skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> or are transgressions for which no forgiveness is possible.

Is that really a thing people believe? I don't think that's actually true. B/c people know they fuck up, and they will ask the people around them for forgiveness, and they think they can deserve it. And when someone who actually matters in our lives does something wrong, we can sometimes forgive them.

I think the problem is:

- the most highly visible cases are often public figures who did something wrong for a long time and only expressed when they were caught or caught and publicly shamed. It's hard to believe these people are sincere when they repent.

- the public performance of unforgiveness has itself become an opportunity for virtue signaling.

- the most sincere apologies are for these reasons given and received out of the public eye, and I think we then don't see the real response modeled very often.
Theranos raised $1B; FTX raised $2B. So we can assume that SBF gets 22yrs prison right?
I thought they contracted that out to companies that did real blood testing.
>Department of Defense--Military Programs

I wonder if that means they're subtracting portions of the DoD budget that aren't technically military operations.
> Microsoft don't write a browser engine.

Well, they did, but they let it stagnate.
Maybe that's part of the bloat elon is looking to cut
Doesn't altruism literary mean selflessness-ism? Can you be selfless with stolen property?
Nahh US surveillance is the good kind /s
The NYT article has the most information of the ones I've seen. Edit: https://twitter.com/scottbudman/status/1593729235818278912 also (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33663152).

When all else is equal, we favor the earliest submitter of a story, but if one submission is more substantive than another (as yours was in this case), then it should win. A substantive article with more information has a better chance of forming a good thread.
Correct me I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that EV's like Tesla don't really have a transmission as in gears to change, so as much as I'm a diehard manual transmission fan I figured that was where it ends. Now a clutch pedal that simply allows the vehicle to coast with regenerative breaking disabled sounds like the best compromise to me.
> Holmes in January was found guilty of four charges of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

Wikipedia has this short lay description of wire fraud:

> In layman's terms, anyone trying to scam other people or groups through any form of communication (paradoxically, even wireless) e.g., phones, instant messaging, email, or through writing, signs, pictures or sounds can be punished with a maximum prison sentence of 20 years. If the scam involves a financial institution, the maximum fine is raised to 1 million US dollars and prison sentence not more than 30 years, or both.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_and_wire_fraud#Wire_fraud

It sounds like the FTX crew might be facing similar charges at some point.
Why don’t we talk to each other the way we talk to Google?
Haha no, the other Flowhub :p http://flowhub.io
That’s incredibly selfish on her part if that’s the case.
It's a workplace situation, and I think it's appropriate to say:

"I've asked four times what 2+2 is, and you've told me several stories about addition but haven't answered the question. Is there some reason you're not able to tell me what 2+2 is?"

In a party, perhaps not.

I've often phrased it as:

"I've asked four times what 2+2 is, and I still don't have an answer to that question. I'm afraid I cannot proceed with X until I know the answer to that question."

Often, though, I've found that simply putting the burden on the other party unblocks them. It shifts their mindset from "I need to answer a question" (which they think they did) to "I need to solve this problem" (which they realize they haven't).

"We need X. Can you sort it out?"
agreed. i’m sick of being gaslit twice a year when i go to bed, set an alarm for 8 hours from now, and instead it wakes me after 7 or 9 hours while insisting it’s really been 8 hours.

it happened again to me just a few weeks ago with the DST switch. i was so mad when i learned that everything had felt off the day of the switch because it was off that i just set all my clocks to UTC. no more gaslighting: my clocks all accurately measure intervals with no tricks, which is exactly what i most want out of my clock.
I love the reading and the explanations, it's all very clear, nice work! This trainer is cool, but maybe I'm too ignorant to understand the prompts. For example,

"Das Essen … Frau"

What case is it looking for? I assume it's nominative, but I don't know what the context is. But "die" is not accepted. Is it implied that "the food is eaten by the woman"?
That is one way to frame it, the other is that if she suspected that she was going to be going to prison for 10+ years she would be 48 on release and unlikely to be able to start a family. Dispite being a criminal, she is a human with human instincts and may have just wanted to actually have children?

That's not to say that having children just before going to prison for 10 years isn't cruel to those babies.

People are complex and often very flawed.

Edit:

To add, I have no sympathy for her, but the thought of being disconnected from my children for 10 years fills me with such fear that I imagine she has made her sentence even more torturous than it would have been.
That’d be barely better, because the children would still suffer.
So she knew she was going to prison, and decided to bring kids in to the world to grow up without a mother? That's even worse.

Edit: typo
On a global scale, the universe as a whole is actually remarkably close to euclidean [1] (which is a mystery of its own). So it's not curvature that's the problem, but expansion. To account for this, people usually quote the comoving distance [2] (which factors out expansion) when talking about very distant things like the microwave background. I.e. the distance light would have to travel today if you could freeze the evolution of the universe for the duration of the journey.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_of_the_universe

[2] see your own source
She could've had kids anytime, especially over the past 7 years. Looking at it now, it's hard to see it as anything but a manipulative attempt to delay the trial (and the strategy succeeded in buying her 3 months) and seek a more sympathetic sentence.

Getting pregnant at age 40 isn't easy, especially twice in less than two years. Highly likely both were IVF induced, the timing was just too perfect.
You left out an important step - assuming that all the planning and modelling has been done correctly in and doesn't turn out to be politically motivated, have mistakes or miss unknown unknowns.

Reconstituting all of society's energy consumption is a large project with a lot of technical uncertainties that will be discovered along the way. These sort of forecasts routinely turns out to be very wrong. Centrally planned economies often look like they are about to power ahead when the plans are still on paper. It is only when people start starving that there is the "oh, the plan wasn't actually very good" moment and/or crackdown to cover up the disaster depending on how authoritarian the government has gotten.
The ROI on stopping Russian expansion and crippling their military has got to be insane.
i think youre right and i think the market will adjust, but the current application is just trying to take what works on local and regional beer haulers and ups vans and scale it up. very myopic and leads to a lot of frustration when logistics companies realize their drivers arent qualified to leave the state with bigger loads because they never learned stick
About 26 years ago, I spent some quality time (7 days) in ICU. I wasn't just at Death's Door. I was pounding on it, and loudly demanding admittance.

> Everyone agrees that sleep is important, but nobody has any idea beyond that.

I didn't sleep for pretty much the entire week. I was on lots of opiates and opioids, though, so I spent most of that week in a weird quasi-sleep "dream state."

I don't recommend the experience.

Most expensive hotel I've ever been in.
China is planning on building 150 reactors in the next 15 years

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-11-02/china-cli...

So yes, once again we have to listen to Americans say “it won’t work here”
https://www.youtube.com/@campingwithsteve
Basically no amount of due diligence can protect against all out fraud.

If ask for information and data but they provide lies and fake data, what do you expect?
Many people would not consider NYT a high quality news source, starting from many years ago.

In any case, I would suggest to never trust any news source nowadays and always supplement with your own research.
> I am advocating for taking off warning labels. Take it as you will.

What are the "warning labels" on believing that the Earth is flat?

> It is both fascinating and scary to me that you think presentable ideas require your explicit permission to exist.

Not sure where you're getting any of this. You seem to have built up quite a straw man that you are getting really upset about. Here it is put simply: I am under no obligation to entertain your beliefs. If you get offended by that and run away to form your own community, thats your problem. You can't force me to pretend as if Flat Earth is a reasonable idea. We're thousands of years past that point.

I really don't understand your position. You are simultaneously aggrieved that Flat Earthers are being ignored, but also seem to think they should die.
Adopted an orphaned open-source project that was still widely used in the genomics community, despite no updates in ~4 years. Used SIMD instructions, careful memory management, and other strategies to speed up most operations by 1-4 orders of magnitude and support the current generation of biobank-scale genome-wide association studies (https://academic.oup.com/gigascience/article/4/1/s13742-015-... ).
Interestingly, I think the most impactful thing I've built is Computer Graphics from Scratch, a book! Teaching people is high-impact and also super rewarding.

In terms of code, probably some stuff that runs on every Android device (although I don't think any of my original, 2013-2014 code is still in use, but the project itself is very much alive)
Take a Deep Breath: SpiroMask uses consumer masks for lung health monitoring
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), 235 million people suffer from respiratory illnesses which causes four million deaths annually. Regular lung health monitoring can lead to prognoses about deteriorating lung health conditions.

SpiroMask presents a system that retrofits a microphone in consumer-grade masks (N95 and cloth masks) for continuous lung health monitoring. We evaluate our approach on 48 participants (including 14 with lung health issues) and find that we can estimate parameters such as lung volume and respiration rate within the approved error range by the American Thoracic Society (ATS).
I run https://www.dreamlist.com and it's become a major, if not the top, online gift drive platform in the US. Anyone who knows families in need can organize a gift drive for them. You can add items to lists, lists to groups of lists, to multi-branch organization pages full of items wished by children and families who may not be able to afford gifts otherwise. It's like a Y Combinator for direct giving.

DreamList is free to all participants in the system and I spend a lot of Q4 helping giant drives set up to get just the right gifts to many many thousands of children (some drives support 15-30,000 children in foster care, single parent families, natural disaster situations, or church communities across multiple states, and we support an increasing number of drives). Q1-3 are spent building more functionality to make the next Q4 easier because it is inevitably bigger than the last.
Would you think if the dog of SBF ate the same food as the dog of a former Enron employ would be a link?
I’m fresh off of spending 24 hours in the ICU and I can say the OP is right. It’s impossible to actually “recover” there at all. My singular goal while there was simply to get home to my bed, even if it meant I could potentially die. I didn’t care. I wanted out.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/changing-world-changing-...

... laying off 250 staff: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24120336

https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/mozilla-cutting-250-jobs...
what's the difference between a valid criticism and negativity? it would be hard enough to identify "hate", but "negative"...that leaves a lot of room for interpretation.
Biden pardoned all federal offenses of simple marijuana possession, but it doesn't apply going forward. The DoJ's prosecutors will happily continue charging people with possession of a schedule I substance until the DEA changes the scheduling.
This is not new. It is news because it's from Intel.

I looked into that a year or two ago and there were papers on the this.

Anyone who is familiar with Euler Video Magnification and with neural network likely though of that.

Does this work in encoded videos? I doubt. Intel probably can add a a feature the video encoder and sell it as an authentication service for webcam communication on Intel Plataform.
Parody, surely?
because the prosecutors don't have good evidence of anyone actually harmed by the bad tests, and the testing agreements probably got the patients to agree if it didn't work they wouldn't rely on it.
Quite the opposite, MORE people need to go to prison for fraud on this level, too often these people get off with a slap on the wrist, some house arrest..and they end up setting up shop somewhere else. You don't know every person that gave Theranos money, there is a very good chance there were some average people who got burned pretty badly.
This is called the "race to the prosecutors office" in the US. The first whistleblower gets a free pass. Everyone else, not so much.
Show HN: I made a free transcription service powered by Whisper AI
Very much like Twitter, without the algo - if you dont follow people, you dont really see much. Its a reminder why hashtags were a thing
Heh, refused to die seems like a weird way to state it.

Intel tried to force a split in desktop/server design with a significant price premium and shipped a very complicated CPU that moved significant complexity/work into the compiler. It managed to scare Alpha, Mips, and PA-risc out of the market, and generally shipped years late and hit performance milestones even later.

AMD on the other hand doubled the x86's registers, added 64 bit support, improved performance and did so with basically zero increase in cost. So suddenly a random x86-64, even a desktop, could gasp make full use of over 4GB ram at zero cost.

So Itanium retreated from servers, to HPC, to enterprise, and HA enterprise then of course died.
I use Posteo and really like it.
It makes me sad to hear that Daimler - or any other large company that can afford better pays something for WITCH companies
Not really special in the case of ML.

Before deepfakes, if you wanted to claim a video was doctored in court, you'd find an expert on video editing and have them testify.

But the same knowledge that allowed them to identify a doctored video (like 50hz/60hz hum) could be used in an adversarial manner to create a very convincing video.

At most deepfakes democratize that "knowledge" in the form of a model, so it still works both ways.
Financial crimes are easier to prove. Same reason Al Capone went to jail for tax evasion.
Any form of euthanasia runs into the legal and moral problem of who decides? And why?

You might think everyone wants to act in the best interests of their relatives, but of course that's not true. Some people will want to speed the natural process along because that inheritance looks really appealing, and no one is really going to miss the old guy/gal anyway.

Besides, that's not really the problem. The problem is profiteering by insurance companies and the hospitals they (effectively) run for profit, with patient wellbeing as a regrettable requirement they have to put some effort into.
That is how most muslims are buried, no coffin just a simple cloth
When I do it to you it's free speech, when you do it to me it's bullying.
I wonder: Why is Daylight Savings/Normal Time not implemented using monotically increasing hours? Day goes up to hour 23 one time of year and hour 25 the other instead of doing a clock hour twice. Would be weird to be able to have 23-hour and 25-hour days. But this seems to be how leap seconds are handled (one 61 second minute)?
What percent of patients have a medical need to be woken up every few hours then?
> That raises the question of what are the "dividends" for those parties, regardless of the financial success of Twitter.

My guess is that they see twitter as the central online hub of anti-capitalist ideology, which is also correlated with marginalized identity politics. If the bankers could nip that growing movement in the bud before it fully coalesces into something with real political power, then that would seem to be well worth $44B (which of course they wouldn't actually lose because they'd write off their losses against their taxes).
It's not illegal for other entities to fund residencies!

I anticipated your argument in my other comment...
Noticing a trend in these "disruptors" in that they can't survive. I'm really not sure how CarMax and these other vendors are even being considered in the same category.
Very sad for anyone to go to prison in this country, which nearly never provides any healing or help.
"apply the rules consistently" is like "unbiased journalism", it is an impossible standard that literally nobody adheres to. Further, anyone claiming intentional bias in moderation behavior is just making it up because there are thousands of moderation decisions made every day, the details of which they are not privy to.
Exactly, this only works if the clearing venue is a third party. In this case, Alameda === FTX
I love driving stick and I've done so with all my cars...but I'm okay seeing it go. I'd prefer the options to be more environmental, and there are other joys in life. It's not good to be attached to such things.
I’m merely using religious values as an example for why someone might eat meat but also be concerned with animal welfare, and that there exist worldviews where the two are compatible.

For myself I’m content in asserting that animals are not human and there’s no reason to afford them the same rights as humans. If I assume that I have the same faculties for reason but need to come to a conclusion behind a veil of ignorance, I would still be ok with a world in which people eat some meat.
Just because her behavior was horrible doesn't mean she isn't a scapegoat.
It only uses a 20 cent microphone on commodity face mask to monitor your lung health. So cool!
Al Capone went to jail for tax evasion. She got convicted for fraud because it was easy to prosecute, she got sentenced at least partially for cynically endangering peoples lives. There's clearly an argument that this is an abuse of the legal system, but she's not being singled out here.
Why does SpaceX need to advertise on twitter? Who there is going to be buying their services?

Come to think of it, why does SpaceX need to advertise at all? Those who need to launch rockets already know who can do it.
Part of my wonders if it was intentional on Sequoia's part to not take a board seat or get too involved. If they had and Alfred Lin were a director of FTX, he would've been pulled into the bankruptcy and all of the lawsuits, as well as all of the bad press.

By being a passive investor, they can write off their investment and move on.
There's also the hypothesis of angular diameter turnaround: that at a sufficient distance, more distant objects would appear larger rather than smaller, because they subsumed a larger fraction of the universe at the time.

This has not been observed by JWST so far as I'm aware.

Memorialised in an xkcd comic, of course (Explain version linked here): <https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2622:_Angular_Dia...>

See also: <https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1516548836709343238.html>
Precisely why I've never given anything more than traffic to Jimmy Wales.

I don't know how that sad pack of Winston Smiths they call editors rationalizes its behavior , and I don't want to know.
I just wanna see racing ev's with straight cut dog boxes.

Audio Volume Warning. Turn sound way down.

https://youtu.be/dmJH84FnQa8
don't forget the first time you have to start on a hill. or brake. first time I had to brake hard I forgot to put in the clutch and that was the whole front end.
>Charitable foundations aren't supposed to be corporations. If we've got an entity like Mozilla running a healthy balance sheet it should be a public corporation that we can all be shareholders in. So yes, I am upset by that too although that wasn't the point I was trying to make.

>They've set up a situation where they are going to be corrupted. A billion dollars in assets attracts charlatans and they won't have sufficient defences to stop the money being siphoned off into pet projects and general shenanigans. There will probably turn out to be fraud involved sooner or later.

It is very confusing what you want - you want Mozilla to be publicly traded so that you can share in its success (and open itself up to being corrupted), yet have an issue with it not being publicly traded?

Do you just want to be upset?
Or 70-80% cant leave (ex. New mortgage, sickness, etc ) and delaying exit as they start to look at other opportunities elsewhere.
I'd wager: not very differently. But not out of fear. The social isolation of old age is the same everywhere. Young people have their own lives to live.
What is the plan for revamping all the residential units that have non-electrical heating in the parts of the country which have winter?
As with many of these categories it can be hard to pin down accurate numbers.
See also
https://youtu.be/3S2g3VDwrlI
Maybe that’s what we need but it’s definitely not what people want and it will never succeed in its current form. The whole motivation for a lot of people is to get their voice out to as many people as possible, not to indulge their interests in specific niches.
> it's harder to take an existing, outdated, non-editable PDF and automatically fill it out.

That has been on my wishlist for several years: build a "PDF annotation" service that takes in a PDF that is not an XObject form (e.g. this random example: https://www.dentalworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Patie... ) and replace those _____ areas with actual PDF inputs. My handwriting is terrible, and it's a waste of human capital for some poor soul to try and decipher handwriting only to (almost undoubtedly) re-type it into a computer on their end

I am sure we ended up in this situation because people just "File > Print to PDF" from Word or whatever, because knowing that PDF forms exist and then how to use Adobe(R) whatever(tm) to make a real editable PDF is "too much to ask."

I have had about 10% success with Preview.app detecting the lines and allowing me to click on them and type, but having https://notstupidpdf.example.com/www.dentalworks.com/wp-cont... would be much better for humanity
"there are likely fewer than 2,000 employees left at the company."

To me, that still seem like an unnecessarily large team. WhatsApp had only 55 employees when they got acquired.
Totally agree. Also, let people open more medical care facilities. Right now "Certificate of Need" legislation is killing lots of viable options for care _outside_ hospitals.
I love MonoDevelop, I used it to write C# for Linux before the .NET core days
A clean power grid means cheaper power. And the faster we push towards that future, the more money we save.

Every day of delay, every bit of FUD about renewables, only serves to keep our energy costs higher, and make our future CO2 cleanup problem harder.

The future for energy is cheap and clean, and the major roadblock are the people who profit from expensive and dirty electricity.