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Readit Newswackycat commented on TODOs aren't for doing sophiebits.com/2025/07/21... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
wackycat commented on Ask HN: 19yr old child suffering from internet gaming disorder? Any suggestions? · Posted by u/throwawayigd
> Why do you know their grades? As a reference point, my parents never had cause to know my grades in college.
A lot of parents contribute financial support to their college students and therefore feel they have a vested interest in knowing their childrens' grades.
You would think part of the willingness to contribute financial support would stem from trust. I was fortunate enough to have my parent's financial support and they never asked about my grades.
The legal theory is that asset forfeiture actions are filed against the assets, not the owners, so the owners civil liberties are not violated.
The history of civil forfeiture actually dates back to the British, with the British Navigation Acts generally recognized as the first such law. It spread to the U.S. colonies through "writs of assistance" and was part of the original legislation passed by the First Congress (to enforce taxes and customs duties). It was limited to that until Prohibition, when it was expanded to target bootleggers. After that success, it was expanded to target drug dealers generally and has since been used on a broad basis by law enforcement agencies without discretion.
There is still due process: the asset is accused of being used in furtherance of a crime, or the result of a crime, and the asset is required to prove that it was not. However, because this is a civil action, the burden of proof is simply "more likely than not."
Note that some states are pushing back against prosecutors' use of civil forfeitures where the defendants have not been convicted or even charged with a crime. In California, the Bar Association is reviewing proposals to sanction prosecutors for pursuing civil forfeiture in such situations (though, full disclosure: they've been reviewing these proposals for almost a decade...).
Thanks for this explanation! I'm fascinated by odd legal complexities like this so I really appreciate the concise explanation and context!
Can someone with legal expertise or knowledge on this topic explain to me in simple terms how on earth asset forfeiture without conviction can exist in a country that claims to have due process? How has it been legally justified?
I have limited experience with CUDA but will this help solve the CUDA/CUDNN dependency version nightmare that comes with running various ML libraries like tensorflow or onnx?
wackycat commented on · Posted by u/paulcarroty
"There is a better way to handle this and that’s to use invitations sent by users. You can only connect to someone who invites you. There is zero spam and no need to validate email or phones, since you send your invitation to the email or phone number you personally know."
This does not seem like a robust solution. Also if you think of social networks as a network graph, then this seriously limits reach as you heavily rely on key folks who are a part of multiple networks of friends to invite those friends, etc which makes it really hard to scale. Any workaround to that problem, will inevitably introduce access for scammers.
Im aware of several AI assistance tools and using LLMs to generate (hopefully) runnable code but has anyone used the available tools to significant impact? I mean can I delegate a sprint ticket to an AI yet? I can see us getting there. A suitably detailed feature ticket isn't much more than a prompt. The ticket would need to get down to a code level in specification of what needed to be done. Its possible on paper sure.
Fun question: AI generates some code and its deployed to production. Theres a bug found in the logs and a dev sits down to analyze the fix. Does the dev correct the prompt that generated the code and commit that prompt, or does the dev make a code fix and commit that?
| A suitably detailed feature ticket isn't much more than a prompt. The ticket would need to get down to a code level in specification of what needed to be done.
This is the part I think folks underestimate when saying that "Coding as a career might be over". Gen AI can write decent code, but constructing software from code, and coming up with implementation ideas and turning those into tickets still feels far away at least from my experience using ChatGPT and CoPilot. Also those systems were trained on code but I don't know that they have the best idea of quality of the code they were trained on.
wackycat commented on Strangely Curved Shapes Break 50-Year-Old Geometry Conjecture quantamagazine.org/strang... · Posted by u/pseudolus
Higher dimensions in general?
An n-dimensional space is just a collection of points, each defined uniquely by a set of n-numbers. The semantic meaning of those numbers doesn't really matter. It might be like actual physical space, but it could just as well be something like "time" and "the price of big macs". We have a bunch of mathematical operations that work well on 2 or 3 dimensional space that correlate nicely with our physical intuitions of 'curvature' and 'holes', and that still work perfectly well in more generalized forms in higher dimensions.
I'm not really sure it's that useful to try and visualize what it means on higher dimensions, to be honest.
It's not perfect but to get an idea of adding one more dimension on top of the three dimensions we can visualize is thinking of color as the 4th dimension. There's a game called 4D Maze created by a topolgist that's availble in iphone app store. The visualization is 3d but if you can imagine the colors taking up the same space (instead of being right next to each other in 3d space), it kinda works. At least, it's the closest I've ever come to feeling like I could visualize or understand an additional dimension.
Did you happen to have a source? Not that I think this is at all unlikely, just curious about it!
I unfortunately couldn't find the great article that first clued me into this connection but this article from 2023 details some of his (more specifically MSD, his capital investing company) investment into office real estate - https://therealdeal.com/magazine/national-april-2023/dell-di... . One happens to be an office to residential conversion but many of the others mentioned are staying as offices.
Funny how Dell supported remote work, until Michael Dell's family investment LLC started more heavily investing in office real estate.