skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If you see fraud and you don't shout fraud, you are a fraud.

No, you are not. Employees do not have an obligation to act purely based on morals without considering the balance of potentially very one-sided legal and financial risks to themselves.

These are professional investors with the means and the obligation to do their own due diligence. They don't need individuals making potentially life changing sacrifices in order to save them some money.

Fraud is only fraud if a judge says so. Until then, it's an accusation. The accused will defend themselves and potentially hit back at the accuser.

I would take legal advice, both on whether I have a legal obligation to report what I have seen and on how/if it can be done without taking on outsize risk myself.

Edit:
Consider the moral situation from the other end for a moment. I'm a small investor myself, far too small to even be allowed to invest in venture capital funds.

Would I want some employee somewhere to take potentially life changing risks in order to protect me from losing a percentage or two of my money? Certainly not. How could I expect anyone to take on far more risk than I'm taking myself?

What I would say to the employee is, stop contributing to the deception! If there's anything more you can do safely, I would be grateful.
Neural networks generalize, otherwise they would not be as powerful as they are today (and I don't know how you can deny that). If your neural network does not generalize then the model is overfitted.
I'm only guessing, but perhaps because balloons have fewer moving parts? They're the lowest-tech aircraft. Minimise aerospace engineering, focus on networks for now.
If your rules only work for spherical frictionless humans in a vacuum, they don't work.

The ten commandments are not, and never were, sufficient for any organisation of people complex enough to deserve the title "civilisation" — at most "commune", "village" or "tribe", but not a whole civilisation.
Author of hafas-client here!

Do you know about v5.vbb.transport.rest's /radar API [1]? Because it wraps VBB's de-facto-open unofficial API [2][3], it doesn't require authentication or even signing a contract.

If you have problems using it, please get in touch with me!

[1] https://v5.vbb.transport.rest/api.html#get-radar
[2] https://github.com/public-transport/hafas-client/tree/5.25.0...
[3] https://github.com/public-transport/transport-apis/blob/8e05...
This is how I code. I usually only have a vague idea of what I want to code, and it only becomes clear when I start writing it.
How the f. article titled like that has 0 mentions for plants
If that’s user error, then there’s nothing wrong with C, C++, Java, JavaScript and myriad other languages. Then we don’t need any new ones on the basis of readability, elegance, expressiveness and myriad other subjective properties. Yet many discuss these aspects primarily.
so, censoring a film is editing the intended form. this seems damaging to creators. also, if a movie has a bunch of sex and violence that gets censored out, what remains is still the intended context for the sex and violence, so why would a concerned person even watch it in the first place? absurd! like, for example, pulp fiction...how the fuck would a censored version make any sense, and who in gods fucking name would watch it!?
i think selling edited material via censorship and providing censorship as a service is criminal. if you dont like porn, dont watch edited porn ;(
Any tips on how to push oneself?

I frequently find that I reach the “I give up” ceiling very quickly when I try to push myself on most things. I reckon it’s because I can be quite impatient and intolerant towards frustrations.

And what are your thoughts on talent? Sure, most skills can be learned, but the rate of learning can vary and time is limited. How worthwhile is it to learn something if you know you might be slow at it and the skill plateau is probably not too far off? Do you normally aim for good enough for those skills you did learn but don’t think you can be an expert on them?
It certainly can apply to ICs too. The scope and complexity of projects increases with seniority until they fall beyond the innate capacity of your brain.

As an extreme example, suppose the spectrum of software IC spans writing simple CRUD apps as a Junior Engineer to singlehandedly writing qemu and ffmpeg as an 10x Rockstar Ninja Principal Engineer. At some point most people (who aren’t Fabrice Bellard or John Carmack) will be promoted into a role where they simply can’t keep up intellectually.
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Related, recently on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32635368
This is the benefit of real competition.
Looks like it's not available anymore, the website now mostly talks about NFT and minting stations. Shame, would've loved to buy a paper map.
Legally, it is uncharted territory on many levels. I think there are good arguments to be made that these systems violate the intent behind copyright and trademarks, but not necessarily the laws.
Build a 12-TET fretted string instrument and tune your keyboards to it, after using a tuning fork to tune the fretted instrument?
Well, bugger. Thank you for the correction.
I can't find any evidence any of those people, or the companies they purport to represent, actually exist. One thing to slap faces where you don't have any, but straight up making up reviews, people AND the company is actually hilarious
The article is extremely sparse on the results/findings of the experiments :(
It really seems to be the case that "those who can, do; those who can't, teach"

The people who are really doing usually aren't wasting their time waxing poetic about stuff like this. They are too busy doing. So we are left with all the not-really-doers to bless us with their incredibly profound musings on things they understand poorly.
> I might write an article "Articles \"X considered harmful\" considered harmful".

People were annoyed by those and wrote such an essay at least 20 years ago [1,2] (possibly there were others). Didn't help much, but generally fighting idioms/memes/fashion doesn't seem quite productive: perhaps it's more useful to focus on not being frustrated by those (and accept the way this phrase is used).

Edit: Though ranting about titles on HN is still a fine activity, not trying to discourage that. Just an idle musing on being more content with those.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful#Snowclones

[2] https://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html
FTC Accuses Data Broker of Selling Sensitive Location Data
I don't find anything when searching for "MOC" in this context. Any links?
Coming? It's already here with Vine and Vine's legacy Tik Tok. So many "skits" passed off as crazy real things that actually happened™.
If we stick around on Earth only, eventually something will wipe us out. Asteroids hit roughly every 60 million years (we are already overdue on this one), super-volcanoes can be much more frequent, ie once every million years. There are cosmic events that we have no clue about, ie some hypermassive gamma ray burst cone sterilizing Earth (and probably rest of solar system, but most probably not hitting nearby stars). Or we will just fuckup environment so much we will make it completely unlivable for higher life, ie runaway greenhouse effect.

Even if mankind is quite resilient, our current society is super fragile to much smaller catastrophe, and we may actually loose the ability for inter-planetary travel easily.

We really need to diversify our location. That's not the goal of this century, and probably not even the next one, but to have some skeleton seed of civilization elsewhere than here is a logical must, and Mars is easiest and closest one. So better start doing some baby steps towards that direction immediately when we can, rather than pour trillions into more than useless warfare.

I used to think we should fix issues here on Earth before moving elsewhere, but the problem is, we won't. Its dangerously naive idea. Rather we should accept that mankind is flawed and accept and work with flaws, compared to wait for some utopia to happen here and then expand.
"I would have written you a shorter letter but I didn't have time"

- Blaise Pascal, et al
I have similar problems with similar ratios. I suspect core motivation is part of it, their reason for picking software development. People that pick it for money perform poorly. Another observation, people with young kids at home just don't have focus time to get work done.

You should be having regular 1:1's with each person to talk to them about what they've got going on in their lives, problems/barriers, gripes, career planning stuff, general coaching and feedback. Oftentimes it is something outside of work that impacts their work.

Nudging under-performers isn't micromanaging. Your company may also have a process to start documenting the lack of performance in advance of letting them go. If they've proven they aren't completing work on time then it would be appropriate to talk with your manager/HR about letting someone go.
Machining is curious in that it's both expensive and not. The mill/lathe will cost a good chunk of cash, but if you have good enough tools to start with you can make a lot of the other tooling cheaply, and it's very much a common thing to do it as a personal project.

Cash saves time and provides conveniences. You don't even need an oil can for some things, you can use any random tin or the bottle the oil came in. Or you can make your own.

Buying a $125 oil can is just an eccentric oddity for the most part. There's plenty of cheap ones for sale at Amazon. Many of those are flawed, but they'll still work as an oil can.
Not sure why this is noteworthy. The area around Berlin is a swampy area of sediments and lakes so i would probably have laughed, too.
Is there an easily self-hostable all in one text to image thing?
Let me start by making the same point, but starting from a different place.

When you see pi, you look for a circle. When you see an 8 or 12 or 24 or 60, you see a few small primes multiplied together, and you might look for things that like being flexibly divided into clean subgroups.

Now I spent a couple of hours trying to extend my original argument, using the internet.

12tet (12 tone equal temperament) gives you good fourths and fifths (which as you say sound great) and TET. What you don't get is being able to correctly voice say a barbershop seventh, or persian music, or dissonant death metal, or microtonal pop.

While n-TET for any n is possible, Wikipedia lists 5, 7, 12, 15, 17, 19, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 29, 31, 34, 41, 46, 53, 72, and 96tet as being in use, some much more popular than others. Arabic music shifted from 17tet to 24tet, with the exception of some holdouts that find 24tet too 'commercial'.

You don't need bang-on fourths and fifths to be happy in n-tet; given n-tet, you figure out what intervals to use, what kind of chords you want to build, and what kind of scales you are willing to learn to use those chords.

So, fourths and fifths are good in 12tet, and you covered that. Is there anything else to say about 12tet and its popularity, particularly about there being 12 notes and its prime factorization into 2s and 3s?

From stackexchange: You can create a circle of any number of steps mutually prime to the total number of pitches in the octave.

And what it looks like is that you get a Circle of Fifths that has some particularly nice properties in 12tet due to the math with 2/3/5, and that makes scales and chord building particularly easy, making 12tet easy to work with, and that further popularizes 12tet. I just waved my hands there pretty hard; I did not do anywhere near enough due diligence on sources. But, yes, the number of notes does end up being important. Probably.

So I think I was minorly correct in being suspicious of '12' and how divisible it was into small primes, but majorly wrong in most other aspects.

As an aside, I did read your article, and just had a different take on what was going on; I was sure that the prime factorization structure of '12' would explain more than it does.
I won’t platform him directly, no
It's not trust they migrate for lmao, it's things that are "free". People are irrationally outraged when they have to pay for a product or service that was previously free.

Especially considering all of Google's products/services, people still cry about Youtube ads/having to get Youtube premium.

People are so freaking self-entitled.
An iPhone 14 satellite link could depend on Apple cutting a deal with carriers
...but have "€49 per month" to spend: https://aista.com/pricing/
Highly recommend these threads:

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25245125

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16745042

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22826722

There are some evergreen ones there.

You will find some courses that are among the best places to get knowledge in those topics.
Problem is that it makes you question the whole post. Ie does he actually have 100 customers or is it just something he writes because it is well known that people are less likely to buy something no one else is buying.
If you do it in a comedy way, sure, why not?

If we can joke about cops (reno 911), bar owners (it's always sunny in philadelphia), rural americans (king of the hill and many, many other), canadians (south park), italians (euro trip), gingers (south park), nerds (pretty much every college movie), french girls (malcolm in the middle), middle managers (basically, every office-based movie), bodybuilders (brooklyn 99), "aspiring actresses" (working as baristas), student cooks (usually by gordon ramsey), .... why not us? Oh and let's not forget blondes.

Do you assume all italians wear stockings and molest other guys on trains if you've seen Eurotrip (movie)? Nope. Do you assume all french girls don't shave? Nope. So if the whole of the balkans, including bosnia has many many jokes with "Mujo and Haso" (they represent a "stupid" couple of guys, where the pun is in their stupidity, why do you (I assume you're not from the balkans) get to be offended for other people? There's even a movie just with jokes about them... made by bosnians of course - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5085118/

We also have regional jokes, where in slovenia, people assume that people from gorenjska region are stingy (in serbia, it's people from pirot).

A joke is a joke, you don't have to get offended for other people.

edit: also, we don't start wars because we thing the others are subhuman, we just stereotipically hate eachother (as groups, not as individuals), due to historic reasons, mostly war-related.

ps: What you americans would call racism could only be mentioned maybe against gypsies here (eve though they're techncally the same race). And even that is mostly by assuming, that if someone stole your gutters around the house (or basically anything metal), that it was the gypsies. Usually it's even true.
Does this do basically the thing as osmand on phones? Why the relatively huge requirements of 64G of ram and 10T of nvme?
From Bits to P-Bits: One Step Closer to Probabilistic Computing
> I find only two very minor problems with it: firstly, that it’s not commutative

Why is that a problem? That is, if a has additional bits set compared to b, then ((a & b) == b) != ((b & a) == a), no?
Well this seems like a useful attitude to have.

Some people probably can’t escape their workload with better time management. Fair! Some people certainly can though (I know many such cases), rendering your comment a little ridiculous, and extremely rude.

Note for future empathy exercises: most people encounter difficulties in their lives.
Not sure why this is not being flagged. It seems like spam and the footer "The author is the founder of ... the rotating proxies service. This article originally appeared here..." just feels like someone copy-pasted their marketing blog post to HN.
Sri Lanka might want to have a word with them.
Did it cost 2.5 billion? I haven't looked at carbon capture in ages, but last figures I saw for direct from air capture were about 200 USD a tonne. I know people dislike carbon capture but here it looks like a 2x at least
It's an interesting place. The language (Shqip) is Indo-European, but not closely related to any existing lamguage. The population is mainly Moslem, but isolated from other Moslem-majority countries. They were allied with Communist China rather than the USSR. Today it's modernising fast, like most of Eastern Europe. I rode through there in 2017 on my way to FFYROM. They have some motorways now. Financial infrastructure supported contactless payments, and using an Apple Watch to pay for petrol did not raise any eyebrows. On the other hand the farms I passed were gathering hay in to ricks by with pitchforks rather than using balers, do some aspects are fair way behind.
Maximator and other European SIGINT alliances
Looks very good, i hope there will be support for gitea!
NameCheap has bug that allows hackers to bypass 2FA, CEO swears it's not real
It is likely legal, but is it ethical? If it is not ethical, should it be legal?

We do tend to treat humans differently based on them being sentient beings with a limited lifespan, not machines.
I had the same issue and was considering setting up my own tileserver. Fortunately I found www.tracestrack.com. Much less expensive that other options I considered and service has been good so far.
You'll either need self modifying code or a chain of short jumps that wraps around the 64K code segment.

The latter is used by http://tom7.org/abc
When its OK for a public business to discriminate against "some people" because they're "not a protected class," we've lost the point.

How much longer are you a "protected class?"
This is awesome! Instead of pitching your ideas to VC-s who will then demand unrealistic growth, developers are building their own small internet startups.

Yes, in most cases, they're not making millions, but who needs millions anyway? If you can buy food, pay rent, and support your family with a product that you made with your own hands, wouldn't that be nice?

This is what my site https://microfounder.com is exactly about:
"It's possible for a solo developer to build a profitable microstartup to pay the bills and live life on their own terms."
I use the mouse trails and a desktop app for the "laggy following dot" on my workstation because, well because four 32" 4K monitors, you lose the darn cursor even with the "find my cursor" key.
> But the notation does leave something up to the performer, just a bit more than usual.

We don't know how much the notation leaves up to the performer. For all we know there could have been a formal system for tuning the instrument this was intended to be played on and a formal system for rhythm; a musical tradition that makes it very obvious how the piece should have been performed that is now forgotten.

> Relative changes are what makes the melody, you could transpose it up or down and stretch the pitches every way that you want, change the tempo etc but it still would be (for me, at least) recognizably the same melody.

This is not simply a matter of transposition or a tempo difference. No one knows the relative changes in pitch.
I use it for work stuff. The $6 Digital Ocean droplets is enough to run it & a java compiler. All my code now lives there, local machine is basically empty. So when roaming between different networks & workstations (office, home), it's super simple. Just open up vs code and continue on. Only need ssh for it work. Oh and a stable internet connection makes a big difference.
Autopilot is just a marketing name for assisted cruise control. I think a majority of new cars have assisted cruise control at this point. My 2019 CRV has it.

Full self driving is the scam. And it goes up in price to $15,000 next week. It’s almost comical to imagine even one single person buying that.
FastSpring is another alternative for SaaS & international taxes. I'm sure there's more besides Paddle & FastSpring. The idea is to look for a company that will act as the "merchant of record", not just a payment processor:

https://fastspring.com/tax-management/

You end up paying more to them than Stripe would charge, but it might be worth it if you just don't want to deal with that administrative headache.

(I'm not running a SaaS, but shareware / downloadable software companies have been dealing with international taxes for 15 years or more now, since the digital EU tax laws came in. The idea of global consumption taxes wasn't really a thing until then, so you only had to follow your own local tax rules in the early-mid 2000s.)
Hijacking the article, but has somebody managed to find a good iPhone/iPad keyboard for coding? I’m still able to do Python with the default keyboard, but I press a lot of times the symbol key.

The Wolfram Alpha custom keyboard on Android is absolutely the best keyboard for coding.
That type of language is intended as sales copy to give prospects who don't know the competitive landscape permission to stop looking.
> about 3x the overhead to convert from int to float.

That 3x overhead has nothing to do with converting types.

A CPU can't compute x += y before it has the old value of the x. This is called "data dependency chain".

Modern AMD64 CPUs have 1 cycle of latency to add integers, 3 cycles of latency to add FP32 or FP64 numbers. This means no matter what else is in the loop, a loop which increments a single float or double variable can't possibly be faster than 3 cycles / iteration.

As demonstrated by the OP, Apple M1 is very similar in that regard.
The word suggests undifferentiated goop (pink slime?) being poured into cans for mass consumption, and shows the respect its producers have for both the product and its consumers.
previously on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32623356

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32638028
A useful innovation would be that you learn how to read.
micro benchmarks are especially problematic in real-world code where you load stuff from random addresses in memory.

If the code after the cast is blocked on a memory load, then you have a lot of free instructions while the cpu is waiting for the memory load to complete. In this case it doesn't matter if the cast is free or takes a handfull of instructions.

Sometimes code becomes faster by using more instructions to make the data more compact so more of the data stays in the caches.
Wow okay, that's different then.

Really disappointed if all of this is actually true.
Thats why I think the approach ti estimates and project planning should be: developers are trusted
not to slack off and not to over engineering it. So it takes as long as it takes. But if it might go up an order of magnitude talk to the team to see if it is still worth doing or how to reduce scope.

Instead of the usual estimate, negotiate the dev down, use a mythical man-month then bollock them for not getting it done on time (ok these days microaggressions are in fashion as you can’t outright yell)