skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is it FUD when the water supplier itself said that Tesla didn't pay its bills and thus turned off the water?

https://m.dw.com/en/germany-water-turned-off-at-tesla-gigafa...

What's the name of the new water supply company? The agreement they signed a few days ago was with the same supplier that just turned off the water.

What most likely happened was that Tesla quickly paid their bills and got the water running again and are spinning this to hide their embarrassment. The "bigger line" they are talking about is the permanent underground line they got built and can finally use. Before that they used temporary overground lines.
I do wonder if part of the reason is abuse by people who wanted to try a Tesla but had no intention of buying.

I never did it, because I just couldn't have lived with myself[0], but about a year ago a friend and I popped into the Tesla micro-showroom in Cambridge (UK) and I realised I could order the Tesla Model S P100D with self-driving add-on - and otherwise customised to my exact preferences - for what amounts to an extended test drive and then return it no questions asked. It struck me as pretty ludicrous but I won't say I wasn't tempted.

At the time the P100D was the top-end model S, and cost ~£100k. It's not a car I could realistically afford although I'm sure finance would have been approved[1], and they would simply have delivered it to my house. Then I could have driven it around for a week and just returned it: a car I had no intention of paying for in the first place.

It's really not OK, but I imagine quite a few people have done it, so I can see why that might push them to a policy change, especially if baseline returns for other reasons - such as QC issues - were also high.

(One day I'd still really like a Tesla but even if I could afford the one I'd most want, for that kind of money an Audi RS6 or one of the AMG estates are more practical propositions. And then for about the same money as the Model 3 there's the Volvo V60 hybrid, with 398bhp and plenty of load space. I do like Tesla so I really wish they did an estate/station wagon. Wagons are extremely handy, especially with AWD, and especially for people like me who often make use of that cargo capacity but hate SUVs and trucks due to their bulk, and overall poor economy and driving dynamics. Still, I can understand that isn't the way the market is going - shame though.)

[0] Honestly, I was also worried I might want to keep it, and would come up with all sorts of justifications as to why it obviously made sense for me to put myself in a hole for a car. I ride motorbikes. I know what it feels like to go from 0 to 60 in less than 2.5 seconds. I don't need a Tesla for that, and bikes are a lot cheaper. But I was concerned that in the heat of the moment I might lose that perspective.

[1] I also worry about residual values at the end of any finance deal due to the batteries and, in general, Tesla's reputation for dicey quality, high maintenance costs, and less than stellar reliability.
"No regular influenza could do that."

Sure it could. The whole point of the IFR calculation is that it gives you an average perspective on how fatal a disease is, relative to other diseases. It's not an absolute maximum fatality rate, for every circumstance.

Put a strain of "normal" flu in a vulnerable population with no pre-existing immunity, and it would do a lot of damage. But if you don't count all the other people who had it without symptoms, then you get a misleading picture.

Also, of course, you have to realize that the population of "Lombardy" (~10M) is a bit larger than the population of New York City (~8M), where we see 100-300 deaths per day as a baseline mortality rate:

https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/nycdata/population-geography/pop...
You own your car (modulo spyware and remote shutdown) after an oil change.

The restaurant does not take away the meal from you after you ordered it, because you are not woke enough.

If you buy a dress, you own it.

On Wordpress, Instagram and YouTube you are just a sharecropper with no rights.
Is all context, if you have such specific need probably the app context is already understood and there is no need to have such big names, perhaps the apps is called, 'colors of Thursday 6pm' the you just hold a variable for sky.
Same for box side, if your app only deals with a side, then is boxSide, you wouldn't say upperBottleTap, because all bottles have the tap on the upper side, and there is only one, so context is everything.
Maybe the best would be to mix a weak visible laser with a more powerful near-infrared laser, so that you make people blink, and your more powerful laser is less harmful? You could even trigger the visible "warning" laser 5-20ms before you fire the killer laser.
Author here. I regularly troubleshoot non-trivial performance problems on Linux (mostly running busy Oracle databases, but other things too).

I wrote 0xTools for two main reasons:

1) Have an easy way to report process/thread level top activity, but with the ability to break down what the threads were doing at the time - were they stuck in a system call, spending excessive time (sleeping) in some kernel location, etc.

2) Have an ability to "go back in time" for advanced troubleshooting, so when some intermittent problem happens, you can troubleshoot it "at first occurrence" and not have to wait for the problem to show up again. For that, you must have detailed (but low-overhead) always-on collection of thread activity collection enabled.

Since I'm using these tools in critical production systems, they also must be safe to use, must not require installation of custom kernel modules, etc - and sampling the Linux kernel-presented /proc filesystem with standard OS tools can go surprisingly far. My tools just make collection and analysis of the data easier.

You may ask why not just write an eBPF script for this - most of the systems I end up troubleshooting are still running RHEL6 (or clones like CentOS 6), with some RHEL5, RHEL7 with Linux kernels 2.6.32 and 2.6.18 and 3.10 respectively. No functioning eBPF there! It will probably take 10 years before 99% of traditional enterprise production systems are running RHEL 8.1 or newer (where RedHat officially started supporting eBPF).

Give it a try, it's very easy to test - no uncommon dependencies or OS reconfiguration needed. Questions, comments, enhancement requests welcome!
It is a factor I think about; I'm not saying that it's never ethical to eat meat; I don't condemn a lion for eating an antelope, since I'm not even sure it's possible for a lion to be a vegan if it really wanted to [0]. Similarly, I don't have a problem with birds being carnivorous.

That said, anyone reading this post is probably not a lion or a bird, and has some level of self-reflection as a result. Just to play devil's advocate for a bit, couldn't you argue that if it's possible for me to live a fairly healthy life without killing any higher-minded creatures, then I should? If we are smart enough to have an entire philosophy of ethics, then shouldn't we be using this ethical framework to minimize suffering in the world?

I should reemphasize, I'm not a vegan, or a vegetarian, I have a fairly typical American diet of "it's not a meal without meat" sadly. I'm just saying that these kinds of papers make me question that.

[0] I'm not a biologist or doctor or anything, but my understanding is that cats (at least house cats) cannot product their own vitamin A out of Beta-Carotene like humans can, and must get it out of animals. I certainly cannot blame any animal that is doing what it absolutely has to for survival.
Flu is about 1/10 as deadly as coronavirus. And there’s a vaccine.
May be unrelated, but the question is killing me: what caption would you give to the photo at the top of the article?
Well then you can just get a new car from a different dealer every 2 weeks and drive a new car for free in perpetuity.
Very nice tool. One issue is that the color scheme doesn’t work well with a white background, or a monochrome display.
I wonder how much discussion it took to settle on that phrasing. Or maybe there is precedent?
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To me this sounds like a bad misunderstanding of regression and your use case. If you need a system capable of predicting within an interval, you should use something different, for example you could use Bayesian regression with a prior that only has support on your permitted domain.

You very much should be choosing models that actually map to the physical reality of your problem domain, and not using something that is fundamentally unphysical for your use case, but attempting to correct it with hand made business logic.
You can try to discredit it all you want, but it's important that people see them.

The emails show that Joe Biden was aware of his family's
cash for influence scheme with shady companies overseas in China, Ukraine, and elsewhere..

What we also know now is that he was actively participating that scheme by having meetings that assisted his family's activities.

What I find so troubling about these emails, which very much look to be Hunter Biden's, is that it warped America's foreign policy. For example, in China, where Joe Biden was the point man for Obama, he went easy on China militarizing the South China Sea and he went easy on them for ripping of Intellectual Property.

In other words, China did well, American lost out, and the Biden family enriched themselves to the tune of millions of dollars.
They can be less practical but they can also be more practical. The only autonomous sailboats in the world use solid wingsails, but with a different control scheme than traditional sailors are accustomed to. This allows them to be operated without any of the complexity or danger that you'll see in an AC50.
I didn't know about Sapir–Whorf hypothesis or any argument on it, but what I know is that the flow of information during sentence construction is totally different. You cannot use the same flow in English to construct natural-sounding Japanese sentence, and vice versa. The amount of supplement information alone is different.

A quick example is that my mother tongue doesn't have tense, and I still misuse tense all the time in English when I am careless simply because I am not used to incorporating time information during sentence creation when the time information is not an important information.

It does not necessarily change your cognition or world view, but it does change what information you are actively looking for/collecting.
Agreed.

Leaky abstractions means you have the wrong mental model.

Abstractions (attempt to) hide complexity. Worst cases are black boxes.

Mental models attempt to clarify how something works, to make it easier to reason how a thing works.
https://www.thebalance.com/states-without-a-sales-tax-319330...
This is a shame, I had many years of fantastic experiences with them (running 100's of machines) up till about 2010 when I left a role & have been using AWS since.
It would make sense if cells were only interested in talking about certain topics. In that case we could simulate the evolution of their communication and ignore what is causing the communication.

There should be an upper bound to the complexity of their communication because of game theory. Tit-for-tat only supports an error rate of up to 9 percent, so at the upper bound cells will need to differentiate.

This is a lot of domain knowledge to accelerate the computation by, provided the theory is correct.
In my view, it's the person who is able to understand the business problem the customer is trying to solve, then evalute if the problem is something you or your company can and want to solve. If the problem is something your company want to solve, provide the technical evidences during the due diligence process to the prospects that you can solve their problems. In my case, this also bridged nicely to help out the existing customers to get new things done quickly.
What's wrong with the king's English?
You don't know the number of people who die who were infected if you didn't test them. I think your argument is only valid when the death rate is the same amongst tested and untested people.
"Essentially", no. A and B are your own fabricated strawman arguments.

You say "you don't find valuable". Its not just me. People, in general, don't find cryptocurrency valuable. Nothing backs them up, and besides that you cannot widely use them in the clearnet/sneakernet.

What happened is it hasn't replaced the default currencies such as USD and EUR. Its been mainly adopted by criminals/crooks (e.g. drugs trafficking), tax evaders, people who live in banana republics (hyperinflation), speculators, and a bunch of libertarians/preppers.

So next time you say "you don't find it valuable", please realize you're talking to the vast majority of honest, casual people in the world. Of the above mentioned groups, the _only_ group I have respect for using cryptocurrency, is the people who live in banana republics (such as Venezuela).
What does an impartial website look like? How does one have a website that sees no particular group as more correct than any other?
Is that significant enough to justify the instruction?
Godwin's arguing that the whole argument is moot, because Internet providers aren't functioning as editors, just conduits.

From the article:

"That brings us back to Thomas, who adopted wholesale the conservatives’ read of Section 230 in his statement this week that accompanied the court’s list of appeals that it has chosen not to hear. (One of the cases the court turned down raised a Section 230 issue.) He begins by embracing a particular idiosyncratic version of the platform/publisher distinction (although he uses the word distributor instead of platform):

Thomas> Traditionally, laws governing illegal content distinguished between publishers or speakers (like newspapers) and distributors (like newsstands and libraries). Publishers or speakers were subjected to a higher standard because they exercised editorial control. They could be strictly liable for transmitting illegal content. But distributors were different. They acted as a mere conduit without exercising editorial control, and they often transmitted far more content than they could be expected to review. Distributors were thus liable only when they knew (or constructively knew) that content was illegal."

Thomas' argument is essentially repeating what all Internet providers have been saying for my lifetime: "Don't shoot the messenger, we're just the tubes. We don't exercise discretion over the content." The courts looked favorably on that argument for practical reasons. Back then though, providers were typically trying to avoid censoring, due to the fact they were hosting objectionable, possibly illegal content. These same providers are now arguing that the unbearable costs of censorship that they can not possibly withstand for illegal content... well, they in fact can manage to bear for voluntarily censoring legal content. And that particular legal, political content in this case is actually mandated with equal access provisions under election law by all other mediums.
You are correct. Facebook claimed it's a bombshell too close to the elections so they need to verify with 3rd party "fact checkers".
uncertain for the downvotes, care to share which date you see in those numbers..?
Probably. 60M gallon payload is roughly 1.43M barrels, assuming ~$42/barrel market price the fair market value to compensate Venezuela for the oil would be just a few dollars shy of $60 million. Throw in a little extra for assuming possession of the vessel and towing it to a ship breaking facility in Brownesville, Texas.
Regulation has already lessened ship sulphur emissions a lot. And it is being tightened in other ways too.
https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0176-buyers-remorse-wh...

> The FTC’s Cooling-Off Rule gives you a 3-day right to cancel a sale ...

Doesn't feel like it could cover Tesla sales, however, since "made entirely online" and "automobiles ... sold at temporary locations" both fall under exemptions.

Anachronistic exemptions, honestly.

Some other options:

https://www.moneyunder30.com/buyers-remorse-laws
One of the authors here: it should actually automatically detect your background color and adjust its theme to it. Alternatively you can pick a different style with `-s`, or even write your own one!
This is all true, but COVID hysteria has taken hold across the entire world, and HN is no exception unfortunately.

You are being reflexively down voted because people view any comparison to Influenza as illegitimate, not realizing that you are making a broader point about risk management and attribution of blame for infection as opposed to saying that SARS-2 and Influenza are literally the same viruses.

Personally I find it fascinating that I was never told it was my fault if I gave someone the flu in the course of both of us living our normal lives, but if I go to a grocery store and an elderly person does too and they get COVID-19 from me (imagine in this hypothetical there is no doubt that I gave them the virus) then somehow it’s my fault and I’m guilty of any harm that befalls then.

Incredibly dangerous precedent. I hope people see where it leads. And I hope they learn from the history of public health, such as when “public health officials” used to shut down gay bars “for the greater good”.
Had to look them up.

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

Excellent reputation they have: "The company has been described as the country's largest and most notorious patent trolling company, the ultimate patent troll, and the most hated company in tech."
Curious. I found it extremely informative, particularly after Semantic Information Retrieval (“We just need more memory” No, that is not enough) and another book by feignbaum and feldman https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/computers-and-thought-1.
How did you come by this knowledge?
> Except truth is hardly an out there objectivity

Except truth by definition is objective. Opinions and beliefs are subjective. The earth is spherically shaped - this is not a subjective opinion, it is objective truth.

> including utopian ideas of its attainability with likes of “fact checks”

Aren't "fact checks" part of the free discussion? If a leader is spewing lots of falsehoods then it's up to the 4th estate to fact check him/her.
This can get pretty pedantic. Where do you draw the line between what is the blog generator and the tools required to do it when counting the number of lines of code? One could easily argue in this case you might want to be counting the lines of code in pandoc, not this bash script.

That said, I do think this is the way to go, using a popular and generic tool (notably that you do not have to maintain) to accomplish a specific task. And more importantly, composing utilities together in a succinct and efficient way.

Also, if you used semicolons, or xargs with a pipe, you could make this one line :) newlines can be pretty arbitrary, I wonder if there's a better measurement for simplicity, like branches or statements/expressions.
> First, RS has informed us that they're migrating some volumes and that'll require downtime.

I'm not trying to blame you, just trying to figure out what happened.

Reading October 1st message, it didn't sound like they were going to clone and migrate it, but that they were letting you know something you could do to avoid the below work (which you didn't quote).

What was the description of the work?

Did you initiate a clone and migrate?

All storage will fail at some point, this storage failed during a maintenance window that was advertised two weeks out.

I'm somewhat surprised they are able to declare defeat in less than 24 hours, I would expect moving the drives to another host would at least be able to recover the data, but I don't know how they designed their system, and some systems are more byzantine than others.
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This law only applies to purchases where you cannot test the product. E.g. ordering by mail, phone, online, etc.
Cloudflare fixed HTTP/2 vulnerability
> Ugh. The mind of a narcissist on full display here.

Is this ad-hominem really necessary? The author didn't make character attacks on anyone, I don't see why you feel the need to do so.

> You must be some bottom-feeding moron who doesn't understand that [Unicorn Co]'s valuation just rose 4x YoY.

Contrast this to what the author actually said:

"Optimizing learning over money early in your career.

Since I left Apple, its stock has almost tripled while Uber's stock has been... I probably would be better off financially had I stayed. However, what I learned at Uber is way more valuable to me, given my career aspirations."

I'm genuinely surprised that the HN community thinks a toxic comment like this is upvote-worthy
> AWS and Azure might not be better, but they're definitely cheaper.

I can't speak for AWS as we don't use it but as a former client of Rackspace and a current client of Azure I can assure you that Azure is better and cheaper by a country mile.
My 1972 Dodge came with a "transistorized" ignition. It was one transistor!

(I replaced it with an MSD ignition box.)
In retail, you know that the handful of garbage people who abuse the return policies ruin it for everybody else and eventually become why good companies ultimately go from having a very loose and customer friendly policy to a strict return policy.

I’d fault tesla for not replacing the first policy with something that protects them and the customer in some way though. If customers can’t test drive their actual car before the purchase that makes it really tough to not have some kind of customer friendly return policy, whether it’s conditional or unconditional I'm not sure. But I think with their business model they would need some way to assure people when they buy.
Just a friendly reminder to any neutral readers: Hacker News is hilariously anti-Tesla and you should keep this in mind while reading.

Yesterday was a big day for Tesla - massive range increases across all models, including the brand-new Model Y, new interior and features for the Model 3, price drop for Model S. The top 500 posts on Hacker News contain the following unique Tesla stories:

* Tesla cancels it's no-questions return policy

* Tesla is against Right-To-Repair bill in MA

* How to fool Tesla's autopilot with images on the road

* Tesla has water cut off at Berlin factory construction site

Nor should you expect to find much positive sentiment in thread comments. This level of lopsided negativity forms a feedback loop - there's little incentive for someone with a positive sentiment to expose themselves to this sort of negativity, so they stay quiet or avoid the thread. This causes the thread to become more negative, and provides even less incentive for the next person to write something. This repeats until only people who wish to be trolls or contrarians remain.
Amen. We moved to Azure after a DDOS attack which took out our Rackspace instances and we have never looked back.
If memory serves me well, 6 or 7 years ago a former microsoft employee made such a device. It ran on solar power and had just enough power to melt the wings of mosquitoes. I wanted to buy it ever since I saw the prototype, but I dont think it was ever released.
Probably something to do with the liability of autonomous targeting and firing of high power laser pulses outside.
This seems like a nice project. I was wondering about the backstory of the name Jami, which I associate with a great fifteenth-century Persian poet (جامی)—really one of the towering figures in the millennium-long tradition of classical Persian poetry.[0] But according to the project website,[1] they took the name from a Swahili word for "community,"[2] which is in turn derived from Arabic (جميع or perhaps جامع). Sorry to go off on a tangent!

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jami
[1]: https://jami.net/help/
[2]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jamii
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_loss