skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Courts and lawyers are the opposite of trusting who you're doing business with.

Courts are extremely expensive and time-consuming. Contracts are definitely not the opposite of trusting who you're doing business with. If you do not trust someone to fulfill their side of a contract, you probably don't bother writing up the contract. The contract is there to punish breach of trust, not to establish trust.

Security is the opposite of trusting who you're doing business with. There's a reason super markets -- the most common type of business operating without high trust -- employ loss prevention professionals.

Notice that the blockchain offers no substantive defense to a five finger discount...
Oh wow... I haven't seen (or really even thought about) that show in ~25 years. That was one of my favorite shows in my early teens. I wonder how well it would hold up these days. I remember it being super campy (in a fun way).
Bart to SFO provided a valuable connection from Western SF/Daly City to Caltrain/SFO. It also provides the actual only connection between Caltrain and BART, giving better connectivity to the East Bay.
Central planning is great for big things. It is all the little things that are hard to get right
5/24 kWh per rolling hour, with an audible beep if you'll run out of credit before the end of the hour would be a suitable way to do it.

Then you can hear the beep and either decide to turn off a few things, top up your balance, hit the 'emergency 1 kWh' button, or just sit in the dark for 15 minutes.
Membrane: A simple UI library that runs anywhere
Hilariously, this is _precisely_ what "fractional reserve banking is".

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm

The banks have a zero-percent reserve ratio allowing them to "loan out" (and have deposited in their own bank as new funds) 100% of the 'digital assets' in their account.
It's the Swiss cheese paradox: "cheese has holes; bigger cheese have more holes; therefore, the more cheese, less cheese".

> However, I still haven’t found any studies which show what this relationship is like. Does the number of bugs grow linearly with code size? Sub-linearly? Super-linearly? My gut feeling still says “sub-linear”.

We know from observing reality that even buggy software is better than no software – a software so buggy it adds negative value is a rare exception. So I guess it has to be "sub-linear", otherwise software wouldn't have economies of scale.

The contradiction though is: how do we explain the apparent stability of large but mature codebases? Thinking something like Emacs for example here, where some commits date back to 197X. I guess at some point it becomes an inverted U shape even if codebase grows, if it grows at a conservative pace.
So what happens to crypto now?

A reasonably likely possibility is that the SEC starts sending letters to every issuer and exchange that sells to US persons. If you're an issuer, you have to register as a security or get a no-action letter that says yours is a utility token. If you're an exchange or a broker, you have to register as an exchange or a broker. Sign up for FINRA regulation and pay SIPC premiums. They did that to ICO issuers back in 2017, which is why you don't see many ICOs any more. NFTs were a workaround for that, but the SEC has been saying that bulk NFT issues and fractional NFTs are probably securities.

The SEC has been reluctant to do this, partly because they were still litigating over whether crypto issues are securities, and partly due to political pressure. Last week, the SEC won SEC vs. LBRY with a decision that crypto is almost always a security. Much of the political pressure came from FTX, which is now a political liability. FTX donated to both Republicans and Democrats. Now, on Capitol Hill, key committee leaders from both parties are against them.[1] The SEC is now ready to act.[2]

The crypto industry sees regulation coming and is freaking out. It's not that filing an S-1 is that hard.
It's that you have to give all the info crypto issuers like to hide, such as where the money is going, the business plan, and who's running the thing. Under penalty of perjury.

(I want to see an S-1 for Yuga Labs (Bored Ape Yacht Club / Otherside).
They raised $400 million, printed some pictures, and threw some raves. That could be the most fun S-1 to read since BOYSTOYS.COM did an IPO for a strip club.)

There are fewer offshore havens available. China pulled the plug on crypto mining. (Literally. Power was cut to crypto mines.) Cyprus cracked down. Japan, post Mt. Gox, licenses and regulates crypto exchanges. Bahaman regulators were about to take FTX into liquidation. Cyprus cracked down after the binary option debacle. There's still Bulgaria.

What will be left after all the sketchy operators are shut down?

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/11/crypto-meltdown-washington-t...

[2] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sec-chair-gensler-slams-non-1...
There was a posting on HN yesterday about how original maintainers were kind of flooded & overwhelmed by Twitter refugees who didn't understand that Mastodon wasn't really meant to be the go-to Twitter clone.
> By their own figures, Tether is now undercapitalized...

Where has Tether stated this? Last I heard--today--Tether has continued to claim the opposite.

(edit to add, 45 minutes later:) I see patio11 makes the same claim, but I've now read both his recent articles on this and he is making a LOT of extremely stretched assumptions to pull off this reasoning, and even then the best he has is that it must have momentarily become insolvent in the past :/. And so like, maybe they are undercapitalized... but if they are it is because they are lying, not because their own figures somehow demonstrate such.
I used the Cider debugger with Clojure with some success, but as I got better at REPL-driven development I ultimately stopped firing up the debugger
How do you pay for infrastructure without taxing someone? Mass transit has other goods than the immediate user.
Interesting.
Given how much work that is, i have to imagine it's integrating a custom codesys (like beckhoff used to do) or something.

Hard to believe they could do it all on their own that quickly.

As for the rest -
no disagreement, In practice though, i would trust the P1AM/etc over Arduino's product every day of the week.
This is what they do.

The thing is that if i needed something a little different, i'd just move to a different part of the Productivity line - a p1000 or p2000 or a p3000 (or something else from Koyo, who owns them all).

If i needed ability to do "random things", i'd use a revolution pi, as you said.

There are plenty of good things in this market, and arduino doesn't seem to actually bring anything meaningful to the table.
Isn’t it both that we should be more efficient AND contribution should be made locally for local improvements?

I think value capture addresses this somewhat in the sense that if these projects are funded more locally, more attention would be paid to costs and timeline as opposed to the relatively distant federal money for which nobody feels a responsibility.
Interesting but it doesn't seem to activate the menu item for me. Can I make the menu item be invoked once I found it? Hitting return does nothing.
Mate it’s like you’re paraphrasing “American Captialist Patriot 101”, but I really don’t feel like having this discussion atm
Ask HN: How to invest in brick and mortar businesses?
Has anyone invested their savings into a brick and mortar business (eg laundromat)? Would love to hear stories/tips on how you went about it.

I figured it could be a nice way to make more back than SPY and a lot of areas are crying out for even the slightest bit of digitisation... I have laundry on my mind as I've seen some cool ones where the machines are centrally controlled by a touch screen with card payment etc.

I'm thinking it might be easier to buy and existing one, look at their numbers and look for areas to improve. The sites I see for buying businesses are sparse at best, though.
Sometimes it just shows the last known location. Since GPS accuracy varies that could place the dot directly in your neighbors house, even if it was stolen and is long gone now.
Tesla is claiming 66% now that it is 2022 (down 4%), so BofA's projections are in the correct direction, at least.
US cities have spread and sprawled, and there's no planning except for freeways.

Somehow we can acquire land for massive multi lane behemoths riding over the fields, and build them before the developments come in, but building or extending a train line before that is completely impossible.
The filing speaks for itself
A lot of scraping data sources looking for possible leads and cold calling/emailing.

For example, I've had a ton of cold emails come from people scraping linked in and GitHub and assuming I need their product.

Honestly I hate it and it never works on me, but they probably do it because it works on other people.

Just please be honest in your email. My eyes hurt from rolling at the cold emails that pretend to be personalized to me but clearly are templated.
> Tell me how it's impossible to legitimately run a small business that operates under significantly fewer obligations

You make a strawman here, as that was not what was claimed is impossible. Tell us how it is possible to use Shopify to run a small shop in Germany.
Fun fact -- if we were to tax non-produced assets like land -- which nobody made, and the value of which is created by its neighbors and surrounding community rather than its owner -- then we could LOWER taxes on things like income and sales. So we could make transit pay for itself by taxing land values, instead of bankrupting the city with unaffordable boondoggles through bond initiatives and income and sales taxes, all of which are drags on the economy in one way or another.
No, it is not, because "email" has been in the dictionary for 30 years and is universally understood.

The term "Mastodon" means, to most people, either "a website just like Twitter " or, more likely, absolutely nothing.

Is that difference, and the barrier it presents to new users, somehow unclear?
We do tax them, but it's indirect, because property taxes go up. You could do it by say taking 25% of increased property taxes and remitting them to transit costs. That's an interesting idea I never heard of before.
It is ok to use kamikaze dogs in war only if your leader is a nice guy
Does anyone understand how SBF was able to raise almost $2bn without EVER GIVING UP A BOARD SEAT?!?!
Meta is shutting down its Portal smart display business
textfiles (Jason Scott) hangs out here, so hopefully he'll comment! I signed up in case it's meant as a public resource.
https://archive.ph/qhnL8
I'm saying I've had that stupid import error pop up in my face 5 times and changed my code as a result, rather than the imports, because it surfaced an error.
Aliases are most definitely used in a real town square... nicknames are common, shortened versions of names are used. Rarely do people go by their full name or sometimes use their middle name instead of their first name.
> Paris-Bordeaux was €15m per mile for electrified 200mph capable line.

is that the LGV Sud Europe Atlantique between Tours and Bordeaux that opened in 2017? looks like thats €9B for 188 miles new track or €47M per mile.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGV_Sud_Europe_Atlantique

> The consortium invested €3.8 billion, French government, local authorities and the European Union paid €3 billion and €1 billion was contributed by SNCF Réseau (subsidiary of SNCF). Another €1.2 billion was spent by SNCF Réseau on the construction of interconnecting lines, control centres, capacity enhancements at Bordeaux and remodelling the track layout at Gare Montparnasse.
Can you give some more info on the size of this project? Hard to understand why a culvert on an unpaved (and presumably small water source) would cost much.

Almost any project on a highway costs a million dollars.
Handling Heroku's new “Heroku_ext” schema for Postgres extensions
They can breath as much as they want to
Then don't respond. My goal is to convince you and other readers of something that I believe to be true and valuable to our society. If you have no similar motivation, then there's certainly no reason to respond. You're certainly not going to convince me of anything by making baseless statements like that I'm paraphrasing some non-existent textbook, and then failing to give me, or anyone else, anything meaningful to think about.
There isn't a GPS on a laptop.
Creating Fluffy Trees with ThreeJS
It's funny how after over a decade the best bitcoin can do is an almost half solution to a problem more contrived than the plot of a daytime soap opera. Who the fuck actually has this problem?
But why wouldn't the PD just say why the defendant doesn't belong in jail?
"Never attribute to incompetence that which can be adequately explained by greed."
What will put them out of service in fairly short order is salt exposure from carrying salt.

Cargill has a big salt mine in Cleveland that extends several miles under Lake Erie[0]. I don't know where else they're mining it, but it gets shipped in lakers, and it's pretty rough on them for obvious reasons.

I toured the Mather[1] some years back (take the below decks and engineering tour if they're offering it), and the guide made a point that the fact that the Mather hadn't carried salt was a big factor in how well-preserved she is. Carrying salt is apparently the last stop before the ship breakers for a lot of lake steamers.

[0] http://www.rockthelake.com/buzz/2017/12/cargill-salt-mine-cl...

[1] https://greatscience.com/explore/exhibits/william-g-mather-s...
They just got banned and are out of 8 dollars for a meh prank.
My prediction is all of this drama around checkmarks will die down in a few weeks, most likely by the start of '23.
Huh? Python is an everything-is-an-object language too. Supporting monkey-patching is a separate thing.
Something asked on every job application form in my mid-sized Texas hometown was whether you had a valid driver’s license and a car, even for jobs where driving wasn’t your main task. A job candidate without their own car was likely to have problems getting to work on time and much less likely to be flexible.

The DPS offices have been consolidated to very efficient operations far, far from town. The service is improved if you’re a driver with an internet-connected cellphone (quick appointments! Know exactly when to show up to avoid a wait!), but hellish if neither of those things are going on for you, especially the driving bit. This is where you have to get yourself and your documentation to for any sort of ID, not just a driver’s license.

Living in a mid-sized German city where I can walk less than half a mile to a subway station and commuter rail still feels a bit magical. I sometimes go weeks without getting in the car.
You are working under the assumption that people read the phrase "Mastodon" like the read the phrase "email". That is absolutely not true for almost all people. They think of Mastodon as similar to Twitter, and they expect a similar sign up process.
You can do the same in Rust with include_dir[1]

1: https://docs.rs/include_dir/latest/include_dir/
If you want to listen to the dark/shady side of the body broker business check out this swindled podcast. These dudes were chopping up bodies and storing parts in buckets, warm coolers, you name it.

It’s quite a listen!

https://swindledpodcast.com/podcast/84-the-body-broker/
Yes there is - because their proprietary (until today) plug is not the industry standard.
Liabilities / (Assets - Liabilities). That's really all there is to it, the article explained it in the second paragraph.
That's fascinating and probably good advice, although it does raise the question of whether the cure is worse than the disease :-)
Things like this make me feel really sympathetic with the "F#@# the police" leftists.

If the police won't handle crime, then the community needs to take control.
Crypto seems like the kind of risky/novel investment the accredited investor program was designed for.

Of course that would kill crypto.

In general I’m glad the government let the experiment be run. I was not one of the people saying crypto should be banned, and I’m still not. But at this point I think it should be regulated, for the same reason most other investments are.
That’s a shame. Back when Find My iPhone first launched, my friend used printed screenshots to track his stolen phone moving from the park to another city across state lines. Police departments in both cities helped him and coordinated with each other. When the right house was identified, the police didn’t search it, but they accompanied him to the door and asked the phone to be brought out to verify ownership, and the person cooperated. She had bought the phone from the thief and wasn’t prosecuted.

The case in the story is so much simpler and could’ve been handled within half an hour of the initial contact.
Changing times (or, why is every layoff 10-15%?)
No, it's because Brightline exists and CA HSR doesn't, yet. So the speed is 125 mph to zero.
1. SBF is a proven fraud and liar, I don't think anyone should be citing him at this point. :)

2. People ITT are claiming that they can't withdraw from FTX.US.
You're forgetting that the IRS is basically perpetually handicapped by people who are protecting their friends who do sketchy tax based things to make more money that they then feed back to the people that kneecap the IRS
Is bigger actually worse in this case?

At least in theory, it should be possible to make it mechanically stronger than a smaller connector.

I've heard of charge station cable connectors failing do repeated bending stress, and my car has multiple warning stickers saying not to plug into a charging cable that is under tension.
Leica’s “Leitz Phone 2” has a giant 1-inch camera sensor, magnetic lens cap
Using Answer Set Programming for HPC Dependency Solving
You mean like right now?

I understand this is a bit snarky, but I think it perfectly makes my point clear. By some metrics right now looks like a golden age, by other metrics it looks like staring into the abyss.
Sublime does as well, for languages with LSP support
I have to say, I was dubious that a study like this could come up with anything worthwhile, but the guy has some pretty sensible ideas:

Build it cheaper, so you can have more of it - yep

Do it faster, so it'll be cheaper - yep

Quit throwing money at all those expensive consultants - yep

==============

Put a lid on all those lawsuits - he missed that one.
Out of curiosity, where in the US are you?

Where I am (Oregon), public CCS charger locations outnumber Tesla chargers several times over. There are huge areas of the state that have CCS chargers, but no Tesla charging capacity.

My next EV will certainly not be a Tesla, for that reason.
Most. PM2.5 is the danger, particulates of 2.5 microns or less. Polycyclic aromatics and oxides of nitrogen.

Tire scrub and brake pads produce larger particles that wash into stormwater drains and poison downstream aquatic life.
Not since after the 15th Amendment (race, color, past status as a slave) and 19th Amendment (sex).
Fucking USSR apologist. The regime was threatened by poets! Like how could you possibly argue that sending poets to a labor camp to die was for the betterment of the people?

Edit: For anyone wondering what this poster is about, take a look at their brief comment history and all will be cleared up.
Exactly! I'm getting sick of seeing all that kind of double-standards BS all around the internet.
Things are OK until someone we don't like does it
No, I believe the way it's done in Asian countries is that public transportation is run by (usually) private companies that have the right to develop the land. Thus the incentive is to put things on top of transit which align with what commuters need. In Singapore, for example the pad around every station typically has a hawker stand (food court), drugstore, supermarket, which are the things you might need on your way home.
This seems like too little too late. The momentum for J1772/CCS is there with basically every other EV maker.

It’s not as good as Tesla’s system but I feel like the cat is out of the bag and it’s just too late for Tesla’s connector to gain traction. We finally got rid of ChaDeMo. It was settled. I don’t think anyone wants to open that box back up and spend the money to retrofit all charging stations with a new new connector.

You know what will really help EV sales? Telling everyone who has started to buy them in the last 2 years as non-Tesla brands have taken off “Ha, just kidding, you’re screwed. Use an adapter forever or pay $3k to retrofit your vehicle. Sorry.”

Why didn’t they do this 5+ years ago? If Tesla’s mission was to push electric cars it would make sense, like Volvo giving away some of their safety patents.

I don’t have a Tesla, but I would have preferred their connector. But their weird previous offer made it a no-go and I just can’t see it happening now. So unless Tesla stops using it it seems multiple connectors will live in forever.
One has to ask: What about bass solos?

(I like bass solos)
The best part is the last lines:

If we pay attention to the legend
then we'll have to accept
that in Earth is one less dog
and in heavens one more star
I'd say "leverage" is the slightly affirmative, slightly pejorative term for a phenomena that could also be labeled 'fractional reserve banking'.

Read the Federal Reserve's on words on what they 'guide' banks to do with deposited funds:

> The Federal Reserve is carefully monitoring credit markets and is prepared to use its full range of tools to support the flow of credit to households and businesses and thereby promote its maximum employment and price stability goals

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm

Following the "quacks like a duck" rule, a fractional reserve 'policy' and 'using leverage' look very similar. Both root in criminal misuse of deposited funds.

There is nothing new under the sun:

Leverage, fractional reserve banking, and most of the shenanigans in crypto are all violations of the legal principles governing the monetary irregular-deposit contract.

I _love_ reading anything new by patio11, so absolutely just took a long break from my day to read this and leave the comment. Thanks much! Looking forward to the next BAM!
Spirulina Is much happier warm. Harvesting is kind of boring. Got a 5 gallon bucket topper with a fine mesh strainer for engine oil. Scoop out a bunch, flush repeatedly with fresh water, you get a green gelatinous cake that doesn’t taste like much (tofuish?)

No one liked it. It would do in a pinch.
It's not so much "sub-linear" as "capable of being bypassed".

The CEAC State Department website is the most common one for me... the file upload only works in incognito and "once" per session. So people have figured out that you can log out, log back in and keep uploading your immigration paperwork.
that's an optimization error of another stripe - thrown away or not, the beef gets sold and FarmCo makes money
People leave money on exchanges because the alternatives are worse. They're almost as dangerous (if not more so): how many people have lost millions or billions due to malware, forgotten passwords, failed hard drives, death of the owner and inability to transfer that wealth to their heirs, etc.?

All of these problems are solvable with ludicrous levels of complication and confusion, and the average person doesn't even realize they need to take these sorts of measures until they've irrecoverably lost everything.
I spun up a test server of Pleroma recently. Following just a few people, 0 people following me AFAIK, I did join a few relays so my federated timeline is populated. It is currently showing 360MB RSS and the CPU load maxes out at ~50% of a single vCPU.
The odds are zero for even one head if you never flip a coin.