skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I look forward to your support of US fines on the German automobile industry and Airbus as well.

Any half wit judge should be able to bless those judgements if we’re using the standard in the court ruling we’re commenting on.

It’s a almost as though you think the issue here is about some actual abuse as opposed to the logical loops the judgement is diving through to push through those findings.
The biggest thing is that people expect lawyers to be deep experts, and for the "justice" system to be just.

I've found that many lawyers have limited knowledge on the deep details or just can't spend the time to explore those defenses or novel defenses. They pretty much operate on a pattern of their past cases. For example, a vaccine injury lawyer doesn't want to look into the statistics of how common a rare injury when preceeded by a vaccine vs not. In a civil court where decisions are supposed to be based on "more likely than not" standard, showing the likelihood can make a huge impact. Or in another case the lawyer I talked to missed a couple of issues with police/prosecutor conduct which violated the rules of procedure, and missed a precedential ruling that would have been applicable to the case.

Client expectations can also be high regarding fairness in court (assuming litigation is potentially involved). Going back to the "more likely than not" standard, protection from abuses and red flag laws are abused. This is trivial to prove out statistically as the number of orders which are later reversed or not extended are grater than 51%, and that the overwhelming majority of the subjects they are served against have no history of abuse, evidence of abuse, nor did they abuse the person during or after the order (it's just a piece of paper afterall). Another example is when our rights were violated the lawyer we talked to said it was a violation but there's not a good case because the judges only care if there was significant financial or physical injury involved.

So doing things to manage client expectations could be good.

I haven't had many experiences with lawyers, thank God. But the ones I had have been mediocre. The whole system and experience has been a major let down from the stuff you're taught in school/society about justice, integrity, etc.
If something perturbs a Starlink orbit, it might raise apogee but would also lower perigee, which means it would fall out of the sky even faster.
You come across quite poorly in this exchange.
Maybe there should be a carbon tax on an app's typical resource usage once they have more than a million users.

Microsoft, for example, has how many hundreds of millions of Teams users? If anybody has the knowledge and resources to build an efficient application, it's Microsoft. But instead, to save pennies per user, they build with Electron and waste a huge amount of energy.
Current state of discuss.python.org
Wasn't grandma using cane sugar?
"I set up a fence gate to stop thieves, it was really expensive, but I think it's worth it"

"but you have no fence"

"that's not relevant to the discussion"

Critic comments just get slapped with off-topic flag.

Definitely a good forum to redirect further discussion.

Examples:

https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/106662?#comment-953398

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/578670185007808512/10...
Russia has done the same demonstration last year [1]. And yet they have not destroyed starlink, even though SpaceX donated many dishes to Ukraine[2].

So there still seems to be some restraint around the concept of shooting down foreign satellites. I guess it's a "mutual assured destruction" type situation: once you shoot down a satellite, you'd better be prepared to lose your own.

[1] https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_188780.htm

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/22/elon-musk-spacex-thousands-o...
saturated fats are associated with increasing LDL cholesterol. Here's another paper on it... https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9101427/

From the paper... "Thus, an important mechanism by which reductions in dietary saturated fatty acids decrease LDL-cholesterol in humans..."

unsaturated (e.g., polyunsaturated) fats do not have the same association.

There are now many studies and papers linking saturated fat to increased LDL cholesterol. This is why groups, like the American Heart Association, recommend low intake of saturated fats (20 grams per day or less).
Translucent Fractal Tteok
I like "then why are you wearing clothes?"
Naturally, the top reply under that is the exact same scam-spam in the screenshot.
Who does? I think there's a [citation needed] for this claim.
I wholeheartedly agreed. Ironically, I already feel that Discord is a lot less private than IRC used to be. In a way, history not being accessible to those not currently in a channel is also a feature.
Most of the things they smuggle probably aren't intended to go on your roof where all the neighbors can see, though.
Searchable? Yes. Indexable? Absolutely not.

Even public servers are only public to human accounts and only server admins are allowed to invite bots. If you try to scrape Discord with a human account you will be banned.
Ask HN: Contract work for engineer / scientific computing
Hi HN,

Longtime lurker / commenter, first time poster. Anyways I'm wondering if there is any interest / market for a contractor to write MATLAB, FORTRAN, run simulations, plot data (i.e. engineer)? My background is in petroleum (reservoir, hydrology) engineering and I ran servers, wrote MATLAB, Mathematica, wrote papers & documentation, ran simulators, etc.. Long story short, I did consulting / contract work for a few years and the industry has changed and people are getting pushed out. I don't really have interest in furthering my oil / gas career, but I have 10 years of experience as an "engineer" and would like to profit from it. I'm currently doing some applied research projects and wrenching on aircraft.

Wondering if there is any contract work out there? I enjoy my work with aircraft but would be interested in 20-30 hours a week to supplement my work at a higher billable rate.

Hope to hear from the community.
> Yes, the average time of cloning once is 30us, but if you queue up two of them at once, how long does that take?

I'm working on a new architecture for this right now that should make this case work well.
> Or if there are new continents I'm not aware of.

Antarctica. Thank you for this.
In case you missed this amazing video last week

https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/x7oowo/starlink_sate...
Human trafficking’s newest abuse: Forcing victims into cyberscamming
Analogous to the agile manifesto. You only need 3 guys to develop an enterprise-class application.
I guess you have to compare it to the salary of the donors who feel compelled by these heart-wrenching fundraising messages to donate. Here is a senior with $18 to his name promising to donate as soon as his social security check arrives:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fundraising/Archive_6#S...

The Wikimedia Foundation has also just been fundraising in India and South Africa, again asking people there to donate so Wikipedia stays online for them, ad-free, subscription-free and independent.

None of these executives have anything do with the Wikipedia content. All of that is written by unpaid volunteers in their spare time. When Wikipedia first became a top-10 website, the Wikimedia Foundation had less than a dozen staff, and annual expenses of $2 million. I am not saying lets go back to that; I'm only saying this to make the point that the success of Wikipedia was not dependent on highly paid executives. It happened when there weren't any. The main value of the site comes from the volunteers.
Because you're extrapolating a ton from a somewhat ambiguous statement. All they are saying is that they are trying to make sure their decisions don't disproportionately negatively effect marginalized communities. This doesn't mean racist towards whites or that they will exclusively fire white people.

My read (as a white guy who is minority in religion) was: "great, this company has some defenses to make sure they are being fair to everyone, especially groups of people who don't typically get a fair shake". And that's fine by me. Not that they are firing white people. But that they are making sure they're not disproportionately firing black people or women or any other group that might be marginalized in the tech industry.
How did this work on actual DVD players? Was it programmed to never hit a corner or was that a side effect of how it was implemented?
That watches like live-action reenactment of an OG Invader Zim scene.
I wish they broke down and let people have the /ignore feature that they've been crying out for, instead of just having to rely on the very clumsy and comparatively loud blocking feature.
Scrollback is actually a permission that you can disable; but it's on by default and I've never seen someone turn it off.
And then when Discord eventually folds all of this info will be lost, as it's not even easily archivable.
This is an extremely misleading take.

Wikipedia had a really good year in 20-21, their most recent financial report.

They took in $162 million, against an $111 million operating budget, and came out of the year with $240 million in assets.[1]

So they had about half a year's surplus, and wound up with ~2 years worth of savings. And yes, that's a simplification, a good chunk of those assets are necessary to continue operating and cannot be liquefied to cover operating expenses.

In 19-20, they took in $120 million against a $111 million operating budget.[2]

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/1/1e/Wikim...

[2]https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/annualreport/2020-annu...

So, yes, Wikipedia is doing well - as we should hope they would be. But no, they are not rolling in it, and yes they do depend on our continued support to continue doing well.

Edit: The article linked in the tweet asks valid questions and puts the stats in better context, but the twitter thread presents the numbers in a way that is very, frustratingly, misleading.
Why One Harvard Astronomer Believes This Asteroid Is an Alien Ship
I'm not immediately against Twilio's actions here (though the messaging is pretty bad), but not one of these examples strikes me as a bad thing beyond layoffs being bad in general.

Deciding whether or not to close an entire office should probably not take into account the racial makeup of that office. You either have the funds to keep it open if you don't, because if you now keep the office you have all these other expenses and end up having to lay off even more people.

If someone doesn't meet the bar to survive a layoff saying "oh but they help us hire people with green skin, keep them on!" is pretty blatantly saying "you're not good enough to do your job, but you're a good enough token to keep your job." It's offensive and discriminatory.

Recently hired, early-career/less-skilled, and QA/test are always let go first before mid-career and seniors who aren't at the top of their pay band. If you're at the point of double-digit percentage layoffs, the testing group is a pretty attractive target.

I think the issue I have is that I have no problem whatsoever with examining your hiring (and firing) practices to try to eliminate implicit or unintentional biases against any group - disadvantaged, underrepresented, or not. What I have a problem with is saying "here is a completely legitimate, bias-free business decision that is in the best interest of the company (e.g. closing the Atlanta office for cost savings). But it hurts this minority group, so we're not going to do it, which puts the business on less solid ground and has a larger net negative impact."

If bias results in you disproportionately impacting one group over another, you should fix it. If business does, it's more racist to try to "fix" it by taking everyone's demographics into account.
Would love to know how many of those would fund b-corps which are based on OSS
redgifs dot com

They're optimized for short form, continuously scrolling, mini videos. They don't do the recommendation algorithm though, at least not for free users.
I regret ever supporting Discord with Nitro subscription. At the time it seemed user-funded model would make them less dependent on external money. That simply didn't turn out to be the the case. They are obviously yet another wannabe big tech company based in California.

Their privacy policy (and practices) is awful. They routinely suspend inconvenient servers without giving it a second thought. They've used gaming as a ticket to fame, but then scrubbed every mention of games from their UX after receiving $100M from a VC company.

I've stopped using Discord for most purposes. For group chats I use Wire, which admittedly has much shittier UI, but it's free for small groups and E2E encrypts all conversations.
Ask HN: How do I learn deep learning so that I can do research?
As a decent programmer how do I get into machine learning and deep learning? How do I learn the field inside out? I want to build up to the capability to invent new things in deep learning.

What do I need to learn from the practical side of things as well as from the theoretical side?

Where do I learn them? Which books or courses?
Exactly. I started out aiming for performance, and quickly realized that the benefits to correctness were even higher.
Show HN: Hacker News by Dalle
I literally type the headline into DALLE and pick the best image. Welcome to the future of news. Enjoy!
Added sugar and saturated fats are both bad.
Exactly. A great number of women paid for college by stripping.

This is one of those “…but on the Internet” stories.
In some cases the young women involved are exploiting guys who are messed up. It's legal, but I don't think it's moral.

"But David worked the night shift at a car manufacturing plant, and he was always broke. He could only pay the girls on Fridays when he got his paycheck. Despite this, he consistently spent quite a bit of money for Lainey to send feet pics (only the bottom of the feet!), and — crucially — to tell him he was a loser, his dick was small, and “send me money.” The mismatch between his income and his spending worried the girls enough that they considered intervening, but ultimately decided there was not much they could do to help."
In my experience, yes, essentially all self-reporting. They might do something like automatically conflict your email address domain (*.mit.edu), which is fun when random unrelated people sign up with gmail addresses.
Satellite terminals can become targets as soon as they turn on their uplink transmitter (and possibly even in receive-only mode unless their IF oscillator is perfectly shielded, which it probably isn't). This is why Musk tweeted to Ukrainian users "Turn on Starlink only when needed and place antenna as far away from people as possible." [0]

[0] https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-is-using-elon-musks-starlink-f...
The thing these Treasury department types don't really want to admit is that Tether has done more for dollarization than just about any branch of government in the past 20 years.
Something I've only read about... Earlier BMW motorcycles with shaft drive were infamous for their "Gummikuh" ("rubber cow") behavior, rising strongly in the rear when accelerating. The shaft drive was later modified to reduce that.
> you're focused on their words instead of their meaning.

If I were focused on that meaning, I'd call talking about whether they're doing right or wrong things completely unresponsive. We're talking about privacy and protection, not their personal assessments of the merit of their private lives.

Instead, I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt and remind them that the people who are dangerous to them may not share their standards or ethics.
Or "describe all your past sexual encounters". Granted, some might be ok with it, but most won't feel comfortable.
If someone can use it on all 7 continents, I'd say that it's available to use on all 7 continents. If you can't use it on all 7, I suggest you keep offering more money until you can.
Please don't take HN threads on generic flamewar tangents. It's against the site guidelines and your comment was a big step in that direction.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32838754.
Black is a high power state for LCDs.
Dwarf Fortress Steam Edition Demo [video]
It’s unbelievable that this is legal in California of all places.
The trick is aiming the lasers accurately enough, but that's merely a challenging engineering problem. With their experience and track record, there's no reason to think SpaceX can't/haven't managed it.

With Elon Musk companies you need to be wary of claimed intentions and future plans, because exaggerations and lies abound in those domains. Don't hold your breath for FSD or Mars colonies. But when SpaceX claims they've already accomplished something, they're almost certainly telling the truth about it.
lol I'm a principal engineer now and previously and EM with tons of hiring experience
I was skeptical that 200F water would not cause almost immediate damage.

Turns out this challenge involves a 200F sauna, so 200F air, not water.
GoPro HERO11
I see it as one of those enormously difficult and yet practical things, like photolithography. The human sweat to produce this system is surely measured in decades, if not centuries depending on whose effort we want to count.
Why do rubber and plastic become sticky after not being used for a few months?
/record scratch/

First, why is this on HN?

And second, WTF?!?!?
Looks incredibly good
That's where the anonymity comes in. Why the hell would you use any personally identifiable info? Just use mjr69420.

It's this ability to find random comments on obscure stuff that really made me love the Internet.

Nowadays, the social media stuff, and frankly, the influx of idiots, has turned into garbage. Their thoughts should still be archived and searchable though.
Third. I’m not even tech side and this stopped short just when it was getting interesting. The global cumulative IQ is melting :(
The bigger threat to Wikipedia is people who want to corrupt its information content. People wanting to get their treasure chest is not an existential threat. The existing employees and collaborators are more likely to get corrupted by nefarious actors if they don't have independent revenue sources.
Right—but, considering that porn sites famously have tons of trouble with traditional payment processors, if crypto were both practically workable for normal people as a payment method, and actually good for that, in terms of having significant advantages over their halfway-adversarial traditional payment partners, it should be dominating the industry.

I can't believe I'd never made that connection, but it's dead on. If crypto can't even take over porn payments, which are practically an ideal case for the technology, it's not taking over anything else meaningful, either. Now that it's been pointed out, it seems obvious.

( note to self: keep an eye out for headlines re: Mindgeek or similar creating a crypto currency, and invest in it pronto if that happens, because it'll mean they found a way to make it broadly useful )
And who decides what the right times and places are?
That’s because they are considered luxury items. You can buy cheap android phones for next to nothing. But agree that gov’s are being short sighted and should strategically reduce taxes on certain items as an investment in education/workforce.
https://sonm.com/
Something is wrong about this post. If you have Google Timeline turned on (I do), you get the following:

> Rene, here's your new Timeline update
You're receiving this monthly email because you turned on Location History, a Google Account-level setting that saves where you go in your private Timeline.
Location History data also helps give you personalized information on Google, including better restaurant recommendations, and suggestions for a faster commute. You can view, edit, and delete this data anytime in Timeline.

Personally, I have it turned on because I like looking at where I was etc. I have an iPhone and I still have it turned on. There's nothing surreptitious about it. It's quite open and sends you a monthly email if you turned on Location History (though I've forgotten if that's opt-in)
Do you have evidence for this theory?

Researchers link high LDL cholesterol to things like saturated fat and dietary cholesterol. Arteriosclerosis has been linked to LDL cholesterol, too. Dietitians, doctors, and health programs have done diet altering programs with people to lower the intake of these and see LDL cholesterol drop.

Numerous papers are linked here and can be found in search.

Do you have evidence for your view? Papers on it?

Update: Note, I'm not suggesting high fructose is good. We digest fructose differently when it's by itself compared to when it's part of the fruit/fiber it comes from. Eating fructose in fruit with all the parts is healthy.
Yes. And eggs are the highest increase on that list, at 38%—still a far cry from 100%. Comparatively, fresh fruits are down 0.8%, and fresh veggies up only 0.8%.
Speculating about what the "real economy" will look like in 400 years is as meaningless as asking what the most valuable website was 400 years ago (or 4 million years ago, if we're assuming progress is exponential).
This was all a helpful/interesting discussion!
What I hate more is more ppl are using discord as default support. IT moves to quick, and repeat questions and answers needs bot. It's easier for people to piss in the well because chat is so fleeting, can easily take conversations out of context with screenshots.

I really miss the old school PHPBB forums which were "slower" and that was good for support from the vendor's point of view. Very few cases require real time staff chatting and available all the time. It seems to invite more trouble than its worth.
Thanks for providing some scientific literacy to my argument. The western diet is designed around eating fatty foods wrapped around some innately-inflammatory bread product. If I was trying to give myself arterial plaque I would eat something that causes inflammation (yeast) and at the same time eat lots of fat. It boggles my mind how researches have failed to synthesize that yeast is the cause of so much disease.
China does.

The probably is there for a reason though, the exact extent of their capabilities is unclear.

Here's a citation: https://thediplomat.com/2022/06/chinas-directed-energy-weapo...
"NTFS really isn't that bad" -- https://web.archive.org/web/https://lca2020.linux.org.au/sch...
Cynical me is surprised the "blue checkmark = credibility" thing is starting to crumble. (Actual me can't help smile a bit.)

However, I don't know what they can do here. They set up the system where the users respond to blue checkmarks positively. Adding another layer of blue checkmark is confusing and silly, but having it be gamed is also not good.