skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> With Facebook I fail to see how that's the case.

Here’s an example from couple of years ago: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/17/facebook-pro-k...

I think by blocking these people, Facebook violated the first amendment, and probably even conspired with a foreign totalitarian government.

In US laws however, Facebook is free to do whatever they want with the data stored on the servers they own. Also the blocked people have accepted EULA. So, according to the letter of law, FB probably did nothing wrong.
A lot of these moments come from changing norms regarding risk-aversion and willingness to be inconvenienced.

For example, the airport-security experience reached its peak in August 2001 and will never be that good again. The Empire State Building was built in less than 14 months using 1930s technology, but only because of safety standards much more lax than we'd allow today (five construction workers died). In fact, a lot of great buildings could never be built today simply because of zoning restrictions about height and boxiness.

Another example is the NY subway system. Construction of the original line began in 1900 and was complete in 1904. A century later, it's taking about ten times as long to build the Second Avenue Subway. But a big part of that is that we used to just rip up the ground and inconvenience everyone nearby with yearlong street closures and dynamite vibrations. That doesn't fly anymore.
Depending on reviewer, the review could be equal to a recommendation by a friend or colleague. This can give you more insight into the reason for a particular review.
The decline of HyperCard was a Concorde moment for me.

HyperCard was a brilliant tool that allowed anybody to produce interactive software. It had a pretty simple model (stacks of cards) and could be used to build databases, presentations, or games. It was never updated with proper color support, so people lost interest.

Nothing ever came close to the simplicity and power of Hypercard.
Perfect, just used this to hook up my Christmas lights. Had an opened Sonoff device laying around that I had yet to flash. Put screws in and 5 minutes later had my lights working. Much easier than the 4 pin serial flash solution
> Tesla is losing a massive amount of money

This just simply isn't true. Losing the money means they spent it and got nothing for it. But every penny they spend, they get a lot of things - battery technology, market share, mindshare, network effect lockins (superchargers), etc. Tesla isn't losing its money, its investing it.

Also,

> The purpose of Tesla is not to make money; it is to pioneer fleets of smart mass-market electric cars, and the infrastructure to support them, and battery technology which is not limited to cars. Making money is ancillary.

This is also false. It buys into Elon's marketing and it's false. The purpose of Tesla is to make money. Elon likes to say that it's not the money he is after, it's the faster pace of adoption for electric cars. But he also knows that the fastest way for this to happen is for Tesla to make money. The author is false. The purpose of Tesla is indeed to make money.
So, I've used Rails (ruby), Django (python), Flask (python) Revel (go), Spring (java), Node.js (javascript), and even have used C, php and Go to roll my own website from scratch[1].

The thing is, I've always scaled my website(s) to thousands or tens of thousands of requests and hour; with one website even getting close to a million an hour... all with no problem. In the case of Rails (as is discussed in the article), my bottleneck (from a usability perspective) is always bandwidth. Most applications (I build anyway), require a hefty amount of data. Waiting 200ms for the database + an additional 20ms for rendering, the 20ms is not noticeable. Scaling Rails (or any modern web app) is as easy as just launching another instance and load balancing.

Given that, I really don't see any advantage toward Phoenix. Plus, why I personally love rails is all the gems - which is super powerful. Most other frameworks simply don't have Rails simple logic, with the easily extendable gems.

[1] http://austingwalters.com/building-a-web-server-in-go-handli...
It's meant to be implemented by a developer, but it doesn't take much skill, and can be hosted for free on a number of services. I was a champion of Netlify well before I became an employee, so I still shamelessly plug them as the way to host static.

Regarding what we're committing, it's definitely human friendly, mostly markdown, or else json/yaml/toml/etc, nothing crazy. It's a completely legitimate use, same kind of data that GitHub's own Pages product uses.
After 10 yrs of Rails I have some high expectations and miss information about Elexir's incarnation of rubygems. Is there anything like RSpec?
How about collaborative filtering? [1]

I.e., the stuff that is upvoted by people who "upvote like you" is ranked higher. (I would like this feature on HN, as it would eliminate e.g. articles about CSS which I find boring; of course that is personal, but that's the point).

Otoh, there's a danger of "echo chambers"; not sure how to deal with that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_filtering
I think there is a lot of math in computer science and not as much science.
Where can I buy custom motherboard size with custom specs?
Is there any place where you can order a custom size motherboard with custom specs (number of USB ports etc)?
I am willing to build a custom PC where size matters (~25x10x25 cm, somewhat related to the size of a Nintendo Wii 1st generation).
Thanks in advanced!
> Either way, a far more interesting question, if (like me) you have no financial interest in the business’s success or failure, is: does it matter?

I guess the author has glanced over the billions of subsidies that come from taxpayers? [0] So ya, I think American taxpayers should care about Tesla's bankruptcy.

PS - The author of this article is the CTO of a company who's customer is, yup, you guessed it, Tesla. [1]

TC at it's finest folks.

[0] - http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-2015...

[1] - https://happyfuncorp.com/case_studies/hfc-labs-making-tesla-...
I don't care about "critics'" reviews or most media reviews for that matter. To evaluate something, I prefer to ask those who like given genre and can express an educated opinion.
Canning.
General Motors EV1
The title of your your post crosses the boundary from promotion/hype to just being a bald face lie. Would you consider changing it?

The project is great, it’s really nice contribution, and I’ve had good experiences with netlify as well. No reason to leak brand faith over stuff like this.

>>A Complete CMS with No Server and 18 Lines of Code
Your own article exemplifies quite clearly that nomination and acceptance are hardly one and the same!
People are blinded by so called conventional wisdom which is what business people built when working with conventional businesses to make it easier for them to understand what is going on, in most cases.

Tesla is not a conventional business. It is more of an edge case where you have to put your thinking hat to make sense of it.
If you read for instance Montaigne, they were debating the merits of the ancients and the moderns. Up to the 16th century there was a pervading sense of inferiority from a previous classical golden age.

The very idea of historical progress is a modern construct.
The EV1 was never in widespread use.
>After all, even if Tesla stock goes to zero, and its bonds default to pennies-on-the-dollar, its factories and software repositories and human capital will all be there, and no Chapter 11 court or committee will be blind to the fact that they’re worth far more as a coherent unit than they would be as separate assets.

Well, to me that statement seems to be at least dubious. If the company is loosing money and goes bankrupt it is obviously not worth something in its entirety - at least in its current form. (And I highly doubt that simply restructuring Tesla would do something about that.)

This does however not neglect the premise of the article. Even if Tesla would no longer exist in any form, there has been some creation of value for society as a whole.
Maybe rather than prescribing xor proscribing, the answer is to simply stop stymieing individuals from figuring out what works for themselves.
I wonder if using the caves could be used to hold a small datacenter with minimal cooling costs. (Maybe a geothermal cooling loop?)
I am surprised about the 1 in 10,000 number, but I can attest to what he is saying. I grew up hearing music even while in the womb. My mom was a musician. And I wound up having perfect pitch.

I can describe what it's like, but I honestly feel anyone can learn it with enough practice. (Never put it to the test though.) It's simply like reinforcement learning of being able to hit a note in a certain position. When you hit it too high or too low, you correct yourself, until you have a memory of where you are supposed to hit it properly. With children I am sure a lot of the "tuning" happens over multiple repetitions due to being exposed to the combination of "fa", "sol" or "the start of star wars" always referring to the same thing.

I think you could teach your kids the perfect pitch by having them sing songs with "do re mi" terminology (or possibly ABC-G but that's a bit worse because it's not a natural major scale) and having them do it over time adjusts their brain's "predictions" of where they should hit the note. If they deal with music all the time they'll be able to do it. It's similar to picking the right vocal tone for a situation or a basketball player knowing how to shoot a ball after many tries. A tennis player hitting a ball is a bit harder because the action must be a function of the input.

Now, as I got older, switched careers and have been away from singing / playing music for a few years, I can report that my perfect pitch is still there but "modulated down" almost a half-step. So when I want to sing "do re mi" or a theme that I know is with D minor, I sometimes do it a half step lower. When I listen to that piece, it sounds a half step higher. (I am 34.) However, a few seconds of reinforcement learning that "no, this is D minor" and suddenly everything snaps back and I have perfect pitch again.

I believe that reinforcement learning across perfectly tuned instruments and songs all around is is what causes perfect pitch. So I always thought that, with enough exposure to music and having to sing the songs using do re mi instead of the words etc. anyone can form those associations and "tune them". Well, anyone who isn't lacking the brain capacity for tuning their pitch or actions or whatever. I would say that's more than 1 in 10,000 people. It just needs similar skills to motor coordination.
"...just a single page app written in React."

Having been involved in a few single page apps, I'd like to point out that JavaScript is a Turing complete programming language. There is no "just" about it. It may or may not be easy to work with, but the fact that it is a single page app or that it is React, had nothing to do with the matter.

After all, php is "just a web page with some templating commands" (and look at where that gets you).

Also, when you are enjoying that warm feeling from being "serverless", bear in mind that building something you value around someone else's service, especially if you aren't paying them for the privilege, may not be a spectacular idea.

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That may be true, but wouldn't that not affect my argument?
The review index agrees with you it seems https://thereviewindex.com/us/q/AZ-US_B076DXH4WP
If anyone is in the UK and is not in London (the one HN specific event!) check out https://opentechcalendar.co.uk/ for local event Open Data listings. Not HN specific but pretty good :-)
The selling point of lisp is macros, and macros alone. Different dialects will have different characteristics: Common Lisp is dynamically typed and usually makes heavy use of mutation, others like Lux are purely functional and statically typed.

> wouldn't it just be Rust with parenthesis?

That's pretty much what it is.
This is nonsense. For some convoluted definition of “creative”, this perspective holds.

The open source clones you mention are arguably not technically innovative (or some other word that stems from “novel”), but I’d argue that releasing a clone under a permissive license is novel (and creative), too.
And its powered by Node and V8, so we've got another 500,000 lines of code there. Ah, but those are actually written in C++, so we need LLVM, another million lines there. And a rendering engine for the frontend, Chrome, Firefox, etc. Microcode in the processor responsible for executing assembly instructions?

So, what number do we actually care about? You chose to be pedantic and you didn't go far enough. How about, instead, we care more about how much I have to write to achieve what they say I can; 18 lines.
Why would that be informative? It doesn’t tell you your protein expression levels nor effective enzymatic activity.
If you volume is large enough (probably 10s of thousands) you can get an ODM to design and ship something for you..

Please note redesigning a motherboard is a MAJOR task costing many man-months of time..

If you don't want to buy thousands of boards, then probably no. (p.s. I do not work in the industry but am an avid amateur so I have some graps of the associated work)..
> It seems plausible that people would write shorter, clearer functions that have no possibility of being incorrect

This seems exceedingly implausible. If people were capable of writing perfectly correct functions consistently, they’d do so.

Also, in my experience the people who write tests are generally the ones who write good small functions. The people writing massive dense functions are rarely writing good (or often any) tests. (This obviously diverges from the study’s results, though, so grain of salt.)
Next year: Going full-stack to remove other devs from my projects and make more money per hour. Also getting the skills to build a whole product myself.

After: Founding something myself.
It helps that Tesla isn't in the S&P 500 yet. But I wonder what other indexes they're in?
What's the appeal of push-to-talk? I can't really imagine it solves any problem I'm having; is it my lack of imagination or is a domain-specific thing, maybe some businesses that need it?
Which already makes it orders of magnitudes better than man
Tbh, 200ms for the db is massive. I have a 100ms limit at which my mongodb writes into the slow-log. It's an almost empty log. My point being, apps can have all sorts of bottlenecks and you only have to throw the right brain at the problem to fix it, no need to replace the techstack.

Yes, gems. The ecosphere in ruby is superb. I'm started working with node a lot more these days and it's a) confusing and b) small packages for all those things whatevertheycallitthesedaysscript is missing. 243 gems in my 7yr old Ruby vs 918 node modules in an app we started this month.
What's Elexir/Erlang like in this respect?
If you're Lex Luther, this would be ideal for your HQ2.
Hark back to 1973 when Concorde production began and they had around 120 advance orders/options. Most of which evaporated because of not only the oil shock but, significantly, the discovery that the Boeing 747 (and other wide-bodies) could make huge amounts of revenue by carrying more passengers, cheaper. The 747 was originally expected to be a cargo freighter, once SSTs like Concorde ate the passenger market in the 80s, hence the high cockpit positioned over the nose door on the cargo variants.

Concorde was the last gasp of the idea that air travel was a very expensive form of transport for the elite, who would pay to save time over taking an ocean liner. Instead we got the democratization of air travel. It's no accident that the cruise liner died out as a normal form of international transport (as opposed to a recreational vehicle) at the same time that wide-body airliners caught on.

(Side-note: the plans for Concorde B are worth googling — an incremental upgrade with quieter engines and a range that could have stretched to 5000 miles, opening up a bunch more routes, and due to enter production by 1982.)

Graffiti: I used it and I don't miss it! While early on-screen multitouch keyboards sucked, what really makes Graffiti show its age is modern gesture-based systems like Swype or SwiftKey, where each word is a unique ideogram composed by dragging a finger across a QWERTY map in letter order. Graffiti typically took 2-3 gestures to enter a letter: with Swype I'm typically on 5-7 gestures per word, which overall is much faster (average word length in English is 5.5 letters). Graffiti has in fact been ported to iOS and Android ... but relatively few people use it because times have moved on.
> People are blinded by so called conventional wisdom

This seems to be the exact kind of thinking that led to the dotcom bust.

I've commented before on the whole Tesla valuation thing, and people try to think of it like a tech company, and want to value it like a tech company. Tesla needs to actually produce things in a factory, deal with regulations and supply chain, which are very conventional business problems, and where the trouble is.
Collaboration results in group think. Haha

It's funny because collaboration and group think are basically synonyms.
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Push to talk by Nextel had it's own allocated bandwidth. Bandwidth = MONEY, so they shut down PTT and sold the bandwidth.

In the manufacturing plant where I worked, we went from being almost able to understand people on Nextel PTT to completely unable to understand people with the software implementation. The plant has since switched to local walkie talkies with repeaters - with Nextel you could easily start chatting with anyone else on the network, pretty much anywhere.
Rust is not really good for web backends, it has no library for talking to popular service, the construct for networking are still uncertain / unstable / hard to use.
What's that notation called, and how does it work when digits overlap, e.g. in

0.123±0.004
Capital investments aren’t counted as losses on financial statements. So, you are correct about that.

But they still do have losses.
It's a classic example of combinatorial explosion making something untractable. Going to one more order in perturbation theory is such an incredible increase in computational expense.

Solving chess (in the strict sense) is a similar example. E.g. all 6-piece endgames were known in 2005; by 2012 we had the complete 7-piece endgame tablebase, but the 8-piece endgame tablebase is such a hard problem that we're nowhere close even with Moore's law; the sheer size of that tablebase is estimated to be ~10 petabytes.
Yup, and the examples section is usually last, with no possibility to jump directly to it
Math and logic may be called "formal sciences" as opposed to "natural sciences".
That might be this: https://xato.net/windows-spying-and-a-twitter-rant-19203babb...

It's so confusing to disable that a (admittedly self-proclaimed, but still) "security expert" got it wrong several times, and even after that it still continued sending data to Microsoft. It reminds me of the same scummy tricks used by spyware/adware in the past e.g. "do not disable for the best user experience", double-negative wording, etc.

I believe it's still (deliberately) really easy to pirate/crack Windows, so I could get the Enterprise edition if I wanted --- but I wouldn't want it even if it was legally free, just like all sorts of other malware and unwanted software.
And if you run it through https://tinypng.com it should get down even smaller. PNG compresses surprisingly well when it’s basically two colors + alpha.
Why are you conflating SpaceX and Tesla?
Only drink a reasonable amount (not enough to impair) during special occasions. Never drink on the regular. Small amounts can be evil too if taken regularly.

I know a guy who drank a 6 pack of beer every night. Never drunk. Just drinking on the regular. Until his liver gave out, and he couldn't work. Died at age 34 while waiting for a liver transplant. Left wife and kids behind.

My friend's mom died in her 50's from liver failure. Heavy drinker for decades.

Drinking less is better than drinking lots, but don't think it can't kill you.
Yeah. It looks like some people argue against each other for no reason. I am pretty sure in many fields of work a manual actually explains how to do so me thing. The infamous IKEA manual is an how-to, the last car manuals all had how-tos include: how to change radio station, how to change oil,...

Is their ever a moment, that some picks up a manual and doesn't want to know how to do something?
Not convinced by that, I was a massive fan of that era's keyboard but having recently come back to the fold with a T470P (having use Dell's for most of a decade) I love it's keyboard as well (even the smaller function keys simply aren't an issue once I adapted to them).

I still have an old R series with the old style keyboard kicking around and I tried them side by side, it was (and is) a great keyboard but it's simply not better than the keyboard on the T470P in any way I actually care about.
That's a sunk cost, though. It's not a financial interest in the company unless taxpayers could lose more money. (Or gain money.)
And why could that not go in the example section of the manual?
I think using hallucinogens and other drugs is absolutely what we should be giving to those who are terminally ill. Doping them all up so they just sit around drooling is inhumane. This may sound way out of the bounds of normalcy, but I think cannabis should be provided to everyone in a nursing home. Dying, and waiting to die, for all things considered, seem like a very painful, depressing, stressful process. Anything that can be done to let terminally ill patients float off into the afterlife in peace and without pain is a good thing, and anything we can do to improve end of life care we should consider.
Sure, I'm talking about "instantiate one big module" vs "instantiate several smaller modules, then finally the last module". Which is a bit different than what you're talking about; you're right that after you've instantiated, you can't change imports.
Thanks for the explanation.

I wonder though, if a developer needs to find/provide hosting, then why not use a local db (or even a local git-repo) instead of github? With current data storage solutions, installing could be as simple as one line of code.
Does techcrunch not realize the gravity of publishing an article with such a false and misleading headline pertaining to solvency of a company? They could get sued..imagine such an article were released during market hours. Many traders and bots make decisions on headlines.
It's worth something if it was only losing money because it couldn't afford to service its debt.
You're way out in the middle of the most rugged portion of the ozarks on a 170 acre plot. If you don't want to encounter neighbors you don't need to.
I think you misunderstood your source [1]. He appears to be the CTO of a company that made a third-party app for Tesla owners, called TezLab. It does not appear to be affiliated with Tesla, and appears to have even rebranded at some point from "Teslab" to "TezLab". The closest relationship appears to be that the CTO owns a Tesla.
I definitely weighed that out, and I appreciate you mentioning it. I settled on this title because it's accurate for the implementor, and because folks are having a hard time understanding the benefit compared to a large solution like WordPress, as evidenced in this thread.

You can literally tack this CMS onto your existing site with a trivial amount of (configuration) code. You cannot in any sense do that with a traditional CMS. I'd call it tongue in cheek for sure, but I don't agree that it's a lie. Just a matter of perspective. Glad you like the project!