skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s also a move that comes during a period of time where Nintendo is very adamantly shutting down the circulation of its classic games online, to the point of threatening (and sometimes taking) legal action against websites hosting sizable ROM libraries.

Around that same time, legal threats from Nintendo prompted the emulation site EmuParadise to remove its entire ROM and ISO file libraries and, more recently, Nintendo was awarded up to $12.23 million in a copyright and trademark infringement case against the websites LoveROMS and LoveRetro.

I can't help but think that it would actually be in Nintendo's best interests to find some kind of way to work with the retrogaming community, instead of making those folks into their enemies. This reminds me of Metallica suing their own fans during the Napster era. It really seems like there must be a better way.
This reminds me of a story I read before.

A man approached the salesman upon seeing various colors of different fishing lures being on display. He asked whether those different colors actually work in attracting and catching fishes. The salesman promptly replied "Mister, I'm not selling these to fishes."

If these people are targeting VC money, they don't care if their products actually help solving problems for end consumers (aka the fishes), they just need to know what triggers the VC to invest. Even Masayoshi Son, the head of SoftBank, has lost $130 million in Bitcoin after listening to pitches from those crypto startup CEOs. This is how most businesses fail but hey at least it keeps the money flowing.

Those VC operate based on the principle in which if you throw enough spaghetti onto a wall, even though most will fall off but a few are always bound to stick.

Believe me, nobody knows anything in advance and everything is purely a game of chance, but once somebody gets lucky they can immediately declare themselves as the expert. They start selling books and everyone else would rush out to buy and follow exactly the same steps only to find out most of it just don't work. This same cycle just keeps repeating itself over and over again. Why? The market is not static, it constantly moves and changes around so you are already way behind by the time you apply those same strategies. Plus your personal life and connections are completely different than the other person's so you can't realistically expect the same results.

It's still necessary to learn what has worked because new levels are always built on top of the old ones. But this demonstrates why mathematics, or the rule of randomness, is a universal language that governs everything in our life.
I think the term "Logo" stands on a perfect abstraction level that in reality could have meant "using turtle.py you programmed last week with turn, move etc. commands", don't you think? Do we need to be super-precise down to minutiae when discussing informal stuff? Moreover, it's on paper, so who cares what syntax is the pseudocode, it could be even Logo itself.
You can like something without wanting to go back to it. It's nice being able to fix your own car, but great fuel efficiency and low emissions is also nice.
if it can compare headlines and tell if an article is a click bait.
Not in these places.
When they are let loose from the leash? May sound sarcastic but maybe its the effect of experiencing freedom and their expression of living that freedom.
Lol. This is hilarious!
Comment came a year too late.

Fortunately for you, in 2021 you can make the exact same mistake just one order of magnitude further along.
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Maybe this so-called "law student" should read up on retail marketing terms from time to time. Loss-leaders have been a thing for decades if not longer. Amazon is just able to maintain more loss-leaders than your average brick-and-mortar store (chain or non-chain), and their operations are diversified beyond E-commerce/retail with higher margins which can polish the numbers quite a bit.

The world has yet to see another monopoly on the scale of Standard Oil, and no, Amazon (specifically in the E-commerce market) is nowhere even close to that. One law student's "predatory pricing" is just another business' loss-leader.

I hope Mr.Sussman will one day acquire the knowledge that he won't be the first nor the last to come up with ideas on how to challenge Amazon.
It seems pretty risky to go out telling non-accredited (and likely naive) investors how much money they could make. While all the employees getting access to this equity are “insiders,” this seems like it could come back to haunt them if an unfortunate situation such as a fire sale acquihire occurs.
I read through all comments. Very informative.

How many people and companies are going to freak out if Elon and his team deliver FSD without LIDAR? Say in 2022, not even 2020. My layman logic is that AI is improving exponentially, and we do not know what artificial vision can do in 2 years.
Stories are often modified to make them more compelling, often to follow a 3 act play - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-act_structure

A founder's story (when it's told for PR reasons) will rarely be so messy it's hard to follow, or so clean it lacks drama. The central conflict will usually be foreshadowed in the introduction, rear its ugly head half-way through, then come to a climax at the end of the narrative leaving just enough space for a sales pitch.
Yep. Just went thru that 2 days ago with my father's GMC W series truck. The air filter I got from the retailer is for the previous generation, even though that's what their system says for the truck.

I had to hand the old filter to the store staff and have him copy the FRAM part number.
What's your favorite brand of vanilla ice cream?
Agreed, that was why I noted the efficiency model for an electric engine is superior to ICE. I'd just rather "normal"-ish acceleration in traffic with range improvements over high max acceleration. I'm sure you could also reduce engine weight if you don't have to rely on extreme acceleration.
> With all of the world’s unheard songs beckoning us with their endless mystery, why would anyone choose to waste their precious listening hours on a podcast?

Maybe some people don’t like music as much.
I took Serge's class when he was on sabbatical (?) teaching at UC Berkeley back in the days of steam-powered web browsers. Was a great course but it felt like the theory wasn't _quite_ there yet to be the next big thing in databases.
I think that a common occurrence on HN, which I'm definitely a perpetrator of, is upvoting things you wish you had a better grasp on. Theory-heavy & math posts seem especially prone to this.
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Ask your recruiter if they offer you that option. If they do, you are ranked quite high already.
In the autonomy presentation yesterday they said they could create more robotaxis if they ship smaller batteries. So I wouldn’t assume it means sales are poor. They’re focused now on building out a self driving fleet of customer cars, which they plan to activate as taxis in the future.
The Chinese do this all the time and nobody has the nerve to even report it in the asian or western media.
India has to do it to safeguard it against chinese agression. why did you thin the US got away with it? why did you think the Russians & Chinese got away with it. Self Defence. Try to answer who drew first blood and the finger points to someone.
If self driving trucks are on the horizon, why not self driving efficiency apartments? :)
Most of the economics profession is biased in favour of some regulated form of free markets and globalization.

That's a bit like saying scientists are biased in favour of anthropic climate change: it's a rational bias based on 200 years of evidence.
They didn't store pw in plain text. Pw were accidentally captured in logs and those logs were stored in an internal DB. This happens often.
The standard solution to my problem is on the order of 12 lines of code. I don't expect it to be perfect or "production ready", but the infinite loop should stick out like a sore thumb. I do expect candidates to demonstrate that they recognized that problem, and to at least make some attempt to check that they didn't overrun the bounds of an array in the 30 minutes they have.
Paper Ballot Backup

Current bill to do just that:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/1946...
Blockupload.io: Upload Files to Bitcoin Cash Blockchain(LZMA and OCB3-ChaCha20
Hello HN community,

I'd like to present you my tool (https://blockupload.io) that allows embedding files up to 1 MB in Bitcoin Cash transactions. The tool uses WebAssembly to compress files using LZMA, and optionally encrypts files using a combination of OCB3 and ChaCha20. If you wonder how it does this, it's by not including a checksum in the ChaCha20 layer, which shouldn't be a problem since it's intended for chosen-ciphertext invulnerable, un-side-channeled personal computers. Anyway, you can see how it encrypts here: https://github.com/DesWurstes/BlockUpload/blob/7d0e247b7f5e01d1d84932a780156a590ec7f844/exports.c#L67

(This tool is intended for legal use only)

I'd like to hear your comments on this, HN community. You can also look at r/btc's reaction here: https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/bah8zw/store_files_up_to_1_mb_in_bch_blockchain_onchain/

This tool is useful for:
- Static CDN
- Personal immutable file storage
A 10% increase of 0 is still 0.
Postgres, PostgREST, React, and writing less code
Generic Vue Template Interpolation Language Features
A draft is freely available here: http://icube-icps.unistra.fr/img_auth.php/d/db/ModernC.pdf (via https://gustedt.wordpress.com/2016/11/25/modern-c-is-now-fea...)

It's a solid book. If you like it don't hesitate to buy it.
What's the backstory?
i think we should just try convincing the big tech companies to build offices in less populated areas of the country.
Musicians have known this since the beginning of time. The only way to play a fast passage flawlessly is by not thinking about what your hands do. Once you start thinking, you're screwed.

Martin Miller explains why here, incorporating the recent neuroscience finding about latencies inherent in human perception and motor throughput: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ft6p6dqWWY
I agree with your comment in general, but, I worry about the bias of "Bring your own laptop set up to be able to code and debug" - some perfectly qualified candidates don't have laptops. Some perfectly qualified candidates do have a laptop but don't code much at home, and the setup they're used to is their work machine or a school lab computer. We already have too much bias in favor of code-all-day-code-all-night candidates (e.g., looking for GitHub profiles) and I think requiring someone to bring their workspace might push this to the point where good candidates who happen not to code outside business hours wouldn't stand a chance. (There are lots of reasons for this that wouldn't impact how qualified you are, from "I have a family" to "My workplace is real stingy about open source, so I haven't bothered to set anything up for non-work coding".)

I'd be a lot more comfortable with "We have a machine set up for you, but you can also bring your laptop," as long as the machine is actually well set up and you don't fall into the implicit expectation that passing candidates will bring their laptop anyway. (Most of them will, in the end.)
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I think a lot of people use the upvote to bookmark a link. The favorite feature was rolled out much later and I've always used votes for that purpose.
How is it going to work?

The judiciary is nominated by the executive, which I can’t see working well for this. Presidents from both parties would universally opt to staff the branch with journalists that were soft on government and politicians in general.

Same problem if they get appointed by congress.

As for elections, yea what could go wrong there? America is pretty level headed. We would never elect some kind of partisan maniac to an important position like this.

All the branches of government are inherently political.
Well, ah... unless you're applying at Amalgamated SortCo Industries, asking for on-the-spot sorting implementation is pretty high on the list of absurd interview questions.

Anyway I'd think one might use an array and not some other list/collection.
Last time I coded for the Raspberry Pi, gen 2, I used Wayland with Sway on Arch Linux ARM. Fast and more responsive than the standard DE provided by Raspbian. Was running Sway on Raspbian but needed access to the latest version of Go.
If someone died mining our hypothetical battery, that is a choice they made (assuming that we all know working in mines is dangerous). OTOH we have little choice in breathing in smog... clean air is a communal resource we all have to share.

And the problem isn’t your gas vehicle that you rarely use, it’s the general concept of everyone from Volkswagen to our local auto sports enthusiasts thinking their smog doesn’t really matter that much.
its not about Elections...pakistanis are spreading fake news...

the chinese are way too ahead and that causes india a concern.
they are doing ASAT from a decade now..

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/23/washington/23satellite.ht...
No they will not. You can't imagine the sunken cost fallacy around the diesel.
Careers, factory and towns where build around this.

They can not grow internak competition against it without sabotage from those who built this.
If you factor in 4-5 hours in overhead in order to take a flight, you can go a lot of places for a lot less and just slightly longer ride. I’m guessing 1/10 of the price for NY to Miami if you take 2-3 people
If you've ever been to a tesla service center, it's kind of interesting.

Cars glide in silently and when they sit there for a bit the words "Service Mode" come up in maybe 5" high letters on the dashboard.

There are lots of technicians on their computers. The car info comes up on the specific car and shows lots of history, where and when it was last serviced and so forth.

Each car seems to have it's own personal list of options and features, that shows up on the website when searching for cars, or when signing into you car portal.

folks have taken the time to document them:

https://github.com/timdorr/tesla-api

https://github.com/fredrikfjeld/tesla-options-decoder

I think all cars are like this, but telsa is less rigid / concerned about model years and just consults the database for the specific car's info at every step.
I think the answer is No, Chinese are not worse behaved overall than other tourists that I have seen.

Their voices are a little louder sometimes, but that's the worst I can say. Individuals may behave badly, but then the same is true of individuals from any other nation.

I've had cause to ask two people to modify their behaviour at Tokyo landmarks recently. One was a juvenile Italian swinging from a torii gate, the other I believe was Nepali and he was just standing on the wrong side of a picket fence to get a better photo of himself.

I've seen a lot of Chinese, but they are no worse or better behaved than others in my experience.
More than model S , model X badly needs a refresh. Thing started to look like a giant Prius.
>A wing mirror costs $550 for example

I wish. I was quoted $1450 for a new wing mirror for my wife's X...
The gift shop was nice and not stupid expensive. Picked up a few things for my nieces that they liked.
After skimming through the comments, I refuse to click this link as a matter of principle.
Absolutely!

It's still one of my favourite technical books.

I read it when I started looking at RDBMS after having worked in NoSQL and I clearly recall how excited I was to learn that there is a full fledged system that I could utilize which would get rid of 90% of my code.

I know this term is usually not used when it comes to technical books, but I found it to be quite a page turner!!
A good partnership is a wonderful thing :)
Obviously more than one HN user has heard of C.J. Date's work on databases.

We banned you last year for egregiously violating the site guidelines, and told you why. When banned users create new accounts and show new signs of abusive behavior, we ban the new account too. The reason is obvious, but I'll explain anyway: when a banned user gives us reason to believe they've had a change of heart and will use HN as intended in the future, we're happy to unban them—but when they give us reason to believe the opposite, we do the opposite. Otherwise bannage would be a bit of a joke on a site when people can just create a new account in a few seconds (and many do).

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19735388 and marked it off-topic.
Absolutely not. They are unfortunately presenting their authentic selves. I don't get why people always draw every hypothesis back to the Chinese government. Incidentally, I would dare to suggest that the tourist Chinese are using the image of the recent Chinese might as an excuse to look down on the native customs.
I wonder how much of the additional complexity is actually necessary for lower emissions.
> Criminal and indecent behavior should be policed, but anyone familiar with New York’s Flushing, Yeonnam-dong in Seoul or Tokyo’s Kita-Ikebukuro can tell you that only Chinese tourists are a concern. It’s the socialization that’s the problem. Chinese residents not only enrich and enliven cities, but the societies in which they live.

This seems like an oddly strained hedge from a journalist that ought not to fear retribution if they invite it in the first place.
Interestingly, the charge rate across the entire curve sounds like an important metric but in practice it is nearly irrelevant.

If you drive an ICE car, you are used to filling your tank. Because once you've gone through the trouble of driving to a gas station and pulling out your credit card and unscrewing the cap, well you might as well top it off, right? Life is different with electric.

You might know, for example, that most Teslas operate day-to-day with their max battery charge limit set around 80% or below (it extends battery life). Charging at night is entirely effortless, so you put the charge into the battery that you'll need for the next day, or like me, you set it to give you 4x your daily commute and totally forget about it. Only before a particularly long road trip do you pop open the app and slide up the charge limit.

For Superchargers, the model is a bit different because this is charging that's happening on-demand while you wait in the car or are off getting a bite or whatever, during your trip. The best measure is to examine the portion of the curve that actual drivers spend actually charging their cars at an actual Supercharger. So here we have it;

"V3 Supercharging will ultimately cut the amount of time customers spend charging by an average of 50%, as modeled on our fleet data."

So this is truly an average of 50% faster, for actual Tesla drivers. ICE-age drivers who love to hate Tesla will insist you have to integrate the charge-rate curve, but as usual they will be entirely missing the point.

Tesla could spend an atrocious amount of time and money improving charging speed from 90 to 100%. That might be how you charge your phone, but it's actually not how Tesla drivers charge their cars (or how the onboard guidance computer will plan to charge your car when it sets the route for you), and would have almost zero benefit for the Fleet. Charging en-route is most efficiently done to boost the battery up to 70-80% and then you get going again.

Supercharger deployment, at least in the USA, is modeled such that there are almost no trips where you would benefit from, or need to, fully charge at a Supercharger, versus making two charging stops which would add up to less time charging, and driving out of your way to the charger, overall.
> music was beginning to fuel my frustration with other drivers

I find Reggae to be the best music for commuting, some Bob Marley, Peter Tosh or Toots and I am way more chill.
I used clojure once during an interview and bombed, passed again 2 years later at the same company with Python. Would’ve made a big difference in my equity had I just started then!
The article lists "...according to local police, about 95 percent of petty crimes on Jeju are committed by Chinese", but that is less than useful without statistics on tourist demographics. It would be interesting to see a more comprehensive study - I wouldn't be surprised if there's a lot of confirmation bias (for Americans as well) due to their large portion of the tourist population.
> Ludicrous Mode upgrade, a $20,000 value

I have a P85D. When Ludicrous Mode was announced, they offered it for $5000 as an upgrade.

I have no idea why it now supposedly costs $20,000.

Source: https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-drops-price-of-p85d-ludicrou...
That _IS_ my bad. I remembered the 5k rate, but for some reason I thought it was _per month_.

Duly corrected!
Personal experience here: all nationalities of tourist are an equally mixed bag of good and bad, except the Chinese, who in my experience are uniformly awful. Just a visit to Yellowstone shows the constant damage they wreak on the landscape, ignoring signs and rangers, in order to get the perfect photo. Butting in line, spitting, speaking loudly over everyone else... they are intolerable. Which is strange, because every Chinese grad student I’ve ever worked with has been courteous, professional and in many cases, genuinely kind.

Maybe the other tourist nationality outlier is Israelis visiting the US. As far as I have seen, they are the nicest and most grateful tourists ever.
I guess the difference is that the management track rewards immoral behavior - the higher you go the more of it you'll see.
wait until he comes across an "i hate podcasts" podcast and then he'll be hooked.
There's also possible latency savings from having the video encoder be aware of network conditions on a per-frame basis: http://ex.camera but I don't think it's found its way to the "mainstream".
Time to introduce in-car purchases. Pay to overtake.
I really wish people wielding the downvotes around here had the principles to avoid downvoting comments because they disagree with the argument. This is not reddit.
read the story of the guy with the bmw who tried to swap in a part from another one, and it wouldn't work unless the dealer programmed it to work with that new car's vehicle id. so he sold his car.
What about if/when they are the only retail company left and significantly raise prices? This is the reason such laws exist.
That's what the server is for.
Also: "In addition to our Long Range and Performance variants, we’re also re-introducing a lower entry price for Model S and Model X by bringing back our Standard Range option, now available for an even greater value with the new drivetrain and suspension updates."

They just can't leave their pricing structure alone. How does Tesla management not appreciate how unnecessarily confusing this is for consumers?
Reminds me of the astonishing anti-trust case against Microsoft arguing that giving consumers free stuff was harming them.
I think there were a lot of interesting first ammendment cases fought to defend less high-minded situtions.
Podcasts vs music seems a matter of personal preferences.

I skimmed through this post in a few minutes. It would have been a much longer time if it were a podcast. I don't have that much time to invest on a single subject so I'm not into podcasts. I rarely watch technical videos for the same reason. I definitely prefer text: same content at my own pace.

However I don't commute anymore. When I did I listened to news and random music if driving or I read a book if I was on a subway train (much better than driving.) I could have listened to podcasts or audio books back then.