skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don’t get to commit fraud just because your victims should have known better. That’s not how the law works
The privacy policies, legal terms, GDPR clickthroughs etc. all came about because everyone was already getting so evil with the cookies and tracking etc.

It’s nice to think they all cl appeared together as symptoms of Big Web but the truth is, the very early web that was built on trust and collaboration only lasted a blink of an eye before the bs starts to creep in.
You underestimate the lengths people go to make knockoffs.
Here's the earliest HN submission I could find on Theranos: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6349349

I don't really blame folks for not calling it out as a fraud at that point, given how little information we had. There were, for what it's worth, a number of people who complained about the ambiguity of the website. But many were convinced that the illustrious board must mean good results.

Well done to medman77 who had the most direct rebuke: "The company is all hot air. They have a board full of retired military figure heads that have no experience in medical devices or retail services. Additionally, they do not have any products to show. Look at their patents. They are all very general and broad. There has been NO FDA CLEARANCE for anything they are doing, which raises legal questions. Speaking of legal, search for lawsuits they are involved in. Their core technology is not even theirs. They stole it from someone else."
And India, Pakistan, Australia, Canada, Kenya, Nigeria. Mostly UK and its former colonies. But not exclusively.

The public health debacle is worst in the US because the US federal government massively subsidizes production of sugar as a way to use up what of its (also massively subsidized) maize production is not forced on every kind of livestock, or exported.

Ironically, regular corn sugar, dextrose, is relatively harmless. It becomes poison only via treatment with the enzyme that turns half of it to fructose.
Syntax and ISAs (instruction set architectures) are mutually exclusive.

GAS (GNU's Syntax) for example uses `mov src,dest`, whereas Intel Syntax uses `mov dest,src`. It still assembles down to the exact same instructions.

The problem with GAS is that it's verbose and almost arcane. It requires a lot of extra notation to indicate what you want to do when it's not entirely necessary. There are a lot of quirks and a number of footguns, too.

Intel syntax, on the other hand, is much more human friendly without sacrificing anything. Definitely start with Intel syntax.

The assembler itself might also have a preprocessor included, which allows you to write macros and stuff to automate tedious things or to DRY up code. Just a matter of checking the docs.

Lastly, ISAs are the actual instructions for a CPU - e.g. x86, AMD64, ARM, etc. Every assembler supports one or more of these of course. The syntax is irrelevant.

Hope that helps a bit. NASM is a great way to start.
I concur, your statement does indeed check out.

Though, it was my intent to communicate on the interwebs with a writing concept often referred to in some circles as 'a figure of speech'...
Well - in a thread posted by someone from the DRC about saving animals from harm, you appear to have made a blanket assessment about a country that was literally torn apart by European colonisation, solely on the basis of a single book written by some (presumably) European white man who met a vanishingly small fraction of the population of the world’s 16th largest country and decided based on that tiny sample that the entire country “lacks humanity”.

I hope you can perhaps see the problem here.
Well, they got Al Capone on tax evasion...

In my own mind, the test result fraud is far worse ethically - however as long as she is locked up, it still works.
I'm really surprised that people immediately jump to cloud providers even for personal projects when you can lease VPS and server instances for much cheaper.

A buddy of mine runs a crypto currency validator in AWS and pays over $1600 a month.

You can rent a dedicated server with 32 cores, 256GB RAM and 2TB of NVMe storage for $400 a month. Tent two in different data centers for redundancy and you'll still paying half, not to mention no surprise monthly bills due to increased traffic or creating an expensive snapshot of your DB.
Animal rights absolutists are certainly against animal studies and protest them. There just aren't that many of those people.

For the rest of us, the horrific experiments are theoretically in the service of reducing human suffering. A hundred mice to save a human seems like a fair trade (although the real ratio is unknowable).
China has done a lot to reduce cost and increase efficiency of solar cells, not alone though. And I didn't say they make no innovations, clearly they do.
> ...If the tax code says that I can obtain a tax credit for investing in solar panels

That's not what I'm talking about. I may think that's a stupid policy, but that's a policy.

I'm talking about having your company own a subsidiary in Ireland that owns trademarks your company licenses from them for, conveniently, 100% of your profits, which then moves their profits to the Netherlands, which then lets them move to a Dutch Caribbean island which then takes advantage of Caribbean solidarity laws to move it to the Caymans where yet another company that did no work takes the money and pays the 0% taxes there.

I'm also talking about loopholes like allowing individuals to take loans secured by appreciated assets to avoid having to sell those assets until death, when the estate will instantly adjust to market value.

Both of those were clearly never intended when the policies were set up, or if those were the secret intentions not what was publicized to the voters.

> How dare you?

Pretty trivially. I never said they were illegal. I said they were morally wrong loopholes. And I stand by it.
Do you think it's easier for people to raise money in the blood testing space now after this very high profile fraud? I've heard people say that it makes things much more difficult.

Also, Holmes's lies sucked up a ton of funding at the time. Not just the money given to her, but the investors who said "theranos already dominates blood testing, so we'll invest in another space"

This was a disaster all around for everyone but her.
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Oh interesting. My continue watching is the top row. Honestly - this is something I am disliking more and more about the A/B, personalized experience effect.

Somethings are much better for everyone to have a common experience without it being unique.

Your second and third point though are accurate for me too. Thanks for explaining.
I thought they backtracked on that? Though I agree even thinking it was smart and then announcing it was completely bone headed
Fair enough. But United States v Lopez weakened the Gun-Free School Zone Act a bit to require prosecutors to prove a link between the gun in question and interstate commerce.
Yes, this is true. But it's also somewhat narrow.

Consider this: days after the successful sequencing of Omicron, similar cases were reported in dozens of countries, having arrived there just before or just after the announcement. We know, that it's "just before," because references are being kept and re-analyzed in those cases, and none of the countries with the resources for genomic surveillance has any data on earlier strains in the phylogenic tree.

It is simply very unlikely (not impossible, but if you're in London and hear hoof beats, it's probably a horse, not a zebra), that Omicron could have developed over 33 N and a superset of S mutations without ever popping up in any surveillance. South Africa, especially, is a key surveillance player. They're often much more granular than even European key players like the UK, Germany, or France.

A strain with this level of infectivity doesn't linger in one hospital. From the looks of the genome, that part (infectivity) would have developed before immune evasion. Having a highly infective strain evolve would ring alarm bells in labs the world around.

I guess it's pretty non debatable that Omicron started its World Dominance Tour in October or November 2021. To get there, it had to undergo a massive sequence of events making it as far removed from α.7 as it is. So we can state, with some certainty, that it evolved in isolation and broke free shortly before being discovered.

If we now consider the possible origins, wild zoonotic, single origin immune compromised, or accidental leak from research, the latter doesn't sound so improbable anymore. Again, horse, not zebra.
“What the heck is a Yubikey and why did I buy one?”: A user guide
Nobody have present any evidence of any significant amount of nuclear power plant funding "being exchanged for political favors".

Note, we'd need both evidence of it happening at all, then evidence that it is endemic in nuclear power plant commissioning to explain that extremely poor economic performance of nuclear power plants.

> Safest are the ones that get cancelled without being finished.

We are in agreement here!
If you read the full review, it's not at all.
What are your stacks for these projects?
It was really poorly worded and confused me too until I saw the dates on the articles linked out.
Grass-fed beef will have a "gamier" taste than supermarket beef, especially if it is not "finished" by corn-feeding before slaughter. It's not bad, it's just different. If you are used to the taste of steak from the supermarket beef, which is mostly corn-fed, grass-fed "free-range" beef will taste different.
> So then you just run these plants at a loss?

If there is no demand then yes, absolutely. It's normal for countries (inc. the US) to run and subsidize their infrastructure at a loss if it is critical to their national security.
Things move pretty fast in China, so even though they are slow to innovate they can quickly copy designs where enough detailed information exists in public.

EUV took decades and billions of dollars in trial and error before the current techniques were figured out. Due to the West's tendency to publish successful techniques, China won't have to repeat these steps.
I suspect the "Recipe Life Story" nonsense was sparked by a highly-publicised (in SEO circles) study several years ago, which claimed the average #1 result in SERPs contained ~2000 words. This started a race to make every web page much longer than it needed to be. The obvious way to pad out a recipe is to add a phony, rambling life story to it.

Several Google updates later (and after much SEO-driven copycatting), it's difficult to crack the top 10 without ~1500 words of nonsense before the recipe.

This is why we can't have nice things.
Sorry to see you downvoted, it is extremely irksome to me that China is so often characterized as "copying others homework" -- if we could do what China does, why do we go to China every time we need something done?

It is not westerners exploiting cheap labor, tho it may have started that way. It is really the scale of their talent pool, the number of engineers that graduate every year is nearly 10x what the US gets around to, and they idea that they just sit around waiting for an American company to design something for them is farcical.
And you know what... I'm fine with that. You have to pick your battles and design something and try to make it work in simulation before you find the real stumbling blocks. If you can't even solve the idea problem, then you have to go back to the drawing board before you try implementation.
Why on earth would you think a crypto lender is objective about Bitcoin?

In his case, the value of Bitcoin is directly proportional to the value of his company. He is as biased as anyone could possibly be.

The summary could easily be, "Crypto lender foresees need for more crypto lending".
My uncle warned me off polycrystalline silicon as being the perennial “technology of the future”.

That comment was made well over 40 years ago.
Not GP, but I think by "fast food production/consumption chain that has conditioned audiences" they are taking a potshot at the swathe of superhero movies being very formulaic rather than any West vs. Soviet Russia argument and how only Soviet Russia makes meaningful films.

For example, every superhero gets 30s of screentime and a few sarcastic quips. The story is black and white, because you know who the good guys and bad guys are. The dominance of franchise movies has vastly restricted the opportunities for other kinds of films to be seen in cinemas. In his essay [1], Martin Scorcese makes a much better case for it than I can, but the gist of it is that while before there were high-brow and low-brow films, now Hollywood is taking the cynical approach that the low-brow films make the most money in a low risk way rather than art for art's sake.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/opinion/martin-scorsese-m...
Thats you though not millions of people who may enjoy that kind of work.
Most governments can’t afford to do that.
At this point it seems like you are just trolling?
Addendum to this question, if you don't mind: How do you choose what your next microstartup will be?
Who is this aimed at? Rogan and legacy media viewers? It can’t just be legacy media viewers
For anyone interested in how terrible Chlorine trifluoride is, it's on perpetual HN favorite Derek Lowe's list of "Things I won't work with" https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/sand-won-t-save-yo...
Pacman-bintrans – Experimental binary transparency for pacman via sigstore/rekor
Let's just stop deploying them. It'll be easier to assemble them from multiple launches soon.
Yes, I forgot Depth-First Search/Traversal and Breadth-First Search/Traversal.

Those two algorithms are the workhorses of graph algorithms.

Advanced graph algorithms include Dijkstra's algorithm, Minimum Spanning Tree, Strongly Connected Components, among others.

In addition, dynamic programming (DP) also shows up as a more advanced algorithm/technique in high-level interviews.
I remember actually using these and them not working very well, or not well enough to actually remember you had one and go get it from the drawer.

But it sure does make me nostalgic!
I think you mean, reverse engineering to create new, better machines: good. Reverse engineering to game a medical testing device: bad.
One thing which worked for me when i look back is, i spend less than 4 weeks to validate an idea, if it got traction, i worked on it more, if it didn't then i moved on. Validate and fail fast.
Tomorrow a paid tool or a costly hidden company will allow anyone to get statement in your voice (based on sample). How you are going to proof, that it is not you?

Fake calls to your relatives in your voice or even fake video with your face and voice asking for money! or illegal activities.

Few years later a company will come and say we can detect if it's fake or not pay $10,000 for solution, or get ready to be in prison. Oops! legal system doesn't accept this as a proof, now what? Welcome to the prison.

Both companies are making money, and you are paying by money and your life.
This is true, although in a previous job I was surprised to be working on systems that could receive steering commands with unencrypted CAN messages.

As others have mentioned most USA manufacturers are moving to encrypted CAN buses now though.
You can understand or debug just about anything. Just keep popping the hood:)
ASML had a fire today. They provide companies with equipment to bake the chips. It's the hugest one and also kind of the only one with its capabilities. It's not the reason there's a chip shortage today, but also sort of, it is.

Processors are a commodity and everything but there just aren't enough suppliers with good enough product at a low enough price. The process is toxic and complex and requires heavy investment.

It's almost a miracle we get to see the type of efficiency in development that we do today (although others may call this miracle a spiraling debt crisis..)
added tech stack to the post but i always learnt things based on what was need to built my microstartup.
Out of curiosity, what is your driver for going to the US? Depending where you go, you can go a lot further on $500k USD overseas than being stateside.

A green card opens you up to US tax liability on all of your investments globally.
this old thread is so hn. lots of discussion about famous names on the board, mentions of threats to privacy and discussion of the website ui.

medman77 did crush it with actual technical analysis, among others. now I want to go back and see what hn said about other famous companies
Simple solution: just sleep more!
Can you expand on the misrepresentation of studies and fossil record?
I've never actually heard of that to be honest! But I'm in Melbourne, where winters are fairly mild. All I do is give them a good prune.
I completely agree with a lot of your points here. I've been making enchiladas for years, and I've incorporated a lot of recipes into my approach. I suspect that very, very few people would take issue with me enjoying the food of another culture.

But I think this misses a very big point of discussion, which is what are the conditions that makes capitalization of another person's and culture's effort ethical? A big part of what made people feel uncomfortable with the taco truck story was, I suspect, that these recipes were not freely shared. Instead they were reverse-engineered.

> "I picked the brains of every tortilla lady there in the worst broken Spanish ever," Connelly tells Willamette about a trip the pair took to Puerto Nuevo, Mexico. "They wouldn't tell us too much about technique, but we were peeking into the windows of every kitchen . . ."

If these women were just finding out how to make the best taco possible for their own enjoyment, that would be one thing. But given American's history of white folks making money off of the efforts of People of Color, I don't find it particularly unusual that people are taking issue here. One article[1] fairly notes that "it's unclear whether the Mexican women who handed over their recipes ever got anything in return."

I don't think the lines of what does and does not constitute cultural appropriation in food are well defined. I do think that it exists though.

[1] https://www.mic.com/articles/177642/these-white-cooks-bragge...
HF was one of the nastier ones, but the one I’m thinking of sounded nastier. I’ll look for it in old training materials in the AM.
Yeah, I mostly agree, but do you consider Taiwan part of China? They do.

Japan and Korea also have pretty big talent in related areas. I believe that Intellectual Property often wears shoes, but a lot of SW, methods, specs, etc can be appropriated more quickly.
> if we could do what China does, why do we go to China every time we need something done?

Ricardian comparative advantage, which doesn't require the party you go to to be better at the thing you are going to them to do than you are, only that you are enough better at something else that doing the thing you are outsourcing would require giving up more of the other thing.

It's about opportunity cost, not absolute proficiency.
That's why I haven't bought a console in a decade! It's such a huge time sink when you add it all up; virtual chains that you wear willingly.

That's part of why the metaverse is such dystopian bullshit. Like I need my entire field of view taken away too, so Lord Zuck can sell more ads? Ew, gross, no.
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After two years of doc writing at amazon, probably Over 1000 pages of content at this point-

Early in the morning, when mind is fresh, not after full day of meetings

Block off 2-3 hours

Caffeine, empty stomach-

Start with first draft and just brain dump. Don’t worry about details.. leave lots of <<fill this in later>>

Start in a notebook with pen and paper only, physically remove yourself from phone and computer, sketch your thoughts on paper and then go to computer to brain dump

Don’t aim for any amount.. no doc is too little

Don’t format, proof read, correct too much at the beginning

Little wine/beer/whiskey can help (but you probably don’t want to do this early in the morning)

Long Hot shower can help you gather your thoughts

Take a break when your brain is fried, walk around, come back to it fresh
While I don’t share in the misanthropic sentiment of the OP, it’s difficult for me to not sit here and say well if you didn’t want to go to prison you shouldn’t have defrauded people and violated the law…
A 1996 definition and a 2003 version of that definition.

151 "user" jargon "The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003)"
user
n.

1. Someone doing "real work" with the computer, using it as a means rather than an end. Someone who pays to use a computer. See {real user}.

2. A programmer who will believe anything you tell him. One who asks silly questions. [GLS observes: This is slightly unfair. It is true that users ask questions (of necessity). Sometimes they are thoughtful or deep. Very often they are annoying or downright stupid, apparently because the user failed to think for two seconds or look in the documentation before bothering the maintainer.] See {luser}.

3. Someone who uses a program from the outside, however skillfully, without getting into the internals of the program. One who reports bugs instead of just going ahead and fixing them.

The general theory behind this term is that there are two classes of people who work with a program: there are implementors (hackers) and {luser}s. The users are looked down on by hackers to some extent because they don't understand the full ramifications of the system in all its glory. (The few users who do are known as real winners.) The term is a relative one: a skilled hacker may be a user with respect to some program he himself does not hack. A LISP hacker might be one who maintains LISP or one who uses LISP (but with the skill of a hacker). A LISP user is one who uses LISP, whether skillfully or not. Thus there is some overlap between the two terms; the subtle distinctions must be resolved by context.

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151 "user" foldoc "The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018)"
user

1. <person> Someone doing "real work" with the computer, using it as a means rather than an end. Someone who pays to use a computer. A programmer who will believe anything you tell him. One who asks silly questions without thinking for two seconds or looking in the documentation. Someone who uses a program, however skillfully, without getting into the internals of the program. One who reports {bugs} instead of just fixing them. See also {luser}, {real user}.

Users are looked down on by {hackers} to some extent because they don't understand the full ramifications of the system in all its glory. The term is relative: a skilled hacker may be a user with respect to some program he himself does not hack. A LISP hacker might be one who maintains LISP or one who uses LISP (but with the skill of a hacker). A LISP user is one who uses LISP, whether skillfully or not. Thus there is some overlap between the two terms; the subtle distinctions must be resolved by context.

2. <jargon> Any person, organisation, process, device, program, {protocol}, or system which uses a service provided by others.

The term "{client}" (as in "{client-server}" systems) is rather more specific, usually implying two processes communicating via some protocol.

[{Jargon File}]

(1996-04-28)

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HF keeps regenerating itself until it hits bone and forms calcium floride. Get exposed to enough of it and it will pull the calcium out of your cells, stopping muscles, heart beats, and neuron firing.
There is one brand of eggs, happy egg co heritage breed that has some of the deepest color yolks I've seen with a different smell and taste. Significantly tastier. I've tried a lot of brands and price categories and haven't found ones like those.

https://happyegg.com/heritage-breed/