skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After WW2/Korea (I forget the exact time frame) IBM was making money just fine and refused to take a risk on then modern transistor computing machines.

The US Government spent the money and effectively donated trillions in profits to the rich elites of today.

I find it hilarious how ignorant we are of the last 50-70 years of details of our history. Basically the lifetime of Bezos, Gates... their parents changed the rules to benefit their mini dictators

Here’s a hint: no different than what’s happened with covid handouts, government pays out big dollars to their buddies, we all get to then fight over a seat at the hand chosen ones table

Free market isn’t anything more than a simple propaganda line

Anyone that can believe human biology has evolved away from the behavior of a generation ago is a childish fool

Keep sequestering social power into the hands of a minority of barons and lords, everyone. That’s the goal, no different than a church; keep you focused on their lofty ambitions and need for capital at the expense of your own.

Our biology is just as susceptible to blind faith as our ancestors.
It's also fairly trivial to see that it's possible to destroy some companies this way simply by noting that some companies succeed and some companies fail, which implies that there exist companies at the margin whose success or failure depends on things like financing availability or interest rates.

Moreover, companies in that position are exactly those with the greatest profit potential for short sellers. Companies that are obviously going to succeed or already have aren't likely to decline in value in the near future. Companies that are obviously going to fail will have declined in value already.

The largest opportunity for short sellers is when there is that uncertainty, because then you have a company walking a tightrope and there are people willing to bet that they make it to the other side. The short sellers can take their money and then give the company a hard shove and hope that it makes them fall.
I should have qualified it with *the beginning of the american revolution

I dont think many of the points you brought up refute guerlla warfare should not be compared to total war. I do think it's interesting to note that almot every country will continue guerlla warfare to wear down their friends and enemies. Iraq is a good example of this.

I'm curious what country you're from since you're using the apostrophy for the decimal separator "2'400"
Smallest Echo
So far, in this brief comment and a brief comment above, you've mentioned Goodhart's law, the McNamara fallacy, and the Munchhausen trilemma. I know nothing of any of these.

I think that you would communicate better if you avoided such references. I'd even venture to suggest that your internal thoughts might be improved by not shoving arguments into such pre-defined categories.
Yandex is a great example of a company which absolutely squashes Google on technical chops wherever it has tried to compete; and it only has 9000 employees (compared to Google's 120,000).
Clear to whom? The meaning of "1" is conventional/socially constructed.

For the sake of argument I can conveniently forget what "1" means, and then you can try and explain it to me like I am from another planet.

Semantics are a non-trivial matter.
> I'm saying it was worth including this person's own statement of their political views as well.

It is an interesting situation, because I dislike the idea that my defence of my own position is insubmissible, vs the interpretation of some third party of what they claim I think. Certainly there are positions I have on sensitive topics that could be trivially misrepresented.

On the other hand, just taking my 'PR' response is dangerous as it allows me to potentially Rewrite history / spin truth etc.

I lean towards the right to state: "author claims to be misunderstood and accusations are unfounded". I can see both sides a bit though
The 3310 3G works on 3G and is in fact on the "3" provider right now. But the warning is still relevant. When shopping around for the 3310 I saw some stores selling the slightly older 2017 version 3310 that has only 2G for the same price as the 2020 3310 3G.
Threatening to sue short sellers always seems desperate.
That was already opt-in back in the Windows 3.1 days, but few bothered to use it as such.

Back when I was doing pure Windows C for a while, this helped quite a bit,

Basically you had to #include<windowsx.h> and define the STRICT macro.

There were also several utilities that made it much easier to deal with events, dialogs and callbacks.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/windowsx/

https://jeffpar.github.io/kbarchive/kb/083/Q83456/

I got to learn it via the "Programmer's introduction to Windows 3.1" book,

https://archive.org/details/programmersintro00myer
I'm pretty sure the OP's modern feature phone, which is named the "3310 3G" after all, works on 3G.

The OP author seems to be Swedish, too.

For an actual old phone though, sure it'd be an issue.
I’m curious about Tesla over hyping certain maturity of their tech and other things. They appear to me to dress up non-functional prototypes and make big events around them, only showing the feature in a certain, controlled environment. Sort of like a magician creating an illusion.

How many years now has Tesla claimed that full autonomous driving will be ready by the end of the year? They sell a lot of that “software” which to me appears to be vapor ware and they claim the price will rise when the tech is GA’d so you should buy now. It just seems suspicious to me.

Even the giga-factories don’t look anything like the designs they promoted. They look like, well every other car factory.

I get that they don’t advertise so they smartly generate hype in other ways.

Wasn’t Audi the first company to sell a level 3 car?
Doing that inherently requires having access to a lot of capital.
Both chrome and Firefox support debugging their mobile android versions from their desktop versions.

I'm sure safari offers the same for iOS.
It would be a lot easier to see if Wikipedia had a point or not if you named the public figure you're talking about.
I only read the first question in theory.md and think the answer is quite weak.

> What is regression? Which models can you use to solve a regression problem?

The current answer only list some names that have "regression" in it, and the description of what a regression is doesn't say anything that distinguishes it from classification.

It fails to mention that regression (in ML terminology) is prediction of a continuous variable. And that almost any method can be used to do regression: knn, neural network, random forest, svm.

If other answers are of similar nature you might fail the interview.
I don't understand Nikola at all. There are so many red flags, yet large credible companies appear to be willing to partner with them and buy from them. I suspect the terms are probably quite one sided, but even then there's reputation risk for partnering with the next Theranos.

I listened to the CEO talk for an hour about their dedicated route hydrogen business model for trucking, and it actually seems like a good idea. The thesis is that 25% of trucks drive back and forth on the same route for their entire lifetime, so you pick the busiest route, build a hydrogen station on it, and sell a bunch of trucks to use it at capacity.

This avoids the chicken and egg problem of building thousands of stations everywhere before you can sell your first vehicle.

I don't know anything about the industry, and I wouldn't trust their ability to execute, but the plan itself seems sensible. As the renewable grid share increases, there's going to be a bunch of excess capacity at times that can be used very cheaply, meaning the end to end efficiency of hydrogen may not be a deal breaker. Without a multiple of current battery energy density, long range BEV trucking will be tough.

Then there's the Badger/GM partnership. They got Iveco to make their trucks, and now they're getting GM to make their pickup. It makes me wonder if their strategy is going to be permanently outsource manufacturing and try to be a Pepsi to Tesla's Coke, partnering with traditional manufacturers which are able to build vehicles technically, but lack the modern sexiness of the new crop of BEV car makers.

But if they do pull any of this off, it's going to go down as one of the greatest fake it til you make it examples in modern history. They probably did bullshit their way in to this market cap - I wouldn't be surprised if every word of the short seller report is true. But the market cap does opens doors.
Of google maps competitors, Here is based in Europe. Currently Netherlands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_Technologies
Beyond this blip in politics I dont see how any of your arguments has any foothold.

And again you're blaming Intel for not being a monopoly.
> Maybe this particular study, but I have to say I believe it in general.

recursion :D
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There are plenty of deconstructed companies that have ended up with positive value left when all is said and done and creditors are paid. It is not super common but it does happen now and then.
“Although Los Angeles County has never experienced the monsters that terrorize the midwest, tornadoes, albeit smaller ones, are not unknown here. Since 1950, at least 42 tornadoes were reported to have occurred in Los Angeles County. Most were quite small, covering short distances and doing little or no damage.”

— http://www.laalmanac.com/weather/we701.php
Fossil 'sea monster' found in Antarctica was the heaviest of its kind
At least they are already delisted from nasdaq[1] and their stock did plummet since muddy waters reports.

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/luckin-coffee-to-be-delist...
Internet told me that best performing students in USA are mostly Asians

If that's true, then his point stands, I guess?
> as any deliberate distortion of scientific facts or theories for purposes that are deemed politically, religiously or socially desirable

This is precisely what Dyson was engaging in. There was no scientific backing for his critiques, he didn't even bother to learn about what he was critiquing. He just went on a political crusade and pretended that because he had scientific accomplishments in a different field, he was applying the same scientific rigor in climate science. In fact, he was not.

As far as being a "priest," excuse me for caring about basic scientific honesty. This sort of hero worship of Dyson, to the point of excusing extremely bad science and abuse of authority by calling criticism religious, is exactly the sort of stuff that happened in the Soviet Union! Lysenko and Dyson promote the right politics, so they are considered above reproach.
Is the beta path
Feedback is more than welcome!

I hope you like what we have built :-)
That's a problem for law enforcement and MOT inspections. Young people notoriously tune scooters and minicars already, there's absolutely no news there.

Penalties will take care of most of the tuners. For exampple, if you get caught with a disabled speed limiter you will have your license suspended for two years and your real full-power driver's license postponed by two years. Also insurance companies will impose hefty penalties if you're driving something else (more powerful) than what you've insured. If you crash, the insurance company will be charging you for the damages.

Here's a light-weight minicar after collision: https://is.mediadelivery.fi/img/1920/2965ca321c7a47758ca5a81... -- I'd rather have my kids take that hit in a passenger car, even a small one.
Why Shakespeare Was Wrong About Domain Names
I like terseness.

Just because you haven't heard of something it doesn't preclude it from being a well-indexed idea in human folklore.

Google is your friend.
Immature or not I think this is hilarious!
> Can anyone name a single, legitimate company that has ever been "taken down" by short-sellers?

As far as I remember, Matt Levine used to say, a company that sues short-sellers is most likely deep into securities fraud.
Some serious interplanetary engineering, likely involving Fusion Candles on Jupiter to gather materials and fuel. Then a constant bombardment of Earth from the right angle should stop the spinning, eventually.
Do people realize that, these interview question collection do not help? I think there is 2 things to address here:

- Interviewers will know "what is known" by every candidate (with the help of these pages) and harder questions will be asked

- If these questions are asked at >junior levels, then RUN! the work will not satisfy you. The interview should be fun, and show the creativity of the candidate. These ones could be answered by anyone who read it a few times. I would not like to work with somebody who only know the answers to these questions and not more
Now you are just dissing the worlds public relations departments. Think of the jobs destroyed!

...so sad!
> Umm why? That seems non obvious to me.

Because that's how they've defined the words "two", "four", "plus", "equals", "people", "torture", "for fun", and "wrong"?

Neither of those statements makes any empirical claims about the physical arrangement of matter in the universe, so neither of them would be refuted by any possible way the universe could have turned out.

> > Reality is essentially directed toward the former and away from the latter

That this is false is obvious to anyone who has actually bothered to observe reality. People sometimes unnaturally and non-essentially impose such direction, but Reality itself tends toward the opposite.
I have one sentence that could change that for you and correct US trajectory: all software is prior art.
This issue does not seem murky at all. The legislators way over reached when writing this bill. There are absolutely people who are being exploited as independent contractors like uber drivers and other gig economy workers. If the law focused on these areas I would have no problem. But they took it much further and legislated entire industries of professionals.

Specifically both my wife, a freelance writer, and my mother, a court reporter, have been negatively impacted by this law. I know more about the writer point of view and it is clear the legislators didn't both to understand the industry when placing the 35 article limit per client. My wife has multiple clients whom she writes a weekly blog post for. This is now illegal to do and my wife has lost clients over it. This area of the law is totally backwards the only time my wife has been exploited was as an employee. She went from making 40k as a full time employee to a range of 120k-150k as a freelancer. We are definitely planning on leaving the state over this and will be voting republican (except president) for the first time in our lives over this law.

The TLDR of this law is that arrogant legislators decided to write a bill about dozens of industries they didn't bother to learn anything about.
Yes. https://github.com/frohoff/ysoserial https://github.com/pwntester/ysoserial.net
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The tether was indeed medium voltage, but the motors and controllers were not, through use of a fairly novel stacked architecture.

There were still hard problems to solve there, but ultimately the power system worked well, and out performed it's original design targets. It was not responsible for the projects demise.
Trifecta: How to maximize product teams’ impact
Usability, Feasibility and Value is the goal.
I'm sure safari offers the same for iOS.

Indeed it does! Been quite a while since I used it, but I do remember it being quite seamless and enjoyable.

https://www.browserstack.com/guide/how-to-debug-on-iphone
I don't think so, if it is done properly. For instance you want a human life to be worth more but the only way for that to happen is to actually spend more to save human lives, which makes the value of life increase.
How can you really understand someone’s ideas without understanding all the premises?

Isn’t it necessary for then to try to “convince” you insofar as just stating a conclusion without supporting arguments is no different than stating an opinion?

Or put a different way, why would you ever desire to hear opinions without trying to understand them or establish their truth?
I just want to take a nap in the afternoon.
I guess it's not obvious to me that regulations are needed here. JP Morgan and its clients are sophisticated investors, so I'm not sure they need Congress's help to protect themselves from SpaceX and Robinhood.
For those who haven’t seen it I’d recommend the documentary Blackfish. https://www.blackfishmovie.com/

The Sea World orca Tilikum killed three people, though not for eating.
Fail hard is a bit hyperbole :) A company this flexible will find ways.

They might do space tourism. A great enabler will be their Dear Moon mission:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DearMoon_project

I can't see how individual nations can ban Starlink. A small dish antenna will be indistinguishable from the rest of dish antennas:

https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-starlink-satellite-in...
Also, office buildings are rented from realtor investors and this big fat chunk of real estate is looking extremely superfluous and vulnerable right now
> I don't think you understand how contracting works.

I think I do, I think you just haven't been hit by (or are otherwise ignoring) bad subcontracting behaviour.

> That just isn't how contract law works. (The top party in the agreement still technically holds legal liability for the subcontracting work)

True, but that only matters if you are wealthy enough to be able to afford the time and money and headaches to sue to enforce good behaviour. Normal people don't have lawyers on call, and can't afford to immediately file a lawsuit everytime someone does something irresponsible, and then wait for the whole thing to play out in court.

> They do inform you.

They don't always, and even if they do inform you, they can still do so without your consent.

(EDIT: Removed another subcontracting example that was difficult for folks to follow, and wasn't particularly important to the point anyway)
The EmDrive just won't die
Sure, SQL injection is a good example. Forgetting to check permissions is another.
There are no statistics because this has never been reported before. One of the key points that animal rights activists used to shut down the Sea World orca performances was that there were no reports of wild orcas ever attacking humans, indicating that the Sea World orcas must be extremely stressed. Wild orcas have had many friendly interactions with human boats, and have even successfully stolen fish from fishing boats many times, but as a layman who follows orca intelligence research as a hobby, I've never heard of attack-like incidents like this article describes before. And the scientists interviewed in the article evidently haven't either.
This discussion was about your false assertion that PGP "has virtually no adoption".

If you want to change our discussion to be about replacing PGP instead, then I completely agree that people should replace PGP with modern properly-standardized alternatives if such exist.
I wrote the NumFmt answer :)
You not being a reliable source about yourself is an old Wikipedia rule.

I think they are fans of the Brazil movie.
I would agree with that but limit the qualification to rich eurozone countries. Especially considering the inter-EU, middle east brain drain.
Thanks, Stratenjine! Also love the name YouTuLong
Do you think the people you ask to sacrifice are rich?
On the app-front I've actually noticed an opposite direction in that I'm using fewer and fewer of these by moving more and more to web-versions of the services offered by apps. What apps I'm still using are mostly free software, often connected to services under my own control. I don't use apps because I don't see the need for all those app providers to get access to more of my data than necessary for the services they render and because I don't like the Balkanisation caused by the app world. While Android and iOS may divide more or less the entire mobile world between them I want to keep the door open to new contenders, preferably of the free software variety. An app-only world is an effective blockade for new contenders and as such only serves the incumbents.

I live in Sweden where as you probably know electronic payments are big, with Swish being the overweight gorilla in this field. I don't use Swish or any other electronic payment platform yet I still manage to get around, cash still works where it matters. My reasoning for using cash is the same as before, I like my privacy and don't see the need for the bank and the state and several advertisers to know I bought object A at location B from vendor C for price D at date and time E. Cash makes this possible, electronic payments do the opposite.
Late to this thread, sorry.

I have two tangental questions.

#1 In general terms, what's China's commitment (investment) in higher ed? Compared to the USA and other economies?

USA's tuition, loans, student debt is always good for an argument on HN. Almost no one mentions that the USA decided to privatize higher ed some decades back. So I was wondering if China and others made the same mistake.

#2 How does current China think about growing inequity?

One persons's story in "American Factory" resonated with me. Glass furnace technician Hong We https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10930334/ works his ass off, making huge personal sacrifices, to further enrich Fuyao Glass America owner Jeff Daochuan Liu.

Shown is gob standard corporate team building meetings where Fuyao uses economic nationalism to motivate their underpaid staff.

What is Hong We's future? When will the feel goods not be enough? When will Hong We demand to be paid fairly?

I assume Labor in China will follow the American trajectory. With all that political and cultural strive that entails. But I'm keen to hear what others think.

Edit: I think Cao Dewang is the founder and owner, not Jeff Daochuan Liu. I regret the error.
Thanks, Nurag. We'll get on those
I think you overestimate the amount of effort people are willing to go to in order to decipher a cryptic comment by someone called "ukj".

Seriously. I'm trying to help you here. At present, you're just wasting your time.
My kid brother and a couple of his friends had this skill, too. Between that and being thoroughly spanked in multiplayer games, and taught the joys of Homestarrunner by them, I felt really old. (Early 20s then.)
We'll using Elastic Search
It's nice when you have friends that have the same goals/aspirations. For the rest of us, I suspect the best you can do is to put a lot of effort into searching for someone compatible via a combination of cold outreach, friends of friends, etc. -- being as vocal as possible. (On the other hand, don't let it be your excuse for why something isn't taking off.)

I would take my products, show them to as many people as possible, and find out who is interested. While engaging with those people, explain to them your situation and that you're looking for some help. Try to leverage your potential users' networks. (Just my 2 cents.)

All that aside -- I'd be interested in chatting about what you're working on and seeing if we might collaborate in the future. Feel free to reach out: vcinv10@gmail.com
A tethered unmanned aircraft is still considered an aircraft by the FAA and subject to FAA regulations:

https://plane-lyspoken.foxrothschild.com/2017/12/03/tethered...