skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ARTHUR DENT: Yes yes I did. It was on display at the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying beware of the leopard.
Read Rob Pike's post on why: https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponenti...

The go2 proposal shows that in this respect, he was woefully wrong.
> He probably also has plenty of evidence of meetings that justify the statement.

By Musk's own description I don't see how any reasonable human being could interpret the meetings he said he had with the Saudis as meaning "funding secured". The verbal gymnastics he tried to use when explaining his tweet in saying "I knew we could get a deal" made me think "Come on Elon, I don't even think you believe the bullshit you're peddling."
I think it will more likely come when the true cost of high energy consumption is factored into our decisions, and people are forced to trade off high availability for low power consumption.
Seconding iwantmyname for their no-nonsense UX. Been a happy customer for 4 years.
Just because there are bad executives at other car companies doesn't mean there aren't some amazing ones as well.

Your logic does not flow.
> A long electric bus with a dedicated lane may be exactly what we need.

I agree. It's still just a bus.

> I see advantages over both trains and buses.

No you don't. It is a bus. It doesn't have advantages over itself. Don't conflate "short diesel bus that shares lanes with other traffic" and "bus".

> Over buses: 1) less operators are needed than an equivalent number of buses

Wat? We already have long buses!

I don't object to putting an electric bus in its own dedicated lane. I object to this "trackless tram omg new magic technology" bs.
> the "idiopathic" bit means they don't know why.

Oooh, sort of like "not otherwise specified" meaning "dunno what's going on".
You've done a good job of (inadvertently?) not providing Google with emails it knows how to scrape. Basically what they are doing is scraping common email layouts like Amazon order/delivery confirmations. If you don't have those well known confirmation formats arriving in your inbox, they have nothing to scrape.
not OP, but of course you would. but its a trade off in security between buyers and sellers. Neither is inherently better then the other (imo).
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Musk didn't say he wanted to take the company private, he said he wanted to AND that he had secured funding to do so at a specific price.

This is a clear statement of facts, something that would be entirely reasonable to trade based on. It also appears he knew this was a false statement, at best it was very reckless. I really don't see how you can defend this.

When your words make people gain or lose 9 or 10 digits of money in a matter of hours, they are taken very seriously.
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My parents are surgeons and considering all the stories they’d tell me growing up about the conditions they treat and the surgeries they perform I’ve got to say it always sounded like what you describe as the fantasy. They still enjoy it in their 60s.

Boredom has never been an enemy they’ve faced. And I’ve thought about it and over the last decade of programming I get it. Boredom hasn’t been an enemy I’ve met. And I look around at my friends and nor is it an enemy they know.

I think the cynicism just misses the joy most people get from performing their craft right.
> Many other freight-moving jobs will be created in their place, perhaps even more than will be lost, but these new jobs will be local driving and last-mile delivery jobs that—absent proactive public policy—will likely be misclassified independent contractors and have lower wages and poor working conditions.

I'm sure the industry would want that, but I wonder how many people are going to go to the trouble of getting a commercial driver's license for a shit job.

Having a CDL is particularly risky, for a number of reasons. For example the blood alcohol content necessary for a DUI is only .04 for a CDL holder, and that's regardless if you're at work or driving your personal vehicle. It's usually twice that in most States.

And even if you test below .04, if it's detectable at all law enforcement can ground you for 24 hours. And that won't look good to your employer.

For most people, if they lose their license for any reason, they can still figure out a way to get to work. But if you're making your living on your CDL, it doesn't matter if you figure out how to get to work, because you can't work.

Depending on your circumstances, it can be quite a lot of trouble and expense to get a CDL. Why go through all that and take that risk, when it's just as easy to be a helper on a roofing truck or a fast food worker.
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Would it really be that hard to update DNS so that CNAMEs on non-leaf domains actually worked? Sure, IoT devices might never update, but I’m not sure that actually matters.
Google is in the business of advertising. They do not stand to profit from giving you that information, unless they had an affiliate link from an advertiser that offered similar services for a lower price who'd be willing to pay X to acquire a new customer.

While this level of ad targeting is not available, based on the gmails they read, they have it on your profile.

Also, you can always buy your own domain name for a few dollars and take it with you anywhere, hosting with reliable email providers.
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I think this comment is a great example of why I think most of the privacy concerns, especially around Google these days, are mostly overblown.

I am not afraid of that example happening because that is not how Google operates.

Google makes money by connecting ads to search queries. An advertiser makes an ad, says "make it appear for the term 'xbox'", and it shows up on Google for searches of Xbox.

The advertiser has absolutely no idea who I am, and google never "sold my data".

Who would even by such data in any volume meaningful enough for Google to consider it as a source of revenue compared to ads, especially given the privacy concerns?

I don't know for sure, but I suspect that Google's own terms even explicitly prevent them from revealing my identity in such a way.

To be Frank, I have a suspicion that HN has been bamboozled by a continuous Apple smear campaign. When Android started becoming more of a threat, and they pretty obviously couldn't take on things like Maps, they defaulted to an argument that they sort of have by default, by virtue of the fact that they sell hardware, not software: Privacy.

And they're not even that good at it. Remember the mac root mistake not too long ago? Google actually has to maintain strict data privacy to survive. Apple, not so much. It's an easy argument for them to promote, and people are lapping it up.

Google had a "data extraction team" (I forget what it was actually called), before it was even cool. It was a team internally years ago that was like, "people have a right to view, export, and remove their own data, so we're going to build that into Google products." And they were allowed to do that. Like, years ago. A long time before this recent wave of skepticism started. I always appreciated that. You heard stories of that kind of thing from Google, then. Hardly ever competitors.
If you used Inbox, it also categorizes flights, hotels, calendar entries, restaurant reservations, bills, newsletters, forums, social media updates, and a host of other useful functions, extracting out entities. The Finances, Purchases, and Trips bundles are extremely useful.

This information isn't solely surfaceable in Inbox or Gmail UI, go to any Google Search box and type "my purchases" or "my flights" or "my reservations".
> Why can't this be done offline?

Where? On every device a user owns?
Also when you browse Google maps you can see reservation dates on hotels and other venues. I thought the fact that Google scrapes emails to power other services was obvious by now.
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They already have my email receipts, what's the difference?

I use venmo - they have it too.

My credit card companies are private companies. Where's the outrage regarding them?

Google does not reveal my identity to partners; What you're spreading is fake news.
Except low efficiency tends to mean poor charging due to cooling issues. Much easier to shove 100kW into a battery when you don't have to worry about dissipating 50kW of heat...
That's assuming the box can generate certificates trusted by the target machines - there's a reason the CN field exists.
> when reality finally strikes them with all of its might.

In case someone accuses @ve55 of melodrama, "reality" could be as banal as your most embarrassing personal emails leaking to the world.
This is almost certainly the right answer.
You left out the best line:

ARTHUR DENT: Yes. It was "on display" in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet, stuck in a disused lavatory, with a sign on the door saying “Beware of the Leopard!”. Ever thought of going into advertising?
While it's true that Federal courts have ruled that cryptocurrencies are commodities, I'm addressing what the coinbase founder and team are stating as their desired goal.

If you read the foundational paper from Satoshi, stateless decentralized currency was always the end goal. Philosophical proponents, like the coinbase founder, continue to state that it's still the goal which is what I'm addressing.
What we really want is a good look at it,

Here's a better picture..

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Th...
Technically yes, technically no?

The supply of transferable machine guns is fixed, and low, and it only shrinks over time. Technically yes, if you have the money you can buy one today. Technically no, we can't all go buy one because there aren't enough to go around.
Is there any logic in forcing the share price down in order to make a go private deal possible?
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Why bother using Bitcoin's blockchain when banks could easily implement their own version of a DLT.

It's basic accounting with computer software.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-entry_bookkeeping_syste...

Satoshi's PoW is unsustainable and designed to waste insane amounts of energy making it unreliable in long term markets.
That's the whole problems isn't it. Nobody gives you $3 billion to do anything.

You generally have to earn that from $0.
Completely different scenarios, completely different companies. Steve Jobs was never the technical guy, he was more the visionary. He could get away with that, because he had really smart engineers and producing phones and computers is a lot simpler than producing cars. Elon Musk is a genius, but what does he really know about production or getting the cost down for an electric car more than any other CEO of a major auto company? Elon Musk is a visionary, but a visionary for an auto company is not as vital as a visionary for a tech or computer company. They need a guy in tesla who can increase production and lower cost, or sell at a different price point and change target market for their cars. They don't need someone who is going to tweet out a lot of reckless things while hemorrhaging money for the company.
That’s what Apple does to some extend. “Siri found in mail” contacts and events. Maybe some more.
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Truck Driver is also the most common job title in more than 1/2 of the US:

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/02/05/382664837/map-...

This would be devastating for some of the poorer states like say KY or MO.
Everything and more on that list is true. However, the move to autonomous Trucking will start with the larger trucking companies, and all of the decisions about how to get a load which loads to take etc etc are made by the company not the driver.
I think HN's ire isn't based on him being a "terrible CEO"; it's anger toward the hubris of what is seen as someone who thinks the rules don't apply to them.
That seems like an argument against centralized mail hosts, which is a very different thing that what this thread is ostensibly for.
Tekton doesn't make any tools, but source them from other manufacturers. So they have some Taiwanese, some Chinese, and some US made. Most of the pliers and all of the punches come from Wilde, a US manufacturer.
> The idea that Tesla is drastically missing its production targets is overstated.

The target misses seem like quite a bit more than tiny, immaterial/technical misses. July 2017 projection of 1500 Model 3s in Sept and 20,000 in December with actuals of 260 and 2425 (17% and 12% of target, respectively).

[0] - https://www.statista.com/chart/12415/tesla-deliveries-and-mo...

Word choice tip, intended as incidental and constructive:

It's "sowing doubt" (as in sowing seeds or sowing discord, not as in sewing clothes).
> The lawsuit would have to prove that Musk tweeted with the intention of manipulating the price.

Uhhh you mean like the endless rants about trying to get rid of short sellers? That isn't enough to establish a motive for you?
I think that the metaphor is wrong - comparing writing software with other fields such as medicine makes little sense: there's a lot of basic knowledge necessary to perform even the simplest steps as a doctor (or an engineer or a lawyer), meaning a higher barrier to entry.

Software development is more easily compared to things such as cooking, playing some instrument or even writing.

There's some knowledge and training involved but that can be learned very quickly and a lot of stuff can be done on intuition.

There's been a number of geniuses composers who wrote songs at very young ages; there's potential for that in software as well.

It doesn't means that more experience doesn't matter - whatever someone developed at an early age is bound to be worse than after more years of practice, but you can start programming very early.

However, humans are complex and you can have boy geniuses and late comers that are equivalent.
... but that would be misnomer? Because CNAME is Canonical Name, not Alias.
Was just thinking that if I could get a decent editor experience in VSCode, I'd love to play around with Common Lisp again.
I use Webflow so I don't have to deal with these types of decisions.
>Google does not reveal my identity to partners; What you're spreading is fake news.
We know for a fact data was at least shared with the NSA in the past. We also know Google complies with legal requests, could have a partial data breach in the future, could change terms or undergo some type of merger or acquisition which would include your data, etc.

The point here is that it is completely outside of your control. If you want to give all of the control in your life to Google because they have treated you (mostly) well (so far), that's up to you. But as for myself and others, we will refrain because we can think up many reasons why it might not be a smart choice in the long run.
Yes. A better question would be “why does google itself need this information when it’s just a client side UI feature?”
Time for Amazon to launch an email service I guess.
Or someone builds a smart contract that loots the bank (I'm looking at you, Ethereum, even though my description is overly simplistic). Of course they don't. Until they do.
Some people have been clamouring for a way to run iOS apps on an Mac for a long time, and now here it is.

When Marzipan was first announced, Apple was very careful to temper people's expectations. Marzipan is not about some grand new cross-platform development framework. It's not about merging Mac and iOS. It's about allowing iOS developers to port certain iOS apps to the Mac with as little friction as possible.

And in that sense it's a complete success. Many 3rd-party apps can already run inside of Marzipan with little or no code changes. That's a huge win.

There are some very obvious downsides. Most iOS apps are a poor fit on the desktop and won't conform to the expected Mac desktop expectations. I suppose Apple could have gone the Windows 8 route and put these iOS apps in a completely separate environment, but we all know how that turned out on Windows. At least these apps attempt to mesh with the regular desktop environment.

Another downside is that it's a hack. These are pure iOS apps running inside of an iOS simulator designed to look like a Mac app. These apps have no access to the world outside of iOS.

If you're looking to make a great modern Mac app, Marzipan isn't for you. If you're looking for an easier way to share UI code between your AppKit and UIKit apps, Marzipan has nothing for you. If you have a relatively simple iOS app that you think might be useful on a Mac, Marzipan is exactly what you've been waiting for.

If you want a peek into what a grand new cross-platform development framework might be, take a look at the JetEngine.framework embedded in the Mac App Store app. It appears to be a separate UI framework that is neither AppKit nor UIKit, but can run on top of either. However, it's full of App Store-specific UI components and I would expect that it was developed only for internal use at Apple.
I completely agree with you that Twitter is playing a casual role in the degradation of discourse within our society.

Go to the popular Twitter feeds and there are very obvious bot posts trying to scam and manipulate people. Twitter has not managed to stop them. Elon Musk's twitter feed is a great example of this. It even has the bots pretending to be him.

Here, if you want to appear popular and have greater ability to manipulate people, you can buy some followers: https://devumi.com/twitter-followers/ Now regardless of your worthiness you have social proof! Advocate for the lack of existence of a round earth to your hearts content, now with greater effectiveness.

The spread property of news on Twitter favors falsehood over truth: https://www.businessinsider.com/mit-study-fake-news-spreads-... This fact when combined with medium as message https://www.litcharts.com/lit/amusing-ourselves-to-death/cha... leads to a system which actively promotes the wrong sort of content. Clickbait is a reality, because clickbait gets clicks, so people write clickbait titles. The existence of the rules like those Hacker News has are a fight against these forces. This community was built in part with an understanding that these forces are real and harmful to discourse.

Twitter meanwhile has better engagement metrics by not solving these problems. So don't expect them to change, without any effort on their part. Fighting your own incentives is very hard. Twitter is basically addicted to harming discourse. Obviously, no ill will on its part, since this stuff wasn't obvious early on.

It has benefits too though. Like getting to hear the perspective of the people in question, without intermediary.
Haha, that’s true. Those first few years are really valuable. I’ll happily hire from twenty companies’ just-no-longer-junior hires than from fresh grads. Those guys will bring twenty new perspectives whereas the new grads will be riffs off their mentors here.

It’s really the best group to hire. And you can always pick them up after their first couple of vests and they’ve grown so much. Way better than training your own and take no lead time.
There’s a different shortcut for switching between tabs in a single application. I don’t know if I customized mine but it’s something like cmd+Ctrl+arrow. Cmd+tilde switches between an application’s Windows.
Alibaba has built a robot porter for hotels called Space Egg
I'm not very familiar with LSP, but I think it's a fundamentally different thing than Slime.

Slime is a full REPL, like Python's IDLE or Ruby's IRB, but 100x better.

LSP is just a generic way of doing autocomplete and source code referencing. Swank (the server side of Slime) does provide some functions that are used to do LSP-like things, but those are only a subset of the features.

It may be possible to rip out those parts and make them use LSP instead, but I doubt it's worth it because the LSP server would still have to run in the same Lisp image so that it could know about the dynamically defined symbols.
I would love to know the details of exactly how those drivers gave permission, and what the alternative was if they wanted to decline.
Retailers and Credit Card companies have been trading your purchasing data for decades. Acxiom has made billions doing exactly that since the 90s. "Database marketing" companies are just ad networks based on consumer purchasing behavior they buy from retailers and CC companies.

The difference is that those data brokers are just terrible at actually delivering products and value from the data they are getting. At least Google can make their "free" services better as a result.
Obviously Elon’s mistake was not changing the laws to make his crime legal. Cf Goldman Sachs the great vampire squid.
My @mac.com account still works. But yeah perpetually changing domains is irksome.
i think this is a pretty important question to ask, since most people are buyers and not sellers. while things like inflationary currency and privacy are important, im skeptical that they are big enough reasons for the average person to really move the needle here.

one practical reason could end up being cost. with the ubiquity of credit cards, most businesses need to bake in the credit card fee and chargebacks into the cost of their goods. its possible that some buyers would be willing to forgo the buyer protection in exchange for a discount on some purchases (assuming the credit card industry doesn't lobby to make offering these types of discounts illegal...)
Also… mighty fast 'drone', to nearly accelerate to the speed of a landing jet. I don't think they make quadcopters quite that brisk yet.

We must be thinking of different encounter videos. In the one I saw, the drone didn’t move much. It sat in the flight path waiting for a jet to come by.
Bitcoin is owned by a tiny oligarch and operated by an ASIC monopoly in China called Bitmain.

https://howmuch.net/articles/bitcoin-wealth-distribution

As you can see, over 95% of all bitcoins in circulation
are owned by about 4% of the market. In fact, 1% of the
addresses control half the entire market.

There's a theory Bitfinex and Tether might have created aprox 3 billion in counterfeit USD in order to steal and launder Bitcoins and manipulate their exchange and as a result, the entire cryptocoin market.

Comprehensive investigation is detailed here:
https://medium.com/@bitfinexed
It could, but an email leak can be much more than it sounds. We have already had data breaches that have resulted in multiple deaths[1].

Just wait until we have one many times worse than this. Data breaches of the future will cause more than just a few suicides. Some may eventually cause war.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Madison_data_breach#Imp....
Proof, not speculation or propaganda.
>I thought about switching my email to iCloud but I'm afraid Apple's going to change the domain yet again.

My ancient @mac.com email address still works (I think it's 16 years old now). So does my girlfriend's @me.com. You're worrying about wrong things.
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There's videos of people doing the surgery, but I've never managed it either
defer, defer, defer
Of course he has an amazing team of engineers.

But if Mush hadn't been born, they would have never come together to create Tesla.
That should be OS level.

I log into things from my apple laptop, my android phone, and occasionally from a chromebook I have lying around. Credentials shouldn't be tied to one OS or one OS maker. I'm happier with authentication baked into Chrome, which straddles all three.
We're trying to build the idea of "paid for storage" that doesn't look at your stuff, but getting people to pay fora service that others provide with advertising for free is hard.

Any company being truthful about what their customers want can't be tracking them 24-7 and sifting everything they type. Almost no-one wants that level of invasiveness. We just put up with it because there are no real (easy) alternatives or aren't aware.