skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Toyota, Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, BMW, Honda, General Motors, Ford, and Nissan combined have almost a trillion dollars worth of debt. So while their market cap is $629B, their value is north of $1.5T.

Think of it like a house. If you pay me $200K for my house plus assume my $300K mortgage, then you say that the value of my house was $500K.

When comparing values of companies, use the "enterprise value" metric, not the "market cap" metric. Enterprise value metrics will still show an overpriced Tesla, just slightly less overpriced.
Oh boy. This is exactly how lotteries work too.

“People keep saying that lotteries are ‘a tax on people who can’t do math’, but if you pay attention there are lottery winners every day. There’s no better time to play the lottery!”

Look at venture capital, since they’re the ones that invest in every one of these VC-backed funds. Most funds don’t make money and of those that do, exceedingly few beat the S&P 500.

The examples you’re giving are a tiny sliver of startups and at this point are not startups.
And then certain people suffering from some variant of Stockholm Syndrome wonder what other people see in so-much-more expensive Macs.

It's the fucking OS, that even with its problems (Spotlight has gone downhill on macOS too) is still a generally more pleasant experience than the other 2 options.
How do you practice / prepare for live coding interviews?

Create a leetcode account, and practice talking through the problem and your solution. Give yourself 15 minutes to submit a solution. Start with super basic "reverse a string" type questions and go from there.

Once that feels natural, start interviewing at companies- whoever will interview you- take their call. Ideally start with companies you have no desire to actually work for, this should lower the stress / stakes of getting it wrong.

Wash, rinse, repeat until you start getting offers. Then target companies you actually want to work for.
Bob Wehadababyitsaboy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JxhTnWrKYs
Surely you mean chkdsk /r. Oh wait I forgot IT got hijacked by fashion and everyone uses meme tier apple.
Science is not as black and white as it's made out to be. In this particular case, the observation seems to have been made with scientific rigor, so this part is definitely scientific. As for the parts of the causal chain that are not fully understood, these will be subject to further inquiry. It would be fair to call those parts "a mystery", but that doesn't imply them having any "mystical" properties. "Mystical" to me would mean "fundamentally outside the realm of scientific inquiry", not just "we have not gotten around to it yet".
Very nice and well executed. One suggestion if the dev is watching, there needs to be some logic to prevent a fruit and bomb overlapping each other entirely making cutting the fruit impossible. I don't remember having this issue with the original game.
Is this game a hidden crypto-miner? (diep.io)
I opened the console, and saw scripts called pow.js (http://diep.io/pow.js) and pow-worker.js running and using a decent amount of memory (about the same as the game itself). Can someone more well-versed than me in detecting such scripts directly confirm or invalidate my suspicions?
"Don't tell me what you think, tell me what you have in your portfolio." Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game

If you're convinced Tesla is vastly overpriced, you should prove it by shorting the stock or buying put options.

Betting against Elon Musk has been a terrible move up until now, but if you really think the stock is overvalued, you're probably better off simply not owning it. If you're still concerned about its inclusion in the S&P 500, you can buy an S&P 500 index fund and short just enough Tesla stock to exclude it, or buy a different index fund that doesn't include it.
Er, yes, but...

Everything in Economics/Business/Transactions can be thought of as having two separate dimensions:

1) Intrinsic Value

2) Perceptual Value (that is, all value that is not intrinsic)

We might call #2 "Speculative Value" or value that can change relative to outside circumstances or conditions, and #1 value that cannot so easily change, perhaps "Fixed Value" or "Constant Value".

Now, if your idea that Tesla stock is overpriced -- well, I would politely submit that "the market thinks otherwise".

The market, at the time a measurement is taken, represents the exact parity value of the Intrinsic and Perceptual (at that point in time) values, or the constant (underlying) and varying (speculative) values combined.

The market is always exactly correct when it makes a price determination, at the exact point in time when that price determination was made.

In other words, if you know the fixed value of something (e.g., company earnings and projected profits over the next 20 years), you can figure out the varying, speculative value of something by simple subtraction of that from the market price.

Thus you can determine that Tesla, at this point in time, has a huge amount of speculative value.

Maybe your bet is that Tesla is going to go down in the future, that some of that speculative value will be lost, and maybe that's true, but to advance a personal opinion against a market in terms of determinating the speculative value of something at the present point in time is foolhardy, because by definition the market is always right, because it's always the best measure of that speculative value.

Now, there are other factors.

One important factor is how much money is being injected or taken out of the money supply. When a lot of money is put in -- then stock prices naturally rise. That's because in addition to the intrinsic and speculative values of a stock, one must also consider a stock's value relative to the money supply.

A positive earning stock should (if all other economic factors were equal, but they aren't) rise naturally when more money enters the money supply (it isn't rising, it's keeping pace with inflation minimally, and maximally, it's outstripping the inflation curve.)

Opinion: Tesla may rise for a few years to come... but watch out(!) when when there's less money in the money supply...

...Although, when that happens, Tesla's (and other similarly high-performing stock) might be the equivalent of the proverbial "canary in a coal mine" -- that is, a marker or warning of things to come...
Wow a man lost 276 pounds by eating nothing for a year. It's amazing what the human body can do. He's also living proof that you really can't go wrong with dieting, if you're obese. Eating nothing is theoretically the worst diet possible (aside from maybe eating poison) so it's like it's like whatever crazy thing works for you, just do it.
> It's really sad to hear that Acorn Computers is described as "obscure" nowadays...

Commodore is probably obscure to many people nowadays, but it was probably quite influential to many people of a certain generation.

The universe moves on.
Anyone remembers "the web is dead" articles by Wired from a few years ago?
If I had to be bucketed into one of these categories it would be the sociopath one. But, I've done it without doing the things described by the author as necessary, and seeing those who have tries to work in that way eventually fail.
Vtubers: Why do these popular streamers look like anime characters?
No, a monopoly that consistently provides extremely low prices due to economies of scale helps consumers while harming competitors. Unfortunately, while that’s perfectly acceptable it’s very much the exception not the rule.
Yep. Most people do not know the primary cause of drug abuse is AvPD, which, like covid, is not within the control of the drug abuser. In theory a therapist and support group can help, but unlike going to the hospital, one has to choose to grow and improve to get help from a therapist.

One of the symptoms of AvPD is the avoidance of this kind of growth, making it an unfortunate and challenging problem. Going to a therapist isn't enough. There needs to be a cultural change, so that we all know (including those suffering) that there is a way out.
You want the _optics_ of working hard and being nice, without being a pushover, and with seeking opportunities to advance yourself. A sociopath is a master manipulator in this regard.

The easiest way to obtain the optics of this, is to actually embody it. (much easier than cultivating sociopathic tendencies) The danger is that you over-nice, and end up a sucker.

The sociopath works because he can appear to be the conscientious achiever without doing the hard part. It's possible, but better to just be the conscientious achiever for your own sake.
1988. [1] That even precedes MP3.

1: https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-H.261-198811-S/en
I have a very different experience. And so do many of my friends.

Again there’s always winners and losers. I didn’t say everyone is a winner. But the odds are no where near “random lottery odds” especially if you aren’t just randomly picking a company to work for and have a clue why the company could be successful.
I have not seen one last very long without the battery swelling and mashing the keybiard / threatening to kill the user I sure wish I lived on your planet.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6882744
I mean, while I somewhat agree with you, whether you conclude the owners are the Houthis or the Yemeni government, it doesn't really matter that much if a giant spill occurs, the damage will have been done, and trying to get something out of either the Houthis or the govt will be squeezing blood from a stone.
that's exactly how the terms are defined in the article.
They will charge you for it if you ever cancel service. (And they'll charge the full retail price when it was new, not the current value.)

Return their modem, get a receipt, double check the serial number on the receipt matches the equipment you returned, and save that receipt. You may need it if you ever move or drop Comcast in the future.
Taleb is an interesting character.50% of the time he is a petulant moron, 50% of the time he is a very perceptive observer and describer of human follies.
Tesla's profit margins in the most recent quarter are typical for the industry, ~20% gross, ~10% EBITDA, ~2-3% after tax net margin. So their profit share of the industry is similar to their market share (i.e. very small).
He didn't say that bus riders are less intelligent. If you talk to a random person they are pretty dumb, and you find random people at busses. There isn't more to it than that.

Personally I experienced the average person when I did my military duty. Most people were forced to attend so you got a good slice of what society looks like. And yes, the average person there wasn't that bright, the discussions I heard there was the dumbest I've ever experienced.
That new motor that Tesla uses is pretty amazing, and must at least be difficult since almost no other companies use it and instead just deal with reduced range and efficiency.
> Municipal broadband is an interesting idea but physical infrastructure inevitably needs maintenance

Which is paid for by a levy charged to (Layer 3) ISPs, which is passed onto customers at the end of the fibre.
Localised pay implies that the same employee is worth more to the company when they are in a high COL city than a low COL area (regardless of whether salary is determined by value-add or market rate). How can that be the case when all employees are remote?
A will is the best thing we have to a "framework" because that term implies a series of logical steps and paradigms that can be followed to accomplish a goal. What you have here is the failure of the existing framework that is your existence. a will is the gracefullyCloseConn() of your life and until science has a solution for this, it's really all we have to say what we want done should something this awful befall us.
Everyone has an opinion. I'd encourage you not to just accept others. Cairns have a long tradition in hiking and at their most basic are a simple wave to a fellow wanderer in remote areas. Dark Souls has the same concept as a built-in game mechanic with it's tagging.

I don't build them myself because I don't have the patience (and dogs tend to make sitting still problematic :P), but I appreciate most every one I see for what it is: someone came to this same place I'm enjoying and did so in such a calm and focused manner, there are stacked rocks to show for it.

I can imagine that someone somewhere has built a massive cairn with disregard to the site and the other wanderers there. That person sucks.
Precisely. And you highlight the problem with judging history by current moral standards. That collapses history in on itself and it becomes impossible to even understand what happened.

The cornerstone speech illustrates how the principles embodies in the constitution weren’t just some platitude but were in fact disputed. Other parts of the cornerstone speech are especially illuminating:

> Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth. This truth has been slow in the process of its development, like all other truths in the various departments of science.... Those at the North, who still cling to these errors, with a zeal above knowledge, we justly denominate fanatics. All fanaticism springs from an aberration of the mind from a defect in reasoning. It is a species of insanity. One of the most striking characteristics of insanity, in many instances, is forming correct conclusions from fancied or erroneous premises; so with the anti-slavery fanatics.

The Confederacy attacked the founders as zealots and fanatics who didn’t accept the “scientific fact” of inequality of the races. Such thinking would persist well into the 20th century with eugenicists promoting scientific racism. Even today, the idea that everyone is created equal—even as an idea, forget about the implantation—is not universally accepted, especially outside the west.
There's a German standup comedian (Volker Pispers) who did a bit about this. It goes a bit like this: People always think that nature is so efficient. But nature doesn't optimize. Nature is lazy and does as little work as possible. You'll never see a lion hunt down a zebra and then go like "Okay, that took me 30 minutes, so I could do 10 more zebras today before dusk". He'll eat part of the zebra, leave the rest for the hyenas, and then spend the rest of the day basking in the sun.
As a disclaimer, I work at Google but have no hidden insights here

I haven't used Whatsapp but I would imagine that exporting your data to Drive is an activity that doesn't happen unless the user initiates it. I find manual backups to be a lot less insidious than the implication that Facebook has built a backdoor for Google that breaks Whatsapp's end to end encryption
See also https://tldroptions.io
Thank You. Are there any easy way to simply get this Data without manually looking up each Stock's balance sheet?
while i too apreciate those services, it's not like they invented publication of pirated content.
Sounds like AWS or one of the big guys. The smaller providers usually have an all in price for a VPS with a fixed amount of rosources, no surprises. Lightsail is similar but kind of sucks.
Comcast has never charged me for bringing my own modem.

More frustratingly, though, they charge you more for internet-only service than they do for TV+Internet. Every time you try to go Internet-only, they offer you a 'deal' where they throw in cable TV service for -$5. And then they ship you a cable TV box that you store in a box in your attic under penalty of hundreds of dollars if you lose it and can't return it at the end of your service.

I've returned the cable TV box before, and they just ship you a new one. ("We've noticed you have TV service but do not have a cable TV box, here is the equipment you need! Aren't we nice?!")

Thankfully I've got FTTH now. Slightly-less-thankfully I'm on ATT so I've got to pay the rental fee, but it's still a much better deal than Comcast ever offered. When Sonic finally serves my house directly Real Soon Like Now, the bill will be cut in half again. But still, mandatory rental fee.
Basically that’s what I had to do, but on macrotrends.net
had lots of fun -- was a simpler time

Times were simpler, but the old games are still fun.

At the start of the pandemic, a friend gave me all of his old Atari 2600 carts. A couple of weeks ago I finally got around to trying Miniature Golf. The graphics are terrible by any post-1982 standard, and the hand-drawn screenshots in the paper catalogs of yesteryear made it look worse, so hardly anyone bought it. But it's actually a pretty good game. You can sit down with and play for several hours while relaxing, instead of gnashing your teeth and swearing at other players.

Ditto for the regular Atari 2600 Golf. Looks terrible. But once you go a few rounds, it's a really nice game.
I wonder what would be the valuation of 2011 apple today, back then it was trading at 10 p/e ratio, I bet it would be at least 100 today.

we are in a completely different financial environment.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AAPL/apple/pe-rati...
> You make an informed decision about a company when you decide to join just like a VC would.

Do you know how much more information a VC gets before it closes a deal vs yet another employee? Do you get to see their books before you get hired? likely no. Likely not even once you are an employee. This is kept very far away from you.

The actually promising startups don't have problems finding people. From what I've heard, it used to be way harder to get into Google in the early days compared to now. So most people only have a choice among a bunch of non-promising startups.
You just rang a faint bell in my mind... There is such a project IIRC... if I can remember it I'll post a link...
Under the original plan, it would've launched before the new consoles, much earlier this year
You lost us at glib
If humans were able to sleep that long at [reported 50 calories per hour](https://www.sleepfoundation.org/how-sleep-works/how-your-bod...), that would give a three months energy expenditure of about 59kg of body fat ([at 7.7kJ/kg](https://www.quora.com/How-many-calories-are-in-1-kg-of-fat)).

However, I am not aware of any confirmation that sleeping so long is possible, and does not harm health.
If there was indeed possibility to enter torpor in a controlled manner, that may be up to 88% energy saving, so only ~7kg of body fat would need to be used.
Can they give everyone a free router and charge a $10/month system access fee

$10 says this is exactly what they’re going to do.
EDIT: from Oct. 2017

> On October 7, 2014, two Finnish journalists Merina Salminen and Pekka Nykänen published their book Operaatio Elop in Finnish, probing into the events that took place in Nokia’s device business under the CEO Stephen Elop’s period in 2010–2013. The authors had interviewed over 100 people for the book, most of them being current or former Nokia employees... The full English translation is now published here the first time, under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.

> For readers who prefer a Kindle or PDF version instead of this online version, we provide exports in PDF/EPUB/MOBI [1] formats from Medium.

[1] https://asokan.org/operation-elop/
The most recent stream from Pekora, mentioned in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0upYuej54w

The top VTuber Kiryu Coco made ¥14,000,000 ($134,000) this July.[0]

[0] https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2020-08-22/playboa...
> let me introduce you to this guy called Karl Marx.

Despite his feminist leanings Marx himself had a terrible attitude towards sex work and seemed completely incapable of applying his own theories to it.

I would usually direct people towards Silvia Federici's work with some introduction, but I don't believe most people in this thread are engaging in good faith and worth the time.
Yeah. I think part of the problem is just that SLIDE represents a Kuhnesque paradigm shift and these things take time. I really want to play with SLIDE myself but just haven't had a chance.
Tesla's profit share is small enough that it is a rounding error. It is not the Apple of the automotive world.

Quarterly profits for the most recent quarter (Q3 for most companies, Q2 for Honda): Toyota: $4.6 billion. Honda: $4 billion. GM: $4 billion. VW: $3.8 billion. Ford: $2.4 billion. Fiat: $1.4 million (not a typo, that is an m there.). In all cases, these profits were below their 2019 quarterly profits for the same quarter. Total of approximately 18.8 billion.

Tesla: $331 million, or approximately 1.5% of the Q3 profit share.

(Note that Hyundai had a loss and so is excluded from the profit share calculation. In all cases, these are global numbers. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a34602700/auto-sales-profi.... For all automakers except Tesla and Fiat, profits are related to the sale of automobiles. Fiat's profit is related to a special one-time accounting event, and Tesla's profit, as with all of its previous quarterly profits, relates to the sale of credits to other automakers; Tesla has yet to have a profitable quarter based on the sale of vehicles.)
ffmpeg is able to capture from webcam, desktop, or vod

you only need the correct software and public ip , and upload bandwidth to stream properly

how would you do this ?

install ffmpeg , setup a bash script to capture from webcam or device, install nginx or lighttpd to serve basic html with the HLS video.js player. map your ip or dynamic to your www.myname.com , to make it better you would also add a cheap cdn, such as bunnyCDN.com 5euros per month for 1TB

you create a add your domain.com on bunnycdn.com, and create a new subdomain cdn.domain.com which directs to the bunnycdn.com/username they provide you. thats it.

the file segments would be offloaded on their servers basically , they provide feature on how long you want to keep the segments on their global servers.

the same way all this works, could be done with webtorrent live streaming on webRTC, some adult sites live streaming adult sites have already started to use this method webRTC peer to peer
This comment is worded perfectly. Can I use that?
The problem, in my opinion, is that/when those things are done compulsively. If you're hungry it's fine to have a compulsion to get food, but as a human you should also be comfortable doing nothing, otherwise you're essentially seeding misery.
Wow! Thank you for exposing me to a type of defense that I never knew existed. I’ll just point to a self-tweet of mine that says I totally didn’t do the thing when I find myself being accused of doing the thing.
“Early Riser” by Jasper Fforde is a great speculative fiction novel about hibernating humans. Hijinks ensue.
I think there's an inherent conflation among people on ARM compatible versus ARM binaries that run on other arm platforms. This isn't the case with x86 today either, so it's weird when people say "oh look extensions mean it won't be ARM compatible". The core ISA is the same, which means the large majority of code will be portable, and people will have to go out of their way to use non portable instructions and intrinsics.

Being an undocumented extension doesn't matter. Compilers already handle per platform extensions on x86.

Being undocumented is better because it means people won't be targeting it in as high numbers, and therefore won't be making non portable code.