents and forms. NNTP still mattered, and Encarta was useful.

After that I've just felt like I am swimming upriver against an assault to my humanity.
The absolute gall to say "you probably won't believe your eyes" on a simulated demonstration.
I sometimes joke that computers were a mistake but the older I get the more I believe it.
No. They helped African militaries too. They would have helped American criminals and oligarchs but the US forced them not to (FATCA).
>I would hazard a guess that 99% of the population doesn't know or care about FOSS.

I'll be generous and not kick back on that statistic, but even if its true, that last 1% is pretty vocally pro-FOSS.

>Eye-roll.

OK fair, you don't like the comparison. Can you provide a different way to say it then, instead of just dismissing the point?
I think the thrust of the article is: why did Frank go to work for this particular bank (that has now fallen apart) when he could likely have worked at larger banks and made even more money?
Async/await are also much slower than properly implemented (see: Golang) fibers.

Basically, with async/await you need to allocate on the heap frames for each level of the async/await call stack. You basically get a linked list of stack frames.

This is essentially isomorphic to segmented stacks that Go ditched in favor of resizable stacks, because segmented stacks kill performance if a tight loop just happens to cross a segment boundary.
Yes, the idea that one should be humble in assertions has a long history, even by great Enlightenment figures like Benjamin Franklin who surely believed in rationality. As he wrote: "I even forbid myself, agreeably to the old laws of our Junto, the use of every word or expression in the language that imported a fix’d opinion, such as certainly, undoubtedly, etc., and I adopted, instead of them, I conceive, I apprehend, or I imagine a thing to be so or so; or it so appears to me at present. When another asserted something that I thought an error, I deny’d myself the pleasure of contradicting him abruptly, and of showing immediately some absurdity in his proposition; and in answering I began by observing that in certain cases or circumstances his opinion would be right, but in the present case there appear’d or seem’d to me some difference, etc. I soon found the advantage of this change in my manner; the conversations I engag’d in went on more pleasantly. The modest way in which I propos’d my opinions procur’d them a readier reception and less contradiction; I had less mortification when I was found to be in the wrong, and I more easily prevail’d with others to give up their mistakes and join with me when I happened to be in the right."
It's also a generic value, like `sans-serif` that typically comes at the end of a stack. If someone has Consolas installed why show them something else only on Safari?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-family...
It’s a really thorny set of issues. I remember reading a discussion recently about gender bias in coreference resolution. (Coreference resolution is the task of linking words such as “him” or “her” or “the company” to other words in a text, such as “the barista”, or “Jane”, or “Microsoft”.)

The findings were that the language model did a worse job of performing coreference resolution in gender-reversed situations (eg, male nurse, female firefighter). There was an example of a sentence like: “The nurse told the patient he would be leaving soon,” and the model was more likely to link “he” to “patient” because of the biased perception that a “he” is not likely to be a nurse.

What stuck with me was a claim that the model was using bias rather than “the evidence of the sentence” to perform the task. This seems purposefully ignorant of how language works: the perceived probability distribution of genders over occupations (even if biased!) is a part of the global context that imparts meaning to language. Fiddling with the data to get the model to become unaware of such context arguably changes the tool from being a model of language to a model of some ideal of what language could be.

To be clear, I’m not criticizing efforts to detect or mitigate bias in training data. Oversampling gender-reversed texts could indeed make a much better performing model, and a fairer one. I just think there’s a real issue with imparting top-down value judgments into these processes and pretending that they aren’t value judgments.
That’s a people problem. People can change. Technology just is.
> Some of tech’s heros have fallen. Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates’s marriages fell apart. Elon Musk did some weird stuff and got into the Twitter debacle.

These guys are all billionaires. There is serious animosity toward billionaires right now. I think it is more their being the .1% than their marriages failing.
Your observation about the culture being worse is accurate, but none of them are caused by tech.
Given that Trump gutted Dodd-Frank, what point are you making exactly?
Home Assistant in 2023: Simpler and more capable
Median rent in Brooklyn seems to be ~$3200 which is not a lot lower. Queens and the Bronx are a bit cheaper.
Wow, that is the least searchable/useful quick search I have ever seen, must be oracle.
> You can’t openly investigate that without diplomatic blowback

There has already been enormous blowback from blaming Cuba for attacking American diplomats. The Embassy basically closed for 3 years, and all progress in Cuban normalization was reversed.
The parent's comment was reasonably stated, and you haven't challenged its factuality. Also, you don't know that they downvoted you.

Regardless, what you said implies that no more than a negligible amount of garage doors don't use rolling codes, since the reason for my question was security related. If that's not true, I therefore wouldn't say your comment was strictly true.

All this is to say, votes up or down aren't that important. The attitude seems unwarranted.
I would give up all these things if I could. In fact that's my life plan, I want to get enough money to be comfortable (not necessarily financially independent) and move into the countryside in some temperate climate country. This is not my retirement plan, it's my life plan.

My retirement will be spent isolated from society, although that's another matter for another day. But seriously, perhaps my perspective is warped by the fact that I'm used to all these things already. Kind of like how the best software is the one you never hear or think about since it doesn't get in your way.
People are much more able to find community niches though, and jerks can be found quite publicly being jerks.

There's huge kindnesses enabled by tech and the internet, like organizing group support, and healthcare kickstarters and so on.

I think youve got rose coloured glasses about the past more than today being particularly worse
Ok nice, I contacted you on Twitter.
> naturally he'd make up conspiracies about why it was shut down rather than recognizing it as the danger that it is

I would have agreed with you a few years ago, but we've now seen SBF, Donald Trump, and other major figures admit to crimes to journalists (and sometimes on TV).

Regardless, I think you have to investigate from every angle, including asking someone who is likely to lie to you at the advice of their lawyer.
> People thought depositors should lose their money because they made the “irresponsible” decision to bank with a large, stable, well-known public institution.

It's always irresponsible to put all your investments into one location.

I once asked my dad where our family record player came from (it was a nice machine). He said it was what he got when a bank went bust.

You've heard the advice - diversify, diversify, diversify. It's the responsible thing to do.

I have a friend who uses a password manager, so he only has to remember one password. I tell him if that password gets compromised, or the manager gets compromised, he loses everything. He's unfazed by that risk - "can't happen", he says.

SVB put all their assets into T-bills. Then the Fed raised interest rates, the value of the old T-bills sank, and SVB couldn't cover its liabilities. It's just as irresponsible of SVB to put all in one as it is depositors to put all in one.
I don't think that was true. Back when the iPhone and Google or even Google Docs were recent artifacts, there was a lot of positive press and interest from traditionally east coast enterprises, like politicos, about it. Popularity as polled was high too.

A lot of stuff has happened since then. Among them, the increasing optimization and understanding of surveillance business models, and a long-term ultra-low interest rate phenomena moving the allowing some...very odd marginal uses of capital.

The culture changed a lot too: from 1999 to 2011, if you look at the number of college applicants to computer science and/or computer engineering was cruising along. At 2011 it really started to take off (here I use UC Berkeley as a proxy, because I happen to know that number). I don't mean to suggest things would be better if they were put back the way they were -- for one, people in the field made way, way less money back then -- but it was...different. And the way it was embedded in the culture was different, this sudden change in applicants is more effect than cause.

To relate a story:

As a young man, I was visiting family in New York. I speak briefly with another young person, who asks what I do. I say "I'm a software engineer" and she asks "what do they do?" (My description: it's a bit like being an accountant, for computer programs)

Technology's place in the consciousness was so much smaller, a fun little producer of shiny baubles from time to time, already through its silly season in 1999. Well.
Speed limits often seem entirely arbitrary, and specifically with red light cameras municipalities have been repeatedly caught shortening yellow-light durations to increase ticket revenue.

I'm personally not convinced (and along with me, evidently, the vast majority of other drivers) that operating a vehicle to the letter of the law is the most salient way toward reducing traffic deaths. I would much, much rather see a reframing of the way people approach cars, including a reduction in car dependency and a CDL requirement for vehicles over a certain dimensions or weight (I have lifted trucks in mind).
Working in tech feels like the antipode of being a frontline worker. Hard to blame this attitude either, more so with each day.
Presumably, a bank could follow any behavior dictated by the original Dodd-Frank Act voluntarily, if it was a good piece of legislation in the first place.
Writes Git commit messages for you using ChatGPT AI (GPT-3.5-turbo model)