skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So Stewart and his colleagues set out in June to do exactly that. “Right now, for the Body Farm study,” says Stewart, “we're basically just taking the trees and shrubs that are growing naturally within our plots, then placing donors—as they refer to them—and then looking at leaf responses, plant responses, at various distances.”

Given that they’ve been putting bodies in these woods for decades now to study other things — and given that they presumably have records of where they put them — can’t they just do an analytical study of the effects of previous decomposition on current trees that grew near the placed corpses, rather than having to do an experiment on the scale of tree growth (= presumably years)?

Or is this all supposed to happen over a much shorter term than I’m imagining, such that you’d need to do an experiment to see the effects right away; and that a tree would be expected to revert to the mean in appearance after it runs out of human-type nutrients? (That’d kind of suck, since it would mean you wouldn’t be able to solve a missing-persons case that's been cold for decades this way — which is precisely the kind of case where you’d want to pull out this sort of technique. There are already good methods to find a body in the woods if they've only been missing for months/years, e.g. corpse-sniffing dogs.)
Maybe back in the earlier years, but nowadays it's got just about everybody from all manner of professions.
Here is an another reason it failed... I have a CS degree and I barely understand what was said here. just being honest... maybe I just need more coffee.
> Personally I'm withholding judgement until after battery day.

Insiders know what's up with battery day. I think it's more likely a 'sell the news' moment than not.
I'm guessing @derwiki's parenthetical "(privacy)" is a reference to privacy.com, which is a service for doing exactly that.
These kinds of phenomena make me slightly worried about the long-term viability of index funds as an investing strategy.

There is absolutely nothing about this information that reflects on Tesla's value as a company, or its business prospects. And, while there's certainly some intrinsic value in an S&P 500 listing - as an advertising device, if nothing else - it's hard to imagine that it's worth $50bn. That leaves me worrying that what's really going on here is that index investors have created a large arbitrage opportunity that people were trying to exploit.
First you must define what you mean by "nations are hostages of their criminal governments". Only very few countries are considered "full democracy", with some other considered "flawed democracy", but the majority can be said are worse or better dictatorships.
Hi Folks,

We ran the Belarus' post-election survey. Over 10,000+ respondents.

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Found this:
https://commons.nmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1746&con...

Very interesting read, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to really give you an accurate tldr, sorry
Are you sure it's not discovering bad developers?

Maybe critical areas, e.g. that have the same amount of bugs as the rest but are complained about more? (since the algorithm can only consider bugs that have been reported, so biased to areas important to users) Or maybe that are prioritized by management? (since it considers fixed bugs, so bias towards bugs that were fixed first)

Hopefully an increased scrutiny on new patches to those areas leads to fewer bugs getting in which breaks the feedback loop, but if bugs are fixed in separate commit this sounds like it could have negative effects (specific developers/areas getting all the attention, leading to the discovery of more bugs/nitpicks there, reinforcing the bias...).
> but since Firefox Quantum those reasons have largely disappeared.

I don't think so. I switched to firefox as my main browser. Firstly there are few sites that only work in chrome so I kept chrome installed. Secondly at least to me, it is noticeably reduced battery life with firefox.

Why did I switch then? Mostly for privacy and control, and the tab management which is much better in firefox.
This is very interesting. However, it doesn't appear this rule is applied consistently as Facebook is in the S&P500 and is probably the most infamous example of a multi-class share structure.
I'm currently working on solving this (still in the early stages). More specifically I'm working to objectively measure performance over time, with a strong focus on actionable insights to help you improve. If you would like to test this email adaobi@mesure.app. Or you can just email me your problems and i'll see if I can solve them.
Wouldn't any stock that was removed from the index fall 20% as indexers sold it? This is the power of Indexes, not the weakness of Tesla isn't it? (I am actually glad it didn't make it in as I think it's too volatile and also I want to buy some :) )
I don't quite understand the economics of the ad fraud on the closed (on site) LinkedIn ads.

How does a third party (not LinkedIn, and not the advertiser) make money from this?
Priavcy is the name of the service.

https://privacy.com/
Etrade. It isn't even listed as a "hard to borrow" security (just confirmed that by entering a proto-order and confirming another security that is hard-to-borrow does give a warning at that point in the flow).

Per that, I'd imagine any brokerage would allow you to short them.
And similarly, throwing out the term “went full alt-right” without providing any references at all does not make something true/a responsible statement.
I can see already that this is going to be a fruitless conversation based on feelings rather than evidence.
Unless it isn't, see various oppressive governments. Nazi-germany showed how to hack free speech into oppression through censorship, book-burning. Russia showed and continues to show how to use techniques like generating multiple low-effort angles to balkanize readership and lionize their time, thus sowing confusion and discord. China.

Free speech won't and doesn't survive contact with the human race without an effective defence, and history shows merely counting on people to use more free speech leaves free speech and democracy open to coordinated brute force attacks.
The allure of free speech and debate is that the best ideas win.

But what I have often found is that the best debater wins.

And some debaters are so good they can win both sides of a debate.

This wouldnt be that much of a problem if you assume verbal iq is an independent variable uniformly distributed through the population. But I have often found verbal iq is highly co-related with other biological traits and markers. This creates a biased situation where debates often lead to erroneous conclusions and bad results.
he's probably using puts
Why does this make you worry about index funds? Assuming you invest in a well diversified fund, the more of the market you invest in, the less one securities shenanigans matter.
Blocking websites thanks to silicon valley network co. Sandvine![0]

They were also used to censor the web in Egypt but nobody on the US end seems to give a shit that local companies are facilitating dictators

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-28/belarusia...
> Body fat number is pretty much made up though, do not rely on it.

I would have said that too, but during the lockdown and stay-at-home period, it made a meaningful rise, and it fell back when I could go back to walking and doing sports. Fat percentage: made up? Probably not. Precise? Also probably not.
Same, I'm now wondering if they're getting much value from it though. Is DeviantArt a profitable site? I don't recall ads on it, but I only bump into the site from Google Images when I'm not being sent to Pinterest (they should of considered buying them out instead).

Edit: Just went on DeviantArt out of curiosity and noticed this:

https://shop.deviantart.com/

I guess that answers that.
That tweet was actually intended to hide the message of the split. You can see that it was sent on 5/1 at 8:11. The 5:1 split was announced on 8/11.
Great. There is no point in "shares" without votes.
Every time I've tested it my AT&T Fiber 300Mbit symmetrical connection gave me pretty close (if not more) than 300mb upload and download. Speed is also high enough that I have to test on LAN for it to be reliable, as just one wall can cause my WiFi to drop below the maximum speed of the service (of course, I'm using my own AP not the terrible one built into the provided modem).
Uhm, I think the British won the "complainer" trophy with our lame ass brexit project. In fact, now the Scots are complaining about England (& Wales) winning the complaint trophy, that they themselves will likely win the complaint contest in 2021. (Please note I support Scots independence, and Scots complaints with the UK are also long standing and well founded.)
The users we are talking about started by clicking an ad on LinkedIn. Seems pretty safe to assume they're not running ad blockers?
As a somewhat avid backpacker, I found it interesting. I was in a similar situation hiking near the SQF Complex earlier this summer. You're right that they weren't in immediate danger from the fire, but hindsight is 20-20. In the moment these events can be incredibly stressful, especially when your mouth, eyes, and head hurt from breathing in smoke, you don't know exactly where the fire is, can't see very far, and are limited to walking speed. While they were able to get a good night's sleep (I would have just hiked through the night), I wouldn't characterize this as a "leisurely" hike out.
Yep! The end of the article covers some of the details.
Yes, I find the way ABN Amro implements this to be quite useful. If there's a mismatch between the name I entered and the account name, IIRC I'm required to confirm it before continuing. But it'll never stop me outright as mentioned in the article, which seems like generally wrong-headed approach.
To be fair, if I hear a new rock song with a lead male vocalist I'll also struggle mightily to identify them immediately. There are very few bands/singers with such unique styles that they can be told immediately apart. Same with any other genre really.
> literally operates the largest car charging network in the world

Qingdao TGOOD’s network is almost 8x larger than Tesla’s.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-10-15/china-ele...
Facebook is grandfathered in, having been added in 2013. Although the linked article says the following:

> Companies with multiple share classes already in one of the indices will have until September 2022 to change their structures or face removal.
Yup. He said the stock price is too high, not the valuation/cap.

It was about the stock split.
Yes, they're amazing! We have collaborations with them, but we are from: https://www.ivt.ethz.ch/ focusing more on the transportation/traffic part of research. Thanks for the interest!
I'm not sure how the US has stepped down from that role:
https://www.state.gov/ukraine-and-russia-sanctions/
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-belarus-election-usa-sanc...

And if you mean "diplomatic hostiles" in that the US is angry at the EU for not cooperating with the sanction process against targeted countries or meeting their military obligations so that they qualify to vote in international politics, then I guess you're right.
Bradykinin and the Coronavirus by Derek Lowe
> ...Sometimes I suddenly feel like a fraud...

I feel this way sometimes too, despite having a traditional CS degree and being in the software industry my entire professional life. Apparently impostor syndrome is more common than we think.

Personally I've come to believe there are very few people who "fit like a glove", and everyone else has varying degrees of this.

Edit: On rereading this it might appear that I am trying to diminish/dismiss your experiences. I apologize if it came across that way - my intention was more to share that I've heard this same sentiment for different reasons from many different people.
also something to take home from this is that we all think to have an idea what the www is or amounts to while in reality it is changing all the time at a much more dramatic rate than we can see or indeed imagine. Depending on current events very large numbers of new sites are created and new top (of index) content is written and an even larger amount vanishes. When the new topics mature and its angles are reasonably fleshed out the incineration wave kicks in again and POOF we have a whole new www. After all, since most content is rarely linked to the problem is much larger. Naive people think the value of content is also static. They can of course advertise that opinion but for the rest of us to just accept it as ghospel??? We should be outraged so that "they" can delete it. Then we can truly feel the totalitarianism of it.
Then IE should be number one browser on windows, right? I haven't seen any nagging for chrome in past few years but seen lot for IE. Have you seen the notifications now or just guessing that they would be sending notifications. Any screenshots would be helpful.
> The only reason that we would not see them pop up in this logging tool is that they were on the site and bounced so quickly that the logging tool was unable to load and capture anything of their session.

I'm really happy to hear this shows up in site metrics, since it's exactly what I do when I follow a link into ad-laden crap. I don't block ads by default, but I also have zero tolerance for keeping crap open.
They're building a pretty serious battery production line in Fremont [1]. I don't think they would be doing this if it was just some incremental battery cell improvement. It seems likely they do have some new chemistry or process.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fgDDcbDtWlY
My package called Grassmann.jl offers somewhat higher dimensional algebras than the python package here:

https://github.com/chakravala/Grassmann.jl
Yeah I'm not really sure what people are expecting out of Tesla. I do think the current investors are low information investors who don't understand what stocks are or how automotive works.

I think we are seeing the beginning of hyperinflation.
> What's the point of having inclusion guidelines if you can just change them willy nilly to suit your own agenda?

You said it yourself: they're guidelines. I'm glad there are humans in the loop to exercise judgement when the guidelines may be giving a funny results.

> We need a more algorithmic index, not one ruled by one central committee.

IIRC, there already are many "algorithmic indexes", but they're not the S&P500 and there's no reason for the S&P500 to be one.
This is a little bit off topic, but I read this interesting article how it's possible to do money laundering through Spotify with the help of streaming farms:
https://ppcprotect.com/spotify-streaming-farms/

This seems to be a bigger issue than I thought - this article quotes up to $300 million as damage:
https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/features/how-to-fight-spoti...
I just discovered pyinfra and I must say, it's really amazing in its simplicity.

Thanks a lot for building this!
Maybe think about upgrading to an SBC that uses eMMC. Costs more, but less trouble.
>Tend to stay away from anything that is "my cousins friend at work asked how to buy stocks because he wants to buy x"

Oh, so basically the entire stock market during the pandemic?
Happens to all of us, it's OK. :)
Entrepreneur Raised $140M to Take on Google
Well the $30 rental rate is an attempt to recoup box office losses due to covid so can't really blame them for trying... don't like it? Wait until December when it's free.
Facebook joined in 2013.
Social Media Valley companies already in the S&P 500 were allowed to remain.
Why Debating Is Bad, Even If You Win
It did well enough until there was real competition? Firefox is only alive from fat Google Search checks. It’s a great example of a massive failure in this charity business model.
Abusing dynamic groups in Azure AD for privilege escalation
Even more important that LISTENING to someone is actually COMPREHENDING what the other person is saying. Directly from the article:

"In short, try to keep your mind open. You might learn way more by really taking every idea into consideration. Notably if the colleague you argue with is an interested developer you trust."

"Don’t forget: recognizing that you’re wrong make you more humble and show the weak spots in your knowledge. As a result, it’s a good opportunity to learn."
>Hit a nerve I guess if you're gonna resort to that.

I resort to that all the time, so don't bet much money on it "hitting a nerve". Just bothered me enough to want to comment - which also happens all the time, even for minor pedantic corrections.

>Yes the overall design, the style of seating, the choice of trees, the choice of wood, the actual design of the furniture, looks like a mall food court

Well, that's a very pretty mall food court if I ever saw one. Great for the AS to look like a high end version of that (with superior exterior architecture to boot). If that's "unbelievably tacky" I'll have to re-use the Princess Bride line...

Because the ones I've actually seen in the wild in dozens of malls I've been look like this:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c3/b1/fb/c3b1fbc6c0bfa52eb3cb...
Their current price is silly. But will they _ever_ make more cars than the current incumbents?

Gimme odds and I'd place a bet - they dominate the top 2-3 growing niches in auto (Battery tech & recycling, software/experience, and EV mass production). As long as their sales are constrained more by production than demand, it's unclear where their ceiling is.

You also need to consider they may just sell inputs to their competitors. Toyota may sell 10x the cars, but if Toyota must rely on Tesla battery factories, then Tesla can just eat their margin: Toyota sales feed Tesla's bottom line.
If you're indexing using just the S&P500 you're arguably making a quite directional bet on big established companies over the rest of the market already. Much broader indexes are in common usage. For someone indexing with those the fact that someone tried to arbitrage Tesla's entrance into the S&P500 and failed just looks like any other market movement. There are people on both sides of that bet, some won, some lost, and you get the average return between them both.
The people who want to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere may not have the power to stop emissions at source, while they do have the ability to sequester.
That only matters if you can prove there was fraud.
Cmd-tab extras:

- before releasing the command key and in between tabbing you can type H to hide/show and Q to quit the currently highlighted app. Note that quitting is often slow - can take a while for app’s icon to disappear.

- with shift to reverse direction

- you can start a drag, then use Cmd-tab to switch to your destination app, and then drop
It can be alienating. When this happens to me I try and think “this is their money, if they want to set it on fire it’s their prerogative, I get paid either way”. But yeah easier said than done.
Monstrous things happen in any country when government wants to make a point of you. Just ask Julian Assange. It's a terrible situation to be in.
While reading this, I can't help but to hear Charlie Chaplin's Great Dictator final speech in the background of my mind:

"... We want to live by each other’s happiness - not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.

Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost…"

https://www.charliechaplin.com/en/articles/29-the-final-spee...
In india, they added OPC (one person company) which is an extension of limited liability for individuals. I think it's becoming quite common across countries.
@newcrobuzon you have some kind of comment string output at the top of your html body tag. Looks like something you do not want exposed.

Congratulations on reaching public beta and for submitting to HN! Looks very promising!
Looks very nice. Would be nice to be able to get a public chatroom list like in IRC.
That tweet was likely intentional foreshadowing of the coming split. He posted it at 8:11 and they announced the split on 8/11.

I have no basis for this suggestion, but I’ve actually been thinking lately that SoftBank and Musk coordinated the TSLA infinity squeeze that we’ve all been watching.

It’s a great way to make a massive investment in TSLA, at the price you were willing to pay anyway, while sending the stock through the roof so the company can take the needed liquidity from the market.

TSLA added one of SoftBank’s largest financiers to the board in late April.
Yes, the starters are designed differently. Engine oil really isn't going to have enough time to leave bearing surfaces and the valve train in any significant way. First start of an engine after hours of sitting is where lack of oil is a concern. Priming the fuel pump is for short crank time and start reliability, not reducing engine wear.
>but at it's current price it's enterprise value is roughly the same as Toyota's.

Even this is absurd, though.

Tesla has a couple US factories, one in China (practically owned by the CCP) and another under construction in Germany. They sell a few hundred thousand cars a year, and sales are relatively flat/slightly up y-o-y. They've never made a profit outside of selling credits, some of which have come from controversial schemes like their battery swap.

Meanwhile, Toyota has factories all around the world (20+ countries) and produces 10 million cars per year at a profit. It doesn't add up.
I'm in the US, and no, younger people do not generally have standalone radios anymore. Music listening happens on digital devices these days, primarily via streaming (whether it be YouTube or Spotify).
Among us Proxy: mutiplayer games without the tears
No. I'm outright shorting the shares. Implied volatility is so high now as to make buying options fairly unattractive for medium and long-term bets.
Launched a podcast recently ( https://thexyzpod.podbean.com/ ) and we were surprised to find most traffic by far coming from Spotify ( https://open.spotify.com/show/3j2oovdoty9hf0TI67ZYb1?si=D68k... ). What's nice on Spotify is the sharing episodes to Instagram stories works well - if you share from Spotify to Instagram you get a "play on Spotify" link at the top of the story - actually amazed Instagram gives that away for free given that linking to most things off-platform costs money. Anyway helps with the marketing to non-Podcast-nerds
Personally I think it is better to think of Tesla as a software company that makes hardware for their software to run on, rather than an automotive company. In that respect they are probably better compared to Apple than Toyota. A lot of their key USPs are a result of the software they create rather than the hardware.