skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While i don't necessarily agree with the rehashing of David Gerard's endless "All cryptos are a ponzi scheme" refrain, the body of the argument is what I've been saying to anyone who would listen, for a while now.

As an artist myself, who got caught up in the original hype about NFTs and uploaded a few pieces to OpenSea [No sales, no bids, no interest], and then, foolishly, did my "due diligence" after the fact, I came to pretty much the same conclusion. The only 'artists' making money are either already established, have lots of press coverage or are 'celebrities' of some kind. Oh, and of course, as with any goldrush, the "pick and shovel sellers" like OpenSea and the various other NFT marketplaces.

Luckily I only lost about 60 Euros worth of ETH in wallet set up fees. So I'll just put that down to experience and move on. Although that in itself is annoying enough as OpenSea [and the other NFT marketplace sites?] give the impression these fees are to cover the cost of 'minting' your artwork and adding it to the blockchain. While, in reality, nothing is added to the blockchain until an NFT is sold. Basically you're paying the ridiculously high up-front fees just for the privilege of listing your items on their site. Even eBay isn't that egregious!
I would go even further, all court decisions (even if they involve "national security") should always be public. Everything else is fundamentally incompatible with democracy, it's equivalent to secret laws.

That does not mean that things can't be withheld, e.g. names could be redacted, but the main decision should be public, because how else can citizens know about the laws and their application.
I don't always copy code, but when I do it's always regex !
You don't need dual batteries for that, just an external USB-C powerpack. And they are pretty common.
Perhaps the driver was in the driver's seat and engaged autopilot and then hopped over into the passenger's seat and that's exactly when it crashed?
Why would a startup want this?

How is it better for a startup than ordinary currency?

How is it better for a startup than experienced investors?

How is it better for a startup than common investment vehicles?

What is the obvious business case for the additional complexity and potential legal land mines?
I was certain this was going to be a whole piece dedicated to molex connectors. Interesting read though.
To use most SFP+'s with Intel NICs, one has to load ixgbe with allow_unsupported_sfp=1 due to Intel's wanking. Ultimately this isn't a huge deal, but it's still an instance of corporate crap needlessly complicating Free software.
If IBM pays him to work on Linux kernel full time. Then I don't see anything abnormal.
To be honest, I'd take all the options you can throw at me. And a command line to manage them. It's HN after all.

PS. Just hide them behind a karma threshold and a tickbox to acknowledge that they all are ephemeral and can disappear at will. Complications, like in mechanical watches. For people who can appreciate them, to show what's possible :)
I get how it could come across that way, but cxr's comment is part of a long tradition of trying to avoid lame internet humor on HN. It's not because people don't like jokes - they just want to avoid the sort of jokes that grow like crabgrass and end up choking out more interesting discussion.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
> Could work.

I think the fact that alts/ICO failed as bad as they did proved it could never work. Working with existing infrastructure, and I don't think ETH is worth consideration at this point, is the only way to get any credibility given who is investing into crypto these days.

DOGE will always be a funny meme thing, regardless of it's price rise: it was actually where we sent people to get used to the ecosystem as 'training wheels' Elon just made it hysterical and people bought into the hype, but as you can see he won't put it on Tesla or SpaceX's balance sheet for a reason.

Though if I'm honest it would be funny as hell to see a DOGE logo on the side of a Starship.
It would need to cover:

1. time value of money (exponential interest)

2. the basics of double entry accounting

3. what stocks are and how they work

4. what bonds are an how they work

5. how loans work

6. how a business makes a profit

7. what "float" is

Arcana is not necessary, just the basic stuff. Ignorance, and even worse, misconceptions, form a large barrier to people wanting to move up in the world.

It's crazy that otherwise well informed adults are unable to distinguish "revenue" from "profit". Heck, I learned this when I was 10 and started buying and selling comics. I bragged to my dad how much I "made" from the sales. He laughed and punctured my balloon by pointing out how much I'd paid for the books.

I paid this forward years later when a friend was so pleased he'd "won" $250 with a lottery ticket. I asked him how much he'd spent on losing tickets, and his face fell. That was the end of lottery investing for him.
They have plausible deniability because they just set up "an IoT home". There is no plausible deniability at all if you jam the spectrum.
David Coffin is an amazing vocalist. There’s more on his own channel: https://youtube.com/channel/UCuF5l9Scauvp9kQesRIfWmA
No, I think this was pretty standard company-speak for "you're salaried so we own all your creative output, regardless of when or where you create it". Most employment contracts in the bay area (at least) have language to this effect, regardless of whether or not it's enforceable. Even if it isn't, an employer can still make your life miserable over it, and there's not much you can do about it aside from quit.
One of the things that's cool about 2020 and 2021 is getting to experience things that were mostly forgotten relics of the past as very real experiences today. I never thought I'd go to a real speakeasy (not a gimmicky cocktail bar with a password or hidden door). Illegal raves in the woods have always remained a thing, but have gotten a bit of extra cachet this last year.
That’s true but in those cases they are passing tones. For examples in a bebop scale you don’t tend to arpeggiate using both the consecutive tones.
>ancaps

Well I am not an ancap and I have not been one since I was a teen I believe, however most of the mining isn’t done by some “ancaps” it’s done in China and Eastern Europe by groups of people that couldn’t care less about the NAP or Hoppianism.

We have to stop just blaming the massive burden of polluting and contamination in small personal people when it is usually conglomerates and corporations or similar entities.

So if you want to be mad at anyone probably point your finger at China before blaming your local teenager gadsen flag squad they aren’t even tickling the ice caps.

Not only that but having money that the governments and such can’t control can really make a difference in the life’s of people living in oppressive regimes whose preoccupations daily are much more tangible than le big scary global warming.
Later stage startups are able to compete successfully against FAANGs on many occasions, particularly if they're pre-IPO. Early-stage startups are less likely to be able to do this. But then, the motivation for joining an early-stage company would be quite different from that for joining a late-stage startup, so you need to have concrete ideas as to what you want: the compensation with lower risk, or other benefits with lower compensation and higher risk.
Genode is a project in Germany I've been watching for a while... right now I think they are the best chance of getting there. They've been making it closer and closer to the point where I can latch onto it and start using it.

There has to be a microkernel at the bottom of everything, which rules out anything Linux based. Genode does use Linux drivers though, in a contained way.
Reading the comments under the article made me think when I'll become the bad neighbour and suffer from deauth attacks without knowing it. I have two AP's and 3 SSID's, one 2.4ghz for my 15 IoT devices, a 5Ghz using the same network, and a separate 5Ghz for "serious" devices that I use only for work. However I live in an apartment building and I have both most devices and SSID's. I've pondered before whether I am causing inconvenience to someone and how to solve it if complaints ever arise.
This is not true, people routinely get around this restriction.
There's also more angles than these. An engineering-focused company builds stable sustainable products for the long haul. Which means sometimes saying No to customers and to visionary product managers. On the negative side, sometimes sight of the forest is lost by focusing on perfection of each tree.

One really needs all three players with equal power at the table in order to create a balanced company.
It's not exactly on-topic, but why does all IoT stuff use 2.4Ghz? Basically every router has 5Ghz nowadays, even the cheap ISP ones, and spectrum pollution is an obvious problem. Is there any reason to prefer 2.4Ghz or to avoid supporting both?
From a theoretical perspective, using double the bandwidth and half the transmittion time causes the same congestion, as long as everyone is using the same strategy.
The car in question didn't even have autopilot, so it wasn't even a feature on that car that could have theoretically been engaged.

It's like saying they started the internal combustion engine before the crash.... which clearly can't be possible, because that vehicle doesn't have an internal combustion engine.
That the series of their surety converges to 99.9%?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_convergent_sequence

My grasp of this advanced math relinquished long ago so I'm still not sure what it means.
Someone else mentioned heat pumps to me in this context too, I'm unfortunately really limited in what I can use in my apartment. It's a condo complex made of brick put up in 1906 - without heating or air conditioning. I'm not in a position to install external hardware. My parents have a heat pump set-up in their house though!

Watched the video by the way, thanks!
Yeah, it obviously does happen from time to time, but is it normal? My anecdotal data point: 3 devices all isolated on their own AP with no way to talk to eachother or the rest of the world. 50 is a lot. 120 is just insane. :)
California law overrides illegal contracts. However, in this case such provisions would be legal as the sibling comments point out.
So having immediately tried this knot, I cannot get it to lay with the laces to the side like that. Mine turns vertical. My first assumption was that I was making a granny knot, but it doesn't matter which way around I knot the second knot.

Is this just a failing of this knot or am I doing something wrong?
Capabilities are like taking a $5 bill out of your wallet, handing it to your child, and letting them buy ice cream with it.

You delegate $5, nothing more than $5 can possibly leave your wallet as a result.

AppArmor is like putting a vault around the ice cream truck and giving a strict list of who is allowed to buy what ice cream. Hardly the same thing.
The sentence sounds like the kind of email that a manager sends without having legal review it... This reads like it makes an unnecessary, potentially damaging statement ("...100% of the time..."), which lawyers I work with would likely have objected to...

I imagine if I'd worked with legal on something like this as the manager, they'd have advised me to convey the reasoning in a verbal, non-recorded meeting, and then for confirmation just issue a terse command with limited leak damage potential: "As discussed, please remove yourself..."
> So, in the IBM context it's possible there is an agreement or code where it says they can work on software projects, but they need to identify themselves as IBM employees at all times.

I thought that too, but the last sentence:

> I grant you a 1 time exception on contributions to VNIC to make this change.

... sounds to me like Pan isn't allowed to work on it in his spare time even using his IBM email address. He made the email-removal change using his IBM email address, so I don't think it can be interpreted as a one-time exception to use his personal email address to do that removal. It sounds like a one-time exception to submit any kind of change at all.
According to the guy in the video (September 2020) the seat sensor exists but doesn't interact with autopilot.

The steps he had to take to turn it on and actually exit the vehicle without it turning off automatically was pretty comical though (TL;DW for anyone not watching):

1. Clip his seatbelt behind him, so he could keep it attached after getting out of the seat (undoing your seatbelt turns off autopilot)

2. Start driving at a low speed, turn on autopilot, then bring it to a stop

3. Climb out the window (as the doors didn't seem like they would open while the car was in motion)

4. Use a stick/tripod to tap on the acceleration pedal to resume autopilot driving

And even then, the vehicle stopped like 10 seconds later when autopilot got confused about its surroundings.

Even if the seat needs weighted down, this seems like a pretty trivial thing to do (put a backpack or something in the seat) if you're already going out of your way to intentionally trick the car in so many other ways.

Since the car didn't even have autopilot as a feature, it seems way more likely the riders just went with the age-old "prop the pedal down" method that's caused accidents like this since the beginning of cars.
Also https://www.ftdichip.com/Support/Documents/DataSheets/Cables...

They are genuinely useful.
Note that is is usually true at most companies, not just IBM.
Maybe. Or maybe it's someone that paid for a complete remodel and some contractor sold them on making every light and outlet and appliance "smart" along with some more we can't even think of, because that's all extra money to them, and then they throw whatever else they can find at it to make it work because really, they haven't ever put so many things on one network before.

I've heard crazy stories about home installers and contractors that didn't really know what they were doing. Everyone starts somewhere, and it's not always with our own home nor with a mentor that actually knows what they are doing.

Or, it's just some person that did it for their own home but went way too far and when they finally got it working (sort of) decided they really didn't want to touch it again for a while, because it was a pain.

Truthfully, either of those sound kinda likely to me.
wow thank you! this was great to see
I can't imagine it's the high number of (IoT) clients that is the problem - it is the high power that the AP's use that causes the issue.

WiFi goes two ways - the AP talks to the client, and the client has to talk back. Clients don't have the high transmitting power that an AP has, and actually the AP won't need this high power. After all, if you use a bullhorn to reach your backyard, but the guy over there can't talk back, there is still no communication.

The solution would be to set the AP's to a lower transmitting power, enough to cover the house but not the street.
It is always womens fault. Whatever it is.
Guess who I will NEVER work for.
Is this a normal way of treating your employees in the US?
If you are an exempt employee you are bound to legal contracts if they say they own your output 100% of the time, unfortunately.
I actually really want to move to a mountain area that is secluded and has nature with snow. The problem is, it's very hard to figure out where to go when all you've lived is in a city or one state. I've researched a lot of properties on zillow but I have no idea how to investigate the proper area. Maybe someone can give me a tip. I like snow, and I like people, I just want enough space to experiment with my own land and not have to deal with neighbors or HOA crap.
Presumptively not all this code is running on Mars, but some of it in Mission Control to deal with data coming from the helicopter. Either that, or they’re running Flask on the helicopter with some really large timeouts set.
thanks. learnt it (Ian knot) in few minutes. curious if there's also a quick way to untie this knot.
I'm a figure skater. I tie my regular shoes with Ian's secure knot. My skating boots are tied with more regular knots however. Ski shoes would be very similar.

Ian's secure knot doesn't really make sense on such long laces anyway, and making it tight is not very easy because you can't pull to tighten further like you normally would.

The main advantage of Ian's secure knot is that it doesn't come loose over time. But you won't have that problem in ski or skating shoes because you will be redoing much more of the lacing every single time you put them on; a much tighter one at that. So the few hours you'll have your boots on shouldn't make a difference, and if it does, there's something else off in your lacing technique.
> That kind of tone and language should never be used

The manager may have sent the email, but legal and/or employee relations wrote that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_probability
In Spain the employer must clearly state in the payroll they are paying for exclusivity. If not, even with a signing a contract saying so, it’s illegal.
Zero traffic networks do put a bunch of congestion load on the network, because the various Auth/advert frames are transmitted at 1Mbps with very legacy modulation and framing. That ends up using a lot of channel time.
TOPS-20 with a KA10 console. Anachronistic but fun!
Can you phase synchronise magnetrons? I thought they are a free running oscillator.

Also circa 1kW not a safe thing to be spraying around, I think fleshy things might well be damaged.
This is actually enjoyable, I could imagine working with this in the background. Great work!

edit: You can't actually hide the window in Safari, as it goes to like 10 BPM. Is it a power saving feature or what?
I like how the buttons flash before changing. Feels like a videogame
I think the argument is that you gain some specialized knowledge at work, so they want to prevent you from working on a competing product using that knowledge, personal, OSS or otherwise. At some point a lawyer probably reduced the sentence to simply require approval in writing for anything to avoid any expensive disputes.
I've also noticed that in Colombia they always tie plastic bags with this technique. Even in supermarkets, making them harder to carry.
I think it's the inherent weirdness of what USA considers "salaried" job - it seems to me that you essentially don't have set hours, your pay isn't related to the hours you put in, and any overtime gets waived in programming by the overtime exempt rule.

If this sounds to you like shit sandwich, that's because it is one, even if some people manage to make it work with less hours than norm.
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I suspect that HR is probably discussing termination procedure as we speak and this will proceed unless the PR pressure is overwhelming and makes it difficult to retaliate.
I looked at the data and that's not likely. The early upvoters were all well-established, legit users with no obvious connection between them.
In practice, though, even in CA, I would suggest employees always get something from their company, in writing, disclaiming any ownership of any project they decide to start or work on (in any large capacity), especially if it's a software project and they work for a software company.

Even if you truly believe what you're working on has nothing to do with your employer's line of business, they may disagree, and even if they're wrong, they can make your life difficult and expensive while you try to prove them wrong.

It makes me sad that this is a thing I feel I need to suggest, but I think it's the prudent move, and many companies will even have a fairly painless, well-defined process for doing this.
Don't worry, in most civilized countries such clauses are illegal. In the U.S. some states allow them but many companies either don't have them or don't enforce them.

Remember that in the software engineering industry, the (competent) engineer is the hot commodity. If your employer turns out a bad apple, just leave to a different one. That's what keeps the nonsense in check -- not regulations, but competition for the best employees. For employees this is a great situation to be in. Unlike in other industries.
We actually downweighted this post somewhat.

Re "manual steering", that's just another way of saying "moderated" or "curated" (or, some people's favorite, "censored") - no? HN is a curated site and always has been: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... We don't tend to boost submissions like the OP though.

If you want to see the sort that we do boost, there are lots of examples at https://news.ycombinator.com/pool and https://news.ycombinator.com/invited.
The example you give is true. However, it's a toy example that doesn't usually relate to real world data sets.

In most cases, with the amount of data you have, the rounding washes out any real impact of the effect, and you often have measurement error far larger than it anyway.

But yeah, if you're ranking 9 people on an easily knowable stat, then technical 4/9 are below median, 4/9 above, and 1 is exactly median.

With the IQ example you gave, it's just that people don't speak with that level of precision about most things--also, that level of precision is very rarely useful.

So, you're not wrong, but kind of sideways to the discussion at hand. It's actually a common problem in business, where really detail-oriented analysts miss the forest for the trees over stuff like this.

Regarding median vs mean vs average (as the 1st reply to your comment mentioned), median and mean are generally equal as long the values being measure are symmetrically dispersed around the "average". If you get a fat tail in one direction or the other, the mean will be skewed in the direction of that tail, and you need to be careful.
When I was an intern at IBM the contract basically said they owned everything you produce, whether you do it in the office or not. They seemed to take that quite seriously.

I think it’s an IP thing, they view it as their IP the employee is contributing so it should be in their name.

This was ~20 years ago but it seems not much has changed.
Feature request: if you replace the "techno" sounds with piano notes, you'll get a potentially interesting melody.
In that case you should probably try ITS.

http://github.com/PDP-10/its
I don't think the IoT devices will care that their download speed is somewhat reduced and that they'd have to wait a few ms to get access. These devices will hardly transmit or received any data. Likely a lot of switches, wall outlets and some sensors that you'd want a reading from every minute.

The number of clients should not be an issue, the half-duplex shouldn't be as well...
Because there's a shitload of cheap surplus 2.4 GHz parts in stock now that everyone wants 5 GHz capability?

Also, many people have really, really crappy routers, walls that 5 GHz signals have issues penetrating, and so on.
I'm a techie type and have one of those comcast modems. I also have a descent Ubiquiti setup that rides behind it, but I'm kind of shoehorned into using their provided modem or alternatively paying for a modem myself and then paying another $35/month for "unlimited data" (Really crappy comcast policy but that's beside the point).

Long story short, this modem will reset itself and require me to not only become aware that it's once again broadcasting the "xfinitywifi" hotspot, but to also redownload the xfinity app, configure the app with my information and try to remember where they buried the setting to disable this "feature". After disabling it somehow takes up to 24 hours to actually happen....
Um.

> Autopilot is such a misleading term.

>> The functionality is almost identical to the only other time we regularly use "autopilot", in airplanes.

>>> Yeah but like, who cares about etymology and stuff? Misleading af.