skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some people feel that extreme sentences are deterrents, but studies show that people don't rationally calculate the expected value of their punishment. Almost nobody committing crimes thinks they'll get caught, so doubling jail time doesn't have much of a deterrent effect.

Almost everyone who commits crimes while expecting to get caught is in desperate circumstances (near starvation, jail preferable to available housing, loved one in big trouble, etc.), where the time isn't a big deterrent, either.

It's much more effective to increase (at least the perception) of the probability crimes will be caught and prosecuted. Excessive jail sentences presumably result in greater costs, meaning less money available on the investigation and prosecution side. (Yes, this makes faulty assumptions about how government budgeting works in practice.)
RHEL costs money.
Meteorites plus gamma rays could have given Earth the building blocks for life
At least here (not US) when you take a course for skipper license you also have to show ability to swim, put on lifejacket while in water, tie bowline around your waist and couple other.

The tasks are not particularly hard but this is done in perfect conditions and assuming a person that has actually trained for it.

People land in water in all sorts of situations including getting heart attack or knocked unconscious by a blow to the head. People who can't swim or get shocked by cold water may simply not have ability to think clearly at all even if they are perfectly fine otherwise.

A PFD that is not worn, can't activate automatically is as good as ballast in those situation. I would also add that PFD has to be able to turn your face into the air unless you are in a situation where there is a minimal chance you get rendered unconscious and you can get immediate help.
Neither Rust nor Go have exceptions at all, and I would consider them "popular" at thos point. To be fair, they each also make you think more about your error handling (there are multiple valid approaches in each language).
>And the board doesn't keep people out. If you read the bylaws and charter, you would know that it is all contributing members of the projects that will vote for the board members

Good to know, I forgot how voting works. I hope they do right by the community and not vote you anywhere near the officers of the org. In your words, that means the structure will be working. But that requires faith that there are members who didn't drink your koolaid.

>Last point, it isn't cool to discredit non-technical contributions, every role in an open source project is important.

You're right, advertising your company CIQ using Rocky Linux is definitely up there in important open source contributions. I forgot about that small point.
Have you shifted from claiming the land sold for over a million to claiming that it's worth that much, despite having undeniably last sold for 7k?
I'm not sure about unusual or not, but I believe it was (then and there) possible to start a doctorate right after graduating from high-school (if I remember correctly from a biography of J. von Neumann).
Which exact federal crime do you mean by ‘negligence’ exactly?

The various fraud statutes require intent.
JIT can be faster than a static compiler if it takes advantage of runtime feedback, but that's not the case here:

> While Codon does offer a JIT decorator similar to Numba's, Codon is in general an ahead-of-time compiler that compiles end-to-end programs to native code.
It's workable if all of the machines you're going to talk to have v6, which is doable. Or you can run your own NAT64.

It would also be very easy to suggest that maybe Hetzner want to encourage people to keep paying for v4.
There are cultures in the world where the babysitter would expect to share in your windfall and everyone would think it a perfectly reasonable thing. Also, neighbors and extended family. This transactional, one and done sort of thinking that makes perfect sense in the capitalistic west, is not a mathematical, universal truth.
FastCGI and mod_php are both ways of running PHP on a web server, but they differ in how they achieve this.

FastCGI is a protocol that allows a web server to communicate with external programs that provide dynamic content, such as PHP scripts. In FastCGI, the web server launches an external program, called a FastCGI process manager, which is responsible for starting and managing a pool of long-running PHP processes. When a request for a PHP script comes in, the FastCGI process manager assigns one of these processes to handle the request, and the process generates the dynamic content and sends it back to the web server.

mod_php, on the other hand, is an Apache module that embeds the PHP interpreter directly into the Apache web server. This means that PHP scripts are executed directly within the Apache process, without the need for an external process manager.

While both FastCGI and mod_php are ways of running PHP on a web server, they differ in their implementation and how they handle requests for PHP scripts.
71 days vs 6 months is a pretty big difference though, less of a nit than you think!
I've been trying out the article's suggestions, and ChatGPT is able to tell me that it does not know today's date: "I'm sorry, but I am not able to access the current date because I am a large language model trained by OpenAI and do not have access to the internet. My knowledge is based on the texts that were used to train me, but I don't have the ability to browse the web or access real-time information. Is there something else I can help you with?"
The point was the screenshots of the replies from Rasperry Pi, the medium is not the message here.
That wasn't my read from https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Techni... :

Lots to look at there but the key bit is:

>If the user image hash matches the entry in the known CSAM hash list, then the NeuralHash of the user image exactly transforms to the blinded hash if it went through the series of transformations done at database setup time. Based on this property, the server will be able to use the cryptographic header (derived from the NeuralHash) and using the server-side secret, can compute the derived encryption key and successfully decrypt the associated payload data

So my understanding is that the server won't even know the hash of the image unless the client-side operations determine that it matches one of the hashes in the CSAM database, which is stored on the client.

Are you seeing it differently?
>[Scott #111] I would never object to anyone speculating about such fun things! The one part that I do object to, is people passing over the metaphysical enormity of what needs to be presupposed in such a discussion, as if it didn’t even require comment

>[Scott #119] Where I agree with you is this: I think that, for the vast majority of entangled states one cares about in physics, a dual description in terms of wormholes simply isn’t useful, even in those cases where it meaningfully exists (which is far from all of them).

Seems like at a high level this is indeed his position iiuc.
ChatGPT says:

The time dilation formula tells us that the time experienced by a moving clock will appear slower to a stationary observer by a factor of $\gamma$, where $\gamma = \frac{1}{\sqrt{1 - v^2/c^2}}$ and $v$ is the speed of the moving clock and $c$ is the speed of light. In this case, the speed of the space explorer's rocket is 0.95c, so $\gamma = \frac{1}{\sqrt{1 - 0.95^2}} = \frac{1}{\sqrt{0.0025}} \approx 7.071$.

To determine how long the space explorer's clocks say that he was gone, we need to apply the time dilation formula to each half of the journey. Since the speed of the rocket is the same on the way out as it is on the way back, the value of $\gamma$ will be the same in both cases.

First, let's consider the outbound leg of the journey. From the perspective of an observer on Earth, this journey takes 40 years. However, from the perspective of the space explorer, the time experienced on the outbound leg of the journey will be slower by a factor of $\gamma$, so the time experienced by the space explorer on this leg of the journey will be 40 years / $\gamma$ = $\frac{40}{7.071} \approx 5.648$ years.

Now let's consider the inbound leg of the journey. From the perspective of an observer on Earth, this journey also takes 40 years. However, from the perspective of the space explorer, the time experienced on the inbound leg of the journey will also be slower by a factor of $\gamma$, so the time experienced by the space explorer on this leg of the journey will be 40 years / $\gamma$ = $\frac{40}{7.071} \approx 5.648$ years.

To determine the total time experienced by the space explorer, we need to add the time experienced on the outbound leg of the journey to the time experienced on the inbound leg of the journey. This gives us a total time experienced by the space explorer of 5.648 years + 5.648 years = 11.296 years.

To determine the difference in aging between the space explorer and their twin who stayed on Earth, we need to multiply the time experienced by the space explorer by $\gamma$. This gives us a difference in aging of 11.296 years * $\gamma$ = 11.296 years * 7.071 = 79.8 years. This means that the space explorer has aged 79.8 years less than their twin who stayed on Earth.
The reputation washing will have a mixed effect, since he’s portraying himself as both innocent and incompetent. Not sure I’d do business with someone like that.
It might not cause mistrials, but you might influence public perception enough that jurors are more sympathetic. SBF is painting a picture of young altruistic but inexperienced guy, who got too caught up in things and wasn't paying enough attention and allowed mistakes to happen underneath him which he feels really bad about.

If you figure you're probably going to stand for some sort of trial anyway it might not be a bad approach.
> If there is a voice then let it be only to tell me the remodeling queue length, e.g. "You are now eight callers from being served", and only do it upon change of status, not repeating every 30 secs.

I have almost never encountered this while on hold (the closest I have come is the despicable "we are experiencing unusually long hold times", all the time), and it would be so good. What I particularly hate about the repeated announcements of the type you describe is that they are often much louder than the background music, so, not only do they train me not to pay attention, they force me to turn the volume way down, or hold the phone far from my ear, making it still harder to hear when a human comes on the line.
Why? Swift has never worried about it, and Dart’s target market is a lot closer to Swift.

Swift has made large backwards-incompatible changes 3 times now.
Seems like the real winner here is coffeezilla. I hadn't heard of him until this disaster, now he's everywhere.

https://socialblade.com/youtube/c/coffeezilla
> Our source code (MIT) can be found at https://github.com/coder/coder

https://github.com/coder/coder/blob/v0.13.1/LICENSE

> GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

Is there some licensing subtlety that I'm not seeing?
I wish them luck, but just attaching solar cells to an electric car is a pretty minor innovation and not a sustainable competitive advantage for a whole company. There's nothing preventing other auto manufacturers from doing the same. And most consumers aren't going to get much power out of this due to the car being in shade or at a suboptimal angle to the sun most of the time. At least for consumers who own their own homes it would generally be more cost effective to install rooftop solar panels and use those to charge an EV.
I'm saying for almost every major there is a very easy path.

But I absolutely disagree if they're saying that there are tons of people who could grok the advanced first-year physics classes like Physics 16 @ Harvard who are just being turned away and also not getting into other similarly good schools.
Maybe those predictions simply weren't as credible as you thought?

Federal wire fraud (and conspiracy to commit the same) has a maximum sentence length of 20 years. I guess she could have gotten 80 years if all 4 convictions were ordered to be served consecutively. I don't know how common consecutive senteces are vs concurrent.

In federal prison you can only parole at a maximum the last 15% of sentence, so she well serve the majority of the time (if held up on appeal etc., etc.)
If it is text-only, I see no reason to do any pagination (except a cargo cult-like habit). In this case, no option is needed.
Some context for non-cyclists

You can buy and attach smart trainers to the rear of bicycles. They provide resistance to simulate riding outdoors and you can run “games” on your pc that connect to the smart trainers to update your position in the game based off how hard you pedal. This then enables the possibility for people to race online.
Indict them too. There’s every indication that they were beneficial participants of the scheme.
Rust does have a feature called "panics" that is similar to exceptions in other languages. A panic in Rust is an unrecoverable error that can occur at runtime. Unlike exceptions, however, panics are not caught automatically by the language runtime. Instead, panics are propagated up the call stack until they reach a "catch point", where they can be handled by the programmer.
“performatively cynical” is such a fantastic way of describing that kind of discourse
Reminds me of Law 38 from "48 Laws of Power": think as you like, but behave like others.
The mod_* meant apache modules managing the process pool without a socket connection to a separate pool manager. Which meant issues there could affect the webserver, which was typically also serving static assets, etc.
The author says it's not about the money, but money was only one half of the verbal contract, the half that was actually delivered, and the author spends the entire article talking about the money half.

For me, the real issue for an artist that is actually not talking about the money would be the part of the verbal contract that was not fulfilled: Some type of promotional support for the author's other works. Exposure of that work the hundreds of millions of people seems like it would have a staggeringly massive non-monetary value (and in fact could have led to significant monetary gain). Instead though, the author goes to great pains to say it wasn't about the money while mostly talking about the money.
I'm definitely not commenting on the effectiveness of his reputation washing, just my view of its aim.
I agree. I write Java for many years and never had I any particular issue with nulls. I used Kotlin for a while and null-safety is a compromise which often leads to verbose and unnecessary code.

I don't have any particular side on this battle, I can use both approaches. I just don't think that it's a big deal.
Leslie Lamport: The Byzantine Generals Problem (1982)
FreeBSD vs. Linux – Networking – Klara Inc
Rumor has it, a young Arthur Witney's cat once walked across his keyboard. He jumped out of his chair in great joy and exclaimed "By God, Senor Mittens! This is it! This is how my programming language will look!"
There's also the very real question of if the Bahamas want to lock him up first. Since they've been trying to promote themselves as the place to base a crypto business, it makes good marketing sense for them to punish him severely. If they do, the next wave of crypto banks being "based in the Bahamas" could be a sign of legal safety.
We have some ideas of compiling Postgres to wasm and sync with the mothership in the cloud. But we haven’t funded the work. Check out electricsql they are looking at this problem.
I have played around. I love it! At 23gate.com we are not yet running our nodes for chainId=0x01, so I would love to switch our downloader to 0xfast.

However it seems that there are minor incompatibilities between 0xfast and generic RPC so it fails with ethers.js one getTransactionReceipt. I will look into it in the coming days and get back to you.
Being able to connect to arbitrary Postgres servers (or potentially even the postgres compatibility-layers for AWS's Aurora or Google's AlloyDB) seems like a good reason to go for the proxy approach.
Not sure how you got that impression from the article.

> He repeatedly emphasizes that he’s speaking against his lawyers’ advice (no kidding), because by god he just wants to help.
There is no reason to believe that his parents' counsel was "do as many interviews as possible, admit to as much as possible, and try to convince the public you're both a genius and completely ignorant of the basics of running a business", as opposed to the standard legal advice of "shut up and wait and see what the charges and evidence are (and who you can plausibly blame it on)".

I imagine some very clever people advised him on compliance best practises and not gambling customer funds that he wasn't entitled to touch either, but that didn't mean his actions were the outcome of listening to that advice
Apples and oranges. For one, PHP is a scripting language.
I think you're telling me the answer but I amn't sure.

Suppose I use 10TB of storage, and then later I delete all but 100GB of storage. Will I be paying for 10TB or 100GB?
Not to defend the OP because I agree that null is bad. But, in my limited experiecne with Swift I just add a few characters at the right place and the null's are now incorrectly ignored and the warnings go away. So, the language gave me warning, but it didn't really force me to deal with it correctly. Is Swift a bad example of a null-safe language?
> They don't want your data. They're not Goodle/FB/Amazon. They're giving you 2TB+ of space and you can encrypt it to the point that you'll lose your data and they don't care -- they don't want to mine your data

Their devices are still sending a bunch of telemetry. They're still in the ads business

Not saying that this recent move is bad, it's good to see. But at the same time, I'd rather manage and encrypt my own files on my own dfs than get trapped in the walled garden
Extremely limited support for one. Why is it locked behind the 6000 series cards? The project has been around since the 500 series cards days and they utterly ignored the entire market for years.
What percentage of the people in Ukraine appreciate what you are doing?

Is that even a question? By all indications, the percentage is extremely high (outside of the Crimea, and some parts of the Donbass).
No doubt about the quality, I already have some Routerboards around and will be purchasing some of their ceiling APs and a couple switches at the new house soon. All the worries come from the software being closed; I'm not painting Mikrotik evil, it's just that closed software and firmware are the ultimate place in which place spyware, especially where all software is FOSS. Routers and firewalls are the devices seeing every single piece of data on the network, thus is mandatory for them to be trustworthy, a quality the good reputation of their manufacturer can indeed suggest, but not guarantee.
Upgrade to web3 technology now and get 1000x the hosting bills and 1/1000000 the performance! Because… someone will get rich and blockchain is TEH FUTURE!
I'd set my priors on fire and throw them in the trash.
Mmn, no, it will admit it's wrong if you tell it so.
I'm glad to see more people are recognizing that while GOogle built a nice quantum computer, their attempts to sell it in the literature have been extremely overoptimistic about its actual capabilities. In a way that's good because every time they announce an advance over classical systems, some clever folks figure out a way to keep the classical system competitive.
Banner (YC S19) Is Hiring a Senior PM
I really like Alpine, even as a desktop OS. musl is a downside but I guess flatpaks and whatnot help that
We also don’t have much visibility into revenue now that it’s a private company. I’ve seen a lot of speculation that their ads product is falling apart and revenue is down. And obviously Twitter Blue seems to have been a chaotic failure.
I got mine right before COVID happened, so it wasn't that disease that caused it.

Its strange because I don't feel like I abused my ears relative to my peers: didn't use alcohol until I was in my twenties, hardly ever went to loud music shows. I did use my ipod growing up a lot as well but I was usually pretty careful about my ears and used lower volumes.

More than likely for me I think it was a combination of possibly motorcycle riding (despite wearing hearing protection I'd still sometimes come away from a ride with some ringing in my ears), and one incidence at a shooting range where my earmuffs weren't quite on, and - possibly most of all - I'm pretty sure my snoring contributed to it becoming permanent.
It's important to consider the impact of excessive jail sentences not only on the offenders, but also on society as a whole. Incarceration can have significant social and economic costs, including strained relationships between the incarcerated individual and their family and community, as well as reduced employment opportunities and income potential upon release. These factors can contribute to recidivism and create a cycle of crime and punishment.
It's an interesting thought experiment.

Recently, I've started switching my note taking to being more aligned to the ideas in the antinet zettlekasten. (See https://zettelkasten.de/posts/overview/). Basically, I handwrite notes into images that I store. This basically makes it less "convenient" to search, but I've found that doesn't matter - I seem to recall things that I handwrite far, far better than anything I've ever typed. And I can make pictures. But it's still pretty nice to have it on my tablet vs a card index (though I can still transfer between the two formats pretty easily using a scanner or my phone camera).

My sense isn't that there's this strict "convenience vs satisfaction" thing going on, but that there's more of a bit of a UX mismatch between how people kind of naturally interact with the physical world and the very limited interactions we currently have with the digital ecosystem. I find handwriting to be much more engaging, even on a tablet, versus typing anything. Though it still feels like we've barely scratched the surface here of what you can do with digital interaction.

Maybe AI improves on this, making these more physical interactions easier for machines to understand. Like, in my note taking example, maybe my handwriting could be used as input to a recommendation system for new books. Or, instead of thinking about YouTube as a replacement for physically being on a construction site, you could have shorter, contextual videos sent to something like an AR system while on a site, and then ask more significant questions of people when you get stumped.
I don't know if it's true, but it seems to be a popular "general tech interest" article subject in the last week: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=clear+iphone+cache&iar=news&ia=new...
> Before someone comments about "go to a rock climbing gym" or "go to a coffee shop" - I tried all of those things. It's not that simple. An office job is a very consistent way to talk to another human person in real life.

There's something to be said for joining a club or joining a church if so inclined.

It's much easier to create a community once you get rolling, but very hard to get started.

Getting a job in an office is good, it'll help build friendships. I'd just caution against that being the only community you're apart of. I personally try to be apart of 3-4 communities, it keeps me busy and makes my life more robust if one community is impacted.

"Rock climbing", "going to a coffee shop", isn't a community - those are effectively solo activities. You may get some human contact, but it's not someone you can call when you're sick.
Small things are breaking, but the Cassandra-like predictions of major outages appear to have been wrong so far.