skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is a loss for Coinbase a company-ending event?

We don’t do that kind of thing in America except for the occasional Enron when extreme levels of fraud are involved and someone takes out California’s electrical grid to boost profits.

IANAL but these SEC violations don’t seem to fit the bill.
I'll use whatever the hell I want, lol.
They hadn't done one before and each startup gets one. They aren't even the oldest - I think RescueTime (YC W08) has the record: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28683597

We're thinking of relaxing the rules so that a startup that's working on something fundamentally different can do a later Launch HN (perhaps after a year or two have gone by), but that's still undecided.
That hasn't been my experience. For me the problem is the habit of opening up the phone and scrolling whenever I'm not immediately engaged in something else. It's not driven by notifications. I would happily uninstall the browser if Android would let me tbh
See it quite a bit (more than I ever do in the USA) on lawns, cars, and clothing in Metro Vancouver / Lower Mainland BC. The US flag is common in some areas of the US and uncommon in others. So far it seems like its somewhat similar in Canada.
Use CSS color-scheme: dark to indicate that system widgets, such as scroll bars, should be dark https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/color-schem...
I'm pretty sure curated content (whether via an editor or via voting) is substantially identical to just moderation (i.e. "censorship")
V8 is asynchronous but single threaded, elixir gets m:n threaded. Job cancellation is trivial, safe, and automatically recovers the resource in elixir (the gpu devs have hooked cleanup in to the BEAM GC, because that is a thing). Moreover, if the caller of the agent asynchronously controlling the gpu is cancelled, it will also release the gpu automatically (in most cases, if you use the stdlib otp features instead of trying to build with primitives)
There's been an ongoing trend in UI design in recent years to assume more and more of the user.

The removal of scrollbars from browsers confused my parents. Instead of having up and down arrows by your content now you're just expected to just know that you scroll with your mouse / trackpad. Similarly, modern versions of Windows will just assume you know that the four squares at the bottom of your screen is where you need to click to start using your computer, and Mac will just assume you know the red dot closes the current window. These patterns probably seem obvious to us as power users, but I find average users get endlessly confused by them.

And it's not just elderly people who get tripped up by this. I've seen kids who have primarily used phones and tablets growing up get confused when they first use a desktop computer because they haven't yet learnt all the required prerequisite UI patterns. Even as a power user if you switch from Windows to Mac (or vice versa) it often takes some time just figure out all of the completely unintuitive modern UI because the UI designer is lazily assuming you already know how to do everything...

Just yesterday my girlfriend (who uses her computer almost every day) asked me for help replying to an email in outlook on her laptop. Confused I asked, "what do you mean you need help replying to an email?". Well, she was confused because she doesn't use outlook much and didn't know she needed to click the small curved arrow icon to reply to an email. For the last 5 minutes she had been stupidly looking for a button that said "reply".

While I completely agree with your sentiment about scroll bars, I feel like this a much bigger issue and one that web developers shouldn't be required to fix. The core issue here is that your OS / browser shouldn't be hiding your scrollbar to begin with... This isn't something web developers should be addressing, but the UI designers who think it's preferable for me to have a browser URL bar that is 80% of my screen width at the expense of the word "back" on my back button.
This isn't correct. The AVP can run apps side by side so you can have a window for xcode open along side your app. With the iPad you only get one app at a time, which is a bummer. (Even if you had multiple windows open only one app can have the full screen experience at once.

Beyond that, even though an iPad can act as another monitor, it's not a big monitor. It doesn't really achieve the ideal of a workstation replacement.
That's my point. It's so highly covered that it might actually bring more people to Reddit today than the number of people who fled. Imagine all of the people who don't use Reddit who saw this press, and visited Reddit because of it. That number may possibly outweigh the number of users who decided not to use Reddit because of the "strike" today.
Often the decision is already made. The numbers game is how you sell the decision internally.
Thanks for the insight. It does feel like the organizations ability to interpret the laws is more related to a political agency than the letter of the law.

There should just be a letter of the law , analytical meaning branch of government.
I think they're referencing when "distributed" exchanges still went down when particular APIs or domains were unreachable. It ain't fault tolerant unless it's piracy >:D
Those are two coherent rebuttals. "But it will do harm than good" or "it will have unintended consequences", on the other hand, aren't.

But in the thought exercise here, consider that military retaliation just pushes the moment that a climate-threatened country will respond with geoengineering into the future --- to the point where the cost of military intervention is lower than that of climate change.

I don't know, though, I'm just noodling.
> It is scary to me how much legislating is done by these government bodies inside the (executive ?) branch.

Congress explicitly delegated these authorities to these agencies as part of the administrative state overhaul in the beginning of the 20th century. The reason was to help become more responsive, and less beholden to daily politics by putting neutral experts in charge, and by and large it works. Safety and security shouldn't be party politics.
This is the main issue for me. At a minimum, the screens and virtual computers need to be completely open. I can’t live 100% in the Apple world for productivity.
if it's not seeing security updates it's dead.
The next question is: how to pay for roads when the fuel tax is no longer significant?
> Don't use custom CSS scrollbars

Alright, I guess I'll go back to using js scrollbars instead /s

I hate articles like this because they present highly opinionated solutions as something definite even though it has a narrow focus on what the author cares about.

Web apps can be incredibly powerful and convenient, sometimes a scrollbar is in the middle of the page like with that codepen. In those situations, being able to style and control the width of the scrollbar is useful.

How about we hold developers accountable for their work instead of trying to ruin it for the rest of us because a minority do something badly.
> Coinbase, as with most crypto platforms, has decided it wants to simultaneously operate as an exchange, broker-dealer, and clearing agency. These three functions — bringing together securities orders for buyers and sellers, trading securities on behalf of others, and intermediating trades — are typically required to be separate due to conflicts of interest that emerge when one entity controls all of them. Coinbase would need to fundamentally change its business model in order to separate these functions, and thus far seems unwilling to do so. “[Crypto intermediary compliance is] not just a matter of ‘paying lip service to [the] desire to comply with applicable laws’ or seeking a bunch of meetings with the SEC during which you’re unwilling to make the changes needed to comply with the securities laws,” said Gensler in a speech a few days ago.

Can someone knowledgeable here clarify if this really is the crux of the problem?

The previous HN thread seemed to mainly be of the opinion that Coinbase wasn't registering the non-Bitcoin crypto, but that the problem was the SEC wasn't giving clear guidance on whether they needed to be.

But I don't understand what ramifications that has. Why didn't Coinbase just register everything non-Bitcoin? Would that have limited/destroyed its business model in the way the quote above suggests?

Edit: thank you so much to all the replies so far! This is incredibly helpful.
Assuming the film didn't have dust on it, and the projection lamp wasn't turned down to save money, and the audio wasn't good at all
I do something similar to your first approach just as I'm about to context switch (either because the day has ended or I have to work on something else).

I write a small summary of what I was doing and what were my next steps at the time, and I write this either directly in the code, in paper or sometimes in a text file. I call them ENDSNAPs (end snapshots).
Nos+organmisations+assomaçociées
Remote Work: Location based compensation
JPMorgan to Pay $290M to Settle Jeffrey Epstein Accusers’ Suit
> What good is a law and right of the population, if it can be trivially circumvented

U.S. v. Miller [1], which established the third-party doctrine, turned on whether "the business records of the banks" to which the defendant could "assert neither ownership nor possession" could be accessed by subpoena versus court-authorized warrant. (The context turns on bank records. Smith v. Maryland [2] expands it to "phone numbers [conveyed] to the telephone company.")

This seems trivially fixable with legislation. Requests made by the government to third parties in respect of specific persons' non-public (even if not strictly confidential) records require court approval or the first party's consent. Also, easier than trying to expand he definition of "houses, papers, and effects" [3] to cover our data in various clouds: defining, in statute, that there is a legitimate and reasonable expectation of privacy in the phone numbers one dials to speak to or message with another person or persons, e-mails one sends to a small group of people, handles one provides a messaging service marketed as encrypted, and articles (e.g. documents, photos and work products) uploaded to a third party's server for personal use.

[1] https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ll/usrep/usrep...

[2] https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ll/usrep/usrep...

[3] https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-4/
The problem is less "profitability" and more "increasing profitability". The problem is a publicly traded company, or a VC-backed firm trying to target an IPO, doesn't care about how much money a company makes today. They care about their investment continually increasing in value, which demands the company be growing in profits.

Enshittification is a direct consequence of this mindset being applied to companies who reach something resembling market saturation. Once your user growth starts slowing down, you need to show that you'll continuously make more money per user than you did before. And that path can only lead to shit.
I was trying not to read too much into test submissions, but yeah. Those are some off-putting examples to use.

https://i.imgur.com/fGcjZzj.png
I stopped reading the article when it started comparing cryptocurrency exchanges to the business of selling heroin. No matter your opinion on the issue, that's just alarmist nonsense.

I agree that it's reasonable to apply existing securities laws to cryptocurrency, and I agree that "but they let us go public" is a bad argument, but Gensler's SEC has also been intentionally obtuse about how those securities laws should apply to cryptocurrency. It's not a company's job to go to court over ambiguous regulations, it's the SEC's job to actually research what they are regulating and put out a comprehensive framework for how they make their regulatory determinations, because the Howey Test is so subjective that it's leaving companies guessing on the cutting edge of public programmable assets.

Look at the UK's upcoming crypto bills for an example of commonsense regulation that protects consumers and is in everyone's best interest. The contrast between it and the US's approach is striking.
The Chinese government responded to Covid the same damned way they responded to SARS; with a cover up - no joke, they were arresting doctors.

The biggest difference was that we didn't have someone like Gro Harlem Bruntlant [1] to competently handle the WHO's response [2] and call them out for their bullshit.

Both China and Taiwan looked at the SARS outbreak, and made efforts to prevent it from happening again.

Taiwan set up a robust early warning system in order to detect and contain such outbreaks in the future.

China on the other hand, set out to inject themselves into the WHO to protect themselves from future embarrassment [3].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gro_Harlem_Brundtland

[2] - https://www.who.int/news/item/05-07-2003-sars-outbreak-conta...

[3] - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19771957/
I more or less do this for every task. Link to task, todo list, useful links, design decisions, etc.

The trick for me is giving myself permission to be messy and imperfect. The todo list evolves over time and often misses things or ends up containing more than necessary. Sometimes I assert things that dont end up being that relevant. Often the design decisions are a bit handwavey.

This is all ok because 90% of the value is simply writing it down as a means of thinking. The other useful aspect is keeping track of loose ends (“make sure to use test this edge case” for example) and very occasionally a search of my notes directory unearths a useful piece of information Ive saved.

But it is not a clear and concise document that can easily be read start to finish for a complete understanding of the development process and state of my branch. It just cant be (at least for me) because it would just take too much work and its already serving the purpose of being a thought exercise, unstructured memory store, and aid for context switching.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aereo

The courts found their business model and technology fundamentally illegal.
Modern Arduino Development with codium, makefiles, and PlotJuggler
Yes I hack on llvm and clang. Where can I submit a PR to Apple Clang?
The problem for me with the different subreddits and mods is the inconsistency between them. I am shadowbanned from some instantly before a single comment, I can't comment on a subreddit without providing a registered email, in so doing compromising my privacy, (looking at you /r/linux), appeals to mods go unanswered, and the universe help you if a mod disagrees with something you have said. It is a completely frustrating experience to try to opine on topics you find interesting without being herded through the tunnel like cattle to conform.

However, I do agree with the blackouts as it is a coordinated action to a larger problem, not some power obsessed individual subreddit with arbitrary rules also applied arbitrarily.
That is good history to know , thank you. It does feel like to me in this case, this is a failure due the government being slow to respond and unable to produce an interpretation of the law consistent with a completely analytical meaning letter of the law, in my opinion.
The comment I was responding to was talking about it in the context of "correctional facilities". Likewise, the continued war on drugs literally makes addicts into criminals.
I'm struggling to think of a way that GitHunt service can be used in a way that isn't malicious. I say that because a common grey market is to sell email addresses to spammers, and that's the only target audience I can see using it. Not trying to be a dick, just worried that this service can be harmful for a lot of people.
This is a non-answer though. Most of the web is in HTTP nobody can change that.
The US trends are very telling... https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%201-d&geo=...

It coincides exactly with when Down Detector shows the Reddit report spike... https://downdetector.com/status/reddit/

I'm gonna go ahead and say my theory is probably right.
Ok, so you’re assuming moral progress of some kind. Do you have any principled arguments for whatever it is you believe?
> the IPR process and its openness are incredibly valuable and should be retained. but it’s misleading to portray this proposed rule as arbitrary or corrupt.

Both things can be true. I'm sure there is a need for changes to IPR, but that doesn't mean they didn't know what they were doing when this was proposed. It's hard to imagine a good faith effort to end abuse of the system that also just happens to protect bad actors. Is it really likely that they had no idea that this would drastically weaken the ability to challenge bad patents? I suspect they knew exactly what the proposed rules would mean, that there are other options that would help prevent abuses like the one you pointed out without making it needlessly difficult for legitimate challenges.
One of my very first blog posts[1], which took off at the time on HN[2] was on this topic - in reaction to the trend of "horizontal page progress bars" (a.k.a. scroll bars!)

What's old is new again... and again... and again... :)

[1] https://bbrks.me/reinventing-scrollbars/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6246777
> Scrollbars are part of the area of the browser that is outside your scope of concern.

No, they're actually in my scope of concern, that is the whole point of your article. The reason they were brought into my scope of concern is that a lot of people had a use case for styling custom scrollbars. I have a use case for it myself. If you're saying "don't abuse your ability as a developer and make inacessible websites" then yeah, okay. But taking options away from people because they might theoretically make bad moves with them is not a good strategy. If you took away every CSS attribute I could use to make inaccessible websites, we wouldn't have anything left. You'd be surprised what I can mess up. Better to teach people how to do it right and why.
But there is sorbet, claiming to be very fast and effective.

Honestly I don't know how it behaves in practice - still on my list to check.

Over the years I more use Go where I used Ruby - for a single feature of delivering a single no-deps binary to the server / container where it's supposed to do something.

But I still love Ruby for exploratory stuff.

And I see there was a lot of progress with the VM - one of my favorite side activities is to disassemble the opcodes for trivial and non-trivial sources... (doing same in Python, actually..)

[Looks like I just answered to several different commenters at once ;)]
Not only do you lose the community as already mentioned, but you lose the accumulated data (i.e. post content). This might not matter for a social community; it matters a lot if the community is of a more technical nature; i.e. repair/modding, analysis, etc. A lot of really great and useful content has been lost over the years due to forums going dark; lose a site like reddit and... my god. It's just really a huge step backward.

N.B. I have no love for reddit. I generally hate reddit, the site. However there's a massive amount of useful content there.
The issue is that if most coins are securities, then that means in order to operate, Coinbase has to become a registered securities exchange in order for it to do what it does. The regulations for securities exchanges are onerous, but also many of them aren't possible to comply with for crypto because of how it works.

So the SEC is saying "You are an unregistered securities exchange"

And coinbase is saying "Please give some kind of route by which we could possibly be compliant given the nature of cryptocurrencies"

And the SEC is saying "We have no obligation to give you such a route, just as we have no obligation to provide such a route for criminal black markets"

Who you interpret as being unreasonable here depends on if you think crypto is closer to the black market example, or if it's closer to being like regular securities but with a few tweaks to the rules to make it work.
Sorry I should have been more specific. The viewport is merely the window of the browser itself where the website is rendered. The calculations given to devs reflects that area, and it does change if the user resizes their browser. But it doesn’t change if something is displayed on top.

It’s true that some temporary browser elements will display on top of the viewport, but these are things like alerts where it makes sense.

To have a permanent fixture that takes up space and then have the viewport lie to devs about the actual dimensions is really frustrating.
I’d like to read more about this, has it been documented or analyzed in any organized way via books/research, etc. that is available?
> being able to style and control the width of the scrollbar is useful

No it's not. I have operating system wide settings for how scroll bars should work and the rules are complex with visibility and size of the scroll bar changing from one second to the next.

I expect my scroll bar settings to apply to all websites and they are significantly better than what codepen does.

Codepen also doesn't allow me to scroll past the beginning/end of the file, which feels jarring and just wrong with a touch scroll device.

And I'd bet it also falls apart with assistive technology for people who can't physically operate a mouse or trackpad, which in most countries is illegal. Why open yourself up to those issues?
Since macOS Sonoma will continue to support discrete GPUs on intel Macs, is there a fundamental technical reason why it would be impossible to support them on Apple Silicon Macs?
Thanks to you both! Changed to that from https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/news/2023-06-11-debian_gnu....
Well, that's the thing, if a company is controlled by its stakeholders of course the stakeholders will funnel all the profits straight into their own pockets.

This is exactly why we have benefits (B) corporations, where companies are required to support the original mission of the company. Of course, the problem is that the vast majority of companies out there are not B corps.
> but how can you determine what the old value was, given that it's now a random value multiplied by a random value with yet another random value added on top?

It's an extremely difficult problem, and in the best case you won't get a complete copy of old data. That's why this isn't an avenue of attack that you're likely to ever encounter.

This is the sort of thing that would only be considered by very wealthy attackers (governments and corporations), and even then only if they're very certain that the drive contains data of unusually high value.

But it is possible, and has been done, to extract useful data that has been overwritten a single time with zeros.
Changing the text without author's consent is either a cenzorship or a palimpsest, not editing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL1iGnKQ5Rs
I don't understand this. What's the contention that's actually getting people upset here?
This is why hiding dislikes isn’t a solution to anything. The problem is metrics on either likes/dislikes.
Are those paid data scrubbing services any good? The ones that delete you off databases
Why? I think it makes sense to delegate rule making to specialized agencies that are specifically staffed for handling the kind of regulation they're meant to apply.

I don't doubt that the process could be improved, but insulating decisions about how to protect investors from political interference sounds like a fine idea.