skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't read the trial transcripts but "manipulator" isn't really a formal term in criminal law. Even if the jury found that Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani encouraged Elizabeth Holmes to commit her crimes, that wouldn't be considered grounds for an acquittal, new trial, or lighter sentence. Adult, mentally competent defendants are legally considered to be responsible for their own actions (except for rare circumstances of coercion or threats which are obviously not a factor here).
The founder of the BLM movement - certainly one of the most influential American movements of the recent past - described herself and her fellow co-founders as "trained Marxists": https://nypost.com/2020/06/25/blm-co-founder-describes-herse...

Clearly the radical left doesn't allow itself with Russia and China as they are today; however they do express sympathy for the ideologies that underlie the Soviet Union and Maoist China.

Maybe I've seen much of it simply because I lived in SF for years, but you are bound to run into folks there who self-describe not only as "Marxists", but also as "Communists" and sometimes specifically "Maoists".

The push to override civil liberties, notably free speech as described in the article, in service of "more important goals", is certainly reminiscent of communist and Maoist agendas.
He waived due diligence on this deal. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/06/musk-says-twitter-is-refusin...
This is pretty cool, nice job!
Thanks, that does seem like quite a short amount of time. I've seen what patent attorneys can do to the 2 page technical description that I've written (turn it into 100+ pages of legal nonsense), so I'm sympathetic. IMO it really seems like the USPTO is way understaffed and has been for quite a while then, since it would seem that the majority of the 5+ years is literally just sitting there waiting for someone to get to it.
https://www.newsweek.com/michael-flynn-martha-stewart-charge...

Related, from another article:

> a federal jury found Stewart, who maintained her innocence, guilty of conspiracy, obstruction and two counts of lying to federal investigators (a securities fraud charge was dismissed)

The original charge didn't stick, but they convicted on statements made to the FBI during the investigation.
Lispers have been using structural editing since at least the 80s. Structural editing essentially allows modification to Lisp programs to be made as edits to a data structure with tokens. It sounds radical but it's really quite simple, at least in a language like Lisp, where

(setf x 5)

is a piece of code that is truly and immediately represented by a data structure (a list containing the symbol SETF, the symbol X, and the number 5).

Let's do a routine example. In your editor, how would you get from

(f x (y|)) z

to

(f x y| z)

if the '|' was your cursor? Maybe you think you should click around and delete the right parentheses, and carefully balance them. With structural editing, a Lisp programmer might first do a "splice":

(f x (y|)) z

;; splice: press Alt+s

(f x y|) z

and then they will do a "slurp" (slang for moving the next thing after the cursor into the current enclosing parentheses):

(f x y|) z

;; slurp: press Control-<right>

(f x y| z)

We've managed to get to our destination by using only two structural commands that makes a parenthesis-mismatch error fundamentally impossible.

These are examples written with a package called "Paredit" in mind, and it actually makes editing Lisp a distinct joy compared to character-based editing of other languages. Some Lisp programmers prefer slightly different styles of structural editing, but they all reduce to the same motivations: Edit a Lisp program's structure, not its characters.

So, contrary to popular belief, Lisp programmers do not count parentheses. Lisp programmers' eyes do not glaze over at the sight of Lisp. Syntax errors are probably a <1% occurrence out of all of the errors one encounters. Though purely informally empirical, I'd be willing to get that syntax errors are far less common in Lisp compared to syntax-rich languages like C++, Haskell, etc.

People who dabble with Lisp for 15 minutes in notepad.exe invariably run into syntax errors, but that is not a reflection of what serious hobbyists and professional Lisp programmers do.
That's per warrant requests for individuals, IIRC.

Apple shares with the CCP for all users by default.
From what I've read FTX.US has no withdrawal issues (yet)
Ha ha, that's a gem!
Diffusion Pretraining and Hardware Fine-Tuning Can Be Almost 7X Cheaper! Colossal-AI's Open Source Solution Accelerates AIGC at a Low Cost
Eh, it is not really different from other plurals in this regard. For example one might say a catering event has 100 waiters. Depending on convention you could also write waiters/waitresses or waitrx or service personal or... Used generically it is gender neutral, while non-generically it is not.
Show HN: I created a Chrome extension for secure screen sharing
Hi HN Community,
Its been a year since I am working on a chrome extension that focusses on securely sharing screen.
The pandemic took lots of businesses to remote work and screen sharing has been happening more than ever.

When we share screen, we are actually showing all the tabs, the message notifications, the apps we use and its like giving a picture of our whereabouts to everyone.

This thought or I would say the insecurity of sharing my privacy was the triggering point of creating ALLURT. I tend to share screen a lot and I spend couple of minutes making sure that the private tabs are closed and the bookmarks are hidden as I feel uncomfortable showing it to the world.

What ALLURT is offering right now,
1. Review tabs before sharing screen and close any single or all tabs except the current one thus saving your time that you tend to spend in reviewing the tabs.
2. Hide bookmarks automatically when you share screen and bring it back once screen sharing ends.
3. Put the browser in DO NOT DISTURB mode automatically to provide you a distraction free environment to present your work.

What's next,
1. Customized features that you can set up according to the privacy you need for yourself during screen sharing.
2. A full fledged application that will cover many other platforms like zoom, MS Teams etc.

ALLURT is very useful for software engineers, sales persons and entrepreneurs. Most of our users are software engineers.

I am focussing on bringing in more features and users. Your valuable feedback (good or bad) would help me make positive changes to the extension.

Thank You.
It only matters if FTX was using FTT as a collateral for accounting purposes for a valuation that is not realistic considering the liquidity of a position size.
Lago open sourced their product delivery framework
The ultimate shell game...
We've been running that "public accountability" experiment with twitter mobs (and sometimes actual arsonist mobs) running around "holding people accountable" for whatever they don't like... And I'm not sure we actually want more of this. It doesn't seem somehow to improve anything.
Then shouldn't you, by your own principles, have kept silent instead of posting that complaining?
Congrats!

What kind of dependency vetting and monitoring is required for something like this where compliance is part of the picture?
My thought here is that a, b, c, d are expression placeholders (and assuming they don't contain commas in the ALGOL syntax version). It's (print a b c d) if all arguments to the ALGOL version are already terminal symbols. If instead it was print(foo.a, foo.b, foo.c, x + y) it's now (print (get-a foo) (get-b foo) (get-c foo) (+ x y)).
Lord what a fawning article. They laid off plenty of engineers, including folks that apparently were necessary. I'm sure they laid off some folks who were doing very little work, but seems pretty clear they also laid off plenty of contributors. Seems like the author started from two perspectives - Elon Musk is a genius and anyone who isn't an engineer doesn't add value to tech companies and just went from there. Neither point is supported.
Job Postings with Broad Pay Ranges Leave Applicants Guessing in NYC
https://wiki.c2.com/?JustIsaDangerousWord

https://www.excitant.co.uk/just-is-a-dangerous-word/
Does serverless has protections against denial or service? Couldn’t an attacker use all the quotas or empty the bank account using something like apache bench on a raspberry pi or t2.nano ?
Are you suggesting that the LGBTQ Community is more at risk for propaganda than other sectors?

I ask this as a gay man with some awareness of the history of AZT.
They are impressive on a technical level, especially given how well everything runs. However, I think that the other was pointing out that the game feel/presentation itself was a bit lacking - not having much momentum to it, or just the destruction itself not feeling particularly eye catching (even if the gameplay is fun, due to you needing to act within a time limit).

I'm inclined to somewhat agree, because you can still have situations where buildings can be hanging on due to a single voxel and will refuse to fall down, and when they do there's no sense of weight, instead they just kind of plop down. Very much the same how the cars and such also feel awkward.

It doesn't detract from the gameplay much, and it's not like that makes the game bad, but personally I think that the Red Faction Guerilla game felt a bit better. Of course, it was geared more towards presentation and had a large studio behind it, rather than being very technically accurate, so the goals are a bit different than those of Teardown (interesting setpieces vs procedural destruction).

Here's a few random YouTube videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n16pZxHBo4o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXmKlVZmvRg

It is pretty awesome to see projects like either game, though! Even engines like VOXLAP were interesting: http://advsys.net/ken/voxlap.htm That's actually more or less what powered the old Ace of Spades game, which is now Open Spades: https://openspades.yvt.jp/ (not as focused on destruction, but rather having large maps with lots of voxels, a fun game)
Disclaimer: positive sentiment towards Meta app

I'm a millennial and I use Instagram (mainly stories) as the primary tool for keeping in touch with people. It's easier to share an image, maybe with a short caption, rather than composing a post, and consuming friend's stories are quicker than text posts since you don't need to read. It's a more efficient/faster way to know what my friends and family are up to and it prompts me to communicate with them more.

I may be an outlier but I'm very bad at remembering to text/call/email friends if I don't see them regularly, so following them on IG helps a lot.
OP is making a point that Twitter is now saddled with ~13 billion in debt, with 1.2B in interest payments now required over the next 12 months[0].

> Musk and his co-investors collectively cut a check for more than $30 billion of their own money for the Twitter deal. That money would be at risk if Twitter required a debt restructuring down the line.

0: https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/twitters-massive-reven...
Did Amazon actually drop this? I haven’t used prime in a very long time but this was pretty much the only reason I bothered.
SBF put $10 million this summer into an Oregon Democratic primary in an attempt to advance a candidate sympathetic to Effective Altruism, rationalism, and AI ethics to the US House (the candidate lost). SBF has in general been flashing a lot of cash over the past 2 years in order to become a major philanthropist in the EA space.
I think most people have figured out by now the pitfalls associated with using Facebook and have devised strategies for mitigating the worst of them. If they haven't, then they soon will.
I'm curious, when you say "masking works" what do you mean?

Because you seem to mean it as "prevents 100% of transmission", and therefore anything less than that means masking isn't effective.

And that's simply untrue. Masking does, really, truly, assist with covid spread. It doesn't prevent 100% of transmission, because nothing does, especially something that requires active participation, but yeah it helps a lot if people actually do it.

It's likely a large part of the reason that I've never caught covid, despite a fairly active social life and continued in-person office work for almost a year now. And why the social events I attend, where you can have a hundred people in close quarters breathing on each other haven't had recorded transmissions, despite recorded isolated cases.

> It causes many accessibility problems, it causes childhood development problems, it causes social strife (including discrimination), it enables abusive policing, and so forth.

There's no evidence for any of these claims, and in fact you'll find the accessibility community strongly favors masks as immunocompromised people exist. Widespread seasonal masking has been common in other countries for decades (since SARS-1, two decades ago), and there's no evidence that it causes childhood development issues. There's, like, one academic paper whose conclusion is that mask wearing makes it difficult for preschoolers to detect the emotion of a person wearing a mask. But any extension of that to impacts on childhood psychological development isn't academic, it's you making things up.
The point is that Apple sells their user data for market access. Google won't even do that.

This is antithetical to Apple's privacy branding.
Every once and a while I have a look at the changelog of the FF dev. It is good way to find the flags to disable features and to have an idea how the web is changing overall.

The downside of cherry picking features is that your browser fingerprint becames pretty much unique.
> How can you say it's clear it wasn't cash?

FTT spiraled and FTX went insolvent.
> She’s suffered huge and profound consequences for her actions.

Like what? Life seems to have gone on as normal for her, other than having to make a bunch of court appearances.
It could evolve is a big if.

A lot of viruses could and become disastrous, but that’s a long shot.
And percussion generates sharp transients, which require frequencies below the steady-state fundamental frequency to be reproduced accurately:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle#Signal_p...
Are you claiming that the lockdowns that happened in the first half of 2020 had zero effect on SARS-CoV-2 infections?
Just some test feedback: On my phone I have to scroll horizontally to read the text on the website. A part is always cut off. (Same problem on the linked example sites.)
I've always thought that "Silicon Valley" was just a broad term that described tech companies anywhere in the San Francisco Bay Area.
I'd say timpani drums, tubas, largest/lowest pipes on an organ (if the hall has one), and double bass. Contrabassoon, the lowest notes of a piano. Other percussion like a gong.

Basically, by necessity, whatever the largest instruments are in diameter or length. And then it's all being amplified by some mutual resonance with each other and possibly other physical structures like the floor.
Grew up in Coeur d'Alene, ID.
The described method is what I was taught was legal. It is much faster and safer to get around by using this method. Time spent starting/stopping on a bike are dangerous times. You can be hit at any time...but it is easier to avoid incidents if you can get out of the way. Plus, as others have mentioned in comments, you have a lot more time and environmental signals (sounds, clear vision, even vibrations) than a car does to determine if it is clear to go.

My ride from my house to downtown is about 10min. Car only saves me a couple minutes (if you don't count parking and/or accidents).
Often, I can do a 30-45min ride around town without ever putting a foot down...but I have also been riding in this town for decades so take that as you will.

The only issue I have ever had using this method is more than once I have had a driver take time to pull up alongside me to "educate" me on how that is illegal. Every time I just refer them to the drivers manual.
Another important aspect of a sentence is scaring off. When she gets 18 months, scamming people out of 1.4 billion dollar suddenly becomes a lot more attractive. Well, for attractive, innocent looking women at least.
Why is it apparently so difficult to run a solvent crypto exchange? On the face, it shouldn't be too hard, just take deposits, stick them in a wallet, and swap client balances in a database.

Is the temptation to maintain a reserve ratio < 1 just too great? Do operators try to earn small, low-risk return on client funds only to find there are no low-risk, positive-return assets in crypto? Are the extending margin to clients or explicitly stepping in as counterparty, and get exposed to losses as prices move?
What a surface level take.

Firstly, we’ve been doing the “same old animations” for a very long time, and in most areas of content.

Secondly, they aren’t they same old animations, technologies to produce them are becoming higher precision, more efficient, and better in many ways.

Continuing on, the amount of work being poured into dynamic animation, IK, and the like is significant.

Various locomotion systems, including AI4Animation that you linked are becoming significant contributions. Though crazy you single that out as an exception, because it is also using the “same old animations” just a large unstructured set of them. But this work is a direct continuation of motion matching, which also works on large datasets of unstructured animations, and *has* shipped in quite a few titles, and is a very significant jump in how animation is done today.

And that’s just animation.

https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1023280/Motion-Matching-and-Th...
If I go by $50/hour salary on average for developer, if someone saves 20 minutes per month on average using AWS, it is worth it.
A better way to live your life than allowing yourself to get worked up over simple and slight turns of phrase others use or worrying constantly if your phrasing might trigger someone would be to assume the robustness principle and simply live as if everyone is doing the same. "Be conservative in what you do/say, be liberal in what you accept from others". Don't take other's words so seriously and cynically and always assume they have the best intentions.
Notably, one very important part which does not go through is that for mappings between infinite dimensional spaces linearity does not imply continuity.
(E.g. a series of functions bounded by a constant can have arbitrarily large derivatives)

A large part of functional analysis is dealing with that fact and its implication for PDEs.
The articles guesses as to contributing factors:

> People are exposed to more chemicals that might be weight-gain inducing. Pesticides, flame retardants, and the substances in food packaging might all be altering our hormonal processes and tweaking the way our bodies put on and maintain weight.

> The use of prescription drugs has risen dramatically since the 1970s and ’80s. Prozac, the first blockbuster SSRI, came out in 1988. Antidepressants are now one of the most commonly prescribed drugs in the U.S., and many of them have been linked to weight gain.

> Study authors think that the microbiomes of Americans might have somehow changed between the 1980s and now.
I thought Binance essentially caused all of this by dumping (and advertising dumping) FTT tokens? And now that FTX is in distress they're going to swoop in and buy a competitor? Kind of reminds me of Luxottica buying out Oakley...
No need to throw offenses. See my cousin comment for an explanation.
> But even then, I'd be surprised if the driver who's reckless/inattentive enough not to pay attention to the person in front of them at a stop sign both noticed and understood what the signal meant.

I have used it in several circumstances where I am fairly certain the driver was responding to the signal. Whether the understood the signal or not is an open question. If they didn't, it seemed to be enough to get them to slow down -- which is all that I can really ask for.

As for the whole signalling while braking situation on bikes, it's kinda nuts. I have to make a left turn while going down hill at one point of my commute. It's pretty much signal, brake with both hands, signal and turn. I understand why bikes don't apply both brakes with one lever, but it is awkward at times.
What it actually revealed that they embezzled customer funds? It's still speculation as far as I can tell (your sources say nothing about customer funds)
Based on this Reuters article[0], it was more around $5.3B, but they were only losing 200M/yr.

> It's not clear how much of the $5.29 billion debt Twitter had before the acquisition was refinanced or remained with the company. It's also not clear how much of the $2.7 billion in cash that Twitter held as of the end of June it got to keep once it went private.

0: https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/twitters-massive-reven...
That's a really interesting question - we're not really sure what Potate or Taters are, we've seen quite a few references to them across a few decades and our best bet is that it was connected to a briefly lived religious cult or or belief system as they are often referenced in connection to "heavenly" or sacred. A fragmentary surviving work by an author only known as STP describes in detail a "Mr. Tulip" who provides our most reliable source on this matter

> 'I thought maybe a maypole,' said Mr Tulip reflectively. 'An' then a display of country dancing, land tillage under the three-filed system, several plagues and, if my --ing hand ain't too tired, the invention of the --ing horse collar.

this whole fragment of a fictional character describing some of the rituals related to the Potate can be found near the quote "Everything will be alright as long as you have your -ing Potate" as expressed near the end of their life.
ok, you're insulting the guy's restaurant and the market disagrees with you, apparently
Or rather size-of-their-domain-dimensional?
The article neither praises Musk nor is really about him at all.
I don't understand how his middle name relates to anything about this situation.
Yes. The point of LGPL in concept is there is a clear boundary where you can modify and replace code. You can't replace a statically linked library.
Any AFV can do it - it doesn’t need to be a tank for what the person I was replying to said they thought they needed.

https://www.forces.net/news/whats-difference-between-armoure...

Yeah many AFV are undergunned compared to a tank, and we can always want more firepower and more armour, but trade-off on support and things like that starts to break down.

The point is if you say you want ‘protected mobility and direct fire to support infantry’ then you don’t need a tank, you just need any AFV.

People normally want tanks for anti-tank - well that may well be better done by infantry for the foreseeable future - and for shock action, but that doesn’t seem to work brilliantly in the current environment either as in most environments it’s going to be the tank getting the shock not you.
pull vs push though. of course my closest friends get sent pictures of everything, but for other friends, sending each and every one of them a picture of my latest hairdo or new pet or whatever just seems weird. But a post on Facebook that they have to pull to receive, isn't at all weird.
Slap on the wrist if it's just 18 months. Compare that to Wesley Snipes, who got 3 years for tax evasion.
The investment emissions of the world’s richest people
> If you really had to, you could probably run Twitter with a very small staff, and the computing outsourced to AWS.

Why didn't they though? Why did they become a monster that, as we are seeing right now, can survive easily with about half of its employees gone in a heartbeat?