skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is exceedingly [and I feel intentionally] misleading. The dude has accumulated years of fines and penalties, as a result of failing to respond to complaints from the neighborhood. His argument is not that he isn't violating any law, it's that the law literally does not apply to him.

The city actually responded in a blog post:
https://sacramentocityexpress.com/2022/04/19/city-corrects-m...

He has lost his defense in part because he was defending himself (eg idiot lawyer), presumably the reason he was defending himself is that no attorney would willing take up his case, as his argument isn't the "fees are excessive". His argument is that the law does not apply to him at all.

For example: 'In court filings, Altstatt has argued that it “has not been proved … that any constitution operates on (him),”', etc

The city didn't seek out ordinance violations, the city started getting continuing complaints from the guys neighbors. The city also claims to have offered a lot of help to deal with the issues. When it did fine him, his appeals were similar to the above insanity.
It didn't randomly come out of the blue. He ignored city fines and various court judgements for 8+ years. Of course the penalties are going to add up.
The article mentioned 100-160ft from the surface, so i'm not sure where the "deep" part mentioned in the headlines comes in. Perhaps their ultimate plan is for deep & this demo didn't try to address the deep part? That said, if 100ft below had enough forces to produce 100kw (ecological issues aside) that sounds pretty fantastic, even if just a demo.
The addition of animal protein(especially cooked) is a well documented aspect of our evolution path that led to the types of brains we have. I believe fully in that theory- but also that there are other additional aspects that should be considered... Such as this theory.
It is totally not ok to do this sort of flamewar on HN and we've had to ask you repeatedly not to. This is just a sample:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29655736 (Dec 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29547334 (Dec 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27477147 (June 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22272727 (Feb 2020)

(Note that last one: "Please don't do tit-for-tat flamewars on HN. It's off topic, nasty, and tedious.")

Would you please stop getting involved in flamewars on HN? I don't want to ban you but you keep doing it.
My guess is that this is (as mentioned here in the article) the problem with (somewhat more) reasonable fines per day, snowballing.

If it's not criminal, and all you can do is fine, and no action is taken to prevent the the fine incurring - I'm not really sure what option there is.

Do you cap it?
Send in the bailiff's to remove the offending thing at a certain point?
Just write it all off, setting a precendent?

I've genuinely no idea.
I'm the co-author of one of the papers referenced in the blogpost, (Fast Quicksort Implementation Using AVX Instructions), we did write the AVX512 code back in 2015, just had nowhere to run it, at least publicly. The paper also very explicitly says that the lookup tables can be instead replaced by the AVX512 compress instructions. The code for that paper is available in https://github.com/vkrasnov/avx_qsort
My point with "a lot of newer systems" was that there are motherboards now that completely lack a version of their firmware with the microcode that allows avx-512. There's nothing to downgrade to without an exploit to allow making your own firmware images with mixed and matched components.
This raises a host of other questions. Does Mix Software still exist? Their product catalog does not appear to be updated in the last ~20 years (owing to a Y2K compliance statement prominent on the front page), so unless they have a side business not listed on their website, it seems unlikely they’re still in business. Surely nobody’s still buying their compilers or training materials on VHS.

If they’re gone, who’s still paying the bill for hosting, and why? Just for fun to preserve a time capsule? Did they prepay for hosting for 30 years, and the site will disappear one day?
“The PiRogue is an open hardware device based on a Raspberry Pi operating as a network router (like any ISP router) analyzing network traffic in real time”

https://piroguetoolsuite.github.io/docs/pirogue/overview/

Three modes: kiosk/MitM, incident response, expert/investigation mode (my poor quick explanation of theirs from the link)

Edit-looks like it routes connections to its Wi-Fi through the Ethernet port and inspects/displays data through grafana. Wish it supported another Ethernet port/dongle. But it’s great as is.
I seriously doubt it. Working on cars isn't noisy. Had he been a chainsaw sculptor, maybe. My comment was on the amount they thought was ok to fine him and the fact a judge didn't find it excessive.

I suspect it was more of a bureaucratic, "you will respect my authorit-a" type thing and the judge didn't keep them in check.
Can we sue California for abusing a person who has done nothing wrong?
True and false. There is a basic package that's good enough to get you trough life. This is one extra reason why being let go is less likely to cause stress for you and damage for your boss.

But bigger organisations give extra insurance. This covers e.g. avprivate or 2 person hospital room instead of multi person rooms. Or private care without waitung lists

Also, as healthcare is getting more expensive, the core package gets smaller. E.g. dental care was a victim in my country, preventative care is still covered but restorative probably not.
> Nearest-neighbour, low-resolution rotation produces unpleasant results…

That’s the reason why some games use versions of the rotated sprites that have been tweaked by hand. See also tools like RotSprite (http://info.sonicretro.org/RotSprite).
Playing devil’s advocate is fun, but you don’t know. And it’s hard to imagine how fixing a car could be hell on earth for the neighbors. Listen to how it sounds.

It’s over half a million dollars for fixing a car, man (woman; I wish there was a gender neutral term that had the same flexibility, since “bud” just sounds aggressive).
If this is a crash, crypto has already won.
Yeah this is why I work freelance (often for startups).

The present value of cash flows is so much higher than the future value of some illiquid, highly speculative startup equity with way more restrictions than regular public stock equity.
Right. This is a major selling point of podman in Red Hat material.
Maybe people forgot because in recent times, corporate malfeasance has been a far bigger problem in people's lives than government overreach.
1989 Tiananmen Square Protests and Massacre
You would need significant multiples of "existing welfare" for a bi let alone a ubi. So you haven't provided an answer
> When confronted with irrefutable proof of his deception his victims and enablers make excuses or treat it as a one or few time issue, failing to accept that it's just another example out of thousands.

People seem to do this with a lot of things. Their favorite pop stars, companies, countries, ideologies, etc.
What is very scary, is the normalization of the surveillance society with crazy things like that being accepted/ignored by most citizens.

It is getting worse and worse all the time.
Curiously, 20 or 30 years ago people would have being angry and governments would have had to resign as even suggesting such privacy killer things would be offensive. Now most people would not even care...

Just to let you imagine the future, in France, with the current 'ecological bullshit', some idiots suggested that households could have a quota of consumption of everything to save the planet: that much water, electricity, food...

That will be more easy with shops transmitting all your shopping info directly to the gov...
I used to be a big proponent of ranked choice voting, but then I finally stepped back and realized that it doesn't seem to necessarily produce more "inclusive" or "unifying" outcomes. Change my mind.
If we knockout the nationalism, what's left?

States, counties, for some - districts. Thirty years and I've met one representative.

America wasn't designed to operate at the current scale and it's causing considerable strife internally and externally. We're effectively the de facto world sovereign, and at the same time we the people and the collective will is so contrived as to be totally incomprehensible, largely, I would posit, as a product of federal overreach and inertia. We'd do well to refederate - California's America is not the same as Texas' nor is Florida's the same as Michigan's. It's kind of an absurdity to indicate we're a nation at this point, there are really no points of unity which bond us in this era, and that's what defines a nation. That is to say there are no more Americans.
Crimean–Nogai slave raids in Eastern Europe
I'll only buy cheap crap on there anymore, when alternatives are slightly more expensive cheap crap in stores. So I basically treat them as an online Harbor Freight of sorts. I don't trust the brand as a whole anymore.

For me, Walmart kills them. Generally better quality, trusted brands that probably won't burn my house down, and they'll bring it to my house from the store today. Or 2 day ship it if it's not there. And I can get groceries.
Space Above and Beyond is very underrated. Still sad it only got one season. If they wanted to redo something they could chose something much worse. It might be a little too pro-American and pro-military for 2022?
For a good laugh, read the conclusion of the paper, which sounds like it was written in the year 1960, when inner cities were crumbing, and imagines that rural areas will get better public transit when the poor escape the cities they are “trapped in”:

There is a literature that asks why the poor live in cities. One answer provided is that transportation options are much better in cities than rural areas and small towns. But what stops public transportation from expanding upon the arrival of new residents?

A more important reason for why the poor live in cities, it seems, is that many low-income households are “trapped” in cities by the high cost of constructing housing in rural areas and small towns.
They can't even really diagram databases effectively, and that's "just" data.

Maybe you'd need a three dimensional model (really it's likely n-dimensional/hyperdimensional), 2D might not be enough.

Programming models get so convoluted with regards to state and interactions, both in-memory/in-process state and the stored state in databases/files.

Jurassic Park's 3D filesystem was a pie in the sky idea, what, 30 years ago? Holy crap it was 29 years ago or so. We've had REVOLUTIONS in 3D processing and games, and never even stratched the surface of basic 3D visualizations of code or data or filesystems or machine networks or the like.

And then even if you represent a diagram, it's useless without time visualization/traces, as kind of referred to by the RR debugger post. So for active code, you'd need simulation or actual run data to show what it does visually to be effective.

Really what's being dealt with here is probably related to theory of computation, and various results like the undecidability of the halting problem. The halting problem shows that even for very basic languages that are minimally Turing complete, the complexity shoots VERY QUICKLY to massive degrees of infinity/uncomputability.

So some catch-all visualizer for even general classes of Turing complete languages is probably impossible.

Maybe something like "this is a java spring app with well regimented separationg of data/domain classes and service classes"...

Even then once you get to database persistence ... wow.

And the amount of data you'd need to store for test runs.

Spring + TDD enforces a certain simplicity to a codebase, so perhaps you could make effective classes of visualization and tracing/replay visualization for that.

But it is telling these tools don't really exist, and attempts like UML were largely abandoned.
Whatever you fear, finds you. If you're too generous, you will soon find it the universe decides you have too much. You can't improve yourself, because the part that is trying to improve itself is the one doing the improvement. To know something is to have power of it, generally, but what if the reverse is true? What if knowing something gives it power over you? Ignorance is our ammunition. The unexpected virtue of ignorance.
"You're holding it wrong."

https://uxdesign.cc/youre-holding-it-wrong-how-to-blame-the-...
my guess is they make iPad apps
Does that include the batteries we'd need to have renewables take over the grid?

But we should be dumping lots of research dollars into both, even if we want 95% of the construction budget to be renewables.

Except scaling up starts to cost a lot more when you push it too fast, so we probably should be spending more than 5% on nuclear because it can work in parallel.
A language without excellent debugging is not a language I want to use at all.

Print statements are sometimes needed for embedded, but that's probably my least favorite part of embedded.
High trust society, as in: there is a high degree of trust between any two random people that they are likely to act in each other’s benefit when it comes to societal issues. That is fundamentally how I view taxes. We’re contributing to a common fund for common good.
Wow, that is shortsighted. The Playdate development community has cultivated a sense of art and exploration in gamedev from AAA to indie devs that I haven't seen in a long time! (Or at least since the PICO--8.)
While I think people should have much wider freedom in what they do on their property, this is a terrible example case.
If housing was one of them you'd probably consider it a crisis.
Anyone frustrated with debuggers, check out RemedyBG https://remedybg.itch.io/remedybg

Insanely fast and capable debugger for Windows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9eQth4Q5jg

(I have no relation to the project, just think it's great)
Zoning laws are stupid as hell, it prevents upward movement of the middle-class because in order to afford to rent a space to do business in the approved locations in California, you must be a millionaire. Him doing work in his backyard wasn't hurting anyone. If people can work remotely from the comfort of their own home, he should be able to also.
The latter. (It wouldn't be fair to complain about stock shortages; everybody's suffering from those in some way or another.)

I live in a small city in a rural area of the midwest that has a handful of grocery stores. We had two locations of a pretty good regional chain that offered what I would consider a broad enough selection of items, but several years ago they were acquired by a national chain and the selection was greatly reduced. I've been to that chain's stores in larger cities and they had a much wider range. Honestly I think they just made some (IMO) unfortunate value decisions when scaling down for a smaller market.

Other grocery stores in the area each seem to have one thing they're really bad at: one is known for their terrible produce, another refuses to carry specific common items or brands, another is highly variable in what items they carry at any given point in time (regardless of recent shortages).

It's certainly a modern marvel that we can have access to all of this food concentrated in one convenient place, I don't mean to diminish that or the work involved in getting it there. But I do think it's a space in which most if not all of the players (in my area, at least) could use some improvement.
One should seek out the best coverage, my point is that the "mainstream propaganda outlet" framing is selectively applied with respect to one's political bias, not with regard to any consistent meaning for the description "mainstream propaganda".

>yet here you spit because of some pompous notion that the sources are worse than mainstream propaganda outlets? You are a silly person with silly opinions

I won't deign to judge the silliness of your opinions and I didn't attack any of the sources, just compared them to others. Ironically, your "mainstream propaganda" key phrase is actually a popular propaganda tactic meant to poison the well rather than encourage critical thinking.
Housing units per working age person is at an all time high and increasing quickly.

https://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2022/3/29/50377332-1...

On mobile now, but you can confirm the stats on FRED
Plex (and plexamp) have really brought back the old iTunes interface I didn't know I was missing.

I can search and get a list, I can sort within that list by whatever I want, I can create a "smart playlist" for "100 tracks, with more than 5 plays that were last played more than 3 months ago". There's also a "shuffle albums" feature that I didn't realize I missed from iTunes. You can also add a tidal subscription within plex, but it's a little clunky so I just stick to my library.
Important day of remembrance
I wish the reporter had dug into a few more things: first, the impact on the neighbor. Did they just not like the look of it, or was there more? Second, what options he had to mitigate this. Was it the grass that was the problem, and could that have been mitigated by putting down some sort of fluid catching surface, could that have helped?

My instinct is to support the old man who fixes things, but I'm cautious in coming to conclusions. He might have been doing real harm to his neighbor, or to the environment. He may have had reasonable outs and been stubborn and not taken them. We don't know enough, and I think that's a failure in journalism.
Good fences (and even better lots of land) make for good neighbors. But in typical suburban lots, there's presumably some level of junkyard accumulation on a property (or serious degradation of a house) that causes issues for neighbors even absent HOA excesses. There are some limits that all but the most radical libertarians would agree with. It's a question of how much.
It's trivial to imagine, if you've ever worked on a car, had a "car guy" neighbor, lived near a service shop, etc. Many cars are neither quiet nor do they confine their emissions to property boundaries.
> However, a nothrow function is still allowed to throw an Error. How does that work?

> How it works is that the compiler still omits exception cleanup code, and the code that catches the Error is not allowed to continue the program. If it does, the program may obviously be in an invalid state.

Yikes? What's the rationale for allowing errors to be thrown out of nothrow functions, rather than just aborting there and then?
This is just not true. There are tons of good games that don’t get anywhere near the attention and sales that they would have during the early 2010s. In fact the only way this is true is if your definition of “good game” is “commercially successful game”.

Easy examples to point out are things like Tumbleseed: https://store.steampowered.com/app/457890/TumbleSeed/ or Mushroom 11: https://store.steampowered.com/app/243160/Mushroom_11/

And those are both 5 years old and things have only gotten harder since then!
Yeah - so the fair thing to do is to make him homeless when he is 80, right? Dude, does it ever occur to you that some rules are wrong and humans making decisions might be wrong? You are responding to the wrong sentiment.
The Gringo Hunters
I tried to avoid Amazon because they don't need my money and you can find better quality or better deal elsewhere.

Amazon is becoming a Wish also.
About "podman machine":

> Podman also runs on Mac and Windows, where it provides a native podman CLI and embeds a guest Linux system to launch your containers. This guest is referred to as a Podman machine and is managed with the `podman machine` command.

> ..On Mac, each Podman machine is backed by a QEMU based virtual machine.

> ..On Windows, each Podman machine is backed by a virtualized Windows System for Linux (WSLv2) distribution.

https://podman.io/getting-started/installation.html
Managed resource lifetime
This might be a harsh, unpopular opinion, but if someone is going to accept a job where equity is a significant portion of their compensation, they really need to understand the essentials of equity, how options work, their tax implications, how to read basic financial statements, and so on. This is your livelihood we're talking about. Would you accept a job that paid in Bitcoin without understanding the basics of cryptocurrency? How about one that paid in Beanie Babies? I'm not saying go back to school and get a Finance degree, but people need to get informed about their compensation!
I had an interview once that wanted me to do A-star "find fastest routing of internet packets between sites" and when I presented a brute force path finder and he complained about the big O, I told him that his problem as framed only featured tens of graphs and his business domain as framed (as a function of the company's domain) would never have more than 20 sites, and anyways a sneakernet (ship ssds) would be faster (which he conceded).

I didn't get the job.
Celeste uses high resolution dialogue text, but its gameplay is strict about the pixel grid.

Loop Hero is strict about its pixel art and uses a fixed 16-colour palette that is reminiscent of the Commodore 64.

Baba Is You has visuals that you could basically render on a ZX Spectrum.

And in addition to doing pixel art well, these are all pretty great games.
I recently joined a real estate group, and the kinds of things I'm seeing there are beyond explanation.

People have basically come to understanding that house prices only go up, they use exotic financing and stupid leverage (BRRR method) to keep buying "assets" and jacking up their rental yield which then re-prices the asset so they can take an even bigger loan to buy more "assets".

Recently someone in the group asked how they could afford a house in Seattle and most answers resonated around buying houses in midwest/lcol areas and jacking up rent/renovating to take out further financing and keep buying properties till you can afford to buy a house in the hcol area.

This has to end, with FED inflicting pain on the stupid leveraged folks.

Homes should be for people to live in, not to purely speculate and grow their money.
The city has noted that the neighbors complained about rats, and that the guy actively refused to allow a city inspector onto the property (who could have, presumably, confirmed or denied reports of vermin infestation). That's less 'fixing a car' and more 'letting stuff sit there unattended until it fills up with animal nests'.
I would have used "dude" and not worried about it - HN is mostly dudes and from my experience female nerds could care less if you call them dudes (and may even get a little thrill out of it.)
Is it plausible that he could have sought and achieved a stay on the fines being accumulated?
>CESA itself does not define “fish,” but the law is part of the California Fish and Game Code. The code’s definition includes any “mollusk, crustacean, invertebrate (or) amphibian,”

Saved you the click.
Yes, that makes sense, if it was shipped in the bottle it should be fine I'm sure.
My high school physics teacher was stationed at Eniwetok and he told us a lot about it. His job was photography, and he showed us some impressive photos of the explosions, including some showing lightning striking the top of the mushroom cloud.

He mentioned that his son was adopted, though whether that was by necessity or out of caution I don't know.

Anyway, he lived to an apparently healthy old age.
OVO vs. Bug Bounty researchers – round 2
So a company isn't allowed to raise the bar?
"It might well be the case that living next door to this guy is hell on Earth."

It's also possible that the complainers are stuck up pricks. I suppose we will never know since we aren't their neighbors.

"You shouldn’t just be allowed to do what you want just because you own a block of suburban land."

True. What actions did he do that negatively impacted his neighbors? Fruit falling off his trees? Working on a car and having some cars in just back lot? Mind you all of this was reasonably hidden as well as it is practical to do so (behind a fence).