skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So former Governor Phil Bryant is claiming that the claim by the CEO of the paper that he embezzled (the CEO has since apologized for the error) was due to malice. What I fail to understand though is how the identity of the sources demonstrates said malice. Moreover, there's a lot more here:

> [Nancy] New said that at a 2019 Christmas party, Bryant talked about Jake Vanlandingham, founder of the Florida-based biotech company Prevacus. “Governor Bryant got excited and told me that Jake had offered him ‘half the company,’ which I understood to mean a substantial amount of stock, but the Governor said he was going to have to wait until he was out of office to accept,” New wrote.

If you might recall, Brett Favre was paid $1M in speaking fees but never actually did any speeches and he advocated for government funds to be used to build a volleyball stadium at USM.

I really think the simplest defense here will be to just show that Bryant was complicit in the embezzlement just because it seems more likely than not:

> Bryant was governor from 2013 to 2020 and chose John Davis as director of the state Department of Human Services. Davis pleaded guilty in September 2022 to state and federal charges in a conspiracy to misspend tens of millions of dollars that were intended to help needy families in one of the poorest states in the U.S.

> Favre had publicly said he supported the Prevacus effort to develop a concussion drug, and the state's civil lawsuit says Favre invested more than $250,000 in the Florida-based company.

> “After the meeting, I asked John why he had committed so much funding so quickly,” New said in the court filing. “John said he had spoken with Governor Bryant and the Governor wanted Prevacus funded. John said the Governor was ‘all about this happening.’”

Now to be clear I'm not saying the governor is guilty of embezzlement. I'm just saying that it seems like everyone that he surrounded himself with seems to have been caught doing shady shit stealing from welfare funds & denying 90% of applicants to these programs. Since the former Governor makes Christianity a core part of his identity, might I remind him 1st Corinthians 15:33 "Bad company ruins good morals". And if I were the prosecutors, I'd make real sure there's no case at all against the governor cause it seems like there's some smoke there that can be fanned into a fire.

[1] https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2024/02/29/mississi...
Please don't use animated gifs to demonstrate what your project does. It's hard to read while it's moving. A shell transcript is better.
Bonus points for adding a WYSIWYG HTML editor that can work with rendered Markdown and then write its edits back out as Markdown, to Markdown (altho maybe in the worst cases falling back to embedding simple HTML).
That's fair I guess. JSDoc over TS for a legacy codebase strikes me as a good decision.
I agree that spaced repetition is often done poorly and needs to be customized based on performance.

Just putting this here because you might find it interesting: I spent several years building a fully-individualized spaced repetition system that not only

1) works in a hierarchical knowledge domain (where repetitions on advanced topics "trickle down" to update the repetition schedules of simpler topics that are implicitly practiced), but also

2) minimizes the number of reviews by choosing reviews whose implicit repetitions "knock out" other due reviews (like dominos), and

3) calibrates the spaced repetition process to each individual student on each individual topic (student performance and topic difficulty are competing factors).

You can read more about it here if interested: https://www.justinmath.com/individualized-spaced-repetition-...
When has the core base of society ever not been rotten? I think what is changing now is that people went from a few happy go lucky decades of being flabbergasted that anything bad can happen, to the media pendulum swinging the other way of showing us the ugly truth too much and assuming things happen even more often than they truly do, at least in terms of your real personal odds of risk.
Author here!

Surprised to see this on the front page again (hello fellow pottery enthusiasts?), but figured this could be a good chance to address some of the comments from the recent discussion [0] since I missed it last time :P

The most common feedback seemed to be, "this is dumb, just use SQLite", which is definitely valid.

This was actually how I initially started building the app (using SQLite), and it worked pretty well. There were a couple reasons I abandoned this approach though: one, whenever I had to uninstall and reinstall the app, the data would get wiped; two, I still had to deal with migrations and other annoying boilerplate; and three, I wanted to be able to share my results with my friends in a read-only web view.

(That being said, I'm also curious to explore how tools like ElectricSQL [1], PowerSync [2], TinyBase [3], etc. play with SQlite to handle some of these issues. At a glance, it just seemed like these would require more time to setup compared to InstantDB [4].)

Another similar comment that popped up a few times was the idea that if I'm trying to model _relational_ data, it would be ridiculous to use anything other than a _relational_ database.

I think that's fair, but I also think it's fair to say a graph database is also "relational" in some sense, or at least "relationship-centric" [5] :)

Either way, I had a lot of fun with this. And I was definitely optimizing more for speed/scrappiness than for doing it The Right Way, so if anyone has any thoughts on how to build stuff faster, I'd love to hear it!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40860116

[1] https://electric-sql.com/

[2] https://www.powersync.com/

[3] https://tinybase.org/

[4] https://www.instantdb.com/

[5] https://aws.amazon.com/compare/the-difference-between-graph-...
> I understand food safety, drug and copyright laws are pretty lax in places like Somalia and Eritrea.

Do you think the lack of copyright laws cause more problems in Somalia than the US government funding warlords there, attacking with drones and running black sites[0]?

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Somalia
That's part of the FAQ?
Gosh, if only there was a device vendor who didn’t do that, and offered the option for encrypted cloud backups and e2e encryption for all your inter-device traffic, and designed their privacy-sensitive services to work on anonymized tokens instead of device identifiers or user accounts…

… but apple sells ads too therefore every option is equally bad!

It’s funny to see people admit with the AI stuff that apple is getting it right, introducing privacy-protecting approaches and services, etc, yet refuse to admit that the same perspective and approaches have informed all their services for a long time. In the day to day, there is no legitimate debate that Apple Maps is vastly more privacy preserving than google maps, etc. People use some weird purity test where because App Store ads exist suddenly apple is the same as a literal adtech company.
That seems reasonable.

However don't you think your own explanation of improving security against accidental key reuse could be the explanation, with the repetition being there only for that purpose?
before publishing the blog, make sure a _second_ entity warns the manufacturer of their faulty product
Jujutsu was started in late 2019. Got seems to have been started in late 2017. I have no idea why they didn't contribute to gitless instead of starting a new project.
This is a good point. In general, you get redundancy by splitting samples over multiple locations and storing cells at -196 liquid nitrogen or slightly warmer vapor phase.

I also think sequencing is another form of insurance that applies to cell storage for aging, because sequencing as much of your cells as possible now is basically a digital save state of your youngest cells. A rubric for age-reversal, at least for your cells.
For example, Breath of the Wild has a quest-line featuring two NPCs sending love letters via a river, and you can help then get together or something. Only issue is that it's hella creepy in the English translation, while it's much less in the original Japanese one. I don't remember the specifics, but the problem there was the translators were not given context for what they were translating.
Interesting. I guess it could kickstart a repo. Thanks for the reply.
Why shouldn’t people be allowed to do both? I don’t see much of an advantage to making the markets less agile.

It would be nice to be able to buy and sell stocks more than once a quarter, especially given plenty of events that do affect the perceived value of a company happen more frequently than that
One annoying problem that I encountered with that approach was different binaries having different version conflicts on different platforms. Not unsolvable, but definitely unsolvable without a whole lot of irritation, and a huge PITA to maintain. It definitely makes it possible though, which is a whole lot better than nothing.
Amazon repackaged MongoDB, an originally AGPL licensed work, and did indeed comply with AGPL, but that means nothing because they did not modify the source code at all, they merely packaged it up into a hosted service. Because they followed the terms of the license but were accused of "leeching off" of MongoDB, even though they clearly licensed it to be used as such, MongoDB then changed their license to a source available one. My point is that if Amazon's lawyers, which are likely better and stronger than most anyone here on HN's, approved such actions with regards to AGPL works, then it's very likely that they were within their rights to do so via the terms of AGPL without open sourcing their integrations too.
The issue is this:

For all the developers out there, there are extremely few who understand CS concepts well enough to build things correctly.

For most of them, their knowledge is in a form of map, where they just remember how to do certain things and when they need to do that, they just follow the template that they remember.

As such, to make use of those developers, you basically need to provide handholding for them as much as possible. This is pretty much the reason for things like OOP, frameworks like React, Type safety, e.t.c. All of these basically restrict what the developer can write in order to match the defined "API" as provided by those language features.

And because things need to move forward, the optimal setup from a business perspective is to adopt a strict framework and make use of the developers, rather than focus on hiring the very few talented developers.
What about the copyrights purpose of furthering the arts and sciences?
I thought e-ink had a refresh rate limitation. What’s happening here. Anyone every design in e-ink?
The graphics style gives some Fallout vibes, in a good way. Beautiful!
Not that it retracts from your argument but rEFInd can handle detecting bootable USBs afaik. It's just not enabled by default
I found this REALLY cool and interesting, thank you for sharing

I love all the steel girder work, the symbiosis of the steel, the train, the station, the roofs. Absolutely beautiful
Copyright applies to the reproduction, not the consumption. We are free to read or otherwise ingest copyrighted material without legal concerns. We are free to learn from and create content based on those learnings.

Is there any precedence from banning the use of copyright material because someone (thing) might reproduce it later? Do the current copyright laws not already protect the authors and give them tools for takedowns and remuneration?
How Japan has avoided the gaming industry's persistent layoffs
quick look at my usual place shows them paying $0.15/lb for clean lead, 3cents less for batteries; and up to $2.20lb for clean copper.

At the peak in 2007, lead was worth at least 1/3rd more.

https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/lead

... so i dunno about "soaring demand for metals", cuz the market doesn't seem to show that.

copper is higher than the 2011 peak, but not that much more.

https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/copper
I said that they can know this data, not that they will... Not requiring data reporting doesn't mean that the data won't be reported, as you seem to be already aware of.

I am also in no way in support of the things you're referencing, just because they already exist doesn't mean it's just OK to accept further erosion of privacy. ALPR, cars with cell modems - these things are part of the same "slippery slope" of privacy wrt cars. As far as I can tell, you're saying "what you're worried about is already happening, so why bother being concerned about it getting worse?". How exactly is that helpful?

So maybe you're right, this isn't a "bad first step" - because it's actually the continuation of steps along a path that was no good form the start.

The point still stands that having the government get involved, making it a legal requirement for new cars to develop these bad systems, is a bad thing for individual privacy. It's not independent of requiring speed alerting, because the government is effectively saying "not only do we not care that this is happening, we're now requiring it".
But now cars can drive 150 to 200mph. Putting the max speed at 85mph would already increase safety.
Seems like the second stage is having some APU trouble that has caused it to not reach the right orbit...
It's not actually e-ink like other devices, it's a different display tech where they've managed to basically nail it.

I'd love to see a full size display like this.
I think some folks might be thinking of the older light-emitting 7 segment displays which used more power.
This is such a beautiful game that really channels the book. The Soviet retro futurism in the art style really sells it and the bleak mystery behind it makes you think in the best "classic scifi" way.

I loved my time with this.
They become hamburger, basically.

Some kind of “failure bond” where the company puts up a security in case of failure might be an option.

Most cryobanks don’t seem like they’d have this problem, but when you move into the decades timescale, things like catastrophic dewar failure can drain the coolant from your samples in minutes, and if it’s not staffed 24/7 with staff trained in contingencies like this (how do you safely remove samples from the dewar fast enough and how do you even know the failure occurred fast enough?) then damage can set in. There may even not be any records made or kept of the failure.

Something to think about if you want to move forward. However, if all you want is epi-DNA, I imagine corpses a few centuries old may qualify as enough. Eggs and sperm need to stay alive and viable, which is a far higher bar.
>There have always been thieves

And yet countries that aren't as rich as the US and are a lot softer on crime, have a lot less of it than the US. So maybe something is actually wrong in the US at a societal leve, that it has such a higher crimerate.
If technology advances enough to make this bank useful, would there be any benefit to using your own cells for treatment, instead of some designer cells? I'm assuming here that sneaking "other" cells past the immune system is an easier problem to solve than useful anti-aging gene therapy...
Windows 11 does this ! Videos playing on browser (edge, tested on youtube, linkedin videos) wont he heard to the meeting folks or folks on call in teams !
I don't think this article provides enough context to draw conclusions about why sales are down for Boeing. Are airline sales down for everyone, or just for Boeing? Is Boeing losing market share? Are airlines cancelling orders?
I replace my HVAC system last month. I did it myself (yes, this can be done with some research!).

I took the old one to a metal scrap yard, inside unit and outside. They made me go back home and cut some stuff apart for "top dollar" (which wasn't worth it really but I did it anyway).

Very surprised at what I received. I had over 200 pounds of "tin" (they called it) which was basically scrap steel. That fetched around $10 at $.04 a pound. The aluminum radiators fetched $.37 a pound coming to nearly $20. The old copper refrigerant lines however fetched around $3.50 a pound (nearly $60) and they were a small part of the whole system weight-wise, but most of the money. The owner got visibly excited when he saw the copper lines so I assume it's pretty profitable on that end too.

Overall I got close to $100 which wasn't worth the work, but it needed to be disposed of anyway. It was also "interesting" as I'd never been in a scrap yard before. Lots of shady looking folks coming in (some on bicycles) while I was there.

The disparity in metals pricing was surprising, with copper being worth more and aluminum way less then I'd thought. Also interesting was it was pretty close to a 10X ratio for each metal. Copper = 10X aluminum. Aluminum = 10X steel.
Spaced repetition should be automated by inserting it into the most popular games that education authorities can license in bulk. So students get to play their favorite games for free but they have to do spaced repetition learning to get to the next level in the game. Doesn't require school buildings or teachers.

Teachers should be incentivized based on the grades gained by their students during their tutelage. So grades gained = grade after - grade before summed over all students.
Maybe, maybe not, it's context / company dependent decision. A full rewrite is an opportunity to pay down other technical debt at the same time, or open the door to fully new approaches.

It's more about how one engages in such a debate than the merits looking in from the outside. OP wanted to know why they are having issues in interviews, their language / approach is probably the root cause, not the merits.
Windows 11 does that !! Videos playing on edge wont be heard by the folks on teams !!
Who says LLMs can't be funny?
Can’t find a price on mobile. I see a $100 deposit, but no final price.
I like the concept and I'm sure the product is great, but not putting the actual cost of the product anywhere on the website is insane to me. Just say it's going to be $730 and I can make the decision to put down a deposit or not. Only being shown the $100 deposit without any indication of the actual price is one of the worst dark patterns I can imagine.
> And there is a fantastic audiobook on audible.

Unfortunately it seems like the audiobook has been pulled from Audible! (Unless I'm just searching for it incorrectly?) I saw this book recommended in another thread and have been checking over the last several months in hopes that it has been restored, but no luck yet. Tempted to just buy it from another platform.
This is true. More work a desk than anything anymore and when they are on patrol or driving too and from the station they try very hard not to look at anything. A horse with blinders on

The courts are a mess, people get 1 overnight and get back out. There are no penalties anymore for crime so we get this.
This exactly. Eeros, Nest/Google Wifi, and other cloud based mesh devices all likely have access to the password as they send it down to the app.

I work on SPR @ https://www.supernetworks.org/,w e keep data self hosted, instead of a database in someone else's cloud.
Well this just sounds like more reason to use a point scale rather than calling the entire idea a waste of time.

In particular 'slightly less evil' is not the goal.
Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40456834
If anyone has pointers to how this mode works I'd be interested. It's 160dpi, which is lower than some eInk displays but faster refresh rate is good. Not using PWM to manage brightness is also good.
That is simply false. Talk to a lawyer. They advise for cookie banners as good precaution against disproportionate punishment mandated by law.
I actually prefer 7-segment displays as a user over high-resolution alternatives. I love the 7-segment displays in my Casio watch, calculator, multimeter, lab PSU and until recently Canon 5D Mark IV (which had a 7-segment-ish display on the top). I switched to Nikon Z8, which unfortunately has a higher-resolution display, which I dislike the look of. It’s all overly smooth sans-serif[1]. I like the jaggedness of 7-segment displays. I’ve also never experienced any of the listed issues with them. Unfortunately, all mirrorless cameras have those high-resolution smooth ones now (if they have the top display at all). The one in Z8 is actually the least bad one I’ve seen.

[1]: On higher resolution I generally prefer serif fonts. In particular, for coding I use Go Mono, which is one of very few serif monospace fonts.
Well noted.
This makes me think of the Minimal Phone: https://www.minimalcompany.com/

Ive been hunting for a phone that would make web surfing/youtube less appealing while not preventing me from using things like spotify and uber and i’m looking forward to seeing the reviews when it comes out.
Not to mention, at least where I live, it'd be illegal to train a model on actual, real media representing such cases that would let the model have a greater confidence rating in contextualizing which are or aren't actual child pornography. And I somehow doubt we'd get a good filter either way.
Is there a reason why Google can't get its users to install the extension and approve the permission for that API?

I would theorize the reason Google doesn't go through that process is that it's unrealistic to expect users en mass to do that, and the only way to get wide rollout would be to build it into a browser by default and then for good measure to hide the fact that it's installed -- something which, notably, Zoom can't do.

But I mean, if it's no big deal to get users to install an extension, then Google can stop bundling it by default and instead ask users to install it, right?
Query your database with your natural language
Brokers are required to give you NBBO or better. You could set up a direct connection to an exchange if you were willing to pay and were sufficiently motivated to deal with all of that
Not a fan of this landing page - just tell me it runs Android and show me the price. All the hooplah about healthier living through smarter computers makes me afraid that I won't be able to use it for what I need. It's pitching itself to the wrong audience.
I'm sorry, did you want an exhaustive list of the roads I've driven? How many times I have driven out west? Which routes? For how long? That's a ridiculous thing to expect from a random on a forum. Should I list out all of the 10+ hour trips I've driven to satisfy you? What level of experience would cause you to retract your simplistic dismissal of my option?

Also, you did not read my post. I specifically said that over the course of those long miles 10mph will cost you 2-3 hours. I literally said that in my post.

You also missed the part where I suggested that no one should be driving for 21 hours, let alone 18.

Let me be clear, trying to drive 1000miles in one day is unsafe.
It seems like it was originally reported to be $799 [1] but more recent articles say $729 [2] [3].

[1] https://goodereader.com/blog/tablet-slates/introducing-new-d...

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/23/24163225/daylight-dc1-tab...
[3] https://liliputing.com/daylight-computer-dc-1-is-a-799-table...