skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Seems like a cheap shot to me. Does twitter as a communication medium somehow invalidate what was being said?

One quoted thread was from "Tony VanDongen, an associate professor of pharmacology and cancer biology at Duke"

Seems like a reasonably valid opinion from someone with a clue. He's addressing specifically why Omicron is weird, and doesn't look like a normal evolution of COVID-19.

Another is from "Scott Ferguson, a PhD in pharmaceutical sciences and a postdoc at the Harvard Center for Systems Biology".

3rd and 4th are: "Phillip Buckhaults, Ph.D., is a molecular biologist and cancer geneticist at the University of South Carolina" and "Valentin Bruttel, who received his PhD in 2016 at the University of Würzburg (Germany) where he studied tumor immunology, autoimmune diseases, and development of biologicals"

A key diagram used is a Phylogenetic Tree from Science.

Looks like a collection of valuable scientific info, collected to support an opinion. Not saying it proves COVID came from a lab leak, but it's not just random speculation. Seems like a pretty valuable discussion to me.

Wouldn't you want to know if a disease impacting billions of people looked inconsistent with a naturally evolved virus? The scientist involved mention possible other explanations, poor models, etc. But do seem to lean towards a likely explanation of artificially tweaks to get omicron.
> But everything else I saw for mugs and hats and t-shirts was in the $20-50 range.

Seems like plenty of new things not collectors items.
Seconded on no cost with at least Fidelity. They start having reporting requirements at $250K of assets. They are also something of a pain to close if you have multiple participants.
If only they had some kind of charge limiting on accounts like their customers have been asking for years now.
I am talking about the 1st/2nd order effects of the work being created, which I feel like has to be the assumption if we’re going to talk about making the world a better place. Assuming the work is already created and starting from the question of piracy kind-of undermines the idea of making the world a better place, doesn’t it?

I mentioned somewhere else, but Copyright Law already specifically rejects the claim that copying without permission is not hurting the creator. That claim doesn’t hold water when the pirate is enjoying the value of the work, and is ignoring the costs of it’s creation including time. Piracy advocates need to address the history and philosophy of copyright that’s already been debated and decided if the argument is to be taken seriously.

Short of piracy, I’m still left wondering how to decide copyright terms.
From former AUSA, and current white-collar defense attorney Ken White:

"She faces a max of 65 years (3x20 + 1x5). And it's not at all clear she'll do less than 20."

Apparently the sentences will not necessarily be served concurrently.

https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1478170494130003976?s=20
When you go shopping, only go on the outside aisles. Aside from the bread section, it allows you to avoid most of the bad stuff.
True, bike shops tend to hock one manufacturer. I still think reducing the SEO ‘reviews’ would create space for honest reviews though.
The real issue is that not everyone has 7 hours a day to think about their diet (or someone else to do that for them).

I tried this and after a month or two, I was burnt out and achieved much less of what I wanted to achieve outside of my diet. So yeah for me with my particular set of goals in life (ie: work, have a life, etc...) it's pretty impossible.

I know some people who eat the same healthy foods every day to simplify this, but this is a) not something a lot of people can tolerate, and b) not actually good for you in the long run.

Edit:

"7 hours???" No it's not literally 7 hours every single day. The point is that it takes a long time to find recipes, cook, clean, shop, etc. But go ahead and miss the point to fixate on a little detail if you want I guess

Edit 2:

Another thing to consider is that even 'fresh natural healthy non-GMO' ingredients are selectively bred to taste better, resulting in a higher sugar content. This has gotten to the point where it causes issues in zoos [1]

[1] https://www.smh.com.au/national/zoo-won-t-panda-to-taste-say...
While this is true, the go vs vDSO stack clash corruption highlights that a C ABI that doesn't specify stack usage is under defined. A platforms libc can be written such that it's aware of these limitations.
And exactly what damage was done, slightly less blood in the patient?
Airpods pro 2 could support lossless audio
The craving for sugar is so difficult to resist as well, and low sugar attractive food is hard to find. And as soon as you have to eat socially with a partner, friends, family etc it basically becomes impossible to avoid sugar because the only way to do it is basically handcraft your own diet.
Exactly! The outside edges have most of the healthy food: produce, meat, and dairy.
My understanding is they took much smaller samples of blood which lead to lots of reproducibility problems. The standard machines they were using were being fed with up-sampled blood because Theranos didn't have the normal sample size.

> People were getting good results because Theranos was using machines from Siemens in their hidden lab.

Thus the tests sometimes were good, and sometimes bad. Some patients underwent unnecessary medical treatments and procedures based on bad tests.
Unreal. Why are they so rare?
Practice sound risk management! I still have a coffee cup and a a garment bag that I bought for 10$
Based on a very quick reading, I think the most serious offense (the $100M one) would at least land in the 97-121 months bucket. If she serves half of that, best case for her is 4 years. Not too bad.
My intern job back in 2005 was to take Enron's wind turbine division's technical handbooks and scan them on large flat bed scanners. They were all stored in Tehachapi desert, flooded and with water damage. I found a bunch of cool stuff in these boxes including a binder containing Enron's branding assets and standards manual.
Also had a bad experience with their hiring (product role). In my case HR seemed very with it but everything after was awful. CTO particularly seemed disinterested and not sure why he was in the interview. Sr product person was a bad interviewer focused on getting 'the answer' to a Flexport specific case about freight forwarding / drayage that needed lots of domain specific knowledge to solve to her satisfaction. Culture at that time (~2016) seemed really sad. Nobody super excited about the space, their job ("we mostly just go home at night - we don't regularly socialize") or tech. All they seemed to be excited about was infinite TAM / equity appreciation and Ryan (and his dog(s)).
All the VCs should be held complicit as well.
Omicron Cases Are Hitting Highs, but New Data Puts End in Sight
Sure old process can be done,but the labor is high enough that you need to sell for more than 75. For simple stuff you still need well over 1000 each to make it worth it.. that is simple stuff. I know a few years back the government was paying around 60000 for Pentium level complexity chips (this was for a classified program so I doubt I was given full details)
Interesting take on economists being enablers of monopolies - I guess we have known for a long time that you can "economist shop" and get any conclusion you want from the dismal science if you ask enough economists and here is a classic example.

It's time the entire profession was demoted out of the policy levers of governments and placed with astrologers and other voodoo professions. A discipline that can't make accurate and reliable predictions is always going to be prone to conclusion jumping for pay and is worse than useless.
Cliche and boring, but video games.

My first foray into anything tangentially related to programming. Was figuring what the cryptic text files left on my desktop by RuneScape were (JVM stack dumps)

The next few years I really wanted to learn to make games. Interestingly, I never made any games, not really learned the programming languages I set out to, but I did learn the basics of programming, along with a ton of topical knowledge that has managed to be useless, but fun for talking about.
I get usually about 10-25% in Russian.
> correct me if I'm wrong

I don't even remotely have the expertise for that, if applicable others would have to do that. But thanks a lot for elaborating!
There was an explosion of street homelessness in Vancouver in 2020, with 400 some people eventually occupying a park.

Everyone was on /r/vancouver was like "where did all these people come from?!"

Well it's as you say. They were the "hidden homeless," couch surfing at their friends.

All of a sudden the pandemic hit and these publicly owned social housing apartments added new rules saying "no guests" and such, and suddenly boom, you see the real amount of homeless.
I am not a lawyer, this is just my rationale:

Holmes clearly lied to investors, and even if she may have "believed" in the long term prospects of her company, she also clearly intentionally lied to investors to get their money. The investors were also obviously harmed (they lost their money). Also, the fact that VCs expect a lot of their companies to fail is totally irrelevant. VCs (and more importantly, the law) also expect founders to tell the truth on simple statements of fact, e.g. "We recieved this much revenue" or "This machine can perform X, Y, Z tests now". Again, Holmes didn't just exaggerate or say "This machine can perform X, Y, Z tests in the future". She flat out lied about the current capabilities of her company.

With patients, most of the tests were done on standard equipment. I don't believe patients were ever told "we will test your blood on Edison", and more importantly, they probably wouldn't have cared that much - they just wanted their test results. So with the tests done on standard equipment, hard to argue there was much harm done there.

Now, some tests were done on Edison, and I know Walgreens invalidated a whole bunch of Theranos tests. But even then, it's harder to say Holmes intended to deceive in that case (a prerequisite for the fraud charge) - presumably they chose to run them on Edison and not the other equipment because they thought Edison could handle those tests. The fact that the lab was sloppy, the fact that Edison had issues, that in my mind wouldn't be enough to assert wire fraud on the part of Holmes. All in all it's just kind of hard to say that patients were really defrauded at all. If Theranos had instead just completely made up some of their test results, and Holmes directed that behavior, then yes, that would have been fraud against patients, but that's not what happened.
Home prices unlikely to drop in 2022
Would seriously love to hear about your most prized items in this shitco collection
Or just plain local real state:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29774075
Step one. Spend less time on social media.
Furthermore, the penalties for cyber crimes, and ability to track footprints are much more articulate and accessible for authorities in the US and UK for citizens that hack and abuse US & UK systems, which makes enforcement upon US and some EU hackers much more harsh/severe/less complex to enforce, and more likely to be apprehended... Many users in economically disadvantaged countries use older devices like PCs running older software, routers that don't allow Mac level reporting, and well past EOL cell phones that don't leave the kinds of footprints that modern devices do (on top of the well documented now legacy security measures they can take).
They were initially meant to be tried together, but Holmes' legal team requested a separate trial because part of their strategy was to portray her as abused and controlled by Balwani and shift the blame on him. His trial is to start a few weeks from now.
This is great, my wife actually thought it was me speaking for a moment when she first came in!
> Just out of curiosity, how does one prove provenance?

The same way they do it with art ... research.
It’s definitely not impossible to avoid. Or even difficult, once you’ve figured it out. But the cards really are stacked against people.
Now i just need one of these for reading. Every time i get ten pages into a book it’s like my brain has to pee.
Agreed 100%. I would love the opportunity to work 20 hrs a week with a reasonable hourly rate. I have a side business which has been getting neglected due to the mental (and time) demand of my fulltime job. If I had experience in Rails I'd jump on this but all my experience is in the .NET realm.
Arctic hunter-gatherers were advanced ironworkers more than 2k years ago
Most of those were likely never truly distributed specifically to employees in the first place. Reprint or print on demand swag is generally obvious with the white background. Look for real photos, especially in people’s homes.

In my totally arbitrary set of rules the item must have been available or given to employees only.

Here’s one I’d love to get my hands on if not for the price: https://www.ebay.com/itm/255014966170?hash=item3b6013939a:g:...
It links to a column on the Science website, and only to take a picture from it. The blog post doesn't discuss the scientific article that picture originally comes from or even he column that they link to. It uses the picture to say "omicron is weird" and jumps straight to speculation from twitter.

As for the news article from the Taiwan Times, it has nothing to do with omicron which is the main topic at hand.
It's really not. Its job is to sort the internet. Just returning whatever low-value crap is not useful.
> I might be wrong

I think you are: https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/21/22687026/theranos-patient...
I think it goes further than that, the point is that scientifically the tests could never have worked.

Carreyrou originally got tipped off by pathologists saying that this was impossible, then they got sued into oblivion (see thepathologyblawg).

(IANAP but this is my understanding)

Some real tests rely on having a huge blood sample (e.g. 100ml), being filtered (e.g. by centrifuge) and then a test of a known sensitivity applied.

Theranos claimed that their tests were more sensitive so could work with smaller samples. Statistically this doesn't work because with a finger-prick test (e.g. 1ml) the sample is 100x less likely to contain the target cells - cells are integers.

Additionally finger-prick tests contain only capillary blood - they're filtered by the finger blood vessels only allowing tiny cells - some of the Theranos tests claimed they could detect markers that only exist in arterial and venous blood.
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Anything that would allow a similar workflow in JetBrains IDEs?
I like that this is useful, if you use an android system on a bigger screen and cannot open multiple browsers. This gives you multitasking in such a scenario.

Github was a bit hard to find:
https://github.com/DustinBrett/daedalOS
Just to add to this, anything processed is generally not great for health. After going through a lot of gut issues and reading many articles and books here is what I understood..

Avoid things which...
* contains more than 3 components which you can't understand.
* your grandma doesn't recognise as food.
* comes in a plastic cover and doesn't degrade for a long time.

I know this pretty much eliminates the entire super market but if you go through what I have you will rethink everything you put in your mouth.
I've found I spend too much time on caveats and 'sidebars', which slows down my writing; the resulting text also gets too meandering and hard to follow, so I'll spend even longer trying to improve it; then it gets too dense; and so on.

The article's advice seems useful, so I may apply some of it to my growing mountain of 'unfinished' posts.

One thing I like to do is add HTML <details> elements for caveats or interesting tangents; these don't break up the main flow too much, their contents can be written pretty much separately from the main post, and they can be added/amended later if desired (e.g. if we find out something new and want to update an old post)
Anyone interested in FlexOS - an interesting operating system which seems to have been virtually forgotten - I have made a PDF of the 1991 Byte Magazine article on it:

https://github.com/bootrino/vintage_software/raw/master/1991...

It's a real time, multitasking, multiuser operating system from Digital Research.

It was protected mode and allowed the user to run DOS applications in protected mode.

It's weird how something like this got zero traction back in the day because features like this were way out on the cutting edge.
>> Investors know that every dollar they put into a company could disappear, it's why startups get capital from investors and not bank loans.

The above does not excuse fraud. Investors know their investments are risky, but that does not give you permission to deliberately lie or mislead, with an intent to deceive the potential investor.

For example, if you tell investors that you anticipate getting $50M in new contracts over the next year, well, assuming you mean it in good faith, that's not fraud even if it doesn't pan out or was delusional to begin with.

If you tell an investor you just signed a contract for $50M, in order to get them to invest, and that's a total lie, that's fraud. Whether or not the investor did appropriate due diligence to confirm that fact or not, it's still criminal.
> What Elizabeth did wasn't far from what many many many founders do

I'm not sure this is true. She told a lot of egregious lies to investors while trying to get money from them. She repeated those lies in the press and to anyone who questioned it. And I don't mean a lie like lying that your product is more effective than it is. I mean she told prospective investors about huge contracts with the defense department that did not exist. She told investors that her machines were being use in the battle field. These were lies that were never going to be true.
The fact that AWS has no way to limit billing seems insane to me. Your only recourse for an accidental (or malicious) overcharge is beg customer support. It's an incredible liability.
Your point about authors being compensated now for expected income from their works after their death is interesting. You allude to it above, but downthread, you also mention:

> If value can only be extracted while the author draws breath, the market provides much less reward --- for the author, in this lifetime.

I'm completely unaware of this practice! From the reading I've done about how authors get paid (typically for books), authors are paid royalties on sales. Sometimes they get an advance while the book is being written. Magazine/news writing is mostly contract work, unless the writer is employed by the publication, in which case they assign copyright with some author's rights to republish (sometimes).

The model you're suggesting is much more like the stock market: the current stock price is a function of the expected earnings in the future. If I'm following you correctly, you're suggesting that a substantial portion of authors have contracts structured so that they will be paid now for earnings that are predicted to occur, potentially decades in the future. I tried to validate this by reading Author's Guild articles, Cory Doctorow's descriptions of how he sees the industry, and a few other sites that I'm less familiar with, but I wasn't able to. Is Neal Stephenson being paid for copies of Cryptonomicon that haven't yet been sold? If so, I'm astonished. Perhaps you're referring to large advances for well-established authors? That could certainly qualify, but I suspect it only applies to a few authors.

I'm a copyright term minimalist, because when I read through how writers are getting paid (median annual income 2017: $6k, down 42% from 2009)[0], I don't see a problem with the terms of copyright. I see a problem with exposure (Tim O'Reilly's famous "you can't monetize obscurity"), I see a problem with market dominance by Amazon, and I see a problem with publishing houses cutting bad deals to many writers:

> ...the Guild cited the growing dominance of Amazon over the marketplace, lower royalties and advances for mid-list books (which publishers report comes from losses they are forced to pass on), including the extremely low royalties paid on the increasing number of deeply discounted sales and the 25 percent of net ebook royalty. The blockbuster mentality of publishers who grant celebrity writers massive advances and markets them wildly at the expense of the working writers is also certainly a factor.

In fact, copyright is never even mentioned as an issue. It would be a real coincidence of the Disney-fueled Mickey Mouse copyright extensions got it exactly right; I suspect 14/28 years was much closer to the optimal value. But perhaps I'm wrong! I'm very interested in this particular fence, why it was built this way, and how it can be made better.

[0]: https://www.authorsguild.org/industry-advocacy/authors-guild...
A viewer request function can, of course, be used to modify the request before it is sent to the origin. The difference is only related to caching — viewer request happens before the cache lookup, origin request happens after the cache lookup when CF has decided to make an origin request.

For the stated purpose, either function is fine:

With Lambda@Edge you'd use origin request if you were caching these paths, because your function would be called less often so your costs would be lower.

With CF Functions you can only do the pre-cache-lookup modification, so it will be called for every request, but the cost is much lower than Lambda@Edge so it may not matter, and maybe you were not caching these paths anyway in which case it's virtually identical.
I shutdown the credit card i was using. They're intentionally making it hard and I decided it was less work to update payment methods on everything else.
I made a small project that collect text content from the browser using userscript, and perform search locally

https://github.com/beenotung/personal-search-engine
Presumably still has the shares and the paid tax bill on them, so hardly “out $300K” any more than they’d be “out $300K” if they bought $300K of $AAPL.

83b election is good advice, though, especially for very early stage (low strike price) companies.
Patients were affected by inaccurate results: https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/21/22687026/theranos-patient...