skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a bad source, it doesn't even tell us what the fraud was or what the case was about. I understand that it is from ARIN and ARIN is the victim, but it doesn't mean it is a good write-up.

This article from 2019 is, less bad, but still doesn't explain it very well:

https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/arin-recove...

So, they purchased addresses from ARIN (via shell companies), then resold them. They made a profit. That's arbitrage. All the article keeps saying vis-a-vis fraud is they "failed to provide documents."

My point isn't even that this isn't fraud, it is just that seemingly nobody is able to write up the case in a coherent way. EXPLAIN THE FRAUD.
While true, on the other hand an AI is a tool, and can have a much larger context size, and it can apply all of that at once. It also isn't limited by availability or time constraints, i.e. if you have only one developer that can do a review, and the tooling or AI can catch 90% of what that developer would catch.
For the purposes of pricing and workflows for buyer/sellers agents, the home is very much a commodity.
I'm in the late afternoon/early evening of my career in tech.

I think this game's got a lot more time left in it.
Why do they get all the negotiating power in this arrangement? They should pay me to watch ads. I'd watch more videos. Win-win for them.

Otherwise they have polluted their value prop -- to be a video sharing platform, and my content that I share, your content that you share, and all your watching patterns data, which has value, is stolen without recompense.

Please. Don't "but you get something for FREE" me -- we're the product and that ain't right. Youtube should be a service -- pay for or not -- not a package delivery vector for ~~meme viruses~~ content-free and meaningless adverts.
There is a pretty active community on Bluesky itself, I think they caught a much smaller, but maybe sustainable boat? I'm liking at least, but the invite-only bullshit is wearing thin.

But would I be alright with it at it's current size/user make-up? Yeah totally. (but I'm also not paying for it...)
I've noticed this big time post pandemic. I'm seeing EMs with < 4-5 years of experience who are managing engineers with 10-15+ years of experience. These are quite frankly, kids, and it really shows. They could really use more time behind a keyboard.
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Your counterargument is worse, though.
It's still trivial to hash the full set of IPs with a salt appended.

I'd personally just collect IPs with no other details - it's not really invasive in my opinion, and saying you don't collect IPs leaves you open to being wrong when you accidentally leave the web server log enabled.
I’m not a proponent of this theory, but I don’t see why it’s unreasonable that if the ocean has some sliver of consciousness, then the water in your body has about 1 / 10^-17 that much.
It's almost like the founders knew this was going to happen, and gave us an advantage.
Transition animations: Principles that can be used by anyone in their UI
Lots of ethical systems justify opposition to unjust laws. Utilitarians would say you should disobey a law if it causes more harm than good (while accounting for the good that comes from general order when people do obey the laws). This isn’t just a conservative position
Yeah, but a crucial part of getting those listings from him involved talking through the ways in which the house might have problems that weren’t disclosed, etc. Home listings are ads and it’s great to have someone who knows how to call BS when I don’t. There are so many tricks in home listings that can trip buyers up and that’s not an easily Googleable problem.

As far as agents you’ve worked with, that’s partially on you for choosing to work with bad people. I had several agents and I wasn’t afraid to drop them when I found the one that worked for me. Given that 87% of agents quit in the first 5 years, I definitely suspect my agent was top of his field, which is why he got my business.
The hail chasers aren't only lurking around beaches. It is a trend happening throughout the country and leading to a lot of roof replacements.
Panpsychism posits that every atom harbors some non-zero level of consciousness, and that by arranging bits of consciousness in certain ways, you can amplify it's effect. Its important to consider that consciousness is likely a scale, with different beings experiencing different levels and types of consciousness.
Hell I wish they would tbh. I have a decent IQ (140), but can't (or just unwilling to) grind leet code
there's definitely a problem with fake roof insurance claims in florida.
It's a stupid question, there was no beginning. You cannot get something from nothing, so there was never nothing.
I had a listing agent that refused to pass my offer onto the buyer because it wasn't on the local Realtor organization's standard purchase agreement form, despite state (Oregon) law requiring that they do so.

Use of the standard form (https://orforms.org/forms/) requires purchasing a license to the form, and licenses are only sold to licensed real estate agents and lawyers. I ended up buying the license to the form and a license for software required to fill out the form. (The website selling licenses didn't actually validate that you entered a valid state license id.)

It cost me a couple hundred bucks, but the seller accepted my offer. I doubt that the seller's agent gave the seller back the 2.5-3% that didn't have to be paid to a buyer's agent.
It's not unrealistic in technological but sociological terms.
"Bring a side project, show us how it works."
Can people in the industry stop this please? You have to be mentally sick to ask people to code review their side projects. It doesn't make any sense.

"Average developer tenure is two years, company is three years old." Got it. I don't think this statement says what you think it does.
Ok so they copy Etherum on their next bitcoin client update.
Income per square foot in _rent_.

The important thing isn't that the lawyer's office makes more money. That's just correlated with the important thing, which is that the lawyer's office is willing to pay more rent. Note the lawyer isn't operating a charity for property owners here; they're only going to pay as much for rent as required for the market.

If prevailing rent is high enough such that only lawyers get retail square footage, then clearly property should be taxed as such. That's the value of the land. But then more development will happen, eventually reaching an equilibrium.
Woosh…
this is an endless word-play IMHO. A skilled player (author,actor,comic) can keep the audience guessing almost forever. Meanwhile, meta-comment.. this entire topic is an accelerant for flagrant deception. People in this thread ask sober, serious questions about the meaning of this aspect or that, but really the people who do not know that I have seen, also do not know a lot of other important things. Many functioning adults do not know a lot of basic things about the actual real world, let alone a theoretical framework that is new. Those people do have curiosity and can be fooled or worse.

I was attracted to pundits with "answers" e.g. Ken Wilbur etc. at a certain time of my own intellectual growth, but the significance and priority of that has changed for me. Consider the viewer, what is viewed, and the social and physical place where the viewing happens.. there are more parts than might be immediately obvious.
I did read the spec. They did forget them.

The “studies” failed to consider non-C languages. These people had no clue how widespread overflow checking us and how much more widespread it’s set to become because of the security upside.
so as immediate is impossible, what’s the next step?

to grit one’s teeth?
The joy of trying to login into UNIX thin terminals with the home directory mounted via NFS and having the network cable with a broken terminator. before ethernet became a thing.
Yes, I also realize that if all Palestinians were kept in chains, monitored and force fed, we could certainly save all the lives. This realization, however, doesn't get me excited on how to best execute it, nor does it feel like it's a lasting solution.
Even the lowest paid employees at the state and federal level already have their pay revealed, and it hasn't caused a problem yet. As far as I know, only orgs like the CIA (and similar) where their employees aren't public are hidden from public view.
This is a good point, attaching a moral valence to being 'authentic' simply doesn't make much sense.

There probably are cases where becoming more 'authentic' is worse and should be discouraged by all means.
> silly notion that individuals should just put up with things for money

Well, yes. If you enjoy doing it then you'll do it for free. No need to pay you.
That would be better described as agnosticism.

In practice, people who identify as atheists - such as Dawkins - affirm that there is no god. That's a belief.
I appreciate your candor and self-reflection. I want to encourage more of it.

I'm curious what you mean -- worked great for what aspect? Short-term bottom-line targets for the company at the expense of workers, or long-term culture-supported productivity ones that benefit both company and worker?

I suppose if you have a team of people who treat work as "doing homework for the rest of your life" (and quite a few SWEs never grow out of this mindset) then you can help them stunt their growth and extract whatever you want out of them for the company's sake. It's been my experience that typically the real movers and shakers need more than that to thrive, and they need to feel like they're thriving to stick around. I worked too long in a dessicated environment because the people who were insightful and good at their jobs were told to shut up and grind. They left for places where they could have more agency and feel like part of a team that values their input.
"Nepo-homebuyers": 38% of young buyers use family money for down payments
I dislike Elon's politics like many do, but this kind of dismissive dehumanizing is ridiculous. Most of Elon wealth is in TSLA, hardly a meme stock. Twitter cost $44B, much of which is debt-financed, and required serious action and revenue building to make good on.
Why not just train staff and carry guns?
If you restrict yourself to problems that fit in the physical universe, everything can be done using finite automata. That’s a bit boring.
What's unrealistic about it? I've been doing it for more then a decade.
> Let's say because of rising taxes, a bakery or a shop has closed and a lawyers office has opened in that spot.

Taxes will rise in neighborhoods where improvements have happened. To determine the neighborhood is improving, we need a metric, for instance traffic. We expect the donut shop in an improved neighborhood to see increased traffic and more sales. If traffic doesn't increase then land value hasn't actually increased and the taxes have been applied inappropriately. Maybe we can come up with a better indicating mechanism for land value, I admit I have not read Henry George's work.
impossible without also blocking end users or requiring premium. even if they required a login, the video can be scraped.

They have been working towards requiring chrome, but that won’t work unless they close source it and lock down developer tools and apis, which would be a death sentence for chrome.
US Tightens Chip Exports to China, Aiming to Curb Breakthroughs in AI
archive: https://archive.ph/ThR4z
Seriously, no scientist thought to suggest a better term to denote this culture than a pejorative Mandarin word?
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> Fitness is not a 1-D line

I never thought about it this way but this is really insightful. I was assuming it will be an endless war but if the cost gets prohibitively high to maintain resistance we have a real advantage
Sunrise, Sunset, Daylight in a Graph
> Growing up in mid 2000s Australia, I recall it being thought largely as a rote learning exercise in which one repeats the same letters over and over again without much context, which isn't a particularly exciting thing to do

Growing up in 90’s and early 2000’s Slovenia, this sounds strange to me. Yes we learned handwriting by rote repetition of letters in the first few months of first grade. But then we started writing real things.

Even in college we were still expected to write essay answers on a piece of paper by hand. In high school we wrote entire essays – up to 1500 words – by hand at school for our literature exams. All our notes in class were handwritten at every level of schooling.

Laptops started becoming a thing in college and most people quickly realized digital note-taking is far too clunky. You need the expressiveness and speed of handwriting to truly capture an idea.

Hell even today I always have a notebook next to my keyboard when I work. The seamless transition between writing, drawing, and scribbling is unparalleled.
In your example, bakeries usually don't own land in highly desirable cities, they lease it from the owner. I think that's fine. The incentives here are against huge capital behemoths that can buy land and afford not to develop it, costing the cities in potential consumer revenue, population growth, broken windows theory, etc. Lawyers might own the building and be able to afford the tax. I think it's fine to expect bakers cannot afford buildings in very expensive cities (unless you're some luxury brand). If owners are incentivized to develop and lease their properties, there should be more supply for a cheaper rental market.
So theres nothing preventing OP implementing what they want entirely in userspace with no kernel changes already?
>>Google claimed I was clicking my own ads and stopped serving them, effectively cutting off all revenue.

This draconian buyllshirt is baffling

Why can Google simply allow developers to register a list of $Revenue_Excluded devices and/or IP ranges and/or locations? You will inevitably use your own app and many ads are almost impossible to NOT click accidentally when scrolling. Moreover, testing in real life is important. There's also the (small) chance an advert might actually be interesting and you legit click-thru as a potential customer.

Instead, you basically cannot use your own app.

What good does this do for anyone, except for the Google devs/mgrs who insist on this kind of fundamentally stupid policy? Is it really that hard to do it even a little bit right?
Do any commercial domestic solutions exist?
TiDB: An open-source distributed MySQL compatible database
If your system has the notion of users at all, then most of that red tape is unavoidable, no matter how privacy-respecting you are being.

Either a solid and affordable PaaS solution or at the very least a single global international standard is sorely needed here. The current model is barely sustainable as it is, and it's getting worse, even for privacy-respecting endeavors.
> Then each and everyone can decide to accept this fact or fight back.

That’s exactly what they want to avoid.

Problem/reaction/solution or manufactured consent is much easier.
I don't have an argument, you're just wrong because I dislike your point.

But seriously: apparently the logic is that we can say almost whatever we want to the police, whom we interact with less. But we can't freely speak towards our peers, which is the larger of the two issues, because we speak to them daily. Makes no sense.
Good timing for me, was just looking at `lookatme` and its install was broken on Mac (and possibly some other platforms) for me.

Seems to be related to them being in the middle of a big upgrade (I got the as yet unreleased c3 branch to work) combined with Pythons general complexity around installs and dependencies.
NixOS makes ZFS feel like part of the kernel again if you configure it to only use ZFS-compatible kernels. Had that setup for about 2 years now.

I bricked or trashed too many BTRFS drive setups to ever trust it again. If I went to anything else it would be bcachefs.
If you think about it, USB cables and ports are themselves nondetermistic, probabilistic models of connectivity :D
perhaps the author is being a little cheeky with us, but he did launch his app and website, he even got ~1000 users, it's just that it didn't pick-up and grow, so he decided to tank it; sensible move. most projects die early on, it's better to close it sooner than later in cases like this.

From a startup project point of view, this project has way too much functionality (ui activity), without much user-base. No doubt a cool engineering project though - nicely done.

p.s. I never wrote this message :P
I'd wager that the best mathematicians would fail on these "algorithmic thinking" interviews. Modeling a problem, even a simple one, as a computational problem requires time, trial and error beyond what you get in an interview.
Even with guns, minimum wage people aren't gonna want to be heroes and risk their lives protecting the money of their boss, when threatened at gunpoint.

Even if they're willing to pull the trigger, your average 7-Eleven employee is no Navy Seal and won't react well under gunpoint pressure and might end up shooting some innocent bystander or himself.

Just giving guns to everyone is bad idea on so many levels.
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Deep geological time isn't very relevant to human civilisations. The Fall Of Civilisations podcast has great long deep dives into what does threaten them, and the score is about 50:50 between climate change and Outside Context Problems.
I will tell you what. When I joined this field (decades ago) an entry level engineer would (after rampup) do more than whole teams do today.

This is not because people were somewhat better back at that point in time.

We had trust, respect for people's time and overall everyone was at least directionally pulling in the same direction.

Today we have a low trust, hustle and micromanagement culture. I am shocked every time people with experience simply don't help grow a junior engineer (because fuck em and they're gonna find a better job if they grow, amiright?). I am shocked whenever we throw people at a problem while it was shown over and over again the approach does not work for that problem. Shocked when trivial improvements are hailed as the ultimate engineering feat and impressive engineering feats are met with meh. I am shocked when people do not think (at all, zero, nada) about the performance and maintainability of the code they bang out.

People just started giving zero fucks. The future is bright.
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Those two things aren't mutually exclusive.

They could be trusted by a bunch of people to probably screw things up less than alternatives and to at least be -trying- to care about the community, while still having made more than enough mistakes to generate a bunch of justifiably unhappy people.

Think about how e.g. your favourite hosting provider nonetheless has a bunch of unhappy ex-customers.

(I'm not asserting what -is- the case here, mind, just trying to flag up a part of the possibility space that I've seen quite a few times over the years)
> it undercuts my ability to take the rest of the piece seriously at all.

This lack of ability to be able to control your emotions undercuts my ability to take the rest of the comment seriously at all. It's not any kind of seriously considered rational comment, weighing the pros and cons of the thoughts presented -- it's bad commentary.
> Solar, once installed, has close to zero CO2 emissions

Thanks for this fabulously insightful take. Here's a similar one: “Coal, once burned, has closed to zero CO2 emissions”. I mean, yes, for sure, but that's a bit strange of an analysis isn't it?

> Not by politicians, but by people investing in the projects.

Well, first of all it is also done by politicians. And then “people investing in the project” is also a common sentence when discussing NFTs so I'm not sure how convincing you think it is.

Each euros that goes to solar in Finland and doesn't get to hydro, wind, biomasse or whatever, is wasted. Wasted in terms of energy production, and have a much bigger carbon footprint per kWh, but hey it's trendy (mostly because it makes total sense in California, the cultural center of the Western world).

> Funny, how otherwise reasonable people insist to argue against reality...

Funny indeed.
Turned off, yes. ...but at the same time, I am violently against greed and psychologically manipulative processes to acquire wealth. YT is insidiously screwing with peoples minds for profit. They can Fuck Off.
> youre not here to decide what problems to solve, youre here to solve the problems the product team wants solved they get all upset and moody

Please be very up front that you hold this view when recruiting, it will be better for everyone. This may need to be an "agree to disagree" situation, but my experience goes completely the opposite direction of what you're suggesting here.

One of the biggest dysfunctions in tech over the last decade has been the rise of the product role and re-subjugation of engineers. We've recreated all the dysfunctions of the "pointy haired boss" just now with a PM title instead.

The 90s had the trope of incompetent business/managerial class folks being in charge and engineers being expected to do as they were told. Then in the 00s/10s there was a renaissance as engineer-founder companies (Google, Facebook, etc) elevated the status of developers and gave them increased autonomy and influence. This period saw technical innovation, business growth and increased wellness for employees.

In the past few years, the people who couldn't thrive as developers realized they could rebrand themselves as product managers and do all the fun parts of making things while leaving the difficult implementation work to developers. Unsurprisingly, the outcome is worse business behavior, worse customer experience, and burnt out developers who don't want to just be a cog in a machine building someone else's idea.
The speed difference sneaks up on you - Ruff is so fast there’s usually no perceptible delay but then you use flake8 + isort + pyupgrade and you realize how much you’d gotten used to the minor but noticeable delays.

For me, the big win is having a single tool instead of a dozen - like when the last flake8 update happened we had to play plug-in Jenga until everything updated, you have different configuration files for flake8, isort, pyupgrade, pylint, bandit, etc. and inconsistent support for pyproject.toml or ignoring things, etc. None of that is a big problem but it’s nice for it just to be gone entirely.
>Our enemy is the ivory tower

Cool, so I guess our enemy is you
Noted, although in my case I don’t have kids but I’m preparing to have them in the next few years. Part of that preparation is being willing to work my ass off to build a strong financial foundation - but I ended up heading to Amazon (reputation for high workloads and high pay) rather than a startup (reputation for high workloads and low pay, especially in my east coast city).

In the past I’ve worked for two “growth stage” startups but neither could pay anywhere near what I earn now.
Do you have any evidence of your extraordinary claim?
Using electron isn't a performance decision, it's a labor one. It's easier to write a website once and then just export to electron than it is to rewrite your application in QT or XAML or another native desktop framework and have to hire C++ or C# developers
What if the first solar entrepreneur hadn't been kidnapped?
This just is not true. The amount of admin work per deal has perhaps come down, but agents work with much higher volume because deals fall through so fast now.

We looked at almost 2 dozen houses compared to my parents that looked at 2 houses in 2004.
Seems WAI from a capitalist perspective. Society has a problem, society doesn’t fix problem. Corporation come up with solution. Consumers use solution
Because the city is withholding business licenses until cops are on payroll... rtfa.