skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That and a binding legal agreement that he’d have public statements reviewed

As I just said, no such general legal agreement exists. The only legal agreement that exists is the one I described in my above comment.

I'd cite a source, but citing a negative is basically impossible. So I'd ask that instead you cite that agreement. Sec agreements are public documents.

Here is a link to the most recent agreement that the SEC settled with musk on - this is all they got the last time they sued. Note that the previous agreement (which you can dig up if you want) basically said the same in less words. https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.501755...

Order denying the SECs contempt motion as moot following the entry of that consent agreement: https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.501755...
Glass actually fully blocks the helpful UV-B rays while still allowing some amount of harmful UV-A rays through.
Except for policy makers are generally optimizing for re-election.
Yes, this caused major confusion for me for a very long time. I assumed that it was like MySQL/Postgres, with different data stores implementing a query language. That’s really only Fauna.
I'd be interested to hear of cases where touch screens are an obvious win. Zooming a map is great, but you don't need touch for that. Physical controls.
I just disable it:

```
#!/bin/sh

# Disable capslock
setxkbmap -option caps:none

# Better repeat rates
# Previously set in lxdm.conf (arg=/usr/bin/X -ardelay 175 -arinterval 20
xset r rate 150 75
```

I've added another hack in there that I absolutely love for free (:
Keybase, Zoom and Me – I’m not deleting Keybase
Then how do black holes and neutron stars work?
IQ is only good for solving riddles? Have you heard of g-factor by any chance?
That's silly. Nobody who criticizes Elon Musk does so on the basis that he does new things.
"Wait for the second wave" is the new "Wait two weeks"
Because Germany has 1/4 the deaths per capita than other Western states and considerably more testing.

Spain has 550 deaths per million, Germany has 90. Most of the rest are in between.

UK, Spain, France, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Netherlands etc. - not so good at all, though Switzerland did a good job of getting things under control after a breakout.

E. Europe has fared well, but there are lower testing and some questionable governance so well have to take a deeper look.

Sweden's position is untenable and possibly unethical given the unknowns, it was a huge gamble.
No. USO is not symptomatic of the health of the Oil market [1]. USO is a bizarre beast and any analogy fails to explain it. The only thing indicative of the health of the Oil market is spot and futures prices. [2]

This, unfortunately (or for some, fortunately) requires understanding the structure of the Oil market and how Oil is bought, sold, delivered and transported and yes stored! Spot prices, futures, oil grades, hubs, contango, etc.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-30/investors...
[2] https://oilprice.com/oil-price-charts
Comparing the segment of the general population with the lowest vitamin D to the highest, the odds ratio for all-cause mortality is 1.9[1]. In other words people with low vitamin D are almost twice as likely to die as those with high vitamin D.

That means that at least from an association standpoint, vitamin D deficiency is as predictive of poor health as smoking vs. non-smoking status.[2]

Imagine the existence of a health intervention that is just as effective as stopping smoking, that consisted of a $0.10 pill taken once a day. It's worth shouting from the rooftops.

Now there are certainly reasons for apprehension. And of course correlation does not always mean causation. In particular supplementation does not seem to directly lower mortality. However sun exposure does seem to directly lower mortality. That suggests the possibility of an unidentified sub-type of vitamin D or other micronutrient related to sun exposure that is driving lower mortality. (In which case serum vitamin D would be acting as a proxy for sun exposure.)

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4103214/
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22688992
The Original iMac: 'Too Odd to Succeed'
Are you accusing Amazon of snooping into traffic going to their AWS customers? Seems quite a charge, and I hope you have evidence. If not, it doesn't look well for someone purportedly good at web development to propose such a silly hypothesis.
"While it may squash some of the stupider and more dangerous ideas floating around right now, it tosses the baby out with the bathwater and harms important discussion about whether those in charge right now do actually have their information right. "

Has been always like this with censorship.
I don't think it's just about the ads themselves. It's about the fact that when a site is free, its users become the product, and there are all sorts of user-hostile design decisions made, which leads to all sorts of unnecessary bloat.

Think of it as the difference between a for-profit bank and a credit union. The bank exists to maximize returns for its shareholders. The credit union exists solely for benefit of its members. So the credit union isn't going to try to employ sneaky fine-print fees, because that's not what the members want.

In a similar vein, you might not care about ads and may have trained yourself to ignore them, but you might care about performance, which is sluggish because of all the cruft, or you might care about privacy, or you might care about being marketed to in more subtle ways than display ads.
>If prices stayed the same, you'd see double productivity. But because every company has the new, fastest machine , prices greatly reduce, and stop reflecting the fact that a single employee can now do 2x the work.

this phenomenon (price deflation) can exist but we can actually measure deflation/inflation, so there's no need for a hypothetical, and there is no widespread deflation, or put differently increase in consumer purchasing power due to increased production.

There's actually very limited sectors where this dynamic exists (think the costs of a GB of data), but healthcare, construction, education, infrastructure all have not been automated, and hence aren't any cheaper.

In fact there's actually a decline in producitivity in US construction, as decades of erosion and retiring of experienced workers leave the industry in a bad shape, the US has started to lose manufacturing knowledge.

Whatsapp messages and tweets may have gotten a lot cheaper, but it's worth remembering that 'tech' is only 10% of the US economy, employing 3-6 million people depending on how you count. The overwhelming majority of the physical economy and service sector is still practically untouched by it, despite many claims to the contrary.

Just physically you can walk into a retail store, which is the most common place of employment around the world. It's got a Square Stand on the desk maybe, but otherwise, not exactly a lot of things have changed. Same thing in the classroom or a hospital ward.
I started to really think about each purchase I make: have i bought a similar product and not used it? Can I repurpose another thing I have already to do the job? Can i just forget about it and find something else to do?

For example, my living room PC (my old desktop) died yesterday, so I can't play video games on it and i don't have a suitable replacement. Instead of spending money fixing it it replacing it, I'll just try my hand at guitar again since i bought a guitar and never used it.

Think about if you really need more money or if you might be able to reduce your costs. That'll make you happier than just working more for more money.
"I am absolutely NOT going to the ER or urgent care even though I normally would"
That's a very dangerous assumption to make. Most hospitals in US are not overwhelmed. People should not be scared to receive necessary healthcare. The public messaging from authorities (and the media) should reflect that. At the very least, contact ER or urgent care (or better yet, your primary care physician if you have one), and follow their direction.
This is gross, please don't tell people this stuff, pleeeeease
I've always loved polystyrene models.I'm curious how the chair was done.
The two happiest days in a boat owner's life are the day he buys the boat and the day he sells the boat.
It's a conservative assumption based on a low estimate of R_0 without mitigations.

It's hard to make inferences about the world without assumptions.
The shutdown largely worked. Comparing predictions of what happens without a shutdown is kind of missing the point.

What will happen as we try to return to normal yet another situation.
Units, please. He said micrograms and it sounds like you’re talking about IU.
Would you consider writing a post on your experiences moving to AWS and spot instances for dynamic scaling? I'd love to hear more about the architectural changes you made for that.
> Crude was actually around negative $3.70 a barrel when Shah’s screen had it at 1 cent

A bit of a design flaw, I wonder did they spend as much money on the software as Equifax did?

if (-3.70 != 1) { send an alert; }
Oh yeah. I've been on about that for years. If extreme wealth or political power were a meritocracy most billionaires and high-ranking political officials would be similarly productive and competent and he'd be average for his socioeconomic class. There should be hundreds and hundreds of Elon Musks at least.
So the author is saying fields are already filling things up, right? To compare this to the "we can pack them atoms tighter" model seems to be confusing the author's model with another, separate mental model, one in which we can fill up more. But the author's model says we're full. Full of this field stuff. Not so? IANAS
I'm sure I'm devoting more time to villages, workshops, and non-DEF CON talks than I used to (after all the official talks end up on YT a couple months after the event). It did seem to me--CP elevator choke point notwithstanding--that separating talks from the rest of the con by a 20+ minute walk did shorten LINECON but I'll concede there's a small chance that I'm becoming more patient or (more likely) that my experience was not representative.

Regardless, I am very intrigued by your experience with counterfeit badges. I'm familiar with the counterfeit badge contest and many jokes were made about last year's "urinal cakes on a lanyard" but this is the first I've heard suggesting there was effectively mass production of counterfeit badges. Can you tell us more?
The fact that we need to eat food for sustainance was probably also taken into consideration.
I have an old handheld gps unit without pinch-to-zoom (or a touch screen!) It has physical buttons for zoom in and out and honestly it works fine. In that I can easily use it one-handed and in the rain it may actually be superior to a touchscreen device.
Replying to myself as edit time expired, to clarify:

The author edited the article in the mean time. It was initially fairly negative towards metaphors, and now appears more neutral.
If you increase resolution you can put more code on business card :P
My parents are in their 80s so your statement was very surprising. At 80 the expected death risk is under .6% per year, so you’re off by about two orders of magnitude.

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html
Absolutely. Will do.
That is a fair criticism. The tone is off-putting. Partly because of the tone, I considered NKS a load of pointless drivel for 20 years. Yes, absolutely, he didn't invented graph automata. But he's the one willing to propose graph automata as a model of the Universe, and work out some technical details. Or, at least, he's building tooling to experiment with graph automata in this context such that someone else can work out technical details. Or fail to do so. Or fail to do so and prove this is a dead end.

While I'm not familiar with what kind of graph transforms work is done these days, I would have hoped that if someone re-created some version of Lorenz transforms on top of graph transforms, I would have heard of it. The discussion would be more constructive, or destructive as a manner of speaking, if someone would point out that either Stephen is wrong, or old news, on the handful of technical points he is making.

https://www.wolframphysics.org/technical-introduction/potent...
I read that same headline yesterday: Uber leads $170 million investment in scooter company Lime. Wtf?

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/07/uber-leads-170-million-inves...
This is factually inaccurate. The reason why the cost of living is sane in Republican states is because they don't place undue restrictions on housing supply. You might acknowledge that each political party has significant trade-offs with the policies they support, and move to a red state with that in mind.
... perhaps the most false choice ever presented in a social argument.

'Kids born it poverty can't go to University so factory work is their 'choice', why should we deny them work at the factory?'

Seriously?

If it were just 'some place' then it would be more of a rhetorical question, but the entire point of the villages is to create a place where people are equal irrespective of clour or creed, so the hypocrisy looms large. Maybe they can take their free time to ponder such questions because though answers are never obvious, there are opportunities for improvement.
Actually, that's really helpful. Thank you! I was under the impression GraphQL was API end point and query resolver (so it knows how to do GraphQL -> SQL).
i love what fabien is doing with his website!

also been experimenting with pure html with an itsy-bitsy amount of css. for months now i wondered how to display code without involving javascript.

that textarea is so perfect! and i bet you when you copy and paste into word or your todo list application they won't even try to be "smart" about knowing what "rich text" is...

that's very cool.
Think about if you really need more money or if you might be able to reduce your costs. That'll make you happier than just working more for more money.
Show HN: Sonantic.io - Realistic AI voice narration.
You can list any number of things, but we were talking about censorship, so I don’t see the need to throw another subject into the mix.
I have such a simple setup but it's not for everyone. It also fails miserably if I'm working in an environment where I can't do almost everything I need to do from the command-line.

1) VIM with almost no special .vimrc

2) gnu screen (10 screens initialized via .screenrc)

- hotkeys Ctrl-Left (prev), Ctrl-Right (next)

- I tweak my $PS1 prompt so it will display which $WINDOW I'm on.

3) Not a tool, but a tip. Maintain a TODO list. I just open a text file and put some simple separators between projects I'm working simultaneously. But I go out of my way to ensure it's got everything I'm going to "DO". If I think of something, even if I'm not sure if I'll actually want to do it, I don't rely on my memory for ANY of it. If I'm not going to do it immediately I put it on my TODO list.
I don't know much about Manhattan, but SF is not allowing supply to meet the demand being signaled by absurd prices. Density in the neighborhoods is very low and construction that would increase it is almost never approved.
A Kraftwerk Retrospective
I found The Histories by Herodotus [0] to be an amazing read. While it's not 100% accurate as we know today, the time and effort spent compiling this when it was written is definitely impressive. This one is a reasonably lengthy read, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Additionally, though it is somewhat biased in favour of the author, The Conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar [1] was a great look into the campaigns throughout Gaul. And a relatively short read when compared to The Histories.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1362.The_Histories

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/592167.The_Conquest_of_G...
> (Also, #pragma once must be supported.)

It's really interesting to me how this isn't standard C — ergonomically, it's so much nicer than the `ifndef` header guards.
That's an interesting question. I work for Massive, and while there is some level of local autonomy there is also a global pandemic response to this.

When it comes to who decides it goes:

Swedish Law > Massive > Ubisoft > whim of worker.

The Swedish Pandemic response has been to recommend: "if your company can work from home then it must make every effort to do so". And so it has been.

Since that happened Ubisoft has decided to close down the majority of its studios, with the strategy being to open them up as soon as the law permits. In Sweden there has been no "law" as far as I know, but Massive prefers to keep to the recommendation.

So as far as it goes, the Ubisoft strategy is taken into strong consideration, but yes, I believe Massive gets the ultimate say on this. And I feel quite strongly that Massive is a unique studio in Ubisoft. There is definitely an internal struggle for independence and to retain its identity.. sadly this comes at the cost of some of our games. :(
That the journey be accessible to someone who does not possess the vitality of an astronaut.
Several decades ago, I was hearing about flying cars. The technology existed for years. Commercial flight is a thing too, but 20 years later we're still no closer to having flying cars.

Why would self driving cars be different?
Thank you, and thanks for your business.
Civilized people have absolutely no problem getting pulled over for speeding or whatever. It works just fine in almost every civilized country.

This is a question of basic civic virtue, not laws, policy or operating procedure.
It's as good a time as any to plug mynoise: https://mynoise.net
Good stuff. I've been developing a concept called the Capture Map, which is like a meta-model in which things like mind maps can live. It's very visual, but also organizational and modular. You can start such a map with a journaling node, then add separate lists. Connections are a separate topic and run in types, as opposed to having specific mandatory visual qualities like shape gradations.

So far, in my experience, the top two app-types that work well are 1) vector drawing apps like Inkscape and 2) spreadsheet apps like Calc. The latter because even though "it's a spreadsheet (which is a pretty big deal)," "it's also a drawing app supporting layers, etc."

Living document of reference, very alpha: https://www.friendlyskies.net/intj/the-capture-map-a-new-con...
Or perhaps it's hard to both have a full time job and to watch children who need full time care? Similarly for elderly parents, or family members who are sick.
Yes, we're doing exactly this with Citrix. It is bandwidth intensive though (70MB/s).

I think the parent disregards a lot of jobs that require physical presence. Strong internet is not a problem in most of Europe. Especially in the Scandinavian region.
Perhaps Starlink will save him. It does have the potential to become a money printing machine.
It's never going to look nice but I have a couple of embedded devices with a few K of memory from 15 years ago still serving pages and still working fine in google and Firefox.

Nit-picking, but rather than saying "99% of browsers" (and I am not sure there are 100 browsers out there to get that particular stat) it would be best to just mention the ones it doesn't work on.
I think there are some differences in rendering if you omit the DOCTYPE

Also, why?
For an online-first service (where all your notes aren't living on your device at one time necessarily), encryption makes it impossible to do a full-text search of your content.
The first step in programming is away from the computer.
What alternatives are you thinking of? I don't know much about this niche, although I've come across System76 a few times over the years.
I think it depends on why Tesla goes Chapter 11 and who acquires it.

If it's because he did something entirely insane you're probably right. If it's because market conditions shifted post Covid-19 I think he's been enough of a rainmaker that people would likely still leave him in charge.

If a friend of his who is willing to put up with his antics (e.g. Larry Page) managed to acquire it, it's probably more likely than if risk adverse/sensational personality adverse institutional investors acquired it.

Admittedly at this point I doubt Larry Page would be able to easily front the money any more... Tesla's assets have grown substantially in value since back then.
Windows 10's builtin clipboard history (Win+V) is one of the best things they've added tbh

(it's opt-in, in case anyone's wondering...)
There is an interesting illustrating picture about this. From a trucker where the sun always only hit one side through glass:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trucker-accumulates-skin-damage...
How different would a 2d square look projected onto a 1d view, vs a circle?
Singularity company Sylabs acquired by RStor
IRC is more immediate and self gratifying. Very important things for a self-taught 12 yo. Not that dns isnt cool, just probably not the best recommendation for a young programmer.
Since public schools closed, I've had my 3 kids (11, 8, and 8) practice typing 30 minutes every day. Easily one of my best parenting decisions ever. :)
Agreed. I gave up after they suggested using <pre> to force your <a> tags on to separate lines. Scary stuff. There are many ways to do this, and using <pre> should not be one of them.
The searchable clipboard history in alfred app set to three months has been a complete game changer for me.

Pushing things that I may or may not need at some point into the clipboard has become subconcious. The type to search is a dream and can even be used without really looking.

I have no need for any actice code snippet managment/notes since anything that matters stays in the three month buffer.
The new interface caused my iPad to heat up severely so I switched back to the old clunker interface. It might be ancient but it doesn't cause my iPad to heat up.
> <meta name=viewport content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">

> This snippet is copy and pasted a whole lot around the web. Most people don't explain how it actually functions though. "width" sets the initial width to the mobile's physical display width in 100% pixels.

I still don't get this - if the browser is the width of the device, why doesn't the site flow to 100% of the browser?
Defcon Is Canceled (Black Hat also Cancelled; Both will be Virtual Events)
‘Defcon's more buttoned-up sister conference, Black Hat, which takes place in the days leading up to Defcon every year, has been called off as well. Both events will host online conferences instead that include research talks and social events. The founder of both conferences, Jeff Moss, who is also known by his hacker name the Dark Tangent, said in a forum post [0] that the 28th Defcon will be known as "Safe Mode," referencing the name most operating systems use for their diagnostic and recovery mode.‘

[0] https://forum.defcon.org/node/232005

Original title wasn’t explicit, but article also announces Black Hat cancellation.