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Seconded. Besides being absolutely stock full of incredible/hilarious inside details about Theranos's rise and fall, it's one of the best books I've ever read about the investigative journalism process. Carreyrou goes out of his way to credit the obscure blog author who tipped him off to Theranos.
I see it the opposite way. If a company hires a core maintainer (often the only maintainer), they have huge amounts of power over the direction of the project as they can threaten to fire the maintainer who is now dependent on the company for income.

Contributing improvements externally allows the project to remain independent. And if the maintainer is overburdened they can decline the patches or postpone review. Nobody is forcing them to accept the changes.
Not being honest to investors is one thing. Knowingly peddling faulty lab results to consumers making important medical decisions based on the results and unaware that they were pawns in this game is quite different.

This is what makes the Theranos case qualitatively different from (say) WeWork, and why she's facing criminal charges. You buy office space from WeWork, you get exactly what you pay for, even if there were insane shenanigans going on in investorland. You buy a lab test from Theranos, you're getting essentially fake results and risking your health on it.
I would just note that an 'advertising agency' is rather indistinguishable from a 'troll farm' - using provocative content to get eyeballs on their product is basically the whole game.
Well that's the problem isn't it? If they are going to use their discretion and apply rules selectively, why not make exceptions for videos that most people don't find distasteful, even if they violate your policy?
Corporations like Youtube shouldn't be in the business of arbiting the truth, because they have time and time again proven themselves utterly incompetent at it.
Most other projects implemented a hard coded (can be changed with software update) upper limit that is outside of real use. This means people can still set way to higher fees by accident but not accidentally loose millions.

There might be better ways but clearly doing nothing at all is worse.

And yes, I know ETH is in a uniquely bad situation on this because the range of legitimate fees is enormous.
I guess I be spending more time on odysee and telegram. At worst it is censorship, at best youtube (meaning whoever random peoples are behind the compagny) think they know better than you and me.
Apple juice really tastes well if you do not add sugar. I think it is crazy that we do that at all. It does however increase its shelf life. Without sugar it will turn to cidre. I think you can always drink it without it being unhealthy at any point (aside from the alcohol...). If it already ferments and changes to vinegar, it will taste awful, but still wouldn't be bad for your health.
>When the polio vaccine first came out was the public (i.e. non medical personnel) allowed to discuss whether the use of inactivated virus was too risky?

They weren't?

>You're missing the point. The people who are crying "why can't we discuss GoF research or the lab leak" are not engaging in the argument in good faith. I absolutely think we need to discuss this topics in a meaningful way, however when most of the actors who are bringing up these topics are trying to cry wolf then why should we take them seriously?

Why would the good faith actors get punished for the actions of bad faith actors?
This is why I enjoy HN so much: it introduces me to the entirely unexpected.
> Free speech used to mean the right to say anything without persecution

Free speech used to be more of an ubiquitous social courtesy like that, yes.

However, that courtesy is rapidly disappearing in our society and free speech is being distilled down to its legal core which is: "you won't go to jail if you say something unpopular"

Everything else is on the table including losing your job, being boycotted, being hounded on social media, and otherwise ruining your life.

I personally like society better when free speech is a social courtesy extended to everyone by everyone, but... society's values change, and right now "harm reduction" is king.
Scientists don't just prostitute themselves to big businesses. Often they do it for small amounts of grant money provided by ideological entities. A scientist's price can vary wildly.
Klein's basic premise is correct but it's too narrowly focused on involvement in science influence by groups she already has a dislike for. Of course this is often handwaved away as not being relevant because "the good guys" have less money to pervert things than "the bad guys" do, which leads to "it's ok when we do it because our motives are pure", which even if true, doesn't change the fact that it's still another perversion.
Tech problems is a bit of an understatement.
You don't have to force YT,FB,etc to host anything that "violates their TOS",given that:
you make the clear distinction in the legislature:do american rights apply in the online space?If yes, and you also consider YT,FB,etc. public places[which has already been done by the courts], what's not to say that you MUST enforce people's right on these platforms?That's the current debate and it should either conclude in: yes those privately-owned places are not public places thus they can do whatever they want, or they are, in which case rights must be applied, to the letter.The latter sounds more scary to non-US citizens because they might see offensive material, but to make the distinction clear in the law, a "bill of rights" should be made that states the rights apply to this 'new' digital information medium aswell.
This is not "right to internet" as a "public-utility", because that's mostly non-sense created for political gain amongst the young.The long-term effects of current censorship will eventually set things naturally: people will create off-grid mesh networks, plugged into the mainstream internet,to fight off censorship, and it will be out of some dystopian movie.This won't really be the "web 3.0", because you're still relying on "centralized pipelines" that tie everything together.

By the way, this will inevitably also go into property/copyrights issue, and the law is shaky there aswell(arguably even more so,compared to freedom of expression).The "i store these bits on my machine but i don't own copyright of it" is a big issue and frankly something disturbing.I would rather see copyrights holders enforce streaming(where you don't "store" their content entirely at any given time) rather than continue with this DRM mess and everything that comes with it.
The other thing to bear in mind is that a signed contract doesn’t mean shit unless you’ve got the money for attorney’s fees to enforce it. And having just been screwed out of both jobs like this poor person was, that’s a pipe dream. Yeah some people have good savings and interments that could draw on, but a whole lot of us in the US don’t, even with the salaries in our industry. Either they’re early in their career or have been through massive hardship, sometimes several such hardships (like me). And in most jobs people aren’t paid well enough relative to costs of living to be able to break that paycheck to paycheck cycle, so you’re totally out of luck because unless it’s a case with clear proven malicious intent way beyond the bounds of even the most red of red state loopholes for the rich and other corporate entities, they’ll just give you a right to sue declaration or something and leave you to fend for yourself. Speaking from experience here.

And no, contrary to popular belief, attorneys don’t always take good cases on contingency, especially one that could drag on a while. Why wait 2-12 years for a fat payday, no matter how sure a thing?
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> Months ago he was insisting that the people who had contracted COVID-19 and who had antibodies in their system may not need the vaccine. Now, we have a number of studies coming out to support that. But months ago that was "anti-vax" (employing the slanderous use of the term).

I'm curious what his evidence is, because I find this argument compelling: https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/574284-natural-covid-...
After having used RxJS, redux-rxjs, and some other "Rx" related libraries I don't remember their names anymore, I'm not touching Rx[anything] ever again.

I still have nightmares.
Any statistics and numbers need to be scrutinized carefully given the past year of the media and our institutions showing a clear bias in trying to inflate numbers for mass hysteria and scaring people into taking the vaccine.
I never said anything about myself owning or using a laptop. I only spoke about the general public's use of laptops. You seem to have completely missed my point.
Your first link does not actually claim that “vaccination always offers stronger protection than getting the virus”. It indicates “among people who were previously infected with SAR-CoV-2 [the study] shows that unvaccinated individuals are more than twice as likely to be reinfected with COVID-19 than those who were fully vaccinated after initially contracting the virus”. So it’s comparing infected + vaccinated to just infected, not just infected vs just vaccinated.

You have just (unintentionally) shared misinformation about the vaccine. Would you support deleting your comment from HN?
At least hard drives still have decent seek times. Load time optimization for consoles with optical drives was another league: a single seek across the disk could lead to waiting a second longer on the loading screen.
Small point only the lawyers will care about - they say they are using Goodwin form documents instead of Orrick form documents. Will make it much nicer to work with companies incorporated on Stack than the others.
Many projects have a governance structure which allows for contributors to become maintainers.

Projects which don't have such governance are self-limiting in terms of [popularity x complexity]. At some point, tensions arise as a complex project which cannot scale its maintainers and cannot service all of its users.

Open source devs don't owe anybody support, but the marketplace doesn't owe them popularity either.
Prediction: Current social networks will be illegal in 10 years
I don't think people are enemies, adversaries, or even detractors of free speech, but rather, they won't actually defend the kinds of speech that the ideal of free speech is meant to protect. Especially when the censorship happens to be affecting their partisan opposite. I do, though, recognize the difficulty in allowing some things and not others depending on the forum.

Please excuse the shortcoming I have for explaining this, but I have to fall back on "I know it when it see it" when it comes to what counts as violations of the principle of free speech vs content moderation. In the current zeitgeist though, I absolutely see this as censorship rather than content moderation. This is because I absolutely sense partisan motivations for content take-downs and topic-wide bans on such large platforms as YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, etc.
Hm so it's reusing the syntax highlighter's knowledge of comments and string literals? So then is the recursive descent parser mentioned language-independent or language-dependent?

This is cool although I feel like the caveat of the ambiguity of < and > could isn't the best experience, especially for TypeScript and C++ I imagine.
All these things are up to you. You can invoke the wipers whenever you want to, by pressing the physical button provided for that purpose.

You can set the temperature by voice control. Or… you could buy another car.

What the buttons do is dependent on modes that do happen to show up on the screen, but you can switch those modes using voice commands.

>I guess It’s also possible that I’m just very stupid

Unlikely, and I don't think so, but I'd say it's possible to miss some things in a test drive or two. I'm still learning new things about the car after two years of driving it. It takes a lot of complex work to make things simple.

It's also a moving target. You can say "it doesn't do X" but next week it might, with a software update.

Meantime, there are other cars, so it's all good! Sure it's true that some car models adopt patterns innovated by others, but I'm sure some cars will remain strictly manual control for those who want that.
while believing anything Trump says without question.

Trump is pro vaccine... He still brags about his involvement with Operation Warp Speed. How does this work out? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA306aNtvmk

I too have to deal with hard right wing Christians... I used to be one. The idea that they are too stupid or deluded to be talked to about anything just isn't true. Talking to people about emotionally charged issues is hard, and if your attitude is that they're all idiots you're not gonna do it productively. "Crushing" someone with facts will never, ever change their mind.

I've been able to have a lot of discussions with these types of people (albeit not everyone) because I understand them.
she's going to say Balwani was abusing her emotionally and sexually, which impaired her sense of mind.

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/28/1031961327/elizabeth-holmes-t...
And yet Electron still doesn't have native file functionality on macOS titlebars.
That's true, but I'd still rather American Christians be susceptible to the same manipulation as everyone else than that they originate such drivel.
I too thought about the counterfactual in which that if their technology actually worked, COVID testing could have been have been done at scale in the US.
Hmm. Tell that to our customers, who seem to think it effective enough to purchase. :)

I think that you are not aiming for 100% automated moderation with a tool like this. Rather, you are looking to screen out the obvious stuff as quickly as you can, and then escalate the iffy content up to humans. But I speculate a bit.

Since I'm not familiar with the Cleanspeak platform, happy to set up a call with you and our sales team. My contact info is in my profile. :)
Glenn Greenwald isn't a source. He's a journalist. He's an aggregator and curator of sources.
Huh. Based on a quick skim, these guys claim that:

* There is low-dimensional structure within the space of representations learned by language models.

* This low-dimensional structure is reflected in brain responses predicted by model embeddings -- specifically, they say they can recover known language processing hierarchies from the principal dimension of representations, and that the embeddings can be used to predict which representations map well to each area in the brain.

I'm going to read the paper carefully.
Preach, my man. I've been saying that for years too. There's a fear that banning advertising would be a stain on free speech and that may be true but legislation is the only way outside of this cold war.

We're getting to the point where companies could pay parents to name their children after products. Oh wait, too late[0], we're already there.

[0]https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-11-17-bethesdas-skyr...
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This goes way beyond "fake it till you make it" - its not just overhyping tech - its active and deliberate deception in a product where you are playing with peoples lives
Because the arguments fundamentally aren't about science, they are about risk assessment.

And where the thresholds lay.
Well, that's the entire point of principles.

(I do actually not hold this one principle as absolutely, because Youtube is designed for public manipulation, so they have the onus of ensuring their manipulation isn't a bad one. But I do surely hold it for a neutral channel and that governments must ensure neutral channels exist.)
The idea that displaying {bad thing} inherently encourages {bad thing} is a dangerous idea imo, and one that comes up time and time again.
I'd love to know where I can get drives that cheap.
For larger companies that have the luxury of even contemplating developing in-house expertise the next big question is: buy or hire external expertise or develop in-house. These aren't easy questions since the investments are large and take a long time to pay off. It's easy to praise the good decisions some companies have made or laugh at the failures but someone has to make these big calls at some point and it's usually not the engineers and developers.
> 1) provocative content

You know, defining "provocative content" is a subjective endeavor. What is viewed as normal conversation in the real world by most people might be viewed as extremely problematic, unmitigated, obvious hate-speech by some in a Silicon Valley thought-bubble. How do we really clarify this?

> 2) internal Facebook research in which documentation was leaked to journalists.

a) How do we know that some Facebook employees are not using their own biases to give incorrect subjective labels to some content based on their own activist viewpoints? Maybe, maybe not, but I would stress that we're relying on subjective interpretations here and just have to trust them.

b) How do we know that the journalists who are interpreting this data and reporting on it are both willing and able to really do anything other than take the face-value interpretation of the data they were handed? I can count the number of journalists I've seen in my life who tried to dig into the nuanced details behind stories on one hand.

> 3) the claimed motives behind the operators of the page are inauthentic and dishonest

This is a hypothesis which may be (or likely is) reasonably supportable, but I would clarify that mind-reading has never been a thing.

> 4) a page called "Kosovo engages with American Christians for profit" would not be criticized in the same way.

Maybe. My goal isn't to necessarily defend these website operators. They might be, or even most likely are, creating random content to achieve fame and/or profit through social media. Ok, does that separate them from 99.9% of people/businesses/organizations on social media?

> 5) the people running the pages have shown to be dishonest in every way that their honesty can reasonably be measured.

My main goal in this set of comments isn't to necessarily defend the honor of these website operators. Maybe they're pure, manipulative scum?

My main goal is to point out that Facebook (and the media) has shown to be dishonest in every way that their honesty can reasonably be measured. I do not understand how anybody can trust this interpretation of the facts at face value for many, many reasons here.
it is also a statement to the DDOS'ers: "hey, you do not inflict any monetary damage to us, except a few annoyed customers"
'The cooker, on at the time, ignited the fuel.'

I don't know whether to laugh or cry?
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Regarding 2):

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34237049/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34473684/
I don't know how objective science is, because we bring all of our biases to the table when we interpret data

You are conflating "science" and "scientist" here. The way science overcomes bias is two-fold: 1) by training scientists to be aware of their own biases, and 2) by having multiple scientists, each with their own biases, try to reproduce the same experimental results.

Your artificial example is just that, they all fail 1).
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Why do you think it's apparent that this case in particular will reaffirm that rich white people "are pretty immune from harsh punishment in the criminal justice system"? I mean I don't argue that the wealthy often escape justice, but why would you think the Theranos case is evidence of that? It's literally at trial right now, which is a very, very bad scenario for Holmes. The vast majority of cases (including ones with a guilty plea) don't go to trial.
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That was uploaded in 2017. It's not the original.
It's not true that people get stronger immunity by catching covid. 1/3 of people get no antibodies at all, as compared to 100% of non-immunocompromised people who get vaccinated.

https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/574284-natural-covid-...

It appears that you too have been a victim of the misinformation that youtube is attempting to mitigate!
> These orbiting internet nodes fly closer to Earth’s surface than the satellites in the government-run global navigation systems, such as the U.S. Department of Defense’s GPS, the European Union’s Galileo, China’s BeiDou, or Russia’s Global Navigation Satellite System. Because militaries operate many of the systems, the signals can be targets for jamming or scrambling—spurring researchers to look for alternatives.

> Because the satellites of internet megaconstellations fly so much closer to Earth than those used in traditional GPS, their signals can be thousands of times stronger. This could make them easier to pick up in dense jungle environments where GPS sometimes struggles to determine position, Langley suggests. The brighter signals might also allow for better data collection of animals outfitted with tracking collars, he adds.
Google: from 'Don't be evil' to 'Support the genocide' in one decade.
Standing by people you don't agree with is a pretty hallmark demonstration of "principle."
> Does it share video, house maps, whatever with Amazon?

Ring...?
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It's not about job-hopping at all - I could easily imagine staying with a company a long time if I was happy there.

Implicit in the "care for you later" agreement is "by underpaying you now."

Whatever a company is setting aside for you later - or just promising you will be there later - could instead just be paid to you now. You might think of it as "AND," but it's really always inherently "OR."

Another difference is that there are many strings placed on the future implied promises and care, such as you staying with that organization for a long time.

So you can get paid in promises, or you can get paid in money. I want to get paid in money, and if I need security I can invest, buy all types of insurance, etc. No reason my employer needs to do that for me, any more than I need them to buy my groceries.
This all depends on what you define as “leadership”. I have absolutely heard prominent pastors (local religious leaders) make those claims and I suspect anyone being honest with themselves has too.

When you say leadership are you referring to the leadership who abused small children (local level) or the leadership who covered it up (national/global level)?

The constant “whataboutism” towards socialism doesn’t answer any of those questions. Socialists aren’t a global society like Christians. They don’t have a universal set of instructions to run on (like the Bible). Giving money to a local “socialist” running for office doesn’t trickle up to a global socialist network like the church. You see the difference, no?
Any lawyers here - is the general consensus that she is going to jail for a long time?
Yep petrol fumes are not an issue.
Who said anything about concentration camps?
In the modern systems, it is considered a bad idea to keep plaintext passwords anywhere. If Cognito is even a bit competent, they won't have the passwords to export. AWS official docs [0] confirm this: they use SRP [1] which has the property that "The password never leaves the client and is unknown to the server."

You said that you are working on Cognito competitor -- are you storing plaintext passwords in database? Is your service going to have user export containing passwords?

[0] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cognito/latest/developerguide/am...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Remote_Password_protoco...
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