skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The root CA certificate used to sign the AWS RDS certificates has recently expired and everyone needed to update the root store on their servers. Those who didn't pay attention lost connection to their database:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/amazon-rds-customers-u...
Good News for Wolves in Washington
Seamlessly swapping the API back end of the Netflix Android app
The Theranos founder lived in a small apartment, while Trevor Milton built the biggest house in Utah.

Edit: Apparently what I said is incorrect about Theranos. I have heard this but I have never made a study of the company. So it might well not be correct or only for a limited time.

I'm pretty sure I am correct about Mitons house.
Changed, yes, and finally in the right direction I would say!
Zergotech Freedom ergonomic keyboard wins Gold accolade
You're right. I just updated it to mention that this is US data. Additionally, I added a link and timestamp to the CDC data that drives this. This way it's not just another site of unsourced information.
Here is the SLAC news article [1] and the zoomable picture of the romanesco [2]. The picture itself is quite underwhelming - certainly an artifact of how it was created using a pinhole but your phone can capture a better picture of a romanesco.

Besides that, where do the different kind of artifacts - interference fringes, dark and bright vertical lines, white specks - come from? Why are the interference fringes distributed pretty randomly? Dust on the sensor despite everyone wearing bunny suits?

[1] https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2020-09-08-sensors-world...

[2] https://www.slac.stanford.edu/~tonyj/osd/public/romanesco.ht...
One look at their site tells you it’s a fraud. They have nothing. Simply riding on the current fad.
This is just disputing definitions: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7X2j8HAkWdmMoS8PE/disputing-...

As far as daylight between Musk and Milton, it's not a matter of degree, but one of kind.
I think that is being deliberately unkind to emacs. It would be closer to comparing it to a car designed 30 years ago in a country that drove on the other side of the road. Most all of the major points are the same, just in a different location.

Even better, compare it to driving a boat, when you've been used to cars. (Or, for that matter, realize that it is a stick shift car when you've been used to automatic. And slowly realize everyone has a slightly different way to get their system running as an automatic.)
Is Ripper dead? I attempted to do some minor work on Ripper and it was profoundly painful. My explanation for Ripper boiled down to a domain specific language in parse.y comments that gets translated into C via a very confusing Ruby script, which manually calls Ruby VM functions, that wait for it, are dynamically defined. This constructs a parse tree. If Ripper is still getting maintained, I'm seriously impressed.
I would love to see YAML or EDN-style tagging in TOML for use cases like marking strings as IP addresses.
My hope is that a plurality of people do masks permanently so it's socially acceptable and people who don't wear them have to see mask usage everywhere for a little bit of social pressure.
why is it disturbing it reads fine to me
It's not inherent to the shirt position but some short sellers definitely influence media.
Seen a lot of ppl complaining at the price on Twitter and offering other smaller, unknown services. People rarely think that these aggregators store your access tokens to all services and they pretty much work as passwords. I would look up these services first and look at their investors - are they well known for their security standards and all. I think their price is fair if running these connections is your thing and you care about your information.
> just one update away

What's the over/under on cold fusion before self-driving?

It used to be more fun before the search engines start pushing age over relevance, but searching for 'elon musk claims' is entertaining.
Demos of existing tech are even better than what Nikola has.
Northwest Large Fire Interactive Web Map
> (...) the code will work on author’s computer, but not for other people

Is it actually the case?

The comment you cite says the code won't work on xterm or gnome-terminal.

I've checked with what I had available: XTerm(330) and GNOME Terminal 3.30.1 using VTE 0.54.1. On both terminals the last code sample from the post works perfectly fine as far as I can tell.

What terminal should I use to see improper behavior of the program?
> I can't tell if this is a very elaborate grammar joke that I don't know enough to understand or a troll.

Neither! (Or, rather, it's DNA's very elaborate grammar joke that I stole.)

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~param/quotes/guide.html
I agree with @jrockway below. There is no point in retaining TLDs the way are now. The original idea of TLDs were to have separate namespaces.
For example, apple.com is the company apple and apple.fruit, may be a fruit seller. This never worked though. At the end, the companies ended up having to register all the TLDs or someone else would get apple.dong and pretend to be related to apple. ICANN decided to use the opportunity for money grab and started releasing new TLDs every now and then.
It makes all sense to get rid of usage of TLDs as they are today. If apple is <any subdomain>.apple, that's it. People would know that apple.dong is something related to dong. It might sound to be far fetched, but it is not. Once people see the flooding of TLDs (like handshake TLDs which are easily and cheaply available to general public on Namebase (namebase.io) or Bob wallet(Bob wallet.io)) and when they realize TLDs are the new equivalent of .coms, they would realize that it's just the TLDs that matter for auth aspect and the subdomains are more functional within the company (like mail.google and chat.google)
The only people to lose are the scammers and ICANN.
Correct.

(Though I forgot that they also refurbed the SRBs. I think the SSMEs are more impressive, they got 19 uses out of one of them.)
It's useful to split the US into two pieces - NYC/NJ/CT/MA and the rest of the country. Death rates are roughly similar within those two groups yet very different between those two groups. (The "hotspots" outside the NYC group seem to be largely driven by travel from NYC.)
I wonder, in 2100 will there be a UDP packet delivered from 100 years ago?
GM will be fine if they go under. Nikola is paying for them to develop and manufacture parts of their "car" with 2 billion in stock.

If Nikola goes under... GM hasn't lost anything. They can take all the work they did and just use it for their EVs.
Alibaba is real and heavily funded by the CCP. After seeing that interview last year I lost all respect for Alibaba.

It became clear they (+ANT financial) exist only because the CCP allows them to exist with heavy funding.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/can-we-trust-alibabas-numb...
Theranos comes to mind
Snappa moving 40% of its assets to Bitcoin
> because you aren’t sure it’s gonna work on stage

Because you aren't sure it's going to work at all, ever.
Yes, and it's a good thing. For once lately, this is the market doing what markets should be doing -- fair price discovery
I think that's two different senses of the word "configuration". TOML is great for key/value data where you want a little bit of structure / nesting / categorization on the keys, but probably not more than one level or so. Think of, say, the preferences for your text editor, or (as widely used) a metadata file for a library that specifies its dependencies and build configuration.

It looks like you have tabular data where you don't need any nesting, every row has the exact same structure, and there's no single column of a row that you'd call "the value." TOML is not well-suited for this, and I don't think it sets out to be. I see how you'd call it "configuration," but it seems like a pretty different category of thing.

(I'd buy the argument that "table" is a poor choice of name for that TOML construct; I'd personally have called it a "multi-value" or something. It's an array of objects, and there's no guarantee that the objects have homogeneous structure, and it's usually useful for them to have different structures.)
In fairness, GM got $2 billion worth of Nikolai stock for future vague work.

The work they are supposed to be doing for Nikolai is the same work they'll be doing for their own EV trucks (that they'll have to have at some point) so you can look at it as GM being paid by Nikolai for R&D.

I would still not do this deal if I was GM.

The probability of Nikolai bursting in the flames of disgrace and litigation before they'll pay GM for anything is 99%.

GM can only sell 30% of stock after a 1 year (and additional 30% each year after) so by the time they can cash in, it'll likely be worthless.

And Mary Barra will have to explain how she got taken by an obvious fraud. It might end up costing her a job.
Money talks...even if it is BS, the world is full of it.

Before you downvote this, keep in mind that the founder comes from a Mormon background - perfect upbringing to be trained as a salesman

Another example of selling snake-oil ideas comes from the author of the book "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People":

"According to Clayton Christensen, The Seven Habits was a secular distillation of Latter-day Saint values."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Covey
You're right I misread it - Nikola is paying GM. Sounds like a no-brainer for GM to accept.
Google was able to build a very useful search engine that ran for decades relying on the significance of links and keywords, without much understanding of the meaning of page content. You can get very far with the readily available data, before you need to delve into the fancy stuff to make it a few percent better.
Why? Their deal involves 2 billion in equity from Nikola for non-cash manufacturing work and development from GM.
> Some bold takes

Nothing bold about saying people won’t achieve goals and then disclaiming it saying people can gloat in 5 years if you’re wrong. That’s cowardly, the opposite of bold.
There is also post by Remo Madella[0] on «Rem Maps» Facebook-page (in Italian) with larger photo of latest maps with new logo.[1]

OpenOrienteering Mapper, mentioned in story, is fully free & open-source desktop & mobile GIS/DTP (desktop publishing software) app for orienteering mapping and other sorts of cartography.[2]

Also, take a look on how «REM MAPS» orienteering mapping gear has changed through the years.[3]

[0] https://www.facebook.com/remo.madella

[1] https://www.facebook.com/remmaps/photos/a.348636805150534/37...

[2] https://www.openorienteering.org/apps/mapper

[3] http://www.remmaps.it/strumenti1_en.htm
'Sudden' cardiac arrests often aren't so sudden
> complicates validation and security for developers

No? If this broke things for you then I've got very bad news about how broken those things already were.

Only textual exact matches of A-labels work for figuring out if names are the same. Guessing that if parts of the name seem kinda similar maybe that's enough just introduces endless weird security bugs.

And the new TLDs didn't change that, example.com isn't example.org and example.photos isn't example.pictures or example.snaps or example.selfie

If you think you need "effective TLDs" then you actually wanted the Public Suffix List, and the reason that's what you wanted begins decades ago in several ccTLDs and isn't the fault of this cash grab at all. Remember to thank Mozilla again while you're there.
"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood" - Daniel Burnham

Or the more complete quote;

"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons and our grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty."
the ease of programming HTML5 frees up our engineers to move their efforts towards chip-design!
I wouldn't expect the cashier to be selling me a product they didn't understand either. If my bank tried to sell me a new security because it was backed by custom chips running HTML, I would probably switch banks as well.

Lying with confidence is, after all, where the "con" in con man comes from.
It may be overstated for effect (which the author acknowledges), but it's a little more dramatic than a caterpillar in that it ends up without a brain, while a butterfly doesn't.

I also don't think current thinking holds that the organs of a caterpillar disappear completely during metamorphosis, though I could easily be wrong.
Extraordinary claims (That AliBaba was successful solely because the government of China is apparently pouring billions of dollars into it, making it literally impossible for it to do anything but succeed) require extraordinary evidence.

Their financials are public - please point out the line items that the CCP is bankrolling. And while you're at it, explain why it seems to be so altruistic as to be funneling national funds into a publicly traded company.

(I won't even ask for an explanation of why large US tech companies are, in your assessment, not backed by the government.)

There's a world of difference between "You need to be in the good graces of the government to operate", and "The government is operating you." Contrary to popular misconception, e-commerce, like most business in China is not a command economy, operated from some underground Poltibureau bunker, all for the glory of the sickle, the hammer, and the star.
You're pointing at exactly what allows a skilled conman to succeed: To a casual, or even non-expert observer, the difference between a genius and a skilled impersonation of a genius will appear very small. You might not be able to make the distinction, and erroneously consider them equivalent.
Holy shit. I'd be staging my fake death already.
Like I said, they’re fine companies. And they’re doing innovative things!

But you’ll have forgive me if I hold Musk to public promises he’s made, especially regarding self driving cars & Mars. At a certain point, what’s the difference between making a bold promise and telling a lie? It’s difficult to judge people’s intentions.
> With love, The Chrome Team

Google continues the war against its own users.
The Sturgis Biker Rally Did Not Cause 266,796 Cases of Covid-19
Am I the only one who reads these stories of high level fraud (this one and Theranos) and think: “why not me?” I’d like to say I have higher ethical standards, but these conmen have cashed out a loooot of money doing this, and I think my ethics would also get flexible as dollar amounts get into the 8 or 9-figures. But then I realize, this type of a person has been doing this their whole life. This guy bilked his partner out of $50k in selling a $300k business. I just wouldn’t think it’s worth the hassle to lie through my teeth to everyone around me for $50k. That’s the difference between us and them, I guess, it’s the small-time fraud you have to slog through to make it to the big-leagues of scams.
SpaceX is ridiculously successful. The Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy are now as reliable as the best competitors and are so much cheaper than their competitors it's not even funny.

SpaceX didn't lower Falcon 9 launch prices because the market is willing to pay their current price, but they sell something that costs them about $20M for $70M (competition's price is at $100M) and they sell something that costs them about $40M for $150M (competition's price is at $400M).

ULA (Boeing and Lockheed Martin partnership that used to have US monopoly) only exists today because the US federal government needs dissimilar redundancy, so that if something bad happens on a launch, the other provider's system can launch stuff while the first one is investigating and fixing the issue. Without this requirement, ULA would have been closed. Same for Boeing's CST-100. Same for Northrop Grumman's Antares and Cygnus. Same for Orbital's Dream Chaser. Boeing's SLS and LockMart's Orion cash cows will be shut down if Starship proves reliable.

Starship is much more speculative/ambitious and will require a bunch more iterations before they make it work. There will definitely be failures along the way, hopefully without loss of human life but that's not guaranteed. If they don't go bankrupt before they make it work, a fully rapidly reusable Starship (150 tons to orbit for just a few million bucks) will make all other rocket technology completely antiquated, 100x cheaper is too much to bear for national pride reasons.
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> Isn't your return limited by the difference available under the put

It is. Max profit when stock prices hits zero. It can be still a massive return compared to the premium invested.

Assuming the house of cards falls before expiration, of course.

Premiums are rather high on NKLA puts too.
Worst case, and let's be honest, modal case, Nikola goes under and GM has tech and parts that they can just use on their own anyway in their electric vehicles.
If you really want to be charitable, it could just be it benchmarks well with Js. Maybe cache hierarchy or instruction extensions like Arm v8.3

The "build our own chips" could be like when people call entire computer towers "CPUs" and really just mean build the infotainment boards how they like. HTML 5 gives them easy portability in the case they want to change things out.

Security would probably refer to embedding something like Chromium and taking advantage of their sandbox

And "data network instead of stuff just working" could mean something like local network RPC/REST over HTTPS instead of CAN which is much more general purpose

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This is all a lot of stretching... but sometimes non-technical people try to very confidently regurgitate technical things they hear while filling in the gaps

Especially because they don't realize how small changes in terms have such outsized changes in meaning (hence the calling a computer tower a CPU)
As if Apache/nginx and wsgi isn’t still the norm...
How I operated as a staff engineer at Heroku
Tree Branching: Leonardo Da Vinci's Rule versus Biomechanical Models (2014)
this is the worst kind of facile bull s*. further, it is mind-blowingly naive vis-a-vis basic espionage.

this has to be a paid PR piece for tiktok. not surprising given the reality of current "journalism", but tedious none-the-less....
Opendoor in Talks to List via Social Capital II Merger
"At our new hospital, we're using stethoscopes," he said. "That's an industry-standard tool for doctors around the world. Because of that, we can perform advanced procedures, like hemorrhoidectomy and brain transplant."
Nope, but there'll be a TCP packet that's been re-sending over and over for the past 100 years.
GM likely knows this. They didn't buy 11% in the company. If you actually read the agreement its basically Nikola buys lots and lots and lots of stuff from GM and they pay part of that with that stock, but they also have to pay significantly in cash as well.

GM also would retain the right to all the fuel credits and those could be valuable.

If Nikola is successful, GM profits with a great deal. If its not GM doesn't actually lose much. only the time it engineers spent on cooperation with Nikola and potentially some tooling cost.
Do you really punish everybody else because you can't remember precedence rules?
> Couldn't you simply put the next hop's MAC address (instead of IP address) into the routing table and be able to route packets just as well, with a lot less complexity?

No, because MAC address only makes sense for ethernet-like layer 2 protocols and IP can run over any number of layer 2 protocols, including point to point protocols and some of the point to point protocols.
As a masochist who prefers a variable-pitch default font in Emacs,

(defun fixed-pitch-mode (&optional arg)
(interactive (list (or current-prefix-arg 'toggle)))
(buffer-face-mode-invoke 'fixed-pitch (or arg t) nil))

is a handy "escape hatch", usable as both a key binding and a major mode hook.
Witness says officers never gave commands before firing at antifa suspect in WA
Theranos was a shady company. But it wasn't a public company. The shadiness was the company itself.
It's true, locality of talent pool matters..but covid has shown the degree to which it matters is quickly diminishing as evidenced by the handful of companies declaring WFH forever, or re-considering their office leases.
I remember that fateful day in highschool where the parents volte-faced and joined facebook, and the site was ruined forever. then came the aunts and uncles and grandma and your boss from two jobs ago. eternal september, but the influx didn't ever stop and here we are with billions of users and a mess.
"Clear and present danger" is a vague term -- just the kind the Supreme Court is infamous for interpreting whatever way they damn well please.

You could make a good argument that the hundreds of thousands of dead in the US alone of COVID-19 presents a "clear danger", and that the scientific evidence showing that not wearing a mask increases the odds of infection makes it a "present danger".

The danger need not cause deaths in the next minute or second to be "clear and present". Typhoid Mary was imprisoned for the rest of her life for recklessly endangering people with her asymptomatic typhoid infection. People did die because of her actions, but she was imprisoned not because of that but because of the danger she caused to society -- one that did not guarantee anyone would die, but just increase their odds of dying.

People coming from infected areas have also been regularly quarantined, even if there was no proof that any particular individual was infected. This was unarguably a limitation on the quarantined individuals' freedom, but it was deemed permissible to protect public health.

Requiring the wearing of masks is a much milder curtailment of freedom compared to quarantine, so the Supreme Court could certainly uphold such a public health measure were it to be implemented.
How do you know I’m not?

To confirm though, I am indeed not that or any other mathematician and I can’t claim any credit for any contribution to category theory. I’m simply a programmer who knows a little bit about a few things, no one special :)
One can have a borderless internet without having borderless companies.

Let's take Facebook. We could have Facebook.US, Facebook.EU, Facebook.UK, Facebook.CN, etc.

In a borderless internet, you'd still be allowed to use the one that you wanted, but each would be subject to the laws of its "country". (I realize that the EU isn't a country.)