skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does Belgium have the (third) best wealth inequality in the world, and the neithbouring Netherlands the absolute worst wealth inequality?
The $38m one likely has to do with share count or funds.

Often shares will be split %-wise between two or more funds. I.e. 22.5% goes to XYZ Fund 1, 85.5% goes to XYZ Fund 2. These % can be super specific and make it so wires go down to the cent.
That's your job. Sellers are motivated to provide evidence. "I just have it lol" is not going to command much premium over your costs.
LOL. Took me about 10 seconds to get it!
> The US government calls him a Russian asset

... With precisely zero evidence in support of that.

He is, however, very clearly and unquestionably a journalist whatever else he is accused of however credibly.
My understanding is that this article understates how far and quickly these viruses spread in the wild.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/14/science/bat-coronaviruses...
Another thing that the blog post appears to be unaware of is that the absence of samples showing the step-by-step evolution towards omicron doesn't mean that this didn't happen. A lot of places in the world don't have the resources to do covid testing and genomic surveillance.
My mistake, I didn’t mean it’s the place to discover new restaurants, but it’s the best way to get the latest menu, latest hours, and speak directly with the owners through Messenger. Quite often the FB page is more up-to-date than the websites they own.
Aluminum is easy to cut, but not melt — twice the melting point of lead, and hard to achieve without knowing what you’re doing.
One of my prized possessions is a Kozmo-branded CD opener, which I got by ordering a single CD from Kozmo, with free one-hour delivery. Thanks, venture capital!
How could the Big Bang arise from nothing?
> I have never seen a single failure where it full speeds into another object.

What do you make of this near-miss posted recently? Allegedly, FSD was on when the car veered into the lane of an oncoming car.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/re7vxr/fsd...
Why are there two separate commenters saying that it was a panic attack?

Is this the recommended explanation medical professionals should provide now when a patient has to spend 8 hours in ER, or is HN full medical experts in panic attacks?

----

> "You are experiencing a panic attack"

> "I am experiencing a panic attack"

> "These aren't the droids you're looking for"

> "These aren't the droids I'm looking for"
Have you ever worked in China? Also, conflict of interest is a thing.
This is an interesting point. Besides making a few $1 purchases of songs or podcasts with iTunes (which I haven't done since 2018), I've never been an Apple customer. It hasn't taken any special effort to avoid them, either. But I'm struck by two things in Apple's favor:

(1) I keep hearing fantastic things about their new M1 processors and laptops, and it actually has me slightly interested in Apple for the first time in my life, so that's impressive.

(2) Just the extreme loyalty among people who are Apple customers.
Is this role strictly US only? UK based here.
that interesting. I can concentrate when Im hungry- I get cranky.
If the global economy doesn't pick up soon we may see many more exposed. But next up I think wi be the Wirecard trial in Germany, if they find someone to prosecute
Can confirm that this has had direct effect on car manufacturing in Asia.
The CIA term for planted stories which got picked up by Western media, and often intel, was blowback. (See the 1977 "CIA and the Media" hearings: https://archive.org/details/CIAMedia1978Hearings/page/n3/mod...)

Makes one wonder how much of what's believed in the West isn't self-owned propaganda.
So you buy less and less gas for your car as you hear CNN loop on gas price rising due to supply issue ?

Abd what about toys when everyone is talking about saving Christmas ? You'll make triple sure you have one, maybe even buy several from several sources.

I've seen myself do that with difficult to import goods, and price is always a lower factor than need. Price would eventually push me out, but there s a twilight zone when it's just right to panic buy stuff that werent supposed to be rare.
I might have missed it in the article, but have you or do you plan on adding climate control?

I've been looking to scratch a similar itch and your post has inspired me to start looking into it, so thanks for posting!
That's the maximum possible the judge could decide to give. It bears little relationship to what the federal sentencing guidelines will actually suggest or the judge will deliver.

https://www.popehat.com/2013/02/05/crime-whale-sushi-sentenc...
If you have to ask yourself questions like these (as a founder) - you may very well end up in jail one day.
Maybe don't fake "medical devices" till you make it.
I don't know if these issues have been fixed but here's a study that looked into all types of animal studies for cancer for an overview and suggested fixes and listed notable failures. There is one study here that showed a promising cancer treatment in mice used at 500x dilution in humans and it caused systemic organ failure in humans.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3902221/
There are really no "country club prisons" in the US anymore.

Yes, there are minimum security prison camps for first time, non violent offenders, which seems entirely appropriate, but a day spa it aint.
I self-taught at 7 on a TRS-80 that I could use in the summertime, typing in the examples and then modifying them to make (pretty terrible) variants or games.

Got my first computer (Atari 1200XL) a little after a friend got an Apple ][. We learned by typing in games from books and magazines and modifying them.

I sold my first program around age 11 for $20. It was 6502 assembly subroutine to calculate an XMODEM checksum for a BBS. They had BASIC code that worked okay for a 300 baud modem, but took too long to calculate the checksum for 1200 baud modems. That was hand assembled from op codes in a book and represented almost $1/byte of object code. (Imagine if we got paid that much now. :) )

I (mistakenly) thought I was pretty good until I showed up at college and couldn’t breeze through an intro level actual programming class, so “starting at 7” didn’t really mean that much in terms of my professional career.
Those minds are currently being heavily encouraged to keep the money train going on resource extraction. Not clear why that would change, where's the "cheap energy" lobby going to come from exactly?
That is also part of what the article is pointing out… after a few years, only the wildly successful works are going to continue to have demand enough to make copyright matter… 99% of creators aren’t going to be affected at all by the length of copyright, so 99% of creators will not care either way.
That the fact she defrauded people richer than her will override any slight advantages her race or gender may have provided her in sentencing
Yes same for me. Fasting was incompatible with concentrating.
Sure but this statement is completely useless.
I know someone who has both beenz and flooz promotional stuff
Cool! Do you focus on any subjects?

Also, have you seen The Booksellers?

It took me a while to realize I was collecting books. Before, the way I thought of it was "I would never walk past an out-of-print book about computing history! I might never come across it again!" But now I am a bit more focused on the collection aspect, for example, there are now specific titles and authors that I seek out.
No, I am more confused now.

Are you saying white, rich people and women dont get preferential treatment in the US justice system?
In other words, successful "fraud laundering".
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why are the charges "wire fraud" and not just "defrauding investors" ?

is there some technicality at play here?
Got any Clinkle swag?
They appear to have used commercial equipment for some of their tests, but they appear to have diluted sample until the results were no longer valid.

Here's one report on an invalid pregnancy test:

https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/21/22687026/theranos-patient...
I find it hard to believe AWS would try to suck blood from a stone. I’m willing to believe they get a 55k bill, but do they actually end up paying those?
This is wrong. I read Bad Blood by John Carreyrou a few years ago and it mentions there were a lot of false results due to mishandling the blood samples (watering them down to run enough tests etc). I recommend the book if you're interested in the case.
@aws, why not mandate MFA for a root user? in child org accounts where this is less feasible, you could allow access to the root user only from the parent account, no direct login at all.
If the populace are psychologically toddlers, they have to be engaged with toys. Nations are started by mature egos who value truth above else, but gradually replaced by those toddlers who like emotions better, and so they let the nation decay and fall.
The whole bre-x saga really amazes some Americans when I explain the depths of fraud that have historically existed in AB and BC small cap mining stocks...

For the longest time the historical Vancouver stock exchange, vsx, was known as something like the fraud capital of North America.

All of that is before we even get into the ugly history of some Canadian mining companies that have got into bed with non-democratic regimes in places in the developing world, where they did actually have a real mineral resource to extract, and damn the consequences.
Does multiple counts served concurrently mean that the effective sentence is just the longest individual sentence?

Also: I'm seeing from various websites that the maximum time-left-to-serve for minimum security (federal prison camp) is 10 years, but nothing definitive - [1] is the most in-depth but only specifies this requirement for male prisoners, whereas other requirements are clearly distinguished between male and female.

[1] https://alanellis.com/securing-favorable-federal-prison-plac...
I have implemented pretty much all of that in C++. It wasn’t hard or tedious. Using declarative data structure to runtime generate the UI from (for example) is something I do all the time. In C++, C# and Typescript. And evaluating expressions at runtime is just using an AST. Something I have also done a lot.
Yes, I was just posting in a “fun fact” way. I have no idea if that is the real reason, and I doubt it is worth investigating .
The real substantial issue stemming from the litany of problems with sugar isn't that its harmful in high doses, but rather that it is impossible to avoid a diet in western society that relies on high quantities of sugar as a lynchpin for mass produced food.

-the average breakfast cereal is just a dessert.

- even the healthiest breads contain refined sugar to mask quality inherently absent from mass production.

- sugar is used for its crispening and browning properties, it's shelf stabilizing abilities and its addictive properties in virtually every processed snack.

-most yogurt at the store is just sugar.

The industry response to this is a resounding punt. That somehow you're fat because you're irresponsible abdicates so much of the real guilt from multinational food conglomerates driven solely by profit, not nutrition.
I recently tried to watch a video on reflowing a GPU with a heat gun. The video was 40 minutes long. I don't remember how far I skipped into the video, but he had about a dozen cards lined up, and he was naming the model of each card one...after...the...other. I left for another video, so I don't know if he ever got to the point, and that's the kicker for me: Sometimes these videos never instruct.
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> Sugar. Is. Poison.

Only in the sense that bad things happen to you if you consume too much. I don't like that label though, because if you follow that logic nearly everything is a poison (eg. water poisoning), which makes it useless as a label. A more accurate label would be something like "substance that we're likely to overconsume and cause harm, due to human psychology/physiology", but I guess that's not as attention grabbing as comparing it to rat poison or draino.

See also, the noncentral fallacy: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yCWPkLi8wJvewPbEp/the-noncen...
In a leak? Zero would be the minimum who would have knowledge of the leak. There is no law of the universe saying that anyone would be aware of what had happened or how, especially with an active disinterest and disincentives toward responsibility and accountability.
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From a quick look, no patients were harmed? Am I missing something?
I'm honestly very curious as to what better ways you have in mind for transferring large sums of money.
Yes, my parents put me in some basic courses around the age of 7. Booting off 5.25 floppies and typing of commands on a green screen, I can still remember it.
The vast majority of results were not only not accurate, couldn't possibly have been accurate given the methods they were using to conduct the tests. This is well documented. I suggest John Carreyrou's book, _Bad Blood_, which gets into great detail on this.
I can totally get behind this. Holding tight on my Blockchains LLC swag half-hoping there will have a wider audience of recognition than the other people at that Prague conference. The other half hoping they actually manage to create something of lasting value, of course ;)
This is not some random Western Union fly-by-night process. These are serious bank-to-bank transfers with plenty of documentation about who's who on both ends. That documentation is required not only by bank policy but by law (e.g. IRS and anti-terrorism laws). The fact that the wire transfers are highlighted so much in the charges is that they are interstate transactions, which makes them federal crimes rather than state crimes. Which gives the Feds an excuse to get involved.
> defrauding patients about their test results

Because und test results where in general correctish, they where just not gotten in exactly the way it was claimed, which was also not noticable less reliable or anything.

And what the user bought was the test result.

As far as I understood, with my very limited understanding of US law it seems hard to sue as a consumer as you where deceived but not hurt/damaged in any way.
I am also a fucked company swag collector and Theranos has been my white whale since 2015/early 2016. Now it’s all knockoffs. I wish you luck in your search!
I followed the case very closely, read the transcripts I could find daily etc. What Elizabeth did wasn't far from what many many many founders do. This was held to a legal standard, sure, but let's be real here... since when was the legal standard the SV standard? Is SV really the bastion of morality and legal ethics? Is that the new norm, good behaviour? Notably some investors refused to participate and iirc Draper basically said she flew too close to the sun, but it wasn't fraud. I'm sure it's going to be an unpopular opinion but personally if this is the new standard, the SEC should have a pretty long list of founders to try at this standard. The saddest thing of it all to me is that she was onto something, people are having success with her ideas today. She should have just not gone to market, she should have just quietly refined the tech behind the scenes, but as I said, she flew too close to the sun. Tesla and uber have literally killed people.
I'm not an expert in US sentencing guidelines, but a quick crack at the sentencing guidelines calculator [1] suggests ~97-121 months, or about 8-10 years.

[If you're not familiar with sentencing, the basic procedure is this:

1. Compute an 'offense level' for each count. For counts that are strongly related (which all of these likely are), combine by taking the maximum offense level. If they're not related, it's more complicated (not simply adding them up).

2. Compute a 'criminal history level'. For Holmes, that's basically "no criminal history."

3. Adjust for things like the convicted person's remorse or cooperation with investigators.

4. Look up a table that maps offense and criminal history to an actual sentencing range.

5. Adjust that (primarily, but not exclusively, in the previously output range) based on the judge's feelings.]

[1] https://www.sentencing.us/
Jennifer Lawrence
> there were a lot of false results due to mishandling the blood samples

This doesn't hold with what was found in the trial. She was found not guilty on those counts. Just because a dude wrote it down in a book doesn't mean it's true. And the legal process found it to be, in fact, not true.
Guilty of taking a billion+ dollars from rich and influential people who couldn't bother to do the bare minimum due diligence into their investments due to greed and FOMO.

Not guilty of endangering thousands of lives by running fraudulent and inaccurate tests under sub-par lab conditions.

Our justice system is such a farce.
I read the article, then up voted. On refresh it was buried. I had to find it via my upvoted submissions.

In my opinion, the immediate flagging is a symptom of the hostility of even discussing the origins, lab leak or not.
JLaw == Jennifer Lawrence
Menumeters provides their own reasoning as to why you might want to use Stats instead here: https://github.com/yujitach/MenuMeters#other-versions--relat...
Journals are very unlikely to publish this kind of things, because of massive conflicts of interests. Look at the Lancet.
What you do not have is called provenance :)
Genuine side-question (that ages me a bit):

Eggs were ever considered unhealthy?
Peter Attia has a eye opening podcast on the role of fructose and sugar in general on health. https://peterattiamd.com/rickjohnson/
Realistically, I think unless you are going to work on some hugely disruptive product, your best bet is probably something like local politics, as unfortunate as that is.

For example, in my area I would probably push for the local mangrove coast line to be protected from development. Or perhaps for my county to ban or somehow restrict two-stroke engine use.
Ah. That makes sense. It's a tool that tests certain things.

My question was what percentage of results in mice generalize to humans?

To confirm I'm interpreting your answer directly. It depends on how the scientists use the tool. It is good at verifying certain aspects but not others.
> in mice deficient for glyoxalase-1 (GLO1), an enzyme involved in detoxification of sucrose metabolites.

This is for me the missing part of the title.

I often think reading pop science that they’re making absurd shortcuts and we should get to the actual report, but here TBH I am reading the study and don’t really understand what I’m looking at or what’s the take from this, apart that mices with specific deficiency got some specific illnesses.

I saw mentions of human brain analysis but it didn’t seem to go beyond sheer comparison.

Does anyone see more interesting stuff in this piece ?
Except that US food culture emphasizes sugar as a keystone ingredient. It's so ingrained into the American palate at this point, it would present a competitive disadvantage to remove it from your food or restaurant.

Sugar is put into everything. Cereal, sauces, drinks, bread, meat, salad dressing, mashed potatoes. If you try to eat without sugar for the first time in a while, you'll be in total shock by how bland things taste. And your body won't tolerate the change either.

We're signing ourselves up for diabetes, inflammation, brain disease, physiological and mental dysfunction, and a multitude of other disease states by continuing the status quo.

Sugar is poison by the sheer volume with which we consume it.
> I didn't say that they were a monolithic group. I said the homeless prefer the street.

If you're not making any distinctions within the population you're just spouting meaningless statements. You can also say 'the homeless prefer permanent housing,' or 'the homeless have never used drugs in their life' and it's equally true, because it's true in some cases.

> Obviously there are many reasons why they prefer the street, but they are monolithic in their choice to not utilize the shelters.

Considering the fact that there are in fact homeless people in shelters, saying they're 'monolithic' in their choice not to utilize shelters is incorrect on its face.
I share the same ideals as mentioned in this article, but implementation is what matters. The person who wrote this article references mastodon as an example of the small web, but just looking at mastodon, you can see that is not what happens. Mastodon has a couple of very large hosts with thousands or hundreds of thousands of users, exactly the same as the big web that the author describes. This is because people think "well, why go to the trouble of setting all of this stuff up myself, I will just create an account on one of the existing hosts", and then you just have the big web again.
Can you expand? Investors are risk-heavy VCs who expect more than 50% of investments to fail

Patients just saw a blood testing service promising the same accuracy as a blood draw and went for it
Interesting, and is his birthday Sunday, June 13, 1965?