skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How exactly do you check if something is authentic? I can have a hundred Theranos-branded t-shirts, mugs, pens, diaries, socks and whatever else you want made and shipped to me in like 2 weeks.
Fake it all you want until your fakery harms innocent parties.
I'm genuinely surprised. I thought after seven days it would be deadlocked on everything, particularly being silicon valley, successful, beautiful woman, I just didn't have a lot of faith in the jury. I guess this is a very mixed verdict.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/01/14/elizabeth-holmes-ther...

> On Monday, U.S. Department of Justice attorneys responded. “Thousands of patients received unreliable blood tests, depriving them of money or property, placing their health at risk and, in many cases, causing actual harm,” prosecutors alleged in a filing in U.S. district court in San Jose.

Considering the vast weight of the harms she caused, in a "fair" retributive justice system, she would get far worse the sentences routinely doled out to typical criminals.

But the US "justice system" is hardly "fair".

Personally, I don't really believe in retributive justice. The light sentences afforded to privileged criminals bother me, but what bothers me more are the draconian sentences received by those of less privilege.
> Without dura, you use Ctrl-Z in your editor to get back to a good state.

Not quite sure how suspending my editor and returning to the shell would help ;)
Yea, in my area I think under 100 sqft and it has basically zero rules as long as it isn’t being hooked to electric or plumbing
Ask HN: Best data practices leaving a company
About to leave a startup on good terms, but still want to clean up behind me and reduce the amount of PII left floating around. Outside of the personal OneDrive (using the o365 stack), email, and a few product specific tools - anything else worth thinking about?

Nothing to hide and zero interest in being malicious - more and more I prefer to be tidy and leave less behind.
> Sugar. Is. Poison.

I always feel this is a gross oversimplification. There is nothing that isn't poision in sufficient quantities.
Who are those "white men"? Jews, italians, chinese? Where's the whiteness line drawn?
The 8 cups of coffee were brought to a police van that, presumably, had 8 cops huddled enduring one another inside. Anyway, 8 men probably dressed as cops.

Of course there is no way to know if they were actual London Metro police, or just bozos wearing cop uniforms. But, how much difference is there, really? It comes down to whether they still wore them a month later.

Impression was that the misinformation in the Yahoo piece was the reporter spicing up the story to make it seem more interesting.
I agree it shouldn't be forever. Maybe it should even be shorter. But I don't look at the market for original authorship of cultural works and think "wow, this a lucrative field to get into". Most authors are just barely getting by.
It will depend on if the prosecutor thinks it's worth it. Often it won't be if they already got a guilty on enough counts to add up.
So… just defrauding the rich investors, nothing on the people who’s blood she claimed to be testing.
Though it's a rather deep rabbit hole to get Tufte-style side notes [1]. Crafting Interpreters does it quite nicely [2].

[1]: https://www.gwern.net/Sidenotes

[2]: https://craftinginterpreters.com/statements-and-state.html
Jan 6th 2016 maybe
If you already bought a home then selling it and moving to a new one with the same price is extremely expensive, specially if the housing market increased its prices faster than your salary (which is true for almost all UK homes since the 2008 crisis).

Making it expensive for home owners to move constrains supply and raises house prices even more.
Will this be relevant in X years when cell based meat is cheaper and cuts off the low end of the market? I imagine high end will demand local so where does that leave industrial meat packers?
Digging this, but no love for the Apple IIGS GUI?
I haven't been following the trial closely, but I spent a bit of time skimming through some of the case documents a while back. The government's allegations included a bunch of supporting statements from doctors, who claimed that Theranos frequently gave their patients wildly inaccurate results. It sounds like they weren't able to convince the jury of Holmes' guilt on those charges.

(IIRC, Holmes' lawyers also made the argument that it was not legally possible for her to have committed wire fraud against the patients, because any money that Theranos received would have come from their insurance companies.)

Part of the difficulty is that the empirical data that would have proven how well (or poorly) the technology worked was allegedly stored in a proprietary, bespoke database. When Theranos was ordered to turn over the data to the feds for discovery, they delivered an encrypted copy, and then claimed that the encryption key was lost and the original disk arrays were unrecoverable. Both sides of the case then blamed each other for destroying the last remaining copy of the data, which made for some fun reading.
FYI: 1993 was just at the cusp of the "Internet Age". WWW dates back to 1989.
It’s Silicon.
I think it's about wire fraud because the prosecution was able to prove she had motive to commit fraud. Whereas with the patients, it seems, the jury believed she did not intend to cause fraud upon the patients.
Measuring the Capabilities of Quantum Computers
Whoops I was off. It's around 32 cents per KWH.
> It blows my mind that she was found guilty for defrauding investors, but not guilty for defrauding patients about their test results.

Not excusing it, but maybe it was a company vs personal thing (eg. consumer harm perhaps didn't pierce the corporate veil[1]). Whereas Fraud against investors is much more of a personal/individual thing.

[1]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/piercing_the_corporate_veil
It looks like there is some effort to port Swift to Windows: https://developer-tech.com/news/2020/sep/23/hey-swift-develo...

So you maybe able to write for MacOS for now and build Windows version later, if you validate demand and Swift support on Windows matures.
If the prosecution decides to pursue it. They may very well decide that finding her guilty on 4 of 11 counts sends a strong enough message.
The author actually mentioned those two theory several paragraphs down in the article.

However, this actually made the article less credible to me, as this make me feel the article's purpose is to build a narrative and try to discredit everyone else, not to fairly evaluate all theories equally.

One thing I have been feeling about internet is there are too many experts on it, so one can always find enough quotes that support ones theory. However, as a reader, it's become impossible to determine whether particular expert should be trusted.
The problem I see is that at some point you will try to decide whether it's currently Christmas or not. That's when things start falling apart.
Oh i definitely agree. But it just means when someone finally does find a way to effectively compete they won't know what hit them.
Not an expert, but I believe no verdict usually means "not guilty but the prosecutor can try again if they want to".

Considering she was found guilty on 4, it's not obvious that they will bother.
Joplin:

- Encryption built-in

- Markdown notes

- Good searching UI

- Editing on mobile needs improvement, but there is an active community working on it.
Lazarus / LCL. It is cross-platform, lightweight (more lightweight than Qt since it uses native widgets), can be used for commercial purpose, and is fast to compile.

The limitation is mainly that the widgets are limited. For example, comctl32.dll hasn't got new widgets since Windows xp. So depending on your needs, it might fit perfectly, or lack some features and that's going to be painful.

The Pascal language will feel outdated. But you don't have to do everything using it. You can, for example, write the non-UI logic in other languages and then glue them using dynamic libraries.
> Unfortunately, steering commands are not accepted after 6 minutes of continuous operation or below 50 km/h.

is this for safety or does the duty cycle of this require some off-time for cooling or whatever?
Do you really believe this, or was that just a bit of casual and implicit racism to go with your fear mongering? Also, you are aware that pretty much all available evidence so far shows Omicron to indeed be extremely mild, in symptoms little different from a mild flu or a heavier cold?

If you've vaccinated yourself and ensured that your loved ones are in the same boat, its absurd to want to strong arm those who decide not to repeatedly vaccinate for their own personal choice. For one thing, they won't directly affect you. Secondly, at this early stage, how can you be sure that the vaccines themselves won't cause their own long-term consequences that cause you as a vaccine proponent to be in the wrong about good public health?

Live your own life, paranoid or not, but let others make their own choices, especially if they're young. Virtually nobody is lacking for a vaccination option if they're really worried about contact with the unvaxxed.
Because someone says "I'll invest $100,000,000" and it's not evenly divisible by the share price.
> Okay, so if Jason Momoa was the one who auditioned best for T'Challah you would say that's a good casting?

I would say Black Panther is a story about blackness. The blackness of the main character is kind of the point of the whole thing, it’s even in the title. This is not true for the Nilfgaardians. There is no race component here to that story, so why does race need to be explained? Why don’t any other characters have to explain what makes them unique from the rest?

There is a parallel here I would like to draw. Growing up my class was all white, except one black kid. In a whole school of almost 1000 kids. I noticed he had to justify his existence a lot. People would ask him why he was there — as if he was lost or something. He was there because he lived in our community, and that’s really all there is to it. Nevertheless he had to have a reason to be at the school, while none of us did. It wasn’t enough for him to just exist.
Judge cuts $2B verdict against Bayer to $86M (2019)
The picture of the back of the remote tells a thousand words.
This thread is the most interested anyone has ever been in this stuff, I'll have to consider some sort of catalog as the collection grows, not a bad idea.
I recall in an interview Peterson saying their hiring process to look for "insecure overachievers", maybe they have a way of screening for that? I never really understood what that looked like in practice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjUs7o-TnjY&t=1365s
This is Alina Chan, one of the co-authors of Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19.

In defense of a natural origin of Omicron, this study describes the remarkable evolution of SARS-CoV-2 during convalescent plasma treatment of an immunosuppressed patient for 3-4 months; the mutations also reduced sensitivity to neutralizing antibodies: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03291-y

We know that there is a large immunocompromised population in Africa and that Covid-19 is rampant there. We also know that most hospitals, regardless of country, don't have the resources to track the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in their immunocompromised patients. So it's not unexpected that a variant like Omicron could have evolved over an entire year in an immunocompromised individual before finally infecting others.

If there is any evidence that a lab in the region was serially passaging SARS-CoV-2 in neutralizing antibodies/patient serum, then I'd say there is something to go on for a potential lab origin. But at the moment, there is not even circumstantial evidence pointing to this happening in Africa. Maybe setting up a secure channel for whistleblowers with evidence of the above would be the most productive approach.

The above is not to say that I don't think there needs to be much more transparency and accountability from scientists working with pathogens.
https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1468582694007279616
You aren’t entitled to simply reprint or republish someone else’s work for profit but copyright is blocking derivative and reinterpreted works from entering the public domain.

Take Cinderella. Place her in the Wild West. Make her lose a cowboy boot at a village fete. But retain the names from the original so this heroine Cinderella. Clearly derivative, right? Also violative of Disney’s rights to Cinderella’s name and likeness.

What copyright blocks (in this instance) is our ability to start from a common source of understanding - naif with evil stepmom rescued by hot prince - to extend the story in random directions.

This block should not last in perpetuity is what many of us are saying.

In software, this would be akin to preventing forking.
Not sure if it was obvious to you, but years after reading the novel I found out it’s not just a ‘magical metal’, it exists and is/was used in aircraft construction.

I’d just never heard of it before.
It's usually against the style of news orgs like the NYT to guess at things like that, or go from general knowledge that may or may not apply.
Author chooses unpopular keyword, writes an article about it, ranks for it within a week.

Proceeds to blablabla about SEO.

Nothing to see here. Author says as much:

## What To Expect From This Method

Expect very little.
> and the real authors' influences and creativity would be extremely apparent in the character.

Is this true? The character of Phil Coulson is exactly this kind of character--created by the studio--and now a "mainstay" (if not a "VIP") of the MCU.

from wikipedia:

> Agent Phil Coulson was created by Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, Art Marcum and Matt Holloway for Iron Man, the first feature film in the MCU.
A blog post full of wild speculation, whose main sources appear to be a bunch of Twitter threads. Have we not learned anything in the past two years?
She wasn't being tried on the technology. The technology had failed, the issue is she knew it didn't work and told people it did to get their money. If the technology worked then even if the business failed with huge losses, there was no fraud.

The presumption of innocence in this case, is that she did not mislead Investors.
Totally! I don't think I've ever turned down a request to help someone. But in this case he basically admitted that he kind of lied to me so that he could get my advice, while asking for my advice. Bleh.
I was under the impression that it was set for February of _this_ year (2022) per [1]?

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-14/balwani-s...
Yeah, except she defrauded rich people.

Look at the people who went to jail following the housing collapse vs the madoff ponzi scheme

Depressingly that seems to be the primary factor in such cases.
I never knew this was a thing, but now that I do...I want in!
Long division.
> BTW, I completely disagree with the article’s framing of “first order” and “second order”. They are reversed, as a persuasive tactic, but incorrectly so.

The article is not speaking about the first order benefit of the work being created originally… it is talking about from the perspective of piracy… piracy advocates always make the argument “well the creator doesn’t lose any money when I download the movie, and I get to watch a movie… I win and no one loses, how can that be bad?”

The article is trying to point out that the counterpoint to that is that yes, for the particular work you are downloading that might be true (no one loses and you gain), the second order effect of piracy might be a reduction in creative works being produced.

So what is first order vs second depends on what you are talking about… the creation of the work or the copying. I think it is useful to frame it this way because piracy advocates always start their argument from the work already existing.
She strikes me as the cute blonde version of Orson Welles in The Third Man...
This should be un-flagged. It's an interesting detailed write-up, worth to investigate further to say the least.
Question: could Holmes have avoided all of this by pivoting to something else and not losing investors money. It is extremely common for startups to exaggerate their tech just to later pivot to something else without any repercussions.
That's a work of art. It works recursively and windows can be pinned, expanded, or closed. You are free to go down the rabbit hole as far as you like and exiting the rabbit hole is a mere cursor movement away.
A Vermeer painting was recently restored, and it went beyond the normal "make it look brand new": restorers removed paint layers that we've learned were someone painting over a part of Vermeer's original work to hide it. The painting now on display shows something markedly different from how centuries of viewers have seen it.

https://hyperallergic.com/672345/vermeer-restoration-finally...
Copyright and patents need competing mechanisms which derive and attribute the value of an idea based on their use, as opposed to their availability.

Their current incantations incentivise conjuring artificial scarcity in order to fit the incumbent sociopathic and monotheistic economic religion of our time.

I see no reason alternative systems shouldn’t be invoked which incentivise realising the communal value from how far and often an idea is used. They could exist along side what currently exists, with competitive and cooperative relational dependencies established as needs arise.
They'll try to find a way to stay relevant
This post had 40 points within 20 minutes, which is the reading time of the article at 200 WPM plus a minute or two for figures. How many of those upvotes were from people who didn't read or who skimmed the article?
I think piracy still sounds like the most reasonable counter measure to such inability to roll back this insane term length, caused by legal system dysfunction. If everyone will just ignore that term, it won't matter anymore.
I prefer SillyCon
It has been definitively admitted. Now we see the vultures tearing this fraudster apart and you what?

That is good, and it is absolutely magnificent.

Since many have gotten away with it, She is now the first of many that have been caught and need to be investigated and the other exit scams of this decade to be unveiled before the scammers race to the exit with a mountain of cash.

So who is next?
Lithium is an element. Functionally, it is limited. Theoretically, one could manufacture it through fusion.
> I see nothing here to convince me that Omicron is a lab leak as opposed to an animal reservoir

The majority of the the piece goes to arguing exactly that. What's the counter?
Saying she'll get off because she's white, a woman, and rich is like saying your car stalled because your tires were low, you had groceries in the back seat, and your engine hadn't had its oil changed in 18 years.

That make more sense?

Edit: I'm saying being white and being a woman helps, but being rich helps such an astronomically huge amount more emphasizing anything else feels less like informing and more like baiting.

Not sure how that wasn't crazy clear.
Altered Carbon is good
Reads to me like "being rich only helps if the people on the other side are materially less rich".

edit: wow, reading gp's "clarification" below, I was way off
I think that's the key point here. Was Jucero fraud? I think there's a clear line between a) we have an idea for a product but we have certain limitations that are feasible to overcome, with more time and investment; versus b) we have a product, we're using it in the field, patients are using it, and it works great. In the first scenario, you could fake the dream but you're not promising something that you know to be absolutely false.
A Theranos memorabilia pump and dump scheme would be quite something.
NAL, but I believe the prosecution would need to prove damages.

If, like you said, the patients still got their results, the results were correct, and it was only how those results were obtained that lead to the patient fraud charges, then I think you maybe correct.

Again, I'm not a lawyer, so people should feel free to correct me if what I said was wrong.
Technically 20 years per count, but realistically not too many. White collar crimes are anyways not punished very strictly, and she's a new mother on top of that. She'll negotiate a short term at some country club prison.
Agree. There seems to be a lot more articles praising how awesome Lisp is than there is awesome code developed with Lisp.
I disagree. It is relevant, and not lowering level of discourse. Animal models are both very useful and very limited. There is no way to 'adjust' them into such a perfect proxy that the model is irrelevant. You can do better, but at the end of the day the most important adjustment to make is to keep in mind that it is in fact... in mice.

While "... in mice!" can get a little jokey at times, the alternative is often a discussion that more or less assumes that the smallest of effects in any model are directly actionable information for the readers. It's not. Even with human studies, a single study is rarely enough to come to strong conclusions.

In an ideal world, sure, it's just a repetition of facts everybody knows because everybody read and understood the article before engaging in the discussion at all (even just reading). But that's unrealistic on multiple fronts.

Until that's a reasonable assumption, I'm more than happy to see some reminders of important facts in the comments. Even if it spawns the occasional joke.
"Omicron could have evolved over an entire year in an immunocompromised individual before finally infecting others"

Is it likely that this infected person would not have started any detectable cluster this whole time? How do you explain the ratio of functional vs silent mutations?
There's nothing hysterical about the article. Nor do they encourage the reader to conclude they should "be mad at a scientist/science in general". In fact they explicitly encourage the reader to believe and engage with scientists; just, you know, the ones that don't have obvious conflicts of interest around virology and specifically GoF research, who have been some of the most visible and vocal in speaking out against the Lab Leak theory. Also there's a clear call to action, which is to stop GoF research. Did you even read tfa?
If the person can't tell the difference between "dumbing down" and communicating appropriately for the audience in order to get their message across then I think the process ending in "no hire" is working fine.

There's no level above which this stops being important. If anything, it only increases as you go up.
So much so that there are no primary lead smelters left in the US (that relatively small amount in imported).
Ask HN: What should the next web search engine be like
It's hard for us web search engine builders to ever become finished with our MVP because you guys keep moving the goal post.

First you were like, hey, stop with this semantic search, it sucks. Then you were like, hello, verbatim by default, yo. Then you were like hey, don't track me, bruh. Then, what's up with all these ads, bruh? Then you complained about poor search results. Then reviews become very, very important. Who can you trust? Then you wanted an SEO proofed web search engine. What's canon? Then you realized you wanted to be able to exclude certain domains from your results, because you know who to trust. Also, it must be FOSS!

Is there anything else that I've missed? Me and probably also all of my fellow web search engine builders out there who do this backed with money or as a side show would sure like to know.

If we can decide in scope, please, that'd be great. Then you'll start to see super focused contenders popping up on Show HN in no time that mean business. Let's stop complaining and let's do something about search!

Scope freeze after this meeting.
JLaw?
This and the generally uncharitable readings is a rather depressing reminder that HN is not at all immune to information warfare.