skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same sources that often do crappy infographics and poor data displays. (And headlines that verge on or are misleading.) There are a lot of incentives for people who aren't the reporter to spice up the presentation.

I agree with you in this case though. The cutesy animation is 1.) a bridge too far and 2.) even the numbers themselves don't add any intuitive sense. Knowing how much money a company is burning per minute doesn't tell me anything until I multiply it out to a quarter or a year.
For all the discussions and/or criticisms about Tesla, I don't think there are any other better quotes than this:

Tesla’s current price is arguably fair if most cars are powered by electricity in 10 years, if most of these cars are made by Tesla, if Tesla can make those cars with sufficient margin and quality control and can service the cars properly, and if Tesla can raise additional capital sufficient to cover a $3 billion annual cash drain and another billion to service its debt.

Source:

https://www.researchaffiliates.com/en_us/publications/articl...
Didn’t this concept of “aura” come from Ludwig Klages?
To most small businesses, whether the fine is $5 million or $20 million doesn’t matter - they still can’t pay it. So if some of these factors are considered and “only” $5 or $7 million is assessed, that’s still a company killer.
Even if you agree with that how is "treating raising capital as one element that he needs to solve" work any better that the, you know, the other, non-engineer like methods others use to raise capital?
How it is going to be difficult for startups? They just need to implement proper practices right from the start.
Suspect can be compelled to decrypt devices if government proves he can
Yep, same as with Western Renaissance Literature (v.gr. Dante).
SteamSpy is disingenuous in that yes, they can't scrape people's Steam profiles anymore because they're now private by default. That change could have come at any time, and in fact you've always been able to make profiles private [0], but probably the default is a result of the GDPR.

This is more of a result of their shaky business model than the GDPR. And nothing in the GDPR is preventing Steam from publishing anonymized game stats via an official API, or for people to make their profiles public again, or SteamSpy collecting this data with consent some other way.

[0] https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=4113-YUD...
IMHO our only hope are technologies that actively remove carbon from the atmosphere, i.e. "unburn" the fossil fuels we used so far. Turning massive amounts of biomass into charcoal and burying it seems to be the most low-tech solution. That's even an energy positive process. But maybe we need faster methods to avoid catastrophe.
Reddit’s incel subreddit seems to believe paying for sexual services doesn’t technically break celibacy.
Suggestions:

1. The privacy policy would be better placed as a separate page with its own link on the homepage.

2. The privacy policy currently has what looks like boilerplate text, which, at least to me, is totally inadequate when the claim is that the file is encrypted (and it's presumed that the platform cannot decrypt the file).
This was discussed earlier on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16891651
> And your point is still wrong, as the original comment mentioned Copernicus as somehow not problematic for the Church, and Galileo being sentenced only because he was annoying or something.

You keep belaboring things I have not argued against at all. I very specifically pointed out I took no stance on whether or not the claims were correct. Merely that the text of the decision had no relevance to the original comment, and that stands.

No amount of arguing against the rest of that persons original argument makes my point wrong. It may make that persons argument wrong, but take that that up with them, not me.
Our Approach to User Onboarding Is Incomplete. Here’s Why
Ask HN: How would a goal-oriented programming language look like?
Reading this article and discussion: There Are Three Programming Paradigms (2013) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13612587

Imagine you could design a general purpose goal-oriented programming language. I was wondering how would such a language look like.

Actually, I've been having much spare time lately, so I'd like to actively research this topic.
Chinese businesses and the military using “emotional surveillance technology”
Good analysis of this very unusual company. Musk is doing great stuff but investors should be cautious since there is big downside as well.
Lead Based Solder is also a problem, all because some British politician was worried out of their mind because children might chew on circuit boards. It leads to product failures, rework difficulties and using probably worse materials (smd solder paste chinese manufacturers use is a devil's concoction, but no lead, so all good!).
> In the second half of 2016, Apple received between 5,750 and 5,999 National Security Orders.

So there were >10,000 national security threats in 2016?
Incorrect. That "someone" cannot sue you over a GDPR claim; only the national entity responsible for that can take complaints, which they analyze and emit a fine if deemed appropriate.
The good char systems do this. Some of the really clever systems can be used to fix nitrogen and turn the biochar into fertiliser. the whole thing can be combined with improving local agriculture slash-and-burn regions.
Angular Elements
"...manipulating and feeding on humanity's attention" is a broader description, IMO.
> 99.9% of modern poetry sucks

I don't believe that that's what's going on here. The majority of all poetry sucks. As does the majority of all music, novels, paintings etc.

But the ones that don't suck persist. That's why it seems that older poetry is better, because we've forgotten/ignored the dross.

This tendency has been exacerbated in some fields by the split between art for marketing purposes and art for commercial purposes. But that hasn't really affected poetry, most of it's poor because most poets aren't very good.
I think these articles are the work of their PR. Because they want to paint what they are trying to do to be Impossible.

Even though this might be common knowledge, Elon Musk wants to inspire blind belief aka create a reality distortion field around him. For this, continuously emphasizing the impossibility of what they are trying to achieve is very important..
I think accepting the situation for what it is also helps in other circumstances. E.g. you're in the gym and about to work very hard on a few sets. Just accept there's no getting out of it, and you have to do it. Then it's not so bad. Climbing a mountain? abandon all hope and just get on with it. Same with work. You just accept it, rather than resist it.
Yes, but crucially it doesn't cause the user to use less heroin.
This is true - for example, C# has the `using` block to ensure resources are deterministically released when they go out of scope, not when they at some point later are garbage collected. I would still argue C# is much simpler than Rust since for most object you don't have to worry about this. But I guess there is a certain extra complexity in C# because you actually have to know if a class owns some external resource or not, while this distinction is not necessary in Rust.
With regards to what we should call this type of data, I think that 'tabular' or 'relational' are good, however, 'structured' is problematic because an mp3 or a JPEG are both very structured, we just don't store them in tables.

Otherwise, a very cool post!
So what? They would just be the department heads of the previously monolith company (e.g. instead of having a sales department with a VP of sales and a few top managers, you just have a Sales Company subsidiary with a CEO and a few board members).
95% of IT “Engineers” in India Incapable, New Report Reveals
It's clear that many people have a price at which they'd do things that they otherwise would not.
What is sunk cost is irrelevant.
Exactly. When the last company I worked for decided to "go to the cloud", it took weeks to get simple EC2 instances setup because we had to go through my manager, say why we needed it, then wait on an outside vendor. We had layers of consultants getting in the way.

I still ended up doing stuff suboptimally like using all of the stuff I would use on prem like Consul (instead of Parameter store),Fabio (instead of load balancers), Nomad (instead of ECS), VSTS (CI/CD - when I should have use the Codepipeline, Code Build, code deploy ) and even a local copy of Memcached and RabbitMQ just so I wouldn't have to go through all of the red tape just to provision resources so we could get our work done. Our projects ended up costing more because it took so long to get anything approved, I would overprovision "just in case".

Anytime that I wanted to stand up VMs for testing, I would send a Skype message to our local net ops person for an on prem VM and have it within an hour.

I was the "architect" for the company - I couldn't afford to make excuses and it's never helpful at my level of responsibility to blame management when things don't go right. I had to get it done.

So, I learned what I could, studied AWS services on a high level inside and out, got a certification and left for greener pastures.

And people wonder why I never do large organizations.
Amazon has about 600,000 employees now. I'd be surprised if workers aren't routinely dying every day just from random chance given that scale. That's larger than US Army's active force.

Even if 500 warehouse workers (one in a thousand) passed out in a given year from exhaustion, given the numbers we're talking about, that wouldn't imply anything. In an office setting, one in a thousand employees will pass out randomly in a given year from a problem derived from their own health.

It takes a pretty epic data set and study to demonstrate a meaningful frequency when you're talking about hundreds of thousands of employees. I've seen no evidence in any of the articles spit out by the media that workers are regularly being worked to exhaustion. Skepticism is warranted, given there's a lot more money to be made by sensationalism, in selling books or driving clicks.
Ask HN: Which is the cheapest TLD for 10 years?
Which is the cheapest TLD, to purchase for 5/10 years period. Personal use only. Namecheap is giving some TLDs at $27 for 5 years. Need to know if I can get some domain for ~10 years for a lower price.
But it would be legal under the GDPR, correct? That’s the problem with this whole argument. Nobody wants to have to depend on the good graces of the EU to “only” fine them “small” amounts (maybe $2 million instead of $10 million, considering her age and all). This law can be used essentially as an EU imposed tax on the entire Internet, and there’s no reason why it wouldn’t be used that way.

By the way, there are zero provisions in the law that require warnings before an action is taken to issue fines. You can keep saying that they’ll issue warnings, that doesn’t make it true.
Yeah, "production ready" was the wrong phrase. It's more a combination of availability of language compiler, tooling, training, and interest from developers.

If you start a new project using Rust there is a reasonable chance you'll be able to find libraries for common tasks and developers willing to work on it. You can make a case for it and not lose your job. With Ada, outside of a few niches that isn't going to be the case IMO.

It's been a long time since I looked at Ada, but I believe it's memory mgmt is more inline with modern C++ than Rust. So perhaps it's not truly comparable.
That's akin to saying water-guns aren't very dangerous therefore shotguns are safe to play with.
There is definitely some mental cost. By making lifetimes explicit there are additional barriers in the way of doing certain things that are safe but involve invariants that are too high-level for rust's semantics. For example, taking mutable references to multiple elements of a container simultaneously.
I can't read ancient Chinese, so in the case of the Dao De Jing, I'd prefer a translation, but almost all the books at Standard Ebooks were originally written in Modern English. I consider the original spelling an important part of the work.

Consider this edit:

https://github.com/standardebooks/h-p-lovecraft_short-fictio...

This is a character who would know that "'phone" is short for "telephone", but it's changed so that he says "phone". It ruins the effect of telephones being new and modern technology, and makes them so commonplace that people are no longer consciously aware that the word "phone" is an abbreviation. (Although it actually does need an edit, because the automatic conversion of the ' failed and turned it into a ‘ instead of the correct ’.)
At least where I'm from, you don't call yourself or someone else an engineer if you didn't go to engineering school.

What Musk was doing 25 years ago when he was at university isn't important any more. Are we supposed to just ignore the 25 years of experience he's gained since?

It's very simple: if he does engineering then he is an engineer, regardless of what degree he holds.
Oh no! Someone died in a car! How could it be??!!
I agree that the counter makes no sense. There's just no way to put it into any perspective other than "that's a lot of money for me as a person". The graphics I thought was witty though. Lets face it, Musk does a lot of publicity stunts like selling 20 000 flamethrowers, and using them in the graphics I thought was rather witty.
That said, I just don't know what to make of Tesla. The deposits schemes, financials etc, I just can't make my mind up if it is doing good or bad. On the other hand, a cult of personality that worships a guy building rockets, electric vehicles and so on seems preferable to many of the other celebrity cults around today. Lets hope a lot of people don't lose a bunch of money on it, I guess.
That sounds like a good plan, thank you. I'll run it in Stella and grab the audio output from that. Not quite sure I'm up to the coding of the ROM TBH, so I'll do it manually :)
Scotland actually, (and Scottish Law, not English).

(And for that matter it was his girlfriend's dog).

But yes, I agree with you - you have no control over the Court's decision if found guilty.
Facebook share price is back where it was before the Cambridge Analytica scandal
NetChain: Scale-free sub-RTT coordination
Do you have any references for the process you describe? It sounds interesting.
Who goes directly from their computer to Prod? I would hope that you would have at least an integration environment and automated builds and deploys.
and the actual paper is available here: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/nsdi18/nsdi18...
>work any better that the, you know, the other, non-engineer like methods others use to raise capital?

There's a trope amongst millennials than anything Musk touches is "better" than the methods anyone has ever done before. It's how you get people saying things like "Toyota doesn't know how to produce cars like Tesla does!" I think this mindset is dangerous.
I can personally vouch for this imo silly little thing. It once came up in a meeting to which we said we could implement it immediately. You try explaining some stuff to totally tech illiterate people that make the business decision for a government company that needs to publicly do this. It's one big mess, they have to publish reasons and comparisons between several companies and they didn't make any sense when you read them because the people writing them didn't have any any of what they were talking about. You'd often find words like databases, servers, the cloud, and more words strewn around everywhere without making even the closest sense as to what they mean.

After that meeting, when someone asked us whether our stuff is in the cloud, we just said yes.

When they asked us whether we had SAML, we said yes.

When they asked whether we had x, again, we said yes.

It's not possible to explain to these people that you'd like to talk to developers or at least people who were trained at some point in their life.
And that is exactly how it works in all EU jurisdictions (and indeed most of the world besides the US)[1]. This is a big reason the US is a far more litigious place than similarly developed countries.

[1] http://www.pointoflaw.com/loserpays/overview.php
Thanks for the suggestion, done!
The word engineer is semantically bankrupt at this point.
It's quite commonly used off-label for sleep at doses below it's antidepressant dose.

Yeah the medication has been incredible at managing my issues, I only take the full dose at of gabapentin at night though as I find it makes me 'wooly' headed if I take it during the day.
Is SoundCloud down?
I'm based in Europe and can't play any of the songs.
>It's very simple: if he does engineering then he is an engineer, regardless of what degree he holds."

So who doesn't do engineering? Are we all engineers? I put bandaids on my wounds, am I also a doctor?
Yup. I did a Sleepio course that had a good trick for this: Remember that you've got through every single day after a bad night's sleep before just fine. Even if you don't sleep a single moment, you'll get through the day. You've done it loads of times before and you'll do it again.

For me a big source of panic was worrying about the impact on the next day a bad night's sleep would have.

I still have nights where I don't sleep from time to time, but I've stopped caring about it.
My coach said something like: Focus on yourself. Don't care what other people think. If someone laughs at you, then great, it means they are not focusing on themselves and you will have an advantage. If someone thinks you're a looser, it doesn't matter, you can still have a happy life, while others are occupied on trying to look good, you can spend that energy on improving yourself to reach your own goals and desires. In my own coaching I try to make sure goals have intrinsic motivation, not based on what other people think. For example a bad motive is "I want to have big muscles so others will respect me", vs a good motive is "I want to have big muscles so I will feel better about myself". So don't have a party just to show off on Facebook how a good life you have, instead, forbid cameras and enjoy yourself.
You can pipe the cow-say to this program: https://github.com/arsham/rainbow
Is that what you're after?
That is not necessarily disagreement.
My coach said something like: Focus on yourself. Don't care what other people think. If someone laughs at you, then great, it means they are not focusing on themselves and you will have an advantage. If someone thinks you're a looser, it doesn't matter, you can still have a happy life, while others are occupied on trying to look good, you can spend that energy on improving yourself to reach your own goals and desires. In my own coaching I try to make sure goals have intrinsic motivation, not based on what other people think. For example a bad motive is "I want to have big muscles so others will respect me", vs a good motive is "I want to have big muscles so I will feel better about myself". So don't have a party just to show off on Facebook how a good life you have, instead, forbid cameras and enjoy yourself
Not with that attitude
This cuts both ways. Because I can offload checking from my brain to the compiler, I feel personally that the mental cost is actually reduced overall. YMMV.
It's a major pain for us.

But I'm completely in favour of it anyway.
Also if you don't really care about yield, many things are not that critical. I did a PhD in semi-conductor physics, and most processes for silicon are actually surprisingly robust (compared to processes of any other material). Also many things are just done the way because people know it worked before, which does not mean you can't use less fancy equipment and it would still work.
Just added a flag (-v) to print out the font. Please let me know which font is broken and I will remove it. Thanks.
You can also choose a specific font if you want.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16929405
Just because people don't use it for navigation doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It would be much more complicated to explain the orientation of the southern cross in the article. Pole star is more suitable for use there, so they used it.
Interesting problem.

I imagine the juicy part is that there is no clear cut formula for determining the rotation from the area needed.

Thus the task is to come up with a fast approximation algorithm to work backwards.

So brute force way:

If area_needed > area_cast:
rotate_cube(delta)
delta=/2
else similar rotation on -delta

Now, my 3d geometry is rusty, so maybe rotation on 2 axis is enough but still optimizing 2 arguments is not going to be easy. Maybe you can max one rotation then max 2nd one.
As I remember from the book, the machinists fought this pretty hard and eventually forced a compromise resulting in the situation you describe.
My problem is that Google just played a Microsoft, forked the Java eco-system, but because it is the beloved "Do no Evil " company of SV, it gets love support like yours instead of the hate Microsoft did exactly for the same result, while we Java developers have to workaround the fragmentation issues Google has brought into the Java world.

My problem is that I cannot pick any random Java library out of Maven and be 100% assured that it will run at all on Android.

My problem is that Android most likely will never move beyond its partial implementation of Java 8, as per Android P.

If it was for Google's wishes, Sun would have closed doors, hopefully no one would have bought the Java assets, they would get away with it, and we could all enjoy a Java language stuck at what was Java 6's subset.
Its not a bubble.

I'm pretty sure it is and I'm quite looking forward to seeing it burst.
This is pretty fast. From memory regrowing tropical forests can fix 20 tonnes of carbon per hectare per year. Most of these forests are slash-and-burned on a 30 to 50 year cycle that is carbon neutral, but a slash-and-char approach of about 30% of the forests would capture our total carbon output [0]. It would also have the nice side effect of providing local jobs to some of the poorest people in the world.

0. Research I did when I was an academic and never published. I really should get around to finishing it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_sequestration
64-bit update would be great.
>Turning massive amounts of biomass into charcoal and burying it seems to be the most low-tech solution

If you've found a way to convince people to do that wouldn't it be easier to just not burn coal for energy? Or do you mean doing it at such a massive scale we reverse the net flow of coal from the ground to the atmosphere?
Ok good to know, do you have any roadmap to know the next integration (nodejs or Django ?) ?
Banks, Card Companies Explore Ways to Monitor Gun Purchases
I am mostly just fascinated by people able to stream their coding. I think most of my stream would consist of googling stuff and procrastinating on hacker news and tabloids
This was an idea shared in a public discussion.
Could you please try not to suppress ideas exchange here?
Chip printer that would make IC's that are better than what amateur can make from readily available cheap components on a PCB board would be used in the industry first.

There is small number of field-programmable analog array (FPAA) products and FPGA/FPAA hybrids in the market. I hope they become better and more available (never used one myself).
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