skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty casual with the word genius there. He's an emerald mine scion who lucked out in the dot-bomb era and apparently has a talent for working through hardware manufacturing issues.

None of his original ideas have been successful. Tesla and SpaceX were not originally his, and SpaceX arguably owes more to Shotwell and government money than Musk.

There are so many people in Silicon Valley who would be more effective users of billions of dollars than Musk. Such a waste.
I was thinking having the projectiles being aerodynamic may increase decay time, then realized you can have the launch vehicle use solar power to fire the metal spheres using a railgun mechanism. This way, you can get vastly larger areas of denial by firing at an angle perpendicular to that of travel. You can have an every-shifting debris field if you fire 2 ball-bearings (port and starboard) every 10-50 meters to make that entire altitude unusable[1] - not just a specific orbit.

Edit:
1. The perigee and apogee will differ for projectiles fired from port or starboard based on launch vehicle inclination and the resulting relative speeds to earth. It would be a nightmare to track and avoid the resulting mess.
This is heckin' bad faith
Not sure how long it takes to build offsite but they can assemble a new McDonalds in under 24 hours:

https://youtu.be/kqn1BBudPS4

There’s bound to be companies out there that do the same with houses. I think the Scandinavians are meant to have quite a lot of flat pack housing.
And what does your response reveal about yours?
I agree that the cookie law was a terrible law, written by tech-ignorant politicians who reached for a naive solution - one that already existed as a configuration option in web browsers.

Malicious compliance within the letter of the law should be anticipated, yes. But malicious noncompliance is still illegal, like these GDPR-inspired faux-consent popups. The framing of consent in the GDPR is precisely because of how the cookie law played out.

I find it curious that your nick is "shadowgovt", yet you're arguing against attempting to regulate a shadow government. Are you like a shadow government enthusiast or something?
Interesting! Is it theoretically possible to launch a "GPS jamming" satellite constellation? And if so, could you do it with far less satellites than the quantity you are attempting to jam?
CT is a joke. Trusting CAs to post all their certs to CT is a non-starter for me. A CA can issue a cert to the NSA and no one would know it.
There is always a programmer better than you, as with any skill. In my practical view, programming is using a tool to solve a problem, not a game.
Fascinating exposé, thank you, everything you say seems true. Part 2 on this page:

https://shameproject.com/report/malcolm-gladwell-emails-sham...
Of course. No surprise there. Especially the ones made with 'Deep Learning'.

At this point, Each time AI and 'Deep Learning' is applied and then scrutinised, it almost always concludes and tends towards pure hype generated by investors and output garbage unexplainable results from broken models. The exact same goes for the self-driving scam.

'AI' is slowing starting to be getting outed as an exit scam.
Oh god (science for some of us) the same kind of logic for defending tesla’s fsd system. Both crappy and dangerous, but with cult like following.
> "First ethical rule: If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud."

Maybe for a journalist with an organization backing them (paying the legal expenses), but generally speaking people aren't ethically obliged to pick legal fights with those richer and more powerful than them.
If you do find out, please please post a follow-up with details on how more of us can do this too? I live in an unincorporated area of Marin county, just north of San Francisco, maybe ten minutes from the Golden Gate Bridge — and we’ve got no cell phone signal here. It’s ridiculously annoying, but also a public safety risk.
I think the world would be a better place if Elon Musk didn't recklessly claim that currently extant Teslas will achieve full self-driving capability in any reasonable timeframe. Similarly, it would be wonderful if he didn't promote horse shit like the hyperloop and his boring company, possibly with the ulterior motive of undermining actual infrastructure projects
Yes, seems very specific to seeing if someone can get into the building; most social engineering attacks are remote, like bullying someone into providing login credentials by pretending to be a Very Important Exec who needs that info now.
Also not a fan of nesting. It makes it way to easy to create unmaintainable CSS spaghetti.
I think this is more of an indictment of the rest of journalism than Theranos. He was swimming against all other journalists who were raving about Elizabeth Holmes. How could you not!? She is charismatic, a woman, and young MIT dropout.

We need more journalists like John. There is a shortage of journalists that would stand up for facts even if that meant going against the whole world.
But don’t they also have to balance commercial concerns, i.e. advertiser willingness to pay?
Once again: there are literally millions of domains signed with DNSSEC because registrars, especially in Europe, auto-sign. That doesn't mean anything. I get that you're probably joking here, but the idea of the 28-year-old DNSSEC project, deployed on less than 4% of .COM and virtually nowhere in the actual industry, declaring victory over an RFC from 2018 is, of course, risible. I assume that was the intention, though.
Segal houses are cool, but I'm pretty certain they are unpermittable in most places
I disagree that it is at all likely. It would take months if not years worth of launches to fill an orbital shell with debris and nobody's going to do it before starting a war. It's practically a declaration of war on its own. It won't happen at the beginning of a war because nobody starts a war with the intention of having it drag on for years. If you're winning a war you're not going to do it and if you're losing a war you're not going to have the resources or time to do it nor the ability to do the launches without getting your launch pads destroyed. Furthermore it doesn't shut down all access to space, as you can launch through the cloud to a higher orbit.
Coincidence that both those symptoms also happen as consquences of chronic stress.
Strange, we were assured in a HN thread a few days ago that landlords would never keep units vacant because the economics just don't make sense!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33224502 - discussing how Yieldstar, a consultancy, advises some landlords/property managers to hold or accept a higher vacancy rate while raising rents to increase overall profit.
The Newton. Computer vision recognition. 5th generation (inference) AI. Protein folding.
Crosstich is a particular 'x' stitch. It follows the grid of the fabric very rigidly, and is typically done using cotton strands. Needlepoint is the same process, but not necessarily using 'x' stitches, and extends to more types of threading material. Rughooking is a broad term, that means any rug making pushing yarn through a fabric.
That is a lot of students. If he's got more than 500 students then he definitely needs to worry about accessibility.
Thinking rationally and putting emotions/ideology aside. I know you meant it as a rhetorical snark.
By all means, do show me the crt.sh equivalent for DNSSEC. Easy way to win this leg of the argument!
So many in ai chasing software solutions when the problem is hardware. Limited power means limited learning. Mix lab grown neurons with software and you have a wining proposition.
Not to mention … where am I living while I am taking "something under 30 years" to build this home?
What specific things makes him a genius?

Did he provide any groundbreaking designs himself?

Or are you referring to his salesmanship skills?
I feel like Carreyrou was the first to popularize that there was something up with Theranos and Holmes. Being a journalist he also did it with direct sources. But the feeling that something was "wrong" predates him by a while, there's some really insightful comments here on HN circa 2013-2014 that seem to smell fishiness. Some of the comments back then point very specifically to the weirdness of her board and the near impossibility of the tech.

It seemed to tick up really sharply in late 2015, which seems to be when Carreyrou decided to pick up the story. This started coinciding with Holmes going on publicity tours talking about new partnerships she had brokered with various pharmacies and other companies. I don't really think it hit the general public consciousness until mid 2016 when the wheels really started coming off. By then Carreyrou really just seemed to be a public face for a lot of people who had more or less figured it out -- except he was really trying to get at the bottom of the "why" it felt bad.
Getting crazy difficult stuff done is a type of genius.

"a talent for working through hardware manufacturing issues" can be genius depending on exactly how good one is.
FYI: JWZ has long-since disavowed this attitude, and much else.
Somebody doing real things some of the time doesn't preclude them scamming other times. And vice versa, somebody scamming some of the time doesn't necessarily mean everything they does is a scam.

Basically, the rockets being real doesn't prove that FSD isn't a scam. And FSD being a scam doesn't prove the rockets aren't real.
I’m confused by your comment because these are exactly the type of problems that humans generally really do a poor job classifying.
The 90’s were a weird time.
If you like hurl, you may also like Step CI, which uses yaml, generates tests from your OpenAPI spec and is easy to integrate with CI/CD

Give it a try: https://stepci.com

It's free and open-source on GitHub, built by the community!

Disclaimer: I'm the original author
My Guide to a Deglobalising World
Nope, Carreyrou was on it before it was public that Carreyrou was on it. He spent months talking to people privately. Read the book. There is so much amiss here.

Edit, responding to comment below: Of course people inside Theranos knew about something fishy, a few people outside were rumouring about it. But the suggestion that Carreyrou "jumped" on it in 2015 is false. Completely.
But how does bifurcation of consciousness happen and how does it diagonalize the state so that we never see a cat in a complex linear superposition of |alive> and |dead> at the same time? 1/sqrt(2) |alive> + 1/sqrt(2) |dead> should be an equally valid outcome of the experiment via purely unitary evolution.
That works until a browser notices the misissued certificate, and then Mozilla removes the CA from their root program.
At Palantir, there are no levels at all, everyone is just a simple software engineer. It's their relevant experience that gives an engineer leverage on a project.
There's a major difference between this and GDPR complaints. The GDPR says you cannot abuse your customers. This is requiring someone who is offering a free service to spend a tonne of money on it because someone says that something they got for free isn't good enough.
What happens when you do complain? You lose your illegal rental accommodation. This is not a win.
> We could use more innovation in this space: better spaces for different kinds of conversations (and particularly asynchronous ones), better applications of distributed identities, better ways to follow conversations across all the places we’re having them.

Oh, you mean like web forums and rss? Full circle again innit? just that now the clutter of js frameworks is widespread.
Building a car company against the giant competitors is enough all by itself. The idea that he built it off of salesmanship alone defies common sense.
This is the best thing ever! Wow! Great work!
Not with any attitude: what you and the phone sysadmins propose is, effectively, to eliminate all shared DNS caching from the Internet. A beautiful dream! But that's all it is.

That no mainstream operating system in the world does this is all the evidence I need to dispose of this part of the argument.
Ah definitely misread it, thought I vaguely remember Forbes and/or NYT being the cheerleaders at the time.
In Good to Great, Jim Collins says that in great companies people on the bottom of the org chart understands the business case for the business. In such a company, you don’t have to worry so much about “alignment”.
TFA mentions the word "monopoly" 4 times but doesn't actually provide any evidence or even make an argument.

Blink 182 tickets are so expensive because people are willing to pay a lot for them. This is the only reason.
This has to be intentional no?
> Marketing had products for every conceivable niche. Engineering was all posturing: great hand-waving plans papered over nasty middle-management infighting. Hundreds of engineers in new glass-walled offices, producing plans. I wrote test code against a component that had been delivered months earlier only to find that it was just a stub. Even the debugger had bugs. Everyone knew it was a mess, but went along with it, fatalistically thinking that any OS-level project would be that messy.

This sounds like the company I work for presently
I'm not saying it exists right now, I'm saying it could be created for a DNS PKI system if it was found to be necessary (like you seem to be implying)?
A look under the hood of the new student loan debt relief application
The fastest I could beat this AI was going first and playing 7,4,4,3,6,7,5. The computer always plays the same moves and has to block a connect, but gives up a connect.
Does your bugfix problem actually test said code? Or does it just look for a specific change to be made, because I'm reasonably certain I input multiple correct solutions and they were all marked as having not solved the problem.
Will it have blackjack, and hookers? :)

I'm not trying to be a jerk, I'm just saying, this thing you're talking about doesn't exist. Moreover: it's unlikely ever to exist. CT didn't get rolled out because the CA's wanted CT; I assume they actively detest it (other than LetsEncrypt). CT got rolled out because the browsers required it. The browsers have no leverage to make the DNS PKI do anything, because, once again, they can't revoke .COM.
Every system makes tradeoffs. If you find yourself continually fighting to get something to support your specific workflow, it is usually best to be open to adjusting your workflow. Or swap to a different solution.

In my experience, WSL 2 with Node, Terminal and VSCode has felt like a first class experience. It's miles ahead of WSL 1, which was theoretically a great idea, but failed in practice.
I think the onus should be on the UI designers to present features when they are needed. This means making an effort to model the users' workflow, which is not trivial.

A good first step can be seen in Lightroom, where the TAB key will hide the tool palettes, leaving the entire (uncluttered) screen available for examining and selecting/ranking photos. Hit TAB gain to get the palettes back when you are ready to use one of the tools.

Just putting 20 icons along the edge of a window and washing their hands of it seems like a cop out to me.
Building a large profitable car company is genius level. It's crazy difficult, most people thought it was impossible to compete against the scale the big existing players had.
Neither interns nor students are expensive, the latter are free and are begging to work for you. I can get them in the snap of a finger and I work in a much smaller university. For reference Berkeley got 5 billions through fund raising campaigns since the ADA was implemented, regularly gets a 100 million dollars from donors in a year, and enrolls 40000 students every year (there's your 40000 hours) who pay tuition. Also they committed to adhering to ADA for every new piece of content they produce.

What I proposed is text-to-speech with a human in the loop, semi-automatic transcription. I've worked as a data scientist and machine learning engineer then researcher in the industry and in academia, on speech recognition and generation models among other things. I've labelled time-series datasets containing hundreds of thousands of items by myself. It's not rocket science, there are very efficient tools, and if you can't find one for your purpose it's a couple of weeks of work to create one. The ADA captioning requirements aren't very complicated either, you can check them out yourself it's like 5 things.
> 2022 remains part of an ongoing global disaster.

Which of the several dozen currently ongoing global disasters are you referring to, and, bluntly, why should we care?
Right, that too. And since I was only vaguely familiar with the concept of that law, I schemed through Kol Zchut (All Rights in Hebrew), a non-profit organization which tries to make one's right as an Israeli citizen/resident more, well... accessible (no pun intended).

It's an English version is just a partial translation so I'm not sure it'd be of much help.

https://www.kolzchut.org.il/en/Accessibility
The majority of video games are still using this
And we’ll have full-self driving any day now. /s
I'm not sure how this is a point against what abigail95 said. My experience of the NHS is similar in that you really have to go all out to get help for any non-standard problem. Now I appreciate medicine is not a very well developed field and we really know almost nothing about the human body and how to solve its ailments (although what we do know, which has been greatly focused around the things which kill us the fastest, has greatly reduced human suffering, which is great). As such, expecting any health system to fix any problem is not really fair. But I think I would at least expect sympathy, to be taken seriously, and at least some attempt at helping.

But the NHS is not only merely unhelpful when it comes to anything slightly nontrivial, they can be actively negative. I have had severe back pain laughed at and ignored. I have been told that sinuses can't hurt (after describing severe pain in the area of my sinuses which made me want to crawl out of my skull, regardless of whether they can or cannot hurt (the NHS website seems to suggest they can) the right response to "sometimes I have such severe pain that I forget what it's like to live a normal life" is surely not to dismiss it offhand). I have had ibuprofen and paracetamol prescribed simultaneously (by the same person) for severe pain while walking (which turned out to be flat feet, once I got referred to a specialist who produced a pair of tailored inserts in 10 minutes the pain quickly went away). I have had a GP prescribe half a course of antibiotics for suspected lyme disease because she didn't really think there was a chance that the tick that bit me had it (laboratory tests of the tick confirmed it did carry lyme disease). This was after I came back from Poland and had a massive red ring around the point where the tick bit me. Not sure what the logic was there, had to go to a private GP to get the other half prescribed. I think realistically for the average Joe who is mostly healthy until the age of 55 and only ever gets a broken leg, cut, or whatnot the experience of the NHS must be stellar. But for people like me, the experience can leave you in serious pain for large and important portions of your life.

Now I don't really know what the health system in the US is like, whether it's better or not. Doesn't sound better to me. But in the instances where I've paid for healthcare in the UK and in Poland I was at least met with people who didn't offhandedly dismiss my problems or laugh at me.

I don't think the problems which the NHS has are endemic to public healthcare systems, I've certainly met people in the NHS who did try to be helpful, but from all appearances of what I've heard, the NHS is constantly encouraged to be like this. I think the NHS could be a lot better.
> Nope, Carreyrou was on it before it was public that Carreyrou was on it.

This doesn't preclude other people independently suspecting something was wrong. Indeed, many of the people Carreyrou talked to thought something smelled fishy. People in the original HN threads thought so too, as did Phyllis Gartner.
This is just _one_ interpretation of wave function collapse and the only thing it has going for it is that the dimensionality in which collapse happens can always require another particle, which adds another complex degree of freedom, and always remains out of the realm of what we can compute.

Two particle interactions show nothing like wave function collapse, neither to three of four. Until you say a reasonable number of particles that make up the measuring apparatus where we should see _something_ weird starting to happen theoretically you're not even wrong.
Maybe try Medium or Substack, or for control over your server, Mastodon/Pleroma.
Meanwhile for me CSS is like the MS Word memes. Things that worked just break one day, certain options make other seemingly compatible options do nothing, and some settings just don't do what you'd guess from their name.

Almost everything can be made to look correctly but somehow the right solution is the last one I'd ever think of.
... and the fun fact is that a large majority at these Cos believes they are in the former 10% whereas statistically they are very much in the latter.
> and would have a level of gratitude for the job that would outstrip most other candidates

most candidates who don't already have a job probably feel this way
They make hotels for extended stays with kitchens - Homewood Suites, Embassy Suites, and Candlewood Suites are the big chains.

I lived in a Homewood Suites for three months. It was fine.
It seems very weird to me that “stability” is building a company around something they didn’t create.
Sounds like snapdrop.net
You’re the one that bought the MBP M2? ;)

EDIT: figured out a suitable non-gendered pronoun.
I wonder if people are already using AI text generation to farm Reddit karma.
> This sort of thing is a predictable overhead for a business

A lot of people who want to create online content are not part of a business, but they get snared up by these laws too.
CDC – Weekly U.S. Influenza Surveillance Report
> who gets to pick and choose?

Generally, that's the role of a legislature. We could, for instance, exempt restaurants unable to afford renovations from that burden. Unfortunately, there are sticklers like you that would rather those restaurant not exist.
One question I had was whether fluoridated water provides additional benefit if you are already using a fluoridated toothpaste. Obviously, having it in the water would benefit people who don't regularly brush their teeth, but it's not obvious that it's helpful if you already are getting your fluorine from the toothpaste. It's of interest to me because I drink non-fluoridated well water, but brush my teeth daily with a modern toothpaste. Anyone know?

My quick attempt to research this lead me to this nice Nature article from last year: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02924-6. The article helps to quantify the positives of fluoridation of water: real, but not as large as one might guess. The bulk of the article is about someone who sued the EPA to prevent fluoridation of public water supplies. From what I can tell the suit is much delayed but still in progress: https://fluoridealert.org/issues/tsca-fluoride-trial/.
Influenza 'A' virus subtype 'H3N2' : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_A_virus_subtype_H3N2

Influenza A (H3N2) Variant Virus | CDC : https://www.cdc.gov/flu/swineflu/variant/h3n2v-cases.htm
I'm 100% confident they are still teleporting goats but are covering it up after drawing too much attention from European regulators.
Exactly this. The features (or limitations) of medical data is inherent in the process of clinical practice, but this seems to be oftentimes overlooked.
And increased age, too, but they claim to control for these things:

> matched with a control group of 1.9 million people with no recorded evidence of coronavirus infection

Still could be lurking variables of course.