skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi! You're part of today's Lucky 10000.

CBS, whose 'B' stands for 'Broadcasting', historically has used electromagnetic radiation ("radio waves") to transmit a variety of media, more-or-less continuously, for many decades. As a result, they have become known for publishing large amounts of content under a fairly permissive and flexible scheme.

Since CBS's content is already widely publicized, by the nature of broadcasting, CBS is effectively but one of many republishers of their already-broadcast media. While CBS is free to charge a premium for access to their archives, there's no good reason why other members of the public must charge or force users to jump through hoops.

I will grant you that the law gives CBS some ability to remove competitors from the market, but since CBS does not charge for access to their initial broadcasting, it does not follow that delayed rebroadcasts which do not charge are inherently violating the spirit of copyright. It seems particularly insulting to imagine that my entitlement to something broadcast decades ago might rest solely on whether or not I had remembered to program the VHS tape deck as a teenager.
Elon Musk settles with SEC: $20M fine, quit as chairman, hire 2-Directors
I mean that in certain areas we've recognized and pay tribute to the importance of visualization. But then we fail to make the connection and realize that the same mechanics apply to everything.

It's mainly the projection of fear, really. Fear of not fitting in, not having a roof over your head or food on the table, of war, disease, terrorists and so on.

It's tricky business to snap out of the collective psychosis, it took me 35 years and I still probably wouldn't have if life hadn't thrown me a banana peel in form of a serious accident.

Somewhere deep inside I'm sure almost everyone knows what they would really want to do. But it's too painful, the contrast hurts and it's emotionally tangled up with all the other things that we're not supposed to think about. So we "forget", to fit in.

Oh, mostly nostalgia at this point :) I was in the startup circle for a while, and I've been writing code for more than 32 years. But the only kind of coding that feels worthwhile to me these days is exploring better ways of writing code [0].

https://github.com/codr4life/snabl
I'm not sure I understand, can you explain?
Reading that article conjured up some bad memories. I once as a grad student tried out for a big name scientist working at the LHC. The professor was harsh and abrasive, and while he called out bullshit, which was good and great, he also was extremely harsh and toxic in his criticism. I once attending a group meeting where everyone was walking on eggshells to avoid pissing him off. I remember as one of the more senior group members talking faster and faster as the professor tried to ask her whether she had finished some analysis. At that point I decided to leave and do something else, which ended up being the right decision both personally and scientifically (although the prof got promoted, their specific SUSY search ended up being unfruitful, and of course, the LHC didn't find evidence of SUSY).

Especially given the LHC's current negative results for physics beyond SM, is it not surprising few particle physicists are willing to confront the issues regarding SUSY's negative results? How many other leading scientists at CERN are like that and intimidate anyone who would dare to question them?

I guess this post did turn into a sort of a dig at CERN, but I think a more broader point is not only do these toxic people make everyone miserable, but they hamper science too when the bosses are abrasive AND end up being wrong. So, the whole argument of "abrasive => calls out BS => makes them effective managers" like that which was in the discussion about Linus is undermined.
The settlement can be read here: https://www.axios.com/elon-musk-sec-reach-settlment-729596aa...
>That legalizing drugs would make the cartels and the violence disappear.

I'm super skeptical of this argument. My sense is that they'd just diversify into other industries and create their own black markets - and it seems they're already doing this.
It's not controversial that the large intelligence differences between cats, dogs and chimpanzees are genetic. Nobody says that in the right environment and nurture a cat will become as smart as a chimpanzee.

But somehow it's very controversial that the small intelligence differences between humans might be genetic, as if a species has a fixed IQ number, and the only IQ jumps are strictly between species, but not between individuals.
Isn't it insanely complex and difficult to get some music sounding professional, refined and diminished? Not to mention the cost of equipment... Only from watching friends trying to get their music published, and even after paying big names in the industry it was still rubbish..
Does it have any protection from malicious js on another site (say a bad ad on a news site) connecting to your application?

I have seen some applications like this, but they fail to check the origin header.
FTA, the stolen gas money already is as good or a bigger source of money than the drugs
It is an improvement considering the last time we had multiple powers we saw minor countries get carved up by major countries and the whole thing eventually flare up in a war that spanned continents, between major countries, and killed millions.

Even the two power order of the Cold war just meant double the problems - the USSR had its fair share of adventures.
Ouch 20million for a drunken tweet
I've been something of a full stack developer for about 10 years now, my bread and butter being Python and c#, with a background in c++. The handful of times I've tried writing a web based UI for python and c# applications have been exercises in frustration.

Web is a cancer on tech. A giant, bloated, broken mess, built emergently, without any cohesiveness or vision. Simple applications come with hundreds of external dependencies, many of which regularly release breaking updates. It is simply impossible to consistently find up to date documentation on best usage for many of these libraries because of the speed with which the space moves, not necessarily toward anything good. Not to mention the incredibly dangerous nature of such a loosly typed language like JavaScript.

In my opinion, the whole system needs to be burnt to the ground to make way for something cleaner, safer, and more secure.

Then again, maybe I'm just biased by my preference for backend coding.
But he'll still be CEO?
I also wrote a post on my experience with Wim Hof technique: https://medium.com/the-mission/a-year-of-cold-showers-662ec6...
Tesla’s Elon Musk settles with SEC, will pay $20M and resign as board chairman
A bit anticlimactic. The only reason the SEC brought charges publicly was because Musk refused the first settlement offer (with similar conditions) anyways.
And loss of the Chairman’s job!
There was an interesting podcast episode with Nuitka creator, Kay Hayden, a month ago on TalkPythonToMe : https://talkpython.fm/episodes/download/172/nuitka-a-full-py...

Kay Hayden does not bother to appear nice, and has some strong opinions on things, I liked it a lot
It seems to say 40 million in the header.

Edit: 20 mil for Musk, 20 mil for Tesla.
Consequence yes, failure maybe not, since failure implies lack of success trying to achieve a goal. From my point of view it was never a goal of "society" to avoid that.
$20 million from Musk, $20 million from Tesla.
(self plug) you might want to give pgexercises.com a go. It takes you from beginner up to somewhat advanced with exercises that you can run in the browser.
Yes. Just not chairman and no control over board.
It could have been better. I call the aera of SOAP and CORBA as one of the reasons why Hypermedia formats have been avoided for so long. But that is changing, slowly. The drivers for that are maturing experiences with HTTP-driven APIs. DDD is becoming more important again, especially for organizations, that evolve around service oriented software (and hardware) architectures.

One example, that you find on HNs frontpage right now, is Solid ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18100895 ). Another example is Google's use of JSON-LD for meta data descriptions in HTML pages. And there is Mastodon, making use of vocabularies like ActivityPub.

The best example though, is HTML and your Browser of choice.
Flagged, really?

Didn't rhyme with the HN narrative I guess, probably violated some CoC paragraph.

Ah well, this too shall pass. Just know that from the outside you look very funny when you run in circles chasing your tails.
Makes sense. But I’m not sure inverting is really what you’re doing. It seems to me that the people most effected by this will be people who actually want to reach you - Friends, family, work associates. They’ll have to jump through an extra hoop until they’re on your whitelist. On the other hand the spammers don’t really care if their message hits your particular inbox or not, as you’re just one of very many people they’re sending to. Still a cool solution though, and kudos to you for devising a system that works for you.
EDIT: Nevermind, just saw that he'll remain CEO.
I think this is the best outcome we can have (although there might be other lawsuits from the short sellers).

Elon will learn a hard lesson, there will be a committee and procedures to control his communication channels. He will still be CEO and the spirit of Tesla will be unharmed in the long run.

As much as I see myself as an objective person, Elon is genuine in his passion and his vision. Derailing him to jail time or prison would be a net loss for humanity, however objectively and legally inconsistent it may be.

Edit: The news cycle and PR things have a very short term memory. Just a year ago, people were praising him for his style and overall he was considered an extraordinary leader, CEO and a visionary.
That was quick. Probably for the best, given the obvious trouble overwork has been causing him.

Interesting to note specifically the point about controls on his Twitter account that could’ve prevented this.
So Musk is stepping down as chairman of the board at Tesla, but one thing this doesn't really address is whether he'll remain as CEO. I presume that decision will be made by the new (larger) board of directors?
> blocking ads will harm the industry

Which industry?
Have you heard of the concept of "homomorphic encryption"? It allows someone to perform computations on encrypted pieces of data, without actually ever having access to the raw data itself.

I have no idea how realistic or how "possible" this technology is for in the near future, but this seems to be a great match for technologies like these.
And Rio just had the Summer Olympics.
Im in the same boat, never had a problem managing emails. I get dumped on marketing emails but I make it a commitment to unsubscribe and it doesnt take terribly long. Most marketing spam I get is legit marketing with legit unsubscribe services. For work I just use thunderbirds bayensian junk filter, and spamassassin on mailhost and it works great. Filter out emails for important clients and for automatic system updates from vendors

Gmail does a lot of filtering for me though already. I write a few filter rules if I intentionally want spammy emails, e.g. watching github changes, status on shipments, etc.

My rule of thumb for managing email is thusly

- if the email is read, its done

- if theres 100 spam mail, and the top link is marked read, all ones beneath it are too spammy to delete or remove out of sheer laziness

-if the email is starred, I need to refer back to it, but its not actionable (e.g. welcome email for hosting sites)

- if the email is marked important, defer it for later

I spend very little time on email per day following these rules. I have many filter rules set up so nothing but important emails get to me in designated sections

My rule of thumb for email is thusly

- only look at email 3 or 4 times at most. Once in morning, afternoon, evening.

- send emails asap if it can be done in 5 minutes or tell receipient about a delayed response later for longer actions.

-modify subject titles to reflect status on email thread

- DRY, dont repeat yourself. Send a link instead. Use autoresponders if your on vacation etc

- every month or two, go through all your spam, unsubscribe to everything

- use autotext expanders to write email signatutes if its necessary

-use ctrl + enter to send

- limit yourself to zero to two mouse left clicks per email. If you are doing anymore, you are doing it wrong. E.g. dont organize emails its a waste of time learn to use search and make rich subject email titles.
It's not controversial at all in the scientific community, is it?

If people are talking about political ideology and wishful thinking, rather than science, then that's another matter. As the article says:

> those on the left have tended to see the environment as the critical factor because it ties in with notions of egalitarianism
Netflix doesn't tell me to let everyone else on the internet track me.
I don’t think the point is that there is an obvious right answer, but rather that the existence of formalized (ish) ethics and codes of professional conduct frequently distinguishes the medical profession from software engineering.
> your colleague may be poor at basic searching and not understand the tools which they use

I don't know about you, but this is pretty rude.
At the last Tesla shareholder meeting five months ago, some investors wanted Musk to give up the chairman post (while remaining CEO of course) but he refused:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.apnews.com/amp/386447de1b8a...

Would have saved $40M cash and billions in shareholder value if he’d taken the hint then. Nobody should think themselves that irreplaceable.
No protection, it have to be intended as a full featured, standalone and remotable gui framework
Like the American mafia after alcohol prohibition ended.
At which point you short said index funds and laugh as trillions are wiped off these etfs and index funds in the blink of an eye...weeee
I've found that getting the majority of my news from offline sources helps.

The CBS Evening News eventually ends. The New York Times, and my local papers eventually end.

Internet news sites are geared to make you scroll and click forever to see more ads and slurp more data about you. In order to keep feeding that beast, the selection has to be necessarily be reduced in quality.
Stepping down as chairman is much less of a punishment than stepping down as CEO. Looks like the SEC blinked.
This blew my mind. I'm aware that HN frowns upon such comments, but I just had to take my hat off to you.
Not an expert here, but your metabolic rate depends on how much muscle you have. Losing fat alone is hard. Typically you lose some muscle along the way, unless you try to fight it with weight training.
You don’t really need a degree for that. You can learn that from a book.

As far as interviews, the last three jobs I had.

1. We need you to design a fault tolerant system with no single points of failure. Write out your design on the board.

2. What is your 90 day plan to build a software development department to achieve these initiatives.

3. Here are some issues with our AWS infrastructure and challenges we are having delivering features. How can you help solve them.

Yes, I’m supposedly a hands on developer, but at a certain point in your career, you’re not asked to write a merge sort on the board.
The websocket server needs to check the "Origin" header from the client. The code then needs to know what is expected (eg localhost or 127.0.0.q).
If the origin header is something like "evil.xyz.com", then it needs to reject the connection.
Is there any way that we could receive similar settlement compensations from the President of the US for his morning tweets? I personally lost a few thousands of dollars due to the sudden stock/cryptocurrency market crash as a result of his tweets in the past few months this year...
Tesla, Musk pay $40 mln to settle Tweet charges, Musk to resign as chairman
> Elon will learn a hard lesson, there will be a committee and procedures to control his communication channels.

I am very skeptical of this given Musk's recent Twitter behavior (even after the initial Tweet which started the incident).
Can he remain on the board as a regular board member? It only says he's stepping down as (and forbidden for three years from being) chair.
He's lucky. If he were a small time person he would be in jail by now. SEC only goes after low hanging fruit, so you know that this was an easy case for them. Musk deserves it for his stupidity but SEC isn't any protector of the masses by any means.
Seems possible if you use simple / powerful abstractions (like URL, http) and then open it up (like the web). The online world of 1990 had CompuServe, AOL and was already "won".
Honest question: Does it really matter if he loses the chairman role? Or even if he lost the CEO role? If he was busted down to VP of Engineering he would still be a major shareholder and everyone would did what he said right? He just wouldn't have any "official" corporate leader responsibilities (quarterly calls, etc). Or am I totally wrong?
I have yet to see an adblocker, that removes embedded text that came with the page, like the old days of Google. Maybe that could be a direction.
> Musk and Tesla will each pay a separate $20 million penalty. The $40 million in penalties will be distributed to harmed investors under a court-approved process.

Well, the stock has done somersaults in all directions since then (benefiting both longs and shorts.) I wonder who would be eligible for part of this payout.
I just tried to look at that online to see what it's like.

I was immediately greeted with "You've reached your article limit."

Interesting for a publication I've never read before. I guess my limit is zero.
> chemicals sprayed onto dried plant leaves and smoked.

Huh. Why? What's the point of spraying them on dried plant leaves? Nostalgia?
Posted many times, but only one small previous discussion, from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9885558
People are focusing on the asset comment too much, and IMHO missing the forest for the trees.

Let's add one more word:

Your most important _material_ asset is your ability to produce income.

Bam. No more philosophical/moral connotations. It's almost tautological: your ability to generate material value is your most valued material asset.

It doesn't even have to refer to working as that value generator. If you have enough money in a bank account to live off the interest then that is your most valued material asset!
Richard S. Fuld Jr. and Lloyd Blankfein played significant part of causing US households to lose 14 trillion dollars. There were zero consequences. Musk caused a blip in the value of a tiny 45B market cap company and is crucified for it. Smthng.
The stock will surge on Monday. It cost them $0.

In fact, they’ll make a lot of money by removing the uncertainty.
China Claims More Patents Than Any Country. Most Are Worthless
Perhaps this will result in some 'adult supervision' at Tesla.

I'm skeptical however.
mps-youtube for even more win.

https://github.com/mps-youtube/mps-youtube
> I'm not sure I see the problem. I still can see the quarantined emails.

I completely misunderstood that the quarantine is just a folder next to the inbox. It's the obvious solution, from both a technical and usability point of view, and takes care of all my points.

Thanks for clearing it up.
Agreed. Duck.com redirects to on2.com which, surprisingly, links to DuckDuckGo.

> If you meant to visit the search engine DuckDuckGo, click here.

I wouldn't have expected that from Google.
How much of that is the eternal September of going from something where a tiny niche of the population using a thing to the vast majority?

I don't think there's much structural about Yahoo Answers being what it is. I think it's mostly the population.
you never know, the expanded board might actually be suicidal and choose to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. I don't think they're that deranged, but you never know.
An individual can be trusted in a way an institution never can be.

Alex Jones is somewhat less reputable than the New York Times.

For me, longevity is a leading sign that a source is doing something right.
Joe Rogan – Elon Musk on Artificial Intelligence
Can’t simply legalize cannabis though. Too dangerous, you know.
Why jump to the conclusion that it's all nature? Perhaps upbringing and life-experience also shape motivation and work-ethic.
Wow ok this is a pretty good outcome for TSLA and Elon.
If this is all that's necessary to disable autoplaying video, I'm all in.
The problems with Musk are far more than just his overwork. There’s a lot to work on.

There’s been persistent rumours of serious drug use. His outbursts are erratic and unhinged ie. calling a diver a paedophile on multiple occasions. His private life is extraordinary for a CEO to say the least. He clearly lacks self control ie Twitter and Joe Rogen show. And his I’m the victim attitude towards short sellers, media etc is pretty unparalleled.

I suspect that losing the Chairman position is the last step before being removed as CEO.
What does stepping down as chairman but not CEO entail practically?
Elizabeth Holmes also settled with the SEC, for what it's worth. DoJ investigation ongoing...
What's this bull-shittery supposed to evoke? Sympathy for your lack of understand of copyright law, or your bull-shit entitlement to CBS' content, or just how disconnected you are from content economics?

Ever run a content business? I bet no. Ever run any business? I guess not - fundamental rules of economics relies on a quid-pro-quo transaction that you seem to not understand.

Or, since geniuses like you have cracked the media market - you should start your own channel - where content is free of copyright and there's zero need for return on investment. Apply to YC while you're at it
It harms all the industries where the content is ad supported, which is the majority of the Internet right now. For just what I use every day Facebook, Spotify, Google, almost all news, Youtube, Reddit, and xkcd are all add supported. I get why people don't like ads but it's clearly how an absolutely massive portion of the modern Internet is monetized right now
Regarding security I can't say much, if you plan to use the e-mail professionally I would recommend another provider, as it's still not possible to bulk export e-mails (after many years of asking for that feature). For me, data security includes availability, and if I can't export my e-mails periodically I'd say it's not really secure.
In the Hunt for Quants, One Hedge Fund Held a Global Talent Contest
Keeping it real, many people have ruined their lives over bad tweets.
The institutions of Civil Society in Mexico and the United States are extremely different, both in terms of their scope and adherence to rule of law. Mexican Cartel activity today and organized crime of the post-prohibition era in the United States are not exactly apples to apples.

Edit: I'm probably not being clear ... I don't disagree with your point. You're correct that they diversified. I just don't think it's wise to use that as a good proxy.
The time spent to upgrade a framework is at least partially compensated by the time you save not having to implement functionality provided by the framework. And that's not just overt features of the framework, but also security fixes, compatibility with a broader ecosystem of third-party tools and libraries, and often a less complicated dependency story (compared to cobbling together the features provided by a framework from a few dozen Node modules or the like).

Obviously, there's a break-even point there that's different for every framework and every application. But I think the ongoing popularity of web app frameworks suggests that a lot of people find the tradeoff acceptable.