skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to add support to this sentiment, I am also pretty on the fence but I think a trackpoint would push me over. I've used Thinkpads for the last 7 years and I'm looking to buy a new laptop soon (in the next 1-2 years). If framework adds a trackpoint, I will buy it.
I'm glad they got a fine, but I'm concerned that a) they'll go right back to discriminating when the 2-year period mentioned is up, and b) I'm not sure requiring the user to get a waiver is the right approach. It's more PII that Uber now stores and can be used to discriminate in other ways that might not be detectable from the outside.
Star Slate Codex (Scott Alexander) wrote that the evidence for such is basically non-existent. Thus such claims remain dubious at best. Though this was many moons ago, and things change. Do you happen to know of any research that supports this?
Their first mistake was using Twitter. Twitter actively encourages people being toxic to each other since that is what gets the most likes. I remember back when I used it was during the Pewdiepie vs T-Series meme, and people kept calling me a fascist just because I watched his videos.
Now do SOFIA - the telescope most astronomers agree that, while unique, it is not a good investment and, by itself, contributes significantly to the carbon footprint of astronomy.

Luckily it is almost at an end, finally, after years of trying to get it killed
After 40 years in tech, I see every innovation contains its dark opposite
This is just proof of principle of weaponized AI, but this is absolutely revolutionary. All the pieces are already here now for a Raytheon or some other company to manufacture robots that can conduct offense/defense. Put this in an urban hot zone with enemy detection, millisecond precision targeting, and tactical objectives (defend this entrance, clear that chokepoint), and you've changed the face of warfare overnight. I'd argue building out weaponized AI is an easier problem than self-driving cars. We've already normalized collateral damage in war so this doesn't need to work perfectly to be highly effective.
I thinl it's fair to say 'nobody is prepared'. As we've collectively demonstrated with Covid-19, we are unable or unwilling to pre-plan for catastrophes - we need to have them happen and then scramble. Might have to focus on getting better at scrambling, because mitigating is something we are not going to do
Anyone in finance would tell you that Dodd Frank drastically changed how banks are run. Glass–Steagall was never reinstated because it had very little to do with the financial crisis. Many of the bigger players of the mortgage crisis never did anything related to commercial banking (e.g. Lehman Brothers, AIG).
> valid reason to exercise eminent domain powers for some reason

The reason is:

(1) eminent domain isn't Constitutionally limited in purpose beyond that it must be a public purpose.

(2) State governments under the US Constitution have general police powers, so any purpose they aren't expressly Constitutionally forbidden to pursue is a valid public purpose, as distinct from the federal government being one of granted powers where there must be a specific Constitutional basis for it pursuing a purpose for it to be valid.

(3) Seeking revenue is not a thing prohibited to the states by the Federal Constitution.

(4) Under the federal Constitution, subordinate entities within states don't have distinct powers from states; if they are limited, that is a matter of state law, not the federal Constitution.

EDIT: Also, note also that some states do Constitutionally restrict the purposes of eminent domain, or have state laws limiting local use of it, some, IIRC, in Constitutional provisions that were proposed and passed directly in response to Kelo, so that what happened there would not be allowed.
The victim of insider trading is everyone else participating in the market that is not insider trading. Which, given the widespread reliance on 401k's for most of our accumulated wealth, is all of us.
Where do I say that it's the only factor?
Re: congress, I think there should be a public fund that mirrors the trades of reps and senators and a platform that enforces their trades happen concurrently with public funds. The Pelosi’s seem to have impeccable market timing that, I’m sure coincidentally, seems to correlate with policy votes.

Certainly, elected officials working for our best interest would want to share their success with their constituents.
The essence of the cryptocurrency narrative is laid bare here. Sure, maybe it looks like it’s scamming desperate people out of their life savings, but ignore that, really it’s just a middle class person profiting in a way that the ruling class doesn’t like! Why do you hate the middle class getting rich? You must be in league with the globalist bankers.
Evervault has been great! Thanks Shane.
Unless you're actually boarded, why would you drop the reactor? The point is that a hypothetical commercial shipping reactor would have to be a self-contained, intrinsically safe design with no user-servicing - this is the sort of design pebble-bed reactors the general modular reactor concept points towards.

The idea is that the reactor is mounted at the bottom of the hull, basically only provides electricity out as a "black box". It's not reachable by the crew from inside the ship, and gets a set of failsafe charges which cut it loose from the ship if it becomes unhappy about it's situation - i.e. if its GPS signal is cut for too long, if it strays from it's geofence boundary, or if someone tries to breach it's location in the ship.

Even if you paid off the crew, they don't have control over the powerplant. Fairly obviously you wouldn't want to leave a reactor on the seafloor, but if it drops itself then like a blackbox it triggers a sonar beacon and whoever commissioned it (presumably a well-regulated US firm) would respond to collect it.
> I don't like to stick to one project for a long time, which is visible on my resume, and recruiters don't like that.

This is first to me. Why'd recruiters not like if you've worked on only one project for a long time? On the contrary, I think it's a plus - shows stability and 'long-term' mindset individual.
I don’t use my thinkpad’s trackpoint all the time, but it’s excellent for cramped situations where you don’t have the space for the arm movements required to use a trackpad effectively. If nothing else it’s an extremely good feature for a mobility-focused machine.
A variation of this comment is made on HN whenever insider trading comes up, leaving me no recourse but to post the same response every time: insider trading is criminalized not least because it is corrosive to public trust in financial institutions.

Your examples (Congress, CEOs) demonstrate this: main street investors have overwhelmingly lost faith in those institutions over the last two generations. The solution isn't to race to the bottom; it's to make insider trading universally illegal.
This makes it sound like public criticism is virtually impossible in the UK, as publishing negative information invariably impugns their reputation in somebody’s view. Or at least that case can be made trivially in court.
Recruiting: Professionals reject red states over abortion laws
Restarting cities from scratch is actually a really good idea especially in a place like UTAH or NEVADA which have tons of empty space that cant be farmed. Images if you could take all the problems you know about with NYC and restart from scratch for a version 2.0.
It is disquieting for sure, but from the first police robot with a sand bag shotgun and likely even before, we have been on this path. I imagine many people when they first saw "spot" and "big dog" thought to themselves that they were ultimately going to be a weapons platforms. Hell their (Boston Dynamic's) "cheetah" is a 10 times more terrifying than this "Russian demo" in my opinion.

In any case, if that Russian guy's back yard project scares you, you definably don't want to know about Ghost Robotics collaboration with Sword International.

I'm not sure it was ever feasible to prevent this escalation in unmanned warfare.
Never said it should be legal. I said it was stupid as a concept.

The alternative is to reform the market so it's a level playing field for everyone regardless of what you know.
> From a practicality standpoint- military spending is difficult to beat. Improves defense, improves the defense of allies, creates factory jobs, creates science and engineering jobs. It has everything.

I mean he explicitly said it was not the only factor...
My initial EE Senior project proposal (back in the early 90's) was a biofeedback controlled music generator. The idea was to use a Markov chain (not that I knew that term, but I'd heard of the concept) to produce tone sequences, then use biofeedback to alter the probabilities to encourage relaxation. With my luck, it probably would have devolved into a metronome, but I was young and naive.

I ended up failing out of college (I was young and stupid, too) and when I returned 5 years later I ended up changing my senior project to a leg controller for a hexapod robot.
Given the article explicitly covers the topic of an employee exploiting prior knowledge of what coins were going to be listed and when - clear the investigators were aware of the potential for this; if others were doing it, they must have done it in a way that was not obvious.

If you have specific verifiable information, hire an attorney and use them to file a SEC whistleblower report. If your evidence leads to enforcement actions that are subject to their jurisdiction and the fines collected are over one million, you will anonymously get 10-30% of the fines they collect.
Send an email to legal@company.com or ceo@company.com or any known-good generic email they have with a note saying “route this to legal”if the normal gui or CUstomer Support team doesn’t work. I’ve heard investor relations is always a good address that’s monitored by people that have spare time. You have now officially provided a written notice to company. If it’s a really big charge or something serious, send a certified letter. That means the US government is now testifying to the time and date of them receiving letter.

Share that with Visa and see if that changes their opinion on the chargeback.

Be polite, not emotional. Don’t threaten a lawyer or use any language you’d see on a TV legal show. If you’re in California feel free to cite their violation of this law [1]. Don’t threaten to sue. Don’t threaten a lawyer. Just mention that you have the right and you can’t use the UI as expected. If it’s bad you can say something like “if this isn’t resolved I may avail myself of other options afforded by $LAW”. Don’t specify what, don’t threaten they’ll regret it. Just let them know you are someone who is serious and non emotional.

“Company X,

I have tried to cancel this service but I am unable to due to X. After talking with CS they said it was due to $Bug. I talked with $Person at $Date. Let this serve as a formal notice that I will no longer be paying for service and no longer wish to be charged. I will be instructing Visa to reject further charges after $new_future_date.

Please Acknowledge Reciept of this notice.

Signed Person.

Todays Date is X”

https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/04/californias-new-online-can...
Amazon to buy One Medical – should this be Apple’s next step in healthcare?
Glassdoor could not verify credentials without unmasking the user. There is no zero-knowledge way to accomplish this.
I’m always in awe at all the ways the system in the US finds way to screw you over. This one is amazing.
Crypto used to be the domain with the most "free money" floating around and the most need to outhire your competitors. Of course, they overhired with a much lower bar than the industry in general, and of course the market will now be flooded with these developers.
I’m pretty sure this is just a matter of jurisdiction.

Glassdoor is an American company. They probably had to sue in an American court to be able to legally compel them.
Nice work, however, I am structurally dubious of putting too much functionality onto a classical centralized RDBMS since it can't be scaled out if performance becomes a problem. It's CPU load and it's tying up a connection which is a large memory load (as implemented in postgres, connections are "expensive") and since this occurs inside a transaction it's holding locks/etc as well. I know it's all compiled native code so it's about as fast as it can be, but, it's just a question of whether it's the right place to do that as a general concern.

I'd strongly prefer to have the application layer do generic json-schema validation since you can spawn arbitrary containers to spread the load. Obviously some things are unavoidable if you want to maintain foreign-key constraints or db-level check constraints/etc but people frown on check constraints sometimes as well. Semantic validity should be checked before it gets to the DB.

I was exploring a project with JSON generation views inside the database for coupling the DB directly to SOLR for direct data import, and while it worked fine (and performed fine with toy problems) that was just always my concern... even there where it's not holding write locks/etc, how much harder are you hitting the DB for stuff that, ultimately, can. be done slower but more scalably in an application container?

YAGNI, I know, cross the bridge when it comes, butjust as a blanket architectural concern that's not really where it belongs imo.

In my case at least, probably it's something that could be pushed off to followers in a leader-follower cluster as a kind of read replica, but I dunno if that's how it's implemented or not. "Read replicas" are something that are a lot more fleshed out in Citus, Enterprise, and the other commercial offerings built on raw Postgres iirc.
> ...JWST’s total costs account for 0.0095 percent of all US spending between 2003 and 2026.

I think it was a good investment, but 10 billion is a lot of money in absolute terms and comparing it to "all US spending between 2003 and 2026" just to make it seem small is disingenuous.
I'd say it's easier to start with an SDR receiver and passively listening to stuff. Figuring out remote control protocols and whatnot is relatively easy with those cheap tools. If you still enjoy it after playing with that, then jump to RX+TX tools like this, or a HackRF, or others, depending on what you want to hack.
> This statement assumes the following axioms:...

Cross-industry support roles contribute to endeavors: DevOps, infra, ML/data science. The a16z fueled ponzi has stripped and redirected talent from these important areas.
https://nypost.com/2022/07/16/paul-pelosi-buys-tech-chip-sto...
SMIC 7nm technology found in MinerVa Bitcoin Miner
> I don’t see how a computer racer that destroys human competition would make the game more entertaining

Once it knows how to race you can restrict it. Have it be less aggressive, artificially lower its car’s power, tell it not to play to the edge of physics.

Gran Turismo 7 is a lot of fun, but the current AI players might as well be on a slot car track. They practically race single-file taking the same lines as every other car. It’s clearly not real.

Injecting virtual Sophies, tuned in various ways, may make the game feel more like a real race. It would also allow you to provide a much tougher challenge for the top end players.
In a market that promises information symmetry, there’s no difference between the two.
Even on a regular laptop screen, it took a little too long for my eyes to grok what I was looking at. My initial impression from the photo is that this company is selling some SaaS and not a physical device.

In my opinion, the original page with the picture of the actual device made it much clearer what you were getting.

For the OP, perhaps use a color for the device's housing? Assuming the costs are the same, a cute little blue box would make it stand out in photos and give it more character than its current generic black. In illustrations, you could make the scene in black and white and have the device be blue, for example. To me, the goal should be to make that little box seem magical and unique.
Ghost robotics have this: https://www.engadget.com/robot-dog-gun-ghost-robotics-sword-...
Germany scrambles for energy with no faith in Russian gas
I used to manage a used book store. Maybe he seems insulting to you but he seems entirely correct to me.
Insider trading laws don't mean anything. Person X can send encrypted messages to person Y who lives half way around the world to make a trade and they will be near impossible to discover unless person X is surveilled. Even then, person Y can just get away with it.
I felt this way back then when trackpads sucked.

But today trackpads are really good, especially the ones that ship on MacBooks. I can't imagine going back to the trackpoint any more than I can imagine going back to the trackpads of the '00s. Good multitouch gestures in particular make a trackpad way more versatile and improve my productivity a lot.
Well he had a 32% increase (vs. the previous month) in June [1]. I'm not sure how the increase was calculated but I don't think see how you can attribute 40% to the redesign - the graph is already up and to the right ;)

[1] https://mtlynch.io/retrospectives/2022/07/#tinypilothttpstin...
> I’m not trying to bash the agency here, so I’ll just call them WebAgency.

Wow after reading this, I'd love to know who this WebAgency is so I can stay away.
Alternatively I'm thinking of starting my own WebAgency and charge $7k to change button colors from green to limegreen.
Any plans for a larger say 15"ish version?

I seem to be in the minority of people who think 16" is too big and 13" is too small.
Ask HN: MS in Canada or USA?
I am a SDE with 4 YOE in India. For a long time, I have been considering emigrating via the computer science masters route.

I have never been to Canada or USA and between them where do you think it would be more sensible to emigrate to?

With the assumption that the quality of education would be mostly similar, here's a gist of the comparison.

- Canada offers an easier path to PR and then Citizenship. I also have friends there.

- USA offers more and high paying SWE jobs and the duration of a MS course can be 1 to 1.5yr which would mean I wouldn't have to take a big education loan.

However, OPT only guarantees 3 years of life in states. H1B is a lottery. Green card is not possible.
Black books, anyone?
Speaking from my experience so far as an "adult learner": yes, it's brutal. At least, tournament chess is. Online play is easy for me not to take so seriously. But when I get up on Saturday morning to go to a tournament and spend all day there, and I am writing down every move, and I'm face-to-face with my opponent, the whole thing is a lot emotionally weightier. I've found that I dislike losing and that I experience empathy for my opponents when they lose to me. My favorite games that I've played have been draws.

I spoke a bit with an older and much more experienced player I know about this. He said the only thing that worked for him was to completely stop caring about winning and losing, and to let go of seriousness about the game. His idea was that chess is supposed to be fun; fun is the whole point. Improving is nice, but why bother if the process is not enjoyable in itself? Been thinking a lot about this since then.
I think I've seen /dev/random used for generating large amounts of garbage data as well. (Though usually my problem is too much garbage data, not too little.)
> Why is this happening now all of a sudden?

While the irrational exuberance is in full swing no one cares about fraud, they just want to keep the cash flowing. Once the crash starts that's when suddenly all that bad behavior gets put in the spotlight.
“Development: Items in my cart can have a negative quantity” — 2.32 hours?!

“Development: allow console.log during development but not production” — 2.01 hours?!

Total rip off.
No because their medical bills will be going up from not shopping at wholefoods.
Next step is to explain how ctrl+c work over ssh , it is my favorite system engineering interview question.
I know this is the wrong answer, because you should be expecting reasonable care from your physician, but if you're on an HDHP plan just buy the service from LabCorp and reimburse yourself. For some reason, direct-to-consumer blood work is becoming a thing.
I mean I consider not being ruled by Nazis or Communists as at least somewhat valuable.
> As a longtime freelancer and agency founder: misaligned incentives are not the same thing as dishonesty. Honestly pursuing your own incentives, and being open about what those incentives are, is really the only honest way to do business.

I don’t know. It’s a blurry line at best. If an agency dev team is really noticing that bug fixes are billable hours and that’s causing them to relax their code quality standards since they’ll be paid for bug fixes anyway, how is that not dishonest? Perhaps it’s possible for them to not be aware that what they’re doing is in bad faith, in which case you might argue that they’re “being dishonest with themselves” instead of “being dishonest with the client,” but it seems like a distinction without a difference.
Wow, not that I would ever do anything like this… but if I was accused of such a thing the last thing I would do is book a flight for tomorrow.
I would think that legacy BIOS support will be increasingly rare in the coming years. CSM support in UEFI is also likely not long for this world.
This is so typical for some business to waste money and charge higher price. Like health care industry. As a dev, I also designed logo and webpage myself.
I think that's a possibility, but as a senior dev myself (that makes me biased I guess) I've found that as time goes on coding is less and less of the job, and communication and creative discussions take over. These are just to figure out what stakeholders want. I have a hard time imagining an AI automating this part of my job, although I suppose it could happen.
Occupy Wall St had a huge impact on the culture war and it’s no coincidence that todays intense culture war began after it. Occupy failed for many reasons but primarily it failed because it couldn’t get funded. Donor class and corporate sponsorship are required for progressives to attain the power they want. Class warfare - the traditional progressive cause - died and gave birth to a new identity politics (we call it Woke today) that could get funded.

Donors and businesses (the same thing) can get behind a movement that centers group identity so long as it isn’t class because it’s useful. It’s why you didn’t see any corporations updating their logo for Occupy or speaking out in favor and why mainstream media did its best to paint it as a rudderless, leaderless collective that didn’t have clear messaging or requests.

People ask how wokeness became such a big thing so fast and it’s because it has been extremely useful in crushing class solidarity after the collapse of the financial system.
> I genuinely believe that WebAgency tried their best on this project. I don’t feel like they meant to deceive me or squeeze money out of me. We just didn’t match.

Sounds exactly like how people rationalize abusive behavior from their partner. "It was my fault he hit me" etc.

That's because they did abuse you and ripped you off.
> likely called Unbanked DAO of Courage represented by Mark Wahlberg

The celebrity endorsements of Crypto related investment platforms and product is so gross. Using themes like "you don't have to be smart to trade cypto" "be bold" its so gross.
Precisely. This was one actor; it beggars belief to expect that his is the only (much less largest) instance of insider trading at these firms.
https://www.superagent.com/ is interesting
Truthfully, FedNow (2023 launch) fills this use case better than BTC: once the receiving FI gets notice they have 8 seconds to settle the transaction.
Very good point and a lovely analogy. Thanks for this :)