skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect it would matter, for at least two reasons.

For that to work, you'd need a particular sort of senior management arrangement, not just to leave him alone, but to take a lot of heat for his eccentricities. You need particular people capable of forming unusual understandings for that to work. And there would also necessarily end up being limits - there's only so far folks will cover someone else's bets.

The second reason is Musk's ego. I think he'd find a demotion humiliating, and if he's not treated as a Master of the Universe Superhero-CEO, I bet even money he'd behave worse, pick fights with his minders, etc.
> Derailing him to jail time or prison

This was never remotely a concern. The most severe punishment sought was barring him from being a director or CEO of a public company. They settled on a paltry fine and Musk can't be chair. He's still CEO, he's still on the board, and the fine is less than insignificant.

Honestly losing access to his Twitter account is probably the most severe.
Tesla doesn’t need Musk right now.

They need a serious executive from a former car company who has experience in quiet, deliberate execution. Lots of companies are making cars without anywhere near the same levels of fanfare.
It isn't particularly controversial that IQ has a genetic component. What is controversial are other conclusions derived from that. Saying that something is controversial is often used as a rhetorical device to add credibility to arguments that aren't conclusive.
It's part of the settlement:

> Tesla will establish a new committee of independent directors and put in place additional controls and procedures to oversee Musk’s communications;
But also with the standard problems of a new language, a small ecosystem and immature tooling.
It would matter if there were someone else in the company in a position of higher authority who could say "no" to something Elon wanted to do, even if it only happened rarely.
>There were zero consequences.

Excuse me? Fuld was canned and his equity was wiped out. In what way was Musk "crucified"? Seems to me he got off easy.
Yes! 4 litres is probably bit extreme. You should drink about 2-3 litres. It is also important to drink plenty of water to avoid kidney stones.

You mentioned your pee colour is on the extreme side. You should probably get yourself scanned for kidney stones. Kidney stones can go undetected for ages.
Damn, Sweet 40mil extortion by SEC
If he wasn’t chairman, they couldn’t have taken that away from him in the settlement, so he might have suffered a different punishment.
He’s lost control of the board.

Which means they have the ability to remove him as CEO.
Earning $50,000 in Less Than 3 Years Selling a Niche Online Course
...for three years, anyways.
If I was an institutional investor I'd be pissed he's not out as CEO.

Musk is talented at start-ups but has been a disaster at running scaled up companies. His risk taking on Model 3 assembly line automation nearly sunk Tesla and could still do do. BFR could sink SpaceX, it's a rocket for Mars colonization without a customer.

I'm a huge fan of his accomplishments but the risk taking coupled with the erratic behavior is too much. His boards should kick him out.
Lots of companies are making cars without anywhere near the same levels of fanfare.

I don't know much about the auto industry, and don't really follow Tesla, but I do know that Tesla stock is worth almost an order of magnitude more than General Motors.
It means he can be fired.
I've seen the three lines adorned with a bun and some lettuce.
> Derailing him to jail time or prison would be a net loss for humanity, however objectively and legally inconsistent it may be.

I hate this perspective. As a member of humanity, I want everyone to face equal justice, no matter how pivotal to a particular project or movement they may be. There will always be more visionaries.

Anything else will eventually and inevitably lead to violence.
What?? The Dutch Goose is the Cheers of Silicon Valley. C'mon people, geeze.
non-amp link: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-bucks-of-woodside-b...
everyone would did what he said right?

You'd get into even more trouble with the SEC if you ran a public company where the executives and officers are not what you claim they are but are stand-ins for someone else.
The leaf generator part of this would be extremely cool for the 3D games/graphics industry - I've been wanting to try and write and implementation of something like that would work as a plugin to Allegorthmic Substance Designer. If you could export black/white masks of both the leaf shape and the vein structure together you'd be able to procedurally generate fancy leaves for foliage cards really quickly.

I saw a cool demo of procedural leaf creation in Substance a while back (https://80.lv/articles/foliage-generation-in-substance-desig...), but it still depended on creating the leaf mask and veins through a pretty laborious process. Something like this could be used to feed into the front of that and offer a huge number of procedurally generated variations.
That was my favorite feature about the n900 (predecessor to n9) - sms, skype, hangouts, whatever? They were all accessible in one place in a merged thread. Really enjoyed it.
> If this software helped kill Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi or Ayman al-Zawahiri, it would have a hugely positive impact upon the world.

You can take a longer view that in 2000 control of the the US Military was handed over to a bunch of Neocons who then used it to murder about two million people. One can think of the US military as being akin to keeping a loaded machine gun in the same house at a demented shit for brains 13 year old boy.
Dude Chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature.
Aww man... sorry to hear Woodside Bakery closed. That place had the best pastries. Great place to bike ride to and get a treat halfway through your ride.
I don't see many independent bloggers these days. Especially outside of the tech community. Most of it feels like it's becoming hidden behind monetized walled gardens.
It could also be throttling via the cellular provider or ISP. Try with a VPN and see if it still happens.
On its face this study doesn’t seem controversial, but it’s easy to see how people can find confirmations of their own biases in it. For example when discussing race and gender.
This is really gorgeous. The end result on the cups in particular really shines.

I hadn't heard of Processing before. Seems like a cool tool
with a ton of packages. This project inspired me to check it out! Some awesome example projects, too.
They likely would’ve just pushed for more independent board members.

It’s very clear what the SEC has done. Which is send a warning sign that this is Musk’s last chance before he is fired.

I don’t think they wanted to punish him any more than that.
> a pun on SQLite.

And a bad one at that.

I normally don't chime in on HN, but this pun is a crime against humanity.
To those downvoting, he didn't accept the previous deal, presumably this one is more to his liking. What other explanation is there besides the SEC giving ground?
The MPIs are set up as director-driven research organizations. There is one person, typically a very prominent scientist, that oversees a group of junior faculty (who I believe have only fixed term positions---i.e., no possibility of tenure). Unlike most university settings, where each faculty member controls their research program independently, the Max Planck Institutes add another level to the hierarchy.
I do find it interesting that duck.com contains a link to DuckDuckGo.
It's the very same thing that struck me right away. The English is off, even though I understood perfectly well what the author intended to communicate. Then it clicked, he's Norwegian, and most assuredly English is a second language.
One advantage is you can build up your data and different apps can re-use that data. Presumably you have to grant permission to use that data but apps could easily ask for access to much more data than it needs? This seems a little dangerous because people just say "Yes" when they want to use something. Or does it have a strategy for dealing with this?
Once I spoke to a colombian on Omegle, he suddenly left say 'WTH' and came back saying someone stabbed his car tires. No apparent reason. He said it wasn't uncommon there.
Ahh thank you. I'm not a bitcoin fanatic but it does strike me as a workable idea.
Elon is worth $20b [1]. $20m is 0.1% of his net worth. That's like a $1000 fine for someone who has "only" $1m. I have quite a bit less than $1m and a $1000 fine, while not nothing, would make me cranky for a week or a two but have almost no material impact on my life.
I don't really know what it says about the CEO of a company if they basically have to put him under supervision. He's not a kindergartner.

I feel this reliance on Musk as a face of the company is increasingly the biggest selling point of the company, which will be unhealthy in the long run.
offshore prohibition, interesting. Or reverse opium war, also interesting.
I work outdoors every day when it’s warm enough, from a hammock. I use a 13” MBP. As long as you’re in the shade it’s great.

Polarized sunglasses help as well, and I have a color scheme for my terminal that’s dark-on-light that I switch to when it’s bright.
I didn’t mean to be snarky and I apologize for the comment out of hand. I actually agree with you that a representational government is much better than submitting to the whims and passions of the mob.

However in the case of things like brexit vote, it really does seem like it’s the elites versus the common folk battling out what their vision for what the country should look like.
Here's a few designs: https://designmodo.com/hamburger-menu-icons/
He did just pay for his mistakes, so everyone (except Elon) is a winner here.

Elon needs someone to act as a brake from time to time. Like shotwell at SpaceX..
Please just say "Chinese" :)
I agree that he has gone a bit lunatic recently, but everyone was praising him just a year ago.

I feel like a lot of recent hate has to do with his erratic behavior in recent year. But, lets just look back at 2017 - everyone was praising him for his leadership.

A few PR incidents and now all of a sudden he is incapable as a CEO?
I think you are being too harsh on the guy. He says at the outset that this is his first "real" job and it is clearly the first time he has worked on something where he was able to see a larger picture than the one directly in front of him.

When you are doing a problem in differential equations where you are calculating the inflow of a contaminant and water and trying to find the point where the equations solve for a steady state level of contamination. Nobody tells you this is what you do if you want to poison a lake and kill the fish with out killing off possibly other marine life. Its just a numbers problem.

People reach an adult understanding of the world at different times. In my experience and in stories others have told me, it all rings very similarly. Suddenly one's actions in the "real" world have real implications and effects and that opens up an entirely different way of looking at things. It is simultaneously exhilarating and terrifying. I think of this as one step past the one where you realize while driving that you could just simply drive into the oncoming traffic and create a huge pileup (and no doubt die in the process, no I'm not suicidal, it is the realization that it is only your will to not do that, that prevents it from happening.) This next step is "what I'm doing in my day to day life can be used to, or enables, this wide range of things, not all of which are good or moral. One of my cohorts at Google (the group of people that all start the same week have a built in social group) came to me in a panic when they suddenly understood the implications of what they were building. (It was an internal tool). And they didn't like it at all, and they were conflicted because they loved the project and the team, everyone was super smart and great fun to work with, but the tool ... that was not something they felt they could be associated with. I shared with them choices like that which came up in my career and how I chose to deal with them. (in general I've been able to tolerate usual and cursory sleaziness but have a line where I won't cross. At that point I choose to work elsewhere). This person transferred to a different group and was much happier, and it must have worked as they are still at Google as far as I know.

So when I read the article I heard someone who was waking up to the realization that "oh crap, the world isn't run by other people, its run by me and my friends here." and being overwhelmed at the sudden responsibility of it all. Give the guy credit for opening his eyes, and offer him a beer as he joins the rest of us trying to navigate life choices knowing that nearly every one we make impacts others in both positive and negative ways.
Musk to step down as Tesla chairman, pay $20mn fine as settlement with SEC
You just need to incapacitate them not kill them.
That’s not how this works.

DOJ is responsible for charging Musk with a crime not the SEC.

And it could still happen.
Is this the most expensive tweet in the world?
I disagree. Musk is the face of the company and the brand. Consumers will be less interested if he's ousted against his will and no longer involved. Tesla might not die, but I don't think they'd be as successful without him.
Does this support HTTPS?

I'm building an app using Bottle as the framework and getting HTTPS to work properly (with a proper certificate) has been a nightmare. I think I fixed it after a full day of research and tinkering yesterday.

This app is super small... maybe 5 users simultaneously, so I don't need the overkill of Django or integrating with something on Apache or Nginx.

REMI looks pretty straightforward and lightweight; even without HTTPS it looks useful... I'll give it a whirl and keep it in my bag of tricks!
Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. It's possible, and much better, to correct misinformation without attacking someone for being wrong. Even if you don't owe that person better, you owe it to the community you're participating in.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I was responding more to the sentiment than this to particular case. Glad Musk was held accountable.
Can you provide the title/author of this book?
This is just called good governance. CEO and president should be separate roles. We’ve consistently seen bad governance when they are merged
Elon Musk to step down from Tesla
Derailing him to jail time or prison would be a net loss for humanity, however objectively and legally inconsistent it may be.

I have nothing against Musk but this is an awful argument. You are simply not in a position to opine on what is a net gain or loss for humanity, so you're arguing that we should make decisions based on the best imaginable future outcome because he already has some notable achievements. Without commenting on the guy at all, please just reflect that almost any wealthy business person has a PR team that not only highlights the person's positive qualities, but works hard to disseminate those opinions in public to maximize the value of the person's reputation.
Ask HN: Are there any resources that monitor bad companies?
I am currently trying to see if there are any sites apart from news sites that collect information on how a company has been performing in terms of:

- Staff treatment / culture
- Environment
- Political influencing
- Legal compliances / litigation

There are many individual sites for specific things like glassdoor.com (working environment), however environmental things are much more difficult.

I saw there was a product on kickstarter called "impakt " which was a browser extension, but it seems like it is now dormant.

Any suggestions?
Yep, browsing habits include:

On medium.com or affiliated site: 40% chance of BS.

Blank page with JS disabled: Built by people who would love 5 GB web pages; 80% chance of BS.

"Please disable your ad blocker": Only people who love ads are real people; 90% chance of BS.

"You seem to be offline." Built by idiots; 100% chance of BS.
I love the Dune reference
> It assumes moral absolutism: that certain killing is bad and certain is good, but good or bad for whom? The CIA tried to kill Castro multiple times, but he's a hero to the people of Cuba. I'm sure people in the USA would've applauded this, but Latin America would've mourned and been furious.

Considering the horrific things Castro did to the Cuban people[1] and how he almost started nuclear armageddon[2], the world would have been better off if he had been overthrown (and possibly killed) as early as possible.

> Is the US government the best judge to decide who lives and who dies?

No, and nobody in this thread is arguing that. The US military is an extremely flawed organization, and any military is a blunt tool. Even when the US goes into a country with the best intentions (a rare occurrence), lots of innocent people will be killed. It's good that we continually raise the standards we hold our military to. It wasn't that long ago that people were fine with carpet bombing population centers. Now we recognize that such acts are abhorrent. The same is not true for other governments and leaders. So to answer your question: I don't think the US government is the best judge, but it's a lot better than the alternatives (such as the PRC or Russia). It's also a better judge than the people it tries to kill, such as Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and Ayman al-Zawahiri.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Cuba

2. https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/26/opinion/how-castro-held-t...
And also that the majority of techies here work for companies either directly or indirectly ad supported. I include myself in that group and I use as blockers.
Ask HN: How can I increase discoverability on my blog without it looking spammy?
Currently each article on my blog is a full-page 'reader view' style document with only a basic site-wide header and footer.

There is nothing to draw visitors' attention to other articles on my site, which I imagine results in a high bounce rate for people who come from Google, etc.

I've tried having 'Next Post' and 'Previous Post' buttons at the bottom of each article but it looked far too spammy and forced in my opinion.

What other solutions could I be missing?
Maybe he sobered up and talked to some attorneys who told him the SEC had him dead to rights and he should go back and agree to settle with them.
Actually I couldn't understand this concept, seems to me he is just afraid of the implications of his theory. If anything I would think that the multiplication of the genetic effect creates much larger differences between groups than between individuals.
It is similiar to sport, people like to watch one on one female sport like tennis or various olympic sports because the effect of them being slightly worst than men doesn't manifest that much. But once you look at team sports like football or basketball it just multiplies and it looks so much worst than the men equivalent.
Would you have sacrificed the Apollo program for that sentiment? Genuine question. I'm conflicted myself.
Pretty sure consumers would be happier about having a car that is available to buy and doesn’t have major quality issues.
University of Wisconsin Calculus 1/2/3 textbooks, GNU public licensed.

https://github.com/fabiohenriquecn/wisconsin-calculus

edit: I guess as of this semester these are no longer being used in classes, they've moved to the online homework / $300 textbook model.
Could you elaborate, I'm not sure what you are describing.
In Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, physiological needs are placed at the foundation. This statement is not that different, since money is the foundation of almost everything a person does in the modern world.

It's not a statement on how things should be, or how we might want them to be. It's just a pragmatic acceptance of the way things are.
Only by share price, which doesn't matter. By market cap, a far better (though still imperfect) measure of company value, GM is worth a little more.

TSLA ~$45.5B

GM ~$47B
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Imagine being the Tesla board or his lawyer. Just yesterday he made a stand that he would never settle and here we are.

I’m assuming over the past 24-48 hours it’s been a full court press of everyone trying to talk some sense into Elon. Glad they succeeded!
OT but why do people refer to him as Elon? I’m assuming you aren’t personal friends with him. So whenever I see someone refer to him as Elon, in faux “first-name terms informality”, it immediately makes them look like they’re part of the fan club and reduces their credibility.
This deal is strictly worse than the one he refused. Fines doubled from 10M to 20M, chairman ban increased from two years to three, new communication review process (not in the original deal), and they still have to install two new board members.
no, Kylie’s Snapchat tweets were almost certainly more expensive (for $SNAP)
The upfront pricing was a relatively recent development -- it's possible the other commenters were talking about a time before that, when there was some variation in what your trip might end up costing.
What I can’t figure out is why stores make it so hard to find any of these games that supposedly exist.

Now, a substantial amount of space is devoted to pre-orders: games that can’t even be played yet!!! How does that help the games currently for sale?

There are lots of positive feedback loops: advertising only the top 10 keeps them (shockingly!) in the top 10 seemingly forever. And the categories suck...why should anyone care which games have made the most money, especially when some in-app purchase lists seem scammy as hell?
The Creamery is right across the street from Caltrain and MUNI. Why drive? Plus, a $3 beer on their patio is a fine way to pass the time to wait until the next train.
Who will be eligable?

I suspect the investors with the best-connected lawyers will get payouts, which they will then share with the aforementioned best-connected lawers.
You can’t make these statements. Net worth is not the same as liquid assets.

Most of his net worth is likely tied up in stock. Which he can’t exactly sell.
The stocks aren't really comparable. If you liquidated the companies GM would bring in many times Tesla. Tesla's value comes with a huge risk premium. Tesla was very close to going under a few months ago and it could still do so, if it doesn't execute right.
One peculiarity of the academic system (true to some extent in start-ups) is that people transition from researchers to managers without any real training or evaluation of their proclivity for management. While you may be a spectacular researcher, that does not mean that you have the disposition, skill, or compassion to be an effective leader. Of course, some are naturals and many others get ample experience in labs where there's a hierarchical structure. Still, the utter lack of evaluation and reflection on group dynamics, productivity, etc., strikes me as a real weakness for the way that we currently organize academic research.
I'm not particularly a fan of Musk, but the purported objective of SEC enforcement is to protect investors. If (as I read a day or two ago) the stock plunged on news of enforcement, then it's reasonable to question whether punishing him makes sense. Are the stockholders really better off with less (or no) Musk? Maybe, but does the SEC know better than the market? In any case, I'm not sure how or if "equal justice" is relevant.
For illegal gasoline? Yeah totally.

Buying illegal gasoline only makes sense for some individuals in transportation because in Mexico there is no fiscalization on a large portion of the economy (street vendors for example).

Big transportation companies couldn't do it. They need to justify expenses, get invoices, etc. A couple of years back it was easy to get fake invoices since everything was on paper, but there was a reform in 2016 and now all invoices are electronically signed by the Mexican IRS.