skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He'd never sell Tesla stock over a $20m fine. It's an important difference as far as he's concerned, because he has openly held a position of not selling his Tesla stock. It's a confidence issue with Tesla and its shareholders.

People in his position often borrow against assets via credit lines or similar instead. He's carrying an $890m misc liability in his wealth analysis by Bloomberg (13.8m shares pledged against personal obligations).[1] That's Musk borrowing for any variety of expensive life purposes (such as putting $100m into the Boring Company), specifically so he doesn't have to sell equity. An obviously slightly risky move when SpaceX is private and Tesla is volatile and unprofitable.

Larry Ellison as one famous example, had a large credit line against his Oracle stock and used it to buy real estate, live lavishly etc. Eventually the liability got big enough - several billion dollars - his accountant strongly encouraged him to pare it down and go on a budget. Ellison though now receives $500m+ per year in dividends from Oracle, and has since wiped out the large liability.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/elon-r-musk/
Latency is different than bandwidth.

I can make a very low latency connection but only delivers at most 1 packet every 10 seconds. It responds in 5 milliseconds say, but it won't let you have another packet for 10 seconds.

Or I can have a high latency connection that delivers a huge amount of bandwidth. It might take 10 seconds to start the firehose, but once it starts, it's a firehose. This is ironically the problem that the internet has with "Bufferbloat", and high bandwidth radio connections in space.

A topological solution would be counting the number of hops. There are internet protocols that do this, it's just that I don't think that BT takes advantage of it.
The particular scam you mention is impossible with an Uber-like platform, as payment is made via the app, and there's no way for the driver to massively increase the fare in the last moments of a ride.

"Well, YMMV"

No, your mileage cannot vary, because it's tracked in the app.
Burgess Meredith's character in The Twilight Zone episode where he portrayed a literate dissident in a totalitarian regime was named Wordsworth.
You can get an upper bound by looking at published interest rates for brokerages, e.g.: https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=1595
Transport routes generally are highly centralised.

Shipping traffic is a case in point. Nothing keeps a ship from travelling anywhere over the oceans ... except that ports and profits are in specific locations. Traffic denssities are high enough that you can track major shipping routes by their sulfur-dioxide emissions on satellite atmosphere visualisations.

Current conditions across the Indian Ocean:

https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/chem/surface/level/ove...

Aircraft flight patterns are similarly concentrated:

https://www.metabunk.org/sk/skitched-20130827-051029.jpg
Yes, I understand how origin verification is done. Nothing stops any other local app to make make a WS connection to this app's server and pretend it is making valid requests while, potentially, executing destructive actions or stealing data.

I understand that the generic answer will be along the lines: "well, if you have local access, you're never safe", but there is zero protection here. Anything local can connect to it and impersonate the "front end".
You can, although the instructions published actually result in you still being root (and using password authentication, erk)

However, privilege separation doesn't really work, even if you go out of your way to become a genuinely non-root user, you can still read, modify and replace system files for example.
Flexxui/flexx: Write desktop and web apps in pure Python
DOJ is still investigating
Elon Musk settles fraud charge, he and Tesla to pay $40M in penalties
Presumably, all or most Xiaomi phones. I've never used one for long, but the lowest backlight level in those I tested (Redmi Note 2, Mi A1, RN5) was comparable to the level 2 or 3 of the Kindle Paperwhite frontlight. (level 1 is a failsafe option since the Paperwhite has no physical buttons, it's not meant for reading, being too dark even for a pitch black room)

That said, I don't think reading in poor lighting conditions is a good idea for your eyes, no matter the technology.
This comment and a few in this thread refer to the concept of "pain".

If it is causing you actual (physical / emotional / psychological / spiritual) pain - why continue to inflict that on yourself? You are in charge of whether or not you choose to use Google, nobody else.

However, I doubt that pain is the clearest or most precise way to express what is happening here. My guess is that a better word would be "frustrated" or "angry" - emotional reactions that are potentially uncomfortable (so, OK, a form of pain), depending on one's capacities and experience. Those reactions are completely and totally valid.

I find it so funny how something so relatively trivial and ephemeral is turned into such a personal affront. Nobody is trying to inflict pain on you with their user interface desicions.
A hypothetical disease that spreads quickly without apparent symptoms but takes a really long time to incubate would be pretty deadly in the current world.

Remember, drug discovery is still not a very scientific process.
My programs/games were all on a separate partition, though. 30GB was _just_ for Windows and drivers.

I didn't check the minimum requirements, but if I had I would have been even more annoyed when 20GB wasn't enough to complete updates.
Dutch answer to Australia's waste crisis
> but only months earlier a very similar trial run from France, MITRA-FR, was dead negative (neutral).

From the article:

A smaller study in France with similar patients failed to find a benefit for the MitraClip.

The study from France:- https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1805374

But that research included many patients with less severe valve problems, the procedure was not performed as adeptly, and the patients’ medications were not as well optimized as in the new study.

In the new trial, 614 patients with severe heart failure in the United States and Canada were randomly assigned to receive a MitraClip along with standard medical treatment or to continue with standard care alone.
------------------

Bottom line it seems like this is a net positive considering the fact the patients were randomized. The only thing to be suspicious of is that Abbott funded the study but it does say that the data was reviewed by outside experts.
I’m not sure this comment is entirely fair if we consider they’re responding to a comment which refers to the wider internet, multiple times.

> It harms all the industries where the content is ad supported, which is the majority of the Internet right now... almost all news... absolutely massive portion of the modern Internet is monetized right now..
Many US truck drivers are owner-operators. They pay their own taxes and only have to keep driver logs. They are audited as often as the average American. Buying stolen gasoline is a no brainer.
Please explain how its traffic pattern looks different than, say, an xbox360 game where one console hosts and the other consoles connect.

Or from a webrtc video call / ring [0] call.

Or a person downloading a few files from 10 to 20 different websites.

I don't see how my computer connecting to 10 ips is characteristic of bit-torrent and not of performing encrypted communication of another type with said ips.

[0]: https://ring.cx/
I heard from a friend at a fortune 100 company you would all know, that they tried piloting hipchat internally that hipchat simply did not scale well. Their servers choked under the load so frequently they got out of the contract.
Title is misleading. Really it means to say that the oldest still active torrent is 15 years old.
On top of front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18102923
>Does anyone else feel nostalgia for the pre-"web app" days of the internet? I'm talking about personal sites on Geocities and web rings built on communities of shared interest.

http://wiby.me is a search engine that indexes pages like the ones you miss. Full disclosure though, I made it.
But people haven't used centralized servers to distribute large static data for years; they use CDNs which have massive capacity close to users.
6 Ways to Normally Enhance Your Fertility
The job said “Department of Defense” right on the tin. He was not misled in the slightest. He said it paid half again as much as other internships, but I see no mention that he returned any of his bloodsoaked gains.
If I could guarantee you that I wouldn't send anything, would you agree to give me, a stranger, your email password?
So then I would want to have one more stage... a celery stage for when you want to cluster work across multiple machines. :)
Blinded by the Bitcoin Meteor or Why Top Economists Are Wrong About Bitcoin
I don't know much about the America's law system, but I heard DOJ is still investigating. Does this settlement would affect the DOJ? How does the DOJ isvestigation differs from the SEC's case?
How about JQL? Their query editor is so buggy.
that's pretty nice platz.

Am i right in thinking this is basically a pinboard clone but without the archiving capabilities?
I always stop at 5pm. I take some kids for a walk to decompress. Around 9pm, after kids go to bed, then I’ll do another hour if I’m working on something fun.

I love coding, and I would be coding if no one was paying me, but there’s more to life than just that.
Pretty sure it will get you banned from their services. Source: work with payment systems
You literally have no idea what the people of Cuba feel about Castro. Neither do I. There is no freedom of the press in Cuba. And the reason for that is that anybody who says he was anything less than a saint gets thrown into a dungeon-like jail cell at best, or executed at worst.
Ah, like many people, I'm also one of those who let thousands of messages build up and respond them maybe a year after they were sent.

But my reason for such slow response, I believe, is a little bit different than most. I have social anxiety, and reading email is extremely painful to me. Not replying, but reading. I almost never open my inbox. The last email I sent was six months ago.

Sigh. Anyone with similar issues?
Because he smoked pot on a podcast? Come on buddy it's not 1950 anymore, everyone knows marijuana (except when used in excess regularly) is totally and completely harmless.
The HN title is misleading: the terms do not forbid benchmarking, just public dissemination of the benchmarks. This is a standard software EULA clause.

One reason we decided to keep this clause in the Caddy EULA (which I should clarify here only applies to official binaries, not the open source, Apache-built binaries you can make yourself) is because we found out that very few people are expert enough to benchmark correctly. I've read a dozen Caddy benchmarks, for example, that turned out to be based on false assumptions or had hidden factors or were simply not reproducible (and not just by me).

Benchmarking requires expertise that, it turns out, very few people have. I don't think I even have enough skills to do it correctly and meaningfully.

Also, web servers are complex enough (in terms of both configuration and all the layers involved with networking stacks) that one correct benchmark is not generally useful to the next person.

Spreading wrong performance information can hurt a business. It's not that there's anything to hide or any desire to take away your freedom -- and I would normally be one to assume the worst from any large company -- it's just business: they don't want the risk of bad PR based on a possibly false premise, especially when that information tends to only create negative hype rather than actually being useful.

Anyway, this link doesn't seem like news. Just usual HN hype.
I like how charitable you are, and that is not meant to be sarcastic. However, he knew precisely who was signing his paychecks. No one pretended he was working in inventory management for the toy section of Walmart.
You are right. This is incredible. Ignore the naysayers saying that this is just extreme over fitting. This is more than that. Literally it is using rules outside the rules of how to program an fpga to find a solution.

Additionally it is the one algorithm that has produced the human brain and the one algorithm that has produced biological nanomachines that move and think. No other algorithm has done such a feat. It is naive to dismiss such an algorithm as "overfitting" when the incredible results are all around you.
Would you want an advertiser to recommend your porn to your love interests? Coworkers? "Popular in your social circle: bukkake MILFs!" We're not quite there yet, but we're close.
The Application Server is in progress, but it builds. The problem is that on x86, you can fall back on the BIOS w/ VESA to display video; while ARM lacks that functionality. If you can find/build a video driver it should Just Work(tm).

You can see the current video drivers here:

https://github.com/haiku/haiku/blob/master/build/jam/images/...

Which are all x86/amd64-based. The RPi would actually be relatively simple to throw a framebuffer video driver together for, though:

* https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/projects/raspberrypi/tutorials/os/s...

* https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/wiki

* https://github.com/dwelch67/raspberrypi/tree/master/video01
Probably should be in the "show" section of HN. Anyway nice site.
DOJ is investigating tesla ( not elon musk though they may investigate musk in the future ) and a criminal case ( DOJ ) has a far higher bar than a civil case ( SEC ).

"In a fraud case over Musk’s tweet, the SEC would only have to show that Musk was “reckless” when he tweeted about going private. The Justice Department, meanwhile, would have to prove “willfulness” — meaning that he tweeted about going private with a particular intent rather than “recklessly” dashing it off."

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/heres-doj-prove-case-elon-mus...

If the SEC gave Elon a slap on the wrist with such a low bar ( recklessness ), I'm guessing DOJ won't have much of a case with their high bar. I can see musk being reckless. I can't see him being involved in stock manipulation. The guy has a $20 billion net worth. But I guess we will have to wait and see.
A book to die for?
Kindle DX as E-Ink computer monitor (2012)
It would be good to have a set of demo applications that do something that can't be done by competitors.

I read the website and I don't really get it. If I give an app read access to my data, they've got a copy. Maybe they don't have the canonical copy, the original, but they've certainly got A copy. How do I have control?

As far as I can tell you've reinvented Facebook with a better API. Why wouldn't someone just embrace and extend to take control? "Oh yes, we made some changes to our PODs so you won't get full functionality with other people's PODs. You can just move your data to our company with a click of a button, CLICK HERE, and everything will work great! Also, we no longer support exports of data, sorry. But we'll take really good care of your data, we promise!"

Maybe I'm dumb and I just don't get it, that's certainly possible. But maybe you're not doing a good job of explaining it.
Think about WHO AM I.

I think this is the most important question one can have for his entire life.

I am 28, but I have spent about 15 years to think about who am I? Where am I come from? Where will I go?

And gradually, I get clearer and clearer about it.

And knowing who am I is the greatest source of happiness, strength and calmness.

If you also do this, I think you may understand. You will have small enlightment day by day, and finally a big enlightment.

What you really need to do is keep thinking, and you body will take you to where you belong.
I am an engineering PhD student. I have all the rights to call myself an engineer.

But Musk does a thousand times more engineering than I do. And he knows a thousand times more about engineering than me. Or anyone of my colleagues.

He can surely also be considered an engineer.
You made two separate points, and the one you lead with was that he recruited Thiel after being fired... which isn't true. Also, "not blowing shit up" especially when he has money involved != 'staying on the sidelines and supporting the team like a trooper'.
A $40 Million Tweet. Is it not a Guinness World Record yet?
Ahhh, don't I ever. Too scared to have an engage with most online communities, let alone e-mails directed at me. I probably won't read any replies but I wanted to enjoy this brief connection with someone with a similar experience.
I was far less concerned with that individual than the one who looked at me, straight faced, and said "I don't get what airplanes have to do with morals".

They're arguing that morality attaches to the user, not the tool.

See any gun-control argument in history, basically.
Wu... wut? "Advocating for sodomy is not a critique" ???

What Elon did:

> Elon Musk has escalated his baseless attacks against a British diver, claiming without evidence that the man who helped rescue children from a cave in Thailand was a “child rapist” in an email to a reporter. [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/sep/04/elon-musk...]
Marriage Costs in China Are Out of Control
I just want to be able to classify email by “sent by a human” and “not sent by a human.” My inbox isn’t a (bad) todo list, it’s a (bad) notification center.
For over a century, real, existing Communism has been Marxism-Leninism. That is because Marx's original prediction that capitalism would soon be replaced by socialsm proved mistaken, and so the Marxist political movement split into Social Democrats and Marxist-Leninists.

And then the Communists came to power, not in the advanced industrial countries as Marx had predicted, but instead feudal or semi-feudal ones like Russia and China. As a result the Communists put into effect not socialism, but state capitalism, in order to develop industrially to the stage where they would eventually be ready for socialism, a development that never happened. And then state capitalism bogged down, so China and Russia switched over to crony capitalism. And in China crony capitalism eventually slowed down, and the country became too Western in its values, so Xi Jinping is cracking down and puting things under more state control. I assume you are aware of this whole story.
It’s mostly a privacy issue. For example, if Netflix used P2P, you’d be able to track which IPs had parts of which movies and start profiling Netflix customers. That would be bad.

The problem with P2P is that you have to make what you have public. That’s fine for a game update where it’s all the same, but for movies there are huge privacy implications.
> Isn't the property of the generator expression not that it is an iterator (like a range or list also are) but specifically that it is a generator and thus inherently has state that is permanently/mutably exhaustible across different scopes?

> just think precise Python terminology might keep people from getting confused about different types of Python iterator objects. Iterators are anything that has a __next__() method

An iterator will function exactly as poorly as a generator does in his first example:

In [5]: l = [1, 2, 3]

In [6]: iter_ = iter(l)

In [7]: min(iter_)
Out[7]: 1

In [8]: max(iter_)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ValueError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-8-0dab0672ef83> in <module>()
----> 1 max(iter_)

ValueError: max() arg is an empty sequence

(I chose iter(a list) here as it is not a generator.)

And for the same reasons, really. An Iterator in Python (something w/ a __next__ method) also keeps mutable state, and the first call to min() exhausts it (by mutating it). (In Rust, it would likely "consume" the iterator, that is, it would move it, and the article demonstrates an example of this.) The mutable state being kept and used for iteration is the material part here; the generator is just an easy way of obtaining an iterator.

Hopefully I've got this right, but in Python, all generators are iterators¹ (they have a __next__); generators also additionally have send(), throw(), and close() methods, making them substantially more powerful. They make it really easy to make just a basic iterator, so they're often used for that.

¹The glossary actually calls the functions (those with "yield") themselves generators, and the objects returned by them "generator iterators".
One of the other options not mentioned is Squarespace. I launched few sites that look good and I liked the design esthetic.
> I can't make any of my screen readers work with Firefox

Which screen readers? Firefox works well with NVDA and JAWS on Windows. Pretty sure it also works with Orca on Linux. I don't know about Mac.
ok, let's try describe a simple scenario. There's a hundreds of developers in your git, thousands watching it, now there's an security issue. You want to include a few trusted ones to discuss a patch, how do you proceed? Especially how do you move around the disccusion content around with your git repo?
Sometimes it's the display device, and even the angle viewing it on that device.

Those colors appear quite distinct on my monitor. Others sometimes don't
It it just mvp currently but plan to add features, as I develop specific needs..

archiving could be one of them, but I found I didn't use it that much myself (There is always archive.is too)
>Marvin Minsky and Alan Kay spoke at length about how US academic system today stiffles creativity and long-term research.

Marvin Minsky? Wow. Could I read that?
you could set up a wildcard CNAME
That's interface latency, not internet speed.
I'm a Tesla shareholder and I'm extremely hopeful, an independent chairperson could really cut down on the nonsense that makes the company off-putting to some investors. Just as Google needed an adult in the form of Eric Schmidt, Tesla needs someone who can collaborate with Musk. Eric Schmidt would be perfect but he's probably conflicted out because of Alphabet's Waymo. Though I'm hopeful that they'll find someone who can help Musk achieve goals and instill some discipline and sternness where needed.

However, it could go awry. If the independent board member were to try to combat Musk and get the company wrapped up in internal struggles, it could go badly for the company.
>Elon's propaganda machine

source?
Yeah, the news doesn't really bother giving the full story with much subtlety. You can go look up what the guy actually said. There is a video of it. Basically, he figured that Elon Musk was trying to help just to look good with no substance behind the action. So he told Elon Musk he should shove the submarine that they (SpaceX team) built up Elon's ass. Pretty poor showing all around.

Makes for a great story though. Much outrage. The madder you are, the more irrational you have become? The better. Many clicks. Much profit. Much circus. Totally get why the reporter violated the principle of off the record conversations in order to earn themselves money and create drama. People make money, because you just linked this article. That is how this works. This is how social media generated news tends to make its money. If the story didn't outrage you enough for you to share that link with me? They failed.

But don't let them delude you into thinking its in the best interest of either party being reported on to be known for their worst moments. Nor for the public opinion of both people to be shaped by these moments. Both of these people tried to save the lives of children. The character of both people are very likely to be somewhat congruent with that. I presume innocence until shown otherwise with regard to the accusations leveled. It isn't a story of interest to me without evidence which backs it. I refuse to join either mob.
This reminds me of Flickr and Reddit; where they also got the UI right early on and then ruined it.