skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can’t speak for anyone else but the person I responded to said, unqualified “ The blue check mark does not verify who you are. It verified your political ideology matched up with that of the blue check mark committee. ”
Any info on system capacity and efficiency?
> Really wish the cops would download a list of who installed this app and find their location data on top of a map of reported thefts...

Uh... So, I too found the website and couldn't believe how brazen the business is. I too was surprised about the app. If I downloaded the app because I was so surprised, should my name be given to the police as part of this investigation?

That's ridiculous.
Also note that slur filter is now configurable [1] and seems to be completely optional [2].

[1]: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/622#issuecomment-89...

[2]: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/235cc8b22897bfb3e71ba...
Rust is pretty clearly the ascendant language in this (big) niche.

I forecast that as it’s pragmatic, industrial uses (inevitably) grow sharply, that the FFI story will just have to improve. Rust is going to be the next “low-level” language.

The “Pure Rust” talking point will have to recede a bit but it will be a net win for Rust’s truly broad adoption, which is going to happen whether cranky old-timers like me like it or not :)
I thought parallelism was pretty limited in python due to the GIL (global interpreter lock, iirc)?
It's unfortunate Tumblr made the move to ban explicit content in the first place, but it's definitely not dead. It may not be what it used to be 10 years ago but it's still what I'd rather browse through than what Twitter has become. A lot of the porn/fetish/niche blogs that left may not come back and I don't blame them but at least they have the option.
What's being discussed here is not a revenge killing, you catch someone doing it you're probably not going to gun them down, you're more likely to detain, call police and press charges, or chase them off. But if they come at you with their hacksaw...

I think the proper solution to this is that car manufacturers should be required to better secure these things. Putting a thousand dollars or more in such an easy to access place, requiring people to have some of their money sitting there like that, might as well tie a bow around it and set it on the hood.
I like how you edited the actual words
No, it means don't trust it blindly but instead learn techniques to monitor and verify what it does. I use firejail, ebpf, and opensnitch to restrict access, monitor, and verify runtime behavior.

Where possible, persuade end users too to be equally careful. The "linux is safe" cliche blinds both us and end users to its obvious security problems, like running every script as the logged-in user with the same level of access. These malware developers know it and rely on it. That's why we need to move everybody towards a restrict-monitor-verify mindset by default.
Isn’t one of the advantages of going to Harvard or Princeton hob mobbing with the children of the 1%?

It’s a devils advocate position of course.

Harvard will always be Harvard, but plenty of “lesser” colleges benefit from a famous alum/patron.

Steven Jobs did wonders for Reed College. Charlie Munger for UCLA. Oppenheimer for Berkeley. Etc.
If you do it right, yes, a hardened steel plate.
That would be ironic af, but yes, that is basically what I'm suggesting.
If you've never experienced the indifference of a cop taking a property crime report and the complete lack of follow up, just pick a place and you can look at non-violent crime clearance rate.

They really don't care.
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The Etymology of Fart Knocker
> Historically minorities were prevented from being capital owners [...]

That overlooks the elephant in the room: land ownership.
In a perfect world, outgoing network/file operations should be explicitly whitelisted in code using a decorator. And containers should limit which process/thread can access which port/path.
God everyone says this. But it's not like i didn't wake up at 7am for 12 years in highschool, and it didn't make me a morning person. Just perpetually sleep deprived.
DG Auto is a nation wide operation. They aren't sending the contents of the cats over 1 cat at a time.

It's not really reasonable to hold the refinery at fault, they were working with another major business dealing in large numbers.

DG Auto is the right place to hit because they knew they were getting $38 million dollars of cats from 1 family and an unlicensed business (that family is also getting prosecuted).

You wouldn't hold a refinery at fault for smelting down cars they got from a junkyard. They have no reason to suspect the junkyard is sending them stolen goods. Any resell business that deals with individuals is where the pressure belongs.
Amen to that. We reached $2M ARR as 3 engineers at Missive [1]. As the CTO, I can tell life wouldn’t quite be the same without the ability to save the day in the production console at the speed of light.

[1] https://missiveapp.com/
I love this idea. But what about peer deps? And their dependencies? What if multiple deps share peer deps? Is there a simple way permissions could be resolved in the web of modules?

Also- tangential but I really wish people would stop using require and use ESM whenever possible. I cringe when I see `require` just as much as when I see `var` being used in 2022, but I’m not certain there’s never a good reason not to use ESM.
No, maybe a joke? Or serious...
Perhaps my greatest hope for this world is for The Wire to one day become dated, rather than staying tragically evergreen.
https://aws.amazon.com/controltower/

If we all started using Control Tower perhaps they'd get funded enough to continue to build it out and make it awesome.
One thing I was surprised not to see here but applies to any termination for any reason (even quitting really): do not sign anything without being paid for it. Even if they are offering a severance run it by a lawyer first. Without though, just don't, no matter how innocuous it seems. It's for their benefit, not yours.
> they'll no longer be looked at as diversity hires

Only racist losers assume I'm a diversity hire. And I'd actually rather they seethe at the "diversity hire" who just happens to somehow magically drive high-impact projects at every company he's ever worked at culminating in a career that's seen him work on everything from some of the most used apps in the world to self-driving cars.

For that particular brand of loser if it isn't affirmative action it'll be something else:

- Our CTO is from a West African nation, I'm from a West African nation, we bonded over that so actually its neopotism

- Affirmative action may be banned and we dropped D&I but actually the hiring manager has a personal secret agenda to hire blackies

- One of the people that interviewed him was black so obviously they gave me a pass.

But of course let's forget about the legacy admission that landed you in a school, let's forget how you bond with your interviewers over in-office beer kegs and inside jokes from your favorite shows in your shared culture, let's forget about that internship from a family friend, etc. etc.
I don’t understand why. It’s ugly and boring there
Well, this is actually an issue. This was killing me slowly. I had to quit and become self-employed, and there's no way of going back as long as things are arranged and organized like this. It is limiting my options drastically.
Batteries will get stolen for same reason.
there is a difference between being right-wing and being a complete swivel-eyed loony. those publications are the former. also republicans and democrats are both right-wing (both part of the "money-party", as Gore Vidal called them). sadly.
sorry, nothing about our bodies tells me they're this inflexible. i wonder if the "nighttime chronotypes" controlled for things that actually would influence it, like light exposure. regardless, one of the things that worked best for me was rigging a bright light to dawn gradually at a early hour, and cutting off my bright light exposure at a early hour. even if i have a "night chronotype" it's still possible to "trick" it into thinking i'm sleeping at a different time.

tbh i'm a bit suspicious that there are 5am natural sleepers. being basically nocturnal doesn't sound natural or healthy. and given the proven effects of lack of sunlight on mental health that should be fixed regardless of work timing.

i personally hate the phrase "the science" with a passion, but can you link me what you're referencing? cause nothing suggests that they're this "inflexible".

ngl everyone i've talked to who has a "nighttime chronotype" is actually just doomscrolling until 3AM then complaining "oh i can't sleep early". they typically keep bright light on late and use blackout curtains in the morning. no wonder their bodies don't work in a natural, normal circadian rhythm when they do this kinda stuff.
https://cbsnews.com/pictures/gun-ownership-rates-by-state/52
As in I've dealt with all of it professionally and spoken to lawyers on all these topics, yes.

Also, this story seems to be fake anyway.

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/bullshit-reporting-the-i...
No I am not. The "90% urbanized" figure was just thrown out there. Let's not debate urban vs. rural because even in the U.S. nowhere close to 90% of people have gigabit internet speeds or 5G availability. The addressable market for Starlink in US alone is likely 50-80 million people.

DirecTV and Dish Network alone have over 30 million U.S. customers combined. Keep in mind Starlink has been engineered for portability unlike DirecTV and Dish. More than 11 million families own an RV. And 12 million own registered boats. How many own second homes? Starlink takes 2 minutes to setup and 2 minutes to tear down.

Back to residential service though. There are tens of millions of households that are limited by old copper lines that were never filled in or cable extensions that were never dug. Or if the cable does exist, it's still at slower speeds and certainly not gigabit. Relying on mobile isn't a great option as most services today still throttle speeds down to 600 kbps when exceeding 15GB a month (which is nothing these days).

But worldwide, including in all the BRICS countries and the global south that rapidly growing in GDP and global importance is about 2-3 billion people with varying levels of spotty, congested, unreliable internet. These communities are probably lucky if they have 4G in many cases. That market is worth hundreds of billions over the next few decades, even when adjusting for purchasing power. Easily.

And your assumptions about relative competitiveness vs the highest quality residential speeds (which are only largely available to people in dense urban cores) are perhaps one upgrade away from being achieved. They already solved the hardest problem with regards to satellite communication: latency. It will be interesting to see how far they can push the bandwidth at scale over the years.
Hi there...this is pretty interesting. I am wondering if I or someone doesn't like their profile in cvitter, is there a way to delete their cvtter account? Ha such as me cause I don't like my profile as is at this time.
Good insights, thank you!
gausswho says >"Does that sound unreasonable? When about 1 in 150 Americans are currently incarcerated?"<

Incarcerated for what and for how long? You're just giving numbers without specifying their offenses nor whether they are locked up awaiting trial or the end of their sentences.
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If the DA doesn’t care, the cop doesn’t care.
Interesting you talked about shavers. Admittedly AWS is only 16% of AMZN's revenue, but it's 75% of profits and growing like gangbusters, especially when compared to the rest of the company.

If regulators force AWS to spilt from the rest of Amazon it will be like the breakup of Standard Oil: shareholders will make more from the separate entities than they did from them combined.
If you are a highly skilled technologist you will not have any issue finding a new job. If you are greatly bothered by the changes at Twitter and the new ownership it is almost certainly for the best that you leave and do something else. I don't see why someone skilled enough to work at Twitter would desperately hang on working for someone you can't stand to try and get some severance. Life isn't fair and this is the free market, and you are earning Big Buck$, dust off the resume and join a new company. Life is too short to live like that.
Zig can be used as a standalone CC replacement and not just for FFI purposes.
"Preparing for a Malicious “For-Cause” Termination
The new leadership has dramatically changed the expectations of workload across the organization. It is now expected that teams work evenings and weekends to ship products. Work progress is being tracked by the hour in spreadsheets to build precedent for terminating workers “for cause” to avoid paying severance. "

That's just shitty. Richest guy in the world and he doesn't want to pay severance. CA has some pretty strong labor laws, I'd think requiring people to work evenings & weekends would be a no-go.

From a game-theory standpoint it seems like given that Musk is going to do everything he can to keep from paying severance that the best strategy would be for everyone to just walk out the door all together and let Musk figure it all out by himself. Don't give notice, just stop showing up for work.
Nope, they are seized as evidence and are also subject to a claim for criminal asset forfeiture contingent on conviction; the criminal forfeiture claims are part of each indictment.
A resource access model for dependencies doesn't make much sense to me, there's basically only 2 things you want to gate access for libraries: filesystem and network. And it's all-in. A library that needs network access may be legit today and after an update start exfiltrating data to a different url. It seems easier to grep for fs and network calls in the library code than any of that.
I just keep a copy of all QR codes in a safe place. When I need to move to a new device I just install andOTP and scan them all on the new device. I don't like my keys to be protected by only a password somewhere. I prefer to add physical protection to them. If they are accessible from my computer then it's not really 2FA.
While I completely agree about bail reform, I think you may have a misconception about prison populations (people actually convicted.)

Of the roughly 1 million people incarcerated in state prisons, over 60% are there for violent crimes. About 3.8% are in prison for drug possession - about 40,000. So yes, too many, but not 1 in 150. Now, 1 in 5 people are in jail for some kind of drug offense, but that's not simple possession.

It's definitely worth having the conversation about what to do about that, but don't think that 'possession of something that hasn't caused harm' is the cause of most incarcerations.
How would one go about legally selling a catalytic converter?

I removed the exhaust from one of my vehicles about 15 years ago when I replaced the worn out engine and have had the old catalytic converter sitting around in my shop ever since.

The catalytic converter came from a 1992 model vehicle. The whole exhaust was replaced with a custom stainless steel exhaust front to back with a 50-state compliant catalytic converter in line from a well-known California supplier.

I intended to run it by the metal recycler several times but never made it and now that theft is such a huge problem I can see where just showing up with one to sell could be a problem.

I still own and drive the vehicle and could probably dig up documentation for the replacement exhaust system.

I'm glad to see a federal effort to stop these thefts. I had to install a cage around my kid's catalytic converter since there were thefts occurring from vehicles on their college campus.
This comment is a perfect microcosm of the title.

Of course the issues you raise are real, and there is a whole constellation of systemic racism issues that specifically affect black people in a unique way. But when it comes to affirmative action there's a fundamental issue that goes beyond privilege narratives:

> Or how about we don’t assume all black kids and women are diversity hires now, and maybe, I don’t know, treat each one as an individual and judge them based on the content of their character

That's a nice sentiment, but it overlooks the fact that AA introduces this doubt, the doubt is in fact real, and can't be papered over with good intentions and turning a blind eye to cause and effect. The question is whether the net good in counter-balancing other systemic racism is worth the cost. That's not an easy question to answer. Some individuals would be more than happy to take any advantage they can get, and others want to be judged purely on their individual character.
Hey, wait a minute, ++ is defined for floats.

It might be a bad idea to use it in many cases (since there are values for which the result is just rounded back to the original value), but it works!
Its $110 a month. I spend 1/5th of that every time I go to Chipotle.
There is one "site on the Internet" being pinged, the author's personal site. I'm guessing it would need to be hosted behind a CDN or so to provide this oracle that can be benchmarked against? Otherwise how would I know it's my internet that's bad (especially if my internet is quite good and sensitive enough to notice server side problems) and not the website failing in some way?
Do keep in mind that things are not as great in Houston as they seem:

They have no formal zoning, but they still have mandatory minimum parking requirements etc that outlaw density.
Don't kill anyone who is not trying to murder you. If you catch someone stealing your catalyst, you use your weapon to deter a violent action of his part, not to stop the theft by murdering him. The fact that he is willing to disregard societal property norms, already flags him as potentially dangerous, s he might enforce his criminal difference of opinion by using violence. That is why security is armed; Not to shoot the sucker in the back as he is absconding with your stuff. Unless your stuff could be used to harm others, then you might be justified in using reasonable force. Always try to de-escalate, but respond in kind.
Yes, or hundreds at least. Every platform has to deal with this problem, if they want to keep users and advertisers.

https://sports.yahoo.com/twitter-locks-hundreds-content-mode...
This is exactly what I've done for Membrane[0]. It's capabilities based, even to get the time (and thus introduce non-determinism) you need a capability. Dependencies run as separate processes and everything is orthogonally persistent. It's a typescript/javascript system for personal automation built entirely within VSCode. Stay tuned, I'll be posting a video this week.

[0] https://membrane.io
Maybe, though if there is anything Elon has underestimated so far it’s the extent to which rich people will fight him for money.
It's still like that here in Japan: bikes are all registered with the police and have stickers with their registration numbers. When they're stolen (which is usually done by drunk people wanting a quick ride home, or teenagers using them for joyrides) and recovered, the police will bring the bike back to the registered owner. Usually, the best way to avoid theft is to simply lock your bike's rear wheel so it can't be ridden away easily.
Couldn't you just give poor people money?
Digg had the same misunderstanding. He owns some computers and a bit of IP. He doesn't own what makes it worth something. If people or advertisers leave, he has to turn the computers off since he can't afford to run them.
Love the cleverness here. I was literally wondering this exact thing as I read through the documentation.

I'm hoping to use his WiFi debugging guidance from the readme at my in-laws: I was just experiencing remote desktop problems despite having a strong network connection. I suspect the culprit is Comcast's supplied router.
Rust code would probably return an error on output buffer overflow instead of siltently discarding data. Something like this: https://docs.rs/base16ct/latest/base16ct/mixed/fn.decode.htm...
> This theft is so costly and prevalent in my neighborhood, it's like $2,500 per 100 people. In 2 years, I've had mine stolen twice.

Bay area? i thought i was bad in Socal, I had my Gen 2 Prius siting outside a residential area near a major university town while I was away in EU and had mine stolen. I had to junk a decently running hybrid because of this as Toyota had a shortage of them and since the Prius was designed for the California market without the Toyota stamp on the cat its an instant fail for emissions, even if the ppms are within spec with an aftermarket part: no exceptions!

It's literally the most ironic thing I've experienced and I worked in the auto industry and at VW through Diesel gate!

This is so wide-spread and many good cars just ended up in the scrap yard when it was an easy fix to just allow for temp smog exemption, mine still for 40+mpg with worn batteries and thus exceeded most of what is sold on the market now, but because of regulatory capture and how insurance policy works it was the most expedient albeit wasteful solution--this is what I fear AI will bring about in most cases if left to its own devises and unchecked, too. Some made it to neighboring states without this requirement (OR/AZ/NV/CO) but the issue was logistical because you'd need a temp Cat installed to drive to said state, but in early '21 you could get them for <$1000 and recovered your costs as they soared in value as gas inflation pries kicked in gear.

I actually pitched this as a to a friend who was having his 1st kid at the time, he offered me funding (mid 5 figures) but I couldn't work with him due to the child so I left the idea and took off to EU instead. I had anticipated and projected healthy returns, $2k/unit after expenses, little did I know it would go to $7k+ per unit as I found my sources for the legwork: 49 state legal cats, mechanics to install, and drivers ready to go (mainly me). It's mainly what I had done at VW after all, logistically speaking.

There was a total parallel economy in shield installs, part/chassis swaps and tracking devises etc... because it got worse not better. I attribute a lot of this to the issue wit unemployment payments, and general lack of help for those during covid people got desperate and would probably be foisted into this easier than before.
My daughter was born around 8am.

The midwife attended from around 7pm the night before. She suggested getting a good nights sleep.

Natural births aren’t random. They are the result of lots of pushing and a little pulling.

Getting a good nights sleep is a good idea.

I can’t believe this is even a question.

Edit: My wife corrected me on this. She claims she didn’t sleep the night before, but I’m about 70% certain she nodded off quite a bit.
I assume so, but still in the 15 years I've been ordering stuff from Amazon, it's never happened to me before.
I doubt it. Catalytic converters are stolen because they're valuable and easy to make off with. Car batteries are frickin giant, and if you try and take only a piece you get a giant fire instead of a valuable source of rare metals. They don't seem like a great thing to steal.
So they will just start selling those converters abroad. Toothless