skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No, can you cite a precedent for someone being ordered to pay almost a billion dollars for saying a mean thing on a blog.

You're obsessing with the fact that the total of the individual damage awards is so high. But under the law, if you defame a lot of people, they each get their own individual damage awards; they don't have to share some abstract or artificial dollar amount between them.

So you want examples of high-dollar online defamation awards? LMGTFY: A Nevada guy won a $38 million jury verdict [0]. Three New Hampshire businessmen won a jury verdict of $274 million for defamatory billboards accusing them of being crooks [1]. A South Carolina mayor won a $50 million jury verdict against someone who sent defamatory emails [2]. I haven't looked to see whether these all stood up on appeal; feel free to do your own research.

[0] https://www.robertdmitchell.com/internet-defamation

[1] https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2017-09-29/jury-awards-record-b...

[2] https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/south-carolina/artic...
> when GH demanded a separate license for everything I had

Can you elaborate on this? Do you mean explicitly demanded, or do you just mean the way they asserted that licenses didn't matter for Copilot?
>People need to stop pretending aging isn't a tragedy just because it's our natural state. We should be as bold with treatments for it as we are with treatments for other fatal diseases.

We don't encourage people to experiment with self medicating themselves for cancer and multiple sclerosis, because it's dangerous and most people have no idea what they're doing. It's pretty much the same thing here. I know it'll happen either way, but I wouldn't recommend it to the average person.
WSB literally lost to a goldfish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USKD3vPD6ZA&t=13s
These are paid products/services.

Interestingly you can get access also as small business. Just purchase the Microsoft 365 E5 license. Price is something like 50-70€/month, 12M subscription. This can be convenient, if you have requirements to use this kind of tools from your customers.

And they actually log a lot of stuff. When enabled you can see (on cloud) pretty detailed information on what has happened to workstation.
The government pensions sink hole was investing the cash with insiders who lost and stole it all, so it became a constant drain to pay out. They put a commitment to fund pensions in the constitution because the retirees who worked for bad salaries in exchange for these pensions deserve not to have to continue to fight for them.

I would ask you to research John Filan for more details, but you'll find very little because this kind of history gets erased and substituted for angry rants about some appointee retiring at 45 on 3x his salary, to his own consulting company whose only client is the state, or a lobbying firm. As a reaction to those rants, it's retired teachers, DMV clerks, and garbagemen that get shit on.

edit: this is absurdly detailed, although it glosses over a lot of stuff that Crain's ideologically approves of https://www.chicagobusiness.com/static/section/pensions.html
Preventing your ISP from spying on you.
I don't agree with the premise of that hypothetical. Nuclear blackmail is only an effective strategy if it seems credible i.e. if the blackmailer is really in a desperate situation. If putin is faced with a situation where he would lose control if he doesn't use nukes (which we are not anywhere close to being) then by definition he probably doesn't want to be in a situation where blackmail would be effective.

There just isn't a lot of incentive for an autocratic ruler to destabilize his regime and crash his country's economy to grab a piece of territory at a massive price that the world will never recognize. Putin wanted to annex six eastern provinces of ukraine and create a client state in central Ukraine; not be in a position where he needs to threaten to lob nuclear weapons. Putin was able to grab Crimea precisely because there was no military resistance not because he was able to create a fait accompli that he was able to blackmail the world into accepting. Yet the sanctions imposed after Crimea was annexed dramatically weakened the civilian economy and putin's military buildup.

To be clear, I don't think Ukraine should negotiate or be forced to negotiate but that isn't because I believe Putin would not be deterred in the future.
The length of the burst tells us the maximum size of the event. Imagine the event takes place instantly at the source, and that the source has some size. If we observe the event over two minutes, then the event size was two light-minutes.

In reality, these aren't completely instantaneous events. But any event duration at its source is going to decrease the event size. Take the extreme case: the event actually took place at its source over the course of two minutes. And we observed it over two minutes. We would have to conclude that the event had zero size.

Of course, the reality is that we have no idea how long the event took place at its source. All we know is that we observed it over two minutes. But that's enough information to conclude that the event we're seeing certainly occurred within a two light-minute sphere. If it had occurred over a larger sphere, we would have observed it over a longer period of time because of the time light takes to traverse the length of the source.
> That's exactly how I always assumed incognito mode worked.

All that incognito mode does is delete those session cookies when you close that tab or window.[1] If you want to avoid being tracked, turn off cookies altogether (or use a plugin that blocks trackers), turn off JavaScript (or use a noscript plugin), and use a VPN.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_browsing
Treating logged-in users differently for merely reading is,
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They did, but you're not aware of the earliest parts of this timeline (and it seems like most people aren't, so it makes me really happy people are finally listening):

Pfizer's original press release [0] used both "SARS-CoV-2" and "COVID-19", distinguishing between the virus and the disease. The effectiveness they gave was about preventing illness, and they made no claims at all about infection/transmission.

This was fairly well known for a month or two, with many articles bringing up that infection/transmission was an unknown [1][2][3]. It was only a month or two into 2021 that the narrative shifted sharply and this original information was memory-holed remarkably hard. The politicians and media were the ones claiming it would stop infection/transmission, but they started that without any new data.

They could have had ulterior motives, they could have just been parroting others, or it could have just been plain stupidity - with how often the terms "SARS-CoV-2" and "COVID-19" are used interchangeably, it's hard to rule out that they just didn't understand the press release.

[0] https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...

[1] https://www.washington.edu/news/2020/12/02/covid-19-vaccines...

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/who-says-no-evidence-coronav...

[3] https://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/center-news/2020/12/covid-...
Firebase has been a huge influence but with the rise of serverless there are a new generation of platforms people should be checking out instead, such as Convex, Supabase, etc.

Convex in particular is designed far more for end-to-end consistency rather than just a database to talk to:
https://docs.convex.dev/understanding/convex-vs-firebase
It was an optimization when RAM was too expensive to keep a full working set live.
I don’t know of any groups that do this in a sustainable way. The mindset for optimization seems to be unaccepting of limitations. Trying to get the most out of something requires trade offs elsewhere.

It’s also been an observation of mine that most people have too much reserve capacity to notice they are running down until it is too late.

For myself, I’m bipolar. I have no reserve capacity. Every day requires finding the balance between being productive and not burning out. As a result, I am keenly aware I need significantly more downtime than I want to allocate.

I suspect this is the also the case for neurotypical people. Downtime feels like a waste to a person trying to maximize their life.

The way I’ve chosen to optimize my productive is to not focus on optimizing it. Instead, I try to enjoy life and stay conscious of small changes I can make. I know every decision is a choice that changes who I will become. But know I don’t need to make the right decision every time. The trend just needs to be in the right direction. :)
I'm not sure that's true. You're describing just about every SaaS out there. (Yes, there's some per customer cost of resources and sales/support but in general relatively little compared to initial and ongoing development.) What is true however is that you need to be able to prevent people from acquiring your product/service for that very low or zero marginal cost.
AFAICT that was settled in 2020 when Pritzker paid the extra taxes. I think if there were any charges they would have been announced by now. But it does seem Pritzker has some connections to Madigan (https://patch.com/illinois/chicago/pritzkers-7m-connection-m...), which might sink his re-election campaign. But so far he's doing well in the polls.
From the Aubrey de Grey Wikipedia entry [1]

> Both women describe situations in which de Grey, {...} explicitly spoke with them about sex. According to Halioua’s account, he even told her that it was her responsibility to sleep with SENS donors to encourage financial contributions. Deming was only 17 when, she alleges, de Grey told her he wanted to speak with her about his “adventurous love life.”

What might be even worse is the response by SENS:

> In March 2022, the SENS Research Foundation released a statement regarding de Grey's employment affirming that while his actions "did substantiate instances of poor judgment and boundary-crossing behaviors, Dr. de Grey is not a sexual predator."

I’m also the father of a daughter and this makes my blood boil.

Relating this back to the topic of life extension technology, one effect is that evil people will live longer. I’d wager that life extension technology would create an evolutionary advantage for evil people because they are more prone to power-seeking ideologies and therefore more likely to adopt the technology than conventionally morally good people, who would be more at peace with death.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_de_Grey
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They are - they added additional charges to the former lawmaker (Madigan) who took the bribes[0]. He was already criminally charged for similar bribery by the local power company (ComEd). Makes me wonder if Comcast or Nicor will be next.

I almost feel sorry for AT&T here. It's hard to overstate just how powerful Mike Madigan was in Illinois politics (and he's still very influential). He was undoubtedly more powerful than the governor. His corruption was legendary and well known by everyone, yet hardly anyone seemed to care and people voted for him anyway. He acted like a mob boss in the legislature, ensuring that all his colleagues would continue to vote him into the Speaker position year after year. Any Democrats who voted against him as speaker were very publicly punished, since he controlled most of the Democratic party money in the state. In a state that almost always has a Democratic supermajority, there were basically zero checks to his power. Companies like AT&T may have been in a bad situation of having no choice but to play ball with him just to be able to function in the state. Everyone in Illinois knew that you didn't say no to Mike Madigan.

[0] https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/10/14/23404193/mike-madiga...
It's the same way HN does it in this case, feels fine to me.
Bloomberg's strength is the breadth of clean data available and the analytics tools that operate on that data. The clean part is important. I've worked on projects using data purchased (quite expensive, think $10,000's) from other sources that we still had to clean up.
> Do you agree with the Sacklers in this hypothetical?

Yes, I think I would. I think the proper behavior in that case would be to return to them after you decide they're the villains, and let them respond to that. If they chose not to, fine, you can go ahead with the original footage. But if they choose to answer your new questions, you should include those too.
This is nonsense. A company that doesn't care one iota about how its employees feel about their job ends up with high turnover, which dramatically increases costs in the long run. Good companies strike a balance between the needs of the employees, the needs of customers, and the bottom line. Any company that fails to strike that balance will lose in the long term.
Quantum insert is actually rather simpler than that attack. Watch for GET request, passively, then inject a response, racing the web server. The real response arrives a millisecond late and gets dropped as duplicate. No need to desync streams.
Good one, thank you kindly!
Even on HN you have to be logged-in to see dead threads and comments.
I think the procedure is do some surgery, stop, have the patient play the sax, repeat.

Similar to write some code, run the app, repeat.
Do the date codes in a retro computer matter?
It's grown a bit tiresome when a company or organization needs to do something for a straightforward physical reason and then people try to blame them for "fat shaming".

The article is pretty clear further down on the reasons for these limitations:

> The reasons are largely practical ones. Most medical school tables are not large enough to accommodate a human being larger than 200 lbs or longer than 6' tall. Donated bodies also have to be moved by students and/or researchers, and heavier bodies are harder to move, posing injury risk. Dissection is also made more difficult when a cadaver carries more fat—the dissector has to cut through the layers of fatty tissue to reach the body's organs.

But then the article also tries to hype up that not taking her donation is some kind of injustice:

> But Scott McPherson knows first hand there's something unpleasant about denying a person's dying wishes, too. "My mom just wanted to donate her body for something she believed in," he says. Instead, the McPhersons founds themselves trying to figure out an after-death plan for their mother that went against everything she'd asked them to do.

The whole irony in this is the journalist deliberately used (while true) an extremely insensitive title to get you to click, "Americans Are Too Fat to Donate Their Bodies to Science", but then tries to highlight how insensitive it is that schools won't/can't take obese full-body donations.
I appreciate Vice including the (presumably automatic) header that the article is over five years old.

Should be noted here as well.
Yeah these kinds of articles always have the tendency to exaggerate the scale of what they describe. People have been doing this kind of thing for the past 30-40 years, including using a serial number on a dollar bill as a token. None of this is really new except they identified people who want dollars in America (rich Chinese) that are willing to pay a premium for them.

This is from 1997 (https://www.fincen.gov/sites/default/files/shared/advisu9.pd...) when Colombia had capital controls that made accessing dollars very difficult:

1) The Colombian drug cartels export drugs to the United States;
2) Drugs are sold for dollars in the U.S.;
3) A cartel in Colombia enters into a “contract” with the Colombian
Black Market Peso Exchanger who is usually in Colombia;
4) The cartel sells its U.S. dollars to the Exchanger’s U.S. agent;
5) Once the U.S. dollars are delivered, the peso exchanger in Colombia
deposits the agreed upon equivalent (of U.S. dollars) in Colombian
pesos into the cartel’s account in Colombia; (At this point, the cartel
representative is out of the picture because he has successfully converted his drug dollars into pesos.)
6) The Colombian Black Market Peso Exchanger now assumes the risk
for introducing the laundered drug dollars into the U.S. banking
system; this is done through a variety of structured transactions;
7) The Colombian Black Market Peso Exchanger now has a pool of
laundered funds in U.S. dollars to sell to Colombian importers who
use the dollars to purchase goods, either from the U.S. or from collateral markets; and
8) Finally, these goods are transported to Colombia.

And this is still happening on the scale of billions in the LA fashion district, 47th street in Manhattan, electronics distributors in Miami, etc. There are some newer schemes where people involved in healthcare fraud who need cash to pay their "patients"/runners or want money the Medicare fraud investigators can't find will write checks in exchange for cash from drug sales. Essentially it's just being an intermediary for people who want cash and people who want to get rid of cash.
I think you are missing the claim. Originally we were told masks were not necessary and didn't work. We later learned that it was because they lied to prevent shortages.
I’d be afraid that using JIRA would register as complete brain death.
For a few seconds i read 'grams' and I thought it was on the heavy side. Well played!
It's literally in the article I linked (https://clickhouse.com/blog/we-stand-with-ukraine). As you're incapable of reading let me highlight it for you:

> We have no operations in Russia, no Russian investors, and no Russian members of our Board of Directors.

It's disappointing after 11+ yrs of failing to find traction for MemSQL, this is the hill you die on? You're running your mouth on some random comments thread about a shitty 2-person analytics platform where the author clearly doesn't know the first thing about databases and just went with the first Twitter ad he came across.

Under Raj's "leadership" you know damn well MemSQL/SingleStore will be dead within two years. The hyper-aggressive sales pressure had some success during the lofty bull market due to clueless IT managers with massive budgets, but that time has come to an end. You guys missed the window to IPO to get your own exit and your runway is quickly diminishing.
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Long term, for sure it's not fantastic, but short term it can be great. Of course it's not as simple as just buying the most mentioned stock.
It would be interesting to hang a number on that, like how far away you could be and receive a dangerous dose.
On top of that coffee also contains chlorogenic acid which allegedly is good for longevity
In your post, you say you want a biased community, but that seems incongruous with the rest of the items you're looking for in a community. Perhaps you meant "unbiased" -- could you clarify this?

There is a word in sanskrit satya, which means truth-seeking. Satya is one of a handful of ideas forming the basis of a practice called the eight limbs of yoga. The idea is that thought precedes action, and if you don't clear your mind, you undermine your yoga practice. Put another way, you don't receive the full benefits of yoga if you're distracted by competing desires. I think truth-seeking is an incredibly worthwhile goal.

Having said that, I have never heard of a perfectly informed person let alone a community. No choice is neutral, therefore everything a person says or thinks or does is opinionated.

However, I must admit my own ignorance. If you continue to seek such a community, I would be interested in hearing the outcome of such a search. Maybe I could learn something too :) Thank you for sharing!
A relevant article arguing the opposite can be found in Elizabeth's blog: "Eating Dirt is Basically Made Up" https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JzJcgsKBf35FeuZSD/eating-dir...
> Jail time and bans from operating.

You can't get that for an indictment unless you're indicting a poor person. In the US we ostensibly punish people when they're convicted.

What we need to do is to punish the appearance of impropriety when it comes to politics, and be very specific about what appears to be impropriety. As it is, we can only stop dumb or lazy corruption, the kind that people talk about over the phone and write in emails.
Is the point of your comment that exposure and being active outdoors helps build your resistance.

Also you sound a bit over cautious. Are you over 50? Otherwise you don’t really need a yearly physical. At least according to my doctor.
The definition of a company and its goals and motivations, is clear, and it does not have any consideration for employee amusement. That's what the christmas party and company picnic is for, and they happen outside of working hours.

If you push your own amusement as a priority at work, at the expense of the goal of the company, you literally make the working environment dysfunctional.
Better they don't embed journalists, and nobody is reporting from the front lines?
Systems for expressing game components as data that closely matches how you'd describe them in natural language. And ways to write the data as code literals that don't look very different than the data format.

I'm mostly interested in turn based games where everything can be made simpler by leveraging the fact that it's OK to have a computational spike in response to a player input.

I once had a system where expressing game components and game
states was so straightforward that writing tests felt like playing the game, because 95% of my effort in writing a test was in creatively thinking about game states and components and 5% translating it to data. I normally find writing tests very unpleasant but in this case it wasn't just tolerable, but actually fun.
This is now my dying wish.
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The investments stopped on the last 20 years because the greens thought that renewables would take over, they even put the reduction of nuclear straight into the law.

To my knowledge, that's the only form of energy with a specific target of reduction in the law, not even petrol is subject to it.

The truth is that the nuclear grid is holding up quite well considering those facts, I don't know anything else where which would still work after two decades being forced to sell electricity below production costs to "competitors" (another subject)

> France has for decades extremely nuclear friendly governments

No it hasn't since the 90s at best.
Right, that is my point. The CDC should clearly the whole time have been "Go ahead and mask, it can't hurt. Even a bandana or whatever if we're worried about the good ones for doctors"

That was NOT what they did.
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It's a huge problem in India at the moment. Police in several cities have caught on to this idea of searching for incriminating content and harassing people into paying bribe.

https://www.newslaundry.com/2022/03/29/are-bengaluru-cops-fo...
Doesn't colloqializing it defang the term? Why should the word be gatekept within the harsh domain it came from rather than allowed to transcend alongside culture? Earnest questions, I don't think about this stuff much.
> We should extract 30x times more lithium and rare earths to make your strategy work

I don't know why everyone focuses on lithium, as if battery tech has reached its pinnacle and will no longer change. Lithium is only the latest element used in batteries, it will not be the last or necessarily even the best. Sodium batteries are already in production, for instance, and sodium is ridiculously abundant and cheap and the power density is comparable to lithium ion. Solid state batteries are also starting production. Lithium and rare earths are not needed for any of these.