skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ha! Fair enough I guess. You're conceptions about people are pretty alien to me, but they are yours and I can only hope you find your way, fill the glass you were given in life.

All the books I have read could only demonstrate love, or try to articulate it, not outline a techne for it. I think in these matters music can be more instructive perhaps?

Either way, I still firmly believe that you cannot encounter each woman you meet as some token of the grand category "Woman," we are all just people, and our gender is defined by society, but love shouldn't be.

Remember with all things related to human passion and desire, the thing you should fear the most is actually getting what you want. The best you can hope for is to be surprised by people, to be understood by them, to be transformed by them.

EDIT: here is a book for you, its pretty good

https://www.amazon.com/Desire-Love-Lauren-Berlant/dp/0615686...

If anything, in your schema, it would make sense to read books on the subject that are written by women.
His YouTube channel is quite good

https://www.youtube.com/techtechpotato
... 1) «testify against this person, which did the crime, or state may found you guilty and seize your home and business» and 2) «don't testify against this person, which did the crime, or we will do a crime against you».

Unless you or/and accuser are criminals, the gap is huge. :-/
I think greenfield projects in Rust make a lot of sense. However, for some existing projects, the math just doesn't check out.

I worked on Google Earth for a few years, and the core was in C++. With ASan and modern C++, memory safety bugs rarely slipped into production... perhaps once every 3-4 months, and this was a million line codebase with 20 engineers working on it.

When you consider the cost of a memory safety bug (some users get odd behavior), how rare they happen (because of our good test coverage), and that everything's sandboxed in WASM anyway, there's just not much cost to this kind of memory unsafety bug... and certainly not as much cost as a full rewrite.

RIIR makes sense for projects whose memory unsafety causes catastrophic failure. And even then, in some of those cases it makes more sense to use Java or Javascript, which don't expose unsafe operations.

RIIR makes sense if someone's doing something with extreme performance requirements, and they're okay with a tiny risk of memory unsafety (from unsafe code).

All just my opinion though, I'm sure there are many other great opinions out there.
It didn’t matter what license he used, because Microsoft reimplemented it from scratch anyway.
And shoving it into traffic - or at least calling the police and pressing charges - would have been the right thing to do!

If you want to use robots, fine. You are still responsible for them and any people they bowl over!
Spam accounts in 2022
IIRC the FBI has something crazy like a 98% conviction rate. I'd guess that they take pride in the figure, and go to great lengths to keep it that high.
Retain Highly Skilled Employees Without Increasing Pay
The subtitle said "Money alone won't do it".
> I lost an employee after 2 years when another place offered him a 80% raise.

First, I'd say it's quite normal in non-profits.

Second, I believe that in a structure when you don't know the salary of your reports, there is always someone they can discuss it with if they feel they deserve more - and that person would definitely consult your opinion then.
There is only one language (as far as I know) in the following niche:

* compiles to native code with no GC or runtime overhead

* Facilities for high-level abstraction well beyond those offered by C

* Widely used in the mainstream.

That language is C++. If Rust becomes mainstream, it will be the second language in that set.

Thus, in my opinion, talking about the value proposition of Rust makes the most sense when comparing it to C++. I find it much easier to write and understand Rust than modern C++, and that’s what makes it valuable, for me.
If the FBI is to the point of executing warrants, it's simply standard operating procedure to freeze all known assets.

I've had it bluntly explained to me by a federal prosecutor that they do it specifically so you cannot mount a legal defense due to your inability to hire a quality attorney.

The presence of frozen assets simply means federal law enforcement was engaging in an enforcement action, not anything exceptional due to the facts of the case.
Northern NY moratorium on crypto mining extended after residents speak out
Stanford has a pneumatic tube system for lab samples and it's several miles long and you can tour it!

https://sm.stanford.edu/archive/stanmed/2010summer/article4....

I would abuse the FUCK out of a burrito delivery pneumatic tube system to my house and would become orca fat.
I have this exact issue. My client has a few teams working on related products on different platforms and languages, and when we discuss bugs, I'll use a term that will almost immediately get a "oh, that's not what you mean, because thing x in this context means thing y." For example, iOS sandbox applications vs testflight applications vs sandbox purchases. Both applications use sandbox purchases, so just saying "sandbox" is ambiguous or can often cause confusion.
People make good money with renting out drills, so I'm not so sure about that analogy.
Oh well if we've defined torture in a way that excludes this then I guess all the ethical implications disappear. It's not legally torture the same way hieleras on the border are not; you can maximize discomfort and pain for human beings in bondage but it's not torture because it's "lawful sanction".

By this definition sterilizing people against their will isn't torture if you didn't do it to get info or at the behest of a politician. Maybe that's workable for our court system in the US that is responsible for the highest incarceration per capita in the world (more than the USSR at the height of gulag), but it's not workable for me.

The cruelty is absolutely the point. We think torturing migrants will deter them the same way we assume harsh prison sentences deter crime. It doesn't. We are inflicting suffering on sentient beings for no good reason. Conventionally known as torture.
In the first months of Docker, yes. Nowadays, they are different beasts.
A dev account can be shared too…
The only "cheering" I've seen about that is a sense of just desserts. Authoritarians in the US and Canada have been banging the "law and order" drum for decades. Those authoritarians largely call themselves, or at least primarily vote, Conservative or Republican. That the same legislative weapons are being turned against the very people who have asked for them gives me hope that we're going to see some bipartisan action against these blatant human rights violations.
That is the plan. They're launching "LTT Labs" which will focus on thoroughly testing products (I think they're aiming to do what Steve at GamersNexus does) and moving toward launching a written review and news site (I don't think he's mentioned that name yet).

Given the level of respect he's shown Cuttress in the past and the timing, combined with how excited he's been on WAN Show about the person he was finalizing a deal to hire to lead these efforts, there's probably a decent chance Cuttress is the hire. That's all speculation at this point, though.
All women want sex, but they probably don't want sex with you.

This is the biggest difference that people need to understand. Most men would have sex with most women. Most women would not have sex with most men.

Even men in the top 10% of attractiveness can easily find women who won't have sex with them. Meanwhile women in the top 50% of attractiveness can effortlessly find men who will have sex with them.
The downvotes explain it so well...
I am disappointed this comment does not receive more comments! I feel the same. From far away, it seems like Berlin is bursting with great technical talent, as well as Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Helsinki, yet the salaries are terribly low. (I see you Oslo, but not the same reputation!) Oh hey, please include France. They have such great, underrated technical universities... do amazing comp-sci research... but their commercial software industry is so small!

Some theories:

* High taxes actually means lower gross pay? (I am someone who strongly supports the "social safety net" -- do not read that question as some kind of weirdo libertarian / low-tax promoter.) As a counterpoint, usually high taxes means higher quality of life.

* Or: Labour mobility is higher in US than many high-tax, strong-labour countries in Europe/Japan/Korea/Taiwan. In short: It's easier to hire and and fire in US. As a result, I see massive income inequality in US, but much less in wealthy European countries -- and Japan/Korean/Taiwan.

Another way to think about it: If software engineers are paid 50% of Silicon Valley in Helsinki, then Starbucks baristas are paid 100% higher in Helsinki. (I have no hard references to offer... but my point: Lower skill jobs pay living wages in Northern Europe/Japan/Korea/Taiwan, but less in US.)

Personal question: Would you prefer to live in Sweden with your current wages, or a place with "up 100% wages for you", but much higher income inequality? When you answer, please assume much higher personal crime rates and visible poverty (or working poor).

I live in a place with simply appalling incoming inequality. The visible poverty and working poor are so depressing. I would easily take a 25% pay cut to build more social housing and help the elderly who collect cardboard to retire immediately and play with their grandchildren all day long!
IANAL, but the fifth amendment gives you a right against self-incrimination. It doesn't allow you to lie or refuse to answer questions about assets that are not part of any crime.

Edit: Civil asset forfeiture already runs afoul of the fifth, and no one seems to care:

> nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
> That said, is this really a big deal to people? Do you really still use Ethernet ports and USB-A ports directly on your laptop?

Every panel in my house supports HDMI (so, great that they added it back). ONE supports USB-C, and only because I bought it to use with a MacBook.

Probably 75-80% of USB devices in my house that I might want to plug into my laptop are still USB-A. That might hit 50/50 in another few years.
True, and I think with the stratospheric income inequality it's becoming more obvious to many that working hard does not lead to success when investors and executives are capturing more and more of the value of companies. Nobody wants to work hard to be paid nothing while their efforts just further enrich the already-rich.

This also contributes to the housing shortage as the wealthy buy up property as real estate investments and either rent them out, leaving renters with no equity to realise into deposits for better housing down the line, or leave them empty.
It doesn't seem unreasonable. Train tracks are mostly empty, most of the time. A road can be mostly full. Trains have the advantage that you can pack more individuals into a smaller space, but there are usually only a few of them, widely spread out on the tracks.

A station might see one train every five minutes. A taxi stand will send off one vehicle every few seconds. Without doing the math, it seems about right that they could net out to about the same total number of people moved.

With a bit more math: 3,750 cars, spread out over 12 miles of line -- but each car does perhaps 4 trips per hour (10 minutes travel plus five minutes to load). So you only need 1/4 of those cars -- about 1,000. 1,000 cars over 12 miles of track isn't much. That's one every 60 feet, which is close, but not ridiculous, especially if they're automated and communicating with each other (and not expecting any kind of cross traffic). It's a good 4 body lengths between vehicles.

That's all rough, of course, but it sanity checks.
Seriously. I believe victims of civil forfeiture should be given their money back + an amount equal to, say, the average stock market returns over the period it was gone (or at least a base 4-5%) as reimbursement of the opportunity cost and as a deterrence against frivolous seizure.
do you guys think it would work: linux shop similar to apple stop when staff setup linux, and fix it for you while you sipping coffee?
Yeah, they really buried the admission of fraud pretty deep in the article. They forged invoices and spent 342m on unauthorized riskier projects. Sounds like the sentence may be excessive, but not the conviction.
Repeated low doses of LSD are safe, but produce negligible changes
Someone I know would never move to Riyadh because its too cold - it goes down to zero some winters!
This is why I support the ACLU. They are one of the only organizations set up to actually achieve asset forfeiture reform. But they need all of our help. Check out https://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal-law-reform/reforming-po... to learn more about their efforts.
Scooters are awesome.

Scooter companies intentionally not installing parking for their new scooters and encouraging people to abandon them in walkways is not awesome.

Robots are awesome.

A bunch of robots creating a hazard for people whether on foot or wheelchair is not awesome.

It is tempting as a company to subsidize your "great idea" by making other people pay the cost. Capitalism is great, but abusing people and the system to make an easy dollar is distinctly not great.
Disagree. His videos definitely have the click-baity look and titles. But the content is usually pretty top notch even if you need to ignore some silly parts of certain videos. I think his channel pairs well with GamerNexus.
Rust at OCamlPro?
Eh - Dubai is a lot more diverse than the US. A similar comment could be written about it.
Texas is 100+ for three months of the year, and Minneapolis had an average of about 10 degrees this January, with lows in the -10s, I believe. And I think Mississippi in the summer is probably pretty miserable, it's probably as close to 100+ as the humidity will let it. I think most of the American West is about 100 in the summer and cold in the winter, due to not having the ocean to mitigate the temperature.
> People are cheering at Canada forfeiting bank accounts. When such policies are normalized we can expect much more of this.

Completely untrue. Civil forfeiture is a uniquely American experience. The Emergencies Act will not lead to broad civil forfeiture in Canada. That is, the Prime Minister of Canada freezing bank accounts will not grant Canadian police officers the ability to seize your assets indefinitely without trial.

It is rhetorically convenient to try to link freezing a bank account to civil forfeiture, but they are not the same thing.
"By mistake" seems way too generous. He intentionally deployed an illegal signal jammer with complete disregard for the effect it would have on other people.
You can augment a heat pump with a miner that uses immersion cooling
> there must be a point at which exercise _does_ increase energy expenditure

Of course there is. The problem is that it's much easier to eat than it is to exercise. You can eat a Big Mac in 5 minutes, and you'd have to run or bike for hours to burn those calories off. A 30 minute jog on a treadmill won't do it.

Most people eat more calories than they need, and would have to exercise much more than they realize to burn them off. So losing weight over a reasonably short period of time almost always requires cutting calories. Few people have enough free time to do it with exercise alone.
I have used Avira in the past, and Bitdefender up to two or three years ago. But I've stopped using antivirus software. Windows Defender is good enough for my purposes.
Ian if you come by HN and see this I would like to say thanks for all the amazing content over the years. Tech needs quality journalists and you are one of the greatest we have ever had. I hope you land somewhere where you can continue to output such great stuff.
I've always thought HN was more like the spiritual successor to Slashdot then (most of) Reddit.

On /. it was COMMON to be participating in a discussion about (for example) a camera problem on one of NASAs' probes, and very soon you would discover that the actual people from NASA that were working on it were in the forum talking about what they were actually doing and getting to the core issues rather then the press-release fluff.

If there was a science/tech story you could almost guarantee that the authors of the paper themselves would show up, and all of a sudden you would get 10PHD's from different fields all "working together".

There was another thread that I remember a bit better because I was involved in it. Somebody had an old/obscure bit of computer hardware that was last used in a 386. (A tape-drive backup that used the floppy-controller to read/write data to the drive.) The person was desperate to get a copy of his thesis off of the drive, but there was a hardware failure on both the drive and the old PC.

Well in the thread one of the old engineers that had designed the drive at his old company chimed and said he had the part that was broken and would ship it out to him. Then another person offered to send a USB to Floppy controller so that his "new PC" (sans floppy interface) would be able to work. THEN the tech director of a major backup company (software) offered his labs to have the the whole PC & tape drive shipped to their headquarters where the lab would get the files off the drive for free because "I want my team to have the chance to train on this, and learn how to restore it all."

In the end it was a happy story for the end-user. But I see a similar gathering of the minds on HN as I once did on Slashdot.

My /. ID was 5 digits....
The internet was different back then, but it's nice to see that people can still be the same.
More like an architectural choice.
Ah, but if you think about it, the upvote button has the same dysfunction as the downvote button, just at the other extreme. The downvote button punishes controversy; but the upvote button rewards orthodoxy. So even without a downvote option, orthodox comments rise to the top.

The upvote button also acts a bit like a Rotten Tomatoes score, in that it compresses the full range of "scores" people might give something down into just "did you like it or not." So something that a thousand people can like just enough to vote for, will end up upvoted much more highly than something that 100 people absolutely love. The things you see rising to the top are thus whatever is "blandly agreeable" to the most people, rather than what is "seriously amazing" to a non-negligible subset of people.

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IMHO a "proper" solution for both of these problems would be entirely different than what we've got now.

• The primary factor for ranking posts/comments would be an "engagement score", coming from how long in aggregate users spend actually looking at/reading the comment or linked page (which is in fact practical to observe if this social-bookmarking service is interacted with primarily through a browser extension / app, as would be the modern trend.)

• Posts (and comment threads) would additionally gain some (diminished) bonuses from the aggregate scores of their child-comment subtrees. So boring posts/root-comments with engaging comments subthreads would still rise to the top, to ensure that those subthreads are surfaced to appreciate. (Probably there'd have to be UX for this case, highlighting the aspect of the post+comments that's so engaging.)

• Something upvote-like would still exist (though it'd be optional for the system's functioning, because of the engagement score); but adding one would require a proof-of-work (e.g. solving a CAPTCHA.) This signal could thus be factored quite strongly when available (presuming the service has sufficient anti-botting measures in place.)

• You can actually upvote things multiple times — but the proof-of-work required would be exponentially-increasing. One CAPTCHA for one point; another two for a second point; another four for a third point. This solves the "Rotten Tomatoes" problem.

• No downvotes; instead, comments can mark themselves as being a "rebuttal" to the post/comment they're responding to. (Maybe entirely-separate "comment" and "rebut" UX flows.) The aggregate engagement+upvote scores of all "rebuttals" to a thing, would then be inherited as a "malus", i.e. a bonus with the sign flipped; high-scoring rebuttals lower the rank of the thing they rebut, which means that that thing then has less of a score to contribute as a bonus to its own ancestors.

• This down-ranking would be applied recursively from the leaf nodes up; the malus of a rebuttal on its ancestors would be "weakened" if the rebuttal was hit with a malus from high-powered rebuttals of its own.
Hand over what? I lost it all in a boating accident.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN_P39xI1ss
Imagine another buyer is in the identical situation to you, and you want to be the one that is selected to get the house.

Now image you missed out on ten houses you wanted to buy before this one, and are exhausted by all the effort.
Without data, my default assumption is that there are lots of cases where things are being done wrong that are not in Amazon’s favour. The “directed incompetence” theory assumes that clueless people are being intentionally allowed to be clueless with the full knowledge of somebody less clueless. I find it easier to believe, without evidence, that the cluelessness exists at all levels.
What was the limiting factor? Operator attention or actual control/monitoring plane limitations?
Accusations of 'greenwashing' by big oil companies are well-founded
Andrei, who did a lot of the measurements in their CPU reviews, left a few months ago. Now with Ian gone it is likely the end of Anandtech.

But I'm impressed it managed to make it past Anand's departure.
The underlying case looks to be a pretty straight developing country "referral fees" / kickback type case.

One issue is how long these cases take to resolve. This was a whistleblower blowing the whistle.

Basic deal was Watson (who ran Northstar) a property developer signed a deal to kick back referral fees to an entity that did literally no work (Villanova Trust) created by a brother of the two amazon employees (Nelson and Kirschner) who were the transaction managers for 9 data center lease deals. The kickback deal was signed after these two Amazon employees met with Watson (the Vendor).

Amazon then did $400M in deals with Watson, who then kicked back $5M to the trust in "commissions". Then amazon discovered deleted files indicating the employees were entitled to "shares" in these projects from Watson of something like an additional $16M.

Others in the mix at developer also did some kind of land flip thing. One example was property that they bought for $20M, then sold to Amazon for $116M. In one case there was something like a $20M increase in price on property that was sold to Amazon the day that it was bought?! So they were frontrunning things. Watson was pissed, and wanted a cut, so recorded a meeting with the folks doing the flip scam. But that backfired because the folks doing the flip scam knew about the leasing scam and said, hey, if you don't back off we'll blow lid on your lease scam - claiming "that's FBI". They did end up compromising on kicking back $5M to Watson from the flip scam.

Anyways, all allegations, and thousands of pages so I've no doubt got some parts wrong, but it makes for interesting reading!

My question - it seems to take a long time to get these white color criminal types into jail.

In the linked post, there is a lot of complaining that the FBI messed up the guys career, but man, this court case - why would you hire a guy like this into a position of trust?

Note these allegations are contested. “My only hope in defending myself against its false allegations is that the process will be fair and impartial.” Mr. Nelson said per a WSJ article.