skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The book Bad Blood gets into this a bit. It's a fantastic read on the whole Theranos story, for those who have not read it yet.
How complicated are those forms? It sounds like GS would pay a lot for a software that converts 95% of the data into excel spreadsheets.
You are of course allowed to employ SOME obfuscation in research process, but you aren't allowed to shield your product and claims from scrutiny behind them. At the end of the day you have to validate that your product can do what you say it can do publicly through independent analysis, you have to run public trials against existing tech, and you have to explain how your tech works, which Theranos never did. They fought against scrutiny from the greater scientific community from day one; "just trust me it works" is not sufficient proof in science.

This is one reason why we have the patent structure, so people can publicly disclose data for validation purposes and still make a substantial profit.
I can look at the Mona Lisa - either the original or a reproduction. Does that mean "owning the Mona Lisa" is meaningless? How about "owning the copyright on a painting that is on the internet"? Worthless or worth paying for?
I know my audience :)
The way I understand it, GP's thesis was that "think of the children" has always been mostly just a slogan for Christian moralists to prevent "sin" and hasn't involved really thinking about what's best for the children, so there is no contradiction now with this slogan and not caring about the children much during the pandemic, as the OP suggested.
I did think about that, in the scenario described by TP, I am putting faith that the claims made by a popular lifestyle video will be scrutinized and thus debunked.
The ones above Florida are either the dense area of the NY extended metro that got hit early and had trouble getting it back under control, or states ideologically aligned with Florida.

Just because they're in the middle doesn't make it a good response.
Putting a blue shield on "sandboxed" when allowing (write!) access to my home directory falls on the extreme side of "weak" to me.

Sure, they are capable of locking it down better. But they haven't in 2+ years. It shows where their priorities are.

Flatseal I'll have to look into though, thanks! A user-controllable method is always a plus, and I do love sandboxes. Most apps need very little access, and locking them down prevents a LOT of kinds of misbehavior, intentional or accidental.
A generation of tech employees that have never worked through a recession.
I am now the proud owner of an older Nokia 105. I'm also not in the US, so this is a much more viable choice from a practical and cultural point of view. It has not yet caused me any problems, but then my lifestyle right now is a lot different than what it should be. I'm looking forward to seeing how this works out.
Another way to get noticed is to work on a civic project. Not only is it open source but if it gets used in your community more people know about it - and you. A way to get started is to see if there is a Code For America brigade in your community.

If there isn't maybe you can get together with a couple of friends and start one. Ever wanted to try some new technology or learn a new language but can't do it at work? Do it for a civic project and you have proof you know x because it's out there on GitHub.
Imagine thinking that making a semi informed choice means you have no right to talk about the negative consequences that choice brought you or complain about terrible conditions related to your choice...
One of the low- or no-code tools.
c.f.: http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/
Prints are, ahem, "prints", they are not the original. First editions of books are not the manuscript.
You obviously follow different people on Twitter to me. The entire topic has become very polarized - well beyond the discussions around C02
But they'll 3D print some blockchain IoT NoSQL! Made with ♥
in SF. It will disrupt Big Ventilator.
Is that 69.3 million asking price a reference to something or is it just a humorously large number with no special meaning?
I've seen bits of this, and I've seen it happen in code bases that were built as "abstract" so its components could re-used.

But I've never seen it happen in any way close to resembling what the original architect thought would happen, and as a result, all those abstractions and generic implementations not only added time to the mainline development, but in the end actually got in the way of the abstraction that was needed.
I think the key is also to not get too emotionally invested in it and to not always believe what other people have to say about it. Just create the stupid profile (on Tinder or any similar app), put it online and do the swiping. Sometimes you're on a winning spree, things work better than expected and sometimes it's like the desert of nothingness for weeks or months. Using it during lockdown with freezing temperatures with snow is definitely another hurdle.
That's the point I'm making. I'm not sure I understand what counter-argument you're making?
He's been doing that for over a year now. His main advantage I think is that he's in a big city with 112 women for every 100 men, and the split is even more in his favor in the educated/ambitious cohort he belongs to. Also, he's near the top in terms of perceived income (super-nice car, nice apartment, willing to spend a lot on the dates), but that only helps once you're on a date.
Why are you making absurd claims like " fully open, 5 days a week in person, since the start of the most recent school year last September", that trivial to refute with a simple web search?

https://www.browardschools.com/backtoschool
I see NFT ownership quickly devolving to "cool story, bro."
We all stand on the shoulders of giants and have increasingly powerful complimentary cognitive artifacts that let us easily do things that used to be very difficult.

In a more extreme version, consider that ancient Greek and Roman mathematicians struggled with long division problems that many of us can do in our heads now!

Why? Arabic numerals are far more effective than Roman numerals for the task and after having learned them, we have a permanently increased ability to do certain kinds of calculation.
I have personally done a lot of DD and I will tell you that, while I am aggressive because I assume people are lying to me and maybe themselves, 99% of the time when I’ve done a tandem DD the other technilogists onvolved basically just feign interest and give a gut feel. I’ve also been on the receiving end of DD and witnessed this.

I think you are dramatically overestimating the quality, depth and especially the diligence of that process.
I just learned about this recently. This is the guy who introduced it into the UK population when trying to reduce the population on his estate:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul-F%C3%A9lix_Armand-Delille
Cracking the behavioural product management interview
Tesla Admits Current ‘Full Self-Driving Beta’ Will Always Be a Level 2 System
Being a store of value is a tautology, not a use case.

Name one other store of value with zero use in its class. Even art and magic cards have them. You can look at art, and people play with their non collector’s magic cards.

Bitcoin is a pure faith enterprise. It’s only value is that people believe in it, despite the lack of use case and despite the ever rising waste of energy to power the network which rises inexorably with the market price.

It is a tautological network where people enjoy seeing it run in a distributed way even though it does nothing else. How long can that last as something storing value? As mining costs increase you need an ever increasing supply of new entrants at high prices who are similarly enamoured with the idea of the network.
Ok, but if that's the article's argument it really makes no sense, no? How would the author propose harvesting these various losses to mine cryptocoins?

It's a really weird take if that's what the author is saying.
That's an understandable view. I think you'll find that Rand is taken much more seriously as a philosopher in the US than in other Anglophone countries such as the UK, Australia, New Zealand etc. (it seems to me that these countries have a more nuanced view about her that's not that dissimilar to the Continental one).

It's understandable that Rand holds greater sway and influence in the US given her libertarian right views and support for free markets, etc. (which hold high rank there among the conservative right).

Rand seems to have had two peaks of popularity, in the 1950s after Atlas Shrugged was published and again at the height of the Reagan-Thatcher years of the 1980s. That was also the time when the Austrian school—Hayek, Von Mises, and Chicago School—Friedman were in high favor with those politicians.

It will be interesting to see how Rand's popularity holds up into the much longer future.
>the electricity and carbon footprint.

That's no longer a concern for an increasing number of NFTs minted today[0].

0. https://svilentodorov.xyz/blog/nft-electricity/
It’s not even clear that the hospitalization rate for COVID cases is over 10%, let alone the case-fatality-rate. In fact, it’s pretty clear that it’s not.
> There are very few people that take stuff like "The Elements of Style" seriously.

That's because it's garbage. Learning to write is great. But that is best done by reading good writing and practicing. A list of rules that constantly violates its own advice because obeying it would make the text hard to read is not of any value.

https://www.chronicle.com/article/50-years-of-stupid-grammar...
the alternative being censorship?
The problem with a harder lockdown limited in length is that Germany is a member of Schengen, so even if Germany largely eradicated COVID within its borders, it could then be reimported from another EU country that hadn’t been as locked down.

You might advocate for Germany closing its borders earlier and for longer, and forcing police registration of fellow Europeans, but personally I think that is horrible. I see restrictions on free movement in Schengen and challenges to European integration as much more of a problem in the long term than COVID morbidity.
I am also curious if they have solved the issue of hosting yet another white supremacist Twitter.
It's referencing the Beeple Christie auction
Getting started with Fitbit development – Part I
Even family and friends can act in unexpected ways when money enters the picture.
If universities are not capable to prevent such cheating, perhaps they must stop grading on a curve, that's something they can do.
Ask HN: How could capitalism be improved?
Probably in a lot of ways, but to me some of the main issues seem to be (1) incentivizing short-term thinking; (2) locality mismatching, ie certain communities spending money on businesses whose owners live and spend elsewhere -- this is probably offset in many cases, I'm not sure; and (3) not accounting for externalized expenses, ie pollution and other drags on human/environmental well-being. I don't know what the solutions would look like for the first two, and attempts are being made at solving the third, but I'm curious if other people have thoughts on it that don't involve pivoting to ideological extremes. In case this does generate a discussion try to avoid sarcasm, straw-man, ad hominem, and moving goal posts...
https://www.bresink.com/osx/TinkerTool.html
Please tell me where are all these deaths in Sweden, Belarus, Brazil, Florida...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-...

So you're telling me that in places like Brazil more people are being traumatized by deaths in overloaded hospitals compared to Westerners (who are less traumatized) thanks to a year of isolation? uhmm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcAYObnlehE&t=2623s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnKke19Ow8Q
That dynamic is actually one of the reasons I think Corey Booker's "baby bonds" idea is so clever. If a child enters adulthood with some amount that has grown in a way that matches up with the economic growth at large, then maybe they won't be locked out of housing ownership.
if US really cared about children they would ended the humanitarian crisis in Yemen... so far 85 000+ children under 5 starved to death and they saying 400,000 are going to if this blockade doesn't end.
Rich kids and poor kids alike were ignored by the school districts.

The vast difference is that rich kids had many other avenues for learning and some may even have progressed more quickly freed from the tyrannically slow pace of in-person schooling.
And Micron knows more than anyone but Intel about it--capital costs, yields, directions for improvement, etc. Owning the sole fab for fast NVRAM and trying to get out suggests things aren't great.

I think the slot for a new NVRAM has gotten harder to fill. You almost have to sell it on read latency alone, because throughput (GB/s, parallel IOPS) is already high and scales with RAID, and most folks are either OK with Flash write latency or OK hiding it with (possibly powerloss-protected) DRAM buffers.

In a way maybe the easiest pitch is "instead of doubling your RAM, add 3x as much of this stuff," because relatively small caches can show real gains, so there isn't so much pressure on cost/GB. But it still has to be way cheaper than RAM and more performant than 'just' a great SSD.

And if the pitch is "replace your whole Flash array with this," beefy boxes tend to have TBs of Flash and most customers will only pay so much for improved latency, which puts a cap on the cost/GB of a commercially viable alternative SSD. Even the fastest Flash SSDs don't seem that popular!

A breakthrough could always happen, but I wonder if short-term we're looking more at progress through tweaks to the existing technologies rather than a leap to anything vastly different. If so that's largely because the current tech is pretty good, which is not the worst problem to have.
Until NFTs move away from proof of work I'll continue to criticize them.

It's like expecting good intentions and then being surprised when a few bad actors ruin things for the larger group. Tragedy of the commons is exactly why stuff like this should be called out, each and every single time.
Why can't CA bail out restaurants? Because they are afraid to raise taxes on tech billionaires who made a fortune during the pandemic?
I lol'd hard on your study of attractiveness :D

There is none attractiveness behind screens...

only clever ppl get that...

The similar "desirability" is just a boat :D

humanity is awful :)
I empathize with this so much.

I too, feel the most significant way my mental health has been negatively affected was not due to the lack of in-person face-to-face social interaction, but rather the destruction of my faith in humanity. I will add a caveat that some countries, societies, or even enclaves, have done a lot better job than others.
Thanks I've been looking for a PoS blockchain in production. Will check this out. Do you know any others?

I really enjoy NFTs conceptually, much more than crypto in general actually, and I really don't get a lot of the hate. If you remove the emissions aspect (which is the non-starter for me), I think it's so cool that there is a way to create scarcity in the digital world, even if that scarcity is totally "meaningless." Yes, there are some goods with inherent value: food, shelter, heat sources. But NFTs are far from the first type of asset that has no inherent value, and that includes both the cyber and real worlds. Humans like to curate and collect, and NFTs are just an expression of that drive.

What I wonder if why NFTs suddenly took off now. I remember hearing about them years ago.
NFTs cannot guarantee the ownership of an original digital asset despite its claims because a digital asset has no original.
They cannot even guarantee the ownership of a limited production "edition".
It was mentioned in the original link here, it's just that the link was changed to the tweet which doesn't explain the backstory.
Good satire!
You can’t walk into the factory but certainly you can look at a patented drug and get a formula, for example. The Wikipedia article about Sovaldi (sofosbuvir - a Hepatitis C drug) contains the exact chemical formula.

Plus the clinical trial process is extensive. It would be much harder in the present regulatory regime to have a new BS prescription drug than a new BS testing startup, like this one or Theranos. (Old drugs are a little different - some were grandfathered into the current testing regime and evidence for their effectiveness is in some cases limited.)

Certainly there are trade secrets in medicine, but not everywhere.
I think its fucking fabulous.

At a society level, companies and billionaires are outsourcing every goddamn thing they can to anywhere but America and Americans, and unfortunately that extends to other Western nations as well now.

They only got pissed off because for once, the little guy was winning here and outsmarted the greedy sons of bitches.

If you want a powerful Western society, you have to pay Western residents Western wages. Now China is on the rise and clearly the most dangerous threat not just to the United States, but the rest of the Western world, but no one sees it because they want their $999 iPhone that would be $1999 if it were actually assembled in California by people asking for a measly $15 an hour.
Peer review is about relevance, methodology and the appriopriateness of your conclusions given your observations as you describe them.

Peer review does not even attempt to control for fabricated experimental results or other data.
What point are you trying to make? Every hiring manager should know that a CS Master's degree focuses mainly on theory and doesn't necessarily teach much coding. If you just need programmers to do simple stuff then you'll obtain better results by hiring from trade schools, or finding candidates who are self taught.
That doesn't change the fact that in the current job market they can trivially find a new job. That may not be true in the future but there's no reason not to take advantage of it now.
Oh comedy, you have found a truly original form!
Hi, Jonathan here, founder of the RaaS (Reforestation as a Service) at DigitalHumani.com

We only work with trusted reforestation organizations (6 so far) and you can choose which one to work with.

Planting a tree is not that complicated, I agree, but for lots of us working in cities, it is not that easy. Finding the right species, buying the shovel and the tree, taking care of it, etc. More complicated to have tens of them planted though.

I'd rather send 1$ to a farmer in Belize (as an example) that will be very happy to get that dollar to plant a tree that will give him and his family fruits.
Sorry, I kind of misread the second sentence of the post above. I thought the whole point is that: why would you destroy your own habitat? That's just so incredibly unreasonable.
We were stuck waiting a year while the President used the pandemic only for personal in profiteering and to harm political opponents.
Sure, the president is responsible for that too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3osqOIT7SQ ? One thing is poor people arguing to have to work. Other thing is this "funk train".. The video is from yesterday. You can count, like 2 or 3 masks on the train.
Its pretty much what one would expect. There is a common 4chan "wisdom" that 90% of women want the 10% of men (the "chads") and are rather willing to share that top 10% than settle for anyone of the bottom 90% of men. This seems to support that sentiment with slightly less dramatic numbers but i am also sure the author was biased by these incel communities it would be super interesting to have real scientists do a study on anonymised tinder-internal data. On the other hand i find little evidence for the outcome in general to be false. The only escape route i know of is to focus on more favorable sub communities that a) value monogamy for male and female members and b) have a major second value-system that reduces pool size and reduces community fluidity significantly. Random examples are small local communities like villages, religions, vegan groups. Whenever i observed a really attractive female with a very average partner and had a chance to find out the reason, the answer was never that the partner was rich, but always that they came from a distinct cultural background (religion, rare language or dialect, special geographic region) and valued the shared background higher than other factors.
> Given that Congress did not appropriate funds for a bar and restaurant bailout, I don’t think it’s crazy that governors mostly decided they had to reopen their restaurants.

What you are talking about? There were multiple rounds of several federal bailouts for small businesses affected by COVID-19:

https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans/covid-19-relief-o...

https://ilsr.org/information-on-covid-19-small-business-assi...

What's more, state governments are getting many billions of dollars from the federal government as well, which they can use to support for state bailouts of any businesses which fall through the cracks of those federal programs.

Re-opening the business where you have to take off masks and distancing is impractical is a good way to overwhelm hospitals, which costs a lot more money than keeping bars closed. Restaurants also have the option of switching to takeout-only to keep operating with no additional risk of infection.
women care less about looks than men from my own experience. being hot sure helps but a hot guy that is just being a prick won't be as lucky as an average looking person that has empathy, good manners, humor, is able to listen and shows integrity and confidence.

> the reality must be more complex than the quote above.

I'm quite sure of the complexity and even what I wrote above won't always lead to a great outcome with the "wrong" person.
Guillotines
I suggest you might be seeing things too linearly. Consider all the evolved variants.

By letting it run wild you would a) just accelerate viral evolution and b) eventually and unpredictably find yourself in a situation where the mortality rate might spiral out of control across all kinds of demographics.

You would then do the same thing as now: lockdown measures to curb mortality.

I guess the question of lockdown is not if but when: After many more deaths and mutations which render costly vaccines ineffective or early, vaccinate as much as possible as fast as possible and get done with the virus.

All that being said: Do you have a source for your claim that certain countries triage patients with COVID to end of life care? I’d be genuinely interested in reading up on that.
I have a similar experience.

The pandemic made me lose hope that we will adequately deal with something as abstract as the climate crisis when people cannot even act appropriately when the effect of their combined actions can be seen in the numbers just two weeks later.
I've heard that too. But never does anyone back it up with anything that could be remotely called good science.
And how do I prove that this address is associated with John Cleese’s work?

Does John Cleese post this address in a tweet, or how is it associated with him?
Maybe first ask, what is wrong about it?
France has had school open for much of the last year—when infections were increasing and decreasing. It doesn’t appear that schools are driving the infections.
The overwhelming majority of that spending is social security and other retirement programs which are earned (and often paid-for) benefits from a lifetime of work. The next largest (by far) category is Medicare which was largely, but not entirely, paid for by a lifetime of work.

Take just the retirement program figures out and the figures are much closer to what you prefer. Take out the half of Medicare that was paid for by seniors and it’s even closer.