skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's an endless cat-and-mouse game.

This is often stated but I think it has to be obviously wrong. This isn't a traditional interactive game such as malware & anti-malware.

You have existing sensors which operate under the constraint of [ real world -> theoretic pixel space -> optics & aberrations & sensor noise -> compression ]. And a single adversary which attempts to fake this chain.

The detection of fakes isn't even an adversary in this game, it's merely a detection of deviation of the faking process.

At some point, probably soon, the faking process will reach a point where any deviation will be drowned out by the noise aspect of optics & sensors & compression.
It's a question of approach. Ramming it down people's throats is not Championing. Making it compulsory up to the age of 16, to the detriment of other subjects, so that it's almost universally resented in my children's school, for example, is not the way to go about it.
SPACs aren't inherently scams, but they certainly enable scams. They bypass a lot of the regulations designed to manage IPOs.

I would be curious to know why Grindr chose this route rather than a more traditional IPO. It does hint that there's something shady. But at least at a glance, there's no reason why a dating site shouldn't be well-governed and quite profitable.
We just enabled leap second smearing on chrony.
I built GoJS, which is one of the most popular commercial JS diagramming libraries: https://gojs.net

I built carefulwords, a very fast thesaurus and quote site for inspiration, used by... tens of people a day. Eg: https://carefulwords.com/gift https://carefulwords.com/solitude

I made the site because I was mad that it was hard to type in urls to use thesaurus.com, and because that site fails to focus the cursor in the search box. So I made my own site that did. I mostly made it for myself, me and my wife use it all the time. I am slowly editing down the thesaurus to manageable size.

I built a 12x16 "Goose Palace" barn out of local pine timbers, which taught me timber framing, and taught my tiny baby who turned 2 years old while doing it that this is just the kind of thing that people normally do, build barns in their driveway. Some context: https://simonsarris.substack.com/p/the-goose-palace

Some photos of building it with the baby: https://twitter.com/simonsarris/status/1584169368203956225

I designed my house, and have been writing extensively about that. Maybe this is the most impactful, since photos of it are all over Pinterest and other sites, now. The first post on that: https://simonsarris.substack.com/p/designing-a-new-old-home-...

I am not sure what is most impactful. Maybe ultimately it is building my family.
If you already have no respect for the new boss, calling him a petulant man child to his face and getting 3 months severance isnt the worst thing that could happen.
During my master's, I took a job in a physics group that works with high pressure time projection chambers for neutrino detection. They have a bunch of simulation and experimental data they wanted to organize and share with colleagues.

I first worked on improving the database (adding indexes, reducing redundancy, etc.). Next, I wrote a Python package to make it easier to interact with the database from the command line and Python, and act as a backend package for a frontend Flask API I wrote to serve the data. Finally, I made a simple website [1] where users can query the data.

It was great because I not only got to help out the people working in the group, but I also contributed to making the data available to other physicists around the world.

[1] https://rwth-aachen.de/gasdb
I think the moral is, “those who fail to prepare are preparing to fail”.
Oh wow https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Techni... so they essentially just use CNN output to automatically determine whether to report people to the authorities? For some reason I assumed they were just comparing the files they knew to be CSAM.

Yeah that's bad. What about deepdream/CNN reversing? Couldn't a rogue apple engineer just create a innocuous looking false positive, say a cat picture, share it on Reddit, and everybody who downloads it is flagged to police for CSAM?
From the whole blaring section of them under the heading "Shorts" on the front page of youtube.com.
Same here. 12 mini, tried in safari and YouTube app.
In retaliation, the Yorkshire Dales national park are proposing to rename Pen-y-ghent to something more English.

(this is a joke; the point is that there are lots of places in Britain with unexpected, non-local-seeming language roots)
This gets more into the weeds, RSUs rarely vest evenly across time. A 10,10,40,40 has tax advantages over a 25,25,25,25 vesting schedule. Further, RSUs are only one aspect of a compensation package.

If someone can negotiate both RSUs and a golden parachute then they are simply better off than taking that exact same salary in cash. The nuances of every contract are different, but it’s not difficult to construct something more advantageous than cash.
I work in a hospital, and occasionally in ICUs. You're wrong. Most workers are very much jaded, but they do care. Problem is, the system crushes you to death if you don't set pretty harsh limits to protect yourself. In a lot of cases, that means de-humanizing your work, put your feelings aside and work like a machine. Good little machines are just what management wants, right? Now higher management... wow, those people really don't give a hoot about anything that's not themselves!

A second major contributor to inertia, is that the initiatives from lower echelons are usually set for failure by the intricacies of bureaucracy. And said bureaucrats are completely unimaginative about what they could do to fix things, because they never leave their office to see what's really happening in the trenches. So yes, in fine the problem is the extreme stupidity stemming from human collective behaviour. Complain, and suddenly _you_ are the problem!
What’s your uncle like at Thanksgiving?
Oh, thanks for the correction. I was looking at the versions listed on the CPAN page.

Now I feel ROMO, though (Regret on Missing Out :)
The Theater mode works fine on web. Default mode on the web breaks the UI. Nice!
It's not "assuming" anything to say he went to the White house meeting about these firings. Knew about the firings. Didn't dissent in the discussion or object to the final outcome of firing people

From the report:
"Truman and Webb discussed a strategy of engagement with the Hoey Committee determining how they might “work together on the homosexual investigation”"
> I personally doubt it was the Tweet itself that caused the drop. No one should/would have believed it was an actual statement by Eli Lilly.

Your second sentence is probably true, but the first one is questionable.

It's well-known that there are high-frequency stock trading bots which watch Twitter, news headlines, etc.
Lithium price declined recently due to over supply.

The US can do this without objection by declaring a state of emergency. We’ve done it before and we can do it again
Jeez, no kidding. I imagine if they made a realistic doctor show they'd be constantly showing the doctor at the bar (on days off) trying to make money on side gigs like health startups.

Stumbling in a hangover to appointments on "work days" and giving everyone the same diagnosis as the last (and likely whatever sickness they themselves had recently). Also giving everyone fluids and an ativan so the patient says - "i feel much better doc".

It's kind of an open secret that the ER just gives a diagnosis of dehydration, provides fluids and ativan to get the pipe rolling and charge $4k a pop. Sure they might catch a case of undiagnosed covid, rsv or something else from time to time.

Also I'm not kidding but I would LOVE such a show.
He did say it was very thick
Twitter's biggest risk at the moment, IMO, is that Musk's layoff process may have over-selected ass kissers to the detriment of focusing on aptitude.
Excellent criticisms (having dealt with my mom's passing in 2020)

I noticed that the incessant beeping all night has decreased quite a bit, of late (at least in my local hospital, St. Francis Heart Center)
> No. A rational person can tell that 'sky is made of marshmallow' is bs. If they cannot, some thinning of the herd is clearly necessary. If a person struggles with basics of life and cannot comprehend basic language, I have little to offer.

Not sure what point you're trying to make here. What in the world does "thinning of the herd" mean?! Are you advocating for eugenics?

> If I tell you that all humans are in fact cappucino makers, do most people go into existential crisis?

Who's going into an existential crisis? Flat Earthers are being told that their beliefs are garbage, and they are going into crisis and forming their own communities to reinforce their beliefs.
> The fact that they will put up with doesn’t seem like a great reason not to fix the problem.

Like I said, the happy-path lifestyle structure in America is not suited to reproduction. Sure we must try to fix the problem but we all know it's not going to happen soon. I am likely to die before significant changes happen.

Until then, I still want skilled labor in the right places. I will continue to welcome immigrants who fill that gap.
Doctors answer: yes. And?
> that is the only way I can see to truly act within my religious beliefs

I've been unable to find in the Bible the phrase that says "take from bob and give it to bill and you will be righteous".

My interpretation of the Bible is that Jesus encouraged people to freely give of their own to help others.

I'm genuinely curious where your leftist views derive from Christian principles.
Okay, thank you for the reply and explanation.
Bankman-Fried cashed out $300M during FTX fundraise last year
Podesta oversees the disbursement of $370 billion in clean energy tax credits and incentives authorized by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022

--wikipedia
It sounds like the history I'd thought I'd heard, and maybe even the terminology, for what I was trying to describe were way off.

"Ossuary" sounded like the right word for "bone box," but the context in which I'd heard the idea was an old Jewish custom of reusing tombs. You'd put somebody in there, wait for a couple years until they were just bones, gather the bones in a box (which was what I thought was called an ossuary), and then over time store lots and lots of family members' bones in their separate boxes in one tomb. It made a lot more sense to me than burying each body in its own body-sized casket forever.

I'd heard of early Catholic opposition to cremation and cremulation, but also that some cultures did it to mock the belief in resurrection, sort of a, "Let's see anybody resurrect this!" sentiment. I'm not sure about St. Michael, though. He's not traditionally believed to be directly involved in the raising of the dead.
“A fundamental problem with Galactica is that it is not able to distinguish truth from falsehood, a basic requirement for a language model designed to generate scientific text. People found that it made up fake papers (sometimes attributing them to real authors), and generated wiki articles about the history of bears in space as readily as ones about protein complexes and the speed of light.”

How would anyone think releasing this was a good idea?
As a counterpoint, my experience with my dad being in the ICU was great. They saved his life a couple times when he needed to have his heart paddle-started. And they managed to stabilize him and let him get sleep as much as possible so he could be transitioned out of the ICU. I never once got the impression that anyone was incompetent, or that they were having trouble remembering strategies, reactions to medicine, etc.

But this was Kaiser. Other hospitals may indeed be a shit show.
And it's not an "actual photograph" LOL.
Because I'm an optimist
It would be a lot easier to talk about this subject if it hadn't been so shamelessly exaggerated for propaganda purposes.

The Chinese government has, by all appearances, carried out a harsh crackdown on what it views as separatism and religious extremism. It has forced large numbers of people to go through political indoctrination, based on suspicions of being sympathetic to the Uyghur separatist movement or of harboring fundamentalist religious beliefs.

The Chinese government has also begun imposing the 3-child policy on Uyghur families. The 1-child policy used to only apply to the Han majority. It has been relaxed to 3 children, but is being applied more broadly.

However, the Uyghur population continues to grow. The Uyghur language continues to be an official language in Xinjiang and it is one of the primary languages used to teach children in state schools. And as I said before, life expectancy and average incomes are increasing among Uyghurs.

The Chinese government doesn't intend to "remove" the Uyghur people. It is trying to stamp out separatism, both by implementing harsh police methods and by pumping money into the region to improve living standards.

This is not what a genocide looks like. That term is just propaganda in this case, meant to influence people who aren't at all familiar with the situation in Xinjiang.
I have a pet assistant as a telegram bot. I type instead of speaking, for me is also strange to speak to the phone. So I ended up creating shortcuts to do things quickly( like 'r. buy milk 8:30' will add a reminder to buy milk, that will trigger at 8.30)

not sure of the usefulness of those statistics. People end up using that which works, so I guess we would see a lot of weather checks, navigation requests and stuff like that. If there is no real personal assistant, there won't be questions that would be directed to one. Like, no one is asking "do I have any new and urgent emails?", because we know that can't be answered with the current assistants
The article: "Mr. Bankman-Fried’s cashout was large by startup-world standards, where such sales historically were taboo because they allow founders to reap profits before investors."
> why say anything at all at a time when you can't give specifics yet

"Desired Attrition"
I work in games, our repository is ~100GB (20m download) and a clean compile is 2 hours on a 16 core machine with 32GB ram (c6i.4xlarge for any Aws friends). Actually building a runnable version of the game takes two clean compiles (one editor and one client) plus an asset processing task that takes about another 2 hours clean.

Our toolchain install takes about 30 minutes (although that includes making a snapshot of the EBS volume to make an AMI out of).

That's ~7 hours for a clean build.

We have a somewhat better system than this - our base ami contains the entire toolchain, and we do an initial clone on the ami to get the bulk of the download done too. We store all the intermediates on a separate drive and we just mount it, build incrementally and unmount again. Sometimes we end up with duplicated work but overall it works pretty well. Our full builds are down from 7 hours (in theory) to about 30 minutes, including artifact deployments.
Ask HN: Is there a tool to follow all the people I follow in Twitter in Mastodon
I have started using Mastodon, but a big pain is following the same people I have been following in Twitter. Some of them have Mastodon ids too, but it is a pain to manually find their Mastodon ids and follow them. Is there a lookup service that will automatically do this?
Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to 11.25 years in prison
The value of Bitcoin is the sum of its intrinsic and perceived value.

Consider a hypothetical Bitcoin, without the objective measures you describe. Without the capabilities of the network, people willing to accept it as payment for goods/services —- it is a coin that nobody has a use or want for, i.e. an unadopted shitcoin.

The value of unadopted shitcoins approaches zero as fewer and fewer people use it. Therefore, the value of Bitcoin is entirely comprised of perceived, and not intrinsic value.

Another way:

Compare a Bitcoin with a banknote. A banknote has perceived value (it represents one, or several, dollars, which have a stable value and are accepted universally) and intrinsic value (it is piece of paper that you could burn to provide a small amount of heat, in a pinch). The Bitcoin doesn’t even have that tiny amount of intrinsic value that the banknote has.

During the Weimar Republic, people burned paper money because it was cheaper than wood. In that situation hyperinflation led to the perceived value falling so low that it was below the paper money’s intrinsic value. If everyone stopped accepting Bitcoin and its perceived value evaporated, that Bitcoin would not even have the intrinsic value remaining, of heat from a single burning banknote.
and yet, Firefox is switching to Manifest v3, too, just on a more delayed timeline than Chrome.
1200 is way less than what was being reported elsewhere. Seems roughly 70-80% chose to stay.
Yea - I'd assumed the hour hand had some sort of dead-reckoning compensating gear on the joint in the middle of the clock similar to a south-pointing chariot[1]. 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.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South-pointing_chariot
Reddit is my go-to example for effective moderation. Here's how they do it: every so often, they straight up ban entire communities from the platform.
I’ve been slowly working on a 0 dependency framework in Bun for similar reasons. The size of the average package-lock.json is absurd and nerve wracking.
> No the kids are there, in the ultimate hypocrisy, to provide for everyone elses future

I don't know why this is being downvoted. If you listen to any republican biased radio/TV, you'd hear people blaming young people all the time. It's like they hate me for not having children BECAUSE it reduces the size of the labor force.

Sorry republicans. I ain't bringing any kids to this world to serve YOU.
You place a lot more faith in the federal government than I do.

CCP can do very little to impact me directly. The feds could ruin my life if they wanted to - just fabricate a few charges.
First, I didn't downvote you (actually I can't).

I think that there are fringe elements on both sides. I do think there is a legit difference though in that the mass of the conservatives hold views that are to me far worse.

For example, there might be a fringe of liberals that think that women and men are the same height on average -- or think there are no physical differences. But the VAST majority believe there are differences. But I think a far higher percentage of conservatives think that homosexuality is a choice. That's a very mainstream belief I've seen -- even in my own family.

I think what liberals struggle with, IMO, aligns with my values, even if the positions that arise I disagree with. For example, trans athletes. I think its unfair to women to compete against people who were born men. At the same time, I sympathize with people who really feel like they were born the wrong gender and are doing everything they can to change genders. I don't have a satisfactory solution, but I empathize with the liberal response. The conservative response doesn't even seem to recognize that trans people have any struggle at all.

Centrist Republicans today might be the most rational. But they are even getting run out of the party. I never thought I'd say, "Wow, I miss George Bush".
> start to run the numbers

The problem is at a young age you don't know the important things to include in your formulas or how to value them. What's it going to cost to pay someone to make decisions for you when you start having trouble making them for yourself? It's going to cost a lot to set that up with someone trustworthy ahead of time. If you've done a halfway decent job of raising your kids they will do that for free and you don't even have to set it up. They will be watching you and making sure you are ok. They will do it because they love you, not because you are paying them.
FDA Approves First Drug That Delays Onset of Type 1 Diabetes
Of course it would a big oops simile, but use after free isn't something that has happened to me in 40 years but I keep testing for it in other peoples code ;)
It's a tough situation, and I'm glad his father is finding help.

I've spent a fair bit of time in ICU's on both sides. I think the observations and conclusions show misunderstandings. Generally, opinions are not ignored, nurses don't go wild, the patient population makes sense for an ICU, the institutional memory is actually fantastic, etc.

And most importantly: "There’s no sense of a scientific method, reasoning from first principles, or even reasoning from similar cases though" This is complete and utter hogwash, borne of a difficult experience.

They key idea is this: in complex cases, doctors have to identify the condition that matters most, and prioritize that. Collaboration is necessary to get the picture and give care, and perhaps to consider alternatives, but it's not how you make decisions.

It's hard to see symptoms ignored or under-treated. But it's very likely that delusions do not make a difference in the patient's recovery, but something like lung surfactant matters most. So everything from fluid intake to drug dosage and activity are direct accordingly. Unless they're symptoms of the main issue, discomforts can be prioritized later after the main issue resolves.

"Identifying the main condition" means understanding the actual insult and the healing process for this patient; understanding how symptoms, labs, and imaging reflect all the conditions i.e., how it presents (and skews labs or self-perception); and understanding how all the interventions may interact with the disease/disability states, from drug interactions to liver and immune-system complications, etc.

It's not uncommon for other doctors and nurses and patient advocates to have some slice of this complex picture, but it's the attending who has it all, and the experience of other cases and knowledge of the underlying conditions and interventions.

And, for the most part, the attending is not responsible for explaining their understanding or reasoning to anyone. They do offer reasons and make records, but there's no place or time or even audience for comprehensive account of why other alternatives weren't considered or followed.

Science, and medical trials, try to isolate single factors to get reproducible outcomes. Medicine in the ICU has to accommodate multiple factors, by focusing on the main disease/healing process and optimizing for that.

As for value to society: good ICU attendings are key to good outcomes for patients and their families. It takes decades to get good. They produce far, far more value than they're paid, largely because they do it as a mission. If they see people, particularly those who enjoyed the benefit of their dedication and service, disrespecting and misunderstanding them, it's likely to dissuade them from continuing or dissuade others from their difficulties.

So complain all you want about digital advertising and go full-disruptive to fossil fuels, but please be very, very careful when attacking health care. Otherwise we'll end up with Russian hospitals where you bring your own materials and pay your friends of friends for side work.
Apparently that was a total of 31% of the workforce: https://www.mercurynews.com/2014/08/29/1997-apple-bites-the-...

That's a big difference with what looks to be 75-85% of Twitter's pre-acquisition workforce in total.
SMH. What I need is mechanical music. That’s what makes it “sportier”!

https://youtu.be/wjSA3sis4kY
When I was in college I wrote a Windows app to do the side-by-side translations of the bible just like you have on your site.

It was commissioned by a multilingual church.

Funny thing is, I'm a atheist raised by Catholics. I'm not sure if I would take the job today. I feel it would be unscrupulous for me to facilitate religious studies.
It'd be great if these paragons of grace would have a serious chat with the 'fuck your feelings' crowd about their death threat fetish, since they are nominally all in the same big tent.