skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Risk is measured by volatility, and Bitcoin is currently 5x more volatile than Tesla stock. To me, that’s risky.

https://www.buybitcoinworldwide.com/volatility-index/

https://www.alphaquery.com/stock/TSLA/volatility-option-stat...
Anyone else notice the language in statements from companies like this sound like something you'd expect to hear from the government? Give me a break. Its ironic that a company built on top of orchestrating value where there is none elicits the same tactics in every other aspect of their existence. Im afraid regulatory capture will not be coming however, broh
Thank you for recommending.
Both Alec Guinness and Gary Oldman borrowed from le Carre when performing his character.

Oldman's performance is on film, so it's not quite as subtle and slow as Guinness's but he captures the "Home is is where Smiley is least comfortable"-aspect rather wall.
> All of which are democracies, and were dominant and stable with strong institutions.

They were authoritarian when they developed their economy though. You could still argue that singapore is still somewhat authoritarian.

Democracy had nothing to do with japan, korea, singapore, taiwan, etc getting wealthy. Actually, in regards to korea and taiwan, they curtailed democracy to develop their economies. Democracy was an impediment to their economic development.
1. Your lack of sympathy comes from false generalizations about cyclist behavior. You tend to remember the egregious behavior and likely give a pass to drivers doing more dangerous (although common) stuff.

2. Drivers commit as many, if not more traffic violations than cyclists—and the consequences are much greater.

3. Your opinion would almost certainly change if you had to commute by bicycle.
All I know is I've been in an Audi and the center console had so much unnecessary stuff going on. It's a stereotype for a reason German stuff is performant and precise but over engineered
Where can I apply?
What bs! The author has no obligation to provide mobile web services ಠ_ಠ.
What you failed to mention is that in the preceding 4 years the stock price was flat despite Tesla growing revenues 50% a year and improving every other business metric.

What really happen was: for several years Tesla was executing very well but faced unprecedented amounts of FUD. That kept (many but not all) investors away.

But you can only fool people for so long.

Investors finally realized that none of the FUD of imminent bankruptcy etc. is happening and things flipped.

That was the reason for the 10x run up of the stock price within 1 year.

Not Tesla is fairly valued based on modest assumption about the future 5 years out and doing DCF (Discounted Cash Flow analysis).
I think we forget that while “engineering” is about maximizing the gain for a given investment of resources, it can be stated another way as building the least amount of bridge that (reliably) satisfies the requirements.

Abstraction can be used to evoke category theoretical things, but more often it’s used to avoid making a decision. It’s fear based. It’s overbuilding the bridge to avoid problems we don’t know or understand. And that is not Engineering.

I find sometimes that it helps me to think of it as a fighter or martial artist might. It is only necessary to not be where the strike is, when the strike happens. Anything more might take you farther from your goal. Cut off your options.

Or a horticulturist: here is a list of things this plant requires, and they cannot all happen at once, so we will do these two now, and assuming plans don’t change, we will do the rest next year. But plans always change, and sometimes for the better.

In Chess, in Go, in Jazz, in coaching gymnastics, even in gun safety, there are things that could happen. You have to be in the right spot in case they do, but you hope they don’t. And if they don’t, you still did the right thing. Just enough, but not too much.

What is hard for outsiders to see is all the preparation for actions that never happen. We talk about mindfulness as if it hasn’t been there all along, in every skilled trade, taking up the space that looks like waste. People learn about the preparation and follow through, instead of waiting. Waiting doesn’t look impressive.
Because those people would lose their jobs, possibly do jail time, and possibly the story would never have broken in the first place if reporters were required to always give up their sources in the article. Usually they do vetting or it's people they've worked with before and they trust.
Because people on the internet are pointing out two things that are commonly compared, and then adding further details to argue why they should not be compared.
Blatant anti-chinese sentiment even crept into campaign ads for the Biden: https://twitter.com/AndrewBatesNC/status/1251585333696835587....
They totally could, but honestly if companies could get their employees to do even that they'd probably be a lot more efficient, for better or worse.
I just left a job due in large part to terrible knowledge management. This is lovely. Thank you.
There's also "telling everyone your real name", "believing you can survive that", "not showing up to either the government- or court-ordered sexual harassment seminar", alcoholism, and "unwillingness to fight international conspiracies that will severely impact the United Kingdom but happen to be headquartered in a drab location".
The towing capacity could be handy for occasional use, but it will dramatically impact vehicle range, not to mention makes recharging a huge pain (public charge stations don't usually make provision for trailer parking)
I probably would've bought a Haynes manual for my ten year old car if youtube weren't so good at summoning videos showing me how to replace and repair various items.

Last one I bought was for the previous car (2000 model year).
That does not sound like a "who watches the watchers" but that the 'regulated' banks were found to be sly with the existing watchers, meaning the current process was ineffective (there is no bite to the regulation)
indeed, this is amazing
I've also seen the opposite. Leads who push the minimal features to the point that IMO the product would fail.

I don't know what good examples would be. maybe a word processor without support for bold and italics. Maybe a code compiler with no error messages. Maybe an email client with no threading.

Does a word processor need every feature of Word? No. But does it need more than notepad? Yes!

Basically you get one chance to make a good first impression. If the customers and press label your product a certain way it will take a ton of effort to change the inertia of anchor you've given them.
Shines a light on whose side apple is on. They are on the side of the money. I don't know anything about the law but on any moral basis this is fraud. There simply isn't informed consent on the part of the person paying. Apple support the fraud to detriment of their "customer" who they have sold to the fraudsters.

There are still some people about who don't think that apple are horrendous but it's a less common view than it was.
Been using this for a while, same situation as above between a MBP and a Windows PC - has been working fairly well!
What are these modest assumptions?
"In observed traffic these HTTP response bodies attempt to appear like benign XML related to .NET assemblies, but command data is actually spread across the many GUID and HEX strings present. Commands are extracted from HTTP response bodies by searching for HEX strings using the following regular expression: "\{[0-9a-f-]{36}\}"|"[0-9a-f]{32}"|"[0-9a-f]{16}". Command data is spread across multiple strings that are disguised as GUID and HEX strings. All matched substrings in the response are filtered for non HEX characters, joined together, and HEX-decoded. The first DWORD value shows the actual size of the message, followed immediately with the message, with optional additional junk bytes following. The extracted message is single-byte XOR decoded using the first byte of the message, and this is then DEFLATE decompressed. The first character is an ASCII integer that maps to the JobEngine enum, with optional additional command arguments delimited by space characters."

Dang, that's pretty sneaky. This is one heck of a hack.
Given that, according to your profile, you're an appellate lawyer, and the more crime there is, the more work there is for lawyers generally (though maybe not for you personally) that seems like an instance of

>“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

Upton Sinclair ~ 1934

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/21810-it-is-difficult-to-ge...
I'm not worried about the hangouts for the already converted. They can, and already do, use their own invite-only forums and encrypted chat systems for that.

I'm worried about radicalizing the moderates, which is comparable to spam and malware, because (by definition) it's not content that the moderate was seeking out, even if it is tangentially related to the content that they were originally looking for.
You might be on to something. I work remote... Already in a small mountain town but in my new-ish neighborhood the houses are crowded together. We've considered buying more remote land but the zoning codes in most CO counties require you to finish a building in 1 year and prohibit RVs until a house is finished (to deter people from doing exactly what we would do: parking an RV on your 10 acres). So: if we could rent a similar setup once in a while for a month or two that would have great appeal. However in my situation I would NOT want other cabins, bathrooms, or firepits any closer than 300 or 400 feet away. If I want to hear my neighbors while i'm coding I can just stay at home.
I get the impression that engagement on zig is picking up but not yet at the level where a huge number of volunteers are there to pitch in.
> Colombia seems okay though.

Depends highly on where you go, but then again, that probably goes for every country. Even so, if you go make sure you have a local person you can rely on, and it really helps if you speak Spanish.
Honestly bicycles belong in their own dedicated spaces. As a driver I don't want them on the road and as a pedestrian I don't want them on the sidewalks. Bike lanes are a start but we need dedicated bike infrastructure.
Two stones fuel debate over when America’s first settlers arrived
>>...obsolete tech like SCADA...

>...wow. you're aware that "obsolete tech" is what basically all critical infrastructure uses, right? The world is bigger than FAANG webapps...

Wow! 2010 called. They want their ideas about what makes the world go back.[0]

That's just crazy talk. Everyone knows that hardware has been completely deprecated. It's all clouds. Mostly cumulo-nimbus, in fact.

Power plants, chip fabs, heavy machinery, machine tools, factory automation and logistics systems are completely obsolete and never, ever used anymore.

Because there's cloudiness, hardware is just a waste of money and space, which is why we can stack 600MB of js libraries on top of each other so we can have the browser render an opaque 40x40px box.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

(Please refer to the above link reference to resolve any confusion.)
> Bitcoin is a scarce asset

Bitcoins themselves are available in limited quantity, but new cryptocurrencies are created all the time.

> with little to no execution risk.

You've got to be kidding me! Cryptocurrencies are notoriously difficult to even store safely.
brain is also different everyday, and after age of 40 or so it losses 0.2% of mass per year.
Easy - I will take it as soon as it becomes available.

But that's a trick answer. I live in the antipodes. They seem putting the covid vaccines are going the same validation process they put every vaccine through, and that takes time. So an antipode YES is about the same as a USA I WILL WAIT, but with a big implied dose of I trust my government to get it right thrown in.

Gawd, I feel so smug.
This type of game monetization essentially equates to slot machines with no monetary reward possible -- but it's otherwise nearly the exact same thing, and it's intentionally engineered to be that way. I'm an indie game dev and I really hate that the industry has become this way.

I also am upset that nearly all sports franchise games have become solely micro-transaction driven (ie Madden, Nascar, etc).

I definitely will do everything I can to prevent my kids from falling into games with these types of 'reward' systems -- and I'll personally only be making games if I'm able to do so without resorting to slot machine monetization tactics. Once it gets to the point that there's no other way to monetize, then even [the 'bad'] big tech starts looking like the lesser of the evils. =\

Government regulation is absolutely needed IMO, and I'm generally not a "regulate it" type guy.
If Windows didn't autoupdate without user intervention, the number of hacks and breaches would be thousands of times higher than it is today. Ordinary people do not update if they're not forced to; it's unpleasant but true.
Looks like it's closely correlated with the levenshtein distance (number of single character differences).
Its about time MicroStrategy just floated off their business and concentrated on buying bitcoin.
If that was "reigning in", I'd hate to see saber-rattling.
The trainer versions go in and out of Mather fairly often. I assume they're based at Beale AFB and just use Mather for short training hops.
Well not sure if they have good editing either. I saw the first episode of Tehran the other day, two noticeable errors. Passengers are on a commercial airline, but on the first outside shot it looks like a smaller corporate jet. Later when it lands it looks like a commercial jet.

Later the same plane takes off from Tehran and there is a Southwest airlines jet in the background, like its supposed to be Tehran, not Phoenix.
One hardly needs to be an aviation expert to notice these things. How could a well funded production miss two thing in the first episode of a show?
The representation of the empty list does not change, it's still an IntList object with a null Head field.

The downvotes probably come from my blatant disregard of the real-world performance in the search of what I considered the real take-away from the article.
The #1 argument for abortion rights.
Ask HN: Can you borrow Googles search algorithm?
Or do I have to start from scratch? Maybe relating to NLP.
I'm surprised how many of the comments on that page blame the parent. I think Apple should issue refunds for people who just change their mind about if a purchase is worth it or not.
Even if that were true, that doesn't rank even in the top 20 reasons why I dislike cars.
My 7 year old son started playing Tom Hero (and Tom Gold Run) since his friend plays it on her Fire Tablet. I installed it and agreed to let him play it before I realized the sheer number of ads and psychological manipulation in it. Want a power up? Watch this ad. Want to continue? Watch this other ad. Seriously f-ck these game companies that prey on mental weakness, especially those of children, for a quick buck. I have had numerous arguments with my son, so he's very aware of the ads and that they're trying to trick him, but not all parents will even know what's going on with these games. And he still falls for them. How can he not?

For the record, I would've been more than happy to pay Outfit7, the racket behind this game, a sum of money to just play the game without ads. That's entirely reasonable to just allow me to buy the game. But nope. I haven't seen that option.

Apple Arcade, which is the antidote and claims to not have any ads or in-app purchases, is like a cigarette company selling nicotine patches to get you off your smoking addiction. Every time Apple claims to give a sh-t about addiction, you can see how manipulative and scammy the top 100 games are on the App Store. Curation, my ass.

How are more Apple employees not put off by this stuff?
Steve Jobs made a similar point a number of times based on his experience as CEO of Pixar:

> Hollywood's really different than Silicon Valley. And neither understands the other at all. People up here think being creative is some guys in their late 20s and early 30s sitting around old couches drinking beer thinking up jokes. It couldn't be further from the truth. The creative process is just as disciplined as the technical process; it requires just as much talent. And yet people in Hollywood think technology is only as deep as something you buy. There's no technical culture in Hollywood, they couldn't attract and retain good engineers to save their life, because they're second class citizens down there. Just like creative people are second class citizens in Silicon Valley.

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,32207-6...
Not OP but I've been working with JS for years.

You'll need to learn Vanilla JS before diving into a library like React, Anular, Vue, etc. At the end of the day, you're still writing JavaScript.

You could get a job with just JS knowledge, but you'll have a lot more luck with a popular framework/library stack.
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PostgreSQL's Genetic Query Optimizer
I don't mean to be glib, and I am rapidly hemorrhaging rep points here by continuing, but the players will always be more athletic than the referees.

(And there will always be more of them because the latter’s existence is derivative of the former.)

P.S. Welcome to hn.
I'm not condoning it, but you might want to understand why cyclists typically run red lights and stop signs. The reason is the top most dangerous spots for a cyclist are 1) sitting at an intersection and 2) passing though an intersection. If I cross an intersection starting from non-zero momentum I can cross it in 2 seconds. If I start from zero it take more than 5. Now I'm not just going to go through an intersection without checking, but I'm going to slow down, check, and go, because that's what's safest for me. This is what I see the vast majority of people do. Now I've seen people not do that and just blast through, but I can't count more than 5 in my entire life that have done that. You know what happens when you do fully come to a stop and the intersection is clear? Cars honk at you. Cars get real close. People yell about how you aren't supposed to be on the road and threaten you. I'll take my chances with the intersection, considering I've been chased by some of these people on more than one occasion.

This again comes back to the fact that cyclists are neither pedestrians nor motorized vehicles. It isn't a surprise that they want to be treated like cyclists and not be in that binary classification. It is only hypocrisy if you use the wrong classifications. If you're really trying to understand bike safety try riding in their shoes for a month or two. You'll start to get it real fast.
For those that aren't familiar, Dubsmash is (arguably) the closest thing to a TikTok competitor there is in the startup world. This is definitely a big, interesting signal on Reddit's part.
As a teenager, I picked out a copy of The Little Drummer Girl from a used book store quite by chance. I expected a simple spy action story, but what I read was a deep and anguishing examination of the personal impact of geopolitics on a someone’s identity.

If you’re new to Le Carré and want to tip your toe in, I’d recommend watching The Night Manager mini-series.

For someone who already enjoys Le Carré, it would be a shame to overlook A Perfect Spy, which is his most autobiographical and soul-wrenching work. Both the book and 1987 mini-series are excellent.
Pluralsight Enters into Agreement to Be Acquired by Vista Equity for $3.5 B
There was a post remarking about how China did not need a vaccine to get covid under control. Facebook flagged it as false information. They linked to an article which talked extensively about how China used lockdowns, contact tracing, masks, hand washing, and other things which were clearly not vaccines to get covid under control. Most of the vaccine talk was about anti-vaxxers and how Chinese weren't like that. There was a short blurb about how Chinese vaccines were still in phase 3 trials with several hundred thousand people given the vaccine. That's not going to make a big dent in California let alone China. None of the articles the "fact checking" article linked to even mentioned vaccines when talking about how China got it under control.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

But even ordinary claims require ordinary evidence.

The burden of proof is on the claimant, not the defendant. I believe that's the point parent was addressing.
Honestly I've never had a car be that patient with me. They've always honked and fairly often yelled.
Here’s the FireEye write up: https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2020/12/evasive...
Software ends up complex since it attempts to model the real world which is oh so complex
5.10 is the first time I've ever used a release candidate kernel to get some of my code to work. Specifically non blocking pidfd's.

Traditionally processes have reaped dead children by waiting on them, the problem with this is it's a synchronous operation that blocks a thread per child.

The only historical non-blocking solution was to listen for signals. Signals are great and all, except that the kernel will sometimes (unavoidably) merge multiple signals together, preventing you from getting a list of dead children. This is problematic if you want to know exactly which children died.

Linux 5.3 introduced a third system to listen for dead children, pidfd. It's a file descriptor which you can pass to epoll to know when a specific child dies. This is great, but it didn't yet support O_NONBLOCK, which meant that to use it in asynchronous (rust) code we need to create an extra thread which just sits around listening for it.

Linux 5.10 brings the ability to make this fd non blocking, so we can integrate this seamlessly into async event loops. Here's some code of mine that does that: https://github.com/gmorenz/async-transpiled-xv6-shell/blob/m...

Thanks to Christian Brauner, Josh Triplett, and Oleg Nesterov: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
The upper bound is a best case analysis. In the best case, I can choose “1” to be my password, and no one will ever guess it.

In the worst case, we assume that the attacker has done their home work and knows the algorithm by which the password was generated, but not the content of this particular password. So, knowing the algorithm, what can the attacker exploit that would help them discover the contents of this password in the shortest possible time?

I submit that the worst case analysis is really the only one we care about.
> You are misunderstanding what "personal" means here.

[citation needed]

Otherwise, a "personal project" is a project I own.
Phrenemies is a great free, browser game you can play with friends
Apple refused to refund the $16,000.

This sounds like it’s time to regulate Apple.

Call your local congressman and get a new law hammered out.
Yes, but you can plug your Tesla into non-Tesla chargers if you buy an adapter. Doesn't work the other way around (and for many of those 3rd party networks they have the Tesla connector anyway AFAIK).
Yup agree 100%. I don't see how this is ANY different from gambling. It needs to be regulated as such. Although isn't most gambling regulation more about avoiding cheating, rather than actually reducing addiction?
I think he and Apple have more agency here than you're giving them credit for.
Saying that you are not being overconfident with that level of confidence seems like a red flag.

If COVID-19 is primarily driven by superspreader events that are largely not happening anymore in the 2nd wave that is causing case increases across nearly every jurisdiction in the world I have doubts.