skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I predicted, @mikeyouse https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mikeyouse and I both owe $10 to charity, per our bet (more than 3 for me, less than 15 for him).

I shall pay, of course. For you, sir, you can either give directly to Lighthouse Ministries (lfrad.org), or if you want to be sure it's tax-deductible, you can give to Martha's Kitchen in San Jose with a note that it's intended for Lighthouse. (They're a tax-exempt in California but their IRS 501(c)(3) hasn't come through yet.) Martha's acts as financial sponsor for them, which has some legal significance I don't quite understand.
the "she'll never be convicted" crowd has moved on to "she'll never serve much of the sentence", despite a dozen folks here explaining how the federal system works.

i look forward to returning to HN in september 2032 and seeing what what sort of cope is on display when she's released after 9.5 years. will we have holmes-prison truthers? "she was never in prison, it was a body double the whole time!".

it'll be fascinating.
In the case of Express vs alternatives benchmarks, you're looking at differences in the sub 1ms range as these benchmarks simply test how much "hello world" you can return per second
In that same thread checkyoursudo called the sentence exactly too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29796629

We'll have to check back in 9.35 years to see if that part is accurate
Not even abuse, but just intensive use cases. Like the guy who posted a few says ago about recording and transcribing all day.
Many things can move murder to federal court (hence, "make a federal case of it") including crossing state lines and various other federal offenses.
Very good point. From the website it appears their editing/live-view environment will be browser-based, so that might help.
"We're told our account will be restored in 12 hours, but the countdown won't begin until we delete the tweet that violates the Twitter Rules."

They opted out by not deleting the tweet. Under the new policy the tweet would just not really appear with or without the consent of the user.

"We're not deleting anything. Truth is not hate speech. If the cost of telling the truth is the loss of our Twitter account, then so be it."
After 9 years, you'll get your money back, but without any return. If they last 11 or 12 years, and since it's paid in US dollars, you'd get a little return on the investment. The question is whether they'll continue paying out for 12 years.

But my point is more that investors haven't blacklisted them forever, just because of prior defaults.

I don't know whether the interest on this particular bond is still being paid at the quoted rate, or if it was "restructured", since they did default again in 2020:

https://www.dw.com/en/argentina-in-default-for-second-time-t...
What does it mean to earn money honestly? If I'm an investment banker, is that honest? Car salesman? International arms dealer?

Like it or not, the execution of EA is to make as much as possible without regard for the consequences of how you make it. The whole premise is that the ends justify the means.

What they really mean by "honestly" is in a manner that doesn't reflect poorly on EA, which is tangential to whether or not the money is earned morally.
Swift is a systems langauge too
Ah... I think you've given me the missing puzzle. I will say I don't get sucked into those "one up" wars (I really hate spending money on things I feel are gimmicks) _but_ this makes a lot more sense.
I wish we (Americans) had universal healthcare, but at this point I'm pretty jaded about that ever coming to pass. So I agree with you there, and your point about them having paid taxes is also a good one.

That said, we do care for the elderly because of their vulnerability but we then shit on younger disabled people. Old people can have assets, most younger disabled people can't, and younger disabled people can lose their benefits by getting married. SSA also applies different criteria for disability and makes it functionally impossible to get if you're young enough versus in your 50s or 60s.

I'm frustrated at being expected to extend infinite grace to the elderly when receiving very little/none, despite us being similarly vulnerable. I also dislike that in general our culture takes care of the elderly/gives them their dues without asking them to take up the corresponding responsibility. As a group, they care very little about the future.

After years fighting/voting for better healthcare, very little has been accomplished. So am I just supposed to suffer and accept I matter less than an old person? That's kind of against basic animal survival instinct. My country seems determined to view it as a quid pro quo, including the elderly.
The punishment is only partially about Holmes, and largely about the message it sends to the potential future Holmeses of the world.
> What went wrong? This is sad because Ms. Holmes is brilliant.

This statement right here.

The fact that a supposedly impartial judge is having a crisis of reasoning...

The joke being "all equal before the law", the punchline being that aristocrat/peasant social structure is doing better than ever inside a self-proclaimed "republic"
Not who you are asking, but here is some recent research using probabilistic cost forecasts: https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(22)00410-X
Great, here's another.

$work had thousands of full custom, dsp-heavy, location measurement hardware devices widely deployed in the field for UTDOA locating cell phones. It used GPS for time reference -- if you know your location, you can get GPS time accurate around the 10's of nanoseconds. GPS also broadcasts a periodic almanac which includes leap second offsets: if you wanted to apply the offset to GPS you could derive UTC. Anyway there were three models of these units, each with an off-the-shelf GPS chip from one of three location vendors you've probably heard of. The chip firmware was responsible for handling leaps.

One day, a leap second arrived from the heavens. We learned the three vendors all exhibited different behaviors! Some chips handled the leap fine. Some ignored it. Some just crashed, chip offline, no bueno, adios. And some went into a state that gave wildly wrong answers. After a flurry of log pulling, debugging, console cabling, and truck rolls, we had a procedure to identify units in bad states and reset them without too many getting bricked.

It seems the less likely an event is to occur, the less likely your vendor put work into handling it.
NBA player Kyrie Irving has been in the news recently for other comments as well:

https://www.nba.com/news/kyrie-irving-regrets-flat-earth-com...

Not exactly a nerd.
Sounds like a good alternative to Overleaf. I think the future is jupyter style notebooks with formatting and rich text mode. However the developer should look for python interop, at least for the computed expressions part. It would be awesome to generate rich text documents programmatically!
I'm curious on this one, obviously a technical breakdown of how sentencing is applied in cases like this has been posted elsewhere in this thread, based on past (offence) history, non/mitigating circumstances, magnitude of the offence and presumably offset by how you plead etc. So this is the disincentive side to future criminals and this would seem to be an area of fraud (high-stakes) where you stand a (very) high-chance of getting caught, unlike a lot of other fraud where this doesn't appear to be the case [citation needed].

But on the other side, what are the incentives (to future criminals) to try pull off fraud of this magnitude. There's obviously various psychological effects playing out here (as well as circumstantial ones, great idea goes pear-shaped but it's seemingly too late to pull-out due to ego/sunkcost/other fallacies/last minute save).

But has anyone attempted a game-theoretic payoff matrix, I'm just wondering in the wider scheme of things (to loop back in the post I'm replying to about 11years feeling light) will this kind of sentence actually deter any future similar cases from happening or are the payoff's (financial or otherwise) just too high for this to apply any real deterrent threat to those who are likely to be in the position to be influenced by it?

So in reality, actually this is just really a punishment?
Might be strange, but is true
Chronolapse

Originally was for the windows folks participating in ludum dare (48hr game dev competition) so that we could easily make timelapses of the development process ( and so I didn't have to look up the ffmpeg command line arguments every time). These were interesting because all games had to be made from scratch in the 48 hours but windows didn't have an easy one liner for it like our linux friends. It grew some simple bells and whistles like cropping, picture-in-picture (it could take a screenshot AND a webcam capture at the same time), and adding audio.

It is terribly, terribly dated at this point (it didn't look great when I released it!) but folks still use it and I get emails from time to time (and a pull request upgrading to python 3 just recently!). I think there were like 50k downloads on google code before they shut that down. It's totally open source and I never marketed it or anything so it was fun to see it featured in some books on indie game dev and some random sites like lifehacker.

The best part for me was all the people who found and used it for things I had never dreamed of - I was sent timelapses of sunrises, custom engine builds, PhD research growing bacteria, construction projects, a ton of digital art, a custom arcade cabinet build, and one guy's year long journey making on very detailed, very cool cyberpunk scene.
Modular Arithmetic and the Diffie-Hellman Algorithm
I (used to) use simonsaysai.com to generate subtitles and they had the functionality to input specialized vocabulary, so I suppose it's possible in some sense but I don't know how it would work with Whisper, something to ask on their Github if nobody else has yet I suppose.

But, for me, the English model works really well. Using the 'large' model works about perfectly for me, I can't think of anything I thought the large model got too badly wrong, is that the model you tried?
I'm a bit concerned at the idea of beaming high power microwaves at the ground from something that's free floating. If this is done can we please at least have the ground stations on former offshore oil and gas rigs far from land. Then people will have less chance of being randomly microwaved from space if something goes wrong. or perhaps a laser on the ground that acts as a 'passcode' to enable the space microwave, and no power is sent if the space laser misses the ground station.

Come to think of it, you could produce hydrogen gas from the microwave power combined with the seawater, then put the hydrogen down the former gas pipelines back to shore. And gas can be sent by ship as well, unlike electricity.
What's the point of demonitizing a tweet? Its not like youtube where the author is getting a share of the profits.
Also, in many cases there are X crimes, including possession, and the plea is to take guilty on possession and not get charged with the others.
Unless you go full self-hosted, your website is also under the control of your hosting provider and DNS registry. You implicitly trust those, until you don't. (See the Linode/Itch.io gaffe from the other day.)

And what if your use case requires you to prove to others that you (or your publisher) can't surreptitiously and arbitrarily alter the information you published?
The International Energy Agency has under-forecasted renewable growth for something like 20 of the last 20 years. I don't think it's a given that a model is overly optimistic.

Their recent adjusts are not little tweaks...

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/05/exceptional-new-norma...

(I realize that this article is about a different, US DOE forecast, I'm just saying that they are working from a model that has assumptions in it and it has proven difficult to model this space)
Silencing monitors is actually forbidden by law in many places. Staff is supposed to be near the patient at all times => monitors beeping. That's certainly a bad state of things, but not a "fiefdom of power". It's so ingrained in our education that most staff don't even think about it but would certainly agree if asked whether the patient would sleep better without it.
Either you opened your mind a touch too much or you’re just being contrarian. Hard to tell.

I would be very interested to see any published definition of “musician” or “music” in a dictionary that would exclude drums.

The comparison of drummers to costume designers and publishers is so weak that I find it hard to believe you actually think this.

I am also glad that you brought the conversation back to rap. My original analogy of rap to drumming wasn’t very good, because a huge majority of rap music does have melody, harmony, form, and rhythm, no different than any other genre of music.

For reference, this is at the top of the charts today:
https://youtu.be/I4DjHHVHWAE
Potlatch, the user-friendly editor for OpenStreetMap from 2007 to 2013.

I'd been involved in OSM since its first few months (2004) but found contributing intensely frustrating. I wanted something where drawing a road was as quick as it was in Illustrator, which I was used to. Previously you had to create nodes, link them into segments, link those into ways, and manually add tags. Potlatch was a Flash app that allowed you to go click-click-click, choose "residential road" from a dropdown, and there it was - you'd added a road.

I wouldn't for a moment claim it was great code - it really wasn't. But it was the right thing at the right time for OSM. By 2013 people with money were starting to sniff around the project, and Mapbox got paid to build something better and more polished. I was frankly relieved because I'd had enough of defending the newbies against the self-described power users. Still, a significant part of OSM being where it is now is thanks to Potlatch, and I'm proud of that.
Fox News & co have spent decades training their target demographic to hate and fear anything that Democrats even pretend to like. There's nothing particularly age-inherent about it other than said demographic being both wealthier and less educated and thus a better group to target with the associated nonsense grifting.
The committee still wants UTC to be periodically adjusted to match the Earth's rotation. They just want to adjust it less often, where "less often" probably rounds to "never" in practical terms.
Italian American here, my mom wasn't considered "white" until she was an adult. That was then, I'm white now. Did you read the article? I'm not sure it counts as "baiting for clicks" when he spends half of the article talking about the history and structure of the American caste system and how SBF's (perceived) status as a white male impacted his trajectory. I don't think it's bait, when it's the thrust of the essay.
Yyup, I’ve been here a long time. I’m not saying there hasn’t been fraud, but the SV Way is not to outright lie about the core technology, as EH did.

Dotcom 1.0 was full of hucksters and it rightly crashed. The hasn’t been the norm in this newer era of YC, A16Z, First Round, etc. Integrity is valued and expected.
I wonder if there's a kind of collective background general knowledge that has dissipated as auto has become more common? What prompts this is just that no-one I knew had any great difficulty with clutch & gears when I learned to drive (early '80's). Autos (in rural UK) were pretty rare, and everyone before starting to drive had at least a vague idea of how to use the controls, and at least a majority of the boys had a rough idea of the underlying mechanisms.

I lived on a country road and learned when I was 12 by stealing my mother's car (a Fiat 500) before she got home from work. Two or three goes and I was away. Admittedly concentrating on the clutch I did forget to steer and went off-road a couple of times.
When I think about my master password while typing it, I sometimes get it wrong. When I don't think about it, it's always right.

Judging from the bibliography of the wiki page, there doesn't seem to be much (recent) research into the effect. I'd love to know more about the nature of these (automatic) neural "highways" and why conscious thought can't reliably interact with them the way it can with the regular pathways.
I setup the server to only transcribe two files at a time, so yeah someone could abuse it for sure with two big uploads and stick everyone else on the queue. But for me, even a 3 hour video translates with large model in about ~30 minutes so it wouldn't be too bad, but hopefully everyone is conscious to not do that, so far nobody has abused it which is cool.
There are. Cell phones. In. Prisons. People who have never even seen a fraction of the wealth that Elizabeth Holmes defrauded people out of are able to get them. She can very well wind up on a Web3 social platform anonymously by 2027, trading crypto while funding SciHub.
So you are saying that the geography and socioeconomics of an established (over 10's of thousands of years) country in an already well developed and urbanized continent with high population density is different than one that is sparsely populated and only recently started to be developed by any modern definition?

Weird.

Maybe in another thousand years, it'll seem more similar.
Yep! A better call than mine. :)

I mean, the 9 served thing is a little easy, since it follows mechanically from the actual sentence (also, it'll be 10 served, not 9).
> 1. The ICU is filled with old people... Pretty much all these patients are on Medicare, which means your taxpayers dollars are making this happen.

This ignores the (I think) very strong possibility that the old people are preferentially selected by the system because, thanks to Medicare, they can _afford_ the ICU. Many people aged less than 65 cannot. Consider the idea that if we had something like "Medicare for all", the population of the ICU would better reflect normal demographics.

That said, as a beneficiary of Medicare I can only be grateful. I had several days in a top-quality hospital and a procedure by a top-quality surgeon, and after all the EOBs had come in, I ended paying out of pocket... nothing at all.
Netstat is becoming an optional package on many distributions in favor of ss.
Hi, Mojolicious founder here. The "Perl grade" is meant to be a cheeky callback to Perl's famous backwards compatibility (you can run pretty much any Perl code written in the past 30 years with the latest Perl unchanged...yada yada). Perhaps it is a bit too subtle.

Back when i started with Node, one of the first problems i constantly ran into was some NPM module deep down in my node_modules folder breaking its API in a minor version bump and causing hours of cleanup work. So pretty early on avoiding this issue became a priority for the mojo.js port, and i see it as one of the main niches for us to corner. You want to write a fast JS/TS web service that still works in 10 years? Use mojo.js!

Maybe you've got a suggestion for how to better communicate this idea?
Exactly - taking away freedom is really the only penalty you can apply to white collar crime, or the risk/reward would be grossly in favor of committing the crime - even income garnishments can't push you to absolute zero.
>EA may be an interesting perspective, but I'm immediately wary of anyone who self-identifies as an "effective altruist".

The logic makes sense on the surface. For instance, if someone self-identifies himself as a philanthropist/altruist and makes an effort to make that known I'll be a bit suspicious. However, effective altruism is a movement/community, so it seems reasonable to be able to identify yourself as belonging to that community. For instance, if you're part of the YIMBY movement, and you're involved in a significant way (eg. are a leader, gives talks, and contributes financial resources), it seems reasonable for you to mention that at least occasionally. It just so happens that the community that SBF is involved with is called "effective altruism", so if you're a member of the community you get called an "effective altruist". Given what they do, I think the naming is entirely reasonable and nothing cynical is happening.
Do you have any guidance on this?

The UK seems to disagree, for example: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/charities-and-res...
> She will serve the full sentence. There is no federal parole.

She could be pardoned.
I live in Europe where driving stick was the norm until the arrival of hybrid and electrical cars. I have predominantly driven stick, and only recently driven an automatic hybrid car. From a comfort point of view I do prefer an automatic, although some petrol heads may keep preferring driving stick. However, I suspect it will become a niche within a generation.
Culture is a real thing. And people in a country share one.
Seems like she could have made a few right turns down a longer path and been a game changer. Obviously much of the tech seemed...wanting. The ability to enlist such powerful people in such an important mission was power gone to waste. At least she didn't waste it driving clicks.
This is basically how I taught my son to drive a manual. I used a low-torque Toyota Corolla with a 5-speed manual. I found a large, flat area—a mega-church parking lot—and, in first gear, told him he can do whatever he wants, as long as he doesn't touch the throttle. He quickly discovered the point at which the clutch bit—began to engage—and learned to get the car rolling without killing the engine.

After an hour or so, he had mastered the engaging the clutch and I began to add the next steps. A couple sessions and he had the whole thing down.

Eventually I taught him how to double-clutch, rev-match when downshifting, and even how to float the shift with no clutch at all.

Today he owns a manual trans performance car (Z06) and has a great fondness for manuals.
Even the challenges in scaling a platform like Twitter to a global scale are gone. They were novel and exciting 10 years ago; today, using cloud services, it's a comp sci 301 assignment.
but you see, the rich need those animal-monster-archetypes to put fear and disgust into working people

also, if you want to understand power, you've got to take off your engineering hat and start thinking in psycho-social fairy tale logic.

(p.s. the concept of anarcho-tyranny is the best thing i've heard from the peter thiel types)

Remember the brown bodega owner that fought back against the black attacker trying to murder him, and was still arrested? and how deeply unfair that felt, making protecting yourself a crime?

someone on twitter had an incredible comment that summed up his ideological sin in stabbing the criminal: "he killed the king's deer"

you'll understand the world much better if you stop willing it to be fair (this is a need of our inner child) and just observe how it works first, like an alien anthropologist...

but just like talking about a dream you had, it won't be polite or even possible to explain or discuss what you see with others, sadly
No, that was about someone else who posted that they would not expect even half of software developers, to be actually writing code. I found that statement bizarre.

Like, yeah of course the top engineers find themselves less and less hands-on-keyboard as they turn more to technical leadership roles. But some people seem to be arguing that code isn’t the bread and butter work for majority of developers. Who’s doing the actual work then, is my question for them.
I have the inverse opinion.

I think the cost to society for these types of financial crimes is minimal, and close to zero.

She wasted some specific investors money, which is bad. However, the financial crime has basically no impact on the average person.