skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> On the other hand, it feels... strange somehow that a joke (if a slightly deadpan one) has consequences this severe. It affected the markets and it obviously wasn't without real-world consequences in any case, but something about this all just feels a little off somehow.

If it was legal to do stuff like this there would be a lot more stock manipulation than there is now, which would make the market worse for investors.

The point of these regulations is that investors should have confidence that the price of a stock is based on the market's estimation of its value, that relevant information has been disclosed to the SEC, and so on. If people could not assume those things, investor confidence would decrease, and that would hurt the entire market.

I also don't agree that Musk saw his tweets about Tesla going private as a joke. He made enough tweets that it affected the stock price. A CEO of a publicly traded company ought to know better.
There are asteroids about as close or closer in delta-V terms. Mars is the easiest other planet, but planets just aren't as useful as asteroids and comets right now, because of those pesky giant wells they live in.

And Mars in particular is better left pristine until we've had a really good look for signs of life.
Don't disagree with this at all. Bootstrap, like Tailwind, is a tool and after I purchased a cordless drill I didn't go around telling everybody I know to throw out their manual screwdrivers because the revolution has arrived. It seems to me that's what people perceive is happening here.
It's solving the problem that currency, up until now, has never had a finite supply, and that even currencies with limited supply could be forged, seized or inflated until they became worthless. Bitcoin is the first money ever, which nobody can create beyond the very predictable initial distribution programmed into the system.

Gresham's law roughly states that when two kinds of money exist, people will stash the good money, and will trade with the bad money until it becomes useless. It's been proven time over throughout history. You only need to look at the gold rush that happened during the last financial crisis.

Given that Bitcoin is the best money that has ever existed, then anyone who is paying attention is stashing it while they're trading with anything else. The next recession won't be a rush for gold.
There's nothing too big to fail. Especially something tethered to a space that is so volatile and unpredictable. Remember WorldCom?
The other big player is Hola.
>Musk meanwhile had been focusing on SpaceX and laying the foundation for the first Mars colonization.

I'll bet SpaceX management is dreading the idea of Musk showing up there every day to work.
Maybe he hasn't had overheating problems because he is kryogen1c.

(I'll see myself out...)
I mean in python, one can ask a function what it was originally defined as. Sounds like in F# one can not, so that's why there's a difference in python between "var x = lambda..." and "def y(): ..."; the latter knows it is named "y" and the former has no idea what its name is (so it is "lambda").
It wasn't a joke, it was a lie. Even if it were a joke, the word "joke" is not a get out of jail free card. There are consequences for breaking the law, even humorously.
I'm not really a Nim expert, but I did a quick test on the scenario you laid out with these results: iamsafe could not call imodifyglobals, but could call a proc with no side effects. I'd guess that a func can call out to any proc that the compiler knows is side effect free, with the compiler erring on the side of caution.
The word does indeed have initially negative connotations.

Perhaps it resonates more positively now to people who have had to work with "flexible" software such as Spring in the old days.

There were 100 ways to skin a cat with old Spring, and each way was a tortuous devil's brew of XML. Googling for any solution was a nightmare, exacerbated by hundreds of wannabe experts polluting the interwebs with their own strange takes.

Spring Boot was introduced in response as an opinionated approach. You can still skin the cat in 100 different ways, but at least you start with sensible defaults that someone far more knowledgeable than yourself had deemed to be good.
I'm using something I hand-wrote, but thanks for the pointer.
"Interest" is not "love" or "passion". Anyone using the latter terms as synonyms for the former is seriously diluting their meaning.
Lucky indeed! I was terrified of water until I was about 12 and only then learned to swim.
There you go - reason #1 for not using any other Google service ever: "I do not want my Gmail fukced"
Everything is using port 443 now a days. Yes also malware. You would need a host whitelist.
> Are Apple products different now that Jobs are gone?

The better question would be, would Apple products be what they are today, without Jobs.
>The shorts are mainly trying to kill Tesla and coming from the oil, gas, other auto companies most of all.

What about when Elon was spreading rumours that the Saudi's wanted to take Tesla private?
To name a few:
- ARP Poisoning
- DNS Poisoning
- LM Hashes gathering
- Packet Sniffing
- Packet Interception (and modification)
Except this isn't weaseling words as much as you'd like to think. Many driving instructors use the metaphor that a car is a 2 ton bullet to their students.
Definitely not Jobs’ first departure
Not much good against insider / roommate threat
Sorry, but you can't fight nature. You can try and try but sexual selection is real.
Well let's just put it this way after trying out new MBP I just bought my first non Apple notebook since 2006. I also have 0 intention of buying any iPhone models with notch. On space X a son of a friend who actually works at Space X as eng. mentioned that Musk gets pretty involved on eng. side of things (obviously pretty anecdotal evidence). I also seen many times Musk praising a team at Space X and Tesla so drawing far reaching conclusion from a single interview of a dude who is obviously under a ton of pressure and is physically and mentally exhausted is a bit strange.
I'm ok with shorts in general, but I do wish that the SEC put at least as much energy into prosecuting some of the bad behavior by some negative parties (who may or may not have been shorts, tbh) as it is the company.

I follow the company closely, and have definitely seen some questionable behavior that seemed to be aimed at trying to create the negative news cycle for the business. Things like promoted reddit articles and a horde of bogus NHTSA complaints can be very damaging to the business' fundamentals.

But maybe there is more investigation into these things than I realize, and certainly the need to investigate this material doesn't negate the need to investigate Musk's own questionable conduct as well.
No, I don't think all that negativism in the news about a company that is disrupting the automotive industry in less than 15 years, have a product that customers literally make lines to buy and they love it when they finally receive them are brought up by short sellers. I mean, who would not want a company like that to succeed? /sacarsm
I have read nothing but bad things about coinbase: non-existent customer service, poor security against hackers (esp. sms/phone hackers), no reimbursement for hack victims, withholding of funds for arbitrary and unfounded reasons, etc.

All exchanges have problems, but coverage of coinbase is so negative
Presumably they have engaged in some investigative work to determine these facts. They apparently interviewed people from TSLA's board, and perhaps Musk himself, already.
Live Press Conference: Tesla's Elon Musk sued by SEC for fraud [video]
President of what? The United States? He was born in South Africa so that's not going to happen.
Im confused. All those small day to day technical things you described are opportunities to help and care about sick people. On the otherside of the chart is someone in pain. Its maybe not House, but it will make a huge difference in their life. If I was hiring a doctor, I'd want the person that understood that.
I would argue that a lot of those things are true for current BMWs as well. They've fallen below the quality targets that I expect for their price and their base prices are too high.

I'm not sure that the summation of that would be that the "product is not good", though. It just means that some aspects of it are disappointing.
It definitely can, mine fully ruptured and I didn't find out till 4 days later. It requires very strong antibiotics, but did work good. My appendix came out 3 months later in a normal way.
He sure does!
Your comment made me think of Tim Cook. He could run Tesla the rest of the way.
i have de quervain's tenosynovitis from lifting my 95th+ percentile weight toddler. the difference between the article's author and my experiences are night and day. nobody ever gave me a lecture about tech addiction, despite also having my phone at hand 24/7. they just told me to suffer through it and try to lift my toddler less when possible. ha. it's common enough that it's often referenced as "mommy thumb".

outside of the lectures and minor lifestyle changes to reduce strain, there are absolutely medical options for treatment, even if your doctor doesn't want to discuss them.
For a genius he's a bit of a moron
When I'm making a deal, I usually keep my mouth shut about it until every document that needs to be signed, has been signed. The Musk worship on here and the Internet in general has for too long overlooked his impulsive behaviour in the capacity of his CEO role.
TBTF == too big to exist
Interesting. Wonder if they'll support punycode domains - either for internationalisation or for emoji.

I tried to get a .中国 domain, bet fell afoul of the "unique" restrictions that my reseller encountered.
i know that. in the example, he assigned the lambda to normalize_case.
Totally agree. He makes it sound like he is the guy who figures out all that stuff in his basement. It's hard to imagine that a CEO of two companies that size has the time to do any real engineering. He seems more the type who has good memory and can repeat what the engineered are telling him. My VP is like that. He immediately comprehends and remembers what you tell him but he is not doing any development work.
Why did OP ask this question? Is there a noticeable uptick in layoffs?
An electric 4WD minivan would be nice too.
Fucking hilarious.
I'd love to come into an interview prepared rather than wonder which of a hundred topics they might be focused on this second.

The first situation I can control, the second is losing the lottery.
My point is why create something new on any basis, if there's a fairly good solution to the problem that you can help improve?

Sure, once you've gone and created a brand new tool you've gone past the point of a PR unless you were starting with a fork. My original question was, why jump to a new tool out of the gate when the differences seem fairly minor. Yes, I'm sure that pgFormatter probably didn't start with the prettier paper... but so what? If you aren't coming up with something really different, I'm not sure that matters.

Actually, thinking about it. What I need more than an SQL formatter is something closer to a linter quite frankly. In complex queries it's easy to miss something... I know, I know... I'm probably talking about something more like an IDE since many of the errors are likely to be logical rather than syntactic, but still... that would be a better problem to solve than a formatter right now.
The 8Maire Blocks
I imagine they are hard to run. But they don't require "genius" to run, they require people skilled in process management, supply chain operations, assembly automation and the rest. The stuff all the other big car manufacturers have been doing for decades. All stuff that Musk doesn't have a background in.

What makes Tesla unique in this respect, and Musk so essential to the operations?

I'd argue nothing at all, other than his image. Hire some experts from the other companies, people with a few decades of experience, and let them turn it around. Maybe start with why you're hand-assembling and gluing things together in tents, rather than using the high efficiency production lines everyone else is using.
A few images and some tasteful CSS could turn the light page into something fairly respectable looking.

Consider e.g. https://web.archive.org/web/19990208015258/http://www.nytime...
Yes Bitcoin is slow.

We already have blockchains that are near infinitely scalable and decentralized with Elastos, IOTA (at scale) and Holochain with its agent-centric architecture instead of data-centric architecture as most blockchains have it, which is launching in a couple of months.

Nano is also very, very good and decentralized, has even instant transactions through its block-lattice architecture, but it isn't near infinitely scalable to billions of TPS yet or at least not yet.
> What's the opposite of "ragequit"?

Assuming you're trying to invert the 'rage' part of rage quitting and not the 'quit' part (or even both), I think the sentiment you're angling to express is usually termed "mic drop"
Yeah, can relate. Wish the article had more ideas on how to deal with it, rather than just describing it.
Shorts don't affect the stock the price that way. They profit if the price goes down, sure. And lots of short interest might make people more likely to sell, which will drive the price down, but just shorting a stock doesn't have much effect on the price.
I'm curious about the possible ramifications for SpaceX as well. That said, it is a private company.
A Starlark interpreter in Rust
Python really needs much better anonymous functions - Lambda expressions just don't cut it.

To be clear, what Python does need is multiline, inline anonymous functions. In JavaScript/ES2015, the fat arrow function syntax is just remarkably powerful in its ability to simplify code. I would go so far as to say that the ES2015 fat arrow syntax completely changed the way my programs are written, increasing power and reducing complexity. ES2015 fat arrows I think are possible the best programming language feature I know.

async programming in JavaScript benefits massively from the beautifully terse and powerful anonymous functions in ES2015. Python now has powerful async programming, but no equivalent to the ES2015 terse inline function anonymous function syntax.

I raised this issue elsewhere once and someone said "there will never be multiline, inline anonymous functions in Python because it would require brackets". If so then it is a great pity that Python is simply not capable of including a language feature that is IMO absolutely critical.

Also, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread, using the word "lambda" to describe anonymous functions is a really really bad decision. Lambda sounds very deep, very computer sciencey and very complex. Probably they should just be called anonymous functions in keeping with the rest of the industry, which also is not a great name but is much better than "Lambda" functions.

Beginners might think along these lines: "Lambda .... lambda calculus? I don't know calculus. I'm outta here."

Names matter.
>A world where your entire life has to be squeaky clean in order to achieve anything above-average is not one I want to live in...

We always lived in that world, it's only extent of the checks that have changed.

Outside of a national security context, a background check in 1950 entailed an inquiry with the local constabulary and citizenry about your character. Maybe a cursory check to make sure you were current on your bills. (And of course, a check to make sure you didn't get a dishonorable.) By 1980, the check on bills had been formalized into a credit check, and the check with the local constabulary had been formalized into a nationwide criminal record search. Today, we're approaching the point where we can formalize the inquiry with local citizenry as to the content of a person's character, but every other check is still made. (Try to find a decent job if you have a dishonorable, or a criminal record.)

Point is, previous generations have always had the problem of companies wanting to know more about us than we wanted to share. It's just that not many other generations would have foolishly volunteered all of that information to companies. We did.

I've got even worse news for you, as you might imply from my little timeline above, background checks will get better and better as time goes on. It's just the world we live in. It's the world we've always lived in.
>I wonder if they will be able to demonstrate that any damage was actually done.

This case is unique in that both shorts and longs were harmed. Plenty to go around. How many people bought shares at ~$350 assuming they'd be private at $420 because the CEO said so?
Sour comment for whatever reason... It's actually pretty simple - imagine the world that is and probably will be with him, and then one without him.

We underdogs hate to be not credited for the hard work we do, but his positive impact on mankind as a whole is quite substantial, and as time goes by it will be only magnified. Hard to argue with this. SpaceX and Tesla are really a bit more than just a sum of all the engineers (and other folks) involved.

If you like to pick negative things on people, then there are no heroes, there are no ideals to look up to. Every single great person in history had a dark side, like it or not. I guess that's part of what makes us humans.

Personally, I like him. With all the warts, emotions and whatnot. Results matter, rest are details for pub discussion after 5th beer. World generally thinks similarly on this topic.
Interestingly much of the (hobbyist) drone hardware also requires a Ham license to operate, so there's quite a bit of overlap there.

There are at least 3 distinct groups potentially impacted by this. First there are the non-commercial, "toy" users that are flying around cheap little "smart" drones using phones. Most of this class are using drones under 5" and that weigh negligible amounts. The second class are the non-commercial hobbyists that mostly build their own drones and use them either for recreational freestyle or racing. These drones can be anywhere from 3" all the way up to 12" on the extreme end, and similarly have a very wide weight and performance envelope. Much of the equipment in this class requires Ham licenses, or in some cases other federal licensing. Lastly there are the commercial operators that are mostly using drones for aerial photography. These tend to be medium to large sized drones (everything from 6" all the way to multiple foot wide monstrosities) which most definitely require FAA licenses to operate.

Part of the problem here, is that each of these groups has different expectations. Little Timmy getting the 4" plastic drone he flies with his iPhone for Christmas shouldn't really be required to pass a FAA license to fly it around his backyard. The professional across the street with access to the 5 foot wide 150 pound hexacopter with the gyrostabilized 4k camera mount and an effective range measured in miles probably should have some kind of license. The guy who built his own 5" drone out of parts and tools around the local park probably falls somewhere in the middle. Lumping all drones under one single set of regulations really isn't going to work because not all drones are the same. It would be like trying to cover unicycles, bicycles, segways, and motorcycles with a single set of regulations just because they all had less than four wheels and required you to balance on them.
Very interesting but I don't think AR is a perfect analogy because as far as I can tell there does not seem to be any such thing as an unbiased non-ideological human viewpoint (overlayed onto). _Everyone_ has a set of foundational nodes in their cognitive perceptual framework (an ideology) that are a core aspect of any view they have of the world. This is a pretty fundamental problem for politics.
I get that argument, but I'm pretty sure that a stagnant Tesla still ships the Semi, Model Y, the new Pickup Truck, that little something else that keeps getting whispered about, and maybe even the Roadster. Maybe the timeframes for each elongate by a few years, but there is still a pretty clear pathway to success.

And the cool thing? Elon Musk could join a competitor, grow them over 6 years, and leverage their sales to regain control of the business. That last bit is mostly joking, but good on you if you get history that it references.
So to fix hiring let's hire people on even more subjective bases !
> I don't doubt he's capable of doing that with his background

Which background is that? He has an undergraduate degree in economics and a bachelor's degree in physics.

I respect the guy but he clearly puts a lot into managing his image. As a relevant example, he used to claim to have been in the Ph.D. program at Stanford, but had to retract that (I leave it as an exercise to the reader to find that on Google).
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> then it just doesn't even apply

Then you don't seem to have an argument against Hanlon's razor?

> Hanlon setting up malice and stupidity as an exclusive or gate, is not

In this case, clearly, the two explanations are incompatible: either Putin planned the world to discover that he was lying about the assassination, etc., etc., or he did not.

> brings back museum quality amphorae

That's a completely different class of lies. That one is a bravado that shows the level of intelligence he assumes in his fans, nothing more. He certainly didn't risk getting himself into another cold war by fishing out those amphorae!
CloudFlare doesn't say they wouldn't do the same (although I believe they won't).

I don't really believe when people claim the registrars registered the domains themselves when they typed it in a search box. For example, it costs the registrars around $8 to register a .com, even for themselves. They make $1-2 profit from a purchase, and I would say spending $8 hoping the same user who searched it will be locked in is a risky gamble.

Sure, one can out a real human to assess the domain searches and try to lock users in, but it's still a gamble.
Elon Musk doesn't run the day-to-day at SpaceX. That's been someone else, Gwynne Shotwell, for several years, and everyone credits her with getting SpaceX on track and meeting its contractual deadlines--which was something it wasn't managing when Musk was in charge.
Even Hitler has killed Hitler after all.
Buying explosive precursors together does not automatically trigger any sort of investigation.

I bought acetone, hydrogen peroxide (in the form of a wood bleaching kit), and hydrochloric acid together in 2002 at a Home Depot and never got the slightest bit of attention.

I also bought an 80 pound sack of ammonium nitrate from a fertilizer dealer in 2002 with cash. I didn't show ID. The employees didn't grill me at all. I was pretty surprised, actually. I thought there would be some sort of tracking in place six years after the OKC bombing and 1 year after the 9/11 attacks. Maybe they only start tracking when you try to buy it by the tonne. Maybe my appearance (clean shaven white guy with glasses, no tattoos) gave me a pass where other sorts of buyers might need to show ID or explain why they're buying.
I see them as overlapping sets.

Religion has elements of ideology, some ideologies are derived from, related to, or specifically opposed to religious belief. That last might be an XOR.
The statute they are charging him with says he has to have made an untrue statement of a "material" fact. So his defense is what he said was not an untrue statement of a "material" fact. You could make the argument that his discussions with the Saudi's let him to believe that what he was saying was factual.