skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are hundreds of banks, and no bank has a monopoly on customers. If you mean credit card processing, that's a very different thing (and is one of the areas the FTC is already looking at...).

Broadband infrastructure monopolies (and their predecessors, the telephone and utility monopolies) have passed court muster for decades because the primary moat is the intense capital requirements to enter the industry, not the minimal anticompetitive behavior the utilities engage in once they've established themselves. To put it bluntly: even Google, at its zenith, failed in this market because it wasn't willing to put in the capital necessary to properly compete. The newest competitors, like Starry, and SpaceX Starlink, have each spent billions on infrastructure to acquire single-digit percentages of the market.

People don't usually go straight from academia to one of the highest seats in the executive

The FTC is not one of the highest seats in the executive...Not even close. Even the lowly Secretary of Veterans Affairs, considered a throwaway position, is a higher executive seat than the FTC. The FTC has been regarded as a toothless agency for decades; if anything, appointing an inexperienced academic is proof of its lowly regard.
Venture Capitalists do not buy existing profitable companies. They fund startups. You are thinking of private equity or leveraged buyout companies. In private equity, private equity companies buy a company (typically on credit). The private equity company hopes to make a return on its investment.

I also doubt there are a lot of deals where a previously profitable company is unprofitable after the deal. There are two reasons for this. One, it's bad business. Two, very few people are going to lend money for this type of acquisition. If it does happen, it was either probably a mistake or an error.
> The above standard also has the benefit of being enforceable, unlike the current, nebulous standard that is too easy to satisfy.

Making bad arguments in court isn't the way to make effective anti-trust change.

You can't just will your ideas into existence. Either make a new law, or make arguments in court that will actually work.

Or I guess keep wasting time, not being effective. Thats what she's chosen I guess.

> "Consumer welfare" (whatever that actually means in this case)

Its actually very well defined by the courts. It has been the fundamental basis for anti-trust law for decades.

Its mostly about whatever causes lower prices.

The fact that it is well defined, I think is part of the reason why some people don't like it. Because they can't get around the very straightforward measurement of if prices are going down or not.
> Also uncharted territory. So far, that's never been tried.

Minting is more precedented than the Fed. Functionally doing this is trivial. It's legally asserting the supremacy of the 14th Amendment over the Public Debt Acts.
>Do the French want the Germans to be able to spy on their citizens?

They might. It's how the US intelligence agencies route around laws that prohibit spying on US citizens. They spy on a 5-eyes nation's citizens (often the UK) who is spying on US citizens. Then they trade connections.
> The fact that we the people continue to vote in our incumbent representatives at rates over 90 percent is a direct measure of the extent to which those representatives are doing what we want them to do.

This is an artifact of the districting system. A given district wants the local military base to stay open, or tax credits for the local industry. Their representative gets them that, so they get reelected. To get them that they screw over the general public in a thousand ways -- mostly by trading other representatives for the things that aren't in the public interest but their districts want -- but none of them are big enough for the people in the district to change their vote, and most of them couldn't have been prevented by a single representative anyway. So the bums fail to get voted out.
Is this the church-turned-datacenter featured in Dan Brown's Origin?
Thanks, that's very interesting that a business account in the Philippines has so much security. I think if a bank tried that here in Europe (inspecting phones) folks wouldn't like the privacy intrusion. Though, I think apps can be hidden from the launcher (and perhaps also the settings app with some more effort)?
Our uptime will improve. We have been keeping up with the growth (2500 databases are created per day). And I insisted to be fully transparent on uptime.

There is a ton of work internally that will improve the uptime as we get to GA.
Ex-Meta employee says his warnings of Instagram's harm to teens were ignored
Wouldn't remote work improve this somehow? I guess everyone still wants to live in the best places instead of driving 30 minutes to the good supermarket...
> if you're going to talk about extremely verifiable information, like per-capita crime rates in American cities, then you should have your facts straight.

To be fair, if his claim is "out of control crime" and you interpret it as "out of control crime rates", you're talking about different things. There's enough anecdotal evidence to suggest that in some big cities, the occurrence of certain kinds of crime (like cars being broken into) is up, yet reporting is down, leading to a lower crime rate that doesn't reflect the street-level reality accurately.

Of course, this isn't a problem limited to this domain.
This is prob. the right answer but w/ insurance companies instead of taxpayers' money.
Yeah, and this is exactly the problem with standards like MISRA C and the reason I will never work on projects like this ever again.

When rules become more important than reality, everybody directly involved just stops caring.

The early return rule is easy to check, but what about a "don't write code with a mental load so high that nobody will be able to understand it next year" rule?

If the customer wanted actual quality, they would hire dedicated testers and/or write a really good testing harness.
>Upon inhalation of ZnO nanoparticles, serious local effects in the lung were observed. Even if this may be due to the solubilized Zn ions, the effects are a direct result of the exposure to the ZnO nanoparticles. Therefore, the SCCS is of the opinion that, on the basis of available information, the use of ZnO nanoparticles in spray products cannot be considered safe.
This is already happening, and has nothing to do with LLMs. Look at the other thread about banks closing customer accounts for no reason.
Syntactic sugar to encourage use of named arguments
Governments confiscate an even bigger slice of the value produced in communist countries. The difference is that there is much less value produced there…
I wonder how much it is affected by psychological factors? Like in how much you enjoy seeing/hearing/smelling strangers/other people? Some people aren't bothered by close proximity to masses of humanity, and other are? I can also imagine that the number of children you have could play a factor in how small of an apartment you want to live in.
Data broker's "staggering" sale of sensitive info exposed in unsealed FTC filing
That doesn't have any relevance to my point. Currently there is no infrastructure in place to secure people with clearance more than anyone else, so it's no surprise their data is available.

As for your second point, big shrug. All the data is already out there and isn't going away anytime soon. Best case is to protect future data from being leaked, but the US isn't going to outlaw data brokers anytime soon and holding companies with poor computer security practices to account is very recent.
Except that they generally rely on the charity of public institutions and funding to do their research for them, so…
I wonder when they actually do their work. I mean, if you're constantly evaluating your colleagues and their work, when do you find the time to get your own work done? Or are you just making up numbers for these evaluations?
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> they've been printing money and giving it to institutions

Who is "they"? The Treasury?
I think this is all fair, but it's really so hard to know.

Even this idealized scenario about the terrorism-detector and taking action based on it... well, it's one that came up a lot around the post-9/11 environment (with selectees and the no-fly list [the rare case where people could actually experience the government making an adverse determination against them on classified grounds and get even the one bit of information] and the Guantanamo detainees and the drone kill lists).

However, the task of deciding if person X is a good guy or a bad guy, or trying to make a list of the bad guys within some population, is a very small part of what the intelligence community does. And that's partly because of the super-expansive notion of national security that we've been talking about, where so many parts of the government feel that it's their business to know everything that's going on in the world, largely without even thinking about the "who is a terrorist" question at all. As we discussed elsewhere in the thread, the government does not think that Petrobras is a terrorist. But somehow it thinks that it should know what Petrobras is going to do in the future, including "by hook or by crook".

I guess there are really at least two threads in the conversation, one of them being the inherent morality of surveillance and espionage activities, and another being "given how (one might think, but probably doesn't actually know) a government makes choices about the use of force, is it a good idea for that government to have access to more and more information?".

I think one of riversflow's points in reply to you was basically that, if a government doesn't make choices about the use of force in a good way, that's already a problem, which is not clearly improved by reducing the government's access to information, although you're also right that it could be. (And I've seen Bayesian arguments about that before, including a Bayesian justification for some legal standards involving in the rights of criminal defendants.) But overall, if we know so little about how those decisions are made at all, it will be hard to be very confident about whether more or less information would be likely to make them better or worse!
It's that same type of feature, but it seems like Chrome is timid about rolling it out fully (possibly because it hides ads).
A popular citizen science is writing a classic hacker script with wget/curl to download all of the images and then stack them together. Numerous comets have been found this way as the comet will be the only thing moving once all of the images are aligned. I guess it doesn't have to be a comet, as asteroids and Planet X could be found this way as well. If the dot changes course/speed in your research, it could be Aliens!!!!

The fun thing is that when a group gets scope time, it's typically for a specific purpose so the images are initially studied specifically for that purpose. It's possible there's more treasure in those images beyond the original intent that just needs more time being studied or added to other imagery/collections that come together to reveal something.

So depending on what you might be interested in, you can find all of the images from every scope imaginable of the same object to do some fun stuff, or you could find a time series from one scope that might reveal something.
100% test coverage is not enough
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Of course, X can send Y cryptocurrency, and Y will receive it.

The problem is that for the vast majority of people, the only way for X to acquire the cryptocurrency is to sign up for an exchange. And for Y to actually use it, they will have to convert to fiat via an exchange. And when signing up, X and Y will have to reveal complete financial details about themselves - home address, bank account details, identification document scans, etc.

This means that governments across the world now exercise significant control over who you transact with. And how much tax you pay for your crypto activities. If governments don't like you, they will force the exchange to kick you out. Or they will block all your bank accounts - like my own country often does - almost completely destroying your life.

This is a far cry from the early dreams of cryptocurrency, where people thought that governments would have close to zero control over their transactions. Yes, right now, crypto is a bit more free than other types of transfers, particularly for international transactions, but the noose tightens every year.

It doesn't matter what the technical details of the protocol are, what matters is what you can do in practice.
Warnings like that would likely violate eIDAS' requirements for "user-friendly" recognition, as well as its prohibition against "mandatory requirements".

This is why eIDAS is so nuts - it forbids browsers from rolling out pro-user security measures.
>> The US will never default on debt

The US has defaulted on its debt several times.

For example FDR defaulted on the debt when he refused to pay back bonds denominated in gold with their face value and instead paid them back in devalued currency. The Supreme Court ruled that he had acted unconstitutionally, but also did not force the government to pay back the full value as FDR had said he would ignore such a ruling.
Intel to build hush-hush fabs to bake chips for US Military
This meta-analysis site has been shilled since the early days of COVID and has given thousands of people, who have no business trying to parse medical data, a false sense of understanding of these dubious medical reports.

This is despite the fact that no governing medical body has approved or shown the efficacy of these drugs; even those bodies that have no economic bias, such as China or Russia.

I'm not enthused at the idea of various "nsa-study.com" sites popping up claiming god-knows-what poorly backed up by poorly understood NSA nginx logs.
> Why?

Because changing rulings is by itself a bad thing that harms economic predictability
Euclid is a survey telescope so closer to the Nancy Grace Roman telescope which might be sent out around 2027.

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/roman-space-telescope/nasas-ro...

There is also another earth based sky survey telescope, the Vera Rubin Observatory up next year. That one is kind of interesting because it will produce a massive amount of data with data processing to detect if an object in the sky changed brightness or position over time and send out alerts to scientists or anyone else interested.

https://www.lsst.org/
Unfortunately I think this is sort of the optimistic take. They will destroy themselves, but also take down a lot of other systems with them, just look at Musk. These things have a very long tail end for all of the accumulated problems to turn from a ripple to a tide.
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They found a way to get a steady research grant...
Maybe it's just me, but the survey style job application is not as fun and whimsical as you probably think it is. I've probably applied for 100+ jobs in the last few months, and nobody has time for that. Especially when you're probably getting 100's of applicants.
> comfortable trusting the NYT to do their job

Your comfort is one thing. Noted. But do you know enough about the NYT, what would their job be exactly?

They don't have a stellar track record. Iraq-War, Judith Miller.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Miller

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/reporter-judith-...
I wonder how much weight it will carry or tow.
There is an additional player, the Federal Reserve. The Treasury can write a check, but that check is to be drawn against an account in an actual bank -- ordinary commercial banks. Those banks have to follow the rules of banking and can't just honor checks because they're the government.

So in the scenario you describe, the Treasury writes checks, and they bounce. That would be... bad.

The Treasury would have to collude with the Fed. Something like, the Treasury sells some bonds to the Fed, and the Fed buys them, putting the money into the Fed account. That's illegal, because Congress didn't authorize it, and they try to put the Treasury secretary in jail.

The Supreme Court says "We have no idea what's going on, this is up to you jackasses. Go legislate something." A whole bunch of stuff happens, but it all comes down to DC in flames and the country gives up.
I'm gonna step past the conflation and other poor discussion to focus on the part I like in your post.

Things would have gone better if the PPP loan money was spent on keeping the working public solvent. People who weren't allowed to work shouldn't have been forced into unemployment, more or less, without adequate compensation.

But I also see the whole thing as evidence that our viral protocols and our ability to deliver clear, accurate information that won't be politicized, is essentially moot.

If it were rabies that was this airborne, we'd all be dead.
Really sad to see so many people rail on this.

Here's all the examples I've seen shitting on it and why MISRA is correct despite their objections.

1. ""no early return" rule"
In C, you have to be really careful with your flow control and memory allocations. So basically ALL good C programmers and styles dictate that you use GOTO's for one location, a "cleanup" location, in which you check and free memory. So if you do

if(!ptr)
return;

You do

if(!ptr)
{
DEBUGLOG("Error allocation ptr");//Also prints out file, line, function etc.
bRet = FALSE;
goto cleanup;
}

Very common, and you can't ever mess up freeing memory. This is why it's used.

2. No magic numbers.

Another person complains about not being able to do magic numbers. While it can get tedious, you really shouldn't. They use the most insane example of #define ONE 1. BUT, even in this case you can argue that if the requirements were changed for a base 8 or other numbers system, you could easily port the app by just changing these define macro's rather than scouring through the code. It's not that tedious, and it can make the codebase more flexible and solve issues and porting.

3. Not able to use 'int'

You should always be explicit with your types. Even rust mainly makes you use sized variables. Why just do int, be specific, you may want int32. The C standard is pretty flexible with things like "long" just being bigger or the same size than "int". So porting things like this makes it robust. You also have the fact that if you do any networking or messages of any kind, this makes the datastructures easily portable since you know exactly what size.
Game consoles are not on the current list. And the current list has not passed the initial deadline to demand compliance
Is partial credit available for showing work even if the incorrect answer was derived?
fair enough, as a Washingtonian I sometimes forget that others have to deal with state income tax, definitely makes sense it'd just be part of yearly tax paperwork you already have to do.

From a quick google I think a lot of the additional confusion is the mix of Use/Sales tax when they mostly (as a customer) have the same meaning but for a tax authority have different meaning, searching for "Washington how to declare sales tax" turns up a bunch of random stuff about regulations for retailers showing sales tax correctly, if you search for "Washington how to declare use tax" actually brings up the correct documents from the state, I can def see some bureaucrat not connecting that that's what was actually meant.
Most good places I've worked are like this naturally. Good ideas can come from anywhere, it just needs respect.

What put me off about this company was how they sold this as the central idea of their company. It made me wonder what made them think this needed to be pushed so strongly. I tend to be suspicious of overriding ideologies.
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This.
From the article: "Jefferies had estimated peak sales of... $250 million to $500 million for postpartum depression."

How much does it cost to bring a drug to market and then manufacture and distribute it? If it was a $6 pill, this would simply have never been developed, let alone distributed to struggling mothers.

I think the high cost of drugs is a symptom of an ignored issue. The fact is that it costs an eye-watering sum to get something to market. Obviously not all of it is remediable, after all, someone still has to do the biology and science work in a state of the art lab to invent these things. But some of it is remediable. I remember a press conference by the head of the FDA during Covid, who proudly stated that the vaccine was going to be approved 10x faster than other drugs without compromising safety or efficacy. That's great! But if we aren't sacrificing safety or efficacy and getting new drugs 10x as fast, why isn't that standard operating procedure?

If it were to cost only $20m or $50m or $100m to get a new drug to market instead of up to $2 billion (current avg cost estimate per CBO.gov website), I imagine drugs would start at lower price points, and even if the free market didn't do its thing, regulating prices would be easier without defacto banning new drugs.

But this is just a simple economic argument. I am not a biochemical researcher, and I don't want Thalidomide to happen again. But as long as it costs $3-$10 billion to break even on new drugs, (let alone profit) I don't see how drug prices can get lower. It's just math.
Most likely not really gone. They play a weird game of back-and-forth, it seems like. Expect to see the blocker again.
The "Convex C3480" from 1991 (at the end of the lower hallway):

- 1GB RAM

- 0.8GFlops

- #1 in Spain in 1992

- USD 1M

- huge tape drive!

This source lists it at 0.4 GFlops though (search for C3480): https://www.rediris.es/jt/jt2004/archivo/ficheros/Mateo_Vale...

- 16G disk storage

- in service from 10/91-01/98
Asahi Linux folks are doing us a solid with WPA3 fixes
I've never heard them called wet suits or rash guards. Here we call them "sun shirts" or "UV shirts". They are most definitely not wet suits like scuba diver gear.
I thought this was going to be similar to all the hot take stuff it references at the start about the event being shot on an iPhone... but rather this is a nice technical walk through on some features and what they mean. Very good read.
Most of the economy is people spinning their wheels to please narcissists. It's the foundation upon which modern capitalism is built.
"Teeth rendered but not visible" is just saying "missing lods and lack of culling" in a rhetorically more effective way. I don't think anybody thinks it's the teeth specifically causing the perf issues, they're merely a concrete example.
Federal Push for Secure-by-Design: What It Means for Developers
You mention rating so maybe you're talking about enlisted only, which granted I don't know how those work.

But the up-or-out system used for officers in the US military is notorious for being primarily political after like O3 and historically almost comically incapable of rejecting unqualified but politically sophisticated/connected officers.
You get depressed just having to pay for the pill that is supposedly meant to cure depression.