skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is generally true that Federal prisons are less unpleasant than state prisons. Federal prisons have people convicted of things like interstate wire fraud. State prisons have most of the rapists and murderers, as these are rarely Federal crimes.
> private corporations/algorithms do some of that thinking for them

When Spotify's Discovery Weekly gives me a playlist, it's giving me songs I've never heard before, that it thinks I'll like. The decision if I like them is completely my own. Spotify's recommendations aren't thinking for me. If I had more time to listen to a thousand random songs a day, I might stumble across their recommendations. But, their recommendations aren't thinking for me, they're just categorizing and skipping most of the garbage* related to my dislikes.

* Spotify has 80 million songs. If I listened to the first 10 seconds of every song, for 8 hours a day, it would take me over 70 years.
I always find these arguments confusing.

If you (in the future) ask these children I'm pretty darn sure that they would disagree that they would have been better off not existing.

But I guess that doesn't count because.. they're biased in favor of their own existence?

I'm only 30% trying to be sarcastic, and mostly trying to see if this kind of argument makes any kind of sense.
I wasn't even aware that it was on GitHub, which I suppose is an issue in itself.
Interesting, thanks for the correction. So the human insulin is $25, and the newer analog types of insulin are the super expensive ones.
This is why (until very recently) Windows updates are distributed over HTTP - the only benefit of TLS is real-time error checking (and only because there are stateful HTTP proxies that can mangle files).
What the GP said never happened.
> In other words, her crime was serious, but prosecutors can point to no dead body or even serious bodily injury, though the risk was real.

This seems a bit weird to me.

If one engages in behavior that creates real bodily risk for people, that ought to be the crime. The probability of injury that was created, not the outcome. If it just so happens that the dice landed in a way that didn’t harm anyone, that doesn’t tell us anything about her intention, how dangerous it is to have her out in society.

Especially for white collar crimes, where the execution of the risk is often set up in such a manner that the perpetrator isn’t there for the injury. If somebody breaks into a gas station and tries to rob the place with a weapon, but at the critical moment doesn’t actually hurt anyone, that’s still obviously very serious, but we can infer that they have some little bit of conscience that spoke up when it was most needed. Not so for the person who set up a dangerous abstract process that just happened to not hurt anyone by coincidence.
If I were her I would freeze some eggs and/or adopt. I don't know what the adoption process looks like for convicted felons but she likely has the resources to pursue one or both of these paths.

She's very intelligent and very calculating - she had to have considered these options. Instead (I'm pretty convinced) she saw an opportunity - however remote - that she could walk away from this thing by getting at least one juror to be reluctant to send a new mother/pregnant woman to prison.

This is, after all, the person that in the face of failure after failure (at best) held out for 15 years on the very tiny chance her concept could eventually maybe just maybe be viable some day (at best). Instead of facing it she's now convicted of fraud and going to prison.

The entire Theranos story is long-shots and Hail Mary's. I truly believe these pregnancies were yet another long-shot with herself and only herself in mind. But in this case it's not the lives of strangers making medical decisions with her shoddy product at risk, it's a lifelong disadvantaged start for her own children.

She is the epitome of narcissism and demonstrates it over and over again. If I really were her I would hope to eventually have the realization that I have some serious personality issues to work on and absent substantial progress on them I probably shouldn't be having kids in the first place. Maybe 11 years in prison will do just that but unfortunately for these kids the damage is already done.
So we have "ronna" or "R" for 10^27 and "quetta" or "Q" for 10^30.

I haven't seen the official binary equivalents.

For example, we have "yotta" or "Y" for 10^24, and "yobi" or "Yi" for 2^80.

Are we going have "robi" and "quebi"? I presume the abbreviations will be "Ri" and "Qi".

(I guess we don't need fractional binary prefixes. There's not much use for nanobytes.)

Of course since this was just announced today, I'm not really complaining.
IA Launcher: A DOSBox Front End for the Internet Archive
>The other big piece of it is... communicating is a messy activity. I'm always amazed how often you can think people are aligned on something

I wonder if this is a bug, or a feature, if you will. Maybe the random distribution of variations in our understandings is an essential part of working as a team.

Let’s say, every ant is trained to react by spitting acid as a XOR: if A or B, but not A and B, attack!

If the social behavior is not a function of the rules, but more driven by whether a given ant believes {A, B}, and this varies in some distribution, I can imagine some interesting outcomes. Perhaps…

One ant accidentally believes A ~B. That is their sensory input but not the truth. They accidentally hit a beetle, score! Wildcard ant! You get to reproduce.

Not clear if that thought experiment extends into cultural differences. I’d say that means different rules, in my take.

But within one group with the same rules, a distribution of different and even wrong information seems like an advantage.

Maybe not for that one poor schmuck who wrongly believed A and B, and got his head bitten off. But antmortized we’re probably all better off.
Cool, that’s a significant improvement. I’m not sure how often magnitude-scale improvements occur in material sciences, but my instinct is that it’s rare.
As the other person said, Pretty sure they actually cant. Last I knew all China Business had to be majority owned by Chinese Citizens or CCP or both.

Americans can invest and have minority ownership in china but can not just "operate" in china like you can in the US as a Foreign company.

Infact this was the regulation trump wanted to impose on ByteDance, they needed an American partner to operate in the US, i.e they were in talks with Oracle before Biden reversed the order
The manual transmission may well be the best theft control device on the market.

But aren’t even so-called manuals actual drive by wire?
Preface: my knowledge here is on ARM, particularly baremetal, but also embedded Linux. No idea about Windows or x86.

Generally there’s a hardware watchdog implemented as a counter/timer in the processor. It can have a predefined or configurable period. It counts down, and if it times out then it initiates a hardware reset of the processor.

You can ensure your software/OS is always at least executing code by having a task (in-kernel on Linux, or an RTOS task, or just in your main event loop on baremetal) that resets that timer. Then, if your code stops resetting that timer, it expires and resets the processor.
Do you go usually to https://news.ycombinator.com/newest ? HN is much smaller, so it's possible to review the titles of all post. Spoiler alert: there is a lot of crap, but from time to time there is some hidden gem that deserves an upvote before it disappears in the void. Pleat take a look when you hace some fee time.

Twitter/TikTok are much bigger, so a raw faucet is probably horrible. (An the topic much wider, so many good post are not interesting for you.)
I wonder if the idea of giving an irregular offset at regular intervals is in the cards. Having a unknown offset of x seconds every century, say, seems easier to implement than a known offset every unknown interval.
We’re still evaluating pricing based on early feedback. We’d be happy to chat about what your work case looks like and share more details.

I could reach out to you over email, or we could chat on our Discord server at discord.gg/jetpack-io
I think you're reading a lot of what you want into that "Twitter 2.0" email.

I mean, we're all reading into that email to some degree, but it struck me as all stick and no carrot.

> ... we will need to be extremely hardcore. This will mean working long hours at high intensity.

> Anyone who has not [replied 'yes'] by 5pm ET tomorrow (Thursday) will receive three months of severance.

I think Musk is immensely talented and a great motivator.

But not in this instance.

I think he knows he's screwed up badly, but he reminds me of an angst ridden high schooler who is in trouble, but who is trying to walk the fine line of getting himself OUT OF trouble while still saving face in front of his friends by acting cool ("yeah, I just vaporized $44 billion. I'm cool with that. <blithely glances at his fingernails.> EVERYONE GET DOWN TO MY OFFICE WITH YOUR CODE AND PLEASE STAY IF YOU'RE ESSENTIAL")

You know what would have been a message than the first one above?

"... we will need to be extremely hardcore. This will mean working long hours at high intensity. Those who can rise to the challenge will be handsomely compensated and you will have my undying gratitude."

See? A little carrot thrown in with the stick.
> Contrary to a lot of people I know, I think nuclear weapons are largely a good thing and the reason we‘ve had peace in Europe for 80 years.

I think the verdict is still out on this. Should we destroy human civilization with nuclear weapons at some point in the future, none of that peace will have been worth it. We've had so many close calls (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_close_calls) that we're very lucky that this hasn't happened yet.
So if the labor shortage is going to last for years, does that mean so will inflation?
Man, I really love that first bit of advice. You're right about interests changing, if I were to get a job again I think I want to do something low-level/backend/more dev oriented, possibly in golang for a company that makes a PaaS or hosting. Open to other industries/roles too but I wanna be closer to the dev side rather than DevOps (which feels like glorified sysadmin/server monkey a lot).

I have self confidence that is swinging between "I can do this, I can do anything, I can take something off the ground, I've made 10s of thousands of dollars in addition to my job! on the side! and I'm smart and capable." and "I am so dumb. Why would I try to take a shot like this, I don't even have a path or approach. What, I'm going to write blog posts every week? Or be a web designer? I'm mediocre at both of those. How could I ever do anything and make it happen and make it be profitable...I should just get a job and dip my toe in to this stuff...This self employment shit is so unrealistic and romantic."

Back to that first bit of advice, this is just me journaling to myself, and maybe I sound crazy and this is unrealistic

"If I was smart, I'd..."

- research industries and niches and pick one I'm interested in and can tolerate the people in it
- talk to a load of people in that industry and learn their painpoints with some process they do daily
- mock something up for them and have them help me develop it. just wireframe type stuff.
- build real Software for them, quickly and leanly and get them to commit to paying. No crazy features or frameworks, just a bare MVP.
- sell through outbound sales, make sure I have a big enough market and cost (which has to be backed by immense value) to support myself in ~6 months.
- iterate
- hustle like crazy

I realize the long slow SaaS ramp of death is a thing...and maybe this is all just so utterly stupid and naïve of me. But it is my gut reaction to that sentence hah.
Imagine saying this 80 years ago about any number of technologies that are cheap and commonplace today.
This seems like a hypothetical concern. Has anybody actually had a problem with a clearly OSD-compliant license not being approved? Has anybody been "socially exiled" for not using an OSI-approved license?
> He appears to be at least somewhat delivering on that hope.

Unless they're pretending to be him (or advertisers) for a joke on Twitter, in which case they seem to very quickly get banned.
> am I just supposed to suffer and accept I matter less than an old person?

Absolutely not. The situation is deplorable, and I hope we can get to a better one some day. Fight for all you're worth. All I'm saying is that others who receive care are not your enemies. (Or at least not because they receive care. There's bound to be some overlap.) The enemy is the people within the system who restrict the labor supply, drive up prices for everything else, make arbitrary rules like those you've mentioned, and so on. The politicians and profiteers, not the patients, define that system.
There are a lot of those, but there are just as many people who have real objections to fossil fuel and highway expansion plans that get steamrolled through with no consultation.

They're also not the ones funding faux environmental studies that say replacing the coal plume with some solar panels will kill all the frogs, and they're not living in bumfuck nowhere where suddenly 4x the town's population shows up to object to the wind turbine saying it gave them seizures.

The NIMBYism only works if it manufactured and then allowed to work by the people who have actual power over these things (media owners like murdoch and lobbyists). Without that they'd just be tear gassed and told to go around the back alley to the frew speech zones like everyone else.
interesting, since FTX was headquartered in the bahamas this seems lawful and not unreasonable. though some will argue the government doesn't have the right to do that, I think you sacrifice your protection when you commit fraud.

how quickly should the bahamas have announced about the asset seizure? is it common in other countries to not comment about (seizures in) ongoing investigations?
Thanks, friend. I super appreciate that. I do take long walks and try to do them silently without podcasts from time to time, which does give some introspective value. I also journal but less than I should. Similar output from what you're suggesting. I might shoot ya an email.
A question, I am used to monetized in the youtube sense, where you get a portion of your videos ad revenue, I did not think twitter did this. Does demonetized mean something different there?
Interesting question ... plane of existence.

I was hearing voices that convinced me I was not where I thought I was, it was an illusion of sorts and it was best to leave. Immediately. For reasons unclear to me.
She was also responsible for traumatising many employees and a whistle-blower.
Past experience suggests that that likely won't be too effective. "Big lie" propaganda is profoundly effective, even amongst those who are painfully aware of its existence and methods as individuals, and at the population level, there seem to be virtually no defences.

Rather, there'll need to be the emergence of credible and trustworthy channels which verify messaging and content before it's widely disseminated.

That largely means re-implementing the sort of media gatekeepers we've seen in the past. Though the challenge of bad-faith actors emerging in such roles at considerable scale points to further challenges, even with that model.

Under a regime in which free speech is considered a fundamental right, any sort of preemptive management by government mandate becomes intensely difficult.
Seems like a problem to be solved with more rockets!
Why? ARM Windows can run x64 apps.
https://archive.today/nuRtj

Blatant and shameless instigation of controversy to try and bump twitter engagement.

Is Mr. Musk becoming increasingly desperate, or is this simply the status quo for him?

p.s. this article is utterly lazy and complete shit, not even a full paragraph. Anyone have a better link?
> I'm just wary about restarting the server because I haven't setup a way to be able to reboot without losing the websockets

Wait what. Not being able to safely restart the server sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.
Learning stick is like learning algebra. Once you get over the stigma "gee, algebra is hard" it's no problem.

For example, a friend of mine taught remedial algebra at the U of W. She'd write on the board:

2 + x = 5

and ask the students what the value of "x" was. They all fell over into a quivering heap of jelly at the word "x". Then she'd write:

2 + _ = 5

and ask them to "fill in the blank". They all instantly said "3".
Often people will say “AWS is so much bigger than us, they have to accommodate us / what could we know that they don’t” is that AWS is still building for the median customer (+/-). It doesn’t make financial sense to optimize for the extremes and extremes can be extreme (per the tweet thread). If you’re a reasonably technical company there’s a good chance something about your main workloads will challenge AWS.
Does anyone find it weird that the General Conference of Weights and Measures has acronym CGWM instead of GCWM?
I love that. Yeah, I haven't traveled nearly as much as I should. Haven't even been out of the country (USA). I'm going to apply for my passport, probably not going to Europe tomorrow but maybe even some time here in the states to places that are new would be refreshing.
I built an automation on a form for students who have free-time during lunch. Admin wanted some accountability on where students were. The form allows teachers to set limits on the attendance for the room, records names and emails every day and keeps a record of who was signed up to go somewhere on a given day.

helps teachers stay organized and helps keeps the students accountable. Its simple, quick and eliminated paper hall passes etc...

it is small and quiet. But the students use and respect it the admin appreciate the simple records it keeps and teachers like the extra time they get avoiding paper sign ins.
You haven't mastered stick until you can drive it smoother than an auto :-)
Well if this take away from my spins // Which'll probably take away from my ends // Then I hope this take away from my sins
Google photos started inproving around 1 year ago (maybe two? With covid, it was a blend).

Bugs gone and new features popped up.
> Define "internet" and then have a crack at defining "internet accessibility". Those things are quite specific to individuals. orgs and so on. Connectivity is way too complicated for a simple, naive check.

This is asking for the true Scotsman. This is designed for the 99% of users where internet access is a ternary "yes, no, needs credentials". The "naive" check is enough for them.

Also, as far as I know only Windows has defined settings to disable this check and assume that there's a connection (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-clien...). At least you could disable this if you need to, because Android don't have a similar setting.
The first time I heard that metaphor, I thought that he meant it in the way that bicycles are really fun to ride. I agree with both interpretations.
This is really cool, I like that a lot of great libraries are building JS SDKs. I wish they chose to use TS for this to get static typing.
Inside a Flat Earth convention, where nearly everyone believes Earth isn't round - https://youtu.be/1gHbwT_R9t0

This is not "just a group of trolls."
When I count viruses, I usually just say "ten to the ninth" instead of giga tbh.
This was already a commonplace occurrence in my own school days -- especially in the middle grades. It's nice to see someone finally willing to study it.
What if, instead of localized salt reactors, we have hyper local chemical flow batteries.
what does PRISM have to do with a company complying with a legal warrant?
It can’t be understated how much of a clown he is.
> we are a cloud of experiences and thoughts and emotions that happens to take one configuration or another based on external "measurements".

> There is no thought or emotion I can have right now that...

I'm confused now. ARE you thoughts and emotions, or do you HAVE thougths and emotions?

> If I strip away the emotions, the thoughts, the perceptions, all I have is a functionless mirror.

Have you done that to be able to reach that conclussion, or is that speculation?
> make you bitter or even resent the person

And that's OK? I happen to think it's not, that bitterness and resentment hurt everyone involved, and I know that it's possible to resist those feelings. How, exactly, does the person who succumbs get to play Good Guy?
> If your strategy makes a lot of money for years, but then loses more than anything you've ever earned, it's a crappy strategy.

Depends who's money you're playing with. If you profit on the way up and only your customers lose on the way down. Then high-risk strategies are (unfortunately) always better.

My trading strategy has never made me billions nor lost billions. Yet I kinda feel like there's a solid possibility many of these fools will end up waaay better off than me. Assuming they can stay out of jail.
> What sort of motor do you think a Tesla model 3 uses, for example?

IPM-SynRM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esUb7Zy5Oio

They went into a lot of effort to optimize it over RPM range.

If you want to make a point use real motor curves at least. Your graph suggests it goes to sub 20% efficiencies at low speed which is completely false and would suggests way higher gains from gearbox than in reality. Hell, it would suggest ICE like performance, it's THAT bad.
In the old days, the idle was only controlled by a simple mechanical adjustment which lets through a fixed amount of air, which means the engine makes a roughly fixed amount of power. When you let out the clutch, the revs would drop a lot, each stroke would get more air so the torque would come up some, but it's fundamentally an open-loop system and didn't do a great job when tested like this.

Newer cars have better engine computers which have made this a lot easier. In a modern engine the computer controls the idle air supply. It also can control the ignition timing, which provides very fast feedback. Between those, if you're careful feathering, the revs will drop a bit at first but the ECU will quickly bring on some more power to compensate.
List comprehensions in multiple languages, LINQ in .NET, all monads.
I think this is a symptom of hospitals being understaffed, whether that's from a deliberate lack of hiring or an actual labor shortage. I feel like many of the problems in this aspect of healthcare could be solved if doctors, nurses, etc weren't run ragged with insanely long shifts and expected to care for a ton of patients.
And even Apple (http://captive.apple.com/) and Firefox (http://detectportal.firefox.com/success.txt or http://detectportal.firefox.com/canonical.html depending on the specific version).
It's CGPM, from French "Conférence générale des poids et mesures"
This is still not a source do you have one or not?
She has the resources to (as one path) freeze eggs and have a surrogate when she gets out. Same kids, same existence only now they have a mother present for the first 10 years of their lives and they don't have to live wondering if their original purpose was a desperate attempt to keep their mother out of prison.

Or there's adoption of any number of real non-hypothetical already born children that will be around when she gets out at 50.
Why not just fire off a DNS request ? Not blocked by captive portals, and you get free caching.
no company will go to jail for you.... what do you think happens when a company refuses to comply with a warrant.
Just a theory, but I think that unless politicians feels he has future leverage, they're unlikely to be lenient (can't think of a more fairweather friend than a politician who you know because you gave them money) and actually may go harder on him because of this narrative which they feel they need to counter