skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just saw a news headline that the estate of the oceanographer who died on the Titan is suing the company for $50M. How exactly is this possible? Who are they suing? I didn't think there even was an OceanGate company in existence any more: their founder is dead, and no one in their right mind would ride on one of their subs any more, so what assets do they even have to sue for? They weren't some big tech company with billions in assets; they were some crappy little start-up trying to build a business by selling cheap submersible rides to rich people, and from what I remember, didn't exactly have solid financials at the time and certainly no extra money in the bank to sue for. And IIRC the business didn't have any kind of liability insurance, so what is the point of a big wrongful-death lawsuit against a defunct company with no assets?
> Now only reason to go to office is to artificially maintain property value so landlords don't lose money.

My boss goes in to the office even on non-office days.

If I still lived in an apartment - ie, no separate room at the house to use as an office - I'd probably go in most days as well.
>>> they never knew their margins and were never able to validate their models to reality

The fact they knew this and went ahead anyways and took six people to their graves with them is absolutely terrifying.
I’m pretty sure PS5 runs x86 and Vulcan. Both are standardized. That’s why PS5 games can be easily ported to PCs running Intel and Nvidia.

So I’m not buying that going Intel would lose backwards compatibility.
Well this applies to everything then. Why buy the latest AMD or Intel CPU or Nvidia GPU ?
Some people upgrade from iPhone X to 15 this year because it’s cheaper. Some have an old iPhone and just want the latest model to go for 6 or 7 more years.
Even incremental upgrades like this year are welcome. Before there was an S model every other year. This year it’s the « iPhone 15S pro ». Slightly better and more powerful. The other thing is, I think it’s pretty hard to say « well last year model was good enough, we’ll go on a 2 year cycle this time ». It could send the wrong message to investors so they’re trapped in the race maybe ?
oh dont get the idea wrong, they both works with amd and intel

knowing Amazon its not US goverment to force them but Amazon can make the 2 of them outbidding each other in more desperate times
47-year-old Voyager 1 fired up thrusters it hasn't used in decades
Google shares an enormous part of the blame for this. We were on the cusp of a semantic web 13 years ago. But the Ad supported Internet can't persist if the Internet is content. So we have 2024's crapfest.
> Wake me up when a LLM figures out stable fusion or room temperature superconductors.

Man, the goalposts these days.
Flattening what I said to "if you have nothing to hide" is really dismissive.

I believe you have the right to privacy! I believe that searches should have warrants associated to them! The fact that a "drug sniffing dog" was how this package was opened feels like enough to just throw this out!

I do think there is a universe where this happened through a warrant, and that the warrant wasn't given out glibly, and where the seizure probably makes a hell of a lot of sense.

Context-free discussions on this are annoying because at one point the _extremely crucial distinction_ of judicial oversight through a warrant just gets completely lost despite it being _the load-bearing component_ to "not without a warrant"!
Every time I read "stochastic parrot," my always-deterministic human brain surfaces this quote:

> “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

- Oscar Wilde, a great ape with a pen
GPT-4o vs. o1 hands on experience
GPUs can be scaled with more cores and higher bandwidth memory. I assume had Intel won the contract, they would have done so.
Internet is fine and there’s weird fun stuff all over it

It’s the web and social media that sucks
It is now 3k more members.
For PlayStation APUs, it's likely that AMD presents a menu of options and Sony chooses which components they want. For PS5 Pro, the CPU is unchanged from PS5 because Sony doesn't feel the need for anything faster. A newer CPU would take more area. But Sony really wanted better raytracing and AI so they chose RDNA 3.9 or whatever for the GPU. I suspect the cores are all mostly synthesized so they can support any process and Infinity Fabric is compatible enough that you can mix and match new and old cores.
Super helpful for developers like me that have limited fine-tuning knowledge. Thanks for sharing.
Several members of the US Supreme Court have already expressed strong skepticism about the Constitutionality of this practice but other parts of the government are very good at ensuring no case ever arrives there for it to be adjudicated.

There is a parallel situation with the No Fly List, which is clearly unconstitutional in many cases but the Federal government is adroit at making sure no case with standing makes it to the USSC to be adjudicated, lest they lose this particular weapon.
> There's no specific reason why LLMs couldn't be trained to say "Don't know" when they don't know.

Yes there is, it's that we don't know how. We don't have anywhere close to the level of understanding to know when an LLM knows something and when it doesn't.

Training on material that includes "I don't know" will not work. That's not the solution.

If we knew how, we'd be doing it, since that's the #1 user complaint, and the company that fixed it would win.
Americans don't want to live in one of those countries. They don't want to risk having to sit next to one of "those people". It's why they like driving everywhere, and living in gated communities where they can keep out the undesirables.
If there's a $100,000 oscilloscope, then it's there to get used. Specifically, it's there to allow the >$100,000/year engineer to get their work done more quickly. And the engineer is there because the company thinks they're giving >>$100,000/year in value.

Yes, the scope can be taken home. That is both physically possible, and there's plenty of rational employers who would rather have the lab equipment at home with the WFH engineers adding value than in the lab collecting dust. Even if it means some of the equipment needs to be duplicated.

And taking lab equipment home doesn't mean sneaking it out in Jonny Cash's big lunchbox [1]. For some employeers it can be as simple as "hey boss, can keep the logic analyzer at my home office?" while others might have a more formal sign-out process. There are no doubt other employers where the answer is always "no", but in general it's completely possible to take equipment home without stealing it.

The idea of taking expensive things home isn't limited to the tech sector either. Consider trucking - it's common for employee truck drivers to take their $500,000 trucks home.

[1]: https://genius.com/Johnny-cash-one-piece-at-a-time-lyrics
"At some point, safety is just pure waste."

-- Stockton Rush, OceanGate CEO.

The guy sounds like the epitome of the sociopathic CEO. Smartest guy in the room, knows better than all the trained, experienced engineers who urged caution. Too bad his passengers listened to him.
I am in the lucky situation having worked more years in offices than open floor, last time 2018. The doors were only shut before 1995, never after that. I was typically the only one who turned his desk towards the door, so I could chat with people coming in and also show that people can come in. It was so much more productive to work as a developer compared to open space.

Nowadays I go to the office (open space) only during evening hours when at most 2 hackers are there. Working from home probably not productive when you have smaller kids. Maybe good for the kids though.
You join a union, or you join a different company. Or you threaten to, at any rate.

Understand your leverage: job marketplace bargaining power stems from your willingness and ability to do the latter, while structural bargaining power stems from your willingness and ability to strike and/or engage in sabotage.
You can [1].

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/1fh5wez/cant_di...
Don't worry, Oracle will sue anyone who buys it into oblivion, so it won't be a threat for long.
Pending/Arrival of Technician

sorry boss. stuck in traffic on 520/i90/insert your fav bridge

reply 90 min later.
But when you say "the second way" are you counting from zero or from one?
> The IJ does some amazing work. Highly recommend supporting them if their mission resonates with you.

Agreed. IJ (Institute for Justice) [0] and FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression) [1] are my two favorite organizations when it comes to doing the hard work to protect our constitutional rights as Americans!

[0]: https://ij.org

[1]: https://www.thefire.org
Why do people use gzip more often than bzip? There must be some benefit but I don’t really see it, you can split and join two bzipped files (presumably CSV so you can see the extra rows). Bzip seems to compress better than gzip too.
The feds were not part of this - it was state proceedings.
I'm doing my very best not to rant on this topic besides saying that you are exactly correct.
This is true, but taxis in Tokyo are expensive; they're not affordable on a regular basis to most people.
I guess if you are isolated and feeling like you can't make friends, this seems unlikely, but group based activities of all sorts are a great way to make friends. It's not necessarily instant, but once you've been there a bit, if you make the effort, it happens. It's a matter of realizing as adults that a lot of people (not all) like to make new social connections.
Big fan of trains, but obviously the world is not binary. its not one or the other and AVs stand to save a lot of lives sooner than whatever you are proposing would. Even the Dutch and Japanese drive a lot you’ll find out
As a tangent: if you have not ridden in a Waymo you owe it to yourself to take a ride. I was in LA last weekend and took a 60 minute ride from my cousin’s house to a concert and, after flying, or maybe even before, it is the most futuristic thing I have ever experienced. And it feels far safer than any human driver I have been in a car with, including myself.
If you're willing to take lower pay, there are a lot of good options out there.

I took a nearly 50% cut about 5 years ago (a few months before the pandemic) to join a smaller company with a much less stressful environment and a very flexible WFH policy, and I don't regret it at all.
To be clear, what I meant by "this" here was something like... imagine that law enforcement has pretty good "proof" that there are these transactions going on for money laundering purposes. What universe of facts gives law enforcement the right to seize a package en route? Is every package in FedEx equivalent to a diplomatic pouch? Can LE do it if they have testimony to the effect of "money is in this box"? Do they require more proof? Do they need to just grab people when it gets picked up by the guy?

This cash thing is messy enough, but the drug sniffing dogs at the FedEx distribution center is obviously _something_. Even if the dog was consistently finding drugs in packages (and not being an excuse to open a package), is that OK? Is that not? What if LE is X-Ray'ing packages for "safety" reasons, do they get carte blanche to search the package there?

You might be surprised how I'd land on most of these, I think privacy is pretty important and blanket searches are pretty BS! I kinda think drug sniffing dogs are bad!

Just holistically speaking, you'd probably find that "drug sniffing dogs should not be allowed at airports and FedEx shipping centers" would be extremely unpopular and also not an easy point to argue as a consequence of some fundamental constitutional rights. And then the dogs are there, so now the cops have a skeleton key.

Context matters I guess.
(from my peers) the MO for those who want to leave seems to be slacking until PIP/Focus/Pivot (for the payout) while looking for outside opportunities. There are a ton of companies out there that meet your criteria, but you’ll have to do some digging. YMMV
I can't believe I have not had the curiosity to lookup the devs' other apps. Thank you.
Maybe but I never could figure out how to do it and safari did it out of the box with little to no configuration
It generally doesn't matter what evidence you have about the cash on you, it won't stop US law enforcement seizing it from you through Civil Asset Forfeiture.

Bank receipts, specifically don't help.
For most of those (probably all) acquihire deals youd be lucky to get your money back as investor so your theory doesn’t work at all. “Get lucky with a handful of companies” is in fact the entire point of venture
So curious who the anonymous example is
Cash transactions over 10k are also reported to FinCEN via Currency Transaction Reports [0]

> Also, having $50k on you with a bank receipt is generally a non-issue.

You have personal experience? The whole issue of Asset Forfeiture surrounds non-drug-dealing persons regularly having their cash seized under the assumption that they must be drug dealers while skipping the inconvenient step of pressing charges.

"A 2020 study found that the median cash forfeiture in 21 states which track such data was $1,300."[2]

[0] https://www.fincen.gov/sites/default/files/shared/CTRPamphle...

[1] https://www.wunc.org/news/2021-06-15/asset-forfeiture-create...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United...
> a big assumption that natural justice will prevail

Gorsuch and Thomas's concurring opinion in Culley [1] all but tips the Court's hand. (Sotomayor, Kagan and Jackson dissent more strongly.)

[1] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-585_k5fm.pdf page 18
Sounds plausible, but do you have any sources?
Assumption is that the AGI can solve any problem humans can - including learning from the environment if that is what is needed.

But I think you're missing the point of my post. I don't want to devolve this topic into yet another argument centered around "but AI can't be AGI or can't do what humans can do because so and so".
It's reported to the IRS, and also to the Department of the Treasury Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, according to the Form 8300.
X-men reference?
A buddy of mine just turned 50 and loves going to spin class. He's also an avid bike rider, so that might be part of it.
Oh, this is great work! The flOw game finally works!

Archive.org [1] is still using an older version of Ruffle where it is broken, but I found another site [2] using the current Ruffle and it even works on mobile.

[1]https://archive.org/details/flash_flow

[2]http://www.xgenstudios.com/game.php?keyword=flow
Uh, which ones would you like to compare? C++ std regex vs rust’s regex crate?
This is some kind of a bit, right? You can't be seriously demanding that kind of effort from others, when your own contribution was to just link to a list from 1974 as if that list somehow speaks for itself.

Because it doesn't. Your list has no intrinsic value that's making those songs obviously superior to modern ones. So how about you name the 40 great songs on that list, explain why they're great that's some other reason than being on the list. No?
People who don't trust banks don't understand fiat money, fractional reserve banking, and inflationary monetary policy.
Same here. I can do all my family errands when I want and plan around them. The best part, at least with the company's interest, is that I work when I feel most productive. Usually 3 hours in the morning, along with a few hours in the evening, I even often work weekends like this. And guess what? During these programming periods, I'm at my most productive. Force me into an office where I'm forced to synch with the office's schedule, and met with constant noise and interruption from others, and my productivity is maybe half.
> Also feel like we get taxed way more than we should be with many things getting taxed multiple times...

Getting taxed multiple times isn't necessarily bad, it's the overall burden (and deadweight loss!) that matters.

In any case, you could try moving to a lower tax jurisdiction? (And giving up your American passport, if you have any.)
With Racket one can roll their own syntax.
Would a SWE union push for work from home? I don't know how software unions have fared in the wild so far, or even any other type of engineers union in terms of work-from-home.
The online community for bionicle has done a solid job of archiving and even polishing the various content that was released over the years. There's a site that collected all of the flash games [0], and someone stitched together a few versions of the "Biological Chronicle" [1], which is every book, comic, and even transcriptions of two of the flash games that had an actual narrative, woven so the narratives all line up.

[0] https://biomediaproject.com/bmp/
[1] I don't have a link handy to the ebook, I'm also not sure if they had permission to upload all of that content in one file or not
Mostly it's Google's fault.

I sometimes think this is not entirely fair of me -- if it hadn't been Google it would have been someone else? E.g., I'm sure there's a parallel universe where the Internet ended up being dominated by AOL, and it's hard to believe that would have been much better.

But in this universe it was Google.
> which is why patients on respirators are often kept on their stomachs in hospital.

Yeah, since COVID-19, and even then, only for patients who are severely hypoxic (ARDS or severe respiratory failure). That said, it is not universally applied to all ventilated patients, and in many countries it is not even practiced at all.
That's what church does for a lot of folks, I imagine?
A good related book is 'Designing Machine Learning Systems' by Chip Huyen which covers similar topics: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/designing-machine-learn...
Almost certainly there wasn't an OS, but algorithms (the word "software" probably isn't appropriate here) that did numerical calculations to attempt to detect (in theory) patterns of ionospheric disturbances that would (again, in theory) correlate with an ICBM.
"The practice allows law enforcement to confiscate property from people suspected of criminal activity, even if they haven’t been charged with an offense."

Suspected of criminal activity due to "money existing".

It should be a very simple procedure.

I have no issue with the seizure itself. What should come next is the police ask the person or business to explain it. They show an invoice / receipt, and the money is logged and returned promptly.
A recent technique that I’ve been using is to listen to Spotify radio of my own music. Nobody listens to my music, so I end up finding other music that no one listens to - it’s refreshing. I’m sure you can find a friend who has a garage band or who is a bedroom producer.

The thing is, you have to be willing to listen to music you don’t like. This is a fundamental part of digging and any workflow will expose you to music that sucks
How so? details are good
Hardest job I had was a part time job working the cash register. Standing in one spot for hours on end, extremely repetitive, mind numbingly boring when not handling people, it was torture for me. I still get irrationally angry how most supermarkets don't give their workers a seat.
CF forfeiture laws are in theory supposed to be used against contraband and related materials. Nobody* is going to claim a suitcase with 3 bricks of cocaine and $500k whose owner the police are very anxious to locate.

* Nobody with a clue. Petty criminals do sometimes turn up at police stations looking for lost property of this kind and are then surprised to be arrested.
> Now, for as much bullshit as exists in dog alerts, in this case, fedex often goes through about 100k packages an hour in this site, and they have seized 100 of them in the past year.

Such a vanishingly small percentage that it suggests some sort of parallel construction. Surely the dog (and handler) aren't just standing there all year waiting to hit on a package..
> Let’s Encrypt and web 1.0 still work and domains are cheap.

First the newest version of the protocol stops supporting something. Then, over time, most things switch to the new version, and the old version becomes unsupported.

It's a notable change when the new version doesn't support something that the old one does, because that thing is probably going away.

Let's Encrypt solves a lot of this but not all of it. In particular, it makes it harder for people to screw around starting out because you can't even send the link to your mom until you buy a domain and learn how DNS and Let's Encrypt work etc.

> You can still give your site out on big platforms or use a QR code.

The big platforms don't like to encourage their competitors. Links to off-site content are not likely to be promoted by algorithms.

QR codes imply that you already have access to a large existing network of people in meatspace, which has never been true for most people.

> Users of open social networks can directly transfer value now, with KYC at the on and off-ramps.

How does that work? The internet is global but anyone without a first world bank account is stuffed. Even when everyone is in the US they can't send even trivial amounts of money to each other without an incompetent/predatory corporation acting as an intermediary.

Meanwhile the theory also doesn't work, because "KYC at the on and off-ramps" is pretty meaningless for any system popular enough for its internal credits to be a de facto currency. But KYC has never really worked anyway. It has, however, caused a lot of trouble for innocent people who just want to be able to transfer small amounts of money for ordinary purchases without being subject to warrantless mass surveillance and the caprice of infuriating bureaucracies.

These are real problems that deserve to be solved rather than dismissed.
I don't find reddit to be that great most of the time TBH. It's a lot of unvetted, un-sourced verbal excrement for the most part. Maybe I haven't found the subs that are good.
Men, be friends with women. On the whole, they tend to be better at it. If a man can learn to be friends with women he can then form better friendships with men. And be better able to discern which men to bother to pursue friendships with. That was one of my takeaways from this (and also from my actual life).
Omg CFN guard! That was such a load of BS!
My wife's company does this hybrid office bullshit at a fortune 500 and they not only track the days you come in, but they will bring it up in annual reviews if it hits a certain threshold.
But can they detect gold and diamonds?
> Most software still sucks for the average user.

> Every app comes with its own nickel-and-dime subscription fee.

Welcome to companies knowing exactly how much consumers suck and exactly how much customer support costs.

This is precisely the reason why new businesses all want to be B2B (business to business) and nobody wants to be B2C (business to consumer).
No, Amazon is not a wrapper around Shopify and Easypost
They used to be involved in the "chancellor phone", a hypervised system with an open Android OS and a more closed side. It's 10 years ago. I have no idea whether the product still exists and if yes, if it's still done the same way.
Maybe just me, but authors gravitate towards certain formats that fit them. Oscar Wilde did great with Dorian Grey but it was nothing compared to his plays. Imagining J.K. Rowling writing a blog feels wrong. I get Gwern's perspective, I'm not sure if I would read a gwern.net book... but on the flip side Randall Munroe (XKCD) has a couple of great books. So who knows?
Sensory deprivation tanks are also great for this. No distractions or to-do's, just you and your thoughts for an hour.