skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
US prosecutors don't want to get an indictment until they have enough info for a conviction. If they indict prematurely, the perp may get an acquittal. They only get one shot. That's what "double jeopardy" is about.

What ought to be the easy win here for prosecutors is theft, in the form of diversion of client funds. That's most likely to apply to FTX.us. Now, if FTX was registered as a "national securities exchange", or a broker/dealer, under US law, that would definitely apply. Without that, the jurisdiction issues are worse.

[1] https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdtn/pr/former-mid-state-securi...
That a school vice principal would call the cops on a student boggles the mind (outside of serious crimes or imminent danger). The true educator will patiently observe the ups and downs of a student through the years and will work to teach. Try and engage the student more, talk about drugs and choice in a smart way, recommend some jiu-jitsu classes or, as a last resort, talk to the parents.

Faith in humanity? Sometimes shaky.
Though my wife and I just celebrated 26 years of marriage and have open lines of communication, her telling me anything about the car she's driving is very hit or miss. So the monthly email is helpful. :-)
>> For instance, as one camper noted, in just one lottery to hike Mount Whitney, more than 16,000 people applied, and only a third got in. Yet everyone paid the $6 registration fee, which means the gross income for that single location is over $100,000.

> Wow, it's like those scummy all-pay auction sites you see advertised, where you can buy/win a TV for just $4.29. Incredible that this is allowed.

My impression was that those sites use a much scummier model, in which whoever buys the last ticket wins. Tickets are cheap, but the priority system ("last guy wins") means people buy a large number of tickets.

A true lottery in which you buy a ticket for $6 and then either win or lose at random is a very different thing. You can't spend more than $6 on that.
Insightful, but about halfway through the problems stop being about running a social network, and start being about running a world-spanning social network that wants to operate in countries and languages that it doesn't bother to have moderators in.

I know porn forums that restrict the languages used to languages that they have mods who can understand, but that's obviously a very onerous restriction when you're trying to pull a maximum amount of money out of Malaysia while putting a minimum amount of money or thought into it. You don't have to be social media in Malaysia; someone who speaks the language and is familiar with local laws and politics would be better.

> in the end, basically every major social media platform ends up in this same place eventually (the place Twitter was already at when Musk insisted he needed to tear things down and start again).

To get to where Twitter was (and I think will ultimately continue to be), it's a bit dishonest to leave out the weekly meetings with administration officials where they ask for political censorship of specific accounts and subjects, and you update them on actions you've taken against the subjects and accounts they gave you last week.
That would look like the mass layoffs of the sorts of people whose job is general preventative maintenance, or who are employed at higher cost due to their knowledge. Generally the sorts of things that reduce short term costs immediately, while causing much larger pain in some not-right-now future.

For real-life examples of this, see many private equity buyouts.
If you're interested in learning more about what F-Droid offers, I can recommend some more blog posts:

* https://f-droid.org/2022/09/30/free-software-and-inspection-...
* https://f-droid.org/2022/02/28/no-user-accounts-by-design.ht...
* https://f-droid.org/2020/01/16/tracking-the-trackers.html
* https://f-droid.org/2019/05/05/trust-privacy-and-free-softwa...
* https://f-droid.org/2019/04/15/privacy-preserving-analytics....
> So the statement "corporate media produces nothing of intellectual value" is false.

I'm pretty sure the original was hyperbole but more accurate statement would be "most of what corporate media produces have zero or negative value and is just facilitator for the clicks"
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Named tensors with first-class dimensions for PyTorch
I'll add that incentives can really help as well. Observable software is much more easily operated in production environments, and lets tech ops teams diagnose and fix things with much less involvement from Engineers, which will very much appreciate a much lower escalation rate.
Oh, come on, "exfiltration of company property" when we're talking about personal performance evaluations is a pretty huge stretch. I'd characterize this as "Don't make cheeky slack posts alluding to the fact that you're looking for a new job and helping others do the same."
Libjit is fun to play around with, I wrote a python wrapper around it, but the more you play the more you realize how much you need to know to truly use it in anger.

Those were the days before wasm and I didn’t really have any concrete plans (some cockamamie blender related idea I’m sure) so never did anything with it. Probably be fairly trivial to make a wasm front end for it though.
I will be glad to clarify your understanding of my story, but it is hard to do when you have not described what your understanding is. But let me try. The context was:

Thesis:

Employing people who barely provide any value is no good for anyone in the long run.

Argument:

Full employment was always the primary goal of all communist countries, so (state) companies were practically required to employ everyone on the job market.

(My comment was: Plain, simple truth.) The argument continues:

Many of those people had little to do and so, when people got their salaries at the end of the month, there wasn't that much stuff in the stores to buy with it, as the companies didn't have much of an output.

(My comment was: Plain, simple truth again. My story: just an illustration what my "living experience" as a software engineer was in these conditions. Basically: if your do not want to spend a lot of time in lines, you can't get milk. Not enough milk was produced to cover all the money paid to all the workers. Only sour milk to those who prefer to spend their time working.)
Slightly off topic, but I feel like there are so many conflicting parties involved with the US national parks system. On one hand, we have groups of people who want to preserve the land as much as possible. But often these same people have no problems building new roads and swanky new amenities like hotels and restaurants in the middle of these parks. Yellowstone has some of the most wild and rugged terrain in the lower 48, yet some parts of it feel like DisneyWorld.

Which is it? Do we actually care about having natural land we can all enjoy, or are we just trying to add a few extra billion in our national budget? It all just comes off like a huge grift and way to exploit the land.

Then there are parks like Glacier, home to some of the most stunning natural beauty in the country, right next to Tribal Land with some of the most rampant poverty in the country. Suburban families cruise around in their brand new Subarus, while eating $30 bison burgers. They barely notice indigenous people, and the results of the land exploitation, on the way out.
> I would rather people recognize that WebAssembly belongs to the W3C (or everyone via the W3C if you prefer to think of it that way) and not them

I 300% agree with you on this
It’s been a while since I looked, if that’s true then great
>This isn't a choice being made by TikTok, this is...China

Perhaps a distinction without a difference
> In making polluting goods more expensive, you open up space for competition that uses fewer pollutants to offer similar goods at lower prices.

I think we’re in agreement. I’d just say that if you make a good more expensive but then immediately reimburse the consumer for that extra expense then you are not really making that good more expensive. A good system should make sure that a polluting good is expensive and that consumers feel that expense.
Geolocation is way off

Some might consider this bug a feature :-)
https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/
I might be wrong but I think you can conceptualize like this...

Wasm is essentially a target bytecode and runtime based on the well tread security model of javascript in the browser.

Browsers can run it, languages can compile to it, apps of any language can host a runtime that runs it. This leads to infinite permutations and nesting of concepts.

Because its web tech there's a dozen ways to do the same thing.
Isn't this autobiographical memory just another capability of the brain that is simply trained by making use of it?

Yes, there are of course medical cases and disorders. But I'd guess a lot of variance just comes from differing individual "training intensity".

There must be quite some variance in the average number of times that individual people are triggered/challenged to recall some memories (and process them) in their everyday lives.
Some people don't communicate with others - generally, and also more specifically about what happens/happened in their life - as much as others do.

And some people are more inclined to subconsciously cultivate their own memories, than others. Those for example, who enjoy storytelling. Their mind probably creates stories (which apparently are an essential mental feature) around their memories more easily, which facilitates recalling these memories.
Sorry, their official MFA policy was "just go find a random one"? How would that even work? Do they have a contract with every MFA service?
Seems there are some words seen as high level that a French would immediately recognise whereas the relaxed counterpart make no sense for him. Example : "facilitate". I’m French, this word sounds like horrible "franglais" for me but may look classy for an English (?).
Where South Dakota goes literally no one goes (including to South Dakota)
There was a possibility I proposed, which I think you missed. Maybe they _aren't_ miserable. They might be suffering in some ways. They might even complain about it. That doesn't mean they are miserable. They may find other joy that makes up for the suffering.

If we can't agree on this, we'll probably not agree on anything else. It'll mean you've decided on a premise that I think is false. I'll just keep seeming ignorant to you.

_Should_ they be miserable? Perhaps. Maybe they have a false consciousness. Maybe they need to understand better the societal effects they are responsible for. These are debatable. To _presume_ this is true, though, seems to me kind of arrogant.
Ah so you see my point. Using fair and transparent metrics that don't measure the right thing isn't useful. Harvard isn't looking for learning capabilities, knowledge (in topics related to degrees). They're looking for people that will be successful and accrue money/power.
Are the polls not intentionally being flippant? I never got the impression he was relying on them for accuracy.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33137057

dragon is great. goes very nicely with emacs/dired!
interesting.. but according to the stats shown by Elon, it's all-time low!?
Aren't storage drives and networking costs getting cheaper?

Are rising prices like this a result of the market being an oligopoly?
> Let's not pretend the site wasn't an absolute disaster before the acquisition though. If I clicked on even a single trending topic about a game or news item I'd often be presented with unfiltered hardcore porn.

Settings | Privacy and Safety | Display media that may contain sensitive content

Did you enable that maybe?
Except when they don't, which generally is the case for the rich. They just need to arrest some schmuck every now and then to give they illusion that it turns for them too.
I really like that font, but that price ($75) is really untenable for me. Is there any alternative?
That’s not fair. I saw a history of Las Vegas too.
It's mind blowing that removing a single k/v in an http post would lead to unlock any cars... wtf seriously. Like how can you not test that, the POST to fetch token should be bulletproof.
I would not expect dictionary-level consistency from it. Even humans freely use words differently in different contexts, and it would be particularly unfair to hold it against ChatGPT for getting creative when asked to find the similarities between two radically different objects.

If anything, this answer is extraordinarily impressive because, although it decided to be a stickler for definitions this time, it reaffirms the metaphor that it invented last time. In other words, it seems reasonable to conclude that in some sense it "knows" that the barrel of the cannon expands slightly (a fact it implied but neglected to mention last time), and can use this to make inferences.
I hate to admit it since IBM are like the OG "big bad company" but their Open Source programming fonts are the ones I like the best out of those that came out recently (Source Code Pro, Cascadia, JetBrains Mono, Mononoki, Go Mono, etc - see https://www.programmingfonts.org)
On the contrary, the bee and others would argue that giving awards for women to biological males who dress like women is yet another form of discrimination against women. How can you honestly say that the bee should be banned for using satire to point out discrimination against women and compare that to Nazi germany? This is the moral bankruptcy I was talking about
As someone desperately looking for connectivity options in a more rural area (though not that rural, I'm only like 20 minutes from one of the largest cities in the state) I won't hold my breath. My whole neighborhood is on the waitlist for Starlink still.

I've called every provider that could possibly service our area and nobody has any interest. T-Mobile is supposedly offering 5G home internet for people in this kind of situation but they are not available in this neighborhood either.

No idea what to do other than wait for Starlink availability. There is a WISP, but it is truly terrible and very expensive.
Level 21: Financialize speech.

Give the power of content moderation directly to the people by harnessing markets.

Want to ban/allow Ye or Trump? Highest bidder gets to decide. Gives another revenue stream to Twitter and takes the content moderation decisions out of Twitter’s and Elon’s hands.
Well, question is really who will pay investigative journalist ? Independently funded ones would be overall better option but that's not exactly easy sell ("I might or might not produce some content once in a while") and "getting the name for yourself" first is pretty much requirement for crowdfunding.
What I want is to be able to call another web assembly library from inside of one.
.. I read through and I think that makes the opposite point! In Whitney v California the California law banning Communist organisation was upheld.

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/274/357/

> "Whitney was one of the founders of the Communist Labor Party, which was a radical wing of the Socialist Party that split from the rest of the Party after a convention in 1919. When she attended a convention to organize a California wing of the Labor Party, Whitney exhorted workers to vote for its candidates in elections and advocated for taking political action in a resolution. The Party eventually adopted a more extreme program than what Whitney advocated in her resolution, and she protested to no avail. Whitney was charged with violating the California Criminal Syndicalism Act on the basis that she had helped to organize a group that sought to effect economic and political change through the unlawful use of violence.

She argued that she had not intended the organization to act in this way and did not plan to aid it in those objectives, so she should not be charged merely for attending the convention. Whitney claimed that the California law violated the First Amendment."

As usual, lots of nice things may have been said about free speech, but in the end she was convicted and jailed for organising a political party.
1. I do respect that freedom of speech is a slippery slope and once lost it is very hard to regain. I wish some of the free speech warriors in the last few days would also recognize that we Jews are not new here. We are a bit touchy by the 500th iteration of a. civilization under strain and a cosmopolitan-traditional value divides propagates the same eternal anti-Jewish conspiracies (they control they control they they) and b. Jews end up disenfranchised or dead. So yeah there is a bit of sensitivity to nipping this stuff in the bud before it takes root.

2. You can have a free for all hellscape of nazi man babies posting dank memes or you can have a business with ad revenue aside beyond scam supplements, gold funds, and maybe direct to consumer pillows. You can't have both. Nobody wants to wake up to find their product advertised alongside the most extreme wack job of the day. The "normies" will flee. Without normies or mainstream media attention the platform just becomes Parler or Gab - a bunch of troll farms and incel man babies - and recedes into irrelevance. I'm a normie. I find/found Twitter useful. Not so useful that I stick around bombarded with swastikas and wack jobs. At the end of the day Twitter is supposed to be a business and it has to be unless Elon buys out all of the bank debt and just subsidizes the whole infrastructure out of pocket (pro-tip this isn't happening).
To be fair, they're all on Facebook, and Russia shares intelligence with China :-)
Just noticed my formatting faux pas.

Even after this many years on HN…
My understanding that investors think Disney is "spending too much" and that includes both content for Disney+ and also some of the new developments at their parks such as the crazy-expensive Galactic Starcruiser.
The author loses much more than you. You can always unsubscribe, or — if you don't trust unsubscribe — filter away his emails. From the beginning you were always in full control. Giving your email grants the author no power over you whatsoever.
No one said it would be cheap or allocation free.
Even at $3/gallon it’s still $150, so that’s 50% more than the electric cost.

I also realize there may be other trade offs and costs involved. The energy cost was asked about so that’s what I answered.

FWIW: I own a 2017 Volt and love it. 50 miles all electric then another 350 or so ICE miles. Those 50 miles cover ~ 90% of its lifetime miles. Electric here is 0.11/kWh. I really wanted the flexibility of electric and gasoline having had reliability issues with both energy sources here in NC.
I could see there being an opportunity for 4G+Starlink setups.

Run Starlink when you need the throughput and turn off that 100w heater when you don’t.

I’m already looking into a timer to turnoff my modem, gaming console and router at night just to turn off that ~20w load doing nothing.

http://www.tpcdb.com/list.php?page=2&type=12
I’m not sure what else anyone expected him to do. He tried to be a US patriot by exposing systems the public deserved to know about and in turn the US painted him as an enemy of the state.

I’m no fan of Russia by any means, but from Snowden’s perspective they offered him asylum when his own country betrayed him. I don’t blame him for opting to just stay there.
I am not sure why tiktok would be on a state owned device in the first place. Why not grindr!
Not as nice as Route 159: https://dotcolon.net/font/route159/
Cities vs rural has no impact on Starlink speeds. You fall into a "cell" which is a hexagonal region roughly the width of California. Each cell is served by a satellite that has a 20 Gbps downlink to a ground station. Everyone within that cell shares that 20 Gbps, and everyone using the ground station (4-8 cells) shares the backhaul capacity of that site.

(This is oversimplified but puts the capacity scoping in context)
>then in turn the workers also have a monopoly as external workers are unable to replace them.

This is exactly why a strike is devastating and the point of the talk about Congress intervening. However, if it goes down like the air traffic controllers in the 1980s, their labor monopoly may be broken while the rail monopoly remains intact. So again it creates an asymmetry in power which is why taxing the employees is wrong-headed.

Tax the companies and they will adjust their rates, pay, and dividends. Tax the employees under a monopolistic employment, all you'll do is make the pay absorb the externalities. It becomes just one more way of socializing the risk of shareholders at the expense of labor.
It's already implemented in papers.
Prettttty sure that's the case in the U. S. Are they taxed enough? There's a strong argument to say that they're not. But here's just one URL indicating that there is a tax on heavy vehicles: https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/truckers-must-pay-heavy-highway...
How does that put a dent in their argument?
The restart notification system is so lame that I get notifications that the snap daemon needs to update itself and I should close the snap daemon. Which is not something I opened. What am I supposed to do, kill the process?
They’re probably hidden in Chinese TikTok, but I’ve seen a lot of Shanghai protests on TikTok since like mid November. You’re definitely right though, I recall I had to search for it myself before algo started showing it to me automatically. Could be because of TikTok’s default behaviour of hiding violence-adjacent behaviour, which I find quite awful as it hides the current events.
It was even better when you just picked up the free permit on the way into the park. Its not like your saving any time, because that site is basically just a reservation system, you should still (and usually have to) stop at the ranger station and get the actual permit, check-in and sign various things, and hear various lectures and assure that the area is safe/etc due to weather/etc.

Plus, I'm not even sure it is helping with the reservation problem, as more than once i've found myself in a camping/etc area that is 100% booked and 50% empty.
Then people should be giving examples of questions they're encountering in interviews when they want to discuss why, then; industry norm is not rougher than AoC.

While I've definitely encountered tougher than this AoC in interviews, I find I have a hard time maintaining that bar: I have to push to maintain even the bar of this day's AoC question (e.g., "write min()") as it turns away sufficient number of candidates that hiring managers start looking to lower the bar, which is absurd.

(But that said, when I encounter tougher problems, they're not tougher than about mid-AoC, which is still well within reason, to me. They're still not the infamous sewer lid. Nobody is asking the sewer lid question anymore, and collectively we need to stop propagating that myth. It was banned at Google well over a decade ago…)

(Ultimately, it seems to me to be an economics problem: we're not attracting good devs, which means we're not offering good devs something enticing enough; we're left with the subset for which our offer is enticing, but that isn't what we're looking for. But I can't solve that problem.)