skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Venture Capitalists are free to invest in whatever they want. That doesn't mean its a good buy, it means that those guys are willing to put down some risky bets (probably because they have hundreds-of-billions or even trillions in assets, and can weather any losses).

> sports teams like Miami Heat or Mercedes F1 actually advertised them

How does that prove any kind of reliability at all? There's no FDIC insurance on any of the deposits. There's no actual regulation or transparency. Its not like VMFXX or SWVXX where there are requirements to publish their assets on a regular basis, or describe asset flows / liquidity requirements.

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Still though, the scientists in this discussion were _NOT_ investors. The economy is designed for _investors_ to win (and lose) money as per appropriate risks. Its fine for investors to lose money here, that's the entire point of capitalism. (The investors get the money if they bet right, but they lose their money if they lose).

These scientists who allegedly got funds... its not their job to be trying to figure out which groups to trust or not trust. Maybe scientific donations / 401c type deals need to be more carefully watched in the future?
This looks like the layout for the "Watch Together" feature: https://messengernews.fb.com/2020/09/14/feel-together-messen...

There's a bottom section that slides up and if a user clicks on one of the videos it will play for all participants. If anyone sees this and didn't intentionally click on one of those videos please file a bug!
Nope no approval required
> Is there a bug with onewheels that are causing this injury/death? Or is it just rider error doing a dangerous activity?

The article describes the scooter suddenly stopping operation and throwing riders off. It's not just scooting being dangerous generally, but a specific product flaw.
Why am I not hearing about unionizing? I'm as capitalist as they come but the idea of signing a ridiculous pledge to give all your time to help a billionaire become richer seems insane on its face! Who is signing up for this kind of treatment? Has the brainwashing if tech bros gone all the way over the edge?
It's been between 65 - 67 when I wake up at around 6am. I'll be posting a video soon with more in-depth data.

At night it has been getting to 17° outside, with it getting in the mid to high 30s during the day. But we have been hovering from 65-69° inside despite the much larger outdoor temperature swings.
The real world problems are still being solved, just off-chain. I made a similar example with Mastodon: no central entity controls Mastodon, so x@x.com and x@x.xyz might be owned by different people, one impersonating another, and you can't just "complain to Mastodon" to fix it.

Tornado cash: the domain is still resolvable to an IPFS hosted website[1]. As far as ENS is concerned as a name service and URI resolving mechanism, it is working great. This doesn't mean the smart contract that facilitates tornado cash deposits is working that well: if the US says you will be criminalized for touching a smart contract, then nobody will want to touch it, and tornado cash depends on many people using it to provide anonymity.

> If you were actually concerned about censorship, an expensive service which leaves a public audit trail for prosecutors would not be the optimal starting point.

If you are referring to tornado cash, I think you are mistaken.

[1] https://twitter.com/liamzebedee/status/1578127982173908992
Small Robot Company have a robot called Dick which uses "Non-Chemical Weeding", i.e. they zap the weed to kill it, and it's root. They use other small robots to do the mapping and planting. I really like the idea of small, specialised robots for different tasks.

https://www.smallrobotcompany.com/weed-killing
Title does not match link. Nowhere does it say a recall was ordered, it does say the manufacturer is refusing to comply with what I assume is a suggestion for a voluntary recall. Does the CPSC have the authority to order unilateral recalls?

I'm honestly considering buying one while I still can, they seem like fun and I'm just fine with the risks as long as there isn't some hidden failure or manufacturing defect.
It’s 100x faster, works on larger than memory data and let’s you run SQL over csvs, parquet, arrow tables and etc.

I mostly use it to extract data from a production DB, do basic preprocessing for ML training (which requires joins and filtering that gets ugly in pandas) and typical OLAP queries to compute statistics.
The SRE role comes from Google, where they are neither looked down on nor underpaid. Perhaps other companies have corrupted that title to mean something else.
Have you ever had the power fail?
This is just classic. "OH I'm a crook? Well everyone's a crook!". No Sam. You're a crook, and we're not really intersted in taking moral lessons.It just reads like the lowest effort teenage coping mechanisms. And you know what? Andreesen will fund his next venture. Because it's about class, not returns.
Good. When I was shopping for a used car a couple years ago, I found virtually no good candidates from private sellers because Carvana had completely gutted the second-hand car market where I live.

Their business model is to basically corner the market by buying _all_ the available newer used cars (often above book value) from private sellers and dealerships and then advertise the crap out of them on all the usual car listing websites with the goal of being the _only_ option that most people have for buying a used car.

I don't have a problem in principle with "no-haggle" dealers in general. Plenty of people don't mind paying more than they have to for a car, just to avoid talking to a stranger. But the way Carvana operates is just begging for some kind of regulation.
You can't wait for what you don't know.
Another lesson from Evernote: if your primary business is digital (ie software) don’t make a corporate strategy of selling physical things (notebooks).
Motorbikes can easily (<10 seconds?) reach 4x your 35 mph, is probably why. That's why the full-face helmet and racing leathers. The leathers aren't going to help you if you go flying and hit something, which is why you should never ride that aggressively on the street, but if you go sliding for hundreds of feet, hopefully you only need a new suit and not most of your skin.

But you're right that even at 35 mph you'd be in a world of hurt. Every time I see a bicyclist going aggressively downhill in a bowl helmet and a barely-there lycra suit, I cringe so hard. You know how they get rid of road rash? They aggressively brush it out with what amounts to sandpaper.
Another commenter posted about this in a separate top level comment already but it's worth mentioning here as well since you mention speed. The people who routinely hit 25+mph on a regular road bike know how to handle one at those speeds, many ebike riders simply don't have the handling skills or the experience to ride safely (for themselves and others) at speed.
> Most American schools are so regimented that any exploration of knowledge is actually sneered down.

America’s not special. Schools are very similarly run in every government school system I know of and almost all the others. https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=11375

> How did our communities let it get so bad...

If schools provide childcare and sort and rank the children a large majority of parents are satisfied.
This has definitely been my observation as well. E-bike riders tend to be less experienced at a given speed then cyclists.

They also seem less likely to be comfortable riding on the road (understandably) so illegally use sidewalks to a greater degree.
I have heard that too but it’s hard to know (either way) what he was arrested for as he hasn’t been charged after three months detention.

The police statement is https://www.fiod.nl/arrest-of-suspected-developer-of-tornado... - it seems to say he facilitated money laundering. Which could mean simply writing code or could mean doing more.

More info on https://www.notion.so/FreeAlex-campaign-1f8db0a2fdfc48b3b86a... which is a horrible notion site with a strange and awful UI.
Base Rates of Error
> Cognizant

Someone hired those clowns as contractors as extra in a previous job, to loud protests from our development team. They produced what was quite possibly the most chaotic, copy-paste, typo-laden code I have ever seen in my life.
I left Amazon in June of this year, in a similar-ish position to the author. I didn't have anywhere near that level of problems with the internal tooling[0], my frustrations were more related to seeing poor product prioritization decisions, neglect of tech debt, and repeated inefficiencies and mistakes in org-wide projects. Nonetheless, the feeling choosing to prioritize one's own mental health and recovery really resonates. Good for you, author! Take a break, get back in touch with yourself and what you care about, prioritize your joy, and I wish you all the best of luck in your next project!

[0] which I've found to be pretty-to-extremely-good compared with what I've discovered since leaving, and would actively welcome new perspectives on what flaws I'm missing.
The notion that someone that made it through MIT physics, worked for several years at Jane Street, and actively cultivated the persona of a genius can't understand that making a million tokens, selling one of them to yourself for a dollar, and then calling yourself a millionaire is nonsense, is frankly preposterous.
Or you reach out to the owning teams/oncalls and half the time they have no idea how their own code/product works for anything nontrivial because most of it was written several generations of attrition ago.
Your latter point is why I'm not really sold on electric longboards. Your control authority on a longboard is pretty low, and you need a lot of control authority to react to surprise obstacles/maintain stability after encountering one. Sure, DH longboarders exceed 25mph regularly, but they ride in semi-controlled environments (scout the descent for gravel etc before hitting it) and are exceptionally skilled.

Putting random noobs on electric longboards is a recipe for road rash and broken bones. A few years ago, three people in my office got Boosted boards, and I believe we saw two instances of pretty bad road rash and a broken bone among them.
What about this experience is specific to electric bikes?
> That sort of thinking enables all sorts of abuse, though. Knowing this, a neighbor with a beef with parent-neighbors could cause them a lot of grief by manufacturing a false report to the police or CPS, in such a way that they won't get in trouble themselves.

That's true, but the thinking you are describing also enables all sorts of abuse.

> the "safety plan" CPS came up with was still a huge unnecessary overreaction

Yeah, at least as described in the article, it seemed excessive and unnecessary. I could see where they don't have a smaller scale mitigation to put in place during an investigation. It's definitely not ideal.
I experienced a DOM issue where a horizontal scrollbar was being rendered on some versions of Chrome running on Windows, some versions of Firefox on Mac, but I couldn't reproduce it myself (Chrome / Safari on Mac). It happens.

I don't QA for these things beforehand, but when they do occur, it helps to have a way to perform cross-browser testing to fix the bug.
> I get that sometimes pro-active measures are prudent, but "hey, police, I saw my neighbor's kid walking outside unattended" is not one of those times.

It's possible that "I saw a kid walking alone" isn't enough to justify an CPS investigation but "This child's parent was just arrested and is being charged with a felony for endangering this child" is reason enough.

At the point CPS got involved, they were investigating the home of someone being charged with felony child endangerment. We don't know what CPS polices demand n that situation, or what alternatives were available to the family, but after hearing what options they had the family agreed to the safety plan. If the alternative was "this or we have to remove you or your children from your home" I'd say it was the right choice.

It's entirely possible that CPS did their job exactly as they should have and were required to do under the circumstances. In fact, if the family had gone to trial it would have helped their case that CPS investigated the home and determined that that the complaint was unfounded.

There's no reason to think that a neighbor with a beef could have called CPS and had this happen to anyone else. There's not even reason to think that a neighbor calling the cops would do it since those cops would have to be as dumb as the one in this story and arrest and charge an innocent person with felony child endangerment for it to work. That should be a pretty high bar to clear. The police screwed this one up, and that's what opened the door to all the other grief.
Cool - another option could be beaming power to the ferry using microwaves, millimeter waves or lasers. The power transfer efficiency would be lower but saves the cable complexity and slacking/maintenance.
Has Facebook ever indicated they're capable of a "yep, we've got enough info on everyone, we're good" attitude?
The Segway had a shorter platform, so the user wouldn't put it as far out of balance under typical use, and it had handlebars which allowed the user to pull it back if they started losing their balance. It also had a lower top speed of 10 mph (12.5 on later models); the Onewheel could run at 15-20+ mph.

(I use the past tense because Segway production ended in 2020.)
The timing makes this look like a reaction to Musk firing Twitter engineers for criticizing him on social media[1]. It seems like a thinly veiled loyalty test instead of a marshaling the troops for the rough road ahead. The lowest performing engineers ostensibly got the axe in the first round of layoffs. Now Musk wants to root out those employees who aren’t willing to dedicate their lives to the bizarre theater[2] of Total Commitment.

Some folks seem content to give this behavior a pass citing Musk’s admission that he works 100 hours a week The self-satisfied joy that the gravy train is over for these “lazy tech socialists” is surreal. When you consider that Musk is literally the richest person on earth, it is physically impossible for Musk to work enough hours — over multiple lifetimes — to reconcile a $193B net worth with what any reasonable person would consider a fair compensation.

And to believe that he has a plan for Twitter 2.0 as a “digital town square”[3] strains credulity when he’s been a notorious shitposter. It’s almost as if he insists on sincere engagement from everyone but himself. The Twitter Blue fiasco makes it look like Musk is struggling with his first truly /complex/ challenge. As opposed to, you know, simply complicated shit like rockets and electric vehicles.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/11/musk-fires-twitt...
[2] https://twitter.com/esthercrawford/status/158770970548883046...
[3] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1518677066325053441
For it was the unnecessary feature bloat and the terrible performance made it painful to do what I want - write at the speed of my thoughts, write often and search often. It took me a few days to move thousands of my notes to bear but it was worth it.
And I just read a comment in another twitter related post here on HN that Elon’s recent email will cause the good engineers to leave and the bad ones to stay. Bullocks. Some people enjoy challenges. Typically ones with outsized ability, naturally.
MILAN is very slightly older and probably just as widely used - especially out of US.
Skateboarders train themselves to run out in this situation pretty much immediately.

With OneWheel you never really "train" to fall, instead you try to avoid it. So if you don't come from a skateboarding background you have no muscle memory.
It's incredible how long it took for them to provide remote logout. More even incredible, how other web services for more serious stuff (rather than entertainment) still don't provide this feature.
Deep dive into DigitalOcean blog strategy
GitHub Copilot Is Getting Sued
Twitter source code indicates end-to-end encrypted DMs are coming
Why electric bikes specifically?
No one knew how personally useful radio transmission could be when it was in the exclusive domain of inventors and governments. Radar is not very personally useful yet. It has lots of non-military and non-professional applications that will open up as it becomes cheaper and more accessible.

Restricting code like this will make zero difference to governments or any motivated, well funded, capable group. It just hampers the rest of us.
> If you multiply your infrastructure by n

You've read it wrong. That number doesn't change with the size of your infrastructure, it changes with its cost/size.
On the one hand people seem to get good enough on them to be able to race down mountains. But they do seem somewhat dangerous when in the mix with cars,bikes and pedestrians. There is I imagine a learning curve.

https://www.onewheelracing.com/

They're fairly uncommon here around Boston, and usually riders are wearing motorcycle style helmets. I see a lot more electric scooters zipping around (like the Bird and Lime ones, but privately owned). The only device I've seen someone fall off of was an electric skateboard (No particular reason (they were coming to a stop at a light and fell foward.).
Riding position and weighting distribution.

If you're sitting straight up with 90% of your weight on the saddle, this can happen easily. If your weight is evenly split between saddle, pedal and bars, and your elbows are bent, you can absorb some pretty rough roads.
I think the main resistance to cashless bail is the poor implementation in many jurisdictions.
To be fair - I mostly agree with that take. React with hooks is not functional. I think it's fair to say that React itself acknowledges this by making a distinction between a PureComponent and a Component.

React itself certainly can be functional, but... (hot take) functional programming without the part where you actually make state changes is - drumroll - useless.

If it ain't changing state and there are no side effects - no one gives a fuck. Because it literally isn't doing anything.

Turns out computers are fundamentally state machines. Functional programming certainly has some nifty ideas, and it can be a helpful way to reason about code that will lead to state changes - but the part people want is the state change.
Thank you... it was Soul of a New Machine. I don't think I even ever read Hackers!
The just-world fallacy is strongly in play with many comments here. Because those foundations and charities are massively affected by this scandal, there MUST be something they did wrong, right? Surely they should have vetted their donors better?
And when making these arguments, we totally forget that people specialising in vetting people, like investment funds, journalists and so on, completely fell for the guy.
If you want charities to implement a standard that would have prevented them from taking money from SBF, congratulations, you now have a process that prevents them from taking money from basically any billionaire.
That was the biggest red flag for me. It’s basically impossible to achieve without writing tests for the sake of it.
Sometimes that can take quite awhile depending on where you are, but yeah that definitely seems the laziest way :). I guess the intent might be laziest non-passive way imaginable..
Sounds like this is intended to run on targets rustc would not support, given the claim that it "does not assume 8-bit addressability".

Also, while I'm fully on board the "Rust as a default userspace systems language," the machine code I've gotten out of trying #[no_std] Rust to write part of a bare-metal project was heinously bloated. This is without even using any non-libcore dependencies! Something like 3/4s of the machine instructions looked like they were related to building error messages for panics, despite the fact that there shouldn't have been any reachable panics (and the code was small and simple enough that I expected LLVM to be able to reason about this without any MIR-level optimizations).

Maybe this would be better on a project that could use rustc as its linker, but based on this, I wouldn't necessarily recommend that a bare-metal library intended to be linked to C and hand-written assembly be written in Rust versus, say, verified with Frama-C or other C-specific tools.
Traditionally on CISC the process was:

1. Identify high-level language output greatest common sequence in binary image code regions

2. Check if that sequence profiles in the top CPU usage of generic processes

3. optimize that sequence in the languages

4. verify improved performance

5. repeat until you reach the no-op delay loops

6. Add optimization in the compiler

7. verify improved performance with sub-optimal original language samples

8. add optimization to ASIC

9. replace optimizations in the compiler with new opcodes

10. verify improved hardware performance with sub-optimal original language samples

With RISC, many argued such processes were unnecessary, as every complex op can be emulated in simple code with a faster CPU. This ignores that fact Moore's law is effectively dead.
Maybe he's going for the insanity defense.

Could be legit, he's literally digging, admitting to blatant criminal behaviour like it's normal stuff.
Sounds like emacs paredit mode. I tried to learn it, but in the end I waved the white flag and went back to vimming through invalid states to achieve the next valid one.
Evernote is still the only product that meets my workflow needs. Hope they don’t mess it up.
All you work with is method calls? No free functions? No library functions?

I perform operations on stuff, if I don't know the name of the operation I intend to perform I clearly have some reading to do. Integrated look up for one specific class of operation which isn't even omnipresent in Class-oriented languages isn't a killer feature for me. Nor is structuring every module even if it's completely stateless as a class, just to benefit from IDE driven development a reasonable price to pay.
> The tools for code submission, pull requests, pipelines, metrics, and logging are fantastic.

THANK YOU. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills whenever I see people bash Builder Tools - Pipelines in particular. Compared with what seems to be available in the Open Source world, it's fucking stupendous, and has silky-smooth integration.
I have an ultrasonic distance sensor sitting on top of my monitor that notes when I'm in front of the computer or not[1]. Not mentioned in the blog article is that I also run a shell script that keeps track of how long I've been in front of the computer and nudges me to take a break after 45 minutes.

[1] https://www.michevan.id.au/posts/are-you-there/
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Just an FYI, most schools I see that label themselves as Montessori aren't actually Montessori, they're just high performance schooling environments for young kids. In our neck of the woods it's the hip thing and well off parents will pay lots of money for it.
Not really any more - crypto crash, plus ETH moving to PoS means no real use mining anything, and sane GPU prices for gamers.
The authors seem to use the term them selfs in this very article, they apparently don’t see it as a problem.

> Psychology has long struggled with problems of terminology (Stanovich, 2012). For example, numerous scholars have warned of the jingle and jangle fallacies, the former being the error of referring to different constructs by the same name and the latter the error of referring to the same construct by different names (Kelley, 1927; Block, 1995; Markon, 2009).
Same here. I don't think I've been affected by a single deprecation since upgrading to Python3 in 2015, and even that upgrade wasn't that difficult -- mainly I was just forced to fix a few things I had been doing incorrectly, which imho is a good thing.