skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was pretty strong evidence she defrauded investors, lots of hard evidence of her making claims that we now know aren't true. I haven't heard much strong evidence that she intentionally defrauded patients though. I think it is totally possible that she lied to investors about Theranos's capabilities (ex. How many tests they could run), while still thinking that the tests they were running were accurate.
Well since Canada is kinda UK "Lite" could we be considered? I'm really awesome and I'm sure there are others just like me that you could benefit from!
Love that seek bar where it shows a visual preview
Really? You want to do some research on, e.g. covid and you think it's best to just uniformly sample every idiot opinion across the internet?
You tried spending 7 hours a day thinking about your diet?

Also what do you mean by ‘have a life’? Doesn’t that just mean diet is a lower priority than other things?

If you really don’t have much time, one approach is to improve your diet incrementally. Switch out cereal for oatmeal and fruit. Make another improvement next month. Keep doing this and in a year or so you’ll have a great diet.
7 hours a day? Why strawman so hard
Fuck Toyota. Toyota brought us the fine innovation: “pay every month for remote start to keep working”. I want nothing to do with their product or software decisions. They’re in the penalty box for the foreseeable future.
Lambda or EKS with Fargate would be good for spiky/bursty workloads. Lambda you wouldn’t even have to deal with AV.
> You made profits off the prints for 20 years, and the state enforced those rights. You didn't pay for them, at most you paid a token fee to register the copyrights.

That's a very idealized version. You most likely did pay taxes on any income made and you payed a lawyer to enforce your right, if necessary. The only thing the state did was to write those laws down once and offer a judge and jury, in case of a violation.

Also, you didn't pay for any of your other rights. I don't see why copyright should be special in that regard.

I'm fine with 20 years, but that argument in particular is rather weak.
Today I learned: EUV stands for Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography.
I laughed out loud when I got to the "...and that's why we're pushing a new javascript framework" bit.

JS is the asphalt for the race-to-the-bottom of frontend fashion and maximizing engagements, i.e. "The Big Web". It is not required for small, functional websites, and indeed tends to make them less small and less functional/maintainable.
I have a good collection of old science books. One of my favorites is called "The Perfect Woman", publish in 1896, and it is a manual for women. It's precisely as horrifying and unintentionally hilarious as you would expect. But mostly I collect early editions of my favorite stories, or occasionally limited editions like from Subterranean Press. And no, I have not seen The Booksellers. I got into this because as a kid I'd buy a lot of books from our neighborhood used book dealer, mostly cheap science fiction paperbacks. I've tried ebooks a couple of times, and I just don't like them. I wish I did because it's highly convenient. But I just really prefer paper. For one thing you can give away your book when you're finished with it, or loan it to a friend, neither of which you can do with an ebook.
their hardware MFA functionality is worse than useless

it only permits a single hardware token to be registered to an account

so good luck if you misplace or break your hardware token
Yes! Double points for a dead company logo on a tool now so nearly useless
I don't have an opinion on what really happened. But there are things that sound off about the story. Also it doesn't help that seemingly only a handful of media outlets and blogs copying from each other have picked up on the story 10 years after the fact without asking critical questions.

I could even imagine that he did get stranded out there and knew worst case he could just walk back, so why not try to build a motorcycle for the fun of it and then dramatize the story years later.
The Justice Department was only interested in the case because Theranos operated in a highly regulated industry with lots of government oversight. SaaS and consumer tech startup founders lie and cheat and blow up investor money every day and no one really cares.

All the wealthy investors gain nothing from Holmes going to jail. In fact the lengthy trial only drags them into the spotlight, which they'd rather stay clear of.
The <details> HTML element can do this https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/de...
Collector or Speculator?
It's interesting that it took so long for this to finally be resolved, such that now - the technological goals that they had may actually be surmountable soon.
I wonder what Theranos 2.0 will be called when it cross up in a few years.
FBhealth ?
BioBezosBot ?
AppleSeq ?
GoogleBlood ?
NetStix ?
I believe most caches are designed such that something in a lower level cache obtains information about whether that memory is valid or has been changed from the cache level above it, so typically everything in L1 is also in L2 and L3. If you do not have the data in L3 anymore, this may cause the L1 to reload the memory (into L3 then L2 then L1) to know that the memory is valid.
> people are having success with her ideas today

Citation needed. The whole concept has a critical flaw, as pointed out by her engineering staff and medical advisors: blood tests require a certain minimum volume of blood to work, and that's inescapable because blood components are discrete, not continuous.

For example, a drop of blood is about .05mL, or about 1/20th of a milliliter. A common testing sample size in a normal lab is 3mL, or about 60x larger what Theranos claimed they could work with. Now, suppose you're testing for some cell that's may be present in concentrations of 10 per mL, or 1 per .1mL blood volume on average. In a conventional lab, then, you'd probably have about 30 of those in the 3mL sample. In a Theranos lab, even if it worked perfectly, you're equally likely to have either 0 or 1 present in the .05mL sample. In other words, you're 50% likely to get a false negative, even if the equipment is working perfectly, based purely on the tiny sample volume.

By analogy, if you poll 100,000,000 Americans, you might get a pretty good idea of an election's result. If you poll 3, you have no idea, even if the poll is perfectly designed. Well, that's what Theranos was up against.

NB: I'm not a lab tech, and the above is my understanding of it. That's my distillation of a lot of articles I read about Theranos, such as https://theconversation.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-theranos-so... .
They are trying hard to move production to India.

Plus, I will bet on Cook's logistic mastermind.
This will be great for foreign movies. While I still prefer subtitles, for those who watch with dubs, it’ll be amazing to hear the actor’s “real” voice.
They farmed out the patient results to real machines pretending they were using Theranos. So they were technically real.
What an awesome collection/hobby Thanks for sharing. Is there any way to see all that you have?. I became interested in this after seeing someone with an Enron shirt on at a music festival earlier this year. Surely it was not an “original”, as you collect, but it had me reflecting on the artistic value.
Even considering just 2 or 3 decades, the problem with a computer built to last is that after long enough, its capabilities are outdated. Things have improved a little in the last decade: using a 10 year old GOOD computer is still comfortable if you don't need more than one vm or is patient enough to wait for things to compile, but still not a great experience.

Another thing a computer built to last needs are blob-free mainline drivers. It is sad to have a hardware you just can't use with a better kernel because it is not supported.
If anyones got a juicero lmk I’ll pay double market haha
Same, I like programming and its alright helping others solve their problems, but 8 hours per day is just too much if I’m being honest. If it didnt pay well, I would be doing something less complex and more tactile.
Posting that to HN doesn't make it any better. Just brings the propaganda machine here too.

If you don't believe it, look at the amount of propaganda in any India related threads, from both sides of politics.
Jason Calacanis was never ahead of anything, except a few more recent idiots.

"Obvious, unactionable, or wrong" is a term of art created specifically to talk about Calacanis' advice.

"Mahalo", a Hawaiian term loosely translated as "who is this freak and why does he think our language is there to promote his shitty startup?" was the answer to the single most terrible thing VCs could identify at the time: that someone would create Wikipedia without a plan to monetize every aspect of it. And yet Calacanis did a worse job than the "original fool", Jimmy Wales, whose similar attempt at least didn't end up as a parked domain of SEO spammers.
> don't collect as an investment

I've seen a lot of Pawn Stars in the past six months. They never say this, but you can put it together. Most things that people collect trade in low volumes, so pricing is hard, and the bid/ask spread kills you. If you decide to sell, you'll either get 70% of the value if you sell it fast, or maybe 100% if you're ready to wait two years. If you want to liquidate everything, it might depress the market. There's also a discount when you have it as a collection because someone could part it out, but that's even more time. That, and the drive to collect is building the collection, so there's less utility in getting an instant collection.
Now that’s a powerful slogan
"The Fifty Year Rehabilitation of the Egg"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4632449/
blinks
Do you mean to say that Beenz wasn't a fever dream I enjoyed? Next you'll be telling me that Swatch's Beats was a real, actual attempt at redefining time, and wasn't just something I overheard being invented by a bunch of Jolly People at the pub one night.
Yep, the only way to do this is using aws-nuke [0], and the billing is such a mess for small use cases.

https://github.com/rebuy-de/aws-nuke
"Sunny" is a common nickname in India but it has nothing to do with the day you were born on.
If you were "hacked" (ie password reuse), the attacker can just relimit this.
Apple is really in a good stride right now. I think Google may pivot and figure out how to innovate again before too long.
When the extra money is not actually spent on the reactor, but is just handed around in exchange for political favors, does that really make the plant seem safer to you? (My mother used to say getting pawed at the airport made her feel safer, so I guess almost anything is plausible.)

Safest are the ones that get cancelled without being finished. Which is the norm, lately. Nobody seems to ask for the money back when that happens; it must have been money well spent.
Remove the work email address from any personal accounts (e.g. LinkedIn, github).
Depending on the company you may or may not be allowed to export email. I’ve archived mail concerning performance, compensation, HR or benefits issues (and archive it, don’t merge it into your personal email account). Even if you’re leaving on good terms make sure you have a copy of any messages or documents that describe your performance and contributions.
Addiction is definitely the word to use. Sugar is a crazy substance.

More addicting than many illicit drugs, like cocaine.

Good luck breaking the cycle.
Nah. Coworker gave his two week notice today after being out for 2.5 months (and only actually being in the office for like 3 weeks after being hired) and my boss is a lunatic with no management or communication skills. I've been told a "moral lesson" of going ahead of schedule being a bad thing too many times to count.

Definitely gonna be finding a new job soon. But for now, it pays the bills and I have other stuff to keep my mind off it when I'm not here.
I think some of that is the difference in customer base.

Tesla purchasers, are, to some degree, buying into the idea of the brand. This works if your brand is nice and new and flashy, but I think that traditional automakers would probably suffer reputational damage if they tried this approach, and it is very hard for them to shake old reputations if they manage to get one of unreliability.
Proposals for legal, ethical or logistically undoable studies
The demand from gaming & workstation & datacenter is absolutely huge, revenue would not fall without buttcoiners because the GPUs would still fly off the shelves.

In fact buttminers create a new risk for the vendors: whenever buttcoins seriously crash, the market will suddenly be flooded with used GPUs.
https://4dayweek.io/

(no affiliation, shorter work week advocate)
Use it regularly, and nearly always wish same content was on Netflix due to really awful compression artifacts I never see on Netflix.
If you actually read that article it says surface transmission is a _minor_ risk and is possible. It's not zero risk. It's also difficult to prove it is or is not happening. Omicron is thought to replicate faster, so a smaller amount of it could be a larger risk, including on surfaces. Has anyone studied Omicron surface viability specifically? At the very least, if someone wipes their nose with their hand, then touches a door handle and then another person soon after touches the door handle and then wipes their nose with their hand that is a lot like taking a swab from one person and putting it in the nose of another. So surface transmission seems obviously possible (and there are a couple known possible examples of it in the article), but doesn't seem to happen as often as aerosol transmission, but it is also hard to measure in the wild so it is still something of an unknown. Lots of people have stopped washing groceries and are doing ok. Lots of people still are using Purell very often also. Keeping the virus off your hands so you don't introduce it to your mouth or nose seems like a good idea. Trying to sanitize objects is recommended in the article, but only after other countermeasures and only if you have the time. Sanitizing your hands accomplishes the same thing as sanitizing surfaces -if- you always remember to sanitize your hands before touching your nose or mouth after touching something that might be contaminated. Viruses degrade with time on surfaces at varying rates, so infectiousness drops with time. The article says we don't actually know what that decay over time is in the wild. It also says there have been no conclusive cases of surface transmission, but that's only because it is hard to observe in the wild. How do you tell if someone breathed it or touched it? So "no evidence" here means "we don't know and can't figure out how to do a good experiment since we can't intentionally infect people". Aerosols are definitely the higher risk, but you can't rule out some surface transmission. Risk likely varies by surface location as well. A ceiling is low risk, opening your car trunk is probably low risk, a public bathroom door handle is higher risk.
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I didn't think of that. Luckily I haven't tried it out yet.
Promo freebies change so often that you can often work out what company and what year made a particular squeeze toy or similar.

And rip offs will often have subpar artwork obviously not using original AI/EPS files.
The Year of Linux Gaming
I dabbled a little before, but I often wonder if I am ruined forever by picking up Beginning Perl at 12 because it was the only programming book I could find at my local library.

I wanted to know more about my computer. Learning to program seemed like the next step. I'm a sysadmin now. Knowing the basics of how programs are written really comes in handy when they misbehave.
Netflix is the odd duck here in that being a content company, they don't have a repeatable business model.

They depend on hits and one hit does not guarantee a follow up hit.

Like any film production company or games company, if they start repeatedly investing into big budget content that bombs, they will rapidly run into trouble.
Any examples? I'm aware of "ultrafiltered" milk e.g. Fairlife, where they remove lactose, but not heard of adding it.

Anyway, lactose is not equivalent to sucrose in terms of health impact.
It's not stealing if it's an idea, if it's just a concept. I am not taking your hard drives, I am not ripping you brain cells out of your brain. I am simply no longer allowing you to restrict my usage of something that you have freely given to me, whether that be a DVD you sold me, or my memory of something you said.

And it's not like I will take all your business just like that. People will still buy from you by default. If people buy from me instead, that means I am providing some value that you are not providing. And that is good for society.
Incidents are mostly caused by untested configuration changes, infrastructure failures and often known limitations of software. A “hot take” could be something like code freezes are bad cause when it comes to most software and incidents the risk with changing the ways of working and not improving the software can be bigger than the risk with new releases.

I think it is ok with code freezes though.
This is pretty cool, have you thought about also implementing it to help quit smoking? I believe the same cohort approach can be used...would just have to divide into smokers cohorts and drinkers cohorts.
Microsoft Skype makes you solve a complex captcha 10 times to sign up
This study has multiple issues as did the original study it is accompanying but what got published in Nature Medicine https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01630-0

First the original study did not stratify based on age and sex - a huge failure because potential issue among young men was well known problem.

This preprint tries to fix this but as the original study compared also other cardiac adverse events like pericarditis and cardiac arrhythmias, the preprint does not. It is important because the rate of other complications was not elevated among vaccinated.

This study uses self-controlled case series. This means that they compare against previous incidence rates in the study group (vaccinated, covid-19). This would be possibly more or less fine if they compared two treatments but even then there is big potential for selection bias (the choice of treatment is based on preexisting conditions) but is even higher when you compare treatment and disease - covid-19 is harder for people with comorbidities, when you make a comparison within this group, you can most likely expect higher preexisting prevalence of heart conditions and therefor lower IRR.

This preprint and the orginal paper do not contain any mentioning of unvaccinated. It very likely means that the covid-19 group also contains patients who were vaccinated and had lower rate of AE.

Finally, this study design includes people with previous incidence. Hearth problems are very often recurrent. While it is important to know if vaccination of covid-19 will reintroduce the condition, it is not very interesting for most of the people because incidence rate of these conditions is very low. What is real interest here is how prevalent it is among people who did not have it previously.

Now I am really interested to find out the truth here. This preprint and the orginal study does not help me in this unfortunately.
Ask HN: Have to invest 500K in a business – what can I do?
I am a not so successful software entrepreneur. Have tried my hands at a few startups but haven't made it yet.

I am planning to file for US green card using the $500K investment EB5 visa. The KEY requirements for EB-5 direct investment visa are that:
- one invests $500K in a existing or new business
- generate and sustain 10 NEW full time jobs for 2 years. this is key!
- located in a TEA ( targeted employment area)
- should have active role in management of the business (at least on paper!)

I don't want to invest in my own company because - 1. 500K would be insufficient to sustain 10 jobs as tech salaries are too high. 2. 500K is all i have, and with my track record so far, can't risk the startup failing and loosing both my investment and consequently the green card.

So any advise on safe business ideas or startups that one can invest in considering the above requirements!
Absolutely, you could get some great value for that on ebay, or grailed.com
The Big Web has “users” – a term Silicon Valley has borrowed from drug dealers to describe the people they addict to their services and exploit.

This doesn't seem like it's true. I feel like it came from the unix culture. Unless they got it from drug dealers...
Well, all the devices share a lot of parts. Say there’s a particular power module that goes in iPhone, MacBook and iPad, and that’s the holdup. The choice is to put as many as they can get into iPhone and Mac, and let iPad be delayed. Just checked US Apple Store
iPhone 13: Tomorrow
M1 MacBook Air: Tomorrow
iPad Air: 2 weeks
> All of those studies of people in Trump Country USA who were shocked, shocked, that the kind man next door who is a good father and a great neighbor and a real part of the community was dragged away by ICE?

Don't enforce the border, then when the people you allowed to enter against the law predictably establish lives and families, use that as an excuse to entirely ignore immigration and citizenship law. Exploiting compassion to completely annul borders, because you know all you have to do is use sanctuary cities and states to delay deportation long enough so that the people who democratically set limits on who may enter their country, won't have the heart to enforce those limits.

Classic.

> ..because in their mind the exact law being prescribed is just a tool in the chest, an option on the table, which they expect to be wielded fairly and judiciously. Surely no one would do anything so unreasonable as actually enforcing it as written! Not when that would be bad!

There are literally 11 "sanctuary" states, where federal, democratically chosen immigration laws are not enforced [1]. So it's not just "in their mind" that laws get ignored. But I suppose if your starting point is that America belongs to everyone, regardless of what its citizens say, it's easy to get upset at even sporadic border enforcement.

[1] https://www.fairus.org/issue/sanctuary-policies/do-you-live-...
Lots of great tax advice here. But 45k MRR is far from FU money. Think creatively about whether there are ways you could grow the business. Going from 45k->90k should be a lot easier than 0k->45k.
> As an example, you can buy "joke" Enron t-shirts, which I wouldn't be interested in

I would not be interested in authentic Theranos swag, but I would pay a lot for a new knockoff mock turtleneck with the old MPlayer logo on it. Now I can't even find the old MPlayer logo anymore.