skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They have 6.3 billion revenue worth of pre-orders on the Nikola One.

Yes, and their suit seeks $2 billion in damages - a large fraction of their lifetime revenue.

> It doesn't have to be an advance on what exists, it just has to be aesthetically distinctive.

Good point, my discussion of non-obvious was mistaken, and this probably does justify the wraparound window - it's not the first but it's a distinctive look. I'm still not clear on how the side door patent was granted, since it appears basically identical to designs in production many years ago, but it's not clearly unjustified.
Below comment from nytimes (and linked article/tweet thread) captures the stupidity of the SF politics very well.

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These are the kind of people Square is supporting: racist, ageist developer shills.

http://www.sfexaminer.com/sb-827-rallies-end-yimbys-shouting...
> not some fake pseudo- altruistic bullshit

Ha! Welcome to SF. The city that pretends that letting homeless people shoot up and overdose in the street means that we are respecting their right to live the way they want. In any decent society we would be helping these people, and we would disrupt their destructive way of living, which is destructive not just to them but to society as a whole (public health concerns, needles and human excrements on the street, etc).

But...electric scooters are the current biggest problem for the city administration.

Edit: to the downvoters, care to explain your disagreement?
That x% is the length of their runway. It is fundamental to the future of the company.
I also think having that a big part of it is that at least the characters had a high point, even if they paid the price.

Like Jordan Belfort eventually loses his wife and access to his kid in The Wolf of Wall Street. But that can happen to any Joe on the street anyway, and he didn't get to have drug fueled orgies like Jordan did. Walter White descends into chaos and death in the pursuit of using his singular skills. But before he dies he leaves an enormous amount of money to secure his family's security forever and he get to experience a moment of pure fulfillment, working for himself, achieving at the outermost limits of his abilities. Joe Sixpack can get cancer and leave his family a pile of debt after spending his life working middle management at a life insurance firm, achieving no self-actualization and leaving his family in financial destitution.

These programs think that they are portraying some sort of cautionary tale by saying "Look this person got to have everything, but then they lost it all due to the method with which they acquired it", without realizing that the common man on the street could do everything by the book and above board and still find themselves losing everything and in the same spot as the characters in these shows, and they didn't even get to have fun along the way!
You're making a bad faith argument about what YIMBYism is about. Yes, it means more market rate housing, but also more affordable housing development, and more transit.
Enough money to sway 0.1 a typical Bay Area native multi home owner.
Mesosphere is still a player, but they have also recently added Kubernetes support in DC/OS.

https://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/dcos/
I am. For what roles?
This is a little out of left field, but my favorite unexpected literary hyphen is in the title of "Lassie Come-Home" [0]. In the original book, the title was not imploring a missing dog to return. It referred to the untrue accusation that Lassie was a "come-home" dog, trained by scam artists to escape from an unsuspecting buyer and return to be sold to the next sucker over and over again.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lassie_Come-Home
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Makes sense. Eagerly waiting for NodeJS and Mono to be recompiled using Asylo. Do you foresee additional complexity in supporting managed languages ? I'm guessing a mono program with base recompiled to Asylo would be more secure than using SecureString in C#.
...that’s not what investors are panicking over? You know that right?
My favorite Wikipedia list is its list of unusual articles:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_articles
Most likely they mean άσυλο[1][2] It has many meanings one of them is "safe place" too.

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/άσυλο
[2] https://el.wiktionary.org/wiki/άσυλο In Greek
Could you please not post flamebait to Hacker News? We're hoping for better than this here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ask HN: Who is hiring freelancers? (May 2018)
To your point its possible to make movies differently, there is a game called spec ops that is very subversive of the military shooter genre. Where other games want you to feel cool shooting and killing people spec ops constantly wants you to feel bad about your actions, at one point asking "do you feel like a hero yet? "

Very good game.
> everything is strip malls and McMansions

Say what? I visited Durham recently and had a blast -- lots of cool local businesses (Fullsteam Brewery was an amazing find) and neat old warehouses and charming old houses and such. Carrboro was also great, people biking everywhere and local hippie markets and stuff.
Then no one there will sell to build a high rise. What is the legislation for?
My grandparents would always tell me it was one of the few fresh vegetables widely available in 1950s America. Forget ripe tomatoes, let alone chives - you got a mound of iceberg lettuce with boiled eggs (them coming from the cuisine of the Punjab no less).
Definitely not at that scale. Small turbines have low efficiency because tip speed increases quadratically as they get smaller.
You can't focus on the long term at the expense of the short term if in between you're bankrupt.
That may be true but the shorter-term interests (less than a year or two, commonly) of some of these institutional investors is simply not in-line with the longer-term nature of what Tesla is doing.

It would not be in Musk's best interests to pander to those investors and compromise the actual long-term integrity of a business that has tremendous opportunity to provide substantial returns by avoiding the mistakes of short-term decision-making.
Pretty interesting. I like how the author talks about how it may be too early to get useful data yet since their non-helium drives have been online for much longer.

It'd be interesting to look at the numbers again in two years and see if the guess is correct.
You can prevent closing a tab.
>we encountered it by complex goal-directed physical processes

If you mean evolution, yes. But nothing about the big bang for example makes it a "goal directed process".

(In fact even evolution only looks that way from hindsight -- there's not some end goal there either).
Author of [0] here.

Sadly, those benchmarks (at the bottom of the thread) were done with a GCC that already included all the GCC 8.1 bells and whistles - results were unchanged under 8.1.

So it's still _really_ slow.
Clickbait title. The actual title is "Tips to improve your online marketing campaign."
> Web developers are a dime a dozen, so I doubt if companies would really want to pay for a remote worker when they could easily get a handful just round the corner.

What exactly do you consider a web developer? If you're talking about the kind of web developer who codes a web page for his grandma's flower shop in html & css then I think you'd be right about that.

But if you're talking about one who writes backend code to scale, parse data and interact with external services or writes frontend code using whatever the latest javascript framework is these days, then those web developers definitely aren't "a dime a dozen". And they certainly won't have problems getting a remote job.
Not Antarctica but pretty close to the other end, this thing is being towed up there at the moment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akademik_Lomonosov

(it's a fairly traditional PWR, though, so nothing new technology-wise per se)
You could run Kubeless on k8s on DO
> Matt Levine (bloomberg) might suggest there's more & easier money to be had in the private market

That hypothesis is, at least so far, not sustained by the evidence of private-market darlings continuing to rise in the public markets.
Okay, so these packages come with more mitigations than 7-Zip on Windows. However, looking at the source code, I am pretty sure they are affected by the same bug.
Ask HN: What do do if I’m a CS student at a top school and I feel lost?
I transferred from a large state school to a top 5 Computer Science school this past fall. I transferred because the CS degree program I was in wasn’t challenging, and the department was severely underfunded and understaffed. I felt miserable, despite having a small but close friend group there. I couldn’t get into classes, the ones I were in were terribly taught, and I just felt like my life wasn’t going anywhere.

However, now that I am in this top program, I feel even more miserable. The CS major is GPA capped, and at this point there is a good chance I won’t make it into the major. The classes I have been taking to get into the major alternate between boring review of concepts I previously learned, and unbelievably challenging material that I can barely comprehend. As a result, my grades in those classes have been steadily declining. I feel very demotivated and stressed, especially since finals are coming up.

Additionally, this school is all the way across the country from where I grew up. I knew nobody in this city before I came here, and even now I only really know my roommate and 1 other friend.

Finally, to top it all off, I didn’t get a tech internship this summer despite applying to around 90 companies. I even got to the final round of interviews at 2 companies, but still got rejected. I signed up for a summer class during the second half of the summer, but I’m worried that it will just stress me out even more. Plus I have no idea what to do for the first half of summer! I really don’t want to bum around my parents house, as they are already disappointed that I didn’t get an internship. Last summer I helped create a startup, but I left due to issues with the other founders.

Really I’m just writing this post to ask for advice. What to do if I don’t get into the CS major? How to meet people and connect with my school? What to do about my failure to get an internship?
Is it really though? An open public market just means that anyone can purchase the stock; not that just anyone should.
All the capex info was in their letter and they talked about it in the call as well. Why should all the investors have to listen to them repeat themselves? I for one appreciated that he skipped the question and did not waste my time. Also the reservation holder conversion rate is a highly strategic information and I don't think they should release that to the public. And to be honest it is irrelevant while they have such a giant backlog of orders. my guess is that the intent was to gather material for negative press. Let's not kid ourselves. Tesla has been the target of a massive propoganda/trolling campaign recently. (HN included)
What AVs use this? I keep hearing horrible things about AVs but little proof. I know Tavis from Google finds bugs and AV in rare cases can reduce security, but that's a far cry from them embedding FOSS projects to save time. For AV companies writing a rar parser is a single-day activity, its hard to believe they need this app.

The few places I've seen 7z used is in installers where the input is known (installer archive in 7z format) and I'm assuming signed in many cases so you can't feed it random inputs. I find it hard to believe Sophos and Symantec and Trend are copying and pasting 7zip.dll into their apps.
"Confidential computing" might seem to refer to homomorphic encryption, but has nothing to do with it in its usage here. After searching around a bit, I suspect that Microsoft Azure first used it in 2017 to refer to code running within a trusted enclave.

It looks to me that while Asylo is agnostic about the specific TEE used, it is primarily targeted at Intel SGX [1]. Instead of having to trust Google to run your code correctly and not read your data, you'd have to trust Intel to manufacture a secure enclave and essentially bake in a private key that cannot be read. You could use the public key to encrypt your code and workload, and it would run in a part of the processor that Google presumably cannot access (or measure [2]).

A good further introduction might be this paper [3] (especially the diagram on page 2), or this answer [4].

I'll repeat my main concern with this system: you will reinforce Intel's position as 'feudal lord' in this model [5].

[1] https://github.com/google/asylo/tree/master/asylo/identity/s...

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.08719

[3] https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/086.pdf

[4] https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/175749/what-are...

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15936121
Thank you, O great Wikipedia hacker!
Don't forget the 6P users either!
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This looks interesting. However, is there any pricing or list of services it works with available?
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What does the prisoner do if she gets to, for example, box 40 and there is a 40 in the box?

[edit] I reread the explanation and get it now. Only 1 prisoner (40) will actually get to open box 40. I was trying to think of this from the point of view of implementing it in code. I guess the cycle stops when a prisoner finds their own number or reaches 50 attempts.
I’m curious: was the word “bizarre” always missing in the title or has it been dropped later?
7% drop does not really equate to Tesla Plunges IMO.

Was this bad enough that you wanted to sell?
This breaks at least two of the HN guidelines. Please (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow them when posting here.
PIC32MZ are MIPS based, not quite what you want but close.
Yes, Durham is very nice (and Fullsteam is pretty great), but the part you visited is very small and not representative of the rest of the region at all. Raleigh also has a tiny, and nice downtown. However, the region is still a snarl of highways and unsustainable suburban sprawl.
Think of it this way - if all the boxes are sorted then everyone finds their own number in their box.

But let's say that everything is sorted except your's and some other prisoner's number. Then it makes sense to follow the chain, because there is only one chain of two nodes.

Basically any number that is in its place is sorted and thus not part of a chain. Any number that is not in its place is not sorted and part of a chain.

There can be many different chains, but only one chain that leads to your number. By starting from your own box, you guarantee that you follow your own chain thus reducing the search space.

Maybe it helps to understand...
I have no idea why anyone would ever downvote this, it’s a very non controversial statement. Being a public company is a double edged sword, it most definitely has downsides to go with the upsides. Depending on the company/industry/timeline/economy/etc., for some companies the downsides of being public can become a lodestone dragging them down (see Dell).
LLVM contributor hits breakpoint, quits citing inclusivity intolerance
Y Combinator's motto is literally "Make something people want."
Organic produce from local growers, if you're lucky to have a grocery store or farmers market near you selling the stuff, is simply incredible. Even the lettuce is delicious with nothing on it.

I just spent winter away from my usual SF bay area haunts and have had to shop at a grocery store more along the lines of a Safeway with a small selection of overpriced corporate organics on a little island in the produce department. This stuff is maybe slightly better than the conventional produce sold alongside it, it's pretty awful, and really helps me appreciate why most of the public doesn't seem to see any difference with organic vs. conventional outside of the price.

It really is an exceptional privilege to have access to quality organic produce in the USA.
I've been researching alternatives and Mapfit offers 100,000 API requests a day for free. I haven't read the documentation but looks very promising.
A teleporter is the spherical cow of transportation - it allows for simplified thought experiments.

Replace with "a bus line to"/"a train to", the outcome is the same. Unless places with connection to the public transportation system build more housing, prices there will just be driven up as well. (Housing shortage in the Bay is that bad)
HN is comprised of individuals and none of them speak for everyone.

I think it's interesting someone would get fired for making a joke that is mild compared things the founder has said / done.
He also includes this paragraph, which gives some motivation for why should should care about this formalism in particular:

> Some people might wonder “why Turing machines,” as opposed to a more reasonable programming language like C or Python. Well, first of all, we needed a language that could address an unlimited amount of memory. Also, the BB function is traditionally defined in terms of Turing machines. But the most important issue is that we wanted there to be no suspicion whatsoever that our choice of programming language was artificially helping to make our machine small. And hopefully everyone can agree that one-tape, two-symbol Turing machines aren’t designed for anyone’s convenience!
No you totally want marketing to be talking about something in the same place, even if they are wrong. It would absolutely not suck if they posted something incorrect, because then the people that know better can post alternative answers and/or comment and help correct the information.

If you put them in separate stacks, the bad information will just persist and live in isolation, and never get corrected.

You basically want to do everything you can to prevent silo'ing of people as well as knowledge. You want people talking.

Consider too that not everything posted has to be about technology. It can be recommendations for a good restaurant near a customer site, or where office supplies can be found in a large, multi-site office, or how to request facilities to come fix a leaking faucet.
Please no, do not comment every function. Each function should average 5-10 lines, with clearly defined separation of concerns, and a descriptive name that inherently describes any writes/reads of the function. In the rare case where it makes sense to have a massive function, and you can’t break it into smaller functions within its scope, then maybe it makes sense to use a comment.

Adopting a policy of commenting every function header creates two major problems: (1) you now need to edit a comment every time you change a function, but your editor/compiler/rcs/ci will not inform you if you forget; (2) introducing a “typing tax” on creating new functions, since you need to write a comment too, actually discourages writing small functions because of the required comments.

The most readable code does not need comments, because you can clearly infer what each small function does by reading its header and local variable names. When looking at a set of functions, i.e. a class or file, you should be able to infer the “why” of each function by seeing it in the context of the other sensibly-named functions surrounding it.

Personally, my commenting policy is very simple: if I cannot infer the behavior of a piece of code by reading it, and I cannot change it to be more readable (usually for efficiency purposes), then I write a short comment explaining whatever is strange about it. This way someone reading through the code doesn’t need to slow down when they get to the grotesque portion, because they can just read the comment, assume it’s correct and double check later if necessary. Whereas if the code is littered with comments, you really can’t assume any are correct, which makes it difficult to read the actual code.
This is a great post. Evil eye is part of my culture (listed in your article) and I have a lot of evil eye jewelry. I have always believed it makes people step their game up because it makes them feel like they are being watched.

I think the use of the evil eye is a bit mis-translated when Anglo-Saxons/Americans try to explain it. The purpose is to protect yourself from greed, jealousy, and other emotions that may trigger someone to hurt you. It's present on jewelry because gold jewelry can cause jealousy. The eye distracts from the fact that I'm wearing several thousands of dollars worth of solid gold. Viewers remember the eye, not other things. This helps you blend in, be forgotten and avoid trouble. The evil eye replaces your own eyes - so they don't gaze at you and see your vulnerabilities. They also don't gaze at your wealth, or luck. (Wealth and luck are invitations for trouble.)

At least, this is how it is understood in my culture. Another reason why we somewhat hide our wealth and don't believe in being flashy.
Ya, that's the irony I find in that. I thought I was the only one not drinking the kool-aid here from the outside in view.
Do you own the house you live in?
It's a hardware flaw in this case though, and apps are another vector. Android even has drive by ("instant") apps these days.

(And WebGL is far from raw gpu access)
This is not a very frequent meeting. He is explaining to the public & investors why they should keep backing Tesla, and it happens only once a quarter. It's worth being thoughtful, given the tens of billions of dollars all the non-Elon shareholders have at stake.
The goal isn't to maximize an individual's odds of finding their number, but maximizing the odds of the entire group finding their number.
They don’t seem to be faltering to me. They’re doing better than they ever have been. They sold almost as many cars last quarter as they did in all of 2014 (which happens to be when I ordered mine). Model 3 production is ramping up much faster than Model S or X production did, and is only a few months behind Elon’s notoriously optimistic predictions.
Not a Yale study. A working paper that I'm not sure was even published.
I wonder what fraction of Bay Area tech workers want to live there?

If every major tech company in the Bay Area switched to remote work, allowing employees to work from anywhere they wanted to as long as they stayed on the same schedule as those who remained in the Bay Area offices, my guess is that there would be a large exodus.

If I weren't constrained by work, I'd be looking for some place where • houses are far enough apart that I rarely hear my neighbors and they can't hear me if I decide to watch an action movie or listen to music at a good volume in the middle of the night, • there are enough trees, bushes, wild plants, and lawns in my neighborhood that plenty of wild critters hang out and are visible from my living room window, • it is not a long drive to reach some place with dark skies, • it is warmer than where I now am (Western Washington, west side of Puget Sound).

I currently have the first two (sonic isolation, wild critters). Here's the view out my living room window from my computer desk [1].

[1] https://imgur.com/LVna5KN
Linear approximations aren't really the best way to do time series predictions.
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