skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read, had a bunch things to argue about, and came back to find it flagged. IMO it's a terrible blog post and I regret reading it. But man, the flagging was... fast.
Apple could replace the default on the iPhone and few would care.
"test results where in general correctish"

"we gave you treatmemt for wrong type of cancer, close enought!"
I just checked, it looks like there is a VSCode plugin that does this: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=xyz.loca...

Repo here: https://github.com/zabel-xyz/local-history

Doesn't appear to mark checkpoints with metadata, though (test failed/passed, etc.).
Oh man, my whole family is nuts on figs. My grandfather, my parents, and I each have a fig tree in our respective backyards. Every year we compare, but you can't beat my grandfather... His figs are the biggest I've ever seen! And no special tools/chemicals, just old-school gardening.

I think the tree I have is a ficus carica. I could be wrong. Lovely purple figs.

The way I eat them is by pulling them apart first. In my whole life I've never seen a wasp inside. So if one did get stuck in there, clearly the fig is just absorbing it out of existence anyway.
I feel like John Carreyrou deserves a medal for exposing the entire scam. First in WSJ articles and then in his book, which is a great read. It's incredible how much trouble this caused for him when Theranos tried to fight him.

Who knows how long the scam would have continued without him, and how many more people would have gotten bogus test results.

If Tiger Woods can get a presidential medal of freedom for playing golf, it seems like it's the least they could do for Carreyrou.
Click ...

You'll get a dialog box with a Cached button, at least on some pages/sites.

Eg site:news.ycombinator.com hacker news

I had better luck on desktop than on mobile.
It currently costs €69.

https://freedombox.org/buy/
But what is "your own server"? Yeah I host my personal site on my raspberry pi, but most people aren't going to do that. They're going to host on a server owned by a company with public stock.
'In journalism, a hack writer is deemed to operate as a "mercenary" or "pen for hire", expressing their client's political opinions in pamphlets or newspaper articles'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_writer
The Nature article you mention says, "These data reveal strong selection on SARS-CoV-2 during convalescent plasma therapy, which is associated with the emergence of viral variants that show evidence of reduced susceptibility to neutralizing antibodies in immunosuppressed individuals."

Fair enough. So is the hypothesis that this immune compromised person in SA was given a lot of antibodies over a long period of time, creating enough evolutionary pressure to create highly mutated forms of the virus? Such a person might end up with a highly mutated virus that is resistant to existing antibodies. Fair enough.

That explains one of the four weirdnesses, and leaves three unexplained. Where are all the missing silent mutations (Weirdness 2)? If someone is followed medically and receiving all these treatments, did no one around them ever get sick with an intermediate variant? (Weirdness 1)? And what about the mouse-related mutations? (Weirdness 4) Did the viruses in the immune compromised person develop those mouse-related mutations independently?

I find the "immune compromised person" hypothesis not a very parsimonious or compelling one, although if you can steelman it further, I'm all ears.
what's the relevance of those amendments? are you misreading the right to confrontation?
From what I saw from the trial, no one did any real diligence at all, except the people who testified they didn't invest because they did diligence. The Devos family office testimony was.... laughable, what a joke, they basically just went off what everyone else said, and that has primarily been my experience in startup. If big names are involved, people almost ALWAYS do the diligence they want to do so that you pass, not so that you fail.

tbqh, I came away from the trial really feeling like the investors who testified against her deserved what they got because of how they approached the situation. IMO Elizabeth Holms isn't some mastermind manipulator, she's more akin to a child who was enabled by moronic parents.
What about this? https://twitter.com/davetroy/status/1478017698676228099
Thank you for visiting HN, Alina! And I agree, natural evolution seems to make more sense. It's natural to wonder about lab-driven adaptation before COVID was unleashed on the human race... but once it had the entire human race to run its own "gain-of-function experiments", a lab hardly seems necessary anymore.

The only question is why we didn't observe some steps on the way. And as you say, poorly monitored infections of the immunocompromised can easily explain this. It hardly seems necessary to posit nefarious secret labs when COVID is constantly spreading among billions of people, a significant fraction of whom are immunocompromised and chronically infected in minimally monitored areas.
It terms of television (which isn't all there is to CBC, I realize) CBC isn't delivering any service to you, if you don't subscribe to some expensive service from a cable TV monopolist (that they are in bed with). They have no qualms about helping themselves to a piece of your income, though.
Is this pedantic correction as in you would not comment had I said "most" of the time or do you mean to imply it is rare/uncommon/ unusual for startups to do so ?
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Doesn't litography use some pretty wild chemicals. Like Chlorine Trifloride? Thing that when burned emits hydrochloric acid and hydrofluoric acid. Aka thing that burns ashes. Again.

I assume making those machines is pretty crazy as well.
No, I bitch at those people too.
> zero-calorie sweeteners

What about the idea that sweeteners cause insulin resistance? Is there any proper (not funded by the sugar industry) research either way?
That's the state right now with almost all of the population vaccinated.

I don't think it's for the best, it ignores any other medical conditions and offers no way to double check a result that could come from a dodgy test center.
Tagging so I can read about EB5 and come back later. But at first glance, and with my limited experience in tech as a founder & VP, 500k sounds far too little for 10 FTE for 2 years.

Edit -- I'm sure you've looked into it more than I have, but according to the link below, I'm seeing minimum amount for TEA of 900k if filed after Nov 2019?

https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/permanent...
> Inflation incentivizes investment

Inflation induces investment and consumption. Ultimately, central bank wants to create GDP growth through inflation because any GDP growth is good, that's the basic dogma.

Since we're talking about climate change, it's clearly morally wrong for the central bank to print money to create arbitrary GDP growth because GDP growth creates emissions and furthers climate change. It's a deathtrap really, and the most sinister mechanism ever created. We should probably ban it along with Bitcoin.
Why do people insist on reinventing it when FAAMG works just fine? Also makes no sense to keep Google (Alphabet) but swap out Facebook (Meta).
I'm not sure what you mean by your "caloric needs" being so high that you cannot possibly meet them with a meal made in 20 minutes. You could eat a stick of butter in 5 minutes. No sugar. Plenty of calories. In fact, that's exactly what some thru hikers do. If you really require a vast amount of calories, this is solved by eating fat, which you could get in oils, nuts, seeds, butter, cheese and processed meats - all of which require zero cooking time.

If you don't like the taste of any vegetables, or noodles, or porridge/oatmeal, or bread, or fruit, or stir-fried meat, or anything that does not require being stewed or baked or smoked for several hours... then just say so. But then that's a personal preference for the type of food you choose to eat - it doesn't mean that it takes "so much time" to cook nutritional, varied and delicious food. It's fine if you only enjoy a very limited set of foods, but I suspect most people have a broader palate.
Taking note: parallel crimes are more efficient than serial crimes.
Also, traditional automakers have full lines (sometimes multiple) of different models. Each with its own refresh cadence. And each which then needs to be supported long into the future. (Yes, there are some common platforms)

I'd say Tesla ignored that future debt, but I think it's more nuanced. I'd hazard they made a wilfull decision that the relative simplicity of electric cars will allow them to avoid a maintenance nightmare down the road by simply replacing whole components (a la Apple).

We'll see how it turns out.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, yes. But take another look at the phylogenetic tree. Those are huge gaps. See also this article describing how good South Africa is at spotting and sequencing variants."The reality is that southern Africa is a top international powerhouse of COVID-19 surveillance."
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-southern-africa-detected...
While I totally agree about not collecting as an investment, "because you really enjoy the objects as a person who likes this stuff" is probably not actually a terrible metric for future desirability of an item in a niche area of collecting. Other fans/collectors likely feel the same. Of course, it doesn't tell you if that niche will die out and no one will want anything, although I suspect rare books are less at risk of that.

As a collector of memorabilia for a band that's been around a while: The items I was drawn to, either because I just loved the look or because they were from a show/tour/album I particularly found special, have often turned out to be the ones that have appreciated much more in value than the average thing of that level of rarity for the band.
In one sense you are correct, just because investors are knowingly making speculative investments, that doesn't make it OK to defraud them.

On the other hand, perhaps the argument was that investors know there's a risk and know they should be skeptical. It would be unreasonable to expect patients requesting a blood test to be suspicious and question the results.
Same here. I’ve worked remotely for more than 20 years, and would never put up with anything like that.
What would be the small web equivalent of "greenwashing" (when a company talks up how green a product is as a sales pitch)?

It's a bit like rules for being a punk rocker, no?
I think most of the start up proposals are more “here is what we do, where we’re going to go and how”.

They may have nothing / not much yet… but you know that investing and generally their products are very “doable”. Online focused cleaning service for example… it’s a crud app, maybe they don’t get users and fail, but the service was doable.

Theranos claimed to already do the magic thing with blood (many tests with very little blood) that they simply could not do and never did.

Big difference is Theranos lied about what the could do. Rando start up who is honest that they don’t yet do the thing, no big deal.

You can take money and have nothing… fail, but if you’re honest it’s not fraud.
They can do it but not instantly. This is similar to any other account, if you close your checking account but someone cashes one of your checks you're on the hook, if you return your rental car but there's highway fees they'll charge you, if you order food from Seamless but requested extra guacamole in a comment they'll add it to the initial bill, ...

Likewise here if your EC2 takes a little while to stop, or if S3 is a little behind in adding up your bandwidth usage, or if the billing for any other of the myriad of AWS products is not quite real-time, I don't see why that would be illegal. Expecting that an accurate statement can be presented within a few seconds of clicking "close account" and guaranteed to be exact just because they are "online services" is a little peculiar.
Is there a reason to assume the ability to ramp up in WW2 has any bearing on the ability to ramp up an operation like ASML today?

You cannot just throw any bodies at a problem like creating ASML. You have to throw very specific bodies with each one having at least a decade or more of very specific expertise (it seems like, based on the comments and articles I have read). That is just ASML, not even getting into the deep expertise TSMC must need to execute, or even Apple in designing.

Knowledge itself has expanded tremendously since WW2 such that to be top of the field in WW2 required much less time than to be top of the field today.
It’s a simple matter of embedding videos in html5. You don’t even need JavaScript. You have no right to free bandwidth.

And that’s still not starving you.
If you added those names to elicit more sympathy for the defrauded investors, you're not exactly succeeding so far. You could throw in Henry Kissinger as well, and I still wouldn't feel particularly sorry for them…
She, and yes, she does need to go back over that sentence and clarify it, because it does read that way.
It seems very dangerous to diagnose as such. Perhaps someone gets depressed every three months near end of quarter when their hours get cut?

Once someone demonstrably has issues with mania, yes, sure, I understand wanting to prevent it, but in a lot of cases I see very little separation from actual mania and "I felt good one day" (which if someone were depressed may feel very weird).

There's also strong arguments that one or two manic or hypomanic episodes are not enough evidence for a bipolar diagnosis.
Happen to own a juicero? Its a dream to have that on a shelf one day.
More simply, I don't think people tend to remain infected (and infectious) for a whole year (not saying they can't just that this seems a farcical assumption)

Yeah I agree with the going undetected too unless they're potentially asymptomatic (in which case why should we ever expect to find/treat them).

All leading to the same response of you can't control highly transmissible virus(vurii) once they have infected a large amount of the population. (aka a 0 covid strategy is self-defeating)
You have no constitutional right to network effects or bandwidth. Pay for a server and no one can ban you like that.
I would be 100% against it if they weren’t allowed to be on the net at all, but thats not this.

Consider this: is google allowed to just shut off YouTube if they want? Or are they required to keep it up for ever so you can use it as a platform?
I agree, also most people have finite and limited disposable income, no matter want/need most people can only consume so many items especially when prices are increasing.
Trevor Milton better be scared. His was a bigger fraud
Didn’t the FDA approve her tests…

Yup - https://www.businessinsider.com/theranos-gets-fda-approval-2...
Not a series, but Extraction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraction_(2020_film)
> No, what happened is that the publishing industry lost their monopoly. They could no longer extract monopoly rents from advertisers.

Publishing was not a monopoly. Google/FB are a duopoly. If publishers capture rent from advertisers, they plow it back into content, aka the thing consumers actually want. If Google/FB capture rent, they don’t provide a living wage to content creators and plow the money into buying other startups and whatever “metaverse” is.
"More than 10 years would be utterly barbaric." False.

65 years in prison would be a fair sentence for her. Homeless people in America have been sentenced to over 15 years in prison for stealing $100. Holmes stole an order of magnitude more than that. The US justice system needs to send a clear message to the would-be fraudsters that there are indeed some very serious penalties for being a criminal in this society.
- China's economy grows 18.3% in post-Covid comeback [0]

- New cases January 1st, all of China: 191 [1]

With luck like this, they’ll never need to go to war.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56768663

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=covid+rates+in+China
If a site like Reddit gets started by creating nonexistent or sock-puppet users, for instance, that's hardly on the same level as falsifying medical tests "just until we get the bugs sorted out."
Incredible how quickly Facebook TV and YouTube TV have been forgotten
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The negative number is telling me that people don't like facts, or even just the statement of facts without value judgment, and just like to engage in identity politics and judgment even when politics is unnecessary.
> ignoring ucode

Which you can’t anymore, because in modern CISC CPUs it is no longer microcode in the original sense but rather machine code for an internal RISC processor. Also, some hardware parts are built using FPGAs. (Basically, we might as well call the Java VM “bare metal.”)
>I can't think of anyone who hates Amazon the service

I don't like the destruction of smaller companies. Why go with a smaller company who is going to charge more for the product, quite probably charge for shipping, all while taking longer with the shipping?
There’s a lot of ideology in that article that I find appealing… but then they tie it to specific tech in a way that doesn’t make sense.
Underrated comment. The investors were investing in her because she was willing to take the risk of move fast and break things (where things in this case is the diagnostic accuracy of blood tests). She got nailed, ironically, not for hurting patients, but instead for harming the egos of the investors.

As a participant in the startup investment world you are willing
Participant of SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF. This is roughly equivalent speak for REALITY DISTORTION FIELD. The point is you as an investor are a willing participant in believing that something more is possible than what has already been achieved.

If you're a founder: you should be worried about being held to a legal standard of the representations and warranties. That section is in every share purchase agreement and it's the stuff that gets you sued. And sometimes, like in this case, it's WIRE FRAUD and it's criminal. Crazy. We need another section to replace REPS AND WARRANTIES.
Good! Now indict the board members and the Stanford professor-consultants.
You know, expertise does not grow on trees. It was not an accident the manhattan project and moon landings were led by specialists from Germany.

You can't suddenly create experts by throwing money at random business people.
At least in the last few months, at-home tests have been available to replicate lab results, and they seem to be consistent.
Let us know when you find it!
The tissue encasing the brain is called "dura mater" - Latin for "tough mother".

Apparently it left quite an impression on early anatomists/neurosurgeons.
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Debian’s approach to Rust – Dependency handling
> absence of samples showing the step-by-step evolution

Sounds much like the "missing link" gotcha that creationists loved to deploy.
Like $120,000 after paying like $.30 for cloudfront for 10 months

It was pretty obviously uncharacteristic
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This explains why running a search engine on the original Google PageRank algorithm would not work as well today as it did back then.

But Google doesn’t run on PageRank anymore. PageRank is merely one of hundreds of signals they use to sort results.
Would love to give it a shot... but your website is running into CORS issues
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They claim the reviewers go in neutral, but I'm sorry, I just don't trust it. Thr fact that they only test a subset of products in a given competitive space alone makes this too tainted for my liking. (CR also doesn't hit every company in a space, but at least they're not incentivized to pick the ones that pay them.)
This post takes many screens of text to get to the point: we don't know how omicron evolved from its last known ancestor in Spring 2020 to November 2021, when it burst into the world stage. Ergo, lab leak.

It's a great deal of throat-clearing for a one-sentence argument from ignorance. Alina Chan has pointed to a more plausible alternative in this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29789480
Do you have any evidence of required expertiese existing in US, youbare only offering tautologies so far
Should have also mentioned what Region/Area/City you wanted to move to… that matters
This is great. I spent 30 minutes on Wikipedia reading about automotive design!
Mehul and Naveneet are as good as they come. Highly recommend.
True, but sad to say they still carry his opinion column.
Serious people on serious topics, journals, peer reviewed publications, non anonymous blogs, large email threads...

Almost anything other than a) social media and b) anonymous platforms
Yet, in the US, they make less per paid subscriber than Facebook does per free user. There's also 3 to 4 times the amount of said free users as there are of those paid users.

Netflix's first free-cash-flow positive year was 2020. A measly $2B, less than 10% of Facebook's (the least cash flowing FAAMG).

Netflix is a big company, but not in the same league as FAAMG.