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Yesterday I had the thought of what we could achieve right now with let's say 3 x A2000 leftover GPUs from a random second-hand crypto mining rig.

I think it would be awesome to be able to use GPUs from second-hand crypto mining rigs for cheaper fine-tuning research.

Good luck! As an enthusiast who loves The Lean Startup and who recently started playing around with LLMs, I'm super stoked about Answer.AI
The "ZIRP" meme is way overdone by now. ZIRP doesn't explain much. Interest rates had been rock bottom since the 2008 crisis, were already quite low since the 1990s, and are still not very high today.

IMO the "vibecession" meme explains what's going on within tech a bit better. Tech CEOs and VCs have decided that the tech industry had to shrink, notwithstanding that the wider economy was and is doing fine.
Trees would have probably adapted to high levels of oxygen. They'd still find fire based fertility(scrub pine) useful, but would probably have a different composition of woody stem material to slow down combustion and allow other organisms to burn.
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> If you have not received a C&D before then the reason to consult with an attorney is to evaluate the risk.

The poster you are responding to just explained that most lawyers are too guarded to offer a useful evaluation of the risk, thus rendering their advice useless or low value.
> The family began piecing together Gavin’s last moments and discovered he had encountered a scammer on Instagram and unwittingly became a victim of sexual extortion, a crime the FBI warns is increasingly targeting underage boys and leading to an alarming increase in suicides nationwide.

Meta shouldn't be liable for this. The sexual exploitation scammers should be.

Meta and other platforms of a certain MAU threshold should implement standardized protections and work with law enforcement to stop this type of activity.

This is the correct response:

> Since then, Guffey has been outspoken about his son’s death and sponsored legislation last year that makes sexual extortion an aggravated felony punishable by years in prison if the victim is a minor or vulnerable adult or if the victim suffers bodily injury or death directly related to the crime.

While we need to have strong protections for free speech, anyone who knowingly coerces or bullies someone in a sexually exploitative way or in a way that they know could lead to suicide should be held accountable to an extent. If there is money or blackmail involved, then the penalties should increase dramatically.

I recall the many cases of the Kiwi Forums website bullying folks into committing suicide. They know what they're doing is wrong. While it might not be blackmail, this is a form of free speech that can kill people and we need to have a frank discussion about it. Even if we don't legislate it, we need to create social awareness and a safety net for folks. Suicide resulting from this is a wanton and needless tragedy.

> Between October 2021 and March 2023, federal officials received more than 13,000 reports of online financial sextortion of minors, which led to at least 20 suicides, the FBI said last week.

Parents also need to educate their children about this and let them know they're safe, loved, and that there is no shame in living life.
I'm house sitting in a gated community area of Irvine, CA for the week. I was walking down the sidewalk and watched a woman drive past me, staring down at her phone. I thought to myself, she's going to get into an accident. 10 seconds later, she's up on the curb, luckily misses a tree, corrects and keeps on driving as if nothing happened. F'cking nuts.
Exactly.

The open question is whether we're watching a possible regressive backslide... Or the global community pushing forward towards whatever comes after capitalism, because there's clearly a huge slice of those eight billion people that capitalism is doing few favors.
I don't want to make light of the situation, a teenager committing suicide is a horrible, avoidable tragedy.

Your comment reminds me of the first time I received the phishing scam where the email claims that your computer was hacked and that the hacker has a video of you pleasuring yourself that they will allegedly send to all of your contacts if you don't pay them money.

After immediately recognizing that it was a phish, my second thought was "I value that money way more than I value my dignity ... so even if this were legit ... sorry grandma!"
Sargassum Seaweed is usually what washes up to shores and makes beaches ugly. Resorts in the Mexico and Caribbean regions get a lot of it ashore, but there are now industries that use the seaweed as a building material.

Sargablocks[1] are one of the companies that are turning sargassum into cheap building materials

[1] - https://fortomorrow.org/explore-solutions/sargablock
So Fight Club was not a documentary?
I definitely do not feel like this will happen anytime soon at all. Maybe more domestic migration from expensive metros to less expensive areas (already happening somewhat)
The diabetic was a major stockholder in Acme Donuts and saw internal Acme documents in 1954 directly linking consumption of the donuts with diabetes and other health problems. Subsequently, the diabetic denied and disavowed any knowledge of such links and actively worked to thwart any acknowledgement of such as being threats to share prices and a way of life. That'd be my comparison.
If it’s public properties then yes please. If private then hippity hoppity…
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It looks like a lot of other brands are affected. You can check your VIN here for example: https://www.fcai.com.au/is-my-airbag-safe
Unfortunately I don't have that knowledge or access.
With the appropriate configuration, your SMTP server could relay to O365, just acting as a forwarder, you don't necessarily have to remove the server. This is very common in use-cases for old devices that barely support SMTP authentication, never mind TLS!
Yep, very true, though if you look with a paranoid eye at a bunch of kids playing, you can often imagine a bunch of head injuries that could occur at any given moment if things were to go perfectly wrong. I think that’s where the over-protectionism comes from.

It’s something you learn to calibrate with experience I guess based on many subtle clues. Kids in general do have kind of an uncanny ‘land on their feet’ ability where even when you’re sure they’re going to mess themselves up they usually end up being fine.

Can’t get too comfortable either though because every once in awhile they’ll try something that really will mess them up if they aren’t stopped.
I've been saying this for a long time. Kids under a certain age should have read-only access to the internet in general. They don't need access to make posts, youtube comments, or on Instagram. I really think this is the solution.

If they want to socialize, go outside. The internet is not a toy it's a different dimension of life. The problem with here is it's still a pretty wild west and we don't have enough guards to prevent crime. You wouldn't let your kid walk around Philly's Kensington Ave without you and you sure as hell wouldn't let them walk around talking to everyone there... so why do we let them on platforms that are filled with the same or worse? Sure IG can be harmless but it's also a quick search away from whatever content they can (or can't) imagine.
I think the killer app will be remote work. The social interaction in VR chat is pretty good, if they can bring your work environment in with lots of monitors, and then share parts of it seamlessly and on demand but also have ample 100% focus time, I can see it being better than an office in some ways
Why do people put up with this abusive relationship with their hardware OS? Microsoft doing now - what they've wanted to do for 20+ years.
do you think German police used 5$ wrench attack? this is not North Korea.
Oh yeah. That can work.
Yes, though there is way less atmosphere in the way. The result is still half of earth, so not great, but something to work with. (But personally I would go with a nuclear reactor for the main base)
> you have to be fully informed of and understand what you're being asked to consent to

This really makes it seem like only a very limited set of contracts would actually be legal.

To me a big problem we have is that we act as if there is a fair "fight" between a mega corporation with a expensive team of lawyers, expert psychologists, and supercomputers against ... my gandma who googles to get to google. I think we all know that nearly no one reads pretty much anything they sign and if they did it is not clear that they are fully informed, understand, or are not under pressure (clear case might be medical consent forms authorizing something like a emergency surgery. I'd find it impossible to convince me the person signing was well informed and not under duress. I'd rather case like that revolve around expert of doctors determining if an action was reasonable to another doctor rather than have anything to do with a patient or surrogate signing a document. Seems to just waste time).

It really would be great if the crack team of lawyers was required to put terms and conditions into text that is understandable by an average person in a reasonable amount of time.
> Is it just me or do you folks feel like there would be soon a mass migration of people from Western countries to places like India ...

India? No, it's just you.

The U.S. pop. density is 87/mi^2, India's is 1097/mi^2. (according to wikipedia)
So why aren't we using it for construction?
I've got one of them, he's pretty nice.
I feel quote strongly not as the ones unable to afford basic things like rent are the least likely group of a society to afford and be allowed to mass migrate to another continent. Especially when there is plenty of empty remote land in the US where you don't need to fly all your stuff, learn a new language and set of laws, or get approval to go.
I was commenting on the broader cultural shift on HN over the past 15+ years, not on RTO vs WFH.
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As the founder of a startup focused on language learning, I am really interested in how AI could improve the experience. At this stage, I think it is pretty far off from being useful as a conversation-partner/tutor replacement.

I agree with most of your assessment on tutoring, but replacing the human and emotional connection with a person isn't something that will be easily replicated (or at all!) with AI. I've been successful in hiring tutors that I've liked and tailoring the curriculum to meet my needs. You do need to put in the work, but coming prepared with a curriculum and what I want to learn in each lesson has been very effective for me. I've also tried to pick tutors with similar interests so that the conversation is interesting and engaging.

I prefer my tutoring sessions to be mostly conversation, but I usually reserve some time in the beginning of the session to ask questions about grammar or to review something I have written. I mostly used non-professional tutors who were doing the tutoring to make a little extra money on the side, so at times schedules would change and I would need to find a tutor. There was definitely some time lost in getting to know a new tutor and getting back into the flow of things.

Building a curriculum or taking detailed notes after and during a lesson aren't things every student is going to have the ability or desire to do. These are a couple of aspects we would like to improve with Emurse. Marry one-on-one tutoring with self-paced instruction. Track what was learned in your one-on-one tutoring sessions in the app and create continuity between sessions and different tutors.
Did you read that article?

You are simply replacing laws and courts from a government to some other body.
That is how society progress on many fronts.
Society grows, and those rules become 'laws', and those courts become 'the courts'.

If you were to magically break up and get rid of government.
It would just re-form as a new government.
Every revolution just forms a new central authority. A new government.

Because who are you going to call when some company says "you know what, I don't agree with this informal court set up by the local tradesman, I'm not paying".

""In its early days the Law Merchant relied entirely on private adjudication and enforcement. Merchants conducted much of early international trade at fairs throughout Europe. At these fairs local authorities performed regular activities, such as preventing violence, but they didn’t normally adjudicate disputes between international traders.

Nor did authorities enforce the terms of private commercial contracts. International merchants formed their own courts for this purpose and applied their own law to these cases. Merchants’ courts came to be called “dusty feet courts” because of the condition of merchants’ shoes as they busily traveled between commercial fairs. In these courts merchants acted as judges, deciding the disputes of fellow traders on the basis of shared customs. Merchant courts enforced their decisions privately by threatening noncompliant traders with a loss of reputation and merchant-community ostracism""

""Since 1958 compliance with many arbitration decisions occurs under potential threat of State enforcement. In that year a handful of countries signed a multinational treaty called the United Nations New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (NYC). Over the last half-century many other countries have also joined the NYC. According to the convention, signatories agree to enforce international arbitral awards brought to their courts.""
I'm born and raised in NYC and more and more I'm contemplating moving somewhere, anywhere, where I actually get my money's worth on rent, municipal services, quality of life, etc.
I think it will be more like the proliferation of noise-cancelling headphones; it's not about what it brings (music, dialog, etc) but about what it blocks out (the ambient sounds). Yes, you can watch a movie on a plane now, but with a headset you remove the depressing, crowded, and claustrophobic visual environment.
I don't run emacs in a terminal emulator. Emacs is my terminal emulator. All my terminal programs get run in a (graphical) emacs shell-mode buffer. The rare program that needs full screen control uses term-mode.

It's not the most featureful or fastest terminal emulator, but I can jump around the buffer like any other buffer and seamlessly access it along with the other content I'm editing.

On a remote computer where I can't run a graphical emacs, I either remotely edit files via tramp, or run a headless emacs server process and connect remotely with a graphical emacsclient.
> personal experience

I believe so, but was hard to ask as they (plural) were begging on the street, some with hand-made signs, and none spoke good English or German.

Now, my ex, she definitely had personal experience, she drove to the Calais Jungle to distribute donated supplies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calais_Jungle
Meadows or trees would be nice, but I've noticed that underused parking lots tend to be common places to build restaurants and other retail. Not as great as trees or meadows but on the other hand I'd rather the new retail goes on parking lots rather than replacing currently existing trees & meadows.
people without housing may have social workers (or parole officers...). putting them nearby helps them, and helps the locality.
While the suspicious cases are now almost common knowledge, I'd be interested to read about cases of the opposite - shell companies being used to facilitate transactions and not doing anything remotely shady.
>Generally, the use of the word 'coerced' involves threat of force, which approximately zero employers invoked

Yes. Forcing someone to choose between losing their job or undergoing unusual and routine mandatory, invasive medical procedures, which can lead to consequences like those mentioned in the above article, constitutes coercion.
A lot of places would benefit from more housing, too, or new business, or almost anything really. A parking lot is about the worst option possible.

We look at a large section of a land and decide that we will destroy all life on it, pave over it with asphalt (so that even the rain cannot drain into the soil), all so that large vehicles can sit there unused. It really is the lowest opinion one can have on a piece of Earth.
Or if you're feeling a little more adventurous https://github.com/retspen/webvirtcloud
I was excited, but it looks like both MacOS and Windows require special admin permissions for my laptop that I doubt my work would approve (completely reasonable to require this, it just makes it unusable for me).
I hope you get the opportunity to see them soon. I live in the south and I enjoy them, although the "seeing" (astronomy term) is poor here due to the jet stream.
Don't have a front door and an open diary was copied with personal info?
Nitpicking is contagious. Once one does it, then immediately others feel compelled to do it too, me included...

Their pricing page looks amazing. Not because of any funky UI stuff but because of the slight displacement of the decimal point.
Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded?
You could always put together a group and purchase the land from the current owners. Once you take possession, put the land in trust, tear it up and plant trees. You could potentially recover some costs by donating to the city but there is always a chance that they would decide to change the zoning in the future.
> know that the chemical fix for it is extremely effective.

Only for a short time in my experience. Eventually, ADHD always wins in the end.
> It is not a new idea.

Lying to the public and funding astroturf campaigns to deny it on the other hand…

> The fossil fuel industry has perpetrated a multi-decade, multibillion dollar disinformation, propaganda and lobbying campaign to delay climate action by confusing the public and policymakers about the climate crisis and its solutions. This has involved a remarkable array of advertisements – with headlines ranging from “Lies they tell our children” to “Oil pumps life” – seeking to convince the public that the climate crisis is not real, not human-made, not serious and not solvable. The campaign continues to this day.

[…]

> Between 1996 and 1998, for instance, Mobil ran 12 advertorials timed with the 1997 UN Kyoto negotiations that questioned whether the climate crisis is real and human-made and 10 that downplayed its seriousness. “Reset the alarm,” one ad suggested. “Let’s not rush to a decision at Kyoto … We still don’t know what role man-made greenhouse gases might play in warming the planet.”

* https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/18/the-forg...

(The article has scans of the various ad campaigns.)

> A dominant public narrative about climate change is that “we are all to blame.” Another is that society must inevitably rely on fossil fuels for the foreseeable future. How did these become conventional wisdom? We show that one source of these arguments is fossil fuel industry propaganda. ExxonMobil advertisements worked to shift responsibility for global warming away from the fossil fuel industry and onto consumers. They also said that climate change was a “risk,” rather than a reality, that renewable energy is unreliable, and that the fossil fuel industry offered meaningful leadership on climate change. We show that much of this rhetoric is similar to that used by the tobacco industry. Our research suggests warning signs that the fossil fuel industry is using the subtle micro-politics of language to downplay its role in the climate crisis and to continue to undermine climate litigation, regulation, and activism.

* https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322(21)00233-...

> "It's incredibly subtle, and frankly, a bit patronizing because it's gaslighting to insist that consumers are responsible, and then present the company as a trustworthy innovator who we should rely on to make things better," Supran said.

* https://www.cbc.ca/radio/whatonearth/exxonmobil-blames-clima...
Ask HN: How to prepare for layoffs as a Senior Engineering Manager?
Context: I am a senior EM (manager of managers) at a company I've been at for about 7 years now. I started as an IC with minimal other job experience and grew to a senior engineering manager.

There's no indication at this point that our company will have layoffs (revenue strong, still hiring albeit a bit slower, etc) but I want to prepare for the potential.

1. What can I do to prepare myself incase of surprising layoffs?

2. Do you folks think it would be possible for me to take a job being a leaf node / front line EM again? I see way more of those than I do sr EM and I'm totally fine with a paycut. In fact, in some ways I enjoyed that job a bit more and would be happy to take that role again.

3. How do folks stay from getting worried? I have no reason really, my team is strong, I have gotten consistently high ratings, no indication from the company, but I still feel scared every day.
The technology to massively reduce carbon dioxide emissions has existed for a long time.

Coal power plants could have been replaced with natural gas much sooner. We could have actually spent the last 50 years building nuclear power plants instead of trying to get rid of them.

In transportation, all we had to do was unwind the disastrous expansion of the automobile and return to superior technologies that preceded it, like trains, trolleys, busses, and bicycles.

Buildings could have been made more insulated and efficient using the exact same tools we've had for generations.
Good thing T-Mobile is a no contract provider. You can drop them and go with someone else... Unless you got looped in to financing a phone with them
Your own link shows that they've had 32 funding rounds.

I'm sure they've had an increasingly smaller burn rate in recent years, as they've gotten closer and closer to profitability, and thus required less cash less often (also if the funding round is large enough, they'd need to do it less often), but I'd consider 32 funding rounds wave after wave of cash from investors to me.

That's even more rounds than I assumed, that's more than 2 each year on average.
Ask HN: Which tool is your small business using for expenditure approval?
I am running a local, non-profit organization, and I am looking into software (besides QuickBooks, which we use for accounting), to scan bills and have an approval process, as well as budgeting.

Any tips?
Not impossible, but even ignoring the difficulty of getting a visa and learning a new culture in order to live there, what guarantees do you have that you'd be able to get a job that pays you enough to live there comfortably? It's true that your rent will be cheaper, but your salary will likely be way lower too, and so will be the quality of public services.
I remember the narrative during and shortly after Covid was that rent, housing prices, and tuition would become more affordable due to move to online colleges and migration from cities or other factors. How badly those aged. Nothing changes or will change. A bunch of stimulus was pumped into the economy and ZIRP ,so of course prices inflated again.
I've gotten myself tested by a lab in Amsterdam a few times. What do I do now?

I'm in the industry and even I don't have an actionable course to take.
I like cars and spend a decent amount of time keeping my cars looking pristine. I personally prefer having more than enough parking rather than just enough. Most of the efforts to improve walkability makes it impossible to find parking when you are driving in and forces you to park in dense areas where you either have to pay a fortune to park or park in dense areas where your car is likely to get dinged by some jerk who opens their door into your car.