skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's just not true. There were three options, stop selling diesels, implement a selective catalytic reduction system, cheat the test. All three were done.

What you are saying isn't accurate. A selective catalytic reduction system wasn't sufficient to pass the test without also cheating. Many of the affected VW cars did have selective catalytic reduction. Post lawsuit required fix these cars now use MASSIVE amounts of urea requiring constant refills, wear out the SCR components frequently on short intervals, and don't have nearly the performance they were designed to have. These companies were unable at the time to figure out how to get vehicles, even with SCR to have the performance and reliability buyers were expecting without also cheating on the tests. After the VW scandal, it was later found that BMW, Mercedes, Jaguar, Fiat Chrysler, Toyota, Nissan, and several other companies were all also cheating. I am not aware of a single diesel passenger vehicle sold in the ~2009-2016 time period in the USA that wasn't later found to be cheating on emissions tests.
If I understand correctly the issue with storing and retrieving from SQLite is that it won’t be incremental?
That said, it still seems helpful to know immediately as you're getting the space what the timeframe is for leaving. If the're going to start clearing the street in an hour, I'll probably park elsewhere right off the bat and not wait for an email.
Biden White House just put out a framework on regulating crypto – what’s in it
Dude what? Ok sure older and cards were hot garbage but not nowadays
Correctly but also incorrectly.
I do not get it; to get an ISP to hookup to your house (like Comcast), you have to give them your SSN, among other things. If a child is "online" it really should be up to the parents/guardians to oversee what said child is doing online (because ultimately it is a service provided to said person with an SSN and a credit card).

Can't leave a kid unattended/un-watched, outside a locked house for multiple hours on end; why is it a normal that they are allowed to be online and unsupervised?
Us people have some nuance and quite a bit of disagreement amongst ourselves. Personally I’m all in on defunding the police, but (I still feel weird saying this even after almost six years as a former anarchist) I don’t believe the government is inherently the problem, even if this particular implementation of it is obviously a problem.

Another version of government could and should use its power to prevent these kinds of abuses rather than enable and benefit from them. But that form of government would look radically different from the one we have.
Playing with our food again.

We're alone in an empty universe, aren't we?
Thanks. I assume the Ig Nobel committee is not allowed to award itself a prize.
> She wasn’t able to do so online, so immediately googled the airline, in the sponsored google results there was a toll free number to call.

Not trying to blame the victim, but this is a very dangerous pattern of behavior and should be discouraged. Ideally, Google wouldn't accept these ads at all, but curation isn't something Google will do willingly. Using contact information from a search snippet is potentially dangerous too, even if it seems like it's from the correct site, it's better to load that site yourself and use the number, etc. Or I'd look for a contact number in the booking confirmation, etc.
In Ethereum, as of May 2022, it is believed that over 90% of miners are connected to the Flashbots server. One can determine this by observing that over 90% of blocks contain Flashbot transaction bundles. Adoption from 0% to around 90% occurred almost entirely within 2021.

Flashbots is a single centralised entity. It is funded by Fred Ehrsam’s crypto VC firm Paradigm, although it appears that this funding could be altruistic. Searchers send there MEV transactions to the server with the address https://relay.flashbots.net/ and the server is currently located in Ohio in the United States of America.
How is the city supposed to know my cell phone number or email? I don't generally give them out. I give out my landline whenever I have to give out a phone number. And heck, there are plenty of people in a big city like Philly that don't have a cell phone, too. (And yes, some of them have cars, believe it or not.) Plus cell phones break, emails get sent to spam, etc. Putting a sign up at the place where you are likely to do the illegal thing seems pretty sensible to me.
Thanks for sharing, I've signed up for the waitlist. I never knew there was a name for this concept, but I realized that I've been doing this for a long time. I've set up some pair programming sessions just so I could get the motivation to work through a boring or difficult task. I'm a solo founder who works from home, so it would be good to spend some more time with people as well (even if it's online.) I'm not sure if I'm ready to go back to a coworking space though. Maybe after I get my next booster shot.

I've also noticed that weekly accountability meetings don't seem to work well for me. I joined a group where we would meet once a week to share our progress and discuss goals for the next week. I realized that this didn't seem to help with procrastination or focus, and I was just feeling additional pressure and guilt when I wasn't able to achieve my goals. Working with (or next to) someone in real time is a very different experience.
I see it this way: with RSUs you are betting on one egg. Your company. There are things about RSUs that make them more attractive than getting cash and betting on another single egg. If I can get cash instead I will. I don't count the RSUs as a decider in that sense. Given my risk tolerance I'll take extra cash if I can and invest it into multiple eggs instead. Over the past 10 years that probably would have made me loose out on money. We will see how it goes in the next few. When all tech stocks are tanking I bet it's going to be hard to switch to another company where things would be better. Having bought stocks that have paid dividends through many years of recessions with the cash I got seems better to me. Of course you could have sold those sweet RSUs and bought more of those same dividend paying stocks than I can. Power to you if you did. Somehow I doubt most people that choose the RSUs have done that and instead only cashed out to buy a house or a Tesla etc. Not saying that's you or everyone. I drive a 11 year old car I bought used. And would even if I had taken RSUs ;)
Yeah but I feel like it could be used for that, if only retrieval and storage could be done incrementally…
I really, really like Facebook Marketplace's fuzzy searching.

Random people listing stuff on local classified sites don't always use the correct keywords, and it's in everyone's best interest for these listings to actually get a good amount of views.

I suspect this "fuzzier" algorithm accounts for the far lower amount of spam too. A search for "heat pump dryer" on Gumtree will return 25 listings in a row from the same shop in Oakleigh, whereas Facebook will show different products from different sellers (some businesses, but mostly randos) - not to mention the people selling their heat pump dryer without including those magical two words in the title.

It's uncanny how good this algorithm is at returning what the buyer is actually looking for.
Pattern “Inside” Prime Numbers
Food/parcel delivery robot rescue van guy.

A person with a small electric (Ford Transit, etc) sized van that drives around dense urban area and retrieves sidewalk based/pedestrian area, stuck/failed/inoperable food/parcel delivery robots from public places and returns them to some regional repair depot.
It is not capitalism then. It is a bastardized state sponsored social-fascism. The Society that owns it is small and not benefiting the entire population but it is still state sponsored and state encouraged.
Exactly. The bet wasn't that AI will do composition correctly all the time, but that it will do composition correctly sometimes. That is how both sides understood it.

The analogy with a student at exam misses the point. If you do art -- even as a human artist -- you do not need a 100% success rate. A 10% success rate is okay if you are willing to simply throw away the remaining 90% of the pictures.

If you have an AI that at a click of a button can generate 10 beautiful pictures, 1 of them containing exactly what you wanted, that just means you need to make two clicks in order to get the picture you wanted. That is an awesome thing.
"to get an ISP to hookup to your house (like Comcast), you have to give them your SSN"

since when? i'm in SF, never had to give any ISP my SSN
This is just more proof that when Facebook or another content provider says "This decision is final", and you're in the right, you have to take your message to the press/social media and pressure the execs to push down a decision on the content moderators.

They won't, but Facebook shoudl post a public postmortem abotu how this decision was made and then reversed.
Good discussion. It may help to separate the different threads.

Business models that support network visualization: mostly, not such a great story. Customers want to solve problems, not just look at pictures of networks. Inevitably this drives the work toward domain-specific capabilities in areas like computer security, fraud detection or bioinformatics. It's a slippery slope. If you stay focused on core algorithms, your audience is other tool builders i.e. cost centers.

Scaling up network visualization: fascinating technical problem, but a human can't actually see a million objects at once or form a mental map of their locations. So it's more like a clustering problem. Not a big surprise that Graphistry adopted uMAP. It's treating nodes more like points in big plot. We're not concerned with the same problems as illustration quality rendering of small readable graphs.

Building your own: an appeal of network visualization is that you can get going by just writing some kind of physical simulation, assign reasonable coordinates to nodes, drawing edges as lines, and poof you're done. If your goal is consistently making concrete diagrams that look like a human drew them (with nodes that have shapes and ports, various kinds of labels, constraints on edge routing, nesting, aspect ratio control, etc.) there are so many intricate subproblems that you could spend years on any of them. But what's the financial incentive?

The research frontier: no doubt machine learning will eventually transform this domain the way it has many others. The combinatorial objectives of network diagramming make it challenging for now. (Can an algorithm learn orthogonal planar layouts with port constraints? Maybe. Would like to see that.) Another frontier is to extend general methods for declarative 2D layouts. People don't want just pictures of networks, they want more elaborate diagrams: computer networks, metabolic pathways, business processes, cryptocurrency transactions. Network visualization is only a subproblem in information visualization. This ties in to the first point, people need to solve problems in a specific domain.
Sorry, I should have been more clear: it often isn't "theft" (or "larceny"), legally speaking, but it usually is some lesser crime under a name like "unauthorized use/borrowing" or "misappropriation".

I'm not aware of any jurisdiction that doesn't have a law that covers unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, so I can practically guarantee it is illegal.

In Philadelphia I believe the relevant statue is https://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/LI/CT/HTM/18/00.039.02... - although I'm actually unsure if towing would count as "operating" here? That's a question for their lawyer.
If you and your parent comment are correct, then anyone who owned bitcoin or ethereum before the PoS launch has helped out the basilisk, and anyone who didn't had better do something to catch up. Something besides buying crypto, since that phase of the basilisk's plan is complete.
I am all for something like that, where feasible. Ot sure if such a progressive idea would be feasible in the US. I am sorry to say it this bluntly, but that would be like installing the TV set in a house before building a roof or making sure the foundation is not slipping down the hill.

And I agree with your judgment about the observation you made, but I think one can always create better policy in that field, but the perfect should not be the enemy of the good here.
> louche glamour

One of those words I really want to use some time ("louche", not "glamour").

> he still writes with a Caran d’Ache fountain pen with a six-sided barrel

because of course he does.
Fluid Worker (multi-professional) - A family or group will share the same virtual persona and take turns to work remotely as a single worker. In low-income regions large communities will share job positions with top salaries. A Fluid Worker Chief will be elected to visit the offices for events and parties. Burned-out individuals will be replaced by younger ones. After World Office War I the Fluid Worker will be legalized, and the roles in companies will be performed by sub-companies which are also allowed to contract their contractor recursively, producing the first Fluid Worker mega-mergers.
https://archive.ph/vqZXX
I think video game success is probably distributed like startups. Maybe 1 in 10 will have real success, a few might break even or make a little and most will end up never making enough to cover the costs to create. The work is massive and the pay off is not guaranteed. Creating a video game by yourself is not for the money, it's because you're driven to create the idea you see in your mind.
Shoot me an email. I’ll throw a few questions at you.
It could be made to be. The current persistence implementations are all batch but I believe they could be row, or even cell-level, theoretically. Nice idea.
Cars: just filter by only "cars and trucks" and "owner". Bingo bango.
> Good thing I'm not British then.

I'm not quite sure what you are. Can you clarify?

Brexit only affects the British. Do you mean you're not English?

For the general public: England is a country. Britain is an island, which includes England, Scotland, and Wales. The British Isles are a set of islands, which adds principally Ireland and the Isle of Man. The UK is a union of several countries, including Scotland, England, and Northern Ireland. Most of the English have nearly as poor a grasp of the differences here as they do of the random former imperial belongings they screwed up. Most assume Britain=England and call the English "Brits."

> Really? Not filling out customs documents correctly is now anything other than lazy and incompetent? Wow.

You mean like randomly drawing maps on a line to divide up the Middle East, without getting anyone local involved? Yes! It is.

Fortunately, it only costs you a couple hundred bucks, and not decades of war.

I have nothing against the "Brits," but each time they do this, I have this image of a rich, spoiled brat yelling at a minimum wage barista for 15 minutes about screwing up an order. Yes, she should have made a DOUBLE soy latte, but get over yourself. Sheesh.

As a footnote, I've met people who make "mistakes" like this precisely because they're annoyed at the "Brits" for any of a variety of reasons. I find it funny.
You’re 80% of the way there now that you have encoded SQL-like syntax now all you have to do is to translate that into raw SQL queries to be executed
My ip is dynamic, so it sometimes changes. The ISP is the same as always (and the approximate location too).

I access the Internet using the browser's incognito mode. So Google considers each login as from a new device.
I don't understand this well enough, but, why can't miners just mine other coins? Was all GPU mining Etherium based?

I know that bitcoin mining requires ASICS and GPUS can't compete with that, but I just assumed miners are just mining one of many possible coins, with Etherium being one of them.
Not much, I was able to make 9 levels of a very graphic intensive game in unreal over six months. Is it really that much work to take it from that to something that runs on all the platforms? I’m genuinely asking.
If you have Verizon, they have a number lock feature (https://www.verizon.com/support/port-out-faqs/#) that is designed to protect against this very thing. I have it enabled and feel much better about using SMS 2FA/recovery.
That is our project. We also have a FB Page we put up. The clean room implementation is not us but someone else that we linked to, in order to funnel those that prefer that style of work. We can't work in the open yet.

I have been able to fully reverse engineer the protocol, including what data is expected by the client and what data the client sends for various packet types.

No blackbox server, game has been dead for years.

Writing bottom up. Protocol is more important. We actually have some left over server files with npcs, quests, items, mobs, etc. So I can recreate the entire world by loading those in (already reversed the file formats and can parse them into memory as data structures)

We have the client source because one of the former QA devs on the game bought the rights to the client many years ago, and he is working with me on the project. We will be able to open source the project eventually, if we can prove we have a custom server. Because BMC was built by the people that built T4C and shared server designs. But Dialsoft currently owns the rights to that. We need to show we have a server implementation to that is net new and unrelated to T4C, and then we can legally open source everything, and that is the goal as we mention on our site.

We already have the capability of walking around maps, teleporting, and dealing with inventory and equipped items. We have all the packets reversed. Most of the work now is in concurrency and world state. Loading mobs, quests, items, and broadcasting information to those around you, etc. Right now a lot of stuff is hardcoded. Once I get this part working, the rest is mostly filling out the world and getting combat to work.
Correct. I think this could be done, but I would need to think a little about how best to. Thank you for the idea!
Are these body double volunteers active part of the ADHD community?

I can see how this can set you apart from the competition as you have already an active and enthusiastic members among the community doing their best to help each other since they share the same background and life experience.
My favourite part:

There’s an opportunity cost “of waiting around for a nuclear reactor to be built when you could have spent that money on wind or solar and got rid of emissions much faster,” Jacobson said. This cost may be particularly onerous when you consider the rapid advancement in battery technology, which can help address the main shortcoming of renewable power: its intermittency. The price of lithium-ion batteries has dropped by about 97 percent since they were introduced in 1991, and prices are projected to keep falling.
I wonder if a chair that allows muscles to relax for hours on end can be a solution.

I went the ‘standing as much as possible’ route and am thankful to have made the move from a health standpoint.
Nginx security page [0] lists a non-zero amount of exploitable issues rooted in manual memory management.

[0] https://nginx.org/en/security_advisories.html
HL3 = IRL
Thanks, didnt know that. What was his stated motivation?
>What for? What advantage would this have over storing data on a server?

Mostly because I'm kinda poor and can't even think about buying it renting servers. That's why I thought that such a solution would allow me to keep developing my game while the players could still play the game.

If it would be possible, which from replies to my comment, I'm guessing isn't, it would also mean that even if I died, people could still play because the "servers" wouldn't shutdown.

>You're just offloading the cost onto the players, and offloading the queuing mechanic onto the blockchain.

That's kind of the point, MMORPG are, from what I understand, quite expensive to run. Thus if they were run by the community it would be cheaper for the developers and those resources could be further used to work on the game.

>I'm sorry to be rude, but this is another comment desperately trying to find a use for the blockchain, casting out a rod into infinite idea space, and pulling out a boot

I am surprised by the negativity that the HN crowd has poured onto me. Since it would solve one of the biggest issues with MMORPGs, which is - servers shutting down.

I love MMOs and it breaks my heart knowing that I'll probably never ever again be able to play Tera and many other MMOs...
Somewhere around 50x is the dividing line between "I want to see normal stuff really up close" (best done with a stereo microscope or camera with macro lens [some "digital microscopes" fall in this realm]) and "I want to see microscopic things that are invisible to the naked eye" (best done with a biological style/compound microscope with stage and slides, etc.). They can both be interesting! The Foldscope is definitely aimed at the latter case.
Seattle, for anyone who hasn't lived there, has a set of folding barricades marked 'No Parking' with a blank space to put dates and times. I believe you can even go to the city and borrow a set yourself for things like sidewalk repairs, taking down a tree, moving vans, or having a forklift show up to move something into your yard, though these seem to go out pretty close to the event whereas I saw city ones show up two weeks before something major.

From a smaller data sample, parts of Oregon also do this as well.
UE is the last engine I'd use for RTS, though people have done wonders in spite of it -- check out the tech behind HŌRU game for some impressive examples.
Maybe Vitalik should take Balaji's advice and write under a pseudonym. I wonder how much attention his writing would get.
No, but I do have TSA Pre, and this was the open entry point for all US citizens.
But that is how repairs and warranties work across international borders? Unless there are trade agreements that say otherwise. It sounds like this person got a new GPU as a warranty replacement, and customs was like, well, this is such and such tariff.

And typically, companies and people will just ignore you if you ask them to do something they think is illegal, like saying an item is gift when shipping internationally. People try to get me to pull this when shipping on eBay to save on the import costs all the time.
You were going fine until:

> There are some things that we know for 100% certain definitely happened

If anything, this is one of those things you should 100% question. Such a politicized event, almost 80 later, with most proofs being unreliable testimonies and confessions by physical force. As the saying goes, history is always written by the winners. Not saying that it didn't happen, or it was only exaggerated, or anything like that.

I'm only saying that making ILLEGAL to negate or downplay is an extremely dangerous precedent.

> If you disagree with me about it, it simply means you are an awful piece of shit.

I wouldn't care about this comment at all, if it wasn't because my question was flagged and this is not. As always, a heavily enforced voting/moderation system results in a perverted, deranged way of reality that's only perpetuated by such system.

For anyone reading this, if you want to be somewhat in touch with reality just leave this garbage forum.
That’s BS. If citizen’s united made corporations corporeal allowing them to fund candidates and such surely it gives them free speech. The court’s narrow reading of things is odd at best as they want citizen’s united to hold so right wing candidates can be funded with unlimited corporate funds but don’t want the woke tech world to police speech. This ruling could make Cloudflare reinstate all the abhorrent sites they take down.

America continues to bifricuate and it sucks that the courts are becoming political as well. I think I’ll never return: I’ll just stay in the EU for the foreseeable future and enjoy a modicum of normalcy in government unless forced to return home to the US for some reason.