skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the title of the article slightly overstates what is being reported. "Misstated Production Figures" makes it sound as if Tesla lied about what it had produced, as opposed to just giving unrealistically rosy projections.

I can definitely see how Musk's "funding secured" tweet crossed the line into potentially criminal behavior, but honestly, I have a hard time seeing how overly optimistic projections can be criminal if there is even an iota of a possibility that they could be met, no matter how unlikely.
Ask HN: How did you find product-market fit?
> I can't possibly imagine the purpose for these restrictions.

Satisfying parents who reflexively think "natural" == "good"
You‘re comparing apples to oranges. Or in that case existing to new leases.

The latter has way more room for increase than the former - by law. Add to that, that owners often stop bothering increasing rents for longterm tenants (because the allowed increase is the more miniscule the more years pass by) and concentrate on hikes for new leases.
Frickin' amazing UI design, and some great pieces of functionality (edit the commit graph directly; ability to undo most operations).

Unfortunately development seems mostly paused, and it still has some big gaps...

Still tho by far my favorite git client. (#2 would be Sublime Merge.)
>Actual, pathological, narcissists answer 'yes' so often that it's almost useful as a diagnostic too

Citation?
How does outline get the content, are they subscribers of all the paywalls?
So you create a function around the message. It's not uncommon at all to have something like (pseudocode)

myActorModule.increment(ref, amount) ->
ref ! {increment, amount}

myActorModule.syncIncrement(ref, amount) ->
ref ! {increment, amount, self()}
receive -> ok
timeout 1000.

You can build out the message passing interface to an actor -as- functions, and even supply sync ones if you want. The actor implementation can be completely opaque to the caller; just the exported interface functions are defined, exported, and supported.
Avantime
reminds me of this: http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html
According to Star Simpson, she attended Burning Man 5 times prior to this this, between 2007-2011.[0]

Given she attended with her mom, it seems more likely that Star was already planning on going to Burning Man in 2013, not that she decided to go on a week's notice after her interview with DeVaul - which is something that many in this thread are assuming, but is not stated in the article.

[0] http://starsimpson.com/ "Have we met?"
> When I cannot focus for shit I’m usually stressing out about something or tired. Sometimes both.

And then you underperform at work, causing more stress and less sleep. It's a nasty vicious cycle.
I'm not sure what planet you live on, but there are plenty of things far bigger and more important than GitHub running in Azure.
TLDR : "Tesla didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. The Justice Department and SEC declined to comment."

Edit : I'm not sure about why I'm downvoted. This article behind a paywall doesn't provide much more information than a freely accessible new agency. You would expect more information than just "X didn't respond to a request for comment". I'm denouncing the paywall here.
You won't. Your investors will.
The withdrawal symptoms are subtle but can be extreme. Think of a stereotypical teenage girl whose phone has been taken by her parents, she's lost her world and she's going to have a full on panic attack. That's a whole lot different than "oh no I left my phone at home, I guess I won't have access to it until I decide to go home.", but look at how much choice you have over your addiction compared to the teenagers.
That's true, but web developers did it to themselves. It's not hard, or at least wasn't hard several years back, to find developers complaining that Flash was ruining the web and needed to go away.

That the results aren't as good isn't surprising. Flash was specifically built (and optimized) for interactive graphic content like games. HTML was originally made to display text documents and it's been a long series of revisions and hacks to get where it is now.
Lying to investors is illegal regardless of whether your company is public or private
I loved the AOSA books, but there's been sometime that they don't publish a new one.

Do anybody know if there is something new in the works?

And of any other similar books?
Not going to work at that scale.
This is true, which is why I dont use them much!
I wonder if that's at the heart of it. I've noticed that this is something that doesn't bug me one bit in the open source world, but it seems to bug some other people a lot, and I never understood why.

It just always seemed so strange to me how obsessed people would sometimes get with the notion of giving credit in the open source world, especially given the consensus negative feelings about things like the advertising clause in the original 4-clause BSDL. I've seen people who simultaneously loathed the advertising clause but were incredibly uptight about (for example) always saying "GNU/Linux", and chastising other people when they didn't, or getting up in arms if some Linux user didn't know about or (in their eyes) properly respect the GNU system by...I don't know. I never figured out what people expect when they have these sorts of expectations of acknowledgement. It always seemed like they were more annoyed at other people not knowing a bit of history, and interpreting that as being some sort of disrespect, or bigotry and oppression as you say.

I always felt like the act of contributing to open source was for me never even remotely a selfish act for which I expected any reward or even acknowledgement. If that's what someone craves in their life, open source is probably one of the worst places to try to get it.

My own lack of caring about this comes from the fact that I never equated any form of disrespect with not "acknowledging" (not scare quotes, just trying to express the ambiguity of what the word can mean to different people) who or what came before. See also endless threads where it's a never-ending argument about who should get credit for "the real work" (whatever that is) when it comes to things like gadgets or programming languages or software or whatever. Example: any discussion about what individual or company should be created with "inventing" the modern smartphone. You start out with someone saying something nice about Apple or Palm or whoever, then some negative Nancy has to jump in and chastise them for not giving credit to some predecessor a la Psion, then another person jumps in and chastises that person for not giving credit to an even earlier predecessor, then eventually people are talking about Dennis Ritchie, then people are talking about freaking Charles Babbage, and everyone's pissed off at everybody. The whole game always seemed like outrage roulette more than an honest attempt to get to the bottom of who deserves credit for what. We all stand on the shoulders of giants, and they became giants by not caring whether or not the people who stand on their shoulders publicly credit them for it. Those who do care tend to get lots of patents and copyrights and other IP protections, which is anathema to open source and a lot of engineering in general.
"It sucks to run a public company" - ...someone
This isn't identical, but I remember when I first learned first-class functions and partial application in Haskell about ten years ago, it was a "the world is different now" moment. I had reinvented partial-application approximately thirty billion times by using overloading or with elaborate if-elseif-else chains. When I learned Haskell, and saw that I could magically make my non-lists function automatically lift across a list, and how I could define things like this myself, I was immediately convinced that I would never go back to C again (I didn't know about function pointers).

I learned Clojure about a year ago (which was my first introduction to Lisp outside of reading SICP), and it gave me a similar feeling. I felt like Clojure was a "better Java than Java", and now its my go-to JVM language. I think McCarthy was really onto something with Lisp :).
Including bytecode as executable format, with various ways to convert it into actual machine code before execution.
Not sure where you were going with this: your examples are examples of fake-detection in real life. If you show a photograph with wood veneer over particle board, and it's a high quality wood veneer, then no: no one can tell it's not wood unless they're at the shoot and have the opportunity to examine it. Same for linoleum: as long as the photo's lit properly, you can't tell.

And the same is true for what's presented here: as "fake photos", once you hit photorealistic, you're done. There is no "until humans start seeing the pixels".
So, just to speak about the BEAM, which is the part of Elixir I am familiar with, I don't think any BEAM language will ever be a good goto language. The BEAM isn't good at general purpose computing. It's not particularly efficient at performing calculations or using memory. It's good at reliably performing as you increase memory pressure on your system (via message passing). You can scale a business to a decent size on a smaller number of fatter nodes (high RAM machines). Connections will keep pouring in and you'll get a consistent ms.

That said, you'll run into issues once you hit a certain level of scale. I've had to make patches to the BEAM just to keep us scaling, and I've never seen someone get away with stock dist. You pretty much have to rewrite pieces of OTP.

Now is Elixir ok for a CRUD app serving 10G of traffic? Of course... but this is also the age in which every language has a solution to the C10K(, C100K, and more in many cases) problem, and there are compelling reasons to write your CRUD app in Go and get better library support, static types up front (trust me, you want a static type system), and lower latency.

Personally, I'm bullish about Rust. With async/await landing, it stands a good chance of providing the same focus on safety and reliability while being infinity more flexible at what it can effectively. It's a better general purpose language. Also, the actor model (and CSP as well) aren't the end all be all of concurrency patterns. Rust only provides the building block (futures) so it's much easier to choose the concurrent pattern that fits best for your problem. You can sting a future using the actor model, so it's still an option, but you aren't limited to it.
I think you're implying that, #1: There is a trend where public companies face unreasonable or unfair accountability laws, and #2: This case is an example of that. Am I off base? If not, #1 sounds like a reasonable argument could be made, though it would be better made explicitly rather than implicitly. #2, on the other hand, definitely needs elaboration.
> public media debt collection agency

You do notice this is kind of government work? (Organized in a way politicians are supposed to have little influence about broadcast content)

I understand the US is special in regard of having very high distrust for the government, something not that pronounced in most European countries. My government does indeed know where I live and I don't have much of a problem with that in principle. That doesn't mean I approve of all the way that data is handled. They at least have some accountability towards us citizens, in contrast to some private company not contractually obliged to the public.
And they won't, they know who the new power is. There is nothing you can do about it either so you Western wimps need to mind your business and humble yourselves.
Reminds me of this : https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9weLK2AJ9JEt2Tt8f/politics-i...
My understanding is that SICP was developed as the programming 101 class for MIT. Do students come into programming 101 at MIT never having programmed before? I would suspect that what is a great book for programming 101 for MIT students is not necessarily the right book for those that have not yet been exposed to programming.
I have a 6-year-old and worry about this myself. But I'll be honest, I grew up in front of an NES, TV, cartoons, Sega Genesis, nearly every waking hour. I'm not a perfect man, but I am a productive member of society. So in my mind, this is a little overblown.
Fork (git-fork.com) is pretty neat as well
If they knew they were rosy, or didn't make an honest effort to get them right, then it's intentionally mislaeding the stock market.
Naive. How about short sellers spreading fake news (or blowing news out of proportion) to suppress the price of your stock?
you ever want to see first hand how it gets you through the day, try some phenazepam.
> “I never saw this as hurting [rights holders],” Lackman told me. “People run sites that link to content—torrent sites. Those are the people who are stealing the movies.”

typical feigned naivete
One potential downside for novice programmers is that some of the examples are a bit deeper than what you find in most beginning programming books. For example (as exhibited in the blog post topping this thread), writing programs pertaining to differential calculus. Obviously, lots of non-programmers have studied calculus, but lots haven't, as well. To the extent a reader might stumble on some example programs, SICP could be challenging, even if the programming content itself starts at zero and builds up.
Already a criminal probe. Sniff.
they grow up s fast.
How constraints lead to creativity: making music for Super Nintendo games
I don't think I've ever encountered Russians claiming they invented borscth. It's more of a case of the west attributing most Eastern European culture to Russia.

The other Easter European cultures obviously put some efforts to maintaining their identity in opposition to Russian dominance in the region.
A maximum ratio of economic growth to number of controlling board members occurs when all self identity is destroyed, and people allow command structures (at work) and advertising (at home) to dictate their self conception.

So yes, under capitalism any knowledge of the self in the working class is pathological.
I also ran those at home, they were sold in Workstation and Server variants, not as consumer OS.
Just don't take any investor money and you will be fine.
I paid $8/month for a Washington Post digital subscription, but I screwed up and got cut off. I probably need to get back on, as I regularly want to read 3 or 4 of their articles a day.
(1) GPS internals are awash in math.

(2) Solid mechanics modeling, e.g., for jet engine turbine blades -- lots of math.

(3) Molecular spectroscopy: Some group theory and group representations can write down the possible spectral lines. That's long been the key to identifying molecules.

(4) My post mentioned Maxwell's equations for the design of the WWII radar that helped England win the Battle of Britain.

(5) A good, general purpose curve fitting technique is least squares spline fitting -- there's some math in there.

(6) Which pharmaceutical salesman goes to which physicians and leaves what samples to maximize revenue? Can be formulated as min-cost, capacitated network flows via the network simplex algorithm with a modification of W. Cunningham.

(7) Given a special scenario of global nuclear war limited to sea, estimate how long the US SSBN fleet would last.

(8) Given current revenue and planned capacity, project revenue growth -- solution saved FedEx.

(9) Given some ocean wave data, find the power spectrum, with confidence intervals, and generate sample paths with that power spectrum.

(10) At FedEx, which airplane goes to what cities in what order to carry all the freight, meet engineering, FAA, and safety constraints, arrive in specified time windows, and minimize costs.

(11) For an airplane, how to climb, cruise, and descend to arrive on time and minimize costs. Basically deterministic optimal control.

(12) Blue positions SSBNs and targets missiles in Red areas; Red attacks the Blue SSBNs; the remaining SSBNs fire. How best to position the SSBNs and target the missiles?

(13) A missile is chasing an airplane. What flight path should the airplane follow to evade the missile and what flight path should the missile follow to hit the airplane? A problem in differential games.

(14) A resource allocation problem in marketing resulted in a 0-1 integer linear program with 600,000 variables and 40,000 constraints. How to get a feasible solution optimal or nearly so? Solution involved non-linear duality theory and yielded a feasible solution bounding showed was within 0.025% of optimality in 900 seconds on a 90 MHz computer.

(15) My current startup.
Probably similar to how Google gets the content.
Fast than Light (FTL) would fall into that category for me. It has a lot of rouge-like elements, the store is the same but all the details change with each new game so tons of replayability.

iPad only, though with the screensize of the new xs and xs max they might want to reconsider that.

Also, just recently released for iOS is Stardew Valley. I haven't played it (usually the only time I'll play anything is on a long flight) but it was extremely popular on other platforms and is getting rave reviews so that might be worth trying.
I work in web development and Git has usually been good enough for our projects. But recently we have had a few projects that used large files and started using git-lfs in those. Is git-lfs not good enough for storing large assets in a git repository?

Speaking of non-coders using a VCS, our designers use Sketch (a macOS app) and until recently have used Dropbox for sharing and put the date into the file name as a form of version control. But they have now started using the Abstract app (https://www.goabstract.com/) which is a fancy UI around git (I think, not sure though), but none of that VCS complexity is leaking through. And they seem to like it. So maybe all it takes is a custom GUI that's tailored for a narrow and specific use case.
> I have a hard time seeing how overly optimistic projections can be criminal if there is even an iota of a possibility that they could be met, no matter how unlikely.

This is a public company, not an Avengers movie trailer.

They can't just conjure arbitrarily positive numbers out of thin air.

Their statements to investors and potential-investors must be fact based and made in good faith.

Otherwise, what's wrong with Musk's tweet?

I'm sure there was "an iota of a possibility" that someone crazy enough would buy Tesla at $420.

There's "an iota of a possibility" for a lot of far-fetched scenarios, but public companies must be truthful and reasonable in their statements made to the investing public - especially when they err on the side of optimism.
can be criminal if there is even an iota of a possibility that they could be met

That would make all sorts of pump & dump scams perfectly fine and they aren't.
King of Dragon Pass is amazing, you run a Bronze Age clan and try to found a kingdom.

Kairosoft games are pretty good too, if you liked Sim City.
The story so far:
We hack our visual sense to be a data channel for symbolic information.
This incidentally messes with the above homeostatic loops causing myopia.
We then hack the eye's optics to correct the immediately problem without fixing the cause and oppose the corrective process by adding glasses or contacts.

We end up at a myopic static point where the balance of forces match.

Big lens wins.
It also ignores the reality that many of us _do not like_ to be super stimulated by vapid and shallow experiences. I find there also tends to be correlative relationship between one's drive and intelligence, and their lack of eagerness to engage in things that are shallow grabs for stimulation.
I'm not sure exactly what made Ecto click for me, but once it did, it quickly became my favorite ORM/data mapper.

Have you read some of the Plataformatec blog posts about Ecto?
Yes. I don't understand the surprise.
> A 6 year old's brain has no chance against a team of trained data scientists. We all know this.

A team of data scientists stand no chance against millions of years of adaptive evolution. Humans are an incredibly adaptive species who inculcates nearly anything into their lives with ease. Technology is no different.
Generating Rap Lyrics with Recurrent Neural Networks (LSTMs)
You have to enter the link from the homepage; the link doesn't work on its own (today, from Chrome).
If the loop is so useless, why is it in the code? Probably because it isn't useless. Hence the compiler should not optimize it.
JamStack Conf by any chance?
The SEC thing was civil, not criminal.
Maybe the issue is that SEO keeps getting better. I bet if you were to get what you really wanted (a completely unpersonalized experience), the results would be horrible, because traditional approaches to ranking are totally useless these days.
The Selfish Gene?
Stephen Fry Receives Richard Dawkins Award for Lack of Faith
If there is a 1 in 3 chance or better of achieving the goal, it's probably legit, if it's 1 in 100, probably illegal. Something around there.
Does this mean that any research into optimizing the performance of languages supporting continuations could improve RAD performance in other systems like PyTorch?

(Sorry if naive question, but your comment was very helpful to see the connection)
Your proposition might have legs, but I don't think the parent post was malicious enough to deserve prefacing your reply with such a curt criticism.
So You Want to Be a Web Security Researcher?
This makes sense to me. Does somebody profit by me spending more time here? They are going to tune it to make me spend as much time as possible here.
(disclaimer: I am a sponsored KDE5/KF5 dev)

> Isn't it convenient to develop the whole app GUI in QML/QtStudio and use HTTPS to communicate to a backend without using any kind of pointers

It /can/ be done, but almost nobody uses Qt that way. The web stack is a better fit for this. Pointers are not scary. Alsmost all languages these days use pointer (object reference) by default and it scares no one. Qt doesn't mix pointers with scoped/std::move in the default API, so you wont shoot yourself in the foot by accident. QObject, the base C++ class of every Qt component is reflected into the QML vm automatically, so you can use your objects on both side without any overhead or synchonization. You just need to add the `Q_PROPERTY` and `Q_INVOKABLE` macro in your header and QML will see it.

> Isn't it convenient to develop the whole app GUI in QtStudio

I honestly still think that's impossible. QtStudio isn't (yet?) close be being a good IDE. It aims at closing the gap between designers and coders. For pure coders, writing QML by hand is more predictable.
I agree, it isn't the greatest example for showing the power of Lisp.

Here's a much better one that uses a macro to do symbolic differentiation in <150 lines:

https://github.com/aksiazek/symbolic-differentiation

Much harder to do that in C ;-)

Peter Norvig's book "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence" uses symbolic differentiation as an example in one of the early chapters.
Atari Asteroids: Creating a Vector Arcade Classic
New Hope for Cancer Patients Comes in Form of 150-Year-Old Drug
The ability in these games to import a character from a prior game's save state was incredible and is something I haven't seen in games since. Unlocking the special character class for doing so (paladin) led to hidden cutscenes and choices. I would be happy with a modern game simply recognizing I played its prior installments with much less programming required.

QFGIV's official remastered soundtrack is out on Bandcamp. I would link it but I am not sure how without creating a mess. It's a treat for the new and nostalgic alike.
The Space Shuttle’s Controversial Launch Abort Plan (2014)