skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The driver of the vehicle then drove over the pedestrian crossing where the child was riding north with his dad right behind him. The woman behind the wheel was not drunk and remained on the scene, so of course, no charges have been laid.

This person made a mistake and killed someone. As a society we have a system for handling this (the legal system).

Trying to "Regulate these out of existence" (as one tweet responded) is reactionary policy to a case that is handled by individual responsibility and accountability.

What if we "regulated" better bike lanes, dividers, trails, etc for 5 year olds instead of having them ride along 6 lane roads?
Not for much longer the upcoming taproot feature will dramatically improve on-chain privacy.
I understand the sentiment of the parent post.
All of the things you've described are cool, but aren't exactly awe-inspiring feats of engineering.

I think the fact that Elon actually does take on these high-risk, high-difficulty challenges is what makes people so excited.
Nothing there was DPDK, just FreeBSD kernel networking.

The Wireguard implementation in VPP runs at about 5Gbps in a simple single-stream iperf test.
PEP 657 – Include Fine Grained Error Locations in Tracebacks
Ideally the scientists would be left out. Leaving the gaming as such to the reviewers.

But yeah, there is probably lots of interesting ways such a system would fail.
And if you want a chaser for any flat Earth material check out https://youtu.be/JTfhYyTuT44 "In Search of a Flat Earth" probably the best documentary I have seen on conspiracy theories.
Discovering I am 4% Neanderthal was one of the strangest days of my life. Thanks 23andMe!
Why does it require so much babysitting?
Can you host an exit node anonymously? I would assume it's not much better than the privacy offered by Bitcoin and most cryptocurrencies.
"There's an argument about whether viruses are 'alive', since they depend on others' cells to make their proteins. Prions are even less considered 'alive' ..."

I have read several proposals for a "viral LUCA" in the past ... does anyone ever suggest a prion LUCA[1] ?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_universal_common_ancestor
There is already an implementation of Wireguard in VPP, which runs over DPDK.
About half of the videos Youtube throws at me are ones I've already watched. While I will occasionally rewatch something, it's nowhere near half the time. I thought that it was because I use Youtube without being logged in, but I guess not?
Regarding cars:

"Some carmakers are now leaving out high-end features as a result of the chip shortage, according to a Bloomberg report on Thursday.

Nissan is reportedly leaving navigation systems out of cars that would normally have them, while Ram Trucks has stopped equipping its 1500 pickups with a standard “intelligent” rearview mirror that monitors for blind spots"

I have an unpopular opinion, especially when we start to look at the increase of safety features and increase in pedestrian injuries, that we may be better off going back to smaller trucks designed for good visibility and less reliance on features.
(bias: I drive a 16 year old wagon, and feel panicked around bicycling with what feels like more trucks in the US)

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"Hertz said it is “supplementing” its fleet “by purchasing low-mileage, preowned vehicles” from auctions and dealerships."

I find it wild that just a year ago Hertz filed for bankruptcy [0] and was selling vehicles by end of year [1].

[0]: https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/22/business/hertz-bankruptcy/ind...

[1]: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/hertz-must-offload...
Monero transactions are extremely difficult to trace.

Bitcoin transactions are traceable and can often lead you to a real person or organization, but if you're the FBI and you're tracing some Russian resident cashing out some extortion payments at a Russian exchange and transferring that money to their Russian bank account, there's nothing you can do about it.

The vast majority of these ransomware gangs are in Russia and/or neighboring states, so that means you can't really do anything about any of them, besides trying to periodically go after some of their infrastructure in a whack-a-mole manner. You can't actually do anything about the criminals themselves.

(I wrote more about this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27096715. Not saying about Russia or its people, of course, and I know there's a lot of anti-Russia writing in the West, but this particular issue of ransomware can definitely be largely blamed on the Russian government's stance of not addressing it as long as Russian citizens aren't targeted.)
There was recently a subscription dishwasher featured here. It turned out to be easy for the author to hack theirs, but it will get harder over time, just like ink cartridges.
To really kill the illusion, imagine a long line of people, doing "The Wave". The wave can move arbitrarily fast as the delay between people decreases, and even infine speed! (everyone does their part at the same time, assuming they have synced clocks and aren't dependent on their neighbor for the trigger, which is the key feature of the faster-than-light illusion.)
Well, what other private company is launching rockets at the pace and cost of SpaceX? Some are trying!
Chernobyl: The disaster has unexpectedly created Europe's largest nature reserve
This is what the author puts in the comments on their site:

Regarding the ECCN information: it’s my understanding that by writing NOEEI 30.37(a) on the label in the box for AES/ITN/Exemption, I’m stating that the items don’t require an export license or permit and are valued under $2500, so no commercial invoice or ECCN numbers should be required. In other words, I think what I have included on the form should be OK as-is.
If we replace gravity with magnetism can we make the same conclusion? How about the forces experience from title forces. The difference in gravitational pull on the moon (tidal forces) caused the moon to be locked in orbit with the earth. If gravity isn’t a force, what stopped the moon from rotating faster than its orbit?
This story is why I love Hacker News.
I don't know, I wouldn't automatically assume that an arbitrary timing relay is more reliable than an arbitrary 8-bit chip. And it's pretty easy to debug ten lines of code.
I thought you just softly swallow the `h` when there is an `an` so it starts with a vowel sound. I can't think of any time I've ever heard or said "an hotel" and it sounds very awkward to me, but herbaceous and historic can warble.
True, but the ISP knows you are using VPN and the VPN provider knows you are using Tor. Thats why I made the argument that the stategy of defense depends on the use case.
It seems like the author doesn’t understand how the OS manages memory. It is good to have a lot of memory used. You don’t get your money back for the RAM you save.

The only worthwile metric is how fast stuff actually runs/noticable wait times on swapping, etc

The OS uses the ram as this makes running tasks faster. No point in keeping it free.
Cyberattack on pipeline spotlights holes in U.S. energy security
Can you get a tor hidden service in the preload list?
The parts were made by humans once, they can be made by humans again. The only question is is it worth it
American here (Northeast USA). It varies by person and possibly by local accent. But people are generally consistent in whether they pronounce the leading "h" or not. Most people do not pronounce the "h".

As for "an" and "a", I was taught to follow the rule you stated in school. To my eye, using "a" is informal and mimicking speech, whereas "an" is "correct".
Was there ever massive energy put into stopping p2p file sharing?

Stopping crypto just seems like it would take pols committed to taking action:

* Attack mining nodes using cyber + military force

* Disallow transactions between USD + crypto in the US/Europe/Any other country that is willing to join or can be leaned on
The fact that new computers are already unfixably obsolete can't be good for business. Whatever they are saving on components and assembly can't be worth it if nobody will buy the machine in the first place.
Poor Disk Performance
Aren't all Europeans?
https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?id=A5000200

> Usage Note: In writing, the form a is used before a word beginning with a consonant sound, regardless of its spelling (a frog, a university, a euphemism). The form an is used before a word beginning with a vowel sound (an orange, an hour). · An was once a common variant before words beginning with h in which the first syllable was unstressed; thus 18th-century authors wrote either a historical or an historical but a history, not an history. This usage made sense in that people often did not pronounce the initial h in words such as historical and heroic, but by the late 19th century educated speakers usually gave their initial h's a huff, and the practice of writing an before such words began to die out. Nowadays it survives primarily before the word historical. One may also come across it in the phrases an hysterectomy or an hereditary trait. These usages are acceptable in formal writing.
The most persuasive electrowetting grid technology would show you a video of the device running for hours without error.

Of course all the demo videos you see show mere minutes of content because the underlying problem with these is their fault rate.

They will incorrectly not push a drop when they were instructed to do so, which is irrecoverable by itself. That means nearly all experiments run on these grid platforms fail. So you need a separate system, like a camera, to detect a fault, and have a recovery procedure, for every step of the experiment. Which as you see, these things operate at the level of "assembly instructions" not high level programming, so you wind up with recovery procedures longer than the experiment itself. A recovery that itself may fault.

What is the concrete scientific problem? My understanding is, there's science to do around the formula and application of the coating between the liquid and the electric grid. Commercial electrowetting systems, which of course exist and don't have the problems of amateur ones, use solvents other than water, so they interact with some coatings much more reliably.

On the flip side, 1 minute of video is all you need to raise money.

There's several seed stage companies, maybe even invested in by Y Combinator, that sort of scammed their investors with electrowetting. And it's of course not just electrowetting, the microbiome and vegan foods communities are big culprits.

This is a common failure pattern, transferring academy-refined 1 minute videos into venture dollars, which is really the worst path because you are definitely not going to do the science you need with venture backing if you didn't do it in the academy.

But venture investing is so memetic that 1 minute demos, tweet-sized due diligence and $40m raised for marketing instead of scientific research is definitely here to stay. These are profitable adaptations, no hot take is going to change that. Rather venture capital as an institution isn't credibly doing any science, that the people running these seed fund shows are really kind of stupid, and that we really ought to stop cutting their tax bills.
You could run something like killall firefox / killall chromium instead of a full reboot, no?
Soldered down RAM has real technical advantages. LPDDRx variants of RAM aren't available on DIMMs for this reason. All that modularity means you have ~100 very high speed digital signals running across a board and several connectors. That takes power, due to the physics involved. It doesn't matter for computers plugged into a wall or for gamer laptops, but it matters in the mid and ultraportable segment if you want decent battery life.

Soldering RAM down right next to the CPU or on top of it (as is done in SoC style laptops) lets you use narrower, faster buses at lower voltage swing and lower power (LPDDR4X operates at half the I/O voltage of DDR4).

Now soldered down SSDs, yeah, unless you're building a thin phone with no space for a connector, there's no excuse for that. PCIe works perfectly fine across a connector.
I don't know about "losers," but maybe insecure- or envious-behaving people.

I was never told what my IQ tests were, but the educational system kept pulling me out of class to arrange triangles for years. Later, I was lazy and took the SAT without coaching, prep, or studying. Missed one on the math section, but let's not talk about the English section. ;@)

I don't even believe in IQ tests as a valid, quantitative, reductionist, relative-performance ranking for anything other than taking IQ tests. Intelligence is multidimensional, multi-domain, difficult to linearize to orthogonal properties, and inferred based on a particular performance, not quantified directly by opening-up someone's head.

Can't people just be people better in some areas? I can't draw for beans, my handwriting looks like I have advanced Parkinson's, and the neighborhood animals tip me to not sing in the shower.
> With those gimmicky features there's also only a slim chance that anyone is actually using them because it's often hard to impossible, especially for people with less interest in tech.

True life example: I have a washer. It was sold as being internet-connected. There are some mildly interesting use cases I could see for being able to control or check the status of a wash remotely.

Well, it's internet-connected, sure, but you can only connect it to your network with WPS, many app reviews suggest the remote app doesn't work, the feature set is small, and the features it does have are hobbled in ways that make even that set pretty useless—seemingly in order to prevent lawsuits.
You're missing something I think (or we're talking past each other) because I can write down probability distributions which explicitly break Bell's inequalities, whereas I can't write down probability distributions which break Boole's inequalities.

This is because Boole-type inequalities are derived just by assuming the basic rules of probability distributions, while Bell-type inequalities are derived by assuming some local hidden variable model (or similar locality assumption).

Consider the Popescu-Rorhlich (PR) box probability distribution where P(a,b | x,y) equals 1/2 if x*y = a xor b and zero otherwise.

This probability distribution explicitly breaks Bell's inequality, but it does not break any of the Bonferroni / Boole inequalities. This is precisely because although it obeys all of the axioms of probability distributions (which are the assumptions required for Bonferroni / Boole) it does not obey the extra axioms of locality that Bell's inequality requires.

I'm still not sure what your issue is with the experimental papers. You acknowledge I think that the real detectors they have in the lab actually do "blip", right? And you can take these observed "blips" and use them to compute a CHSH value?
Current low interest rates on car loans make that approach a bit pointless.
Sounds interesting, but the interactive demo for sheet music doesn't work for me in Chrome. There are many CORS errors and then an error in: sheet_music_display_controller.tsx:187 ERROR
Tell this guy to call a customs brokerage like flexport. Entrepreneurs should focus on making things people want and connecting with customers. Turn everything else over to specialists with experience and scale. Most of all customs regs.
How certain are you that the current reality is not a constructed deception?
That registration with the state puts them in one of the other categories I checked. She was not in those categories.

Those in house council also are a very different category than a independent lawyer.

You're not wrong there is an edge case - it just isn't applicable here (And is called out on the state bar web page as something to check)
It is not about romanticism. Manufacturing inherently is more resource intensive and has broader indirect impact to the economy. Take 10 restaurants with 100 employees and a plant with 100 employees.

The restaurant just pays salaries to 100 people (with no specialized skills) and rent to the local real estate market (raw material and maintenance costs are very low).

On the other hand a plant would need to have trained manufacturing engineers, safety engineers, economists, quality control, managers, sales, technicians, and they would support a big part of the local economy (IT, welders, machinists, logistics companies etc).

A plant typically also has less personnel turnover, exactly because specialized labor is more scarce. That means that they have the incentive to provide full time jobs with good benefits to significant fraction of their workers.
It’s hard to give a fair evaluation of whether something is good when there is no suitable comparison.

The rest of the car industry is starting to get a clue and catch up, but the Model S had no comparable competition when it came out. It wasn’t like trading a few dollars or features for a Lexus vs. the same class of Mercedes, the Model S created its own class.

And SpaceX is the same story. It vastly changed the space launch landscape, and isn’t done yet. Falcon 9 has no real competition until Vulcan has a successful launch. Falcon Heavy’s only competition is Delta IV Heavy, which is at the end of its life and all remaining launches are booked. Starship and Super Heavy could maybe be compared to SLS, but that’s kind of insulting when you consider the budget and track record of both programs.

I guess my point is that while Elon does over-promise and doesn’t have a perfect hit rate, the main products have still really embarrassed the established players in each industry.
The amount of interest accrued in a savings account is pretty wimpy though.
I suspect for many of us, our phones and computers keep us better connected than we would be without them. Apple has always been more of a tools company than any of the other guys; they aren't telling you how to live your life. Even social media companies aren't telling you how to live your life, they're just providing a (addictive and at-times destructive) service to do it.

Steve saw the iPhone as the best and most innovative computing device in the world, and that's exactly what it was, and perhaps still is.
It would be better to take the car payment and invest that money. You can get a car loan for less that 3% interest, and you can easily make double that with low risk ETFs. Hell, you could invest your savings into a dividend fund and use that to pay your car payment directly.
The great trend of the day is abject materialism, a philosophy that sees humans as just clever bipeds. I'm not too keen on it. There is clearly something different about humans.
One shouldn't use outliers and one off examples to guide one's behaviors. Most startups will fail miserably. Most of the ones that don't and do eventually succeed will grow over time to a decently large size before exiting. So you should expect that trajectory and not a lucky exit before you hit 50 employees.
Descartes did the opposite of launching a "virus of egoism that's still rampant".

Max stirner is the philosopher who tried and failed to launch a "virus of egoism". Stirner is not fond of descartes or the cogito and stirners entire philosophical project is a defense of egoism
> Since 14% of renters are behind on rent and evictions begin June 30, aren’t vehicle repossessions going to kick in July / August?

> Presumably, due in part to eviction protection, they have been able to divert all or a portion of their rent payments to keeping up with bad car loans for commute vehicles that often will not be needed.

There are gonna be far fewer evictions and/or mortgage defaults than people think, all those ppl who have been out of work are likely making more money right now than they were at the start of the pandemic just from unemployment, additionally bec they’re unemployed they may qualify for their states’ Medicaid benefits and food stamps, not to mention the free school lunches than many states have turned into a basically tons of raw produce and other various meal-making materials delivered/picked up each week. All those extra benefits mean the raw unemployment dollars go farther compared to a normal income creating an effectively higher $/hr wage than if you just look at the $300-600/wk(+state unemployment).

All this distills down to the fact that everyone has been flush with cash the entire time so much so that I know a few people in March 2020 who were behind on rent but due to all the aforementioned benefits were able to pay the rent they owed. Meaning that people having been making rent and/or mortgage for the most part and have probably been living beyond their (normal) means for the last year. If there’s gonna be any sort of correction it’s not coming until mid-2022 at the earliest.
Yes, SMTP is insecure. Protonmail emails are end-to-end encrypted at rest. So server admins or whoever can’t just look at all your emails whenever they want, potentially years after they’ve been received.

Contrast that with Fastmail, Gmail, or other providers. At any moment someone who works there can look at customer emails. I prefer my emails encrypted at rest.
Car salesman won't be a job in 20 years
> It is good to have a lot of memory used. You don’t get your money back for the RAM you save.

Only when looking at a system as a whole. Individual applications should still use as little RAM as possible; some people run more than just slack.
This nice video re-ignited my desire to find “the right” bulb manufacturer again (in the US market). I tend to go with Philips because I had pretty decent experience with longevity and customer service. But I wonder where do we stand now?
Are there any clear winners (considering the light quality, bulb longevity and of course the price)
I think that's a bit of a myth, at least in a global scale.

In Europe there's a lot of old money, or sources of income that only later generations can rip the benefits of their ancestors.

The most common example in my country is people that sustain a lot of their wealth with cork. The thing with cork is that it takes decades to build up, and a large area.

Basically people are living from their great+ grand parents buying small patches of land over many years, that had the trees already planted (or that just grew in the meanwhile).

And I'm pretty sure this reality is probably also common across the Mediterranean region.
FYI - at least one friend-of-a-friend large scale investor reached out after this article to note he'd almost hired this same person.

Don't assume someone coming in through a reference has had the level of due diligence you need. Always do your own due diligence. It catches things that will otherwise slip through because everyone assumes everyone else checked.
A Bully Finds a Pulpit on the Web (2010)
> And some directly target health care facilities, knowing there'll be more urgency to pay up.

This is a pretty serious allegation, it might be considered terrorist activity depending on how you exactly define that. Same for attacks that intentionally target other critical infrastructure. Putting human lives at risk makes a very real difference here.
I mean, dolphins are fish, in the sense that the most recent common ancestor of all modern fish is also the common ancestor of all modern dolphins. Very few animals aren’t fish in this sense though. Birds are also fish.

What’s surprising is that you can exclude sharks and rays from your definition of ‘fish’ and this statement will still be true - you are more closely related to a salmon than a salmon is to a shark.
But look at seatbelts. Low annoyance, saved many many lives.

Some safety stuff is great. Some is annoying. How do you draw that line? Put a price per death at $1,000,000 and see if the change is worth it? Or if a human life is priceless, then we must always do all the safety changes.
>Tariffs aren't imposed to protect the population, but specific well-connected players who lobby for such protections to avoid competition.

henvic, you won't convince the dimwits here, I assure you.