skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally find SBF smart and interesting but nonetheless very happy to see this very silly ecosystem collapse.

Perhaps bitcoin or a couple other tokens will have longterm staying power still, but remains mysterious to me why there should be so much surplus value to extract around it. Current banks and financial institutions (which are not even that efficient) manage to move around a magnitude more in investments and do not end up taking up the same level of surplus value, somehow.
The managers might not understand the exact nature of the work. They want to know how they can reduce the scope: for which they need information about which work is urgent, or necessary at all. The mission is "please identify and estimate all untracked work so we can blindly put all of it into the plan, no matter how it delays the project".
That’s an excellent point a lot of people probably doing worse harm than her, got away and are getting away with it. It’s a shame.
The video in question is a kill zone intended to be covered by fire. The obstacles only need to impede movement. If you stop to remove them, you will get destroyed (if the plan holds).
> "Just cut out caffeine/just try some caffeine when you feel one coming on!"

The very "best" part of my journey was seeing a migraine specialist very early on. I told him that I thought maybe caffeine had something to do with it. He brusquely told me that caffeine had nothing to do with it. Twenty years later, I went to the same guy, because I had learned some new things. Again, I mentioned how much caffeine I was drinking, and he cut me off, and, again, brusquely told me that this was my whole problem. When confronted with the contradiction, he mumbled some things, and I got out of there. I was peeved. He retired not long after.

Another, very-thoughtful doctor I saw, explained that the East Coast / West Coast research hospitals are actually divided on the issue of how much caffeine contributes to migraines, so it's not like it's exactly clear.

In my experience, I can confidently say that caffeine withdrawal headaches and migraines are 2 different animals, but they can present with the same intensity of pain at times, so it is confusing.
FBP extension. Very feature-rich
The epistemological foundations of data science: a critical review
This is 100% correct.

It doesn’t matter if it was intended as a threat because if it wasn’t, it was still an appallingly judged comment.
Not to be confused with the talented soccer player Sam Obisanya. https://ted-lasso.fandom.com/wiki/Sam_Obisanya#Dubai_Air_and...
I love this website. Extremely simple with a clear an interesting focus. Great idea.
Write it in Prolog, then you won't have to worry about conditionals.
I think, instead, they wanted their throats slit!
It’s under “Documentation” in the readme.
Cool stuff, a little confused by this quote though:

"The ultimate goal is to be able to use multiple clusters as just compute resources like there is a single big cluster."

- isn't this the point of the underlying K8s nodes?
Curiosity as Tourism
This reminds me of a theory that some of the linguistic features shared between the extant Celtic languages and Semitic languages may be due to the existence of a semitic population in the British Isles that lived together with early Celtic-speaking groups. It seems that the British Isles has always had multiple co-existing populations due to ongoing migration waves, from the ancient past, to the arrival of Germanic speakers in the late first millennium, to more recent migration of subjects from across the former empire.
Good questions. Some thoughts:

1 The features we charge for are usage based. For example on our hosted service the number of FHIR resources and automations (Bot executions) customers use is tiered. We also charge for compliance related features, like a Business Associate Agreement (BAA).

2 I like the paper you linked to and think it is useful.
In terms of the interoperability criteria - this looks very similar to the criteria for ONC certification. Though we are not yet certified, we are working on it and you can see some of our documentation here https://www.medplum.com/docs/compliance/onc

3 Community and support is one of our goals as well and yes, we plan to hire team members explicitly focused on community

4 We do target developers, and not practice professionals. There is value in low-code in specific scenarios, but are focused on the developer because the workflows and data structures are complex enough that programming is preferable to, for example, complex configurations. We do not expect that those who develop on top of us will make their code open source.

5 In terms of consolidation - we do think that having data stored in a standard compliant way (FHIR) and available via well-documented API is useful, both for the consolidation scenario and for other interop use cases. We don't have any plans to coordinate with equity groups at present - but that's an interesting idea
It's important to read the NASA guide understanding the context. If your costs to dispatch a service technician are significantly less than theirs, and your environmental requirements are significantly less than theirs, it may be acceptable to build connectors in a less expensive manner and occasionally dispatch a technician to change the cable. But where it's not significantly more expensive to build it to NASA spec, go for it.
Do politics make us irrational? [video]
Lies About Marketing That Tech Startups Need to Stop Believing
He's said repeatedly that he doesn't care about money so what exactly is the point of these articles? The dude's stated goal is to make sure humanity survives and becomes a multi-planetary species which means that anyone with that plan could care less about monetary wealth other than as a means to an end.
How do you reckon they (good ones) ended up in management? :)
Great question. Would be nice to get a return on such insight.
The ascent of "guy" (1999)
The article says

>While her computer model shows being black is his 'probable profile', DNA testing is not advanced enough to say for certain.

>The model came up with 'black' or 'dark black' skin for Cheddar Man based on his DNA.

>Some, particularly on the far-right, have questioned whether there was a political agenda behind the claims.

So it seems like, yeah, they are not absolutely positive (and the tabloid article sensationalizes this point), but so far the science shows dark skin, and this ruffles the feathers of the far-right.
Small correction: eigenfunctions are analogous to eigenvectors, not eigenvalues. In fact they _are_ eigenvectors, in the sense that they are vectors in a vector space of functions (or some restricted set of functions, e.g. continuous functions or periodic functions).
Seen that. Currently living it.

Honestly it has pretty much destroyed our business and customer relations looking after the pile of steaming shit that remains.
Many years ago I was working IT for a hotel chain. One day I'm called up to the presidential suite. I knock on the door and announce myself. A man opens the door, I immediately recognize him. It's Tom Cruise. He asks me to hook up his Slingbox so that he can watch his cable from home. It only took a couple of minutes and our interaction ended with a simple thanks and goodbye.
Yup. Protesting that has no risk to you nor costs you anything is posturing. Posturing's pretty much pointless, especially if it shows how painless it all is. Players could have gotten "hurt", teams could have walked.
Did AH take money from retail investors? I suppose you can claim they pumped these products. I'm not convinced it's any different than what happens with an IPO that started with VC money. I'm not saying it's good, just that it's as bad as anything that's regulated.
Seems like a weird critique to me. Some people join out of college and realize that, for a variety of reasons, that sector isn't for them (yes, even at Jane Street). Maybe they get overly enamored by an internship; maybe they don't want to live in NYC. My impression is they are pretty 'open door' about rehiring if you leave on good terms or decline an offer anyway.
Versepad – A text editor for poets
Compared to SQL, Datalog lets you break down queries into smaller queries that are reusable.

I think Datalog got some attention in the 1980s as a logically pure dialect of Prolog, then it practically disappeared from the literature for a while. I remember it being really hard to find anything about it around 2008, then when people got really tired of OWL and other semantic web tools Datalog came roaring back in the 2010s.

Like the semantic web tools people have a hard time recognizing bog-standard database technology when they have been slightly reskinned and Datalog has long had that problem. One issue is that SQL has this crazy idiosyncratic syntax that hides the fact that it has a simple set of operators behind it, in the case of Datalog the operators are quite directly exposed which people seem to find too simple to understand.
Why? He must have had some money of his own and some rich friends to set it up. So he had the means. Also, the difference was there and it was persistent so he had the opportunity as well.
Because it's not a medical device, it's a vibrating watch.
Y'all have dedicated HR? Usually startups I work at have some underpaid "office manager" who is both HR and a mom to the entire office.
Alternatively, depending on what kind of person she really is, the children might actually be better off without her.

We also don’t want to encourage people with criminal energy to have more children in order to increase their chances of more favorable sentences.
FTT has no purpose to exist now, it will be replaced by Binance token, BNB.
I lost my job at BlackBerry in spring 2014. I'm not sure how many rounds happened before that. At least a dozen. The company shed thousands and thousands of us as it entered decline.

Thankfully I had no children, no mortgage and lived well below my means. As such, it was quite possibly one of the happiest moments of my life, instead of the worst. I could only imagine how I would have felt if I just bought a house, or had a child.

I was so eager to sign the papers to move on. In retrospect, I was foolish to have stayed as long as I did. It was an amazing place to work in the early days, lots of talented colleagues I had learned much from, about work, about life, but by the end, it was a shambling zombie, decomposing before our very eyes.

We were summoned into an office with a cheerful HR person, armed with a PowerPoint presentation. A box was passed around to toss our many years worth of phones into. I'll never forget being asked, "Does everyone know why we are here?" at the very start. We did.

I wish good fortune to anyone who has lost their job in the recent layoff rounds. There is light at the end of the tunnel. Given some time and luck, you might even land in a better place (I feel blessed in that respect).
> The point is that wire fraud is apparently a much more serious crime than fraudulent medical practice, otherwise the fraudulent medical practice would be much easier to sue for.

That does not follow, at all.

The US Attorney's office cannot bring charges against violations of state law, and medicine is largely regulated by the individual states in the US. Additionally, the evidence in a particular case might make it easier to prove some charges than others. That's not a value judgement that one crime is "worse" than another. That's just reality.

The Feds prosecuted Al Capone for tax evasion -- not because anybody thinks tax crimes are more serious than murder, but a) that's what they had jurisdiction over and b) it is what they could prove in court.
It is most common, yes. That doesn't make it an accurate description.
What does your code look like? Is it like

if case=1 then (...)
if case=2 then (...)

If you have a unique outcome for each case, you'll probably have to take the long way. Without knowing what your code looks like though, it's difficult.

Feel free to fudge variable names, function names, etc.
I will say that the evidence is the same for either.

What percentage you think makes an idea mainstream I will leave up to you...
> tell on themselves

Really? "If you don't believe this you're racist"

I've got dark hair dark eyes tanned skin and no British ancestry at all. I look more Middle Eastern than British...

I just hate that a discipline I love (archaeology) is becoming so politicised. The past literally means nothing to the present or future beyond being interesting...
Looking forward to reading more of these
> if it isn't an app, then is apple giving them OS level permissions or is this a fork of iOS?

Gonna guess it's corporate distribution certs (whatever they're called, I haven't had to mess with that in years—the ones that let you sign & distribute apps outside the app store, mostly intended for letting companies distribute internal apps that wouldn't be suitable for general use on the app store) and you're technically leasing the device. Or something along those lines, maybe Apple has a special program that's very similar for medical device use. Not a custom build of the OS, nor special permissions.
It’s due to astroturfers like this guy [1] here on HN manipulating the narrative with intentional misinformation and HN taking the bait and upvoting like crazy because it sounds intelligent and authoritative.

Don’t trust anyone, they’re all scum.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33467429
Is the code public? Seems simple to implement. But I'd rather copy and paste.
That visualization of circular flows is gold. Thank you.
This was a common refrain when the verdict was first announced, and I think it absolutely misses the point.

Legal outcomes are about what you can prove. It was very clear that Holmes said "Our product can do x, y, z" to investors, and it's also totally clear she knew this to be false at the time, and it was material.

The evidence that she, personally, was guilty of defrauding patients directly was always reaching in my opinion. I followed the trial closely, and were I on the jury I would have voted for the same outcome.

The thing I really don't like about the line of reasoning is that it's essentially emotional at its heart: investors are rich and knew they were taking a risk, while patients are the ones who need protection. That may very well be true, but you don't get to just make up outcomes because one group is more powerful than another. The prosecution just failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that she was guilty of defrauding patients.
Excellent descriptions, thanks!
Don't catch a falling knife.
That's all well and good procedually. I think the objection is not about the technicalities of the due process but the manner in which it seems to currently be optimized - results wise.

It is very true as you say that it was easier to prosecute for wire fraud with evidence available so that's what they did. Maybe we should reevaluate what the system prioritizes making easy and what it makes hard. Don't you think?
"Unintentionally" is doing a lot of work there. This is to incentivize pharma makers to create vaccines without having to worry about spurious lawsuits. If they commit some kind of outright fraud, selling substances that aren't what they say or fabricating research results, they're still liable. This isn't much different from the way medical malpractice works. You can't (successfully) sue a doctor who performed open heart surgery on your husband because he died afterward, in most cases, because it's a risky procedure and that risk is something you have to accept. But if they were drunk while performing the surgery, you can absolutely sue for that.

In this specific case, though, there isn't necessarily this kind of informed consent. People can be legally mandated to get vaccines, so it would make no sense to hold the company providing the vaccines liable. The entity creating the mandate, in this case the government itself, should be the one liable, and they are.

Your number doesn't mean a whole lot, either. The most dangerous vaccines are for things like malaria and anthrax that typically only military members get, and when they end up harmed, the VA pays them disability benefits. There are way more than 29 people getting VA disability because of events like this.
The science doesn't show dark skin, it doesn't show any skin colour. Saying X might be true != X is true.
Indeed. Didn't stop the market from melting down though and it looks like FTT is going to zero. Wonder what happens if they decide not to buy it after all.
thanks. I loved the advice to learn horizontally to broaden the horizon.
> Any "architect" joining the company and pushing for drastic changes like that is either an idiot chasing the hype, or a malicious actor trying to boost their importance.

Or, which seems more likely, but still just as bad - someone chasing the "successfully redesigned the infrastructure on a scale of the entire company" on their promo packet and resume.

Whether it actually improved the infrastructure is of no concern to them. Not needing to even try to understand the existing infra in-depth to make it happen, and the added job security (due to making the infra more complex and confusing for the rest of engineers to understand), are just a cherry on top.

Call it a cynical take, but this is one of those situations where "the simplest explanation is probably what actually happened" feels about right.
I love the internet. Random people meet in so many places. rqlite is awesome. Fantastic project.
FWIW, my Shimanos use mineral oil. There's a little funnel you attach at the handlebars, and flick the lines to burp them. I've had this bike for a decade, and I can't remember the last time I had to do more than that to keep the lever feel strong.

The pads are held in place by a cotter key, so it's impossible to misalign them. You couldn't move them if you wanted to.
What does this enable?
spammer's dream if you can get verified privileges for $8

a giveaway scam on twitter can make thousands of dollars or more in a day. $8 is nothing
Suppose you were a junior engineer working with a senior engineer. They gave you a task, and you came to a similar conclusion: it was their job to do X, but they weren't doing it.

Would you simply tell them they're not doing their job, or would you ask questions, talk in private, and try to dig in tactfully?

When I was 22 or so, I did go around telling a certain senior engineer that they weren't doing their job. I still cringe at how headstrong I was back then. The people around me were trying to hint that things aren't quite as clear cut as it seems, but it took a swift kick in my backside to reboot my worldview.

You're right that the optimal strategy is not to stress about it, though. That would've saved me a lot of heartache.

My point is (and the point of many other commenters here) is that you can't really show up to a meeting and say "This project is doomed." That's arguably one of the core advantages of startups over bigcos -- you can pivot.

Your options are to climb the politics ladder, or ride it out and see what happens. It depends how much you care, or how much responsibility you want.
> Bet that manager’s still at the company, though.

I can imagine. I don't know about you, but I met a lot of managers throughout my career that were masters in saving their own asses. They could not keep their P/L up to date. They didn't have time for that, as they were working 24x7 to avoid the hot potato. Amazing! Pure art! Art of avoidance!
It depends if you do certified Agile™ or apply some core agile principles. Getting something that works ASAP and then iterate is a huge win whenever possible. Losing steam on a project that hasn't met any useful milestone yet must be one of the main sources of waste in our industry. Granted, 15 months in might make it tough to correct course towards a shippable milestone. Definitely worth the exercise tough.
I think he was joking
I don't think GP is disagreeing with you about what the law currently says but is lamenting that current law is in fact written this way. Regardless of the legality, it feels wrong (to me at least) from a moral standpoint that investors were better protected from the fraud in this case than the medical patients were.
She first and foremost defrauded rich and powerful people. That's usually the difference between one group getting away with it and others not.

Bernie Madoff is another example.
Inside the article it is said that the vegetable oil that was used for cooking in most of the studied cases was sesame oil.

The most abundant fatty acid is sesame oil is linoleic acid, it is not a HO vegetable oil, so it will be degraded during frying much more than HO oils or than animal fat.

So the study has not compared vegetable oils in general as food, in comparison to animal fat, but it has compared sesame oil used in high temperature cooking vs. animal fat.

This is significant because pristine vegetable oils are expected to be a healthier food than animal fat, while vegetable oils that have been strongly heated are expected to be a less healthy food than strongly heated animal fat.

Therefore any study that compares vegetable oil with animal fat must make very clear which of the 2 cases have been studied.
I'm not sure why you are ruling out a Ponzi scheme so quickly.
The quality of forecasting here looks questionable IMO... Let's take the only visible leaked slide below:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/global-health/2022/1...

1) The forecast appears to be "200 new cases per month" (i.e. Month 1 is 200 cases, Month 3 is 600 cases (3200) and Month 4 is 1200 cases (6200)). This is far too simplistic, and should probably follow an exponential/logistic curve if r>1.

2) The graph has simple stats failures like plotting a line between a bar chart.

Doesn't give me too much hope for the other 15 slides...

(The above isn't to say that it isn't a scary situation - clearly this is an awful situation which needs a huge amount of support. But the apparent quality of analysis does worry me that decision makers might not be working on great information)
What about people who have difficulty breathing, and have to have their breathing hindered for hours by the mask?

I was in the hospital for 2 days when my wife gave birth, and I was supposed to wear the mask 24/7. Luckily they didn't enforce it strictly so I was able to sleep without the mask.
Both tweets from nov 3, talking about something going to happen yesterday which... didn't happen. Fair to say at least some of their information was bad.
I was about to say that. Emacs not just the LISP machines. Emacs' comes from ITS, an OS praised by RMS, basically the anithesis of Unix. Everything was hackable and shareable. No perms.

The closest in philosophy may be Guix(SD), but, for that, the Unix utilities should be converted into optional tools and make Scheme both the command line prompt shell, the configuration tool and the API.
Why are you so insistent that there shouldn’t be a discussion on this?

For you to say, e.g. “My bona fides are such and such, I find this theory highly implausible for $REASONS” would be eminently useful and helpful and very much in the spirit of the site.

In case the multiple people saying this aren’t saying it clearly enough: you sound more like “Serious people all agree about this, only cranks disagree with us, and you plebs wouldn’t understand even if I explained it”.

Love #1. Fuck #2 in fucking particular.
I don't think I've ever heard an anecdote about a "career limiting" statement being made which wasn't a red flag about the company culture.

I think my personal favorite was someone - seriously - saying to a Sales guy that he shouldn't espouse his opinion that he didn't like Bourbon anywhere near the CEO, as that would be "career limiting". WHAT!