skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've found that the key here is minimising the number of categories, and making sure the categories align with how you spend more than what you buy. So my "Groceries" line item includes everything I get from a supermarket, not just literal groceries.

I use https://youneedabudget.com/; it's been fantastic. The marketing focuses on the budget side, but having put together a budget you then obviously need to book-keep to use the budget you've put together :).
I'm not just saying he had failings. It's an impressive copy paste job, but his meager contributions and many accolades only serves my point.
No, there isn't often a thin line. Most founders are not out there committing massive fraud. They may be doing a lot of marketing, and are probably promising things that still have to be built, but they're not out there lying that they have millions in revenue from contracts that don't exist, or falsifying demos.
The SEC is a civil agency and can not jail anyone for anything, they can only levy penalties.
Justice has to take over the case for an offender to go to prison.
Nah, they will just lobby congress to outlaw suing them.
And then they will outsource their core competencies to dubious third parties as they did with the amazon marketplace.
Vouch works only on [dead] submissions and comments. The counter to [flagged] (as opposed to [flagged][dead]) is upvote.
How do you know that’s not the case right now?
> Get out of my mentions unless you read the white paper at least five years ago or earlier

Love it, thanks for sharing.

It does seem like she is making the mistake of conflating Bitcoin with general crypto however, which can be misleading to her audience.

Bitcoin indeed suffers from slow transaction speeds and extreme volatility.

Other coins, truer to the original vision, fair much better in those respects, and with wide adoption and usage, the volatility would subside.
> only get a very basic framebuffer

You get 3D accelerated Wayland or Xorg with the open source VC4 driver!
The overwhelming majority likely never get anybodies info. These lists have to be extensive, and for the "marketing" category the data is almost assuredly anonymous. But to avoid hefty lawsuits, companies choose to list any company that might accidentally get a CC they aren't supposed to.
So... the punishment for getting caught in massive fraud is that you just have to give back the stuff you got through fraud? Sign me up.
Yes, but the social context of men and women in professional environments is different. Causal terms like this carry a lot more baggage for women, who have had to fight for decades to be taken seriously in the workplace. "Chick" is more likely to remind somebody of all the times they have been talked down to than "dude" is.

Obviously not everybody responds this way but we should be aware of the context.
I think Neil Degrasse Tyson is overall net-positive, but I'm definitely not liking his style.

Elitism is overall fine as long as it doesn't get in the way or make you look like an asshole. And unfortunately, Neil Degrasse Tyson seems to be leaning towards the "asshole elite".

Still, he's a good speaker, there are tons of people who are inspired by his style. I think a kinder, gentler, less pedantic (exactly the right word) person needs to become the next "science champion".

Stephen Hawking was a good balance of inspiration, and expertise. He was "elite" without quite being pedantic or asshole-ish.
The article adopts one of my preferred metaphors for the blockchain:

"A blockchain is a distributed database that allows direct transactions between two parties without the need of a central authority."

Which as a developer, I feel like I have a good handle on - but where I continually come up short is figuring out what I'd use such a data store for when building an application?

The article starts off calling blockchain tech "significant and disruptive technologies that came into existence since the inception of the Internet."

I'd love if someone had some examples of practical applications or uses that are being developed or could point me in the right direction.
> This is because JS is a good choice for most things.

That's why it's one of few languages: 1) with mainstream transpilation; 2) more than one transpiler.
Many people are in jail today because they can't post bail. You can discourage ever facing incarceration by being able to afford a good legal defense. You can be forced to accept incarceration without conviction because you are poor.
Given the outsized role that AWS has on the bottom line (mentioned in this article and elsewhere), what is publicly known about which parts of AWS are the most lucrative?
Building the Fetchr Data Science Infra on AWS with Presto and Airflow
I feel like this might have more to do with modern social media and celebrity culture, especially Twitter culture, than with Tyson himself. It's toxic. It's really hard to move in that realm with out adopting some of its sensibilities and tone.

In Tyson's defense, the new Cosmos was damn near perfect and had none of the elitism that I detected. Just a love of knowledge and history.
In March 2010 it was spam,

https://web.archive.org/web/20100317234443/http://www.pilot....

In May 2013 it was a placeholder for "curated collection for the style conscious gentleman",

https://web.archive.org/web/20130522175805/http://www.pilot....

Then July 2017 it was for bookkeeping,

https://web.archive.org/web/20170719213539/https://pilot.com...
From your [1] study:

"The largest part of the energy use in the production of lithium-ion batteries comes from electricity use."

Converting ships to batteries allows them to become cleaner as the grid becomes cleaner.
both times i inherited a cmake build system in two (small-ish) teams with moderately sized projects it seemed to suffer pretty hard from a "last mile" problem. 90% of what we wanted out of it was easy and the last 10% ranged from "easy but quirky" to "how is something this simple this hard"

i don't have a solid gauge for how much of that was because of my own inexperience or the tool itself, although my gut feeling is that it's probably a bit of both.
Depends. They can offset the cost of the stationary buffering batteries by using cheaper time of use electricity. I believe that's what Tesla does (when they can) with Superchargers. ...and this is /part/ of the reason why 7 cents per kWh for their Tesla Semi Megachargers isn't completely bonkers...
You absolutely do have to study a lot about the C language to understand when you slip into undefined behavior. There are even circumstances in which compiler developers don't agree on whether some code has defined behavior or not.
(2016) Theranos CEO Is Holding a Hillary Fundraiser with Chelsea Clinton
Did you release a product that didn't get customers, or how were you unsuccessful?
Second only to comment correcting them that it's "cord" and not "chord."
Yes, but that is also a source of funding for the project.
Honestly, "runtime" is just a complex word in general, like, most people refer to C as having "no runtime" even though it does.

Regardless, those are called "landing pads", and you can compile with an option to turn them off. Many do.
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Milky Way is every 200 million years, as every school child knows:

"The sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm at forty thousand miles an hour
Of the galaxy we call the Milky Way

Our galaxy itself, contains a hundred billion stars
It's a hundred thousand light years side-to-side
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick
But out by us its just three thousand light years wide

We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point
We go round every two hundred million years
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe"

- The Galaxy Song.
No, not all of marketing spend is zero-sum --- even in our own industry. The alternative to many purchases isn't some other product or service, but rather nothing (and, in theory, a poorer outcome).
> we can use the ES module API. With this, working with WebAssembly modules should be as easy as importing them.

> import {myFunction} from "myModule.wasm"

> We’re working with TC39 and the WebAssembly community group to standardize this.

Note that this is already possible using Webpack 4.
Arch Linux ARM will do AArch64: https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv8/broadcom/raspberry-...
Some animals at least are likeable as people. Others are not.
Yeah, it's easy for the government to threaten plebs with prison for misreporting a few thousands in taxes...because they can't defend themselves like Holmes does.
Was it a free account, I'm betting it was a free account because:

> Customer may not use the Services to engage in mining cryptocurrency;
> the built-in wireless on the 3 and Zero W was game changing

Definitely, the Pi Zero W is now my go-to controller for almost anything that needs one. The fact that Microcenter frequently sells them for $5 seals it.

I pair them with a $15 aMLC (MLC in SLC mode) industrial MicroSD card[1], and they've been rock solid, no FS corruption on power loss, no Wi-Fi drop outs.

The ability to add the Pi Camera board and have a tiny full HD networked camera with trustworthy "firmware" is a killer feature though, pre-made IP cameras at any price tend to have outdated insecure or even malicious firmware that may or may not be replaceable.

[1] https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/atp-electronics-in...
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I kind of agree [1], but I don't think that's why there's a difference between the cases.

First of all, the Theranos people haven't yet been brought up on criminal charges, but it's still possible they could be, no?

Secondly, I think there were lots of material differences between the two cases that caused them to be prosecuted differently. You can't just lump every instance of fraud as the same thing.

[1] The reason I only kind-of agree: you're phrasing it in a way that makes it seem clear. But I can easily phrase it as "it makes sense that defendants who show remorse, and are therefore less likely to commit the crime again, will get a lighter sentence, as opposed to defendants who are much more likely to repeat the crimes".
So how does one make sure they're not plumbing?
Remember who was on the Board of Theranos. These upstanding Americans will never serve a day in Prison including Holmes and Balwani. Shkreli on the other hand was thrown in prison for raising the price of a drug, making money for his investors and offering a reward for one hair.

Justice has been served.

Junk away....
700 million dollar fraud, 500.000 dollar penalty. That's an impressive RoI for the fraudsters.
I should get back to Factorio, but Cities Skylines has taken over my brain-game timeslot lately.

It's really amazing to me how fun they both are, given that they're just exercises in logistics.

Cities Skylines is about managing traffic flow, basically every other mechanic stems from that in some way or another. Not a surprise given the developers' previous games were the Cities In Motion series.

Factorio is about efficient transport of materials into machines that assemble goods, and about building up abstractions so you are constantly solving new types of problems with the resources you've automated already.

Both of them have helped me to better understand concurrency, throughput, and optimization. And playing Factorio with friends has helped me stretch my project management muscles. By halfway through the game I had to make a Trello board just to keep track of what needed to be done and where the bottlenecks were.

If you're in the mood for a thinking game I highly recommend both of them.
And Parcel, and hopefully others in the future!
Most credit cards do this. My daily driver Citi 2% does. In fact Google Pay automatically uses a virtual number by default when used with this card.
Most actual investors in Amazon were never upset by this. They bought with the full knowledge that Bezos was playing a long game.
What, you don't want to try and figure out how to embed the Erlang VM into your Python project? ;-)

EDIT: Jokes aside, Rust sounds like the most plausible alternative, though it still lags C due to being LLVM-only, whereas C has gcc and... others.
SEC Charges Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes with ‘elaborate’ Fraud
A Reporter Rolled Her Eyes, and China’s Internet Broke
Isn't that simply because, until recently, JS had a "monopoly" on languages you could use inside a browser?
SEC Charges Theranos, CEO Elizabeth Holmes with Fraud
nobody else? Uber loses like a billion / year with no clear strategy of how they'll make it up. I thought this was the maximum growth / user share strategy. Offer most value at a loss until they are locked in, but it is not clear how Uber will differentiate enough to retain this share when bleeding stops. Amazon seems to have had this figured out and nobody even came close no matter how much money they threw at it (see jet.com)
Shkreli was actually thrown in jail for comprehensively defrauding investors.
I'm going to provide a slightly different perspective from what I've seen, not just here but in other communities as well.

I've seen a lot of people talking about how his death was such a horrible thing, how it saddens them. I don't see it that way. Sure, the world was a better place with his expertise, but the man had been suffering for decades with one of the most horrifying diseases in the world, and in the end I'm just glad that he's not suffering anymore. I hope that, wherever he is, he's finally free.
Sometimes you shouldn't store timestamps in UTC
It expands:
"The largest part of the emissions, around 50%, is
currently from battery (including cell)
manufacturing, but if the material processing to battery grade is viewed as one total it is in the same
order of magnitude."

So one half is amenable to improvements if the manufacturing transitions to clearn electricity. But this is not likely to happen in a big way anytime soon, because the manufacturing happens in coal-heavy Asian countries: https://www.statista.com/statistics/235323/lithium-batteries...
Well... the declaration you cited resolves down to a pointer to a wide integer. Part of C's simplicity is its small number of keywords, many of which have become way too overloaded as architectures have grown more advanced. The keywords were decided in the 1970s, when address spaces were 16 bits at the most. The ability to create type aliases with `typedef` has added to this apparent complexity, and this has been abused by compiler and OS vendors for decades.

None of it makes the language inherently any more complex, any more than representing machine instructions by long strings of binary makes _them_ any more complex.
I guess they managed to pick it up for a reasonable price.
I'm not really sure that's fair. In fact, IANAL and have zero knowledge of law, but the two had seemingly nearly opposite intent of their crimes. Who knows what was going on in the girl's head, but it sounds more like a bunch of idiot investors gave a lot of money to a dreamer who wanted to make an impact and didn't know when to quit and fold her hand rather than an elaborate con. That gets taken into consideration before pitchforks come out.

At a certain point you have to wonder why did a 21 year old
get paid 700 million dollars on good faith to start a pharmaceutical company with little oversight? I remember reading about the board a few years ago and just looked it up again. Several generals, Henry Kissinger...huh?

This is all seems pretty obvious in hindsight.
So I have to nitpick a little on the difference between army and Marines in this joke. Marines have artillery also, and army soldiers have instructions to “secure” the building that is basically like what you said the Marines do. The difference in the use cases seem to be one where you know there are no non-combatants in the building and the building itself is not of any value (shell it to the ground), vs having to be more surgical and sweep every single floor (which poses more harm to the service members executing that mission)
A season 2 of the Cosmos reboot is under development BTW. :)
It also helps to have lots of family and friends who have given lots of money to lots of politicians. For nonviolent crime like this, the law really is different for different people.
Funny fact, in 2013, Italy actually banned Silvio Berlusconi from holding public office for 6 years. But, that doesn't stop him from participating and trying to win elections anyways...
Two major differences:

The SEC can only bring civil charges, not criminal ones. So SEC investigations won’t bring jail time by themselves, although if the FBI or other agencies get involved that could happen

Also, Holmes and Theranos settled, which probably had some impact that on the penalties they faced
- When I unboxed it, on first boot it bluescreened

- The stylus' battery was dead out of box

- Sleep/wake behavior was not what I like -- took too long for me

- Bluescreened about 3x/day on normal use
on the front page already, please check for duplicates before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16585892
On showing remorse: it's a bit ridiculous to think of this, since showing remorse does not mean you actually feel remorse. But it might mean you are intelligent enough to realise you need to show remorse to get off the hook.
ROCK64!

http://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/ROCK64_Main_Page

4 gigabytes of LPDDR3. USB 3. GbE. eMMC. Onboard SPI flash. Unfortunately Mali GPU, but lima is actively developed now…
This is a classic "Short term thinking, what's a long term?" comment that arrives often on articles like this.

Start thinking more long term, and not just "how can I make a profit RIGHT NOW?!"
> In the process, his company started funding other people's small claims suits against Equifax, too. (Legalist pays lawyers in plaintiff's suits on an hourly basis, and takes a contingency fee if the case is successful.)

Wait: I thought the idea of small claims court was that you had to represent yourself, and no lawyers were allowed to represent you?
Maybe someone can explain the unit economics of how Amazon makes a profit. Identify the product category (outside of the marketplace business and AWS) where Amazon has a cost advantage versus the most direct competitor - Best Buy, Petsmart, Netflix, Costco, etc. It's hard to do.
"In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread" - Anatole France
I agree. SQLite gets away with using C because it literally uses military-grade levels of verification. As John Regehr pointed out, SQLite is quite possibly the only piece of software that goes to that level of validation and testing without being required to by law.

It's not just a matter of skill, either. The cost in terms of money and time needed to develop software in that way is completely impractical in almost any commercial scenario. Aside from some very specific situations, it's not an economically viable way to produce software.
So let people starve so that a few others can get richer?
A $700,000,000 fraud and no criminal charges... Amazing. Besides the money, Theranos also messed with people's health by giving out unreliable test results.

Shkreli is in jail for 7 years and his defrauded investors actually all made money!
Yes that shining bastion of modern information security practices, Equifax.

/s
small claims court may be dismissed by major corporations as inconvenient and worthy of quick settlement, however many may be mistaken in this judgement. Small claims court victories, if added up over time work as a sort of cancer that erodes at the foundation of the supremacy of tacit communal beliefs in an industry or corporate entity. These victories can be evidenced in "real" trials, and often have the overwhelming power to issue a damning indictment of the company at hand.

What equifax is trying to avoid is a sizable majority of victories that would in turn erode the foundation of the "identify theft" myth that the blame lies with no one at best, or the customer at worst. Its why Equifax and other companies often issue an appeal to their loss in small claims court as the appeal process can include a lawyer. In the case of equifax theyre likely to throw their VP level legal team on a plane and show up with a top brass firm to contest your victory. Sure, it costs them in the millions to do this, but costly battles like these prevent losing the war.
Surely something from <stdio.h> as well?
I’d actually love to get an explanation for this. Do galaxies work similar to solar systems in that all objects are in orbit around a central mass or is it a different phenomenon that binds matter together into a galaxy?
What exactly needs to happen for white collar criminals to be punished commensurate with their crime and consistent with the magnitude of "regular" criminals' punishment?

Holmes' punishment is effectively nil. Meanwhile:

[1] A man sells $40 with of cocaine and eventually 5.9g of weed lands him 20 years in prison.

[2] "Illegal" voting lands a woman 8 years and deportation.

[3] Possession of a few shotgun shells gets a man 15 years.

Meanwhile, defrauding investors hundreds of millions results in... nothing, really?

There's a word for this.

Unacceptable.

[1] http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-twe...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/us/illegal-voting-gets-te...

[3] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/11/opinion/sunday/kristof-hel...
You dont really think a working class Albanian would get treated the same as a well connected blonde woman do you? This is America here.

Shkreli got convicted because he was running "Ponzi Scheme" where no one lost money. Figure that one out.
>Who in their right mind would ever want to work for, or even with, such horrible people ever again

See: Pretty much everything Donald Trump has ever been accused of doing as a business man before his presidential run, and the history of Microsoft.
Dupe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16585892
She's half a million poorer from the fine. Any proceed from the sale of the (worthless) shares will need to be returned to defrauded investors amounting to 750 mil before she gets anything.

So i think unless her entire position is sold for more then $36 a share she has lost everything from the company.

No idea what her personal finances were going in to this event.
Now if only they would open-source the AWS Console...
> What Amazon is great at is turning its own infrastructure needs into revenue instead of a cost

Let's hope that it decides to offset the cost of all those planes hauling its boxes around the country by selling tickets to paying passengers.

It could be Spirit Airlines, but without the terrible customer service, terrible conditions, and nickel-and-diming of its customers. All we want is a safe, reliable, solid, FAIRLY PRICED airline ticket.

Do you hear me, Jeff? Hello? Is this thing on?
Most Pine64 boards (including ROCK64) have a little SPI flash chip you can flash U-boot to, and a socket for little eMMC modules.