skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This settlement will massively strengthen the civil litigation brought against Musk, by several of the many investors he hurt with his tweet.

See for instance : https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/06/short-seller-andrew-left-fil...

The Musk death spiral continues...
> Tesla shareholders as a class aren't the harmed party the SEC seeks to address a harm to, they are the principal who failed to adequately supervise their agent who is the bad actor in this case, which is why Tesla as well as Musk is, even with the settlement, paying a fine.

Then why did the SEC say "The resolution is intended to prevent further market disruption and harm to Tesla’s shareholders"?

Source: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-226
CVS still didn't exist. Which makes me wonder how the MS-DOS source code was managed in the early days.
Why Silicon Valley is no longer the place to be for your startup
In an interview with Joe Rogan, Musk said he spends 85% of his time on design and engineering.
Sounds a lot like the work done by William Ury, whose works can be found online (TED talks, Yoytube copies of some talks, his book "Getting to Yes"). That is, listening, and HEARING what the other person is saying, not "priming" your argument, and staying away from the literal "You're wrong!"
Two companies, everything else being same; One with JIRA, the other GitHub Issues wrapped with Waffle, the choice would be a very simple one.

Oh and https://twitter.com/HackerNewsOnion/status/98160924222131814...
Tesla is not a fraudulent business. It remains to be seen whether or not it's a viable business, IMO.
This. Tesla is a publicly traded company. It makes clear, legally-binding representations of who its officers are and what its organizational structure is. If Tesla represents that Musk is not longer a chairman, while in fact he is, then that's (again) investor fraud.
It seems like they're balancing features with speed. In order to get a bunch of extra features, every page load needs to be 200mb of extra crap that 99% of users won't use 99% of their page views.

Oh and hamburger menus are hiding the key features you DO use every page view.
A few years back, there was a story about how a different Matrix fan work, The ASCII Matrix, was the oldest torrent:
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kb7wex/how-ascii-...

(And this all makes me feel old.)
Is it just me, or do all of these state operated bulk data spying programs come off as incredibly rapey?

NSA: hey, can I read your email?

Me: nah, I really don't know you that well...I like my privacy, and frankly don't really trust you with my data... You tend to accidentally leak it to hackers, because you're irresponsible.

NSA: I'm gonna read your email. Read every single message. Every byte. Every bit.

Me: okay that's creepy as fuck, please go away.

NSA: ahhh yeha I'm taking your email to party town! I'm looking at all your contacts now

Me:Jesus just get the fuck away... Aren't you funded by my tax dollars? Why am I paying you sick fucks???

NSA: cause we are the NSA, and you don't have a goddam choice. We are gonna take whatever we want from you, and you are gonna smile and bend over, cause there are no other options!

Me: yeah okay well maybe this is why the 2nd amendment is a THING
Their cases were already incredibly strong, given the nature of the tweet and his Twitter account’s status as an official corporate mouthpiece for five years. From a purely legal perspective the no contest nature of this settlement doesn’t do much to weaken or strengthen their case, but It also doesn’t matter because their cases are already ridiculously strong. Musk is still in trouble, but a death spiral is too strong a word (unless the DOJ brings charges), he could still pull up. If he backs off the Twitter and keeps his head down, he’ll recover.

Tesla though, is in a real death spiral with their debt.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/deathspiral.asp

That’s going to be muuuuuch harder to correct, given that they’re going to have sell a load of discounted stock just to keep afloat in 2019.
But giving up CEO wasn't part of the original deal he turned down. This one is strictly worse.
I authored a python binding and have some experience that may be relevant.

The library seems poorly maintained in my opinion and might be abandoned. There have been critical bugs leading to data loss. They have a similar project vedis which is like an embedded redis that I think is completely abandoned.

For the love of God just use SQLite if you want an embedded database for structured data, even if it's just eav. If you just need key/value there are battle-tested, well maintained options.

https://github.com/symisc/unqlite/issues/41
SEC played chicken with Musk and Musk backed down.
Yea I work outside in the shade as well sometimes. It works pretty well with a bright monitor, but you still have to be in the shade. I'd like to be able to soak up a little sun, while working.
Looks like Facebook gone down again
Intermittent living; the use of ancient challenges as a vaccine
I think Elon Musk knowingly misled the public in order to harm the financial positions of certain investors - and it seems his settlement with the SEC indicates that he accepts those charges against him. I think it’s inappropriate for companies in the public market to be led by individuals who attempt such fraud, and it seems like both Elon Musk and the SEC have the same opinion. I think much more harm would be done to the financial markets if people are allowed to commit fraud without repercussions - the settlement, again, wasn’t reached by considering how to best ensure Elon musk and Tesla remain profitable, it was made in consideration of how to dissuade other ceo’s in committing similar frauds.
That's a lie though.
If God didn't want heathens to burn, He wouldn't have made them so flammable. It's just common sense.
> It is legal on a federal level.

You mean to say illegal.
JIRA is quite complex, but it suffers from a Swiss army knife complex, and at some point you end up "programming in JIRA" instead of using a much simpler purpose-built tool, or even building one.
Lenovo has released a Yoga convertible with an E-ink display.

https://www.lenovo.com/gb/en/tablets/windows-tablets/yoga-bo...
Not parent, but we replaced Atlassian with Github and Pivotal
How is showing off a junker at a car show a manipulative action?
It seems the bigger problem is not specifically what they are trafficking, but their ability to get it north of the border. Much more stringent border controls are definitely a good idea. That would diminish the seemingly unlimited supply of cheap Mexican labor though. Tough call.
I've also tried the 10 user licenses for both Jira and Bitbucket servers. I absolutely loathe Jira. I respect its vast featureset, but user experience as a programmer has felt absolutely abysmal. The React redesign only confused me more. To find the Kanban boards, you had to hit the search button! I hope Jira has improved since last time I used it, but I have to say I'd probably prefer just about anything else at this point.

As for Bitbucket.... It works, but I can't think of a whole lot it does that GitLab doesn't do better.
Okay. Does immutability make this harder?

If the information is inadmissible in court, then who cares if there's an immutable copy someplace? We make information inadmissible in court all the time without requiring it to be deleted.

We even make it illegal to ask about age, race, and religion in job listings, and we aren't deleting any of that information. I'm not 100% sure what the problem is.
the strategy of continuing to unsubscribe from things is based on the flawed idea that i want to opt-in to an ongoing maintenance task for the rest of my life. I do not. We shouldn't just _accept_ the idea that other people / companies can assign us ongoing unpaid work for the rest of our lives.
Making a simple GUI which updates dynamically. Either in the browser through jupyter widgets and/or Bokeh plotting, or everywhere else through kivy.
Yup, that's what I said. Guessing.
My inbox is at 0 and other than gmail's auto-filtering tabs I don't have too much extra filtering going on (most of it is related to Google Alerts).

For the last 20 years my rule has been "If I check my email and inbox > 1 then deal with the email right now". I usually check my email every few hours.

I'm not Mr. popular, but I'm also not anonymous. I do personal support for 30,000+ people who have taken one of my online courses so I get a fair amount of email and other things. I tend to write massive responses from scratch for a lot of them as well.

The key is not to let it build up. Then you'll have 99 problems but email won't be one of them.

Also I'm not sure if this is related but I'm one of those people who think it's unthinkably rude to ignore someone. I would never in a million years read an email and not respond to it (unless it clearly wasn't meant to be responded to). Likewise, if I see a > 1 inbox I feel compelled to handle it ASAP because I don't want to keep that person waiting.

(Of course there's exceptions, like I'm not responding to pure spam, but I do get about 50 emails a week where people ask to post a guest post on my blog and I always manually respond nicely to them with a "no thanks but good luck" type of message along with some context around their niche).
The only site I disable ad blocking for is kbb.com (Kelley Blue Book), as it's the only one that restricts that I find valuable enough. If your site is valuable enough, you'll experience the same; if you see fewer visitors after putting such a block in place, that will answer the question for you.
Certainly there's the standard conservative tendency to defed the status quo and hate all revolutionaries but that's sort of the point. Musk would be far more well received and relatable if he was just another grubby capitalist scrounging for as money dollars as possible before he dies. What really seems to get the anti-Musk people going is that the guy appears to be having so much fun. Even when he's working 16 hour days it's doing something he absolutely loves. This sort of day-to-day basic enjoyment is rare -- that Musk should enjoy it while saving the planet must seem outrageously unfair.

The rising backlash against Musk and the tech industry is a potent fuel source for the rising ressentiment in the West. It goes beyond politics because people like Musk don't even have any real political power to take away. It's doubtful anything less than his complete failure will be enough to placate people.
Are there any examples of companies taking action when these kinds of restrictions are ignored?

I would have thought terms like these would prompt people to release benchmarks for the sole purpose of generating bad PR if the company actually took action.
The SEC cares about the public in general. Tesla shareholders are part of the public. So are potential investors who do not currently hold stock, and investors who short Tesla and/or invest in its competitors.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with trying to minimize harm to Tesla shareholders, in fact that would be part of the SEC's stated mission.

However, it is not the only part. If Musk used fraud to inflate Tesla's share value, benefiting Tesla shareholders but harming many other people, then the SEC would still intervene.

In other words, it's a consideration, but not the only one.
I'd certainly add City of God and City of Men to that list.

Along with Elite Squad, these movies are simply amazing.

Wagner Moura. the main character in Elite Squad, also stars as Pablo Escobar in Netflix's original series Narcos.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0609944/?ref_=tt_cl_t1
irc still exists and I usei t every day. The same jerks that you see on "social media" exist all over IRC as well.
is the methanol a fossil fuel necessary for B100 a fossil fuel?
It’s difficult sometimes to really internalize the meaning of things that you do every day.

Growing up, good guys and bad guys often define your thinking. Then as you become a part of the world, things get grey.
Are you speaking from experience or theorizing?

My thought is that if i asked you for an email, and I was running a system like this, i wouldn't be a dick and make you jump through that hoop. I'd proactively add your email to the whitelist before you even sent me something.
> Capital punishment was abolished for a reason.

Well, not everywhere, and not even for that reason.

The morality of killing a prisoner who has done horrific things is not the only reason to end capital punishment. I have no moral problem with someone putting a bullet through the head of some evil thing that murdered one or more of our fellow citizens, but an honest distrust of the system we use to convict said person keeps me from supporting capital punishment.

You cannot undo capital punishment. You at least have some hope of going on if you wrongly convict someone and let them out of jail.
I didn't say I don't know what "pod" means, I meant I did not see that word, only the acronym POD, when reading about this product.
I think calling it entertainment is very flattering. I would call it distraction, or maybe even conditioned response.
> Facebook is not in a traditional 'monopoly'.

Just because you invented a new definition of the word monopoly, doesn't mean it is relevant. It isn't.

> The term 'monopoly' is conventially used in connection with the sale of traditional goods, like soft drinks and train services.

No. At least not when talking about economics. By people who don't understand economics, maybe.

> It represents a boolean state, and was created to describe situations that arise in established economic models.

Also no (to the boolean part).

> The new trade in information, such as propagated by Facebook, does not follow many of the established rules of the trade of goods and services.

You have to prove that it changed the definition of monopoly. You didn't. It didn't.

> The network effects of buying soda are weak. Maybe if my friends "prefer the taste of X" I will buy that too. But their choosing a given brand of soda does not preclude me from using a different brand of soda.

Network effects don't create a monopoly, just barriers to entry in a specific market. But that market might have competing markets, or replacements.

> If Facebook controls the flow of information, directly or indirectly, intentionally or unintentionally, big social outcomes change. For example the election of the current president of the United States, and countless other decisions round the world.

Doesn't imply a monopoly.

> We need new vocabulary to talk about the effects that technology has brought about. No extant word is a perfect fit. That is not a good reason to not try to talk about them.

"I'm wrong about the way I use the term monopoly, so we should change the term so I'm right".

Nice try. You were able to get almost ever single point wrong.
Mother Gives Birth in Moving Car on Her Way to Hospital to Deliver Her Baby
So we are supposed to trust this even though the details are sealed? Sounds like the investigators get to have their cake and eat it too. Do they expect people fall for this kind of posturing and send juicy details of criminal activity over messenger?
> Thankfully WebAssembly does not repeat this mistake.

Really, I don't think that WebAssembly brings any real benefit to the user. It just lets bad devs, stuff more crap down the users throat faster. Whatever gains are made by a technology will be eaten away by adtech.
> Anything else will eventually and inevitably lead to violence.

I agree, but why has punishment and enforcement become so utterly derailed from reality or just.... basic morality?

They went after Musk hard because it was a trivial slam-dunk no-effort case. For a tweet.

Then you look at truly evil people who have committed acts of outright fraud who walk due to simply playing the game the government wants you to.

So while I agree with your point, I have very large reservations with current enforcement institutions. Go after a high-performing unconventional guy like Musk who actually accomplishes things with the entire weight of the federal government - but let the parasitic bankers who caused actual damage with outright fraud in the real world completely skate because prosecution would have actually taken work and been career risky.

My limited experience with the enforcement arms of the federal government simply affirmed this point of view. They only care about themselves and their personal careers, and could care less about actually protecting the people or even remotely attempting to find justice.

But if you tweet something that harms some wealthy short sellers there will be hell to pay within weeks.

Yes, this is hyperbolic and could be articulated better - but it's been something I've been chewing on now for decades.
See also:

https://torrentfreak.com/oldest-torrent-is-still-being-share...

Another Matrix-related torrent from yesteryear.
I'd say BitTorrent is likely just as efficient or much more so at keeping distances short. At least, it optimizes by taking the fastest available peers. Your typical big torrent file could have thousands of peers. That's more endpoints than most any other big CDN and more likely to have a few peers really close to you. Heck, it could even download from someone on your local network if they happened to be serving up the file you are looking for.
Ads aren't bad. Self-hosted ads often aren't blocked. Self-hosted ads don't spike my CPU either usually, or attempt to install anything. I'm sure the "massive portion of the modern Internet" will evolve towards a more sustainable advertising model. Additionally, the "modern Internet" may need to steal from the credits scene in Dr. Strange: "there are too many websites"
I was under the impression movies were distributed on encrypted physical media which the key was made available on the release date. Maybe things have changed.
Alberta women’s shelter to accept men fleeing domestic abuse
Mario Kart Wii: The History of the Ultra Shortcut [video]
That assumes that the universe is deterministic... the more we learn about quantum mechanics, the less likely that seems.
What sorts of issues? For me, performance is the issue, I've never found JIRA buggy or inadequate, and I'm generally able to find a given ticket and interact with it in the expected way.
Surrogate entertainment?
I think it's not that uncommon (I've been paying for several years myself)
Phone numbers fail against remote third party undetectable attacks with O(1) complexity. You'd have to use a password like "1234" to fail like that.
Unfortunately, in the Enterprise space, this setup is likely to be a zero sum game, as the challenge email would get dinged 90% of the time for spammy wording like "quarantine" and links to unknown domains (and/or blocked entirely, because inbound filtering != outbound filtering).

Large-scale email in its current form sucks, even with the Office 365 ATP tools or similar equivalents.
This is interesting. I was initially tempted to replicate something similar to try it, but then took a moment to think about what my real gripes with email actually are. Then I went to work on solving them, one by one.

First, I have a tendency to keep emails in my inbox as well, thinking I will do something with them at some point. I can't say I've ever waited a year to respond; however, I have probably waited several months before deleting (archiving, since I use Gmail) an email. This often comes after realizing that I am not, despite my earlier assessment, going to do anything about this particular email. Second, the endless notifications are abhorrent.

Today, I finally got around to adding some little used account information into my KeePass database and archived two emails. Then I realized I wasn't going to do anything with the other 20 emails in my inbox, so I archived them, too. Then I turned off notifications on my phone. I turned off Outlook's toaster at work years ago after I was frustrated with the amount of useless junk my colleagues or other work groups keep sending me. Unable to remove myself, I just decided to deal with the junk and all the other emails I get on my time, not anyone else's. I took that practice to my personal accounts, after deciding that if I won't waste my time even when I'm getting paid, I should definitely not waste my time when I'm not.

Now if I could only talk my employer into letting me disable my email account when I go on vacation, a la Daimler: http://time.com/3116424/daimler-vacation-email-out-of-office....
I only have a git repo and just put the markdown files into it , because I work with multiple machines and I don't want to set it up for each machine. I got the idea from this one (https://github.com/jbranchaud/til)
Haiku Releases R1/beta1
If you like this topic and didn’t read all the way to the bottom, the author’s recommendation of “Prime Obsession” by John Derbyshire is spot on. It’s a fantastic book.
If only there was a way to list your product on some shopping aggregator, and fight for clients by providing a better product. Too bad it is technically impossible.
This comment breaks the site guidelines, which ask: "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something." Please do better than this when posting here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
if you work for someone, do you owe them anything? beyond a customary standard of duty and notice of departure from employment?
Not really. I mean, yes, but it also has a concept of document storage and a php-like scripting language they call jx9.
“Many people are deeply hurt by the gap between fantasy and reality.” This is another expression of the harm or non-benefit I was referring to you having said.

I agree public perception of a field lags behind reality, but it’s only a lag. Medicine has been a tough job for awhile. There are students who understand this well enough to handle the adjustment (since they don’t have first-hand experience yet.) It’s not a failure of “passion” if it’s crystalized into tangible goals, and better developed motivations and principles, as the student matures. It’s also not fair to equate surprise at some of the reality of a job with regret.

Finally, I know people who pursued medicine from childhood and are doing well in it. Granted, most of them had doctors for parents, but they were still quite excited.
SCCS or RCS?
That's the first I've heard of the CRFA - thanks for mentioning it.

I was curious whether or not the CRFA could be overridden by contract terms, but the FTC claims quite the contrary: https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/con...
Paper discusses how intermittent cold, heat, fasting, dehydration, lack of O2, too much CO2, together with stresses from phytochemicals in multiple food products, can improve overall health.
The chairman has the power to appoint members of the board, the board has the power to fire the CEO. So someone who's both chairman and CEO is virtually impossible to fire.

The combination of removing Musk as Chairman and adding two independent directors means there's a slim chance that he could eventually be fired – more likely, it means that Musk will be held more accountable to the board.
The facts in the above post were incorrect. It’s the same deal with worse penalties. The deal Musk rejected was also for stepping down as chairman rather than CEO. In other words, Musk blinked not the SEC.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimcollins/2018/05/18/musk-has-...
The online homework tied to the book serial number is especially insidious.