skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Software is hard. I blame it in Moore's law, in the sense that computers have gotten more capable but we programmers have not. Its like the brain can only hold so much before it gets overrun, and we reached that point several years ago. Working with large programs is very difficult, even for the best architected ones. And of course we can't expect all software to be the best software.

The result of these big programs is people blindly using modules created by others, built on top of ever more modules. In theory this is good though. It is specialization. But we haven't done a good job of it. I think if we want to make software easier to write (and as a result better) the place to start is on the process of programming with more specialized pieces, be it a better module system or domain specific features in the programming language. I think it comes down to managing the complexity some a person can better view the big picture.
In America.

In Germany "deals" are very much not liked by the law profession, and only a very limited form of it has been put into law. And even that is very sharply debated in the profession.

Add to it that prosecutors actually do look for mitigating circumstances, and do not regularly appeal a verdict that they feel is a bit too low, thus preventing the appellate court from handing down a harsher sentence, making the appeal risk-free for the defendant.

It's not all roses here, but you also shouldn't assume that this "either plead guilty and accept five years or risk three hundred years" is a universal property of judicial systems.
I just joined a project that uses it. So far I see absolutely no value, and it arbitrarily separates out components that have similar concerns.
We're aiming to achieve that same clean interface, so let us know if you have any feedback =) We do already support snoozing.

A native Android app is definitely on our roadmap, but in the short-term we always ensure our app is fully mobile responsive.
All great points. This is a lot worse than it probably seems to most people on HN. Imagine a prosecutor telling a jury that Elon funds a lavish lifestyle (with lots of details of the excess) with loans against his Tesla stock. That shorts of the stock threatened him personally, because of those loans, and alleging that he threw the $420 figure out there to counter-act the shorts. That’s a terrible narrative to have to deal with. The responses are not exactly things that would play well to a jury (“no, it was a marijuana joke!”).
Am I missing something? The tweet[0] says no such thing.

[0] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1026872652290379776?ref_...
Random events tend to appear clustered.
About that infrastructure: it isn’t only about charging infrastructure. If most cars become electric cars that weigh twice as much as existing cars and accelerate much faster, wear and tear on road surfaces and bridges will go up (or won’t it? Will accelerating more smoothly offset that?)

Certainly, in the USA, a country that already has problems maintaining its road infrastructure, that could become problematic.
>Is it possible that Ramanujan would not have been so successful had he followed the standard learning path?

Sure, it's possible. But there's always a problem when you teach yourself something, no matter how good at it you are, in that you don't know what you don't know.

Even if you're a genius and an autodidact, sometimes a little direction, a little mentoring, a little collaboration goes a long way in moving your understanding down the field.

Here's the biggest problem with a lack of education as far as math goes. How much time did he spend re-inventing the wheel because he didn't know which wheels had been invented? And he always did it better and faster than anyone else would have, or did? Probably not. His genius may have minimized the handicap of a lack of education. I somehow doubt that lack of an education was a benefit to him. Once he got into academia though through his recognized genius he probably learned a lot of things from a lot of people to try and fill in whatever gaps in his understanding he may have had. I very much doubt he lamented how learning things from experienced peers crippled his own genius...

No one is such a genius that they're an island unto themselves and no one and nothing any other human being has done matters. That type of genius is fantasy for Hollywood, not reality.

No matter who we are, or the level of our genius. We all stand on the shoulders of giants who came before.
I think the main draw of Mastadon is that it's an intentional experience, with blessed clients, discovery, etc etc. I'm unlikely to read anyone's blog if it's not put in front of me somehow. Furthermore, all I need to do to interact is install the client; I don't need my own site to do it.

Overall I think your argument is very strong if you can provide a comparable experience to mastadon. If not, then it's not clear why the benefits are worth it.
For that aspect see https://www.ampproject.org/latest/blog/standardizing-lessons...
Show me the finished product. Stop promising to self-promote.
I agree. The real solution is to eliminate cars from the roads, that way they wouldn't have to share with bikers.
I think it's insane, the idea that we might have enough knowledge of Tesla as a company to make a decision like that.

I get it's a hypothetical and we're just navel gazing, but to even think our answers would be even remotely valid feels fairly arrogant.
There is a lot of movement in that direction. This was the start https://www.ampproject.org/latest/blog/standardizing-lessons...
the game claims something different no ?
It's not a meme, it's legal evidence, and that's a very bold claim.
There is a YouTube channel of a guy in Germany who does this as well who just announced that he got shut down from magnet fishing by the German authorities also. They said he could face criminal charges if he kept doing it. I wonder if it's for the same reason. The guy was heartbroken as he really enjoyed doing it.
Billionaire sticks it to the Man by carefully following his rules and getting brand new Mercedes every six months.
I'm not an ActivityPub user, but this post remindeds me of the initial comments to "Show HN: Dropbox" [1].

"For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem."

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
Thank you for taking the time to write up this long response. That's definitely a lot to think about!
Posting anon. My startup failed when my backstabbing co-founder struck a side-deal with our biggest customer to essentially "sell" our IP via consulting directly to them. We were easily acquihire material which would have possibly netted us single-digit millions, but instead my co-founder took the bird in hand and "cashed out" all our internal secrets.

As I learned, lawsuits are expensive and you have to prove things that you may not be able to "prove."
By-laws in the UK are delegated legislation (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byelaws_in_the_United_Kingdom). Parliament makes a law which grants some other body the power to make byelaws (which then come into force subject to approval by a relevant government minister). In this case the British Waterways Board used powers granted it under the British Transport Commission Act, 1954 to make canal bye-laws: http://www.britishwaterways.co.uk/media/documents/foi/legal/...

The BWB has subsequently been abolished with its powers (including the power to make and enforce byelaws) transferred to the Canal and Waterways Trust.

Railway bye-laws operate similarly.
You are giving the dollars to foreigners, in exchange of goods. Nobody is forcing you to do that. If you feel those products are not worth your dollars, do not buy them.
I lived on a college campus for two years without a car, with on-campus amenities and a very walkable town right next to it. Now that I live elsewhere with a car, I can't see myself ever going to a pedestrian-only area. I just do not like having to walk everywhere. The closest on-campus food was a five minute or so walk away from my dorm room, which doesn't sound like a lot, but I didn't like having to walk even that distance. Classes could sometimes be a 10 minute walk apart. Town was only 10 minutes away but I never went there because I didn't want to do the walk. So, I largely didn't go around much. Not to mention how uncomfortable it could be outside during the coldest parts of the winter or hottest parts of summer. I'd settle for a freezer burned hot pocket instead of having to walk in the biting cold even with a good jacket and gloves.

Nowadays, with a car, I don't mind driving for 10 minutes somewhere - it's actually often enjoyable, whereas walking for ten minutes out of necessity feels like an annoyance and a burden. I don't mind walking when I want to, like on hikes, but I certainly don't miss it being a necessity. There is a fast food place about 1.5 miles from me, which many consider walking distance, but I always take the car there and use the drive-thru even though the way there is very walkable.

The place I'm at right now is a nice compromise of usability for pedestrians and motorists, but I personally plan to someday live in a more rural area and maybe have a small farm, and I'm not bothered at all by the fact that such a place is essentially car-only.
Haters gonna hate. A lot of that news is just to sell clicks and has nothing to do with short selling. Other people hate Musk for reasons not having anything to do with self-interest in the stock price and want to bad mouth him. And the only way to do with those rumors is to be successful. Going to war with people bad mouthing you never works.
Proxy replacement tool for mac.Finds and replaces one of the free proxy address
Their point is not to actively trigger an emergency at a given time. If a bomb is undisturbed at the bottom of a water body it is not bothering anyone and actually is providing artificial reefs for marine life. Should it be found one day and removed? Yes probably. But should it be brought to the surface by amateurs and need immediate reaction? No.
Are stores and restaurants able to get supplies by vehicle to restock?
Why is it needed at all? We have HTML, we have an agreed upon governance for it.

Page load speeds are, frankly, none of Google's business and click jacking is a disgusting practice.

It's a text book case of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. All the Devs working on this project should be deeply ashamed of themselves.
This is the standard at pretty much every large company. If you want to escape it you have to go to small/mid-sized companies. While they will still have politics but not near the soul crushing levels it is at large companies.
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18016250
This lawsuit is peanuts to Musk, money wise. Say he settles it for $20 million, that's nothing. And maybe Musk hires dozens of detectives that find out later that Unsworth went with underage girls (a lot of Europeans with some money do over there.) Still it's very petty of Musk to pick a public fight with a "commoner"
Sounds like they're kind of like asbestos. If you don't mess with them the harm is essentially nil.

It's when you start dragging them out of the water with a magnet that the risk ramps up.
You described it indirectly but end result is same.
Great article, this you articulate perfectly what has been on my mind lately “It means raising engineer salary to match the higher cost of living ("cost of living adjustment") is pointless: it translates directly to higher housing prices (X goes up for everyone, so R*X goes up proportionally), which eats the benefit.”
> he has nothing left to prove to the world as a billionaire with multiple successful companies.

Has anybody told musk this? He doesn't seem to act like it.
Is the talent pool more valuable there than elsewhere in the US or elsewhere in the world? Even if you allow for the effect of having drawn talent there over decades, is it that much more valuable?

If not, it seems like corporations are making a mistake by investing there. If the government can't be convinced to change the zoning rules, then companies should take some attrition and expand elsewhere.
The new Gmail interface has snooze, so if that's the only thing you're missing it'll stick around. I mostly miss the "Trips" feature, having recently switched from Inbox to new Gmail...
The first thing I do on any server is mask firewalld and enable the legacy iptables service. Servers do not need firewalld and many other laptop features implemented under systemd.
Assuming you're talking about 10 users, 50/usd/year/head does seem a bit steep. It's what you'd pay fastmail or user for a custom domain.

I'm a bit surprised fastmail doesn't appear to have a group account that's at least a little cheaper.

You can get less (in way of email service) for much less from something like:

https://www.hetzner.com/webhosting/level-1

That's less than 30/year for 100 accounts, custom domain, imap/pop/smtp (just 5gb storage shared though).

Now, I'm happy with hetzner as a dedicated hw host - but there's a bit of a bad neighbour effect - and you obviously get less for 30/year than for 500/year...

But seems strange that fastmail doesn't have something in between for family accounts. Maybe they do if you shoot them a mail?
>Or better still, just get the nutrition you need from plants.

How about Vitamin B12? This article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_B12

says: "There are no naturally-occurring notable vegetable dietary sources of the vitamin, so vegans and vegetarians are advised[5][6] to take a supplement or fortified foods."

There is also this part:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_B12#Plants_and_algae

but who eats much algae, among vegetarians? Wonder if Spirulina is one of those algae. Need to check. Spirulina as a food supplement is commonly available in capsule form.
Cool one-liner to get random digits. On OSX, it produces the error "tr: Illegal byte sequence." The solution, per https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/45404, is to prepend the script with "LC_CTYPE=C ":

LC_CTYPE=C </dev/urandom tr -dc 0-9 | head -c 15
Slashdot on iOS: no back button, no url bar. Perfectly unusable.

No idea why they don't remove the web app meta tag. It's terrible. Slashdot is literally unusable if you add it to your home screen.
In theory, very true.

I've noticed quite a few US sites, particularly some large news orgs, have been going the "accept this or leave" route, and some are going the "accept this or click on the entrance to our insane maze of links that will confuse you until you give up"

They are non-compliant, guess we'll see what happens.
PBO: Probability of Backtest Overfitting Implemented in R
I don't think we'll ever be "finished". All the features that are listed in the blog post other than email (coming later this week), are already implemented, and you can check them out!

I know that email is the biggest one considering we're trying to replace Inbox, but I think creating a richer experience around transactional emails you receive from all your apps is already leaps and bounds better than Gmail for that use case.
Could you please not post like this? We're here for thoughtful and informative discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Onboarding is easy, although the URI does look a bit strange ("https://app.crawly.app")

[added] Don't understand the pricing structure, though. 2 sites is free, 4 sites is €5/month?
Why Tybee Island?
Mainly with the "ad", because that article is about the book, not the actual interpretation that might be insightful (or not) in some way.

Besides, much of Nietzsche's late work was indeed rambling, the guy was severely depressed, even mad at the end. It doesn't discredit his entire work, but that fact must be kept in mind dealing with it. His (even crazier) sister publicized some of his works that never were intended by him to reach public. But they did, and then Nazis happened. So, the issue is also that it's an another interpretation of Nietzsche's work.
Its amazing how divided Israel culture is yet the idea of having no cars for one day is totally embraced by anyone. Gives me a feeling of how polluted my daily life is with noise and gas.

Fun fact: today is Yom Kippur.
If you're using that many modules that you don't understand what's happening with your customer's data and can't easily control where it goes or what it's used for, I'm sorry, but I don't want to do business with you.
> not to mention that what his tweet said was "Secured funding." (many news organizations misquote it as "Funding secured.")

This is not true.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1026872652290379776
How about use the normal HTML+CSS spec that we already have and refrain from dumping 5 MB of JS and assets into every page?

If we go down the AMP road of a faster and more minimal web spec, I'd bet that we're going to spend the next 10 years gradually adding more capabilities/cruft into it until AMP 5.0 ends up just as bad as HTML/CSS except now we're have two diverged standards for making slow webpages.
When people only care about the open source ones, maybe.
Trump may have less to do with it.
people should take their tinfoil hats off. People don't short tesla because they are evil but because they think there a profit to be made.

You don't see eco-activist shorting ExxonMobil. Reasons simple: there is no reason to believe that ExxonMobil will go belly-up. Meanwhile, there are a lot of indicators that tesla could fall apart.

Just ask yourself: Is the tesla stock massively inflated or are there some anti-tesla illuminites who banded together to sabotage tesla with millions of risk capital just for the lulz?
Whoever purposes such an irresponsible and evil law should also have no hope of a future in politics.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments here.

Also: "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
To programmers getting started
The reality however, after GDPR was implemented, is 95% of the time GTFO or click accept.
You inserted "intent". That is the key question, not whether he dislikes short sellers.

Every CEO dislikes short sellers, and nearly every CEO makes "material misstatements" now and then. What separates that from fraud is what the SEC focused on in their comment: scienter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Tybee_Island_mid-air_coll...

> The crew requested permission to jettison the bomb, in order to reduce weight and prevent the bomb from exploding during an emergency landing. Permission was granted, and the bomb was jettisoned at 7,200 feet (2,200 m) while the bomber was traveling at about 200 knots (370 km/h). The crew did not see an explosion when the bomb struck the sea.

> Some sources describe the bomb as a functional nuclear weapon, but others describe it as disabled. If the bomb had a plutonium nuclear core installed, it was a fully functional weapon. If the bomb had a dummy core installed, it was incapable of producing a nuclear explosion but could still produce a conventional explosion. The 12-foot (4 m) long Mark 15 bomb weighs 7,600 pounds (3,400 kg) and bears the serial number 47782. It contains 400 pounds (180 kg) of conventional high explosives and highly enriched uranium. The Air Force maintains that the bomb's nuclear capsule, used to initiate the nuclear reaction, was removed before its flight aboard B-47.
The fiction of every law making organisation is that they can get away with creating every law they want. If they did not believe this fiction, the whole idea of law as something that applies to everyone becomes meaningless. In practice, the power of a lawmaker is limited by if he can get the law applied.

For example, multiple muslim countries have laws banning women walking around without head scarf. Not only in their country, but everywhere in the universe. In practice, you see many women walking around without one, and the relevant lawmakers dont know or care. But suppose one of these women is in such a country, gets summoned in court for this, and proof is given she violated the law, even outside the country, then the judge has only one option: Guilty. Society runs on hoping this does not happen, i.e. selective enforcement.

For Europe, the situation is clear: They can get away with any law in Europe, as long as it doesnt cause them to be voted out. And it seems the general public is not going to vote them out, so they can easily get away with this.
Model Finetuning for Fun and Profit
Please pay me to read your email for charity
You absolutely need some kind of licensing setup for canals, to avoid standard tragedy-of-the-commons outcomes with too many boats (particularly houseboats) on a limited amount of water. There are also safety issues -- the canal byelaws define various rules which are the waterborne equivalent of traffic regulations, to prevent collisions and other accidents. Licensing fees also fund keeping the canals maintained.

I suspect that some of the regulatory environment here is the shape it is for historical reasons -- canals were originally commercial waterways with heavy traffic, not a more lightly-used pleasure/leisure environment.
If it comes to worst, would it be possible for that single tweet to have started a damage chain worth far greater than actual Twitter market cap?
This seems like a very promising product. I will be keeping an eye on this.
Where did the meme come from that the average JIT compiler is fast ?

Maybe you could post some links to benchmarks that demonstrate your claim.
That kind of collusion is not only overtly illegal, but also extremely difficult to maintain, especially worldwide.
Musk won't be banned from tweeting ideas about hyperloop or whatever, so other ceos can still build those things after analyzing the cost.
Well it is a "professional" job - though I suspect the employer didn't follow through on the other side i.e. self directed time no fixed hours etc.
Wirebonding a massive footprint is less yielding. Also the large packages take up more room on JEDEC processing trays in semiconductor manufacturing and leads to higher costs due to low chip/tray throughput. Furthermore, warpage of large packages is of concern and so is inability to ship in Tape & Reel.

All serious stuff in IOT is WLCSP which has an insanely small footprint __and__ z-height.
Richard Feynman’s Messenger Lecture Series
Thanks, needed that. My apologies to the HN community.
Misuse of trade secrets is a completely different law to "non competes"
>Did Musk not actually believe in his heart

So you're saying that, the way securities law works, personal optimism is all it takes to justify any representation of any upcoming financing terms? There's no requirement beyond what's in his heart?
'Your dad's not your father': when DNA tests reveal more than you bargained for
Wow! I Googled and there it is: *"At the end of 2016, Musk had 11,420,723 shares pledged as collateral. At the end of 2015, it was "4,000,000 shares of which are pledged as collateral to secure certain personal indebtedness owed to Morgan Stanley.""
https://www.inc.com/erik-sherman/1-reason-why-elon-musk-migh...

His lifestyle isn't the big problem, IMO. He's not Johnny Depp, he's way richer. That money most be going somewhere else...
No, copying and distributing articles, even when illegal, is not theft.
By writing lots of optimizations in hand optimized Assembly.

http://www.jagregory.com/abrash-zen-of-asm/

https://www.amazon.com/Windows-Assembly-Language-Systems-Pro...
Commentary: Browser wars are here, again
> it's much more likely the EU would try and achieve this via changes to tax law for corporations operating within the EU than copyright directives

Top income earning families in many EU states pay shockingly little in taxes. They're able to structure their gross income such that reportable income is virtually nothing. These families are rich and powerful, and go a long way towards explaining why the EU retains its complex tax code.