skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> According to the indictment, the defendants also allegedly made numerous misrepresentations to potential investors about Theranos’s financial condition and its future prospects. For example, the defendants represented to investors that Theranos conducted its patients’ tests using Theranos-manufactured analyzers; when, in truth, Holmes and Balwani knew that Theranos purchased and used for patient testing third party, commercially-available analyzers. The defendants also represented to investors that Theranos would generate over $100 million in revenues and break even in 2014 and that Theranos expected to generate approximately $1 billion in revenues in 2015; when, in truth, the defendants knew Theranos would generate only negligible or modest revues in 2014 and 2015.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/us-v-elizabeth-holmes-et-a...

If that's not fraud, what is?
As a scientist, I love that the Nobel Prize is occasionally awarded to deeply flawed, borderline insane people. For one, I believe it's a great humility check for the community at large. Also, I love watching the lengths others go to when they are forced to take a position counter to that of a Laureate, because it produces some spectacularly sound arguments. But more than anything I like seeing this because I think it is a great demonstration that we are not nearly as reasonable or rational as we like to think we are, and sometimes you get the best results by anti-flock/anti-pattern thinking, especially in new fields.
Who's next? People who are pro-vax, fully vaccinated, but skeptical of proprietary software (ie https://shitposter.club/notice/ABq6GiHXERyKEqCCqO
or
https://stallman.org/archives/2020-nov-feb.html#16_February_...
)?
Does it also do table detection in a larger image and header/body classification?
I'm really curious if it would be possible for Youtube / Google etc. to expose their algorithmic interface to their public users so that they could twiddle with the settings themselves - or is that just technologically impossible given the internal structure of their systems? I really have no idea, but I've been wondering about it for some time.
I suspect they spend much more on transit than compute.
Interestingly Holmes' father was a VP at Enron: https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2019/02/17/4-startli...
This is worrying. I still remember, in March 2020 believing that face masks work was still the contrarian opinion. Large Western countries such as USA, Germany, changed their official position in April. WHO changed their position in June. My country (Finland) only in the end of August. If contrarian voices had been efficiently suppressed, would the medical mainstream have changed their position at all?
It's funny to me because Free Speech is one of those topics on its own that doesn't permit nuance in my experience - either you're for it or you're a dictator/sheep/lapdog/etc.

In reality though, laws have been limiting speech for hundreds of years, and those laws and judgements are enforced by the government. The idea that it is sacrosanct and is (and should "continue" to be) unabated is already not what happens. The usual example is about shouting bomb in an airport or fire in a crowded movie theatre but those are more about mischief than any freedom to say a thing (you aren't punished for the words alone). However, Libel and Slander laws exist and have for a long long time and are limits on free speech.

I'm not in favor of draconian laws designed to chill debate but it's important to recognize that limits already exist and how we navigate where to draw the line is the key I think.
Based in London as a time zone and I am looking forward to your comments
Related to consolidation and centralization of power
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Yes, making claims about vaccines with without basis is "anti-vax"
As if Youtube is any ordinary company. Some day in the future, with little doubt, the censorship shoe will be on the other foot.
I am remorseful at this point. By calculation taking the vaccine is sensible. But very closely so in my age group. There is currently a push to vaccinate children which is technically irresponsible since they won't suffer symptoms and would reach a better immunity they will never get with the vaccine. There is a lot of room for critique and much panic about a serious but not too deadly disease.
I don’t think it’s a straw man, time matters. He joined mid - end 2018 and was fired end of 2020. We don’t know when the issues started, but it very well could’ve been close to 2 years.

My point is the amount of time matters. I don’t think anyone expects a company to keep paying an underperforming employee forever even if there is a good reason. Netflix has a full year paid parental leave policy. That doesn’t mean you can just keep having a child every year and never work.
Plenty of purely religious wars have happened. If you want to defend religion you also need to defend the totality of religion including Aztec human sacrifice, the crusades etc.

The issue with religious justification is it’s effectively random, the only thing you can say is practices that are counterproductive to propitiate a religion die out over time. IE the shakers prohibiting reproduction for everyone not just priests is probably why their not around anymore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakers#Celibacy_and_children
I might be wrong but maybe the point is that it's not proven safe long term.

While a good majority(like me) had it and it worked out well for us (risk vs reward wise), some might not be so lucky and it pissed me off that some people are like frogs in a well with a very narrow viewpoint.

It's now proven that it can cause death. 1 death is more than enough to justify not having it. Neither you or anyone have the right to force people to take that risk for the benefit of others. I only took it because I covered all most my bases and my chances of survival in case of Covid were pretty bad.

It wouldn't be the first time that problems appear after a long time and take ages to be proven. The most extreme example of that that I think is thalidomide.

EDIT: If you are going to reduce it to a game of numbers. Some risk side effects so that the majority goes on with their lives, then... when communists were leveling a church and the houses of 500 people could use the same justification since they were building blocks of flats for 10000 people on that area it was justified?
Because there is no credibility to a user account on facebook or youtube.

It has been and should be by a proven record on the topic. Which is usually implicit with a employment with a company in that field or a university.

at least that is my opinion, which has no credibility, because it's just from a random hacker news account.
> What would Google be like if no good people worked there?

Can it get worse? Because it looks like whatever good guys are left don't have a voice anymore.
Its like our president lying to us by saying the exact opposite of the reality.
Beyond 35-40 km is where you would start to see atmospheric ducting, temperature inversions and such really affect a link. In the bands where it pretty much has to be 6 GHz because anything 11 GHz or above (in the FCC licensed bands) would suffer extreme rain fade with the rain rate and amount of rain in the total length of the path.

Generally things where you'd be looking at a pair of 6 ft high performance dual polarity dishes at minimum, and ideally a pair of 8 ft. The budget for just a couple of those and getting them properly mounted and aligned is a lot already before adding a spatial diversity second dish at each end.
'20 Murder Spike: With police under political attack, mayhem surged in US cities
What a canard. Should YouTube leave up ISIS recruiting videos so those so-tempted can examine “both sides” of the issue?

There is no both sides to the vaccine debate. COVID-19 vaccine information led to one of the first rabies deaths in a long time because the treatment involves a vaccine given after a bite, and all this anti-vaxx propaganda is doing nothing but sowing FUD about one of the most obvious cost-benefit analysis’s that can be done in the field of medicine. And during a pandemic no less. YouTube has no obligation to suffer these fools.

Bravo, YouTube.
> So I regularly run into cases where I need to prepare ahead of time for no/spotty internet and still get surprises as some app refuses to launch because it decided now is the time it needed to update over a connection that's doing single digit kilobytes per second, or speak to a license server or whatever.

Recently I was on a flight and prepared a book on my iPad the day before. iBooks decided that it was a good idea to “offload it into the cloud”, a book that wasn’t even 24 hours on my device with plenty of space available. Who knows…
I’ll be voting for anyone that advocates civil liberties.

Another thing that is not talked about enough is how small minority of people in Silicon Valley gets to dictate how the rest of the world sees information. Algorithms and things that Big Tech is doing behind the closed doors to influence the world. It doesn’t matter left or right, what matters is the unbelievable power of say 1000 people in SV that figured out content engagement algorithms at Google, Twitter, FB, Apple News, etc.

The most powerful people on earth are those that govern algorithms that preferentially show content to people. In China that’s their Big Tech fused with CCP, in the west it is SV Big Tech shunning anything that’s not woke. FB is an exception but even within FB there is a rout.
Despite a falling power budget, InSight detected the largest Marsquake seen
20 foot (nominal) containers are standardized and common. On rail, they usually put two on one car; I'm not sure if that's done with the same type car that takes a aingle 40 ft, or if they're different cars.
I would disagree, IMO it depends on your level of color understanding and your application entirely.

I've seen people do wonderful things with four colors only.
Sounds like a good opportunity to declare a general strike to negotiate a living wage, affordable healthcare, diginified retirement and a voice in the boardroom.
Try having a "legitimate public debate" about anything where the loudest 90% are there to be antagonistic for purely personal reasons (or, in English, jerks)

Really, about anything. Free software. Best football players. How to best build a bike shed.

Anyone with willingness for legitimate debate gets drowned by the noise.
None of the material that's being pulled would in any way persuade me that getting vaxxed was a mistake. I'm very happy with my choice and highly recommend it. Most of the material being pulled is pernicious conspiracy rubbish, but too much legitimate discussion, some of which has a chance of persuading anti-vaxxers is being hoovered up in the cull.
I remember reading this comment:

>I recently tried to migrate my R code to Julia. Even though I already knew R data.table is faster than DataFrames.jl, I was totally blown away by how slow Julia is. So I quickly gave up. I think I will have to write unavoidable hard loop in cpp, which I really don't want to do...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27404910
The one uploaded the content may not be the one who care.
Actually in the US YouTube is legally allowed to delete or remove any videos they want to, regardless of whether they might contain evidence of crimes. They would generally only be required to preserve such evidence if given a court order, which doesn't appear to be the case here.
I am actually very, very surprised that they had lab equipment?
There's a difference between "having an account" (I do too), versus "being any kind of active user".

I am responding to a quote claiming that troll fake news "reached 140 million on Facebook". Clearly, this is speaking to the latter.

You would have to be a fairly active user to run across deliberate misinformation, generated by offshore troll farms. That's not "I login once in a blue moon to spy on my ex", or "I have Messenger on my phone because a group that I'm in uses it to announce events". That is "I actively choose to consume angry and dumb political content on a regular basis". Perhaps I overestimate people, but 140 million seems high.
This is. Loser to the original Firefox extension model — pen access to everything. It later limited internal changes as internal stuff was external to extensions. It did allow powerful things like Firebug, which could not be build with todays modern and more secure locked down APIs.
The energy argument seems like a disingenuous signal to dilute the discourse into a political one instead of examining the architectural merit. If the best argument they have against decentralization is that proof of work uses electricity, it's a red herring holding a dog whistle in front of a motte and baily while it asks whether anyone will think of the children.
https://archive.ph/2XxDu
That’s a whole lot of fluff just to say that they were either paid to do this or advertisers would pull out if they didn’t. It’s all about money and has nothing to do with care for anyone’s wellbeing.
If you haven't read the book "Bad Blood" by John Carreyrou I think you should give it a try. I think it's really worth it.
You can't "reverse" the situation in good faith. Facts, science, logic exist on one side of the discussion, not both. So if we are going to reverse the situation, then we have to acknowledge that the original stance is science/logic invariant.
>anti-parasitic medicines

Protease inhibitors* , similar to the one Pfizer is testing right now for COVID.
> after allowing rampant misinformation for a year and a half

my recollection is that they started dealing with the "misinformation" early on. they've been ratcheting up the countermeasures the whole time.
Color me surprised then! I'm still not sure I'd call it viable in general. But I've moved from "convinced" to "uncertain".

I'm at the tail of that S-curve for sure, so maybe I'm just get-off-my-lawning. Thanks for sharing.
Maybe on base is different. I've never ever been allowed to take my phone into a SCIF.

I'm curious how "secret" this aircraft is if any random base personnel can snap a pic in open air.
Cough ... Purdue Pharma/Oxytocin ... Cough
Monopolies and YouTube (2014)
Nobody complained when social media sites shut down ISIL videos or Taliban content. And why would they? Those are bad ideas from bad people! But anti-vaccine content? Why, that could be your neighbor! And your neighbor doesn't deserve to be censored (unlike the evil people who definitely needed to be)
It's an interesting question, but keep in mind that Youtube allows junk food advertising targeted towards children, which contributes to the obesity epidemic, and obese people have much higher medical needs and tend to die earlier (and are much more sensitive to COVID). Clearly, this contributes to untimely death, right?

So should we ban all junk food advertising on Youtube? Also, how about a ban on all pharmaceutical advertising on Youtube (which is the norm in most countries)?
I'm arguing in good faith here. Isn't Russia actively using information warfare to destabilize enemy democracies? Isn't China using cyber warfare to cause economic harm to other countries?

What is it about the USA that is worse than that? People here are brainwashed on Facebook? I'm just honestly not sure what the argument you're making is besides, "Polls say people in other countries think America is bad for democracy." That could be an accurate result for a poll, but what behavior exactly are you pointing at that makes you so confident in using that as an argument?
Someone I follow on instagram had opened up a conversation for women about irregular periods as a side-effect of the vaccine. They had to carry on the conversation using an emoji code to avoid getting banned.

The basic idea behind these bans is that authorities decide what is right, and common people should not have a forum to discuss the decisions.

It's basically soft-censorship, a partnership between government and large tech companies to make conversations contra government policy much more difficult to have.

Seems unfortunate, to me.
Withdrew US from the Treaty on Open Skies [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_Open_Skies
I personally really preferred old Youtube, where your subscriptions were the main thing you saw along with the absolute "most popular viewed today" kinds of things.

The algorithm has only made the site worse in my experience and I always go directly to my subscriptions to be able to at least see things I'm subbed to.
The problem is that on the one hand, you're saying the WHO and CDC are made up of humans, and all humans make mistakes once in a while, but on the other hand, you're saying the current positions of the WHO and CDC are 100% correct, and anyone who disagrees with them needs to be silenced.
Ah, the irony of your root comment getting censored by being flagged in a thread about censorship, because it wasn't popular.
> “You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.”

Not to defend Biden, but the vaccine decreases the probabilities of getting COVID. You still get infected with sars-cov-2, and you are probably still contagious, but it's unlikely you get COVID (as in COronaVIrus Disease, the disease produced by sars-cov-2 virus (or coronavirus), that is the thing that eventually kills you and/or jeopardizes the public health system).
Woke-ism is a blunt instrument of the elites to shut down any discussion that threatens their narrative. It is used as a propaganda tool of the dominant and elites. It is repackaged bigotry, or performative anti-bigotry bigotry, to bully and intimidate people and become part of the evolving toolset of modern sociopaths.

https://theintercept.com/2021/09/28/israel-palestine-unc-aca...

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/an-nba-star-and-new-yorks-g...

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1442879729669914637

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1442520376278409222

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1443200943764480002
Hard to believe this is the 21st century. :-(
Then argue against it. You elevated the misinformation by banning it.

How many people make their vaccination decision because of Youtube content?

It is paramount that some people get a more realistic picture here...
A design goal? Good point.
I don't understand the approach of banning certain content. It feels like the root cause here is self reinforcing filter bubbles that social media creates. Is it not possible for YouTube to instead change their algorithm around this to recommend a blend of videos for topics like this one? Kinda like labeling approaches used elsewhere but a little more subtle.
I thought her defense was "we tried real hard and it just didn't work, is that a crime?" I guess "also, I'm nuts" adds some spice to the mix.
Why should you jump trough so many hoops to convey some information.

Why an anti mandatory vaccine person shouldn't be able to explain his position?
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Fair point about relative distances.
I can see the CEOs and politicians wanting to implement a Chinese-style 'social citizenship score' and if it falls below some level you get banned from all platforms and your travel rights are restricted, etc.
There's still people dying in large numbers, unvaccinated? Eventually people notice the body count against a point of principle. That's how we got to this point.
> "They're a private company and can do whatever they want."

Flies in the face of jurisprudence accross industrialized nations, as many courts again and again ruled that a platform cannot "do whatever they wan't" if they dominate the market and thus effectively are a public space of opinion.
Perhaps it's an unordered list of similar items?
In ML you often need to stream data from the training set because you can't hold it all in memory. Many times I noticed that my GPU would sit idle because python was busy loading more training examples. With proper multi threading you can have one or multiple threads loading data into a queue feeds the GPU thread. This is something extremely simple to do in any programming language that has doesn't have a GIL. And you can't just use a library for this, loading and preprocesding data is very specific to your application, and writing just this part in C completely defeats the purpose of choosing python in the first place.
How Quantum Computers Work (YouTube Video, 20 min.)
HN is cens^H^H^H^H moderated too, you're in lala land if you think otherwise.
> we have to educate ourselves to be more savvy

I see your point but I don't necessarily agree. A major aspect of a healthy society is trust. We need to be able to trust most of the informations that are fed to us in order to get information. Navigating a trustless information landscape is incredibly time consuming as looking for sources and invalidating information is much more time consuming than producing it.

Requiring people to stop acting on their "outrage" feeling is also extraordinary damageing to society as it also stops people from reacting to actual issues.

Finally, if you look at the savvy people do you really believe that they are actually better at detecting fakes? It seems that they are better at identifying information sources that can be trusted, but once trust is established I'm pretty sure they don't spend all their cognitive resources trying to disprove everything they read (well some probably are).

So a bit like with malware being more abundant on more popular OS, even if everyone moved to reputable sources, the trolls would move as well.
I think people outraged at the content censorship on YouTube can look at the media landscape overall and consider that, compared with Hulu, CBS, MSNBC or Fox News, it's still a extremely permissive environment, an outlier in the world of ad-supported media companies. This looks like regression to the mean - as it becomes bigger and forever needs to get more money from advertisers to sustain growth, it gets pushed to provide a product that emphasizes middle-of-the-road views. YouTube of 10 years ago was so much smaller that it got away with a lot worse (eg terrorism apology and recruitment), but as it's grown, it's going to be increasingly difficult for controversial content to live on ad-support.
Curating the Curators
what was the above comment?
> If YouTube is THAT essential to getting your views heard, you need to take a lesson from business - don't rely on anyone else for critical infrastructure.

No other platform offers a competitive audience.
> Anti-vaccine activists, or any activists for that matter, are completely free to post their videos anywhere else they want.

Really? Youtube happens to be the only platform that is restricting content? Even if that were true, the reason this matters is Youtube is a virtual monopoly when it comes to online video. Forget the technicalities. Yes, it's privately owned. Yes, there are other site. Yes, users could set up their own competing website. But, in practice, which is all that matters, Youtube is the one place people go for videos.
NBA Star and NY Governor Show That Liberal Covid Discourse Is Devoid of Science
Instagram is not the place for a support group.
This gets shared a lot whenever Assembly is mentioned on HN but this is a pretty good intro to arm32 Assembly. The tutorials and examples can be run on a physical or emulated Raspberry Pi :

https://azeria-labs.com/writing-arm-assembly-part-1/