skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "In fact, in terms of avoiding misinformation, Pool is as inadequate for the task as citing Ben Shapiro or Alex Jones."

Or any of the numerous corporate media (MSNBC, NY TIMES, CNN, FOX NEWS, etc.) that have clearly been spreading misinformation for donkey's years.
Between you and the very similar sibling comment from
micromacrofoot I've edited my original statement. I completely agree with what you both are saying and wanted to clarify that I was highlighting the contrast between these sentences not advocating for draconian prison sentences for everyone.
I'd imagine those machines in particular would be useful as museum pieces.
Oh, nice! Didn't know battery tech and PV panel production were clean now. That's a great leap.
You know what REALLY bothers me about this?

She (possibly) gets pregnant during the first trial to garner sympathy. Even if you have a charitable interpretation of this only the worst of the worst narcissistic sociopaths decide to "start a family" when they're potentially facing 15 years in Federal Prison. She's currently pregnant with her second child.

Now those kids get to grown up without a mother and live the rest of their lives with the knowledge or at least suspicion they're in this world because their con-artist mother was trying to manipulate the justice system.

Even IF you take the approach that she thought big and failed, doing no real wrong the situation with her pregnancies (in my mind) isn't up for debate. On this issue alone I find her completely reprehensible.
Could we avoid participating in this? The price hikes were pretty brutal, but tesla and their charging infrastructure are still at or near the top of the list when it comes to electric cars that you can actually purchase, at least from the perspective of someone looking to replace their ancient mazda in the next year or so.

Also people don't deserve to be judged by their car unless it is a modern german luxury car in which case they obviously are the kind of person who makes bad life choices.
These are the same group of people. Low interests are working out just fine for them.
In a word: Context.

> don't directly address the point of your question / provide a much complex answer (or even worse, a non-answer) to a simple question

Understood the question, and without acknowledging the immediate implications, goes on to spell out the pictures that pop into their mind without sharing context for it.

> don't stay focused to the point of the discussion

In their mind, they are following the discussion to where it naturally leads. They only failed to connect the dots by providing context.

> don't have some level of clarity in their train of thought and speech

This one's hit or miss. Maybe they do have something that ties together what they're talking about but haven't shared it clearly. Other times, they're just rambling on.

> generally over-complicate matters by wandering off to other related subjects and extending the scope of the discussion

Continuation of two points above. If there were more sync-points where participants would be clear about what they acknowledge and agree on, acknowledge and disagree on, then they could get to why/where there are discrepancies in their viewpoints. Unfortunately many are unable to express why/what their objections arise from and are gut reactions which may be valid but difficult to name.

I think an effective way to fix this conversation pattern is to adopt "Yes, and ..." rather than the unspoken 'ok' then spoken "But ...".
>some behavior that is simply injurious to the broader population, claiming that its for their benefit

what "behavior" are you talking about? The second paragraph of the wikipedia article on EA says:

>Common practices of effective altruists include choosing careers based on the amount of good that the career achieves, donating to charities based on maximising impact, and earning to give. Popular cause priorities within EA include global health and development, animal welfare, and risks to the survival of humanity over the long-term future.

I'm not sure how any of those causes can be considered "simply injurious to the broader population".
despite not wanting to discount your lived experience, I am more inclined to believe settler colonialist theory (drawing on work from trained scholars, both indigenous and not) which suggest that European settlement did lead to what was in fact genocide.
In a previous thread, I had this at "more than 10 years, less than 60" (yeah, that's an easy bet to make!). The core driver of the sentence is probably the guidelines 2B1.1 table, which scales sentencing levels by economic losses. She was convicted for something like $140MM in fraudulent losses, which by themselves ask for a 24-level escalation (the table maxes out in the mid-40s).

By the numbers, the court was probably quite lenient here. Not to say that's an unjust outcome; the "lenient" option for sentencing on serious federal felonies is still quite harsh.

Edit

I tracked down the prosecutor's sentencing memorandum; they asked for 15 years. So I guess maybe not that lenient.

Later edit

The PSR (the court's own sentencing memorandum, which the prosecution and defense respond to) had Holmes at level 43. I hereby claim that I called this. :P

But the PSR looks at the guidelines level table, which suggests 960 months for level 43, and instead recommends 108 months. So the court imposed a sentence higher than the PSR, lower than the prosecution asked, and all parties asked for much lower than the guideline maximum for the level.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29790880

Later later edit

I'm doing the math wrong; the guidelines range at that level is 240 months per charge (usually served consecutively). Still much higher than the ultimate sentence.
People with medical issues who can't afford to be without insurance.
I've also been unable to add my main email address in Facebook because "The account that owns the email address you entered has been disabled.".
If I check my emails history, apparently someone named "Kyle" (not me) tried to create/activate an account in 2016 and now I'm prevented to use it forever, if you find a solution, please tell me.
Elizabeth is expecting and will give birth in early 2023. This is a mercy for the judge to allow her to not give birth in prison.
Let me put it this way, the only people who've I've ever heard talking about flat earth are incredulous nerds.
If it's a federal sentence I don't think they will be that lenient
They had nothing of value.

They were often running tests on competitors machines. They either passed those results off as coming from their machines, or validated their own results using competing machines.

Their machine could not do what it promised with the amount of blood it claimed to use and was no better than proven machines, and arguably worse as they had lot of maintenance issues even operating at their HQ.
This is absolutely false
> I haven't used it yet - more of a subreddit type experience than a Twitter type experience?

It's kind of a mix, but I'd call it more Twitter.

When you're not logged in, and you browse a specific instance, there are two feeds, the "Local" feed which shows just posts to that instance made from any account on that instance (akin to the "subreddit" experience), the "Federated" feed which also shows posts from accounts on other instances that the instance you're browsing on knows about, and an "Explore" feed which shows popular posts from the entire federated network.

If you've created an account and followed people from multiple instances, you also get a "Home" feed which just shows accounts that you're following, regardless of what instance they're on.

In that way, you can decide if you want to have a more "subreddit" experience by only browsing the Local feed, or the more "Twitter" experience by browsing either the Explore, Federated, or Home feeds.

Of course, most people will only have an account on one instance, but people can follow you no matter what instance they use. If you use, for example, "hackernews.social", you can interact with posts from any other instance, but your username will show up as "@username@hackernews.social".
I fully agree about the problems and limitations with plain text and the lack of structure and types. It was the composability aspect of the philosophy I had in mind.
Is this similar to the "I throw half the resumes away to avoid hiring unlucky people" concept?
Alright, that's enough internet for today, good night everybody.
That recent picture of her looks like she is pregnant. Is that the case? What a way to start an 11 year sentence.
I think he’s brought in buddies, and heads of engineering from tesla and spacex.
> Firstly, I haven't "dismissed" their entire project

> It seems that not only has "community of leftist[s]" given up on free speech (as is the vogue), they've given up on real federation too.

This... seems like dismissal. They claim to be a federated project, you claim that their lack of alignment with your idea of "free speech" makes this not a federated project and is an abandonment of real free speech (again, your idea of it).

> Secondly, why is that single thread not indicative of the attitude of the developers? Do you have other issue threads available on the same or a similar topic where they were less hostile?

Think about the last time you were curt with someone - do you believe that it is indicative of your general attitude, or indicative of your attitude because of some extenuating circumstances? Can you please collect some other issue threads on the same or a similar topic that you believe establishes a pattern of behavior?

> Lastly, it doesn't answer the question at all. Why would I have to share someone's values in order to think they're worth listening to?

Because you "have a problem with overtly hostile responses to reasonable and polite requests," which you believe the maintainers are guilty of. Hence, it's likely you wouldn't want to listen to them because you have a problem with how they communicate, i.e. the way that they would communicate with you. I can keep answering this question over and over again in different ways, but I'm not sure how to make this simpler to understand.
I once built a test rig to evaluate the strength of different designs of CNC'd bicycle crankarms I'd made. Basically a weighted sled slammed into the side of a jig mounted crankarm. That was pretty impactful.
It’s federal. So an absolute minimum of 85% of the sentence.
<<They weren't pushed out, they walked out because their views weren't accepted.

Your assertion is not valid. Your attempt at characterization and framing is misleading. They did not 'walk out'. They were either banned, shadow banned, or w/e current equivalent in a given community of removed is. As a result of said banning, they formed their own communities. Your entire premise is flawed from misrepresentation of that one key element.

<<I am under no obligation to entertain your beliefs.

We are in agreement. Note that the same applies to others. Others are under no obligation to entertain your beliefs and and yet they have every right to occupy same sphere.

<< You seem to have built up quite a straw man that you are getting really upset about.

It is not a straw man. You saying 'flat earthers' just picked up their toys and went away is, however, a lie. I am just calling it out.

<< I really don't understand your position.

I don't like misrepresentation of simple facts, but bold misstatements like those above require corrections.

<<You are simultaneously aggrieved that Flat Earthers are being ignored, but also seem to think they should die.

I will defend idiot's right to say stupid stuff. I have no problem with an idiot dying. It is not some sort of mystery.
I designed and implemented the whole graphic system for the World Cup '98 (working 100h weeks for months). Billions of people have watched in real-time the result of my work and I earned absolutely nothing from it :) (there's a fun story to write about this, the tremendous amount of work, setting up the WAN connecting the SGI machines together, building the remote control hardware, etc).
Collectibles…definitely a market there
The Lavender scare took place during the early communist scares of the 50s.

At the time being gay was absolutely grounds for blackmail. Being openly gay was socially impossible for anybody outside of a few industries like entertainment.

Many people participated in the Lavender scare for horrible, hateful reasons, but the security risk of employing closeted individuals was real. That's why Eisenhower issued the order. He was morally wrong to do so and deserves all blame.

Government administrators could not defy a presidential order regarding security on a moral basis. It was legally impossible to do so.

If Webb had actively refused he would have been fired. If he subverted the policy he would have risked prison. Therefore we do not know how often he turned a blind eye to somebody's orientation.

Today you cannot work in a classified position if you have a gambling problem because it makes you vulnerable to bribery. When the administrator of a classified agency complies with this policy it does not mean he hates gambling addicts. It means that they are security risks and that he is acting within the law.

When the executive order was finally repealed a significant part of the reasoning was that being gay no longer necessarily meant being closeted and was therefore no longer a security risk. The cold war was also over which reduced security concerns for ordinary military personnel.

The Lavender policy was repugnant, but literally the only people who had any choice in the matter are the seven presidents who chose to continue the executive order, Eisenhower who implemented it, and anybody who actively campaigned for it.

It's a good thing we don't name anything important after former Presidents, isn't it?
For a long time there was a perception that Europeans are real drivers with their stick shifts and

"didn’t everyone in the world think that American people were babies—with their innocence, their Disney, their inability to drive a stick shift?" (Elif Batuman)

but maybe with EVs and modern automatic transmissions the day really has come to say goodbye to manual transmission. Our family cars have them and my daughter just bought a new manual Civic but not for any real rational reason.
10^3 is the same length as "kilo".

10^6 is the same length as "mega".

10^9 is the same length as "giga".

Why is length suddenly an argument against new prefixes?
I may be open to moving. But Australia has jobs

Thank you
Ah good old Silverlight. I once wrote a Drag and Drop library in SL. Good times. I miss XAML.
Hoodwink the entire public and nearly bring down the entire financial system, get a government bailout. Hoodwink a few rich investors, go to jail. Both at taxpayer expense.
Maybe we are missing some things....

What is different about Twitter, YouTube, and LinkedIN?

they all do social but Twitter has more abuse than the other two.

Is that due to the structure involved?

Or extend it further, is amplification bad because the ones doing the
amplification are somewhat flawed in coping mechanisms?

What I mean is we keep looking at social platforms as the problem, instead
of seeing that the are lenses into the society problems yet not
solved and handled.

I.E. based on networks and economics the ones that can amplify the worst economic decisions coupled with the least coping skills cause the most harm on
social networks. Caution, not a statement about individuals or politics just some deep way above things macro observations.
> Sometimes the best solution is not a technical solution

I once came across an early 1950s Scientific American article by Bertrand Russel, IIRC. It included a cartoon.

Frame one: Computer beats man at chess.

Frame two: Man unplugs computer.
The fact that the law punishes defrauding investors, but not defrauding patients or employees, just shows that those laws are written by rich people, for rich people.
He's not actually trying to document programming prowess with screenshots. They've already fired everyone they want to fire, this is some sort of "welcome to twitter 2.0" ritual
I'm not sure what your point is. You can invest in whatever you want in the Bahamas without being accredited (as far as I know). If anything, the blowup of FTX seems to justify why investments in unregistered securities in US-based companies aren't allowed to be marketed to unaccredited investors.

Are you saying we should allow companies with the level of oversight FTX had more free reign to operate and market their equity in the US?
It's really stupid, but you can't tell me that the idea of a manual electric doesn't appeal to the less rational parts of your subconscious.
Nominative? You want to say "the food the woman"? I don't really remember the Life of Brian skit, so I'll just skip ahead and say you may want the genetive case: "Das Essen der Frau," "the woman's food."
> Yeah, they could have been working on something truly valuable like....

But why not just a reasonable product?
Yes, what could that be, there cannot be something that is fairly priced and people really want, need, what just helps. Not today anymore!

> By your definition insurance

I know what you try there and on a very abstract level you are maybe slightly right, but PLEASE no, high level gambling (==milliseconds&millions) is not at all comparable to the insurance model in many regards, foremost maybe purpose for the community?

(and its pretty clear that fintech here sure doesn't mean the classical bank and modern "normal" payment system... ).
I haven't driven stick in years, having bought a DSG car, but I still prefer 'driving one-handed' the way you do with a stick shift, and it's clear at this point that some people don't remember being passengers in a manual transmission vehicle, let alone driving them.
For what it's worth, stimulants' effect on sleep varies a lot from person to person. I definitely know people who struggled with insomnia from amphetamines, especially when their dose was too high, but for me and others I've talked to, it let me lay down and choose to sleep, which as someone who had suffered from insomnia most of my life, was a godsend.
Cost cutting is definitely to blame for how understaffed hospitals are. Then Covid happened and it got even worse. It's definitely not all due to Covid though. Even the "not-for-profit" medical group in my area has been pushing doctors and PAs to take more and more patients, well past what they're comfortable with. Nursing staff has been cut down to nothing compared to 10 years ago. Wages haven't gone up to match the increase in workload.

Again, this started before Covid, the pandemic just highlighted how much these cuts screwed over both healthcare professionals and patients.
I agree that there should be repercussions for the damage she caused, but the whiplash of this comment is pretty funny.

I’m not sure how advocating for another person to enter the US prison system demonstrates any sort of empathy.
In practice I’ve found it more practical to create cloud VMs although I’ve traditionally used run a Linux and Windows VM on MacBooks. Or just buy a tiny server for a few hundred bucks and leave it plugged in at home and remote into that.

There’s too many issues around ARM support and the fact that other Linux and Windows machines generally won’t be running ARM. Apple Silicon also has expensive memory upgrades.
Re: Salary increase

Their reasoning, whether or not you care to accept it, was that the executive level salary was nowhere near competitive in the market to hire or retain someone talented in that role.
Are you American by chance? Because I can assure you that centimetres are everywhere here and both hectolitres and centilitres are fairly common, not to talk about decibel.
And it comes down to, utilities didn't spring for the cold weather package on their turbines. Effectively deciding that during extreme cold snaps they would rely on natural gas power plants. Which were also brought down by the cold snap.
Brits are paying the highest electricity bills in the world
Ha, I'm genuinely unsure which one you think is better/worse than the other.

It's like working out which return value from a comparison operator is the right one - +1 or -1?
You know, they could easily go after both groups no?

We often feel we are in a XOR situation, but it's often easier for the govt to try to consistently enforce rules independently of the faces attached to the accused.
>the idea of buying out politicians to promote your cause is straight out of the EA playbook, fully justified by the philosophy

By "buying out", do you mean literal bribery, or just lobbying? If it's the latter, are you also against other organizations (eg. unions, environmental groups, activists) that try to fund raise/lobby for their preferred candidates?
It is terrible if that was the reason, but as for the kids, plenty of kids grow up with one parent or raised by grandparents, aunts/uncles, or adoptive parents.
Yes, and the problem was that way too many of them were over budget and delayed. Even before Three Mile Island, orders for new nuclear had slowed massively because utilities realized that ther massive risk for financial boondoggles.

Those nuclear reactors are now reaching their end of life, and will need to be phased out. France is realizing what happens when you don't replace your aging fleet fast enough: massive unreliability and extended shutdowns for maintenance and fixing things.

France also started to build new nuclear in the 2000s, at Flamanville, but it has been an utter debacle, that's ongoing to this day. It's to the point that even though the president has said he's going to order more reactors, it seems unlikely that many of them will ever complete.
tbf I think after 11 years she would be outside of the safe age range to have a baby in America, so now or never type of scenario.
I'd triangulate between Holmes and Madoff.
there's clear case of defrauding investors AND creditors. that's more than $2B + $8B disappeared into the void.
Probably two ways. First, for people to get their affairs in order. For example you don’t need a lease or can sell or rent out your house or something.

Second, for the prison facility to make sure there’s a free space for the incoming person.

Edit: Someone pointed out she’s pregnant, so there’s that…
Virtually all of them are convicted in state courts and under state sentencing systems. Most states have mandatory minimums for 1st degree murder, and those minimums are much higher than Holmes' sentence; second-degree murder usually admits a huge range of sentences, which captures the variety of circumstances that might attend an unplanned killing.
She’s about 6 months pregnant now and the sentence won’t begin until April 27, 2023.
There is a joke, I don't know the origin:

Conservative: I'm being silenced for my opinions!

Me: lowering taxes?

C: no, not that opinion

M: smaller government?

C: no, not that one

M: which opinions?

C: oh, you know the ones...
They may be fired, but they still can post on Twitter. Big distinction.

You can't critize/one up your boss in public for internet/virtue signalling points and expect to keep your job. Try that in any _job_ and see what happens. The real danger is Twitter acting as the arbiter of truth, which was the case for the last few years.
I have been into embedded smarts as of late, as It does encompass a lot of things I'm into, thank you.
Do you have any tips about getting into that industry without much experience?
Concierge, that's critical.
Downvoted for spitting out facts.
> But I guess the tags won't work. Kind of a middle ground. Perhaps they will explicitly remove/block the tags so the poster knows this is happening, which at least isn't tricking them.

To clarify, Musk said nothing whatsoever about tags. Another read of Musk's tweet is that your timeline won't show tweets with a negative sentiment analysis score.

Given recent events, I'm reluctant to assume Musk's vague goals will be implemented in the narrowest and most delicate way possible.