skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
applied in the sentiments here and in general also seems to the fact that everyone just believes that Sam Bankman Fried is guilty. he hasn't been proven as such yet, and the system exists as such for good reason. there are ample examples of people who have also been incarcerated while innocent
If it's immediately responsive to me rather than making me wait in line, there could be a place for such things.
I wrote a book based on this premise: www.pimbook.org.

The ebook is pay what you want.
And invariably: that 1% triggers when you need it to work the most.
The problem is bail though. Bail bondsman are a life saver to a person who can’t afford their bail and have to work in the morning. Obviously being rough comes with the job, but most bondsman aren’t villains they provide a service during a time of bad policy.
I think this attitude of, instead of raising the bottom, lowering the top comes from a desire to punish rich people rather than help poor people.

I think these people would prefer everyone sit on rocks rather than poor people sit in wooden chairs while rich people had leather couches.
You wouldn't normally be compensated for your own time lost in a matter that didn't actually cost you money eg actual time not hypothetical time lost from work.
That is way too much work. Doing work means stuff is happening and stuff means sidechannel attacks that someone else hasn't audited, because it's not an integrated product anyone would bother auditing.

In particular, I don't see how 2FA is possible with this, so shoulder surfing is a bigger issue.

I definitely trust Google or BitWarden more than a password I can memorize plus my own constant vigilance.
hmm what about the fyre festival guy. all his victims were average people who paid for a non-existent festival, not rich ppl

or those NFT scammers, whose victims are average people (average loss in the low thousands) ,not super rich people

https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/24/22995107/us-arrest-charge...

Meanwhile, the Threnos fraud was allowed to run for 8 years, ripping off rich people undeterred, while the NFT scammers were arrested just months after pulling off the fraud. Same for Madoff..that lasted 2 decades, again, ripping off rich people despite repeated warnings to the SEC.
People with something to lose can be controlled through it. People with nothing to lose can only be controlled through violence. If you wish your use of violence to be limited by necessity and proportionality then you will be gentler with the rich.

If you wish to treat everyone the same then you must either use excessive violence in some cases, or accept that others are not going to be controlled.
Yes I thought about that too but the thing is so are the search results on Google. You never know the site on the top will give you accurate information or not.

This also avoids the problem of deliberately skewed search results full of affiliate links to promote products veiled as useful content (of which the web is full).
I use Feedly Classic which is clocking in at around 37 MB. But I am looking at the other apps on my phone and the majority of them (maybe 90% roughly estimating) are well over 59 MB. Chrome, for example, is almost half a gig. What device are you using that 59 MB is an issue and are you also eschewing all the other apps that are that big or larger?
I enjoy his show but have never listened in podcast form. Rather, I just consume it via (some of) the clips he puts out on YouTube. You may enjoy it the same way.
Yea it's crazy to think about what it all was.
That judge recused herself because their husband works at a law firm that advised FTX - note the husband did not work with FTX, other people in the same law firm did. We found out about it from the judge, to avoid the appearance of impropriety - not because any impropriety is alleged to have happened. This wasn't even the same judge who approved the bail. I'm not seeing the conspiracy.

This really seems to me like a Thursday in the criminal justice system, with every single step being scrutinized and cast into the worst possible light.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/judge-sbf-case-recuses-h...
Except that Facebook has paid a massive fine after they repeatedly violated the privacy of its users; and that was in the billions of dollars.

What TikTok has done is much worse that Facebook and it only makes total sense for the US regulators to give out a multi-billion dollar fine to TikTok, if it wants to continue to operate in the US.

There are no exceptions for large social networks with billions of users to get away with repeated privacy violations which TikTok has done.
This incentivized hitting your political opposition with a ton of small time charges (which is notoriously easy to do)
Are we sure the citations were not written by Chatgpt too?
Sigh... Theft is not 'skyrocketing everywhere.' it's been steadily decreasing for years.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/191247/reported-larceny-...

Polls before the last election said everyone thought crime was going up... Somewhere else.
This article comes across as an attempt to frame the narrative in order to exonerate Boeing for what seems like poor quality automation, not at all dissimilar from the MCAS crashes.

Other similarities are poor and incomplete documentation and/or withholding of crucial technical information.
Jokes aside time spend on the subway isn’t actually equivalent to time spend dead, we shouldn’t trade them one-for-one.

Also the “one extra death per century” measure seems to be derived via the method of rectal extrication, we don’t know how many deaths a schedule change might cause or prevent at all, and I bet the people working on the subway have, if anything, some idea with massive error bars.

I dunno the math seems basically impossible to do, I mean it would have to include things like “how to people, possibly irrationally, respond to deaths on the subway.”
Ideally it would be an opaque blob with no information about the number of records or their size, just the total size and maybe a last modified or accessed time.
Many good points in your post. I'm a car enthusiast and I agree with almost everything you've stated.....because I live in Japan, and have seen how a country can integrate a variety of transportation mediums, balancing the freedoms of car ownership with fairly strict training, enforcement, and just cultural habits that largely reduce fatalities. Automotive taxes in Japan are pretty much the only form of taxation that I'm comfortable paying, and feel like I genuinely get my money's worth for what it costs me (Japanese healthcare is a distant second but deserves a mention).
Russian Science Fiction and Fantasy
In many cases rich people aren’t punished in real terms at all, they actually make money. How many times have we seen rich people defrauding the public or causing them harm, only for them to be given some slap-on-the-wrist fine years later. Meanwhile, they have been investing their ill-gotten gains and making more than the eventual fines.
I had a JSON file with the following format:

[{“Key”:”Company”},{“Value”:”${company}”},…]

I asked it to write a Python script that replaces any word surrounded by ${} with the value in its corresponding environment variable and accept the path of the file as a command line argument —json-file using argparse. It worked perfectly.

Then I started asking it to write a script to successively do the following

Given the same json file, write a snippet of YML that looks like sample CF templates parameter section that I gave it.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGui...

It worked perfectly.

Then I told it to accept an optional argument that generated the corresponding meta data section. It worked flawlessly. I gave it sample expected output

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGui...

Then I told it to output the format needed to pass those parameters to a nested stack and gave it an example;

Parameters:
Company: !Ref company

…

It worked again.

Finally, I needed it to generate the Python code to generate the CodeBuild Environment section and I gave it an example.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGui...
Phones are managed by an employer. Government phones are managed by the agency that issues them. What the law does is ensure that all agencies do not have tiktok. Pornhub will also likely appear on banned app lists, but they didn't feel it necessary to make a law.

One interesting side effect, is that tiktok might now be bereft of government content, which sounds dry, but includes a lot of NASA's work.
Ask HN: What do I do about LastPass and how do I switch?
After using LastPass for many years, I have more than a thousand passwords stored in it. It's too many to make it practical to manually change them all. Is there a way to get all of them into something else, like BitWarden, and then [semi]automatically change them all?
I've been working on day trading now for just over 5 years. I even took a sabbatical for 1.5 years to fully dedicate myself to it. Still struggling to be consistently profitable. I figure it's going to take me another few years to have be in the place where I feel I can give up my other career entirely. Easily the hardest thing I've ever done in my life.

Definitely right, 99% of influencers about day trading are full of shit
Having to compromise KeePassX rather than Dropbox, and specifically while you are updating, is not an insignificant difference.
I use newsboat, a command line client that fetches the feeds and lets you read them. Does it need to be more complicated?

On a separate note, rss feeds that don’t show all content and only preview content are junk and shouldn’t be rss feeds.
While i agree that it is surprising that MTA continues to use archaic technology, I don't the solution is nearly as simple as you pose it. Hardware engineering is hard, and in-service engineering of complex systems desiring near 100% uptime is challenging.

The sensors must not simply survive a dirty, dusty environment, they must work perfectly with no glitches and for long periods between maintenance. And if they do swap out for a different sensor system and it fails, there's no hardware equivalent of git reset --hard (the favored way for this hardware designer to undo my soft mistakes). You have to take a train out of service, or put people in the tracks during a maintenance window.

What they have there already obviously also requires maintenance, but its performance limitations and failure modes are well understood. It takes time to cycle new things in, and old out.

Nonetheless I was also fairly shocked that their system is quite as archaic as it is. I assume it's a budget limitation driving slow progress.
faulty implementation of crpyto is not unheard of. it happens a lot.
> In particular, I don't see how 2FA is possible with this

You can use anything that integrates with GPG ... eg: you can do it with a Yubikey [0]

[0] https://support.yubico.com/hc/en-us/articles/360013790259-Us...
> For that sales report, that runs once a month, and takes 10 minutes, but could likely easily be optimised to run in 2 minutes, the trade off is less obvious. Keeping the report easy-to-maintain is a valuable long-term benefit.

I did this before, actually, and it was worth it for the client wondering why their report took 30 minutes to generate. The particular instance I'm thinking of was a poorly written SQL proc, which I improved upon to reduce the report generating time down to <10 seconds, and it took a couple of days of work to rewrite the original developers work. If I were a better SQL developer that would have been much less.

Another case of optimization required much less effort, I literally went in and switched the library used to generate a PDF from HTML and improved performance 100x. I don't remember the original tool used, but wkhtmltopdf was probably the better performing one.
Some people have been maintaining a GCC with 16-bit DOS support for a few years now. It started as near pointer only (so only tiny/small memory models) but now has far pointers and some memory model support. I haven't really used it in anger. https://gitlab.com/tkchia/build-ia16/-/releases

If you want C++ you have to build a cross-compiler from source on a modern platform; they supply DJGPP binaries that'll compile C to 16-bit.
It's easier to take away than to give and help. So I don't blame them for that mentality, but it would definitely be great if society worked to lift the poor up more.
Doesn't KeePass use a single database file with no conflict resolution?

I looked at using them but ultimately decided against them, a conflict overwriting a password scares me more than even just using chrome sync and calling it a day.
(from memory) more than twice the FLOPS, 60% more RAM bandwidth, but only 20% more FPS at best.

There's something strange going on.
> commuting from Maryland to Annapolis

Huh?
On paper, sure. A long series of companies has given up at this point. Even LinkedIn, which should be far easier to manage given the content, eventually stripped out all social features.

Google claimed China was actively targeting them with cyberattacks, breaking into the gmail inboxes of activists, and other severe problems, despite trying to follow local law.
Crypto is difficult to use, so if you used it to lose all that money, it's not that you didn't have the ability to know better, it's that you didn't want to know better (because of your greed.)
May I ask how you accomplish this without any sort of burden? Because from my perspective, managing strong unique passwords for hundreds of accounts across desktop, mobile, servers, and other devices is a major pain and I’m tired of dealing with it.

It’s human nature to take shortcuts and develop bad habits when you’re dealing with a flawed system and poor tools that puts the burden on the end user to manage everything. And if I’m struggling with four decades of experience, how is the average non tech user expected to do it properly?
I’ve helped multiple non-technical people successfully make squarespace sites. It has the option to buy a domain and the fees are cheap. It’s totally worth the site builder and included themes.
Allowing someone to borrow money to pay bail completely defeats the purpose. It isn't legal in every state though.
if you have crypto, transfer to new wallet asap. use offline computer and use something like VeraCrypt, which is open source and has been audited. don't trust cloud companies to do the encryption for you.
This is what I mean by “insanity”. We have an adversary that’s punching us in the face and rather than defend ourselves or fight back we lean into the punch because “the free market”.

The market is already unfree. We’re banned from the entire Chinese market. And it will remain asymmetrical until we decide to pick up and walk away.
I'm not sure you've made a consistent argument there. Automation is bad but in many cases makes flying safer?

MCAS was bad because Boeing and the airlines wanted to retrofit without additional training. It wasn't the automation that was bad per se.
ChatGPT does almost as good as one could imagine:

> If you are asking about the difference between two instances of the color blue, it is possible that you are looking at two shades of blue that are slightly different from each other. The color blue can come in a wide range of shades, from pale and subdued to deep and vibrant. Some shades of blue may appear more greenish or purplish, while others may appear more true blue. The specific shade of blue that you are looking at may depend on a variety of factors, including the lighting, the surface or material on which the color is applied, and the specific pigments or dyes used to create the color.
What about webmarketers in government? And doesn’t the government have covert influence operations?
And on the flipside to dang's question, do you have any links to some threads from the good old days you're describing? It'd be interesting to read through them.
Keeping someone in jail until trial is the most effective method of ensuring that they will show up for a trial.
I have a box at work with, quite literally, probably 50+ different manufacturer's 'USB C' standard cables. Some will work with certain docks. Some won't, but will work with Phone A and Monitor C, both of which use the exact same level of speed. Cost isn't a good signal. It's a complete cluster.
This is a very astute observation and it's something I'll bring into our org. Simply going through the exercise to identify the critical paths, with both Product and Engineering involvement, would be valuable.

Once identified, the test coverage, monitoring, PR process, and regular reviews would follow ... but much of the value would come from the identification process because it highlights that not all code in a system has the same value/risk.
It gets difficult when you have users saying they can't connect to each other. Then you have to get a better grasp on networking to understand why they can't, sometimes staring at Chrome's webrtc-internals page hoping something clicks. Otherwise you'll have your hands tied and just assume their network is incompatible. Even with a TURN server configured, the same problem can occur.
This seems to be misreading the situation to me. The Kickstarter's $41M total was boosted dramatically by merchandize. You can calculate the numbers yourself: the four highest cost tiers (the ones that include the monthly swag boxes) amount to $18.1M by themselves (23103 * 500 + 8656 * 480 + 4095 * 380 + 2370 * 360). The next two highest tiers add another $10.4M (11463 * 220 + 49491 * 160). This is nearly 70% of the total value of the campaign, at price points WAY beyond what any publisher would ever dream of charging readers. You can confirm for yourself at [1].

So what Brandon really did was figure out a way to convince his fans to part with big money to be in on this. I'm sure Tor is jealous, in the sense that anyone would be at seeing those numbers, but it's just not realistic to think that they would have ever done anything remotely like this on their own.

And the same goes for Brandon's company. The value Dragonsteel seems to provide is not in being a replacement for Tor, but rather in these high-value premium products (leatherbounds/merchandise) that sit alongside the main releases. And also audio, but that's not really competing with Tor per se.

[1]: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dragonsteel/surprise-fo...
Organized retail theft does seem to be increasing.
What dark patterns do “Microsoft Identity Platform SDKs” have? Or do you expect him to go pick a fight with a random PM from the Windows team?
This question reminds me of something I read in the below article. In short, overcoming fear of death is thought to be one of the steps taken on the mental journey towards suicide. Fearing death keeps us alive.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/bering-in-mind/being-su...

Step 6: Disinhibition

We’ve now set the mental stage, but it is of course the final act that separates suicidal ideation from an actual suicide. Baumeister speculates that behavioral disinhibition, which is required to overcome the intrinsic fear of causing oneself pain through death, not to mention the anticipated suffering of loved ones left behind to grieve, is another consequence of cognitive deconstruction. This is because it disallows the high-level abstractions (reflecting on the inherent “wrongness” of suicide, how others will feel, even concerns about self-preservation) that, under normal conditions, keep us alive.
It amazes me that this is a perfectly valid question now.
I ran into lunatics who were asking things like these at a programming job interview at a prominent company. There should be a moral to this but I don't know what it is.
So is there any way to verify what this person is saying? I mean, from the way LastPass is evolving it doesn't seem unlikely to me -- but why is this tweet on HN? Is there any supporting evidence aside from an anecdote, does this Twitter account have a strong reputation of being credible, etc.?

Without context, I just don't understand why this anecdotal thread should be considered credible.

Disclaimer: I use FOSS password managers for everything possible but have to use LastPass for some non-personal stuff and I very much dislike it
Fastned and EVBox join forces to install 400 kW EV fast chargers in Europe
In the chapter "Flies and Spiders" it says the elves of Milkwood were amongst those that never went to "Faerie in the West"
General purpose apps are pretty bad with accessibility. I've noticed a trend with Electron based apps which neglect to proper use aria annotations until someone complains.

Harping on immediate mode GUIs doesn't help. I don't think anyone is against making IM GUIs more accessible.

The predominant immediate mode library in Go, Gio, has been slowly working on support for various ecosystems. I believe it supports Android to some extent already.
We have travel to NYC from NC coming up. We did the math. With our layover in Charlotte it's a wash, with less uncertainty in arriving on time; taking I-95 than getting on a plane during snow season.
HK Police Arrest Two Men in Crypto Exchange AAX-Related Case
I would start a regenerative agriculture farm. I.e. growing food in the same way it naturally grows in a forest (or savannah etc.)

Ever since I became I dad, my attention has been on what we're putting in our bodies -- intentional or not, food or not.

So much of it is rubbish.

It seems incredibly hard to eat fresh, wholesome food from the part of the earth where you live.

I want to make that a reality for at least my kids, maybe more.
Alt/Archive link: http://archive.today/yLxHK

Did anyone else read the title as "Shoplifting Fuels, a $94.5B Problem..."? (with a comma in-between the words 'Fuels' and 'a'). Surely I can't be the only one.
> "...say they forked over $3.99 each to watch the Richard Curtis comedy on Amazon Prime, only to discover..."

This caught my eye. I knew the film Yesterday to be a Danny Boyle (director) film, so I initially though they must be referring to another film with the same name. But down below they later confirm it IS the same movie.

Why is this article framing the screenwriter (Richard Curtis) as the filmmaker? Is this a convention of French culture? To give the writer prime creative credit over the director? Nothing against screenwriters; they're arguably just (if not more) important to shaping the story. It just strikes me as very strange.
OpenCollective Strategy 2023-2024
So being on a flight means that flight generates 1/4 ton of CO2 per hour more than if you weren’t on it?
He waived extradition, definitely makes him seem like much less of a flight risk.
>> Explain briefly what the Fourier Transform is. Provide sources with more information about the topic.

>> The Fourier transform is a mathematical technique that decomposes a function or signal into its constituent frequencies. It allows us to represent a function in terms of the frequencies that make it up, rather than in terms of its time or spatial behavior.

The Fourier transform has many applications in a variety of fields, including signal and image processing, engineering, and physics. It is a fundamental tool in the analysis of periodic phenomena and is widely used in the study of waves and oscillations.

For more information about the Fourier transform, you may find the following resources helpful:

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_transform

Khan Academy: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/differential-equations/lapl...

Wolfram MathWorld: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/FourierTransform.html