skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Theranos never had a real business. So it didn't dissolve so much as never existed. Sure, the legal entity was created and dissolved, but there wasn't ever anything approaching a real business.

Most of Enron (some was actually ok) wasn't a real business either.

It follows like this:

A great business can often be run by a fool and be fine, because the business is just so good. Think Google, Coke, and almost all newspaper companies in the 20th century.

The opposite is not true - a terrible business is hosed no matter how good the CEO is. Think farms, most retail businesses, newspapers in the 21st century.

And most companies sit somewhere in the middle - the CEO can make a difference.
It’s a good target market for hackers. Those idiotic enough to gamble with cryptos are also probably a stupid enough to run the script
> The Three Body Problem is just thinly veiled nationalist propaganda. All you have to do to see it is switch the alien antagonists with Western colonial powers.

I'm usually quite alert to such things, and didn't see it. In part, it seemed like a way to talk about the horrors of the Cultural Revolution - which would seem to work against nationalism.

It's been a long time since I read it - can you give some broad examples?
There's a long list of boring answers you probably don't care about involving "these are biomedical researchers using UNIX, not hackers", "complex legacy scripts that depend on default shells", and "enterprise compliance".
From tfa: "However, it has thus far not been possible to determine when this activity took place"
"Mobile games: Play some of the most popular mobile games like Lords Mobile, June’s Journey, Coin Master, and more."

I'm reasonably certain those are not the most popular mobile games right now.
Google Introduces Google for Creators
It depends on what you are demonstrating. I recently worked on a very legit medical device. It has a demo mode that shows off the product UI. It is 100% clear that there is no real sample and no real reagents in the machine.

Note the article said the demo mode "would not analyze the sample." The article goes on to say that real blood samples were used in these demos. Not the same thing at all.
Almost none of the most popular actually. No Fortnite no warzone
Stripe has incredible distribution. For the many merchants already using Stripe, enabling cryptocurrency payments could, depending on its implementation, be as easy as toggling a switch. That's a lot easier and less costly than integrating a new payment processor from scratch. For new merchants, adopting Stripe would mean being able to accept cryptocurrency payments AND benefitting from Stripe's existing product suite and experience. They've solved a lot of difficult problems really well.

Despite the head start other crypto payment processors may have had, imo none have yet been able to produce a developer experience (or even just documentation) anywhere near the quality of Stripe. Also, that "head start" might be a head start in accepting crypto specifically (though Stripe did do this at one point), but it's not a head start when it comes to accepting payments, more generally. I think the things that make Stripe the best payment processor will translate pretty smoothly into making them the best crypto payment processor, too.

I'm not certain that Stripe will become the number one cryptocurrency payment processor, but I think it's likely. I certainly wouldn't put it past them.
The "high tech illusion" concept spoken about by the book "Peopleware" relates to this. It's the idea that software engineering is viewed as a high-tech profession on par with something like rocket engineering. In reality, software engineering is closer to an assembly line process wherein we simply arrange and connect pre-made components (e.g. APIs).
Here are the last entries in mine: https://hsto.org/getpro/habr/upload_files/e55/14c/903/e5514c...

How do you like it, extreme privacy advocates?
Why stop there?
I think that describes Perl v7 pretty well.
I'm guessing recently transplanted people. I say 'recently' because my spouse was vaccinated, was on priority list, and she takes immunosuppressors, w/ a 20yo liver transplant. Some people going through chemo? I'm probably missing some cases.
My legal last name is "Sirén". When I was younger, I almost always used "Siren", because it was easier to type. Then, ~15 years ago, I started noticing that American websites sometimes rejected it, because they considered it inappropriate. Sometimes "Sirén" would work, sometimes it worked but caused minor annoyances, and sometimes it would not work for technical reasons.

Both versions work most of the time these days, but I still run into trouble once in a while no matter which name I use.
Google introduces Google for Creators, Google's move in catering to the emerging creator economy.

However their message feels like something that was made for other corporations rather than actual humans.
As one who took APL as an "introduction to programming" course in college: APL practically encouraged unreadable implementations. Students would literally and frequently challenge others with "what does this program do?" with the intent of eliciting "I have no idea, it's unreadable."

Forth and Lisp were odd, like a native English speaker learning Russian or Korean. APL is like writing a novel directly into encrypted form.
Apple, Google, Facebook and Twitter, the main surveillance tools of our kakistocratic regime, are going to get decimated.
Unions are good. Tesla should unionize.
> unable to continue the gradual march of empathy to larger and larger groups that humanity has thus far been able to maintain and is critical for our long-term survival

I'm having a hard time parsing this, but I think you're arguing that the world is getting less empathetic, and therefore less cooperative? I disagree, and think the reverse is true. The more we can disregard emotions and work as cogs in a machine, the more productive we ultimately are. It's exactly this capability that allows us to cooperate in groups of many hundreds of thousands: the ability to interface with each other not as emotionally complex primates, but as executors of a function.
I think the situation will be similar to when Zuck tried to acquire Snapchat. MoonPay is sitting on a gold mine and they know it.
Well at least for Pfizer I know those with a rare PEG allergy can’t have it. Not sure about the other vaccines. But yeah it’s actually very rare with these vaccines to find someone with a genuine medical reason for exemption.
No - I checked.
> We can't look at our body as some crutch which you can sell for a couple of hours.

That's a good argument against wage labor in capitalism, but not a specific argument against prostitution as opposed to other, particularly physical, wage labor.
Yea I saw that, I will check him out, thanks.
No. They can only count it if they sell it. They actually had to take a $50M "impairment" hit on their bottom-line since the price of BTC dropped below their cost basis again this quarter.
Yet they will allow Chinese routers that require an app on your phone to use and where you can't turn off the cloud functionality. Looking at you TP-Link.
> If you want to predict the future, science is the tool you want but if you want to court someone then maybe poetry is your tool.

I agree and I definitely see your point, what I'm saying (or what I'm trying to say, at least, English not being my mother-tongue and me not being a mathematician nor a philosopher) is that going one (or two steps) back one may ask him/herself about the very concept/idea of utility, more exactly on what "premise" (so to speak) we assign "goals" to the "reality" surrounding us, why do we assume there is an "utility", why do we assume there should be "goals"? Why should we instrumentalize said "reality" by seeing it through the prism of "utility" and "goals"?

I know that taking that many steps back from "natural" concepts like "utility" and achieving "goals" risks turning everything into empty metaphysics and, worse (from the pov of a mathematician or of a scientist more generally speaking) into mysticism, but imo at the higher level the mysticism of the neoplatonists (i.e. Plato's ideas taken several steps further with some pre-socratic elements added in) plus the ideas of some pre-socratics themselves are more closer to the "reality" of it all than what we ended up adopting (basically Aristotle whom we refined/corrected in some specific points). Basically I think a guy like Heraclitus was closer to grasping the "reality" around us than Aristotle ever was, but had we gone the way of Heraclitus we wouldn't have had computers and rockets and all, computers and rockets that were made possible by Aristotle's logic (and by the way how he perceived the logic process per se).

Again, imo, Plato stands between the pre-socratics and Aristotle, but because we chose Aristotle's way and we basically built our world on Aristotle's way of thinking when we read Plato we tend to focus only on the part of his philosophy that in a way confirms this "world" that we built, so to speak (with this correlation between Plato's ideas and mathematics being just an example for that).

Anyway, these are just some ramblings :)
No, we just need systems 100-1000x better than prevailing commercial IT systems. Systems that do not quake in their boots at the thought of a single dedicated hacker, but are designed and expected to resist competent teams of tens or hundreds working full time for years since that is what is needed to reach basic parity.

However, we will not find those techniques by following the standard commercial IT methodologies which were not designed for such a task. Just ask any architect of these systems if they could stop a team of 10 people working full time for 3 years. If even the people making it think it is absurd to defend against such a minimal effort there is no chance it is actually adequate.

In fact, there is little reason to assume that the methodologies that can only get 0.1% of the way to solving the problem despite decades of work and tens of billions of dollars will ever converge to an adequate solution. It could be like trying to use the knowledge of horse buggy makers to determine how to make a machine faster than the speed of sound. And even if it could eventually get there it would require 100% improvements year over year for an entire decade to get there from existing commercial methodologies.

No, it is far more reasonable to use systems that were actually designed for these environments and have actually demonstrated success, such as systems certified to Orange Book A1, and make them more practical since, as everybody knows, it is far easier to make a cheap, working design by starting with something that works and making it cheap than starting with cheap components and figuring out how to make something that works.

As for how you can identify proven success you can just start with a $1 million red team exercise. If they are able to find any material defects that means that there are likely many such defects and your processes can not prevent the occurrence of such trivial flaws and needs to be rethought. Only when there are zero material defects are you at the starting line. Note that this is not an exhaustive test, rather it should be treated like the fizzbuzz of security design, a trivial softball to weed out the the people that know nothing and the systems that do not work.
Aren't most Teslas basically using Panasonic manufactured batteries?
If x is very small (<1e-100 or something) you can alternatively evaluate a linear approximation accurate near 0. If y is going to be enormous (>1e+100 or something) you should rescale it.
I do find this sort of stuff fascinating and also faintly frustrating but of course my mother tongue is (in)famous for being a bit loose at first sight.

According to one of my employees (Polish) Ł sounds roughly like w as in win or water but not as in what. A quick read of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%81 doesn't help too much.

Does enforcing Ł instead of say w cause your written language to fail in some way? I don't want to cause offense, I want to understand the causes of difference.
I wonder if they've read that part of the bible where the madam in Jericho saves the Jewish spies using her brothel as a safehouse and thereby helps facilitate the capture of the city.
Ohh it was a motivational speech?? Now I’m glad Tesla didn’t go.
Curious to hear what the optimistic story to justify the current incredible valuation is.

I mean, they seem to be doing very well now, but their market cap is now roughly equal to all other car makers combined. [0] That's just confusing to me.

Are people actually betting on them ultimately turning into the one modern energy company? The one battery company?

[0] https://companiesmarketcap.com/automakers/largest-automakers...
Also pregnant women for a while. But realistically none of those people are actively working and there are real medical exemptions anyway.
Microsoft at least appears to be interested in Android. To me it feels like Google has lost interest in the product.
Economists and the scientific method are very poorly acquainted.
Wasn't that the name of Steve Mann's AR company?
No, I meant legal immigrants — for example, my son's school has a fair number of children from Central America and Ethiopia and, unsurprisingly, their math scores fare better than their English.

Legal immigration is a substantial majority of the total (roughly three quarters):

https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2020/08/20/facts-on-u-s...

High-skill immigrants are certainly a great economic contribution but they're far from a majority with less than 20% percent having a Bachelor's degree:

https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2020/08/20/facts-on-u-s...

… and even if they were, that doesn't mean that they and their families have high English fluency. Unless they happen to have grown up in a bilingual household or attended a bilingual school, their children are almost certainly going to have to catch up to their peers before they'll be able to understand their teachers and read the coursework no matter how skilled their parents are.
I like the confluence of ML and array languages happening right now. I know Pandas and NumPy are their offspring, but I like the array-oriented PLs. An ELM (Extreme Learning Machine) in J [1], CNNs in APL [2], and APL-to-GPU toolchains like Futhark/apltail [3,4]. I'll have to look at shapeRank.

[1] https://github.com/peportier/jelm

[2] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3315454.3329960

[3] https://futhark-lang.org/blog/2016-06-20-futhark-as-an-apl-c...

[4] https://github.com/melsman/apltail/
What you are saying is in some sense true, but only to a tiny degree. So tiny I'd say it's not relevant. The way to research competitors isn't to listen to the players involved. It's to deeply understand (via research, talking to real users, or becoming a user yourself) the players and their offerings and the components required to deliver those offerings. The players all have a nice coherent narrative about themselves and the competition. It's never the full story and in most cases wildly off.
I don't ascribe completely to this philosophy. Also, I wrote "they" in my original comment.
Comp != salary, and union jobs tend to have more benefits.
Except we're talking about over 20 pictures. Do you know how often you'll get heads 20 times in a row? I'll give you a hint, it's in the neighborhood of 1 in 2 million.
> it beats the Tesla in repeating launches

This was true pre-plaid, but no longer. Tesla majorly beefed up thermals on the Plaid.

> try a Mach-E

It's crap, don't bother if you enjoy handling. Germany is the only option ATM.

> Super Cruise and Blue Cruise are better than Autopilot in the areas they are enabled.

Ah yes, Blue Cruise, which can't drive curves on a highway by itself. Seriously, what metric are you using here?

> There's plenty of cheaper EVs than Teslas, like the VW ID.4 or ID.3.

In the US, only the ID.4, and that starts at the same price as the Model 3, which is ubiquitously reviewed better.

You're making strong points, but the fact remains that Tesla is ahead. This will change, but not yet.
One cannot build a port just anywhere; you need to meet certain conditions in shore configuration, depth of water, you need road and electrical power connections on the land. A port is no longer a safe harbor from storms, they are huge investments with major ecological impact.
Just my N=1 anecdata, but I'm in the same boat. I got a Macbook Air from work, and I have a hard time using it compared to my Linux setup (which is saying something, since I'm using a Torvaldsforsaken Nvidia card). Here's a list of the issues I can recall off the top of my head:

- High-refresh displays cause strange green/purple artifacting

- Plugging in multiple displays just outright doesn't work

- Still a surprisingly long boot time compared to my x201 (almost a teenager now!)

- No user replaceable storage is a complete disservice when your OEM upgrades cost as much as Apple charges

- Idle temps can get a little uncomfortable when you're running several apps at once

...and the biggest one...

- A lot of software just isn't ready for ARM yet

Maybe I'm spoiled, coming from Arch Linux, but the software side of things on ARM still feels like they did in 2012 when my parents bought me a Raspberry Pi for Christmas. Sure it works, but compatibility and stability are still major sticking points for relatively common apps. Admittedly, Apple did a decent job of not breaking things any further, but without 32-bit library support it's going to be a hard pass from me. Plus, knowing that Rosetta will eventually be unsupported gives me flashbacks to watching my games library disappear after updating to Catalina.
Not so sure about that "running circles around". While the M1 Max will not beat a mobile RTX 3080 (~same chip as desktop RTX 3070), Apple is in the same ballpark of its performance [1] (or is being extremely misleading in their performance claims [2]).

Nvidia very likely has leading top end performance still, but "running circles around this thing" is probably not a fair description. Apple certainly has a credible claim to destroy Ampere in terms of power per watt - just limiting themselves in the power envelope still. (It's worth noting that AMD's RDNA2 already edges out Ampere in performance per watt - that's not really Nvidia's strong suit in their current lineup).

[1]: https://www.apple.com/v/macbook-pro-14-and-16/a/images/overv...
- which in the footnote is shown to compare the M1 Max to this laptop with mobile RTX 3080: https://us-store.msi.com/index.php?route=product/product&pro...

[2]: There's a lot of things wrong with in how vague Apple tends to be about performance, but their unmarked graphs have been okay for general ballpark estimates at least.
“How dare people build houses for themselves to live in and not for me to look at!?”
There's no milk monopoly. That's ridiculous. Farmer Joe is free to sell his milk at whatever price he wants.
Dan Gelbart Workshop Tour HD [video]
> As I understand it, someone has to be a member of some "protected class" to sue over discrimination.

Everyone is member of a protected class as everyone has a race, nationality, sex, gender, sexual orientation, religion or lack of it, family status, etc.
I don't think Google Play or the Apple App Store are terrible, at least for end-users. They have the apps people want and function as advertised.

The Microsoft Store struggled because initially it was limited to UWP apps. Developers could not easily ship their existing Windows software on it. Microsoft shot themselves in the foot by excluding the store from Windows' biggest selling point: it's extensive library of existing software.

To make things worse, the store has always been a bit...buggy, compared to the contemporaries I mentioned earlier. I have, on more than one occasion, spent half an hour troubleshooting why a game wouldn't download and install, with the store throwing obtuse unhelpful errors.
Sorry. You're correct. I haven't watched the video in a bit.
Jimmy Hoffa came to mind when I saw the headline.

Although it seems there was no organized mafia element to their fraud.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Hoffa
I guess the issue is that if a union solely acts for the benefit of the workers, then it sets itself not only against the interests of the employer, but also against the interests of the whole of the rest of society, who would benefit from the service being more efficient.

Hence the current situation where unions have an image problem.

Nobody likes seeing an abuse of power, whether the abuse is coming from the direction of the employer, or from the employee‘s union.

Game-theoretically, a smart union should refrain from unreasonable demands, because their long-term survival (and that of its members) is imperilled by public opinion turning against them.
This and WSL use "Virtual Machine Platform" which is a bit like WebView2 but for virtualization.
Imagine how intelligent I could have been
Literally the article states that they know exactly when and where Norse vikings were because of "cosmic rays"
Both. Construction of ports is a massive endeavor and requires a suitable geographic location. On the regulatory side, the costal commission would never allow the construction of a new one due to the environmental impacts.
Ah yes that's cool, they mention even the Python extension can run client-side.
Sort of. I see this a different way. Many years ago, Linux replaced UNIX as the "standard UNIX", and certification become irrelevant.

Further, unless I'm missing an important technical detail, Linux could, with some effort, pass the certification process.
An Apollo program for information systems? This isn't a bad idea.
Ego plays a part, but I think med school and residency play a bigger part. Surgery residency is ultra competitive and freaking grueling.

Basically putting 10+ years of your life into being a surgeon ends up playing a big part in your core mindset and approach to life. You don't really end up being a surgeon without being fully committed to it.
Jimmy Hoffa
But it's also a premium product, so it matching a 3070m isn't really above what you'd expect for the cost (but efficiency is another story)
'W' in Polish is already used, but for a different sound - it's pronounced like the English 'v'. 'V' in turn is not present the Polish alphabet (in the sense of it not being present in words of Polish origin).

If you wanna change that, you might as well change the entire writing system of the language, eg. to be more in line with some other, more common writing system (ie. other latin alphabets or the cyrillic alphabet which would probably make the most sense phonetically). But no-one's gonna go for that any time soon.
Nationwide roads are not bad. There are some states that are worse than others for the roads. Most of the big stories however have been about Interstate system bridges which are funded by mostly an 18.4c per gallon tax on gas and a commercial tax on diesel for trucks.

The federal government massively under funds the federal highway system.

That said, Road maintenance is not a government power issue. Road Construction might be if they need to seize land.

The calling out of roads is a red herring, Road account for a infinitesimal part of the budget, even the so called "build back better" plan has very very very little money in it for roads and bridges (about 3% of the spending)

To focus on that as an example of government being weak is ridiculous and completely miss understands the role and scope of government in the lives of everyday people.

If the government privatized all the roads would people that support this argument then claim we are in an stateless society because the government no longer builds the roads...

We can agree that the government is terrible at maintaining roads, however I do not view that as an example of government weakening, it is an example of government incompetence. Incompetence is universal and all encompassing for all government programs