skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FBI ignored a tip/report I filed about the corrupted residency program director at one of the biggest (probably the biggest in NY metro area because they accept like 30+ PGY-1 residency spots each year) training hospitals in Brooklyn, NY. It is well known in the medical community that if one wants to get into that residency program, one needs to approach a woman who has a good connection with the program director. Then one must pay up and get accepted in the residency program (from the rumors, I hear that it costs about $60K). I shared FBI the Facebook profile of the woman and the name of the program director along with other detailed information that I knew. It was enough information for any ambitious FBI agent to start investigating and easily catch the corruption (residency application cycle is short; it starts in September and last until about January/Feburary and one can easily track the communications between that lady and the program director). I also told them that they can contact me if they want more details.

I presume they receive thousands of reports like mine, so my tip/report was probably ignored. I wonder how many people are tasked to filter such reports at FBI and how many credible tips slipped through the cracks.
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There was also the whole thing where Google stole all their lyrics data to power Knowledge Graph without paying them. Hard to sustain a business when goliath steals all your crud.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/genius-we-caught-google-red-hande...

Then they lost the lawsuit to some nonsensical bull because technically the lyrics of someone else's song can't be copyrighted by them. But nonetheless, all the work they did had been stolen by the search engine people would normally use to find them. Hard to survive as a business in that environment.
The challenge is the test is flawed if it stipulates to narrow/limited of a test range. This is why in SW we do automated tests, unit tests, but also real-user testing.

For emissions the only solution is in-situ testing over real-world operating conditions over a period of time. In other words real-user-testing of the vehicle as it will be used.

This would stop all such games immediately.
Are you planning to stop defecating?
They're pretty outspoken about it. No need to defend them on a point they freely admit to.
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The EU's Freedom of Movement is a remarkable achievement. It's far from world wide and doesn't even aim for that, but it does allow you to move freely in ~30 sovereign countries. (Shame some 70 million of us just lost it)
Many countries consider it a fraudulent travel document. It's more under the train of thought that you are attempting to access the country through illegitimate means.
Properly waterproofing the shower is a major one that can be easily overlooked and won't typically manifest in a major way until years down the road. Hope your contractors used appropriate waterproof Kerdi board or cement board + roll-on membrane.
One of the problems with going primarily on past experience (and I've seen this happen a few times) is that there are some people who have a skill of just sort of hanging around whilst other people do the work. They can talk your ear off about the work and all the things involved, but they just don't do anything and when really pushed to do things they come up with just terrible solutions. I know one guy whose sole contribution to the codebase was to run an auto-formatter on every single repository. Those type of people can be very disruptive.
But would they have been able to pay the licensing for all those lyrics if they didn't have investors?
Now Google indexes its fork of LLVM on cs.android.com
Is there an open source old.reddit-alike forum available anywhere? I find Reddit much easier to read and digest than Discourse.
Your sibling comment has a few good ones.
$80 million would have been a fantastic exit for a bootstrapped Genius.com

The fact that they took more than $80 million in investment to get to this point is what makes this a failure. Also raises a lot of questions about how a company needed so much investment money to build a website that never really did much more than allow people to annotate text.

I suppose licensing fees could have been extraordinarily high. But then again, they were likely high because the music industry knew they could extract all of that VC money right out of the company through licensing fees.

The entire product was built on top of lyrics they don’t own. In essence, they built their product on top of someone else’s platform.
I agree. I'm baffled as to why German cars are held in such high regard with some people. Long term reliability doesn't match assembly quality and initial impressions.
When nuclear fusion energy source becomes available, the modular design for the sub should allow for an easy change over.
This looks very cool! How well does this play together with browser APIs, specifically anything that uses the media source extension?
Tangentially, what would it take for forums to get a resurgence? Pseudo-centralization / connection through forum-software? Clearly a lot of users prefer the long-form format.

My own observations from the past decade+ is that the influx of new users to forums very quickly dissipated, and what remained is a senior membership clique with dwindling interest in discussion with each other, which led to exodus. This could all be owing to there being a hip-new-thing monopolizing people's attention rather than a failure on the part of forums... and there were a ton of forums. Until it implodes it seems people are satisfied expending their attention on reddit or discord. The other difficulty competing with reddit is, in part as an aggregator, it's a dopamine-pumping machine, updating with new headlines and content every instant.
For Java, yes. They're working on JavaScript and Ruby etc, but not sure it's quite there yet.
Anti-human inventions are only good for avoiding paying good wages to humans. Billionaires want slaves. Robots fulfil that need. This is about replacing high wage jobs with automation. Not everything has to be automated. It's a greedy path.
That is true but also, if the previous management have gone and a new management really care, how long should they be judged by their predecessors.

I think this issue comes up all the time with individuals either being negligent or just plain incompetent and then when it all screws up, they just blame the previous management and move onto another similar job in another company. At what point is the individual liable and what point is it "tough luck VW, you have to pay for that crook of a CEO you employed"
To hold volumes of wastewater for this long would require wastewater treatment plants 10x the size of the current ones and would not treat the water to the same level as conventional plants. This type of technology could be used for sub-processes within plants and is already an active area of research.
Yes, builders will react by trying to artificially maintain the high prices. But they will ultimately be overcome by the market reality. Unless they all band together but that's impossible given the scale and illegal.
> mishandled interrogations of young children

This is a big issue tbh. I've been through one interrogation, in a fairly peacefull country and not as a suspect, i'm sure i could've handled that poorly enough to help convict an innocent man (he was still convicted, then found not guilty).

Interrogations are hard for good reasons (its easier for the police to get people off their feet and incriminate themselves), but using the same interrogation techniques on adults and children is a recipe for disaster. In my country we had a fiasco caused by this.
Forem[0] is trying to solve this with a browser extension. Looking promising!

[0] https://www.forem.com/
Of course you could. You'd have to make welfare be based on an insurance-type scheme as is used in Germany.
Sad day. Love this talk from the co-founder Tom Lehman titled "Worse is Better" [1]

[1]: https://youtu.be/X45YY97FmL4
Shades of Doom
The page isn't prompting for cookie preferences, asking to allow notifications, popping up a mailing list or coupon half way do the page, playing a full page video with sound, or load 97million lines of javascript. I'd say its pretty much perfect.
Well,... yet. Load average is at 1.2, not that bad. But the services are getting a solid workout.
It's good that the author provided use cases, why they needed the project etc.

Frankly, I didn't get the difference from basic Go templating looking at the quickstart examples. If it has any advantage over, they should state it clearly.
I agree, except it'll optionally accept the ID of your node in a web of trust, and it'll use a page rank customized for you.

Or you can put in two ID's and have it find sources that both parties trust.
Anecdotally, all of the people I know struggling with opioid addiction were potheads beforehand. I think drug addicts will abuse whatever they can, regardless of available options.
If Google isn't useful then nobody will use it.

The search engine and the ads are tightly coupled. A better search engine means it can predict with more accuracy what you are looking for and can serve you an even more targeted ad that increases the chance you'll click.
I like it.

Coincidentally, the other day I was daydreaming about a search engine that favors sites that are updated less frequently. The thought being, the kinds of labors of love that characterized the 1990s Web that I still sometimes miss are still out there, it's just harder to find them amidst the flood of SEO dreck. So perhaps they could be made discoverable again with the help of a contrarian search engine that specifically looks for the kinds of things that Google and Bing don't like to see.
unlikely to be sustained, but like any excess, will continue for a surprisingly long time before the hangover hits
Miscommunication, I took the gp's "stock worth more than 350k" to mean gains worth more than 350k. You only pay tax on gains anyway so it seems moot to talk about the original value in terms of thresholds.
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> Yeah but will it be

Per Elon, yes, eventually [1].

It makes sense for them to do this too. They need the technology to be ready for mars. Positive PR is worth a lot in an industry heavily constrained by government regulations. The cost isn't likely to be that high compared to the rest of the costs involved in launching a rocket. If they're really lucky it will even help with the environmental regulators.

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1223018233638207488
My biggest problem with the transition to Discord and FB groups is the lack of search engine indexing.

There is SO much valuable information locked in the communities that is near impossible to search for even WITHIN their platform.
100% in the same boat. I don't want my gaming identity to be related to my day-to-day work. If I see a product/tool has a community Slack, I'd be more open to joining that.
Can you share a bit on the use case, i.e. what do you need configured?

Personally, I find Deno's "zero config" approach appealing, although I do have to fight the linter's "ban-types" rule occasionally since suggested type replacements are not equivalent.
> I don't want to sign up again for a million different forums like the old days.

"Sign in with XYZ" exists on every serious website.

> I also love the new threads feature by Discord to keep convos more concise and isolated. That has helped forums on Discord a ton.

It helped because it's a forum feature, not a chat feature.

> my comments/questions are still on the server for those to find via search if they join after I'm gone

Nobody will ever see the answers, they'll ask again
Seeing a lot of this in private school.
Monopolistic… you miss Chiba sharp power and more net power.
This has been a feature as long as I remember (I've been using it since late 2015). The nickname is still tied to your name#dddd account identifier. And if someone checks your profile, they can still see mutual servers and friends. GP is asking for multiple accounts, not nicknames.
There's a bit of smoothing too i would imagine
> McDonalds with $1000 phones in their pockets. I don't think these devices were meant to be had by all. You should have to work for them.

Aren’t they working for them?? At McDonald’s?? And honestly they’re probably working harder than me, a software engineer, who also has a 1000$ phone. But I also have healthcare, and never have to put up with mopping any flooring.
This is a very cool project! Thank you.
Sure, but I was interested about that "soul-crushing" aspect.
Doesn't it require a phone number for validation?
Java is static-typed already and only has a low degree of dynamism, so the importance of doing so is much less (only to reduce the initialization time I believe).
I love this, and I love (many of) the results so far! What I can't find on the site is detail about what "too many modern web design features" means. Is it just penalizing sites with tons of JavaScript?
For a site like HN which is run by YC, it's surprising to get so many comments like these. Making no value judgements, this is the startup model, investors know not every bet will win, so do founders. No one knows the future. It's often quoted that 90% of startups fail, they are hard.

For every nine "how did they not see that coming"s, you'll get one "how did no one see that opportunity" eg. your Facebooks, Airbnbs, etc.
Of all things in the world to let slide, sexual assault of a child? I just can't believe it.

How many other people have turned to the FBI for justice and received nothing while the crimes against them continue unabated?

In the real world this level of failure would present significant existential risk to an organization.
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Use BrowserStack ?

PS: I work at BrowserStack.
Yes, good point. And I think that goes back to how one views SO. I've always tried to view it less as a question answer service (with the answer being the end goal) than an encyclopedia that gets written through the process of questions and answers (with the encyclopedia as the end goal).
States wouldn't need to just shut down additional mining. They'd need to shut down use of existing bitcoin.
Very cool project! How many websites do you have in your index? And how did you go about building it?

I've been working on an engine for personal websites, currently trying to build a classifier to extract them from commoncrawl, if you have any general tips on that kind of project they'd be very welcome.
>And so many different rules when you just want to ask a question. Kafka would be proud

Yes. Kafka is when rules, and the more rules the more Kafkaesque.
I just started switching to Home Assistant and LOVE it. Rather shocked to see this is just now being posted to HN to be honest.

Up until the switch I’ve had a patchwork system consisting of Alexa, Smart Life (app), Smart Things, and a lot of digital duct tape.

Having both 1) a central "command center" and 2) Zigbee/Z-Wave capabilities (requires a dongle) suddenly opens up so much more opportunities than WiFi components alone. EG I've attached door sensors to my garage doors to trigger lights and notify my dumbass when I leave the garage open at night.

Plus, I'm no longer locked into one brand's ecosystem and can keep my patchwork hardware setup.

Big fan here, strongly recommended.

Note: I have no association with any smart home brand/equipment nor home assistant… though I'd consider being associated with HA.
As a rap fan I always felt it was silly for Genius to try and expand beyond it's niche.

The only time I've ever used the site was to look up rap lyrics. It does that extremely well, but would I really trust the Rap Lryic site to explain the Magna Carta?

You have to tell VCs something to get those sweet sweet checks.
How is a song lyrics site worth any money? It was one of the most dot-com ideas ever.
> That grass decomposes whether it's eaten by a cow or not.

That isn't contested. Decomposing grass won't yield those methane emissions, at the very least insofar as it won't decompose at the same rate.
I just started with my website and did a crawl. Subsequently I've been seeding it with the best results form my previous crawls.

It's a directed search so it doesn't seem to need a particularly solid seed to get decent results.
They decided it wasn't good enough.
Note that this might be a double meaning jab at hook. Sadly brilliant if true
The "this blogpost" link about KVM has the wrong domain, https://alephsecurity.com/2020/07/19/xnu-qemu-kvm/ for the post.
Thanks so much. Really appreciate the insight.

Would you use FreeBSD for new messaging/web-service today or Linux?

(I ask given you have first hand knowledge of how FreeBSD performed vs Linux after your organization made the migration)
Love it, kudos! This is great for developers and others who Just Need Answers and not shopping or entertainment.

If you're looking for feedback, both from a UI design and utility standpoint, you might consider "inlining" results from selected sites, e.g. Wikipedia, stacked change, etc. Having worked on search for a long time, inlining (onebox etc) is a big reason users choose Google, and that channelers fail to get traction. If you're Serious(tm), dog into the publisher structure formats and format those, create a test suite, etc.

A word of caution: if this takes off, as a business it's vulnerable to Google shifting its algorithms slightly to identify the segment of users+queries who prefer these results and give the same results to those queries.

Hope this helps!
> Where did you hear 24 hours. Sounds anecdotal.

Tesla.

https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/downloads/2016_Mod...
Why would a passport need to have legal status in the US to be recognized anywhere besides the US?
I think the argument is that all those things you mention can be bad or good, depending on how (and how much) it is done. I think nobody will debate that you can use social media to watch funny videos. But my personal standpoint is that every individual would be better served by consuming less content and instead doing something that is truly fulfilling. Such as spending time with others AFK, studying a topic of interest, taking up a creative hobby, doing a sport etc.
modern design = low information density?
At the scale you are talking about, 700 followers, hashtags can somewhat help with discovery. But they are practically irrelevant to other ways. Yeah, actually I stand by my first statement, the other ways are too relevant to really harp about hashtags. You're better off just commenting on other people's popular posts and asking for passerbys to look at your profile than spamming hashtags or trying to find a trending ones etc.

But unless you are in the business of growing profiles for other people, you shouldn't use instagram for trying to gain ever growing exposure as the dopamine is dangerous.

I don't have any solution for making that part of your visual arts display interest.

If you tried again, you should go back to private or even keep it public only as a portfolio to show people in person. Or to show an identity when you are communicating with a potential romantic partner over the messaging system.
I personally trust RedHat more with setting good defaults than random ArchLinux users (that also recommend firejail), considering the audience of RedHat (particularly some government agencies)
I tried a few queries and got extremely irrelevant results
There's a lot of interfaces and virtual calls in Java. Not sure if you're considering that dynamic or not, but I would would. Graal does some pretty intense whole-universe points-to analysis which enables monomorphisation, devirtualisation, scalar replacement, etc.
They (or some derivative of them) are still around making PC peripherals, so I don't remember them disappearing. Somewhere I still have the very clicky sharp-cornered three button 1988 Genius mouse[1][2][3] from our first computer (XT clone, amber monochrome screen I used to draw in Dr Halo with that mouse).

[1] http://www.tcocd.de/Pictures/Peripheral/Genius/gm6000.shtml

[2] https://www.flickr.com/photos/wontolla/3979875305

[3] https://www.todocoleccion.net/segunda-mano/antiguo-raton-gen...
If they were a country in NATO or otherwise trying to be allied with the US/UK, their police and secret service were also the FBI, CIA, MI:5/6, and SAS (Gladio).
Amazing!

I have only one recommendation that might make the search a bit more relevant, e.g when searching for 'linux locking' or 'kernel locking' kind of things.

Try to upsort things that match near the top of the content, like the top of the man page vs middle vs bottom.

One easy way to do it without having to store the positions, is to index the ngrams with max(sqrt,8) of their line number, this will cover first 64 lines, you can also use log() or just decide ad hock, top, middle, bottom of the document, so you can use only 3 values.

e.g. https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.0/kernel-hacking/locking.... would do unreliable_1 guide_1 locking_1 ... then at line 4 kernel_2 locking_2 ... after line 50 ... then_7 ... and after that everything will be _8.

then just make the query "kernel locking" to "dismax(kernel_1 OR kernel_2 OR kernel_3...) AND dismax(locking_1 OR locking_2 ...) with some tiebreaker of 0.1 or so, you can also say "i want to upsort things on the same line, or few lines apart" by modifying the query a bit.

It works really well and costs very little in terms of space, i tried it at https://github.com/jackdoe/zr while searching all of stackoverfow/man pages and etc and was pretty surprised by the result.

This approach is a bit cheaper than storing the positions because positions are (lets say) 4 bytes per term per doc, while this approach has fixed uppre bound cost of 8*4 per document (assuming 4 byte document ids) plus some amortized cost for the terms
Fascinating. I studied an "obscure" group of insects. My go-to search term to test an engine is their family name as it is a rarely used word and I know most (all?) of the major data sources that have accumulated data on it. When Wolfram Alpha added species names, I checked with the name, boring, Duck Duck, boring, Google (well we know Google isn't for search anymore, it's absolutely horrible) boring, Bing, boring... you get the idea.

This was a little different, extremely few results, but a couple of them really made me grin, and all(?) made me curious or raise an eyebrow or reflect on who/what might have been the source of the link, or remember some obscure connection from grad-school. So, if anything a crawled list of results worthy of ponder, thanks for this!
> This seems unreasonable - all of these things were substantially worse before technology got involved.

I'd agree -- the OP ledger, despite seeming well-intentioned, seems completely imbued with the current on-campus value system, wherein something isn't defined as really bad unless it harms BIPOC and LBGTQIA people more than it harms others.

If we define the arrival of the internet as roughly the early/mid 1990's, America as a country has gotten extraordinarily less racist and homophobic since then. For example, 33% of white people in the South approved of interracial marriage in 1991; today that figure stands at 93%[0]. Similarly, gay marriage was completely eschewed by political leaders, including Democrats, until the early 2010s (e.g., Obama was firmly against gay marriage, at least on paper, when he first ran for President).

None of the above is to say that we now live in a colorblind or non-homophobic society, I just find it odd that they're claiming that tech is making people more bigoted, when the opposite has happened since the Internet has been a thing -- but this is somewhat understandable given that their target audience has been conditioned to see stamping out bigotry as humanity's highest calling.

[0]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2021/09/10/record-hig...
Germany: Coal tops wind as primary electricity source
My guess is that the content will be generated and produced in an automated manner. Or the new company will bring in their own production team for content.
A simple implementation of preepmtion control using bpf