skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm financially independent without my Tesla holdings. If it all goes to zero, I'm prepared for that.

If being a fanboy of a company working towards positive change in the world (which is so very often rare, unfortunately) is wrong, I don't want to be right. Everyone finds meaning in different ways. This is my small contribution.
If someone would ship this to our office with a note like "attach this to a LAN port" chances are it will get attached. And we're a software house. People tend to pay attention to viruses, etc.. but not physical security.
> CSS has built-in color names.

You can't be serious can you? Css has what around 150 color names? That is jut not good enough for any serious work.

> Use !important.

Please don't use !important, avoid it as much as possible.
It just compounds the issue.

> class="bg-blue" has to be repeated just as much as the equivalent background style

But the definition of what shade of blue we're using is in only one place. Forget bg-blue and think of theme-blue, theme-blue-highlight, theme-blue-mid and so on. A professional design needs vocabulary.

> You should use IDEs with autocomplete

Do these IDEs help with reading and interpretation?
> make it a private company and stay CEO

Yeah, with what money?
Put guns on all the drones and they'll be protected by the 2nd Amendment. And the guns.
> Tesla has not delivered, i.e. it has not become profitable enough to guarantee success in the future

And based on that track record, in addition to violating security laws, you conclude that Musk is essential to the business? Strange.
He could offer to sell his personal shares for $420 a pop. SEC would have no case, Elon gets more $$ to put into Boring. Win win.
Considering half the point of drones is to have cameras on them I'd be absolutely shocked if nobody has used a drone to spy one someone yet...
I do see the 'utility'(!) of this kind of approach to css, but have a main issue on responsiveness. Yes, the solution commonly touted is to define global breakpoints: 'small' 'large', etc. But for me defining those globally is too narrow. Sometimes different groups of components need to respond differently, with context.
More worryingly, soon we'll move to 'element' queries, which should suit better than screen-based media queries. We'll be able to say 'when this component is squeezed down to < 500px wide, then wrap the second element underneath the first. That approach is more compatible with modern component architecture. But I don't see a context-specific or even component-specific solution immediately with this framework.
Modules and functions in Python have a __name__ attribute. If you've used Python for scripts, you've probably written `if __name__ == "__main__":` at some point, which is the module name for executed scripts, whereas imported modules get their proper name.

Similarly, Python basically keeps track of "proper" names for proper functions, but can't/won't do so for lambdas.
No, it's not. Did you read the article?

From the study:

Glyphosate concentrations were chosen to mimic environmental levels, which typically range between 1.4 and 7.6 mg/L, and may be encountered by bees foraging at flowering weeds.

They fed the bees concoctions of Glyphosate between 5 mg/L and 10 mg/L, which at the top end is a bit more than 7.6 mg/L, but still quite near normal parameters found in a normal environment.
I, too, just ended up on the Geekbench browser and hadn't noticed until now that A12 would appear to be roughly at single-core parity with Kaby Lake-U:

i7-8559U: 1901/GHz [0]

A12 Bionic: 1998/GHz [1]

I'm not familiar enough with the actual tests to know how comparable those scores are, plus, as you say, grain of salt, etc., but the rate at which the gap has been closed continues to be remarkable.

[0] https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/433
[1] https://browser.geekbench.com/ios_devices/56
Get a new, non-founding CEO has worked wonders for lots of companies. There are very few (possibly zero) people who are "the only person for the job".
Guido van Rossum actually considered removing lambdas in Python 3. See https://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=98196

Though it didn't happen in the end: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/252162/29892...
> Tesla is an engineer first

Nah, Tesla is a Twitter-first. Engineers seem to hate working there and are constantly leaving because of the PR obsessions.
> If a majority of miners were not representing the interests of the users, the users would find a way to push those miners out and will carry on as before.

And how would the users do that? Do you imagine all the users getting together and taking a vote?

The vast majority of people will follow the mining power because the vast majority of people are not miners. This idea of a "popular revolt" against miners is fantasy.

> Miners can only generate revenue by mining a coin that people want to use. They want to use it because it is secured by a distribution of miners, such that no collaboration of miners can attack it.

Do you really think the miners would "attack" the chain? Isn't this just playing with words? The realistic scenario is that the miners will enforce their own rules. Whether this is an "attack" or not is pure sophistry.

> Total hash power is not the deciding factor. What matters is that honest participants have more hash power than dishonest ones.

This is a meaningless distinction in a world where it's very easy for malicious actors to quickly accumulate hashing power. BTC's success is a function of its hashing power, not the other way around.
No, they're not. If they did, they'd be making headlines. A lot of execs are good at extracting value from pre-established business models, but few would have the intuition, intelligence, and risk-taking capacity to create the kind of innovative companies that Musk has.
there's plenty of people willing to accept less features for more booty - check out tinder
I've owned two Model 3s, and while this is anecdotal at best, I've found the build quality to be excellent in both of them. I have coworkers that drive BMWs and Audis that have ridden in my Model 3 and commented that the car feels very solid.
I think most people thought Musk would get off with a fine. For a company partially driven by a cult of personality (at the very least given a significant benefit of the doubt). That hope was diminished and without Musk the entire company will be perceived differently.
And what about the other 98% of jobs?
>but not once did he say, "Well I have an amazing team of engineers" and credit all the thousands of people in his organizations that actually do the work.

Engineers are a dime a dozen. They are responsible for the success of these companies in the same way cells are responsible for the formation of a human being.

Why couldn't all those engineers build a cost effective reusable rocket system before Musk came along? Or how about an electric car that could go 400 miles on a battery charge?
Why would you say that for example the Apple Watch is "nothing new"?

Or: what is the difference between jumping from an iPhone to an iPad (considered as genius by Jobs) and jumping from a fingerprint ID to a 3D face recognition.
Thanks for the link. The paragraph you quote makes me think he is comparing Python's lambda to Scheme's equivalent, which of course will make Python's lambda seem broken. IIRC the course was taught in Scheme at one time, but it switched to Python because it seemed easier for students to grasp the basics that way.
SpaceX is not a public company so I don't see how a ban would affect Musk w/ r.t. SpaceX.

also, otoh: think about the good things that could happen to $TSLA when Elon is removed from being a CEO.
As an aside, reading the wikipedia link, it seems like that journal does fulfil a very useful function. Not that it's a publisher of accurate articles, but that it can help the medical field escape local maxima.

"There are ideas that may seem implausible but which are very important if true. This is the only place you can get them published."
This isn't even true for bitcoin; anyone can fork it, there has been at least one fork already, and the miners can easily decide to hardfork across to keep the block rewards going when they run out. It doesn't help that the miners are increasingly cartelised.
Appears to be a nano pi neo https://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&...
previously, the "pwn plug": https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=pwn...
FWIW, in many languages, "lambda expressions" and "anonymous functions" are two similar but different things. Specifically, a lambda expression is a shorthand syntax for writing anonymous functions whose body consists of a single expression.

Which is pretty much what you get in Python.
I never thought of Apple as the GE (and GE Capital) of the tech world, but the "do more of the thing that makes us the most money, at all costs" metaphor is starting to fit.
Right. Was she asked to leave so someone more deserving (who happened to be a man) could take her place, or was she asked to leave so a man (who happened to be more deserving) could take her place? It seems like someone went out of their way to make the phrasing unusually ambiguous, as though they wanted to make an accusation of sexism but with plausible deniability in case they get called out (motte & bailey fallacy?).
Why all the SCREAMING? Is something wrong?

It's 2018, we aren't using teletypes with bad shift keys and we all have syntax coloring IDEs, we don't need to scream out all our KEYWORDS like we were still writing COBOL or FORTRAN in the 1960s.

It's become my biggest pet peeve with most SQL formatters. I think sentence cased SQL is far more readable.

Select * from sometable where SomeColumn > 3

But I realize I'm a minority with the opinion right now.
Yes, but Jobs' return brought with him everything from NeXT and he blew life back into a company that surely would have disappeared without that.
> I hate it because of the damage it will do to Tesla and SpaceX when he's likely banned from leading a company.

He would only be banned from leading a public company; SpaceX is still private (and, heck, maybe he could realize his plan of taking Tesla private, too.)

So, SpaceX wouldn't be directly effected.
Your comments have been interesting; thank you.

It remains that there are young people who understand this and still long to study arduously to be doctors, and then put in the work. It seems there is something appealing about the work that can be done, even if it’s imperfect. Is there any kind of enthusiasm you could accept as beneficial?
Looks like a nano pi neo: https://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&...
the market is emotionally reactionary. if it was baked in (and like you, I believe it was) it will bounce back tomorrow.
I'll be making heavy use of that, its a shame its a relative slowdown though. I realise throttling consistently down to an absolute performance level would be difficult to implement, but it would be handy.
The market for new OS kernels or compilers is approaching zero.
do you believe the early adopters who are buying Teslas today are buying Tesla or Musk?
Hey, there are dozens of us! Dozens!
Yes, I agree automobile regulations won't stop a determined terrorist from using a car to commit a crime.

I think you've done a great job illustrating why similar laws requiring licensing and registration will be completely ineffective at stopping terrorist from using drones, which is the context of this whole discussion.
It's more like quadruple illegal.

The thing is, these laws are really, really hard to enforce at the federal level and in general municipal and state governments already do an efficient job (and are happy to collect the fines from rich folks with a hobby) executing on local laws.

It's really quite unnecessary.
Also, the big car manufacturers have a huge head start in terms of actually producing a very large volume of cars across the globe.

If toyota decides they can make a yaris or aygo as a purely electric vehicle, tesla will be nearly unable to catch that large, low end market segment.

Also, you need low-end, mass volume cars to be able to push eletric infrastructure and replace the current gas infrastructure. (although i think using hydrogen and reusing the gas infrastructure might even be a better solution personally).
> 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.

That's pretty much any company (with certain variations for different industries).
Have none of these people ever used public wifi?

This situation is totally totally unlike public wifi!

When I connect to public wifi, the attack surface into my laptop is the external interface of the latest MacOS, with firewall on. Perhaps there are exploits against that, but they're not common. The Mac does have pf, but I'm sure it's a way out of date version! :)

OTOH, "this thing" on the inside of a router/firewall has complete unrestricted access to the LAN. At my house I have (and I just checked) 35 active IPs behind my firewall. It's not hard to get to that number for 4 people: iPhones, TiVos, laptops, desktops, access points, printers, gaming consoles.

I confess I don't secure my LAN computers very well. I have, e.g. 3 letter passwords. That's simply to keep my kids from accidentally going where they shouldn't be.

I'm not alone in my lax security. I do occasionally peruse exit traffic and check firewall logs, which probably puts me somewhere in the most secure 1% of "typical" households.

And even if I were totally paranoid, what can I do about the Internet of shit? Am I supposed to strictly segment everything? At what point does prudence and caution drift into paranoia?
There is nothing remotely simple about taking Tesla private.
100 reports a month, which if you think about the scale of the US is remarkably low.
@fabien thank you so much for this. I was half-expecting one of your usual dissection of the architecture, but I dont want anythibg coming between you and the release of your Doom book, which I plan on buying at least 2 copies.
the money was on the table. Elon turned it down.
Not only is it a private company, but "A Musk trust owns 54 percent of the outstanding stock of SpaceX, and has voting control of 78 percent of the outstanding shares....No other shareholder owns 10 percent or more." Short of a criminal conviction I think he'll be fine with SpaceX.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-spacex-shareholders...

Given that Musk has made his point with electric cars and major luxury brands are starting to push hard in that direction, it might not be terrible if Musk were to step down from Tesla, get some sleep, and focus on getting us to Mars.
Also thin.npr.org
> "Sex positivity" doesn't mean you have to view sex just like ice cream.

I don't think I said anything about sex being "just like ice cream", because that doesn't really mean anything. I specifically pointed to treating it as a taboo subject, and in that regard I would think the general consensus is that sex positivity implies considering sex to be just as non-taboo as ice cream.

> Is it also authoritarian to allow only one of them in the office?

Yes?

Just to remind you, none of this is about getting on people's nerves with topics they don't want to discuss or intentionally making people uncomfortable for the sake of making them uncomfortable or anything of that sort. This is about a ban on a certain kind of language, and only that particular kind. Isn't it strange that there is no ban on talking about death? Also a taboo for many people, also something you can make people really uncomfortable with, and also something some people don't mind. But for some reason, sex is banned explicitly, death is not.

> The people I know on the autistic spectrum understand that there are never "no rules".

I think you misunderstood my point. When I wrote "no rules" that was meant as "within a given scope", not as a global qualifier of "a world without rules".

> With respect to language like "other behaviors", they understand the concepts of loopholes and judgment calls.

The problem isn't the "other behaviors", it's the "deem[ed] inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful". Those are highly subjective criteria. It's like writing criminal law that says "The judge can sentence the defendant if they don't like what the defendant did". And doubly so for autistic people, given that your best chance at avoiding punishment is to guess what the other person finds inappropriate, threatening, or offensive.

> They also understand that the people in charge can always make new rules even if the rules don't say so.

Which is besides the point. First of all, it's trivially true that people who do have power can use it, but that doesn't automatically justify their actions. But more importantly, none of what I wrote is about whether new rules can be made, but about the fact that applying new punishment rules retroactively is unfair, and that non-rules such as "[...] or to ban temporarily or permanently any contributor for other behaviors that they deem inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful" are necessarily de-facto applied retroactively as the rule itself does not specify the offence.

Proper criminal law specifies in the law itself what the offence is and how it is going to be punished. The point is (a) that it's up to public consensus to decide what is punishable and what is not, not to some judge, and (b) you are supposed to be able to look into the law to find out whether what you want to do is forbidden or not. None of that precludes new laws being added. But you cannot be punished for things that weren't forbidden yet when you did them.
Is there a living creature without a microbiome?
It seems clear to me that you don't have the faintest idea of the level of scrutiny that glyphosate has undergone in the half a century since its discovery.
In reply to "AnIdiotOnTheNet"'s:
>> idea among developers out there that the computer belongs to them and users are beneath them

"wyldfire" wrote:
> You're introducing some motives that just aren't there. Linux is all about enabling people.

Yeah, that would be nice. But perhaps one would be more inclined to believe it were true, if you hadn't in your paragraph above that written:

> For you to declare it "the least-bad option" you have to be able to evaluate it from the designer's perspective.

Huh? No, isn't it the designer(s) of the operating system who should evaluate things from the perspective of the actual owner of the computer???

Especially if what they're doing is "all about enabling people"?
>They are responsible for the success of these companies in the same way cells are responsible for the formation of a human being.

So... entirely responsible?
My personal style is to lowercase SQL commands, but uppercase or initialcase objects like tables, columns, etc. for readability and minimal use of caps.
Add "misleading" to the search and the first few results seem similar to what Elon did. Making public, false, and misleading statements to investors is something the SEC gets pretty upset about.

https://www.google.com/search?q=misleading+prohibited+acting...
Ahh, my mistake. I was unaware that the SEC does not have pull over privately held companies, or at least their employees. Still, the wave of litigation headed Musk's way can't help matters. He's going to be very busy.
If the original design of Bitcoin is important to you, why not study the orginal design and motivation in depth? Most of the early development work is still out there for everyone to see.

You will find that questions about scaling was, and still is, the first thing that comes to mind for most people who hear about a plantary scale distributed ledger, and that payment channels was first suggested by Satoshi himself, if such provenance is considered important now.
"Offchain" == "not bitcoin". If you're keeping it at coinbase, not in a wallet, that is called a "bank".
Yep, AFAIK the compiler will do its best to infer the effects and most of the time it does a pretty good job.
> And I'm pretty sure the build toolchain is Clang and not GCC.

Yes, Google took the effort of making Linux compilable with clang, then they deprecated gcc and with the latest NDK release (R18) gcc has gotten finally the boot from Android.
Lambdas aren't single expression functions in Lisp.
Couldn't he assign the janitor to be the official 'CEO', but then give himself title of 'Visionary' and still make all the decisions?
The eventual value of low level airspace for drone use vastly exceeds the value of any current use. If we wait long enough we will get to read lurid articles about reckless people in manually controlled aircraft blundering through drone space, putting the lives of themselves and others at risk for no good reason.

The governments of the world have entirely dropped the ball on anti-collision systems for small aircraft up to now. I anticipate them doing no better now that there are even smaller aircraft added to the mix.
Yo missed my point. Nobody walks around thanking their skin cells for existing.
I have used them for years and never had a problem. However, they are slowly creeping their prices upward. .com is now a little over $13.00 and they just this year made domain proxy (hiding your contact info on whois) free.

I have been moving my stuff to porkbun.com. They are US based and $8.84 for a .com. Cloudflare is an interesting offering, although as of right now, it's not actually launched and it appears that you are required to be routing all your traffic through cloudflare to be able to use their registrar service. I don't know if that is a permanent requirement or just for now though.
I generally like coding with lambdas, but in Python one thing I hate is that they will capture a numeric loop index by ref and not by its current value. If you try generating some polynomials x -> x, x^2, x^3 ... in the "obvious" way you'll see what I mean, all polynomials will be the same as the last one after the loop or list compr is done.

Theres a workaround using default arg value to capture by val but its ugly and easy to forget and hard to "see" in review that its missing.

This is as much an issue of loops not generating "fresh" instances of their index vars as it is a problem with lambdas, to be fair, but it still sucks, esp in mathematical domains. Julia used to suffer from this but fixed it, I believe the same is true for C# too.
Then that was not too big to fail.
Of course, but that tells you nothing. What software is in it?
If Elon Musk is the reason Tesla goes bankrupt, does it matter?
Not everyone lives in USA.
> Elon Musk survived the Great Recession when other car companies needed bailouts, that is pretty good line item. Ford probably would have needed one as well if Ford's didn't still run it.

This has little to do with producing cars, and more to do with (financial) management. (Also, most major european car makers survived the great recession just fine).
> Anonymous functions are vital to any modern high level language.

I don’t think you’re wrong, but I am also not experienced enough to know why this would be the case. What is the virtue of having an anonymous function? I get that it makes code somewhat easier to read and write if you’re only using the function once and it’s short, but that seems like an edge case. What am I missing?
This is just revisionist history and completely wrong.

Steve Jobs pretty much set Apple on the premium goods track when he returned

You are revising what I actually said, and about that you are completely wrong. I never denied that Jobs set Apple on the premium goods track. However, he was one of the major forces keeping it from devolving into being only a peddler of luxury goods.

Tech innovation does better with good margins, and good margins come easier for more upscale products. But doing that is better as an adjunct which increases your margins, and winds up empty as an end to itself.