skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your claim seems optimistic given that at the current after hours share price, only the December 2020 issue would convert. And just a few hours ago it would not have.

Yes, it is possible that in March Tesla could be trading around over 20% above what it was most of today, but it would be unwise to depend on it.
A customer won't see it that way. Their apps will nag them to update and they won't be able to.
When you see best practices being violated, send the Devs responsible a link to a stackoverflow question or blog post which explains why they shouldn't be doing what they are doing. These can be found via Google and will back up what you're saying.
No way. In cubes you still get plenty of noise. You can't have a quiet private conversation in cubes. You still have people walking behind your back. And you have a gray wall to stare at.
> Not being obtuse: what do you mean here?

I think internet555 was trying to suggest something about the duality of man, sir.
A recent Twitter thread about this game, which goes into a little more detail on a couple points: https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1054907948852342784

Something that stuck out to me as cool:

> It used a dual-processor system using 8mhz 68000s, and for graphics it used a custom Taito tile-mapping chip, the PC080SN. They just used three of them, in fact, one for each screen. These were all mapped into the same memory space, so the three-screen display “just worked”.

First of all, it’s curious that it was cost-effective at all to invest in all this custom hardware for one game. But thanks to this hardware mapping, on the programming side, they could mostly treat the three CRTs as a single large display.
First analysis of ‘pre-registered’ studies shows sharp rise in null findings
Ionity does not follow their own personal standards. It is the CCS standard. Tesla is the outlier who went with its own proprietary standard. And a post builtout agreement is not going to change hardware connectors on a car.
An Example of How to Plot Random Points on a 2x2 Learning Matrix
Context: https://twitter.com/StuartBuck1/status/1054469995776884737
According to financial theory, how you structure a company has no correlation with its success. Therefore the kind of debt financing that Elon is using is just fine.

Financial theory and reality tend to agree except in a crisis. Unfortunately crises do tend to come along periodically. How TSLA weathers the next one will be interesting to see.
I was looking for hosted PostgreSQL and eventually wound up at http://elephantsql.com, with which I've been happy. I don't have a 'production' service in that I'm not relying on a DB to sell a service, like underpinning an app/website. But my DB is mission critical for knowledge management for my business, and I don't trust myself to manage the server properly. Nice to see competition in this space, and DO is a good one to be offering hosted databases - I'm happy with their other services too.
Quite funny that I visited his estate in Mt Vernon just hours ago and now seeing this on HN frontpage. BTW, I think swords were necessecity in his time as army man because guns were unreliable and slow to reload after one shot. So all soldiers had to carry both. Washington was very wealthy man after he married wealthy widow Martha and as a famous general I can imagine him having collection of swords. He also had collected horse carriages. However on the whole he lives very simple life style.
Would love to get an early access to DO k8s!
For what it's worth, I don't think I really remember iTunes ever being remotely good.

I remember being forced to use it when I got my first iPod over a decade ago and it was an awful bloated mess which couldn't deal with my mp3 collection properly (~50+GB at the time). I could count on it to just corrupt or reformat my iPod, crash, hang or corrupt the library at least once a month.

It left a very bad taste in my mouth and I have not purchased Apple hardware or software since.
I didn't mean to have a complete list. My only point is that "its complicated". There's a lot of moving parts here. Full details can be found on page 8 of the linked PDF.

> Their liabilities are greater than their assets to the tune of $1.7 billion. That plus the $4.2 billion in bonds is $5.9 billion in debt.

You're double-counting. Liabilities include debt. No need to double-count.

> Subtract the $3 billion in cash

You're double-counting, again. Assets include cash. Lets do this once, and correctly, shall we?

* Total current assets: $7,920,491 (thousands)

* Total current liabilities $9,775,324 (thousands)

That's a total shortfall of $1.85 Billion. Again, page 8 of the PDF provides these numbers.

> they'll need to come up with $2.9 billion between now and March of 2022, which is $.2+ billion per quarter.

Elon Musk has raised capital ever year, roughly to the tune of ~$1 Billion/ year. Either by convincing people to take on more debt for the company... OR by selling more shares out.

The only issue is if a recession hits between today and then, which would close capital markets.
Hi Shiv, I was wondering if there is any chance I could get an early access to DO Kubernetes? tigran at cronhub io. Thank you :)
Yes, coming soon! Relica already supports this capability (it is undocumented) -- we are just finishing it up in the UI. It's our #1 request so far.

And although we may not start out with so many, Relica will be able to support about a dozen different backend storage types before the end.
Also has his fingers in NetBSD, though mostly in fortune(1) files, iirc.

https://queue.acm.org/blogposting.cfm?id=27326
Even if you do have magic scripts and understanding for every possible scenario, you still have to deal with getting woken up to ascertain which scenario(s) you are in and run them.
Spying on his mobile phone
I wonder if you meant "understand" or "overstate" instead of "understate"?
No plans for containers at this time, sorry -- would you mind elaborating what you have in mind or how that would work?

As for NAS integration, that'd be really cool -- I don't really know what is involved to make that happen but it's something we're going to look into!
> Hallway context = you're not bothering too much. Open plan context = now you're bothering not only that person but everyone around them as well. It wasn't the walls, it was expectations for focus in a given space.

So more watercoolers and coffee machines, then!

(Seriously, I think this would help. And location is important, too - you don't want the "dev team water cooler" at the back of the dev team office and the "project managers' water cooler" at the back of the project managers' office. You put one in between dev and project management and you put one in between project management and engineering, etc. so there's organic inter-silo mingling.)
In the case of Google, I thought a handful of people had controlling interest. (Just Larry and Sergei?) Maybe similarly for Facebook, I haven't checked.
Exactly. If I am sure of myself, I will cite anyone with information pertinent to my work. I am their peer and just reviewed it.
Thank you for the great answer. :)
Its a convertible. It turns into shares instead of dollars at the end of its lifetime.

Furthermore, it was sold below par value. There's 1.25% coupon, but the overall yield is closer to 5% IIRC.
KC and Pittsburgh metro areas have populations over 2M.

There are a lot of smaller metro areas that are far rural, but aren't big cities - for example, my hometown - Erie, PA, which has a metro population of just over 275k - is very much a city - but is too far from Pittsburgh to benefit from their economic growth. Pittsburgh is fine, but Erie is in decline.

If "middle america" refers to every non-rural city between the coasts, then it is a meaningless term. There is too much economic variation to lump them all together for a single analysis.
I respect everything you're saying, but you kinda lost me at, "They all want ... health insurance".

Yes, indeed... as long as a soul-crushing job sitting in a chair and staring at a screen comes with health coverage, and a job in the trades does not, then my hope as a father is that my kids will take the health coverage route. Until we fix our crazy system, blue collar work it is a very frightening prospect.
In theory, yes, but in the case of GraphQL, I found it was very difficult to generate schemas dynamically. Factoring out common fields was not possible. Common fields in schemas had to be duplicated and there was no concept of an include/mixin/extends/etc. Best technique was generating plaintext strings of GraphQL programmatically (losing any editor or type checking support). Dropping down to the AST layer of GraphQL is a bit more programmatic but not really an ideal level of abstraction to work at. It was too verbose and low level.

REST integrates well with native JS constructs (it's just data) so it's much easier to compose and use metaprogramming techniques.
That wasn't intended as a complete list? Elsewhere I also mentioned the mystery HTTP services on something like 8443 (but that's to wit).
Great link and summary. Thanks!
> Perhaps that sense of personal responsibility is an American affectation

for all the talk of "liberal snowflakes", i do find that americans possess a decent amount of personal responsibility, insofar as they will take action to improve their own lives. as for improving their home country, i don't really see many americans doing much other than talk. the only people i see taking action in this way are members of marginalized groups working to improve things for their group and my white liberal friends taking selfies at protests.
Charging an Electric Vehicle with SparkCharge: As Easy as Ordering a Pizza
+1, and from One Minute Manager, explain the impact that their sloppiness has on the business.

Also: If you're the smartest person in the room, find a new room. Leave.
I personally gave up on this years ago. These days I find myself wearing flip-flops most days, but when I wear shoes, I grab two socks and don't care if they even match. Naturally, my sock purchases have tended towards only black in my preferred style, but for almost two years there was a good chance the socks I wore didn't match at all. 99% of the time people never noticed or cared enough to comment, and the 1% who did made it a fun conversation piece.
Yes, SIMD intrinsic programming is often worthless unless implemented for every target architecture. Let me give you an example case; my target production architecture rarely changes, but I want my program to run on every developer computer where CPUs are heterogeneous.

Now, I think the problem is that it is tying optimizations to instructions rather than CPU architectures. When I ported code from an I7 to an I9 it seemed that instruction latency changed. Still, if you are only supporting limited computational targets any hooks at all help.

But why intrinsic rather than assembly? Because usually vector extensions in GCC work well enough, and when they don't intrinsics are easier for me (a man who rarely needs to write assembly and doesn't have the time to beat the compiler in 99.99% of cases).

And a minor point... I really wish GCC had a pragma which allowed me to specify a function should be optimized to multiple targets and then install the thunks automatically.
Also FieldMasks and the View patterns can be very useful for the other issues that were raised https://cloud.google.com/apis/design/design_patterns#partial...
You forgot to remove the name from this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18295942 ... or is Tesla not a name?
I wonder if any of these studies of workspaces take sound into consideration. These studies seem visual in nature, where sound tends to be as significant for many of us.

I've worked remotely, from cubes, open offices, and have spent plenty a working hour in cafes. And amazingly, I've noticed I focus best either isolated (at home), or at a cafe, where I'm effectively surrounded by white noise.

Edit: I'm not just interested in "is person talking" or not, but what is the nature of the sound environment.
Translation: When he dies, turn him into stars and form a constellation in his image. His face will make the heavens so beautiful that the world will fall in love with the night and not want daylight to come.
As dang mentioned, threads about open office hate are pretty common on HN, so I'll talk about the time I liked an open office plan, and try to figure out why I liked it.

The one time I really, really enjoyed an open office was when my desk was in a corner. I sat with my back to the corner, facing out toward the open room. So I felt like I got to enjoy a bit of privacy, while still enjoying the benefits of the openness. Things never really got so noisy that I couldn't concentrate, which was nice. I wore headphones sometimes, but it was because I wanted to, do because I felt like doing so was necessary for concentration.

In contrast, I don't think I'd do as well in an office with nothing but long rows of developers packed in like sardines. It feels a bit too much like this:

https://maas.museum/app/uploads/sites/7/2018/08/xCaption-9_e...

Does anyone else feel this way? As though there are both good ways and bad ways to do open plan offices?
There is the case of LZCNT and BSR. On processors that do not support the former, LZCNT is interpreted as (REP) BSR, but the instructions have different behavior that could result in silent failures.
Most Roombas that I know of also have something like that -- a UART interface, published spec, and ability to drive/clean/read sensors. I'm not sure if LIDAR data is available on the higher-end ones, though.

https://www.irobotweb.com/~/media/MainSite/PDFs/About/STEM/C...
I'm not actually keen on the details of the March 2019 bond. A lot of people seem to think its a mandatory conversion (ie: it ALWAYS turns into stock).

If its a mandatory convertible, then Tesla pays it off in shares proportional to the value assuming Tesla was $360ish in price. So you "can't lose", you'll get 33% more stocks if TSLA was only $270 to ensure the bond-holder doesn't lose money.

I haven't been able to verify the status of the March 2019 convertible however. But just note that mandatory convertible vs non-mandatory is a big detail.
Those docs are dated unfortunately. For example, in my tests on multiple android devices and Mac OS the storage limit on Chrome is closer to 20% of total disk size and you don't need to prompt the user for persistent storage like you prompt for access to gps.
If close to 0 of your traffic is organic, then you don’t have to care too much about the whole correlation vs. causality problem, yes.

What you describe is certainly interesting. I guess you are building a graph of unique IDs, with each shared URL containing the ID of the parent as a query param or something like that?
> Regardless of the answer, herein lies the problem.

don't pursue damages?
Existing industrial robot arms are already built at some scale, and they go fo $50,000 and up. And that's just an arm. No tooling, no sensors.

This may be that the economies of scale aren't big enough, but we're already talking about hundreds of thousands of units per year in the industry. The car industry builds 75 million or so units per year. They get away with it because of turnover. Fleet owners don't keep cars past 20,000 or 30,000 miles. High end car owners replace their cars every couple of years. They pay $30,000 to $70,000 every five years. Because cars are more than transportation, they're a lifestyle choice and in many cases a sign of conspicuous consumption.

I have a hard time thinking of any other consumer item that is both owned by the vast majority of people and is also a sign of wealth, that is purchased in the high tens of millions every year and for which people happily pay more than $20,000.

Cars aren't a good proxy for household robots here, I think.
At my old job I worked in an open office coworking space and had to hotdesk, so I have no idea where I was going to sit for the day.

We didn't have permanent desks because they were more expensive, and my boss explicitly said so. He also refused to pay for peripherals or for stationary. I'm ideologically opposed to spending my hard earned money on things for work, so I just used loose copier paper and a Macbook with no external monitor, keyboard, or mouse. Not my problem that my productivity was negatively affected.

Some employers really fail to see the bigger picture on these things. Refusing to spend a few dollars on notebooks for me to write in resulted in my notes being scattered all over the place and lost (I'm a big fan of pen and paper). Refusing to pay for a monitor just resulted in me being stuck using a tiny 13" screen. Apparently when I was hired the CEO asked my manager if I would be able to work with an iPad instead of him having to pay for a Macbook Pro. It's really not an attitude conducive to employee moral, I never felt valued in the company, because I was made to feel like a cost, rather than an asset.
Ah, you're right, it is a nuanced question. Perhaps more importantly: as mentioned in the (admittedly large) publication I cited, the rearing time for grassfed cattle is about 3x longer than factory farmed cattle, so the net methane output is considerably larger.
Maybe forcing google devs / management to use 4gb ram machines would incentise them?

Requiring 16gb or more for email is excessive.
> Musk generates an unusually strong negative reaction in some people, they either plainly dislike his personality

His personality and character is definitely problematic - he finally showed his true colors during the trapped boys rescue incident; his ex-wife doesn’t have anything good to say about him either.

What’s more disturbing is the cult of personality around him. Everything they say is suspect. The way they go policing his reputation and suppressing dissent (just watch this post get downvoted; edit: right on schedule LOL) annoys me.

Generally I distrust cult figures - especially one with reputations like his. Combined with his character, to see him succeed is like watching Donald Trump succeed - both are undeserving; on a side note, Trump has a cult too. LOL

Edit: Also not entirely sold on Li-ion batteries being the future either. Limited life span. Heavy - wears tires more and wastes energy. Cobalt from conflict heavy regions like the Congo - they provide 70%+ of the world supply. The Lithium Triangle will likely become a geopolitical hotspot sooner or later.
Best is the enemy of good, and perfect is the mortal enemy of best. Just because a vehicle isn't 100% perfect for 100% of people doesn't mean it isn't the best vehicle for most people.
Also, I would bet a lot of money those cars infringe on some patents.
Ask HN: What's a strong “use everywhere” language for smaller problems?
I constantly find myself hopping between all manner of machines. I use a Mac Mini and my MacBook Pro for work, and am ssh'd into servers and routers constantly, and my main machine at home is my Windows gaming rig.

Between work, personal projects, and being 4 classes into my Master's in CS, I'm really in need of dedicating myself to a language that's easy to write and execute across all 3 of the major platforms, that I can hack together solutions to smaller problems for. Up until about 3 years ago I was primarily an iOS dev, so my go to tends to be use my MBP and open a new XCode project in swift, but that obviously has its Windows limitations, and only slightly less so on the Linux side.

The majority of my back end work for my employer is Java, but that's anything but quick and simple for small problems. About 20% of my professional time is doing firmware dev for embedded systems, and I know how to write and run C everywhere, but it definitely doesn't feel like the right tool for the job.

Python? Ruby? Perl5/6/Other? I'd like basic stdin/out, probably file writing abilities, and db (specifically pg) integration would probably be a nice touch. Simple http servers are something I've got spoiled with as well. I didn't care a ton for node.js when I dabbled, but the < 40 lines required to have a http server with an endpoint up was handy. I had the same experience when playing with Go, but I haven't really caught up with it's usability in the last two years, maybe it has the sort of ecosystem I'm looking for.

I might be asking for a silver bullet that doesn't exist and I need to further tune where I'm willing to compromise for a single solution. FWIW, I've grown quite fond of the Swift closure style syntax, and just the process of writing Swift and Go both stand out to me as more positive experiences syntactically, as opposed to Java/Obj-C/C.
Safari has supported third party ad blockers for a few years. I use 1BlockerX and it works well. There are dozens of other options. Including Firefox Gocus which blocks ads by default and also functions as an ad locker for Safari.

https://1blocker.com
A gross, slanted article about an internal systems issue. The correlation here is like saying my car accident was due to me taking a different route to work. All here that have done production refactorings and migrations know what's up. Good thing this article got a CS professor to explain, got some Oracle CEO quotes in there, failed to inform why Amazon might want to choose Postgres over Oracle, etc. Feels a bit like a shill article, but at least mgmt will have something appear in their search results when their own tech teams suggest a similar transition.
>They all want three times what I'm paying and health insurance

Is health insurance not something you give out? If that's common enough in the trades to be a complaint about employee desires, then no wonder no one goes into the trades. There is definitely a stigma attached to blue collar work, but part of that is it not paying. All I had to do was read a few tutorials online and a few years later and the only way I'd be making as much money in the trades is by owning my own business or in super specialized niches.

Why would anyone looking at a career pick the trades over that?
If anyone could point to an up to date docs around storage eviction in browsers it would be greatly appreciated. It's been a big hit to our team's confidence in the "use the platform" mentality that this is not accurately documented.
Yeah, but a lot of software does not support them, at all levels in the chain. Which is a tragedy. They'd be useful in more contexts than just gRPC.
What’s the point of storing the same data in three distinct storages? What kind of disaster are you trying to avert?

ps: this will back fire real bad when safari and friends add permission prompts for each specific storage that this library fills up in a for loop.
Hops (as in the beer ingredient) are also a traditional sleep aid to put in your pillow.
The compute and data moats are dead
Ask HN: Why aren't we penalising companies for not contributing to open source?
Companies often complain about taxation and various costs of doing business eg salaries. Yet they also use open source software and don't contribute back. A lot are making source code changes and aren't passing them back either. Often in violation of the license (gpl) or even simply the spirit in which they received the code (open source in general).

Why don't we change the social landscape so that companies that don't contribute something back are seen as unethical?

Eg A for-profit organisation providing web services using a host of open source software can afford to support those projects.

The license associated with the project shouldn't matter. Even if it's been released bsd, mit etc and there's no explicit obligation.

Maybe penalising is wrong approach. Perhaps incentivising would be better? Or is this all a bad idea?

Thoughts?