skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Musk can raise a couple of billion whenever he wants

This is true, until it isn't. Moody's just downgraded their bonds, and their stock just hit another low. Whether Musk goes to the debt markets or the equity markets to raise, the price just got much more expensive.

And at some point, these downward spirals feed on themselves. We saw this in 2007-2009 when banks badly in need of raising capital couldn't even do so because the mere announcement of intention to raise spooked the markets (either more debt or more dilution) so much that the price of doing so was prohibitive.

TSLA does have one strong tailwind, though: the short interest in the stock has become so great that it's nearly impossible to find shares to borrow anymore. And there's always the risk of a very large short squeeze.
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Giraffes Silently Slip onto the Endangered Species List
This is great, and will probably save me a lot of time. Currently I use an ubuntu desktop vm (vagrant) that I use for sites like facebook, that I destroy when done and recreate when needed so it's like a brand new clean pc each time.
As a digital nomad with Fi, its roaming and service is amazing.

What you are complaining about is the US Cell market, which is awful and has horrible prices compared to the rest of the world.

I usually buy a local sim card for data because it's usually cheaper than Fi per GB. However, I pick a different carrier than what I can access through Fi so I have more reliable access for work (and can use both using Speedify).

Having immediate data on arrival, a backup cell network, up to 10 data sim cards for free and access to my US phone number and it's incoming/outgoing calls via data on Hangouts is a godsend when traveling and working remotely.

And while you can end up paying $80/mo if you use >6GB, you won't pay any more than that even if you use more (though they will start throttling you at 15GB).
States aren't a particularly meaningful counting unit: California encompasses more than 68 Wyomings by population. And the meaning of "carrying" a state by a 44.1% to 44.0% plurality is questionable.

The current division in the US is urban vs rural, with turnout differences and suburbs deciding elections.
It probably was schizophrenia. Sorry for wasting bandwidth.
For the UK, true.
Helping Robots Express Themselves When They Fail
$10 buys you unlimited LTE in like half europe.

If you can actually get these plans using Apple SIM - it’d be order of magnitude cheaper.
Up to 40% of results from consumer DNA tests might be bogus
On the digital side of things, here's an example [1] from Aphex Twin that was done some time ago.

[1] https://thump.vice.com/en_ca/article/nzm7mz/is-the-image-hid...
I am ashamed to admit I spent far too much time doing exactly that. The Japanese one really cracked me up.
Come on now, it's a cloud machine learning product, you can access it using purely open source tools all running on an open source operating system if you like. No need to pronounce doom because the demo doesn't work in your browser.
Microsoft’s neo-nazi sexbot was a great lesson for AI assistant makers
The great thing about mbasic is you can read your messages without it launching the Play Store and trying to make you install messenger. That drives me nuts!
Just one bit
There wasn't any sarcasm. They were literally saying that "people are flocking to instagram" so they "don't believe that FB is in danger here."
The thing is that the US could have taken actions starting 25 years ago so that all of the advantage captured by China today would have been captured by us and added even more to our privileges.
Just as relevant as the popular vote in determining the outcome of an election based on the electoral college.
Please increase the information to inflammation ratio of your comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm sorry, but are the parallels not obvious? Facebook is a tool used to influence people. Politicians need the ability to influence people. Ergo, it is not beyond the realms of possibility that Modi would prefer to be a friend, rather than foe, of Facebook. Diplomacy aside, all I'm pointing out is that he has something to gain by having Facebook on his side (at least prior to recent events involving Facebook).
Fi plans are only "outrageously expensive" if you are comparing them against other countries.
> - The selection tool is just miles ahead any of the software I have used. It makes the crop tool obsolete and every time I have to switch modes just to resize my previous rectangular selection I long for it.

Did you ever try mtPaint[0]? It has such selection feature too

> - Resizing and clipping layers is dead simple. Other programs I have used have no "clip to selection" on layers and I have never understood why.

In mtPaint just select rectangle and click "Delete" button ;-)

[0] https://github.com/matyler/mtPaint

[1] http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/handbook/en_GB/chap_04.html
True but the China of today is different from China of the cold war. You're right in that USSR and China were definitely closer together then than China and the US are now, no doubt about it. But you have to consider that, as far as we can tell, there's no threat of looming war between China and the US, so in the short term we're ok.

In the long term, I think the Chinese are becoming more Western/liberal in terms of attitudes. They like capitalism, they like international brands, and as more and more people travel between China and the US for immigration/business/education they'll be more exposed to Western liberalism too. And consider this too: in 20-30 years, the business and political leadership of China will probably only barely remember the Communist days.

Perhaps we were "tricked" in the sense that we were overly trusting or congenial, but if you look at US-Chinese relations over a longer timespan, I think it looks like our attitudes will pay off. I see things improving between our two countries, despite China's current attempts at backyard imperialism.
Army of 01101111: The Making of a Cyber Battalion
There will be those that are wanting to use data for good - other bad people who have bad or evil intentions, and this is where chain of command and chain of trust must exist especially when mass data is involved; I'm not sure any companies/organizations have chain of command/trust as how I see it, though I'd hope major militaries of the world have this down - and hopefully are full of sane, reasonable people.
Cyber Defense Tool Is an Early Warning System for Grid Attacks
My argument against nuclear power for emerging countries is that, they will repeat the mistakes US (and maybe EU) did before. And old nuclear powers already started dismantling their arsenal (officially at least). It's not a fairness issue.
> Roaming is included in all of EU's countries

Kind of - if you buy monthly plan that’s 2X more expensive (at least in Eastern Europe).
Caffeine, CYP1A2 Genotype, and Endurance Performance in Athletes
> They still have tracking pixels.

Add-ons like Privacy Badger or Ghostery can block those though, right?
As someone who struggles greatly with the written words, I'm so thankful to see this. For the last year or so I've poked around every few months to see if they'd opened this up more generally. I'd be more than happy to pay $30-60/mth (more if it had Spritz) for the ability to have high quality, high speech speed, text to speech for my emails, documents and news articles I'd like to consume.
> I’m assuming you mean the Affordable Healthcare Act?

I’m assuming you mean the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, probably in combination with the related parts of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.
Nissan wants to sell one million electric cars per year until 2023
> How can you test against an unknown bug?

The point of testing is to make the unknown bugs, known.
What’s worse, repeated cycles of conventional conflicts between major powers, or peace between major powers with a ~1% chance per year of total annihilation?

(Adjust the percentage as you see fit. I think that’s a reasonable guess but it’s definitely a guess.)

I think the second one is clearly worse. The idea that nuclear weapons are good because they’ve resulted in peace only makes sense if you think the chances of a nuclear world war are negligible. I don’t think that’s true but some people seem to.
I don't have an opinion on how having nukes saves lives, but in either case I think there is a better solution. An international, democratically legitimized world council that has the competence to bind nations governments and override their decisions. Akin to the EU, but globally. That is an alternative, successful way to keep peace. The security council of the UN is not up to the task because of many obvious shortcomings.

But many people still hang on to their nation as if it were a good thing.
It can basically.

1. Go to Options->Privacy
2. Go to History and change it to use custom settings
3a. You can either disable third-party cookies
3b. Or you could go a bit further and check "Always use private browsing mode"
That does not invalidate his points about Tesla's profits, Model 3 delays etc. He might be right about that Tesla is overvalued.
Volunteering for Habitat for Humanity can be fun. They do home repair projects for lower income homeowners in local communities. It's generally a great group of people.
The demo might only work in Chrome, but the API is just a standard REST API. Most people will be using this API on the server side to generate an MP3 which is streamed to the user.

Chrome actually has its own TTS engine (as does FF, Safari, etc), though the quality obviously isn't as good.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SpeechSynth...

(I work for GCP)
> Our country is so polarized that pretty much all elections are close

Which is to be expected in a two party system.
You know who’s not applauding Arizona? The dead woman and her family.

Turns out when you let corporations do whatever they want without oversight for a weird PR “win” against SF people can die.
I download a lot of movies and have increasingly watched more on Netflix, but nothing beats the cinema experience.

I go to both the big chain theatres in my city and the small independent ones. It's great to be able to see big new movies on IMAX or AVX with the great quality and sound and also seeing lesser known or older movies in a small locally-run "artsy" theatre.

Streaming is great but they're just different experiences.
If the problem is complex enough, six months may be a short deadline.
There's a lot to say about how ya'll're jumpin' to conclusions on intelgence 'sif ya'll was a buncha nucular scientist. But that's not my intention. I just wanna note:

A nasal accent caused by elevated exposition to manure would be literally dumb -- some phonemes are silent. That's funny in a cynical way and even if that's nothing to laughe at, it's noteworthy.

There's also the thing about the mere mention of bad things invariably eliciting negative emotions, which is why we have curse words, and perhaps why farmers don't wanna take shit from noone. And there's the disphemism-treadmil, which is why, IMHO, the substitution of curse words for clinical terms is a vain effort.

This whole subthread is purely about NC and language, so it's rather off-topic.
I am using Berlin based posteo [1] since a few years, very happy.

[1]: https://posteo.de/en
People are downloading their Facebook data and the results are terrifying
Mental Health in Gaming, Bioshock: Infinite Turns Five, and What Now, Xbox?
Some people have gotten refunds months late, others have gotten refunds almost instantly. I think they’re just disorganized.
You're seriously straw-manning here. You can remove the chip from your shoulder any time. They want their constituents to have good jobs. In order to do that they must support the sciences so that our economy can grow.
Then let's give nukes to every country and we will live in peace and happiness forever.
Because any article about Tesla/Elon Musk is guaranteed to generate clicks.
Pages, Numbers and KeyNote run on Macintoshes and in the browser (I would guess a more limited set than Google’s offering, but I rarely use either, so don’t trust me), too.

(they cut out a few features from the desktop version a few years ago to accomplish that)
This one apparently meant that something intentionally mapped for kernel access only was now accessible from userland. That is exactly the tedious, boring issue someone manually testing a bunch of applications will never find, but unit tests are designed to.
How to Start with Kotlin/Native?
I don’t think that’s too informative. Tesla has sold a couple of orders of magnitude more cars than Delorean did.
> Facebook is the only platform with i use to connect to some of my closest friends on the other side of the planet.

I keep saying this over and over. If you can't keep in active touch with someone (phone, email, IM, text, Skype) then they're not that important to you. It doesn't even need to be very frequent - once a quarter, every six months.

If you can't manage that level of contact with someone* then there's little point hanging on to the feeling that you're still somehow connected with them. Every generation prior to ours accepted this as their reality and yet we feel we're different somehow.

*Exception: everyone has friends that they may not talk to for years but as soon as you see them or get on the phone with them you can pick up the relationship effortlessly.
Sun defended Java with the trademark and the compatibility kit, not copyright on the API. It never occurred to anyone (as it shouldn't now) that there was copyright on the API.

[edit] Jonathan Schwartz: "The strategy was, we agree on these open APIs, then we compete on implementations."
Oh gees. I've only recently spent a lot of time on the interviewer side of the table, and realized how much resume inflation there is out there, which doesn't come out until there's an in-depth technical interview. I can only image how much worse this would be if just getting into an in-person interview is incentivized. I see your point, but can't see that the benefits outweigh the drawbacks.
I think most of the issue is that they were let into international trade markets on the assumption that it would be a free market but they have stolen a lot of IP and not been a particularly open or free market in some areas. I hope the international community calls out the US on a lot of toxic practices but doesn't mean we need to ignore the poor Chinese trade practices
It would require a whistleblower, which could definitely happen.
I was thinking "hotspot without phone", if only for a possible battery benefit. But realistically, Android phones are already so cheap that they're probably the best option.
Not true at all. It was a clean-room reverse engineering job. Yes, they could have looked at the API, but they did not. More specifically, they erected an information wall between those who had the API specification and those who did not, and used the results from those who did not.
I assumed that all large sites use code like this to filter out fraudulent and abusive accounts.
OpenJDK is presently under GPL 2, with the "classpath exception" at the end: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/file/a08cbfc0e4ec/LICEN...

At the time, though, I don't believe it was open source and OpenJDK originated as a cleanroom rewrite of it, and has since been integrated.
> Our country is so polarized that pretty much all elections are close.

I assume you mean pretty much all Presidential elections (because otherwise it's not true; lots of elections aren't close, and some electoral districts are so structurally guaranteed to be not close that elections are usually uncontested), but even then polarization does nothing to explain that, but the incentive to seek a winning coalition with minimal compromise on issues in a two-party system does.
I find articles on New Yorker to be over-written to the point of distraction.

I ran this story through Hemingway-App to get some stats:

"77 adverbs. Aim for 26 or fewer.

37 uses of passive voice, meeting the goal of 88 or fewer.

8 phrases have simpler alternatives.

52 of 439 sentences are hard to read.

70 of 439 sentences are very hard to read."
It is not copyrights problem that obeying the law might be difficult.
Your saying that I do doesn't make it so. You should read more carefully. Look at is absolutely as simple as this: the interests of the rich and the nonrich are systematically at odds, yet only one of these groups have any great power to see to it that their interests are served. A society so structured is unjust, fragile, and generally suboptimal. Such societies lend themselves to demogougery and collapse. One needbt even resort to claims of moral and ethical failure on the part of those who have power to conclude this thing, and yet it is also true that power and wealth have deletrious effects on a number of features of that which we might call virtue, including empathy.
Tesla being lead by a person with lots of past success including getting ready to setup a colony on Mars - you probably can stretch out the risk a little further than compared to say, most anyone else. There are a lot of people, including those with wealth, who will want to see Tesla succeed even if that requires certain unusual measures for a public company; I doubt it will come to this.
> Uber rides can't stay so cheap forever; either prices go up and riders leave, or prices stay low and drivers leave.

I think there's plenty of market for an Uber-like experience at $1.00-$1.75/mile. That's well above covering the all-in cost of the car and well within the range of what riders will pay. I see no reason to think that Uber can't make a profitable business, where drivers are also making a profit, and riders are willing to pay in a range of amounts near the current rates.

I wouldn't be surprised if Uber is already profitable in cities where they have achieved scale.
> The longstanding root of the problem is that we're relying on software that is under the control of an adversarial party, especially for creating a UI.

One of the original ideas of the "semantic web" was that the entities that provide data and the entities that display the data should be decoupled and freely combinable by the user.

That idea didn't gain particularly large support with website developers.

I wonder why... /s
The open interest at 50 is remarkable. Someone should make a market below 50 to find out how those are distributed.
Because? You want the world to work that way? Well, it doesn't. APIs are copyrightable.
I guess upgrade to Windows 10 is the message Microsoft is trying to get out here?

Laying off all those QA and testing people will have some downside - MS seems to be letting older versions take the hit.
Interesting. I feel the exact opposite and it's one my frustrations with Twitter. If I follow Person X due to Topic A, I really do not care their opinion on Topic B.
No problem! And a 7.1% YTM isn't exactly a vote of confidence either, so your point still stands...
While not about Apple, that did make me think of something interesting. Why doesn't Amazon aggressively go after the education market? They have the Fire devices, the cloud infrastructure, the Kindle infrastructure for text books, etc. They could partner with Microsoft for the software and office 365.
Good luck that they don't bork the GDPR replacement bill they're writing for post-Brexit.
You're believing those millions actually consciously make that decision. Quite a sweeping statement.
Iron Ox Is Hiring a Cloud Robotics Engineer
I decided to do the opposite so French text with the wavenet English voice, pretty funny too.
Yes, this. It seems SCL associates have exploited the commercial veil very effectively and we need to look behind that veil to work out what happened. I would also say that SCL has very cleverly exploited the difference between equity and contract payments to subvert spending caps. Invest a business...no spending cap.... I hate these guys. I'm a proud Brit, I do biz globally, and these guys have trashes Brand UK. I'm sometimes close to tears at what these guys have done.
Number of states is indeed misleading. If each party gets half the states, it's a Democrat victory.

E.g. Carter carries 24 states and Ford carries 27; Carter wins 297-240.
Russ actually mentions Rich Hickey's keynote talk, Spec-ulation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyLBGkS5ICk) in one of his blog posts about vgo
It's worse than that, they're trying to guarantee profits for companies. Even though this is two titans fighting it out, the only people who benefit from an ultra strict copyright regime will be the people that can afford to fight it out in court. Everyone except people that hold shares in large companies will lose out.
> This is also where it seems the clearest analogy lies to why I find your arguments to "complexity" so useless.

Honestly, from everything you have posted so far, I really get the impression that you have never worked on programming language parsing, or with large code bases. The difference in algorithmic complexity is not "useless," it is the difference between being able to compile millions of lines of code in a few seconds on modest hardware, and needing a cluster just to get your builds done:

https://community.embarcadero.com/blogs/entry/compiling-a-mi...
So? The proper response would have been for Google to either pay the license or develop their own write once use anywhere software. Instead, the took the shortcut of copying someone's hard work.
It’s a case of grandstanding.

It’s absurd to think about. The annual budget of nasa is less than the monthly interest on our national debt. Well two months.
Cool idea, I used to play this when I was a child.

I'm unable to download it right now, but my initial concerns are:

- How do you stop people from cheating by singing the words, or otherwise just saying the name of the song? Or, depending on the scoring system, could you not just submit silence?

- How do you deal with people screaming profanity or disturbing audio clips?