skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think of likely reasons this happens is username exhaustion. >100 million people are born every year, it won’t take centuries for us to fill up every namespaces with dead accounts.

Before that inevitably happens, there will probably be a point we all have to switch over to identification not by user selected username but random alphanumeric ID string, with display names only for search, free from uniqueness requirements and somehow impersonation resistant. A lot of social media actually uses such ID in the backend/for internal uses(variable length primary key!? Of course not!), maybe it’s time frontend experiences think about that, too.
Looks interesting. Sort of in uncanny valley territory though. Could encounter trademark/copyright/IP issues.
Off topic, but does anyone make simple electric motorcycles? You know, a frame, battery, motor, etc., but without a connected app and all the goo that comes with it.
I don't see how chaos leading to bail being revoked is an awesome strategy. Where exactly is the win?
Question for this knowledgeable group of people: Which fusion start-ups look promising? How does inertial confinement look? Any thoughts on the newly funded start-up Blue Laser Fusion? Any thoughts on one of the older players, TAE? How about Commonwealth? Helion? Others?
It is indeed an unfair advantage to have bosses who care deeply about the products in addition to revenue!
>> diffuse responsibility

My first problem is somewhat dogmatic, which is just that it feels bad to interact with a robot who has power over you. At scale I fear widespread psychological effects, feelings of lost agency, impotence. Haven't you ever tried to navigate an automated phone system and had the robot hang up on you? With no way to contact a human? It can be infuriating even if it's a simple customer support request, let alone money being on the line. Somebody once shot up the YouTube offices because he made income on his channel which was unceremoniously closed without recourse. I'm not making an excuse for the shooter, but pointing to him as an example of the psychological consequences of automated "support"

My second problem is more practical: talent pool. When a task is manual, people who retire have to teach the newbies how it works. Experience is transferred and at all times there are people who understand the system and how to fix it when it breaks. Once a task is automated, there is no need to train the next generation of talent, a computer can do it better than a human right? Until a couple of workforce turnovers down the line and the system goes on the fritz -- no one knows enough about the system to even recognize that it's failing at its task.
I see your point, but would more categorize his actions as a "messiah complex" belief in his own invincibility, reinforced by years of experience running the FTX charade. I doubt he was ever rationally examining the odds of pulling it off.
They wouldn’t hear it over their own noise. It was for the benefit of the people hanging out around the front door.
That can be gamed as well: you could either change the scope or cut corners and ship something of lower quality.
This is about the "National Emergency Library" they launched during the peak of the COVID pandemic? I think they had good intentions, but the legality around it was definitely questionable from the start.
BMW no longer sells service manuals for their bikes.

There are, essentially, bootlegs on line, but my understanding is that while before they had a dedicated Window application for their manuals, they're moving to an online only system, and only for dealers.

So, while there are manuals floating around now, who knows how that will go moving forward.

Obviously, this will be a key sticking point in the future with the "right to repair" laws trickling through the state legislatures.
Are there monitors wide enough to contain the occasional CSS class hurricane that I keep seeing when visiting the markup section of a component?

pointer-events-none absolute start-2.5 top-0 -translate-y-1/2 bg-white p-0.5 text-xs text-gray-700 transition-all peer-placeholder-shown:top-1/2 peer-placeholder-shown:text-sm peer-focus:top-0 peer-focus:text-xs
http://archive.today/2023.08.12-020044/https://blog.archive....
It's interesting to think that, as flash densities surpass hard disks, it'll become cheaper to store data on flash than on spinning metal once you factor in rack space and power consumption.

Won't take that long.
You can probably find plenty of them on Alibaba.
It's going to take a while for people to get used to tinkering with electric vehicles vs ICEs. There's lots of great ways to get yourself fried in those manuals. I could totally see myself skipping the "High Voltage Discharging procedure" (despite the warning on every section involving the battery) just to make a "quick adjustment" and becoming a statistic.
yes. I know a bit of neuroscience 101 and the abstract is greek to me. any1 got an ELI5? Sounds like a cool finding.
So much that’s wrong - a magistrate issuing non-constitutional orders, a “search” warrant that allows cops to basically confiscate your servers… it’s dystopian and it’s here.
> money in [pornography] (and adjacent things...) is too large

How can this even be true? As a wise man once said, I type big booba in google and get million result.
1250RS is not top of the line for sure in any of the segments it is marketed at. I would say a K16 would be more towards the top.
Why are you taking credit from Chelsea Manning and giving it to Julian Assange?

Maybe I wasn't explicit enough: Assange is categorically not a whistleblower, but rather a publicist at best, figurehead at worst. Other people did the important uncovering, putting themselves in far more legal jeopardy.
its not a bank. no good reason to require 2FA just to play with a virtual phone.
Because it’s interesting and relevant.
Also, TACA Flight 110 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TACA_Flight_110

Gliding skill highlight: https://youtu.be/H5UUr9RXfTY?t=1312
Sort of, but only for relatively small amounts of money, to try to avoid the kinds of outrage-producing stories of grandma losing her life savings to a snake-oil investment that led to the regulations in the first place.

Regulation Crowdfunding, passed by Congress in 2016, added an exception to the 1933 ban on selling unregistered securities to the general public. Companies may now do so, but with two limits. The company may raise no more than $5m total in a 12-month period through this route. And individual investors are limited to investing no more than 5-10% of their income or net worth, across all crowdfunded companies they invest in, also in a 12-month period (5% for lower incomes and net worths, and 10% for higher). The details on the 5-10% of income or net worth formula are here: https://www.investor.gov/introduction-investing/general-reso...
> For some, perhaps, but on average?
> What percentage of long-distance relationships work out long-term?

If only you believe you have this "relationship" at work that's even remotely close to things being equal. For some, perhaps, but on average?

- Do you get to decide what to do or your boss? Even if you know better ways of doing things or see issues you might not have the politics to pull it off. Does this happen in a relationship? If so, it's pretty poor.

- Can you "unfriend" a co-worker and choose not to work with them? Do you choose your team? You can certainly quit your relationship or even friendship. In a company you get assigned a team. You can't pick and choose.

> Human beings are social creatures - yes, even we introverts need interaction.

And you will get it? You assume your co-workers are your friends. Friendship and relationships common together on common things they like. Co-workers come together to work and may not actually have anything in common. So you prefer being forced together and fake friends than not have any? It can be worse. Being professional is all it is.

> We have to acknowledge the real tradeoffs - the loss of the "team"

That's not a WFH issue. Your whole argument sits on that the only way to build relationships is in-person, even by quoting how long-distance relationships fail. Well do you hug and kiss your "team"? If not, then maybe it's fine. And it fails because there aren't ways to enforce the long-distance relationship to spend time together. Are you forced to spend time together with your co-workers? Yes.
Can’t imagine. Bad enough having to see it from NY or NJ.
Well I’ll be. Now how ‘bout a simple, quality bike? :)
I don't know much about BaseCamp, but I suspect it is a web application. I see they're using BGP Anycast to serve to the closest location. I looked in their further article for more detail but there wasn't really much information, but how does BGP Anycast work with TCP? I'm guessing they're doing everything best effort and hoping that when a route is chosen between Chicago & Virginia, that the closest path is taken at all times and there's no path "jitter" between Chicago & Virginia, e.g. a SYN packet won't go to Chicago and the following SYN+ACK go to Virginia.

Anyone have any insights?
Teens Don’t Understand That the World Can See What They Do Online, but I Do
Yes, and those people would be wrong. You're compelling completely right, humanity is not ready to build an AGI. It will not be ready for a long time, if ever. Alignment may not be a thing that can exist.

Overconfident men like Sam Altman are forging ahead with the unjustified hubris that we are ready for this.
I haven't read the transcript of this conversation in a long time, but thank you for sharing it.

The sophistry of his argument is extreme.

Yes, of course there are always "unknown unknowns"-- but the statement "there is no evidence that Iraq is supplying WMDs to terrorists" is not a statement made in a vacuum, in which all permutations of known/unknown are equally likely.
Well, that one tells you that the compilers translate your program according to the language spec.

That's helpful, but doesn't make the language itself saner.
Articles covering freedom of the press, concentration of media ownership and investigative journalism are pretty popular on HN and often make the front page.

I feel that other than scientific or highly technical posts, the HN community interest in the press is one of the few things that still makes HN endearing.
Can Mill’s tech-heavy food waste bin find it’s way into kitchens?
> The search warrant, signed by Marion County District Court Magistrate Judge Laura Viar, appears to violate federal law that provides protections against searching and seizing materials from journalists.

Wow, unreal that she could approve such a warrant. Even in the absence of a federal statute it seems like a crazy step to take.
No one said anything about Google absolutely deleting data. They specifically state, "reserves the right to delete an inactive Google Account and its activity and data" ... and further below "and all of its content and data may be deleted"

Call me suspicious, but reserves the right and may be deleted to me says that they may not actually have plans of deleting the account data outright. Maybe they just can't even guarantee being able to completely wipe all the associated account data. I think they could have the external appearance of having deleted the account with no real internal change.

Oh and here's a question. If they delete an account, and then someone goes in and registers the same name, then what? Talk about an opportunity for further account hijacking (for example, password recovery from old logins). To prevent this, presumably they would still at least maintain a record that the account previously existed and cannot be registered again.
If only it had "AI" or "Apple" in the title, right?
Eh, you’d be surprised how much particulates a 2 stroke engine with no catalytic converter spits out.

But the more important point is that electric motorcycles are amazingly fun to ride. No clutch and crazy of acceleration gives an amazing ride.
$800 dollars per YEAR was enough for people who had childcare and pet care concerns? That’s a drop in the bucket!
> Having no common understanding would mean something of great value was lost.

Yeah I guess this just seems like hyperbole to me. It seems good to me that there's a pretty widely agreed upon definition, sure, but I just don't think it matters all that much, in the scheme of things.

Agree to disagree I suppose!
Would you friend feel the same if they were an author or an artist who created the work and depended revenues from their work to put food in their mouth?
Looks like every node is an exit node. So if you don't want to be an exit node, don't use this. People have been raided and had their computer equipment seized for running TOR exit nodes.

"Unlike Tor, Veilid doesn't run exit nodes. Each node in the Veilid network is equal, and if the NSA wanted to snoop on Veilid users like it does on Tor users, the Feds would have to monitor the entire network, which hopefully won't be feasible, even for the No Such Agency."
Robotics is significantly harder and more expensive than algorithms, both in development and deployment.
Your mention of "restore" suggests mainly older models, which certainly did have far more widely-distributed service literature and are simpler than newer vehicles.
Obviously he knew that this would not be a widely shared opinion.
Isn’t it Pro, Max, Ultra?
Changing to work-at-home increases productivity.

Changing to work-at-office increases productivity.

.

Maybe the Hawthorne Effect actually is real?
Whether or not someone contributes to something and under what terms is a personal choice. I dont think there is anything wrong with not contributing for any reason at all. Or if you dont like the cla, forking it and not using a cla in your fork.

I view that as a very different question from whether its ethical to advertize something agpl+cla as being open source.
Sorry to hear that. Curious what the situation was if you’re comfortable sharing
We all know where this is heading. Just let him go already.
New York Times: The U.S. government should end its prosecution of Julian Assange
Not OP but...Remember earlier in another comment thread where you said "It’s deeply rude because you’re implying that I have no virtue"

Judging by how defensive you're getting even at slightest criticism, and keep putting words in other people's mouths, ...well, But it's ok. Maybe you're just having a bad day.

>become interesting

Follow your own advice, maybe go for a walk, touch grass. Take an anger management class or some such. It'd help :)
Not enough facts are available to really form an opinion here. At a minimum, we would need the warrants

Journalists are not above all criminal investigation, so it heavily depends on the alleged crimes.
I navigated to the course site and turns out the professor directly links to pirated copies of comprehensive sources on libgen. Thought it was pretty funny that he doesn't care about copyright being a professor at a public university :-). The linked sites are down since the main site libgen.rs is down but if you know libgen you know how to get to other places.

https://www.cip.ifi.lmu.de/~grinberg/t/22s/
....?

Motocross racing is probably going to see more electric because you really can't put that much power down into the dirt. And electric dirt bikes have much finer grain control of power delivery which makes them quite competitive against gas motorcycles.

And smaller electric dirt bikes can get away with going places where the noise of a gas engine would just draw too much ire. I've seen some Surron's going onto bike paths; they're not supposed to but if you're careful and courteous, I doubt anyone's gonna call the cops on you.

Surron was also doing demo's and training with their bike's indoors with the speed electronically limited to about 12kph (7mph). No tail pipe emissions, no noise, so no problems running them in a building. Folks that have never swung a leg over a motorcycle before could confidently mess around with one in about 20 minutes without having to think first about clutch or being scared of a whiskey throttle or stalling the bike.

And you gotta keep in mind, it's not the expensive high performance two wheelers that are where they're really thriving, it's the cheap personal commuter. Pedal ebikes and low speed electric mopeds are growing pretty damn quick.

Plus there is at least one intriguing idea in regards to security that gas bike's can't do. Having the electric motor apply reverse torque to the rear when someone tries to wheel the bike away without the key, effective turning the motor into a wheel lock for the rear when parked. I don't know how practical it really is but the ideal has some merit IMO.
Technically correct reading tends toward the dense.

It takes several readings to tease out a clear understanding of each of the points in the formulae. The terseness of the expressions is daunting.

Several more readings are needed to internalize it to the point of teaching it to someone else, which is when the real grasp arrives.

Or maybe I'm just slow.
Yep. Or the flagship of adventure bikes - R1250 GS also a bit more than the RS or RT.
> Furthermore, I don’t know of any other popular bare metal language that’s even close to having a compiler offering mechanically provable assertions about its compiled behavior. Do you?

You can automatically extract low level code out of certain high level, provable languages. I think some of them might offer the guarantee you asked for (assuming you eg use a certified C compiler for the last leg).
Yeah, Google’s statement seems obviously wrong. They say they don’t tell people to delete old content, but then they say that old content does actually affect a site in terms of it’s average ranking and also what content gets indexed.
:shrug: your mileage may vary.
That was quick. Imagine he was a politician (or a son of a politician... looking at you, Hunter Biden). That would take another several years of investigation and then he'd be let go.
Computers got seized.

Intersects heavily with data security people who work on encryption, availability, digital privacy, civil rights, etc
Except we created the system, we placed ourselves there...
> When I was required in the office, I would just wear headphones to avoid distractions

That doesn't work for everyone. Some offices are louder than headphones and some people come around tapping your shoulders regardless.
The people who will pay for your database are going to pay for it right away. They're not going to "scale up" and then pay for it.

Just ask Docker. There's thousands of companies using Docker Desktop that should be paying for it but aren't. Same for most other Open Source companies with business licenses. Because they set themselves up as an "open source" company, all the villagers revolt when you finally ask to get paid, or stop allowing competitors to steal your lunch. You can survive, but it's very hard, and eventually they die away. (But that's also because most software gets replaced after a decade)

You have to treat your business as a business first and foremost if you want to remain profitable and competitive. You can use Open Source for your business, but you will not survive for long if you're hoping people will pay you just because they can read your code. Eventually reality, and competitors, come knocking.
400 is a client error. 500 is server error. A server error induced by a client action (e.g. triggering an unexpected exception) is still a server error.
I didn't either, since I spelled it Warf! I never watched Star Trek (probably get my HN privileges revoked for that), but I did know that much. And then the Reading Rainbow guy's "whatever happened will happen again". I know the character's name is Geordie or whatever, but he didn't have the right accent for him to be a Geordie, so he will forever be Reading Rainbow guy instead.
thonk I can't remember, you are probably right.

There is the little, medium, and big die, and the 2x big die.
You're missing the fact that work/job _is_ life changing for someone who needs it to put food on the table. Just because no one is inventing anti-cancer medication every other week doesn't mean that person's internal world is not improved by having a job.
Here is my ICQ number and I promise it is better than MSN
Yes, in part. But it's also about their online lending program wholesale.
I work in an area with particularly clever and motivated users, and this quote pops to mind now and again when I learn about some of the hacks they’re using to get around some of the more optimistically designed systems they’ve been provided.
And he also got into jail for not knowing when to keep his mouth shut, and may soon be getting into prison for being the ringleader in a highly unsophisticated ponzi scheme.
I'm not sure what any of that has to do with why people enjoy electric motorcycles. You seem focused on a motorcycle's racing ability as a measure of its usefulness or enjoyment.
I'm not sure that would be the magic bullet, but you're on the right track. If you want people to return to the office, use carrots not sticks.

I personally can't stand virtual meetings with more than 2 or 3 people. They are wildly more inefficient then in person. Add on top a meeting focused on brainstorms or discuss and it's a shit show.

Give people a reason to return, and have it actually be true, and people won't complain about being asked.

But just saying "you need to be back in the office just because" is just going to breed resentment.
My 2 cents is that it's because anyone who tries to convince you that themselves getting rich can somehow save the world is already deep into narcissistic sociopath territory.
Complete tangent: I wonder if it's uniquely American to believe that people can/should only be passionate about jobs that are world-changing. Or maybe it's just very common in the tech-world and HN.

I'm absolutely guilty of this. I'm a software engineer, and I feel proud of having worked on products that millions of people use. Steve Jobs's challenge to "put a dent in the universe" is axiomatic for many of us.

Yet I know that in other countries (e.g., Japan) there is a belief that any job, no matter how humble, is worth doing well and that passion for excellence is a virtue inside us and is not conditional on the perceived pecking order of the job.

If we had such an attitude, maybe it would be easier to feel fulfilled--if you're holding out for changing the world before you can be happy, you're (statistically) going to die miserable. On the other hand, maybe a culture in which we give 110% to meaningless jobs is just another chain for the rich and powerful to keep us productive.

I honestly don't know.
Zap Energy. They're at least thinking about co-opting existing infrastructure.

https://www.neimagazine.com/news/newszap-energy-considers-re...

Also their concept is just so weird, I love it. Worst case it works in space as a nuclear fusion drive :)

My guess is that they're all going to tank without government money, unless by some miracle they have truly found some special low-cost of operation on the first try that beats the current heavily optimized solutions for power generation.
It's pretty debatable whether the entirety of Snowden's actions can be attributed to "reasonable necessity to defend from criminal acts". He could, and did, encrypt his own comms, by which point it looks like he was pretty shielded. Dropping a lode of secret docs with journalists that seemed to have barely a grasp of security, that doesn't seem to have been the only reasonable action strictly to protect himself or even others against govt action.
> The energy turnover of 1.3 gigajoule was achieved with an average heating power of 2.7 megawatts, whereby the discharge lasted 480 seconds.

Can a physicist/thermal engineer explain what this means?
My last 3 managers (since 2020) have all been in a different office than my "home" office.
Firezone is a traditional VPN architecture. It's not a mesh overlay network.