skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Just hand over the data they ask for, and they will be happy. You can get a lawyer if you want to fight it.

Given it's common sense to never talk to the police without a lawyer, you would want a lawyer for this situation so you know you're not unintentionally fucking yourself over.

Obligatory IANAL.
In Washington, it is illegal for public school teachers to strike:

https://www.peninsuladailynews.com/news/public-employee-stri...

Yet they strike regularly with complete impunity. That's power.
I think you might not understand the situation. A person can’t realistically live for 30+ years at $1,000 per month. So while it is true that I can retire right now it wouldn’t be efficacious to do so. You mentioned retiring at 60. I’m pointing out that this is a meaningless fact. What matters is at what age one can realistically retire.

EDIT: My pay might be lower due to the pension but it isn’t much lower as a result. The pension is not good in my system. I’d have been better off with the defined contribution plan.
What is foreclosure insurance?
I suspect actually reimplementing the original GameBoy SoC in a modern low-power process could provide a significant improvement over the inefficiency of an emulator.
Within the next 12 months, I think AI is going to produce a million times more SEO bullshit than humans can.
KanekoaTheGreat

Investigative Journalism. Censored Topics. America First.
>3) Rent control

hard disagree. it basically ends up being a transfer of wealth from new residents (who have to pay higher rents) to older residents (who have locked in lower rents).

>5) Affordable foreclosure insurance

What exactly is insured here?

>12) Right of first refusal laws (tenant opportunity to purchase)

What problem is this intended to solve? If someone is renting, how likely is he going to be able to pony up cash to buy the house that's about to be sold?
Growth Without Consumption
That's exactly how you measure the power: that everyone believes they're underpaid despite their being paid market clearing rate.
Not a dumb question at all.

Many angel investors will create pool their money to create an LLC to hold their shares so there's only one investor. It also makes it easier when you need to get "all the investors" to sign off on something. You have ONE signature to get instead of the N angels involved.
But a generation or two ago you had context. You knew Bob worked in an assembly plant 6 days a week with tons of overtime sacrificing family time or took that vacation after 3 years and stayed in a cheap hotel to enjoy an amazing beach.

With social media you do not have that context, you just see the perfect parts.
Hard assets are paid for with money, which means the money isn't hoarded.
Are there no teachers in private schools?
Are you using the model to classify by topic, or show you stories that are similar to ones you’ve “liked” in the past?
couldn't some of them have cashed out with the Shopify thing?

https://finbold.com/shopify-reportedly-buys-over-350-million...
I don’t think they’d win anything from it. Plus parents would be riled at their State subsidized babysitters shirking their primary duty.

The root of the low salaries isn’t a demand problem anyway, it’s a supply problem. There’s tons of people who can teach and they’re willing to do it for the current wages.
It's not because the subject matter has changed, its a courtesy for those of us that go "I remember reading something like this years ago, is this the same thing?"
Why do you think your ChatGPT account will produce better content than the spammers’ ChatGPT accounts?
This is completely Stripe’s fault for not going public sooner. I hope Stripe and Uber become lessons on how not to let your company stay too long as a private company.
I wouldn't want linux be preinstalled for me. Please give me the blank drive. Between the security, partitioning, distro preference it's quite the non-starter.

By only using lists like these you're discounting quite a lot of linux friendly devices. Framework laptops are a big example.
Nvidia's NV1 used quads as primitive. Shortly after its release, in 1995, Microsoft introduced DirectX which was triangle based. It didn't do well...
What's realized about these gains if the company is blocking the sale of the stock on the secondary market? This is toilet paper these people were duped into thinking was worth something. Sounds more like a lawsuit.
I'm not being smug or insulting when I ask this, but are you familiar with pledge and unveil at all, or have you written any code?

Pledge and unveil maintains it's own set of system calls and allowed paths that a process may access. Pledge contexts have their own system call masks and capabilities that are very granular. It's hard coded to make root 'just another system call maker' and remove any access root doesn't need. The permissions are ratcheted down as the program initializes, so a process typically doesn't even have access to its own configuration, let alone anything important. Once httpd is started, it can't even start listening on a port -- no matter how much root it has.

So if you 'get root' on a properly pledged system, you don't actually 'have root', you just have a program with a user id of 0 but no real access to make system calls.

You can switch to whatever user you want, but you will only be switching in the unix sense, and not changing the allowed set of system calls and data accesses, so you won't actually be able to do anything.

To do what you are suggesting would require a kernel exploit, but even if you get root you won't have any access to run it.

What you suggest simply is not possible barring very specific vulnerabilities being found, which afaik, have not been.
Or do it sitting in a loose surface parking lot (dirt, gravel, whatever).
E.P. Thompson, “Time, Work-Discipline and Industrial Capitalism” [pdf]
Apple isn't about insane value. And everybody having a Mac destroys some of its value, which is that only certain people can have them.

Theyre about extracting as much money as possible. Higher class machine, better in most areas, higher price.
It's not a Stripe liability, so no.

GAAP is a set of accounting standards - it doesn't require taking actions, it's about how to record things if you want to meet those standards. So no, there is no GAAP requirement to build a cash reserve. For what it's worth, Stripe isn't even obliged to follow GAAP for their accounting (it is likely they signed a contract somewhere which calls for a set of financials meeting GAAP to be furnished periodically, but again GAAP doesn't require actions, it stipulates accounting entries).
Impressive rendering of thought into pictures by DALL-E2
I'm doing something like that with a misterfpga. I set it up with an amiga core and an atari st core and a list of disk images my son can use.

It's then setup as a desktop for him to use as his personal computer.
Except all of us that do own houses were in fact once people that didn't, often not that long ago. Those of us that have owned houses a long time are pretty likely to have kids that don't (but hope to at some point soon), one would think we'd feel some empathy for them.
The first financial time bomb is all the pending employment lawsuits.

the fines. Elon-Twitter has been flagrantly ignoring the FTC consent decree.

He’ll declare bankruptcy and blame the regulators. “I was THIS CLOSE to turning around this important, innovative company that is a threat to the mainstream media and all those crooked politicians,” he’ll say. “But then the liberal bureaucrats stepped in and fined the company out of existence! There’s nothing I can do about it. Twitter is dead now. It all would’ve worked out if not for that meddling government.”

That narrative will, objectively, be bullshit
Police hold municipalities hostage if they don’t get their way in terms of protection from prosecution for violating peoples’ civil rights and for exerting nonjudicial punishments. In my city a councilman complained about police brutality and the police purposefully responded to non violent 911 calls hours after they were made. When they would show up they would tell people to thank their councilman for the delay. Police commit more domestic violence on average and get prosecuted for this violence at a much lower rate than non police. In some municipalities police are effectively a gang.
As someone with an EE undergrad and masters degree, you really don't need it to hack on electronics, especially if you'll be starting with off-the-shelf parts or a microcontroller kit. Understanding the basics of voltage, current, and the ability to use a multimeter and soldering iron are probably all you need to make some interesting things.
The problem with these approaches is now you’ve turned the teacher into an indentured worker. They can’t leave their job because they wouldn’t be able to find comparable housing for a comparable price.

And then what happens when you want to fire a low performing teacher? Do you also show up with moving boxes to her subsidized apartment to make room for her replacement?
This is definitely achievable! When I was a young, we'd take long road trips and my Gameboy (original) would run out of battery. I'd use a small solar panel (in place of one of the batteries) from a science kit to keep going, propped up against the back window. The wires and panel were held in place with chewing gum (yes, kids can be gross).

I did have the "frequent power failures". Props to the team on fixing this :)
I have never heard people chant "Defund the schools" though

Sounds like you don't live in a red state.

https://newrepublic.com/article/163817/desantis-republicans-...

https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/elviadiaz/2021...

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/gop-populist-defun...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/betsy-devos-and-the-gops-plan-...

https://www.salon.com/2022/07/01/schools-out-forever-arizona...

https://www.texasobserver.org/disrupt-deplete-destroy/
It's true that this is an unsolved research problem, but as an ML researcher, I expect that some combination of better integration with existing information retrieval systems, a moderate amount of high-quality data, and some small but important tricks will solve it. I don't know whether the time horizon is six months, one year, or five years, but I'd be surprised if it takes longer than five. GPT-2, which was arguably the first LM that could sound human-like, is only four years old. Given the value of a trustworthy LLM, an enormous amount of research effort and resources will be directed toward this problem, and I don't think it's substantially harder than other challenges the ML community has solved over the last five years.
The New Bing and Edge – Progress from Our First Month
The first (small) paragraph reads:

> The first electronic bandage the body can absorb can apply electric signals to speed the healing of wounds by 30 percent, a new study finds.
Maybe it’s time for the pile of trash to topple.

We could go back to the mindset of using specific sites for information and the internet more like a tool than a source of casual content for scrolling and browsing.

Or so one can dream.
> Honestly I feel more inspired to drive Uber than ever do another tech challenge or deal with another incompetent manager.

It's not the first time I am hearing this. "Driving Uber" could be plumbing, farming, woodworking, but gist the same. Here's the truth: six months of driving Uber ought to long you for the tech job back. Hell, I imagine even a few weeks is enough. The back pain, being on the road all the time, and having to work even when "you're not in the mood" is enough to make you realize that there's no better money than IT money.

This isn't to disagree with your complaints, but other jobs are arguably even worse—much, much worse. In fact, the best jobs are to be found in the IT world. You just have to try enough. You can try joining a small company that gives you more autonomy over your work. Or you can try joining NGO, if having a direct impact is your priority.

Or you can take a sabbatical to recharge. Focus on outdoorsy activities or hobbies that have made you happy in the past.

The root of the complaints is human tendency to think that there's a glimmering better world that's just waiting for you. There's none! This is life, and this is it.
Neal Stephenson sometimes gets things wrong, but the concept of 'bogons' he references in Anathem is very nearly exactly this. It describes the concept of a global network so crammed with machine-generated nonsense of varying quality that it requires GAN-style discrimination agents to pre-filter things prior to search.

This[0] HN comment from more than 10 years ago references the same phenomenon.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5058185
As I said, you don't understand what war is. This is what countries do when there is a war. There is utterly nothing illegal or immoral about blowing those pipelines up.
Yeah, so why is that ? I'm not using it much, IIRC one issue is that it doesn't work if JavaScript is disabled, right ?
> rent control has been shown repeatedly to help existing renters at the expense of all future renters, which increases income inequality

I'd love a link to some sources showing this.
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Honest question, what's wrong with a Macbook running Linux in a VM?
And that's an issue because? I mean it might be a human issue but it's not a technology issue.
Ah, yes you're correct, a reluctance motor isn't a permanent magnet motor. Although the Model 3 does in fact use a PMSM - Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor, which is an AC motor. So not all permanent magnet motors are DC.
Perth Mint sold diluted gold to China, got caught, and tried to cover it up
Related:

A top audio engineer explains NPR’s signature sound (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26832636 - April 2021 (187 comments)

An audio engineer explains NPR’s signature sound - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11980977 - June 2016 (237 comments)
Can you explain why? These blog posts don't make a compelling case, so maybe there is something missing?
I got this from this Reddit post [0].

I found the reply extremely interesting.

A small part of the reply -

> Thompson makes a distinction between “time orientation” and “task orientation” with respect to the history of work. Traditional, pre-capitalist societies tend to organize time around the performance of tasks; the day is defined by the things that need to be done (sowing, harvesting, grazing, churning butter, etc.) rather than any abstract notion of time. This leads to an informal, often leisurely attitude toward punctuality. Thompson quotes the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s observation with respect to Algerian Kabyle peasants:

> An attitude of submission and of nonchalant indifference to the passage of time which no one dreams of mastering, using up, or saving… Haste is seen as a lack of decorum combined with diabolical ambition.

> The rise of wage labour and modern industrial work, however, revolutionized the experience of time. Work was no longer a collective endeavor performed in a communal setting; it was a commodity—a factor of production—bought and sold at market rates. And like other things bought and sold on the market, it needed to be standardized and quantified. This was especially true in a factory setting, where by the 19th century wage rates were increasingly set by hours worked rather than pieces produced.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/11m0fft/is_t...
It is about cost to airlines but to call out the cramped conditions in the same breath as carbon emissions when the cramped conditions reduce overall carbon emissions immediately gave away that the OP doesn’t give one shit about climate change when it comes to their personal comfort.

Dialing in on how it benefits the airlines when low prices also benefit flyers and lower per-passenger emissions benefit everyone shows you just have a bone to pick.
I mostly ask it factual questions - some I'm interested in and some curious about the hole in it's understand and some both.

I think asking the thing write up stories is a big use-case also.
Does anyone make a home CO2 scrubber?

Would buy one, especially if it was net carbon negative.
Tinder 0-click RCE – $70k (Washington)
Generally USB lag, plus the OS not running in real time mode, like using bog standard Windows Audio instead of ASIO
It seems crazy to me that you need to solve such infrastructure concerns at the application level. I'm really interested how this works in a large scale application. Are retries sprinkled throughout the code base? Especially for database stuff, as EF Core doesn't support transactions when retries are enabled.

I bet these resiliency issues and the fact you need to modify your application didn't make it into the cloud sales talk. I also don't see many resources mentioning it.

Is this also mainly an Azure problem or does it also happen on AWS?
> safe, boring assets weren't safe and boring enough

No, they weren't. Duration is a measured risk [1]. Silvergate chose a flighty, risky set of clients. Their portfolio should have been optimized for liquidity, not yield. They got greedy and are paying the price.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_duration
That's a human issue not a technology issue. There's nothing technology can and should be programmed to even try to deal with, unless probing user's brain for intent is on the table...
Same here. I would not be surprised if they are telling the truth. After all, I am of the beliefs that no tactics are "off the board." The CIA used vaccine programs as a means to track islamic terrorists. So, I wouldnt be as socked pikachu faced at China using TikTok data. But it would be nice to get real hard data. I remember people making all sorts of claims about China bugging hardware and that is why we have to ban Huaweii, but all the third party analysis I've seen of their hardware pretty much concluded, "the hardware is not bugged. The most criminal thing about this is they advertise it as a latest gen i5 but its really a i5 from 2 gens ago and probably sloppy second bunk chips. You know, chips that can't get sold to like Lenovo because they failed QC."
In my system what happens is a contract is negotiated for a period of time. During this period of time we agree to not strike. Once the contract ends we can strike. In 20 years in my system I have never experienced a situation in which a new contract was negotiated before the old contract ended. While we negotiate for a new contract, and after the old contract has expired, we can strike. Don’t know if things are different in Washington but I doubt there is a blanket ban, in all possible circumstances, on striking.
They are not that different. Some (all?) Canada provinces and definitely NYC have both types.
Yes for sure it's a raw deal for the employees, but I think Stripe is planning to enable a secondary market? In any case, we are all adults, they accepted stock options as part of your renumeration. If they don't know the risks then don't work at a private company that offers stock options.

EDIT: That being said, I think it would be reasonable to contemplate regulations that prevent private companies from blocking secondary market sales if they offer stock options/RSUs to employees.
No. There were public phone booths. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_booth
Speaking as a C# dev, IME most people are working off of severely outdated views of the .Net ecosystem. .Net has had first class support for Mac and Linux for a good 6-7 years now. Postgres support is every bit as good as SQL Server, and plenty of other db‘s can be used as well. All of the new projects I’ve started in the past 5 years have used Postgres db’s and deployed on Linux. If you don’t like boilerplate then I have good news, nowadays you can make a fully functional Asp.Net API with about 20 LOC.
Whisper worked great on an old speech by Winston Churchill. Haven’t looked into the time limit.

API used and results can be found here: https://techtldr.com/transcribing-speech-to-text-with-python...
> I have never heard people chant “Defund the schools”

Hah! That says more about what you listen to than what’s being said. People have been fighting loudly to pull money out of public schools for longer than most people on this site have been alive. It provided more election debate and more massive ad and PR campaigns through the 80’s and 90’s than any police reform politic could dream of, and it continues to be a major part of today’s more crowded debate.
An Wang – The Man Who Might Have Invented the Personal Computer
Do you realize that you contradict yourself? You claim to be a communist yet you expect to be free enough to express yourself and choose what to build? Discuss politics and being free to disagree in a communist state?? You either weren't thaught XXth century history at school or you are very confused. Saying you are communist is like saying you are a nazist, it makes no sense. IMO you are confused.
New estimate for high-speed rail puts California train $100B in the red
Looks like they used an existing emulator and this was mostly a hardware and memory integrity experiment. I’d love to see this approached from the perspective of “how clever can we get with the emulator itself to save power?”

When I wrote mine, something I ran into was realizing that often the CPU and PPU are just doing the same thing over and over and over. If only I could cache all that work.

For example, you don’t modify the previous frame. You have to draw the entire frame every time, writing sprites from OAM memory every time. Sometimes games do clever stuff here for effects, but a lot of the time you’re just drawing the same stuff. Like Tetris is almost completely a routine of drawing almost entirely the same graphics every time. Most of the cycles and OAM writes are just juggling sprites to draw the same layout every time.

I documented the heck out of the PPU because it gave me the second most grief (sound being the worst by far) if you are curious: https://github.com/ablakey/gameboy/blob/master/src/guest/sys... (goodness I’m proud of this project. Don’t tell my boss. He’ll want this level of documentation at work ;) )
I think a seperate all of the above option might be useful to distinguish
It’s a radio thing, to an extent. Analog FM starts to roll off pretty noticeably around 10k or so.
> I've always wondered if you could harvest that same radio energy to power other things without batteries

That's how passive RFID tags work. The tag has a tiny little computer, and you hold it near a thing that emits an electric field that energizes it.
We aren’t talking about private schools. We are talking about whether or not there is a chant similar to “defund the police” for public schools. The answer is yes there is.
Blender is the counter example. Usage of Blender far exceeds the close source alternative.
The reason we have capital gains is to encourage investment. They're not investing $1 for 1m shares to build something better. They're getting $1m worth of something for $1, risk-free.

That gap between strike price and FMV is much more like compensation than it is an investment.
More explicitly, if the shares go to zero, you don't owe any money
There is a way, just start spending millions/billions of dollars to index the internet...

Just figure out how not to index the endless content generation scripts, and places like Reddit that are 100s of millions of pages themselves. Or the content farms that are just copies of other sites.

Dead internet prophecy is coming true.
I'm 2 years into "leaving tech" and it's been magnificent to not have to really think about the latest JS libraries, silly bugs, or misguided feature requests during that time. Got into psychedelics research, hardware projects, and other stuff but I'm increasingly thinking I should eat the cost and go back to tech to save some money to have a kid in a year.
Web Push on iOS
Why 35% and not 55%?