skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A classic, and my first thought when I saw the headline.
Have you listened to Jack Ma talk? He sounds like some kind of total moron in the panel discussion with Elon Musk. I know, you're thinking "It's not his first language. That's what it is" but go watch it yourself¹. The ideas he expresses seem completely unformed and make it look like he's not operating at a particularly high level.

But Alibaba is real. It's a real company doing real things and delivering real value. It's a giant success.

Now I'm not saying Nikola will be (maybe those shorts for 2022 are pretty cheap) but people speak like complete idiots and still run successful companies that they start.

¹ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3lUEnMaiAU

Here's a highlight: https://youtu.be/f3lUEnMaiAU?t=789
We now offer "Digital receipts" (I just pushed up the fix)! Thank you for catching that.
That’s only a positive if they have something real in the works.
Kinda related; software CV done with JACK and LV2: https://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=20701
That's valid from a certain perspective. Technologically, Shuttle was a tour de force, although economically extremely terrible. Once it was decided to retire Shuttle,p probably the most common perspective among industry experts was that Shuttle "proved" reuse was not economically feasible and expendable was the way to go. So while Shuttle pushed technology to the limit, in many ways it actually held back development of reusable rocket technology (at least from a national policy perspective, which might have actually been for the best as it created the space that SpaceX needed to develop their solution commercially).

So in practical terms, Shuttle might have actually held back reusable rocket use more than advanced it. Fantastic achievement, though, and really not too bad economically when you consider all of its capabilities (only a fraction of which were used for any given mission, though).
A money grab for whom? ICANN, sure. But if a company wants to spend the $200k, what is the big deal?

Some companies (ex http://www.nic.ovh/en/index.xml ) are using it for their customers.

Some companies (ex https://calculator.aws/ ) are using it for shorter URLs, while still being descriptive.

Sure some are just doing it because they can, other's have no good use case yet. But I fail to see how .bananarepublic being in the hands of one company is a detriment to me... the average internet user.
Yes, but there are severe limits as the DLL is a black box. They can only tweak the inputs.
(There's more than one way to do it)
Thanks! You can disable this in System Preferences > Notifications > Mimestream > Badge app icon
IdeaPads still shipping with a TLS intercept ad injection proxy?

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/02/20/the-lenovo-super...
i mean, u gotta admire something about the guy, to me this is hilarious.
Those are all great pluses for what Nikola ostensibly is trying to do, but doesn't really speak to what they're able to do.
There might not be many options for investors that want exposure to the EV market but missed the boat on Tesla. I'm sure plenty thought it could be the Lyft to Tesla's Uber.

It will really only fail when the money dries up. As long as they can keep raising money, they can keep the fantasy alive long enough to lure in other investors.
The Bailey: Elon Musk is a great engineer.

The Motte: Elon Musk is great at hiring engineers.
VSCode/Atom/Sublime all operate broadly the same way. To continue the car analogy, there's a wheel right in front of you, two or three pedals by your feet and a gear stick next to you.

In this analogy, emacs' accelerator is on the ceiling, the bake hangs off the side and to steer you need to tap out the morse code for the words left and right on the dashboard.

Can you become proficient using that kind of interface? Probably.

Can you change the interface to something more sane? Sure, but you have to first learn how to weld...
Last week Elon demo'd a pig that made bleeping sounds when it sniffed stuff and claimed this would cure depression and about 100 other conditions. Tell me, given everyone else in that sector (neuroscience) is wildly sceptical of Elon's claims, how does what Elon did last week compare to what Trevor is being accused of?
1. He’s a vastly more senior person than a cashier.

2. It’s not the lack of understanding that’s concerning. It’s the confident wrongness.
How are you judging SpaceX, Neuralink, & Boring to be successes? They’re fine companies with good products, but none of them have fulfilled Musk’s original stated goals: going to Mars, transhumanism, and networks of tunnels for mass transit, respectively. When people say those companies will fail, I imagine the argument is that they won’t achieve these goals. Which, for the time being, is still true. Although it’s true that at least Musk actually builds things.

(Some bold takes? Level 5 self driving cars the way we commonly envision it won’t ever come to fruition, SpaceX will never go to Mars, transhumanism will never come to pass, and hyperloops won’t either. You can come back in 5 years and gloat if I’m wrong.)
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"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

These are enumerations, not distinctions. One person's right to protest is not of any more importance than another's right to associate freely at a motorcycle rally.
Presumably they didn't want to spend a tremendous amount of money for no clear purpose?

Most outfits which registered a brand or company name as a TLD are purely throwing away money here, either because they didn't understand what they were doing or out of sheer vanity.

You can maybe make an argument for a handful of very big technology companies that have some sort of plan for what they'll do with a TLD, such as Google, but I don't think Facebook would be on that list.
Can barely read the content with that colorscheme.
this is hands down the most interesting thing i've read today
You might be talking about that JavaScript rewrite of Visual Studio that uses the Electron framework.

The name "Microsoft Visual Studio" refers to a product line with a long life, which had been a monumental piece of shit over most of that life.

Vim and Emacs helped people survive Windows development jobs centered around Visual Studio.
The emails can be hashed, turning it into a pseudo-anonymous ID. It is debatable whether that is PII. It probably comes down to whoever can afford the better legal representation.
I absolutely love Visual Basic and am trying to make a Javascript version at appshare.co
`parser` is indeed a fantastic gem. @whitequark is the initial author but today it is maintained by @iliabylich
Cost of Renting a UHaul from SF to SLC Is 3x the Reverse
> Not to mention that some of the restrictions aren't artificial at all.

Such as?

> a) we'd like to support all of our users

Only what the users would like matters. Giving them the choice between being installing what they want and getting support is strictly better than a forced whitelist.

> b) it often takes a lot of support time until you establish that an add-on or hidden preference is responsible.

Then check for that first.
Oh. I thought this was a Python library issues and had nothing to do with LE. I too have had two occasions where I couldn't get certs with MIAB after upgrading. The first was some weird library that was missing after upgrading from like 10 versions behind on MIAB. IIRC it was a core Python library that had changed. The other was something that had to do with there being multiple "instances" of certificate chains.

Basically all it made me do is make sure I was monitoring the administrator@ account for the primary MIAB domain to make sure I'm updating it regularly.

Also I think MIAB is one of the few pieces of software that can safely be upgraded regularly without pain. I really trust Dr. Tauberer's project.
It's a money grab for ICANN, precisely. Neither users nor developers have any say in this process, and the body that stands to benefit financially from accepting trademarks as TLDs is _not_ going to be acting in the interest of users or developers, are they?

My argument wasn't specifically about .bananarepublic or .calvinklein. It was more that I don't believe trademarks should have been admitted, full stop. There's no way ICANN can make impartial decisions here that benefit the bulk of Internet users.

I reserve judgement on generic TLDs, although I really don't like the implications to user confusion caused by .photo, .photos, .pics and the like.
Hardly. This is more like faking your website demo because you don't know how to use the internet.
That one’s pretty obvious: The custom quantum chips enable hardware-accelerated HTML5 and power the deep neural nets that drive carbon emissions to zero.
It's not the company name TLD's that are most of the problem, it's the most generic words that are the problem. Amazon tried for .amazon and that's currently in a big dispute ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.amazon ). What if they setup a service called River and used river.amazon?

They also bought .bot, google did .app. Those are where the real problems are - because now "big internet" controls the TLD and can do almost anything they want with it.

On the flip side, lots of people like to use CC TLD's. So if you happen to like your .fm domain (like say di.fm) that's great... except now you are beholden to the Federated States of Micronesia (which most people probably couldn't even point out on a map).
That’s a fairly high bar. Musk’s vision is a 100 year vision, I don’t think anyone expects transhumanism in 2021.
Is Neuralink publicly traded?

Forward thinking, speculative claims aren’t the same as fraud.
Are there any other top-level domains named after people?
Big HN Energy! Congrats to Taylor & Lucas - one to watch, for sure.
I wouldnt be surprised if there are startups out there working via discord and just passively mentioning what they are up to as if they are playing a game.
The _worst_ of the shitty alternatives, let’s say GoDaddy, have this approach where the mechanism by which I update the ssl certs they provide has remained the same since, honestly? Probably the Mid/late 90’s which was the first time I added an ssl cert to an Apache config. GoDaddy have made exactly zero breaking changes in those intervening 20-25 year.

If this had been due to an actual critical security breach in ACMEv1, then maybe doing it would have been excusable - but even then, doing it without proactively contacting every user of their certs to let then know would have been inexcusable.

So far as I can tell though, the ACME 1->2 “upgrade” was closer to”Oh, we didn’t like the old guy’s code, so we rewrote it. It’s almost the same, but better! It passes almost 70% of the tests, so we decided versioning things so we could maintain backwards compatibility was too hard, so it sucks to be running a stone ages website that’s over 180 days old - who even are those losers? YOLO!”
I read it as "42 is stored in age". The works particularly well for a long chain of methods that should end in storing the resulting value in a variable. I know this might seem to be the most conventional way that Ruby is written; it makes a single statement take 8 lines instead of 1, it transforms a value over the course of the statement instead of sending messages to tell an object to transform itself, and it ignores the concept of encapsulation by moving the interesting actions into the foreground rather than being hidden within an object.

Below is an _incredibly_ contrived example. Take note how the `=> final_value` syntax is useful. The alternative is to place a `final_value = ` at the _top_ of the statement. I'll admit: placing the assignment at the top of the method chain helps point out to the reader of the code that an assignment is happening. However, more useful I think is quickly recognizing the flow of data.

"hello"
.chars
.size
.*(10980643.4)
.to_i
.to_s(36)
.upcase
=> final_value

puts(final_value)
# => WORLD
California skies glow orange as wildfires continue
The domestic auto industry is a jobs program not a real business.
My point is insofar as one would/should fear death, they would/should fear a decent probability long term nonfatal consequences to some degree. Incomplete information doesn't obviate that.

Nonfatal=/=nothing to fear
≥ Brittany says if she can’t find the family she’s gonna try and get it put into the museum in Belding.

Wtf sort of professional journalist writes "gonna" in an article on a news site?
I think it's because short sellers are seen as pessimists -- on some level, you're betting for a business to fail (or perform poorly), and regardless of whether or not you're right, that means you're betting on people losing jobs, dreams going up in smoke, etc. etc.

I don't subscribe to this narrative, but it's an easy one to spin when your stock is the one being short sold.
I wouldn't say an additional notes section at the end of article showing that is syntax is not unprecedented is an argument that the feature is ok because R does it. The author is simply giving additional context to allow readers to form their own opinion.

It's fine to not like the feature–I don't know enough about its usecase to feel one way of another–but your comment felt unnecessarily negative without adding much to the discussion.

Knowing that R users have access to these syntax and choose not to use it is interesting to consider, but that was overshadowed by your first statement.
Almost any user-noticable change (that is not a bugfix) is run as a AB-test for a few weeks in my team to verify that it does have the intended impact. I'd be surprised if there aren't teams at google, amazon, netflix and similar organizations that work similarly.
Was there though in this case? I don’t think there was.
Because sometimes the shorts do some shady things.. https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/elon-musk-vs-short-s...
He means https://www.abine.com/. personally, I use https://33mail.com/. If you want to go full fake, check out https://mysudo.com/.
That was just the quick and naive way I went for because I didn't want to download new tools, but there's many other options.

The easiest way if you have a capable debugger is probably to look for SSL strings/error codes in rodata and see where they're referenced.

Or IDA can even output C code that is very close to the original.
It could, but it can also come from rent-seeking protectionism, or it can be due to excellent software design, a rich set of APIs, good tooling, effective marketing of the many other facets of the iPhone and iOS, incompetence and fragmentation and dismal support by competitors, and so on.

The corporate malfeasance is using your market power to force third parties to mislead consumers. That's straight-up illegal in my country. I hope it is illegal in yours too.

Attributing Apple's 66% share of the global app store market to "consumers actually want a walled garden that lies to them" is wildly unfounded.

I don't have to prove anything, since I'm just calling out a unfounded claim being used to justify bad behaviour. If you want a forum where those will go unchallenged, and more apologists for the same, try an Apple website. Maybe there you can even get away with name-calling, and belittling major overseas markets as "small" (fun fact: wherever you are in the world, Korea has better broadband than you).
Actually - just the opposite.

Most people do not really know how HTML works, and nobody but technical people should really.

Or at least - they could make major mistakes in communication.

If he was 'my CEO' I would understand that he was trying to say 'Infotainment is a platform, built on extensible tech that everyone knows how to use' - this is fair.

It seems like Nikola is a fraud, but this isn't the red flag actually. This is standard miscommunication.
You're right about old users, we're not losing sleep over it, we just at least want to lend those users a hand to help them get over the hump to transition to v2. Generally, users should forget everything they knew about Caddy v1 and spend the time to learn Caddy v2 with fresh eyes.

I will say I'm probably the biggest champion of the Caddyfile config language right now, and it's definitely _not_ legacy. It's here to stay. It's just that the v1 Caddyfile hindered the underlying design of Caddy and made it too inflexible. In v1, the Caddyfile was the _only_ config language, and its syntax and design did not allow for flexibility.

For example, in Caddy v1, request matching was not a generalized concept, it was implemented per directive. Each directive had to do its own decisions whether it should apply on any given request, and parse the config for that, etc. In v2, request matching is generalized, and can apply to any directive that is an HTTP handler. Much easier to understand, and much more flexible, much more powerful.

It's true that in v2, the Caddyfile isn't the primary configuration language, but that doesn't mean it's not the users' primary configuration language. The Caddyfile is essentially a layer of magic that maps to the underlying JSON to make it easy to write configs easily and quickly.

Matt decided to explain upfront that JSON is the primary internal config language, because it's important to understanding how Caddy works. It's dangerous to have people run servers without understanding at least a few of the fundamental principles that make them run. That's the purpose of the Getting Started guide, to guide the user through the fundamentals of Caddy so they have a basis of understanding.

Too many people want to go fast and aren't willing to spend the time reading, which is frustrating. Running any kind of web server is a time investment.
> So the compiler itself just sees the `a = b`, the `b => a` is never visible, therefore precedence isn't germane to the template itself.

Not quite. Imagine you have:

3 + b => a

Is that 3 + a = b, or a = 3 + b? Precedence still comes into it. (I don't know nim's solution.)
there has never been hospital saturation or even close to it.

All the excess hospital beds built at the height of the hysteria went unused.
Unlikely to happen, when you consider what Google's main source of revenue is...
Elon Musk's Payday Could Delay Tesla Addition to S&P 500 Index
I agree there's serious potential for misleading customers, but also see the occasional merit of having both, ie, if you own Hank's Hotel you'd want the .hotel tld to correctly identify your business, and likewise helpmefind.hotels makes more sense than helpmefind.hotel. These are my arbitrary examples that do not outweigh the potential for the fraud of someone registering hanks.hotels maliciously. I think icann is a horrible entity and never should have existed.

On a different note, I like how many tlds there are now. .pizza is my personal favorite.
Oh I will take the Mars bet. What are your terms? Want to longbets.org it?
Thanks for the additional info, I'll definitely have to do some more research in this area.
Reverse Takeovers (RTOs) are super-common in Australia. A lot of broken mining companies whose exploration came up blank wind up sitting around still with a symbol on the ASX. This is used as an easy way to list - although the prognosis is not normally good (i.e. anyone evading the scrutiny of a listing starts a bit behind the 8-ball). Given how expensive and complex listing is, it's not the worst thing in the world.
It's hard for me to wrap my head around time. Over 20 years ago the CxO of Sun came to one of the big automotive events and said a car is just a browser on wheels. I think he was selling coffee. Er Java? Been too long.
Life is about the decisions you make when you give up your freedom.
The physicists, scientists, engineers, governments, corporations, and investors all seem to disagree.

But some guy on the internet says it won’t work.
"Society has functioned for thousands of years without banning exposed faces/mouths"

Yes, at the cost of tens if not hundreds of millions of deaths during the 1918 flu pandemic, for instance.

Do we really want to repeat that mistake so that some people can have the "freedom" of not wearing masks (and not social distancing either, because apparently many people think that infringes on their freedom too).

"Perhaps we can focus on balancing risk-reward vs some utilitarian-authoritarian ideal ... if we can prevent one death, one single death then any and all measures are worth it"

Authoritarian ideal? Any and all measures? Really?

Can we please get some perspective here?

We're not talking about some extreme measures like those truly authoritarian societies are infamous for, like making people slaves and working them to death, exterminating entire populations and political opponents, depriving minorities of all rights and property and then throwing them in to ghettoes, or completely (and I mean completely) making everyone subservient to their leaders.

Let's not trivialize the horrors of true authoritarianism by conflating them with people covering their faces to save thousands of lives.
Yeah, if a CEO/director being a chronic bullshit artist always meant a company was fraudulent, I'm not sure how many legitimate companies we'd have left.
I'm not convinced thats fraud but probably just "CEO bullshitter who only speaks in buzzwords in public" (referring to the interview). I also don't think anyone at GM (through whatever technical diligence they hopefully did) didn't bank on HTML5 as a chip-enablement strategy.
Worse GM may be a zombie company.

Your taxes will always be supporting their business.
For someone with only a passing understanding of router innards, what should I watch out for from this talk to avoid coming away with an incorrect understanding of how things work?
Cosmonaut Brain Scans Show Space Does Weird Things to Motor Skills and Vision
The politics of the NBN were an absolute travesty. It made me realise that as much as we make fun of the US and their orange baffoon, our politicians are far worse because they are competent at their corruption.

I did get one tiny bit of schadenfreude from the whole thing: I had lengthy debates with a coworker about whether the NBN is worth it or not. He said it's a waste of money. My position was that even if it improved the economy just 1%, it would pay for itself in no time at all.

Now, in the middle of the pandemic where everyone is working from home, I have gigabit NBN fibre-to-the-premises. He's on 2 Mbps ADSL v1 with 10% packet loss.
SpaceX is an essentially unprecedented success by any reasonable definition of success in the modern space launch services market.

If you want to minimize their obvious accomplishments based on Musk's own incredibly ambitious long-term (decades out) goals, feel free, but that's pretty dumb because it's essentially meaningless relative to the rest of the market. If ULA were already sending colony ships to Mars, maybe you'd have a point, but they aren't.
When they are just a figurehead for a government-backed enterprise, they can be complete morons.

When you are the head of a revolutionary startup that's competing technologically with existing companies, you can't afford to be one.