skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After seeing what this winter's repeated freeze/thaw cycles have been doing to my city, I'm rethinking the idea that wood is less durable, too.

Winters are always tough, but climate change seems to be exacerbating it. Where, once upon a time, it used to get cold and stay cold, now the temperature bounces back and forth across the freezing point, and, from what I can tell, it's taking a serious toll. The streets are increasingly a giant mess of potholes and spalling, the sidewalks are a mess, and even the buildings are starting to fall apart. Yesterday I heard about a person in my neighborhood being hit in the head by a falling chunk of masonry.
It's not surprising that she lied to everyone. Lots of people lie all the time. It's amazing that people BELIEVE her.

I just don't get why people are convinced by these pathological liars whose only skill is confidence?

Con-men tell people what they want to hear. It's not shocking that she is a con-man, it's shocking that she was able to con people who are so rich and powerful.

I remember her Forbes article and I was like "there is something wrong here". It takes DECADES to make breakthroughs in medical science and she did it in as a 19 year with a couple of into to bio classes?

If could have shorted Theranos then, I would have.

The only good thing about this is there are a few horrible people that lost a lot of money investing in her, so that has been entertaining.
The stuff Rogan advertises is so bizarre. It has been a couple of weeks since I listened to him, but the one I can remember best was some sort of payment app that supposedly paid the user to use the app. Then there have been various AM-radio-type "nutritional" products. Maybe mainstream firms don't want to be associated with him, but how do the goofballs he advertises come up with 8 figures every year?
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> The podcast is very well done, but each one is about an hour long.

Many podcast apps have a pitch stable speedup function, that increases the playback speed. I'm currently at 2.1x, but I have a blind friend that listens to email via TTS at something like 4x. It's a skill that you can practice and ramp up over time.

> I'd much rather have it as a blog post where I can skim through to find the pieces that interest me.

Personally, podcasts are a supplement to my blog feeds, for the daily commute. There is no public transit to work that's feasible, and even if there was, I generally cannot read in car without getting motion sickness. So reading is pretty much off the table, and instead podcasts fill that slice of daily life.

> Podcasts are also completely inaccessible to search engines.

This is mostly true, although nothing prevents transcripts from being made readable.
> long as vendors are free to offer different pricing based on payment method

My understanding is that the merchant agreement the vendor has with the credit card company prohibits that.
> "Yep. We were terminated by Idera without even our managers knowing."

Not sure if thats douchebaggy. I've seen several layoffs like this, where everyone finds out at the same time not by levels.
I had the same experience. My manager refused to see what was in front of him. After I left that jobs, my mental health greatly improved because I no longer had to deal with unrealistic deadlines from my incompetent manager. The next time I run into this situation again, I know not to voice my concerns and just start looking for a new job. There is no point disagreeing because it is alway you that will lose no matter the outcome. People like sweet talkers, not naysayers. Let them find out themselves when the hard way.

P.s. after I left, my manager couldn’t ship anything for 1 full year. It turns out, I was the only one keeping the boat afloat.
Do you have a recommendation for a good probability course/textbook for that matter?
Ostensibly, it's a place where multiple people sign up to buy something, so that you get bulk prices. In my experience it's been much more about trying to get you to buy for the same or more than you can get on Amazon using 'limited time' artificial scarcity.
The other thing is that we often engage with things for two goals: (1) information and (2) entertainment.

Text excels at being extremely efficient for (1), but not as efficient for (2) - at least when compared to multimedia like photos, videos, audio, etc.

Podcasts offer a good balance between (1) and (2), but they are not the high-octane fuel of information that pure text can offer.
Well, yeah, of course if you're just sitting in your living room you'd rather read than listen; however that's not really the use case of a Podcast.

The value podcasts bring is you can consume them during times you can't read. During exercise, driving, walking to work, cleaning the house, cooking, and train/car rides (for people who get motion sick while reading in a moving vehicle). They turn tedious menial tasks into times when you're mildly entertained - that provides immense value.

They can also be used for a slightly more interesting white noise.
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> Why not wait and keep pushing the tech until it's worth releasing a beautiful product that can capture actual market share?

I can only speak for myself, but I have been waiting. Since 2011, to be precise, which is when Sanyo and I believe Sony came out with 4.3 inch phones that folded out into 7-inch tablets.

If there's any company that can invest properly in this form factor, it's Samsung, so I'm glad they're doing this.

Certainly not going to buy it at that price point though!
This entire story makes me much more curious about the enablers of this kind of behavior i.e. the investors and not Holmes herself. Are the big investors really that incomplete or "naive" in their diligence if pumping a big sum like $50M or more ?

If I was in that situation (i.e I was a VC), I would at least ask for a working demo of their tech (where I was present to see it go through even if that took an entire day) along with corroboration of their results with conventional tech before I decide to give them a dime. I mean I did this even when I invested just $15K as an angel investor in a company long time ago.

This seems obvious to me - why isn't this a thing for big name investors?
Creators may be entering a golden age, but the delivery methods and infrastructure have been stagnant for years now. We now have ongoing shows, evergreen episodic shows, "two amateurs in a basement" niche shows, 12-episode and it's done audiobooks, and various other designations of podcasts, and yet we still serve everything like it's a blog that needs to release content weekly. I also find it frustrating that we only categorize by topic. I'll listen to something very different on a 5 hour car ride than I would on a 15 minute walk with my dog (beyond something "Comedy" instead of "News")

Most listeners see Apple Podcasts as "good enough", but I find it confusing, and other applications follow the same approach with one or two "tweaks" that are not worth sacrificing features or adjusting to a new UI. I'm still optimistic that Spotify can get their act together (since they have the resources and incentive), but they haven't done anything dazzling since quietly adding a podcast section years ago.

It severely limits the capabilities of the medium, and yet no one seems to think anything is wrong. I understand this structure is a result of RSS serving as the backbone of "podcatchers", but everyone would benefit from a bit of lateral thinking.
Well, or maybe it wouldn't, because Apple would not keep and examine and data-mine that data?
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Even SZ has been associated with poor social relationships, as one of the causal mechanisms. Adler's psychology attributes most psychological issues with poor social relationships. In the 70s there was this whole idea that SZ was caused by bad mothers, something which the feminists had a lot problems with.

In the end we have no way in modern society to address any of the deeper causes, so the technician simply gives you a medicine that chemically manipulates parts of the brains to make them behave differently... in some cases those manipulations cause long term damage to the brain which often is written off as a side effect of the disorder.
> I find it surprising that people buy flagship phones that don't include an SD card reader.

Because most don't come with an SD card reader and there are other features people want besides that. Buying a $1000 phone is all about the trade-offs one is willing to live with.
In the blog about the private equity acquisition, the CTO says "With the support from our new partners, we will be able to invest in expanding and improving our core product"

I wonder if he believed that, even as he wrote it?
There is no such legal or regulatory mandate.
> Starbucks benefits because they only incur transaction fees for every (say) $25 pre-paid block, instead of for every $3 coffee. Swipe fees decrease as a percentage of revenue.

They also incur benefits because money in hand and earning returns today for goods and services that will (maybe) be provided in the future is better than money received only at the point of sale.
Speculative, but Apple and Goldman are the only ones who can do this because Apple's user base is not fragmented like Android device OEMs.

I'd watch this story.

By not having an existing card relationship, Goldman is the only one large and flexible enough to stand up new infrastructure that doesn't rely on supporting or integrating to legacy EMV protocols and infrastructure, which could allow for a closed loop between GS and Apple.

Even without a closed loop, Apple has a SE in their devices they can provision unique keys to during manufacture and this mitigates the main limitation of EMV tokenization, which was how to provision and manage tokens for offline payments mode, and who holds the risk/gets compensated for it.

With a closed loop, they don't need tokens, just a ledger, for which solutions exist.

Who loses? G&D, Oburthur, Mastercard, etc. I'd be surprised if this didn't happen.
> I wonder if she's really so different from the average tech CEO/founder

She hired Steve Jobs’ right-hand man. He quit because she was too abusive and too delusional. It’s fair to say she’s fundamentally different from any competent CEO, ignoring the fact that she chose to deploy medical devices to the field.
For people with long commutes like myself (1 hour +), audio podcasts are a great way to pass the time in he car. Podcasts are a great way to keep your mind occupied when you're sitting in traffic or doing some other tedious and menial task. Sitting down and actively listening to a podcast while doing nothing else is not very appealing to most people.
Failure from an honest effort and failing due to making up stuff out of thin air and then committing a series of serious frauds, resulting in at least one person's death, is quite different.
CO2 fraud has been uncovered in the EU VAT zone[0]
1.6 billion euros skimmed by a dozen people in France. Up to 10 billion for the EU as a whole.

Unfortunately I could only find sources in french or hebrew but the amounts amassed by this operation is staggering.

[0]https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraude_%C3%A0_la_TVA_sur_les...
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I'd argue that it's a reasonable tradeoff if you consider the users vs customers distinction. Many (most?) services want more users because they're either going to pay money directly or they are good targets for advertising. A first world user is valuable, a third world user - not so much (literally - if you look at costs for clickthroughs or user acquisition or ad revenue per user, there's easily a hundredfold difference).
People who are poor enough to not have a phone of their own are probably not going to bring you much revenue, so it's no big deal if they can't access your service. I mean, a company isn't building that service to serve users, it's building that service only to earn money from these users.
The article notes that the study used twenty-year-old archival data from the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). It's good to keep that stuff around, organized so that you can find and use it.
My porridge-language is limited, but if I understand correctly he used an XSS vulnerability to place an alert box on the page telling the users of the system they should contact the provider and tell them the system had been hacked. It could of course has been much worse. He was later found not guilty:

https://www.version2.dk/artikel/derfor-blev-henrik-hoeyer-fr...
The law will effectively eliminate any content uploading. Whether it is 100% originally created by the uploader or containing copyrightes material, covered by fair use or not. As the platform owner carries the whole risk for damages, only a few large industrial platforms like youtube might survive. But only with extremely stringend upload filters which mean the end of any content containg possibly copyrighted material.
The Cash App is very popular with working class people, which is a huge audience with Rogan. It's always in the top five finance apps.

But, yeah, some of the shit he has advertised is off the wall.
If this tool is useful to you, it's highly recommend reading the author's blog as well. It's a great resource for learning about postgres.
I can see issues with the widely available market for blood donors, but I disagree about "paying down loans with blood, skin, and kidneys".

If you do physical work you already destroy some muscles, and if work is stressful you destroy your kidney trying to get relief by drinking yourself out. The skin on your hands also gets damaged from hard work. Or skin on your body after constant exposure to the sun.

We should strive for a society where we do not have to work ourselves out to pay off the loan, and not focus on preventing people from paying off loans destroying their bodies specifically, no matter if it is blood donation, or herniated disks, or destroyed lungs, or anything in between.
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Why would you think bonuses don't count as pay? All financial compensation is pay.
I recently saw people using gpu to parse csv files. there are also other articles on using gpu to parse json. do you think if gpu can perform well on this type of tasks?
> Are the big investors really that incomplete or "naive" in their diligence if pumping a big sum like $50M or more ?

Her early backers were big-name individuals. Not firms. The healthcare VCs (e.g. Annie Oakley) passed on Theranos.

The deeper question is to what degree are David Boies, George Schulz and others who actively suppressed whistleblowers complicit in her crimes.
As it's all based on email infrastructure, interoperability would be something amazing between chat platforms.
I don't think that is possible without creating new loopholes elsewhere.
Podcasts aren't for reading a prepared text.

They're mostly for conversations.
Quite a few "smart home" devices use location information to determine when the sun rises and sets.
Low cost SBC (Raspberry Pi, etc) and whatever speakers you'd like. Airsonic or a basic UPnP server as your driver.

Take it a step further (if you prefer portability of sound quality) and get an SBC with a bluetooth adapter, and several bluetooth modules which you can rig up to each speaker.
The theory of a simulated universe isn't really physics though, is it?

The closest physical theory would be the Mathematical Universe Hypothesis.
I remember me and all my friends buying Macs on credit from MacMall.

They would approve us while Apple wouldn't, we were only like 20 so we didn't have much credit history.

$3500 Mac (the most we could get approved for) with 20%+ rates, some of us were paying those thigns until 6-7 years later!

I learned at this point to never buy new if you didn't have to, and never buy a $3500 item if you couldn't use it to make money, and not just as a toy!
"... Unfortunately I have a Sonos system ..."

How very funny - as I read the OP and was clicking into the HN comments, all that I had on my mind was "Sonos".

I wish I had the time to clearly and succinctly elucidate the path of Sonos, corrupted by the mobile ecosystem and a reach for easy profits, from a darling hardware provider that users loved to a wannabe data broker that I hate-use.
You mean like in Switzerland? [1] I think the mistake here is being overconfident. Most of us (including me) don't know much about heath care economics.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Switzerland
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Yes its kindof should we act or just react?
Once you adopt that line of thinking you can't trust anybody, any arguments, any theories anymore.
Are you saying that the scientific method cannot be applied to economics? :O

While qualitative analysis can be considered empirical, it's not something often seen when money is concerned and the stakes are high. Most often you will see papers relying on qualitative methods in the "soft sciences" such as social science. Not to mention "verbal theorizing".. this is the kind of stuff that gets laughed out of real conversations.
I called it. The money men have praises Idera for their new and innovative approach to software development. Also know has fixed cost devlopement to the lowest bider.

If you want stop this type of practice please don't sign multi year contracts. That is stage two. This is where they get their value.

Without the contracts they can't use it as leverage to take out huge debts -- where they get their value from.

If the fed raised the rates this practice would also end.
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Previous discussion of the acquisition on HN, complete with a prediction of just this happening can be found at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18978251
To get an idea of how the European Commission thinks, you really need to read their retracted Medium post: http://archive.fo/cZa14

It oozes contempt, is filled with strawman arguments, and makes no effort to disguise its disdain for "the big Californian companies".

Some highlights:

> Good journalism costs money and without a free press there is no democracy.

> Because if creative people don’t get paid, they can’t afford to be creative. No Mon = No Fun

> At the moment the balance of power in who gets paid for such royalties resides overwhelmingly with the big Californian companies — who are worth around $1 Trillion.

> Are we in a world where ordinary people side with the fire breathing dragon against the knight with a blue and yellow shield?
> I store anonymous metrics that I use to gauge usage levels

How valuable has that data proven to be? Is it worth collecting?
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Visa/MC were originally made by the banks. Ultimately if apple wants to succeed they will have to work with the banks to get it working.
Or the actual barrels of cash
Plenty of vendors take PayPal.

AMEX/Discover can't even take over Visa/MC...
Indeed, a great resouce! I really liked how he explained and benchmarked an implementation for foreign keys to partitioned data (sadly not available natively yet) in this multi-part series from last year: https://www.depesz.com/2018/10/02/foreign-key-to-partitioned...
Honestly I'm astonished at the speed with which this happened, given the recency of their acquisition. Seems amazingly cynical of their new parent company.
We are http://www.open-xchange.com, http://www.dovecot.org plus people from the Delta Chat community and http://spikenow.com - plus whoever whats to join.
Doesn't this bring a large overhead since you're sending a ton of header stuff for each short message?

It's true that email is really the number 1 mean of communication, but I wonder if it's not ton and ton of added layers to make it modern enough.

And as it was mentioned, I'm not sure email is really good enough for mobile and other constrained bandwidth.

I might be wrong, but email headers are pretty scary.

In the end, I wonder if any old protocol shouldn't be upgraded, things made deprecated, etc. Every decade or so, protocol should be sanitized.
There's no mixup.

Kosovo has numbers that are reachable through Monaco (not Kosovo's neighbour) country code.

Kosovo does not have numbers that are reachable through Montenegro (Kosovo's neighbour) country code.
There are people working on physics as computation.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-black-hole-interiors-grow...
This is not it.. anecdata I stream all the podcasts I listen to, many of which I actually watch on YouTube.. I have unlimited data or 20gb or something like that..

The "download a podcast/movie" is probably an important RITUAL for a lot of people, but I don't see actual lack of space as a key barrier.
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The label would be useless at this point. You know how in California everything causes cancer? This would be the same.
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i don't know the numbers for each, but my understanding is that processing fees are paid to the card provider (visa or mastercard) and interest is paid to the issuing bank. visa isn't making money off the interest, and your bank isn't making money off the fees.
I'll add since it isn't clear that this term is usually exclusive to Forex.

I'll also add that the commercial market for them is about as scummy as it comes. You want to know how to game backtest metrics? Have a look at what they're doing with EAs.
Although I understand your point of view, you are being as condescending as you claim he is.
Literally what they pay me for :-)

Anything else you want to know?
I don't think China would consent to being taxed like that.
One of the things that seems really interesting to me is how personal podcasts seem to be to listeners. People really spend time custom curating their lists. Many of the problems with podcasts pointed out below don't bother me in the least, but its because of what I tend to listen to, whereas I have entirely different problems I don't see reflected in anybody else's issues.

I think this really speaks to how customizable people's listening habits and needs are.

For example, I mostly listen to podcasts when doing dishes and cooking. And I focus on topics that don't really have a timeliness component, so it doesn't matter if the podcast doesn't release new episodes or I discover it years late.
There's not much I miss from the days of SQL Server 2000 but a robust, fast official client is one.

In my opinion isqlw is the gold standard, and it had something like this built right in.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19218036

(Also, it's "Idera")
Could still trace the point/time of sale and pull security footage. Additionally, the authorities and the telcom could work together with a bank to generate a honeypot card, send it by SMS, and then track usage to identify members of the network.
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Wow.. what is Reading Rainbow? I thought Lavar Burton Was a Star trek guy.
My parents & siblings are a mix of android/iphone users and I convinced them to all join Signal for group chats and it's been very solid.
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Especially for those who switched careers to become a machine learning practitioner, data scientist, data engineer vs.
Yes. The reason is showing ads and spying on their users. Right reasons for THEM.
It is impossible to write a program that distinguishes between legit and illegit uploads. Basically everything created in the last 90 years is copyrighted. Be it video, picture or writing. How should an upload filter identify an uploader als the legit copyright owner?