skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I certainly have, my sister and brother in law were also Portland Scooter rats. Lot of my friends are also motorcycle rats. Thing about scooters and motorcycles is the maintence is heavy. One of the two reasons I've stayed away from them. (The other is an intense dislike for noise)

Electric Scooters seem like they should be quiet and just work.
It is not true that everyone was praising him a year ago. There were very serious execution concerns being raised then.
You could also be "fated" to begin achieving the things you want tomorrow. The universe being deterministic doesn't mean that you personally know your own future. Our predictions for ourselves are likely to be wrong in many ways. We can't know until we try.

It's a balance to both accept reality as it is while also striving to achieve things that we didn't know for sure were possible (or that we hadn't even conceived of yet!).

It seems that we must carefully straddle the boundary between the known and the unknown. Of course, this will look different for everyone.
“The proceeds will be distributed to harmed investors”.

Tesla is a speculative investment, and it is largely one of backing Musk, an unpredictable but seemingly brilliant engineer come businessman.

I’d much rather see the $40m distributed to people who really need the money, ie the homeless etc.

I’d imagine $30m of this $40m will go straight back to investment banks. Hardly a group who “need” the money.

Edit: downvoted, wtf?
Europe’s Oldest Intact Book Was Preserved and Found in the Coffin of a Saint
Not the OP but having followed Musk for a long time, I think his ego is enormous and that PayPal anecdote doesn't change that. Few people are more sensitive to criticism than Musk.
A couple comparisons of Trix to other similar modern in-browser rich text editors (both by folks who prefer other choices over Trix, not because I have anything against Trix, that's just what I found first while trying to understand how Trix compares in this ecosystem)

[0]https://quilljs.com/guides/comparison-with-other-rich-text-e...

[1]https://thib.me/why-wagtail-new-editor-is-built-with-draft-j...
This is going to burn a lot of shorts come monday.

If you guys want a good chuckle at how wrong so many on HN were two days ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18088099

When it comes to musk and even facebook/google/etc, there is a toxic mix of journalists' hate and a targeted campaign by other groups ( I don't know whether it is short sellers or whatever ). It's ridiculous the amount of absurd hate musk got for a simple tweet. Some even claimed he might go to jail for it.
In what way is he a brilliant engineer? He’s not designing the cars and the rockets. He helped make PayPal over 20 years ago.
For one the original proposed settlement apparently had a 2 year ban (don't know if it only applied to the chairman title or CEO as well), and him stepping down was meant to happen within a 60 day period.
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.

The vast majority of Fortune 500 companies don't have celeb CEOs who make official announcements through their personal twitter accounts.

Warren Buffett doesn't compose his letters to shareholders in 30 seconds from his cell phone while he's on the toilet. He probably runs them past a handful of people and waits a few days to look at them with a fresh pair of eyes before he sends them out, like a college student would with their thesis.

This is normal CEO behaviour.
I think the answer to that is no and the reason involves entropy. Of all the possible universes most have very low probability, so when we "create" a bunch of parallel universes for our computer, those universes could already be existing which would interfere with the calculating (not in the sense of slowing it down because of too many things running on it, more like a radio channel with lots of interference from nearby channels), but this won't happen in practice as these universes will have very low corresponding probability.

On the other hand there is self interference, from poor engineering of the computer. I think this is a very significant problem now - but it will usually be described in terms of decoherence.
The author appears to disagree with your assessment in the previous article that is linked at the start:

Because I had written my Rust naively (and my C carefully), my hope was that the Rust would be no more than 20% slower — but I was braced for pretty much anything. ... my naive Rust was ~32% faster than my carefully implemented C.
> Why drive?

Besides the usual arguments against public transit, such as schedule inflexibility, comfort, and cost[1], there's overall trip time.

Unless your other endpoint is similarly close to a Caltrain "bullet" stop (and one is taking such a "bullet" train), driving takes less time on a typical day (and always during any off-peak period).

[1] Primarily for ad-hoc trips, and especially acute for dual-occupancy cars. For two people, Lawrence Caltrain to the Creamery would cost $19 more by train than incremental cost of driving. (Ignoring parking costs.. which, if more than $24.50 near the Creamery would, indeed, wipe out the savings).
You have to know what to engineer, which is something most intelligent people are really bad at.

This is why people like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk succeed.
There are specific things that are the role of the top level executives, like certifying the company's SEC reports. But I'm not sure how having someone other than Musk independently and competently do those things would be expected to hurt anything.

Meanwhile, wouldn't it be completely normal and legitimate for a company to give the VP of Engineering or Operations a free hand in making engineering or operations decisions?
Do you really believe he couldn't raise 4-5 billion by calling friends at Google who share his vision? He wouldn't want to dilute his holdings, but if push came to shove he'd do it.
>I don't know, the older days also had IRC, messaging apps, internet forums and BBS systems too, and my experience is that the people on the last two tended to be more... mature than the kinds on social media sites.

Social media is just about as mainstream as the telephone now. Everyone who was on those forums and BBS systems and IRC is probably also on social media.. along with their parents and kids. The web long ago got too big to draw narrow demographic conclusions about. And everything you mentioned apart from BBS is still around.

I mean, my elderly mother uses Facebook and I wouldn't call her "obsessively upvote/view focused." She is obsessed with sharing pictures of her grandkids doing everything, though...
SEC is not in the business of redistribution. If you'd rather see that, then maybe you can ask the government to put more money for social services.
There is nothing a traditional car company CEO would bring to the table that Tesla would need.
All initiatives that Tesla is aiming for needs a visionary workaholic like Elon.
Tesla needs Elon. He is irreplaceable.
I've found it amusing that a few news sites disable their atrocious autoplaying videos (and often, the preview window that follows you when you scroll an article) when they detect ad blocking or tracking protection.

They're purposely giving me a better experience for blocking, rather than an inferior one.

But I guess the metrics must show or are being interpreted to show that most users prefer the obnoxiousness.
I was being facetious. No one thinks we're taking about Kimbal.
Well, I guess we just asked the opposite question: Is there any reason to keep this sub-surface any longer, and we didn't find any such reason... :-)

So, it is just "release early, release often". So, the code and the spec has been out there for a long time. I mean, some of this stuff is really old. Us geeks have been thinking about decentralized social networking since the dawn of ages, and it seems like the rest of the world is starting to wake up to its necessity too. So, I think the timing is pretty OK now.

Like, Linux didn't come with a well-polished example either... It wasn't even intended to out-do Minix. :-)

I guess you could say that we could say even more clearly that this is a prototype, and we have a roadmap where it will stay a prototype for some time. But we are seeing people finding it interesting that we're actually not trying to engineer something from the ground, we are seeing what kind of impact we can have with pretty well tested Web technologies. I suspect we have a lot less development to do to have a great social impact than you'd have to do if went full P2P.

At the same time, there is a large graveyard out there of failed decentralized social networks, so we are under no illusion that this is going to be easy. It is going to be pretty hard.

Still, I don't see any reason why we should be sub-surface any longer.
It wasn't just Elon who turned that down, it was put to a vote and "More than 86 million shares voted against the proposal at a shareholder meeting in June, while fewer than 17 million voted in favor, Tesla said."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-musk-blackrock/blac...
"Swarm technology" is heavily used in professional content distribution in the entertainment industry. I'll just leave it at that, I don't think my former employer would be happy if I elaborated more. :-)
And correct me if Im wrong but isnt Paypal number two right after Comcast the most hated technology related company in the world? I mean the internet is full of horrible stories of Paypal stealing peoples money and freezing life founds bankrupting many small businesses.
Settling was clearly intelligent. My only fear now is that he'll tweet something dumb in the near future and get the SEC hammer dropped on him.
Astronomers Have Found a Strange Neutron Star That “Shouldn't Exist”
This is probably due to the atrocious state of causal inference in tracking within the digital industry generally.
It's one of the UK's leading broadsheets with nigh on 200 years behind it. Reasonable and valid complaints about mainstream media aside, this is about as legit as it gets!
Eh, it’s not that significant. Elon is someone whose reputation precedes him wherever he goes, and that’s where most of his influence comes from.
There was almost nothing on the WWW, gopherspace was still the big thingy, and many folks still had their email hand-delivered via UUCP.
I seriously wonder if Musk thought this up to catch people short over the weekend, by leaking that he didn't want to settle on Friday and then settling over the weekend.

As long as he got his "friends and family board" he probably will do what he has been doing. I doubt 2 new directors will be able to control him.
I’m pretty sure he picked up rocketry when bootstrapping spacex, and he certainly knows a lot about EVs.

His ability to decompose highly technical objects (rockets, cars) and re-consider the economics supporting them to make them viable is impressive.

I may have overstated him being a “brilliant” engineer, but “very good” would seem to be an understatement.

Engineering is as much about designing things for resiliency as it is about designing things to be economically viable.
Agree I think that used to be the case when torrents were a major source of traffic- now it’s more likely to be a family with a couple of gamers, Netflix users etc who are using up all the bandwidth
My humble opinion is that Tesla without Musk is worth a small fraction of its current valuation. It's a tiny car manufacturer in a world of hyper-competitive giants, and the only thing that kept it afloat is Musk's incredible drive.
It's probably a blessing in disguise for Musk, who was clearly stretching himself too thin across too many responsibilities.

It's not like he will be any less influential where it matters. Merely running a company probably isn't Musk's most valuable contribution to Tesla. This will give him more ability to focus on engineering matters.
I would be happy to accept denied access to most sites before loading their content.

It'd be cool if browsers could send some sort of do not track header, that sites could then use to refuse to serve you any content.

Assuming that they actually do want none of those users to consume their content in that way.
Irony is he will probably burn more shorts with this announcement than he did with the initial set of tweets... and the SEC helped him do it this time around!
I don’t want anyone to be custodian of my data since a hard drive costs so little and my data is supposed to be so valuable. There is always an incentive to break in and steal it. or just use it in unscrupulous ways like tge multitrillion dollar grift system we call the tech industry does daily.
I understand the delineation. But understanding it doesn’t make it right.
> Or am I totally wrong?

You are right. In most public companies, it would matter greatly since the chairman is the most powerful person in the company ( CEO reports to the chairman ). But as you noted, musk is the largest shareholder, but more importantly other large shareholders ( especially the institutional shareholders ) back him. So he would be in charge regardless. But removing him from the chairman is optically damaging, so it's not insignificant. It matters, but not as much as it would normally.
E-mail is currently useless for me.
people have been talking about going through and unsubscribing from things.

NOT counting the spam folder i have 52,541 unread emails.

I am not going through all of that to click a bajillion unsubscribes considering i never actually chose to receive email from 99% of the people / companies sending me email.

I'd forgotten about the whitelist strategy. I'd written it off as obnoxious to the sender, but as i am reminded of this years later i'm thinking it's more obnoxious for me to never respond to people, partially because i miss their emails, and partially i don't bother looking most of the time because there's too damn much to deal with.
I traded in an 8 year old POS and bought the model 3 yesterday. Elon and his team are headed in the right direction regardless of this drama.
Does anyone remember a particular DOS programming guide that dove deep into the internals, distributed as textfiles written by a single author on contract from (I believe) the US Navy?
Makes some sense.
This is a pretty mild punishment compared to the sorts of things the SEC has the power to do, like getting Musk banned for life from any executive position in any company, forcing him to get rid of all his ownership in Tesla, and fining him many billions of dollars.

That the SEC settled so quickly and for so little makes me think they believed they couldn't get any more to stand up in court. I assume that Musk refused a more harsh earlier settlement because he was aware of this. So he played chicken with the SEC, and the SEC backed down.

It would be really good, though, if Musk learned a lesson from all this and decided to be more responsible in his communications.
By that logic, America was not justified in attacking Germany during WWII.

Countries have several good reasons to invade other countries. They can come to the defense of their allies. Or they can invade to stop genocide, such as in the Kosovo War. There's also the idea of a preemptive war, though in practice that is usually a pretext.
HiSense A6 is a new smartphone with an EInk screen
Use the WebEx Productivity Tools extension for Outlook. Whenever I used WebEx with a client I supported, I would open up a new meeting in my calendar, type them a personal message, then click an "Add to WebEx" button and it'd automatically put all the necessary call information at the bottom of the invite. It'd be from the company email and I'd receive replies/notices of acceptance directly.
Coded Language
I think you might be misinterpreting the way I used the word our, you could replace it with the and my comment would have the same meaning.

I am not inferring global ownership of the US government.
I can't recall anyone referring to Steve Jobs as Steve in discussions. Did people do that?
The missing piece is safe browser or app integration. If I link to a torrent movie I download some weird torrent file or get a magnet link, so open them I have to download some malware off sourceforge or whatever comes up when I google torrent downloader, and then when I finally get the files I get a bunch of crap with them, and maybe some malware.
> I find that mailing lists are such a poor medium for discussion that I participate in zero of them today.

Which doesn't really answer the question why, does it?

> This statement is often met with nerd rage on HN (“why wouldn’t you want to deal with mailing lists?!”) but it’s something you’ll just have to understand

It's impossible to understand it if people don't explain themselves.

> or take for granted if you are going to understand what people want from a Github competitor, for example.

I personally don't care for a Github competitor that has the same terrible usability as Github, so I am not sure I'd be willing to take for granted some unjustified demand for bad usability.
"nothing" Is overstating it. While this doesn't guarantee that the legit item gets to the customer, I feel confident that the real seller will usually win that race.

In order for the counterfeiter to win, the counterfeiter would have to get the fake item with the real number into an Amazon warehouse before the real item arrived. Add to this the fact that the vendor of the real item will be told their item was rejected as dupe, and there's nothing I can see in the program documentation requiring the tags to be sequential, and this raises the bar quite a bit.
Even if they don’t display the ads, I’d expect them to keep tracking.
I have my occasional niggles (mostly about pedantic editing of post titles) but goddamit sometimes I love the mods on HN.
Musk doesn't solve the design problems, but (a la Jobs), he does tell the "real engineers" what problems to solve.

Here's an interview with Tom Mueller, the SpaceX lead propulsion engineer since inception, about (among other things) working with Elon. Note particularly the discussion of "face shutoff", which is an approach to sequencing engine startup which Musk insisted on over Mueller's initial objections, because Mueller thought it would be too hard to make it work in an engine the size of the Merlin. They ultimately did, after blowing up a lot of test hardware. The result was a simpler, lighter, more reliable engine -- which they wouldn't have had if Musk hadn't insisted they try, over Mueller's objections.

https://zlsadesign.com/post/tom-mueller-interview-2017-05-02...
An example is at https://www.tornadoweb.org/en/stable/websocket.html#tornado....
Exactly. It wouldn't have been his place to negotiate, not without chairman approval, and certainly not by himself. There would have been an adult in the room.
If only they didn't use flash for their web app
Maybe curated lists or targeted marketing of stuff people might buy for pets? Maybe training or pet health advice you've collected from experts selling at a low cost? Just brainstorming here.
Eh, we kinda just pull the convention out of thin air based on some combination of their name, other names they might be confused with, what they are widely known as, their preferences, and the rhetorical effect we're aiming for.

I mean, not many people refer to Hulk Hogan as Mr Bollea, or Madonna as Ms Ciccone. But you might refer to Obama as Barack Hussein Obama if you want to draw attention to the fact his middle name sounds like a middle-eastern dictator.
They offer a deal better than they will seek if you force them to go trial. If he fought it I have no doubt they'd have gone for the throat.
Centralization will always be more efficient, generally speaking. Access to a centralized channel for distribution can be prohibitive for many reasons - cost and censorship being the foremost in my mind.
Independent research suggests Oppo and Huawei cheating benchmarks by big margins
You speculated that this deal was more to his liking than the previous one. I was just pointing out how absurd that statement was given that this deal is worse than the other one in every respect.
I feel like there is a subtle pattern of attitudes and behavior that I pick up on from Atlassian. It’s almost as though they don’t get that they need to keep working to innovate and please their customers to stay relevant. Look at what happened to Hipchat, and what I’d argue will eventually happen to JIRA.
Yes, and it sends the data to ddg, but they have tons of keywords ready to use. I usually set my most used keywords directly and let ddg take care of the rest, best of both worlds.
Orwellian as some other companies' business models, but worse in some respects.
> "it's not all natural talent, you must also work hard and persevere!"

I understood this to mean that to achieve your full potential ( naturally given potential ), you have to work hard and persevere.

A kenyan long distance runner might have a natural potential far greater than everyone else, but he still has to train to reach his natural potential.

> Is the ability to work hard and the mental fortitude not to give up not also something dictated by our genetics?

Genetics may predispose you to working harder and being mentally strong, but that's something you can change through hard work. You can't grow to be 7'5" like yao ming by working hard. You can't run as fast usain bolt by working hard. There are natural/genetic/physical limits. And there are natural predispositions.

I'm not a geneticist or a biologist so take it with a grain of salt.
> most users prefer the obnoxiousness

Most people aren’t looking to read the news- they’re bored and looking for entertainment. So they LOVE all this crap that autoplays, especially when it queues up more clickbaity crap that sounds more interesting than today’s headlines.
Yep, an entirely valid point and the reason I called myself an idiot - I used my real name and my email and I stupidly assumed I'd have some immediate control over public visibility, or at worst, the ability to undo what I'd entered or nix the thing entirely.

Given the sign-up asks for both details and I assumed there might be some potential for further use here for a platform created by a trusted party, I unthinkingly stumbled with the minimum.

I usually - which is to say always - don't, but here did.

Not looking for sympathy or sanctimony, just relaying my experience.
I disagree. Musk is to Tesla what Jobs was to Apple. Not in the same way ofc. but in the same sense.
If Tesla lost Musk now it would likely be damaging to the company in similar ways as it was to Apple in the years after Jobs departure in 1985.
>Integrity, being surrounded by loving people, being in good health, having the freedom to be all that you are. Those are all more important from my perspective.

Sure, because you don't have to worry about where your next meal is coming from. As soon as the risk of death due to starvation or exposure to the elements is real, your priorities are going to change real quick.

More than anything, we have to survive. Money is how we do that today.
> 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.

And there it is: the blind ideology that drives this madness. Any rational analysis of the last 50 years would show the US is far, far more dangerous than China, Russia and terrorism combined. The US has slaughtered millions of innocent people across the globe in the last twenty years. China has lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty in that time.

The real lesson here of course is that true evil is absolutely convinced of its own righteousness and totally ignorant of real world facts. That evil is something many are all too happy to join.