skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I read the article I was only able to think in the damage to the underwater ecosystem by sun blocking, plus micro-plastics ( trophic chain, endocrine system damage) and chemicals from plastics degradation.
"Judge Edward J. Davila ... sentenced Ms. Holmes to 135 months in prison, which is slightly more than 11 years. Ms. Holmes, 38, who plans to appeal the verdict, must report to prison on April 27, 2023.

Federal sentencing guidelines for wire fraud of the size that Ms. Holmes was convicted of recommend 20 years in prison. Ms. Holmes’s lawyers had asked for 18 months of house arrest, while prosecutors sought 15 years and $804 million in restitution for 29 investors."
Opengrok: https://github.com/oracle/opengrok
Imagine how completely devoid of empathy you have to be to get pregnant twice, knowing that your children have an extremely high risk of growing up without their mother, just because you think that this will improve your chances of getting a lighter sentence. Absolutely despicable. She deserves every day she spends in prison.
I work for a company where meetings are extremely rare. We only do formal meetings when everything else fails. It is one of the most efficient/productive companies I have ever worked for.

The least efficient/productive company I have ever worked for had formal meetings all the time. What takes a week where I work now would take 6 months there.

So no I don’t agree that meetings are automatically productive/useful in general. I am pretty sure you can measure how productive a software company is by the following formula:

Time spent working on projects divided by Time spent in meetings.
Dump your life savings into a crypto exchange based in the Bahamas, sure. But god forbid you invest $20k in a startup without being an “accredited investor”
One method of generating things via neural networks is called a generative adversarial network. It works by having two models. One that generates content and one that detects fake content. You train them both in parallel. As the fake detector gets better, so does the generative model at generating fakes. It’s literally a cat-and-mouse game. If someone came up with a scheme to reliably detect your fakes, you could add it to your discriminator model and retrain the generator to improve the fake generation.
The working age labor force serves everyone, not just “republicans.” You also need working age people to pay taxes and provide the government services democrats want. If native born democrats won’t have them, then when they consume services in retirement, they’ll be free riding on republicans and immigrants.
If medical treatment was actually as formulaic and fully-solved as you imply, we wouldn't take the best students of every generation and make them spend ten years training to become doctors. We'd just have nurses, checklists, and diagnosis flowcharts.
I'm actually really pleased with how well youtube avoids serving you rage bait once you have made it clear to the algorithm you aren't interested.
That's not really an accurate characterization. The most promoted cause by EA has been the Against Malaria Foundation because it saves the most money per $ spent. If you donate to GiveWell (a basic recommended way to donate in EA) they mostly donate to Malaria and similar causes. Obviously, some members do a lot more but Political causes aren't the standard, that stuff is.
The east coast/west coast is super striking. A few American friends were surprised when I told them I thought East/West coast divide was wider than e.g. NY/France, culture-wise. New York always felt like a more culturally diverse, bigger, English speaking Paris.

When I am in Japan, there is an obvious "this is not Kansas anymore" aspect. I love it, I lived there > 10 years but I don't need any effort to know I am like a fish out of the water.

On the other hand, California or Texas are still just unsettling, in an "uncanny valley" / twilight zone kind of way. Everything is "almost" the same, but yet so many small things that add up to a strange feeling. I guess American from a western culture background would feel the same when coming to Europe ? Not sure.
It rotates itself in 23 hours and 56 minutes relative to the fixed stars. It rotates itself in 24 hours relative to the Sun. It is Earth's rotation relative to the Sun what people care about in most situations, because day and night depend on that, not on the position relative to some far-away stars.
From CNET:

>Mozilla restructured its security functions "to better ensure the security of Mozilla and its users," Mozilla said of the cut. "Some positions were eliminated as a result of this effort, but the teams responsible for the security of the Firefox browser and Firefox services were not been impacted."

Seems relevant.
So that’s what… 9.5 years minimum?

I can’t picture someone with such an inflated sense of self-worth finding that to be acceptable. How’s she not making this worse for herself by trying to flee or something?
All: we had a flurry of threads about this all at once, which isn't surprising, but the comments they got were almost all bad (for HN)—cheap and reflexive rather than thoughtful and reflective. We want the latter, not the former*, so please take a moment to reflect before commenting, and if you'd make sure you're up on https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html we'd appreciate that too.

* https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Do any of the patients she defrauded have civil suits against her / Thernos?
So like 2% of the US military budget?
You appear to be confusing Bitcoin with RAI. RAI is a better currency than any other cryptocurrency and it is better than the vast majority of fiat currencies. It simply works. It offers extremely low volatility and is roughly comparable to the Swiss franc in how it performs over the long term.
Totally! The entire region is going to shuft as this is realized.
Nope, probably much more since he isn't a female.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentencing_disparity
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I think the father is pretty wealthy, I'm sure there will be some downsides but they will have a decently easy life.
I agree that it is offensive. He's an elite, based on his education. And I guess he was high-IQ, too. He's probably Jewish, too, and history tells us that (some, not all) Jewish people have only been considered "white" until recently. Lesson: race is relative, and this author of the article is race-baiting for clicks.
Even 3% of market share could be hundreds of millions of people. Browser market size is extremely large. That's hardly irrelevant.

https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity
It's 1/72nd of the celestial sphere I think, since a single rotation gives you the east and west views in full, but due to the 90° field of view, you need to repeat that rotation in the north-south direction to cover the entire sphere.
That's a very unusual reaction to something that simply reflects good manners.

"I'm sorry to say this" is just a polite way to express real displeasure for the fact that people sometimes have strong opinions, but they can be wrong at the same time, but in some cases they get easily offended when more knowledgeable people or simply more thoughtful people point it out.

So starting by saying sorry does not refer to the person they are answering to specifically, but to the larger aufince that is listening, because they'll have to hear something that is probably obvious to the majority, but not to that particular very wrong and aggressive person

Simply because they are trying to be polite.

Also.

The part before "but" counts as much as everything else, or the English language would not contain the word "but".

I'm sorry yo say this, but quoting GOT it's not deep.

An apology doesn't mean you did something wrong, many times it means you're doing something that did not want to do, but need to do and it's gonna hurt someone.

I'm sorry sir, but your parking is expired, I have to give you a ticket.

Apologizing on a social network to your 4 million followed because you have a vegan channel but in reality you are not vegan, have no intentions to become one and also find them pathetic, it's not an apology, it's damage control and trying to control the narrative, there's no space for real feelings at that point.

Real apologies are between people who know each other and love each other and do not want to lose each other over their ego.

So in conclusion most of the time apologies are a formalism, an ice breaker "sorry, what's your name again?" you are not really sorry. You just don't rember who that person is, but sorry works better than "hey you insignificant NPC my boss said I had to do this thing, but I don't care and I will forget your name in... what's your name again?"

Finally, I'm also sorry to say this, but the article is a puff piece for wanna be PR of the rich and famous and the authors should apologize for it.

The only time you should ask yourself "is this a good apology?" is when you are writing one for someone else.
ah yes, the centipede. Famously the unit of measure of one hundred pedes.
But do you use metric tonnes (1000 kg) and "metric" pints (½ litre, not actually metric, but in use for drinks in metric countries)?
Well yeah that’s a fact that supports the point. Why exclude it?
Is that a joke? Parting out cars is very labor intensive and only makes economic sense in limited circumstances. Outside the HN bubble, most US consumers still want internal combustion vehicles regardless of gas prices.
Starlink, not rocket launches
People don't get convicted for doing bad things. They get convicted for breaking specific laws. In this case, the laws against defrauding investors were clearly broken, to the extent that a jury unanimously agreed they were broken. Whatever laws might have applied to the patients did not meet that bar.

I keep seeing a lot of "throw them in jail" posts here on HN and it's bad. It should be very hard for the state to jail someone. It should require extremely solid proof that they committed a crime which was defined in law. If we lose that principle, we revert from rule of law to rule of judges and mob rule. Some people like Holmes don't get punished in a way that satisfies everyone they hurt, and people like SBF might never get punished, and that's fine because lowering the burden of proof would only result in more injustice.
I noticed a lot of the same things when my dad was in the ICU. Some additional thoughts:

1. "Almost every patient has delusions and nightmares" I personally felt "off" when visiting my father. The sounds, smells, lights and constant buzz of activity all contributed to a feeling of being in a surreal dreamworld. Lack of sleep contributes. I can't imagine what my father experiencing.

2. Food was HORRIBLE. One meal was a low quality hamburger on a plain, white bread bun with a slice of "american cheese", fries, iceberg lettuce salad with a couple of slices of cucumber and a single slice of tomato, a container of apple sauce and glass of milk. Lots of salad dressing and ketchup. They wouldn't let us bring better food into the ICU and my dad didn't want to "make waves".

3. Family is critical. My father got better care because I, or my brother, was there to act on his behalf. Having obnoxious family members is worse than having none from what I saw.
All Musk did was tell his employees that they are expected to work and work hard. That the culture of doing as little work as possible had ended because it was killing the company - a fair point considering Twitter was bleeding money and only had 2 profitable years in the last 10. The other eight saw losses of 500MM to 1.1BN. Twitter was already on the edge financially and even a layman could see the entire company needed to change.

Musk telegraphed his intention to cut most of the workforce so this shouldn't be a surprise. His acquisition is playing out exactly like others. He will push and press until he finds the people worth keeping or are on-board with his vision and then fill gaps going forward. There are no shortage of people who do not share the smoothie-guzzling work-ethic of former twitter employees.

Twitter has always been a toxic place. What else do you call an organization whose only output for the last 10 years were billion dollar write downs and global censorship? To say nothing of the trolls, spam, bots, and astroturfing. Where ping-pong is valued more than production, and employees take 2 hour post-lunch "relaxation" breaks in the middle of the day, a mere hour before they go home.

Taking the CEO's suggestion of leaving if you weren't onboard with his vision is not sending a message. It is taking the CEO's suggestion of working someplace else. I'm sure in today's competitive environment, CEO's are climbing over themselves to pay $150k to $250k year to someone who does only 2 to 4 hours of real work per day.

I can see Musk moving the company HQ to some other place where talent pools have a different perspective on work and work ethic. My bets are Raleigh, NC or Austin, TX.
holy cats. the only thing that might send you away longer is tax fraud and thats only because the us tax code was never demilitarized after we crushed the mafia. 18 months was never going to happen.
Because mobile and desktop are different markets
Especially considering the human cost of blood sweat and tears is "externalized"
This is probably intended for encoding webcam chat between Intel devices. They can hash the video "frames" to detect interception.
This to me is the saddest part of the saga. It's obviously awful what she did to the patients but, seeing a mother do this to her own child somehow just hits different.
I thought her thinking was "I will be unable to have a child when I get out of prison". Which makes some sense. Preventing my someone from procreating seems like a serious punishment not warranted in this case.
He's paying three months severance.
If her kids don't end up resenting her for being absent for 10+ years, they will when they grow up enough to learn about everything she did.
Is there much risk just in reading a cracked book!
You'd be surprised to see what happens to staff going against waking up patients all night. You get the "dangerous sloth" sticker on your forehead real quick on the morning grand rounds.
You did the good job
There is clear political motivation in those who oppose the energy transition. Despite hundreds upon hundreds of papers on 100% clean energy electricity grids, they are produced by scientists that tend to follow the data rather than use data to justify their politics. There are a few counter examples (perhaps Marc Jacobs?) but there are so many other modelers coming to the same conclusion as DOE here, and nobody has seriously refuted these models in any way.
I'd guess because it's not an even number. I don't know why even number of bits were considered infeasible, but there hasn't been a single computer architecture with odd number of bits as word length: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_(computer_architecture)
Off topic, is there something like TurboWarp where you visually design a flow chart of basic operations and it gets evaluated as code?

I'm looking for something like that to use as an educational tool to help with teaching people how to program
I view it more like a vice (smoking, gambling, etc) and as mentioned we need an actual thoughtful policy if we think it’s a security issue.

Banning one app at a time is not the way.
"Little has been said about the innovation Elizabeth strived for"

What the hell is this quote? "Yeah, she defrauded people and lied to her customers, but guys, she really, really, really wanted it to work".

We might be talking about her striving if she had tried and failed. If she had tried and came close. But, no, that's not what happened. She claimed she did something she didn't, then took a lot of others' people money to build a business upon that lie.

So, no, we won't be talking about her "vision" or whatever.
I was tech lead and architect on the system that runs the UK's digital trade remedies platform to control trade tariffs and special measures post Brexit. It's the first and only platform of it's kind. I suppose that's the most "impactful" as it manages events that affect entire industries on a national scale.
Yeah they do that too, but that's what I don't like, because I don't think opinions should be regulated by corporations. Also I can't tell if you're sarcastic. In case not, what is it effective at? Silencing people with bad opinions?
Ok, but please don't fulminate on HN.

Perhaps you don't owe fraudster mothers better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'd argue that meat should be the preferred method of feeding people given the nutrients in it.
For me the Seeking preview shows multiple frames stacked on top of each other.
You'd be surprised how many erstwhile lame puns our daily conversation includes. Ever use the term "nothing"?
If we're talking about financial damage done this sentencing still feels exceedingly light. We have a real double standard - there are people in jail for longer for possession.

Edit to clarify: My statement is more intended to emphasize how overly punishing possession charges rather than to advocate for draconian charges for all offenses.
It has to be deliberate. I have never been on twitter, and have not even been able read incidental twits that get pushed my way since they required JS.
So it is truly a non issue one way or the other for me.
But I can not see any possible goal except to not only destroy the particular company but to further destroy the idea of something like it as viable.
Did you get the real/legit title of the car signed over to you?
Air conditioners were the problem, not EV's.
I did all that, for years. I dont actually see the algo - but everyone I follow does. And they retweet the shit out of the algo feed crap.
At least one strange aspect of her biography that has always stood out to me is:

> During high school, she was interested in computer programming and says she started her first business selling C++ compilers to Chinese universities.

That seems extremely suspicious and unlikely but I would love to learn more about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Holmes#cite_note-Rog...
https://rectangles.app

It's a way of visualizing time differently - 144 blocks, where each block represents 10 minutes of your day.
Teams has (good!) automated captions now for live video, and I actually thought this was going to be automated ASL transcription

...That would take a lot of work, though. Turns out the reverse – sign to text – is coming, though: https://slait.ai/
I doubt her passport still works, and I likewise doubt that she still has (or ever had) the right friends to disappear without one.
It would test all the software paths in production though. Bad software would still fail and need last minute patches every 6 months.
Well, no-longer-local-seeming language roots. I don't know about ghent, but pen y is pretty Welsh. The locals who don't recognize it have mostly just forgotten it.
I like the idea of having personal filters on the receiving end, sort of like how I can decide to search Google using "Safe search: Moderate" or no safe search filtering.

And I guess it makes sense to de-promote poisonous speech, since our primal brains have a tendency to naturally amplify and accord outsized importance to hate, outrage and other strong negative emotions, although those are mostly hugely detrimental to civil society.

Social harmony is underrated in the West. We're all willing to sacrifice our social fabric - and thus ultimately our averaged personal happiness - in favor of individualism. A social system like Twitter should have systems and patterns that correct for our flaws here.
SBF sold a portion of his shares in the company for $300M instead of selling other outstanding shares. This meant he got to cash out before investors which is frowned upon because it signals that SBF believed that a $300M investment in another place was more valuable than keeping his $300M invested in FTX.
Indeed. The whole story is tragic and sad. What a waste of talent, money, and time. Not to mention the kids.

Of course she should still be accountable, but people get so caught up in the anger and vengeance aspect that they forget it is also sad.

The whole situation is regrettable and it would be better if it never happened.
Out of curiosity, does anyone know what happened to all of the Theranos hardware / technology after the company was shut down? e.g. the edison testing machines
I would rather have a prison mommy than not existed.
That's a huge problem, you think that's a viable way to get things done and I don't fault you as I am sure you truly believe it's an emergency. However ,I don't see things as being that dire and instead I see your state of emergency being an act of authoritarianism.
Or they don't like their chances in the sea of unemployed tech workers after all of the other layoffs at Amazon, Facebook, etc.
I work for an unrelated US company and if our boss would ask my team to go hardcore and push a new feature out of the door and he can explain why that's necessary, I'd expect more than half of my team to participate.

There are people who are proud of doing good work. It's just that they probably were the minority at Twitter. I'd guess that scaring out everyone who's feeling lazy might turn out to be a great way to increase productivity.
if your only use case is to disengage the regen braking you should probably just have a regen braking disable function, a clutch is an awfully complicated way to achieve that. You could literally have a software 'clutch' pedal that did nothing other than disable the regen if that was your goal.

Although on the other hand the clutch does have a nice property, which is that it works regardless of the state of the control system of the vehicle. If my MCU decides it wants to accelerate me at 500 mph into a wall a hardware clutch would be a nice thing to have!

W.r.t gearboxes in EVs: there is definitely a reason to have a transmission in an EV, it's just that most manufacturers don't include one for simplicity .

https://i.stack.imgur.com/HRUva.gif
Yes, it sporadically happens, even though there are not a lot of users on it.

I still use Google for images mostly (or when the others are blocked).
I think you're just throwing the trolley switch differently from me.
The concrete vault helps prevent the gravesite from sinking. The coffin or casket will decompose, and there’s a lot piled on top of it, and people and equipment go over it, so with time it can cave in.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burial_vault_(enclosure)
Plays fine on my iPhone 13 mini. It’s actually quite comical watching it in Picture in Picture mode.
Looks like the second plan she didn't really think all the way through...
Every other used car dealer will buy them. The auto auction market is highly liquid. Buyers have money.
> We’re not saying don’t charge them,” she said. “We’re just saying don’t charge them between 4 p.m. and 9 p.m.”

Exactly. During the worst, off the charts weather event ever experienced, with statewide heat never seen before, there were a few hours where people were asked to not use much energy, but they still had plenty of energy to charge cars.
No way. I would rather stop programming altogether than go back to life before Copilot. You've already lost this one.
They had Yahoo! as a default for a decent amount of time. The got out because promised quality improvements didn't materialize, according to court filings.
I wouldn't say it's frowned upon. I think that determination depends on the context.
As hot as the sun's surface, that is. The sun's core is over 15 million Celsius.