skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In case anyone's wondering how Elizabeth Holmes (theranos) thought she could get away with that, or even thought it was a perfectly normal "entrepreneurial" approach... I feel like she wasn't wrong, what she did IS quite typical and everyone gets away with it, with regard to how she treated investors or her fake business (which is after all what she was convicted of -- defrauding investors and lenders!), she just made the mistake of doing it in the medical industry.

> Insiders familiar with Kagan tell SV Gossip that he’s preternaturally talented at pitching, blessed with a version of the famous Steve Jobs reality distortion field that lets him work investors into a frenzy while somehow not having checked off any of the milestones, metrics or other objective criteria they typically look for.

Holmes is probably right now wondering why she got prosecuted for doing the same thing that other people do and go on to raise even more money the next time around at the next company, and I get it.
Same. Vuetify v3 sadly got delayed yet again to Feb Beta/May GA.
There is almost nothing conservative about it. The US government and both US parties are plainly neoliberal. Capitalism as a political economic system is contradictory to sustaining a state that serves its working citizens over its ruling class and global corporate stakeholders.
In the early 80's, I worked for our local school district on Prime minicomputers. They supported something like 64 terminal users (up to 96 at one point), payroll, budgeting, student records, 2 simultaneous computer science labs of maybe 15 terminals each (a "port selector" allowed hooking up 96 lines on the terminal side and 32 or something on the computer side), the programming staff (around 8), 2 line printers running all day/evening, and had less than 8MB of RAM in the system - a Prime 4050 at the end.

For disk storage, we had a 600MB, 300MB, and 770MB drive to store all the data above and daily attendance records for every high school kid.

This machine ran COBOL, Fortran, PL/I, Basic, source-level debugger, and Emacs with a Multics-style paged + segmented architecture.

Not saying it was all super-fast, and we did have to manage resources. For example, large payroll or budgeting jobs ran out of a batch queue, they had lower priority than terminals, etc. But in hindsight it seems rather amazing what got done on an 8MB system.
This would be a valid point if the account in question did anything but post CCP apologia and parrot the latest talking points of the party. An example of a commenting history that does not get you immediately dismissed as a CCP drone would be something like your relatively new account, which mixes this CCP party-line support with random bits of Seattle commentary and a soupçon of 'big tech is bad' agitation.

If it quacks like a duck we are not really going to be surprised if it tries to fly.
No, I think you're right. I screwed up and was interpreting excess burden as in excess of existing burden, not excess burden per capita. I will edit.

And thank you!
> None of options you listed or the library is offering saves you from mismatched types.

Even if true, so what? The utility of Maybe/Result datastructures isn't limited to their use in typechecking, though with a proper static typechecker, that is part of their use.
I found this HNer's comments regarding React interesting. Similar sentiments as yours.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
But raising interest rates is not the only way. The fed could just taper the balance sheet by selling off MBSes and long term Treasury bonds.

This will only raise long term rates while simultaneously reducing liquidity.

We don't need unemployment to reduce liquidity when the balance sheet has so much to sell.
There is https://github.com/lauriat/funct
which has some of those higher level functions.
A lot of people think intelligence means people behave according to their ethics. In reality intelligence doesn’t mean that you are a good guy. A lot of “bad” guys are very intelligent. Not many people could pull off what Pablo Escobar or El Chapo did. Elizabeth Holmes from Theranos is pretty smart.
I built an online stretch/break reminder to prevent repetitive stress injuries
Actually there are two main problems I'm referring to. You identified one of them. If I want to stay anonymous, I'm really asking how to compartmentalize chats and groups of people. We have different identities with different groups and use different names with them.

The other problem is actually the act of sharing a username. If my username is "godelski" then yeah, I can share it on HN and Reddit where I use that username. But now I've deanonymized myself to friends and family who can see that username through Signal. Alternatively, if I have a username "not_godelski" then how do I get in contact with someone on HN while maintaining anonymity? If I use share it under this account then those two names are linked forever and that deanonymizes me. I can't create a new account just to share that name because those groups know me by that name. If I can have an infinite number of usernames, that solves the problem, but this isn't practical (even 5 usernames would be problematic and requires a lot of cognitive load, which is antithetical to Signal's philosophy).

There's also a third problem I don't care as much about but I'd assume Signal does. And that's naming collisions. NYT has a Signal number that allows whistleblowers to contact them. What's stopping me from creating the username NYT_Whistleblower and becoming a honeypot?

Edit: Lots of people are saying you can't share contact without revealing your identity. Does a 1-click link not solve this issue? If I post a signal.me/#one-time-code/jdjkerfe2r3rfwseffre5ge5g then I don't see how that would reveal my identity. (I'm also not a fan of "you can't". I can understand this being unsolved, but it feels like there are solutions to this problem)
Do you know what's new in the 2nd edition?
How would this lead to an antitrust claim?
If you have decades of experience with the scientific system that's wonderful—but for a HN good comment you need to show that, not tell it—and you certainly need to make comments that are distinguishable from obvious internet dismissals. If a comment pattern-matches to that (as yours did), people are certain to interpret them that way, and not just moderators.

People with significant knowledge in their heads often assume that when they communicate a short message M, the message is substantive even if it doesn't include much information. In one's head, this is precisely true: M automatically connects with the things you already know and thus has a lot of depth to it. But all that is lost when sending M to other people—especially in stateless internet comments.

The rest of us don't have your experience and knowledge, and don't have access to what's in your head. All we see is the information you explicitly put into M. In this way, the same M can be both substantive (to the sender) and unsubstantive (to the receiver), because the sender has all the implicit information and the receiver only has the explicit. The 'received M' matters much more than the 'sent M', though, first because there are millions of receivers, and second because it's the received M that determines how people react.
The "SWAR" approach `(a & b) + (a ^ b) / 2` looks bizarre but can be understood.

Adding two bits produces a sum and a carry:

0 + 0 = 0, carry 0
1 + 0 = 1, carry 0
0 + 1 = 1, carry 0
1 + 1 = 0, carry 1

So the sum is XOR, and the carry is bitwise AND. We can rewrite x + y as (x ^ y) + (x & y)*2

Distribute the divide, and you get (x ^ y)/2 + (x & y) which is the mystery expression.

(Note this distribution is safe only because (x & y)*2 is even.)
lol, the arrogance to call out someone for something they actual are a champion in fighting.
That's why it's the job of soldiers to follow "lawful orders", not orders generically.

On the other hand there is basically zero jurisprudence of a soldier ever getting in trouble for following an order they thought was given under competent military authority, even though it was illegal. So it can be hard for a soldier to rely on the mercy of the courts in this situation. Though that is still not justification for carrying out an illegal order.
I don't know how your thought process works...

I use Google Keep for note taking. It's not really fancy though.
Some unreal solutions here that show how amazing mathematics can be. Especially that Google patented method that only just recently expired.

Props for including the assembler breakdown for every major CPU architecture.
Interesting statement, since "certified" investors invest money into startups which have a failure rate of 95%.

But these people are of course not "gambling", because they bet at 50 horses at once. And for all their experience, they continuously fail. It all seems very arbitrary.

Personally, I think "gambling" is the wrong word. It's high risk investing. When I put all my chips on "red", that's gambling. When I read about a startup, believe in their idea and see potential, yet am proven wrong, I made an investment mistake. It's not gambling unless one blindly invests without any research.
I actually looked into wxPython, admittedly only for a day or two to get the general idea behind it. It seemed complicated and not very mature at the time from my experience under linux (circa 2019 I want to say?)

But after spending the same amount of time with QT it definitely won out.

I used pyQT (python bindings for QT) + I believe PyInstaller (https://pyinstaller.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) for building the executable. Was a very pleasant experience!
Go Stretch is a free online tool that reminds you to take quick breaks which help and prevent the symptoms of repetitive stress injuries. It reminds you every 15m to take 30s micro-breaks and every hour, 10m breaks using browser push notifications, so this allows anyone to use it no matter the OS on their desktop.

As a young designer and developer, I’ve suffered RSI for many years. If I had a simple and minimalist tool to remind me that I needed to stretch here and there in between short periods, I could’ve prevented years of pain along with five figures spent trying to diminish these symptoms. I wouldn’t wish this on anyone with how debilitating it can be some days.

Purchased all of the ergonomics you can think of from peripherals to standing desks and chairs. Don’t get me wrong, these are incredibly important, but nothing helped more than remembering to take short breaks in between work sessions. Hundreds of studies show not only does it prevent and relieve symptoms of repetitive stress injuries but boosts productivity at an all-time level.

Spending a few minutes every hour, getting up and moving around has really changed my life for not only my health where I can now get through the day but also solving design decisions and coding issues, where otherwise I’d frustratingly try to force through it and stress myself out.

Instead, taking a second to look over and breathe has improved my speed and quality of work output while reducing stress and improving my mental and physical well-being.

I’ve used many break apps that you can purchase, most only work on Mac and I spend half my time on Windows too … So, I figured why not develop a free online tool that simply reminds others via browser notifications that it’s time to take a quick stretch and provide resources why it’s important along with fast and easy stretches that really matter and take seconds.

Makes it accessible for everyone to use on a computer, being completely free and minimal where it’s not entirely distracting nor takes your computer hostage by locking you out on breaks.

I hope this helps others as much as it does for me. It’s the reason why I built this. Care for yourself like you take care of work.

Thanks for reading and checking this out! Greatly appreciate any feedback and thoughts.
Totally unrelated (wink): whatever happened to the term „script-kiddie“?

Nowadays i only see ReactJS senior devs with 1+ years of experience.
SoftBank’s $66bn sale of chip group Arm to Nvidia collapses
Now I'm curious: do the scriptures say when Jesus became self-aware, that he was (the son of) God?
It is an interesting point, but you also have to keep in mind that people at this time had vastly different experiences in terms of communication and travel. Abolitionist literature and advocates was banned in the south and a full third of whites were illiterate.

It is really hard to get away from the "product of their time" sentiment without a deep dive into nature vs nurture, determinism, and spirituality.

I am under no illusion that if you or I were white and born in the antebellum south, we would probably support slavery too. It can equally be said, that there almost assuredly were southerners that had moral reservations about slavery that failed to express themselves or take meaningful action.

For me, the interesting question is not how bad were they as people, but why they did or didn't act. By what factors did cultural support and tolerance for slavery perpetuate. What was life experience like for different people in that culture.

At any rate, I guess my sentiment is that the whole topic of trying to pass judgement on individuals out of the context of their time & place is a fools errand. If not time and place, what differentiates the future views of a child born to southern slave owners and northern abolitionists, or a child born today.

In the end, we can agree that we think slavery was an barbaric practice, and hopefully investigate more interesting questions about what can be learned from history. Perhaps we can learn something to better our own culture.
Consult reputation based non-anonymous information if in doubt? Like scholar.google.com or dead-tree libraries?
Sage Bionetworks Synapse
https://www.synapse.org/
was conceived as a github-based research collaboration ecosystem.
I really doubt you could call any of these billionaires "left".
Thanks for your insights! I have used Vue on several projects before but I have noticed that the entire ecosystem is basically in a beta stage.

Things are changing all the time. For example, the default state management solution just switched from Vuex to Pinia but a Vue 3 compatible version of Vuex still exist. Will it be the new default in one year? No one knows.

It's the same thing if you want to use things like SSR and not implement them yourself. You can either use Nuxt and continue to use Vue 2, or you can use the non-production-ready Nuxt 3 beta, which supports Vue 3. Both aren't great options.

Because of these issues, the strong community in the React camp really makes me consider switching to React for new projects.
Am I missing something, or does this assume standard tuning? Can't seem to switch it over a 7 string for example.

Edit: nevermind, looks like all of that is supported, but I was looking for it towards the top of the screen.
Average Medicaid expenditures (per year) for persons with disabilities (age 0-64) was $19.7k in 2016[0]. It's probably higher by now. So by cutting Medicaid and replacing it with a flat $15k/year you're reducing benefits to persons with disabilities, on average, by almost $5k/year. Since that's an average, I'm sure there are some who will see much larger cuts and quite a few who will find themselves unable to afford necessary treatments or other costs relating to their disability.

That's just Medicaid; it gets worse when you consider all the other programs being cut.

Even allowing for realistic reductions in bureaucratic overhead, you can't just cut narrowly targeted programs and spread the same amount of money evenly across the entire population without significantly reducing the money available, on average, to the original beneficiaries.

[0] https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/medicaid-facts-and-...
Yeah, fair enough.

I had my own mid-sized Enterprise-A falling apart multiple times when I tried to pose her for photos. I dread having guests over that want to take a closer look/touch it so even as a display model it does not work for my personal need. I could just have had bad luck though.

My point is not that it is a bad model for people that know what to expect. I had fun building her but that people that just like Star Trek and might buy their first Bluebrixx set might have a very bad time.

I hope they will introduce sets that play more to their strengths, that is architecture. Mini figure scale bridge and all.

Again, I love Bluebrixx and I hope they succeed but no need to sugar coat them. They have serious issues when it comes to quality control and professionalism. You can tell from their videos where they are as surprised by the set they are reviewing as the viewer. Zero preparation and the sets are sometimes not even properly assembled. Even had signs upside down for the Chinese modular buildings.
> Just the sense of having some room for air inside your chest.

Thanks this is exactly what I need.

It's so surreal to just have a slightly long sentence in front of a group of people, only to end up catching your breath, to realize how vitally important this all is.

I will take all the suggestions offered, thanks.
I first heard about her efforts when she donated $40M to UCF. https://www.ucf.edu/news/scott-40-million-transformational-i...

I hope we can get in touch somehow. Thank you.
Treating users like shit is common in big tech and seems to be very popular lately, but I don't see Google being a significant outlier - they're just following the industry trend.
In the snow. Uphill.
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Yes, but they are not subject to the whims of short-term "investors" who only care about maximizing the next quarter or financial year's numbers.

That's the biggest problem in modern public corporations, a significant number of shareholders have no long term interest and will happily hurt the company to sell out with a higher number.

I hold no delusions that Valve is doing things for my benefit, but they have managed to position themselves in a place where their interests and the interests of PC gamers mostly align.
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I'm surprised that you had that much placement on a single compute.

I do believe there are ways to prevent that compute failure domain at the VM creation with placementgroups
> You mean if he had had a crystal ball

Amusingly isn't that what a Palantir actually is?
I want to reply to one of the comments you linked to, which is this:

> I would argue that the bug is not in the algorithm -- the bug is in languages that don't detect integer overflow by default.

Concretely, this is true enough. But abstractly, not so much: the algorithm is actually "buggy" if you abstract the problem a little. Namely, finding a midpoint of two operands does not require that the operands be numbers, or even addable for that matter. The introduction of that requirement is therefore a bug (at least in my eyes). The easiest way to see this is to replace integers with pointers. Then adding two pointers isn't even a well-defined operation in the general case, let alone dividing them by two. Whereas subtracting them and moving half the distance is actually quite well-defined, and we can see it behaves better too.

I would probably go so far as to claim that this is not an isolated example of where thinking about problems more abstractly helps us come up with solutions that have non-obvious benefits.
It's crazy how much of the ecosystem is behind, despite Vue 3 technically being available for a while now. Honestly think I'll be looking to migrate away from Vue instead of up to 3.x.
Frond and Sam
AmiGameJam 2021 is the annual game development competition for the Amiga
Is it not reasonable to summarize Thiels comments as “as a result of women obtaining the vote, america has become worse off”?

Taking the leap to presume that he thinks it would be better if women never got the right to vote, isn’t that unreasonable.
How does that work if the defendent is a corporation? Google could only hire a paralegal to represent them?
It actually was if I recall.

https://www.faa.gov/foia/electronic_reading_room/boeing_read...

Page 10:

>The 737 MAX was designed to handle and feel the same to the pilot as the 737 NG.
Without the MCAS function, in some small areas of the flight envelope — such as
approaching a stall and during higher g-force maneuvering — the new engines contribute
to the control column feeling lighter in the 737 MAX than the regulations allow. These are
not areas of the flight envelope in which the airplane normally operates. However, FAA
regulations - specifically 14 CFR 25.143, 25.201, 25.203, 25.251, and 25.255 - still
require the control column to have a higher pull-force feel in these flight regimes than
would exist on the 737 MAX without the added stability from the STS and MCAS function.
Small claims court is very easy & straightforward in the UK. The low complexity of the cases and the relatively low stakes means representing yourself is a valid strategy.
OpenWRT still mostly works with 8MB flash and 32MB RAM, but it works better with twice that.
Likewise, one day I will achieve transcendence and suffer the ills of the human realm no longer.

I'm totally on board with building better tools and solutions. And with pointing out the flaws of tools as we find them. However it is folly to thing this work will ever end.
These are great and very surreal. I have always been a fan of the old sci-fi covers. These however look like something an artist might envision during a fever dream.
> You should consider that sequelae like this are characteristic of many forms of being very sick.

I didn't go from very healthy to very sick after a stay in the hospital with Covid for no reason.

I don't honestly care if it establishes a "casual link", I wasn't passing out after standing up prior to Covid.
We are still in the same universe where the OPM breach happened, right?

Like no, I don't trust the government to protect the big bucket of PII on everyone in digital form. Not because of lizard people but because the government can barely keep it's own sites secure. Giving them more dangerous data in the form of bulk PII is the wrong move.

Login.gov was the first thing, in a long time, that was well executed. I need to see more things like that to restore my faith. ID.me is the wrong direction.
As others have mentioned, there is no standard. The closest thing would probably be A history of mathematical notations by Florian Cajori (2 volumes, 1928), but that illustrates how diverse, inconsistent and downright weird the notation can be. It's just as well that the precision of mathematics does not depend on it.
There is a subset of yoga that focuses solely on breathing called pranayama. I highly recommend it if you want to increase your lung capacity or build the muscles specific to breathing, and it has other benefits too.