skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My favorite class of error correcting codes is one I haven't seen mentioned here: rateless / "fountain" codes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_code

You take any message and can generate any amount of coding symbols from the message, and a receiver that gathers _any_ K of those coding symbols can decode the message.

The mental image I have is using these to send messages into space -- a receiver could pick up at any point and just wait until they have any K coding symbols and they'll be able to decode the message.

My understanding of all this stuff comes from USENET and par/par2/yenc (where, IIRC, the message gets packaged up in plaintext blocks and if your local server is missing N blocks you have to collect N parity blocks and you can recover from there, but my recollection is probably fuzzy), and I imagine rateless codes would be quite useful for USENET binaries.
Musk would start getting creative with a thesaurus.
"One alternative - have Elon pay out of pocket to all the sorts and anyone else who losses money acting on his tweet addiction."

Isn't that what happened last time? Elon basically had to pay off investors who lost money due to the stock swings caused by his tweeting BS?
Canned by the company yes, not canned by the government.
The last two pages (pp. 11 and 12) are a great example of why you shouldn't be an arrogant dumbass towards the government. The SEC quotes his 60 minutes interview with Leslie Stahl where he says he doesn't respect the SEC. While I think the SEC has a legitimate grievance here, I'm also guessing this is partly vindictive. Play stupid games...

And I say all that as a big supporter of Elon generally.
Ha ha, “at the mall.”
The visualizations here are great. I really like how it represents the different branches of a tree structure
> I knew about every trade during the run up to today's 3pm NHL trade deadline many minutes and sometimes hours before the stories appeared on nhl.com or sportsnet, etc.

Is that just for entertainment or did you use that information in some way?

It's similar to papers or tv stations crowing how they broke a story. So what? Do I really need (or do most people) to know that there is a mass tragedy (only one example) the minute it happens? It can't wait? Not everything that happens is '911' grade information.
They’re key components of the iterative process.
It can even fire them for expressing a political opinion. Particularly if there is a twitter mob involved.
Sorry that's simply false. You have all your freedoms. You can get fired for exercising them but that doesn't mean you don't have them. If the shareholders wanted to fire Elon Musk they would, but they aren't so the SEC should butt out of the issue.
One of the best jokes I have heard is -
English invaded most of the world looking for spices and still have not figured out how to use them.
...and this is why about a third of us NZers have vitamin D levels that are below the recommended level (5% + 27% ~ 1/3).

https://www.health.govt.nz/your-health/healthy-living/food-a...
Why? Because remembering to not do things is a restraint that is extremely mentally burdensome and thus difficult to get correct 100% of the time.

When you're the CEO of a publicly traded company, getting paid millions in stock comp to run that company, you don't get to use the excuse "it's mentally burdensome". The whole reason they're in that position, getting paid those obscene amounts, is that they're supposed to be able to handle the burden. If they're not able to handle it, they should step aside for someone who can.
> If you haven't touched an NMB Thinkpad keyboard, you haven't actually used a proper Thinkpad.

All these years as a Thinkpad user, and I had no idea of NMB vs ALPS vs Chicony. I thought the variation in the keyboard feel in the machines I own and have used was due to wear alone. Thank you for opening up an entirely new horizon of Thinkpad snobbery.
Government being vindictive would count as evidence against the government, not for it.
The screen won't crack, I don't think they're using glass.

I don't actually think the screen should be more delicate than a typical OLED.

I don't understand your point about the creases.

You're theoretically right about the aging, but I suspect that it could be mitigated because it's fairly predictable.

I think the amazing screen in the folded state, avoided duplication and great looks greatly outweigh any of the possible disadvantages.

Besides maybe ... Space for components. It seems way too thin to accomodate a well sized battery with all of the added casing.
When going through Miami Vice I discovered that the SDH parts sometimes also act as notes for the culture-impaired. (Song titles and lyrics were a particularly nice touch, though not strictly SDH.)

And for English-as-second-language folks, it's occasionally curious which expressions are used in the SDH descriptions.
Nice goalpost moving there. So... not Europe, but then all of Europe except Switzerland. Next up someone's going to bring in the high-speed rail in Spain, the Rotterdam port modernization, and so on.

Europe can do it, end of story.
Twitter has hardly done anything useful for the society. Yes, but Facebook has done even less.
This is great news. The fact that it's been about thirty years since the last official sighting (according to Wikipedia), suggests that there is still a breeding population and not just one or two geriatric survivors.

Now one can only hope that the local population won't think of them as a valuable trophy prize or maybe of medicinal value, to be shot on sight.
If I remember right, the rss feed "broke" around December of 2017. It had broken several times before then as well, but nobody fixed it this time.

The result is that almost nothing on the hacker news front page makes it into the RSS feed on a daily basis. Maybe three or four random posts get in but that's it.

The bigrss feed still works but that's all submissions, trolls, re-posts, garbage, and all.

Basically, it's broke. Sorry I don't have anything more helpful to say but it's been abandoned.
who mines it?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19250552
Except that was already public information.
> the problem was that he was projecting 2019 production publicly

That is also incorrect.

The settlement only mandated that Musk get company approval for Tesla-related tweets. It would have been as simple as him sending an email with the proposed tweet to get signoff before blasting it out there. This is actually extremely common and partially for these sorts of reasons.

The SEC asked Tesla if Musk followed the agreement by getting approval for the tweet. He didn't, thus this filing.
The real life equivalent would be if a company wrote their secrets on the back of a letter they sent you in the mail, and just relied on you not looking at the back.

There's no security breach, or even unauthorized network request - their service is requesting this data to your machine, from within their client. I think they just aren't thinking about potential repercussions in their testing names.
> I believe ssl pinning is circumvented on iOS by leveraging the objective-c runtime to hook the callbacks that an app would use to inspect the remote peer certificate.

I believe this only works if apps are using their own custom stack to perform this validation. If they are using the iOS TLS implementation, you will need a jailbroken device to fix this.
Carolling largely follows a bimodal distribution based on social class. It's still reasonably common among lower-working-class kids looking for a bit of extra pocket money before Christmas; for similar reasons, they're the last stalwarts of the penny-for-the-guy tradition. It's very common for those at the upper reaches of the middle class, who have a real penchant for old-fashioned community activities like choirs, fetes and street parties. It's all but dead for the majority in the middle.

Speaking more broadly, there has been an effort in many rural areas to maintain and revive particular local cultural traditions. Perhaps the most spectacular such tradition is the tar barrels in Ottery St Mary[1], but I'm also rather fond of the Royal Ashborne Shrovetide Football game[2] and the multitude of mumming and wassailing traditions[3].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8-0wQmPeMg

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uV1zrZFzZo

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEDaRQO5Utk
People blend lobster into butter just so they can make other things taste like delicious sea insects. And it works so well because butter carries flavors really well while being pretty mild itself. It's the last thing you'd use to mask flavors.
Sure, comparisons to Gitmo might be unwarranted, but this article is not about cafes merely playing music nonstop (which is indeed ubiquitous), but about Starbucks playing the same few songs over the speakers repeatedly while denying employees the ability to control the playlist (and therefore the environment around them). FTA:

> Earlier this year, irritated Starbucks employees took to Reddit to rage about how they had to listen to the same songs from the Broadway hit musical Hamilton on repeat while on the job. One user wrote that if they heard a Hamilton song one more time, "I'm getting a ladder and ripping out all of our speakers from the ceiling."

At a smaller cafe, I'd imagine employees would get much more control over what music to play (often I've noticed it's just some employee's phone plugged into the speakers).
Of course not. But they can remove him if he uses his right to free speech to say stupid shit that gets the company in legal trouble.
3!

https://mashable.com/article/fernandina-giant-tortoise-galap...
I remember the annoyance. I created a script to eye ball, guess and fix back then. It was good enough. https://gist.github.com/chanux/2042676
How about go after things that actually cause harm? The SEC should stop protecting those who wish to harm Tesla and actually act on behalf of shareholders. The shareholders don't want Elon out. If they did they would have voted him out.
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On the other hand, how is that market-moving given Elon's very public history of stirring the pot? You expect this from him.
GP clearly asked about a company.
On your first point, No... The typical YA novels and the growing up American story is the pain and suffering of teenagedom not throwing away all of our knowledge that the world is some giant conspiracy - that's largely an older age demographic - for some reason, people over the age of 50 love conspiracies. If you pay attention, a lot of young people are sneaking out to get vaccines and not telling their parents because quite frankly, they don't want to die from their parents mistakes. Anyay.. It wasn't until recently - the last 8-10 years that copnspiracy theories were used largely for cover ups politically - if you project enough you blame your opponent for things you're doing and hopefully you maintain power to impose your views. that's what we're running against.

To your second point. Lol. Your language suggests that losers are only mad because they lost and you frame it in an overly simplistic way - ignoring the fact that Trump's campaign is under investigation and has what, 34 indictments? If that is a conspiracy theory then conspiracy theory has no meaning and well... good luck.
I'll gladly respond - once someone stops deleting comments from other posters that they don't like.

Manipulating the forum is WRONG.
I'm curious if all of these comments here are people who paid to read it or just extrapolating off a the headline.
Video can add a significant cognitive burden to someone who is easily overstimulated. It sounds like this could add to it.
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Government isn't canning Musk. They're fining him for releasing material misinformation about his company. This has been well established in the law.
> Is that just for entertainment

"just" is just your opinion

> Do I really need (or do most people) to know

I do.
I'm just a random nobody and I have to get way more approval posting anything work-related than Elon Musk, apparently.
Shareholders have not been losing money from these tweets. The short sellers have been. The SEC should not be protecting those who are harming a company and who are not share holders.

If anything the TSLA shareholders should sue the SEC for material damage because of these attacks.

Finally, the guidance wasn't 400k, it was 300k-500k. So this was already public information.
> on a blockchain

Fuck that! Seriously. Why do people keep wanting to put data on the blockchain? All that does is make the data public. Sure, it can't be decrypted __now__, but do you want to take the risk that it will always be encrypted? Even if you update the security of the entire chain the previous blocks are still decryptable (and we repeat the with same problem).

We don't need a fully audit-able system this type of data. There are advantages to centralized data systems and I would even take a decentralized approach over a BC method. Unless you can give a very compelling reason why the data needs to be audit-able through the entire history.
Creation science is a purely religious viewpoint with basically zero physical evidence.

Climate science has a clear physical mechanism (CO2 traps more solar energy than N2, O2, etc.) and quite a bit of observation confirming the effect. It's simple to do an experiment showing that increasing CO2 increases a primary mechanism of the greenhouse effect. It's really pretty simple. The only debate is just how significant the effect will be, how rapid, and whether it's linear or there are thresholds.

The only reason this is a politicized issue is that the fossil fuel industry is wealthy and powerful and aligned with numerous interests including major nation states where petroleum makes up a huge percentage of export revenue. If it were not such an economically significant issue there wouldn't be any debate.
What were you using for an SSH client? I just started to try using a Chromebook for everything and I really dislike the Google SSH client, but I could probably get used to it.
I ran into a pump in MI last summer that wouldn't even turn on until it finished playing the first 30 second commercial. Eventually, I could start pumping but it continued to play obnoxious ads throughout. I won't be filling up there anymore.
^ This

I recently read a group of high profile journalists (mainstream media) stating that "Twitter is where we get the news from"...

Twitter has become a sort of real-time news agency. If you follow the correct profiles in your niche/sector not even Reuters can beat the speed of 95% of the events. If there's a newsworthy event, chances are it's first on twitter than in any other media outlet.
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I learned something a few days ago that made me both laugh and cry:

LoadLibraryA will happily load a DLL from WebDAV through a UNC path. Something like \\example.com@80\path\to\payload.dll.

It goes without saying that this has been abused by viruses to surreptitiously fetch their malicious code.
Sounds like the scenes in the `Dark Forest`.
Personally, I'd like to see a financial market develop that allows people to predict future global temperatures in short, mid and long term time frames. (let's say 5 years, 10 years, 30 years).

That market would reveal humanities unbiased view of climate change predictions. It would give us a great tool to put things in perspective.
That sounds like the Black Mirror episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits
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How does the registrar know which key to trust? There must be some way for the domain owner to indicate their key, and to replace it if they lose it; essentially, a website where you login and upload your key, much like you currently login and configure your records.
Pure truths one of the most important tools in developing self-knowledge. IMO going to an astrologer is akin to using a prostitute blindfolded.

You want to understand yourself, spirituality or even the universe? Study the laws of nature, the 112 names of Shiva, the 72 names of God, 613 Mitzvot of the Torah, the 4 worlds and 125 degrees of Kabbalah etc. etc. etc.

Heck, study the alphabet and how to write and pronounce it. Ladders abound. Just pick one that seems like a challenge, and then pick a fun method of studying it. I like to mix calligraphy and pronunciation practice in.
Twitter is where the rich and powerful go to make complete fools of themselves.
It is useful for self promoters and day traders, others not so much.
One of the interesting ones I've heard talk about lately is the "interstellar travel" step - Earth is on the lower end of the size range for rocky planets that can support an atmosphere and magnetic field to shield surface life from radiation. And because of the tyranny of the rocket equation, life developing on larger rocky planets may have a much harder time reaching orbit.

A good demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amjuJJwI3iM

On a planet with twice the Earth's mass, it would take a larger-than-Saturn-sized rocket to put a Mercury-sized payload into orbit.

EDIT: And said Mercury-sized payload would have to spend more of its mass on heat shielding than the human Mercury capsule if it's intended to come back down.
I've heard they do A/B testing on this across stores and across time for the same store. The treatment probably increased sales.
Attempting to debunk legitimate science without evidence or citation is garbage.

How typical that it's the first comment on the story.
To add on to hiccuphippo's comment:

By "easier to parse", I mean "easier to parse for humans as well as computers".

I, a human, would also prefer not to memorize the list of self-closing tags, or the arcane rules for when <p> and <li> autoclose. Not having to do these things _blatantly_ makes XHTML more readable.
It’s 25Gbps between instances, and NVLINK between GPUs on the same instance. It’s really a pretty comparable setup.

There’s no network cost within a region, and you’re probably not downloading terabytes of data out of AWS — so you’re talking about a few dollars a month, as opposed to tens a day in GPU cost. (You’d also have 23TB of RAM in your cluster, if that’s enough for you to use as storage.)
My knowledge of how publicly traded companies work is very limited, but:

Was what he said really that bad? He said:

>Tesla made 0 cars in 2011, but will make around 500k in 2019

And then later corrected himself with:

>Meant to say annualized production rate at end of 2019 probably around 500k, ie 10k cars/week. Deliveries for year still estimated to be about 400k.

This seems like a pretty simple mistake to have made, and I have a tough time assigning malice to it.

I like Elon. A lot. The news machine's constant thirst for scandal surrounding him is a cancer on our society, and it worries me that it then effects people who have the ability to enact their will with force: the judicial system.

edit: and it honestly just seems like an honest mistake. He likely is constantly thinking of ways to improve the weekly output of Tesla, and then expanding that in his head to yearly production numbers.

>Tesla made 0 cars in 2011, but will make around [/be at the correct pace to be making] 500k [a year] in 2019.
It goes to intent.

Typically the law tries to at least somewhat take into account intent, like if someone omits something from a filing by accident or in a deliberate attempt to conceal, for example.

Pointing out his statements demonstrates that he's aware of the rules and is choosing not to respect them. That's usually a sign that someone should be on the higher end of the typical punishment range for a given act.
Very interesting, I did not know that. When people here in Sweden talk about it it is exclusively in the context of the indigenous population in the north of Sweden, where reindeers are presented as free roaming in an area that is about 30% of the whole of Sweden. In raw numbers that is about 200 000 reindeers in the area of around 100 000 km2. I do not know if in practice this still mean that they feed them protein feed and hay.

I do know personally a farmer that operated highland cattle in a nature protected forest. They do need hay during the winter months, but that is about it. For the rest of the year it is water, salt/minerals, and some shelter in case of really bad weather like large thunderstorms. The benefit for the forest is significant and directly noticeable, and looks like a really very well managed open forest. In contrast spruce forests which is the norm in the south part of Sweden tend to be extremely overgrown, which is currently recognize as an major threat to bio diversity. Several species has gone almost extinct because of it. There are a few other nature reservation that also use highland cattle with similar setup.

Technically highland cattle could survive the winter months without hay but it would not be legal.
When he speaks with insider information from the company to an audience that will influence his personal position in said organization, he's not a private citizen.
Wow.

They charge people for privilege of giving them $25k+ to reinvest at their discretion for their own benefits?

This is lol.
My first desktop was a Compaq Presario CDS 520, in 1994. It was a 486/66, and came with 4 MB of RAM and a 450MB HDD. I want to say my parents paid $2,400 for it, but would have to double check to be sure.

A dozen years later would be 2006 - if memory serves, a decent laptop in those days would have run you about $1,200-1,500, and would have come with a Core 2 Duo @ ~1.2Ghz, 2GB of RAM, and a ~40GB HDD.

That's a lot more than a 4x increase in specs!
It's a 'simple mistake' in his long line of ignoring well established SEC rules.
There are lots of ways of accomplishing that without the things that causes twitter to be particularly toxic.
> This seems like a pretty simple mistake to have made

Elon Musk is the head of a public corporation, not a random Twitter user.
Of course they can. Not only can you just fire your CEO if he says something racist, sexist, or generally embarrassing, but there are non-disclosure agreements (you promise not to tell anyone what happens in the last episode of Game of Thrones), non-disparagement agreements, codes of conduct that entail things you can say. Conan O'Brien had to agree not to appear on television, and not to say anything negative about NBC as part of his leaving the Tonight Show. Nike can tell its employees they're not allowed to wear Puma clothing.
This is a defect with your bank, not TurboTax. Your bank should be doing oauth, not user/pass.

https://community.intuit.com/questions/1752343