skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of this went unnoticed as soon as the company came to public attention. One of the first discussions on HN about Theranos had people being impressed with the big names on the board, and other people noting that it lacked connections to the healthcare industry.

> That is a pretty stunning board of directors as well. I don't doubt their CEO can get an introduction to, and lunch with, nearly anyone on the planet.

> This board seems heavily geared to do deals for defense-related applications. That's fine; getting deals with the Armed Forces and VA is feasible and quite rewarding. What they overtly lack is connections to the healthcare world. I'm surprised they aren't publicly roped into Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic or Kaiser, as they to support novel technologies in this space. I suppose you can argue that the business model is fundamentally incompatible, but I've seen Mayo and Kaiser go in anyway; they can acquire these labs and roll them into operations pretty easily.

> That BOD is stunning with heavy national security/ military operations. I almost thought it was a CIA cover company.

> So, it's a health testing company that will keep all my blood-related health information and make it "actionable", with the backing of James Mattis, William Perry and none other than Henry Kissinger. There are more soldiers in that board there than doctors. The only way I'd give them my blood would be to infect them with a disease.

> Wow. She must be a pretty amazing woman to have collected such strong allies. I'd have lunch with her.

[This last one was downvoted, but is probably the sort of reaction Theranos was hoping to engineer.]
Oh my, it's a django app with debug mode enabled. I just got an InterfaceError with the full traceback and django configuration. (I've emailed them so they can fix it)
They dropped the temperature under load by a good 10 degrees C just by milling a few mm off the heatsink so it actually made contact with the CPU... sure, that didn't increase the performance drastically, but it seems like a massive oversight on Apple's part
I firmly believe truly plain HTML (sans even CSS) would be used more if browsers didn't seem to go out of their ways to make default pages ugly. Every element, down to H6, should be legible by default (even without the proprietary-turned-CSS viewport meta tag).

Sure, nothing is guaranteed about style, but that doesn't mean, for instance, that tables can't be styled by default and must instead look like a collection of lost strings on the screen.

I must admit I was pleasantly surprised by the bold implementations of DETAILS and SUMMARY, but still, there seems to be some sort of unspoken industry-wide manifesto against this.
SameSite Attribute Tester
Since they're only stopping for the month of July, I now suspect that you're presumption is correct.
I don't follow.

No attack is accidental. If a vendor fails to follow appropriate operational security, it is certainly the illegal actors fault. But it is also the fault of the vendor's negligence, and might also be the fault of whoever failed to properly vet the vendor. All three are potentially culpable.

Moreover, I took the parent comment to be referring more to customer flight rather than some judiciary judgement. 'I got mugged' is not what you want to hear from the person entrusted with your data security.
An oil company ordering Patagonia would be delicious irony, but why banks? Are banks known for serious damage to their environment? Genuine question.
Apple doesn't allow that. Your in-app prices have to match your out-of-app prices. Which would be fine if the cut was like 1-2%. But 30% is a lot.
Qualified Immunity – Police in the US held to lower standards
If you pursue a non-software-engineering major, you will at the very least be forced to use expensive equipment in a required lab class.
So, poor design? I mean, it doesn't matter what's the technical explanation is, it doesn't work, right?
Facebook is also making money off of you by showing you ads. It's a question of how much is enough. Facebook is charging nothing, sure, but what if the value they take from us (our data, our ad attention+clicks) is more valuable than the value they give us (a free social media)?
What a nightmare.

Now imagine half of them being on the phone....terrible.
I think the basic premise is that the status quo of transactions (free service for user data) has resulted in an imbalance of power for tech companies, and that by increasing the cost of acquisition, users have a means to collectively negotiate better "market rates" from the tech companies for services rendered. It can be regarded as similar to "unionizing" the users.

It would be interesting to get some preliminary guidance on what tech companies would do in response (start charging for premium services? only give premium services to the most valuable users?)

Andrew Yang has also mentioned in prior podcasts on UBI (Freakanomics, etc.) that probably the best way to fund such a program would be proceeds from increased taxation on tech companies.

I for one would love to see cable companies turned into public utilities. But that goal is not mutually exclusive from the goal to give the consumer some more power over the big tech conglomerates.

Disclaimer: I work at Google, opinions my own.
The New York Times Building is nice but it's a terrible (although generally convenient) location
Just tried getting on DartMUD. Their character registration process is so hostile with their requirements (no free email providers???)

Yup. DartMUD will remain squarely in my memory, and I won't bother trying to play it now.
Write down (page number;note counter) in the margin and then elaborate on one or more pieces of vellum, parchment, paper or bit(s) that you attach with the book, or keep secure.
I think the primary thing which differentiates SICP's approach in particular is the wishful-thinking-driven-development, or "top-down development". You start at the top-level function, and write it completely, calling functions which you have named but haven't written yet. Then implement those, and so on. Yes, this is possible in other dyn langs as well, but SICP really emphasizes this approach.

One of the most interesting bits which differentiates lisps in general are macros. This gives you a lot of power over the language. You aren't stuck waiting on the language designers to give you new language-level features -- you can write them yourself!

The first example which comes to mind is asynchronous programming. In Clojure, core.async is a library, not a language-level feature! Stop and really think about that.

Also illustrative is to download the Clojure source and 'grep -r defmacro src/' and look through the results. A lot of what would be keywords in other languages are simply macros in a lisp. That means you could have written them yourself!!! The "threading macro" ('->' and '->>') is the one I like to point to. Any user could have come up with that!

This is like being able to add list comprehensions to the Python language, but as a user!

(disclaimer: I haven't written Clojure in anger, yet!)
The global spynet, the waste of computing devices that need to be constantly upgraded to handle the new minimum requirements of the web and the degrading accessibility of many websites.
University was a chance for me to grow up. I was a young 18. I got to leave home, meet a bunch of people, have some fun. I grew up a lot (kinda, ha) over three years and was ready to work when I was done. I also got a degree (which was far cheaper back then).

The paper degree never really opened any doors for me - meeting people probably did, growing up definitely did. 95% of the work I got/did that followed was because I taught myself PHP (and WML, LOL) for my dissertation project. If I'd knuckled down, I could have learned that in a few weeks without the degree.

With all this in mind, how long before enterprising firms come up with a learn and work option? I'm sure with a bit of thought you could make money off a hundred or smart 18 year olds. Give them a campus environment, free meals and board, some pocket money - then 12 hours (or whatever) of lectures a week, and the rest of the time they actually work for you doing practical things, putting in to practice what they're learning (or just doing a bunch of stuff that immerses them in a real life company). After a year or 18 months, they have something for a CV, contacts, they've got to grow up a bit, real life experience... Plus no student debt etc. I'd guess the company(ies?) involved could also have their pick of the smartest ones. Everyone wins.
how many cooks does one need in the kitchen, to continuously re-configure a single nginx server? His described use case seems like a strange setup.
I wonder if that's a great representation? They're all posing for the photo, there may normally be less people there.
Everybody should be you, if possible. Having enough savings to be able not to worry about the nearest future is not just a perfect option, it's a necessity.
You'd need that latency to be significant enough that AMD's >2x core count doesn't still result in it winning by a landslide anyway, and you need L3 usage low enough that it still fits in Intel's relatively tiny L3 size.

There's been very few cloud benchmarks where 1P Epyc Rome hasn't beaten any offering from Intel, including 2P configurations. The L3 cache latency hasn't been a significant enough difference to make up the raw CPU count difference, and where L3 does matter the massive amount of it in Rome tends to still be more significant.

Which is kinda why Intel is just desperately pointing at a latency measurement slide instead of an application benchmark.
Wave Hunting (or how Square and Cash App got big)
Supreme Court rules SEC may seize profits from fraudulent companies
For added irony much of their clothing and equipment is made from synthetic materials derived from oil.
Alternatively, they could simply have invested in every tech company at the time. Today, it's rather well known that some 3 letter agencies have an uncomfortable relationship (sometimes not even a consensual one) with large companies. It's not unthinkable to me that an organization like the CIA could have had a hand in 'supporting' businesses like Google.

On the other hand, I can totally imagine that having some support from the government itself could be a pretty significant advantage. Perhaps even enough of one to become a market leader.

With all that said, I hardly need a grand conspiracy to dislike both Google and organizations like the CIA.
> We can discuss the merits all day long but not the legitimacy of the government to decide who can and cannot stay.

Why can't we discuss the legitimacy of the government?
I'm disappointed but not surprised.
>In particular, for these nuclear rockets, you'd never even be returning it to the Earth, so it is definitely not reusable for that reason alone

Let's say you are using a nuclear thermal rocket to ferry material from lunar orbit to mars orbit. You can just replace the propellant in Mars or Lunar orbit and reuse the reactor and reactor fuel. Processing H2O to H2 on the moon and pushing it the moon's gravity well shouldn't be too expensive.

I guess my specific question is: How often would you need to replace the nuclear fuel? Could you run this as a breeder reactor and breed your own fuel?
I think it depends on how much you like being social too.

Not interacting with people, not having a place to go, just being in the house all day is absolutely terrible for my long term well being.

If my place goes full remote I would have to consider renting an office.
Facebook is giving me much more real value than they could ever make from me in dollars.
Fair. But it should be a last resort not the go to response.
Hey, I have just been reaching out to people when I come across a blog post or a community discussing topics I'm interested in. It hasn't been easy to get Taaalks started by people who are not me though... if that happens I'll be very happy. Can you think of anyone you would be interested to Taaalk to?
They were being used exactly in the way their creators intended. Somebody somewhere puts a person or group on a list, now that group is a target of state intelligence operations.

Terrorists! Extremists! Fringe! Anarchists! Alt-! -Phobes! Racists! Bigots!

They have been duly labeled, and must be silenced. Their ranks must be infiltrated with agitators so we can find 1 mentally unstable person in an organization of 1000's and say "See, we told you they were crazy! No good!"
I had the same experience regretting my early semesters before I discovered research. It is what most of the professors are most interested in anyway. Lectures where one is sitting in a hundred+ student hall listening should 100% be replaced by online. But more resources should be given to the higher value add like research and networking.
I'm not sure that can work with so many of those services being built on a social graph.

You may not want your data monetized, but if you are in the contacts list of somebody else who has opted in, your half of any conversation isn't going to be excluded.
You'd also need a way to patch the custom (de-)serializer into your "dispatch", which currently there isn't.. as unlike MsgPack, FlexBuffers doesn't actually unpack anything.

So this feature would look like a new function IsCustom1() or AsCustom1() etc, where the latter would give you a pointer to the bytes to do your own thing.. so not much difference with Blobs.

Also note that because FlexBuffers is O(1) access to elements, inline data (most scalars) is all the same size, whereas variable sized data is stored over an offset. So again, would not be very different from blobs.
> The iPhone SE, one of the fastest smartphones on the market (only other iPhones are faster)

I just replaced my Google Pixel (4 years old) with an SE and it's like... They're not even comparable. I'm sure it makes clear sense as to how so much progress could be made in 4 years, and how it could cost so much less (I paid $649 USD for the Pixel), but it feels a bit magical as a consumer and infrequent phone user. It's a fantastic little device.

I'm still 900% pissed about the MacBook Air they sold me in 2018 and I resent the awful support they gave me for the keyboard (It's virtually unusable already), but as a phone business, they seem hard to beat right now.
What you seem to fail to recognize is that the reason nothing has been discussed (whether of the style you want or otherwise) at W3C regarding advancing HTML since XHTML2 is that the colossal failure of the “we’ll right a from-first-principles spec with no concern for pragmatics” approach with XHTML2 resulted in W3C being completely sidelined for HTML development. No one is listening to them, the browser vendors all work through WHATWG and that's where everything that matters happens.

W3C isn't interested in advancing HTML as anything and, even if they were, they'd be screaming into the night because none of the people who build browsers are interested in what they have to say. They’ve got their own club, and that's where HTML happens (and WHATWG and the browser vendors don't seem to be interested in pushing functionality into HTML in any big way, they are happy with the basic shape of the existing HTML/CS/JS trinity and don't see a big need to push for standalone HTML as a platform.)
I wonder how good their remote security is. I imagine every single government regularly tries to hack them.
Yeah, but what if there was one that was aggressively priced due to using an ARM processor?

What makes people think that Apple will lower the price because they are now using their ARM processor?
I'm glad they found a solution that was satisfactory for Apple, but this random email thing seems forced and useless.

If you end up signing up on HEY will the random address keep working?

Otherwise why use an address that will disappear no matter what. Obviously you can't use it to sign up on anything, or tell people to contact you at that address. It would only work for sending test emails between HEY and your other email addresses. I mean, who's going to do that? Is this really better for the end user?
Are K-Pop Stans the same as K-Pop Fans, but with the Stan connotation from the Eminem song?[1]

This is the first I've ever heard the term, the author of the article doesn't attempt to define it at all, and I'm wondering if it's a name that the fans (stans) chose or was given to them because of their zeal... because that is quite the negative connotation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_(song)
If that's their mindset with remote work, they probably have the "anti-adapt" mindset in other aspects of their business as well...which means they'll probably become dinosaurs and be out of business within the next 10 years.
Didn't mean for this to turn into a back and forth or debate about FB, but I don't get the sense that you and I are working off of similar bases of information. I do think the matter is a little more nuanced than you're suggesting though.
I absolutely love the idea of imposing a cost for holding personal data. It should be an expensive, carefully weighed decision whether anyone's data is kept for any longer than absolutely necessary.

The only incentive companies generally respond to is financial, that's where we need to impact them to make them think.

(Yes, some companies do try to do right, but they are sadly outnumbered. So far.)
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I just meant desk setup. Context of the photo was a celebration of Alissa Rubin winning a Pulitzer in April 2016.
Companies who were the butt-in-seat type most likely didn't have a sudden realization that WFH and telecommuting was productive, most likely they want you back in the office but they just don't want to do the required work to transform the office into a safe environment.
Sometimes though it's deserved. The other day I saw a post with a title something like "Hey, help a newbie out". The post itself did not contain a description of any kind of problem, just a couple of links off-site. I responded with a comment, "Hey help us by using a descriptive title". Yes it was rude, but far less than the question itself deserved. I believe it was closed shortly after. I can no longer find the comment in my history, so I can only assume the question was deleted.
As a veteran, my blood boils when I hear that.

As I am no longer a member of the military, I am a civilian. My neighbors are civilians. And regardless of a badge or uniform or firearm or SWAT teams or Pentagon-surplus armored vehicles, cops are civilians.

Feeling otherwise merely reinforces the "us-versus-them" mentality that leads to the current crisis.
'The police' is an institution, not a population.
I respect the hell out of Patagonia and always have. I could go on and on about things they do that are capital-C Correct. This is obviously the right move.

They’re a very rare company in terms of being bullheaded about their principles: for sure, something they maintain from their founder.

I’d love to own stock in them but i’m happier to have them stay private and not beholden to anyone else’s interests.
"Yea that kid I said got abandoned, totes needs to help themselves."
If you're down to coffee as your worst vice, you're doing very well.
Well if what they gave us was more valuable than what they took, they wouldn’t be a very profitable company, would it?
hah love the sarcasm.
Apparently FastMail has to pay IAP fees "as of June 19, 2020", according to https://youdownloadtheappanditdoesntwork.com/.
the real world is very nonlinear.
Are there any people trading on companies trading their profitability for moral righteousness? Many companies are doing poorly now anyways, but I wonder if it is actually possible to convert these types of actions into gains.
> It was mostly the mechanics people seemed to talk about at the time (and the graphics too).

Huh. Nobody praised the graphics back then. They were dated on the day Deus Ex came out; it uses the original Unreal engine (with some tweaks) and looks just as dated. Rendering technology moved fast back then and a game as large as Deus Ex had no hope of staying ahead of the curve. Plus they had to make some compromises to fit such a large scale game on disk & in RAM (there were other UE1 games that looked arguably better). I recall reviews considering Deus Ex's graphics "boxy" (literally!) and it has plenty of super small textures..

The thing that most people praised was the freedom. That's part mechanics, but what I was trying to say is that very few of the mechanics in Deus Ex were innovative; mostly they just did a great job incorporating mechanics that already existed in prior games. That's the ticket. You don't need to innovate and make some superb new mechanics to make a new Deus Ex quality game.

> In any case, story driven games have existed long before Deus Ex and still exist now.

Yes, but few games pull all the elements I mentioned above together. Deus Ex has "all the parts", and for most part it's done well, therefore it's more than the sum of its parts. Yes, story driven games exist, but few of them incorporate all the other elements that made Deus Ex what it is.

> I see these kinds of comments all the time and frankly a lot of it is rose tinted glasses.

I see people always dismiss this as nostalgia. I call bullshit, if only because I played very few games "back in the day" (and I don't like most of the games I had back then; I played them only because I really didn't have anything else to play).

Most of the old games I discuss today are games I've only played sometime during the last decade for the first time. And I keep finding old games that I really like, and then I don't like their sequels, and I have a hard time finding new games that I like as much.
Smart phone currency app? What's an example?
I find it much easier to skip my evening glass of wine than to skip my morning cup of coffee.
You do a fine job with that podcast.
This makes no sense. How much you value something is what you would be willing to pay. And they are making money from you in dollars. You just have no idea how much.
I suspect you aren't a lawyer, same for me, but how about sharing this reverse neutralizing nda?
Thank you for this helpful info. For comparison's sake, say that you wanted to make babby's first super computer in your house with 2 laptops. That is to say, each laptop is a single core x86 system with its own motherboard and ram and ssd, and they are connected to each other in some way (ethernet? usb?)

What software would one use to distribute some workload between these two nodes, what would the latency and bandwidth be bottlenecked by (the network connection?) and what other key statistics would be important in measuring exactly how this cheap $400 (used) set up compares to price/watt/flop performance for top 500 computers?
seriously. Let us all be so lucky.