skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
only to the extent that the violent crime is preventable. Ultimately, the victim bears the risk and the rest of society will do what they must (policing, self-defense, investigation, justice, compensation) after the fact to prevent future victimization themselves.

In the case of crypto/investment fraud, you have to take into account that all investments and transactions bear a certain amount of risk and reward. It's not fair to expect the public to bail you out for risks that you knowingly accepted when they wouldn't get a slice of the reward. In the conventional financial system, the public sees a slice of that reward through taxation. The same is not true of cryptocurrency, so why use everyone else's tax dollars to regulate it?

The only reason authorities like the SEC exist is to reduce risk, thus increasing the amount that ordinary people can safely invest. It's not a matter of ethics, it's a matter of economics.
Meeting notes lose value the moment you finish writing them
Yep but if you add a note for the reason of bankruptcy into your credit application, the credit provider would still take that into consideration and STILL charge you a higher interest rate.

Depending on the absolved medical debt (being discharged by your bankruptcy), and its would-be crushing monthly payments, the higher interest rate of your new (mortgage/credit) credit lines and its monthly payments are often less than the impact by (then dissolved) medical payments therefore your living standard would still improve after such medical-related bankruptcy.
Related: https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne - Cross platform GUI in Go
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An Overview of Computer Vision (1982) [pdf]
> It saddens me that we need the government to step in on cases like this.

Every time I see this I chuckle. The first public companies ever created had just two lines of business: selling drugs and selling slaves.

The only reason they ever stopped, was because government stepped in. The expectation that developers can do something is delusional, you need men with guns- I suppose some vigilante citizen militia could also work though.
> “Defendants falsely and deceptively claim that Dogecoin is a legitimate investment when it has no value at all,” Johnson said in his complaint,

What makes a cryptocurrency a "legitimate investment" ?
It clearly is a risky and highly speculative investment, but it's not clear to me what separates legitimate ones from illegitimate ones.
Johnson's claim that Dogecoin has no value at all seems rather bogus, as it still trades at well over 1 cent per coin (we can agree it has no "inherent value").
> Not that the C64 SID chip was even remotely intended to be able to play sampled audio in the first place!

I don't recall how SAM did it, but sample playing on the C64 SID chip was indeed a nice trick — it was actually done by modulating the main output volume, which made a slight click when changing.

Eventually this got used by some of the C64 musicians / music player libs, so one could play a channel of samples as well as the three regular synth channels on the SID. IIRC, Outrun used this particularly well in its title screen and/or loading music, having some vocal samples "O-O-Outrun!" (and skidding sound effects) as well a sampled drums.

Annoyingly, IIRC, some revisions of the SID chip behaved slightly differently, and had louder or softer sample playback when this hack was used. But still: clever stuff.
You didn't address any of my points as to why they exist. You're just using charged language to describe people working in a system that is kind of shitty for event goers. They're providing a service for people like me that may not want to buy tickets a year ahead of time, but rather keep that optionality to go open closer to the date of the event even if it means a higher price
I wish all luck for Drew and all people contributing to Helios.

I wish it could be a successful OS and maybe some day we can replace Linux for it, since now Linux is controlled by big corps.
Having single payer healthcare would've helped me a lot when I was looking to start my own business. Without it it makes the personal savings runway too short.
^^THIS
How can I submit my debt?

Or is it kind of a site that buys debt that the hospital has 0% chance of collecting anyway?
If your situation is as dire as your post makes it sound, I wouldn't personally wait until July.

Given that we've finally advanced into the era of more accessible tele-health thanks to COVID, you may not necessarily be restricted by geographic limitations in finding a psychopharmacologist to work with. Try searching for psychopharmacologists who offer "virtual" appointments or tele-health/tele-medicine services.

Get an appointment ASAP, like next week at the latest. Why wait?

Many medications require titrating up to a clinically effective dosage over the course of weeks, before you even get to find out if it'll have a positive therapeutic effect, then you may need to titrate down over weeks before you can start the next drug.

While psychopharmacology is a "science," because of our widely differing biologies, it's a science of trial-and-error.

Also, I know it's probably not something you want to hear, but it's not the end of the world if you have to spend another semester, or even another two or three semesters, to complete your degree.

Life is long, and this is just a transient speed bump. It may seem like a big deal RIGHT NOW, but 10 years from now, it'll just be another one of those things you had to overcome in life.

Try to relax. Focus on the things you can control, and try to not dwell on the things you can't. It too, shall pass.
I just switched to hackernews from a Gmail conversation I was having with Google customer support. The chain started when a Google person sent me a follow-up from a chat conversation where the Google support person refused to help me. The follow-up mail said a reply "will come directly to me". I replied and a second emailer replied back to me to "thank you for your understanding". I replied again and yet another Google support person replied to me saying that because I was "logged out" my ticket was now closed and that they were glad they could help.

Reading your comment I feel there is just a commitment to shallow lies from Google across the board. For example, why would the first emailer even tell me replies went directly to her? It obviously wasn't true. Why would three or four Google people email me, do absolutely nothing, and then close the ticket? Why not just say "We aren't helping" or just ignore my request?
> Where doctors also make much more modest salaries

I would say that they are "less high", but not "modest", given that the cost of life is also lower.

Also you have to factor in that they don't have to sell their house if they get cancer.
This is sometimes a bit infuriating, because due to these online forums, there developed some "common sense" that is factually wrong. I can recount following misbeliefs from my head:

- Wine is not an emulation

- MS-DOS is not an OS because it cant do paging and virtual memory

- Microprocessors are not Microcontrollers because they have paging

There are also some tinier things like notorious NIH syndrome due to not reading documentation, like the tons of blog articles about SSH features that could all be replaced by ten minutes of reading ssh-keygen(1).

I've seen that on IRC, Reddit and HN as well, and i ended up preferring official documentation over anything else what people online say. If this writing sounds like venting, it surely is.
super cool. we pull in a lot of software when we build our apps on top of packages. each package does a thousand things and the app uses only a fraction of it. in this case, it's probably a bunch of OS packages.
Well, it obviously is a global failure. It exists in places where people can be forced to pay for it. There is not a single competitive energy market where merchant nuclear reactors have been built to compete in that market. That's because it's just too expensive. Sure, reactors have been built to exploit monopolies, and where political considerations trump economic ones. That's nothing to be proud of.
Yep. On a related note, when I was younger, I searched for advice from experts for how to develop expertise in studying and productivity on Reddit. It led to lots of highly-upvoted advice (including stuff like supplements, largely with few real benefits besides placebo), popular blogs by influencers (like Scott Young), and popular self-help books.

However, the actual experts I knew in high school who later went on to great institutions like MIT or applied and got into extremely competitive investment banks didn't browse the internet very much, or relied on supplements and these books.

Similar to the ideas expressed in the submitted article, these people didn't spend time online reading blogs and Reddit, or blogging/self-promoting themselves. They generally were involved in a sport (track and field or squash), spent little time online, and spent a lot of time using a lot of paper studying.

They also were careful who they associated with as friends (they hung out with studious people). Less in one's control, their parents were financially successful or were in competitive positions (e.g. were professors or physicians), so they may have learned these strategies from them, versus inventing them independently.

Long story short: there is absolutely a culture of improvement that is primarily offline and less visible, because people either don't record it, or people do record it and it doesn't get upvoted or ranked highly on Google searches. Examples of recorded good advice appeared on HN recently, shared by computer scientist Donald Knuth who is also usually offline: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31482116
It's so good for the body and has opportunities for stopping at stores, pubs, etc.
https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co...

"There is a common belief that corporate directors have a legal duty to maximize corporate profits and “shareholder value” ... this belief is utterly false."
Neuromorphic chip dramatically reduces power requirements for rolling robot
It's good to review historical cases like these, as a reminder of how fleeting our contemporary view of free expression in the US is: restricting even the private distribution of literature was broadly popular less than a century ago, and many of the Comstock laws[1] survived well into the 20th century. Distributors of Howl were arrested as late as 1957!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comstock_laws
That's interesting, could you provide more details? What are the un-fun bits? Too restricted? Too slow? Too hard to debug the application?
Right.

I didn't say, suggest, or believe that the extra cost of restaurant food was due just or mostly to the initial, one-time costs of the startup.

Instead I wrote

> all before hiring any workers to get the food ready for customers.

So, those are the on-going costs you illustrated.

Also my main lament and summary remark was quite general covering both times and categories of small businesses:

> I like to think of current progress in computing and the Internet technology as keys to greater economic productivity, but tough to see easy applications of this technology to the context of the OP, other restaurants, many small businesses, etc.

Sure, small gains in "economic productivity" are visible, so
I would revise that lament to "tough to see the desired big gains ...."
god this article sounds like a writing prompt.

"im making drugs for cats!" I shreik in my underwear as the FBI raids my derelict RV full of cat clozapine and TV dinner trays.

"im making drugs for cats" I calmly explain as i wheel a teetering trolly full of drain cleaner and paint thinner toward my car.

"im making drugs...for cats?" I shake my head as the prospect of tenure track seems to fade away.
Yes the language is intentionally constrained to “network with other engineers.”

Thanks, I guess, for suggesting I keep a perspective I already had in mind (as evidenced by the constrained choice of words).
Hello everyone,

I am the author of the article. I will be happy to answer any questions here.
Bad lawyers can and do. They also end up in jail.
Did you report this to Apple?
VFS for Git is deprecated, although something incorporating its approach is likely to best way to implement a real monorepo. Which AFAIK doesn't exist, outside of proprietary implementations used inside certain big tech companies.
Almost certainly if you're good at blogging, speaking, self-promotion you're not the most expert in some other field. The cases where there's a cross-over are perhaps not surprisingly rare (Raymond Chen is a good one, John Carmack) or are indirect (Linus doesn't "blog" per se but some of the mailing list emails are as good as one).

And if there's not something to "verify" the writer/performer, it can get wildly out of control. The streamers that claim to be good at the game they're playing can be verified (and many don't even need to be, it is entertainment after all) but the agile evangelist doesn't have the same way to prove it.

If you try to say something that's not the "defacto thought" of the group, you have to be even better at all the above, which makes it even more likely that those who go against the grain remain silent.
The parent said within a few days. That might not be realistic with the processes in place and I think that's all they were getting at.
> All our doctors (Eastern EU here) are leaving for UK, US, or richer western EU countries

To be fair. That's true of educated people in general, not just doctors.
It seems to be back.
Was your uncle qualified for medicare? We recently had several members need end of life care and they didn't have to pay any of the hospital bills. Many bills we did receive, we called the charging company and they were waived immediately "oh I guess we made a $100K mistake" or "medicare already reimbursed us, that was just a courtesy notice."
> Its values align with "woke" values because its profits do not depend on the favorable opinions and/or work performance of racists, sexists, homophobes, transphobes, or other traditional Western bigots.

It's deeper than that. There are genuine economic incentives for corporations to align themselves with progressive values. Racist hiring schemes artificially restrict the labor pool, and would deny them access to many of the best workers. Furthermore, having a diverse workforce reduces the risk of unionization. Amazon specifically is known to track low ethnic and racial diversity as a unionization risk; the other big companies probably do similar. The most obnoxious aspects of corporate "wokeness", the anti-racist training and similar "get lectured by HR" programs, likely serve to decrease the risk of unionization by keeping employees nervous and on their toes around each other. A workplace where everybody is walking on eggshells, treating their coworkers like potential landmines, is not exactly fertile ground for labor organization.
> The problem posed by the existence of nuclear energy was that it proved we didn’t need to radically reorganize society to solve environmental problems. We just needed to build nuclear plants instead of coal-burning ones.

I think this is what a lot of people are picking up on and why they don't trust a lot of the "green movement". It's disingenuous to be alarmist about global warming while simultaneously dismissing the most likely solution. It seems it's about wanting much more than just wind and solar, they want to restructure and recreate society based on their own moral principles.
I used Perforce for a decade and did not create a branch, not even once. People who want to branch in Perforce are often trying to bring a git mindset to a different tool. With a trunk-based edit/sync/submit workflow where you have different p4 clients for your different projects (what you would use various branches for in git) you need not branch.
That ship sailed nearly half a century ago. All of this source code was previously licensed to research universities starting in 1975. The earlier releases weren't under FLOSS license like we know them today, but with the intent that researchers would be reading, learning from, and modifying the code. And they did! creating later BSD Unix releases with more open licenses whose code was shared more widely under more permissive licenses.

Finally, the people who created this repo are some of the primary authors of the code. They wanted this to be in the open.
I have to add something to this.

This post is 45 minutes old and is almost now on page 2 of hacker news. Shit like this has become the norm! We don't think about it anymore. That is a huge problem. We cannot allow this to be the normal!

Ultimately we are the ones that built these tools. Use them.

I know the post rank isn't everything, but people just seem to not care anymore. We should be the ones that care the most because we actually understand (at least more of it) that this is happening in the first place and how it works. But also the dangers of things like this being moved to server side and completely hidden if nothing is done.
Thanks, this is the exact problem we are trying to solve using RapidFort technology
The worst experience I’ve had on iOS, fairly recently, was clicking on a search result and being redirected to a dodgy website which displayed a “your phone has a virus!” pop up, started attempting to call a phone number repeatedly, and somehow corrupted the OS to where I saw a distorted version of the left-hand slide menu from the home screen, could not go to the home screen, close the app or reboot. I managed to reboot through a different method but it’s made me very wary of going to random websites on my phone.
> A team of researchers at Tsinghua University's Center for Brain-Inspired Computing Research in Beijing... has developed a neuromorphic chip that can reduce the power consumption of a cat-and-mouse-type rolling robot by approximately half, compared to a conventional NVIDIA chip designed for AI applications

> They built a neuromorphic chip called TianjicX and put it in a small rolling robot called Tianjicat

> They also found that their neuromorphic chip-based robot had markedly reduced latency — [around one fifth of] the NVIDIA based system

Original research article: Neuromorphic computing chip with spatiotemporal elasticity for multi-intelligent-tasking robots - https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.abk2948

> TianjicX, [... a 28-nanometer TianjicX neuromorphic chip with event-driven, high parallelism, low latency, and low power ...] can support true concurrent execution of multiple cross-computing-paradigm neural network (NN) models with various coordination manners for robotics. With spatiotemporal elasticity, TianjicX can support adaptive allocation of computing resources and scheduling of execution time for each task. Key to this approach is a high-level model... which bridges the gap between robotic-level requirements and hardware implementations. It abstracts the execution of NN tasks through distribution of static data and streaming of dynamic data to form the basic activity context, adopts time and space slices to achieve elastic resource allocation for each activity, and performs configurable hybrid synchronous-asynchronous grouping

It seems the ideas are, given that robots must be in general energy efficient, to both implement a system that allows for resource management, and an adequate hardware implementation.

The article text is not available, and no further details are evident for the neuromorphic side.
The 6502 doesn't have a pipeline, so it's quite easy to count instruction cycles and find out how much time a given piece of code will take. I did this technique to bit-bang a serial port back in the day (given two one-bit ports with the CPU doing all the work because the system was too cheap to have an actual UART).
>Yes, he absolutely is, and the proof is

No they aren't there is a button that the user clicks that runs code to play multiple overlapping videos. This serves no conceivable purpose and can cause the browser to crash, it is a bug.

The reason it works is the code is run from a user action, the problem is after the first video play the browser should no longer consider the subsequent plays a user action, or it should only play the last video and cleanup the now overlapped previous video.
It works for multiple containers. Please see list: https://github.com/rapidfort/community-images
They hold a monopoly of merit, many tried EUV and they succeeded in doing something that others were calling impossible even 5 years before they shipped it, not by shutting down competition but simply because no one else could.

The idea that ASML would somehow be more worthy of merit if Nikon/Canon also succeeded is weird.

Would the moon landing me more impressive if Russia and Japan also managed it?
That's interesting, do you think the poor DX is due to not enough effort being made to make it more useful for outside devs, or because making it possible to do verification makes other things ugly and inconvenient?

I was considering seL4 for a hobby project (having worked with L4Ka:Pistachio a long time ago), but didn't dig deep enough to spot these problems.
In your model, retirement and leisure don't exist. When I can, I will absolutely stop working. Work to live, not live to work. I've done my time earning money for others. People don't need to be maximally productive all the time. Only the owner class thinks this, and we fought a civil war over an extreme form of this.
Really proud to be a part of history.
I love how thin the layer above assembly is: without knowing B, is my interpretation correct that this function effectively “inherits” the stack of the calling function? In other words, rather than passing function arguments and let the compiler deal with it, you’re supposed to push the string you want to lcase onto the top of the stack?

Reminds me a lot of writing my own compiler/assembler in university, where it’s expected that all this happens automatically nowadays.
LDS tax evasion is well documented. e.g.:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/18/us/latter-day-saints-charity-...
It just seems like it'd be such a huge win from a PR angle, even if the bills fail. You could literally post screenshots of the bills in their entirety on twitter showing how simple they are (student debt is abolished, college is free, medicine is free, etc) and just say "here is what we tried to do for you, and here are the people who said no."

I think the most productive change we could make to our government right now would be to set a page limit on new legislation. But this might produce legislation that actually helps normal people, which is why it'll never happen.
If you have insurance with an out of pocket max, how is it possible to end up paying for more than that?
That makes perfect sense if you know the history of the FDA!

PBS has a great documentary on it. https://www.pbs.org/video/dr-harvey-wiley-father-pure-food-s...
U.S. Home Equity Hits Highest Level on Record–$27.8T
This is not at all helpful to your current situation, but I found myself really wishing that you were working on Linux software ;-)
Linux started out as a hobby project.
FreeCAD is "feature full", but ... bearer of bad news here (sorry):

1. The UI is simply *awful*. Reminds me of the bad old days of Blender. Feels like a Motif style UI from the 90's TBH. Freecad needs to do what Blender did, bite the bullet hard and redo the UI from scratch to bring it into the 21st century.

2. The underlying NURBS engine (OpenCascade) is what's best in the FOSS world, but unfortunately it can't hold a candle to the "kernels" (CAD lingo for engine) that power equivalent commercial offerings (Fusion, Rhino, SolidWorks, CATIA, etc...)

Finally, I really wish FreeCAD had an OpenSCAD-like domain specific language for modeling that can directly create NURBS (there is a kind of an OpenSCAD integration, but it can only do poly meshes).
Isn't it cool? I mean, being in the history of a project like this... it could be around long after we are gone.
Good. They're the only thing standing between the public and people who would run mass experiments daily for money.
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