skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No such thing as legal smartphone

what does "legal" have to do with it?

They have "currency" in prison (cigarettes or something), but it's hard to translate your actual money into that currency. Your visitors can't just bring you a whole bunch of cigarettes on visiting day.
Mostly due to tidal friction from the moon, Earth’s rotation is slowing down in the long term. If we don’t adjust our clocks, the difference between the solar day and our clocks will slowly grow, quadratically. See this site for more details and nice graphs: https://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/

In 1972 it was decided that the best way to compensate for this is to insert (and sometime remove) leap seconds, so that the difference between UTC and Earth’s rotation is kept below one second. A certain subset of astronomical and navigational/satellite applications rely on that condition being true. If this is changed, some decades-old systems, some of which may be critical infrastructure, may have to be substantially modified to account for leap seconds in some other way. The mention of GLONAS in the article is one such example.

In the international standard body responsible for UTC (ITU-R), there was up to now no sufficient majority in favor of abolishing leap seconds, due to those concerns. (Never change a running system, so to speak.) By now it has become apparent that the benefits of dropping leap seconds should vastly outweigh the potential drawbacks, at least for the next few decades. But it took some time for that realization, and probably also some older participants whose minds couldn’t be changed to die off.
When 1-800- numbers were introduced, they were tedious to dial. You could see why NYC was 212, Chicago 312, LA 213, and so on. Yes, I was around for all that. I envied the houses with touch-tone.
No. It's true because 1 inch is explicitly defined by the governing body as 2.54 cm, whereas one meter is defined as "the length of the path travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299792458 of a second". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre

The units of the metric system are defined by physical properties that appear to be constant throughout the universe.

The units of the US customary system are defined as some exact number of equivalent metric units.
Yeah it does, I think there's a bug with it for saying what your position is, but when the others are done it will start correctly even if the frontend shows like position -2 or something. There's 2 uploads in the queue atm so not bad
I disagree simply because many people go on to commit the same crime again after release. Most notably with a few serial killers who continued after release.

That isn’t to say we should lock everyone who commits a serious crime up for life, just that there can be utility for seemingly excessively long sentences.

It’s really the ~5-10 year convictions that are over used IMO. I think we have lost sight of how large a penalty 3 years actually is.
Interesting. Haven't watched the movie but your description matches the synopsis and clips I have seen.

The novel is different, though it hits some of the same notes. Here's the gist of it, and be warned these are SPOILERS:

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The main character is indeed an alien. She's a non-humanoid alien, hinted at to be a quadruped somewhat similar to a dog/wolf in her home planet. It turns out that humans are a delicacy to her race, harvested for their flesh. This is a low-scale operation (in order not to alert the humans), and for this they need a lure: she undergoes irreversible surgery to turn her into something that looks like a human girl with big breasts (on close inspection, there are some signs she's a flawed imitation, but most victims don't notice until too late). She finds her human form bizarre and painful, and cannot connect either with other workers at the human meatpacking plant (they remain alien-shaped) or with humans (until very late in the novel she considers humans as barely more than cattle, incapable of real feelings). She is an outcast in her own society, very low-class -- she cannot, for example, "pay" for the human delicacy she helps harvest; it's not for the lower classes -- and this job was an alternative to dying young in some kind of high-risk mining job, reserved for the lower classes of her race. She cannot ever recover her alien form and cannot connect with anyone; she finds the planet Earth beautiful, but not the humans that inhabit it. In the end, her situation is hopeless and she dies, which is a sort of release.
I agree that there will likely be a serious outage, probably several, but there's too much money on the table for twitter to just go away. The product, although poorly monetized, is immensely successful and widely loved. If Musk and all remaining twitter employees just disappeared, somebody would pick up those pieces. Granted, it's likely impossible to maintain stability on a totally alien system of that scale, but it's not impossible to figure out how to run it at all. Stability will come with time, and because of twitter's importance to our society, they'll probably have the time.
I think there's a big gap between the idealized notion of the "SV Way" and how it has been practiced in actuality.

Like, how can we say Holmes is an outlier when we had literally all of crypto? Sure we're all (rightfully!) ragging on the FTX thing, but the sheer amount of fraud in the space generally was mind-boggling and treated as a matter of course!

If anything the last several years has convinced me that the VC emperors truly have no clothes - the level of diligence done throughout the gig economy hype cycle, and then followed by the crypto hype cycle, is frankly embarrassing. We spent the past several years at least dealing with a non-stop train of hucksters!
She deserves much harsher than this for the harm she did to real people, which she sadly got off without a scratch for. As far as defrauding rich people, that's basically a public service.

It's not surprising that the one she got got for was the one where she hurt rich people.
For context, I'm British. Until relatively recently automatics were so rare you'd often see an actual sticker on the back of the car warning the driving style would be somewhat different (e.g. braking on downhill stretches).

The vast majority of the cars on our roads in the UK are still manual, but the tide is changing and not just with the introduction of EVs. There exists a legal quirk whereby you're not licensed to drive a manual car if you've passed your driving test in an automatic. Until that legislation is updated, I expect there to remain a strong demand for manual transmissions amongst learner and new drivers.

Personally, I'm of an age where simplicity and convenience are valued more in my life. Parallels include choosing Apple devices where I'd previously been all-in on Windows, Linux and Android; consoles over gaming PCs; and I'd also include home automation despite the initial set-up. Both our family cars are currently (non-EV for now) automatics and I can't see myself or my partner ever voluntarily going back to manual cars. I can push a single button to start, select drive and go. Even the handbrake is automatic.

Anecdotally, my social group is very much of the same mindset. Increased traffic on our small island has all but removed any romantic idealism around driving a sporty manual car on an open road. Now that driving here is more of a chore than a pleasure, anything that helps ease the burden is going to become the default.
I just think it's possible to be both. Happy that the justice system functions as intended (which many see as increasingly rare) but also sad for her as a person to lose so much of her life behind bars.
He may go for it but I don't think he will succeed.

Come on, this is a guy who had:

* A company with a constant revenue stream in a business that could be pretty much 100% automated.
* Backing from the largest investors and VC funds worldwide.
* Valuable connections with people higher up in academia and the prevailing political party in the US (all the way up to the president).
* All the money in the world and free reign over what to do with it.
* Unparalleled info and insights about the crypto markets.
* A massive group of followers that found his antics particularly alluring and who were trusting him with their money more and more everyday.
* A team of geniuses who were absolutes alphas from quantitative trading, won math olympiads and were constantly on drugs to enhance their cognition 1,000% (ok, this one's sarcasm)

And he still managed to f*ck it up. I don't think he's capable of pulling off a Hillblom, tbh.
It doesn't sound like he's gone about optimising for talent, though. More like he's optimised for enthusiasm — which isn't a bad thing, but doesn't necessarily correlate with talent — and desperation. The majority of the most talented people aren't going to stay around for the abuse, they'll leave for better jobs elsewhere. Surely MBA-101 isn't "treat people like shit and you'll get the best out of them"?
Even Google themselves claimed you get only a 30% reduction in file size when using WebP, and that's been show many times to be exaggerated — it's more like 15%. WebP has been advertised by Google for a decade, but the format is a dead-end.

WebP is based on the VP8 codec, which has lost in the market to even older codecs, later has been obsoleted by VP9, and the tech has later been upgraded to VP10 and AV1. WebP is already a few generations behind the state of the art, and it wasn't even good when it was new.

People sometimes see huge difference in file size when converting JPEG to WebP, but that's 10%-15% reduction from improved compression, and the rest of reduction is from loss of quality caused by WebP's limitations and lossy nature of the conversion.

WebP is like a magic backpack that makes your baggage 5-10 lighter — by having a hole and dropping your items.
I was talking about PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX, and StarLink.
>Most-promoted, but is it the most funded? For example, their landing page just links to the AMF's donors list page while claiming EA provided "significant support" with the only mentions of EA being people they've inspired to donate in relatively small amounts

This seems totally expected if you think of effective altruism as a movement focused on figuring out where your money would be best spent, rather than as some sort of organization that wants your money. This is reflected in what SBF did. He didn't donate all his money to effective altruism like it's a cult or whatever, he set up a charity and hired various people to decide which worthy projects should be funded.

>(relative to the billions moving through FTX).

And why would you compare that to "the billions moving through FTX"? FTX isn't EA, nor does FTX operate as some sort of non-profit. FTX does have a charitable arm, but they only issued $160 million worth of grants, nowhere near "the billions" you speak of. You can see their grant list here: https://ftxfuturefund.org/our-grants/
> For example, trans athletes. I think its unfair to women to compete against people who were born men. At the same time, I sympathize with people who really feel like they were born the wrong gender and are doing everything they can to change genders. I don't have a satisfactory solution, but I empathize with the liberal response. The conservative response doesn't even seem to recognize that trans people have any struggle at all.

There is a more balanced take than the standard conservative and liberal positions: the left-wing feminist response.

With this, trans-identifying people are supported with regards to universal rights, i.e. ones that everyone should have, according to left-wing viewpoints. For example, it should not be permitted for someone to be fired from their job for revealing their transness (or for being otherwise gender non-conforming). Same for access to housing, health care, and other public services, no prejudice must be imposed.

However, they should not be treated as if the opposite sex in law and policy. This is particularly important in areas where we have sex segregation for a good reason. You mentioned athletes, another example is the safeguarding of women in prisons - women's prisons should be female-only, and no males should be incarcerated there, no matter how they identify.

This overall approach helps to protect gender non-conforming people (including trans-identifying), while maintaining sex-based rights, particularly those that protect women.
> That's why I specified an example that requires a domain expert, you could have a very poorly done fake video that anyone can tell is fake too.

But my example also satisfies that criterion. I (and most humans) am a domain expert at identifying humans, but that doesn't mean I would be good at faking a human.
doubts

Lithium is roughly 0.002–0.006 wt% of the earths crust (concentrated in brines to much higher levels of course).

It's no Iron (5% of the earths crust), but it is widely prevalent, and at #33ish most common elements on Earth, it's more about proving reserves of what used to be a niche material, than ACTUAL rarity. Nickel, Zinc, Copper are #23, 24 and #25 for instance, and lead is #36.

We have no shortage of Lead, but mostly because it is a byproduct of Silver mining. It's typical for lead to go for $1/lb.
Perhaps she just wanted kids, and figured bringing them up while in prison was a better option than waiting another 10-50 years until she got out.
Twitter is at peak MAUs and according to previous financial statements should be cash flow positive after personnel changes. Seems like they invested in a business which was almost immediately switched into a profitable enterprise on an upward trajectory.

What am I missing? Or are you making a prediction that is the opposite of available evidence?
This is a bizarre response: even in larger US cities, Americans produce more emissions (and waste) per capita than their European counterparts.

Density plays a large role, but consumer behaviors play a larger one. And American consumes prefer diets with more meat, cars that burn fuel less efficiently, and products that are designed to be disposed more frequently.

Edit: we also prefer larger houses, built more cheaply.
I’d maybe take it easy calling others delusional if I were you.
Yeah it's a hard case, Whisper with the large model is among the cutting edge in the business so if the static is bad and the quality is low there's not much you can do but wait for better AI, or fix whatever they get wrong by hand, but Whisper AI is on the cutting edge so you might have to wait for a bit lol
Only a constant-coordinate-time slice of the Universe is Euclidean. That's a 3D subspace of the 4D spacetime volume. The 4D metric of the Universe is not close to flat (or Minkowski, which is the closest thing you'll get to Euclidean in Relativity).

People quote different distances, depending on what they're using it for. Probably the most widely used distance measure, from Earth's perspective, is redshift. It's linear with distance nearby, and ask the other distances are relatively simple functions of it.
Notably, a combination of: 1) significant (improbable) information content, and 2) appearance of fulfilling a functional specification ... is taken by some philosophers as supporting a hypothesis of design.

FWIW, Return of the God Hypothesis by Stephen Meyer is a surprisingly well-argued book, exploring such support.
I researched & prototyped (in R), and ultimately put into production (C++) a core set of spectral risk analysis analytics that replaced outdated VaR and vol forecasts for an extremely large asset management firm and left immediately afterwards. Technically speaking, guided risk mgmt/investment decisions at the trillion-dollar scale, ran as-is for 8-10 years before being recently re-implemented in some other language.
Looking up *object.Commit from SHA string doesn't seem like something you want to make every Checker implementation do (even if it's mostly boilerplate), so passing a higher-level object makes sense here.

What you might want to do is also define an interface for what Git calls "commit-ish"[0] objects, and use that in place of *object.Commit. Then you could pass e.g. *object.Tag in place of *object.Commit.

Think of the interface as a contract between implementations and users of the data structure. Typically, you use an interface when multiple implementations are capable of fulfilling the same contract. If there's only one implementation, you likely don't need an interface—for instance, you can ignore my suggestion about abstracting commit-ish if you're pretty sure your checker would never be called for a tag.

Interfaces are often useful when testing, because a mock implementation can fulfill that same contract. For instance, you might implement a *object.MockCommit which just uses static values instead of actually operating on a Git repository, and then pass that for your commit-ish in unit tests for various Checkers.

[0] https://git-scm.com/docs/gitglossary#Documentation/gitglossa...
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why did you want to transcribe it? What would you do with the output?
I really didn't think I needed to specify domain expert at faking humans.

I said video editor not video watcher.
> They opted out by not deleting the tweet.

This is misleading. They were banned for the tweet. They opted out of removing the tweet, which would lift the ban.

In the new policy, they would not be banned for the tweet. The fact that they were banned in the old policy, and would not be banned in the new policy, is irrefutable proof that the policies are very different, which means, by definition, it's not "status quo":

status quo:

the existing state of affairs, especially regarding social or political issues.
I'm on record for "18 months" and that error is costing me $10. But it's to a good cause.
Also, accumulating powerful backers and friends to signal "this is a successful company" instead of building an actual company.
Probably the 3D animation code I wrote early in my career, which was then used to animate the dinosaurs in "Jurassic Park".
And as always when this comes up, Rust is currently slated to be used for new development. Even putting aside the safety aspect, Rust has a lot of nice high level language features without too much overhead.
She's very rich by normal person standards - her husband is a millionaire. Her family is also quite wealthy/well connected (she was childhood friends with Tim Draper's daughter, that's how he became the first Theranos investor).
That's more reasonable, but it's not (AFAICT, anyway) the kind of optimism being discussed as "American optimism".
A leap minute once per ~century probably amortizes to a lot less effort. A leap minute is a bigger deal to implement, but you do it a lot less often. And the sun being off by up to a minute isn't a huge deal for humans
Merged, thanks. Do I just add 'Show HN:' to the beginning of the title?
I'v recently figured I'd rather drive ICE than an EV without radar cruise control. Stick shift EV fucks both ways!

Similarly I'd rather drive car with a shitty capacitive steering wheel buttons (gosh they suck so bad) over car without keyless entry...
There has been a grand total of 0 people sentenced to more than 11 years for sole possession.

It would be good to stop pushing this kind of misinformation (yeah I know war on drug bad)
German Twitter employees form works council (German)
The source code for Typst: https://github.com/typst
Ok so it's an 8K video 100px tall with fake colors and fake 700px height? Interesting video but to be honest I couldn't understand the guy's technical explanation for it at all. It just sounded like mumbo jumbo to me. I mean, I'm not expecting Captain Disillusion-level effort of technical explanation but still... I feel like I learned nothing after watching that video.
They could make a dirty bomb, but it would contaminate their own land for hundreds or thousands of years. So not worth it.
I've only rode two times in Arizona but it was probably 25-35% cheaper than a comparable Uber.
A modern day robinhood - stealing from the rich and giving to the poor
I am sure it was but that is a ridiculous business model when the secret sauce of the whole operation is economy of scale along with no ability to improve margins much.

I am sure they could cut the lawn and feed the dog while there also but none of this sounds profitable in the long term.

It almost sounds like we were in a giant bubble...
Interestingly, because they didn't spring for the cold weather package for the natural gas stuff either.

Natural gas can have moisture in it, and that can cause valves and regulators to freeze, hydrate slush or ice to form in pipelines, etc.

[https://asgmt.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf-docs/2011/1/T06.pdf]

They just flat out were unprepared.
But probably some other fuel that burns cleaner without NOₓ/CO/CO₂ emissions, maybe hydrogen (no emissions at all) or ammonia (NOₓ only).
The Banqiao Dam hydropower failure killed 145,000 people. No nuclear accident has caused this level of damage.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam

Coal is far, far worse than this.
You should check out The Resident. The first several seasons are about the doctor invested in a device that is a fraud, a private equity group buying the hospital, it eventually failing.

Chicago MD has some of the aspects you mention, especially overloaded, drug abuse, blame, police interactions.

New Amsterdam attacks it by the main character trying to solve the problems and running into bureaucracy.
Starlink Donations FAQ
Perhaps the most infuriating “feature” of all modern social media is that people I specifically follow do not manage to land their more interesting and controversial thoughts on my timeline, and vice versa. I don’t understand what the point of following someone is, if some of their content is not gonna reach me. How can I be more explicit in conveying my intent of reading those thoughts?
Interesting idea, although I'm not sure it's more effective than drafting a will and including the same information about passwords etc. - which is admittedly more difficult for non-technical users.

How do you hedge against the risk of people using your service to commit posthumous crimes?
Not saying monitors should be silenced. You can monitor someone without waking them up.

Fiefdoms of power - nursing union not wanting to give up the night shift premium pay when the job description changes to monitoring a screen and half the physical workload vs. day shift.
I dont think that is the right way to look at it.

She didn't incinerate the money, she spent it, it went somewhere else. It went to workers and other companies.

Now maybe that money could have been spent to commission 300 workers to make great things. Maybe it would have gone to pump up the S&P 500 or some shitcoin.

The problem is that she used false pretexts to get and spend the money.
It's been referred to by them as "de-emphasizing" of content. It's fancy newspeak for this type of suppression of speech:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/a35nbj/twitter-content-moder...
Interesting. Page 5 also includes an image but text is selectable there.
"10^27" is longer than "ronna" measured by character width, by keystrokes, or by finger travel. It's also significantly longer than "R".
> the model of CI where a totally pristine container (or VM) gets spun on each change for each test set imposes an floor on how fast CI can run

I believe this is the motivation behind https://brisktest.com/
I see what you're saying but there is just no way that you can argue 4chan is wholesome. The lack of moderation has created a community that encourages some of the worst human behaviors. The correlation between mass murderer and 4chan fanatic is too distinct to ignore.
Thanks a lot for this. I've wanted to test whisper's usefulness for vintage movie subtitling projects, but haven't had such a straightforward, preconfigured opportunity. I promise I'll beat the subs into some sort of shape as long as the timings are at least vaguely alright, and not waste your money.
It's also about their ability to withstand losses.