skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure I feel bad for George Shultz. His grandson gave him the knowledge he needed and instead of being a part of the solution in outing the fraud, he decided to take the side of Theranos and pressured his grandson to keep quiet instead of backing him. Kudos to Tyler Shultz going through all that.
It's far too little.

I can't get too upset about the investors; they had the opportunity to do their own due diligence and chose not too.

She lied to patients, subverting systems meant to protect people against fraudulent medical care and faking blood test results. This wasn't a game. The punishment for cavalierly toying with people's health was far too lenient.

She earned 25 years or more not just on the merits, but as an example to the next person who decides to make money with fake medical treatments.
> It's easier to read "mod(1, 3)" than "1 % 3".

Why is it? You're assuming that I know what "mod" means, what the parens and comma signify (and perhaps what the lack of space in mod( but the presense of space after the comma indicate). If I didn't know those thing, they aren't at all readable and there's no way to guess. Wouldn't it be "1 modulo 3" for readability? Look at beginners in various languages posting on the internet asking what the different parens, braces and brackets do and when to use them. And then you're assuming that I don't know %, which because it's so common in C-like languages, I do, but if I didn't the glyph looks like division.

NB. that mod() implies modulus and % is remainder, and "rem" is even worse because it looks like BASIC's "remark" comment word. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13683563/whats-the-diffe...

It's easier to read "(AA|AB)([0-9A-F]{7,10})ZZ" than to write that regex in a flowchart of if/else branches and string and state manipulation. And easier to verify it's correct. Just because you can write unreadably hideously long regexes doesn't mean regexes should be shunned for unreadability, for a range of patterns they are usable, convenient and powerful.

> "I've never seen the value proposition of these family of languages other than "people who like them say they like them", and by the looks of the comments I don't seem to be the only one."

I'm not sure they have one in the large scale; I would like one as a rectangular-pattern-regex inside another language or shell because of the notation, and not in the sense that "you can do the same thing with numpy". I can write text search in Java, I'd rather use grep.
To be perfectly honest, I thought someone was writing a Yoda-style title.

The article was quite the let down, given the expectations.
So why specify guns?

Especially when they're so rarely used in situations like this.
Sorry, I think I worded that part wrong. The "coding challenges" I referred to were given to me by potential employers after the first round of interviews. I guess I should have called the "assessments" rather than "challenges". I'll make an edit.
I think one reason for having fairly consistent pitch and rhythm in popular dance music is that it can make it easier for club DJs and can help to keep people moving. Digital DJ decks can help, but shifting pitch or tempo too far can sound (and feel) jarring and unnatural.

Though with traditional vinyl the pitch can shift as one record is sped up or slowed down to match the tempo of another. It can be challenging to simultaneously match both the tempo and tuning of two vinyl records.

As noted in the article, grid-based tools do seem to be designed to facilitate loop-based production. But Logic is also frequently used for soundtracks and certainly supports key and tempo changes. Moreover the chromatic piano grid used in many DAWs and sequencers seems more key agnostic than a staff with a key signature. Not only that, but some DAWs (Ableton Live for example) are very good at processing samples so that their rhythm and tuning can easily be adjusted.
The Making of Starquake
The Washington Post really needs an editor - there are tons of obvious typos in this article. Seems clear that it was basically just written and posted without even a re-read. More of an internet comment and less a column in a national paper. Hopefully it gets cleared up over time, but still...

I think it's pretty transparent fear mongering and trying to create an outcome by reporting about it. The article encourages people to tweet about Twitter going down and to try alternatives - I wonder if that's because the Washington Post is politically aligned against Twitter, "tech", and Musk?
Holy wow. That's wild.

Ten years ago when my crypto was worth barely anything I had an airgapped, full disk encrypted, RasPi which required a Shamir's Secret Sharing key arrangement to unlock as my cold storage... just because it was something fun to setup.

Here a multi-billion dollar enterprise has less sophisticated OpSec. Just... wow.
Tree views in CSS
Didn't Shkreli get released significantly earlier than 85% of 7 years?
Not bad for that kind of money. Not bad...
The scalper can only make profit if he can buy the ticket at one price, and later sell it not just at a higher price, but a price sufficiently higher to cover the costs of the process (advertising, bot development, customer support, transaction fees, ...), and the profit needs to be worth both the effort and the risk.

In this model, anyone willing to pay more than the scalper paid already had the opportunity to buy at the higher price, so the only people the scalper could sell to would be people who really want to go, are willing to pay a high price, but weren't organized enough to actually buy when the ticket was being sold at that price.

That will almost certainly limit the profit so much that it isn't worth it at all, and even if it doesn't, anyone who plans ahead will be able to get the ticket directly from the system.

In the end, it's an auction system. Which auction system is chosen doesn't matter much economically. You could get similar results by having people bid on the available tickets. But psychologically, that will alienate fans more than a system like this. This only works for shows that will definitely sell out though, because otherwise it creates an incentive to wait for a lower price, deterring people from buying.

(Your first paragraph remains valid of course.)
Have you been on TikTok? All I see on it are large breasted women, NASA stuff and dog rescues.

I do wonder if there’s any lobbying going on from Facebook or Google to help bolster their Reels and Shorts products, both of which seem to be garbage and miss the point of TikTok (the two way interaction).
It's late, but he made poverty wages as an adjunct.
I don't want that sh*t to be there in the first place.
No one knows better than the end user. And also, if the user could not reach some M$ server does not mean users' network was not connected to the internet.

Anyway, won't be a trouble for me much longer. Retiring all my Windows instances, had enough.
I'm so thoroughly impressed with the speed!
In almost every way, aside from the use of "a drop of blood"?

Snark aside, this article is claiming testing for a single blood parameter, clotting time, using purpose built hardware
/ software methods, vs the Theranos claim of building a single lab-in-a-box type device, that could test for myriad conditions or parameters all via a single drop of blood.
> I think we throw around years like slaps on the wrist.

I generally agree, but when your fraud is in the hundreds of millions and billions range, well, that's more than most people will earn in a hundred lifetimes.
That's a little dramatic
It'd also lose energy to the gearbox, would weigh more (more energy loss), and would cost more. It's not obvious that the efficiency would be improved.
It's never not gonna be funny watching "code is law" people find out that law is, indeed, law.
To the pub, have a nice cold pint, and wait for this all to blow over.
Because Microsoft isn't a reputable company and engages in nefarious activities across the web to maintain a positive reputation?
Poor people are disproportionately affected by the climate catastrophe and benefit most from mitigating it.
It's important to put this in perspective.

1- layoffs are happening primarily to non-technologist roles

2- even with the layoffs, we're still no where near head counts for 2019.

Companies are taking advantage of the macro situation to clean house. It serves a dual purpose. Get rid of low performing employees and clean up any non essential functions, while also pleasing investors.
> losing the websockets

users would lose the session and have to start over, not the end of the world
This is a practical reality of the "we keep old people alive too long" category.
The Bahamian government is overseen by "The Firm"...

>The Crown and the Police Force
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_of_the_Bahamas#The_Cr...

The national police force of the Bahamas is known as "The Royal Bahamas Police Force".

>The St. Edward's Crown appears on the Bahamian Police's badges and rank insignia, which illustrates the monarchy as the locus of authority.

>Every member of the Royal Bahamas Police Force has to swear allegiance to the monarch of the Bahamas, on taking office.

("Monarch of the Bahamas" aka King Charles III of Great Britain.)

I can imagine many levels of royal induced pressure being applied here.
Cool, I always thought Windows decided my status at random.
Googling it, Sholam Weiss served 20+ years of a 825 year!! sentence for a fraud that sounds comparable to Holmes'. He died two months after release too from a stroke
Dolphins have names they choose for themselves in infancy (2006)
I switched to Parallels due to VMware's lack of Apple Silicon support; it's been a great experience for Windows 11 (and does a great job of bundling the Windows 11 ARM installer, etc.)

Crossover works surprisingly well for games, too.
in another comment they state:

> I'm just running this off of a 2x RTX A6000 server on Vast.ai at the moment, about $1.30/h

whether that's a lot is a matter of perspective
> They might just work less hours with less fatigue and make code that is a bit more more sensible.

I feel that is at the core of programming... to automate and then watch your creation do the work. I only see a small part of this in large enterprises. For the most part it happens at the beginning of a project, and then non-technical stakeholders who make decisions start scaling the project by adding more people. The scaling could happen by adding better engineering... make reusable apps and components, leverage type systems, leverage formal logic for business domain, etc. The problem for business there is that it would change who controls the scaling.
So mothers should be able to commit crimes without having to worry about the consequence of going to prison? That doesn’t sound right…
I'd flip the question around. Would engineers benefit from fewer big tech?
One of the things I did was helping at a company I contracted at for a few months.

The company did these pdf invoices and the design team would change the design weekly. And there was a junior dev working there and she spent 4 days a week trying to get these new designs into html to generate the invoice and convert to PDF.

She was quite down because she felt like she was missing out on working on stuff she could learn from.

So I went talked to the design team and got them to generate their designs as Adobe forms with named fields.

Then I sat with the dev and we implemented in about 2 hours Adobe form field data and outputting a pdf.

Then each week she got given a new form. Double checked the fields. And then replaced the form.

The weeks that followed she would spend 1 hour a week doing her task and was able to work on the main application and get real work.

Edit: wow people have contributed a lot of awesome stuff. I feel like I haven’t contributed anything now haha. I just picked this particular story because I felt like I helped someone out of a crappy situation.
German here living in Sweden. The description sounds very much like Swedish/ Nordic behavior/mentality. And don’t many people in Minnesota actually have Scandinavian heritage?
If you're going to teach your spouse how to drive a stick shift, just go ahead and have a marriage therapist on speed dial

Don't teach family members stick shift. Save yourself the headache, and point them to driving school.
Yes, however, governments do on occasion hire experts in various fields. During my last conference the discussion was exactly on how you can't just drop millions of BTC/ETH w/e into the market without effectively hurting the price. It is not like they were trying to be nice to the markets. The money just had to be split between several cooperating agencies so there was a reason to maximize return in USD.
I kickstarted and was the CEO of a non-profit which functioned for about six months as the shadow covid vaccine location data infrastructure for the U.S. during the early months of the 2021 rollout. We worked with Google, the federally-blessed initiative, California, many county health departments, etc.

My best estimate is many millions of Americans were successfully vaccinated as a result of data we sourced, collated, verified and distributed.

The probable magnitude of the impact is thousands of lives saved.

Our tech stack in the early days was a static site generated with Ruby with search results all in a single JSON file filtered by the client in JS, with the backing data store being Airtable. It got more sophisticated over time.
This could be tied to the infectious hypothesis of Alzheimers too - fasting for a period of time effectively 'resets' the immune system [1]. The infectious hypothesis is often associated with herpesviridae so I wonder if there's any studies that show an impact from intermittent fasting on chronic HSV.

[edit] And yes this study was done both both mice and humans.

[1] https://thesource.com/2018/11/21/fasting-for-72-hours-can-re...
I'm curious - all of this makes sense, but what was the disadvantage to buying BTC (Or Eth, or whatever) on FTX, transferring it to Coinbase, and cashing out on Coinbase?
This is a cool project. I’ve been very happy with whisper as an alternative to otter; it works better and solves real problems for me.

I feel compelled to point out whisper.cpp. It may be cheaper for the author but is relevant for others.

I was running whisper on a gtx 1070 to get decent performance; it was terribly slow on M1 Mac. Whisper.cpp has comparable performance to the 1070 while running on M1 CPU. It is easy to build and run and well documented.

https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp

I hope this doesn’t come off the wrong way, I love this project and I’m glad to see the technology democratized. Easily accessible high-quality transcription will be a game changer for many people and organizations.
Measuring clotting time with a single drop of blood isn’t new. This is already done in doctors offices.

Doing it with a smartphone is new. I don’t think Theranos ever claimed their tech could work on just a smartphone.

So this claim is really, really different from Theranos.
Where do you think state money comes from? Even if it’s the government that foots the bill for ICUs, in the end it will still be paid collectively by all of us regular people.
So, I'm not diagnosed (though I recently had a member of my care team recommend going through an evaluation to maybe shed some light on things and am starting that process). Truth the "ask your GP" is generally the answer to any question on how to start a process in the US medical system.
What does “SIB” stand for?
According to the first google results this is not true for the US and Australian comparison, even after converting AUD to USD the Australian worker makes about $2000 more than the US worker.

You also fail to recognize that US workers spend more to achieve similar healthcare outcomes, something highly relevant to this conversation.
I suppose you could spoof having full Internet access by hosting nsci.txt or connecttest.txt locally and editing your hosts file to direct www.msftncsi.com or www.msftconnecttest.com to 127.0.0.1? Conversely, if those Microsoft websites ever failed, countless Windows machines would determine that they have limited or no Internet access.
The wording of the question seems intentionally ambiguous as to whether Trump should be "reinstated" to Twitter or to the Presidency.
Well, I'm glad that she did the thing that she wanted, at the cost of another human being getting to grow up without a mother.
What do you mean? You don't think VC's, media and other people that amplify scams should be liable for the BS that they amplify? So they get to be fact checkers, and tell everyone what's right or wrong, but they have ZERO liability when they cause huge societal damage? There is no way Theranos would have been able to pull off these scams if the strongmen that supported them didn't bully whistleblowers and the media didn't amplify the scam. They can not simply claim ignorance. They all wanted to cash in.
No ones buying your resold steak from the butcher. Life happens but that’s a minority use case. Not the example to design around.
Matrix and Urbit are the exact type of focus groups that would indicate gatekeeping and misrepresentation. The focus groups ran by people like SBF of FTX.
4chan predates all of them. And there were plenty of thriving forums where odd and extreme ideas of all sorts were discussed before 4chan.

What mass social media sites like Twitter and Facebook provided was an easier way for the less technologically literate to discover extremist forums (as well as extremist ideas generally) without having to know someone from those circles beforehand.

IMO, what happened is that Western culture over the past 60 years became increasingly cynical, including it's intellectual culture (e.g. post-structuralist, deconstructive ideas have come to dominate both the left and the right). So you have a mass of people who simply don't know what to believe, because everything is about "they" coming to get you or oppress you. Anti-corporatism, cultural wars, identity politics etc, etc. Then we take a massive population--educated and uneducated--which has internalized this notion that all "conventional" ideas are inherently suspect, and dumped them into cyberspace.

I'm reminded of this quote from Oliver Wendall Holmes,

> When the ignorant are taught to doubt they do not know what they safely may believe. And it seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

Years ago I would have reflexively thought that sentiment oppressively paternalistic. Now not so much, partly because in reflection on my own life I can see how our culture effected how I processed ideas. I've learned (or relearned) to appreciate the fact that simply because Holmes often was oppressively paternalistic does not invalidate the central truths reflected in that sentiment.
Keeping my bias aside. It’s amazing that some religions prescribed fasting for variety of reasons. Here is a mysterious quote from Quran:

"...But to fast is best for you, if you only knew." -- Surat Al-Baqarah 2:184

Did we have any ideas about the benefits of fasting back then?
Its easier if you are working on some specific problems. There are too many tools. Too many framework. And most of them do exactly the same things. Once you know how one works its not that hard to understand what the others are doing.

So pick a popular well known open source project and take a look at their github repos. Almost all will have their website code on github as a separate repo too. Look at the issue list and dive into the code to try to fix it. If you get stuck ask a questions framed as 'how do i do x its not documented can you guys explain or give me a link etc'. Once you have some interaction going, it will pull you in.
I should have been clearer - I don't feel bad for Shultz, Kissinger, Mattis, Perry or any of the others. I'm just trying to point out how brazen this fraud was considering you're messing with people who can hit back - to put it mildly. More than that, they've spent their entire lives in the ring.

Yes, and a shoutout to Tyler Shultz!
Bullets. By Tom Sachs [video]
This works fantastically! Thank you for the hard work.
Coming from 6502, 68000, and similar families, I have always found it weird that

mov eax, ebx

means moving ebx into eax.

When you move something, you move it to its destination, not from its destination.

mov A, B

should mean "Move A into B".
It was run by a dude who plays League of Legends on conference calls and openly encourages his employees to take amphetamines to increase their job performance.
It is highly unlikely - the boot process isn't standardized, nor will there be manufacturer-provided drivers for a good portion of the Apple SoC features.
It isn't and Matrix is about as decentralized as Gmail or Microsoft Outlook.
The ark of the covenant is a capacitor.
Encouraging others to break the law, is probably illegal. Would it be easy for the shop to sue him if something gets stolen?
A statistical technique I developed was incorporated into a number of award-winning spam filters, including SpamAssassin.[1]

I'm also apparently the original inventor of the tracking cookie, which had the implication that no one was able to patent it. It was presented in a patent of mine[2] that was about a collaborative filtering technique for recommending ads; I'd come up with the tracking cookie mechanism to support that technique. So, it didn't attempt to patent the tracking cookie separately; but because it was the first publication describing the method, no one else could patent it either. In 2021 a joint legal brief filed by Google and Twitter together, defending themselves against a patent troll, called it "Robinson's Cookie". My patent is owned by Google now. It contained a lot of details for giving users control of the data derived from tracking; that part was pretty much ignored by people implementing it.

[1] https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6467
[2] https://patents.google.com/patent/US5918014A
You might be interested in Adam Curtis' documentaries. Check them out.
Hmm, feel pretty small compared to many here.

Probably most impactful, I wrote the linux driver for HP's (now PMC Sierra's?) SmartArray RAID controllers, of which many millions were sold, most inside HP servers.

Back in 2009-2012, I built a cyclekart[1] in my driveway, and documented it on youtube[2]. Back then almost nobody was building cyclekarts, apart from the original inventors, the Stevensons. Many people have told me my videos inspired them to build their own cyclekarts, (maybe because I succeeded despite obviously not knowing what the hell I was doing) and today there is a thriving worldwide cyclekart community. I don't know for sure how much difference my videos made, but I like to think I had a hand in popularizing the hobby.

In the hobby software world, I made Space Nerds in Space[3], but I don't think that was very impactful, as nobody plays this game because it's too hard to gather together a crew, but as part of making that game, I made gaseous-giganticus[4], which creates textures for gas-giant planets, and has been used by people creating mods for Kerbal Space Program, and I haven't seen a better gas giant texture generator out there yet, despite that there are some obvious (but difficult) avenues to pursue.

[1] https://cyclekarts.com/
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaNHLvHGONc&list=PLcSUyKz3gf...
[3] https://spacenerdsinspace.com
[4] https://github.com/smcameron/gaseous-giganticus
SQLite3's WASM/JS build now includes ES6 module
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The sqlite3.js/wasm build now includes sqlite3.mjs, providing the same API via an ES6 module. It's currently in the sqlite3 trunk and will be included in the 3.41 release (and possibly any 3.40.x patch releases).