skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Are they truly still such a powerhouse?

Even after layoffs, they still have a humongous IC designers headcount. Possibly, still, largest in the industry.
Their aspirations were an "alien dreadnought" manufacturing these cars. How the goalposts have moved...
The Gates Effective Teaching Initiative Fails to Improve Student Outcomes
Can someone make an app that handles civil forfeiture appeals automatically?

Input the location and get walked through questions and have the paperwork filed automatically.

You could charge a percentage of the total value being claimed.

Similar to the apps to fight parking tickets.
I was referring to this layout: https://i.imgur.com/IiAGGULh.jpg

That this keyboard and a kinesis can both call themselves "ortholinear" is just one of the many indicators of complete and total insanity amongst the mechanical keyboard community. There is nothing linear about a kinesis advantage.
I am worried and troubled for sure. I also can't help but feel like there has to be a better way.
Thanks for linking this - I didn't even think to look and his work is amazing!
No, it's not so laughably wise as to be meaningless. For example, the interstate commerce clause cannot regulate service transactions (healthcare, legal, accounting, etc.).

Esp as the internet has made things easier, you can be certain it's legally arguable to "prove" that even a small time seller of some good is measurably impacting big company X.

That's not how it works at all. But what do I know? I've only successfully practiced law for a decade in state and federal courts.
It may be that the game paradigm leads to more prosperity than the "woe is me no lighthearted talk allowed" paradigm.

It occurs to me that we still haven't done a damn thing about 2B2F... those banks with the public backstop seem far more dangerous than some temporary tariffs.
As an engineer who has an MBA from HSW, I'm even more torn.
Oh geez. Webcrawler, and robots.txt. There was no SEO, just "don't overwhelm my modem / ISDN connection / T1". It's been a while!
Handy comparison table: automation testing vs. manual testing
SRTTLS is vulnerable to downgrade attacks. It's better than nothing, but if someone wants to intercept it they can.
Thanks for the suggestion - Done :-)
If some crack dealer buys a car or house using drug money, instead of just carrying cash, he can still have that illegally paid for goods taken away. Like if some guy buys an escalade with crack money the cops can take the escalade as it was paid with illegal gains. Or with cash if you have a ton of cash that the cash was proceeds from drug deals in the past that can't be proven but they shouldn't be able to keep the drug cash just because they couldn't prove every sale of drugs by the dealer. Like if they catch a dealer with wads of cash, obviously the cash likely was from selling more drugs.

Although obviously cops have gone way to far with seizing shit and very stupidly if the person's criminal charges are dropped (or some times not even filed) they don't automatically get their seized goods back.
Depends on how much censorship protection you want. Journalism of dangerous topics? Store it on a decentralized solution like IPFS, Swarm, Sia. Just want to store ownership records and transactions related to that data? Use AWS and store the pointer.
Ask HN: Quick labelling of text data?
Suppose I have a CSV file where each row is a piece of data and I want to label it quickly. There's a small number of labels (say four) and each row can have any number of them (they're like tags).

Is there something I can use or have a non-technical user use to go through and label them? I thought there must be something like this but I'm having trouble finding it.
If you're driving a regular car it is.

Many buildings have some plan for deliveries from traditional delivery companies.
Under 'about', the rationale for STARTTLS is listed, which includes, but isn't exclusive to the HSTS like list:

- Increase STARTTLS adoption
- Increase the number of mailservers that actually validate certificates
- Maintain a STARTTLS Policy List to help prevent downgrade attacks on email services.
Good point - but I think that the difference is valuable. If that is the average person's first touch point with the content, then it would do a better job of making it accessible than a technical paper. Agreed that a follow-up detailed post or paper would be awesome!
Great work! Having access to this scale of computing for so cheap really is amazing
Why is this sad? It's just like the startup boom we had in tech, and while most flamed out, we were left with many that changed the world (for better or worse).
Heh, yeah. I realized after the third reply that my phrasing had turned into a downvote magnet.

There's also the problem that the cluster itself becomes a failure point. It too needs to run on physical servers that need to be provisioned and managed. Anyone who can fat-finger a regular iron server configuration can muck up a kubernetes deployment.

Ultimately, the top of the stack is always "hand-managed" in some sense. Even AWS has had user-induced failures.
Agreed. If the choice is between fewer hyperlinks with a higher bar of entry with jargon and a ton of hyperlinks that let a reader dig deeper where necessary, I'd choose the latter 100/100 times.
You can't design-out abuse potential. There are reasons you'd want these devices to not be trivial to disable, such as security devices (which have been around decades), or from people who don't have the right to turn them off (kids you may be monitoring). Put a PIN on it, and we're right back where you started because the abuser just won't give them the PIN.

Even if you did have devices with such a hard stop switch: Abusers wouldn't buy them. There's millions of IoT devices out there, they've existed since the early 1980s, and even if you were to pass a law in the US, other countries would still sell devices they could use. Throw the fact that it's trivial for an abuser to build their own from off the shelf parts in for good measure.

There is no technological solution to bad people.
WRT Jobs, we have the famous “We agreed to a 50/50 split. It sold for $700, so here’s your $350.” When in fact Breakout sold for $5000. Perhaps you’re thinking of the time Jobs said “I give him nothing”, when asked about stock options for early employees, and so Wozniak funded the pool himself.

Zuck famously fucked Eduardo Saverin by making sure Saverin’s shares got diluted from 30% down to 0.4%, while protecting his own stake. There was a huge lawsuit about that.

So no, this isn’t some decision from the start. these people have a track record of screwing over their founders.
Harley-Davidson to Shift Production Overseas to Offset EU Tariffs
Crazy Horse, “A very great vision is needed,”
I'm not familiar with Ursery and have only skimmed a few sources, but I saw nothing suggesting that the legality of civil forfeiture per se was even disputed in that case. If I read Stevens's dissent correctly, it challenges only the constitutionality of one of the involved criminal cases, arguing that because the previously seized property did not represent proceeds of a crime, the perpetrator had a legitimate property right of which the government had deprived him. Therefore, the forfeiture already served as a punishment for the crime, so double jeopardy precludes a subsequent criminal trial on the same offense.

I'd be interested in knowing if I'm missing something important here.
Wild Animal: Extreme Ramp Racing
I agree that most countries are not critically limited by land when it comes to solar power, but there are a couple of problems with your figures.

The US consumes nearly 29000 TWh of primary energy per year, of which about 3700 TWh ends up as usable electricity:

https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/content/assets/images/charts/Ene...

(1 "quad", quadrillion BTU, is 293 TWh.)

The other is that you're estimating the energy of the sunlight that falls on 77.5e6 m^2 rather than the achievable electrical generation. The most efficient terrestrial solar panels are just a little above 20%.
It’s an interesting debate whether facilitating illegal (but society-enabling and productive) projects like sci-hub and the drug parts of silkroad will have been worth facilitating illegal (but society-harming) projects such as ransomware, assassination, money laundering, etc.

People will disagree about what goes in the categories of illegal-good and illegal-bad.
Amazon HQ2 dark horse? Inside Toronto's bid to draw tech giant to Canada
"We will make a list of our clients, and how much money each of them has given us to invest. We will keep this list in a safe place. If we have time, we will make a copy of the list, in case something happens to the first list."
Tesla Autopilot has an actual ‘Mad Max’ mode in development build
I don't think I'd call that a parser combinator, it's a regex DSL - it's just a more verbose way of writing out a regular expression, with a 1:1 translation between the DSL and a regex.
Why would Samsung want its own GPUs?
I believe we disagree on the definition of modern.

Smaller size is a feature to me. I find the jugglery people need to perform I order to reach all corners of the screen comical.

I think in a few years these large phones will look like the ones used by Gordon Gekko. They already do to me.
I've asked this question to multiple Amazonians who have worked there for 4 years or more, and I've yet to hear a decent answer. There are many companies that have sub-40hr work weeks that will pay you as much as Amazon (plus stock grants), but yet most won't make the time for an interview.

All the people I know at Amazon in Seattle consistently get home after 7pm most nights, and a handful of those people come in on the weekends for 10 to 12hrs to fix mundane bugs that aren't in need of immediate fixing. Amazon's high pressure work culture encourages this terrible practice of burning the candle from both ends, but Amazon definitely doesn't create quality products on the first try in part due to this.
What the punishment/outcome for ditching a plane? Is there a mandatory court-martial held like when a ship is lost?
aren't we already quartering troops with the proportion of taxes that support the DoD?
>> I would love to know which societal problems can be reduced to a distributed trust problem. That would convince me that I'm wrong about blockchain technology.

I feel like Namecoin, the first Bitcoin fork, is ready to replace our current DNS system. The transaction fee for registering domains is comparable to current prices, and it gets us out of this horrible situation where we trust companies and governments not to abuse their power and sign new certificates (this is not just a theoretical issue). The problem of associating signing keys with domains is about as basic as you can get with distributed trust systems.

Are you unconvinced by this use case?
Finally competition for teslas? If you took this drivetrain and put it on a street legal car maybe.

Teslas are awesome (I have one and so I can speak from experience) and you can cruise for hours comfortably on the freeway. But there's one limitation that might not be commonly known. Teslas and most evs have incredible torque, thus they can beat most (almost every?) car's 0 to 60 times. The tesla can go all day (200-250 miles of real range) on the freeway, driving aggressively. But the constant acceleration on a track, where you have to slow down and speed up catches up with the tesla's cooling system's capabilities and after a few laps or miles of top speed and slow down and top speed and slowdown around corners, it gets hot and the system slows it down. Teslas do have a limit on a track - because of the limited cooling capacity.

This never matters on normal driving, but at the famous Nürburgring track in Germany you need to make the corners, slow down, accelerate.

So there is room for other evs (even street legal eventually) to improve on tesla's already impressive technical acumen in this area. I'm hopeful the new roadster will do that.
> Real estate, oil and gas exploration/drilling/royalties are all things that have existed without problem for many decades.

Really? I find that unbelievable.
Ever try to procure data on real estate? It's almost impossible unless you're willing to cough up large sums of money. Seems to me that an open platform of real estate data would attract innovation and create value. Maybe something blockchain can solve?
Microsoft have something they claim is wire compatible: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/mongodb-int...
Exactly, it's IBM. As a company, what they do is so diversified in both level of complexity and technology type that a "core technology team" is just nonsensical.

I mean, in the same company you have on one end of the scale lots of teams doing just outsourced IT support ("my corporate word install is broken, pls fix"). And on the other end for instance the IBM Zürich research lab, who have received multiple Nobel prizes in physics and who developed things like Token ring and Trellis code modulation.
EFF should be filing FOIA requests tomorrow.
A wallet design that worked for me
How we built Whimsical
Yup, at least in part to fund our military operations in S.E. Asia (Viet Nam, etc.)
It's not. DLLs also provide a way to share compiled code between programming languages that are not binary compatible.
A more charitable reading would have recessions as inevitable (which, in fact, they are) with only the timing of them controlled by "big players".
You run your containers on a hypothetical platform that hasn't been released?
That isn't a good explanation. China has extremely tight capital export controls in place, you can't easily get your money out of China to invest it into the US.

Beyond the annual $50,000 currency conversion limit they've put into place domestically, they've also made it an obnoxious and suspicious process to go through even if you attempt to convert the allowed $50k.

The US is far wealthier than China is anyway, and that's with 1/4 as many people. There is no need for Chinese capital to spur asset inflation in the US, the US has more than enough capital to do that on its own.
Look at the BTC price fluctuations when another round of sanctions is added on Russia, when Cyprus cracked down on tax evaders or wduring the Saudi corruption crackdown. Everytime it peaks.
Tips are about the dumbest American tradition I have seen. (Yes I know they exist world wide, but wayyyyy less commonly).

So if I buy a $20 meal, I pay the waiter $3 to take my order, go to the kitchen, tell the chefs, go pick up the order, put it on my table and later take my credit card when I flag him down to pay.
This should be included in the price. But hey. Whatever. $3. Fine.

Now when I go to a fancier restaurant and order the same amount of food, where the waiter does the exact same job of taking an order, putting it on the table and comes back later to take my credit card I suddenly have to pay him say $20?
Why? How on earth has his job changed in any way shape or form to earn so much more money than the previous restaurant's waiter for the exact same amount of work?

I really do not get it.

If anything, the Chefs and Sous Chefs should be tipped and should earn more at fancier restaurants because food preparation there often takes longer, is a more intricate affair and often needs more skills and experience. Not the waiting staff.
This is definitely a more entertaining, engaging and interactive experience. Maybe there can be more articles with data that can be constructed as a simulation game so that readers understand more and identify more with the data instead of the usual "look at the data and nice charts" report style.
Tensorflow: The Confusing Parts
If they're your ISP they own you.

Personally it's handy as my ISP lets me watch tv on any device on my home network. They did it badly because it breaks if I change the SSID.

But you're not truly paranoid unless you're using tor or a vpn to get away from your ISP's network. Your efforts mostly are an annoyance to yourself but no impediment to other.
In the armed forces, there is usually a hearing to find out the cause/reason. If it is due to pilot error, then I think demotion or transfer to non flying duties is usually the punishment.

Although I remember many years ago when a RAAF Macchi jet crashed here during a training exercise. It was found that pilot error was the cause of the incident, and the instructor & student I believe lost their flying status, but there was a concerted campaign by a old lady in the city where the crew were based to get them to pay for the lost jet via garnishing their wages. I don't think she got her wish.
How can I download Bret Victor's direct manipulation animation tools for IPAD?
I was trying to find these :

Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle
https://vimeo.com/36579366
Leaf animation tool at 30:58

Stop Drawing Dead Fish
https://vimeo.com/64895205
Fish following target at 26:00

But couldn't find anywhere.

I'm mostly interested in the fish following target editor. If this is not available, are there any other demos that involves direct manipulation of animation paths with triggers specially in 3D? even if it's a videogame example.

Note: I'm a UX designer and I'm supposed to create a UI concept for a camera that performs an action (such as zooming) based on a trigger (such as a stored cues like a VJ) and it needs easy to use.

Example of actions:
https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/400/1o2ellGNN8CTJbwUoJ0ts8Q.gif

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/400/1I4yZ2k1zeo3qc9qrbn0LDw.gif
The fact that Clarence Thomas, widely considered to be the most conservative justice on the court, is on the record as being against the constitutionality of Civil Forfeiture is a really good sign that this shockingly still-legal tactic's days are numbered.
Site has bad ads that will hijack mobile user agents.
I think you are talking about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

Exposed in 2006...it was a fucking huge deal at the time.
And there are many who make far above the IRS assumed wages for cash/tip based incomes who definitely do not declare that.
You have to cut the young ones some slack on this. They're just modeling what they see from "those in the know", and the conventional wisdom narrative has been really heavy on conspiracy-shaming over the last few years. When they're older they'll see that there are other ways to discuss current events.
> What structures today are likely to survive long term?

The structures today will not survive long term because we choose not to make them so they survive long term. Its not that we can't. Using modern construction equipment, we can replicate pyramids with a fraction of the labor and effort that the Egyptians expended IF we so choose. But we don't. Building pyramids or houses or even roads that survive greater than a few decades is not useful because we keep improving our construction know-how and can make more and more comfortable habitats every few years. Comfort and price is what we choose to optimize for, not suitability.

> Yes we can do many things they didn't and they did many things we can't.

This is categorically untrue. We can do pretty much anything and everything the ancients do, but rarely choose to do so, because we can do better than them. You can nitpick about how we forgot specific ratios of ingredients in some cement or something, but thats nitpicking because we can always find the best comfort/price cement ourselves.
Do you imply that someone has tried this before?!
The United Nations Report on American Poverty Is Just Plain Wrong
Lots of gaming traffic is also banned. People use AWS for malicious purposes (usually free tier) and then the IP gets recycled, eventually, to a legitimate user.

Popular cloud hosts with a freemium option are a bad idea for personal vpn.
Yea I knock on them for the same reasons, but when the topic isn't of national interest, they have some excellent story tellers and reporters. Their digital remixes are great too (e.g. Snowfall and its intellectual children).

Nonetheless, as my perspective evolved, I realized I can't countenance supporting them when they endorsed actual evil like the Iraq War and perpetuate so many things wrong in society. They'll always let you down when it counts, so I don't see a reason to be there for them when it doesn't.
I have thought about the whole thing a lot since it happened and considered it from many perspectives. I saw with my own eyes the process of my wife bleeding out. I have to live with that. Obviously I have thought about this.

Yes, I considered that someone in the group did feel very threatened and either didn't want to speak to me about it, or that one of the people I did speak to was scared to admit it. It's possible, but the people I spoke with seemed very genuine. If people took issue I believe it was a logical issue not a "I feel threatened" problem.

If management is going to have a cow about this, they really should step in a lot sooner and not have allowed it to get to this point. The whole problem is that management doesn't care enough to setup an environment where stuff like this can't happen.

I said this to HR and security, and I will repeat it: If I wanted to hurt someone as everyone is implying, I wouldn't have said anything about it and would have just done so. It's not logical. I was well aware people would flip out when I said it, and I wanted something to be done to resolve the situation. My statement was more a cry for help than anything.

If anyone actually legitimately thought there was any actual concern I would hurt the person, they shouldn't have allowed me back into the building at all for a long period. I was allowed back in a week later and easily had the access to hurt the person had I intended in any way to do so. I had and still have no such intent. I consider the person to be my friend.

Time does not remove the pain I feel. I will continue to feel it. My wish is for large companies to behave better and not force situations on employees that cause things like this to happen. Especially not to software engineers just trying to do our job.

I agree that the company and everyone involved is just trying to resolve the situation and follow policy. That is not enough. People need to have humanity and compassion. At no point did anyone apologize for the pain I went through. At no point did I receive a personal letter from Jeff Bezos that he was sad it happened. I don't think Jeff cares at all. I don't think the company cares.

Perhaps it is all my fault. I don't think so. I'm no dummy. A lot of things indicate the situation could have been avoided had many people involved acted differently. There is blame on all sides. I can own up to not being perfect. I made mistakes. I was terribly upset. I've grown from it. It still hurts though.

I don't think my problem is an inability to see other perspectives. I can readily see them and explain them. The problem is that with tons of people around no one ever actually tried to actually resolve any of the tension. I know it is yucky to get involved in tense situations, but just letting them grow beyond control is bad and hurts people.
Why I think TransferWise is here to stay
Anyone remember this from 2006? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

I guess they just expanded, but the basic facts here are not new.

"the capability to enable surveillance and analysis of internet content on a massive scale, including both overseas and purely domestic traffic."

AND

Klein claims he was told that similar black rooms are operated at other facilities around the country.