skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"deep misunderstanding on your part of the challenge"

A citizen doesn't care about challenges in construction or software or food contamination, it is our professional responsibility not to be negligent in our work.
This story brings back memories of my college days studying philosophy and reading about Jeremy Bentham’a Panopticon.

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

Philosophy classes should have a field day with Munger’s design and these kinds of social experiments.
I don't think anyone is suggesting that humans should take the animal version.
> Zuckerberg made a similar mistake last year, forcing Oculus users to login with their Facebook account, which not only upset Oculus users but also handcuffed products like Horizon Workrooms, Facebook’s VR solution for business meetings.

IMO this point is just a single example of the pattern we've seen. Everything done at Facebook is to drive that network data even if it harms the individual component. That's why Meta is so different from Alphabet. Alphabet is legitimately a collection of pretty independent companies - some of them synergize but never unnecessarily[1]. I purchased a VR headset last year and I ended up getting an Index after being mightily tempted by the Oculus - it's my first headset and I wasn't sure how much I'd like VR so I was really hesitant to drop a grand on it but... the likely future where all my activity is forcefully broadcast to all my family and friends on Facebook is a price I'm not willing to pay.

Facebook's non-Facebook products suffer from the fact that they so habitually pipe data right back to Facebook.

1. Oh - I'll add a caveat here about google accounts and Youtube. Google did try to merge the two at one point, but they got a huge amount of negative PR and ended up stepping it back significantly with aliases and multi-account management tools.
I have been dying for this. Currently I use privacy.com and their spending limits to get the most basic of functionality. I would my bank to provide an API and make this type of control and other information available. Maybe I could really dream and it would be standardized across banks.
Yeah but, how would you even test this realistically? its just a hypothetical situation. You can't change the etymology of a word and test the outcome
More importantly; why hasn't it been removed?

Instead of Latin, can I please have a logical language intended for thinking about scientific and engineering processes invented that's similar to the idea of the Ancients in Star Gate (the TV series)?
Looks like it's might be 2 bathrooms based on this tiny floorplan image [0], I thought from the isometric image it was 1.5 (2 toilets, 1 shower). And it looks like there's maybe 2 common area toilets. The ratio seems fine in theory...I think my undergrad dorm floor had 2 communal bathrooms with 8 toilet stalls and 8 showers for 30-35 residents. I'm assuming intersuite sharing would become normal.

The podsize also isn't that bad in theory — they aren't much smaller than I remember the single rooms in my dorm being. The big difference is that the single rooms had windows, but also allowed for lofted beds — e.g. you would put your desk under the bed, and there'd be enough room to have a small couch where the desk would normally be. The UCSB pod furniture appears to be fixed (but again, it's just an architect drawing)

[0] https://www.independent.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/dormi...
What made it click for me was that smart contracts are similar to stored procedures in db speak.

So in this case someone wrote a smart contract/stored procedure that:

- loan $a_lot_of_money from $defi_a

- do something with $a_lot_of_money to confuse an oracle (e.g. a price feed)

- exploit $defi_b who relies on above oracle data

- return $a_lot_of_money to $defi_a

This all happens in a single "db transaction" so as long as $defi_a receives its money back the tx is going to pass.

If $defi_b relies on an oracle that takes it's data from on-chain, and thus is manipulatable with $a_lot_of_money, it is suspectible to those attacks.

To counteract this, $defi_b could only rely on oracles that are secure against manipulation from $a_lot_of_money, but they don't always exist.

This mechanism can be used for good (riskless arbitrage across decentralized exchange) or for bad exploits.
My cousin is an Ob/Gyn who was chased to the Midwest by the high cost of malpractice insurance for those who deliver babies. I can't imagine what the liability would be for something like this but I'd imagine you'd need both insurance and an ironclad waiver.
Wow, it's a patio11 thread with only 8 comments.

I'm close friends with a relative of yours who has worked for several major space companies, and we talk about your writing pretty frequently. Your articles on salary negotiation, life in Japan, and how to build side projects have proven extremely consequential for both of us--thank you so much for putting your thoughts down as frequently as you do.

Do you think dramatically increasing the speed and lowering the cost at which people can participate in financial transactions (as appears to be the mission of Stripe and the overall theme of your post) will have any effect on the current astronomical prices of small-scale international shipping? The costs involved in international financial transactions and international shipping for small customers seem to be closely coupled, but I'm not entirely sure how.
That nobody will pay for a slide deck must be purely incidental!
Let's just call it Suicide Hall from the start, because that's going to be its name in the future.
More like fixing the basics of banking that are decades overdue.
There's also an incentive for them to make buildings as large and as expensive as possible as they it affects their income. Certainly I'd argue self interestedly that all living quarters should be as large and extravagant as possible as I'd like to live in a large extravagant place. But, millions (billions?) of people are doing just fine in much smaller places than these self interested architects are suggesting.
>Anti war activists could trust the press and courts of law.

Maybe they could trust these, but the government really didn't have much restraint on spying in that period, like COINTELPRO program. When documents were stolen from Media FBI office in 1971, they found documents saying FBI was aiming to "get the point across there is an FBI agent behind every mailbox" to activists.
I am not sure which GP you are referring too, since I am a heavy user of the original NoMachine, and it has incredibly better latency even when used over long-latency links (or should I say: specially when used over long-latency links). The new commercial NoMachine also uses H264 and I outright refuse to upgrade to it since it's just worse -- though it makes commercial sense for them since they want to support Windows.

But also just ask anyone who has used RDP versus something like VNC.
Pascal, Zig, V and possibly Crystal. Or Das C although arguably that is a subset of D.

V isn't anywhere near finish. The closest thing should be Zig. But that is far from finish as well.

Crystal is more like Go than C. But I mean someone wrote a OS [1] using Crystal in her spare time.

Or just plan old Pascal.

I mean if you are looking for simplicity like C and compiled to machine code you virtually ruled out 95% of all programming languages. Other languages like Lua is simple. But certainly dont fit the bill.

[1] https://github.com/ffwff/lilith
Trying to demotivate students from sitting in their dorms by making it a sad cramped place doesn't seem to gel well with the modern idea of psychological safety helping people get more done and take more risks.

Its a stick instead of a carrot in your most personal place, your home.
The demo is for geeks and investors, so I’m not sure it matters.
I have no idea if FB or YT is more potent, but Ben didn't offer any evidence so this looks like shilling for Zuckerberg.

Facebook's potency is in the reshares, and in the "headline only" feed format where lies in headlines are persuasive even when the linked content is not. YT algorithm shows one person more bad content, but doesn't spam their friends. And in a video the viewer has time to think if the claims make sense.
I want to see everyone's true face bright and clear so I don't lose my own ability to filter them accordingly.

It's like, do you want the friends you meet at church to be actual Christians? Well good then, stop having a damned society where atheism is so taboo that the church aisles are filled with atheists terrified of the consequences of not showing up on Sunday morning. This is still a real serious issue in the bible belt and Moslem world, etc..
DMD 2.098.0 Released
Because the road to hell is paved with good intentions. I can see many ways this spirals into something different.
So then this is part of why it seems so fast, because the CPU is now approaching GPU memory bandwidths? Hmm, I really wonder what it'll look like in a year or so with the M2/M2Pro/M2MAX then.

Thanks for clarifying the extra memory controller, that's helpful too.
i heard that there are a ton of organizations online that plan on hacking apple because of this, not sure if that is true or not.

i wonder if they will use something like this for other medical issues, generic differences. dna matching for dates etc
that clears a lot up, thank you.

does the oracle in this specific case use external data? and combine that with internal / blockchain inputs? how does one sanitize all those inputs?

are oracles transactional, ie if you manage to alter the state of an oracle within a contract’s transaction, other transactions don’t get any “dirty reads” from the oracle, etc?
(Man I've liked these first couple of articles).

I see a few comments saying "this is stuff the rest of the world has had for a while now."

That's probably true to some extent. But it undersells the value being reported on, because the US market is a valuable one.

'Surprise! The richest, biggest economy in the world had banking/financial systems that were inefficient in X, believe it or not -- but that's in the progress of being fixed, which means Y is now more possible/profitable.'
I agree with you. My comment is not advocating for any platform in particular, least of all Cream, i'm replying only to the notion that trustless is unnecessary.
> But what if no one else in the area could afford to? More to the point, why should they be disallowed from doing so?

If someone possesses that property illegally, it would be sold in a public auction. Someone will buy the property unless it's genuinely worthless. If no one buys it, most likely the same thing that already happens with worthless properties would happen: It would be left derelict to rot until eventually public funds incentivize some developer to manage a cleanup and re-purposing of the property.

> That's not storing wealth, that's generating wealth.

It is both.

> What happens when one property is massive and I build a multi-resident building on it? Is that one property or N properties?

It is one property

> What if I just lease part of my second property to someone else?

The same rule applies to each of you: Own no more than one property in which you do not reside. Multi-party ownership would most likely relate somehow to cohabitation. For example: If you live with a life partner, it is reasonable to have both of your names on two properties in which you do not reside. So, in that case you would own two properties in which you do not reside but between the two of you, there is still only one non-residence property per-person.

> What if my residence is a rental? Or just an apartment in a multi-tenant building?

If you do not own the property, then it is not counted as a property that you own.
If you reside in the property, then it is not counted as a property in which you do not reside.

> Do I own "one" property or a percentage of another? And if it's a percentage, can I now own two full properties?

If you buy in with a group to own a percentage of some property, that counts as a property you own.

> Or will I be limited by acreage?

I don't think so, no. This is probably a significant attack surface for abuse similar to gerrymandering but would be related more to zoning laws than this property ownership law.

> There are just so many basic problems and questions with your proposal that it tells me you haven't given it much thought.

There are just so many simple answers to your questions that it tells me you haven't given them much though.
I'm sorry you had a bad experience in Cascadilla Hall, but this seems like a lot of exaggeration. For others who want to see what these dorms look like, you can see images of the Cascadilla rooms alongside more modern campus dorms like Mews on this page: https://conferenceservices.cornell.edu/planning/accommodatio....
Unfortunately the market-clearing price (in karma) for someone posting your article is greater than zero, ensuring that nothing short of regulation would prevent it.
Depends on the breed, more than you would think! Some dogs really go more by sight-- shepherds and sight hounds being good examples.

Source: had a beagle and an aussie
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Roblox breeds toxicity.
> Eventually, the feminine gender prevailed, and all Romance reflexes of dies are feminine.

I believe this might be a mistake, as "the day" in Spanish and Portuguese are masculine, and come from diem: "el día" and "o dia"
> Since I expect the whole landscape to continue growing, I don't see one being a better investment then the other.

If you are just looking to make money, you would look for value: not the company that will do the best in the future, but the company whose performance in the future is undervalued by other investors (so is not already reflected in its stock price). Most of us don't really have enough extra information (beyond what the market already "knows", and avoiding going to jail for using inside information) to do that very effectively, so you could buy some kind of index fund (perhaps specialized in tech or even bigcorp tech).

Or you could invest in the company whose vision of the future you are most excited about, or something idealistic like that. But that wouldn't really give you influence in the company, nor would it necessarily provide the company with extra capital (since you are most likely just buying from other investors...well, bidding up the stock will still indirectly benefit them).
> Accidentally killing someone can still be a crime even if you didn't intend to kill them.

Maybe, but the crime wouldn't be first degree murder.

Try googling "mens rea"; e.g.:

"A mens rea refers to the state of mind statutorily required in order to convict a particular defendant of a particular crime. See, e.g. Staples v. United States, 511 US 600 (1994). Establishing the mens rea of an offender is usually necessary to prove guilt in a criminal trial. The prosecution typically must prove beyond reasonable doubt that the defendant committed the offense with a culpable state of mind." [0]

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/mens_rea
women can already cryogenize their eggs, so what is the value proposition?
Even if one could transform a stem cell into an egg, that would be extremely dangerous. The stem cell for a human of say 50/60 years old has accumulated many kinds of damage over time (oxidative stress, mitochondria bioenergetics, DNA, proteasomomal deficits, etc)
Charlie Munger Revolutionary Dorm
Cisco WebEx, really

https://www.google.com/search?q=webex+logo&tbm=isch

https://www.google.com/search?q=meta+logo&tbm=isch
Wow, I did not expect to see Anton Pannekoek appear on Hacker News frontpage. I had read a booklet from him when I was younger that was, we may say, an epistemological piece of criticism of Lenin and his followers, attempting to demonstrate how they had in the end a very "bourgeois" state of mind/epistemology and I must say rather interesting for its time. He also spent time attacking Mach, a now almost unknown physicist/philosopher that was very famous at the time. I had read an interesting article on HN about him (can't seem to find it right now).
What you should know is that Anton Pannekoek is an heir of the German/Dutch anti-authoritarian Lef, people who were into workers self-organization/councils and not much into Third International "Communism".
Article doesn't mention but Zuck wanted to acquire Unity because he thought Unity will be future VR/AR engine/platform and Facebook wants to own it and not be at the mercy of Apple and Google.

I don't know why he didn't pursue it if he is so sure in Metaverse VR/AR thing.
> Without at least basic knowledge of how to register a domain, build a website, etc... what options really exist for these places, especially at the "totally free" starting point of Facebook?

Wix? Squarespace? WordPress.com? All of these make purchasing a domain, and building a website very easy for the "average" business owner.
That's correct. I don't appreciate your willingness to invalidate what I and others are pointing out to you.

Building codes are state and municipal level laws. There is no harmonization. There are varying degrees of compliance based on competency, actual corruption conspiracies, and budget all of which changes decade over decade, building by building.

Many other regulations and individual behaviors have helped keep people safe. The way electronics work, the way people are educated, the public service announcements, the response times, and sometimes the building materials. Some things have actually become more flammable over the years.

Regarding building codes, 98 people just died in a literal building collapse in the Miami area. Your standard, if I understand correctly, is "that was just 1, where are the city wide Chicago fires", when the counterpoint is that this collapse prompted reviews of many properties and many more structural issues have been found in just that one municipality that threaten hundreds and thousands of people.

You shouldn't trust this process. You should root for the process to work decently since the probability of a disaster is low - this is the only area we agree! the incidents aren't happening! - but you should know that this is all luck. Continual luck in a system that barely works.
> I'm wondering if my local credit union wants to hold my BTC for me, if I wanted to do something like that.

They'll do that now with a piece of paper in a safe deposit box, no? Other options for their holding your BTC, including ones that let them make money off it and so offer interest to depositors, seem like they'd open up the same risks as existing relatively-reputable exchanges.
Consider this a pre-commitment to write someday, at excruciating length, why many of the features that Americans take for granted about mortgages depend on a) mortgage securitization (CDOs) and b) the U.S.‘s quixotic policy to massively subsidize the supply chain for homeownership and, thereby, homeowners.
I will say that calling my family from the middle of the Atlantic Ocean on Thanksgiving is what I consider the hardest flex so far in my life. There are large swaths of this planet where internet and phone service simply does not exist and I am grateful that a boondoggle such as Iridium exists at all. And the DoD agrees they are a major investor, somehow.
even if you subscribe to the belief that the us doesn't poison people for 'leaking revenge,' there is still something to say about the legal intimidation tactics used to discourage dissidence.

just a while back, Rebekah Jones, the Floridian data scientist who leaked private COVID information to Florida emergency personnel, had her home raided. there's no real argument to be had whether the search was legal or not, since they attained a warrant and supposedly alerted her before their arrival, but the violent nature of the visit was definitely done to send a message. marching up to her house, kids and husband inside, with a troop of armed officers is definitely not necessary if all they wanted was her computer and to search her home. i have trauma just interacting with officers on routine traffic stops, can't imagine being a child and having a gun pointed at me, even worse, i can't imagine being a parent and feeling guilt for having put my family in that position. i'm not trying to make this political, but i don't want to be naive and say that these are the actions of a well-meaning group of people.
Seems completely unethical to me. This would be more of an advancement for eugenics than anything else. Would people be scared of giving blood at blood drives? Could celebrities who don’t want to have children have cells taken from them and put through this process?
There is, but it's not even close to being here yet so I don't know why everyone keeps bringing up. Meta's Cambria will be released before Valve's wireless headset.
That's good, and a fair position, and I don't begrudge you for any of it.

What I replied to was the part where you then switched topics away from any of that, to an assertion that, for some unexplained reason, one of the posters here should invite strangers into their obviously-non-publicly-facing-home's bathroom. I just don't see the connection there.
OP is likely talking about not selling a share after the IPO.
Gates had 45% of Microsoft back then.
For DirectX, I'd be tempted to intercept stuff from the text layout engine. (USP10.DLL, DirectWrite, or HarfBuzz.) Pretty much nothing lays out its own text.
> > Accidentally killing someone can still be a crime even if you didn't intend to kill them.

> Maybe, but the crime wouldn't be first degree murder.

The felony murder rule disagrees.
Some people are saying that.

Plastic shouldn't be used where it isn't needed, e.g. vests.
Microsoft reports SIP-bypassing “Shrootless” vulnerability in macOS
Very not so. Amazon was merely making available externally to others the very production line that they used to make their own site (at a very healthy profit).

What in world is Mark offering here? He's investing $10B into... what? AWS/Cloud was a reasonable business pitch (which seemed crazy but essentially: outsource your IT ops to AWS and we can help you scale like crazy very quickly).

What's Mark's pitch here? VR is nowhere near prime-time - just read around even on HN. It's got major issues and still lacks a killer app.

It's a vanity project that only a fantastically rich, out of touch person can indulge in. That or FB is toxic.
"Facebook is a potent vector for misinformation" doesn't disprove the contention that YouTube is a more potent vector. We're aware of Facebook's issues around this largely because Facebook became the de facto representative for Everything Wrong With Big Tech -- and while there's a solid case to be made that it's their own damn fault they're in that position, it's kept documented problems with other platforms out of the spotlight. YouTube's recommendation algorithm is notorious for leading you to ever-more extremist ("high engagement!") takes on a variety of topics. And in some high-profile cases -- for instance, Alex Jones back in 2018, coronavirus vaccine disinformation just this year -- YouTube was well behind other social media platforms in executing bans. There is an arguable case to be made that compared to YouTube, Facebook is a relative model of responsibility.

(And, yes, there's a larger question about how companies like YouTube and Facebook should be approaching moderation at all, who gets to decide what is and isn't misinformation, who watches the watchmen, etc. But if we presume there's a rationale for moderation at all, then YouTube should be getting way more scrutiny than it generally receives.)