skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The voters have the power to curtail influence of big ag and other corporate oligarchies, but that requires not being afraid of voting for leftist ideas like class consciousness, unions, and stronger government regulation on big businesses.
It seems so, as she's going to jail. However, that wasn't the crux of my original point. The legal standard and the SV standard have been divergent in may circles for quite some time. May folks do "take liberties with the truth" because your investors should know better - If someone went for coffee with 26th US secretary of defense for the united states of america and explained how it would be useful for the military, and that person said it would be and they could easily have the military look at testing it, I don't believe it would be uncommon for a founder to then turn around and say to an investor "the military is going to be running a test with our equipment", I wouldn't traditionally expect then to have the possibility of being prosecuted for wire fraud hanging over me if my startup failed. That said, we should all now _expect_ the legal standard is the SV standard. It will be interesting to see how it impacts the industry, if at all.
A colleague of mine was contracted by one of several firms tasked with liquidating Theranos' Newark facilities back in Aug 2018. I took the opportunity to grab the equivalent of $15,000 of tools, furniture, scientific equipment, and of course, swag. All legally - liquidators are tasked with clearing the site of everything by a set time.

Had free reign throughout the facility for two days, scavenging through 200k sqft+ of warehouse, marveling at the cringey pseudo-motivational blather posted everywhere and grabbing whatever could fit into my apartment at the time. At one point, we spotted Holmes (and her "special needs" Siberian Husky puppy who left dribbles of urine on the warehouse floor) arguing with some operators from afar.

We weren't allowed to touch specific computers, chemicals or any hardware locked in the cages (incl Edison devices), but everything else was up for grabs, from high-end Mitutoyo measuring tools to Aeron chairs to U-Line desks, Theranos bumper stickers, water bottles, etc etc etc.

So yeah, I've got a few bits of Theranos branded gear... Still waiting on the right time to sell.

[0] https://imgur.com/a/36HtZCp
China’s total Africa investments are not that high compared to the scenario of the parent to infiltrate Ukraine that way. The issue of where the population of people to move to Ukraine doesnt work either.
Yes, the DB was encrypted for no good reason except that locking users. Funnily enough at that point Mendeley could import from Zorero but Zotero could not import anymore. Thanks to Greydon Gilmore and GDB, I was able to get out: https://blog-academic.greydongilmore.com/phd_related/mendele...
This appears to be inane drivel from a silver hyperbull.
I really don't think there's much of a "there" there. In addition to the points others have made, she wouldn't have even gotten off the ground with this if she'd been a nobody from a poor family. Leveraging her family's connections was an essential part of the process and makes the whole thing even more shady.
Why would having children be a factor? Would the same apply for a man with a young child?
I find it odd/funny that it was the only comment from his account since 2013
There is a lot of silver piled up already. I hope for the sake of the taxpayers that would have to pay for BofA's mistake, that the amount of liquid silver out there is way too big for anyone to corner.
because of the ASML fire?
Possibly because Russia is preparing to invade Ukraine in the near future unless immense concessions by NATO are made.
Agreed. Also the federal government is generally keen on appearing “tough on tech” these days
Reminds me of this Wall Street Bets post: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/mbx510/slv_...

Basically says the silver market is manipulated to crush retail investors.
How does Visa List make money? I'm not sure I can find its business model besides ads, though that might be it.
Reverse engineering is not bad, and it is dismaying that someone posting on a site called "Hacker News" would think so.

Personal attacks aside,

I'm just saying that if I get a blood test and it says I've got AIDS and I actually don't -

and that's all because some sociopath grifter with less of an education than what's been proven with my own Bachelors of Fine Arts realized that to swindle millions of more dollars from her geriatric backers she's been manipulating (and ruining the lives of their own family members),

she needs to fake the test results from an impossible dream machine that does NOT exist and couldn't ever - because it defies the laws of physics,

and does this by running modified machines of her competitors that are now basically broken,

in secret rooms she doesn't tell journalists or inspectors about,

well: that's truly fucked.
Are revenues Net revenues?
the visalist page has a popup asking users to either re-enable ads, or subscribe (which i presume might be paid? didn't look further).
Improve type generic programming proposal for C23 [pdf]
Yes. BofA has written IOUs to buyers unknown to me saying they will deliver 800M ounces of silver to them at some point in the future, where this point is determined by the buyers.

Given their lack of capability to produce this good, they have taken about $18 billion risk assuming they are able to manipulate the market with more strength than the buyers.

I cannot imagine how this level of risk is acceptable… without a massive taxpayer footed fallback plan
> Assume readers know the basics or will look them up [...] One of the beautiful things about reading on the internet is that google is just a click away

That doesn't fit my experience writing programming tutorials at all. The people reading them will not "google it". they'll just get confused that you didn't explain everything and they therefore got lost.

Certainly the top of the article lists pre-recs and links to them but it's surprising how many people will read lesson number 15 of 40 and skip lessons 1 through 14 and then complain that they didn't understand it. I end up having to spell it out. Bla bla bal (which we covered in lesson 3), does bla bla bla (covered in lesson 7) etc....
Imagine though a world where copyright is at most twenty years under special cases, ten years by default...

» Nobody is going to pay for the rights to the Hitman video game franchise and create The Professional. Because if you mutate the story that much you’re legally in the clear.

We would see new movies using footage from existing twenty year old movies maybe even a different cut of not so old movies.

I think age of five years for patents and twenty years for copyright is the maximum I can support.
saudi Armco doesn't count
This was written in 2009, subsequently there is Dialog: https://linusakesson.net/dialog/index.php which is a meld of Prolog (!) with IF and it's very, very nice to program in.
Gazing into the VOID (Verica Open Incident Database)
Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown!

(on a serious note: the answer is, the scientists don't have to know about a leak for it to have happened, the important part is that they don't want to know. That is, China prefers if this question goes unanswered.)
The comment I was responding to was "People ... are fleeing for the exits," which is clearly not the case. The picture given is a stampede, where what's really happening is a few people going to the ATM and placing chips at a roulette wheel.
I was just about to say... Is /r/wallstreetbets all over this yet? Taking out BofA seems like their idea of fun.
There are four things need to have a potential microstartup.
#1 Problem that has business potential and big enough
#2 Audience who has that burning problem
#3 Distribution channel to get the solution into users hands
#4 Business model aka pricing fit for the Problem-Audience
Netflix, each media holder is looking to monetize and create their own streaming platform. Netflix was first, but does not hold rights to Disney, NBC, etc -

For primary markets, USA and such it will have more and more competition but in other parts of the world they'll be able to still license content until more mature infrastructure develops - netflix is #2 to CDN/cohosting in the world, right behind facebook.

Disney plus though, really getting up there with creative content and it's massive legacy of IP.

Google - Adtech, no problems there unfortunately, just more crappy internet.
Apple - iPhones/Macbook and it's ecosystem is alive and well though revenue stream of app store could change in the future.
Amazon - Infrastructure as a service, way better than Google, no problem here. Storefront is a minor part of it's business.
100% agreed. Again, this is a possibility, not a certainty. But I'd be loath to dismiss it, just as I am not willing to dismiss a reservoir origin. In the end, the author does make a good point: we need mandatory disclosures of GoF research and a general ban on GoF financing of labs who aren't working in full disclosure mode.

Ideally, we should not have this discussion because the GoF leak is impossible. Sadly, as secretive as this research is, as much money as we funnel into labs in China and Russia, and as reluctant as oversight authorities (such as the WHO) are to even consider leaks, the best response would be a general ban on GoF and GoF financing.
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In case you haven't read already, I highly recommend reading Bad Blood.
Curious, could you elaborate how a dynamic languages variables are essentially sum types? Im not very familiar with types as a whole, though I've been doing some exploration in TS and Rust over the post few weeks
And her misdeeds did not just cost some wealthy investors some money; they seem to have played a significant role in the suicide of Theranos chief scientist Ian Gibbons: https://www.businessinsider.com/theranos-ceo-elizabeth-holme...
There are plenty of products and industries that don't require chips built with the latest tech on the market. You might not put those chips in the newest computers or phones, but that doesn't mean they can't power other products. Plenty of scientific and industrial products and processes are suited well by "old" tech. Same thing with many consumer products. My car and blender don't need CPUs manufactured on 3nm nodes.
That’s a really great write up. Wish there were an easy way to find others like this from WSB. There’s so much junk on there to weed through.
How else do we simulate shrinkage in the supply chain?
China says a lot of things.

I don't think the new heat seeking missile can hit an F-22, or that the new UHF radar can detect US stealth aircraft.
Sooooo..... Web 1.0?
Thanks for the link, it’s interesting that they have similar findings to other studies based on passive reporting systems like VAERS in the US.

I don’t think the forever-recurring boosters are going to be a thing, it seems like cellular immunity is holding, and from the apparent drop off in myocarditis with greater spacing between doses one and two in this paper, that seems like evidence that 3-6 months would have been a better spacing than 3-4 weeks

> Interestingly Moderna+Pfizer seems to have no(!?) risk, whereas myocarditis is very high among Pfizer+Moderna. Not sure what to make of it.

I wouldn’t pay this much heed at all (based on this data at least). There were under 10k people in that first group (and zero cases of myocarditis), and the confidence intervals of the poisson regression overlap. You can even see from the figure how the model predicts a non-zero rate even though there were no actual cases!
I think it’s worth highlighting dang’s comment on that one – it’s not as bad as it seems: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27068148
Perhaps students could use or even operate them. Undergraduate level electrical engineers would love to have access to a fab, even one a couple decades behind cutting edge.
>This was a disaster all around for everyone but her.

I don't know how you can say that, some of the trial evidence was heart breaking. Some of the emails, the texts back and forth between her and Sunny, what a mess, it sounded like she was totally losing her mind and stressed out to no end while being pushed and cajole by an unreasonably intense person behind the scenes. She was clearly devastated when the company collapsed, she very clearly believed in what she was doing, and now she is going to jail. That sound like beyond a disaster, it sounds like hell.
It's not surprising, because there's a very good argument that the guideline range for what she has been convicted of (and taking into account her conduct at trial, which is relevant) is life, with the actual sentence capped at the statutory maximum of the offenses stacked consecutively rather than concurrently.

Now, it's possible that the court wouldn't agree with that analysis and find slightly fewer points, or that it would agree but would make a downward departure, but...
I have no problem with that. What you are outlining is procedural and it's been culturally regularized over time, essentially it's self-checking as everyone knows the rules and what to do.

The problem comes when neophyte beginners decide to go hunting for mushrooms. They may think they've a good understanding of what's safe and often they do but it's the odd slipup or mistake that can turn fatal.

With mushrooms there is no margin for error, you're either right and enjoy a lovely meal or you die by a lingering death. It only takes one error for disaster to occur.

Take this story for instance: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-01-06/fatal-mushroom-meal-c.... Unfortunately, it's often a change of circumstance, or an unusual set of events that catches people out. I remember this accident happening, tragically similar scenarios have happened all too frequently in many countries.
I would always try to do a quick launch, take no more than 4 weeks and launch it on PH, IH, Reddit, LinkedIn. The long term growth strategies are entirely different thing. But you will get basic validation. You are trying to fail fast.
According to an article in Nature[1]:

> Holmes described the miniLab as “the most important thing humanity has ever built”. But at best, the lab could do immunoassays using microfluidics. The tiny blood sample had to be diluted extensively (for which there are no reference standards or precedents), leading to artefacts and spurious results.

That (and other reports) sound like they diluted way more than usual.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05149-2
You know what? It's been easier to work harder for some, and harder to work at all for others. Would not surprise me.
I set a goal on day 1 on what the microstartup should achieve once its launched. Traction is something you define for yourself and your product.
> "They run concurrently except to the extent necessary to serve the full sentence the judge selects."

Note that that is a big except, when you have lots of points, which big $ frauds get you quickly.
Considering they are still making Sherlock Holmes movies and series... Yes they would still be making marvel movies, if they were popular. Other people might also be making them as well.
The main issue with self driving car is mixing human and machine drivers. Self driving will only be possible with a special lanes or areas for said cars.
Just about every (software) workplace I can think of in my area. My current workplace isn't a startup; startups are far worse with their work culture.

I fled a toxic startup for my current workplace about a year ago. Many things are better here. I'm pretty decent at what I do but no good at leetcoding, so interviews are a hard proposition for me.

The 11 pm meetings are an unfortunate consequence of timezone differences and the madness that is DST. I wouldn't mind it so much if they switch about the timings a bit (my evenings sometime and their evenings sometime), but not everybody thinks too much about these things, I guess. I can't kick up a fuss about it because I don't want to be a snowflake.

The working on weekends ... is again a sad consequence of covid-related WFH combined with workaholic tendencies that some of the senior folks have. I strictly stay away from my laptop on weekends, but I'm definitely and painfully aware that many co-workers including my boss are available on most weekends. I try not to let it bother me, and there are no spoken or written injunctions, but it's hard to hold your own against this all the time.

The money is decent. It's definitely not top-tier, but I'm not looking for top-tier pay in any case. A sane workplace is my holy grail :)
> Caffeine, empty stomach-

I find that I always code better on an empty stomach while drinking a warm cup of coffee. Is that a scientific thing?
from the article :

" “Tell me about your hobbies…” A person who has no hobbies, and can’t even exaggerate one, almost certainly lacks the ambition to make your company valuable. They are probably a loser. "

Am I missing some hidden nuance here? The interviewer is judging 'basic humanness' (their vocabulary, not mine) on the answers given to awkward questions in an already one-sided awkward interview.

Whether or not I want to talk about my hobbies in a interview has little to do with my technical or business acumen -- people get awkward around these kind of questions exactly because they don't grasp how it will affect the interview and the overall judgement , alienating people even more about how their 'extracurricular' activities outside the work place will affect their hirability is at minimum gauche , at most inhumane.

I echo the sentiment, I wouldn't want to work for losers who can't separate the business world from what I do on my off time, my favorite literature, my favorite yoga position ; whatever.
deterrence and punishment. it was pretty barbaric of her to screw with people's health and blood no?
The way this guy writes does not inspire confidence, he doesn’t seem to know what he’s talking about. He’s made a pretty big speculative leap about a large short position and then goes on to suggest that BoA would go under if they lost a few billion dollars (they have hundreds of billions in cash).

Nothing to see here unless you’re a conspiracy fan or somebody more legitimate says something.
This is absolutely incorrect. Saturday is called "Shani"-var (pronounced shunny) after the name for the Hindu god of justice [1]. Hindus also map his presence to the planet Saturn. Either way, no relation to the name Sunny at all. Source: several Indian friends of ages 18-50.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shani
Ask HN: What resources helped you to become mentally sharp
Hello HN what resources/tools you use for keeping yourself mentally sharp apart from the regular things we all already do like programming/reading/exercises.
> what good does it serve to lock up non violent criminals for decades?

If you're stealing hundreds of millions of dollars, is anything less than a decade really a deterrent? Especially since sophisticated actors are the most likely to be deterred by long prison sentences.

Heck, does it really do any good to lock up someone who comes home to find his wife cheating and kills her and her lover for 20-plus years? I would contend that locking up the white-collar criminal does more good.

But I'll take on your specific example. Any crazy rich people out there, I will serve 5 years in a minimum security Western European prison for 143MM USD safely accruing interest in accounts for when I get out.
I agree. Seems like a pretty obvious & inevitable transition to me. Corner bodegas got replaced by national chains. Local grocery stores got replaced by national chains. Local clothing manufacturers got replaced by national chains. Local bookstores got replaced by national chains. Local airlines got consolidated. Local car companies got consolidated. Local stock exchanges got consolidated.

It is pretty hard to find many examples where there's still a widespread set of small producers successfully staving off national consolidation.

It isn't clear to me how you, as a general matter, deal with the massive economies of scale that national chains have access to. Everything from much cheaper cost of capital to being able to cross-subsidize stores to better pricing power due to bulk buying to being able to simply hire better management due to have more free cash flow etc etc etc.
There was also a lot of scientific doubt about Theranos based on what is actually physically present in a drop of capillary blood.
I don't have an example search, although I'll try to remember to update this comment the next time it happens. On average I come across these things at least once a day, but it depends what I'm working on. It tends to be when searching for more obscure bugs, for which there is a GitHub issue but it's not ranked highly on Google for whatever reason, but these spam sites are ranked highly.

GitMemory is probably the most well-known example; it's just a thin layer over the GitHub API with a completely garbage UI, yet it often ranks higher than GitHub itself.
I see a potential problem, see if I can solve it. See if it's already being solved, if not I pitch the idea to few people. If atleast 50% got excited. I pick this idea to build.
Urllib3 raised $15,000 in 2021
Hmm, I guess I was wrong? I only have the 1 datapoint of the Indian friend named Sunny who told me this.
> I'm no fan of Holmes, but what good does it serve to lock up non violent criminals for decades?

“non-violent” criminals can do much more widespread damage individually than violent criminals are likely to, but are also more likely to be rationally deterrable with a sufficient consequences (which anything you'd willing gamble against the potential upside of the massive crime is not.)
If you're in the mood to sell, I'd be interested. 0 -> o + .co @ gmail.

I like hubris branding for the same (mythical) reason Canadian engineers do iron rings [0]: so that maybe when I'm waivering on an important decision, I'll look down at the logo on my coffee cup and remember that some things are more important than immediate professional gratification.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
Why would a woman get treated better just cause she's a woman?
A monolithic framework. Rails, Django, Laravel, etc.
Egress fees is one way to get a large bill on unrestricted static-file servers
Does anyone know the etymology of "black box"?
Which picture? Or do you just mean the fact that they still have the solar panels?
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What's your area? Do you maybe work remote from the Ukraine or similar for an American company?
Can you elaborate on your success rate and how frequently you work on new ideas and retire failed ones? I'm curious how you decide to pursue an idea and how you measure if something is working now that you've done this for a while.