skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NO formal sentencing by Judge Davila yet, including the length of imprisonment and fines (technically the judge can overturn a jury-declared guilt, however it's very unlikely here).

("U.S. District Court Judge Edward Davila will sentence Holmes at a later date.", according to CNBC.)
They have always paid top of market - in the early days it was to hire from Google it seems - who at the time was paying top of market.
To maximize the possibility of producing a positive result for the hypothesis. And it's understandable that this is done given academia's incentive structure, and you could justify this study's existence as a foundation for further studies, but real damage is done to the discourse around these topics when people pick up on these results and generalize them across both input size and species lines. This study alone tells us virtually nothing useful about whether or not "High-sucrose diets contribute to brain angiopathy and higher brain dysfunctions" in humans, as the post's title implies.
I found some videos featuring this man and his bike:

(3 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFMWgSgB4sg

(20 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_m_a4iRZIk
I don't think advocating people make their entire website out of javascript, a very "big web" requirement, is smart. It just seems like they're doing so to promote their particular npm based product and cause centralization in it.

No. Small web is your own server, yes, but also your own HTML. Small web is when a webpage is a webpage and not an application that is impenetrably dense and non-modular and frankly too complex for most people to edit. Small web is a static site that doesn't have exploits, doesn't require package managers, and lasts forever. Anyone can, and did (back in the 90s) make simple functional websites that had text and images.

This site.js is not small web and I really hope he reconsiders pushing this on small web curious noobs who it will hurt.
Or your local butcher - they can source from farms directly, know who does slaughter, and will usually give you a good deal on whole animals.

This is how I started with pigs.
Not sure but I would be interested in knowing how many years people think she deserves?
Did Theranos blood test work?
Your joke was a good one and I think more people appreciated it than you’d think. I considered it to bring up the discourse.

I don’t think it’s right for others to attempt to guilt trip and bully you into removing it.
So she was found guilty on 4 charges. Not guilty on 4 charges. And no verdict on the remaining 3 charges. So does she have to get another trial on the remaining 3?
If you're really going for "built to last," think beyond binary computing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_computer

Also, use whatever tech is used in deep space probes.
Hey, minus the $16 wire-transfer fee. Fair is fair; that’s what I pay, too.
Not with that attitude it isn't!
Not to support or rebuff the parent comment, but cultural homogeneity has everything to do with policing standards.

On the positive side, when people feel more connected to each other, more predictable, the odds for miscommunication or misinterpretation are greatly reduced. Further, people within such environments typically have stronger support systems.

On the negative side, there tends to be more pressure, from more sources, to do as those around you are doing. This is a double edged sword, as it can propagate both good and bad behaviors.

This all would play a role in defining police procedures, as it would contribute to a set of expectations, of the police and the people they are dealing with.
>This headline absolutely needs an "in mice" added to it to be accurate.

Yes, that is fair. But we both know the comment went further than that.
> When people start getting 2/3rd of their calories from sucrose.. @ivalm

I don't think you understand how scientific studies are performed.

Inducing change is what the study is accomplishing. Monitoring the changes and what changes occur is what the study sets out to document.

Both of those goals are accomplished in the study. Correlations between schizophrenia and bipolar disorder patients with high glucose mice brains were readily recognized.

Science isn't a god. Science is a method of study. We follow the method so that others may perform the same experiments in the future and reach similar conclusions, for proofs.

The methods we use for testing such things have been in place for decades now, and they've served us well.

If you don't understand why mice models are utilized, and why testing is done with such high percentages, then perhaps you should read more into pharmaceutical testing and development. Like I said, we've been doing this for decades now, and it serves us well.
Would be curious to here a law-person speculate even if it's just a guess.
No. The very fact this trial occurred is testament to that fact.
I didn't realize it was a joke. Sorry! :)
> Why shouldn’t I have the right to take my work to my grave and never have someone else profit from it?

Because Mickey mouse is just a mouse and Frankenstein is "the modern Prometheus" and Star Wars is a western movie where "Lucas has said that the plot and characters in the 1958 Japanese film The Hidden Fortress, directed by Akira Kurosawa, was a major inspiration" (Star Wars came out only 19 years later, in 1977)

nothing we create is "ours" let alone forever...

There's an argument on incentives, if copyright ends after say 20 years, media companies could simply wait 20 years to use the content for free, it's possible, but I don't think it's probable.

I imagine a system where if the publisher makes a lot more money (with a lot to be defined) than the original author made before the creation went public domain, then they could be forced to compensate the original author.
Yup. - https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2012-jun-27-la-ol-nix...
20 years per count
You’re starting from a point that hasn’t been established.

> response to a journalist

You call him a journalist. The US government calls him a Russian asset. The UK court agrees more with them than you or he wouldn’t be holed up in an embassy.
a single charge can be 20 years. likely the charges will run concurrently, so probably less than 10 years if I had to guess, which is the cutoff for a minimum security prison.
https://www.localharvest.org/
Yes.

> We need to make efforts to stay informed about what’s happening with these viruses and the status of GoF research. We need to tell our friends and families, to use whatever platform we might have, big or small, to promote the end of this research.
We need to get this in the public eye, so the public can demand change. We need to demand change, and not take no for an answer.
I don't like certain aspects of publishing with peer review, but if one is so confident with their lab leak theory, try go publish in journals or put it up in one of the preprint servers instead of substack. The key is to demonstrate not that your claims are based, but that you have tried various ways to invalid the conclusions but could not success.
I managed to track this down:

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2011-02/msg00742.html
Pinocchio was just fine in the Shrek movies, and I imagine Eisner wasn't happy that Universal of all people used him (as, only a few years prior, Universal poached a bunch of imagineers and made The Lost Continent, which copied a lot of elements of 'Beastly Kingdom', the original name for Animal Kingdom), so it must have took a lot of lawyers saying "this is a bad idea" when Eisner surely suggested they sue over using Pinocchio.
This argument would be more persuasive with examples. Also: touring music is notoriously non-remunerative; people think about U2's fleet of luxury busses, but the majority of acts, even ones that lots of people have heard of, barely cover gas money and the returns they'd get as the manager of a convenience store from touring --- which is work that is tremendously disruptive to actually building a life, which is why we pay long haul truck drivers so much money to do it.

I get a lot more value from recorded music than I do from live music; the idea that we should make it essentially impossible to make a living from music you only play in a studio doesn't sit well, since I like a lot of that music too.

My bigger problem here is a moral one, though. It's simple: a musician takes the time to compose and record a piece of music. I had nothing whatsoever to do with that work. What right do I have to set the terms that musician can use for their work? It's their work, not mine. If they want to charge $5,000 for a copy, that's their right; I can just listen to something else. If musicians writ large want to maximize the number of copies that are made of their work, they can do what Radiohead does and release on "pay what you want" terms. That almost nobody does this in practice is telling.
Not if you are using exchange tickers
Not understanding stock options cost me $300K
Why would a mistrial be declared? Does that prevent a future prosecution of these charges?
> Very little is known of Mr. Balwani, including why he is called “Sunny.”

This might be because Saturday in Hindi and other Indian languages is “sunny-var”, and the day of the week you are born on is a common nickname, in conjunction with “sunny” being an easy to pronounce and common English word.
This will sound weird but I am a collector of swag from large companies that have collapsed due to anything from mismanagement to outright fraud. While we're a rare breed there are others like me out there. Still, even with this oddly specific marketplace being small, let me tell you, the Theranos swag market is hot right now (check eBay if you're curious).

Wish I had gone big on this one earlier, because I have a feeling this verdict is going to spice things up in the short term.

All that to be said, if you've got any authentic Theranos gear hiding in storage please do let me know, I'm a motivated buyer.

For those curious as one example: Nothing raises a few eyebrows more than a note written on Lehman Brothers letterhead with a Purdue Pharma OxyContin pen with the dosage pullout.
Generative Hobbies
It depends on which kind of "works" we're talking about.

I seriously doubt that passionate authors would refrain themselves from writing because they've been denied a few extra bucks after their death. Many would probably be happier to know that their legacy goes on through the now possible derivative work.

Could such a restriction on copyright impact purely commercial works? I don't care. Work made just for profit has no soul anyway.
Google search results sucks.
Here is a list of alternative search engines i find handy

https://fabform.io/a/alternative-search-engines
Yes, for the last few years, every time I logged into Netflix I was stunned at poorly they seemed to understand me. Heist movies, murder mysteries, drug cartels fighting, stuff I never watch, and this was the majority of the stuff they showed. Recently I spent 20 minutes looking for something to watch, but I couldn't find anything at all that looked interesting. I thought that was so shocking, I decided it was time to cancel Netflix. So I finally gave up my account. There is an abundance of good material I can watch elsewhere.

But the main question is, why can't Netflix write a recommendation engine that actually shows me something I want to watch?
Mouse: Sugar... Give me... sugar... in water.
I'm saying that the neurological substrates of addiction are not being manipulated by normal stimuli so it's not addiction. It is not a dissociated wanting divorced for liking caused by direct activation of the substrates that encode wanting. It's just enjoyment of a normal stimuli and people prioritizing what they enjoy.

Medicalizing that, pretending there's no personal agency like with dopaminergic drugs, will cause more damage than letting people do what they enjoy. Calling things addictions inevitably justifies and leads to legislation that brings in the use of force and coercion to control people's behavior.
I appreciate the effort here, but it almost feels like this is hopeless as it seems so many groups are able to build voice synthesis right now that the tech has fallen in to the common persons hand and some of them won't make any effort to stop abuse.

Maybe if we can get watermarked stuff out first and the average person gets up to speed with what tech can do, we can all adjust our expectations before the real wave of abuse hits.
I did something similar to stop myself from constantly browsing YT and Reddit although with simpler rule:

- Opened on main page or just a subreddit? It's for mindless browsing then! Therefore `window.stop()`
In the US alone, there are ~40,000 full time authors, who are creating a minimum of a $2.4 billion in retail and commercial business transactions every year (based on the $60k median income for authors). Those authors provide the raw material that supports dozens of supporting businesses - publishers, printers, editors, book stores, libraries, critics, and so forth.

This is something that, without copyright, wouldn't exist. Even should patrons step up and provide that $2.4 billion every year for authors (very unlikely, in my opinion), the support industries would disappear.
You are absolutely right. Being tethered to home is a big responsibility/limitation if you have year round animal operations.

This is why I only have seasonal egg chickens, as an example and not full time layers. And why I grow the yearly amount of chickens at once. Same with Rabbit.

We spend a lot of time away from home, so all of the meat we raise is seasonal and pre-planned.
Some founders "fake it till you make it", and this news should serve as a cautionary tale.
You have clearly not seen enough of life.
My Personal Note Taking Journey
Tried it. Just a voice to text of French guy talking. Definitely not my voice.
BlackBerry Ends Service on Its Once-Ubiquitous Mobile Devices
Welcome to Group Therapy
That's wonderful haha, these are a treat
Have you considered transparency for when you down-weight a specific post or thread?
What a super interesting niche. Do you see returns on your investments?
My understanding is that it worked in the sense that the results were accurate. But the results were gotten by means other than what the investors/customers thought. So the end-user patients really had no claim since they got correct results. But the companies and investors got scammed bigtime.
Can someone share some light on what's covered in the wire transfers?
Nobody invests large amounts in someone they do not know; that's why connections and introductions were a key element of the case.
Before taking any anatomically adverse actions, I would need a better argument than whataboutism. The fact that something is statistically less likely than other bad things does not make it good.
Agreed. This story is bullshit. It would have been way easier to figure out a way to make the 2CV drivable.
Asset tax for large scale and absentee owners.

Basically if you live on the farm you don't pay. If you own a property remotely or its above a certain scale you pay x% a year asset tax.

I think this could solve a bunch of foot in the door issues around farming.

To add to this they need to break up the meat processing side. In US there is something like 4 meat processors holding most of the market. It's far too dominant for one country. There need to be I dusty breakup and easy of regulation for local small scale butchers.
The problem with any anti abuse measure is someone can create another project which does not have any of this. There are a handful of projects which can do pretty good voice synthesis right now. It would be about as easy as getting a consensus for all photo editing tools to place a watermark on the image to prevent abuse.
> Not all bipolars get psychotic and think they're Jesus who can fly.

Every once in a while a local paper somewhere runs an article about someone running down the street naked claiming they were Jesus. Dollars to doughnuts it's an undiagnosed bipolar patient having a psychotic episode. The flying is probably from Reefer Madness, I believe, but you were undoubtedly speaking in hyperbole to sarcastically feign sympathy for some idiot for irrationally fearing a bipolar patient like they were equivalent to the absurdly exaggerated pot-crazed teenager diving through a window to their death because they were so stoned they believed they were a chicken and could fly.
>To maximize the possibility of producing a positive result for the hypothesis.

No. The reason is to approximate long-term exposure. There are obviously (big!) problems with that, but we don't have a better way of "speeding up time".

You really should try to understand things before you attack them with tired caricatures of legitimate arguments.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29789137
I found it completely unconvincing, particularly when it came to discussing the "lab leak". From the article, where the author speculates about why the omicron variant is so genetically different from other variants of the virus:> "One parsimonious hypothesis is that some engineering has been done to it, in order to make its evolution look so unnatural. I have not heard another parsimonious hypothesis."

A New Scientist article from two weeks ago suggests two other hypothesis for the evolution of omicron: that it either evolved in a single immune-compromised person, or that it jumped to an animal population and then jumped back:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2302268-how-did-the-omi...

I've been following COVID news the same way I do the weather during tornado season. That is to say, consistently and with an effort at personal awareness, but I'm hardly an expert. Yet I'm aware of several other "parsimonious hypotheses" which the author is not, and, worse, they apparently consider their own ignorance as evidence.
One reason is that if this trial ended in not guilty on all counts they would be unlikely to prosecute a successful case against Balwani. they have a stronger hand now and Balwani may choose a plea deal before trial now, which the prosecution may accept due to today's result.
a coincidence which is almost always ignored is that China had huge Hong Kong protests with no resolution in sight until a global pandemic hit halting all and any street protests there.
There is usually a contract stipulating details, but yes, VCs tend to use banks
Meetups = more Zoom?
> Who thinks they can analyse consciousness into more fundamental elements?

About half of HN, who think that we will be able to manufacture some form of AGI that should have the right to be treated as the equal of humans.
> allowing everyone to copy everything freely makes the world a better place

Yes, this is the actual reason that copyrights aren’t infinite. It just seems hand-wavy, full of assumptions, and rather vague as a justification from the creator’s point of view.

What I’m hoping for is the kind of clarity and specificity behind “makes the world a better place” that could actually be used to guide thinking about how long copyrights should last. Right now, the article and this entire comment section feels more like an argument over personal opinions and assumptions, and lacking enough evidence, enough historical understanding of copyright, and enough philosophical rigor to justify a specific number of years.

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 first order effect is the money and content value that changes hands as part of the transaction on offer by a creator. Letting the public at large benefit from free copies is both an economic and a temporal second order effect that doesn’t have tangible value, and comes with some economic harm that requires balancing.
OPEC would be illegal if replicated by a band of American companies, no? I think it's only "legal" because the sovereign entities running it transcend any laws of commerce as we understand them in America. Not dependent upon the industry so much as the scale of the participants and the laws those participants are beholden to.
Study Fails to Replicate: “Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function”
> IC analysts assess that a natural origin and a laboratoryassociated incident are both plausible hypotheses for
how SARS-CoV-2 first infected humans. Analysts,
however, disagree on which is more likely, or whether
an assessment can be made at all, given the lack of
diagnosticity of the available information. Most
agencies are unable to make higher than low confidence
assessments for these reasons, and confidence levels are
tempered by plausible arguments for the opposing
hypothesis. For these hypotheses, IC analysts consider
an exposure that occurs during animal sampling activity
that supports biological research to be a laboratoryassociated incident and not natural contact.

[0]: https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Declass...
How do they keep people from talking about something they'd rather not talk about? Why would they need to? Espcially since people tend to just scream "conspiracy theorist!", flag it off HN etc.
> While walking, you should probably find some shadow (if available) and rest during the hottest hours of the day, that would also help save drinking water...

It sounds like he used the cab as shelter once removed intact. Presumably he hid idly in its shadow during the hottest hours of the project as well...

But yeah at some point if the hack isn't bearing fruit you have to cut your losses and walk.
They said collector, so I suspect they aren't holding to sell :P
One of my biggest regrets is not getting a Kozmo messenger bag from dotcom 1.
I see the tension around copyright as an instance of the tension between our personal independence and our social interdependence.

Your special effort or unique inspiration may indeed produce something valuable - and it is just that you, the individual, be rewarded for that value.

But it is also just to recognize that your ability to produce anything useful is built on the efforts and insights of countless others, most whom you have long forgotten or are long dead. The vast majority will receive no recompense for their part in your success, particularly (in my experience) the most deserving.

So it seems to me that to demand a reward at the moment of inspiration may be fitting, but the longer a society enforces an exclusive reward for ideas inevitably built on the back of the entire community, the more likely that enforcement has made the transition from something just to something unjust.

Pontificating aside, the current system makes me sad.
What's sad about this interaction is that, at least for me, if that person had said "Hey, we actually already hired somebody for this, but I'd still love to meet up for lunch and hear how you'd approach some of these problems" I'd do it.

I like problems, and I like solving problems. I've been lucky enough that the pay is honestly just a bonus most of the time. Having a contact at a company I think is cool is way more valuable to me than the cost of taking a train an a few hours of my time.
I laughed at that. Apparently the wire transfer fee part is the money is free and clear!!!
Very cool! If I were looking for a side project, I'd extend this, add a DeepL integration for automating translations, add some voice models for other languages/people and wrap it as a mobile app where people could pay to unlock the voice models.
You're onto something there. Dropping copyright terms back to the original 14 years could drown us in franchises. Creating new IP you'd be up against more content in competition for your audience, not less.

Currently the limiter to how much I actually consume something from the public domain (it's not much) is not my access to the works themselves, but my time.
I've seen fundings and positions related to COVID research popping up since at least mid 2020. Biorxiv submissions exploded. Certainly not a small group to deal with.