skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the little slap on the wrist from the SEC for his “we’re going private at $420, man, yeah, funding secured” outburst, he will face no repercussions for this, and this’ll all be forgotten.
> I am a dropshipper and average margin on products I sell is 60-100%.

At the risk of being nitpicky, it sounds like you may be talking about your markup, not your margin.

Markup = ( SalePrice - YourCost ) / YourCost

Margin = ( SalePrice - YourCost ) / SalePrice

Each is typically expressed as a percentage, and we're talking about the gross margin here, not the net (net margin takes into account other business expenses).

If your gross margin is 100%, it means you got the product for free:

Margin
= ( SalePrice - 0 ) / SalePrice
= SalePrice / SalePrice
= 1
= 100%

And your markup is infinite:

Markup
= ( SalePrice - 0 ) / 0
= SalePrice / 0
= Infinity or beyond [1]

More typical examples: buy a product for $50 and sell it for $100, your markup is 100%, and your gross margin is 50%.

Or buy for $25 and sell for $100: Markup is 300% and gross margin is 75%.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_by_zero

But what if your SalePrice is also 0? I asked our Lenovo Smart Display about this: "Hey Google, what's zero divided by zero."

She replied "No one knows. It's possible that zero divided by zero is some unknown number mathematicians have yet to discover. Maybe they'll name it after you!"
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When I bought my current used car, in cash, the dealer offered it on financing for 0% or 0.9% or something very low — no impact on the selling price. It wouldn't have been a terrible decision to take the super low interest loan and put the purchase money into my investment portfolio instead (just another form of leverage). I paid cash anyway, because I went in intending to, but characterizing all financing as extremely desperate is misguided.
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Any head of security would shit bricks if they discovered software being used across the company that had a remote code execution vulnerability, but the blog post doesn’t actually identify an RCE. It points to some code that hypothetically could be the basis for an RCE.

Zoom isn’t open source. The blog post doesn’t actually have the entire call chain for the potentially problematic code. It doesn’t determine if the strings have been sanitized before the string concatenation, or if they come from a known limited set, etc. It’s entirely possible that the concatenation is in the lowest levels of some enterprise-specific framework code that is guaranteed to only be called after relevant safety checks have been run.

We have a blog post that points to unconnected facts, says “I can imagine evil ways to connect these facts, but I’m not going to spend any more time determining if my concerns actually exist in the rest of the codebase.” We can decide how uncomfortable that makes each of us. I will say that SQLite is used in the most surprising places. I’m almost certain it’s used by whatever browser you’re using right now. If you refuse to use software that relies on SQLite until you can verify that every call site is safe, you’re going to lose a lot of sleep.

Of course, I’m influenced by my background. I still see stories about software installed without management knowledge, and while I remember working at places with lax enough policies that was possible, I haven’t had that kind of access on my work computers since before the Sony Pictures hack in 2014. I’m not in finance, but I’ve written software for people who are. In the US, financial compliance departments care about the software traders and financial advisers use for their jobs, and any software installed on the same computers (this was an issue at one of my jobs because our software generally wasn’t on the approved list, so our customers had to have it installed on a separate computer for unapproved software; and that was apparently common practice in the industry). I don’t lose any sleep when my kids use Zoom on their school-provided laptops, but I personally can’t use it for work purposes because my work laptop is locked down, and I expect it to be locked down.
During this quarantine, at our design studio we came up with this goal/experiment:

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> am I selling all my stock because Elon said he thinks it's too high? No, that would be stupid.

Literally nobody knows more about what's happening at Tesla than Elon Musk does. If he thinks it's too high, that's incredibly material information.

It's entirely rational to think it's equivalent to "I saw the non-public reports of sales projections and turns out they're plummeting" or something similar.

And therefore that Tesla is overvalued and you ought to sell, and buy back again only when it's at a price that takes that into account.

It's Wall Street's job to react to all publicly available information at the moment it becomes available. Statements by a CEO are very much included in that.

What the heck do day traders or swords have to do with it? Stock prices are determined mainly by large funds, like the ones that invest people's pensions.
The good rule to live by is you should always be able to negotiate at least 10% off a new car. If one dealer isn't willing to negotiate, go to a different one. Helped loads of people negotiate prices for their new car and 10% is always achievable. The only brand where you can't is KIA - they just flat out don't negotiate, KIA UK sets prices and that's what you pay. The dealership might throw servicing or some accessories to sweeten the deal but there's nothing they can do about the price.
It is not about simplicity versus complexity. It is about creating simple abstractions that successfully hide the contained complexity.

When I want to search for a string within some data, I don't want to have to think about the algorithm it uses (naive, Boyer–Moore [1], etc.). I just want to know that somebody cared about it and that it will work great.

Bad abstractions, on the other hand, make you think about the underlying details that you have to be aware of. For one layer that might not be too bad, but the more you build on top of such things, the more fragile the whole construct becomes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyer%E2%80%93Moore_string-sea...
The pictures here are very well lit -- anyone know how they achieved this? There do not seem to be visible lights in the photos.
Build a $100 Drive-In Movie Theater to Hang Out While Social Distancing
>> graph traversal across different attributes might pay a higher latency cost

> Those can be done concurrently if at the same query level, so not necessarily any slower.

An important clarification, yes! I should have made that more explicit. :)
How come the people doing this don't get hammered on chargebacks and refunds ? What payment platform is willing to put up with them ?
MS Flow seems to have become Power Automate. If they are trying to have a theme of "Power", that's fine, except it's such a generic word that has been used as part of so many other products from other companies.
Used is supposed to get slaughtered: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-31/heres-why-used-car...

If you're a person with an old truck you'd like to get rid of, yea maybe you can wait 2 years to sell it. If you're a BMW dealership that got 120 cars back from lease this month, and you're going to get 120 more next month, and next month, and next month...
I think the parent is still right, just a problem with international keyboards.
> In 2020, not sure we should care that much about how hard compilers have to work to achieve this.

That's not right. Long compile times are a real issue for some programming languages even today (Rust and C++).

> Computers and software are here to support us--we're not here to support them.

A false dichotomy, and not a perspective that offers any insight. Sometimes a low-level language is appropriate, and sometimes it is not.
I don’t want to have to fork and maintain a repo to run tests or push to a docker repository. Things that take a single line of bash should not require an entire repository to implement.
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I clicked out of mild interest and am completely blown away. I wish this kind of optimization was more common. Well done!
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Highcharts has a Boost module which uses WebGL.

Here's a sample chart with 1,000,000 points: https://jsfiddle.net/5bvLgs5w/1/
Kia/Hyundai were doing similar promotions last summer, no COVID in sight. It's just something they do to drive sales numbers.
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Property lists have been around since forever. They're NeXT technology.
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I’m using Zigbee2mqtt on HomeAssistant. Harder to setup than smart things, but even more personal control.
As I recall, Adobe was unwilling to abandon Carbon until Apple promised that Carbon wouldn't make the 64-bit transition. And even then, Adobe was pretty slow: Creative Suite on Windows started including 64-bit versions in 2008 and required a 64-bit CPU starting in 2010, but the last CS version for Mac in 2012 was still all 32-bit. When Apple dropped 32-bit support in 2019 after a two-year warning period, parts of Adobe Creative Cloud on macOS were still not ready.

Even Adobe's transition from PPC to Intel took 15 months after Intel Macs started shipping and 22 months after the x86 Mac dev kits were publicly announced (though I wouldn't be surprised if Adobe had a heads-up if not actual dev kits even before Apple publicly announced their Intel transition).

And let's not forget all the fuss Adobe made when the rest of the world was ready for Flash to die. This company has a history of being very defensive about their technical debt.
The article doesn't really add much that we didn't know already (through other articles). You can search EARN IT on here or EFF for details or Signal's write-up on it.
They want to hold people liable for "reckless endangerment" for offering anything that could be used to facilitate child exploitation.

Encryption by it's very nature makes it very difficult to pursue, Barr has pushed much rhetoric of what he would push in the committee for this bill, and the writers of the law refuse to specifically exempt encryption despite having many opportunities to do so.
Maybe Elon is regularly scaring speculators away from Tesla stock so that only strong believers remain. Strong stock holders allow higher P/E ratios.
Yeah :) It was a weird feeling when it was finally over, I wasn't sure what to do for a while.
This is missing too many hand drawn stuff and memes. This isn't the jepsen I remember :P
I think what regex's need is a really powerful syntax and language aware regex editor.

I've been using regexs for most of my career, and still struggle to get them right on first writing.

The #1 problem I run into is:

what is a literal character and what is a control character?

for example, both these are very common:

- match a parenthesis character or a period character

- use a parenthesis to group a match or use a period to match any one character

You would think I would learn it once, and be good.

but my #2 problem confounds this:

what is a literal character and what is a control character - in the language I am using?

for example I might need to escape a period to make it a literal for a regex.

If I am checking the files filexc and file.c and want to match the second, the regex I want is

^.*\.c$

in perl, I could say:

$rx = "^.*\\.c\$"; ($" is a thing)
if ($f =~ /$regex/) { ...

better would be:

if ($f =~ /^.*\.c$/) {...

in python I would write

m = re.search("^.*\\.c$",f)

better would be:

m = re.search(r'^.*\.c$', f)

in a shell script, I might say:

grep "^.*\\.c$"

EDIT: crap, I had to escape my comment because the asterisk in the regex was making my text italic
I agree but I meant http://www.investorwords.com/8436/talking_my_book.html
When you ask for equity options they give you US Treasuries
I don't recall seeing anything in git that involves putting the branch name on the filesystem. Not even poking around in the .git directory. What are you seeing?
This is the sort of thing that's typical since time immemorial of software running on an OS that isn't its "preferred" choice.
This is what a successful compound looks like in the clinic: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3299089

The patient group was people with AIDS. 140 people received azidothymidine, 137 in the control group. 19 people in the control group died, 1 in the group that received AZT. Meanwhile it's not quite clear if the 8 % death in the remdesivir group is an improvement over the 11 % of deaths in the placebo group. Doesn't matter, as long as Gilead shareholders get a boost. It's so bad that it isn't funny.
I assume they are targeted ads for physicists? I remember “fondly” the times when a website about kiteboarding would serve kiteboarding ads. Those were actually very useful. Now they are showing more blenders after I just bought one.
That's not how corporate income tax works. A landlord can't take a write off for reduced rental revenue.

You may have a valid point on financing.
Yep, the only Nissan vehicle I'd recommend at the moment is the Mercedes X-class.

(For those who don't understand the joke - thanks to the Renault-Nissan-Deimler partnership, all 3 companies share a lot of components, and the X-Class is literally a Nissan Navara with mercedes interior and badge)
Only if you choose to interpret it that way, while ignoring other bits.
>He's not permitted to tweet anything that may materially impact the stock without prior board or general counsel approval, per his contempt agreement.

Isn't the actual SEC agreement a lot more specific than that? This first article [1] I found in a quick search from last year has a specific list, he has to have it cleared for including any of:

• any information about the company’s financial condition or guidance, potential or proposed mergers, acquisitions or joint ventures,

• production numbers or sales or delivery number (actual, forecasted, or projected),

• new or proposed business lines that are unrelated to then-existing business lines (presently includes vehicles, transportation, and sustainable energy products);

• projection, forecast, or estimate numbers regarding Tesla’s business that have not been previously published in official company guidance

• events regarding the company’s securities (including Musk’s acquisition or disposition of shares)

• nonpublic legal or regulatory findings or decisions;

• any event requiring the filing of a Form 8-K such as a change in control or a change in the company’s directors; any principal executive officer, president, principal financial officer, principal accounting officer, principal operating officer, or any person performing similar functions

Were there other more general terms? If not, does pure opinion of "lol it's up too high" actually violate the letter of any of those? I guess it could be argued that maybe he's saying that due to information he knows that other people don't, but it's not itself disclosing anything at all.

May get an investigation, but if internally there has been nothing of material impact (and he didn't benefit in any way) and it's just Elon Musk going off I'm not sure it's a matter for the SEC vs the board and shareholders. But his genius/drive and crazy/lack of control are pretty well known quantities at this point and tied together. If he's not violating any actual laws and a majority of shareholders are fine taking the bad with the good vs other mixtures of bad and good (safe and conservative but low vision for example) that seems like it'd be up to them?

----

1: https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/26/elon-musk-sec-agree-to-gui...
Regarding flats, try tires with Kevlar reinforcement. Flats went completely away since I switched to Maxxis Overdrive Maxxprotect. They are a bit heavy, but I think not having to care about flats is worth it.
The tweet in question: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1256239815256797184

> Tesla stock price is too high imo
Dealing with financial dilemmas of quitting my day job
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Speaking of which I used to watch MTV Cribz back when I was a kid. The cars were rented, and the homes apparently never even belonged to the celeb. Was all manufactured, which I understand given the amount of crazies, celebs would not want to show off their homes. And the cars being rented to maintain their status.
Please note the HN guidelines:

> Be kind. Don't be snarky... When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

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Judaism is clear that God's choosing is not a thing to be desired.
> in fact not providing any value beyond what you consume, even while taking advantage of tax funded public infrastructure, seems wrong to me

I would expect the economic benefit to the country to be significantly positive:

1. Every dollar spent is foreign income

2. Limited future costs to governmen: no retirement (huge cost), no unemployment benefits, no health (tourists should be insured - foreign income if actually need to use health services), no education.

3. Taxation still occurs (sales tax, wages of anyone working in a business the tourist uses).

edit: 4. If the working tourist wasn’t in the country, the country would see zero of that income... It is marginal income.

edit: In New Zealand for example: 1/2 of NZ government spending is on social welfare and education; another 1/4 is on finance; and Sales tax is 12.5%. We should encourage foreigners to work here as there’s no way their spending wouldn’t help the country, especially if they are earning a lot and spending a lot. Working visas allow people to take jobs from locals, which not what “digital nomads” are doing.
Congress tells Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to testify about private-label brands
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