skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well if you plan to lease the car for the rest of your life, however long that ends up being, then yes the number of years left in your life determines how much it is going to cost you.

This comparison breaks down in a few ways: with the car, I realise the value of it immediately, as I get to drive it around, whereas for a service that only activates on my death, the value is only _potential_ until that actually happens.

Also, I can terminate my car lease and feel OK about it, I have already realised value, it did its job. If I pay for this service for a year, but I don’t die, have I realised any value? Maybe marginally in the peace of mind I will feel while alive, but there’s no arguing that the optimal way for me (or more realistically, my estate) to get the most value for money is to buy just one year of service, and then kick the bucket in that same year?

Edit: I’m not saying any of this necessarily wrong, it’s just a really interesting quirk of pricing incentives
If they're max deboosted, you won't see their posts even if you follow them; you'll only be able to see their posts by going to their page.
That's hard to determine and presumably why she wasn't prosecuted for it. It's certainly believable that people received false assurances about their health from Theranos that ultimately led to a preventable death.
> Suffer how exactly?

Growing up without their mom for their first decade? Jesus christ man.
If you don't have immediate financial pressures, then I would definitely suggest focusing on volunteering. Nothing can really substitute for working on something you care about, and being around people who share that.
Absolutely shocking. She was ordered to turn herself into custody on April 27. Why so long? Is this to give her time to appeal so she will never have to go to prison?
Amplenote and OneNote are pretty much what comes to mind with those requirements. Both OCR images, but don't do PDFs.
I built and launched corona.help in January 2020. Almost nobody expected a pandemic, but somehow I thought it was possible and decided to centralize all Covid cases. Just 2 months later it had over 5 million users daily. Eventually Google and other huge companies started doing the same thing and users tanked.
not the same but torch -> pytorch comes to mind
Agreed I want the ability to smoothly switch between coasting and different levels of regen in an EV. A clutch pedal would be a cool way to do it. I've imagined a large dial or lever where a shifter would normally be.
Sad to see Arthur Hayes resort to racism to make his point.
this is not true, designs for Wind turbines and solar panels are standardised.

Reactor designs in China and France are standardised. There are suitability requirements towards the site ofcourse, that is normal
Without a payroll or tax team it's probably none of that.
IOU 1 beer.
I see what you mean

> In Pax Americana, it is verboten to suggest that the caste system is alive and well.
The status quo - to ban accounts completely, due to repeated violations combined with refusal to remove violating content.

More permissive perhaps, but not by much, and Trump remains banned - so bans remain a part of the toolkit.
“Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution” — https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths

SBF definitely seems like a sociopath in this model.

BTW: the best criticism I have read on Effective Altruism is: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/criticism-of-criticism...
People who made health choices based on faulty test results.
> aren't a physical threat and anything Elizabeth does now will be watched like a hawk

Wasn't she trying to raise money for a start-up while on trial?

> Same with SBF

Isn't he trying to raise money right now?
This is completely wrong. Prisoners in the federal prison system must serve at least 90% of their sentence. Holmes will not be getting out -- or have unfettered internet access -- anytime before late 2032 at the soonest.
It would be quite a noble gesture for you to personally host all of these poor, endangered creatures.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qNWWrDBRBqk

What a kind and selfless act!
There must have been discussions earlier about the market freeze. Finding/starting those would have been the correct approach, with a technical solution as a backup.
I also plan to support automatic language translation I have that working locally already actually, and I work for one of the big alt-video platforms and rumour has it that I will be shipping this feature for them soon (auto transcription with auto translated subtitles)
This is often touted as a good thing, but the more I think of it it just seems like it isn’t “having such a good life in a developed economy” that makes people have fewer kids.

It seems more and more clear that increasingly competitive economic conditions are the reason people in the developed world have fewer kids.
OneNote and Amplenote have OCR built in. Images only, not PDFs, mind you, but it's there in any case.
IMO the reason Holmes deserves to be locked up for a long time is not just because of the fraud she committed, but the way she tried to use her power and her powerful friends to destroy people whose only crime was telling the truth.

Seriously, read Bad Blood, see what she tried to do to Tyler Schultz, Erika Cheung, and Rochelle Gibbons (the widow of the Theranos scientist that committed suicide), among many others. The best analogy I can think of is Lance Armstrong's fraud. Yes, his cheating and lying about it was bad, but I guess at least somewhat understandable given the culture of cycling at the time. But the reason I despise the man is due to his mafioso tactics of intimidation he used to silence people. Holmes did the exact same.
Would love to locally host this, do you have a source?
I will tell three stories:

A friend of mine is part of a Mensa (top 2% IQ people) local chapter. He did that mainly for fun and no pedantic reasons.

He always tells me story of the problems they have organizing basic activities and governance for the chapter... Even when all participants have a very high IQ.

Beyond the validity of IQ, people do crazy things when trusted people, or in power positions give recommendations. Also by FOMO.

The second story is from a friend who is a second generation finance professional, knows about the complexity of investments in general and in crypto, had crypto companies, and more but was scammed in a basic way investing in a crypto fund.

The third story is about a group of business people who created successful businesses, have a WhatsApp group for recommending crypto investments: one guy recommended a DeFi project, I immediately recommended to escape from that investment because it didn't have a security audit (my field and basic due diligence) and... well the project was easily hacked.
This only works if you have a good internet connection. The use case I've always had for VMWare Fusion is that I need to use a Windows app, as if it were local, with my local, multi-gig, files available.
Nope. Private property, owner makes the rules, it is his right. But in this case, I will criticize those decisions and say they are bad. Go free speech!
why exactly do we have to compare them?

The relevant question is does the punishment fit the crime.

How the punishment stacks up against other crimes and punishments doesn't matter.
Aussie here. Speak for yourself mate. The tech I am working on in Melbourne (Rostering/Pairing) is world class. We are routinely beating international companies 100x our size.
It's the reality of popular terminology.

We only have one word in English that gets commonly used and means "is correct this much of the time". Nuance is lost, but it ensures more people understand the general gist of the article.

One could now get meta and discuss the "accuracy of language", but I feel that might just make you more upset :)
> I get that birth rates are also low in Europe so a good social safety net can't be all of the solution

I don’t understand this… you’ve immediately invalidated your own hypothesis and yet here we are…

Shifting social norms, the liberalization of society, the polar shift towards the self, has caused folks to pursue more personal, pleasurable ends than the good-pain that is raising a family.

You might shift the needle a fraction of a point with social spending here or there, but it is bailing the titanic with a bucket.

If anything, the economic policy might well be downstream of the social. Why the hell should “I” pay for “you” when it doesn’t benefit me. Or vice-versa…
How many decades untill it is affordable as backup storage for a country?
Er actually missed its total 6k disks seems about right then
Yeah, let the sophisticated retail investors that were buying growth and meme stocks at 100x sales go wild
I'll have to watch a doc or something but two quick questions if anyone knows:

Was this even in the realm of possibility?

What lead her to start this company? Was it 90% scam, 10% "trying" or just 100% scam?

Thanks!
Payroll is a "low value add team"? I can see you've never dealt with ADP or their competitors.
I guess either he included time required to study YouTube's compression algorithms, or file was just too big. (Maybe you can't just upload the 1920×68 version and have to instead do the 30494×1080? Just guessing.)
There's 2 signs of intelligence that I've seen. First, coming up with something new and novel, e.g. being the first to decide that we can move fast & break things. The second is knowing when to apply patterns, e.g. applying the lessons learned from other startups.

Holmes showed her lack of intelligence by applying those startup patterns to a highly regulated industry. To get her product into some of those settings required committing fraud. So, the whole move fast and break things works great for startups, it fails miserably in healthcare. She didn't know better, and even worse didn't know when to apply a different pattern.
Can anyone comment on how much this costs? Is it on par with Uber / Lyft? Is it cheaper?
What makes us dance? It is all about that bass
Do you have an example more current than 3 centuries past? Because Germany launched an impressive project to reconstitute their grid quite recently and are now at risk of freezing because it turns out their plan didn't work, they shut down a bunch of perfectly serviceable nuclear plants and went heavily in on Russian gas rather than developing local options. The 20th century was full of big ambitious projects that led to some of the greatest human catastrophe's in recorded history. The US has proven unable to build infrastructure for decades, being shown up by such people as literal communists.

The problem here is nuclear works great and regulators legislated until it wasn't cost effective. Indeed, they've shut down all the options that might cause pollution, which includes ... all the ones that work. The issue here is not cholera.
Lloks like Musk is starting to understand the difference between free speech and hate-speech.
The difference is an effective balance of power between branches of a government. Dictators have unchecked power (at least in practice) until they're deposed.

Similarly many of today's tech giants are difficult to escape, especially as network effects drive toward centralization of power.
FBM?
No, it does not encourage this behavior. And that’s why Elizabeth Holmes sucks.

SV thrives on trust, not on deceipt. There’s a big difference between a founder saying “I’m going to change the world!”, which is optimism mixed with naïveté, versus a founder saying “my technology works!” when they know it does not.
There's not enough lithium on planet Earth even for all the electric cars we'll need, don't even start on using lithium batteries for large-scale storage.

The only hope here is that Magnesium-based batteries will become a thing.

EDIT: OK, it seems that I mistook the "mineable lithium deposits" number for the whole lithium available :)

Anyway, unless there is a major technological breakthrough we are looking at few decades of lithium shortages. I expect countries to actually fight wars over lithium they way the US used to fight over oil. So, in the end, building nuclear plants seems more reasonable than building solar and then praying for cheaper batteries.
It's definitely going. When I learnt to drive in the UK 15 years ago automatic cars were completely non existent (if you pass your driving test in an automatic in the UK you are only allowed to drive automatics - so everyone does manual, which allows you to drive both).

Fast forward 15 years and I'm surprised when I see a stick shift car - primarily (very) old taxis/ubers.
To check my understanding: this is about changing the order of vaccinations rather than speeding up vaccinations right?
It's a bit of a kalman update.

Many of them fully endorsed or implicitly endorsed SBF.

That SBF was revealed as a fraudster should update your belief on the quality of these people, but not outright scratch them out.

For example, I have severely downgraded my opinion of Sequoia.
No one is ever going to say, or remember, "a ten to the twenty seven byte of data."
I wrote a Mach-O parser for Homebrew (the macOS package manager) that’s invoked on just about every package install, so that’s probably a couple of million daily users. It also ended up as a dependency of CocoaPods at some point, so it’s on the critical path for a good chunk of the App ecosystem as well.

I also implemented 2FA and API tokens for PyPI (and helped/continue to work on lots of other parts of that ecosystem).
No, I meant “from people” not “for people” but thanks cause I didn’t know I had a typo. I do not mean that she’ll be out. I never knew for sure until it was mentioned that there’s no parole in the Feds, but I’ve never heard of anyone paroling out of the Feds before anyhow.

But I can imagine a scenario where someone can put a few dollars “on her books” so she can pay a guard to smuggle an iPhone in to her.
We noticed that one line of byte code was crazy hot. We traced it back to the code, and realized it was a special case fallback.

They were summing 10mb of 8 bit encoded integers, in the 99.5th percentile of traffic, so no one noticed. It was using 10% of fleet compute.

We changed the encoding to 64bit; the data size stayed constant,
the 99.5%tile latency plummeted, and I got a bonus. Took a week. My contribution to climate change.

A lot of stuff can hide past 99%.
Reactor designs such as the AP1000 can be and are standardized.

> Extreme heat in Arizona, earthquakes in California, flooding in Florida.

Earthquakes happen everywhere to varying degrees and flooding typically doesn't happen with some warning. I'm not sure about extreme heat being a large problem? If it is, then don't build there. Build elsewhere and then build powerlines to get the power where it's needed. Sure, different areas involve different threats, but you can make a set of designs that work in different areas instead of doing bespoke designs for every one.

> There is no economics of scale when building nuclear plants.

There is to a certain degree. Consider the Vogtle 3 & 4 project. It was hugely over budget in costs and time. Westinghouse went bankrupt during its construction. One (of many) reasons for this was the lack of nuclear construction knowledge left in the US because we stopped building reactors. There are other pending nuclear projects that will now benefit from the knowledge and experience that was re-learned from the Vogtle project. Having an active industry most certainly does bring some economies of scale to life.
You don't even know what a write-off is.
Others commenting are, I think, missing the point: Chromebooks are school-issued and locked down to where I can't install software (or they're just not capable of it regardless of locking down). Even if I could, is it the expectation that every parent now has to monitor their kid's school-issued device? This should be handled at the Google or school district level, not at the individual device level.

And yes, I use Family Link and Android controls. Not great, but also not applicable to a device over which I have no control.
When she was still a hot ticket part of her public image was the assertion that she was too driven about changing the world to have a boyfriend, which sent a lot of impressionable men absolutely ga-ga for her.

https://www.inc.com/magazine/201510/kimberly-weisul/the-long...
I don't know about the past, but what you're describing is the current status quo[1].

[1] https://i.redd.it/5hgt89c599y91.jpg
Another way to understand a clutch is to have someone drive a motorcycle (or better yet an ATV with four wheels, they don't tip over).
some of that (the highway rating especially) is gearing, the final drive is shorter and the 6th gear in the ZF manual is not nearly as tall as the 8th in the 8HP. This is a common issue in auto vs manual MPG comparisons these days
This stance is absolutely baffling to me. Just goes to show how our attitudes towards white collar crime (which is orders of magnitude more lucrative than most petty crime) are grossly out of proportion to the harm they cause compared to, say, a car thief.
There is a saying that you invest in the leadership not the company. So the whole personality hype probably was indeed big for getting investment as well as keeping investors from insisting on putting their own "guys' in charge (maybe they didn't even have any experienced crypto people yet).

Overall though, this isn't really surprising. I think generally no one really knows what's going on in a private company like this if the CEO is the founder and has all the power. It's exceeding possible and common for them to mix personal and company finances. Probably the norm.
Wouldn't a positioning system just need accurate time differences and synchronization between transmitters?

E.g., suppose you made a system where each satellite transmits messages of the form "Here comes beep #N. At the time of beep #N this satellite is at this position: <X>, <Y>, <Z>. Here is beep <N>: BEEP!".

The satellites are synced so that beep <N> occurs at the same time on all of them.

By looking at the time difference between the arrival of beep <N> from several satellites a receiver could tell the differences between its distances from those satellites. Combined with the position information for those satellites at the time they beeped the receiver would be able to tell its location.

If the satellite broadcasts use a high enough frequency and that frequency is known and very stable the receiver would not even need an accurate stand alone timer. It could sync a counter to the frequency of the satellite radio.
This is impressive and hugely respectable at the same time. I'm working on a ratings site using zero-knowledge cryptography, would you mind if I reach out?
Thank you for the Lego thing.

My mom got into adult lego when she took apart my child hood lego and reassembled them to resell.

Now we mail each other sets that the other is done with, and it gives us a great opportunity to connect. We're both anxious people and there's something relaxing about just assembling something where everything has a place.

When she found out there's a lego con in my town, she made plans to come visit me so we can go together and I can show her around the city I just moved to.
> It's more important to consider human happiness

Do you think that the people that are starving to death in Madagascar from climate-change induced drought are happy?

When the problem comes further north, do you think we will be happy?
> Does an average american live 4 times better than an average frenchman?

I don't know about that "4 times better" (how do you measure that, diminishing returns, etc).

But your average house in the US is for sure more comfortable than your average house in France.
> More permissive perhaps, but not by much

I don't understand this perspective. The Babylon Bee was banned for misgendering someone. It looks like they would not be banned under the new policy. That is an extreme difference.
You don't think he's going to permanently resign from the game?
Fair enough... but to me the story of a bad actor getting their come-uppance isn't all that tragic, as there's justice at the end of the story. I suppose one could consider Elizabeth Holmes as a tragic character in her story. Tragic optimism leading to a web of lies and deceit?
What I've wondered through all this is whether he intends to bring in different contractors than than were there before to replace everyone he is firing or causing to quit. Contractors are more disposable and often cheaper.
Define “unfettered” in this context. And I wasn’t implying that she’d be free.
> the PoW verifier needs as much memory as the PoW prover, whereas a good PoW should be instantly verifiable

Ooh, yes I see, that is a big difference. Cool work!
> So, USA makes some effort to stop ripoffs of unwitting "unaccredited" investors within the USA.

The problem is that it's a dubious premise to begin with to assume that someone's knowledge or competence is tied to their salary or net worth. It's just baseless gatekeeping.
> "Virtually" - is murder even a federal crime in the United States?

Yes, but the general federal murder law (18 USC § 1111) only applies in the “special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States”.

A lot of federal felonies have, in place of a general federal felony murder rule, a distinct crime or enhanced punishment when death is involved and deliberately killing certain federal officials is also a federal crime.
No docs or anything yet but: https://github.com/mayeaux/generate-subtitles
He lied about having a physics degree and he can't code. He knows nothing about engineering.
That's the whole point i'm making here. UTC and leap seconds could always have been separate in the same way timezone+dst offsets are separate. In fact leap seconds could have just gone into the timezone offsets directly and it'd all work fine (we'd probably still call it UTC +10 rather than UTC +10:00:27 but that's not a problem and to be honest we'd probably not bother at all until the offset was big anyway).

There's no reason this wasn't done many years ago except for a blunder on the part of CGPM which they are now working to correct.
Was the button opt-in a legal workaround for something?
Mostly, it heavily normalizes code, to the point where a name change will not register as a change to the program.
This is important to say - but I guess the question still stands, if they had somehow secretly developed nukes in say 2008, would they have been left alone? (and should we let everyone have them for world peace? I don't think I like those chances)
> It appears that three of these that you listed, which are the most silencing, will no longer be used (assuming legal content): post removals, temporary bans, permanent bans.

This is not the case given that Twitter has removed posts[1] and banned accounts that were critical of Musk[2].

[1] https://external-preview.redd.it/LvQhCbGd3mXlAjyj0GktvQaAJ_3...

[2] https://i.redd.it/5hgt89c599y91.jpg
Did Wickr Me have very many users? The only times I've really heard of it was to do with people using it for drugs and issues with CSAM.
That’s how Twitter works already — that’s how the “filter bubble” concept is able to exist, you’re only exposed to things in your self-selected bubble.

What Elon is describing (as I understand it based on the limited information provided) is restricting reach within your network, i.e: you tweet something bad, the tweet won’t show up on your followers feed.