skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they have no agency in the decision

Everyone has agency. “Just following orders” is not an excuse.

If someone asks you to implement something that crosses an ethical line for you, you ALWAYS have the agency to refuse. It’s hard, but it’s critical that we never give away our own agency and control of our own actions.

You may not be able to stop an implementation from going forward, but you ALWAYS have the ability to not contribute to such an implementation.
One potentially critical line from the article:

> Failure to impose the RealPage rents could lead to landlords being expelled from the organization, according to the suit.

Makes this arguably much more over the line than just a bunch of landlords that happen to use the same pricing algorithm. Landlords being pressured to not use the algorithm however they want, say setting their price $100/month below the algorithm, under threat of losing access to the algorithm may be what ultimately loses this trial for them. If that is the case, we may not get to a ruling that resolves the legality of the more general practice of many people using the same pricing algorithm.
I take it that Balaji is a thought-leader for crypto? Once again, it strikes me as sound and fury, signifying nothing.

> millions of people around the world were able to independently fact check him by testing their ability to withdraw and then viewing the results on chain.

Yet again, another "use case" for crypto that proves extraordinarily hollow. We've been able to stress-test financial institutions forever. It's called a bank run. What does the blockchain have to do with it?
Thats an interesting alternative history thought experiment.

I wonder how early one could capture the complexity of the full PDP-11 microarchitecture on a single chip? Would it have been affordable? What about the support hardware?
"Gamed" by whom? Do you assume poor people are all lazy, undeserving, criminal, and cheating?

Have you ever accompanied a poor or disabled person to a county assistance office to see what the forms or process entails?

Do you know how SNAP or WIC works?
I think they’re saying it’s religious in the sense that it’s definitionally unknowable.

We know that everything we ever experience is something generated by our own brain (approximately).

We assume that our brain is generating our experience based on some sort of external reality, but that thing we can only assume exists because we’ll never be able to step outside our brain to experience it.
The technology no, the tradfi companies that "use" it (aka custodial user funds) then yes, but those regulations exist since they're no different than any other financial product company.
How would you even measure that, with current tooling? There some option for counting float ops in pytorch or something?
In Finland, people cycle in the winter all the time.
I always get excited by these kind of devices… until I realize I honestly can’t think of what I would use it for.

Anyone have plans for something like this that they would like to share? I’d love some project ideas.
I wouldn't necessarily agree. I've seen may instances of Make particularly being used to run tedious commands — linting, testing, deployment, et cetera; for these things, jeeves can be a perfect replacement. A and B are usually called alternatives if they have an intersection in their feature sets; there are no perfect alternatives.
If only there were a good library for using DRM (digital radio mondiale) with SDRs.
What sort of “political reasons”?
> Is a 'nickel metal hydride'[1] solid hydrogen?

Solid state hydrogen storage, yes. But it's common for people trying to hype it to call it "solid hydrogen".

People have been researching it for decades, but compared to pressurized storage, it's heavy, large, expensive, and low-throughput. But it has no high-pressure, that is one of the things that make storage dangerous, and very low leakage.

I am actually more curious about the metal-oxide ion separator they talk about, but the article is intent on not giving any details about anything.
Humans are natural intelligence. Natural = Created by nature.

Artificial intelligence is intelligence created by humans. Artificial means man-made.
You're all correct, except there are not that many $30 SDRs out there. Most of them start at around $200 and end in very very high thousands. Also, most SDRs have clearly superior capabilities to the RTL-SDR, though often those capabilities are not required.

BTW, for simple AM/FM demodulation I cannot recommend enough the handy https://github.com/charlie-foxtrot/RTLSDR-Airband. Most of the LiveATC.net feeds run on it, for example. It can be used for any AM/FM audio, for any number of simultaneous channels, even on a weak machine like a raspberry pi.
I am always surprised how HN folks fall in hook line and sinker for Democratic talking points from senators FAR removed from any understanding of technology and insistent on curbing basic internet freedoms. The previous version of this was the proposal to ban encryption because bad actors can have a private conversation. If you oppose banning encryption but are in support of banning crypto, I would encourage folks to think more deeply about their positions
Both directions of the bike lanes on St-Denis take up about one car lane. The street has 2 lanes for car traffic and 2 more lanes for street parking on most sections of the road. I think that's a fair trade-off for the very high traffic the bike lanes receive on non-snow months. Not all public infrastructure needs to be used at capacity all the time (like public swimming pools, playgrounds, tennis/basketball courts, un-plowed walking paths, etc).

Although Montreal is leading the way to sustainable transportation, I don't think Montreal is copying European cities enough. Most of the biking infrastructure around the city is paint on roads making it a patch work system that kids and elderly people can't use safely.
Well, you already mentioned it: the important updates that already have PoC in the wild that are somehow patched for RHEL but not for CentOS. The lag isn't always huge, but we definitely can't consider CentOS a RHEL bug-for-bug compatible rebuild anymore.

Maybe the issue wasn't highlighted as much in the past where the rebuild compatibility meant that packages could go out without also having the source (in CentOS).
A large number of those are called heteronyms which include a noun and a verb, the noun getting the stress on the first syllable while the verb receives the stress on the second. But yes I agree.
> The case remains under investigation, but it appears that someone became infected with the dengue virus, returned home and was bitten by a mosquito that passed it on to the local resident, according to Pasadena health officials.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/california-officials...

It seems part of the common pattern for outbreaks of dengue viral infections in other urban centres. However California lacks a non-human primate reservoir would probably limit the risk of it becoming endemic.
In the USA, all of the large banks are part of the Federal Reserve System and the FFIC insures all accounts up to a certain amount. I would say this nullifies their claim to refuse the public as a largely publicly funded institution… the government, however, doesn’t care about the hoi polloi so this situation isn’t likely to ever change.
That's why I include my region whenever speaking about linguistics!
Agreed.

This really smacks of late asset delivery, which probably happened because delivery dates to the rest of the dev team kept being bumped.

Then, by the time the assets were finally delivered, it was recognized they weren't optimized (as expected), but there wasn't any time to fix that.

Or the same thing with an internal asset team.

Although honestly, you'd think after seeing the performance numbers they would have implemented an "above X zoom level, people / anything smaller than this are invisible" sledgehammer fix, until LOD could be properly addressed.

Better to deal with pop-in than have everything be unexpectedly slow.
I have a right to privacy, and a right for my actions to be free from government scrutiny until, at the very minimum, they can show probable cause with a search warrant.

Deputizing the banks to spy on me just makes those banks obligated to the same rules.

Money laundering is a crime predicated on the idea that the money I rightfully own is something they should be able to confiscate from me on hypothetical crimes, and they're attempts to seize it often cause people to try to make it less suspicious to the government. It's bizarre.

If they wanted to fight organized crime, the simple way was always to legalize cocaine, meth, and heroin, and sell that shit out of liquor stores in plain retail packages, all manufactured by regulated pharmaceutical companies that would produce it for a fixed, low profit-over-cost, in measured doses and free from unsafe adulterants.

Government causes problems with bad laws, blames the problems on the criminals, then makes more bad laws to punish them for it, causing more problems. As it is now, it's illegal for you to own and possess cash, though they tend to ignore it as long as you don't keep any in tempting amounts (typically less than $1000).
Ethereum doesn't use mining and is incredibly energy efficient, estimated at 0.0026 TWh/yr (1/100th of Paypal)

https://ethereum.org/en/energy-consumption/
By this argument there is nothing wrong with texting while driving. Or drinking. Why did we make it illegal for all people to drive under influence instead of just punishing those who become inattentive?

You are talking about attention as if we can detect inattentive drivers by measuring their chakra energy from a mile away. No. There are inherently more dangerous situations on the road, right turn on red being one of those. We have the data to prove it, no need to sacrifice pedestrians in order to make the road—eventually—safer. Why do we need traffic lights at all? Let’s just all pay attention and punish drivers who are inattentive.

The suggestion to punish drivers who hit pedestrians is great. Oh wait, we are already doing that.
Part of the security model of WASM is that guest values are opaque to the host and host values are opaque to the guest. You can get a lot of mileage out of (ref extern) right now. Like if you import document.createTextNode you know the extern ref you get back is a text node and you can wrap the extern up as such in your WASM program. I have wrapped a subset of the DOM and Canvas APIs and made several small programs like a classic todo list example and a small retro video game rendered to canvas. I've been able to create elements, assign event handlers, use setTimeout/requestAnimationFrame, etc. all from within WASM. So while additional proposals could add more useful reference types (such as (ref string) from the stringref proposal) you can already do a lot with the types that are there now that reference types + GC are part of core WASM.
None of this is about whether I trust Chase or not.

It's about the big claim that Chase monitors the political activity of their customers and systematically closes the accounts of people with opinions Chase doesn't like.

There's precisely zero evidence that they do this.

Even if one blindly accepts your citations from "The 700 Club" and some random post from "Nitter" as authoritative, even they provide zero evidence for that claim.

Big claims require compelling evidence, and you haven't provided any.
Even then, decrying pants-on-head frauds like Craig Wright or SBF doesn't threaten them. They want to put you on the defensive (eg. "But how can you prove _______") or drag you into court ("I accuse you of ______!"). From the perspective of a sufficiently wealthy swindler, you can win every battle with favorable positioning. The fact that SBF's defense fell apart in less than a day signals to me that the system did do a better job than however "Crypto Twitter" held him accountable.
The only right conclusion. Wish more people understood.
Secularism should not have to depend on number of children to grow. The idea is good enough and will find traction in children born to any religion.
The way ChatGPT4 phrases an answer for this sort of a question absolves it of smug pretentiousness that is common to HN.

Whether or not its a correct answer, however...
FrankenPHP: Modern App Server for PHP
I tried for an hour to set this up once. The docs were all over the place, you needed prerequisites that were hard to find and linked to 404s. Mysterious errors. Eventually my curiosity was overcome and I gave up.
Fairly sure I just made something better than React
Your logic requires, it seems, that things have been getting worse for ever.

Or is there some point where you think cohort "value in tradition" was different?
Kant goes so extensively about this that it's not even funny to have to mention it on an HN thread. No the blogpost doesn't cover it in the same way it being like 3000% or more condensed than even a single one of his books and I don't think it's necessary considering metaphysics itself is "quite the religious notion".

Yeah think about it
The 2022 mortality rate for dengue in Indonesia is 0.86%, with most of the fatalities being young kids. ~1200 people in 2022. [0]

It could be that the figures match your own as not everyone goes to a clinic when they have it - much more likely when its a bad dose. But a huge amount of people get it each year.

Ive had it twice. Can confirm - it sucks.

[0] https://www.kompas.id/baca/humaniora/2023/09/08/tren-angka-k...
> I'm not sure that's right, if the "z"-pronounciation is for verbs.

It is right. The rule you are stating is an overgeneralization; it is correct for specifically distinguishing the verb forms “house” and “houses” from the singular and plural noun forms “house” and “houses”, but not really otherwise (maybe by derivation, in that “housing” is “that which houses”, but...)
> sole security mechanism

I doubt it. Just a well-known name to get on the same network to auth some more. Rememebr payment will have to be handled during this at somepoint so trust me, they won't forget to figure out who to bill. I'd imagine these would be supporting more than just Tesla vehicles so you already have a possible adversarial relationship with its users.
You assume that the point of regulation is the stated one. I do not think this is a valid assumption. Regulatory capture has occurred consistently throughout US history as has bribery, collusion, and monopoly building (with explicit government support). What makes you believe that regulation would then be helpful in some area when it hasn’t elsewhere?
Building TypeScript and DigitalOcean Functions
It's all about who owns the keys. If we own the keys, the technology empowers us. If they own the keys, the technology oppresses us.
This called my garage ‘fairly run-down’. Needs tuning.
Also the people who are harmed are unimportant. Nobody cares if Harvey Weinstein is part of a dystopian social experiment.
And when burned it produces high amounts of pollutants that are about as deadly. (Fixable with the application of enough catalizers, that are made of material that is more expensive than gold.)

Besides, differently from what the GP claims, it does need to be pressurized. It can indeed be used as a fertilizer, requiring careful application because if it's over-applied it's pretty deadly to any plant, and if applied incorrectly it can leak from the soil and become pretty deadly to anything above it.

But some people really do love the stuff and believe it's a solution to everything.
> Banking is optional

Banking is definitely not optional. Certain transactions, specially those done online, require digital payments that cannot be done with physical cash. It's increasingly a required part that's needed if you want to participate in modern society, and the lack of access to such banking systems forces people to adopt subpar services as a replacement.

In the ideal case, banking should be a utility like power & water: A necessity for modern life, without which certain daily routines would not be possible.
With interpretable languages, this feature of Make is IMHO rarely called for. Task running is; Makefile still is a standard way to do project maintenance, both locally and CI. jeeves is an attempt to extract that feature of Make, and provide it in a more accessible way.

By making .PHONY and .ONESHELL labels history, as a particular example.
Often these dongles plugged directly into the computer will have too much radio interference. This severely affects performance, but it is all often intermittent.

The solution is to get a usb extension cord and plug the dongle into that. I had this problem with several logitech mice on several different desktop computers. but the usb extension cord always fixed (because the dongle can be placed further away from the power supply, etc.).
I like Kants work, but it has always bugged me, how he defined the 12 Kantian categories of a priori knowledge that just are. It feels inelegant. I'd much rather have a generalisation of all a priori knowledge instead of a defined list.
> No, the terms of service (TOS) mandates how and what you can do on their site.

Worse than meaningless.

For a contract to be valid, they need to talk to me in person, and get my signature. They don't get to pretend it's a contract and bully the rest of the world into acting like it is.

If they do not like me sending http requests to them, it's up to them to ignore them.

> but the TOS are legally binding.

Not only are they not legally binding, anyone who makes claims like this should be denied all political rights. No voting, no sitting on juries, none of it. You have demonstrated your profound and fundamental unfittness to decide policy for other people, and humanity can't really risk it if you say you've seen the error of your ways.
We have models that attempt to describe the basic components of reality.

So far, those models seem to work reasonably well, but we don't really know how far they are from actual reality.

We have become used to science explaining the universe in ever increasing detail. The expectation that it will continue to do so indefinitely, or that eventually we will reach some sort of "final answer", is more a wish than a certainty.

Maybe we will just arrive at a point where we can't go any further and a million questions remain forever unanswered.

The universe doesn't care about our narratives.
He is explicitly not benchmarking, just exploring the render pipeline.
Hi everyone. I know that's a bold statement you'd expect from a new coder and not an experienced guy unless it's the real deal. And I've got so many decades of experience that I'm really looking forward to hearing feedback :)
This is a garbage take. I’d strongly reconsider your stance on what is or isn’t simple about the Israel/Gaza conflict.

For one, it turns out that Hamas had a lot more than sticks on 10/7.

The only simple thing about this conflict is that nothing about it is simple. Simplistic takes like this are meaningless trash, and I really genuinely mean that with no ill intent.
This is just an appeal to authority with a dash of shaming.

You’re failing to consider the opposite bias, where professionals whose income and prestige depends on a particular idea fail to critically assess it and judge themselves based on their motivations rather than outcomes — and outsiders who only see the claims and outcomes have a less biased view.

That’s the case for gain-of-function research:

- the US banned it despite expert opinions

- a rogue expert circumvented that ban by outsourcing the work to China

- that Chinese lab leaked the studied virus, causing a global pandemic

- the rogue scientist panicked and bribed several peers to help him cover that up and claim a “natural” origin

- millions of people are dead due to hubris and personal biases
> In a streaming reader you can do your job without ever creating maps or dehydrating objects.

but you need some logic which will check that key is what you want to process, and also do various type transformation (e.g. json string to long).

> Plus no one makes people use objects in JSON. If you can send a tuple of fields as an array... then send an array.

then this shouldn't be called JSON parsing anymore.
Yeah, I was looking at that page before, and that generated some of my questions. Like I see two different price points, and both have "Java Edition" and "Bedrock Edition," whatever that means, but it looks like maybe the higher-priced option is only applicable to Windows(?). Does playing on Windows result in a much better experience? We do have an old laptop running Windows 10 too. What's the Launcher? A bunch of the Flathub flatpaks appear to be different launchers.
I once had someone directly tell me that loyalty was the most important thing to them; at least it did allow me to avoid any further waste of our time.
It's not that simple. There are a lot more details, but at a minimum you will still need to pay US taxes to the extent that the foreign government taxes at a lower rate. You'll also often still need to pay state income taxes.
Seattle’s minimum wage is $18.69/hr, and its increasing in 2024.
Sceptical - another "energy storage breakthrough" article with no detail of either cost or conversion efficiency. Non-technical founder too.
> all

I never said "all".

Some years back, and acquaintance of mine detailed how he gamed the system. He'd work until he met the minimum number of employed weeks to qualify for unemployment, then he'd do a lousy job so he'd get laid off. He'd then go on unemployment. Being unemployed required him to look for a job, so he'd look for a job, and flunk the job interview. When the unemployment compensation ran out, then he'd get a job again. Over and over and over.

BTW, when he was "unemployed", he'd take off-the-books jobs.

A businessman acquaintance told me how he'd found some well qualified people he wanted to hire. They said they'd take the job, but only after their unemployment compensation ran out.

The Seattle Times ran an article a couple decades ago (wish I'd saved it) where they went around interviewing people on welfare. They'd ask "what would you do if the welfare was cut off?" The answer was "get a job." They interviewed people in a car with fishing gear. "Where are you going?" "Fishing" "Don't you have jobs?" "No, we get welfare." "Wouldn't you rather have a job?" "No, we'd rather go fishing."

Sure, there are people who should be on welfare. But there are a lot of people gaming it.

Every government program designed to hand out money if specific requirements are met results in companies and individuals springing up to game it.
Depot.ai – Docker registry for public machine learning models
It's just user space though. As long as the kernel remains independent there's problem.
robots.txt is not an official standard by any governmental standards bodies. This is because HTTP is a global protocol.

Crawlers can and do ignore this file and its contents. It's much like a post-it that says 'no peeking in these specific places', giving away the location of sensitive information you don't want crawled.

It's a well-intentioned initiative but cannot in any way prevent abuse.
> Because it is one of the 1,000,000 things to pay attention to in game development.

Finding objects with ridiculous triangle counts is one of the easiest things to do when you have known performance issues.

If they didn't have time to do the first, easiest chunk of the work, then something was far more dysfunctional than "it's one of a million things to deal with".
Are account balances stolen along the way? How do people get their funds out?
If Intel could do it, DEC could do it.
I wish SmartTube was able to connect to Invidious instances. As Google is getting more and more aggressive against ad blockers, I’d like to be able to put one more “insurance” barrier in place in case they end up start banning accounts. SmartTube is far and away the best YouTube client for androidTV, legitimate or otherwise though. Even if I was paying for YouTube premium, SmartTube would still provide an objectively better viewing experience.
https://news.yahoo.com/secret-war-strange-wounds-silence-160...