skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't happen to share your concerns and am happy to make it easy for businesses to use my work. There's room in the world for both Open Source and Free Software, and both do a lot of good!

I think the 501(c)(3) is the more crucial point above. For what it's worth, both the Free Software Foundation and the Apache Software Foundation are 501(c)(3). Restricting the use of donations to avoid commercial advantage makes it much harder to subvert the nonprofit.
On the other hand, having access to phone data is exceptionally invasive. Location, accelerometer, contacts, call history, browsing history, all combined.
I think it wasn't so much serving his country that made him go back and volunteering tbh; nobody should be going to Iraq or even joining the military for that, given how the US has no business in those countries. I do think he's a hero for looking after his other soldiers though, for helping those that took the propaganda and nationalist bait and joined the military - perhaps also because they had no other (career) opportunities.

The military does something weird to people.
capital required for going private would be funded by equity rather than debt,

approximately two-thirds of shares owned by all current investors would roll over into a private Tesla.

Musk needs to find 23 friends willing to put $1b into a retirement-fund. The fund takes over the existing shares and buys whoever wants to exit at $420.
I just imagine that once you do work at such scales, and with such strange materials and results, then the "waste products" of that work would be just as weird.

Also, would black holes not be considered "broken space" themselves?
It's cyclic, yes, but only because we went off on a tangent. The US isn't prepared for that because they refuse to have a registry of their citizens. India has one (or two, currently).

Therefore "infrastructure to obtain ID in India and the US is of somewhat similar quality" is false.
Therefore "Apparently some people believe that poor people or minorities in America find it harder than even the poorest Indians to go get identification" is a false equivalence:

The poorest of all Indians still have a government that keeps track of the data required to vote (whatever fault it may have in other ways).

Americans do not and therefore have to work around the no-registration policy with an ad-hoc registration procedure every two years that might require significant hoop-jumping - which is easier when you have some extraneous time and/or money you can throw at the problem (that is, you're not poor).
Nighttime in US is daytime in China. Countries could simply sell their excess energy to eachother.
I asked Zach about it once (in email), he said:

> We do all of our development in C# using a custom low-level “game engine”. At some point we need to do a writeup about it, it’s kind of interesting tech.

But I think they have at least one Unity game... or so I thought.
> The best experiences I can remember were when I was building games prototypes in XNA. I was only using the basics of the framework and writing a lot of the engine myself.

This happens to me as well, it's easy to keep churning out code when it's coming from my current bag of knowledge. My flow gets wrecked when I try to improve my code, because I have to stop writing the way I'm currently writing things the way I want to. When I mean "improve" code, it has to attain a certain metric and would usually entail giving benefits to other people working on the same codebase. Do I want the code to be more readable? more performant? more modular? more abstracted? would it depend-on/use another library?

> What type of work do you do that regularly gets you in this state?

I find that I go back to a stop-start fashion of working when I don't know have a list of small wins I need to do to finish a big feature or "improving" code. Without that list, it leads me to procrastination.

So the first type of work I do? I bust out my pen and I get a piece of paper. Then I write down a small checklist of classes/methods I need to write, or small things I need to research (with a timebox).
I don't know, that sounds like a handshake agreement, right? I wouldn't balk at calling a handshake agreement "secured" given the context.
Agreed. For my tastes, a lot of tech thrillers are a little too "and then magic happens" when it comes to the tech details. Daemon's rich detail in this regard was appealing to me.
France to Ban Cellphones in Schools to Tackle Addiction
This is not just the same perennial article about the fox domestication experiment, they did some new sequencing https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-018-0611-6.
Transmission losses are significant
The entirety of Wall St has gone digital and some of those banks are 100 years old. Walmart is another good example.
A list of startups funded in 2017
I'm an Apple fan because I don't need to repair the device, nor do I require full control in order to use it.

Android is fun to tinker on but when I'm stuck on the side of the road needing help, I'm sure glad I don't have a hacking project in my pocket.
Fantastic book!
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It's called hedging.
MCL.

http://basalgangster.macgui.com/RetroMacComputing/The_Long_V...

LispWorks

http://www.lispworks.com/images/lw-ide-cocoa.png

Allegro Common Lisp

https://franz.com/products/allegro-common-lisp/acl_ide.lhtml
Saudis Might Take Tesla Private
Musk will sell grid storage! Its online in Australia I think.
everyone on hackernews knows this stuff. yet every renewable posts gets these "but there is no sun at night" posts to the top.

build large scale energy storage instead of offshore oil wells, super tankers, and refineries I guess.
It will be hard, it is hard to get oil out of the ground and into your car too.
I watch YouTube a lot. I have pfSense with lists for blocking Google as well as a Samsung phone with Disconnect (that supposedly blocks all tracking). When I watch YouTube, I usually gets only ads about visiting some place or some photography related ad.
Then one day, I got an ad for a divorce attorney. I freaked out because the first thought I came to mind was the Target (?) story where the girl's dad found out she is pregnant because they send pregnancy related ads to her house. Did Google's algorithm
figure out I am going to get divorced?

I am from India, working in US. My wife recently went back to India. Plan was I will go back after 4-5 months. But she and her parents were worried that I would change my mind. I am worried that she may leave me if I don't.
One or two days after I saw the ad, I dismissed my fears of about to be divorced as my paranoia.

I have 2 YouTube accounts, the main one and another one that I use for watching porn (I like YouTube porn than those in porn sites). I never used this second account outside a VirtualBox VM. I always restore the VM to a known state every time I use this account.
I have seen that sometimes I get recommendations related to the videos I watch in this porn account when I go to YouTube from my regular Windows without even logged in. I thought may be Google is showing it based on my IP address.

4-5 days after the divorce ad, when I was speaking to my wife, she mentioned about one of her friends who divorced her husband because he didn't love her or something. I immediately felt she is indirectly warning me.

7-8 days after the divorce ad, when I checked YouTube from my regular OS without logged in, there was a recommendation video similar to the kind I watch on my VM porn account.

One possibility immediately occurred to me. What if my wife searched for divorce related stuff from India and Google's algorithm decided to show that ad thinking she is still in US? I don't know.
And earlier in the late 1400's by Columbus, the Spanish, the British, etc.
Could it instead be wanting to remain relevant when oil money ends? That would require some long-term planning over profiteering, but I wonder.
> E.g. change Anglo-American names to Bangladeshi or Indonesian ones.

They would just be strange. SF is full of strange made up names. It's not interesting.

However "Ancillary justice" is very unusual and interesting read, where "her" sometimes means a man, because protagonist has trouble recognizing or caring about human gender.
I've found that carefully asking why something is needed is just as important as finding out what is needed. Don't forget to ask why, even after you get your other answers.
You seem very intelligent
This isnt something even remotely close to happening.
France doesn't plan to drive other energy out of business, we plan to diversify (with the ageing of some of our older reactor, replace them with solar and wind so we decrease to 50% nuclear). We still have a lot of hydro power with no plan to touch it, and we don't want to replace all nuclear by solar/wind either.
On the other hand, fucking with a Vegas casino is how you end up bloody in an alley somewhere.
> To conclude, this is just a disguised marketing article for a gambling site, featuring a PR officer of the site. (english translation for "sponsored poker pro")

I was curious about your conclusion since the article doesn't mention anything, but a quick search returned this piece

BREAKING: Author and journalist Maria Konnikova becomes PokerStars Ambassador https://www.pokerstars.com/en/blog/2018/author-journalist-ma...
Netflix CFO is stepping down
They published their website...
One key thing is that while a lot of employees work hard, there are others who hide in the office and still manage to glide far at the expense of other honest employees. If such technology can be used to detect dishonest employees who are eating into wages of honest employees, it can prove to be game changer and liberate honest employees from extra burden.

It's never okay for dishonest people to not improve just because other honest people are paying for their mistake.
> Interesting to see countries most dependent on fossil fuels heavily investing in their energy nemesis.

Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have been hedging against fossil fuels massively for many decades. It's been a driving force behind major regional conflicts with global participation, so it's kind of one of those things that people should generally be aware of.

> Curious about the ramifications that might emanate out of partly giving away control of a large American automobile manufacturer to a foreign entity

You mean like when Chrysler got taken over by Fiat?
> To see the map, you have to have map data, and which data you pull is going to give a very strong hint of your location.

You are missing the point. While the location for which you fetch map data essentially reveals your current location, the request can be fulfilled without making a permanent record connecting that location to your Google account. The issue here is that when people turn off "Location History" in their privacy settings, they except Google not to store the location information to their Google account. But Google seems to be doing it anyway, unless you also disable "Web & App Activity".
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currently #2 on frontpage https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17749330
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$358 is what TSLA is trading at right now (30minutes after this blog post hit HN). I'm guessing the traders are calling BS on whatever Musk has in hands.

Imo, this looks like a stage to liquidate shorters (which Musk hates). Musk could have mentioned here that S.A. had "committed" in some way to a private deal. He didn't. They are still negotiating.

There is literally 0 reasons why the stock will trade below $420 if the funding was "secured" let alone trade 15% below that.
> If Apple would have a monopoly in EU and forced it's other services then I think Apple will have same issue Google and Microsoft had.

I think that’s an accurate description of how Apple became a big phone company in the first place: Exploiting their monopoly of the MP3 player market.
If you don't like something, I think it's better just to say that. Daemon is demonstrably not unreadable, in that quite a lot of people did read and enjoy it. So much so that Wired did an article on how it started as an underground hit among tech-inclined people: https://www.wired.com/2008/04/pl-print-20/
I'm a big Stephenson fan, and I thought Reamde was terrible.

His usual quirky pacing just turns into a dragging nightmare that never pays off, it's uncharacteristically full of questionable technical premises, and if it weren't for a few islands of genuinely entertaining scenes I would not have made it through.

I honestly believe it's the result of some suit pressuring him to write about topics people see on Dateline
>Also electric cars will create very large storage capcities for energy in the next decade.

Chem engineer here, battery technology doesnt seem to be a guarantee to improve.

Batteries are limited by the physics of our universe. The chemistry between two chemicals will not change, and it feels like we have exhausted every option.

This is a non trivial problem and I am unsure if I expect a solution.
"stupidly difficult" to me means Nethack. You should try it if you're into rpgs :)
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Greater good? For all the advantages and potential success of TSLA, it is in a precarious financial position and could fail. If the Saudis want to dump money into it and accelerate the world's transition to solar and electric cars, seems like a net win to me.
Well, the fine is up to $100, so, assuming you this could possibly get to the point where you get nicked with a fine every day for a year, that would be $36,500.
> She [...] even contacted the DOT to obtain licenses

Retroactively, after she'd installed at (at least) 28 locations.

I get that some people work like that (better to ask for forgiveness, etc) but that just doesn't fly in bureaucracies. File your applications, then do what you've permission to do.

I do think they could have been a little more generous with scope to try and find a path through (granted we're only hearing half of one side of this) but I could see how this would need a better thought out process, given that this sits somewhere between a life support pod and a toilet.

City planning is tough. You have to have answers to tough questions, ahead of time. Questions like "what happens if the power goes out?" and "how do we clean around it?" and "what are the hazards of fluids leaking out of it?". Charging ahead without getting all parties on side is not a good way to get permission.
Heh, I actually learned about trap streets when talking to a cartographer who made the muni map of SF you find at all the bus stops (much like this one: http://www.mobilemaplets.com/thumbnails/261_thumbnail-1024.j...). He told me he added a small alleyway in the map named after his family that doesn't actually exist, and they catch people violating their copyright all the time with it.
This is just the opening bid of an auction among China, Abu Dhabi, Norway, Saudi Arabia and other strategic buyers.

I doubt Wall Street or private equity firms will be interested because the big payoff won't come as fast as they want.

But nation states that need to diversify away from fossil fuels have deep pools of patient capital and different reward functions than Wall Street.
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10: https://www.cio.com/article/3149977/digital-transformation/d...
12: https://www.brainbridge.be/news/top-12-real-world-digital-tr...

I am quite amazed the closed mindedness of some of the people commenting here
>>The Zen of this eludes you still.

Seems like a blessing in disguise in this case, if such zen exists.

I should use shell+awk+sed+libxslt+jq and all that, instead of using Perl + XML::Simple?
It's disconcerting this is written in the first person from Musk and not from a communications team as a public statement from the company.

I think it's rather Freudian about his world view and behavior. He seems to have an opinion on everything and disregard experts left and right.

I certainly wouldn't be comfortable with this personality running a company this size. Some CTO/engineering role, sure, CEO and board member with everything that entails is a time bomb.
And what if the program is the lowest level and getting into an impossible state due to a hardware issue (bad bit). At some level a program has to soldier-on.