skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess we'll find out in a couple weeks: https://apnews.com/article/elizabeth-holmes-business-conspir...
Sounds like a missed opportunity to use ‰ on all rows.
I think you underestimate the prevalence of incredulousness in society.
Banning hate groups has been provably effective at reducing toxicity on the platform, [1] so the idea that bans will just cause the toxicity to spread to other subreddits turned out to be false. Analogously, there's no obligation for us to bend over backwards to avoid ostracizing hate groups and fringe conspiracy theorists. They are not interested in good-faith debate.

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2017-09-12-reddit-hate-subreddits-b...
I honestly don't think Beaudrillard would have tolerated any philosophical hairsplitting about perceived realities - he recognized a "real" reality, and a shallow, artificial replacement, and was darned cynical & bitter about it.
High frequency trader bots watch random accounts? That seems like a bad strategy. Maybe they're watching news headlines - but that seems like a media problem where a storm of articles about nothing drive the very story they are talking about.
>Generally the US economy benefits from lower oil prices

Before the 2010s, yes. But not now, not in this era of Shale. It has changed everything.

"Oil prices do have an impact on the U.S. economy, but it goes two ways because of the diversity of industries. High oil prices can drive job creation and investment as it becomes economically viable for oil companies to exploit higher-cost shale oil deposits. However, high oil prices also hit businesses and consumers with higher transportation and manufacturing costs. Lower oil prices hurt the unconventional oil activity, but benefits manufacturing and other sectors where fuel costs are a primary concern." [1]

1. https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/032515/how-o...
The fake detection mechanism (aka discriminator) is usually just another neural network and I bet that's the case here as well. So it must be differentiable and thus, if anyone ever gets a hold of it, it could be easily used to train a generator that will eventually fool the discriminator.
Fastmail. What are your reservations?
Unless there's something particularly special going on, presumably you could tell them the truth as it is initially (ie you don't know at that point) and not have that jeopardise dedicating yourself to solving their issue as soon as possible, when you'll give them a final answer.
> 1. Shaping and manipulating minds. Eg, show healthy, educational, intellectual content to Chinese users, and unhealthy, addictive, emotional, short-attention-span-inducing content in US and foreign markets (already happening [1]).

That is happening, because the US audience is CHOOSING to interract with shtty content online. Actually, the majority of shtty content, from flat earth to Reagan being alive et al, come from the US.

> which may be used for pressure, coercion, or manipulation operations or similar

So Chinese government will coerce and pressure me to do what, exactly. Will it be any worse from the rendition flights of CIA.

...

This sounds like double standards.
> My guess is that they see twitter as the central online hub of anti-capitalist ideology

Then joke is on them because the far right is also anti-capitalist, but in the form of ethnonationalist socialist authoritarianism (Yes, there are many shorter names for that).

Or perhaps they're actually on board with that approach since they have found that an increasingly pluralistic democracy does not serve their interests.

But in the end, it's probably just that owning an tool of chaos is itself a form of power.
Agreed 100%. You may like this article, that has academic research to back up your thoughts— Not Everyone Should Have a Say; To speed up permitting for energy projects, we’ll need to rethink community input:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/environmen...

This sort of "participatory democracy," where the most motivated can dominate those with less time, can be traced back to the New Left, which was criticized by social democrats at the time.

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/a-day-in-the-life-of...

And it goes back further to the 30-40s where communists would drag out meetings late into the night in order to thin out the crowd, and then wait until they had a majority for a vote.
Stripe User Terms Update – 17 November 2022
Interesting part:

> #7. Investment of funds

> We clarify how we hold funds before making payouts to you. In accordance with applicable law (including our safeguarding obligations) and subject to regulatory oversight, Stripe may invest funds held in pooled accounts into secure, liquid investments. Importantly, our payout obligations to you remain unchanged and will not be impacted by potential investments.

The current version of Stripe Services Agreement states:

> 5.2 Investment of Funds.

> To the extent Law and the applicable Financial Services Terms permit, Stripe and its Affiliates may invest the funds that they hold into liquid investments. Stripe or its applicable Affiliate owns the earnings from these investments. You irrevocably assign to Stripe or its applicable Affiliate all rights you have (if any) to earnings from these investments.

We generally perform a monthly payout from Stripe to our bank account. Stripe allows more regular payouts, but that's the easiest for us and requires minimal effort for our accountant. I feel like this is a rather common practice. Now, I'm kind of curious how much Stripe earns from placing all these funds.
That doesn't make it not provocative. It also misses the mark, in my opinion, by failing to mention how insanely well-connected SBF is.
I wonder if there's a selection effect where on the one hand particularly demanding people avoid Kaiser because of the somewhat impersonal policies and practices, and on the other hand as an HMO Kaiser enjoys a much lower percentage of indigent and high-risk patients, which altogether permit Kaiser to build a system around the 80% instead of the 20%.
I am not aware of any statement from her or those close to her that confirms your assertion. She is 38 years old. If she wants children, it's now or never. She might be a terrible person, but that doesn't change the realities of female biology.
It's not parole, but with "good conduct"[1] she'll probably serve around 9 years (I didn't bother to do the exact math).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_conduct_time
She fully embraced the startup grindset, faked it till she made it (she didnt get there) and moved fast and broke things - emulating the heros around her.

In the end she goes to jail for being a bad investment for investors and not for the "crime" of fucking around with peoples health.
I've seen an 8kph limit on inland waterways. But it was very unusual to see
As I said, consensus doesn't make reality, only indicates it. Sometimes the consensus is wrong - in the middle age, consensus was that the Earth is in the center of the universe.

But it's still the best indicator we have. And consensus is measured by numbers, so Amazon rainforest guys aren't really more meaningful than flat earthers, alien abductees and scientologists. Of course, number is only a shorthand - in the age of modern science, all knowledge about reality must fit into the general framework that explains and predicts reality in order to be worthy of being considered true, regardless of how many people believe it. But that boils down to consistency again.
I hardly believe it could work on media uploaded on YT and similar platforms, and assuming it does, it would be easily defeated either by over compressing the videos so that subtle chromatic changes are eliminated or applying smoothing filters before reuploading. Should the technology catch on, it's just a matter of time before the appearance of filters that scramble those subtle differences, masking them for example as a grain filter effect, to make it useless.
Cancel culture is often framed as a threat to free speech. How is that possible if speech cannot suppress other speech?
This. It's almost sad to see that people equate completely different crimes with each other.

To be honest it's actually a bit refreshing to see someone actually receive a significant charge for financial crimes such as investment fraud. So often it seems white collar crime goes largely unpunished.
Baby chimp being reintroduced to its mother
Those are both really good tips for teaching driving stick, as well as (by metaphor) a lot of other things. Thanks so much for sharing!
what? you don't need an authentication provider like Microsoft to use Matrix! You just sign up with a username/password on the server :)
I am just paying for a somewhat expensive server and I love how it's really fast but also I have a lot of free GPU time so might as well let others use it too lol. It's an experiment to see if people will use it productively or if someone will abuse it and ruin it for others lol
> the only way out is deprogramming.

The non-propaganda word for this is "convincing."
This is the correct take. Without the staff and institutional knowledge of a 16 year old service, no amount of hand waving will keep the service healthy. It’s a stunning display of what not to do.
James Webb images thrill and surprise scientists
It wasn't the house he was living in unfortunately
Right. There are no guarantees when calculating the cost benefits of having kids. The biggest risk in having kids is not financial in my opinion. The biggest risk is that they will bring you an enormous amount of suffering, say by becoming drug addicts and committing suicide. I took the risk and it paid off for me. All I'm offering here is a counter argument.
> The social isolation of old age is the same everywhere

That is certainly not true. Traditional societies and non-western societies have far different ways of relating to elders than we do, and even among western societies there are variations.
I'm specifically not making that claim. (I also don't disagree with that claim) I'm making the claim that those activities are indicative of a constellation of activities that as a whole are categorically unhealthy.
someone will abuse it and ruin it for others
I'm looking forward to seeing new forms of sarcasm evolve.
> I'd like to make an SQL-oriented library so people don't have to settle for JPQL/Hibernate--started but not done/promoted.

I'm sure I'm asking this on behalf of many people - any chance of a sneak preview?
> Medical tests that don't work is a serious crime.

I'm not disputing that but there's not much evidence that has come forth that someone actually got hurt as a result of Holmes's bad tests. She is in fact being prosecuted mostly for financial crimes, which frankly, don't affect me or my safety, it makes no difference to me.

I'd much rather financial crimes get punished financially and every last resource of physical locking up be spent on additional hours chasing the living shit out of these people who are committing sexual assaults and racially-motivated violent hate crimes.
The CSAM flagging generally isn’t reported to police to prevent the situation you describe. Google would get the report and once some threshold is reached, a person reviews the report(s) and decides if the police are notified.
You've already mischaracterized my views and further I'm not particularly educated or skilled in debate or theology, nor do I enjoy defending the deep foundations of my self from what is likely to be a hostile audience on the internet. So you will have to remain curious, sorry.

But I am lucky enough to have received a centuries-long tradition of christian radicalism, and came to no conclusions on my own. You can read john chysostom, or mother maria, or tolstoy, or talk to your own priest. The path is well-worn and there are many ways to find it.
Swift isn’t crossplatform by any stretch. Some people may have succeeded in building reusable swift code across different platforms, but that was by going through a lots of hops, and is barely documented (i’m talking for example building a lib working on both ios and android, which requires creating your own toolchain).

A recent post of the forum wanted to build a crossplatform working group, but as you can see in OP, it wasn’t met with a lot of enthusiasm by the core team.

Obviously, as long as apple is the only major corp behind swift, it isn’t going anywhere outside apple platforms.

The day rust reaches some kind of ergonomics acceptable to non-system programmers you can be sure swift will only be used for UIKit / Swift interfacing and that’s it.
Similar with cattle. When pushing cattle down a run you try to leave one in the crush (cage furth down the run) when directing more in as they are more willing to go where there is another.
I think you're falsely putting a variety of different people into a single group called "NIMBY" -- people will object to all sorts of measures, and outside of the fact that they have objected they might not necessarily have anything else in common.
As the other's have said, Theranos technology had nothing of value. Not only did the technology not work, it is physically impossible for it to ever work - capillary blood is not homogeneous enough at that small of a volume to give accurate quantitative results.

This is one of the things that made me a bit angry when reading some of the letters of support to Holmes today, and her own statement. That is, so much of it still carried on with the fantasy that "Holmes was close, but just fell short".

No, she didn't fall short. Her own lust for recognition and power blinded her to the physical realities of what was possible, harming investors, employees and patients in the process.

I'm actually a bit surprised at the outcome - 11 years seems like a fair and justified sentence for what she perpetrated.
True, we should serverely reduce military spending to divert into a comprehensive fission program while reintroducing 1950s-level tax brackets and eliminating capital gains exemptions. We could solve the upcoming energy crising while saving money for the impoverished.
A light sentence that just encourages fraud. You can become a billionaire in exchange for 10 years of your life napping. Why work for 40 years?
How can the design be standardized? Each location has its own risks to deal with. Extreme heat in Arizona, earthquakes in California, flooding in Florida. Every nuclear plant is a bit different. There is no economics of scale when building nuclear plants.
And am I also understanding correct that this is for fraud of the investors. But that fraud of the patients getting wrong results was ok and not punished?

Aka don't mess with rich people.
The Design of Design was one of the primary inspirations for my open source project Semantic UI.

"[Progressive truthfulness] is perhaps a better way to build models of physical objects...Start with a model that is fully detailed but only resembles what is wanted. Then, one adjusts one attribute after another, bringing the result ever closer to the mental vision of the new creation, or to the real properties of a real-world object

...Starting with exemplars that themselves have consistency of style ensures that such consistency is the designer's to lose."

Frederick Brooks - The Design of Design
Honestly, I have built nothing impactful in an 30+ year career. It's mostly been working on my own or other people's ideas that didn't pan out or that I got disillusioned with, or building internal systems that a few dozen people use.

I'd estimate that the vast majority of the code I've written is not running anywhere at all today.
Regarding your first point, I'm not sure why this sentiment exists. Twitter isn't any more free-speech than it was before. We've seen some accounts un-banned, like Babylon Bee but not Donald Trump. We've seen plenty other accounts newly banned as well for what is clearly parody. Feels like a wash on that front.

I'm relying on hearsay now, but if some employees were really let go for bad-mouthing Elon in the company slack[1], that's certainly not a company attitude congruent with the principals of free speech. It's also notably a reversal of previous Twitter policy, which encouraged free discussion whether critical of leadership or not.

[1] https://nitter.net/caseynewton/status/1592539948745650176
Is it spelled out clearly what exactly Elizabeth Holmes was convicted of committing investor fraud for?

Was it this?

> Holmes admitted on the stand that Theranos was running blood tests on modified third-party machines without telling its business partners and that she added the logos of two pharmaceutical companies to studies that the company sent to investors.

This seems like everyday, standard startup procedure. Was there a lot more?
This is really cool. It's quite sad that the other versions are under copyright. The KJV is probably the one that people would look for the most as a baseline, I think.

My holy grail (no pun intended) is the pre-Challoner version of the Douay-Rheims Bible. There is a PDF scan of it up on archive.org, and a seller produced books of the text but with their own Old-English-to-English translation, but I haven't found any text-only versions of the original online
Back during the Brazilian dictatorship, they used to say "we have to grow the cake to split it afterwards".

What actually surprises me is that EA was apparently taken seriously. It does explain a lot of the fake goodness Silicon Valley is well known for.
My mom was the nurse empress of a large ICU (at least tactically). The biggest issue is there’s no “product manager” for your care. Each specialist doctor has an incentive to do as little as possible as often as possible to avoid having a death on their record, but to be able to bill. So the nurses usually are the most incentivized people to actually take care of you.

From her point of view, the management ensured that the best care for patients happened when family was present, especially on irregular intervals, and for prisoners, who had a CO always watching and sometimes logging what happened.

Her other big thing was hatred of EMRs. The loss of the clipboard made situational awareness tough.
I was trying to answer the question "why do people think processed foods are bad, and in what way?". My answer was "because processed foods are the only remaining strictly diet-based possibility for a cause of obesity". That is, if we were to ascribe obesity exclusively to a particular diet choice, the only plausible diet choice is "processed foods" - all the others we've tried have clear counter-examples.

Note that I'm not saying we should do this - I believe obesity is much more likely caused by a wide array of lifestyle factors that no study to date accurately controls for (including diet, exercise, stress, environmental factors, mental status, medication etc), not a single dietary style.

Now, "processed foods" is indeed a very vague term, and people tend to include/exclude different foods based on their pet theory of what may lead to the link "observed" in the previous paragraph.

For example, some people strongly believe that glycemic spikes are strongly coupled with diabetes and obesity, and they would include things like fruit juices (as opposed to eating whole fruits) into this category, as well as high glycemic index foods such as bread (in both cases, even home-made ones).

Other people believe that certain additives are likely to have undocumented side-effects, so they will tend to only include foods with synthetic additives, such as preservatives and food colouring, but exclude traditional highly processed foods such as bread or butter as long as they are home-made without additives.

Yet other groups believe the correlation is related to palatability and/or satiety, so they will consider processed foods to be any foods which contain high ratios of palatable substances (like fat, sugar, salt, MSG, other flavour enhancers) to less palatable macro-nutrients. These people would probably include home-made fruit juice or ramen into the processed foods category, but may exclude things like pickles.
If her stay in “the Feds” is anything like the experiences I’ve heard of from people who are not her gender nor her race, it’s quite possible that she’ll be giving lectures in the Metaverse by 2026.
Why is that laughable, US has a higher median and mean income than nearly all of Europe, Austrialia, and the UK.

This means workers cost more and have more.
Something small in scale but I am quite happy with it. I work as a game developer and in my last job I added lots of modding features. More scripting features, making more studf moddable, ability to add new ui etc. Things that allow more technical modders to make even more complex mods.

People did a lot of stuff using those, some even surprised me. So all that work paid very well I think
I would add random stuff to my commits, like Q_rsqrt, to look smarter
A stunning indictment of the American penal system delivered as some sort of flex?
This is the same DOE that is tapping strategic petroleum reserves to manipulate gas prices, right?

This is PR to support the “inflation reduction act”.
> I'm aware of that too, it's a problem, but the lesser one imho.

How the hell CIA rendition flights are a 'lesser problem'.

> Western companies subject to Western laws, which Western citizens have some say in

Western public has not been able to change neither the economic policy, nor forign policy, nor the surveillance state laws in the past 40 years. Also, the western laws are wantonly ignored in the west when western corporate or state interests are at stake. So no.

...

This is exceptionalism. You are applying to others the standards that you are not applying to your own side, where you have no means to do anything about the problem.

Its a coping mechanism that helps avoid cognitive dissonance by projecting 'worse' problems to outside, to external 'enemies'.
> It is easy to detect insults.

There is a large corpus of English[1] text that would belie your assertion[3].

Indeed, you could probably just take Hansard and get thousands of non-detectable[2] insults.

[1] Other languages are available.

[2] At least without causing mass false positives in other text.

[3] e.g. "The founders have a vision and they stick rigidly to it." Insult or no?
I know a lot of things go into such decisions as significant as starting a family but if she had children at any point in the 20 years before being indicted I would have a completely different perspective on this and nothing but sympathy for her in terms of the family situation.

In terms of fertility window - too bad. This is one of the many things she should have been thinking of while conducting her fraud over the past decades. Not everyone should be a parent. She also has the resources to do things like freeze eggs, etc. I know that's not a guarantee but plenty of men have children at 50 and it doesn't seem terrible for the kids.

While the children will be better off than parents with fewer resources this is an almost guaranteed "years of therapy" situation for these poor kids.

Judges don't convict people - juries do and I think it's been demonstrated she's very calculating and conniving. If there was even a remote chance she could skate free based on one juror holding out on a conviction based on her family situation she would take it (and did). It just didn't work and the kids will be the ones paying for it.
https://ez.substack.com/p/the-fraudulent-king
He's certainly broken YouTube, although I'm curious how much of the explanation is actually legitimate given this channel's prepensity for... being fictitious [0].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bTJN_XIo8A
Because it was cheap and he values journalism
Verification is nothing to do with decryption - verification is how you confirm that you're really speaking to the person you think you're speaking to.

What you're describing sounds like a plain old encryption bug, although I'm very surprised you're still hitting it, given encryption in Matrix is pretty stable these days. If you can file a bug on github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues (or element-ios or element-android, depending on what platform you're using) with the full details or reproduction steps, I'll take a look.