skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
for almost all startups there are exactly zero non-accredited investors on any cap table

Why is it unfathomable to imagine someone with a $500K NW writing a $5k-20k cheque?

To be accredited you either need $1M NW or sustained $200K income (2+ years). Leaves plenty of room for small-time angels who want to invest 1-4% of their net wroth
> The ruling came from the federal district court for Oregon. As such, it's only binding for the district.

No, trial court rulings aren’t binding precedent even on the same trial court.

> If a federal court in another district comes to a different conclusion, then an appeal to the circuit court might happen

Appeal to circuit courts from district court are a matter of right, a split between districts is immaterial not only as to whether such an appeal is filed but also to whether it is heard.

> Michigan and Oregon are in different appellate circuits (6th and 9th, respectively) so if there were different rulings in each circuit, and an appeal to the Supreme Court succeeds and the court rules, only then does the ruling become binding across all states an jurisdictions.

At this level, a circuit split is traditionally a factor which weighs in favor of the Supreme Court hearing an appeal (as its appellate jurisdiction is generally discretionary), but it is neither in itself either necessary or sufficient. But, yes, it is only when the Supreme Court rules that precedent is universally binding rather than persuasive.

> For now, the ruling is only binding in the District of Oregon

No, for now it is only binding between the parties to the earlier case (and only as regards the specific facts of that case), under the principle of res judicata rather than stare decisis which makes decisions binding on particular (or all) courts.
I’m never going to memorize this list, even if it were just 15 stores long. But it would be nice if I could setup a dynamic iOS shortcut that alerts me when I’m very close to one (assuming I’m about to walk inside)
Except that jobs don't go where young people are... Young people go where jobs are, and they tend to want to live in cities as well. For example, see the TV show Friends. As bachelors and bachelorettes, they lived in the city for dating, social life, etc, but by the finale they moved out of the city to settle down.
I can’t count the number of times I’ve had people tell me “I don’t think it’s appropriate to question science.”

I’m always left speechless.
I’m not the same user but I haven’t had any problems with my cheap usb cable. Only that the cheaper cable I got is shorter.

I haven’t done the speed test in a while but last I checked I think it was 3Gbps? Not quite the theoretical max for the port/cable but easily enough for the few hundred megabit video feed.
Bureaucracy means no individual is to blame... But you still have to have a way to blow the whistle or vote people out and shake things up.
what a shame. I am not surprised by this, especially after the shenanigans they pulled on musescore. this will cause a lot of bitterness.
I'll admit that it feels a bit alien to me, but I don't know anything about you so it's not my place to judge. Thanks for sharing your perspective.
I have no idea if this guy did or didn’t do these things. It’s also not my problem, so it’s not really for me to know. But his argument is one I think a lot about… how we’ve gotten to knee jerk reactions to everything with immense consequence for people’s lives via arguments that wouldn’t past muster in a real court, but become verdicts in public court. Mob rule and violence is one of the worst instincts in humanity, and is exactly why we have real courts with real laws and real processes.

I know this presents difficulties for women, minorities, etc in many situations in which they’ve been wronged, but the solution isn’t more mob justice via Twitter. It’s to find ways to shift culture and laws to bring justice thru effective and measured means.
This is also often necessitated by brutal evaluation systems that incorporate stack ranking and up or out in their various forms.

This almost necessitates some cheating to survive and the only people left are those who survived this system and hence the culture slowly rots.
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The SCP Foundation wiki is hosted on Wikidot, which provides free wiki hosting. It can be accessed either via a Wikidot subdomain or via the dedicated domain. Annoyingly, it seems like both alternate routes into the same content have about equal search engine optimisation, so a random SCP link has an even chance of using either domain.

I recommend using <http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/> rather than the alternative. Wikidot has some problems with it; one of those is that some browsers have trouble logging in when the domain name isn't *.wikidot.com.
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That's not Logo. That's only the turtle graphics from Logo. Logo is a complete functional language like Lisp but without parentheses, although parentheses can also be used.
There's a similar tendency I've noticed with these, where people who have met or interacted with the person pile on with vague statements. This is a popular one: "I met him once and knew something was off! He had a creepy vibe".

I'm sure it reflects their interaction in some cases, but it's so common with these witch hunts (including the one in question here), there may be more to it. Motivated reasoning or something?
A Culture of Fear at the Firm That Manages Bill Gates’s Fortune
The PE exam isn't only for Civil Engineers.

List of Engineering Disciplines that can take the PE exam:

- Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- Architectural Engineering
- Chemical
- Civil
- Control Systems
- Electrical and Computer
- Environmental
- Fire Protection
- Industrial and Systems
- Mechanical
- Metallurgical and Materials
- Mining and Mineral Processing
- Naval Architecture and Marine
- Nuclear
- Petroleum
- Structural
27 and I remember this vaguely.
Oddly enough, Greenland and Saudi Arabia are almost the same size.
> At least in academia, American universities (and Western universities in general) have had a good track record overall with academic integrity, and it has set them apart.

The difference is that these collusion rings or bogus studies are discussed and exposed publicly. It's not the case in Asia.
Of course, if you're not a professional you'll never get as good photos as a professional. A lot of what makes a picture good doesn't have anything to do with the camera itself to do. Composition has a major affect on how you perceive a photo.
Did you perhaps mean sodium benzoate? I've never heard of sodium benzene and it sounds highly unstable.

I'd be surprised if their detector confused sodium benzoate for benzene, because sodium benzoate is so common that that would make it a pretty useless detector!
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Proof that it works, that it can lead to customers migrating in. Or some kind of legislation. Main point is for it to work though.

Personally, I'm waiting for some combo of SOLID, the Fediverse and Matrix. SOLID is like FOAF and XFN and *dav and etc on steroids, very JS orientated though and not the most friendly of UX.
Just like any false accusation: it has to go to court.

The truth is life is a fuckmess right now and there is no instantaneous black/white gratification. And if your success is predicated on a large social-media following, I'm afraid there's nothing you can do when it turns on you. At this point at least.

Not to digress, but holy hell: I mean look at the fuckmess social media has created, of disinformation and conspiracy theories. Flat earth? Pizzagate? Q? For real?
Its evil in the sense of the banality of evil.

They likely did not choose to put benzene in there but they have to think "nobody ever got in trouble for buying IBM" or in this case "nobody ever got in trouble for choosing the cheapest sweatshop (with some credentials to appear almost ethical) in China".

There is no evil Doctor laughing in a castle planning to add benzene to things however it is pretty evil to dismiss QA and client safety in a way as reckless as they have.

At the end of the day they can always say " I was just following orders" or " I was only trying to maximize profit"
Very few loops need any real tuning. For most of them, an incredibly wide range of value works perfectly well. Systems usually have a lot of slack in them.

It's hard for most field engineers to get experience tuning loops when there are so few opportunities where the time investment can be justified.

This is one of those cases however where field engineers who are around plcs all the time will say "oh I never needed that class" (process control theory) but they never needed it only because they didn't learn it, so they either don't see opportunities to apply it, or aren't assigned the task.

I think this happens in computer science a lot as well. You often can go your whole (very successful) career not needing something you didn't learn, because your career would have been different if you had learned it thoroughly.
A contextless number doesn’t mean much. Maybe that’s enough? Too much? Too little? The FDA doesn’t need to buy billion dollar aircraft carriers, they need to pay people salaries and equip them to investigate, test, read papers, and set standards.
> My library manages to lend ebooks; they even have wait lists for them.

Those are made available in that format by the publisher. No equivalent for movies is available (as far as I am aware).

Also my understanding is that it was never entirely clear if lending ebooks like that in the US was legal or not. The publishers and lenders both carefully avoided the issue going to court IIUC. (Prior to the Internet Archive's actions, that is.)
> I'm a US expat and escaping this culture is one of the things that's made me happiest...

Really? Cause I'm an American who has lived, studied, and worked overseas. Let's just say it's not American (or generally Western) coworkers and classmates who are NOTORIOUS for cheating.

And I think many of us here who've attended "diverse" universities or work for companies with "multicultural" staff have a pretty damn good idea which cultures and nationalities are more likely to be cheating.
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Another fused plastic product which upon exposure to weathering results in micro and nano plastics that wash into the watersheds and eventually the oceans . . . .
Yeah it seems like in America you can still put almost nothing,.or like 5% down and get a crazy low interest rate mortgage for 25 years.

Here in the UK you can't even get fixed rate mortgages of more than 10 years and all of those require substantial deposits.

>20% down is where the best interest rates are.

Most people are on variable rate deals or short term (2 year) fixed deals.
Every criminal case involves more than a jury. The prosecutor has to decide to bring charges, judge has to accept the case, etc. Death penalty cases are more involved. I've sat through the automatic appeals that were part of California's process.
You do need a VPN to mask your IP. Especially if you're going to be using public trackers. Otherwise you'll get copyright notices and you're ISP could terminate your service.
Companies have been acquired to shut down their product line before.
What amazes me is that so many people, including our venerable PG, are so good at identifying groupthink and orthodoxies, are sure they aren't part of those things, and yet see orthodoxies and groupthink threateningly hovering everywhere.

And, the articles keep getting upvoted, by popular demand. So clearly a lot of people also think this way!
Most people describe it as yellow, and if you google image search for "sun", most of them range from orange to yellow. Though it actually covers the full visual spectrum, much of the blue gets scattered, making the sky blue and the sun yellow.
Jeff Bezos will step down as Amazon CEO on July 5
Maybe now we get a new Stargate series...or S3 of SG:U.
For those too lazy to click:

“In response to current events concerning the Freenode Internet Relay Chat (IRC) network, we would like to invite you to a community meeting on the future of both the FSF and GNU's official IRC channels.

“The meeting will be held in the #fsf channel on the Freenode network on Thursday, May 27 from 13:00-14:30 EDT (17:00-18:30 UTC). The discussion will be moderated by members of the FSF staff, as well as GNU webmasters Amin Bandali and Jason Self.”

Nice of them to host the discussion on Freenode, itself.
Exactly my setup as well (two Kinesis Advantage 2s, modded with QMK). I hope the new version either comes with QMK built-in, or the new version of their firmware is at least as good as QMK.
Galileo didn't have it easy either. The more push back, the more likely you'll write history. Even it means you have to face the inquisition or whatever name it has at the time...
I did my PhD in astrophysics, and I can tell you that the author's name has become synonymous with, shall we say, fringe ideas. I won't say crack pot because he is a legit tenured astronomer at Harvard, but I have seen his papers roundly critiqued on the merits at too many journal clubs to count. (Eg, life could have evolved in interstellar space https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.0613 ) Its a bit outrageous to claim he's Galileo and the rest of the community is the Church when he is so clearly using his tenure as a defense against the weakness, and untestability, of his ideas.
> But then again Apple GPU were limited to 10W Max and it was a design decision not technology limitation.

No, it was a technology limitation. The reason I know is because of the M1 Macbook Pro, a device explicitly designed to reap the maximum performance benefits of the M1. It was designed with active cooling and still didn't really manage to score much better than the M1 Macbook Air.

Either way, Apple can't just magically increase the wattage of their chip and make it run faster. They had every opportunity to do that in the M1 Mac Mini and the new iMac, but they didn't. It's a very obvious limitation of the SOC's capabilities, and I honestly can't find any evidence to suggest otherwise.
Same payment information though(!)
These are great, I just don't understand why Apple can't put a single camera that is 1/4 this quality into any of its $1000+ laptops.
Google maps is paywalled now?
If WhatsApp users want to switch en masse to a new platform, they have to manually reconstruct their chat groups and their contact lists, install an entire new app, learn how to use the new app, work around any features that WhatsApp had which are now missing on their new platform, and probably a bunch of other stuff I'm forgetting.

If IRC users want to switch to a new server, just use the /server command. Done. Maybe you have to re-register your nick or channel. But the client is the same, the interface is the same, everything stays the same.
I am not an expert, but I read that a CLA is not needed for the gplv2 to 3 transition. it seems to me that
the CLA gives a blank check to the "company" to do whatever it wants with the contributed code:

> The CLA provides the ability to release Audacity under multiple licenses

surely this is not okay?
Yeah the thing that concerns me most about "cancel culture" (of what I see) is people openly pushing back on the principle of innocent until proven guilty. It seems to be common to argue that there is nothing wrong with the court of public opinion putting the burden of proof on the accused. Usually this is combined with some comment about how horrible the accusation is versus how supposedly mild it is to be criticized across the internet.

It's human nature to spread rumors and make snap judgements, so I'm not sure how much this can be stopped. But it scares me to see people straight up trying to morally justify it.
It could very well be a serious concern for you, but not a serious concern for most people. But then everyone has their own different serious concerns so if they're adjusting it here and there for everyone that would be a misallocation of efforts. So I think because of that it's more useful, at least for the developers of a product, to consider a larger set of users than a niche concern of a minority set of users.
> However, it's now legal precedent

Not binding precedent on any court that would hear the Strong Towns case.
I’ve been in GraphQL land for 4-5 years now, and all these discussions about restfulness, Http and other details make me cringe.

It feels like watching apes fighting about whether the cylinder goes in the triangle or star-shaped hole. It does not fit! Realize this and move on!

Unless your company is only about CRUD (with no JOINs), the Rest model is severely limited or mismatched to your business domain.

Just use GraphQL already. It’s actually simple, I promise! Self documenting, introspectable, supports so much code generation and validation tools, etc...

I know I’ll get downvoted for saying this, the HN crowd thinks « GraphQL = complicated » for some reason.
> Cars? Who cares, that's not what Shell sells.

The only reason Shell truly exists is because all of those gas tanks.

>And it's even possible to build cars that don't depend on carbon emissions,

Sure, really only in the past 5-8 years. ( what about those Tesla stations ran by diesel generators? )

>Renewables are cheaper than natural gas right now, and by the time we need massive amounts of storage, renewables plus lithium ion batteries will be cheaper than combined cycle gas turbines.

Every time, I mean every time this threshold is crossed the cost of fossil fuels plummets way below the threshold. 1.4 billion cars are on the road a little over 1 million are electric in any way. I don't see how this is the gas companies fault.

They have provided a product to 1.4 billion gas tanks ( a lot of those weekly ) on a consistently reliable basis. If there is ever a threat of a shortage people start lining up for miles to buy the product Shell is 'forcing' them to buy? Perhaps we need to hold the gas tank companies responsible for making a product that holds fuel.

This is a culture and economy problem not the fault of a fuel company. Our entire economy is dependent on fossil fuel.

PS. It would be nice if you provided at least on reference for the last two paragraphs of your post. Way too many claims with no resources.
Also Tangentially related...

What is the bunny in the moon doing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_rabbit
I have to point out that The Martian is not science fiction, because the science in the book is, intentionally, not fictional. Merely having science in your narrative doesn’t make something science fiction, otherwise Greg House would qualify. If I remember right, the only liberty taken w.r.t known understanding in The Martian is with regard to the damage potential of Mars atmospherics.

It is certainly educational though, and to me, The Martian is rather in the category of “competence porn”
On a similar note to your comment about the fire hose of low quality content, I find this most with what should be specialist subreddits. Something specifically dedicated to some special technical interest is usually filled with novices larping as experts to other novices who can't yet realize that's what's going on.

A secondary issue with Reddit is what I like to call "drive by toxicity". When you're discussing something and a zealot of some sort decides you've made an error of some kind so egregious that they must correct you, and that the error has also absolved them of any need to do so respectfully. Often times this error isn't even central to what you're discussing (ie: using the phrase linux OS rather than "implementation of the linux kernel"). This is particularly bad in tech subreddits, which are generally teaming with people who can't wait to nitpick over minutia.

Lastly, the odd cultural feature of Reddit where users feel it's appropriate to dig through comment histories and pull unrelated comments they disagree with into an attack on you over something is unsettling to say the least.
Maybe take a minute to think about this comment one more time.
Hick's Law
>The result was that almost 60% of papers accepted by one program committee were rejected by the other, suggesting that the fate of many papers is determined by the specifics of the reviewers selected and not just the inherent value of the work itself.

I referenced Kahneham's latest book, Noise, above but this is exactly the problem he focuses on. There are solutions.
It's more like using a plumber analogy to make sandwiches. I mean plumbers eat lunch right? So we can refer to condiments as grout and bread and meat as tiles and pipes are the sandwiches because plumbing.

Want a Reuben? That's:

plumber tile rye beef-corned
plumber grout saurkraut russian

Also since this is in the context of making a sandwich a bunch of options to 'plumber' mention things like toaster oven wattage and temperature.

set PLUMBER_PREHEAT=350
set PLUMBER_BACKEND=toaster

This is all kind of a pain. Let's use pipes. Except for some reason whoever defined this uses thousand island instead of russian dressing and expects the sandwich on a plate.

plumber pipe reuben --russian --to-go
That makes it even more strange, as all modern (ie within last 5 years) resources push the tidyverse.
People want those sweet, sweet internet points and will lie and whore themselves to the mob to get them. How else does one know their true worth?
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While I appreciate why Avi Loeb would author an article like this (for those unfamiliar he posited that Oumuamua was of an intelligent alien origin and hence garnered some pushback), it seems a bit ungenerous in spirit to how science is done these days.

He states that extraordinary claims do require extraordinary evidence so the thesis that skepticism is healthy is still embedded here, however I think he's unwilling to consider (or unconcerned about the idea) that the alien origin claim could very well be misinterpreted/lead credence to a lot of crackpot claims in the lay public which is the source of most of the pushback.

While we do not currently have an explanation for Oumuamua and I cannot intelligently speak on which of the four possibilities mentioned in the article is more likely, communicating science to the lay public is often better done once a theory has been absorbed into the general underpinnings of the larger scientific body of evidence at hand rather than when it is at the precipice to avoid inadvertently misleading people.
It's okay, I've heard that the M1 is powerful enough the emulate one in a pinch.
Why post images of tweets rather than link to the source? Seems like cherry-picking out parts of a conversation to me.
A valid ides if enforceable. I can see assorted numbered companies and nominees used to skirt this?
You seem to be assuming that ‘financial incentives’ means subsidies or tax credits, but the financial incentives could be carbon taxes or other penalties instead.
...which is why Redbox puts its boxes in places where people already have to go anyway. It's funny that you think this all needed to be explained in such excruciating detail. It's not rocket science.
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We want to make the SDKs rock-solid.
The scientific orthodoxy rejected the Covid-19 “lab leak conspiracy theory” as crazy, based on no evidence whatsoever. Trump supported it, therefore it must be wrong.

It’s not looking so crazy anymore.
No, I find anyone of any political stripe that acts and posts like he does to be reprehensible.
Add Peter Attia to that list.
The author of this article has been on several podcasts including Lex Fridman's, where he has discussed these issues further: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plcc6E-E1uU .