skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> All to screw with the shorts, who really have no power whatso ever to hinder Telsa.

If Tesla wasn't burning through cash and didn't need an ever-inflating stock price in order to keep the house in order, the shorts would be powerless and in all honestly would back off. The only reason the shorts have power is that Tesla's future is currently heavily dependent on its stock price.
> Except the only way to get what you want using EV is to force literally every site on the internet to go through the EV cert process.

No it's not. There are a lot of ways to physically sell things without setting up a retail establishment. You can drag a box out onto the sidewalk and sell sunglasses to people; you can host a yard sale, you can set up at a flea market, you use a classified ad or Craigslist, you can sell through MLM, etc. Customers will calibrate their level of trust based on the experience you provide.

Operating a physical retail store (or a bank branch, or a restaurant, etc) carries with it an implicit promise of trust to the customer, and it's a promise that is backed by social and legal conventions.

So there's a range of experiences and implied trust in physical life, and it's fine if there is a range online. Site operators could choose the level of trust they're willing to invest in providing.

> Otherwise, somebody's going to go get a "less verified" cert, set up an impostor site and phish people.

That's only true if browsers make less verified certs look the same as more verified certs, which is what they are doing. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Now every site looks like a guy with a box on the sidewalk.
I guess the next question might be then, can the upper limit for the number of potential matches be found, if no restrictions are placed on the input sequence?

Without thinking the problem through (about to sleep) I wouldn't be surprised if the answer is easily proven to be exponential (aka a firm "nope") but math can be unintuitive at times so I thought I'd ask anyway.

I ask because, if the maximum number of potential matches isn't exponential (or is at least <= 3 digits long), it might be plausible to read through the number of matches to find "interesting" (elegant-looking) ones.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18010528
No a different startup. I internalized the lesson from that startup and made sure that after I did the one consulting job for MinOps that we didn't do any more consulting, unless the job can be completed in less than a day.
OK tough guy, please give me three palindromic numbers that add up to 1,234,567. And don't use the trick! And don't use brute force!
Or $10/gallon gasoline.
I don't think that cars vote or really have any agency (yet). Maybe if people, who think that people who emphasize the use cars have been in charge of building cities for too long, used a word like motorist that recognized the humanity of car users, you might find less resistance to your ideas. Being referred to as an inanimate object is an quite an "othering".
A lot of "Netflix Originals" are just shows they've brought over from overseas. They will be rights restricted in their home countries still. I don't even know what the Netflix Original logo means anymore.
> Some day we need to realize that one person's right is another person's prohibition.

In college a professor told us "You can't grant a right without taking one away." In recent decades, the US trend seems to have been toward more individual rights and fewer community/state rights.
Make programming simple and fun. Scratch is a great gateway for younger kids >10. It'll allow them to see the cause and effects of adding different 'blocks' of code. The Scratch website also offers opportunities to remix previously made games. After 10, possibly introduce 'proper' programming and maybe create a small project together. The older they get the more ideas they may want to pursue on their own. It's best to make programming rewarding but not taxing at an early age, so they don't get frustrated and quit.
Only on days when I forget to build up speed for 12 hours.
It's fascinating to me how some of these "cures" continue to persist with modernized marketing script. See e.g. some of the claims made about essential oils ([1] contains a concise list for example), many of which were thought to be curative in antiquity mostly because of their powerful aromas:.

[1] https://www.fda.gov/iceci/enforcementactions/warningletters/...
Latin America absolutely destroys the US in urbanism
Just compare hydrogen cars with electric cars and you'll see why people prefer electric. CA has 33 hydrogen refueling stations, so many people in CA could get by with one.
Yes, it's called market manipulation.
Why is it a lie? Saudi did not invest Lucid when he posted the twit. You don't know that funding was not secured. As a matter of fact, if the board supported the decision, it would have been Tesla being invested. The statement itself is not necessarily a lie (could be) but it seems to me likely not.
Software hasn't been getting worse -- it always sucked. It used to be fast and small because there was no other option.

Also:

> @jckarter: A DOS program can be made to run unmodified on
> pretty much any computer made since the 80s. A JavaScript
> app might break with tomorrow’s Chrome update

LOL, DOS programs were crazy nonportable. They usually can only be run in VMs these days. Comparing it favorably to the most stable and portable API (the js ecosystem is another story, but the browser APIS are super-stable and never break) in the history of software is hilarious. I mean, all the flaws of DOS programs are totally reasonable given their constraints, but the comparison gets this totally backwards.
In my experience, Atomic Design's interesting principle is that of separating Atoms and Molecules. Between Molecules and Organisms it gets fuzzy and arbitrary, and Pages/Page Templates are not a new concept. It's a cool-sounding design language tool and Atoms are really useful, but that's the only positive innovation I've experienced from using it at a previous workplace.
The problem with these American views into Scandinavia is that they are always political. I mean, do you even have non-biased news over there anymore?

I say this, not because the article is wrong, but because the best school system in the world, the Finnish, does exactly the same thing as the Swedes.

It’s a tad ironic that an article so against social constructionism is pretty much constructing it’s outlay of reality. You could look at Finland and construct the polar opposite article, but if you want anything based in realism, you should probably look into why it works in one country and not in another.
And just to clarify, the greedy algorithm (take the largest palindrome less than the number you're trying to express) doesn't work. To take a random nine-digit example (literally the first one I tried): 635932028 = 635929536 + 2442 + 44 + 6. In general you can express N as a sum of something like log(log(N)) palindromes this way, which is not quite constant.
Well it proofs the existence and there are many special cases they consider.
If the number is a palindrome already there are many possible solutions. Using zeros is a trivial an the simplest solution. Using anything else would be abitrary and longer too.
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For me, a key negative witb ActivityPub is the complexity. The RSS/Atom spec is pretty simple, and it fairly easy to see how it could be extended to allow for similar functionality. What are the disadvantages to an RSS based system?
Food Chemistry: "Anti-influenza A virus effects of fructan from Welsh onion (Allium fistulosum L.)" ( 2012 )

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030881461...
Why? does Jeff Session not like the weed reference?

There is no call for a criminal probe her.
“Doesn’t need to”? No but he wants to, and he is justified in doing so.
Except he didn't lie. Funding was secured. So much so that when shareholders objected and Musk retracted, the Saudi wealth fund went out and invested substantially in a Telsa competitor.

This is all drama for drama's sake.
Yeah, and that's how you get laggy user interfaces that at least I despise. Spend that 4€ on a better chip.
It's dismissive and added nothing to the conversation. (Not a down-voter FWIW.)
Some companies take six months to move 20 lines of SQL into production
Adding to that, I also take a look at its dependencies: is it using half the NPM registry (or other central package registry) ?
my two cents, without knowing anything about the age or interests of your children: creating games.

https://www.amazon.com/Video-Game-Programming-Jonathan-Harbo...
It uses 0 a lot because you're giving it such easy numbers that it only needs to solve them as the sum of two palindromes.
Isn't "Opening a civil and criminal investigation" without due process, also direct manipulation as well? Surely, prior to a fault/guilty verdict, running someone through the mud is furtherance of that, no?

This reminds me of "perp watches" posed by police departments on Facebook and twitter. No charges, but arrested - and you get to live in the newspaper and social media regardless if you are exonerated. Cause, public shaming?

edit: s/peep/perp/
We were living in downtown Toronto during [the Northeast blackout of 2003](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003). It was amazing to experience the city, for several days, without the usual crush of cars and trucks and busses on the roads. Really magic couple of days I'll never forget.
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My Toshiba Satellite serves me really well and runs Linux smoooooothly. Add an SSD to that and you have a pretty good unit. I don't see why you would want a Chromebook, I'm typing on one and I hate it. Underpowered to say the least.
I'm not super knowledgeable in the stock market, what would he have gained from destroying the shorts? I understand that shorts are effectively a bet that the stock will go down but do they actually damage the company in any way? At a glance it sounds like trying to break the thermometer because you think it's too cold out there, the stock wasn't at risk because of the shorts, instead there were shorts because some investors though that the stock was at risk. What am I missing?

Also even if destroying the shorts was a positive outcome for Must and Tesla how does that excuse his behaviour? Isn't that textbook market manipulation?
1234321 + 242 + 4
It is, but there's nothing special about 2 or 5 except that they're factors of 10.
Did you read the statement he put out? He basically said everything was a lie.
I honestly thought they are landing on the Moon and got excited... I was a bit put off when Musk chose a possibly worse design over aesthetics. Unrelated to him smoking cannabis on the radio show, he always looks a bit high to me. He was definitely unprepared for this event as well.
Why should we consider this fawning opinion piece by a world renowned Apple fanboy, a review?

iPhone cameras haven't been the best on smartphones for years now, let alone among all camera devices.
Yeah, that's probably a better summary of his attitude towards Nietzsche. Thanks for the recommendations. I have read most of Beyond Good and Evil, but am not too familiar with his thought except secondhand.
That much is not illegal.
Oh nice, so it works in every base then. Awesome.
Do them a favor and get them excited about hiking, or bugs, or something that does not involve screens.
Unlimited - not limited or restricted in terms of number, quantity, or extent.

Best effort is when your taxi driver tries to take you to the airport as fast as possible but traffic gets in the way and you're late. When he stops in a tunnel and requests more money because he has to drive through his lunch break, or else he'll just inch forward that's not best effort. That's what I said before: squeezing for money.

Reading the article helps: this is not network congestion, this is artificially limiting the speed.
As an aside, Scratch is also really good for teaching adults how to program.
A child isn't born with an interest in computers, an interest in wordplay, or an interest in crime. It is developed.
Ask them if they are excited, and if they say no, punish them by putting them in time out.

That should get them to love programming.

Jokes aside, it depends on their age. If they're toddlers, just get them to eat protein exercise and play.
Some aromas keep away insects.
That's only true if browsers make less verified certs look the same as more verified certs

Given that decades of user research overwhelmingly indicates that the average web user does not understand the components of the browser URL bar, and in many cases those users are completely unaware there even is useful information there, I'm going to bow out of this, because you're now into territory where you need to forcibly educate every single person on earth to understand the URL bar.

(and you're "only" now requiring that every single person who will ever do business of any sort must pay up for an EV cert, but that's actually less of a problem than trying to force people to understand what an EV cert is and how to tell if a site has one)
> but it seems basically obvious to all observers.

It doesn't seem obvious to me. It seems like one of a few interpretations, not limited to:

- Elon was overly stressed (as has been documented recently) and didn't think before posting such an impactful statement

- He considers twitter to be an official outlet for Tesla and just continued with his tendency to publicise his decisions and thought process constantly.

- His idea of "secured" is simply different from the SEC definition and if the funding had been SEC-secured, the tweet would be a compliant form of public disclosure.

[edit]

To be clear, I'm not arguing that the tweet shouldn't be investigated. I'm saying that "he intentionally lied to screw over short sellers" is presumptive and that may not have been his intent.
First of all, that's a weird goal to have. Children are people. Let them be interested in whatever they want.

Buuuut, if you want them to get into programming, then discourage their computer use, and tell them to go play outside or something. Tell them that Linux is bad. And tell them not to go near the internet, and "whatever you do don't look up SNES emulators on the internet. Don't go to anynowhere.com and get really into Noctis."
Reminds me of walking the Bijlmermeer near HVA in Amsterdam on a Sunday morning. No cars, no people, no traffic, absolutely empty streets. The only sound was that of the wind streaming through steel canyons, and my footsteps. A positively divine experience
He you mean Elon Musk? He admitted the funding was not secured at the time and was never intended to buy back stock at $420? Why not post a link and let us see.
Check https://sonic-pi.net I like the concept of using code to represent music and seems more interactive (if you change something, you can hear it immediately)
You can “ping” them about new articles (which I still do), but if other websites ping them within a few seconds/minutes than you basically have a race-condition trying to see how is indexed first. Notably, this is a bigger problem with Bing and Yandex who don’t have the capacity to index the web as quickly as Google does.
Shorts drive the price down, making it more expensive for the company to borrow from the market by selling stock. They have to sell more shares to receive a similar amount.
Do you honestly think we can't do that in Europe?
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Salmon are predators making the '100 kilograms of fish feed' line misleading. We basically feed fish to fish.

Resulting in a fraction more fish we like at the cost of vast amounts of fish we like less.

ex: "Freshwater feeds contain 45–54 percent protein and 16–24 percent lipid." http://www.fao.org/fishery/affris/species-profiles/atlantic-...
There is already a well known expression for this in European languages "Voting with their feet":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_voting
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A criminal investigation being opened is literally part of due process.
The beauty of programming is that’s it’s applicabale for almost any field/type of game. Find something the child is super interested and build a program for that field/game.

Example: if the child likes video games either build your own with your rules or HACK the game.

The idea is not to show the child a loop and expect them to be interested. So them how cool programming can be.
Can you talk a bit more about your use case?
Are you saying he bought Twitter at $420 and the funding was secured for it? Because that sounded like an outright lie. He also doubled down by making that blog post thereby voicing this in his capacity as Tesla CEO.

It wouldn't be illegal if there was a tender offer for the shares at $420.
So a blog with content you like is verboten because your RSS feed wouldn't update instantly? That seems like an odd hill to die on.
but given some experience with programming, writing, dancing or whatever they'll either like it, or not (or be ambivalent). At which point you should take that feedback into account.
By default? Don't fall for the marketing bullshit, "Unlimited" is like 20GB and then you're sent down to the penalty box and EDGE data speeds. Real unlimited is very expensive if it exists, which it usually does not.
Get a tynker.com subscription.

During some of their screen time only let them use tynker.
Art is the soul embedded in the medium but it's not the medium itself. So art could be anything digital if it has some human touch. But is art produced by "generating [...] by learning about styles and deviating from them" really art? I think it is but a new kind of art. Nature can produce art but algorithms are not nature. It is very interesting to observe where this is going. So far generated art had some kind of wow moment but people quickly got bored of it until a new formula is discovered, has its moment then fades. This type of generated art through learning about styles has a lot of potential to change what we see as art. End of rant.
I doubt that, having lived in the bay area and Beijing. The western food available in the latter was much better.

Shenzhen is a notch above Beijing, so I doubt it would be any worse.
To remind everyone how opinionated Brad Frost is, yet writes zero code.
What are you referring to exactly? Are you talking about this particular investigation? Why do you think due process isn't followed?
What Paris could have looked like if Pompidou had his way in the 70s: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_autoroutier_pour_Paris
Palindrome detection in general is a rather interesting consideration to keep in mind...
Performance varies a lot in Racket-on-Chez. For some programs, such as tight loops over simple data, Chez provides a lot of the same benefit as Pycket, but Pycket is often still faster. Here's a simple loop that sums numbers from 1 to 100000000, with timings for all three variants of Racket:

[samth@huor:~/sw/plt (master) plt] pycket-c -t count.rkt
cpu time: 83 real time: 83 gc time: 0
4999999950000000
[samth@huor:~/sw/plt (master) plt] racket -t count.rkt
cpu time: 226 real time: 227 gc time: 0
4999999950000000
[samth@huor:~/sw/plt (master) plt] racketcs -t count.rkt
cpu time: 170 real time: 174 gc time: 2
4999999950000000

Chez is faster than regular Racket, but not as fast as Pycket.

However, other programs the difference is much bigger. If we use generic iteration instead of type-specializing it, we get these numbers:

[samth@huor:~/sw/plt (master) plt] racket -t count.rkt
cpu time: 2883 real time: 2882 gc time: 0
4999999950000000
[samth@huor:~/sw/plt (master) plt] racketcs -t count.rkt
cpu time: 1266 real time: 1266 gc time: 0
4999999950000000
[samth@huor:~/sw/plt (master) plt] pycket-c -t count.rkt
cpu time: 74 real time: 74 gc time: 0
4999999950000000

Finally, on programs with contracts and gradual types, one of our focuses for Pycket, Racket-on-Chez is currently substantially slower than the current Racket VM.
Wait, the memory isn't in that huge package? Jeez.

Yeah there is a reason they have BGA and other packages, and part of it is just the huge lead inductance of those old (T/L/...)QFP packages. Routing DDR3 is no fun no matter what but this is just making your life extra difficult for no good reason.
Ok, then just a very small 1 bedroom.
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> This brings me to a piece of legislation I have been very critical of for quite some time: GDPR. The intent of the legislation is certainly admirable — protect consumer privacy —although (and this may be the American in me speaking) I am perhaps a bit skeptical about just how much most consumers care relative to elites in the media.

Amen. The way Google and FB are using data just doesn't bother the masses the way it bothers the media and the narrative they've built (or the way it bothers us). There are many steps that can be taken, some incremental, towards the curbing of these practices. But we, as technologists, should always decry heavy-handed government regulation of the internet, especially as an early step. The intent does not matter.

If legislation doesn't work, don't make more or make it larger assuming it was the scope that was the problem. Take a step back and recognize alternatives including enforcing existing statues, promoting alternatives, educating citizenry, more targeted and narrowly scoped legislation, etc.
I think you may be neglecting the extent to which you are describing the self-reenforcing downsides of "post white flight" urbanism. Given the age demographics of HN, it's more likely than not that the city life you (or any of us) experienced was well after white flight ran its course, with consequent effects on crime and noise in cities. If you imagine a world in which the people who wanted quiet never left, the picture of urbanism looks a bit different. If you read about American life in pre-war cities, or the late 19th century, urban areas were a place where all types of people lived, including families, the elderly, and people who seek calm and quiet.
> What kind of different class of traffic would give throttled traffic to different forms of on-demand video stream services? NBCSports, Netflix, YouTube Premium and Amazon prime.

There may be a small amount of packet loss at the time due to the ISP shaping their traffic to prevent congestion.

The higher the latency, the more the packet loss will affect the throughput.

The services you mention all use different CDNs, which may all have different latencies at the point of observation:

> NBCSports, Netflix, YouTube Premium and Amazon prime

NBCSports - I would guess Akamai, who deploys at IX and ISP
Netflix - Usually Openconnect CDN devices at IX or ISP
YouTube Premium - Google Global Cache deployed at IX and/or ISP (GCCs are deployed in most consumer ISPs, probably the best-distributed CDN at the moment).
Amazon prime - Cloudfront, deployed mainly at IX, I am not sure if they have deployments in ISPs yet.

(I haven't tried to find more information on their approach, but https://dd.meddle.mobi/index.html seems to indicate that CDN issues shouldn't affect the way they measure, but until I do some checking on whether popular DPI platforms would be able to be fooled by this, and without them providing timestamped data, I'll have to test myself against DPI policies I wrote and I hope my ex-colleagues haven't changed too much ...)
Yes. I saw a tweet the other day that essentially said that the very worst thing you could do to Elon Musk would be to lock him in a comfortable conference room with plenty of food and water and excellent WiFi signal...and his phone.

I can think of a political figure for whom this would be true, too.
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Coding is as fundamental as learning to spell. Some things you should force your kids to do for their own good.
Computers are like cars, you should buy them second hand.

Since you don't need the OS you can save money on that as well:

https://www.ebay.com/sch/PC-Laptops-Netbooks/177/m.html?_nkw...

(I don't know them or make money from them)