skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Definitely looks pretty bad - but on the other hand, an accelerator not making any bets in crypto is not a sensible accelerator.

That's why we have the concept of "due diligence". YC is absolutely allowed to make bets in the crypto world; but they have a brand name and a reputation of serious investors. I know that when I see the YC logo on a new product I discover, it serves as a signal. And having a fraud company being allowed to use the YC brand on their website, because YC wanted to work with them and gave them money to allow them to grow (meaning: "cheat on more people") is definitely a stain on their track record
> because the constitution doesn't have authority over objects

First, the overwhelming majority of civil forfeiture happens in states, where a mere claim of the constitution not explicitly giving the federal government authority doesn't hold water (or invoke the incorporation doctrine).

Second, Federal courts have long exercised authority over objects and courts having authority over objects is something that is broadly considered constitutional.

> Suing a car or a pile of cash is farcical

It may seem farcical, but it has a decent legal basis and a reasonable reason for existance: there are times that property seems to A) be involved in crime, and B) unclaimed by owners. E.g. distant shipowners engaged in smuggling. It seems reasonable for the government to seize the property in these cases.

It's much more problematic when a clear owner can be identified (or, when an owner comes forward after seizure). I agree in those circumstances action should be brought against the people, and should require a higher standard than the preponderance of the evidence, for property to be kept.

> Its the same basic factual explanation as to the difference between two consenting adults and adults and children/animals that seems to befuddle those who don't like gay rights.

I don't quite see the connection.
https://archive.ph/omy2L
I lived 1000ft from a fire station that was running it's siren at least ten times a day. This was also within 1000ft of a (diesel) commuter rail station. The train horns fade into the background but the siren was always a disturbance.
If a job is a paid position period, then why do you care about prostitutes' supposed rights and comforts?
How do you get the log scale to show?
You need to expand your social circle.

You are not alone in this. As a 25y dev I can relate to this. I wasn't disciplined as you, that's a big difference. I entertained myself learning techs outside my job box.

This loneliness happens in many aspects of life. Reading is an example.
I always encourage my children into heavy reading. Even I pay them for challenging books. As a result, their way of thinking is above average in almost everything.

But I constantly warn them to look for good peers, people that share their taste in reading, people who they can talk and enjoy the talking, or else they will end up feeling alone.

So my advice, expand your social circle and find people smarter than you, people you can admire and enjoy listening. It worked for me. Good luck and good coding!
Prior to going to cloud (ubuntu ended up being easier there even over paid RHEL) on-prem a lot of businesses are just structured around having a vendor, which basically means someone to call to both figure out what to use (unfortunately often dealing with sales folks) and then when issues come up (support / implementation consulting etc).

Given margins are often so good on subscription models in a redhat type world, I really wish they had gone a bit heavier on cloud focus (AWS / GCP / Windows in my case). Some free / base images container / vm focused pushed hard for everything from docker to cloud.

I thought ubuntu executed very well here (given their commercialization has always felt somewhat weak). They got images for docker / aws / gcp all first class and available at the basic level. They are also doing some deals with Microsoft and Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Not sure if anyone has done the docker image download weighted by base distribution analysis, but my own experience went from the centos / rhel was like everywhere to ubuntu and amazon's linux stuff.
The dual PhD problem of today’s startups (2020)
Does Texas' Attorney General Have a Point About Chrome's Incognito Mode?
Gets too mainstream though.
Radios slices of a human body: 3mm thick
>> To start with, Tesla assumes they will be able to accomplish self driving with the hardware they have.

This is an absolute joke. There are videos of the autonomous "come pick me up" feature - whatever it's called - absolutely failing. One of them even runs into an airplane and pushes it around. Sometimes I think they're just using GPS with maps and PID loops and not actual AI of any sort. Nothing short of full general AI is going to be able to drive completely autonomously.
Oh I can definitely see the appeal of it, particularly relative to the fly + rent a car on the other end option. I just know long haul passenger train travel in Canada is fabulously expensive, infrequent, and unreliable, so I was pleased to see discussion of an option like this that has been made to work.
A Man Who Revolutionized Computer Science with Math
How Not to Ask for Help Online
There's a truism: life is what you make of it.

The longer version, which might get you thinking a little more than the aphorism, is in the famous graduation speech by David Foster Wallace: "This is Water" [0] (you can also read a transcript [1]).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhhC_N6Bm_s

[1] https://fs.blog/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/
'Unruh effect' may finally be tested in the lab
Agreed. It's a wonderful talk.

I'm elated that discoveries are still being made. Since this talk, the understanding has come to be that there are two independent pixel FIFOs. One responsible for sprites, and the other for background and window tiles.
I don't want to defend them because I hate Meta particularly but the problem with transparency or the conversation that most people want to have is that something that is worth like $50 to them turns into $1000 of time arguing with an account holder about "this doesn't violate", "yes it does".

It is easier to stonewall.

Like others have said, however, there could be some other mechanism, whether paid for or something for scenarios like this where her account was worth a lot to her and the money could even be refunded if they agree that the red flag was bogus.

The other hard problem is that even the fact she works in the adult industry is enough for some people to flag the account. Lots of parents don't like their kids following insta stars who might lead them astray!
Where's your blog post?
> Koppel et al [16] document physicians ordering medications for the wrong patient because a computer was left on and the doctors didn’t realize it was open for a different patient

When you're in an environment with high stress (many decisions with huge consequences being made in a minutes/seconds timeframe in different simultaneous contexts), spending time with authentication has consequences. Not spending, too.
Any advice on how to (successfully) get started?

I've been trying to do the same only to find the whole thing frustrating af. My goal right now is to A) draw wireframes of websites, B) workflows (similar to wireframes with added arrows), and C) an image of Calvin of C&H fame.

I've used Procreate, Excalidraw, OneNote, Notability, etc.

<rant>
All of the tutorials are like "Here is where you can select a canvas. Here is where you can select brushes. Let's choose this brush..." (Why?) "Then change the setting to this..." (again, why?). I'm beginning to hate videos in my search results.

If I want to actually accomplish one of these drawings, I pick up a pad of paper and pencil and I'm done in 60 seconds for wireframes, five minutes for Calvin. I have yet to be able to do it after hours on my iPad.
</rant>
SmartSHARK a software ecosystem for mining software repositories
What’s the dichotomy implied by the hyperbolic title? I couldn’t find any sign of it in the first few pages.
Wednesday was significantly more quiet at work.
Unfortunately, I don't let my mind wander much anymore. I've got ADHD so my mind races quite a bit by default. For years I've listened to audiobooks or podcasts when I'm "doing nothing" which is better than my mind wandering in unwanted directions.

I lose a little bit of random creativity from my mind wandering here and there but its worth it for the amount of books/podcasts I'm able to get through that help in other ways.
basically their policies are so rediculously subjective, that the mood of the reviewer is enough to shut down an entire "business" venture. I think that's the big problem here.

Typically with a store, if you're causing harm, the community can petition for you to lose your license. And all that comes with legal protections for due process.

On youtube or instagram, your entire business which you invested time/money/body into, is entirely hanging by the thread of some employee having a decent day or finding you attractive.
A man owed $134 in property taxes. Homeowners like him were LEFT WITH NOTHING
In other words, your transportation patterns don’t let you reduce your oil use, so you’re doing your part by paying slightly higher taxes to benefit those who can? That doesn’t seem like a bad thing
What I was told by a friend at an OEM is that lower-end the demand for lower end Subarus and Hondas was so high in the NYC area that it made sense to turn down the all cash offer as they'd likely sell the car with a loan the next day.
The actual advertisment is pretty bad too: https://www.tesla.com/autopilot

Watch the first video there and how it begins.
about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29705819
Was this recently discovered new muscle visible on the visible Human project cross-sections?
> But we're building for a future where apps like Calendly can be smart contracts.

[…]

> They won't require any subscription, existing data is never at risk of being wiped out, and hopefully we will […] get back to apps that just work, without the cruft or bad incentives. We're here to make that happen!

I fail to see what the advantages are of having a calendar app/service implemented as a DAO.

I can see the advantages of federation (ala email or the fediverse), and I can see the advantages of a "local first" approach, but what does a web3/DAO bring to the party?

The trustless use-cases I can imagine are quite sociopathic, like
selling appointment slots with price discrimination, or reserving a slot for a smaller fee, or allowing resale of appointments or reservations, or remaking any and all of the above transactions into auctions.

Turning every little thing into a multi-sided market sounds exhausting and pathological.

You can apply this sort of thinking to other existing app/site categories, like wikis. No longer do you have to endure edit wars, you can just bid to finalize your preferred version! Unless 50% of the editors veto your edit, in which case you forfeit your bid. Oh joy, now a bad faith actor can't just pay one wiki editor under the table to slant the content your way, you have to bribe a whole bunch to prevail. Yes, that would be a huge improvement.

I don't know, perhaps I am lacking in imagination, but the negative social consequences of monetizing relationships and social transactions are pretty well known and I'm not really seeing a commensurate benefit:

https://rady.ucsd.edu/faculty/directory/gneezy/pub/docs/fine...
Well in some sense Andy Warhol's vision came to be with social media and us all giving "news" directly to each other. But we're still not the ones making money from it...
> Linktree is a one-stop-shop link that can link out to other websites from one webpage

game changer.
I love fd, but somehow I always get tripped up on this:

fd # prints tree of current directory
fd somedir/ # results in an error

find # prints tree of current directory
find somedir/ # prints tree of somedir/
If there was something that greatly increased performance, you, your mom and (nearly) everyone else would know about it and take it already.

So far, that's mostly limited to stimulants, with caffeine being one of the most used drugs worldwide. It's not some well kept secret, you don't have to look out for it, it's everywhere (coffee, soft drinks, energy drinks, pre-workout products, it's the main ingredient of every gamer-goo mix). It's popular because it evidently works.

Spending a ton of money on very questionable nootropics is probably not that smart though!
Mountain biking. I ride alone more often than not, and basically always with earbuds in my ears, playing music. Not uncontroversial in the MTB community, but this is the way I like to experience it. To me, nothing beats being in the woods, on a bike, rocking out to some Slayer, Testament, Metallica, Iced Earth, etc.

Note, of course, that this is actually tiring from a physical perspective, in the short-term. But it's how I stay sane and it helps me clear my mind of all the random crap that builds up during the week from work and what-not. And over the long-term it is beneficial physically in terms of helping improve overall cardiovascular conditioning.
DOJ’s New CFAA Policy Is a Good Start but Does Not Go Far Enough
This is our failure.

I got into tech in the 90s specifically to avoid the 9-5 dead-end job and ended up working mostly exactly that. But hey, we have billionaires now.

If we want a 30 hour workweek, we need to deliver it to everyone in the world with real tech. No more phantom tech distraction BS.

Solar. Permaculture. Robotic hydroponics. Real recycling. Personal digital assistants (and I don't mean tablet computers). Independent income streams beyond mining crypto and donating plasma. This stuff is so incredibly obvious but the entire weight of the global economy keeps us running the rat race instead of solving the real problems. Now work is just another form of escapism to distract us from stepping into our power and taking agency over our lives.

The ultimate expression of tech is the 0 hour workweek and self-actualization for the entire human race.
> simply to prevent nuclear reactors from being built. How? For what purpose?

If a country has sufficient nuclear energy then they are immune from international energy politics.

Two, I see that the oligarch class is using global warming alarmism as the driving narrative to move everyone to a carbon credit system, where payouts go to an unaccountable transnational elite.

Ironically, I believe that once the incentive structure is in place, there will be institutional force to keep you buying carbon (offsets) credits… forever.
Finding parking is hilariously underestimated for any metro area I've been to.
This is a classic case of corruption, just using sex instead of money. In corruption, both sides are guilty, but i would generally put more blame on the side initiating the corruption.
Yeah, it's strange. This was a person riffing on a podcast, it's not even like there was some journalism involved. Just an interesting anecdote that may or may not be true.
When I left one job, I was so attached to my Thinkpad that I went out and bought one myself. 7 years old and it's still my daily driver.
It's sad that we still need scihub for the research already paid in many cases by the taxpayers.

So scihub FTW!
I remember reading up on Karp's 21 problems paper and encountering the paper from Cook that established that boolean satisfiability was NP complete. It was published in ACM, very glad that it's available now: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/800157.805047
Low-cost, battery-like device absorbs CO2 emissions while it charges
Same for Paypal.
There's an issue for me which did not appear in the article and so far has not appeared in the comments.

It's that I look at news aggregators like Real Clear Politics and various newsletters, and I sample a small number of articles from a very large number of news sources. I'm unwilling to pay for a newspaper subscription if it serves me only a very small number of articles that I'm interested in each day.

I suspect that others who use Google News or Apple News or Yahoo experience the same thing.

All this suggests that a Spotify or Netflix-like subscription model might work. Spotify charges $9.99 a month to give you access to 82 million songs. I would totally pay for a similar subscription that gave me access to many newspapers.

I need to graze, not feed.
I think they missed one of the biggest changes: ICU collations can finally be set as default for clusters and databases.
> The command name is 50% shorter* than find :-).

I love this but if enough new tools keep doing this I might have to change some of my bash aliases :(
It’s an incredibly safe language with a very expressive type system, which is good for handling money.

Also, since crypto stuff is relatively new it’s easier to adopt a newer language like Rust. It has been the most loved language on SO survey for some years.
> I firmly believe that there is a sequence of words that [...] would convince anyone of anything.

What does make you think that? Have you seen or experienced something like this before?

Your thought/ idea makes perfect sense to me and there surely is more potential to transfer ideas/ ideologies/ etc more compact than we do most of the time. I too, don't believe in good and evil humans but that everyone is capable of everything (decision-, not skill-wise). But 1000 words would be quite frustrating, because if I (a random on the internet/ on a party/ or elsewhere) am able to 'flip' you, what's gonna stop the next random dude from flipping you back over. If it's that easy to make you change your opinion, it is not sustainable. As I'm writing this, I realized, this is the very reason I stopped discussing with anyone with whom I don't get value out of myself as well. It's just not worth it - at least for people that aren't close to me.
I'll second that, it died only because the new host couldn't fill her shoes. Conversely Matt on SpaceTime has done a great job taking over from Gabe.
I started using VR as a brain refresher, I feel that should be considered too. It's sorta exercise but with more modalities
Craigslist is still thriving and is a very viable alternative.
In the absence of existing laws, the courts can decree if something is illegal.
So can you on third day of methamphetamine fast, but I don't think I'd recommend it to anyone.
Yeah it's common in the traditional, established firms. Something about compliance as well as the fact that some of the proprietary enterprise software packages they use only support RHEL.
These stories always make me think of Wendymeat from Rudy Rucker's books.
My Prof. once said that the only difference between writing assembly and coding in a high-level language is that you have to type more.
Compare the UK vs. US [0]: life expectancy is higher in the UK _and_ expenditure is lower. As much as people love to dunk on the NHS, population-level optimization works.

[0] - https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-vs-health...
Bullshit, women know they get things in exchange for some play or because of their looks. Not every women of course does this, but its foolish to ignore the group that very well knows this and uses this to their advance. Its not the womans fault though, its the man who falls for this.

Similarily theres men who do the same thing using either their looks or wealth as a chip.

We are human, but we are also bunch of monkeys in the end.
The overwhelming majority of prostitutes are sex trafficked women and children who were never given the choice. Legalizing prostitution leads to more trafficking.

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/04/19/is-legalize...
I find `find` so difficult to use that I usually do `find . | grep pattern` when I need to search for a file name.
>> Seriously? How about, don't be a prostitute and get a real job.

> Shaking your ass on a camera adds more joy to the world than implementing dark patterns for ads imo

Wow, an example of "letting the perfect be the enemy of the good"'s rare friend "letting the worse being the ally of the bad."

Also, "bringing joy" is the wrong way to describe "shaking your ass on a camera." At best it's titillation.
It's just another engineer being an armchair physicist. Nothing to be alarmed about
Hmmm... on the first lecture we're not told if there was identified a "Lie of the Day". I presume there wasn't (which is cool), but if there was then that's kinda shitty.
Automating Well-Architected Principles
> It was almost impossible to prosecute a ship owner who lived across the ocean in Europe, so simply seizing a ship and its smuggled goods was a viable alternative.

why not? prosecute them normally, if they show up then the trial proceeds as usual, if not then convict them in absentia and then forfeit the goods. why does this require a whole new system that bypasses all the constitutional rights for domestic citizens?
Agreed, we are doing the same and building a private app with custom auth.
I live with and care for a dog. We are coevolved species. Your frame of ‘owning’a pet is not shared by all.
I didn't see anything in the paper that matches the title. Seems to be hyperbole (that doesn't make complete sense either).
There is an embedded Twitter video with the exact clip where the OF creator herself tells the story, it's not just a constructed headline. But I'll agree that the HN headline leaves out the word "says" which changes it a bit. We can't know for sure whether she's telling the truth about this.
Intel plans immersion lab to chill its power-hungry chips
orioleDB is another one
The way I see it, they're mostly in different markets -- or rather, Intel is in more markets.

Apple makes processors for their own vertical lines of computing devices.

Intel makes processors for an entire market of computing devices with diverse OEMs.

Currently, I cannot buy an Apple M processor and slap it into a variety of needs-based form factors (server, desktop tower, embedded, etc). And even if I could, Linux and Windows still aren't usable on it.
Action needed by GitHub Connect customers using GHES 3.1 and older to adopt new
And getting shot with a handgun is around 2 or 3 kg*m/s. Much less negligent, clearly!
Reviewing George Carlin's 7 words in English class
Washing my truck and mowing the lawn.
Eurovision 2022, the Internet effect version
The Internet was impacted in more than one way during Eurovision, from whole countries to the fan and official broadcasters sites, but also video platforms.
these folks are in Western Europe, and I'm on PST. So it's all async.
An engineer being an armchair physicist being an armchair lawyer.
> [...] observe how long all the mathematical notation takes to render fully—it takes at least six seconds on my recent notebook, plugged in.

Does this really matter though? When I've encountered math-heavy pages that have been slow to fully render the math has also been slow for my brain to processes. As long as the math rendering is faster than my brain's math understanding it has been fine.
> This is good and bad at the same time. It's like having a law that says that the police can shoot anyone at will, and then announcing that since people were concerned that the police would shoot someone going to the grocery store, all police are ordered to not do that.

I'm not sure you intended for this to sound really grim, but it does, since this is the de facto law in the United States right now.
Libtensorflow Bindings for Pharo Smalltalk
Yeah definitely true.

I have an undergraduate degree in physics and sometimes I don’t understand the things they are talking about.

I still find it interesting and valuable though.
This account is tied to my real identity. I'm not afraid of trying to openly discuss the nuances of these very complicated and painful topics because together through rational discourse we can make the world a better place.

From an anonymous "throwaway" account, you completely disregard what I'm saying, you trivialize my passion in this topic, and you go so far as directly accusing me of normalizing sex trafficking.

This discussion is over.