skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is a good opportunity to point out that insider trading is a victimless crime.

It is a "victimless crime" in the same sense as selling someone a house is, fully knowing that a pipe in the basement is going to burst 6-12 months later and not disclosing it to the buyer (which would've made the house value go down, if the buyer knew it).

That "someone who would have happily bought it at the same price or possibly a higher price" is someone who wouldn't have done it, knowing what the insider knows, they would've waited. And the same is true for "insider knowledge that is related to something good about the company that's going to happen soon and pump the share price", you wouldn't sell your shares for as cheap as they are if you knew what the insider knows.
Yes, though I realised what Americans call "cursive" is much much more prescriptive than our joined-up handwriting. There are rules... whereas ours is pretty much "join each letter to the next one".
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>> Martha Stewart is an "outsider" and not an insider of drug company ImClone but she was found guilty of insider trading

Minor correction: she was not convicted of insider trading. That charge was dismissed. She was only convicted of lying to investigators.
I have the etymology bug. Interestingly as I have been on meditative trail rides recently, I have been thinking about a desire to compile the etymology of the corpus of words used in tech.

And was wondering if there might be an easy way to build a a tech geneology/etemology tree.
Once home batteries are available in the $200/kWh price range, the California home solar market will come back.

NEM 2.0 was a ridiculous transfer of wealth to rich households who could afford panels, and I'm glad it's over.
Yes, announced last June, Xcode 15
Etching is remarkably precise and efficient, I've made 100's of small parts in one run, for very thin metal it would definitely be my process of choice.

EDM can do it too but it will be super slow.
Might the article's `<title>` block be better than this (presumably; length constrained) edit:

Think for yourself if you want AI to teach you how to code
Matt Levine covered this well too: https://archive.is/Kd6Os

The answer being no, because as a consumer you have no duty of confidentiality.
.. and your experience is what, again?
dafuq did i just watch?
That citation continues with "‘Cultural Christianity’ of this kind [..]", and it seems to me that in context, it's sufficiently qualified that I don't consider it to be problematic. It's pretty clear it's criticizing a very specific section of 'Cultural Christians', and not all 'Cultural Christians', much less all Christians.

One of the reasons I hesitate to call myself a 'Cultural Christian' is exactly due to the association with these kind of people, whom I find to be rather unpleasant.
None of this is illegal. Walmart is absolutely make or break for a huge number of companies. Being big and powerful isn’t a crime.

> unrealistic to expect

That’s true, but it changes nothing. Developers absolutely do not have to develop for iOS. That would still leave 75% of the market. It is not a monopoly.

If the iPhone market is too lucrative to ignore, that’s not a competition issue. In fact it’s more supportive that Apple’s approach is pretty valuable to a lot of valuable people that developers want to sell to.
In exactly 11 hours on three devices, in particular. On one device, the first time it fails after 11 hours could be a coincidence (unlikely, but possible) but repeatedly happening across all three devices suggests something entirely different.
A car is more or less efficient than cycling, depending on the food, car and source of electrical power, and manufacturing CO2 production. The bicycle production emits a less CO2 than the car production, tilting the comparison at the beginning of the lifecycle of both.

The GHG emissions associated with food intake required to fuel a kilometre of walking range between 0.05 kgCO2e/km in the least economically developed countries to 0.26 kgCO2e/km in the most economically developed countries.

A Tesla model 3 according to WLTP test cycle uses

0.191 kWh / km * 0.434 kgCO2e/kWh = 0.083 kgCO2e / km

Sources

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-66170-y
https://www.tesla.com/de_DE/support/european-union-energy-la...
https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/themen/co2-emissionen-pro-kil...
That’s understandable, but why then they seem to operate under the same premises still?

We are in the post COVID years now and more and more organizations are using it today.

Is it accurate to say they have no incentive to improve, given their dominance in the enterprise space and the complicity of some finance/IT departments into forcing it on their employees given the cost savings and the convenience?
True, but percentage terms would also be interesting. If they all pay around 60-70% of their revenue to rights-holders, which seems like the case, the question of which of these services pays best or is most ethical or whatever becomes more nuanced.
Fascinating that the actor from the Saw movies is so talented outside of designing elaborate death machines
Yeah that's my question. Most of these lies are so twisted that its obviously bs. Practically every responder to my query is an example.

I guess my other question is why are we built to be delusional? Can't intelligent entities be designed to act exactly the same but with total self awareness without going insane? What's the benefit of an intelligence that must first lie to itself before making an action?

This is probably a biological question given that this behavior is so pervasive (as demonstrated in this thread). It's likely an innate result of evolution, but what could possibly be the selection pressure that enables this?
There are industrial cutting tables that have rolls on both side, they leave some tabs so the material stays attached. Another trick of the trade is to cut through a stack of fabric (usually with a waterjet).
There's a subtle difference. OP is saying "I'm disabled and I can't/need help to do X"

The response is "disabled people don't need accommodation, you should just act like you're not disabled no matter the personal cost"

The difference is between asking for help and setting boundaries for what you can tolerate, and telling someone else they're a bad person for being disabled.

One is reasonable, if annoying. The other is a direct attack on an individual.
My genuine thought was using it to establish some approximation of how you could with further accuracy compress / merge styles tighter for greater re-use
I was walking through the Smithsonian Air and Space museum, and asked about one piece of test equipment. Nobody knew what it was. I explained it was an RC comparator, and I still used one daily.

I left a National NC-105 tube radio at my last employer along with some telephone test equipment that predated the invention of the transistor.

The last electronics class I taught used some resistors from a Heath Kit package. They looked into repairing a Heath Kit Hero Jr robot.
Yes, curse these low power cheap system on a chips! All embedded software should be run on x86! Routers on x86, phones on x86, smart thermostats on x86. Just buy them on eBay am I right.
Anyone reasonable would read "it'll also give you something random should you go out of bounds" as meaning you'll get a random value from out of bounds array accesses. They're basically the same sentences. I think if you're honest, you'll admit you either weren't clear about what would happen, or at least were a little careless with your language.

But, maybe I've been too much of a jerk here! Maybe I jumped too hard into "someone's wrong on the internet!" mode. It's OK to be wrong, cool and rock and roll even. Lord knows I've been wrong and will be wrong again. If this is true then I've embarrassed myself and I apologize. Let's go forward and be excellent to each other.
Kat Von D wins trial over unlicensed use of Miles Davis photo for tattoo
>Now, I think it's quite possible that the climate crisis is real

Lol, how reasonable of you /s

> it tells me that the people promoting the crisis...

Just listen to scientists in relevant fields and ignore everyone else, silly.
Probably not what you are looking for, but … management? In old school firms most managers have followed a career path over different departments, learning the ropes and multiple aspects of the business and often company, building a network while growing as a person and in scale/scope. They are supposed to be able to build bridges and transcend the petty politics between teams in order to get things moving.
Oh, okay, I see, in that alternative system, the tiles still move, but your shoe with transducers is used to adjust the friction.
There were 255 traffic deaths in NYC 2022[0], so according to the statistic on the site you link to, driving is 36x more dangerous.

[0] https://www.silive.com/news/2023/01/nyc-traffic-deaths-drop-....
The Act of Killing
You said that people who agreed with you are,

> people who aren't being pursued by state intelligence agencies

That implies that the only valid reason to disagree is if you are pursued by state intelligence agencies. Obviously it's ridiculous to think that you are.
The intention is good, but I find this visually lacking, as really the Autism spectrum is more like a wheel shape with each section higher or lower, independent of each other section.

My Autism profile doesn't fit the authors diagrams as they wrongly show it as linear (even though that wasn't their intention).
this is what you get when 80+ year olds run the country....totally fucking clueless about anything tech related.
I don't know the history of this bug but just want to chime in with a word about how absolutely terrifying the "associate email address with account" feature in account-based web apps is. Which, I guess that's my word: terrifying, one of the things pentesters make a beeline to mess with, with a vulnerability history stretching all the way back to the early 2000s when these features were often implemented on standard Unix MTAs that could be tricked into sending password resets to multiple addresses at once, an attack featureful web frameworks seem to have resurrected in Gitlab.

If you're a normal HN reader that found themselves interested in this story, go check your password reset feature, specifically the email association logic!

Gitlab has, as I understand it, a pretty excellent security team, which gives some sense of how hard this bug class is to avoid.
Why don't Americans incinerate more trash? It seems like the way to go.
Same way you can today: test in the mobile builds.

It’s highly unlikely the iOS engine will be too different from the Android one for example. There may be some differences but I doubt it’ll be in the rendering, at least in practice
yeah, those inkjets always seem to use metal machine screws to hold everything together. i don't know how to tell how the screws (and, in many cases, nuts) are made but they do seem pretty precise

but i didn't mean to say that cheap inkjets contain no tight tolerances; they contain lots of tight tolerances. (the ones on the nozzles and on the traces on the integrated circuits are a lot smaller than the ones on the screws.) i meant to say that the in-operation movements of most of the parts of the printer don't have to be precise because negative feedback compensates for any errors they introduce

the printer doesn't make any screws or any holes in anything or screw in any screws, it just squirts ink onto paper, so there isn't a question of how precise the holes it makes are
Workaround for me is to change bank then. Would love getting away from iOS spying on me.
I think you are right. While I'm interested in sports governance/economics/history as a whole, I'm mainly dealing with figure skating, so biased towards the problems of this sport. Boxing rankings are fun, by the way. As far as I understand none of the four (!) sanctioning bodies in boxing have implemented anything resembling a mathematical model for rankings.

Re: extrinsic motivation. SDT (Self-Determination Theory) actually has quite a lot of studies on this matter. See Deci, Koestner and Ryan (1999) as an example [1] If you're designing reward/incentive system and want to maximize intrinsic motivation, what to choose – reward for showing up, reward for doing a task, reward for doing great or reward for winning?

Here is a quick breakdown of these contingencies:

1. Task-noncontingent – Reward is given simply for being present and does not specifically require actually being engaged with the target activity.

2. Engagement-contingent – Reward is given for spending time being engaged with the target activity.

3. Completion-contingent – Reward is given for completing a target activity (sometimes within a time limit).

4. Task-contingent – Refers to a larger category containing both engagement-contingent and completion-contingent rewards.

5. Performance-contingent – Reward is given for reaching a specific performance standard, for example, doing better than 80% of other people who have done it.

6. Competitively contingent – Reward is given to the winner of a competition and the loser gets lesser or no rewards.

Simplifying a bit, the results are – the further you go from 1 to 6, the stronger the detrimental effect on intrinsic motivation. In 6, for example, intrinsic motivation can be sustained only for the winners (because it carries a strong positive competence signal) but undermines it for everyone else.

Note that it's not always bad. In a private company, you may want to get rid of "underperformers", so rewarding excellence works fine.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10589297/
Related from previous day: Photographer and Kat Von D Go on Trial in Case That May Upend Tattoo Industry

https://petapixel.com/2024/01/24/photographer-and-kat-von-d-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39119603 (62 points | 70 comments)
The CO2-induced temperature rise might not be as severe as predicted. I suspect a "moral panic" over climate change. There's huge amounts of money, influence and power to be made exaggerating the problem into a catastrophe, there's a bandwagon effect.

I personally think desertification will increase, there will be problems with weather cycles in certain regions. But no end of the world, at least in my opinion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_panic
To be fair, if you're seeing vast, incomprehensibly large craft in the sky and no one else is, as something like that should have hundreds if not thousands of people to corroborate, as well as photos, video sightings,etc, that's a sign that what you're seeing is not objectively real.
> In a major earthquake these people are going to be desperate and many people will die. The city will be broken and if you rely on emergency services - you are going to be lucky to survive.

The nice thing about a earthquake is that it's gonna be fairly localized and not a "entire country event", so the feds can react pretty quickly. I still have a week's food at home though...
oh yeah, I've heard a couple HFGCS transmissions w/my Yaesu FT-857D[0]! It's especially ominous-souding when the sound "echoes" because you're picking up more than one station simultaneously, each at a substantially different distance!

[0] https://matecha.net/posts/yaesu-ft857d-off-grid-portable-kit...
You better start winning naked, cuz I have bad news about those shorts.
'Bent' no, they'd have broken off if at all, and there's no sign of that on that sonar. Plus the horizontal stabilisers on the tail look swept too.

It's much much more likely it's a swept wing jet like the Cougar, and given that they're practically the same size...
I like how we have all these cool security certifications that can quantifiably protect companies and industries from calculable risk and yet somehow the well reasoned and thoughtful best practice of a $36 book on amazon goes totally ignored...

Its almost like security is some sort of ribbon campaign.
The article only focuses on the change to NEM 3.0 from NEM 2.0 which just means you get a 25% instead of 75% credit for the power that you put into the grid. The article doesn’t mention at all bill AB205 which is what is really going to kill solar. This bill moves most of the cost of your monthly power to a fixed fee, which is dependent on your income. Under the new rules, you may end up paying a monthly $130 fixed fee even if you only use five dollars of power beyond what your solar provides. This true even if you are using batteries on a NEM 3.0 plan to save your excess instead of putting it into the grid for a 25% credit.
This is a great way of inducing increased technological competence in countries outside the US.
I'd like to read that.
A very poetic justification.

I also went to see Body Worlds but I don't think I would have had I known this. I don't thank the prisoners. They didn't volunteer.
They're not fair questions because they've been answered. Multiple times. Every time electrification comes up.

Cost and environmental impact has been accounted for. And it turns out, using solar/wind energy for production and storing the excess in batteries for when the sun goes down or the wind gets lighter is better for the environment than constantly burning natural gas and coal. Yes, building batteries has a carbon footprint, but that footprint only needs to be done ONCE, whereas burning fuel for electrical generation requires constant burning.

For some reason, this fact upsets you, and rather than accept it, you try to act like nobody has done the studies.

I don't know how else to explain this to you. The studies have been done. This is settled science.

So again. Your questions are bad faith. You have no interest in learning.
To echo this sentiment, I thought he does a really reasonable job of working up to the topic. Sure, it is fast paced, but it is a video you can rewind, plus play with the notebooks.

There is a lot to learn, but I think he touches on all of the highlights which would give the viewer the tools to have a better understanding if they want to explore the topic in depth.

Plus, I like that the videos are not overly polished. He occasionally makes a minor blunder, which really humanizes the experience.
AB 205 kills both NEM 2.0 and batteries.
A Sharp Elsi Mate EL-8011 calculator in 1976
Also purchased a HP 15C calculator about 1982
Small transistor radio from early 70s
Reasons to avoid static type checking in Python
Man in the Arena
That's why companies like Apple have very strongly enforced rules related to this for their employees, like blackout windows on trading AAPL shares and not allowing them trading AAPL shares at all. And there are even more restrictions for those working on certain teams and in certain areas (e.g., finance/accounting). Buying/selling right before the big announcement or earnings reports is straight up not allowed.

I don't know the actual dates for Apple (as I only have friends working there, I haven't worked there myself, and I didn't quite care to ask for the exact length of trading blackout windows). But I know for a fact myself that at Google you get a trading blackout window that starts around 3-4 weeks before the quarterly earnings announcements and ends around a week or so after. And you are not allowed to trade GOOG options at all while an emlpoyee, not even outside of those trading blackout windows. There are additional blackout windows as well, but that's beside the point, and I don't remember them off the top of my head. And that's just for a run-off-the-mill software engineer working on an internal infra product that isn't some super-top-secret thing.
Is it insider trading if i bought Tesla puts while inside the wrecked tsla ?
Seems the intituive answer is no.
yeah, and i don't have a home ecm setup yet

i think it's common for tsmc to make hundreds of billions of small parts in one run with etching
I don't think that's what I said.
Yeah this shit happens all over the place. I’ve worked for/with numerous people whose method of testing almost always involves giving maximum latitude for idk… shotgun debugging? The bigger problem is that people just forget, they’ve made five test accounts with admin privileges and it isn’t known until (hopefully) someone does an audit of user privileges across the entire company.
Solar is a market for (financial) lemons
Well, if I found an unpatchable zero-click RCE exploit on an iPhone, then that would have a major effect on the stockprice when the news is announced. It definitely seems like it would be insider trading if i used that knowledge to do options trading.
You're trying extremely hard to rationalize your opinion, to the point of comparing piracy to THE ACTUAL HOLOCAUST. You seem to be absolutely and totally unwilling to even consider an opinion contrary to your own, waving it away as "delusion".

If you can't understand why everyone is "deluded", maybe you should take a long hard look in the mirror and ask if maybe there's a possibility that you are in the wrong.

Ask yourself what a "deluded" person would do and say to convince themselves and then take a look at what you've written here.
Like if you were mechanic for the airline and got message that we will be landing with missing door. And then traded stock of airline on that information.

Being in the crew of the plane might get more messy at least when done with airline. Boeing less so.
If you don't know me, why do you assume I have zero life experience? That seems like a pretty "low life experience" move if I'm being honest.

Anyway the one disaster story I remember hearing so much about lawlessness, here is the first Google result I get: https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/16/hurricane-ka... -- it was basically racist stereotyping and bullshit.

Another old story I was stricken by reading about was the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. There are tons of stories of suddenly homeless people sleeping in golden gate park. Of strangers helping strangers. There are pretty much no stories about crime.

If you are trying to justify your own contempt for your idea of what human nature is, then sure, believe the worst of your neighbors. Maybe you watch too many disaster movies. Back here in reality I'm less concerned about it.

Mix in there is one US political party who has spent a few years now trying to make voters paranoid about crime.
Sorry I should have been more specific. We can't predict the accurate position of Venus in its orbit ten million years from now, and it's possible its orbit will have a different shape then too. However it's unlikely that the orbit would be so eccentric that it would intersect with Earth's orbit. That kind of deviation becomes more likely when we talk about a billion years.
> Tell other people (especially if you're in a developing country) not to have too many children

That’s my bullshit detector. All of the friends heavily engaged in global fight, to the point of leading a 500-people EU startup on ecology… have finally changed their minds and have children.

My bullshit detector is, so is ecology more important for you than immigration? Because for me, if you use immigration in parallel to ecology, then you’re just nullifying the results, while asking me to take less space, which is just the usual leftist ideology.

Turns out, after interviewing dozens, that none of the ecologists, really care about ecology. None of them are sincere. None of them are honest when presented figures. None of them are upfront about their desires and projects.

It’s just that they want less of people like me. Has always been.

None of the scientific evidence I have studied has withheld the “what if we didn’t do it the leftist way” test.
Are you sure you want to use terms like disabled and attack to have a productive discussion about this?
Any, all, yeah.

I believe my country is most often the aggressor in the wars it has participated in. Without a big enough stick, aggression for material gain is a worse gamble.

I'm not saying no military is needed, but it has become the proverbial hammer.