skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why? Honestly, what does Musk bring right now? If Tesla's product is good, if it's technology is good why shouldn't they succeed without Musk providing an inconvenient distraction.
Yes. SEC litigation releases, press releases, report major updates to cases including the resolution. Here is a Google search for "prohibited acting officer", the key legal phrase/keywords, on the relevant section of the SEC website.

https://www.google.com/search?q=prohibited+acting+officer+si...
I've been shy of purchasing a domain name for years ever since I did an availability search on a registrar's site only to discover that the domain had been "reserved" a few milliseconds before my search and would therefore cost more.

It was so obviously shady that I just backed away and have been waiting ever since for some other naming system to become viable.

Meanwhile, this announcement is a ray of sunshine from behind the Cloudflare. (Sorry for the pun! I coudn't resist.)
Ah, gotcha. Thanks a lot for the link.
Depends on what you define as the laws of physics.

We have cases where the laws of physics break for example singularties and it’s generally accepted that at certain energy levels forces can join or split for example during and shortly after the Big Bang the it’s assumed that all of the forces were joined together.

There is also the Higgs field which is not clear if it can change states or not and if it has done so at any period in the past which is not directly observable.

In fact the laws of physics “changing” is one of the possible answers to how the matter anti matter symmetry broke in the first place and allowed the universe as we know it to form.

However ofc any global change in any of the “fundamental” laws/constants will end all existence as we know it.
What’s wrong with someone else stepping in to run things? Why is E.M. the one person out of 7 billion on Earth who can possibly run the company? People said the same thing about Jobs, but here Apple is, still printing money.
It just uses selenium to automate clicking on https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout

And then when the promised email arrives I have a google docs script (pretty much googles copy of VBScript macros, but they can be run as a cronjob and easily search and access your email) which copies the data to my VPS and deletes the old copy of the data and the email.
There are few leaders in the business world as capable as Musk. Would we even be having this conversation without Twitter? Social media considered harmful.
So, I get it. This is how capitalism is supposed to work. But I don't think anyone is going to care about the wealth of these short sellers when the climate is irreversibly changed.

China is smart. They don't fuck around with tax incentives and other silly market manipulators. They use central policy planning to drive forward renewables and battery electric vehicles at nation state scale, and it's a damn shame the United States and other first world countries don't have the same fortitude; yet, our markets will rail against someone who has bet his personal fortune to accomplish these goals.
I dunno. Locking down some things may make sense. But, for the most part, assuming that physical security for your wired home network is sufficient doesn't seem like an unreasonable assumption combined with standard practices for your systems.
Why is this a "joke"?

Does a gaggle of teenagers running into a movie theater and yelling "fire!" constitute a joke? People might get seriously injured in the ensuing chaos.

The same is (almost) true here, people lost money because of a tweet that was Musk was prohibited from making by law. There need to be consequences.
Mastercard/Visa do thousands of transactions per second and charge a single digit percentage fee on top.

Bitcoin does 3 to 5 transactions per second and charges a fixed fee per byte of transaction space.

Which is fairer? Speed has a cost that many people ignore.
In what way would that be catastrophic for the company?
def length_and_alphabetical(string):
"""Return sort key: length first, then case-normalized string."""
return (len(string), string.casefold())

You just said the same thing three different ways. Not having to do that is exactly what lambda expressions are for.
> I promise you, Elon legitimately thought there would be an opportunity to go private again.

According to the hard facts the SEC is presenting this is patently false, there was absolutely no reason for Musk to "legitimately" think that.

> even has said they never wanted to go public, but were left with no choice.

Also just not even close to true. Elon would have been canned and Tesla would have been bankrupt by now if they didn't go public. If by "left with no choice" means "structured the company so that only a public IPO could sustain it and allow for the path he wanted" then I guess you're right?

See: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-08-17/elon-musk...
Since the objects are identical type, you could set a doc string and a name on a lambda (they're just properties of the object) and see them during program execution/on the REPL, might make sense for generated stuff like classes from an ORM?
Spare a thought for all the other perfectly reasonable, and achievable goals which companies did not achieve, because the funding they needed went to Elon Musk companies instead.
He may deserve that, but I believe that public perception is that Elon Musk is Tesla. In the same way that Bill Gates was Microsoft and Steve Jobs was Apple, Musk commands a huge moral force (in a Clausewitz sense... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_von_Clausewitz). Fire Musk and you need to hire a press team, rebrand, and basically become seen as a stuffy company instead of the hip trendy up-and-comer. How much perceived valuation does Musk create? 20%, 50% of the company? Hard to say, but I bet it's a big number.
Your opinion is based on convention between a bunch of studios that have a self interest in preserving an asset portfolio. There is no case law that supports your opinion that I'm aware of. If I'm wrong, please do go ahead and cite it.
I don't agree. I don't believe in the "key man" clause. Apple wasn't over when Jobs passed. Microsoft wasn't over when Gates left.

But supposing I did agree -

> I find it curious that an innovative American company pushing to help our carbon problem by going electric is so lambasted, shorted, constantly under attack. It cannot be argued that Tesla pushed forward both electric cars and self-driving vehicles as a major force (original self-driving push was a DoD X-Prize)

It can't be argued. But their CEO is a self-aggrandizing buffoon who is hurting himself and the company, and now, because the board couldn't or wouldn't stop him, the SEC will. I don't like it, either. I really honestly want Tesla to succeed.

Elon is preventing them from doing that now. If there's any hope for them to survive, in my opinion, it is without him. Even if that's riskier.

Edit: Accidentally killed Bill Gates :(. Sorry Bill!
> I started fantasizing that the company would crash and burn, and I would be standing there among the rubble...

Have you had a part in writing Office Space [0] screenplay? It's Milton's wish.

[0] https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/
Obviously car companies are hard to run.

Though internet companies aren't the best at cash flow management either, it is more about getting the market / customers then the profit. I think innovation is excusable for revenue/profits for some time.

Starting an electric car ONLY car company is even harder than having it as part of an existing car company like Mercedes is doing well with.

The shorts are mainly trying to kill Tesla and coming from the oil, gas, other auto companies most of all. Lots of games are played with car companies (see VW short squeeze a historically big one) because they can't react as fast as it is hard work. I think the shorts have been not just focused on profitability but to drive out the competitive threat, the shorts have also been attacking Elon Musk non-stop.
I’ve seen pension funds with an discount rate sensitive causinf a 1% change in discount rate can have a ~20% effect on liability. Being off even a few hundred basis points results in huge numbers. There’s a reason you don’t see annuities equal to taxpayer funded defined pensions even offered for sale.
....well, fuck. I had hoped like any of us rooting for Elon Inc. that this wouldn't happen. I truly hope it amounts to a slap on the wrist because I want Tesla to succeed.

I'll show my support with my wallet as soon as I am able.
You could stop using software to escape its privacy invasion, but I'd rather not.
Personally, I use them often and disagree with a lot of this sentiment. I also disagree with a significant portion of PEP8, however.

Anonymous functions are vital to any modern high level language.

I think most people get hung up on the word. If the keyword was changed from “lambda” to “fun” for example I think it wouldn’t be as obtuse to more intermediate developers.

To be honest I think the lambda does Python a service vs a disservice. It helps to illustrate that everything in Python is an object. Once you realize you can treat functions similarly to how you treat things like integers and strings your mind opens up to functional style. Assigning a function to a variable the same way you do with a string, for instance, helps to reinforce this concept.
Many early Bitcoiners support Bitcoin Cash today which is closer to the original design of Bitcoin and does not have these issues you mentioned. Bitcoin was always meant to scale on-chain, and BTC's fees are entirely self-imposed by the Core developers who refuse to increase the block size. Bitcoin Cash (BCH) increased the block size, and now fees on BCH are a fraction of a penny. Speed of payments too is not an issue on BCH, and 0-conf instant transactions are acceptable for many types of purchases. The main argument against BCH is that home users won't be able to run their own full nodes, but these nodes do nothing useful and do not deserve subsidization. This was actually demonstrated in the Bitcoin bug CVE-2018-17144 (discovered by Bitcoin Cash developers, mind you) where 80% of the network (ie. home users) didn't upgrade their full node with the patch and the network remained secure. Armstrong has suggested he supports BCH's scaling path in several places.
Buying an automatic weapon is incredibly hard in the US.
Linus Torvalds offers his take on code of conduct and past outbursts
In my opinion:

We (as a society and a country) need Tesla to succeed.

Tesla can't succeed with Elon Musk as CEO at this point.

So Elon should be removed.
Read the complaint. It was not a single tweet, but a string of them leading investors to think a deal was all but done at that price. Musk's Twitter account was also registered with the SEC as an official channel for TSLA information. He fraudulently manipulated the stock. At this point, all that's left is negotiating punishment.
Still, network security is extremely hard when the actor has physical access to your networking hardware. I currently live in a dorm situation and put each roommate on their own separate vlan on their own separate wireless gateway behind an f5 firewall running snort and I'd still be at risk if one of my roommates decided to put something between my gateway and the router.
@ravenstine's comment about deleting past tweets is thought provoking - I use to use Twitter a lot but abandoned it years ago. Might be a good idea to check I didn't say anything too many naive and stupid things that I've forgotten about
The google has been as of late though; It makes me wish the company does not have many birthdays. It's kinda sad.
>The researchers also found that if User A, whom we’ll call Anna, shares her contacts with Facebook, including a previously unknown phone number for User B, whom we’ll call Ben.

Why didn't the author use Alice and Bob?
"You have to contend with Python’s broken notion of lambda but other than that it’s not really that different"

http://www.gigamonkeys.com/code-quarterly/2011/hal-abelson/
It's probably paranoia, but I feel like my 5S battery is draining faster since the update.

That being said, the performance upgrade is well worth it.
> Whether you love or hate Microsoft for $6.99/mo you can get Office, (decently private) email, cloud storage, and Skype. Hate Skype? Don't blame you but from there you can get a phone number that you can give out and keep your personal number just for family/emergencies.

Microsoft compromises the security and privacy of all of their online services, including Skype, Outlook.com, and Hotmail: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-...

A much better alternative is to give your money to independent telephony providers that run on, and support, Free Software: https://jmp.chat/
Unless they ban him from being an executive at a publicly traded company
Digital communication over a water pipe network (2006)
If the stock falls below a certain price, they have to pay down debt. This is a requirement when you use stock as collateral.
Owning about 12k shares of TSLA, having followed the company closely since inception (when it was ran by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning), I can't see Tesla succeeding without Musk. It'll end up acquired, or as a boutique manufacturer like Ferrari.

Tesla's value is Musk's determination. Still, he needs to choose his actions more wisely, clearly.
It's big, but is it irrecoverable? Because the current situation might be.
For the record, Gates isn't dead. He just isn't the CEO of Microsoft any longer.
self plug: i wrote a "corelib" for typescript: https://www.npmjs.com/package/xlib

right now it's only meant for nodejs use (it's too big for browsers) but I use it successfully in my production code, and have been using it for years, so it's got that for it :)

i plan to add proper browser support (minification, tree shaking, etc) when i do my next client side project, but that's still at least a few months off.
One popular idea is that programmers should be passionate and spend their spare time working on open source. Another career with a reputation as a stable well-paid job is law.

In law, pro-bono work is at least somewhat similar to open source work for programmers: It doesn’t directly make money, is considered morally good, and possibly a way to widen one’s experience. However in law, lawyers in a firm are typically required to spend a certain amount of time doing pro-bono work (during working hours) whereas the same does not happen with programming.
Their wordpress plan is super expensive. They have you pay per visitor, I recall looking into it some time ago for my personal blog and it was beyond $100 per month to support enough visitors for the HN front page.
I think there should be a distinction between "stepping stone" in the project management sense and "stepping stone" in the capabilities sense. While technology has made the latter unnecessary, I'm not convinced humans and lack of incremental extra-orbit progress haven't made the former necessary.
> For example, an analysis that puts a lower bound on the magnitude of rent decreases is here:

It uses a “the greater bay area is a closed universe” assumption, which means it necessarily excludes the effect of any supply increase on increasing people moving into the area, mitigating price decreases. So, it cannot reasonably put a lower bound on rent decreases. At best, it provides and upper bound on such decreases.
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GuileEmacs
sure. here you go.

http://www.gigamonkeys.com/code-quarterly/2011/hal-abelson/

the paragraph he says it in is:

> It’s just a different course. We could have done it in Scheme and I sort of wish we had. And for random reasons we didn’t. But the thing that ties it together—if you had fifteen seconds to describe the whole course—it’s still about abstraction and modularity. The beginning of that course is not very different from the beginning of 6.001 other than you do it in Python. But at that point, where you’re not building interpreters yet, you can pretty much do this stuff in Python. You have to contend with Python’s broken notion of lambda but other than that it’s not really that different.

he mentions it as an aside really, but the overall interview itself is very good. abelson is a treat to listen to.
The thing is, the product is not good, yet. They've yet to ship a $35,000 car, they've yet to hit their production goals, they've yet to justify their sky-high valuation, and their current build quality is below what one would expect for a $50,000 car.

This doesn't mean that failing to fix those problems will kill Tesla. It may, however, cause a large drop in stock price, massive losses for shareholders at large, and E.M. in particular, restructuring of their debt, and possibly acquisition for pennies on the dollar by another auto manufacturer.
Fake news. See: braindead people.
fwiw A couple of those task names are for older tasks which have been replaced by: fannkuch-redux, regex-redux: and there are other changes which don't seem to have been mirrored.
Whoops! Fixed that. My apologies to Bill. I knew that, I swear.
We're not debating whether we have to do as they say or not; we're discussing whether they're right ot not, which is a completely different matter.
Author here. Based on feedback I am going to make a sqlfmt binary for easy editor integration.

You can currently already do this by using the CockroachDB binary (https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/releases/v2.1.0-beta.2018...) but understandably people want a more minimal solution.
Speedscope – An interactive flame graph visualizer
> Drones can fly either high enough to not be easily seen

By eye, yes. By digital camera? That would have to be pretty high. At least on clear days. But there are days where visibility is low in general, and that goes for cars too.

> Or they can be launched near a target and fly low.

High risk targets should have additional safeguards. It's not hard for cars to get to some locations just because they aren't allowed, but because there is additional security and physical obstructions. One solution never covers all cases, and we shouldn't expect it to.

> But you need another licensed vehicle at that point to transport it.

Or you hire someone to tow it. Yes, it's harder. But also it's not like every time you get behind the wheel of a car someone checks that you're licensed. How many times have you had your license checked while driving? How many hours have you driven?

> You think that a 2 pound drone is only "slightly easier" to transport surreptitiously than a 2 ton car?

I think in the case you are planning to use it illegally, it's not really that much of a difference.

Seriously, you can probably walk into any rundown part of town, buy some older beat up car for cash for under $1000 dollars, and immediately use it for your purpose while the title change is in the mail (for states that allow that), if the person selling it really even cares.

Drones are new, so there's less infrastructure to track and manage them, but it's not really all that different IMO, it's just a matter of time.
I know you just offered it as an example, but if that were to happen, it would kill bitcoin in the western world. People would use it almost purely as a speculative investment (as if most don't already).
What is your source for 9.7%? I suspect it’s subject to survivorship bias.

There’s plenty of research on choosing discount rates for defined benefit pensions and annuities, and many papers to read. And there are myriad reasons you can’t just stick the money for a pension in the s&p 500, but suffice to say, everhone in finance sticks to the IFRS numbers and knows US GAAP is garbage.
Low earth orbit is just fine for figuring out life support as has been done on the ISS already.

Entirely false. On the Moon, we can exploit in-situ resources for life support. Regolith can be used for radiation shielding and the extraction of oxygen. We can even harvest water in certain locations. Crops can be grown using hydroponics. Doing these things while maintaining a spaceport on another world isn't going to be nothing. Getting experience doing ground based operations is going to be valuable. It's not just "dust." It's probably literally tens of thousands of things we will have to learn through hard won experience.

Ground-based operations. Better to get the experience where help is only 3 days away.
That sounds like what they need is someone like Tim Cook: someone with a background in operations management.

Like, when I step back and look at Tesla's current challenges, they have two big ones: delivered products to meet demand and improving their driver assistance/autonomous driving offerings.
I'd hope the company itself would be fine. I really hate this idea of the grand visionary. A good friend of mine who is a mechanical engineer despises Musk.

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.

He made it sound like he just constantly engineers things, but I find it hard to believe that at any point he's sitting down with CAD and fluid dynamic applications and mapping out experiments for rocket prototypes. I don't doubt he's capable of doing that with his background (or learning how to do it) but it's much more likely there is a whole team of really dedicated experts that he just leaves uncredited.

Are Apple products different now that Jobs are gone? One could argue that, but the core people that make and design all their overpriced, planned obsolescence devices are still there, often uncredited, while everyone else likes to focus on the captain of a ship.
> For a Journal Of Replications to have impact, researchers would have to cite papers about replications.

Yep, this is definitely the biggest weakness for the idea. A journal about replications would probably end up with low impact factor, and wouldn't be able to grab a groundbreaking result to boost its prestige the way some narrow-topic journals have.

My only thought for handling that was alluded to with "Gelman and Kahneman"; maintaining a tolerable reputation and impact factor would probably require leaning on big names and people who are devoted to doing replication work regardless of journal. Gelman, for instance, showed up in PNAS with references when he criticized that godawful "boarding and air rage" study. If we're willing to abuse the process even further, there might be room to publish methodology-of-replication papers in statistical or procedural journals and create further citations that way.

It's not a very good answer, and I don't think it's going to free anyone from "publish or perish". The best I can really hope for is creating a bit of space for talented, skeptical researchers to add replications to their other work without needing to be tenured and entrenched first.
I'm perplexed how Musk could act without thinking of the consequences? Now I fear that he will be banned from SpaceX as well, when you are convicted of fraud by SEC, it will impact your duties at other companies.

It takes decades to build a reputation but it can be destroyed overnight with a single tweet.
> I don't agree. I don't believe in the "key man" clause. Apple wasn't over when Jobs passed. Microsoft wasn't over when Gates died.

I think most people believe Ballmer did a terrible job as CEO – Microsoft's stock was basically flat for the 12 years after Gates left, and only really started to climb again after Nadella took over. That seems to be some evidence for key men.
That's voluntary though. Nobody stopped anybody from having near real-time conversations.
Out of respect for you said "omg, they do", I reckon.