skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The full quote:

> Although McLeod enjoys his job, he knows it’s one that’s frowned upon by many. “A lot of people see that a homeless person got arrested for stealing a candy bar. They’re hungry, right?” he says. “A lot of people are like, ‘How, morally, can you do this job?’”

I still think this is a perfectly moral (and important!) job. And it's the role of our justice system to define what punishments should be when folks are caught. But the context of the quote does change when you see he was talking about a situation where a homeless person takes a single candy bar. The "man steals a loaf of bread to feed his starving family" thing is a pretty classic ethical dilemma.
Just want to say thanks: This is insanely cool/easy. Combined with the VSCode Remote SSH extension and MagicDNS, it's now insanely easy to work on a project in a remote environment. I was recently reading through a relatively long post on setting up SSH through Tailscale to access a WSL2 environment, and now it's literally as easy as popping open VSCode in any environment that I have Tailscale installed on and accessing `user@my-magic-dns-machine`. Great work!
Japan has seen an explosive growth in poverty, especially among young people.
Because batteries can pump out magnitudes more power in a very short amount of time than solar. The two are not comparable.

The batteries aren't connected to the grid directly, the grid can't absorb DC power, it has to go through an inverter.

Even if your batteries can supply 500KW of instantaneous power, if they are connected to a 1KW inverter, the most the grid will ever see is 1KW - there's no failure mode that would let a 1KW inverter pump out 500KW of AC power, even for an instant.
Do they ignore symbols like Google? I want a search engine that doesn't
You would have to spread that load across multiple circuits in your house to avoid tripping breakers/blowing fuses. You might not have enough capacity to absorb all 400A if the original installer oversized the main breaker to allow for additional capacity later.

The bad thing is you would get a huge power bill at the end of the month.
The easiest way is to pay in dollars and advise them to not use the Government rate/bank rate to convert. There is a market rate and government rate - and there are services that will just pay out in Dollars in those countries.

Also, cryptocurrency. Ironically enough.
> When the motors are powered on, it starts writhing, executing complicated squashing and stretching motions and occasionally flinging itself into the air, all the while slowly making its way up a bumpy foam ramp

Motors. Plus the wheel is in an horizontal plane, on its side. Hence the flinging ‘into the air’. Clickbait title I think.
I'm historically a very liberal San Francisco resident. But I'm finding it really hard to understand the amount of shoplifting going on at my local Walgreens (Mission and 30th). I visit the Walgreens about once a week mostly for diapers and covid test kits. I go at various times of day. About 1 in 4 times I'm there I've witnessed shoplifting. Mostly groups of teens and, in my uninformed assessment, not struggling financially. They seem to be doing it for the thrill. Like a sport. It is dystopian. So much of the store's products are locked up now. About half the time there is a security guard at the door. But that doesn't deter these adolescence. A man in the line in-front of me was trying to explain to his young daughter what just happened when four teens bolted from the store laughing and giving the staff rude gestures. It wasn't dangerous but it was frightening to the child. He chatted to the checkout person that he conveyed his apologies to the staff. The checkout person vented some frustration and said it was at least hourly.

I understand that Walgreens have closed at least 10 stores in San Francisco in a couple of years due to "Organized Retail Crime"
love the design on this! neat idea.

for those not in the know, i think this is one of the marketing experiments that the tuple crew is doing w/ a Stripe capital loan. Interesting idea, and will be cool to see how it plays out w/ conversions
What does the collapsing civilisation look like?

It might just be a more frugal civilisation without the bells and whistles. And the bullshit jobs will disappear.
I think the thing I'd be worried about first is the transformers. Would they handle that much power flowing in reverse without overheating/catching on fire? They're already one of the weaker parts of our system; they don't handle overcurrents well (they're largely what folks are concerned would fail due to a solar flare).

The second thing would be all the sensors attached to the grid. Would they identify a sudden and dramatic change in flow as a fault, and throw their switches?

Also, where would that supply of energy flow? If there's not enough of a sink for that electricity, what happens to the generators? If the sink is outside the local area, what would happen to those transmission lines?
For me it is inability to load any other website in some of my old button phones which I love. The loading problem on my phones is about missetting https on most of websites (I can not read google, wikipedia, and 99% of internets on my Blackberry).
I've been in contact with 3 different firms like Astro in the past 3 months, and now you guys pop up. Did something happen somewhere in the American job market? Or have I just been discovered to be living under a rock?
There also used to a couple subreddits for shoplifters with tips and stories about people's experiences with store security (justified or not). It was interesting being subscribed to both the loss prevention subreddit and those other spaces, but sadly reddit banned them. I'm guessing that the ban only made it harder for people working in loss prevention by making it more difficult to monitor those kinds of discussions. Once again, if you're hoping to fight something its so much better to keep it in the light where you can observe it.
For anyone that uses XML stuff in Java, you are probably aware of String.intern memory and performance issues. I don't know if that stuff persists today, but a ton of XML parsing goes through that method.
Only five years?
not formally, just people working to get stuff done - as a nominal 'logic designer' I've routed my blocks, written scan insertion software, done back end static timing closure etc etc

There's just a lot of scope for the physical designers and logic designers to work together ("we really need a cell that does X"/"this cell doesn't route well, I want to remove it") to produce good results
1) There have been Googlers who have posted on HN about their customer service, and the ones that have posted seem to think their algorithms are good enough and don't really make the connection that every false positive is a real human or business that might lose a business or worse when they can't access their data. My interpretation of this is that either they're fine with being evil, or Google's average employees aren't quite as smart as public perception portrays.

2) I'm a little sympathetic to Google here, because there's no way that they can offer real customer service to the entire Internet. I run some small businesses and get dumb phone calls all of the time from confused people thinking that my random shop has anything to do with their phone plan or email issues or a problem with their cable bill or anything else under the sun because they ended up at my store after putting certain keywords into Google. I have no doubt that Google would receive hundreds of thousands of mostly dumb, useless calls daily that they are not responsible for from every confused person out there. There's no feasible way to provide standard customer service to the entire Internet.

3) The solution for Google is really easy though: charge some fee for human support that keeps customer service requests to a manageable level. When it's a genuine issue, people will pay some fee to get an actual trained person to pay attention to and hopefully resolve.

4) I'm sure people have committed suicide and lost jobs because of the consequences from Google blocking their account without any recourse. This is definitely not an acceptable state of affairs, and I'd suggest avoiding using Google products whenever possible until this reprehensible behavior is changed.
> to generate comparable amounts of power to conventional sources requires huge amounts of landmass.

It would take about 0.01% of the US land area to generate all the electricity we need. Meanwhile we use 30% (over 1000x) to grow food. And if we prioritize solar on rooftops and deserts, we really are not using any useful land.
I don't consider cars simple assembly, that has obvious value add when compared to a pile of parts. Fiber optic assemblies are expensive to buy but trivial to build from the inexpensive imported parts. Forcing purchasers of those assembled parts to buy onshore should count as an effective negative manufacturing GDP because it could have been purchased offshore fully assembled for cheaper. Perhaps there are good national security reasons for requiring onshore assembly of telecoms equipment but mixing it with economics statements is goosing.
If people were stealing diapers and baby formula because their own kids needed them, that would be one thing. But in practice, it's to fence them and then use the proceeds to buy drugs.
I use it and I’m not those things.

Brave is now my default recommendation to “normies” as it’s easiest to set up and reduce the Bonnard of ads and it doesn’t track you.

I used to recommend Firefox but it’s huge and bloated and isn’t as easy to use any more.

It’s funny because it seems your social network is a bit weird if you have such a limited intersection of Brave+Qnuts.

Interestingly, I don’t know a single person irl who is a “qnut” (or at least admits it to me) but I know lots of sysadmin types with a decent chunk who use Brave. Probably 50% are “de googling.”
> grug understand all programmer platonists at some level wish music of spheres perfection in code. but danger is here, world is ugly and gronky many times and code so also must. humility not often come big brained or think big brained easily or grug even, but grug often find "oh, grug no like look of this, grug fix" lead many hours pain grug and no better or system worse even. grug early on often charge into code base waving club wildly and smash up everything, learn not good

> grug not say no improve system ever, quite foolish, but recommend take time understand system first especially bigger system is and respected code working today even if not perfect

grug read this and grok spirit, grug enlightened. master not club grug so much.
I see so many more cryptic comments about their mailing list than actual description.

Anyone have a good resource to catch up?

In the meantime, I recommend my perspective to anyone who asks (nobody asks): separate the OS from the dev mailing list.
It's pretty sweet in a server or for networking/edge network stuff, but I've never really bothered to use it as my desktop daily driver and it's all because of what you mentioned. Props to those who have the patience and will to do this though.
I would argue that this wheel isn't made out of odd matter, it's made out of motors and springs (rubber bands) the same way all actuators are. It behaves in a way that is analogous with odd matter, which the article defines as:

> The odd wheel grew out of Coulais and Vitelli’s past work on the physics of “active matter” — an umbrella term for systems whose constituent parts consume energy from the environment, such as swarms of bacteria, flocks of birds and certain artificial materials. The energy supply engenders rich behavior, but it also leads to instabilities that make active matter difficult to control.

I'm a little confused by the idea of this being spontaneous as well, especially since it's repeatable. Emergent, maybe? On the whole it just seems like a type of open loop locomotion control that doesn't rely on limit cycles. Which is interesting but not "spontaneous".
big brain really like post. lesson learn is deep!

"(best grug brain able to herd multiple big brain in right direction and produce many complexity demon trap crystals, large shiney rock pile!)"
> I'd say that if you find this distasteful, I think you're better served arguing against patents and trademarks in general since this seems to my very biased eyes to be reasonable based on the current system we have.

If anything I find trademarks to be the least unreasonable part of the whole IP nonsense.

As an example, it seems absurd to me that Disney gets to decide in which works Spiderman can or can't appear (or is that Sony? Why??) when that character is part of our shared culture. At the same time, if anyone can put Spiderman in their stuff, you should at least be able to tell which version of Spiderman you are seeing and if it is an "official" production or an alternate take, and it seems like some form of Trademark could help here.
Confluence is definitely their worst product. It's like they took the idea of a Wiki, but removed all it's good aspects and then combined it with a terrible CMS system. A competitor could just use an ancient WikiWikiWeb installation and be better.
The advice is fantastic! Fear the club.

> grug tempted to reach for club and yell "big brain no maintain code! big brain move on next architecture committee leave code for grug deal with!"

> grug tempted reach for club when too much agile talk happen but always stay calm
Yeah, though I thought Udemy had the least favorable reputation just because of the weird pricing tactics and a lot of courses being glorified tutorials. There's some great stuff on there, but I didn't think it would rank that much higher than Coursera.
Medium has turned in such a unusable shitshow now, it should be a lesson for anybody who seriously considers using twitter as a writing platform.
The immediate vibe I got was; Twitter is channeling LiveJournal to keep users on Twitter
It is a tautology that "grow at all costs" is not a sustainable economic order.

It has been apparent since at least the 1970s that the limits to the growth phase of industrialisation is looming.

It has been blindingly obvious for twenty years that we urgently need to change our economies to not require growth to maintain development.

This is not new. It has been shouted from the roof tops for decades.

Not shifting economic models will produce much more grief than shifting.
Hell, at the very least it makes me think of Nacho Libre - and who doesn't like Jack Black?
Regarding Git being 94%, if you see the table just below about interacting with the version control system, you'd see 83.57% users using command-line. 28.44% are using version control hosting service web GUI. 83.57% is still a big number of people who are using git with fewer abstractions on top.
You are actually proving their point by noting the plethora of homeless people who are surviving
To be fair, those bullets are prefaced with "Of course, as a good salesperson, I would have to avoid some topics because this would make the customer lose interest into OpenBSD"
The Lost World of Statesmanship
I think this nicely captures everything I've learned about programming over the past n years that I wish other people would realize too.
It's because even the direct costs like worker's comp are much worse than a bit of shrink. Employees getting hurt is extremely expensive in the US. Incentive structures often just aren't aligned; the person who cares about those costs is higher up.

https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/work/costs/workers-compensation-...
A 3-person startup probably has a CEO, probably doesn't have an engineering manager
Again, no, not anything can a computer. If you like Turing machines, there are specific requirements for what makes a Turing machine. None of these things are ingredients of a Turing machine:

* Observation
* Measurement
* Interpretation
* Intent
* A mind

> My contention is that whether that arrangement of objects is in fact a computer is subjective

You are wrong. It is discretely defined. Read about the requirements for a Turing machine.

* When the requirements are *not* met,
subjectivity can not turn something
into a computer.
* When the requirements *are* met,
subjectivity can not change the fact
that it is computer.

It's obvious that subjectivity has no effect -- either in the matter of classifying computers, or allowing computation to take place.

> it depends on whether anyone conceives of it as a computer, or uses it to obtain computational results.

Again, refuted, in so many different ways. Here's an obvious one which I will restate:

* Cells inarguably perform computation.
They pre-date minds by billions of years.

Put a different way, if a Turing Machine computes in the woods and there's no one around to see it, computation will still have taken place. The burden of proof would be on you to say otherwise. I only see two very messy and wrong arguments:

A) Iron bars don't compute by themselves --> A mind is needed to "map" iron bars to "states of an arbitrary Turing machine"

It doesn't follow. Iron bars don't compute on their own because they are just the memory component. What is missing is MACHINERY WITH SPECIFIC PROPERTIES to complete a Turing machine. If the machinery is present, computation is possible. No mind necessary.

B) Socks are a computer if I decide they are --> arbitrary objects can in principle compose a computer --> deciding is necessary to make computers.

It doesn't follow. While computers could be made of just about anything, fully arbitrary objects cannot be computers. Only specific systems yield computation. Decision has nothing to do with it. Not even observation is required.

> there's a steady flow of people discovering that some X is a Turing-complete language, when X wasn't actually even meant to be a language at all.

You're arguing my point. "discovering" Turing machines ... meaning some things are already Turing machines before a mind became involved.

> So it seems that some configuration of stuff is a computer IFF (a) it is capable of doing computation, and (b) someone is willing to consider it as a computer.

You say "So it seems" and "IFF" but it does not follow at all. (b) is not supported. Computation can happen without "someone".

At best, you're arguing that trees falling in the forrest make no sound.

Anyway, why do I think I have time for this ...
Wildbow is being matched by pirateaba's Wandering Inn these days. https://wanderinginn.neocities.org/statistics.html
They impose stricter measures In a heavily misguided attempt at trading rights for security. Suffice it to say it's not really an effective solution.
I still ain't seeing your suggestion for a better name.
It’s a blog post from a decade ago. It’s not “researched” because it’s more like a journal entry (or a tweet, perhaps) than an “article” the way blog posts are often viewed now. It’s purpose isn’t to deliver readers a definitive answer but to spur discussion and get readers thinking. I might even go so far as to say the answer to the author’s question is entirely irrelevant.
Eh, isn't the real story then that Linux will route random incoming traffic on any interface? Even if you haven't configured it as a router?

I know whoever was in charge of configuring Dockers iptables routes should have known this and messed up, but that is fucked up.
that's where docker failed in only copying part of what I built (they simplified it, and to an extent that was good for making a product, but I had proposed the need for (and prototyped) a container/layer aware.

see https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa11/improving-virtual-a....

the "problem" is building that layer aware linux distribution, so Docker just skipped it and relied on existing things and building each image up linearly.

This was actually an advantage of CoreOS's rkt (and the ACI format), where it enabled images to be constructed from "random" layers instead of linear layers (though the primary tooling didn't really provide it and were just docker analogues, there were other tools that enabled you to manually select which layer IDs should be part of an image - but docker "won" and we were left with its linearized layer model).
Google News is now available in Spain
Not sure if you’ve been to Japan within the last twenty years but it’s neither advanced or highly automated. People do everything.

Edit Anyone down voting please supply some practical examples of how Japan is advanced and highly automated.

Also it wasn't meant as a criticism of Japan, I love the place. I just believe that the stereotype of Japan being in the future isn't accurate or helpful. It's overused.
https://github.com/incipher/shamir

Here's a CLI, written in Go, that uses HashiCorp Vault's implementation of the Shamir Secret Sharing algorithm and exposes its functionality to the command-line in an easy-to-use manner.

I personally use it to divide my password manager's master password into shares that are given to family members and close friends in order for them to collectively reconstruct my master password and obtain access to my password vault in case I pass away.

Disclaimer: I'm the author.
While this sounds convincing, what about if there is just a little inflation and no real growth, only nominal growth due to that inflation. Wouldnt the motive of lending 1$ today for a year not be to have an amount which has the same purchase value in a year?
No, it doesn’t pass over that. It specifically points out that it’s a simplistic example for illustration that probably wouldn’t be worth it. And yet the effects are visible and so are the problems/solutions.

I mean what do you want here? 1,000 LoC in a blog post so it feels worth it?
> currently available food derived from GM crops poses no greater risk to human health than conventional food

What if "conventional food" is bad and has been bred for things like appearance and shelf-stability over nutrition?
I mostly see people raging against Brave, not shilling for crypto. One of the main reasons I post in these threads is a bunch of unhinged stuff people spout nonstop that hasn't matched my experience using the browser at all. I pretty much just use it as a Chromium with better defaults and like that they're building their own search index. The tipping system seems interesting but I haven't bothered with it thus far. It's just a good browser, IME, from a team that understands their job is to make a good tool.
I live next to a grocery store with a high rate of theft and I couldn't agree more. The home goods section of the store has already closed due to theft. The freezers containing frozen seafood and frozen treats (ice cream) now have locks on them. Not to mention there is almost always a group of homeless folks gathered right outside the entrance which makes the area dangerous: my partner has personally been chased by a homeless person near the store.

I see folks making the argument, "property rights should not be above human life," and I get it, but grocery stores are not charities. Problems should be solved with real solutions rather than sacrificing businesses who are not equipped to solve the problem. In other words, if “property rights should not be above human life” then cities should provide for those lives through taxes and meal programs rather than letting random businesses be targets.
There’s good ads and bad ads. I don’t reject to ads so much as I reject the tracking and profiling that goes into most ads.

I’m perfectly happy with ads in magazines. I don’t like ads based on my search history that follow me from pc to phone to Alexa to tv to other PCs.
BRB calling the police

;)
I wonder if there might be an article somewhere so that I could read more about this.
“We should content ourselves with being poorer than our parents were”.

Fuck no.
The Docker images are not even versioned.