skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For an $11 billion fraud, he would be sentenced to either life, or hundreds of years in prison

Well, none of the charges has a life sentence available, so that option is not possible. It does look like the statutory maximum for the offenses at issue combined is 280 years, but I haven't bothered to pull out the sentencing guidelines and see if, even, with $11 billion in frauds, that's likely without factors not obvious from the charges.

> and will regularly experience every horror that the US prison system is rumored to have everyday for the rest of his life until he dies.

Well, no, every rumored problem isn't real, and every real problem isn't experienced by every prisoner at all (much less daily.)
The internet and indexing changed the equation.

Before the web, a phonebook was mainly a local thing: you could look somebody up in your area, but you couldn't easily look up somebody across the country. You'd have to dial directory assistance in that other area, and even then, you're only getting a few names that way.

With the web, everything is online and accessible using a simple lookup from a device in your pocket. You can also automate the acquisition and processing of entire phone directories with ease: going through the entire phonebook to annotate profiles on people would have taken weeks with paper, but you can do it in seconds with a Python script.

Indexing and rapid data processing fundamentally changes the character of datasets, both in terms of positive utility and in terms of potential misuses. We still haven't figured that out yet as a society.
LTE makes a lot more sense if you have a decent signal. The cost is lower and speeds are comparable in many areas if you have good hardware.
This doesn't even take into account the damage it does to your body's insulin resistance and blood sugar levels. Alcohol is damaging on a systemic level that most people never consider.
It's not about sanskrit vs english. It's about early (pre-2200, when the author thinks this cognitive change occurs).
Then again, many powerful tools are.
and yet no criminal charges have been brought, WTF?
I don’t think I’ve heard a single person in my life say “home in on”, it’s always been “hone in on”.
Best part is, that “feature” doesn’t exist in windows 11, they rolled that out knowing it would be gone in 6 months. Someone in marketing needed their win.
That'd be a nice option, but limits the use case.
I would argue that most people on HN exclusively export digital goods.
This was adapted from Tim Harharford's podcast
Cautionary Tales eps Wrong Tools Cost Lives

https://timharford.com/2021/05/cautionary-tales-wrong-tools-...

If you have not listened to the series I highly recommend it. His episode "LaLa Land: Galileo’s Warning" is by far one of my favorite pieces of media. In brief it is why redundant tightly coupled fail safes will often lead to cascading failures.

https://timharford.com/2019/11/cautionary-tales-ep-3-lala-la...
> Even if they keep increasing the numbers, they will probably move those new satellites in a much wider net

The only way to make a wider net whilst simultaneously adding satellites would be to raise the altitude of the satellites, which I am fairly certain is not possible for the existing satellites.
Mildly off-topic note, the parent is the author of CloudABI (https://github.com/NuxiNL/cloudlibc), which was (in my opinion) a truly brilliant approach to running untrusted code in a FreeBSD system.
> This guy should not even be allowed on starlink (in the long run) because he already has access to high speed internet.

I don't plan on owning it in the long run—I'm going to be giving the dish to my cousin who's on a farm with slow rural DSL once Starlink is available in her area.

Unfortunately right now Starlink's available in suburban St. Louis but not in most of the rural communities around it :P
If you've got a dev that codes absolutely brilliant bug-free code at a lightning pace - you give them an honorary title bump and a pay bump appropriate to their performance while keeping them in about the same role. Organizations with role based salary caps that are more generous to management than individual contributors are acting in a self-destructive manner.
It does seem weird to me because I think of dragging on to the taskbar creating a shortcut. It isn't necessarily incompatible with dragging onto an existing icon to open but the on/between difference always seemed a bit small for me.
> You’re certainly not going to believe someone if they ever came to you for help

why would you presume this? nowhere in any post in this thread have I ever doubted the truthfulness of the individual allegations. nowhere have I stated anything that in any way implies that I don't believe accusations from anyone, and that I wouldn't believe anyone if they accused anyone else of anything. where did you get this idea?

> by the level of which you’re willing to twist continuous actions as one-offs - “oh I’m sure it was just a temporary mistake”.

when did I say anything remotely like that? you're inventing a strawman and arguing against it.

> Saying it’s a company of 10,000 and that this is a small amount of accusations is really minimizing and that calls into question your motives.

what motives am I supposed to have been pretending to have, and what motives am I supposed to actually have? I said I think the portrayal of an overall culture of systemic, deep-seated misogyny in the workplace at Activision Blizzard is pretty flimsy given the evidence presented thus far, all the while stating that I have no reason to disbelieve individual allegations and I hope that justice is found in court with regards to them.

the huge joke here is that I actually strongly dislike Activision Blizzard as a company, both in general principle, and with regards to the games they make, with regards to my personal taste. I just think the narrative being portrayed here is disingenuous. why are people taking such strong issue with this position, creating a strawman version of what I said and then putting words into his mouth and arguing against it? completely baffling
Back in the day, phone books were pretty damned useful. Of course they no longer are, but arguing that they weren't a "net value add" is absurd.

You could easily opt out of being listed in the phone book, and many people did.
If you want to feel really sad, go install a bootleg copy of 2000/XP on a vm and do some basic computering. Just opening the start menu may drive some of you to tears when you realize what we have lost.
Amazing how starlink reviewers never bother to mention if it is possible to run a publicly available web server - at least over IPv6.
> that they need to disable their VPN/proxy in order to make the purchase.

That's also a non-starter because that defeats the purpose of a VPN.
This was genuinely one of the more intuitive parts of the task bar.

Is it intuitive? I honestly didn't know this was something you could do, and it doesn't seem to work for me. The most I am able to do while dragging something to the taskbar is to pin it to the application that could open it. Other times I just get the same red 'X' as on Windows 11.

Is there a use pattern that I'm just not thinking of?
The reality is that many people in legal weed states consume cannabis via edibles these days. Manufacturing techniques have greatly improved in the past couple of years and they aren't nearly as gross tasting as they used to be, often they have almost no weed taste at all.

Edibles are usually highly opaque in terms of the strains used and tend to contain at least 5mg THC per dose, sometimes 10, and that's if you trust what's on the label. Due to how edibles are metabolized, the THC remains in your system for longer, too.

You no longer need to "smoke a lot" to consume a great deal of THC, a couple of edibles will do the job. A lot of edible fans don't smoke or vape at all.
At this point, I really think they're going to try bring back mask mandates while blaming the unvaccinated for them. It's already back in LA, and I can't see them going away anytime soon. This is despite the fact that millions who took the vaccines were told that they didn't have to worry about severe symptoms even if they caught covid, and therefore wouldn't have to wear masks.
Yes. If you elide/abstract all details away, you can make anything sound hypocritical.

Let's take a food analogy: The Catholic church has the equivalent viewpoint of "Anyone who likes pizza more than hamburgers is wrong and has no place here". My viewpoint is "Binge eating disorders are bad and you should seek professional help if you have that disorder".
I'd say it's also just not fun. For example setting up a product page on Steam and the iOS AppStore is just a royal pain for me, and I would think most developers would feel the same. It's much more fun to code.
Starlink currently wants a 100° view of the sky (pretty broad), and you can actually download the Starlink App on your phone (even without service) and use the obstruction finder to view specifically how much of the sky it needs.

But in my case, that tree is pretty close to the back of my house (and there are 75-100' trees pretty much everywhere on my property).
You don't know that he was looking for hookups. I know that the data for a competitor of scruff showed that at least 1/3 of the people just wanted to find someone to chat with. I still can't see why the assumption here was that he broke his vow of celibacy. If he's gay and closeted, I can see the human need for connection (whether in real life at gay bars or on Grindr) of like kind even if he doesn't participate with an 'out of control libido.' You're snapping to judgement.
> That's mostly an effect of what women study, and motherhood.

Have you seen data from companies showing total comp of each individual? Every study I’ve seen shows discrimination after accounting for differences in education. I’ve known many women in different workplaces that were not being paid equally.
Note that this isn't the first step. In order: identify a problem, talk with people (first with those you think have the problem) to learn more about it: Is it actually a problem? How are people addressing/solving it? What are the pain points? Is it severe enough to warrant a better solution? Would anyone pay for a solution? How much would they pay? How many people would pay for that solution? Can I make the solution? Can I distribute the solution?

If you get a bad answer to any of these, you need to do some thinking and talk with more/different users, and if no change then you probably can't make a business on this (and don't need to continue along the chain until then). Once those are true, then yes, sell to the people who can write a check.
Not mundane at all. I wonder if there are ways of developing more nonverbal thinking abilities, like counting visually.
According to Wikipedia,

> Selfishness is being concerned excessively or exclusively, for oneself or one's own advantage, pleasure, or welfare, regardless of others.

> Selfishness is the opposite of altruism or selflessness; and has also been contrasted (as by C. S. Lewis) with self-centeredness.

How is that not a bad thing?
In Windows 98-ish era I was using an alternative "shells" for Windows UI. First one was "Geoshell" IIRC, after that I used "Blackbox" for more minimalistic look and feel.
Nice to see Microsoft opening a niche for alternative UI implementations again.
There main point following some of there other comment is

equally qualified != equally performant
Could I offer programming services on it?

Or is this like if you had IP to sell (a file or group of files), you could sell it?

It would be interesting to sell FPGA odds and ends people needed. Probably not enough of a market though.
Facebook has no interest in infrastructure / enterprise revenue streams (Facebook for Work notwithstanding). See the history of Asana, Cloudera and Phabricator (and even Dropbox, from an employee/recruiting perspective, kinda).
I agree with what you’re saying. The white blue collar “bawlmer” types are as critical to the culture of the city as our black population. I think the two groups have a nice symbiotic relationship in a way.
Good point, that we've mostly gone backwards in that respect. Sites did used to have source for all the software and hack on it, and detailed docs on the hardware that wasn't self-built.
With an external antenna aimed correctly I'm sure you'd get a much better cell signal. That may be what your neighbor has.

Keep in mind T-Mobile and AT&T are entirely different providers. AT&T coverage may be better where you live.
Neither your ad hominem attacks, nor "peer reviewed", nor the implied credibility of the funding impresses me in the slightest...
You think state or commision funded studies cannot be biased?
Negotiating skills is just recognizing your true value to the business. You need to actually have value (performance) to negotiate that higher salary.
They have emergency approval. All major studies are completed, Clinical Study Reports are submitted with all evidence, Case Report Forms, datasets. It is important but largely a bureaucratic and scientific exercise at this point. These vaccines are safer and more effective, with less side effects, than the bulk of all medicines submitted last year. People have been working around the clock for the last 18 months on these treatments in an attempt to save more lives. If the propagandists cared a whit about humanity they would encourage everybody to vaccinate immediately. It is quite possible that a variant will be created by the unvaccinated that is resistant to the vaccines, one that is perhaps even more deadly, instantly turning the world back to lockdown for another year.
Then don't look at them.
We're not discussing a binary, though. Negotiating skills can't completely untether compensation from qualification/performance, but they absolutely loosen the two. If I am a junior employee who is skilled at negotiating comparing my salary with a senior employee who is not, the delta will be far smaller than if our qualifications were the same but our negotiating skills were reversed.
I am not seeking a particular storyline but rather was addressing the question of whether smartphones have factored into the storylines of modern novels as they have in modern tv shows. Apologies if the question wasn't clear.
Hey there, thank you!

The restriction in our AUP is indeed because payment processors (unfortunately) still frown upon platforms which help facilitate the sale of 'adult content'. Without it, it's unlikely we'll be accepted to e.g. Stripe Connect and/or PayPal for Marketplaces further down the line.
-I'd like a platform where non-tech folks can get honest, reliable help with things like buying crypto and setting up the secure section on a Samsung Galaxy.

-I'd like the ability to buy insurance as needed. Imagine that you are going to a new neighborhood and you are worried about being harmed and you were able to buy short -term catastrophic insurance that lasted for a few days.

-I'd like a platform that listed independent bankers (financing pros etc) who could help you buy businesses, create proposals for M&A without all the crap of LinkedIn, or large projects.

-I'd like a way to contact professionals who could answer questions about products I'm interested in building that wouldn't get them in trouble. Like Codementor but for everything.

Those are just the first four, but I have no idea how/or even whether or not anyone and help with these things. Each platform seems to quickly turn to yuck...overrun with crappy ads and tons of bad actors who don't actually seem all that interested in helping anyone but themselves.
Private business operates under the umbrella of government regulations and if they didn’t you and I would have a much worse life.
Data caught in spreadsheets is kind of an instance of the general siloing of data.

The situation is something of a general problem of a data-driven Society. One group of people want information available with one interface and spends resources only in putting it in a format suitable - to the detriment of others who/want need it. With spreadsheets in particular, naturally you have a data-integrity but that's still an instance of the broader problem.
O, the tyranny of web page animations...
> in the majority of cases a strongly typed language would not allow expressions that accidentally mix up = and ==, as they resolve to different types.

That's not true at all.

Whenever you're intending to compare equality, they're usually going to be the same type already unless you're being really slopping in a scripting language like JavaScript or PHP -- but even then they're usually two numbers, two strings, or two booleans.

The whole problem here is where foo and bar are both integers, or booleans, or whatever you want, and instead of typing "if (foo == bar)" you type "if (foo = bar)".

Strong typing does nothing whatsoever to help in this common situation.
So your information should be public domain until you opt-out? How is it that somebody else should be making money off of my information and I have to do the extra work to opt-out?

That doesn't pass any smell test.
> Prisons are NOT meant to take away your human rights

> The main point of prisons is to temporary take away your freedom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublespeak
It's not clear to me what this data you are linking to means or that it is being correctly interpreted, but I think it is pretty safe to assume that if the vaccines had a 2.37% death rate we would know about it!

162M people in the US alone have been fully vaccinated, with a 2.37% death rate it would have resulted in 3.8M deaths!!

Come on, please use some common sense.
The bandwidth on that connection isn't great. You can't fit 20 (or 40) years worth of experience through the narrow tube of spoken language without massive compression. A single sentence can stand for years and years of trial and error. Or it could stand for nothing but frustration and regret. Young people have no context or wisdom or experience to relate to. So it's kind of impossible.

Likewise it is impossible to communicate what 20 years of adult experiences feels like to someone who is barely an adult; not all years are the same. And then when they get to 40, likewise, communicating another 40 years of life experience to them doesn't work either. Growing up and aging can only be done first hand.

Compound this with the fact that some old people are just dumb and angry. So young people can and should just shrug off some of what old nutters say.
Yes - order of $30B / yr, larger than NASA budget.
Only oldies uses Facebook in 2021
for the amount of money HP flushed on autonomy they could have built a real pub cloud offering. Apothoker is worst CEO ever put in place by the worst Board ever....one shit-show after another...
That is technically true overall, but when it comes to software development and especially gaming they are very much in the minority. So much so that at most gaming companies of 50-100 folks you can count the women working there (outside of the art department) on one hand.
By the way, this is also a much better learning strategy. Switching topics means to recall the information before continuing, which is very much desirable.
Thanks for explaining. Would this work for an ebook that has unique watermarking per customer, or does it have to be the same exact downloadable each time? Other than ebooks, what are other popular product types that you're seeing?
Why one second and 8km? Satellites are not manually maneuvered.

Airplanes are only required to keep 1,000 to 2,000 feet vertical separation. They travel at much slower speed than satellites (550 mph vs. 17,200 mph), but they are also much bigger. They tend to travel in narrow corridors, as opposed to being spread out like satellites.

NASA and SpaceX have started working together to address the collision issues with their fleet:

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-spacex-sign-joint-sp...
> 1. Simplicity; Unlike competitors whose interfaces overwhelm first-time seller of digital products, we decided to keep our interface as minimal/simple as possible.

Is that really the number 1 differentiation point? Because it's common that new services claim to be simpler than competitors - and why shouldn't they be? They have less features at this point, so that would be weird if they were more complicated.

I'd be more curious to know how the service compares to Stripe for instance.
Swedes trying to drive us to maximum music disposability
The ability to read silently being uncommon until recent times makes the idea of the inner dialogue switching on at some point more thinkable, for me. I wonder if there was a point where people spoke to themselves out loud to reason verbally.
People, to the great benefit of companies, tend to actually negotiate up front and then not want to think about money as long as they consider it “enough” for their lifestyle, at least not wanting to revisit it on a weekly or monthly basis.

It allows people to fool themselves that they do what they do for something other than money, and or they’re afraid of any conflict in the workplace (and thereby instability).
If you get 250Mb from AT&T why bother with the others?
If you're writing to a corporate office, that's different. But the people at an individual store have no real control and can only forward your objections up the line.
Yes I understand but even if he isn't necessarily being paid 266,666 apples, he has access to that much wealth. I mean, Bezos is able to start his own space expedition which I don't think many people can do. While that's happening, we have people who are doing essential work getting paid close to minimum wage. Their net worth is probably some insignificant amount. These essential workers probably won't be able even own a home until well later into their life, if ever.

Maybe I'm just too immature and ignorant but the fact that Bezos can start his own space expedition while Amazon workers have to pee into bottles and get paid $15 per hour just doesn't seem fair. And paying people the minimum amount simply because they are replaceable makes it seem like people are treated as if they were resources. Maybe in terms of logistics people can be seen as resources, but my opinion is that people and their lives are not resources. I don't think people go to work and spend a good chunk of their life working just to be a resource for someone else to take advantage of.
Oh, it's totally fair to criticize the standard. Those clowns lock their deliberation and standard definitions behind huge paywalls.

The best way to learn the SQL standard is to read the Postgres docs since they clearly call out non-compliances - there is no other easy to access and clear explanation of the SQL standard.
https://buildyourfuture.withgoogle.com/programs/step/

> The internship program has a focus of providing development opportunities to students from groups historically underrepresented in tech, through technical training and professional development.

At least they're openly admitting to it. Blizzard is also bragging about how 43% of their new interns are women, which way more than the number of women cs grads. This isn't whataboutism because you can't complain about pay disparity if the groups don't start on a level playing field.

https://activisionblizzard.com/newsroom/2021/06/press-a-for-...
>> Other than this particular edge case it's not obvious to me why bitwise operators shouldn't be applicable to boolean values.

That is a really good question. At some point they decided that true=1 and false=0 but I'm not sure how deep that goes. In particular what does ! actually do in this context?
It's still a big deal and the selfish and rude idea that it wouldn't be costs businesses a lot of money and it makes relationships a lot less pleasant. People aren't rude about time (other people's time) because we have cellphones. It started before that. But they did make it worse!
Only 2.3% of Twitter users had any MFA method enabled from July to December 2020
This is a typo of missing an ampersand. If the author were writing Ada, it would have been a typo of missing a “then”. How is it different?