skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> She was so young when she started the company, it's hard to believe she intended to defraud people from the start.

Why do you think that young people are immune from doing bad things? From all accounts, it seems she was a a sociopath.
The dot com bust was negative margin businesses.
That requires many other parts of the vehicle to still operate. It's a rare scenario where, when things are going wrong, it's so limited. Like, once the engine is out, many other pumps and dynamos and electrics also break.
I also found a video slideshow that shows a lot more of the interior

https://youtu.be/ZFst3PVWErw
How can you reduce phones to a single checkbox that says whether they're "intuitive" or not?
Non-paywall: http://archive.ph/5OBeO
In the 90's there was rdb aka nosql. It was packaged in debian too at that time. I was a happy user. Then lost track of it. Thanks to this post I tracked it down again

http://www.strozzi.it/cgi-bin/CSA/tw7/I/en_US/nosql/Home%20P...
Unison: A Content-Addressable Programming Language
Has anyone dug through the old HN posts about Theranos? I remember people being highly skeptical. How close were they?
Exception: Indian buffets. Almost always, veg items are kept separate from non-veg, and of that, what's vegan is usually easy enough to discern (or ask about), the two major ingredients to avoid being ghee and paneer.
I recall reading that in the prison social hierarchy, Bernie has very high status. His fraud is esteemed as a great achievement.
I think you would want to eat nutritionally balanced, yes. But you would also want to eat the most calories possible that would stick with you long enough to skip followup meals and not exceed your ideal daily caloric intake.

I can skip breakfast and eat a really big late lunch and won't need any more food for the rest of the day until lunch the next day.
Reasoner's first paragraph is largely correct. Autorotation only works above 500' AGL, and not at all if the rotor system is damaged or seized.

The San Jose police lost a chopper 20 years ago. Even though they autorotated, the avoidance of houses and landing on pavement killed both occupants.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/2-Killed-As-Police-He...

Even today, most helicopter operations are VFR. If the clouds come down, even EMT flights don't fly IFR and they impact terrain weekly.

The second paragraph of amateur psychology is not correct. Most US helicopter pilots first get a fixed-wing (airplane) rating then get the helicopter add-on, since it's cheaper that way. However, if I was a North Sea oil platform helo pilot, yeah I'd be grim af every day too.

Not mentioned is that because of weight limitations in aerospace engineering, helicopters just don't have the design margin available for adequate safety.

The #1 helicopter mfg. in the world is Robinson Helicopter in SoCal. The only way they stayed in business was to be bastards on mfg. processes (in-housing it similar to SpaceX) and training requirements. The tail rotor axle looks like a Christmas wrapping paper tube.

FAA SFAR-73: Robinson R-22/R-44 Special Training and Experience Requirements

http://rhctraining.com/sfar-73/

In addition, as we've found out with Hawaiian helo tours, the popout floats just don't work in the ocean, so it capsizes.

In case you haven't noticed, I love picking on helicopters! :)

Source: commercially-rated pilot.
Kinda unfortunate that they're proposing single-rail for everything from now on, you lose some over-current protection when everything is on a single rail with a higher current rating. Thankfully it's just for prebuilts, so it might not catch on into mainstream DIY PCs.

For anyone who doesn't want to read the official spec, shorting green to black should still turn on the PSU without a motherboard.
Family Sues DEA and TSA After Elderly Man’s Life Savings Were Seized at Airport
I dont understand how the pop-privacy zealots keep getting air time - what is this person talking about that hasnt been said social media and the modern internet?
Rehabilitating “you can't manage what you can't measure”
You can also go in reverse, and escape the running distribution's mounted / by pivoting to a tmpfs /, kill all processes and unmount the old root. Figuring out how to do this was quite fun. Systemd makes it actually fairly easy, because you can easily hijack the PID 1 if it's systemd, which is necessary to be able to umount the old /.
If you’re a fan of podcast documentaries, I would check out “The Dropout”. It’s really good, and how I first found out about Theranos
I noticed the “Yeelong” mention in one of the examples. Do you happen to have a Lemote Yeelong? Always been on the lookout for one and would love to hear about it.
As a Sonos user, it seems Sonos's key innovation has been its software and ease of use. Multi-room audio was HARD before Sonos- it could easily involve paying thousands of dollars to install low voltage wires over a house, along with installing extra controls in each room. Setting up a decent fidelity streaming audio solution was easier, but nowhere near the "plug it in and it works" capabilities of Sonos.

And that is what is getting them in trouble currently- Sonos is really a software product that is masquerading as a hardware product. People bought it expecting it be like, well, a speaker, but what they really bought was an experience more like buying a copy of Windows.

pwthornton mentioned that Sonos could becoem a SaaS company and start leasing hardware instead. I see that being a hard sell for customers, but going fully the route of being a SaaS subscription service for their coordination and streaming management services seems possible. That being said, I think they are terrified of becoming just and audio source- they currently charge $450 for the Sonos port, which basically just acts as an audio source for an existing stereo system.
Interesting, I had never seen that before until I read this comment and went googling!
1% of people are psychopaths, according to internet surveys. I don't know how accurate they are, but assuming they are in the ballpark, I can imagine Madoff doing all of this and sleep good at night if he lacked all empathy.
IB files are essentially impossible to code review.
But he lied so well, for so long. He wouldn't have gotten as far as he did without knowing how to tell people what they want to hear. And this is what we want to hear. No heart of darkness, just... a mistake. Oops. He promises he won't do it again...
Propaganda at work. USSR didn't _need_ to be supplied; it had resources. Lend lease helped,but wasn't crucial.
This has always been a total BS excuse and we should not let companies handwave it away this way. Ok, so 5% of your firmware is licensed from some other company (who somehow never is named in these discussions) and is therefore somehow impossible to open source. Fine. So open source the remaining 95%!
5M left Wuhan before lockdown, 1k new coronavirus cases expected there
Ah, got it. Can’t argue with that!
I actually wrote about this just last week: http://mdolon.com/essays/amazon-has-ruined-search-and-google...
I like that each app has its own filesystem, but i do wish i could 'get at' anything from the Files app. I want to plug in my iPhone and see the filesystem for the Files app. I want to be able to "share" any file from any app into Files. This would either be "Save to Files" or simply exposing it to files.

I wish Apple made this easy, and just stopped doing whatever they're doing with iTunes. I hate needing it to upload photos.
https://github.com/badaix/snapcast

Not simple enough for all consumers yet, but works flawlessly for me every day in my house.
Including dishwasher and ice/refrigeration expenses?
Google is now totally useless for any error message from popular software. I was getting an esoteric error from nginx; pasting the long error in quotes to google gave a full page of irrelevant ads with no organic results. DDG and Bing both had a forum post from Igor himself explaining the error as the first hit.

This sort of highly targeted search used to work so well in GOOG and now it doesn’t work at all and hasn’t for a while. I moved to DDG a year ago and never even seem to use !g.
Unless I'm missing something obvious, all of the functionality you described is totally doable in iOS today using shared Documents folders. None of the apps need to know about each other for it to work.
>even induce net cooling if we feel we have overshot the ideal atmospheric carbon level.

We’re currently at ~415ppm and that this is the highest the atmospheric level has been in the entire history of humankind. Not human civilisation; humankind.

There’s no future scenario where we achieve neutrality and decide the atmospheric co2 concentration is ‘ideal’.

Apologies for sniping a single snippet of your post, but this bit stuck out to me.
Would not even require difference in circumstances, seems like the other defendants would be likely to just pin the blame on her if she isn’t going to defend herself.
Yep, and it's slow, too. I just deployed some code to improve it last week and we've got some more in the pipeline. In the meantime, a Google search with `site:lobste.rs` is probably more effective.
This is why the National Restaurant Association always lobbies furiously against minimum wage hikes - it will never destroy the restaurant industry but it sure as heck destroys actual restaurants.
It appears that the actual title of the article is "Hobbies are not distractions", with the HN submission title being... I'm not sure it's really a subtitle, maybe a pull-out point from the quoted reference in the article?

[Edit: though, since it looks like the author wrote both the article and the HN submission, this point might be somewhat irrelevant.] :-)
It will never happen. Natural language is something that evolved over time, 99% of people on the planet don't have an opinion on the language they speak, they just speak it.

Programmers are very opinionated and sometimes for good reason. If I am a Web Dev I don't want to use C++ for my back end, that would be a nightmare. Just like if I am working on a major Triple-A game, I wouldn't want to write it in python.
No. I don’t expect my Sonos system from 2006 to ever do any more than it does now. It works fine. There’s no “technological limit” involved. It’s just stereo audio, not 4K 3D VR — how much power do you need?

(edit) So the (new) Sonos position of basically “OK, we’ll keep the hackers out, just don’t expect us to support the new streaming service released in 2022” seems fine for both sides.
Bankruptcy can discharge most judgements, but you actually have to be bankrupt. If you have $190 million and have a judgement against you of $200 million, you don't get to file bankruptcy and discharge the whole thing because you can't pay the full amount. You'll end up paying most of the judgement before you are actually bankrupt and can discharge the remaining amount.
This seems all Amazon links only (with affiliate codes). Given their known counterfeit problems and fake reviews, I would recommend avoiding it for important things like disk drives. Plus, they are not guaranteed to be the cheapest anyway.

If you need to buy a drive, I would recommend local brick and mortar store first, and some sort of proper aggregator (which looks at multiple sites, not just Amazon) second.
Cuz they are spawned by the devil, and held in the air by something called a jesus nut.
> Whether you think this is appropriate punishment for defrauding rich investors is up to you.

Since you almost seem to be soliciting an opinion... I think that the investors also bear a huge amount of the blame for not doing enough due diligence and investing in a company that was so incredibly mismanaged and corrupt with cronyism.

Without the ridiculous valuations and lack of oversight by experienced biotech hand, Holmes would never have been enabled to commit the "fraud" which was pretty evident to many outsiders after not much time at all.

That an investigative journalist revealed the deception, rather than the board realizing it and changing course first, is a huge indictment of the investors' position in our economy of being able to make decisions with hundreds of millions of dollars at a go.
Thanks. I have sucktastic eyesight and only skimmed a bit.

So this is also a pointless violation of HN guidelines, which indicate you should use the original title unless it's clickbait or a few other provisos.
Pets.com didn't get anyone killed. There's an excellent chance that Theranos did.
Ehh, nah:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6349349

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9823638
Yup. A speaker should have exactly two interfaces to the outside world: the red wire and the black wire. Everything else is a separate component.
I've been using inexpensive ~40-inch-diagonal 4K (3840×2160) televisions as monitors for quite a few years and will continue to do so. Current one is TCL 43S405 (wife commandeered the Sony 43X800E). A single monitor makes for far less configuration fuss — multiple monitors coerce distinct assignments and as well introduce discontinuities in the midst of the workspace (of which I was once tolerant, but no longer). I have yet to try anything in the 50-inch diagonal range, which would likely work but the periphery might go largely unused.
Moreover, Bernie Madoff family all tragically dissolved: both of his sons died (one committed suicide and the other one died of cancer), his wife was stripped of all the life she had built, the rest of family disowned him. He caused distress to many investors and caused lots of devastation that shouldn't be praised and explained. The man acted for himself, out of egoistic tendencies, and that's not something I'd consider as living large.
It's pretty easy to get a selection of vegetables and chicken breast. Stay away from things like meatloaf which might be padded with bread.

Everyone's first thought about keto is all meat, but vegetables are (or should be) a huge part of it. It's just a cool benefit that a night of brisket doesn't knock you off your diet.
I learned this lesson during a cheap intro flying course. The instructor even landed the plane with the engines off to prove the point: Planes naturally fly!
I don’t like when patents get used by big companies against small ones, but I also don’t see why a company of Google’s size should be able to just freeload on Apple’s meticulously designed interactions (that the author praises effusively) instead of designing their own.
Bankruptcy is not an easy matter.

> One factor in considering whether the U.S. Trustee can prevail in a challenge to the debtor's Chapter 7 filing is whether the debtor can otherwise afford to repay some or all of his debts out of disposable income in the five year time frame provided by Chapter 13. If so, then the U.S. Trustee may succeed in preventing the debtor from receiving a discharge under Chapter 7, effectively forcing the debtor into Chapter 13. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapter_7,_Title_11,_United_St...

You really don't want to give a Federal officer the power to decide you have too much disposable income for the next five years.
Thank you for the feedback - all very valid points and highly actionable.

We are currently working on revamping our "Product" page and will definitely be including more product screenshots/recordings to better explain and demonstrate specific use-cases for TribePulse. We hope you'll have another look once the new "Product" page is live.
> Does a bankruptcy eliminate a civil judgement?

It depends.

In the Holmes case, the plaintiff, if they win, will probably argue that at least part of the settlement should be nondischargeable because Holmes committed fraud.

> Why wouldn't everyone file and wipe out their civil case debt then?

Because either:

1) the courts explicitly disallow it in the particular case; or,

2) the combination of non-exempt assets and continued access to credit is more valuable than the settlement amount (in this case, you would end up paying the entire amount during bankruptcy proceedings in any case anyways, and then have a black mark on your credit for no good reason).
Perceived high-potential-margin businesses with lead time lead to speculative investment in low- (or negative-) margin businesses in the same field with perceived potential, which is sensitive to fluctuations in the broader investment climate (e.g., payoff timelines) or reassessment of profitability potential. That’s what the dotcom boom and bust were about.

The actual high-margin businesses wouldn't be taken out in the bust unless they were high margin only because they were selling into the boom.
I'm going to guess that the "fetch" reflex may have its roots in wolves chasing after bones humans around a campfire may have tossed to sate the wolves' appetites and keep them at bay.

Maybe bringing the bones back was a way of "nicely" letting humans know that more bones would be appreciated/required to keep living.

You often see wolves circle around humans around a fire in movies and books.

Maybe it's a symbiotic relationship like a remora/shark, or even parasitic like an oxpicker/large mammal.

*edit - Some people are very liberal with downvotes, especially for lighthearted conjecture that is not obviously wrong or intellectually misleading. Got any better ideas?
it lets people say 'i want an iphone' while still feeling reasonable
You mean sunk cost?

Loss aversion from the buffet would depend on how much food is available, not how much you paid.
I’m sure he paid top dollar for that prenup — and worth every penny.
Circle Medical Is Hiring Care Coordinators in Montreal to Modernize Healthcare
Twitter and Youtube occasionally blocked in Turkey for years. They have found their solution in region-locking the contents after court orders. This may not be feasible to small hosting companies though. For youtube and twitter, implementing that control system was the only option to access the Turkey's market.
if you can be bothered, rebuild it with debug symbols, run it, dump core and try and find exactly where the bug is.

I vaguely remember doing this with wget, there was a way to make it think the terminal's width is (unsigned)-4, then when printing the download status to stdout, it clears a buffer with a memset(ptr, ' ', -4). Of course -4 in this context is a huge number. It overwrote its whole self until segfault. (this issue was fixed, btw)

great learning experience, for anyone who knows enough C to understand what they're looking at.
The answer is "it depends."

11 USC §1328 and 11 USC §523(a) lists several categories of debt that can't be discharged. (I'm not sure when only the subset listed under §1328 applies).

Criminal fines are definitely not erased by bankruptcy. Civil judgements owed to any government agency (including fines) are also definitely not erased. As is anything connected to willful injury (NB: I don't know the scope of 'injury' here, it may be limited to direct physical or other medical injury, or it could mean destruction of property and the like). And anything obtained by fraud isn't erased. Also things like alimony can't be discharged.

Would Holmes's debts incurred by the Theranos suits be dischargeable... I don't know.
Entropy in Machine Learning
But Siri still won’t work with a weak cell signal
You are exposed to multiple toxic and carcinogenic compounds in daily life. There is no way you can eliminate them completely.
Apple got their start by copying Xerox, so it's only fair that other people should be able to copy Apple without repercussions. Besides, most of the most memorable gestures and interactions of iOS were under the direction of people who were fired after Jobs died.
This is a terrible choice of name for something with no relation to maps.
This probably depends a lot on autonomous vehicles. Right now VC money is subsidizing deliveries, but that's mostly subsidizing the driver.

Especially for items like this, because if you take the driver out of the equation and create purpose-built autonomous vehicles that aren't intended to have human occupants, they can be much smaller and don't have to worry about passenger safety. You could have autonomous electric vehicles the size of RC cars delivering takeout to your door.
Right, the post was not intended to be any kind of introduction or tutorial, but rather more of an announcement to those already familiar with the subject that there exists another way of doing the math that doesn't require inverting the dimensionality of points and planes. I will be writing some much longer that introduces the material properly and goes into much more detail with plenty of figures.

Here's an excerpt from pages 153-154 in FGED1 (https://www.amazon.com/dp/0985811749/?tag=terathon-20) that explains my reasoning about "anti" and "pseudo" with regard to vectors, but it also applies to everything else:

In the n-dimensional Grassmann algebra, a 1-vector and its complement, which is an (n - 1)-vector, both have n components. We give the complement of a vector the special name antivector because it corresponds to all of the directions in space that are perpendicular to the vector, excluding only the one direction to which the vector corresponds. An antivector is everything that a vector is not, and vice versa. T hey are opposites of each other and stand on equal ground with perfect symmetry. Since vectors and antivectors have the same numbers of components, a clear distinction is not always made between the two in much of the existing literature, and an antivector is often called a pseudovector because its transformation properties are different from an ordinary vector. However, the prefix "pseudo" tends to induce a characterization of lower status through its meaning of "false" without adding any descriptive value to the term, whereas the prefix "anti" accurately depicts an antivector as something that "opposes" its complementary vector.
I appreciate the passion in your view but this is not a wise way to think about it.

Currently, the science is not settled on whether warming has so far been net-good or net-bad.

Everything in life is a trade-off: when the temperature rises, there are more deaths due to extremely high temperatures, but less deaths due to extremely low temperatures. (This is just an analogy, there are countless actual examples of trade-offs in this case)

It may very well be that warming has up until this point, and perhaps even for a little longer, has been and will be a good thing overall. The world has been a lot warmer and a lot colder in relatively recent times.

I'm far more concerned about the effects of air pollution, acidification etc than a slight increase in temperatures (do not misinterpret: I say more concerned, both are concerning)

> You understand that we’re currently at ~415ppm and that this is the highest the atmospheric level has been in the entire history of humankind?

This is also highly misleading. We were well above 500ppm for the entirety of 50mya - 250mya.

Homo sapiens is extremely young, we are born of an ice age. 415ppm is among the lowest CO2 concentrations of all time, ever.
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I think "better" is too reductive a framing for comparing things as broad and deep as online communities. There's no single dimension to judge quality on, and it's largely a matter of personal taste. I appreciate the praise but this post feels like a missed opportunity for a really valuable conversation about how design features have shaped these two sites (to say nothing of the dozens of others they draw inspiration from). In short: https://lobste.rs/s/bxuqzy/why_lobste_rs_is_better_than_hack...

Couple previous takes when we've been mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21453180 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21947299 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20892064
I don't think he meant it that way. He's probably trying to say that depending on a "custom language" is a bad thing in itself.

I personally don't feel that dart is tied in any way to flutter. It was originally meant to be compiled to js, and that shows in vm architecture, but that doesn't look like a con.
Everything that will be found out is out there.
But that's more the exception than the rule. My 1 sl's do not have one.