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> For instance you can represent integers as binary, base 3, BCD, or any base and they are still the same integers.

And in particular, decimal floating point usually encodes numbers as either fully binary, or in batches of 10 binary bits that hold 3 digits each.
> Comments like this lower the level of discourse, and it's frustrating.

When certain groups of people have a monopoly on the spread of information as well as the narrative accompanying it, then these “lower levels of discourse” are perfectly acceptable as a grassroots counter. You may be frustrated because it is a very effective counter. Mockery/jokes, even very innocent mockery (which rings very true, by the way) like the one in the comment you quoted, is one of the most effective means to fight back against authoritarianism et al.

Hence why many sites are banning or censoring comments that are “mean” or go against establishment opinion. Sorry but we don’t haven’t take what they give without pushing back a bit. We’re not going to just roll over and take it.
Which makes it even more ridiculous that random people on the internet are coming up with the lab leak theories and that American intelligence agencies, spanning 2 wildly divergent administrations, have not said anything to support this.
On the contrary, it's essential for a modern democracy to have an independent news system along with independent judiciary, statistics and central bank. Any privately owned organization will reflect the biases of its owners and the public needs an independent view. Of course, just as with other independent organs of governance, there must be a mechanism for ensuring that the quality of work being done in the public interest is up to standard.
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I think much of the interest in theories of lab leaks, or various other theories - credible or not, are mostly propelled with the same thrust as groundbreaking science itself: they want to find some truth about the world that's been unnoticed or less discussed.

This is what motivates conspiracy theories and scientific discoveries alike. It's even true about flat Earth kids, however misguided they may be.

The "so what?" is always an after thought, and often is irrelevant to the goal of simply finding something new.
With all due respect, how did you try to understand the Flexport business model and not realize that they aren’t in the same business as UPS?
Agree. Absolutely awesome article except for this one little line:

> Ensure the patches to the calibration values are safe before using.

How would you do that? I've worked on both ends of steering on VW Bugs and Golfs (steering column fixes and tie rod replacements). You don't want to mess either of these up either, but the repairs are (a) well documented and (b) relatively easy to verify you did them correctly.

By contrast, I've seen software break catastrophically in the past from "harmless" updates like changing the number of commas in a version string. In this case it's not the kinda doesn't work problem but hitting an unexpected corner case on the freeway that would worry me.
Might be a mistrial on 3 counts as they couldn't come to a verdict:

https://twitter.com/JohnCarreyrou/status/1478158063379042304
The point is that modern blockbusters aren't really attempting to make money from ticket sales, and that's not where people working on it expect to be paid out of. Trademark law protects the real revenue streams.

That's why Disney finally stopped pushing for increases to copyright duration every couple decades, and have allowed some films staring Mickey Mouse to go into the public domain. They get their money from crap sold with the likeness of the characters.
There is a procedure for this:

https://bimpactassessment.net/complaints-procedure

It seems you can get them removed and it does look like you are complaining about a company that shouldn't be a B Corp, so you could take your complaint there.

Not sure if that means that all B Corps or B Corps are bad in general.
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I suspect that the opposition then is not considering the gravity of this research being responsible for the deaths of millions.

Which is obviously absurd, so there is definitely something else going on.
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Here is a handy list of alternatives to google search

https://fabform.io/a/alternative-search-engines
Yes, we agree. This thread is about the implications of the lab-leak v2 theory, assuming it were true.
I am not sure why the copyright system existing already or not changes the argument.

However, to answer your question, the reason is right in the linked article… the first order benefit of allowing everyone to copy everything freely makes the world a better place… if everyone can download and read a great book for free, everyone gets a free book and no extra resources are used… that is a lot of utility created.

Of course, the worry is the that the second order effect will be fewer people create works because they can’t support themselves if everyone can just copy their work.

So we create copyright to mitigate that second order effect, but we still want to maximize the first order benefit of as many people getting access as possible… so the best way to do that is to set the copyright term as short as possible so that people are incentivized to create as much work as possible, but still get the benefit of free copying as soon as we can.

As the author points out, no one is going to decide not to create a work just because they know they won’t be able to profit from it in 70 years… if people are still going to want it in 70 years, that means it will be very popular and certainly financially still worth creating even if you can only profit for say, 20 years.

So the tl;dr… we want copyrights to expire because we aren’t incentivizing more creation by having copyrights not expire. Basically, the ideal would be to tune the length to keep being shorter until we see a drop off in output of creative works.
Thank you for sharing your (poor) recruiting and interviewing process. I'm a hiring manager in our company, and I tell anyone (and everyone) that while a positive experience that results in a hire is shared locally, a poor experience when we don't hire is shared far and wide. I don't understand why companies put their worst interpersonal people in front of candidates; it should be the other way around. An unsuccessful candidate should leave wanting to work with you more than when they applied! There are some really good processes out there: respectful of your time & energy, transparent in expectations and timelines. My hope is that globalization and remote work forces everyone to up their game, because if it's poor for senior developers, imagine what it's like for people who aren't in such demand.
I wouldn’t be surprised if vaccinated people go out more because they feel safer. I went on a cross-US road trip right after I got my vaccine and now I’ve been to 4 different countries.

I wouldn’t have done any of that if I wasn’t vaccinated.
> For sucrose, mice apparently have the opposite reaction that primates have in this study. Maybe the guys who did the linked study didn't read it. @stevenwoo

Did YOU read the study, because it seems as if you may have skipped the very beginning reading... This is a direct quote.

> The association of glucose with survival is inverse for mice versus monkeys/humans.

That is -not at all- what the study in this post is reviewing, and is not the conclusion you're purporting. The study you linked looks at how glucose and aging work together.

The study in this post is looking to how glucose affects the brain function itself, and what inhibitors are triggered by high-sucrose in a diet.

> he high-sucrose diet induced microcapillary impairments and reduced brain glucose uptake in brains of Glo1-deficient mice. Aspirin protected against this angiopathy, enhancing brain glucose uptake and preventing abnormal behavioral phenotypes. Similar vascular damage to our model mice was found in the brains of randomly collected schizophrenia and bipolar disorder patients, suggesting that psychiatric disorders are associated with angiopathy in the brain caused by various environmental stresses, including metabolic stress.

That's a direct quote from this post's linked study.

These two studies are dissimilar enough to be completely different in comparison and their conclusions are not similar because the studies look at different effects of sucrose. This post's linked study looks at immediacy and how the sucrose interacts with the brain. Your post looks at the effects of aging and possible links to high-sucrose and fasting diets.
We need two more, NVIDIA and AMD? Then it's MANAMANA (do do do do do).
Friend, I think you maybe clicked the wrong reply link? I didn't say anything about GoF research at all.

Assuming that we ever get the honest and open public debate about COVID-19's origins, and if it was a lab leak from WIV and was related to GoF research, then certainly the potential benefits of GoF research would be weighed against the potential dangers. I don't take a position one way or another in that conversation at this point, because I think it's premature.

The fight we are facing right now is whether we're even allowed to have that debate or whether any discussion of the WIV as a possible origin is stamped out as anathema.

I find myself on the side of "follow the evidence" and "question everything" rather than "you're a conspiracy theorist if you even entertain this idea."
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See the comment lower down in this thread:
>Google Search is beset from all sides right now. Their search results are terrible and people are looking for alternatives. They’re definitely at or past the peak of that product lifecycle.

Note the discussion not just here on HN but across several channels over the past 48 hours about how bad Google Search results have become. Personally, apart from a Google Business page I don't use any other Google products and haven't in years. Their product track record is poor and their search quality has slipped. Given another 5-10 years, I don't find it difficult at all to believe that someone like Apple, if they wanted to replace Google entirely as the default search on their device, couldn't make significant headway in search market share.

Sure, Netflix and Google aren't the same here - that wasn't my point. My point was simply in reference to the previous poster's comment about "too big to fail." The past 100 years of the stock market is littered with companies that were deemed unstoppable leviathans.
Count by count summary of jury decisions:

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/01/03/technology/elizabeth...
Good, only nitpick is not enough years. Mark Zuckerberg should be next.
Who is this monopoly wholesaler?

Also, it's not a cartel if they don't control/regulate production.
Have you investigated whether this is useful for language learning? Presumably it ought to be easier to try to emulate (and compare and contrast) speech in "your own voice" (with a native accent) than someone else's. Another useful feature to this end might be to emulate how your voice sounds to you (rather than other people); not sure how difficult that is.
Count one of conspiring to commit wire fraud against investors in Theranos between 2010 and 2015: Guilty.

Count two of conspiring to commit wire fraud against patients who paid for Theranos’s blood testing services between 2013 and 2016: Not guilty.

Count three of wire fraud in connection with a wire transfer of $99,990 on or about Dec. 30, 2013: No verdict.

Count four of wire fraud in connection with a wire transfer of $5,349,900 on or about Dec. 31, 2013: No verdict.

Count five of wire fraud in connection with a wire transfer of $4,875,000 on or about Dec. 31, 2013: No verdict.

Count six of wire fraud in connection with a wire transfer of $38,336,632 on or about Feb. 6, 2014: Guilty.

Count seven of wire fraud in connection with a wire transfer of $99,999,984 on or about Oct. 31, 2014:Guilty.

Count eight of wire fraud in connection with a wire transfer of $5,999,997 on or about Oct. 31, 2014: Guilty.

Count nine was dropped.

Count 10 of wire fraud in connection with a patient’s laboratory blood test results on or about May 11, 2015: Not guilty.

Count 11 of wire fraud in connection with a patient’s laboratory blood test results on or about May 16, 2015: Not guilty.

Count 12 of wire fraud in connection with a wire transfer of $1,126,661 on or about Aug. 3, 2015: Not guilty.
This is more complete than any of the other reports.
I know there were a few people organizing on reddit too where they would ship it if you can't access it easily too! I think it was a lady on /r/opiates
Also does anyone know how many scientists would actually be involved anyway? What is the minimum?
It was meant to be a friendly joke. Apologies; It wasn't my intent to bring down the discourse.
Out of curiosity, I did a quick search and it is used in horses, but not exclusively. Here's a recommended deworming schedule from CSU:

https://vetmedbiosci.colostate.edu/vth/services/equine-field...
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Totally agree.

I feel like this speaks to a general reluctance to accept uncertainty and shades of gray surrounding a topic. It often seems to me that many people prefer to have things neatly sorted into binary categories, supporting them either completely or not at all, when most topics resist this kind of neat division if given more than a cursory glance.

Articles refusing to include any nuanced discussion of a point and simply stating an arbitrary position as proven fact just exacerbates the problem.

It's not too hard to make a connection with the often-polarising and vitriolic nature of discussions online and the rise of misinformation.
I am working towards solving the problem of diagnostic labs that will soon have to, or are already coping with excess testing capacity built up for covid testing, and trying to leverage this additional capacity for the post-covid/EUA world.
The solution will also address the market decentralization opportunity by spreading the testing demand (from providers and patients), away from a few big-name labs, to a larger number of smaller sized ones.
It's a little hopeless in the long term. Eventually these models will get so good that they could work with only a small recording of text vs the huge amount of transcribed audio currently needed.
Agreed. I have alarms for weekly meetings and would like them to not require manual disabling for vacation, statutory holidays, etc. And the inevitable re-enabling.
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It's hella common for SV though. The overwhelming majority of jobs here and startups are based around it. So, unless you're doing something close to hardware - you're likely working on a web app.

This doesn't mean you're just making pretty widgets for a browser.
That I did not know. I don't think it entirely overrules my point, but it's a good counter nevertheless.
Pretty subjective, but I find Disney+ quite superior to Netflix in both quality of the streaming and UX - two areas I'm surprised a "non-tech company" can win in. Seems to me like the tech part (anything but the content, really) is actually a commodity already.
Hell no. I absolutely hate my job.
Monopoly is simplified not only in its portrayal of one market, but in the fact that it's only concerned with one market. The reality of capitalism also includes this dynamic of new markets being created organically and deliberately, particularly as some markets close up. Innovation and entrepreneurial endeavors enabled by legal profit incentive are a big part of the full landscape of capitalism and are missing from any lessons we might try to project from Monopoly.
I for one am optimistic what a "post-search" world might look like. Maybe a lot like the early web. I don't think affiliate links themselves are necessarily the problem. I'll gladly use a link from a high-quality reviewer to give them a little kickback. SEO seems to be the issue. Maybe we end up with trusted brands for reviewing specific things. For example, I trust outdoorgearlab.com for pretty much anything camping related, and no purchase comes to mind that I've regretted yet.
> We don’t need to rehash stale stories, but nobody is going to innovate when a ready cash cow is there for the milking.

If the original Iron Man was in the public domain, would they stop making new Marvel movies? Why, because the movies are currently driving demand for issues of Tales of Suspense #39 or Iron Man #1, and wouldn't be worth it without that?

Many of the classic Disney movies are based on stories that were in the public domain at the time of their original publication.

They keep rehashing old stories because they're lazy or are marketing to fans of the franchise, not because the original is or isn't in the public domain.
Off topic, but this reminded me: What ever happened to that thing that Google demoed where its robots would call restaurants and make reservations for you? Did that ever find its way into Android, or another product?
CNBC says that "Jury finds Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes guilty on four charges in criminal fraud trial" while confirming that there's deadlock in three charges: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/03/jurors-in-holmes-trial-remai...
That 70 vs. 20 year argument assumes a bunch of facts not in evidence. In a star-search business, the outlier winners are a big part of what sets compensation levels for the authors that don't have runaway successes. It's possible, even likely, that cutting copyright terms back to an unprecedented 20 years --- that's shorter than the term we had in the 1700s --- would in fact drastically reduce the amount of work that gets produced, by making even the hits so unprofitable that nobody will invest in their authors.

Meanwhile, if you rolled back the last two big extensions --- CTEA and the Berne-joining Copyright Act of '76 --- and brought us back to 1909, you'd still have 60 year terms. I'd flip the argument around and claim that no copyright opponent on HN would accept 60 years either. So what are we arguing about? Does term have anything real to do with this?
More complete summary from the NY Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/01/03/technology/elizabeth...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29789074
Yes, but then it gets streamed through Spotify or something to a 40 year old with diminished hearing acuity.
These are big wins! Some huge sums up there. How many years is she looking at?
How much time is she looking at?
How good are mice models? My uneducated thoughts are they are unlikely to generalize to humans - like testing carcinogens in petri dishes
Frame it a different way.

If you share with society should you be able to control other people's use of it?

How does that benefit society? Remember the rules are enforced by society and need to serve society.
I suspect:

1. You don't know what my position actually is, as I haven't stated it

2. You are confusing assertion and evidence

In order to be even remotely convincing, you would have to show that the risk/reward ratio of GoF is stacked against GoF. Right now, you're just aggressively telling us that it is.

You'll note that no matter how bad you demonstrate COVID to be, the opposition could (rightly!) claim that there are potentially worse diseases. And no matter how bad you postulate a future GoF-related outbreak might be, they could postulate a scenario in which humanity were saved by GoF.

This is a hard question. It's literally a philosophical one. I really wish you wouldn't be so snarky.
Apparently the "No verdict" might get declared a mistrial on 3 counts.

For those unaware John Carreyrou played a major role in exposing Holmes. His book is a good read: Bad Blood and host of Bad Blood: The Final Chapter

https://twitter.com/JohnCarreyrou/status/1478158063379042304

> And the judge will probably declare a mistrial as to the 3 counts they couldn’t reach consensus on.

> The 4 guilty counts are all investor counts. The investor conspiracy count and the counts relating to the hedge fund PFM, the ex Cravath attorney Mosley and the DeVos family.

EDIT: Mistrial only on those 3 counts which got no verdict, not the full trial. Also this is only if the Feds want to do it or now which will also depend upon how many years Holmes gets as well as if she just decides to plead guilty on those 3 charges.
This is a pretty common argument in fact, that places which lack copyright protections often have as much or more art. It's a very competitive endeavor no matter how low the stakes get.

Also the new business models adopted by those adapting to a lack of copyright may well involve more creative production. For example holding concerts instead of just selling reproductions.
Fasting right now for the first time in a while. I'm always surprised how my attention span increases and I get more done.
A $100 million wire transfer. Is this literally how people invest in start-ups, just wiring huge sums of money to someone they do not know , on a promise/hope.

that just seems so reckless on so many levels
> Everything is full of interesting sidebars, but sidebars like caveats just make for boring reading for someone who's presumably there for the title topic.

I've found that you can have the best of both worlds here and use footnotes for sidebar material. I love reading articles with footnotes (they can be funny and delightful at times) but if someone doesn’t, they can easily ignore them.
It looks like Balwani's trial is scheduled for next year - is there any reason why they would have the two trials so far apart? Is this common in cases such as these?