skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to say I hate automatic playing of content after my content is complete but when I really think about it I love it when I want it to do that and hate it when I don't and i'm too lazy to tell my UI which is which.

I guess when something just works your users will assume the cases where it is working properly are just the way things are and the cases where it does something they don't like is your fault.

So well done!
My understanding is that it's not quite that simple. GANs have stability problems (and as a result somewhat out of favor atm) and if the fake detection mechanism isn't a differentiable function itself no training can happen.
You remember wrong, it was Not Ukraine that disarmed.

It was Russia removing their control of Nukes under their control in Ukraine.

Somewhat a big difference.
As I was reading your comment I was thinking "whoa, that sounds like Damien or Robert" and sure enough :)

Hope you are doing well!
John Carreyrou's book about Theranos is absolutely riveting, and I highly recommend it to anyone looking for something suspenseful to read.
She had children specifically hoping it would help her avoid harsh punishment. She’s a manipulative sociopath…having children was more of the same.
I'm precisely not implying that medicine is currently "fully solved". I'm implying that we should strive to gather more information, synthesize it better and study how to make it useful.

As a clinician, I'd say yes to a bicycle for the mind. But currently, my job is already plenty full with worrying about applying what's known in a correct manner without seeking to break new ground while treating patients, which would be very dangerous and given the odds of success, very stupid. What I'm implying is that the general public has a completely skewed view about what really kills patients in the ICU: mundane infections and "medical errors", which are not really errors at all but in a large majority of cases failures and complications of usual procedures.
The law also punishes defrauding and harming patients. Prosecutors just didn't prove that actually occurred.
Well, you don't have to use a dingle letter either. Deca is da.
> I'm actually a bit disappointed they used magnets since it'd be so easy to mess up the orientation with a bit of otherwise benign interference.

That happens to a fair description of magnetic compasses as well. I suppose that’s why some compasses use a modern version of the south-pointing chariot (gyroscopes).
We switched to a heat pump a couple years ago. It soaks up all but the coldest (5-15°) days in winter (when the resistive heater kicks in as well) and uses only a little more energy than our old gas system’s fans did. It’s way more efficient in the summer than our old AC was so our annual usage actually went down and we have less maintenance.

Over the course of the year, our entire HVAC load is roughly what our modest solar setup produces. Obviously there are distribution issues, which is why we buy wind-generated electricity, but this is something we can do now and I’m quite confident the thousands of engineers working in the space will improve as it becomes our generation’s Apollo project.
The interesting thing about DST is that it's not really repeating the hour, if you include the time zone offset in your time stamp.

Here, look. Using the time zone for Norway in this example, with the `date` command on macOS.

First the last second before DST ended in Norway this year.

TZ=Europe/Oslo date -I seconds -jf %s 1667091599

2022-10-30T02:59:59+02:00

Then the second after.

TZ=Europe/Oslo date -I seconds -jf %s 1667091600

2022-10-30T02:00:00+01:00

So while people say that time went from 02:59:59 to 02:00:00, I see it as time going from 02:59:59+02:00 to 02:00:00+01:00 :)
I’ve built 15Five, a employee engagement platform. It was an effort of many people working together over many years, and I had the good fortune to be there at the start. Many people use it weekly to communicate with their managers and peers. I’ve seen it deliver a positive connection in remote and on-site teams.
Kind of.

Sam was not doing what EAism says you should do.

But he was embedded in the EA movement, close to many of its other members, and abetted by people like Will.

So if you look at EA descriptively, Sam was very much doing EA.

He was lying about his business. But he wasn't lying about giving the money away. That was very real, and a big part of what "doing effective altruism" is.

Sam/Caroline were also doing crypto.

The two movements -- EA and crypto -- clearly want to excommunicate them. But both those movements were happy to work with them when they appeared to be successful, non-fraudulent billionaires.

Nobody knows you when you're down and out.
Exactly! Jerry, all these big companies, they write off everything!
Iranian protesters set fire to Ayatollah Khomeini's house
I heard on NPR that yes, she is.
There was nothing decentralized about FTX. It was just a centralized exchange in the Bahamas that happened to trade crypto around.

The whole point of defi is to build systems where nobody can do what FTX did. Uniswap for example doesn't even have admin functions. Nobody can move your funds on Uniswap besides you.
The thing is, we've remade calendars many times in the past millennium and our current calendar is not gospel. Sidereal drift can and should be addressed with a calendar fix, not a clock fix. The clock's a clock, the calendar's a calendar. It doesn't matter if we can make our clocks calendar-like because they shouldn't be anyway.
The modal shadow ban is that people can't read your stuff at all, even if they go looking for it.

This is closer to the HN model where you can see it if you really want to via showdead.
Have we forgotten about the fact that Theranos had to void two years of blood test results? People were eventually going to get hurt by this lie. There were real crimes committed here, with real consequences for the perpetrators. It sucks for her children that their mother was found guilty of her crimes, that's no ones fault but her own.
TechCrunch staff on what we lose if we lose Twitter
Why would anyone be "worried about this" unless they, too, were running a big scam? Theranos did not fail it was just crime from start to finish.
Let's talk about those four words:

1. Your comment is claiming that my comment is overgeneralized? It is not.

2. I will grant my reply may be uninteresting to you. Unfortunately it did seem to push one of your buttons, which may suggest that there's something in it worthy of examination. Whatever I see someone reply so strongly to criticism in meetings or mediations it tells me more about the person than the critique.

3. My comment is not a rant. It was far too brief for that.

4. My comment was not speculation. (I am quite sure the words reflect my assessments of your comment.)

Therefore, saying "ditto" doesn't make sense. I think in your mind you thought "ditto" because you perceived my comment as an attack and you wanted to reply in kind.
I've always considered this phenomenon the source of "beginner's luck".
I find it odd that she found love and married. It seems like a pretty big negative that someone would have to get over to meet and love someone who defrauded billions of dollars.
Consider that the most widely deployed time standard outside the UT framework is GPS time, which was initially synced with UTC but is de facto TAI-19, because it turns out that constant-rate monotonic time is useful and UTC fails at even the alleged astronomical use-case.
At the time, C++ compilers costing money was normal (Microsoft, Borland), and those were physical products (CD-ROMs, printed manuals), so it seems semi-plausible she could have acted as an intermediary with the help of her parents.
prosecutors don't have good evidence of anyone actually harmed by the bad tests

I think it's more nuanced than that. Even if the prosecutors had mountains of evidence of harm to patients, defense attorneys have a lot of experience casting doubt on that kind of evidence making trail very tricky. My wife works in the medical/legal overlap and constantly sees stuff like "yes the patient spent 30 years working in an asbestos plant next to an industrial incinerator, but they smoked a cigarette once in the bathroom in high school so you can't say their cancer came from any one cause". And sometimes juries buy it.

But when you accumulate mountains of evidence that basically says "yeah, we know our stuff doesn't work...fake it till you make it, yo", you've got counterarguments like "we were just kidding" and "it's all fake" that isn't as resonate with the jury. So, the prosecution goes with the high-confidence charges.
The possession charges are part of a concerted effort beginning in the 1980s "war on drugs" to provide reliable income for the budding private prison industry. It was a hugely successful campaign that has done irreperable damage to the US at the individual level as well as the broad public/financial level.

Poor people cannot afford to defend themselves, so they make easy targets for incarceration.

Wealthy or connected people take much more time and effort to imprison, so the risk vs reward for prosecutors is just not worth it in most cases. You have to _really_ piss off or embarrass a lot of powerful people to get taken down like this current case.
You are really going to spend time and effort defending what is obviously a crypto scam over its location? If people outside of HN saw your comment due to becoming popular/accepted I am not sure they would legitimately want to spend any time here.
At least it's not a thin vertical video...
Seems excessive to me. I don't really care about people conning rich people into parting with their money, especially when they don't bother to do basic due diligence before hand.
The main reason some of us go on Twitter is it is where the politicians and other leaders tweet. It is the only place where we can talk back to them. This talking back is probably considered negative. If our voices will be silenced, I will just subscribe to a few of the people still there using RSS feeds. All real discussion will move elsewhere.
Or she's 38 and her fertility window is closing. I'll hold many things against her, she deserves prison time, but I won't hold having a child against her or judge her for it. She may be doing it for the reasons you mentioned, but so many women go to prison with far fewer resources to care for their children while they're in. I doubt she thought any seasoned judge would take it into consideration.
Most-promoted, but is it the most funded? For example, their landing page just links to the AMF's donors list page while claiming EA provided "significant support" with the only mentions of EA being people they've inspired to donate in relatively small amounts (relative to the billions moving through FTX). I'd imagine they're buried in there somewhere but if they're a major supporter I'd assume they'd be plastering that number all over the place.

Sorry, but this whole FTX thing isn't just an "oopsie." They knew exactly what they were doing and tried to justify it with a few targeted donations. The landing page alone only showcases 6 initiatives, 50% of which are exactly what I described above.
> If we're talking about financial damage done this sentencing still feels exceedingly light.

They gave her a sentence that's a little below the federal sentencing guidelines but not by a huge amount.
Performative remorse of those responsible and forgiveness of them without the responsible having to do anything to remedy their deeds are killing the American society. People can do all kinds of evil deeds and misconduct, break their own principles and rules, and they say that they are sorry, and its all 'okay'.
Use this kernel parameter in your kiosk
See sibling reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33663715
I wasn't talking about charities specifically, I was referring to stuff like this: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/xafpj3on76uRDoBja/...

At least one of the people involved (MacAskill) is a big name in EA circles.
>"Our annual planning process extends into the new year, which means there will be more role reductions as leaders continue to make adjustments. Those decisions will be shared with impacted employees and organizations early in 2023."

>"The key will be to do what Amazon does best – obsess over customers and invent relentlessly on their behalf – and if we do that, we should all be very optimistic about Amazon’s future. I know I am."

This is pretty amazing - more layoffs are coming but we should all be very optimistic about Amazon’s future. This man is out of touch and tone deaf.
Decentralisation: A Multidisciplinary Perspective
AFAIK they weren't able to sell everything before FTX collapsed, leaving them at a loss.
No, there should be no like nor dislike button. Just number of replies.

4chan does this and it works surprisingly well.
Interesting to compare this with the ongoing FTX disaster.

I think these two cases are sort of parallels: people assumed that someone was a genius to such an extent that they disregarded any signs of fraud and sought little proof of the assertions being made.
The moral is it’s a waste of time either way
No, I completely disagree with the premise here that only a minority of the software organization should actually be expected to deliver code.

As a manager, it’s not in my job description anymore. And when I put on an architect hat, my output is design docs and aligning many different opinions between teams. Also, the senior-most people on my team are no longer coding 100% of their time (they’re designing, reviewing, mentoring) and that’s obviously ok and good.

...But if >50% my team spends every week only mentoring others and attending meetings and writing design docs (as someone else suggested here), I think it would be appropriate to ask what the heck is going on. The idea that for a typical rank-and-file developer (not the TL, manager, architect, etc) that they should be seen as productive software developers without being able to show even a handful of code examples over the course of a year, I’m sorry but I just don’t understand how such a software org would ever actually function.
Nah, they'll probably still have the opinion that Nazis and hate speech doesn't belong on Twitter.

They'll also probably still be of the opinion that equating those groups with EW is utterly pants-on-head bonkers, and is a poster child of the kind of both-sides brain rot that the media inflicts on us a daily basis.
Yeah, can someone explain this? Meanwhile if you’re poor and can’t afford bail you might spend 3 years in jail awaiting trial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalief_Browder
They solved that "problem." Now ticketmaster offers the best tickets in an auction starting at 500% markup and captures the excess profit.

Say goodbye to ~$100 tickets in the front section.
And she will be out before she's 50 and be able to have some relationship with her kids. I agree with you (and not the grandparent comment) -- I can't hold this against her.
Might be true because Holmes has a pathological stupidity.
And she is not a resident or in a training/certification program?
Today it is within I think +-3 hours of earth time (China being the worst offender), because of timezones and DST. If it ever gets worse than half an hour in a country, they can always change the timezone... or just, like, change businesses' opening hours and stuff.
FTX is over $1 billion and the table maxes out at $550 million, so that should be fun. Lawmakers should revisit that.
Yeah, was trying to find out more about that before, couldn't find anything. Now, the journalist wrote a followup about how he'd been mislead, and maybe that was part of the misinformation... but if it was it was a deeply weird thing to make up. Holmes is about the same age as me, and when I was in high school there were definitely free C++ compilers, even for Windows (I vaguely remember messing around with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJGPP, and Borland also had a shareware C++ compiler...)
Even for apple shops, it doesn’t really makes sense. It is a myth to think that you can share anything of value between client and servers, except dumb data types that you’ll probably want to define in protobuf anyway for various reasons.

As for knowing the language, you’d gain the two weeks it takes to learn go, but you’ll loose all the ecosystem of quality libraries.
Maybe, but that’s the slow option so we should be doing renewables now, which can come online in just months, while the much slower process of adding nuclear capacity unfolds. If we shift the large amount of power generation which renewables can provide over that buys us enough time to build nuclear.
It depends on your business context. Different business need different business cases. What is the bottleneck or priorities for the business context you operate in? Engineering decisions that produce the best business outcomes for a pre product-market fit saas business in a low-risk domain might be regarded as criminally negligent for another business that ships medical devices.

Some other things to consider: How much does quality matter? What is the cost to the business, and to customers, of shipping a defect? How much would it be worth to the business increase the effectiveness of QA? How important is the ability to rapidly deliver low effort prototypes, perhaps using low or moderately skilled staff? Is the business focused around a particular domain -- how mature is the library support for that domain? Does the business already have substantial expertise with a particular technology?
A lot of the stuff YT video provided was market related, Youtube initially had no licensing with media companies. So what eventually became content-ID wasn't acquired if I understand the history correctly, and I doubt YT could have been successful without that.

But yeah most of it was infrastructural it seems, both technologically and otherwise.
A software solution for supply chain tracking under the Dodd-Frank Act Section 1502 aka Conflict Minerals. I like to think that this does not only have a positive impact for the turnover of my (ex-) employer but also on the lives of the people in e.g. DRC.

It was also the first project were I was the lead for the development side of things and also made myself known as the domain expert. Fun times :)
> But I don't think you can dispute the basic point here - there is a huge honeypot here to attract people with bad intentions, and they have failed to use it to promote any useful aims given the magnitude of the amount involved.

They may attract people with good intentions as well - or do you have to be starving to be pure of heart?

PS: I don't see how they haven't promoted "any useful aims" - Firefox continues to exist, Rust exists, Let's Encrypt exists, and they are healthy. Those seem like promotions of useful aims.

>The foundation is failing at its goals, they shouldn't be trying to make a profit.

Profit is just what is left over after what needs to be paid for is spent. Would you rather they have no money left at the end of every day? How do you imagine that that works?
I recently switched from 10 years of driving stick/standard to an EV and the sensation of instant power dwarfs the fun of selecting gear for me. I might just still be in the honeymoon phase, and I barely drive preferring to bike around everywhere instead. But having ample power in every situation from highway acceleration to hill roads pretty much obsoletes everything I used the stick for. I guess I do miss the habit of clutching and heel-toeing but with an EV I get all the benefits with none of the fiddliness. This was not the case when driving anything but the top automatics.
Red meat is the most efficient way of maintaining iron in the body. That doesn't mean you have to eat red meat all the time, but sufficient for YOUR body to have enough iron. Some people might get away with one iron meal a month, some others might need it 3 times week.
I get that Mozilla is far more than just Firefox, but what are they actually spending so much money on?

They have 750 employees, yet Firefox (their main product) barely sees any impactful updates.

Either there is a lot of bloat, money mismanagement, or just bad leadership (which covers the previous).
That is what I am thinking.
sounds like something far more structural is at play in that case
I wonder if she did make any profits out of Theranos or was it all for nothing?
ID.me lied to IRS about unemployment fraud, average wait times, House Dems say
Please tell us more. This sounds like a good investigative story.
I didn’t even build anything here, just set up an online service. In 2020 I volunteered with a small bail fund serving about 100 clients a year with annual donations of about $40,000 - primarily checks, but increasingly online payments. In May I moved their donation process from an excel spreadsheet manually reconciled with PayPal to a saas donation portal, which managed recurring donors, generated tax receipts, etc. I imported all our existing donor records, set up the option to pay by Square instead, etc, it was great. My notes from choosing the service mention that if we ever hit 12,000 unique donors we would go up a payment level.

Later that month, when George Floyd died and people started protesting, they also donated to bail funds - many of them explicitly to bail out protestors but many plain donations. I think our new donation portal handled over one million donations in two days.

(Our new square account was, for obvious reasons, instantly locked for fraud and we managed to get their support to re-open it within a few hours on a Sunday, they were very responsive! We didn’t keep all the money - there’s a National bail fund coalition and it was very random which funds were shared as donation recommendations, so the massive influx of donations to a few funds was distributed across the country.)
Well said, thank you. I find it difficult to work on things that don't yield direct benefit ($ or productivity/convenience). And if work is just a means to make money, I'll quickly grow apathetic and depressed.

Any advice on this?
"no free lunch" and "standing on ..." are 2 ideas, which are also being misused by people in at least 2 ways: One is to block, basically saying: "But no free lunch! Somewhere there must be a cost, because someone else once said no free lunch!", while it is very possible, that one has done something in a way, which was silly from the start and really could have a "free lunch", by switching to a better way of doing it.

The other "standing on the shoulders of giants" is used as justification for accumulating more and more dependencies and not writing stuff oneself, no matter how simple, which is how we get into left-pad-like territory.

We should indeed focus on reusing libraries, but please, _good_ libraries and not ones, which impose limitations in implementation as well as future thinking, by creating a high mental barrier to change ("But if we switch out this library we need to change aaalll this stuff, because our code is adapted to how the library works."). Sometimes adding a dependency is simply not worth it, like in the left-pad scenario. Just write that one function yourself and don't add more dependencies to the project. Always weigh the benefit against the additional load of dependencies added directly or indirectly as dependencies of dependencies.
Weren't most of the weapons already bought by the US military? Think Ukraine got the older Javelins, for example.

The US military budget is huge. Real world battlefield testing of Javelins, for example, which seem to not be as effective as thought.

The Pentagon is likely spending a lot of time analyzing the war.

The Reagan Era Star Wars program cost a couple hundred billion for a system that didn’t work.

http://www.allgov.com/news/top-stories/reagans-star-wars-pro...
With only 5 lines of code!
FSF Giving Guide is out
Selection of gifts, ebooks, music, and a ones to watch section.
What does deboosted mean? Does twitter show you tweets from people you don't follow (and people you follow don't retweet)? Or does that mean you won't see the tweets from the people you follow?