skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I really hate this idea of the grand visionary. ... I listened to a bit of his Joe Regan interview and when Regan asked him how he has the time to do all of the things he does, there are smoke jokes about him being an alien, 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.

I think Elon's active perpetuation of the myth is kind of a red herring.

Promoting Elon Musk as a grand visionary is how Tesla will maximize its brand value, and contribute to a self-sustaining lore around their founder 50 years from now. It's the same story for Apple and Steve Jobs, and thousands of other companies (tech and otherwise).

People aren't capable of idolizing 200 mechanical engineers. They are very capable of idolizing a single visionary. A story with 200 protagonists would be far less compelling, which is why most stories only have 1. If you want to be as competitive as possible, and you have a leader capable of exploiting that aspect of human nature, then that's what your company should do.

Permitting and perpetuating this kind of myth-making is practically part of Elon's fiduciary duty to his shareholders at this point. You can't fault him for doing it, because he has to.

I think what's really at issue is the aspect of human nature that it's exploiting.

I think it's closely tied to hierarchy and pecking order instincts observed in all mammals. We always need to be identifying and reacting to an alpha, and using that to inform our choices and behaviors so we can stay competitive on a biological level. The same instinct might also be what causes people to immediately perceive this as an issue of Elon's individual behavior, and makes them feel so strongly about it.
Search Engine design
As a layperson in the area of search engine design. Why can’t I influence how my search engine searches? Shouldn’t the user be able to tweak how they use it? Searching with just keywords seems limited.
If you want to accurately represent the point of view being debated you need to consider the motivations and insinuations surrounding the 20% number, rather than performing semantic onanism with the ratio itself.
Thanks. I guess it isn’t fair to say it is ineffective, it can give some information.
It's not so much naming the function, but that doing so moves it outside the flow of the logic it is participating in. Especially when it's going to reference local context that is particularly confusing. There are definitely times when extracting out a function and naming it is the right thing to do. But there are an equal number of times when keeping all the local context together is better. It's probably hard to appreciate this unless you spend some time in languages where closures are seamlessly integrated like Groovy.
I was thinking the same when I listened to Joe Rogan podcast. And the topic came up multiple times where he could have said he has a great team to support him. I was really disappointed in Musk.
You only have to set this up once, then flash it to each device you're sending out.
Retail price of the server components (no racks, PDUs, busbars, fibre drop, network switch, KVM, circuit-breaker, rack&stack, rack anti-tip bracing, artistic cabling, tech support):

CPU 8176M: $11,805.00 USD x 8 = $94,440.00

RAM 64GB: $866.23 x 192 = $166,316.16

Chassis + 2x 10 GbE NICs + SSD boot device: ~$8000

Total: ~$269k USD

AWS price: $803k

Under 150% gross profit margin (without electricity, fibre or real-state) over 3 years. I'd say the closer figure is ~ $300-400k per box for single company-scale servers, leading to a closer-to-net profit Amazon profit of around 100%

Although, it's possible to keep a server beyond its lifecycle and run it into the ground once it's already paid-for, as opposed to getting nothing at the end of the Amazon lease.

There's trade-offs for both cases; some people would rather pay more to not have to deal with quotes, vendors or shipping issues.
The gov didn't make Google or Amazon?

- Who enables Amazon to pay wages that requires employees to need subsidies?

- As for Google, the NSA __loves__ Google. That bias effects the gov's decisions.
Not that I'm aware of, but stock manipulation is illegal whether or not you actually sell any shares.
I saw that one illegal thing that is already illegal, so lets make more things illegal, that will show them!
you seem to be exactly right, and it seems to be an open secret.

so why is the stock price not closer to zero? why isn't everybody shorting it?
A perhaps more workable solution would be to have per-tab indicators of total bytes downloaded, peak memory used, and total CPU time used (the first one already exists as part of the developer tools, but it's hidden by default). People on fast computers and fast networks do not feel the weight of bloated pages; making it visible to everyone provides an incentive to reduce it.
Orginal document of SEC complaint against Elon Musk
> cost of $267,512.88 per year (as calculated from another comment in the thread), I assume their profit margins for the first year are nearly non-existent

NB that this was calculated based on the "All Up Front" pricing, so, for that situation, it's safer to say that their profit for the first year is $300k+ [1] and merely non-existent or negative for the second and third years.

[1] Assuming $400k purchase cost as per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18090058
Reading this sub-thread, it makes me wonder how a consumer level smartphone camera would perform in space... I was under the assumption that they might have a limited operating temperature range, and that they might have issues in the extreme cold?
Honestly, 1M transactions per hour on that monster sounds a bit low.
And here this is the reason I don't use Gmail.
From a quick look at https://domains.google, it seems like all domains start at $12/year. That's definitely not wholesale.
Musk's tweet said "Funding secured", which has a very different implication than a company simply "being interested".
I made that mistake once when I was a teen. My father was not pleased one bit.
> Right, we are not concerned with protecting short-sellers who spend all day on twitter making up negative stories about their targets.

This doesn't make sense. We don't go after them because they don't have any authoritative powers/inside knowledge about the company, so a reader cannot be misled by them. If an exec of a company short sells a huge chunk of the company and plants a misleading negative story about the company, SEC will go after them too.
One of the major worries with untreated Afib is that it will trigger blood clots that cause strokes. (Not to mention other possible side effects of not treating the condition)

Modern cardiac event monitors that the patient tapes onto their own chest, wears for a period of time, and then mails back in for analysis are so much cheaper than treating a stroke that it tilts the playing field.

Many people have mentioned a Holter monitor, but those are not only more expensive, but would be overkill as a first step in seeing if there is a real issue.

Here's a comparison between a Holter monitor and one brand of a more modern cardiac event monitor.

https://www.medgadget.com/2014/01/zio-wireless-patch-may-be-...
From what I understand Ives was distracted during this design cycle. Now that the headquarters are built I’m waiting to see if all of this crap is fixed in the next iteration.

But it’s getting easier and easier to skip a generation of laptop these days. My old machine is just starting to get slow enough that I notice. That’s a big problem for manufacturers.
and then this happened: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18086418
Howard Hughes: RKO, TWA, Las Vegas

The numbers are smaller, due to inflation. But any of these successes in today’s money would be a billion dollar venture.
Consider those of us stuck with Java adapters to Postgres, which means Postgres syntax but ? for placeholders.
Ergo inflation tends to cause malinvestment as savers want to protect as much value as possible, whereas deflation is more likely to incentivize productive investments.

After all if deflationary currency is worth more tomorrow, one wants to make sure an investment in the future is sustainable.

Notably one is especially interested to invest in a deflationary economy because the gains are multiplicative.
Every transaction has a buyer and a seller.

Shorting is selling? Selling to whom? Ah, right, a buyer.

Telsa share price has risen through extreme short interest for years. How?
It's compelling to you, but managing email infrastructure is a huge burden - users actively spamming, compromised users spamming, RBLs, security, myriad email clients - there seems to be little synergy here with the rest of Cloudflare's infrastructure (DNS + a big proxy stack).

I say this as both someone who worked at a hosting company doing managed email a long time ago, before the industry had consolidated to the extent it has now, and as an ex-employee.

At wholesale registrar pricing, N real inboxes - is that attracting the right kind of users at scale? At least with their current freemium + addons model, it's fairly hands-off, with the hopes of capturing rapidly growing startups in the process. I don't think you can replicate that with email at all.
Sure. The diversity zeitgeist is no less hypocritical or capable of prejudice than previous eras.
People responding in this thread are failing to realize that there are two types of luxury goods (to obviously oversimplify): luxuries built on hype, and luxuries built on quality/craftsmanship. (Said craftsmanship can be innovative or traditional, but there's the sense of pride in the work that carries through in both situations.) One (though not all) of the nuances that the parent post evokes is that Jobs challenged the company to be more than just a hype machine.
I’m surprised the federal government isn’t entitled to some form of ownership in the company if it IPOs.
The first returns a callable that's the value assigned to the key argument. The second is a callable that's the value assigned to the key argument. They're the same thing.
> In the US, you're not supposed to say anything publicly that can manipulate the stock price

Not quite. You can't intentionally say things for the purpose of manipulating the price, you can still say things if they affect the price -- it is impossible not to, since every little thing a CEO does affects the price to some extent (econophysics?).

The lawsuit would have to prove that Musk tweeted with the intention of manipulating the price. Seeing as Musk has always been wary of being public, it seems unlikely he engineered the tweet to do this. Occam's Razor would suggest that he's getting sick and tired of being public (ironically, for this exact reason) and tweeted that he would rather just take it private to avoid this sort of drama.
It did contain a USB device exploit delivering a dropper with a completely separate payload specifically targeted at the Natanz facility. A compromised USB device picked up in the parking lot would do the trick, but there are certainly other ways to get something through the front door and that information is unlikely to be public knowledge any time soon.
I wonder how much of this is due to recent fires and abysmal air quality... it's bad enough here that if I were still seriously considering moving out of area , I might have made the leap.

AQ is so bad I simply don't exercise outdoors as much... and it's not clear when it's going to get better.
Look lower down that thread for the FAQ from the company: they're using the roommate's Facebook account to purchase targeted ads on Facebook in order to evade Facebook's internal controls. https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/2vd1g8/scam_rentyour...
Aside from the price, one very good reason to be interested in CloudFlare as a registrar compared to Google Domains is that CloudFlare supports CNAME flattening [1] so that you can use a CNAME instead of an IP address for an A record (AKA "ALIAS" on DNSimple or Route53).

I'm using Google Domains right now, but have been using CloudFlare to host my DNS for ages for this reason alone. I'll think about transferring my domains to them when the time comes to take one service out of the equation.

[1] https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200169056-C...
What stopped you from moving out?
Musk did not want to quit Tesla, but wanted out: tweetice.
Google Domains is only available in 15 countries[1]. Also, I wouldn't use a personal Google account to register a domain name for a company.

[1] https://support.google.com/domains/answer/4639612?hl=en
Pick your favorite windows 0-day and use it to only install a cert and nothing else that would tip off AV software.
A literal handful of CSS styles would make it more readable on a variety of platforms. Failing that, a full-text feed for the articles would be very readable in an RSS reader.
IOTA is the only crypto I am aware of with a decent TPS. It handles around 1k TPS right now.
Permitting and perpetuating this kind of myth-making is practically part of Elon's fiduciary duty to his shareholders at this point. You can't fault him for doing it, because he has to.

Plus he clearly lives for it, and when anyone makes even reasonable points against him, he loses his mind on a Twitter. That is after all what happened with “pedo guy” re the Thai cave rescue. Musk made an ass of himself by trying to inject himself into a potential tragedy for some PR and a man who actually helped to save the day called him on it.

I’m also not sure that it would be hard to idolize a group, people manage it for sports teams. Maybe if Musk put the effort he spends into grooming his ego into promoting his team he wouldn’t need to be the center of a cult of e-sychophants.
I think the one downside of Haxe (which is also is strength) is that it doesn’t only support compiling to C/C++, but to every major language possible (Java, C#, PHP, Javascript), so the language ends up being too complex. You constantly have to think about how the languages features will map to your target language if you care about performance, which can be pretty unintuitive. And the C++ target (hxcpp) is quite heavyweight and takes a lot of time to compile (at least the last time I checked out). Also C interop doesn’t seem that convenient.

On the other had Nim only transpiles to C, so the language is simpler and easier to reason about performance. (And it probably has faster compile times). It is also explicitly designed to interop with C, so you can easily use all those C libraries in the wild...

But I still have some hope on Haxe, because the main developer is working on Hashlink, which can run Haxe code on a virtual machine but can also transpile it to C for production builds... It seems a more simple and “focused” Haxe target that doesn’t have all the warts of hxcpp...

https://hashlink.haxe.org
Typically yes. But you can have Argo without tiered caching and for Enterprise level also tiered caching without Argo
What I mean is, we are concerned with price manipulation. But the theoretical harm of price manipulation is that some investor has overpaid based on the intentionally misleading $420 tweet. The SEC is not primarily trying to protect Jim Chanos from getting screwed on his short position. It is trying to protect the "investing public" more generally. When they talk about damages it's not going to be damages suffered by the shorts. It will be damages suffered by investors who overpaid based on $420 expectation.

Note that you are actually wrong about 10b5 here, Jim Chanos can very well commit a 10b5 violation without being an insider. Securities fraud does not depend on fiduciary status of the perpetrator, and while insider trading is fraud, there are many other types of fraud as well.

edit: Jim Chanos is too smart to commit a 10b5 violation. I am just using him as a hypothetical example!
I am not entirely sure what this is in response to. did you hit reply on the wrong comment perchance?
Yeah well, reddit, huh?

On the other hand, that fact that it's not a story that is obviously dismissed as fake says volumes about many many people's shared experience with Google...
> I wonder how much of this is due to recent fires and abysmal air quality... it's bad enough here that if I were still seriously considering moving out of area , I might have made the leap.

Wow no! This is one of the financially savviest regions in the world. The prices of homes are far too inflated and the current salt taxes + interest rate increases is causing a lot of hesitation in buyers. One gets trapped with these taxes and mortgage payments.

Further, a lot of the increase in asset prices was Chinese investment and immigrants, both drying up. The trend is slowly going down. Why slowly? Because homes are lagging indicators.

Make no mistake though, a few IPOs and the asset prices will get some cushion again.
Im not surprised, it is standard for a lot of US companies that rely on cheap labor. That said, I certainly don't agree with it and im not sure it should even be legal to stop people from forming a union in any way, it is a voluntary agreement among employees, not an agreement with the business.
That way he can argue it was a joke that no reasonable investor would have relied upon.

I smoke pot regularly, and hold a non-trivial position in TSLA. My first thought was most definitely not, "heh, heh, funny pot reference, bro." My first thought honestly was, "well, he wouldn't say it if it weren't true, because the SEC will haul him off." So I don't know about your reasonable investor theory.
I misused the term, yes: it should be "mutual recursion" not "corecursion", sorry.
It wasn't removed and is still there. You have to type a query first and Google instant needs to be turned off. It bypasses the results page and selects the first result at the top, like it has always done.
He seems smart, but toxic. These "revolutionary" companies run by "brilliant" CEOs tend to chew people up and spit them out because they're less important than the company mission.

Hard pass.
> (no racks, PDUs, busbars, fibre drop, network switch, KVM, circuit-breaker, rack&stack, rack anti-tip bracing, artistic cabling, tech support)

Anyone paying more than a negligible amount (per server) for any of these is needlessly over-paying. For a server this expensive, it had better be way below 1%. (Tech support is arguable, but it costs a pretty penny from AWS, too).

> RAM 64GB: $866.23 x 192 = $166,316.16

These CPUs can't support 192 DIMMs, only 96, so they're limited to the much more expensive 128GB modules. That means you're looking at closer to $250k for the RAM alone.
>> "...bad government policy cannot reduce the value of your Bitcoin by printing more of it."

The spirit of your comment is totally true, but I have a pendatic (though vitally important!) objection.

Governments in most countries don't create money and government policy in general neither controls nor influences money creation; instead, money is created by private companies (aka "banks") or a consortium of private companies (aka the owners of "central banks.")
That’s good for us because we don’t want a big home and depressed demand for them will probably mean a cheaper starter home for us.

I used to be averse to the idea of buying an older, smaller home, but my wife is insistent on it. The more I think about it, the more I think she has the right idea.
I read all three of these comments and I still dislike bbq ribs.
Strange, but Spacewar (arcade version) is still my all time favorite game. Portal is close second.
Ask HN: What does your ideal world look like?
In practice, at the scale of short selling actually taking place, does it materially impact the price of Tesla shares? Is there even any way to know?

Seems like a boogeyman to blame all manner of company ills on. For example, I think very few of the negative press Tesla has received over e.g. union busting or manufacturing defects is due to a short seller conspiracy. That's newsworthy stuff and the media is doing its job.
> On the other had Nim only transpiles to C

Nim also compiles to javascript too, right?
Want to see what's in the initramfs. It almost certainly doesn't have his data on it (it looks to me like it never writes anything to the sdcard, at least not that partition)
Transferwise is quite low risk in this regard. They don't have a balance or anything like that, it's only moving money between 2 accounts in a transactional manner.
Doordash accounts compromised
May it not reach its 30th.
From this comment by ubernostrum: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18089506

I also found this article (also from the comment) interesting: https://guernseypress.com/news/2016/12/15/man-raises-clameur...
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Check your account immediately if you use their service.
There's also a corporate liability/PR question to ask yourself: how would you feel if some fringe pot group was publicized or mass murderer used a logo-branded weapon stock (that was sold and your company profited from) in an high profile event?

Would you be ok with 24/7 news coverage of your brand being associated with that? If so, great, and work to allow it. If not, you should work to reduce your exposure.

I'd say that can explain why MJ is ok where guns = not so much.
The author uses this as an argument against lambdas:

> lambda expressions are an odd and unfamiliar syntax to many Python programmers

Well these python programmers now have an opportunity to learn this unfamiliar syntax. You don't avoid using parts of a programming language just because it's unfamiliar! To new Python programmers, a lot of the syntax is unfamiliar at first, especially if coming from a curly-brace language or new to programming in general.

While I like many of the ideas in the article (especially the use of standard library functions that already do what your lambda was trying to do), it seems to make some cases against using lambda where the justification isn't entirely valid. :/
We typically donate ours
safari page loading a heavy website should be a decent example
It certainly is discrimination if women are just as likely to get distracted by handsome men while with their other AND show it. In which case shame on us for stereotyping men as being more easily distracted by the opposite sex and being less discreet about it. But does anyone believe those two things?

Even so, I would love to see the same meme but with the sexes reversed. It might not be realistic, but it would be funny.
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Yes. the "loss of control" thing. or "loss of agency" -Very real. You invest huge amounts of mental energy birthing something and then .. its just (feels like randomly) taken away from you and given to somebody else to direct and you lose the moment of decision.

Thats really hard. I suspect, its fated to be something which is innate in anyone who makes "new" things, even founders: at some level you have to decide its ok to let go but not having control of even when that happens.. burns.

I don't know how this works in your company, but in mine, (not for profit sector) I was able to talk to HR about this without downside consequences. Having them help clarify structural thinking around "what you want" from work, worked for me. What I learned is, that I don't want the management burden which goes with having directing force over things, and so I chose to become a subject matter specialist in prototyping and research, which meant I semi continuously acquire this situation: I make things, which then other people get to take to their future state. But on the other hand I don't have the horrible (to me) consequences of managing groups, outcomes, projects.
I don't think personal fortune is anywhere near as significant of a motivation for Musk as the public image of his companies or their success. I have no doubt that he let negative headlines get under his skin, and that he wanted to fight back.
> I hope for Space X and Tesla's sake that the reports of a directory and Executive ban don't come true.

Why? Because Elon is a special snowflake and deserves a different treatment than other white-collar criminals?
The hallmark of a crappy pop performer. May its demise be hastened.