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$10m revenue != $10m profit

Was this wrong? Likely yes, if he was knowingly selling them for use on the public roads. They're legal on private areas.

Go after the people who have them installed. Fine the individuals. Get the sales list from this guy who was selling them. Credit card settlements are a thing.

But again, 1 $2.5m fine AND 1y jailtime is a life ending change, no matter how you look at it. And yes, it's hyperbole, but that was my point.

These types of fines COMBINED with felony jailtime has ruined his life. He can't get most jobs. The felony will follow him unless he can pay the federal bribe to remove it. And with $2.5m fine in addition, unless he's some SW eng at a FAANG, is just plain unpayable in his lifetime.
Forums still exist, even reddit and co sucked some up. A interesting question would be, if the degrading google search is responsible that it is harder nowdays to find them
> It's such a tiring method of argument -- "You can't do anything until you exhaustively quantify the plusses and minuses."

It takes like ten seconds to go over the benefits of ferrets. Why be lazy? I don't think it's a bad idea to briefly weigh both sides in just about every situation.
You mean like now when inequality has been trending up in leaps and bounds for years, authoritarian story mode leadership forces it’s preferences on the public, and their whims change every 4-8 years, and the public does nothing but kowtow and pander to elderly people who can’t remember anything?

Musk and co are not suffering.

This culture is a joke. None of us are going to Mars and the beyond but we’re setting us and ours aside for another high minded story about forever human prosperity and growth. Nevermind no science allows for humans to live among the stars. Every frame of reference so far as only seen them tightly coupled to Earth.

It’s clear human biology is capable of a philosophy that diverges wildly from reality. No reason at all to see this period in human society, and the people that make it up, as any less susceptible to propaganda and any more capable of their forever stories than the ancient Greeks.

They may not be spewing the syntax of religion, but the semantic meaning demanded by the powers that be are no different; kowtow to the visions and hallucinations of the almighty.
You're quite literally creating bit coin from thin air.. right? I mean, it's pure fiat: it only has value because of people's willingness to use it. And no one uses it: so, where's its value from? (fyi: pure ponzi, ones the fraud ends, its zero).

A gov-backed fiat has a whole government and international finance system (including army, police, taxation system conducted in the currency...) behind it.

Gold, at least, is gold. It has some marginal use value in producing goods.

The scam here relies on this profound economic illiteracy, in much the way that pyramid schemes do: here, sell this goods door-to-door and beat amazon!

The cypto system is a pure fiat currency, many of which exist, which are "made out of nothing", and no one uses -- that has no army, that has no shops, stores, no taxation system..

It's a false cancer cure sold by pyramid marketing. Inasmuch as vit-c doesnt cure the cold, "digital mining" is a false economy that will collapse. All the value people think they hold is smoke and mirrors. When the scam ends, everything will be obliterated.
Are you referring to Israel or China?
Normal cards are a solved issue. You can print two braille symbols on each and it is done. Imagine though something like cards against humanity for example, where the text on the card would take ten times the space in braille. In different games images and details could have different meaning and simple ocr would be the wrong solution.
Can confirm. I paid a guy on a BMW forum about $100 for the vehicle interface, which is ethernet to a J1962 connector (aka "OBD II Port"). That also included the e-sys software (Windows only). A few years later I needed an update to the software and found a guy on ebay who charged me about $75. So, those might be some places to look for this kind of thing.
Reminder that the problem isn't just "too much GHG", but crossing most planetary boundaries[1] at the same time.

I get why MIT has done the research, but this publicity is poised to create yet another distraction and delay necessary actions. We have to stop focusing on the symptoms and have the courage to go after the root causes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_boundaries
Yes, there's most definitely not anything on the probe that could even run Windows 98. ESA's article is pretty clear that it's just that the software was originally developed on Win98, but of course the usual game of telephone happened and several websites have actually reported that the orbiter itself is running Win98…
Tesla's have pretty responsive displays.

The last vehicle I bought, I turned down several vehicles because many of the internal environmental controls were through a touchscreen, and the touchscreen was so slow and bad I was honestly astonished that they were selling it.

The salesman tried to downplay it but I still walked out of the ford dealership 100% because of their shitty controls/touchscreen.

Ended up buying a car with old fashioned buttons and knobs, much happier.
It's true that in every field known to man, money buys influence, at least in some broad and hazily-defined sense of the word.

But the form of influence that can be bought in btc is not voting rights for what happens with the asset, not in any direct way. The distinction matters here.
And you can refer to Dobbs to understand the Supreme Court's view on why it isn't the case.
Yes she had many corruption scandals and has already deleted data from phones that were subject to investigation. Germans pushed away the most corrupt politicians to EU Parliment often
those pretty-printers are useful, thanks!
You cannot back up on laws, unless you are willing to withdraw from all the current international treaties altogether.

Right now, Spain does have a claim on the ship.
As a quite successful shark, I was initially pretty cynical and amused at the idea that “marine biology experts” with no shark experience had anything of merit to say.

What brought me around was when I actually looked at some of their observations and realized that an outside perspective actually had unique and meaningful points for me to ponder that I don’t think I could have arrived at on my own, stuck inside my shark-preferential perspective.

(Now substitute shark : entrepreneur and marine biology : sociology)
There is a teaching lab that David Ahl funded in Phillips Hall which is two buildings away from my office in Cornell's main engineering arcology.
Bitcoin-core is currently about 97% of bitcoin nodes.

Geth is about 80% of ethereum execution layer nodes.

But the bigger difference is cultural - alternative clients are a core part of ethereum's development culture and is actively supported and nurtured. This is complete with social campaigns to get folks to switch away from majority clients to prevent situations where a bug in one client could cause big issues in the network. The same kind of environment is not present in bitcoin land.
It's true. Bitcoin Core is the most used, so development is basically centralized.

https://coin.dance/nodes
Avoiding USB-C on iPhones may get harder for Apple as Brazil considers mandate
There have been a couple times where I've said something like "I'm sorry, I'm not seeing what's so funny here" when people are laughing about something serious. You can either look like a humorless dick or you people snap out of it and then respect you for acting like an adult
> but within the realms of what SpaceX is claiming they want to make possible

Is it possible to talk about space faring without mentioning spaceX theories? Why not talk about companies that have been sending stuff up there for decades?
I think this is still true for the case of a conventional war. This can be checked in Ukraine right now. As far as I know, most of the losses of Russian troops at the beginning of the conflict are associated with hidden groups of Ukrainian soldiers who did not show up while the Russian tanks were making the initial march. And then, when supply caravans were heading to the front line, these hidden groups instantly attacked them from the side, and then hid again in the woods by the roads. Then the Russians changed tactics - no rush, but intense shelling of the front line with all kinds of artillery for several days, then a small advance, then a sweep, and then the cycle repeats.
The difficulty comes when there are decisions to be made, and it's not obvious things like "give the ball to the person who can score".

At some point there will be 50/50 decisions, and someone has to make the call; that person we call the "leader".
Vacation Days for Android by Ingmania had the best year view I have seen on mobile.
The undesirable behavior is banned (excessive noise), it is simply not expected to be able to be enforced, so proxy actions are banned that (one assumes) have a high likelihood of leading to that problem.
The problem is that the technology for nuclear power is the same as the technology for nuclear weapons. Do you want every country to become a nuclear state?
Where did the scanner find 4,000 Rust jobs? During my recent job search, I found only five: zed.dev code editor, systeminit.com devops tooling, fly.io, Microsoft security tooling, and Tesla car simulation. I excluded cryptocurrency, embedded, and some really cool jobs in Europe.
Thank you sir! I try to limit text to a maximum width where needed, but can look into making the whole site a little less wide too.
Michael Burry: Tesla layoffs an ominous sign for white-collar workers
It was supposed to transition to PoS from the beginning.
Tell that to the BCH investors
This seems to be the case across much of London, sadly.

'Synthetic' is the word that comes to mind whenever I see these developments. Frankly, as much as the effort impresses me from a technical point, I'm content enough only ever seeing it from afar when I pass vaguely nearby on a train going south. I suspect I'll never actually walk through it.

Having 'argued' with people on HN about this sort of thing beforehand, I know that my view isn't exactly unanimous, so clearly some people like this sort of 'development'.
Capital in the 21st Century by Thomas Piketty

Central Banking by Thammarak Moenjak (textbook)

Debt: A 5000 Year History by David Graeber
I know, I am European and am the CTO for a US-based institution these days. Of course the same mechanisms of management exist here also, but in no way, shape or form in the same way they do in the US. It’s still like night and day on average. After talking with the CEO a lot, he had some sort of realization himself and almost seemed like he began questioning his whole reality. Some of my (subjective) impressions after working for small- and medium-sized (=< 500) European companies for over a decade and now being in US executive management:

Generally employees in the US tend do not have a sense of responsibility for the bigger picture, honestly, most just don’t give a shit. There’s no sense of belonging to a bigger cause. This is not meant as some sort of accusation, because I can understand 100% why that is. There's no reason for anyone to be actually motivated. People are treated like slaves, the general mindset is one of extreme superficiality, and even the most self-motivated and ambitious thought leaders end up being drained and exhausted and then dumped.

US work environments have brutal and insane administrative and technical overhead, are extremely inefficient and there is an abhorrent amount of parasitic middlemen ventures that have penetrated deep into even the most simple tasks and concepts. The environment itself is hostile towards efficiency and creativity.

US workers work more hours than in almost any developed country, yet efficiency is lower than anywhere else. It’s a common theme apparently, same shit with healthcare. Most expensive, least efficient and worst health outcomes in the developed world. Decreasing life expectancy, more infant deaths than in Russia and for some parts of the US, lower life expectancy than in Bangladesh. Sounds absolutely wonderful, and is a perfect example of exactly what’s wrong with the general work culture as well. It’s not about reaching some sort of long-term goal together, it’s just splitting the 3 step way up into 30 pieces and leeching and draining money out of every single one no matter the outcome. Short-term profit over anything else, fuck the future, fuck the new debt and fuck everyone else.

Personally, I had to distance myself from getting too invested and attached as well (so, in a sense, also giving less of a shit) because I got seriously depressed after a while.

But yeah, socialism is “evil”. Tell that to anyone of the happy, healthy and wealthy people in Europe enjoying their paid vacation after taking pride in their work, doing it efficiently and being respected as human beings. I guarantee you they’ll know you’re an American. We must have different definitions of freedom over here.
With that attitude, we'd all be sitting inside our houses and noone would do anything of interrest or importance.
Ah yes, the "this ROM is legal as long as you delete it before 24 hours after you download it!" clause. Everyone knows it's not a crime as long as you loudly yell THIS IS NOT A CRIME while doing it. After all why would someone say that if it's not true?!
> The vast majority of magic tricks are the opposite. The effect is amazing but the method is actually quite mundane.

You're probably right about it being the majority, but I'd say a lot of good slight of hand also falls into the category of the method being amazing.

Penn and Teller are also famous for doing tricks with the secret in full view, and they're often more impressive than the trick done normally.
Do heroin dealer next.
0C is pretty cold, but the Yaghan indians seemed to handle it, or close to it, basically naked:

https://www.ancientpages.com/2016/09/19/mystery-yaghan-peopl...
> the government to solve a problem created by the government

The supreme court is the government too...
We need a quick fix. I'm based in the Netherlands, two thirds of which is threatened by a sea level rise within the next hundred years. If that sounds far away to you: my grandmother died at age 99. There's a very reasonable chance my children, teenagers right now, will live through this.
Why can't we address the symptoms as well as the causes?
Could we start a kickstarter campaign for a whistleblower to provide these messages to the public, maybe some IT guy working at a telecom?
Zilog Z80
I'm in NH but grew up in RI. Anecdotally I think that RI had far more trucks rolling coal. I wonder why.
At very least Twitter and Apple have a decent track record of declining to provide data without justification. It seems pretty safe to assume the Chinese government wouldn't have to ask at all to get any of this information.
From the perspective of users of solar energy on Earth, wouldn't an increase over billions of years appear constant? My intuition tells me that evolution is much faster than that, and any fluctuations due to solar cycle dynamics would already be mitigated as expected by the same process, if it is indeed so regular.
I'll point you towards an expert that says otherwise in the first thirty seconds, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s9Pkfva9oU

Consider listening the to entire clip to understand how fundamental hierarchies are to us.
Moron or not, I dont want people to starve simply because they dont help a company perform optimally.

If we were to implement some form of a universal basic income there would be no obligation to become a self-serving asshole at whatever company you can get yourself into. The people doing the work would be able to stand up for themselves and tell management to fuck off if they do become moronic or overly self-serving
Another option is an image recognition system trained on already existing cards. No need for special ink or qr code, just a camera as the reader.
OK, so by "neutral money" you mean still USD or EUR currencies but in cash/check/money order form? Are you saying there needs to be a government-run payment processor?

Because to me this term sounds like cryptocurrency, whose boosters constantly talk about how they are beyond governments or any regulation at all.
Controlling the Access to the Clipboard Contents
> Spanish law may say...

This is not about Spanish law, but international maritime law. The ship is Spanish and departed from Spanish territories at the time, thus they have a claim over it.

> We are free to conclude that these assertions of sovereignty were illegitimate and that Spanish law is, therefore, irrelevant.

This is a bit anarchistic. In your scenario, _any_ country may be free from following international treaties and laws, thus why would anyone follow them in the first place?
Depends on where in the world you hail from originally. I have also seek "fks" to mean the same thing. More common with non-native English speakers.
> You're arguing that all crimes that have fines and jail time should be capital crimes instead?

No. I'm making the point that this punishment is effectively a capital punishment.

He'll have a felony following him around for the rest of his life, unless he pays the bribe to have it expunged. Good luck getting most jobs or renting anywhere. And if he owns a home, 1y prison will get that foreclosed on.

And in addition $2.5m is nigh unpayable, unless youre a 10x sw eng at a FAANG. But he's a mechanic. This fine is literally unpayable even at the best mechanic salaries. So once he gets out of prison, even IF he can get a job, he'll be in destitution for the rest of his life.

It's the cruel and unusual punishment they did against him, that I'm comparing to a slow capital punishment. You can call it hyperbole if you wish.

And, HE wasn't running vehicles that emitted the pollution, but he's blamed for it. Go after the actual people whop bought and installed. As much as it would suck, go confiscate the vehicles from the owners, and then charge appropriately larger individual fines against these 17000 people.
problem solved. moving on.
Mental health negatively affecting almost half of UK students
Hi Jadedbuthappy, I see that you are new to Hacker News. I'd flag this comment as racist, but I want to support you in finding a truly nurturing education for your child that will help them thrive intellectually, socially, emotionally and be a person who contributes a positive influence in the world.

I would never write a blog about not attending a school that's not 90% Indian, because that would be racist and have very little to no impact on the quality of your child's education.

If you're looking for a school that is truly diverse, I would suggest you don't just look at nationality/color, but look at diversity of thought, diversity of religion, diversity of household income, diversity of gender, etcentera. I would also point out that India itself is an incredibly diverse country, one of the most diverse in the world, with a huge array of political and religious beliefs.

I also want to add that you'd be fortunate to attend a school that is 90% Indian. One of the biggest factors in the success of a public school is the involvement of parent's in their children's education. I don't like to make generalizations, but of all the populations, I've worked with Indian families are the most passionate about providing high quality education for their kids, education that is not limited to career advancement, but truly nurturing their minds and spirits.

If you're trying to find a school in a decent neighborhood (you didn't mention anything about India), I would recommend refining your characteristics about what it means for a school to be "good." Are you looking at test scores, student happiness, curriculum? I think it can be very hard to find a public school that isn't completely overextended with crowded classrooms, teacher shortages and having to conform their curriculum to standardized exams.

Public schools are overcrowded and overstandardized. Private schools are extremely expensive, hard to get in and often are aiming to get kids into Ivy League schools more than anything else.

That is why I often recommend that families do it themselves and educate their kids through homeschool/modular learning, a combination of tutors, classes and skill shares with other parents. This allows the kind of mastery learning kids need to thrive. Here is a blog I wrote about modular learning, which is an alternative to traditional school and homeschool. These communities also tend to be incredibly diverse and inclusive.
Ah, I have misinterpreted "using it to learn" from a few comments ago

I would use the "remove duplicates" section to illustrate that Copilot doesn't always produce quality code, and that you should always be mindful and really evaluate what it is suggesting. https://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/Remove_duplicate_elements would be a useful link to include. The Copilot example in the post is in the N^2 camp

I'd personally go further and describe how the issues we see with NLP models encoding our racism and biases is similar to how OpenAI Codex picks up bad coding examples practices. Perhaps that deserves a post unto itself? Or a general criticisms of Copilot post? (because there are quite a few now :)
> I didn't mean that there would be components intentionally serving as antennae in a design

Not an antenna per se, but RF ICs often contain silicon inductors tuned for the operating frequency of the transceiver. Shrinking those down would retune the circuit for a higher frequency.
Keep in mind that ferrets will displace some amount of cats.
bool is a built-in type in C++...
While the parliament voted vdL they have very limited power. IIRC they can't really do much more than confirm the person nominated by the European council, which is not an elected body.
> dramatically affecting global standard of living

What's wrong with that ? That's the issue many have and fortunately, you tell it like it is. People don't want to change.

Public transportation, changing the "dream of traveling" into another one, having electronic that lasts for 10 years instead of 5, better insulation, and the list goes on. Yes, one can change the global standard of living into other not lesser global standard.

Or you think it's already too late and then, well, it's effectively too late.
My perspective is perhaps coloured by being a political scientist: we have always (unlike the law professors) seen the supreme court in particular as a deeply political institution.

The present incumbents have made clear that they're open to reopening settled questions, and to a results-focused jurisprudence. Given that New York State Rifle and Pistol Association has just undercut state power in favour of constitutional interpretation while Dobbs goes entirely the other way, my presumption is that there are no major strictly federalist principles at play and results will be case-by-case. And, as with Bush v. Gore, they can always publish an opinion saying "this decision is confined to its own facts" if they want to signal that they're not intending to displace post-Lochner understandings of the commerce clause.
For this amount of mass, no.

No one else has suggested that they are anywhere close to lifting this amount of mass, or even have any future plans that might change that. For reference, all time total mass to orbit so far is < 20k tons.
Wordeebee: Website visualising history of all words mentioned in NYT 1851-2022
I read that reforesting large areas would help reduce the CO2, which makes sense. Is that considered a viable plan these days? (At first glance it seems a less risky strategy than blocking out the sun with a load of space bubbles.
It is not screw-ups when it is done repeatedly.
Ask any TikTok employee how many meetings they have each week with people from Beijing HQ...
Building a Raid of USB Floppy Drives
How do they plan to deal with small bits of rock that tend to be out there hurtling at high speed on various trajectories?