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> it is really damn hard to bring a CEO doing obviously fraudulent things to heel.

If it’s “obviously” fraudulent, why isn’t law enforcement involved? No lawsuit required since fraud is a crime.
Interesting. I have a 15" with the upgraded GPU so that might be why I avoided some of these weird issues.
It's. Not. Inevitable. I'm sorry that that has been your experience, but it doesn't have to be this way.
How else are you going to sell some rich idiot an $8K _bicycle_?
This all just seems a little anachronistic... a little arrogant...

Are there really people in this day and age that believe there's nothing that exists that can't be explained with a textbook? Is the world do devoid of magic, or is wonder in such bountiful supply that something amazing and wonderful must be snuffed out, crushed under the weight of such dullness, such grasping conspiracy theories?

A government psyop, really? That's your big plan to explain centuries of reports -- that all of that is because it's some state wanting to massage the minds of it's soldiers... are you insane?
No, he can't. That's exactly what the lower 30% limit is on — gifts of appreciated capital.

If he sold the shares first, he could claim up to the higher 50% limit. But he'd owe capital gains taxes on the sales, which is almost certainly more than the additional deduction.
Literally my life right now.
Marvel at the feat of operations, not the engineering. The techniques used to process this information over the years have mostly been quite banal. Look behind the scenes and much of it is just batch processes written in old school languages (Perl, Java, even C) reading text files from one folder, filtering or enhancing them, and writing them out to another. I once taught a PM how to use a Perl hash to do a join instead of nested for loops and she spent the next year feeling godlike because she could do this stuff in O(n) instead of O(n^2).
Here, paste this into your terminal:

echo "hello"
echo "lol" ; sudo sl -rf /

(In case it's not obvious, the # trick will not help you.)
eh that's far from big compared to OP's list.

single company market cap of $1 trillion vs $20 billion -_-
Agreed. There is a reason that the Camry has been the best selling car in the US just about every single year since 1997. Boring reliability is very attractive to a lot of consumers. Enthusiasts will put up with Tesla quality in order to have the technology, but appliance car buyers are much less willing to accept that.
If the average person could bet their life savings on red at the Roulette table, what’s different about allowing them the freedom to bet on risky investments? At some point adults should be adults and be responsible for themselves. Of course fraud should remain illegal, but assuming fraud isn’t involved, why not let anyone invest in anything?
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i havent come to a personal conclusion on if its even a feat of engineering. Im impressed by amazon’s handling of logistics, and I do think consumer data helps Amazon know when and where products are most likely to sell, perhaps even upsell customers or get customers to agree to a steeper markup, but beyond that, i don’t think actual predictive models of consumer behavior has really been achieved here. Ive never gotten a sense that amazon intuits my consumer habits and ive made a lot of purchases over the years. i dont think amazon has made a dime on storing timestamps for when i turned a page on a kindle or learned anything from the music i listened to. ive never bought a single recommended product. On a scale of 1-10, 10 being Delos incorporated and perfectly modeling user behavior—-accurately predicting how i’ll react before I even see the products they place in front of me—and 1 being Wall-E making blocks of trash, id say this data collection is a 2.5 at best.
I don't understand why people would believe that it is. It has all the wrong properties to be a bioweapon: it mainly kills the weak and elderly (unlike the 2009 "swine" flu which most severely afflicted the young), it isn't targeted, it's seemingly uncontrollable, and it isn't all that deadly.
People still have problems. I hang out on r/teslamotors periodically, and I own a recently built Model 3. They have gotten better, but some people have significant issues to this day.
You should never invest capital you can’t afford to lose.
I don't remember how long it took me to do the spell checker challenge:

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/master/src/dmd/root/spelle...

but I'm sure it was much longer than it took Peter. This checker is used by the D compiler to look for a misspelled identifier when a symbol lookup fails. The identifiers in scope form the dictionary.

It works surprisingly well. I added it to the Digital Mars C++ compiler as well.

https://github.com/DigitalMars/Compiler/blob/master/dm/src/d...
> Cold oil lubricates better.

By this logic a solid would be the best lubrication, which it clearly isn’t.
Always prefer DisplayPort over HDMI. There should be no reason to ever use the later, unless you are stuck with hardware that can't work with anything else. It's only being pushed around by HDMI creators who still like to collect fees for its patents.
Because they result in a syntax error.
Nah, the whole point of working for someone else is it lowers your own risk, have a good salary and a stable income. If mission and purpose is that important, might as well accept the full risk and work on your own idea. Assuming you have the qualifications to get a FAANG job, taking a pay cut to burn yourself out at a start-up where you get peanuts when the start-up sells just seems like the worst of both worlds.
The solution is to anonymize and decentralize the internet, and we've been saying it for decades.
> these other programmers get the task done

And it only works on the test cases :-)
In many, many ways, AATIP appears to be Skinwalker Ranch all over again and BAASS is NIDSci all over again. There is significant overlap between the people involved and BAASS even has an odd habit of bringing up Skinwalker Ranch repeatedly despite a lack of a clear connection.

This is significant when you look at the history of NIDSci's investigation of Skinwalker Ranch, which was a fairly high profile and well-funded investigation run by essentially all the same people which, after years, produced some popular media but few or no actual results.

To a cynical eye, it looks very much like Bigelow ran out of funding for his ongoing Skinwalker Ranch work (thus the undiscussed decline in actual NIDSci activity at the site despite it supposedly being an active project) and then, through some combination of wheeling and dealing and good fortune, connected with Sen. Reid to obtain a significant source of new funding to do similar work. Despite this funding being directed at UFOs generally and not Skinwalker Ranch specifically, BAASS still shows a desire to funnel that money towards Skinwalker Ranch.

So, is this a case of the US Gov't working towards disclosure, or a case of Bigelow finding a new source of funding for his ongoing hobby project at Skinwalker Ranch, and the DoD and the taxpayer being taken along for the ride? The involvement of DeLonge is an interesting twist not present for the Skinwalker Ranch saga, but unsurprising considering DeLonge's longstanding interest in UFOs and apparent similarity to Bigelow (wealthy, eccentric, and interested in paranormal phenomena). DeLonge, as well as Bigelow, seems fully prepared to play the whole matter for personal benefit through TTSA.

I do not question that there are interesting phenomena under the heading of UAP and that that Nimitz incident might be one of the most compelling pieces of open evidence. However, given the history of Bigelow and and almost everyone else heavily involved in BAASS, I have a very hard time beliving that the AATIP is going to take us in the direction of better understanding.

I feel that it takes very little background in federal contracting, especially in the intelligence space, to fully believe that the DoD has invested tens of millions of dollars into a total flight of fancy. This has happened many times and will happen many more. Confusion and opacity in discussing the matter is completely unsurprising as a result of both the complicated confidentiality matters involved and the DoD's inherent lack of interest in being clear that it has spent tens of millions on Bigelow's hobby.

I sound very critical, and I am. But I think the important point is that a lot of the popular reporting on the issue, perhaps all of it, fails to discuss the possibility that "there is no there there" and that this is quite possibly just another story of DoD inefficacy with an unusual, Blink-182 twist.
Thank you for the suggestion, I'll check those options
First, most of the money raised by early-stage software startups goes to salary anyway, so that's not as restrictive as it sounds.

Second, you didn't have to do any recruiting. This is huge. Recruiting soaks up the time of existing employees who could be working on the product. It takes money for ads, sourcing, sponsorships etc. It takes calendar weeks or months before you actually get somebody to start, which is a big opportunity cost to a start up. And it's hard. If you have first-time founders, not knowing how to recruit effectively is probably one of the biggest risks the company faces.
Bracketed paste is basically a local buffer (that won’t be executed unless you explicitly do so).
Thanks for sharing! Agreed that both of these solutions are helpful, and I've seen many friends using them. For me personally, I wanted a more all-in-one solution, so we actually built hiding things like the Facebook newsfeed and Youtube recommended videos into our extension.
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No, moderation is censorship of user-submitted content by forum operators (whether owners or some other kind of host) or their agents. Censorship not directed at user-submitted content or carried out by other entities (e.g., the state) is not moderation.
Maybe don't be so literal? maybe there are words for things that we don't understand yet.... we don't have the words yet so we have to reuse existing words and apply some imagination... that's not bad or hard is it?
But they wouldn’t do what you wanted anyway if they were ASCII. What’s the problem specifically with them being Unicode?
Because for some reason terminals are stuck in the 70ies and don't accept those characters as quotes. Anything but ASCII trips them up.

Seems such an obvious interface to innovate, but it seems to run into terminal wizards sense of purity.
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I live in a rainy area of the country. Periodically my car annoys me to the point of cursing, because the auto wipers are extremely stupid. And because there is only one non-touch/voice control for them, you're kinda stuck.

I also wish it would not refuse to unlock about 10% of the time. I may just get the fob.
I was one of the first few employees at Clarifai so I can add to this.

When Matt and Adam started the company there was no Tensorflow and outside of Hinton/Bengio/LeCun triangle nobody was doing deep learning yet. Matt just beat Google on ImageNet (around the time when he was doing an internship at Google Brain under Jeff Dean) and was one of the few experts in the field as he was lucky enough to have Hinton as his masters thesis advisor at UofT and did a PhD at NYU under Rob Fergus and Yann LeCun.

We had a clear technological advantage for about 2 years but thanks to the open nature of deep learning research (arxiv and willingness to open source code) the whole field caught up. Google giving out tensorflow and pretrained models for free made a bit of a dent as well.

A big problem with the "machine learning model as a service" business model is that each customer has slightly different needs and a different source of data so an off the shelf solution is usually not good enough. Because of that you end up being forced into doing consulting for large companies that don't know how to hire machine learning engineers. You end up spending months building them a model that they won't even know how to use and move on to the next customer.

IMHO there are only two viable AI business models right now:

1. Spin out your research lab into a company and keep churning out papers without ever thinking about having real customers and make enough noise to get acquired by FAANG, ala Deepmind, Metamind, etc.

2. Find a problem with a lot of repetitive manual labor and slowly wedge a machine learning model into the process. Design a good feedback loop by first augmenting the workers and use their feedback to keep improving the model until it's good enough to replace them. Doing so requires you to actually build a real product in that domain so you'll need much more diverse team than a paper mill. Most companies doing this shouldn't even call themselves "AI" companies since their customers don't care how the solution works as long as it solves their problem.

I believe that companies pursuing option 2 will take over a lot of large established players because building machine learning driven products requires buy in from the whole organization and it's not something that's easy to do at large enterprises. You need to be able to design the product in a way that helps you collect feedback, build data infrastructure to collect it and be willing to accept a solution that won't always be right.
The forensics expert consulted by Popular Mechanics (in the original article) did not agree that the videos where "definitely legit".
Linode, Pair and Rackspace are established players in this field. (Pair.com is the oldest I know of).
>"the tension between the document-web and the app-web"

This is a huge factor in debates about things like the merits of CSS-in-JS, or the tradeoffs in "JAMstack"
architecture. Pick any polarizing facet of web development and odds are you'll find this tension at the heart of the opposing perspectives.
This is more or less the model that Basecamp uses with their rewrites. New product with new features and a strong encouragement to come along, but guaranteed support if you can't.
Except Ember.js devs. We never had js fatigue. Luckily we bet on the best at the first time. Still considered as the best framework out there.
Isn't the powerful majority you describe one any individual can enter into by becoming the administrator of their own site?

The scenario you describe sounds like it makes for a pretty terrible chess site, and I bet people would like an alternative.
I bit of a shameless plug for my project: https://income-inequality.info/

Includes all the processing and graph generation code (can even run notebook online): https://github.com/whyboris/Global-Income-Distribution

The world is shockingly unequal in terms of income (and other resources). I love that others are trying to visualize it (e.g. http://www.globalrichlist.com/ and https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/get-involved/how-rich-am-i/ )
Another way I'd put it: "SaaS products are technically really quite easy. AI is actually hard".
That's not a very helpful criticism. If the companies go on to fail or make mistakes it doesn't mean that their previous good work or strategy is invalid.
I’ve always wanted one of these kinds of devices for gaming. Unfortunately they’re never made for left handed people. I understand how that’s the case for such niche accessories, but when I see a brand like Razer not having keypads, it just means ~15% of gamers can’t use the device.
Safari for everything personal, Chrome for work-related and Firefox for banks.
I can read & write a language that I don't have a keyboard for (I use a standard US 101 key layout), so I work around this by cut & pasting single characters around to fix up the missing accent characters. Usually even a partially fixed word is enough for the spell checker to kick in and correct the rest, making this surprisingly fast.

The thing that annoyed me recently is that if I cut & paste a single character in Google Mail, it'll "helpfully" surround it with spaces when pasted. Other applications like Firefox or MS Word don't have this behaviour.

I just tested it, and the GMail behaviour is wonderfully inconsistent:

Copying from GMail to to plain text (e.g.: a text editor) will result in a single character.

Copying from plain text into GMail will result in no superfluous spaces.

Copying from GMail to GMail or to any "rich text" editor will add the extra spaces.

So basically I'm copying plain-text, but GMail is abusing rich-text formatting to add "magic" behaviour someone at Google assumed is beneficial, but is just confusing and arbitrary.

PS: Similarly, GMail's spell checker now "fights" with the Firefox spellchecker and the result is that neither wins and obvious typos aren't resolved unless I turn checking off and back on a couple of times.
There are other good EVs, and more in the pipeline. I think it would be more accurate to say that Tesla fans don't care much about minor cosmetic issues, because ... they're fans. This makes sense.
IIRC, I first read about IDEO in "Creative Confidence", a book I enjoyed and found personally inspiring. Looking fwd to HN comments on this ~recent article.
I used to use a Belkin N52 then an N52TE. My current gaming keyboard is a Razer Orbweaver Chroma (https://www.razer.com/gaming-keyboards-keypads/razer-orbweav...) which I’m pretty happy with - the mechanical switches are good, although the extra row of buttons seems a bit superfluous.
I think the windows clipboard can hold that as metadata. OneNote had a setting that I could enable so that when I pasted from Edge into OneNote the url was appended, but the url wouldn't show up if I pasted into another rich text editor like Word (or OneNote without the setting enabled).

Using org mode now, and there's probably a way to do it with emacs lisp, but... I'll never get around to it.
Just a rant - I know why we need it, but I wish mobile OSes like Sailfish OS or postmarketOS didn't require crap like "Android compatibility layers", especially when we are turning to them to get away from Android in the first place!
> Yet most cars you buy today don't even have Wifi

Every single GM, but who is counting. And I bet other manufacturers as well.
I only use HN clients where the default is the sensible thing, see everything.

Curious what the website uses as a default for no logged in account/new accounts - anyone fill in the blank for me?
Emphemeral keys. Have a look at autocrypt.org
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I think my original comment mischaracterized my project.

It is a refactor, but a refactor that is going to take about a year to complete, where there will be nothing to show for it until it is finished. From old codebase, probably about 20% to 30% of it will be ripped out and replaced.

Its not my first major project in terms of keeping this codebase capable. Previously written compilers/runtimes and IDE modules to keep it going : to gain control of codebase which was written in a commercial/proprietary dev environment into something I have full control over. That effort took a year.

The difference in this case is I am deliberately, intentionally throwing code away, alot of it, for the first time and contrary to my instincts. Still a post mortem might be interesting. My successful efforts to code my way out of a proprietary dev environment was an interesting and risky project, discussed at length with relevant dev communities at the time, but probably worth writing up one day.
I had no idea it was possible to obtain one so cheaply.
Just wait until they place an ad in your clipboard
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That didn't make the star-chans better; quite the opposite in fact.
Have you checked out Bitnami (https://bitnami.com) ? I am one of the founders
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The IOTA Foundation has claimed to be working on removing their central coordinator since at least late 2018 [1]. As the expression goes, "rumors of its death are greatly exaggerated".

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One of the most articulate and complete replies I've ever received on this website. Thank you.

Skinwalker Ranch seems like a key to understanding the state of the art in UFO research. In a word: Farcical. Almost on a 'men who stare at goats' type level of ridiculousness.
What are you basing that on? It seems like you made it up out of nowhere.
>it does also seem possible the USAF could have highly advanced prototypes that aren't ready for mass production yet.

And have had them for decades now, if UFO reports are to be believed?

UFO sightings aren't new. The capabilities people report don't seem to be getting better over time. If UFO reports are (sometimes) real and they're advanced US prototypes not ready for production, what were they 30 or 40 years ago? Have UFO reports only been real for the last 10 or so years?
Agreed, I think the model could work very well and look forward to seeing the results here.

Essentially, why throw money at me as a founder and hope I spend it wisely, when you could instead lend me your vetted team members to help directly.
> I don't understand why people would believe that it is.

The reason to think it is possible is that China's top lab that does research into coronaviruses is in Wuhan and members there have collaborated with American researchers on genetic engineering and testing of augmented coronaviruses that are essentially potential biological weapons. Also at a separate lab in China they had four incidences where SARS samples escaped the lab and caused problems. That is why they build the level 4 biocontainment lab in Wuhan, to have that sort of research take place in a safer facility.

It's quite possible this was a research sample, being used for completely legitimate purposes, that escaped the lab.

> it isn't all that deadly

For certain definitions of deadly no doubt.
to everyone theorizing.

why? first, whether you say it's aliens or "the government", face it, both those concepts are black boxes to invoke to explain the unexplainable, ergo they're equivalent explanations, or different valence, same kind

second, why be so quick to grasp and reduce it to a theory? why not just be a little bit comfortable with the discomfort of an unresolved tension? why just not be a little bit comfortable with an unanswered question, an unknown, a mystery, something amazing and wonderful and unable to be explained? why the need to rush to explain it reaching and grasping and expose yourself to the error of putting your need to explain it in front of actual accuracy?

you can't end up with something good like that. you just satisfy your need of an explanation but why not just be comfortable with the question, with the mystery?

That's a problem without secular world.... people need to get more comfortable with the mystery otherwise it's the stupid anthropomorphic point of view that says nothing a human can see outside it's tiny stupid ignorant little box exists... why not just do the easy thing and acknowledge okay there's a whole lot of fucking mystery out there I'm not going to rush to say it's this or that I'm just going to be okay with, "okay there's a lot of stuff I don't fucking know"

that seems like the rationale sensible and to be honest happy perspective to take

why everyone wants got to be so crazy to rationalize and theorize and reduce it to some story when nobody has any fucking idea at all? isn't that just psychosis?

do yourself a favor don't believe anything just keep an open mind don't rush to believe cuz you most likely believe in something that's fucking crazy
How is this not just management consulting?