skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the US, buying jewelry and selling it back is a substantial guaranteed loss. Are the economics of the retail jewelry trade different there, or are the alternatives just so bad that it’s still compelling?
Personally, the skeptic in me believes if the NSA is losing interest in a major data collection program like this, then they are deflecting the narrative from focusing on an even more impressive and accurate data collection program that they have developed and are ready to deploy out into the world. I’m putting on my tinfoil hat at this point, but every day I read HN I’m surprised at what is capable, given the right technology, money, and time.
part of doing business
Sony Sketch EOL
I don't think you understand what real time programming is.
It seems uncontested that this company is doing some good, whether or not that good is outweighed by the bad. I'm unclear on the net effect, and not really making a claim; I tried to be clear about that near the end of my prior comment. If, hypothetically, the bad outweighs the good, I have no disagreement with you. But in the other hypothetical, where the good outweighs the bad, it seems like you're letting perfection be the enemy of improvement. Just because we can imagine a better system doesn't mean we should tear down an existing one that has some problems before beginning to implement a replacement. I would be glad to see a program with all of the good and less of the bad outcompete this one, even if this one has a net positive effect in the mean time.

“You never change things by fighting against the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.” --Buckminster Fuller
ONCE AGAIN, they're clutching at their pearls and swooning about losing the (straw man) metadata. They think we're stoopid. Required reading,

NSA Surveillance: Exploring the Geographies of Internet Interception

Andrew Clement

Faculty of Information, University of Toronto

https://archive.org/download/GeographiesOfInternetIntercepti...

Might be a mix of hearsay but some pieces of the puzzle are becoming clearer. Skip to the section on 'NSA Splitters' and ask yourself, if they had drop-in access to the baseband circuits, qould they already be able to intercept the Telcom providers' streams that gather the data that is now part of the disclosure programs? And even if the links are encrypted, keys can be leaked. Telcos are finally 'off the hook'.
It's a fair question, something we should be asking ourselves as a society.

But as I suggested earlier, we're still stuck with a society where a lot of people, perhaps even a majority, find corporate capitalism to be morally righteous, not merely elegant and effective. Corporate life is more sacred than human life in our world, sadly.
Yet again, the answer is keto and fasting...
Again, you have any citation for that? Surely a story as disruptive as you paint it has been covered somewhere.
Tesla Model S range 100 kwh battery = 370 miles. Audi E-tron 95 kWh battery = 208 miles. Audi has a fair bit of catching up to do.
> Like if Tesla gives you 700 mi range but Audi does 500mi, does anyone really care?

In this case, yes, because current battery tech charges much faster from 0-80% of the battery, so a battery with more range than you'll use is still beneficial because it'll charge faster for the portion you do use. But I'm being snarky--that's not your point.

Tesla's advantage is far more than just range.

* The battery management system, which minimizes battery degradation (google "nissan leaf degradation")

* The manufacturing process adopted to actual EVs (and not shoehorning an EV into an ICE car design)

* The lack of dealerships and resulting ability to push software updates to cars containing new features

* The standardization of self-driving hardware -- all Teslas made since ~2016 have the camera hardware set up in the same positions

* The actual ownership of the software / UI and it actually being done well, when most other manufacturers seem to be shooting for "passable, I guess"

* The big touchscreen UI, which is (effectively) the same across all models, which makes keeping software up-to-date much easier

It's just not even close. Other manufacturers can improve battery tech, too, but these other things require bold action that traditional manufacturers are too slow / cautious / encumbered to take.
It's the same handful of characters repeating the same ad hominems every earnings report. Anti-weed puritans whining about "joe rogan weed". The pro-news crowd attacking him for his rebuff of the news industry. The "thailand crowd" for lack of a better word upset Elon Musk brought up pedophilia epidemic in thailand. And the short seller crowd claiming this earnings report is their vindication and their road to riches ( stock barely dropped after hours so looks like the shorts are wrong again ). It's groundhog's day. In 3 months, we'll get the same comments over again.
A good guide on writing, that is on organization the presentation of ideas and structuring written arguments (not a book on usage and style) is Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brookes: 'Modern Rhetoric'.
O(1) - constant time. The answer is 29. I just happen to know that.

I think you need an 'n' in there before it is meaningful to ask about the runtime.
Useful but if it's intended for learning (to play not to play), a systematic way of describing the harmony would be a good step forward
We have a couple of generations that haven’t been exposed to the horrors of a dictatorship. History must repeat itself. In the meantime, Duke and other such institutions will loose their appeal to those with deep and independent curiosity and to the parents who guide their children down that path. History will not favor these institutions.
Will that make them harder? One twist and the head deforms will betray their disguise.
I think a lot of it stems from the fact that many javascript developers blindly use packages for the most basic of things.

The Left Pad mentioned above is a prime example - do you really need a dependency for that? Start adding nested dependencies and well it's simply a mess!
I'm in Canada, I live in New Westminster - the zoning policies that happened in the US never happened up here so there are a few bad neighborhoods, but people are people, crime happens everywhere. I'm just happy the chances I'll die from a gunshot wound dropped suddenly when I emigrated from the states.
sorry for being dense, but I can't seem to save files or do anything seemingly practical. Is there any practical use cases for this library, or is this purely along the lines of "Hey checkout this cool hack!"
Backend code for a flower shop contributes to global and local economy and facilitates trade. Video games are (in my opinion) largely cheap entertainment with some artistic merit and mild popular culture importance (depending on your social crowd). I guess this is an unorthodox opinion, but I consider backend flower code to be cooler and better.
I heard: "The mountains are high, and the emperor is far away."
Same, Firefox on Arch
Risk. If you are an employee you are already have significant exposure to the risk of the business doing poorly, so it makes sense to diversify. Maybe frame it this way: if I handed you $20,000 to put in the stock market would you put it all in your employer's stock?
No, it's not.

Gigamon can easily tap 100G and deconstruct it into 10x10G flows.

https://www.gigamon.com/company/news-and-events/newsroom/gig...

An off the shelf server can line rate tap/filter 10g.

gigamon might cost $50k? Each server might cost $5k? $100k to monitor a 100g circuit? Peanuts.
Interesting - why is that? Have you hired such people and found them incapable of doing the work?
Because a clearance requires you to have discretion and control of yourself to maintain the secrets you learn due to it.

If you lack the self-control to not use a federally illegal drug on camera, then do you have the self-control to not leak secrets to score points in an argument or if you're drinking with a friend and they apply some social pressure, for instance? Maybe, maybe not, but it raises red flags about how trust worthy you are.
Supposedly they're having a feces epidemic in San Fran lately. ianad, but it seems like that could promote plague resurgence?
Tesla has about $9B in debt. They are not an attractive takeover candidate. They've never turned an annual profit.
I cannot tell if this is a satirical comment or not.
That's genuinely fascinating and I'd like to learn more about it. Can you recommend some reading material for me? (Or better still an Engineering Explained-style YouTube video if someone has covered the topic well in that form.)
Where to start.

Probably the two biggest arguments are bloat[1] and broken builds. Both seem to be caused by an obsession with the culture of "never reinvent the wheel"[2] which can be stifling and over-the-top, especially given a community so willing to publish backwards incompatible changes come hell or high water.

Both of these -- ease of publishing breaking versions and making libraries that are 11 lines long for the sake of not repeating them -- may have something to do with how npm manages dependencies. That is, it doesn't. You ask for a specific version of a library and you get it. Simple. You don't share this code version other libraries on the system. It sort of makes it easy to do the wrong thing, like backwards incompatible changes. For another example, this can cause problems when library B and A get results from calling library C and then communicate to each other using those results. You see, A uses C at a completely different version than B does. You end up with madness, and two copies of C (bloat).

Contrast this with maven. Yea, lots of small libraries, but maven only allows one version of a library to exist and doesn't tell you exactly which one it will pick [4]. This is horribly broken BUT encourages people to NOT write backwards incompatible stuff. It encourages a healthy community. Maven central doesn't receive nearly as much hate as npm in my experience

Then there's the crypto mining incident[3], but that could arguably have happened in one of several communities, really.

[1]: https://twitter.com/tdvorak/status/678613940746756096?s=19
[2]: https://xkcd.com/2140/
[3]: https://link.medium.com/UVCo1GTaaW
[4]: https://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to...
I definitely respect them too, but they would not do anything of this magnitude if it wasn’t for Elon’s vision and leadership. Isn’t that obvious?
You can find FB all day and it probably won't change a thing, but what if execs could be held personally liable for said transgressions?
Try:

Ctrl and [

That should send the same as Esc (ASCII 27).

I seem to remember this working on a new iPad Pro keyboard.
I agree, but from what I can tell the Audi, Porsche, and BMW are targeting where the model S was... not where it is today. I.e. range in the 200-260 miles, not 370.

Seems likely by the time any of the competition is shipping in reasonable numbers (already hearing complaints of limited battery supply from the German companies) there's likely to be a model S with the improve battery pack based on the same tech as the model 3.
Only if your plugins are Vimscript only
McKesson
Looks like its problem in delivery and demand has continued strong. I love Tesla and hope they get through this.
The Dell XPS range has always worked great with Linux, I've not tested the latest model but the previous model is flawless :) Plus you get a decent GPU in it!
Handling Infinite Loops with Backpressure
Hah. No you didn’t. My daughter has it and won’t give it back. She calls me a sucker and she is right.
It's quite possible something similar to the Fisker bankruptcy might happen - Fisker's assets were bought out by Wanxiang Group who then launched Karma Automotive, resuming manufacture
of their 'Revero' plug-in hybrid car, which is an improved version of the old Fisker Karma.
Sure, but there are other dimensions to innovate on - charging speed, self driving, active suspension, efficiency, the list goes on. And 500 miles at what price? Tesla is going for the best AND cheapest electric drivetrain.
I don't know the best way to tell you that your fly is down, but... 'well'. You write well.
Because they perform well up until the point that they don't. By working at $Company, you're already invested heavily in their success. If a substantial portion of your net worth is also tied up in their stock, the company having problems may ruin you. Imagine: the stock price tanks due to some real issues, and then you get laid off. In one swoop you've lost both your salary and your savings.

If you'd instead sold some or all of your stock, you'd have a solid nest egg to fall back on. And companies doing very well up until the point that they suddenly explode is not exactly unheard of: consider Enron, or even Groupon or Zynga.

It's true that it's unlikely for FB to implode over the next year, but last year was real rough for the company: the July earnings went from 220 to ~160. If your whole savings is wrapped up in that, that's a scary drop. (You can say that it's recovered, but only partially and slowly).

Long story short: it's easy to pick the winners if you're looking backwards.
Would be even more awesome with plain nvi support :)
Recently I watched a documentary about the Arthurian legend. Essentially nobody has been able to prove or disprove the existence of King Arthur. That part of history in Britain is pretty much a blank as to who was running things and how things worked.
Do you also love it when Musk calls people pedos? What about when he lies about taking the company private on Twitter? This is the narcissism you enjoy?
Good point.

Can you pls give the Python3 variant a try? It supports caching:

https://evuraan.info/evuraan/stuff/magan/magan.py.txt

You'd need scapy for Python3:

$ pip3 install scapy-python3
$ wget https://evuraan.info/evuraan/stuff/magan/magan.py.txt -O magan.py
$ chmod 755 magan.py
$ ./magan.py --help
Usage:
-h --help print this usage and exit
-p --port alternate port to listen
-v --version print version information and exit

I'd love to hear your feedback, thanks!
This is so cool! Well done!
Does this require mouth movement though?
How do vehicles in transit at end of quarter affect their Revenue and Cost of Revenue? Are both revenue and cost recognition deferred until Q2, or is just revenue recognition deferred while costs for production are recognized in Q1?
Yeah, I remember too: that was when they had giant opportunities for growth. Lower P/E means lower opportunity for growth. Apple's growth prospects are fairly low on the current trajectory of the company. They were also fairly low when it was 13, regardless of what the stock price did.
For the moment I'm going with hack.

I hope the author will work out some of these kinks so that it becomes usable !
Lol. Why no :Explore?
This is absolutely incredible. I never thought this would be possible-- wasm opens a new phase of software development and deployment.
I will never apologize for not wanting me kids to deal with what I had to deal with. There are bad neighborhoods, and it is wrong that the government is taking people and dumping them in our communities.

I don't hate these people, I don't blame them for their plight. But they are still more likely to be dangerous.

Would you drop your kids off at a daycare center in a prison, or a drug rehab clinic? Most of the people are probably still good, but a larger proportion of them will be dangerous.
How did they even get your $750? If they didn't properly notify you to return the phone then why let them have the money at all?
That's not a minor nit, that's a digression from object-level discussion to arguing about word definitions.
I'm no metallurgist, but that seems like an insanely expensive and time consuming way of smuggling gold, as compared to say a hidden compartment.
> supercharger network is shared/sold off

Selling the supercharger network to a separate company, and enabling it to serve all EVs, seems like an obviously great idea. Rebrand it from "Tesla Supercharger" to “Supercharger". Tesla cars can stiull be sold as compatible with “the Supercharger network”.

I'm not a financial modeling kind of person, but I suspect such a beast could sell for quite a lot of money, strengthening Tesla's finances. Perhaps one of the gigantic oil companies that owns/franchises a gigantic chain of gas stations would like to stake out a leading claim on EV charging, those folks have plenty of money.

It would also further Tesla's stated goal of accelerating the transition to EV's or whatever.

Of course there are downsides, giving up this proprietary advantage. Still, that downside versus retiring some risk seems like a nice trade-off.
Ask HN: How often do you find yourself without anything to do at work?
Thing is, just last month i wanted to play an older game that for some reason was linked against Gtk1. And pretty much every application made with Lazarus today is linked against Gtk2 (as the Gtk3 backend is still in a very prealpha state) and i'm sure there are other similar situations. And as you can see with this book, people are still working with Gtk2.

At this point it doesn't matter that it was released 17 years ago, what matters is that there are programs using it.

Honestly, i can see Gtk1 to Gtk2 breaking compatibility since they probably did some blunders and all and it wasn't very long lived anyway, but Gtk2 to Gtk3 should have kept backwards compatibility - GUI libraries are important foundation for a platform and breaking changes breaks every application that relies on them. Instead what the developers did was not only break Gtk3 but not even try to design an API with Gtk3 that would allow Gtk4 to be backwards compatible.

It is frustrating if as a developer you want to ensure your program keeps working in the future and have the foundation it relies on sabotage you. I can release a Win32 application today and i'm certain that if people are still using x86 Windows desktops, it will work in 20 years. Hell, chances are it'll still work in Linux thanks to Wine - whereas the only way i'd get the same sort of compatibility with a "native" UI library would be to write my own toolkit and use X11 directly (and even that assuming Wayland developers wont have convinced everyone to drop X11).

Sometimes i'm just considering to just target Win32 for my stuff and tell people use Wine for Linux and macOS, it'll be more likely to work in the future than any native UI library.
We have ways of making you talk.

Or at least reading words from your brain.
Well IANAL, so I tend to look to intent.

Seems like the constitution, and early amendments, were a decent attempt for their age to do something a little better. Laws and texts of that age did not take the endless paragraphs of today's legal language.

As written it can be interpreted in a 20th century way and encompass everything, including commercial, pornography, campaigning and every damn fringe thing. Given the context of everything else from the 18th century, the known history of how they arrived where they did, and the rest of the constitution it seems far more probable that they simply meant freedom to choose religion, criticise the regime, free press and right of assembly. The "classical" definition of freedom of speech, if you like, without bending society out of shape by chasing the letter rather than spirit. 18th century laws rarely delved into precise and perfect definitions of all the edge cases.

As it is open to interpretation, we'll never know what precisely they had in mind. :)
I don’t see any reason you couldn’t just spit out the output and the derivative of the layer output with respect to the weights, then multiply and carry these all the way down. Then if you have a loss function at the end you have the gradient. Probably this project is for fun and not scale so it’s fine. But then you need to think about changing the weights on every layer based on the optimization
Prices haven’t changed in six months.
“a ton” would most likely be overeating.
I heard they are dropping this because they can get all the data they need from FB's new data partner program. /s
Well shucks. From my jaded point of view it seems that Ecuador had in place a system that denied Freedom of Association among the young to the Orwellian extent of frisking and institutionalized profiling (not merely rogue, discouraged and depends-where-you-live variable, as in the US). Yeah just like brown people in the Old South.

And then they stopped doing it. What a bloody miracle.
The title should be "Run VS Code on any server over SSH"... as in Visual Studio Code, not versus Code.
Tesla as a part of Apple (whose cash stuck between mattress cushions far exceeds the market cap of Tesla) would be unstoppable.

Also, a Tesla car is an iPhone in a world of flip phones. The Tesla design ethos fits Apple pretty nicely.
very cool, some of the set commands don't seem to work for me... set softtabstop for example didn't appear to work. also i might have a local setting but tab complete with set wasn't working... again probably local settings. and :w wtf didn't work :D seems to crash it. This is super cool

[update] ah i see from the readme write support is in the todo list.
Like other aspects of war I think this also depends on variables.

Was it war when German Uboote sank our supply ships enroute to the UK? Not for a while. Was of war when Iran captured US navy seamen in the Arabian gulf?

Is it war when NoKo does the Sony hack? If they start shelling SoKo and they also pull some “cyber” to use military lingo, then it’ll probably be war. In the meantime it’s more like spying/sabotage (which can be part of war, but by themselves aren’t)
Understanding Expo for React Native
It is certainly a big deal for HFT. Pulling the Solarflare networking technology into a Xilinx FPGA should cut a significant amount of latency for FPGA-based trading systems. Having a Solarflare IP core option should benefit other high-performance networking applications outside of HFT as well. Seems like a smart acquisition for Xilinx.
My Experience with Kickstarter as a Backer
Apply bankruptcy and sell the assets for cheap... Id imagine many would want to pick up the remains...
I know little about the financial world, but I used to listen to their earnings calls for fun. I remember Musk and their previous CFO saying that they didn’t count the cash of a sale until the customer received the car. But again, I could have misunderstood.
I took 140ug in a semi rural suburb. Rode my bike around a couple times during a sunny day, was pretty awesome. I did realize I wasnt caring much about physical limits/exhaustion and thus had to drink way more water. At one point I thought something along the lines of “even if I intentionally fall off right now it wont be that bad, Ill recover and heal”, while moving fairly quickly. I got off the bike.
Can you provide any documentation of this being the case? Because here is Tom Mueller, Co-founder of SpaceX and designer of initial Merlin rocket engine saying that is not the case.

https://twitter.com/lrocket/status/1099411086711746560
Are vehicles subsidies the best way to drive progress on battery density and cost?

They need to be if you are going to use them to reward wealthy Tesla investors and vehicle buyers.
Google "tesla profit over time". You'll see losses from 2011-2013 (12 quarters or so) and a profit, that was the ramp up to the model S. Then a series of losses up to 2016 (13 quarters) where they shipped the model X. Then a series of losses up to 2018 (7 quarters) then 2 quarters of profit for the model 3.

So generally Tesla has large costs for expanding battery production and new assembly lines for new models, and then starts profiting. Their annual production is heavily up (277,000 in the last 4 quarters). If they stopped expanding they would be quite profitable.

Given that their most popular car is very likely to be the model Y (at least in the USA the crossover/small SUV is by far the most popular). Things look pretty promising for Tesla.
Levi’s, Williams Sonoma, Gap/Old Navy