skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technologies in the early phase of the hype cycle always look like they're going to be more pervasive than they really end up being. Crypto, blockchain, NFT, "web 3", etc. are definitely way overhyped. Bitcoin has been successful enough that there's now an entire industry of hypesters, founders, and VCs dedicated to making it seem like the next big thing that is going to take over the world and if you don't get on the bandwagon now you'll be left out in the cold forever. Maybe so, but more likely in a few years the hype will pass and it will take its place alongside other formerly-hyped tech as something that is useful for some applications and totally irrelevant to others.

What I worry about with crypto is this: at some point central banks will develop central bank digital currencies (CBDC). These will be nominally crypto-based, but without any of the anonymity or decentralization. What they will have is built-in mechanisms to 100% control how you spend your money, justified as a way to sanction and financially deplatform "domestic terrorists" (e.g. Trump supporters) and the like. When this comes, there will be a huge push to eliminate cash, and you will have the choice of going along with the authoritarian regime or living in a grey/black-market world (possibly by adopting one of the "true" cryptocurrencies, if the gov't hasn't found a way to ban them first).
I'm assuming it's lots of dot-com era, do you also collect outside of tech? E.g Lehman Brothers or Enron
China is very good at copying others’ homework though, thus the plethora of BEVs coming to the world market soon.

I wouldn’t be surprised to see Chinese semi industry highly focussed on silicon carbide for automotive power electronics, with EUV being a skunkworks project taking place in Europe.
> I would say most meals you should be able to make within 15 minutes of chopping/prep, plus 5 minutes if it needs to be fried. It's really not that big of an investment.

This is how I cook dinner when its my term, but that is usually just broccoli or cauliflower and pork (stir fried) over rice. My wife takes a lot long with her meal prep...and they taste better.

Restaurants/cafeterias have scale and specialization working for them, you can't compare that to making individual or family meals on your own.
Open source app that put Muslim women up for sale is shut
Right, if the US wanted it done it could be done.
People don't want to be informed. They want to be entertained.
ugg, unfortunately you are right I guess. I don't think a company should be forced to provide service or goods to anyone and has the right to refuse. I do however think they should also accept the social and economic consequences to come from making these decisions. Including as a consequence, the making people aware of the decisions and statements they make that result in the exclusion of a particular demographic.

I am trying to be more positive and feel it is important to remember every comment on a forum is also not an invitation to an argument.
Were any of these startups providing medical care or diagnostics to people on false pretenses?
Also in multiplayer https://youtube.com/watch?v=AM-ELVReLMQ
Because its easy to take down an SQL database.
You'd have to expend 68 TWh of energy to take Bitcoin down.
Re: labor of love, according to AA's Form 990 for the year ending 2019[1]

Revenue: $11.3M
General Manager salary: $352k
7 other execs making ~$150-200k

There are lots of impact accelerators out there who might fund solutions like this. Saving people's lives comes in different forms and there is a big societal economic benefit created, there could be different ways to capture a fair share of that. Maybe it's solving another problem, like job placement or sober housing, that creates a revenue stream down the road.

[1] https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/display_990/13167...
Many people are working very hard on solving these problems. Holmes simply claimed to have solved them all with one machine. They never had any idea of how to actually do that, never even tried. It wasn't like "If we use this new development in nanotechnology we might be able to...". It was just entirely made up, the whole time.

If I falsely claim to have invented a warp drive, I don't get credit for whatever work people do in that area in the future.
> The Small Web is for people (not startups, enterprises, or governments). It is also made by people and small, independent organisations (not startups, enterprises, or governments2).

Coincidentally the Who is hiring is front page today. In the comments do a CTRL+F and search for TypeScript and see how many posts are directly correlated with a ginormous framework like React, Angular, or Vue.
I don't see a reason to treat that type of moderation decision separately from others, so your question amounts to whether we'd publish a complete moderation log. We've certainly considered that, but I don't think it would be a good idea—the fear is that it would end up just leading to a lot more procedural questions from a small minority of users, that would take tons of time to answer, without doing anything to benefit the majority of the community.

Instead, the approach we take to transparency is to be willing to answer specific questions when people have them. It seems to work fairly well. Not everyone is satisfied with that, but most users are, and of the ones who aren't, a nontrivial portion wouldn't be satisfied with a complete moderation log either.
In theory, all IaaS services could be built like an Ethereum node:

1. fill an account with abstract "multi-resource usage credits" (or gas);

2. have each API call specify how many credits the caller is willing to spend from their account on the operation (a gas limit);

3. operations in progress are tracked using real-time resource accounting (= distributed tracing, but cheap-as-possible at the expense of granularity);

4. any operation that goes over-budget is cancelled (even if it completed successfully, the user doesn't get the benefit of that completion), with the user being charged exactly the limit they specified.

(Yes, that means that the IaaS eats the overhead costs of any additional processing they did before noticing and stopping the workload going beyond its limit. This incentivizes the IaaS to optimize their scheduling, at all levels of the stack, to minimize the amount of "overhang" work it allows.)

And yes, to be clear, this would "infect" every layer of every service. If the IaaS provided a DBaaS, the DB's query planning and execution layers would need to know about these limits and accounting mechanisms. Etc.

I'm not saying it's practical. But it's definitely possible, with no foreknowledge of cost.
Basically everything is interstate commerce. See Wickard v Filburn. It's why growing your own pot or making your own machine gun earns you federal jail time, even if they never enter commerce or leave the state. Basically whether commerce leaves state lines means nothing in terms of whether there is interstate commerce; even growing your own crops to feed to your own animals is considered interstate commerce.

Whether a wire left the state means dick to whether the federal government has constitutional authority over it, per supreme court.
> isnt it what startups do all the time ?

All the time? No.
I feel like I read this years ago. Exactly zero companies I spoke to were willing to extend the 90 day period.
Come on. You make it sound like it was only Betsy Devos she defrauded. There’s a long list of other ultra-rich people, including Oracle guy Larry Ellison, Walton Family (Walmart owners), and Rupert Murdoch.

Not fair to frame her sentence as Betsy pulling strings, even when I’m no fan of that woman for obvious reasons.
Everyone paying electric bills.
Web3, Grift or LARP?
The BBC said she faces upto 20 years, but predicts she will get a much lower sentence because she has no criminal history and she is a first time mother with a young child.
But not illegal, except under very specific circumstances.
> the one thing I appreciated about FB/Meta's recruiters is that they were always honest about the process and what was expected - 2-3 Leetcode mediums/hards in 45 minutes and they only care about optimal solutions

A counter data point: I recently passed Google's interview a few months ago. In one round, I was asked to solve a certain kind of bipartite graph matching problem; not being a fresh new grad with ACM medals, I obviously couldn't solve it in polynomial time and just implemented a brute-force solution in the end. In another round, I came up with a solution the interviewer said they've never seen before, although it could be slightly slower than the "optimal" solution he had in mind depending on the input size.

As an interviewer in my last company, I always made sure the solutions were well motivated, and have rejected candidates who could write down the perfect solution but couldn't explain why. If I were to be asked by the candidate for the specific runtime I was looking for, I would probably just reply with "don't worry about it, just try your best" or "let's focus on correctness first and worry about efficiency and other trade-offs later".

Testing for problem solving ability is hard, but that's still one of the key signals we wish to extract whenever possible.
Is that even legal? How is it the user fault that aws can't properly track and terminate the account resources? (Altough they seem very efficient in tracking usage when the goal is to charge credit cards).
Based off what? these are ambiguous terms. You can have a varied diet of mcdonalds, taco bell, arbys and wings or eat chicken, eggs and broccoli everyday, the second will be healthier without question.

I think the only thing you might be thinking of is missing out on some nutrients if you really just eat the same things but that is pretty extreme situation. eating meat will get you almost everything you need to function.

unless you have some sources that say otherwise or explain your point better
Smart lighting company Sengled announces a health monitoring light bulb
It takes time to catch up. There's no reason they won't be able to though given enough time and money though.
Interesting, I wonder if this could eventually provide a freely redistributable game playable with OpenMW? Then, ironically, most people probably would play this game without the landmass featured in the original Morrowind - only with the new free content created by this project.
Well they did start development in the 60’s, it wasn’t all pot and acid back then.

Oddly relevant to social media nowadays though.
That dude was the journalist who brought Theranos down, and if this was false Theranos wouldn’t have failed overnight like it did.
"Google search quality has been declining for years and is now unusable" is an evergreen meme on Hacker News. Almost every discussion of Google as a company on HN includes some form of this discussion. Google is one of the companies people on HN love to hate.
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/in-bulli-bai-case-engineerin...

"Mumbai Police Cyber Cell detained a 21-year-old engineering student from Bengaluru...

... based on complaints that doctored photographs of women were uploaded for auction on 'Bulli Bai' application hosted by GitHub platform."

The developer must be an idiot.

In India issues like this have the potential to trigger large scale riots and multiple murders.

53 were murdered in the recent Delhi riots a few months ago.

Around 2000 were murdered during the Gujarat riots.
Bay Area? Most tech meetups here, except for the ones literally in SF, are fully remote and extremely corporate.
What kinda raised suspicions about Omicron for me is that it propagates considerably faster in the bronchial tissue, while being much slower in the lungs [0].

Given the current state of biotech, it is not possible to just edit the viral RNA achieving the desired clinical result, but is entirely feasible to keep applying minor edits and measuring the propagation rate in different tissues in vitro, effectively optimizing it to be more transmissible and less lethal. The snapshot of the phylogenetic tree, showing how Omicron "branched out" mid-2020 highly supports this assumption.

It is also quite obvious that an endeavor like this would be against all written rules and norms and would face backlash of epic proportion even if it wouldn't backfire, so it's safe to assume we won't hear an official confirmation of this theory from any of the governments.

[0] https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/omicron-propagate...
What are the pros and cons of a user generated tagging system? If you have a community of dedicated individuals who maintain a group of tags, searching those tags should yield high quality results.
Yup. makes sense.

Wasn't thinking 7nm cutting edge, more along the lines of op amps or maybe a 70's era microcontroller - I had the impression lots of chips are used, and some are real fancy, but some are just old and, since they didn't order them, aren't being made.

I'd thought if someone was willing to roll back the clock 30 or 40 years - that tech might be cheaper and more realistic to bring in house. But yeah, there are already plenty of people that do that well, so it's really just an expensive boondoggle.

Definitely not something you can just put together in a few months.
Ask HN: Help me find an article about solitude
A few years back I read an article or essay posted here on HN about an American Author/Poet(?) who deeply valued his solitude living out in the boonies (he did have electric and telephone I believe).

As he grew older (possibly into his 80's) I think a medical condition or two required him to accept assistance now and again. But even after a few hours of help with cleaning or otherwise he couldn't wait for this valued help to leave him despite his appreciation.

It feels like an Atlantic or New Yorker piece but sadly the search engines are now poisoned due to COVID "loneliness" SEO and I can't find this article/essay.

I have a rough date range when I think I saw this on HN on the front page which would be 2011-2014.

Any help would be appreciated.
> So it seems to me that you only want the government to protect people against harm from other people.

Mostly, with some exceptions. If there is a market failure or natural catastrophe that is going to kill us all and only the government can fix it then I'm OK with that. So, if only the government can prevent a disease to spread or fix pollution, or redirect asteroids, I'm fine with that. But the bar is very high.

> If that is correct then you don’t want the government to provide sea rescue services, weather reports, rules for wearing seat belts, weather emergency services, scientific research

I think some of these can be provided at least to great level by insurance companies but I'm not convinced they can entirely be provided on voluntary basis, so I don't know.
But other are clearly of of the scope of my ideal government like rules to wear a seat belt or not.

> scientific research

This is an interesting one. I see lots of people saying that only the government can do valuable research because a lot of recent inventions were initially funded or subsidized by the government - like the internet. I think that private research could work as good if not better. I also think though, why would a private company invest in research if the government is going to tax them and do that research regardless? I think it is an overcrowding issue.
Also a lot of technologies that started in government labs are almost unrecognizable after all the private research and development that went into them after.

I'm not saying that negative rights can be achieved perfectly. But positive rights are too problematic IMO, and the further we can shy away from them the better.
So… how much you want for it?
She was found guilty of investor fraud, not medical/patient fraud.
Probably wise to avoid postulating until she is actually sentenced.
You are completely uninformed on the details of the case. She absolutely did tell these lies to investors.
Because there's a sixth as well as a fourteenth amendment
Vodka is often triple distilled and almost always diluted to 100 proof or less. Moonshine has no such standards.

But yeah, homemade sugar solution and wine yeast would be your most efficient per dollar.
The common quip is from the mid 90s, usually attributed to Edward Tufte but apparently the real source is "a guy from Wired":

> And o there is this incredible remark which a guy from Wired told me, that there are only two industries which refer to their customers as users, drugs and computers. "I've just got to have release 7.2", right!

[0] https://cryptome.org/jya/tufte.htm
With companies the size of the FAANGs they appear to struggle with change and being dynamic. A lot of the time they purchase existing companies/tech in the direction they want to steer towards.

I would argue that while Facebook/Meta has been more of a gradual evolution Netflix has shown that it can transition to a whole new way of working within its domain. They revolutionised DVD rentals by combining a web UI with efficient warehousing and logistics. When they saw that infrastructure was getting close to making streaming viable they pivoted to digital delivery and not only did it allow them to keep their existing customer base who would have eventually moved away from DVD rentals on their own, but it also brought in other international markets where DVD rentals never would have worked.

I think I agree that Facebook/Meta will decline without disappearing in much the same way that IBM has. They will acquire new businesses and sell off old ones without really being seen as particularly innovative. Netflix on the other hand I think will stick around but will likely change into more of a content producer rather than a distributor like it has been. Beyond that, who knows?
I think that's entirely fine - both for patients and investors (Siemens might be a bit Irate, but I don't know if I would put that in the "Bad" category). The issue would be if they informed their investors that tests were being done on Theranos technology, but were actually using siemens technology. With regards to the patients - all they should care about is accuracy of test results - whether Theranos was doing it with Theranos tech, Siemens Tech, Reverse Engineered Siemens Tech + dilution of the blood to get enough volume is mostly irrelevant to a patient - they just want to get the highest quality information possible, regardless of the route taken.
He does seem to be working as a bad actor. If he was looking to spread good information he would talk about what _does_ work.

His statement "I state that cloth masks do not stop the virus from spreading" is too absolute. I only read the Vietnamese study's summary, but it concluded medical masks were more effective, not that "cloth masks do not stop the virus from spreading."

All this said, n95s are widely available now and should be worn.

Thank you for the link and context.
This is a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29784670
The NLnet fund is similar but not limited to Europe. There are other funds too:

https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources
"Users" was a common term for people at PCs in my early networking days (Novell, early '90s), so it's actually much older than the Web. We made jokes about it being the same term used for junkies, but we certainly never meant it in that context. The people who were "addicted" were the ones running the network; the users were happy to leave it all at the end of the day.
This is the reason I refuse to use AWS for anything that I work on in my own time. I don't want to wake up to a $20k bill because someone thought it would be funny to DDoS my weekend project.
If you don't have the right people and the right environment, throwing more money at a problem can be enormously inefficient, it doesn't solve every problem.

There are many example of big government funded projects that crumble under their own weight, despite being inundated with cash. Look at NASA's SLS, the DoD's trillion dollar plane projects, big government software projects in general.

For truly large, complex systems, it's not enough to throw more money at the problem. You need an organization that can manage the complexity in the first place, otherwise you can spend as many years and trillions as you want with little to show for it.
Inflating some metric is one thing. Saying that a thing that's impossible by laws of physics, has been done in your product is quite another. I do admit however that it's not the first time. When I worked in a large tech company, our investment arm asked me to look at a startup that was clearly the same kind of fraud (doing things that are impossible according to Shannon), and indeed did turn out to be a fraud. But that's one example in my entire career.
He admits nothing of the sort in your link. Maybe read the link you offered others.
my username is based on Daedalus. I wanted to make something not used by anyone so I changed the 2nd D to a G and monopolized the username. I have yet to never have it work for me, and if it's taken, it usually means I already have an account.
This is wholly for my own curiosity, but can people with severe wasp allergies eat figs?
Suicidal and depressed 55 yr old ex radio announcer homeless
Terry Foxx 55 yr old ex radio announcer homeless, Don't have a pot to pee in or a window to throw it out of. everyone seems to think people with mental illness are crazy. We're not crazy, we're just trying to stop us from thinking we are.being depressed & thinking about suicide everyday. Hearing a voice that tell me I belong on another planet,where you receive compassion and care,Tired of being call a bum, old fart or your days are numbered.I've just had enough feeling my time is up.nobody cares about second chance or the homeless, I don't wanna tragic death, I prefer taking sleeping pills and just never wake up.the world would be a better place without me. Ps Living in a world where there are more animals shelter than homeless shelter. hopfully he can get help before and not afterwards
First Equal Protection clause from the 14th Amendment applies to only states and not federally. [1]

Second, It is extremely hard to prove that discrimination happens while all other things are equal . Rarely all other things are also equal as there are many strongly correlated factors with race[2] that can adversely impact conviction, for example being black on average would be poorer and would more have a court appointed attorney who is looking to close a case(given his load) rather than win for each defendant and push a defendant to plea out than go to trial etc. Is this directly because he is black ?

Race, age and gender are objectively measurable [3], "attractiveness" is lot more subjective to eyes of the beholder. How do you even come up with a scale for legal purpose of measuring bias like this ?

U.S. follows trial by jury, by definition that means the jury of peers are to take the law and your entire specific example and act with full freedom as they see fit ( even nullify laws if they wish to do so). In a such a system there will be biases, because people are inherently biased. While there are some efforts to reduce this, like no all white juries against black defendants etc, unless there is fundamentally different system biases can not be eliminated.

The biggest determining factor is Money. Richer you are, less likely to have trouble with law, and get away with a lot. White, young, female and attractive correlates to being rich. Sadly that is how the world works.

[1] There are similar protections in the 5th Amendment Due Process Clauses that can be applied at a federal level.

[2] Similar examples to other factors as well

[3] Race and Gender can have some ambiguity but in most cases it is clear
The Polygons of Another World: Atari Jaguar (2020)
> you're fat because you're irresponsible

It may also be endocrine disruptors in the environment, from stuff like shampoo making its way into drinking water. Wildlife is also getting fat, despite being no better fed than usual. That suggests some other cause of the obesity.