skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not particularly surprising, if you assume that the jury was essentially looking for a specific, traceable line between representations from Elizabeth Holmes herself (and nobody else) and the subsequent payment as a necessary element of fraud. (Whether or not the jury was doing so could be guessed from reading the jury instructions, which I haven't done).

Being found guilty of defrauding investors in that light is easy because Holmes did specific acts, such as basically saying "we're endorsed by $BIG_PHARMA" knowing that they weren't, as part of her investor pitch--that's a pretty unambiguous traceable injury. But tracing anything she herself said to getting a random schmoe on the street to take a blood test... again, if you think fraud requires that specific act, it's not hard to see why someone would vote not guilty there.

Of course, I would still have liked to see her proclaimed guilty on fraud for the test results. But as abhorrent as her actions may have been, they may not have necessarily climbed the bar into illegality.
It is indeed using an iframe.
Even common parts like certain voltage regulators.

Volumes were 1-10 million annually.
Then she could be prosecuted by the State of California, for violation of state fraud laws.
Oftentimes I resent going to work when I'm stuck in the office. I find that I have trouble focusing for eight hours, even when working on more mentally stimulating things. I am lucky to also have laid back and friendly relationships with many of my coworkers, and we share friendly banter throughout the day. This helps break up the monotony a lot.

What really keeps me interested in this job is the field work. Periodically I'll need to travel to the customer's facility, and that work is much more hands on. I'll often be "debugging" with a multimeter and screwdriver, on my knees or back in an electrical panel, or making code fixes that I can see affecting moving machine parts right in front of me.

It's one thing to work on something like traditional software which only directly changes stuff on a computer screen, but I get I get awfully bored and disinterested without some "real", physical results of my work. From what I've learned speaking to others and reading here, I'm not alone. To be honest I don't think I would last for very long at any job without being able to work with my hands.
From what I understand, the texts are perhaps from 1800-1500 BCE but the manuscripts aren't. That ancient and medieval manuscripts are almost universally younger copies of older texts is common knowledge. The oldest manuscript in the set of "30 Rigveda scriptures kept in BORI" that you're presumably referring to dates back only to 1464 CE: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.403...

> 5. Oldest Dated Manuscript:

> No. 5/1882-83 (1464 AD)

> ...

> There are 30 manuscripts of Rigveda at the Institute, collected from different parts of India like Kashmir, Gujarat, the then Rajaputana, Central Provinces etc. They are written in Sharada, Devanagari and Devanagari with Prishthamatra and the material used for writing is birch bark as well as paper. The oldest of these manuscripts is dated 1464 A. D.

So if these are the texts you're referring to, then Wikipedia is not out of date here and your information is simply wrong. Not even the UNESCO nomination text attempts to claim that these manuscripts are three thousand years older than how old they actually are.
Tech giants seem to have fire problems in Germany lately
Thanks! I do intend to keep improving and I have a huge list of to do's for 2022 and beyond. I am glad to hear it ran well for you and you liked it.
True, but that statement doesn’t make the implication you claim; the other arm of the statement would have to be an assertion that the hospitalization rate would (or would not) have been higher had no vaccination been performed.

“Fortunately” (well for this argument anyway) there are natural experiments going on (including between US states, between counties in large states like California, and between European countries) that appear to demonstrate that vaccination does in fact reduce hospitalization
There's a difference between what happens for economic reasons and what would happen for an actual security / supply chain threat.
I experience physical withdrawal from sugar. There isn't really any medical literature to back it up. It gives me sinus headaches so I do not consume it at all. The multiple times I've cut it out (took a few tries) I would get quite sick for 12-24 hours. Strong sinus headache, cold sweat, shivering, vomiting, diarrhea.
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Why are figs unsafe for vegans?

(After reading the article, I guess because of the wasps. But I thought the idea of veganism was to not harm any sentient creature, not to avoid consuming the biomass of any once-sentient creature. Otherwise, surely all plant life on earth, as one way or another fertilised by once-sentient biomass, would be off-limits!)
Oh, maybe I interpreted wrong. I do know that was the explanation given to me from a friend I have nicknamed Sunny.
In some ways this reminds me of the ill-fated flight MH370. It's not that there's compelling evidence that the pilot took deliberate action to divert the plane and assumedly land it in the Indian Ocean in a place where it would be hard to find because of the distance from land and depth of the ocean. It's that it's the only theory that fits the facts.

Likewise, it's not that there's compelling evidence of a lab leak (now or in 2019/2020). It's that we're sort of left with it by process of elimination. For example: if Covid-19 came from an animal population (eg via Wuhan wet markets) then why hasn't that population been found? The sources of SARS and MERS were, I believe, found relatively quickly.

Just like we shouldn't just accept the prevailing theory of MH370's disappearance as fact and we should continue to look for the plane and hopefully factually establish what actually happened, we shouldn't take the "lab leak" hypothesis as fact. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

As for the articles claims about Omicron origins... I really don't know. I'm certainly no virologist so can't speak to the mutations. That's an odd-looking graph though.

I'm also wary of drawing conclusions from anything to do with statistics, just because it's so easy to make a mistake. My favourite example is the long-running idiocy about "natural immunity" being better than a vaccine. This is based on comparing two populations: vaccinated and unvaccinated. Except... those populations aren't equivalent. The vaccinated group includes people who would've died without the vaccine (and thus are more likely to have comorbidities). Those people are dead in the unvaccinated population.
I think the point is that someone could bankrupt the average hobbyist in an hour or two, if they were expected to pay it.
JWST: Second and Third Layers of Sunshield Fully Tightened
I’d be curious on the economics for publishing… probably varies by the genre. I can’t imagine most tech publishers, for example, are banking on profits in 50 years.

Someone probably could get industry numbers for how much publishers make on copyright older than 50 years… and with the time discount for 50 years of not having the money to use for other purposes… and see how much each creator gets in the star-search lottery
A lot of things are the main text of the US Constitution that are not inherent individual rights: the entire text about how representatives are allotted between States for example.

To say that in the natural world people don't always have their rights guaranteed does not mean that Senator age requirements are in the same category of Right as a Right to a fair trial. One of those is a moral right and one of them is an administrative policy.

The age of copyright in the relation to the US is kind of weird debate to have, because in general we would want to look considerably earlier than the formation of the US to talk about moral rights, or at least we would want to look at arguments outside of the Constitution to try and figure out whether Copyright is a moral right or a pragmatic policy.

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All we really get from the Constitution is:

> To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

Which just leads to more endless debate over what "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" actually means, and whether a government right to regulate something is the same as an individual right/entitlement to a specific regulatory outcome (usually we don't treat those two things as the same). And we can go down that rabbit hole of what the founders intended, but in some ways that debate almost doesn't even matter when we get into what people are morally entitled to, because if the argument is that copyright is a natural property right that people are morally entitled to, that argument shouldn't boil down to "Jefferson thought so."

Looking at what the founders intended really only matters if copyright isn't a moral right, it matters if it's a policy designed to produce an outcome because then we can look at intent and see if the policy is producing the desired outcome. If people want to argue that they're morally entitled to a monopoly on pieces of culture, then they need a much stronger argument for that position.
The clips in the below playlist seem to be from the print used for the original DVD master.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLbdfgY_IhM&list=PLrT4uvwaf6...

Although I only saw the film once in theaters, I watched the DVD religiously, and these clips seem consistent with that version.

Note: The film was shot on Super 35, and cropped to 2.39:1 for theatrical distribution. This is the 16:9 "open matte" version (more information on the top and bottom), probably intended for cable television.

Edit: The clips in the playlist uploaded in 2016 (i.e. clip 1, and clips 6-14) are consistent with the original DVD release. The rest seem to be from some other release.
> That's not to say that is impossible, but without good examples we can all say a bunch of stuff and it won't mean anything.
Are you willing or can you share the names of some of these companies?
Plausible, yes. If the data exists, it should be made public. The article still mostly just makes a hypothesis and makes the argument that this is something that should be seriously investigated, not that the author has determined without a doubt that this is a lab leak.
He doesn't claim the origin of Delta was a lab leak. He claims Delta leaked from a lab in Taiwan.
Good point. I probably should replace all the credit cards I have with temporary ones...
Just as likely as basic credential compromise is lateral attacks on compute resources from vulnerabilities such as Log4J.

Enabling MFA, restricting intra/inter-VPC access, removing hard-coding credentials from configuration files/source etc., switching to SSO/removing user accounts with passwords, creating and applying restricted IAM roles, and applying those reduced privileges to EC2/ECS/EKS instances are all things that and should be done as soon as possible. (Non-exhaustive, but illustrative list)
> Well, it's not a roadblock but it's a dark-pattern and user hostile. Just like the lack of spending limits on AWS.

Yeah I explicitly say it wasn't pro user. I was more disputing the "Jeff Bezos did not become a billionaire" (presumably by making it hard to cancel prime) part.
There is a Russian open archive containing all Unices. I cannot remember the URL, but will check when I get out of the airplane.

EDIT: Got it:
http://mirrors.pdp-11.ru
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Thanks for the feedback. There is some performance work to be done if you are seeing "Working on it..." for File Explorer, so that could be possible for larger folders. As for apps saying that, some of them require large library files to download first so depending on internet it could be downloading 1-10MB+ if you open something bigger. I am using CloudFlare CDN but it also could be possible if you are in an area where it's not cached that it gets it from my web server at StableHost which is slow.

Thanks for checking it out anyway! I hope one day you can try it with a smoother experience because when it works, it can do a lot, although it's a lot of just messing around. :-)
Since aca I just use a platinum aca plan though I would not choose either of the companies you mention. Kaiser has its own network which defeats the purpose for me while Anthem is…just so terrible a company I will never ever buy from them.
Well I did not demand their attention so I suppose that is a different thing, in fact I did attempt to engage them with questions but after a few "Huh What?" when they look up from their phones, then a one word answer and back to their phones...I just ate my meal in silence.

I agree no one wants to listen to someone drone on and on, or brag about themselves but that is not what was going on in this specific case.

The truth is it was only a lunch and now that I know how going to lunch with these guys works, I just wont bother inviting them again. I just needed to vent a bit I suppose, and you are correct it would be rude to make my opinion of their conduct known to them and would have come across as a demand for their attention.
The false idea that you can’t steal copies has already been dealt with multiple times in this comment thread, and it’s addressed directly and rejected by our Copyright law. A compelling argument needs to be able to accept the fact that taking copies is harmful and demonstrate that the good outweighs the harm.

> it’s not like I will take all your business just like that.

Yes it is, that is exactly what happens when copyrights expire, and the debate we’re having is precisely over whether it should be legal to take all of the business because you’re better at marketing than the original creator. If you don’t do it, someone else will, more so now with the internet than ever before.

> People will still buy from you by default

That’s an assumption that doesn’t stand up to a reality check, it’s rare for media that expires copyright and has a revenue stream to continue providing that same revenue in the face of competition. This is exactly why Disney has asked for extensions.

> If people buy from me instead, that means I am providing some value that you are not providing. And that is good for society.

Not automatically it’s not. The easiest “value” to provide is to steal something you didn’t make, and offer it for less money than the original because you don’t have anything to recoup. That’s not good for society, and it’s why copyrights exist in the first place.
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Is there a future here that doesn't involve either of these or is it so embedded in future projects that were destined to have to partake?
> Completely different part of the stack.
> UPS delivers the end product from a warehouse to the customer's house.

Until recently UPS had freight business as well, from what I know, it wasn't doing so well and they sold it to another company. UPS has massive supply chain business, they can deliver from manufacturer to the end user, from what I know, it roughly 30% of their business. And if you $big$ enough, they can manage all your inventory and manage entire logistics needs.
The classic AmigaOS NTSC resolution was 640x200, and PAL was 640x256, both displayed as 4:3, so they look very cramped and squished on modern square-pixel displays. It's not difficult to double the height to get a 640x400 or 640x512 image, which is a lot closer to the intended appearance on modern screens, but still not quite right.

Later versions of AmigaOS supported higher resolutions, including square-pixel resolutions, but a lot of the UI artwork was still designed with lower-resolutions in mind so it still looks weird.

640x200, doubled to 640x400, but the clock still looks weird: http://toastytech.com/guis/amiga1apps.png

640x512, with a reasonable-looking circle at the top, but the icons in the middle look ridiculous: http://toastytech.com/guis/amiga2bounce.png

640x480 (square pixels!) with a nice clock, a nice colour wheel, and nice icons, but the title-bar buttons and the keyboard shortcuts in the menu look weird: http://toastytech.com/guis/amiga35utils.png
737, not 757
This is also detailed really nicely in Atomic Habits
It's not "we expect this change" it's "we expect this trend to continue".

Plenty of countries are below replacement birth rates already, it is a trend that goes along with economic development and happens in a few generations. Some US states have lost population in the last couple of years for the first time ever.
Trying to abolishing imperfect parts of society with no tested replacement solution is a dangerous game.

Some people are or became irredeemably antisocial and need to be kept away from society at large. Watch any liveleak video around the mexican cartel if you need a reminder of what evils people are truly capable of.

That being said, sure want to properly reintegrate everyone possible. But society understandably does not exactly welcome past offenders back with welcome arms. It is kind of hard to be productive again when few places will even consider hiring you. That isn't a stigma you can just wish away.
Science and Quantum Computing are NOT for all
How many wall st honchos went to jail for the subprime mortgage crash ?
I feel like you're unfairly biased. The author doesn't say what you think they do. All they're saying is that there was a lab leak of delta in 2021 as an example of lab leaks being possible. They do not argue that this was the source of delta, nor that this was the source of any other strain. Just that it happened.

Sorry, the hysteria on HN is ridiculous. At least read the damn thing and try to be objective about it.
Perhaps a laundry mart.
Go back to artillery, etc. mechanical targeting in WWII, just before electric computers came onto the scene. Feynman talks about those mechanical computers in Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman. Apparently, you can do mechanical integrals and derivatives with specially-shaped non-round gears.
The point of sending them to jail for a long, long time is to protect society from them. Honest people don't deserve to live in a society filled with liars and cheats and conmen. Send them straight to hell
They need let go if this "Five Nuclear-Weapon States" charade.

Like we're children and don't know how to count.
> I also think there is a question of what the cost, in terms of developer cognitive load, would be of adding more advanced modeling features to go.

That's the thing about Sum Types. They're not really an advanced feature at all: they map to an extremely intuitive human concept: "or". They reduce cognitive load. That's the advantage of having them. In fact, I suspect that a lot of the reason that dynamic languages are considered simpler is because every variable is essentially one big sum type. Trying to represent "or data types" without sum types requires you to use interfaces which are a much more advanced language feature, and are very awkward for the use case of a finite number of known cases.

You could have a perfectly functional language with only logical AND (&&) and logical negation (!) and no logical OR (||). It wouldn't cause any practical issues. But you wouldn't: it would be incredibly awkward. Likewise there should be a datatype for OR (sum types) as well as AND (structs/classes).
I would hope that is because of the wallpaper or CDN misses, because in general I hadn't had such issues. Thanks for the feedback. Perhaps you could try setting an image as the wallpaper to stop the animated one which can be a hog.
thanks for sharing -- most entertaining thread i've read in quite some time
You misread that - there is no claim that delta was initially released by a lab, rather a the known fact that a lab studying delta had an accident. Read the links the author provided.
Consumer Complaint: we would rather "X"
Response: ACKSHULLY, {everything} has always been "Y" so the "X" you want as a consumer is kinda invalid

This argument sequence is a special kind of infuriating
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We’ve got a lot of work to do, and HN has good people.
Figs have wasps remains in them. Wasps are a necessary step for pollination, explained here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofmeister_kink