skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was she? I saw that she was acquitted of defrauding patients, but surely handing out known bad diagnoses also has some consequences from a 'risking lives' viewpoint, right?

Like if you order some bullets from a gun shop, and the guy delivers them by doing a drive-by on your house, surely the only legal problem for the deliveryman can't be "these bullets were a ripoff, the gunpowder is already expended!"
That film gives me warm "I'm so glad I'm a techie" vibes. Something about the 90s bay area that is so perfect.
There sure is. I flagged it because it’s speculation and conspiracy stuff shouldn’t be on HN. Sure it could be a leak but armchair detective work can be dangerous.
Not OP, but validating ideas is (relatively) easy. First, you figure out who will use your product. Then, you get a few of those people to use or discuss your product. You only need a few people, and they can be close acquaintances. After showing the product to a few people you imagine to use your product, you come to a determination of whether or not they liked your product. This part is a little subtle. You don't ask them "did you like my product?" Instead, you try to figure out if your product seems like something they were excited about, would continue to use, and, most importantly, tell others about.

Think about it like this. If you show the product to a handful of people that you imagine to be ideal users, and NONE of those people are excited enough about your business to share it with others, then what chance of success do you really have?

To give you a concrete example. I made an app that was a pretty revolutionary take on reading short stories. I had a few friends try it out, all of whom were passionate readers. They said they liked it, but I could see that none of them opened it again after their initial test. To me, that was all the signal I needed to pivot to something else.
Yes, absolutely. https://youtu.be/uJDc4tOU3zo?t=465
> A hundred mice to save a human seems like a fair trade

What are you measuring or estimating in that calculus?
If you don't have first-hand contact with your potential users, and you don't know where they are, then you likely lack the empathy to build a great product for them.
The metal ones? They still have those at the offices
Things that eat fish, taste of fish. For example muttonbird in New Zealand is a seabird that tastes as strong as anchovy. The chickens are possibly being fed on fish processing waste, or ocean-caught “inedible” species like krill https://www.google.com/search?q=alibaba+krill+chicken+feed
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I agree with everything you said, but I think the person you're replying to is less upset at the prosecutors/jury, and more upset about the laws in the first place. They protect the rich and powerful, and don't worry about the average person getting hurt.
For those wanting to see the Theranos story as it unfolded from HN's perspective, here's a summary of some of the major threads over the years until early 2016:

- 2013/09/08 - Theranos (theranos.com): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6349349 (113 comments)

- 2014/06/26 - This CEO is out for blood (fortune.com): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7951019 (97 comments)

- 2015/04/26 - Scientists skeptical about Theranos blood test (businessinsider.com): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9440595 (94 comments)

- 2015/07/03 - FDA approves Theranos test for HSV-1 (fortune.com): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9823638 (24 comments)

- 2015/09/21 - How Playing the Long Game Made Elizabeth Holmes a Billionaire (inc.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10252183 (82 comments)

- 2015/10/15 - Theranos Has Struggled with Blood Tests (wsj.com): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10391313 (87 comments)

- 2015/10/16 - Theranos Dials Back Lab Tests at FDA's Behest (wsj.com): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10397149 (86 comments)

- 2015/10/18 - Theranos Trouble: A First Person Account (mondaynote.com): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10408811 (45 comments)

- 2015/10/27 - Theranos didn't work with the huge drug company it supposedly made money from (theverge.com): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10459905 (113 comments)

- 2015/10/28 - The FDA's notes from its visit to Theranos' labs don't look good (businessinsider.com): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10462678 (97 comments)

- 2015/10/29 - Theranos, Facing Criticism, Says It Has Changed Board Structure (nytimes.com): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10471152 (65 comments)

- 2015/12/20 - "Theranos Founder Faces a Test of Technology, and Reputation" (nytimes.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10765562 (102 comments)

- 2015/12/28 - "At Theranos, Many Strategies and Snags" (wsj.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10799261 (126 comments)

- 2016/01/25 - "Problems Found at Theranos Lab" (wsj.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10965167 (76 comments)

- 2016/01/27 - "The letter the Feds sent to Theranos" (vox-cdn.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10983747 (192 comments)
Look, there is still a big jump from the usual founder sharing partial vague optimistic statments (e.g., "our algorithm is great"), to the not so common direct lie (e.g., "we tested it with statistical significance, it works, here you can see these results on these real world inputs", while completely faking the results)
ÜFÜ (über Fünfzig)/50+ here, walking 82kg at 181cm. Still don't know what a hangover is, or how exactly it feels. Though I rarely drink alcoholic stuff. What I do know is the 'emergency dumping' by vomiting it out when I had too much, though that happened only about 4 to 5 times in my life. Still, even when that happened, woke up, feeling normal.
I mean, on one hand, yes, if nobody is harmed, there really isn't a case for fraud.

But I agree with the other responder, I've also been in many startups and have certainly seen tons of exaggerations about the future but never outright lies about the present that Holmes was guilty of. Even worse, if you're going to lie about the present, you should at least have strong confidence your lie is physically possible - Theranos tech was always a sham from day 1.

I just don't buy at all the "everyone in Silicon Valley does it" spiel, because if they did, investors of failed startups (i.e. the majority) would have tons of reasons to sue and put people in jail.
The "Unbrickable" nature of Pi family of computers make them very enticing. Pi 4 w/ 8GB of RAM is surprisingly well rounded too (I don't need that amount of RAM all day long, but when you need it, it's there and that's nice).

A good thermal paste (Arctic Cooling MX series, for example) is good for at least 10 years, and it has almost infinite shelf life, so renewing paste every decade is not bad.

Another viable case is Cooler Master's Pi Case 40 [0].

The nice thing is, it's protected from dust, and lower tray files are open, so you can modify the design and reprint if you want to adapt it to a previous or next generation Pi compatible board.

It also has a hardware button, which you can program.

[0]: https://www.coolermaster.com/catalog/cases/raspberry-pi/pi-c...
I'm going to guess Paul Graham, who wrote the tweet. One of the founders of YCombinator and HN (just in case people who read this don't know).
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I have the exact opposite opinion.

Mandatory trade relationsips and closely interconnected supply chains are an important factor in preventing larger wars.
Heh, I came here to lurk for a better slashdot/lower-volume r/programming, but I'm actually in the upper Nk because I get dragged into all kinds of political discussions against the part of my will that I endorse.

It would be nice if there was a "solving the world's problems" tag and an rss feed without it ;)
How long will I live?
Alternatively, the OP means he spends 10% of his work time on this, not 10% of the 8760 hours in a year on it.
>Wait, what you’re telling me is that crypto is unrestricted and unchangeable, but companies can choose to control what happens within their ecosystems based on their judgment?

I am sad I can upvote this article only once.

Ledgers may be public, but the systems guided, configured, and controlled by them sure are not. Whoever has the root password to these servers can decide on a whim that whats on the blorkchain no longer matters.
are there stats for the rendering ? that would be quite useful to compare similar implementations in other languages etc.
The article goes into significantly more depth than is quoted above, building motivation first by describing the approach initially taken by Tao (as I understand it, analyzing the combinatorial expansion of a particular graph on the integers) followed by giving an overview of the new approach (analyzing the spectral expansion of the difference between Tao's graph and a simplification thereof) and why the simplification was reasonable. Obviously the overwhelming majority of the gory details were spared, but given the content I thought the author did a good job giving a high level picture accessible to a relatively general audience.
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In the decade I spent working on RenderMan at Pixar, I learned just how immensely useful it was to have an image viewer running in a separate process talking to the renderer over a socket or pipe. (The Image Tool, or "It" is RenderMan's viewer.) Having it stay up even if you kill the render or it crashes for some reason and being able to flip back and forth to easily compare test renders across recompiles is game changing.

If I were to start writing a new renderer, the first thing I'd do is to hook it up to an external image viewer over some protocol. These days, I find myself liking TEV (https://github.com/Tom94/tev) a lot as a simple open-source image viewer that supports this and most other basic features that I'd want. See the links in the README for Python and Rust implementations of its protocol.
Exactly. Many of her ideas are physically impossible because there is good evidence capillary blood isn't homogeneous enough to give accurate results for quantitative tests at the volumes Holmes was touting.
Basing severity on dollars stolen is flawed - it should based on the percentage of the victims assets stolen. Taking $1 million fraudulently from Warren Buffett is not the same as taking it from the average pensioner.
Honest question : as a GoF researcher, wouldn’t I generate thousands (millions) of mutations from my 1st virus pool, which would each have a low number of mutation (s or n) compared to the original strain, then “select” the most resistant ones from that 1st pool of mutants, and use those to repeat the process ? I’d expect the result to be much richer in n mutation than in silent ones, just because I forced their selection. Am I missing something?
I don’t care when fools are parted with their money, but if this truly is approaching the point where there may be systemic risk then there must be *no bailout* for crypto. Stabilize the system, but let all of these people go bankrupt.
> Would you be interested in an unreleased "Cosby Show" lego set that was supposed to come out right before he got cancelled?

Can't tell if serious. If serious, was this out of Lego Ideas (Cuusoo)? [I worked on the Back to the Future DeLorean set with the designers in Denmark]
Or the information isn't up-to-date ... This is the kind of thing you always should check on an embassy or other government page.
Go research wire fraud.
The UK Guardian is an interesting example of a highly ideological oped/news spin organization that relies heavily on the readers it influences to fund itself, which has been quite successful recently after hemorrhaging cash and readers previously under its 'run by a trust' model.
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A lot of hardware had exceptional documentation in the past. I have extremely high end equipment from the 80s and almost all of it came with a booklet with a copy of a complete hand drawn schematic including part numbers, test points, procedures for repairing and disassembling...

And then it all stopped, seemingly because building equipment became cheap enough to do that they started worrying about duplicates. Now you end up with errors that you'd never get if people were still able to learn how nice stuff works, by making it dangerous to publish the designs publicly now no one has detailed implementation references. Sure, things like the RPi and Arduino exist so you can find open hardware but it's nothing like when almost everything was open by default.

I wish things had gone down differently but things made post 2000 I end up throwing out far more often than stuff from the 1980s. Some of that is selection bias but a lot of it is having access to detailed repair manuals.
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Could anybody explain why this is wire fraud and not normal fraud?
Are you sure? They employed well over 100k people I thought, and maybe a handful of those people actually knew the full scope of the project.
Man, you need to know how to talk :) . Another person with exactly same starting point - well, except Director, as one wouldn't get it in the first place - wouldn't be nearly as successful, in fact the picture could be almost exactly opposite.
That post hardly generated any attention (2 comments). But there was a substantial discussion last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29714752
For my case, if we're getting a Office document, it's almost guaranteed to break when opened with latest LibreOffice.

We don't handle these files everyday, but it's a necessity. If the data inside a file can be transported with something FOSS, it's already carried with that software.

So, in my case, at least; I'd rather do my research and create more GPL software rather than trying to convince established companies to switch to LibreOffice.
If companies made their ads informative/interesting in some way instead of pure propaganda mind poo with dumb jingles, puns and foolish attempts to sound humorous perhaps I wouldn’t black hole them all so much with Adblock and pihole
Except for PCR has been around for decades and its basic principles are taught in first year molecular biology courses.

Whereas Theranos' newfangled secret "innovation" was ... well, a secret throughout.
"For example, we know that the delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 leaked out of a lab in Taiwan in late 2021." - is exactly (mechanically) true in that Delta did leak out of a lab in Taiwan in late 2021.

This statement does not declare that Delta’s origins were a lab leak, since late 2021 is a year after Delta was first detected in late 2020. Can’t have your origins in the future until time travel is invented.

Seems therefore more proper to interpret the statement exactly as written rather than add additional conspiratorial inferences.
The Indian vaccine certificate is digital and has a QR code.
That fruit juicer company over promised and under delivered, wasn't fraud tho.
Yes okay. I was thinking more along the lines of “this red fades quicker than this yellow. So if I want the picture to be in harmony in 2 years still I need to put in the red now a bit thicker. Even if that means that right after finishing it doesn’t look as they intended.
Ah fair enough. In regions where it gets cold enough to damage the wood in the winter people wrap them.

It’s pretty common in Brooklyn NYC to see fig trees wrapped in tar paper.
Hey Vitya, we were wondering -- do you actually work at one of those famous troll farms, or are your HN comments just an after-hours gig?
How does it work in a case where the customer's relationship is with a reseller, but the reseller was given false information from the test maker? Is only the test maker liable, or are both the reseller and test maker liable?
I've not had personal experience with selenophenol but I wonder how it compares with thioacetone when it comes a human's ability to detect it.

Here's a stinky selenium anecdote from when I was a kid. In those days I used to build electronic projects out of parts from war surplus equipment. This was before the time when silicon diode rectifiers were cheap enough to buy on a kid's pocket money (especially so the high current variety), so the fallback was either vacuum tubes or selenium rectifiers.

Anyway, selenium rectifiers were cheap and plentiful except that I didn't have easy access to the high current variety. This led to the rectifiers often being overloaded and sometimes failing catastrophically. It turns out that in their death throes selenium rectifiers emit the most horrible pungent stink somewhat akin to hydrogen sulphide, however once one becomes familiar with the stench there's no mistaking it for H2S.

I've been known to stink the house out much to my mother's chagrin. Yes, even back then I was aware that these selenium fumes were toxic so I did exercise some care but it'd not have passed any of today's occupational health standards.

BTW, selenium rectifiers can be remarkably tolerant of overload and abuse, moreover they warn you when overstressed or they're about to fail as they begin to stink to high heaven.
So basically, don't hire any Coloradans nor get offices there ?

I mean "just don't say that's what you're doing or you're in violation of colorado law" is hardly intimidating for those of us outside Colorado.

It will make Coloradans much less desirable for remote jobs though, even if you don't find out about it.

Thanks for the warning though.
If you're on macOS and into Vim, KV brings Vim motions everywhere
You can probably feed something to mpv that way too.
> I'm also not hurting anyone by making copies of things, the only negative side-effect is that the creator might make less money.

This is not true, and this is codified into copyright law already. A discussion of copyright cannot continue past this point until it’s understood and agreed that using others’ work without permission comes with multiple kinds of social harm. People can be and have been sued for breach of copyright without either making a financial gain nor taking away from the creator’s financial gain. It’s fundamentally damaging because it’s not yours to copy and distribute, and there are reasons beyond money why, including a variety of ways it can affect your reputation. The law has only been getting more clear on this point that nobody should have to justify why they wish to reserve all rights and not allow others to take their work, which is why copyrights became default-on for everything created, and no longer requires registration.

> I don’t care if others sell copies of my work

This is great! This must mean that your income doesn’t depend on your creative work, right? It’s important to fully understand that many people do care, not only if others resell their works, but they care deeply if others even redistribute their work.

20 + 50 seems like it could be reasonable-ish to me but how do you arrive at that “ought to be long enough to make their money”? How long does it take, on average, for creators including all the non-Disney entities? Given that this has to work well on balance for everyone. Why should it even matter how long it takes for a creator to “make their money”?
> I like good eggs, but I’m not paying $1/egg

It looks like Whole Foods charges about half that for fancy organic eggs.

However, if you sold them at the Ferry Building in San Francisco and had a good story about why your eggs were special, I think you could get $12 a dozen.

How many of us are going to balk at $1/egg after we just paid $5 for an espresso and are ogling the $50 bottles of olive oil? Especially if we've been conditioned to not eat too many eggs because "cholesterol."
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No, I'm not just talking about organic milk. I think there is a huge taste difference even between grass-fed organic milk and "normal" organic milk. (Note I've never seen non-organic grass-fed milk). Normal organic milk doesn't actually taste all that different compared to conventional milk to me.

For me the biggest taste difference is from the grass, not the organic.
Ordered by chance of decline (IMHO):

1. Netflix (~50% chance) - I feel it's only bundled with the rest of FAANG to make it sound better. In any case, HBO/Disney/Apple/whoever producing a cultural phenomenon like "Game of Thrones" would be enough for Netflix to lose the lead. Netflix wants to game viewers based on big data, but I feel like that will only lead to more and more generic stuff being produced.

2. Facebook (~25% chance) - It has pissed off multiple governments and other tech giants. Younger generations don't really care about it, and older people are starting to understand that it thrives on outrage.

3. Google (~10% chance) - Most of their services are slowly becoming worse, but I feel there's at least another decade before disruption time.

4. Apple (~1% chance) - Even if they need to allow additional app stores by law, I don't see that significantly impacting their bottom line. iPhone/iPad/Watch are the device to own in their categories, and the latest crop of Macbooks have been absolutely stellar. Additionally, they have by far the most devout userbase out of any big tech company. If anything can hurt Apple, that's the NIH syndrome, but it's more of a long-term concern.

5. Amazon (0% chance) - Yeah, not happening. Amazon is synonymous with online retail in a time when online retail is what keeps the world going. And AWS is only going to grow, even if it somehow manages to fall behind Azure. Labor unions will certainly show up, but so will automation.
These days shared hosting with multiple tenants is more commonly known as "serverless". A bit of a misnomer since servers are involved, but it's the common term.
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I added them to put things in context and refute the statement that Holmes’s situation was about Betsy Devos pulling strings.

I couldn’t care less or sympathize with billionaires who have already made back magnitudes of the money they lost on Theranos with other investments.

For example, Larry is up $14 billion(!) on a $1 billion investment in Tesla in 2018.

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/larry-elliso...
Not saying this is the case for Holmes', but scams can definitely destroy people's lives. It's not just about being financially ruined - which isn't a small thing - but also the feeling of guilt associated with having fallen for the trick.
Which is still something like 1200 Wh/kg. Worlds beyond li-ion...