skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sure, there are horror stories about CPS being overzealous, but this isn't one of those stories.

The parents were forced in to two weeks of supervision, requiring another adult around them 24/7. The innocent parents, who had not actually done anything wrong.

How is that not "overzealous"?

> I don't much like the "family safety plans", but it's a huge leap from there to 24/7 monitoring...

"Wallace and her husband could not be alone with their kids for even a second."

That sure sounds like 24/7 monitoring, even if it's not the government doing it.
Very true. If you've never been able to cruise on a skateboard, you might not realize how much damage an unexpected pebble or sidewalk crack will do.

Riding is a constant balance of scanning the pavement for inconsistencies and making corrections to mitigate them. I don't know if that's even possible at 20+ mph.
I am probably not going to try this, but I am glad it exists.
They made 3-wheelers illegal, Onewheels seem not much safer.
Trained perhaps, but not very well:

"Question: What determines whether or not it will rain in the next twenty four hours?

Answer: the weather"
I was almost killed by a downhill max speed bike crash when I was ~12.

Wearing a properly fitted helmet, I was knocked unconscious and concussed quite badly by the hit to my head.
effective altruism is really effective until you get caught
I don’t think there is anything a plant can realistically do to adapt to a high enough wattage laser burning it away in the seedling stage.
Which of those two is the more popular one, would you say?
Journalists want to re-create Twitter on Mastodon. Mastodon is not into it
You're absolutely right, the skeuomorphic sea turtle shape is ridiculous, and this boat is a terrible idea. My disagreement here is only that a 5 knot top speed is not, by itself, a reason to dismiss a boat design without any other information.
Interesting, is this intentional then? Or is there some other reason why showing the absolute amount of reserves would not be feasible?
Plastic Pollution: Waste from across world found on remote British Island
Yeah, that's an excerpt from Wikipedia. But when I see these lines I actually read "money laundering" and "scam".
Did you read any of his other posts on his blog?

He's a digital nomad who took off to Mexico (and Belize) and seems a bit lost in where he is going (he says it himself). I've been there myself (except I moved to Vietnam), so I understand it.

This is a lot deeper than just writing tests or 40% internal tooling issues. I also suspect that being remote, he feels like his hands are tied in a company that isn't used to working remotely. Or at least, if I was struggling with tooling, I'd work to find a way to make it better.

I also never complain about writing tests. I can't tell you how many times tests have saved my bacon or resulted in writing cleaner code.
Author: "so the ethics stuff - mostly a front?"

SBF: "yeah"

Absolutely gobsmacked.

I saw these screenshots on Twitter and I thought they were fake until I read the article. The rest of the messages from him are pretty terrible as well.

I thought he just fucked up, but no. He was wilfully unethical and maintains he did nothing wrong: "Sometimes life creeps up on you".

And the thing he regrets most is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy...

What a cruel fucking joke for all the people who invested with/in FTX.
I hated the internal tooling so much that I switched to a manager role almost immediately and only went back to IC when I was sufficiently situated to not have to code anything that wasn't a flashy proof-of-concept.
A new e-bike rider who suddenly is capable of 20mph and has no experience to the contrary might assume (wrongly) that they can navigate safely at that speed.

Cyclists who can maintain 20+ mph on flat ground (not at all uncommon!) will have many more riding hours under their belts, and the commensurate handling skills and instincts.
"We don’t think it is right that anyone should lose their jobs over a financial calamity totally unrelated to the excellent work they are doing,”

Yet we are totally OK with exploiting young people aspirations by making them slaves and destroying their careers and mental health. The last thing we need to worry about is the academic cabal crying wolf.
out of interest, with all these big layoffs, does the tech job market in the US pretty much consume these people pretty quick? or does it take quite a while for these people to find new jobs?
The parent comment by @1024core was about passport control, not security screening. All passport checks at SFO are performed by government employees.
I think the underlying message here is regulation failed. You can dance around and shout "crypto" and people will apparently just stop doing due diligence. All these companies - the VCs, the advertisers etc. all relied on "This isn't an actual literal ponzi though right?" and the US regulators were like "LOL IDK". It's kind of the regulators job not to be trusting in VCs and reputation and really do the work.
so, I say fallback in the sense that I felt confident I could interview there and apply without much friction. I got alot of LinkedIn invites from recruiters - typically once a week - for over a year.

I think Amazon engineers are - by and large - pretty great actually, worked with more than a few ex-Amazon engineers to know.

This was, and I admit, an offhand comment of which I should have explained this context better.

I also don't believe the interview is "easy", but it felt available and I'm someone who - even for companies that don't crazy rigorous hiring practices - goes really deep before any interview, reading many weeks in advance worth of stuff about the company and their hiring process, learning etc. I practice alot, so I felt like I could do well with the Amazon interview. In fact, I did one once before and it wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be, it just didn't work out at the time for me to join.
One of my own more indelible memories is of sprinting down a sizeable hill, out of the saddle and over the front wheel, handily pulling away from my buddy whose bike computer was reading 65 kph (40 mph), wearing shorts, cleats, gloves, and a shit-eating grin.

Two days later, tooling around on flat ground, my handlebars came apart in my hands, thanks to hidden long-developing stress fractures, a characteristic of aluminium alloys. (There'd been numerous previous falls.)

Speed is indeed fun. But its consequences can be extreme.

(I've hit 80+ kph / 50+ mph on other rides.)

Another factor is rider mass. An elite cyclist at 60--65 kg (135--145 lb) can brake far more effectively than a past-their-prime 115--135 kg (250--300 lb) rider, particularly, again, on a grade. Brakes have only so much stopping power.

E-bikes make higher-speeds for less-experienced and less-skilled riders far more attainable.

Typical recreational cyclists spend most of their time in the 20--30 kph (12--18 mph) speed range.
At least bicycles are stable. This onewheel thing cannot work without a computer balancing it (+ the rider). If it fails the rider falls on their face. It would be the equivalent of a bike fork breaking.
Do your research, but I'm fairly confident that buying/ shipping mushroom spores is a legal gray area and not technically illegal in most places. It's only once you've propagated the spores that it becomes illegal. So if you're comfortable with growing a few in a plastic container under your bed and then destroying the evidence (by ingesting it hehe), this might be the best path for you. Much less risky than asking randos at parties or something.
A lot of those complaints are non issues with the default terminal in MacOS.

Option + mouse click moves the cursor to where ever, control+a|e move to the beginning or end of the line, option+arrow jumps words, and the arrows navigate up and down lines just fine... What am I missing?
> What decent neighbor calls the cops on a neighbor's kid walking just down the street from his own house?

Well, what decent neighbour isn't able to, at the very least, recognize his neighbors?

Maybe this child's parents have kept him locked in the closet, never seen by anyone before, until this one time he emerged unto the world and the police were called not because he was on the street, but because he's never been on the street before.

But more likely this person isn't a neighbor, at least not mentally.
It is not a crypto library, it is an Ed25519 EdDSA library.

It has nothing else in it apparently.

WolfCrypt is a better solution and is FIPS certified.

EDIT: I didn't know what GIMLI was.
> Can't you have boxes (modules/class/namespace etc) to neatly arrange things?

The limit on how complex a graph program can be before it's impossible to read is extremely low. Plenty of languages have boxes, none that I know about manage to make them fine-grained enough to neatly arrange things.

Also, change is harder. And anything that makes changes harder makes your code less modular.
> but I do recall seeing my VIN & SoC show up on some EVSE displays. Perhaps it's a trick with the Control Pilot Signal?

You were probably using a CCS charger. Level 3 CCS chargers have a communication capability for stuff like vehicle id and state of charge, which enables plug-and-charge functionality. Level 2 chargers do not.
This is really baffling to me. In fact, since leaving Amazon in June, I've been really frustrated by how much extra work setting up a CI/CD pipeline is in (say) Drone and Argo/Flux than with Amazon's internal tooling. You can set up a standard Amazon pipeline with a single command and answering a few prompts about naming, whereas with the open-source systems you have to hand-craft everything yourself, hack in a way to update the infra repo every time the source repo changes (I blogged more about that here: https://blog.scubbo.org/posts/ci-cd-cd-oh-my/), and it seems like Drone literally doesn't have metrics that indicate broken builds. To say nothing of how well-integrated Pipelines is with alerting and ticketing - yet _another_ integration you would have to build for yourself in OSS-land.

Literally the only advantage I'm aware of for OSS systems is that they allow you to use whatever language, dependencies, build system, etc. that you want - which, yes, fair, if that's something that you need, then that's a deal-breaker, but for the 99.99...% of internal cases that Pipelines works for, it (seems to me to) work flawlessly and smoothly.

What are some unfavourable comparisons that I'm missing?
> This gives the lie to Jeff Bezos' whole "Day 1" philosophy.

You can also interpret it like - “always start from scratch. You don’t have anything”
The line above was a movie-quote, I believe Cassablanca? Where the inspector/regulator comes out of the Casino saying that he's shocked to hear of gambling in the facility, flanked by two call girls.

Quick FYI: there are no call-girls and the place is not (nominally) a casino, it's Rick's Café Américain, which Renault calls a cafe and Rick famously calls a gin joint -- in any event, a popular nightspot.

Here's the text of the relevant scene, from IMDB[0]:

Rick: How can you close me up? On what grounds?

Captain Renault: I'm shocked! Shocked to find that gambling is going on in here.

[a croupier hands Renault a pile of money]

Croupier: Your winnings, sir.

Captain Renault: [sotto voce] Oh, thank you very much.

[aloud]

Captain Renault: Everybody out at once.

In Renault's defense, right before all this, he was told by a superior to close the place down and, when a reluctant Renault says he has no excuse to do so, he's told, "Find one." Hence his feigning being "shocked" at the gambling.

(If you have 32 seconds, you can watch this classic scene here: [1]).

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034583/quotes/qt0429972

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxnpY0owPkA
As explained lower in the thread, I should have given more context to my offhand remark. Since I can't edit the post itself, here's the context:

I say fallback in the sense that I felt confident I could interview there and apply without much friction. I got alot of LinkedIn invites from recruiters - typically once a week - for over a year.

I also don't believe the interview is "easy", but it felt available and I'm someone who - even for companies that don't crazy rigorous hiring practices - goes really deep before any interview, reading many weeks in advance worth of stuff about the company and their hiring process, learning etc. I practice alot, so I felt like I could do well with the Amazon interview. In fact, I did one once before and it wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be, it just didn't work out at the time for me to join and I had to pass on the opportunity.
Doesn't C have years and years of repeated security flaws due to lack of memory safety? What's the motivation to continue releasing greenfield projects in C?
+1. I'd also like to note that it's very easy to get started with MLflow; our quickstart walks you through the process of installing the library, logging runs, and viewing the UI: https://mlflow.org/docs/latest/quickstart.html.

We'd love to work with the author to make MLflow Tracking an even better experiment tracking tool and immediately benefit thousands of organizations and users on the platform. MLflow is the largest open source MLOps platform with over 500 external contributors actively developing the project and a maintainer group dedicated to making sure your contributions & improvements are merged quickly.
While quite reasonable, you'd be facing an uphill battle in many places.

In a lot of the United States, it's pretty common to see someone riding a 160hp 4-cyl sportbike in a t-shirt and flip-flops. Other riders call them 'squids.' EMTs call them 'road crayons.'
it is when the focus is on having 100% coverage and not on test quality. When 100% becomes the metric it tends to get gamed pretty heavily with tests that have such a huge amount of mocks as to make the tests useless, or doing something to make it hit a branch, but ignoring actually verifying it cause that branch is just a log statement.
Sorry but the "wildest conspiracy theory" is that Democrats sent money to Ukraine, Ukraine deposited the money at FTX, and SBF donated the money to Democratic congressional campaigns. Nothing about what we know today lends any credence to that theory.

That some guy with access to a lot of cash tried to buy influence is not a "conspiracy theory" because it is unilateral. And, if that's what he was trying to do, it seems like a really poor strategy since you cannot really buy influence over law enforcement that way.
Snappy indeed. Everything feels like it is loading instantly. Check out the network inspection while browsing. This is how most sites should written.
The problem is not that the neighbour is nosy, but that they are making a dumb decision in spite of all visible evidence that nobody is in immediate danger.

So you are worried about seeing a neighbour's kid walking near the home alone? Talk to them to check they are ok. Accompany them home. Talk to parents about your concerns.

Do not call the police.

Note that I am in no way saying that they take grunt of the blame, but we put adult people in jails for doing dumb things (hey, that lion in the zoo looked really sad so I released it). When you can hurt someone, it is your responsibility to not be dumb.
Since more than one thing can be true at the same time, why not a combination of a) total lack of internal controls, understanding of basic accounting and book keeoing, b) total lack of competence when it comes to manage these amounts of money and c) actively defrauding customers by stealing their deposits?
Sigh. No.

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/the-psychopharmacology...

Selegiline metabolizes to the inactive isomer of meth: l-methamphetamine. Which is very much not trucker crank—it’s an over-the-counter decongestant.

Was he on good ol’ non-meth-amphetamine, in the form of Adderall? Sure. But rather a lot of people are on Adderall, and most of them haven’t created a market-shattering boondoggle.
A handy bookmark to have is https://betaapp.fastmail.com/login/ which (if any past incident is an indicator) is separate infra than production and thus can continue to work

I enjoy the beta version so much that I just live on it all the time, if that helps set expectations about how "beta" it is
I can not believe it took this long.

After trying one for a bit I always wanted to get one, but never felt fully safe riding it. I even asked them repeatedly if they ever had a plan to introduce a board with some kind of additional set of wheels or bearings on the ends to let you "roll out" in the event of a power failure. The issues has always been that, in the event of a loss of power for any reason, because you are usually leaning forward, the board grinds to an almost immediate stop and you just go flying. Happened to me once in the sand and even that hurt. The board basically decelerates to zero instantly.

I thought long and hard about buying one and modifying the skid plates with a row of large ball bearings or maybe even small skateboard wheels. You just need something so that if the power fails you at least can attempt some kind of recovery. The way it is now, if the power fails, you are simply getting launched. I always wondered how they hadn't been sued into oblivion, always thinking to myself, "Someone must have died from this by now." I guess at least four people have… but somehow they've been able to produce and sell these for nearly a decade.
There's "no sign of any weeds/zero biodiversity" and then there's "target the weeds that would crowd out your crop", which is definitely a problem in my raised beds.
>"People assume a "bike" is safe"

Bike is not safe. And it is not even about being hit by the car. Cyclists often fall and often it results in broken bones etc.
> What is the order of the two calls to `query` actually matters, but how could the language know?

The language can't "know the order" of these calls, since they are not ordered. No information is passed from one call to the other, hence neither is in each other's past light cone.

If you want to impose some order, you can introduce a data-dependency between the calls; e.g. returning some sort of value from the "INSERT" call, and incorporating that into the "SELECT" call. Examples include:

- Some sort of 'response' from the database, e.g. indicating success/failure

- GHC's implementation of IO as passing around a unit value for the "RealWorld"

- Lamport clocks

- A hash of the previous state (git, block chains, etc.)

- The 'connection' value itself (most useful in conjunction with linear types, or equivalent, to prevent "stale" connections being re-used)

- Continuation-passing style (passing around the continuation/stacktrace)

> languages that don't strictly define it make this type of thing very error prone

On the contrary, attempting to define a total order on such spatially-separated events is very error prone. Attempting to impose such Newtonian assumptions on real-world systems, from CPU cores to geographically distributed systems, leads to all sorts of inconsistencies and problems.

This is another example of opt-ins being better than defaults. It's more useful and clear to have no implicit order of calculations imposed by default, so that everything is automatically concurrent/distributed. If we want to impose some ordering, we can do so using the above mechanisms.

Attempting to go the other way (trying to run serial programs with concurrent semantics) is awkward and error-prone. See: multithreading.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_programming

Note that you haven't specified the database semantics either.

Perhaps the connection points to a 'snapshot' of the contents, like in Datomic; in which case doing an "INSERT" will not affect a "SELECT". In this case, a "SELECT" will only see the results of an "INSERT" if we query against an updated connection (i.e. if we introduce a data dependency!).

Perhaps performing multiple queries against the same connection causes the database history to branch into "multiple worlds": each correct on its own, but mutually-contradictory. That's how distributed systems tend to work; with various concensus algorithms to try and merge these different histories into some eventually-consistent whole.

PS: There is a well-defined answer in this example; since the "INSERT" query is dead code, it should never be evaluated ;)

PPS: Even in the "normal" case of executing these queries like statements, from top-to-bottom, against a "normal" SQL database, the semantics are under-defined. For example, if 'query' is asynchronous, the second query may race against the first (e.g. taking a faster path to a remote database and getting executed first). This can be prevented by making 'query' synchronous; however, that's just another way of saying we need a response from the database (i.e. a data dependency!)
How can you tell ahead of time if the team you're switching to has it any better?
Those comments are nuts. https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/ywkg0y/the_scorpion_...

They’re mostly all like “Yeah OneWheels are cool but my buddy leaned too far forward once and now his jaw’s wired shut for 6 weeks” https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/ywkg0y/the_scorpion_...

Or “I saw a guy almost die on one of these” https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/ywkg0y/the_scorpion_...

Or “Yeah a bunch of my friends have broken their bones at our weekly OneWheel meetup, and OneWheels are universally recognized as a wheeling death trap if you’re not careful. But it’s totally worth it because, like, it’s fun!” https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/ywkg0y/the_scorpion_...

I think I’ll stick to quadcopters…
Thanks. That makes sense. So sounds like no magic happening, just the speed you would expect from accessing a virtual disk directly in a VM.

You think there's any chance Microsoft ever expands their 9p support to allow users to mount arbitrary 9p filesystems?
He probably means hysterical, that which is plagued by hysteria, excessive emotion. The word originates from hystera, greek for uterus. No longer in clinical use but certainly in popular usage despite its unfortunate history.
Selling to Bending Spoons isn't a success story
Thriller remastered in 4K
Answer by GPT-3:

> How is information security in Infosys?

Information security at Infosys is implemented through a combination of technological and organizational measures. The company has a dedicated information security team that works to identify and mitigate risks. Technologies used to protect data include encryption, firewalls, and intrusion detection systems. Organizational measures include employee training on security policies and procedures.
For FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried, incompetence could be a legal strategy - https://www.axios.com/2022/11/16/ftx-sam-bankman-fried-incom...

> Lawyers tell Axios the main criminal risk Bankman-Fried faces is an indictment on charges of fraud — one of the more common charges in white-collar prosecutions. But to convict, prosecutors must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that someone had knowledge or intent to commit fraud, which can be tricky, they say.

> That’s why the defense against such charges typically centers on something like, "It wasn't fraud, I was just really bad at my job."

> "Typically, in a fraud case, the person at the top argues that he was inattentive, delegated to others, and wasn’t focused on the details," Mariotti tells Axios. "The point is to argue that he was sloppy or inattentive, not a fraudster."
It used to be the norm to mix up the groups every three years, when transitioning between low/mid/high school stadium.

I appreciated that change of social dynamics every time.
Best argument around for doing your own startup.
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I just finished two-year project to build a sensor data acquisition system that was based around private LoRaWAN networks. Our custom gateway was Chirpstack running on a little linux SBC connected to a RAK LoRa module.

It took some effort to solve congestion and reliability when the network got busy.
Clear snow the laziest way