skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know where you got the idea that I was talking about famine in Syria. I'm not. I'm talking about world-wide famine. If the way we feed the world isn't sustainable, then there's going to be a global problem eventually.

Nor am I talking about enforcing population limits.

Bringing all of humanity out of poverty isn't going to do it either, if they all want to have an American diet.
I agree with you, except that the use of the OSI model seems to be distorting history: TCP/IP went up against OSI and won, even though OSI was favored, because TCP/IP could get working systems faster. That's a lesson which should be learned, but it gets obscured if you think that TCP/IP implemented OSI and there never was a competition.

Plus, the OSI model is rather complicated; there's a "TCP/IP Model" with four layers which is a lot simpler:

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/tcp-ip-model/

> Process/Application Layer

> Host-to-Host/Transport Layer

> Internet Layer

> Network Access/Link Layer

(This seems to be the RFC 1122 model, BTW.)

RFC 1122 and RFC 871 each have models, too.

RFC 871 has:

> Application/Process

> Host-to-host

> Network interface

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite
To some degree, I'm sure it was a plot device but 19th century English novels often depended on rapid/same-day communications via letter at least in the environs of London.
And the thread of the sweater gets pulled...

While not shocking given the previous track record of Trevor's previous enterprises - the most likely outcome here is that it will get very, very ugly. He also already 'cashed out' millions of dollars to buy a 32.5 million dollar ranch - one of the largest residential properties in Utah's history. [1]

Tesla's run up and general optimism around EVs seems to have triggered a gold rush of sorts, effecting other EV pureplays' stock prices (ex. NIO) regardless of progress and actual state of the technology.

While in theory I am in strong support of new financing models to bring new technologies to market(ex. these Special Purpose Acquisition Companies - SPACs) I am very concerned that if even a portion of the alleged is true, this could poison this financing route for legitimate businesses and the sector overall. A camp in the investment industry even think Tesla is a fraud, and this would only harm the narrative and long term mission of Tesla.

It would have been great if they actually took the money, utilized it with a plan and executed on the plan to help with electrification - the premise for which I think many retail investors have become involved.

Even if there was no fraud, I was always skeptical of their plan (smelled like vaporware to me) and their adamance about hydrogen as an energy storage medium without sufficient discussion on electrolyzer technology or how those unit economics work always struck me as big red flags. Seems like Nikola's plan was to combine a bunch of off the shelf parts existing from other sources into a product, in that case - where is the technology? So much of it with just the bit of digging and what I hear about it has made me skeptical.

Probably best to stay as far away as possible and see where the chips fall. I do wish them the best though, assuming there was no fraud.

[1] https://www.latimes.com/business/real-estate/story/2019-11-1...
Every language at FB ends up getting static typing:
- PHP => Hack
- JS => Flow
- Erlang => this new thing

It might just be FB's greatest contribution to the developer community.
I hate the modern software trend of disallowing explicit filtering. On everything from Youtube to Netflix the user is limited to typing in what they want and hoping the algorithm correctly reads their mind. If it doesn't, you're left trying to trick it into searching on what you want or looking for an outside resource where another person has already done the grunt work.
One can just add switch, router, network, etc to the query until it works. Supposedly they'll all work. Weak google fu means no info today, and if OP and the author are not the same person, then the latter may not even have a clue that it was posted on hn, where such high standards apply. If someone brought an electronics forum wiki post, should one expect every TLA¹ to be explained there too?

¹ Three Letter Acronym/Abbreviation
That's exactly my point! The only thing that matters is wall clock time so if cache layout is making a 300% difference to wall clock, focusing on instructions counts will mislead you on the most impactful optimization to make (i.e. cache layout optimizations won't show up in instruction counts).

And yes. I'm aware of that result because of Professor Berger's talks on Coz & the other work he's done in this space.
I think the correct word would be: sacrifice ;-)
A variety of corn has evolved a way to make its own nitrogen (2018)
nikola stock only down 11% today, market cap 14bn. is this report credible at all? why is the market not taking this more seriously?
> I’m saying it was all of those things: a proper browser, a good industrial design, plus the potential for Blackberry levels of security, which was realized only a year after the initial release.

But this isn't what you actually said. You made a very specific claim, and that specific claim is what I said was ridiculous. You can admit the original claim was a bit hyperbolic, and then we don't really have anything left to argue, or you can defend that safety and security where the "most important feature" and "biggest reason consumers selected it" from "day one", in which case I don't think there's much left for us to cover.
I think a 'video headset' doesn't try to such a wide angle as a 'VR headset.' I would really like one for programming on, as it's more portable than a big screen.
Updated title to include Portland.
Thanks, wasn't aware of that, very interesting!
The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent

I think the flood of retail investors with disposable income and government benefits is leading to absurdities in market pricing. See: Hertz skyrocketing after announcing bankruptcies.

After all, the stock has dropped 90%, how much lower can it go right?

Well, to the new investors, all the way to 0.
i dunno - here is the video in question: https://blurbsurfer.com/index.php/video/p9reimwb that really look like a hill to you?
Yeah, I'm pretty confident Nikola is a total fraud that will go to zero but it's still hard to make money even knowing that.

How long will the fraud last? Isn't your return limited by the difference available under the put?

I generally stick to calls because it's way easier to make money in a company you know is good and it's easier to capture the upside (Peloton for me recently).

Market seems skewed this way, it's a lot harder to correct the price even when you know it's total bullshit. Seems likely to allow frauds to go on longer.
A 'one child per woman' policy would get the population down to sustainable levels in just a few generations, without having to resort to genocides or other drastic measures.
Startups do this. All the time. But they're typically software not hardware demos so much easier to fake.
Lol I did the exact same thing. I'm also impressed with the results, although I'm also getting a lot of other dril tweets back. Don't know if I should attribute that to OP, a flaw in the app, or to dril's consistency. I'll choose to believe it's the last one.
that site has great personal branding. recall seeing other articles from lexi halle on the feediverse some time ago and immediately recognized it.

great content too.
This looks great. Is there anything on the horizon filling in the more inexpensive market that Windows Mixed Reality headsets were occupying?
> Some of the people who read the draft of this post changed my mind about it though

Details? Reverse engineering isn't even illegal.
I have to say some of the comments are hilarious but worth noting I more than most understand the desire to know more and to get to the facts it’s in my nature and my job but for those of you who ask why as a PI have exposed myself I’m actually a financial investigator www.freedomfromdebtcollectors.com.au and in Australia we can have a number of businesses registered under the one ABN number. As for those who feel the stories are best taken to the grave I understand but don’t shoot the messenger.
Like me or loath me I guess you won’t forget me.
The Coffin Confessor
> One of the biggest reason I love using Sign-In With Apple is so that I don't have to give my email to any one else.

I have an infinite supply of email addresses so I can give a unique one to whoever asks and then kill it if it's abused. This way I don't have to tell Apple whenever I logon to Epic or fear that Apple will revoke my access to Epic because of a random adolescent outburst not really befitting of a company of that size.
The beauty of public key cryptography is they don’t need to hold your private key, ever :)
Searching for a similar tweet to this one only netted one other Trump tweet:

https://same.energy/?q=The+Coca+Cola+company+is+not+happy+wi....
It’s not Musk, but the workers that did all of that.
Reading the replies, I somewhat doubt whether you still know what L2 means. The danger of being a nerd is sometimes you say a lot of words but they don’t mean anything.

Ethernet. L2 means Ethernet (or WiFi). Ethernet is the envelope we put Internet traffic in (L3) and the layers above that are about nailing down how exactly a conversation is managed. Sometimes people get upset about what constitutes Layers 5-7, especially since that Tim Berners-Lee joker ruined all the pretty pictures with HTTP. So mostly we only talk about 2,3,4 and 7, in the same way you don’t bring up religion or politics at a family reunion.
Visual Basic was one of the first languages I learned, and I was able to quickly make complex graphical applications.

I feel like we have regressed in a lot of ways.

Contrast building a GUI app in 1990 vs 2020.

Compare Visual Basic to something like React Native.

How much code would you have to write for some basic business application, like having a few screens that share a state, and interface with a database? How big would the executable be?

Visual Basic had some big flaws, but you could work around those flaws. And I can also explain the logic of a Visual Basic program fairly easily to someone inexperienced. And there is just so much less cognitive load involved. I feel like 90% of the actual code that I wrote was for actually processing data. Sure, asynchronous stuff could get difficult in VB, but that was the exception. And I wish that VB had had reducers.

I am certain that virtualizing the x86 Visual Basic 6 runtime in Javascript would easier to develop for and outperform many modern GUI frameworks today.
- usage instead of "use" (they are different words)

- quantify/fication instead of "measure/ment"

- problematic instead of "a problem"

- such that instead of "that" (the correct usage is as a phrase that comes from math proofs, "pick an x such that y")
Short sellers take positions because they believe stocks are overvalued, at least in the short term, and at least can be made to look that way with sufficient negative marketing. When they share their market research with lots of adjectives, but oddly do not share any of the positives that a company may possess (and why would they?), then any investor acting on that one sided information has possibly done himself a significant financial disservice.
Yeah, that actually does look like a hill. It appears to me the road rises up to the ridge seen in the background.
Earth barreling toward 'Hothouse' state not seen in 50M years
Not quite. For example:

> my $x
(Any)
> 1 ==> $x
(1)
> 2 ==> $x
(2)
> 3 ==> $x
(3)
> $x
[1 2 3]

If ==> were simply assignment, we would expect x's value to be 3.
Has anyone started a project like this for LTE or 5G?
It’s before a zillion background addendums, so not quite at the end think but it would be fairer to do so a lot earlier.

Reason? I think most readers would stop reading this (IMO) badly written and badly formatted avalanche of statements (which may or may not be true, but the form in which it is presented doesn’t give me confidence that it is) before hitting that info.
There seems to be such negativity surrounding electric vehicles in the media.
I wonder if there’s a vested interest deliberately trying to create this narrative.
Electric vehicles are definitely the future.
They only land the first stage(s), and those don't see space...
Read the article. It discusses how they tested with the same road, and were able to put an SUV in neutral and achieve a cruising speed of 53mph using that same road.
Apple's offering is a lot simpler and a lot more hands-off. I doubt their costs are very high and if they are, they're probably wasting the money because I can't see what's so complex about the Apple App store... And I'm a developer so I know that operating at that scale comes with challenges but it really doesn't compare to the challenges which the creators of Fortnight must face on a daily basis.
Right, but in text mode the 9918 draws 6 native pixels for every 8 NTSC color "pixels". So, measured in NTSC color pixels, it's 320 wide (40x8) compared to 280 (40x7) for the Apple II.

This image (white text on a blue background) shows how the 9918's native pixels line up with the NTSC color burst frequency: https://imgur.com/rGcRpw0
A few personal favorites:

Nil Magnum Nisi Bonum - from Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Translates roughly to No Greatness Without Goodness

Ars longa, vita brevis - Art is long, life is short

“He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.” — Danish proverb

"Fortune favors the prepared mind." -Pasteur

“Champions behave like Champions before they are Champions” - Bill Walsh
1) Everyone and their dog wants your email those days, which is bad due to engagement spam as mentioned in article, and privacy (those email addresses are probably flying around adtech servers which allow building up extremely detailed user profiles by those adtech companies).

Your website should allow "demo mode" to make me see what's the value it provides. No way I will go through registration on random pages that fail to immediately make me crave to use them. I ain't got time or will for that.

2) If you want to follow advice of the article, I'd rather not remove email field, but as I wrote before, allow demo mode, and at next step when actually registering the user, put a clear one paragraph sentence saying that you'll not be spamming me with your engagement stuff.

3) If you ask for email, absolutely verify it. There are way too many people who subscribe to all kinds of services using someone else's email. See this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24359980
Ahem!

TWO whole continents.

<grin>
It's important to have a _very_ clean severing of ties with CA: https://www.ftb.ca.gov/forms/2018/18_1031.pdf
I use right assignment in this way all the time, you should try it Joe :)
We know the exact version of openssl they’re using, so we can just build the same version ourselves, get the address of the functions, and look for the same pattern of instructions in the Zoom binary. Not sure if LTO could break this or not though.
Since the Zoom TOS explicitly forbid reverse engineering, sadly it isn't so easy.
True believers always knew this. I remember going to a presentation about Bitcoin where a speaker had boasted about how he had invested all his life savings into bitcoin, back when it was still worth less than $100. He gave his justifications, about how it was the future of money and the end of fiat.

I laughed, and couldn’t wait to hear the sob story about how he lost it all years later when the price went to 0. But the day never came, and I never forgot.

The guy must have cashed out sometime shortly after Bitcoin hit his peak, and now posts about his “riches and bitches”, I’m talking fast cars, big houses with long hallways, vacations around the world with exotic women under his arm and watches as big as your fist. Scroll through his feed long enough and your bound to catch a selfie with a middle finger aimed straight at the camera. He still gives seminars about investing in cryptocurrencies and did a few angel investments in some startups that went who knows where.

Was it wisdom, or pure luck? There’s some element of luck probably, but substantial gains don’t tend to last that long if you only have luck without wisdom.
Every start up ever
Sweden left its old and vulnerable people unprotected and thousands of them died. Now the virus is less deadly because there are fewer people left who are vulnerable to it.

At the start of the pandemic Anders Tegnel, the architect of Sweden's response to the virus, did not believe that asymptomatic carriers existed [1], so Sweden's Public Health Agency instructed health workers in care homes to only stay at home if they had symptoms and to not wear any PPE at work [2]. So they carried the virus into the care homes and a hecatomb of old people ensued.

Obviously, now that the most vulnerable are gone, the virus kills many fewer patients. Swedes don't even need to have immunity to the virus, as such. They just need to be young and healthy enough to survive it if they get it. Not so much heard immunity, as herd culling.

For comparison, let's take Greece, where I'm from and which is a country with a similar population to that of Sweden (about 10 million each). Greece imposed a draconian lockdown in early March, as soon as the severity of the pandemic became obvious (we are right next to Italy, after all). The result was about ~2500 infections and ~140 dead by 1st July when the lockdown was lifted [3]. Remember, that's in a country with a similar population as Sweden (but with a much more touchy-feely, huggy-kissy, family-dinner Mediterrannean culture than Sweden). Now we've opened our borders and we're doing business (= tourism) as usual. Infections have also risen, but deaths are still very low, in the single or low double digits daily, so that about 300 people have died since the start of the pandemic. It's all pretty manageable and our health system is not overwhelmed.

We had a total lockdown, lost very few people, but we're back in action and deaths are low despite rising infections. And without letting our old and vulnerable die in their thousands. We lost 300, Sweden lost 6,000. If Sweden's approach was vindicated- Greece's approach was vindicated tenfold.

____________

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01098-x

There is a possibility that asymptomatics might be contagious, and some recent studies indicate that. But the amount of spread is probably fairly small compared to people who show symptoms.

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/19/anger-in-swede...

The agency’s advice to those managing and working at nursing homes, like its policy towards coronavirus in general, has been based on its judgment that the “spread from those without symptoms is responsible for a very limited share” of those who get infected.

Its advice to the care workers and nurses looking after older people such as Bondesson’s 69-year-old mother is that they should not wear protective masks or use other protective equipment unless they are dealing with a resident in the home they have reason to suspect is infected.

Otherwise the central protective measure in place is that staff should stay home if they detect any symptoms in themselves.

[3] https://epidemic-stats.com/coronavirus/greece
Yeah, they went really wild in here........
Devil is in the details, a lot of which seem to have been lost in this explanation. This seems to be mostly a view into their value model (ie prioritize P(Click) * value + P(Heart) * value etc), but the hidden issue arise from the type of content that is likely generate clicks / hearts / long watch times.
"Perfection is usually expensive and frequently impossible. Settle for excellence."
I do remember hearing about it causing issues here and there in the 90s/early 00s, but rarely. Never hear about it anymore.

But I do remember AppleTalk causing issues more frequently on a network I helped manage that had radio studios with two Macs per studio, but mostly Windows PCs through the rest of the building.

That place also had a Macintosh 512K running its phone system until around 2010!
Fake it till you make it, to the extreme.
Universal Data Tool Weekly Update 4
I was just reading up an ANSI escape sequences a few days ago, this is gold.

I adore the format and writing style too.
While interesting, it's important to not interpret Redditor opinions as representative of the larger populace.
I haven't played any Civs yet, not sure to go with the original or one of the remastered versions.
My HP laptops don't. It's been ages since I used a non laptop keyboard and I forgot about grouping. It's a useful UX though.
It's scary independent of whether it's valid. And that's the problem.

It's like putting a sign in front of a retail store that says "make sure you trust the proprietor before patronizing this store" -- it's not saying anything that isn't true, but it's also going to be a direct cause of fewer people patronizing the store, even if the proprietor is trustworthy.

If the sign then only comes down by paying money to the party who put up the sign, well, now it's a racket.
No, it wouldn't, because you'd have to resort to drastic measures to enforce it (even if you don't consider greatly curtailing reproductive liberty to be, in and of itself, a drastic measure.)
They also disclose immediately after the summary at the start (bullet points).
Calling a fraud a fraud isn’t antipathy towards electric cars. It’s like saying that someone criticizing Donald Trump is against white men.
Because after a few thousand hours of ruby, when you can - most of the time - tell a variable form a function, or if a function is receiving a list of argument or a hash, you now need another challenge.
That’s an awfully tasteless choice of a name then. They are looking for companies that are going to catch on fire, crash and burn?
I like how they carefully called this demo "in motion", not "driving" or even "road test". It's definitely in motion!
Perhaps I'm ignorant and I'm missing something obvious - but how exactly are we going to apply this particular experiment to pre-industrial, uneducated population? We're talking about communication in remote virtual meetings.

The original WEIRD paper contrasts the industrial societies with small-scale ones. Can we even find small-scale societies that do virtual remote work?
No, it doesn't look like a hill. But it doesn't matter what it looks like. They found the exact road, and it has a 3% grade.
Thanks! Sure, go ahead!
It sounds bad, but I thought of another way to look at it.

Nikola's product is the brand of being a hip, "with it" electric car company, like Tesla, but different, and they are selling it to GM. It's a simple straightforward win-win, and everything that looks like fakery is beside the point. It has solid value to GM precisely because of the inflated, arguably irrational value of Tesla.

Now, I'm not investing, but it did occur to me to look at it that way. They are not actually in the same business as Tesla or GM. They're laundering cool factor.