skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me, short sellers are like undertakers. No body wants to be one when they grow up.

That said, were I in your shoes, I'd spend a lot of time studying the theses of the shorts that have both profited and been buried by TSLA over the last 5 years. Tesla was savaged by them and endured one highlighted, publicized flaw after another. They are even well known and called into Tesla's quarterly calls, looking for responses they could use against the stock. If you're a player you might be able to get them on the phone and ask what did and didn't work.

I've been long TSLA for 8 years. I can't tell you how many times I've said to my wife, 'we really should sell some now'. I said it at $100, $250, $500, and now $700. We still haven't sold.

It's not rational, but even irrational behavior can have an explanation. 2020 was a hopeless year. Tesla, and it's older brother SpaceX, both engender hope and point to a better future. Maybe people need to buy in as a way to get through this time.
> The one oddity I’ve noticed is that using tuples (including things like named tuples) often speeds up CPython by a lot, but even plain tuples can slow down pypy on the same code—in some cases pypy winds up slower than CPython.

I'd love for this to be addressed. namedtuple should be lowered into a fixed sized struct, great opportunity for PyPy to show wins in both memory, memory bandwidth and compute. Add in type stability and PyPy should approach native speeds just by adding in namedtuple.
Their mission statement is to index the internet and make it easily accessible. As a lot of internet shifts to Twitter, Instagram and TikTok, it would be a complete miss of their mission to not index and present that data.
Health and Human Services has voided the fees in question.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-01/u-s-disti...
I somehow missed that — thanks for sharing!
Not just asset prices.

https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-cares-superdole-was-a-huge-...
> maybe it's better to think about how we can avoid that kind of breakdown

Yes, how about unite and peace instead of divide and conquer?
IG/TikTok are not search engine with a mission statement about making the whole of the internet accessible
I guess that’d work if you’re the guy from White Collar or something, but I’m not sure your average criminal would have the attention to detail and knowledge to get that all right. And one misclick or bug can pretty much seal your fate.

You are right though that you can take measures to make it much more difficult to trace.
Have a data backup strategy before you save critical data.
I hope you're just being deliberately obtuse because you're drunk and it's New Years Eve!
Heard about him through some music searching. He's "my favorite rapper's favorite rapper".
Can you explain how you paid rent in Bitcoin? There's no way my landlord would put up with that!
It had a major discussion just two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25575321

One way to find that out would be to look at https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=docs.google.com.

Another is HN search, of course. e.g. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
San Francisco certainly wasn't always this way. Seems like GP is expressing concern that the corporate culture will wash away the weird/counter culture in Austin as well.
it's the web, if TikTok/Instagram don't want it indexed, they can simply add noindex on the page.
Serious question: Bitcoin being subject to deflation, why would you spend it? Sort of like the $82 million pizzas [1]

1. https://qz.com/1285209/bitcoin-pizza-day-2018-eight-years-ag...
Why would you ever do that? Just red line the employment agreement. If they wont agree to your changes keep looking.

If you live in CA at least you have some protections via labor code 2870-2872.

https://www.stimmel-law.com/en/articles/who-owns-employees-i...
Agree if your computer resources are being utilized over 70 percent teams becomes a nightmare. They could have written it in c++ in the same amount of time and had that thing running smoothly.
I used to dabble with making tunes with a friend - we had access to a Juno 106, and a couple of Juno VST plugins. We'd do a bunch of takes with both, and then later we'd choose "blind" which versions to use. The real thing won every time... we tried to analyze why, but never really figured it out - though it's probably just because the music we were making was a bit wonky anyway ;)
> Once you get inside the building, it is a little like you’ve described. But on the outside, it’s very simple and clean, just a simple square building. Some people have even likened the reception area to a hospital waiting room. It’s kind of serene.

I can attest! Just like a hospital.

You can also see a glimpse of it from the nearby train station. A quiet unsuspecting almost industrial part of Kyoto; away from the more touristy areas. Perhaps for a reason; unlike many parts of Japan it isn't necessarily a convenient walk-to - so better maybe to have a taxi drop you off nearby.

And then when you arrive up close; a sublte Nintendo logo adourns the gated entrance - where the boring square shaped building presents itself.

Also one day, many months later - walking casually in Osaka in an area not too far from the busy Umeda / JR Station. I saw an interesting looking blue and white sign atop a commercial building amongst mostly residential apartments...

I asked my friend at the time what the Kanji meant. To my surprise, "Nintendo" she said. It was neat moment because at the time I was living in the area and had been for fair while - and all that while did not realize my childhood idol Nintendo was right there in the neighbourhood too. I just assumed they always display their romaji logo / classic font name but apparently not for this office, which was quite large as I recall; among the tallest 'medium sized' towers in a rather dense area.
Nozick may be accessible through web.archive.org

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Anarchy%2C+State%2C+and+Utopia+arc...
He has always been like that. There's a (possibly apocryphal) story about him meeting with the developers of Goldeneye and suggesting that they have a scene at the end of the game where you visit the hospital and visit all the people you shot throughout the game and give them well wishes.
> That said, I try to insure that nothing I make wastes the players’ time by having them do things that aren’t productive or creative.

And this is why I like Nintendo games.

Miyamoto has had plenty of misses—Star Fox Zero comes to mind—but I never feel as though his games are trying to waste my time, much less manipulate me into wasting my time, as is so common nowadays.

This is also why Nintendo never had much success on mobile. Mario Run was a legitimately great game—it's just that it was short, and cost $10, and we're used to mobile games that are "free" and rely on whales to subsidize the cost.
Not an expert, not GP, but these don't seem to support what they said..

https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/yes-section-215-expire...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/section-215-expired-ye...
Happy New Year, Cheers to 2021!
Click the link for 2020

cmd-f 'virus': 0 results

Predictions are hard
I will cite this example in the future as 'a dumb headline' - we can't know the net positions of short sellers, some are required to disclose their shorts, but not vice versa.

Yes short sells lost. Short sellers lost? Probably. But an unknown amount.
Why would they agree to that? Deflation is what guarantees the investment for most users.
.Net core is free and open source and compatible with linux
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25587997

120+ points, 80+ comments
Nintendo’s PR department working overtime it seems, given their recent controversies
Any cool cybernetic prosthesis you were thinking about when writing your comment?
FWIW, I don't know if there's a significant difference along a senior vs junior axis. I think the set of people willing to consider gov employment at USDS certainly (and reasonably) changed in after the 2016 election, so USDS lost access to some talent, but there is good work happening now.

Most importantly, USDS is seen as non-partisan, and so has been able to have good impact in both administrations.
oh duh, that makes sense.
IBKR is extra generous with portfolio margin
I had enormous problems trying to do anything with Transferwise from Cambodia. It's still plagued with problems left over from the conventional banking system.
I found Adaptation so hard to watch (just watched it last night)
There's not a good reason. Of all the cryptocurrencies, BTC is one of the worst for this use case.
that's odd... what does Apple have to win out of a GPL violation for this?
I have serious questions about tether.

As far as I know, they have not proven they even have 1 billion on reserve. How can they claim 21 billion?

Is this pyramid scheme the real reason bitcoin prices are so high?
Interesting reading Deryk Makgill's response:

https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2020-Decembe...

and then Ray's response back:

https://twitter.com/wakgill/status/1344760972116942850
True, and not something that can be changed through technology, but there are good digital services operating in quite a few states!
Thanks I will! :) you can always delta hedge. This isn’t a money making strategy I’d recommend to anyone who doesn’t know what they’re doing and has a very high personal risk tolerance tbh.
Previous instalment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25538820
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25598029
lol that’s very much backwards, by crypto advocates own admission there’s zero liquidity in the space.
It is, and it only supports ASCII so anyone who wants to write comments or text in Chinese, Japan, Korean, Thai, Arabic, etc can GTFO :(
I have ridden all models of the Tesla, including the original roadster, and I believe Tesla should not be worth even a fraction of what any other car maker is worth.
Thanks. How's that relate to Gelman's BDA or statistical rethinking?
And housing. But since cheap crap remains just has cheap and crappy as ever, somehow some people take that to mean inflation isn't a thing?
I've put 65,000 miles on a Model 3. Before this car, I drove a BMW 328i for 20 years. I loved the BMW dearly.

The Model 3 is better in every way. Crisper handling, punchier acceleration, and quiet. The electric part is wondrous: No gas stations. Electricity costs me 1/3 what the same miles on gas would cost.

Maintenance? Literally 2 sets of tires.

The battery? I bought the extended range with 310 miles. Tesla upgraded me, free over the air, to 325 miles after about a year of owning the car. 65,000 miles in and it still holds a charge good for 305 miles.

I find the car itself to be transformative.
On Doomsday!
ever since the womb 'til I'm back where my brother went, that's what my tomb will say
Right above my government, Dumile
Either unmarked or engraved, hey, who's to say?
> * Bitcoin: 0.1% of all electricity in the world, 7tps

And? Who are you to tell anyone how they should use their electricity? Do you want my advice on what you should be doing in your home?

> Bitcoin is the most inefficient payment system in history.

I think the "hauling big rocks between islands" currency was probably less efficient, at least on a per capita basis.

> then the entire bitcoin ecosystem should be replaced with a small rock

Then go ahead and do that. If people have trust in your rock then that will work fine.

You appear to have written two books about money. Do you not understand how it works yet?
Depends how long you hold it for.
I want to read rhythm of war but I completely forgot what happened in the prior books :-(
> Deflation inhibits economic activity because money saved is worth more tomorrow than today even when not invested in productive enterprise.

What is the rationale for this? Because by that token, nobody would ever buy computers, because the money saved by not buying a computer today can go into buying a better computer tomorrow.

if anything, deflation is fantastic because it makes you think twice before rampantly consuming shit, which is going to be much better for the environment than the misaligned incentives of demand-side economics. (not that supply-side is any better).

Finally, inflation redirects real returns from the poor to the rich and deflation does the reverse. Japan (which has had net ~0% official inflation over the last 30 years) has had a stable GINI coefficient; the US has gotten worse and worse.
> Originally yes, the constitutional amendments only applied to the federal government, but that changed with the 14th amendment.

No, it didn't. The Court has, since the Fourteenth Amendment, found that rights equivalent to some protections in the Bill of Rights are imposed on the States through the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment, but each of these rights was incorporated by separate decisions; blanket incorporation is neither in the text nor in the case law. And the Second Amendment wasn't held to be incorporated against the states until 2 years after Heller, in a case directly leveraging Heller, so arguing incorporation to justify the obviousness of Heller is...bizarre.
There are digital groups of various sorts already operating at NIH. If the folks working on it are federal employees, there are groups that can help - but there has to be buy-in from decision makers.

Bureaucracies have infinite ways to stop something if you don't get cover from certain people.
Compare TSLA gross margin to all the other car companies.
VW had a great illustration showing why fuel cells are inferior to batteries: https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1127660_battery-electri...

AFAICT, there is no metric by which a green hydrogen powered fuel cell car is superior to a BEV. It's more expensive to buy, at best is 3X as expensive to fuel, is far more inconvenient to fill up (a grand total of 39 stations in the US), lower range (300 miles for current models), and is far less reliable (hydrogen embrittlement).

That's assuming it's powered by green hydrogen (aka, hydrogen created via electrolysis). Grey hydrogen cracked from natural gas is cheaper than green hydrogen, but if you're not going green, why would you get anything other than a gasoline car?
Love this idea but are the surveys randomized or quality controlled at all? I have tried 4 surveys, all different and the results seem weirdly consistent. Option A always seems to win out with ~60% of the vote (60%, 64%, 60%, 57%). I even reversed the two images in one test and whatever was in position A won.
‘Recent controversies’. Care to elaborate? I follow Nintendo news pretty religiously and for some reason can’t figure out what you’re talking about.
While not a safe, there are tamper-resistant computers that are embedded in safe-like enclosures. Some of them have explosives to make sure even things like RAM chips can't be recovered if they sense tampering. [1]

I've worked in the civilian wing of a company that did this stuff. What I dealt with just enough power to wipe crypto keys if they sensed things like a tilt, air pressure change, or power loss. I'm sure the military side of the company had fun things to deal with.

[1] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/SE-14.pdf
Great comment, and I'm glad you replied with these examples. The problems you describe are corporate software development process problems and not problems with Jira or bug trackers in general. It's a dysfunctional company welding their dysfunction onto Jira, and Jira gets the bad rap. Most of the time when people on HN complain "I hate Jira!" what they really mean is "I hate my company's inflexible software development process." Jira just happens to be the UI surface that this horrible process is exposed through, so naturally they take their hatred out on Jira.

Here are a few process examples I've seen (taken from real companies):

Company A: Bug tracker contains a handful of bugs and features, but you can pretty much commit whatever you want, whenever you want, without a ticket. Lots of work, major and minor, being done totally untracked through anything outside of git log.

Company B: Everything you touch requires a ticket, full stop. Ticket creation and assignment is a laborious process as you described in your comment. Sprint scope enforced ruthlessly. Sudden changes in scope and dependencies must wait until the next sprint.

Company C: Strictly one ticket per commit. But if you need to make the change, just create the ticket, document your change there, and close the ticket. No big deal. If you're not working on the right stuff, your eng lead or project manager will notice when they browse through the assigned and closed tickets.

Company D: Just like Company C, but without the "one ticket per commit" rule. You could commit whatever you wanted as long as you could point to a ticket that described what it was for, and you could use that ticket over and over and close it when you were ultimately done.

Company A was total chaos, and we constantly missed deadlines and chased quality problems. Only eng really had a clue about what work was done, in progress, or in the backlog. The eng leads simply kept it all in their heads and documenting/communicating was an afterthought. Company B was frustrating and bureaucratic, but we at least managed to ship most of the scope on time and with reasonable quality. Not great eng morale but management was happy with output. Company C was the best. Really easy to derive project status by just looking at the bug tracker. The "create a ticket" habit was drilled in to you during orientation and was just not seen as a big deal. Company D was kind of a mixed bag. Eng loved it, but it was hard for the managers to track progress because you always had all these "mega-bugs" open listing commit after commit after commit, and there was no indication of % completion.

I didn't mention the actual bug tracker for any of these companies, because it really doesn't matter. You can use any bug tracker to support any of those processes. There is nothing Jira-specific here.
Gdevelop5 a simple good game engine
Sure. And you can safely extend ZFC with either CH or ~CH. But that makes it clearly different than a theorem. In my mind mathematics is essentially the set of all theorems.

So I think we’re back were we started: All of mathematics can in principle be deduced from ZFC. There are a few border cases that can be useful, and can be included by extending ZFC.
Diesel-electric is quieter and smaller, which means superior in most scenarios, and the most common: for coastal patrol. Few countries have a need for oceanic intercontinental scenarios.

Describing nuclear as superior betrays a lack of post cold war updates. Nobody serious maintains this position, except in the very narrow use case of global navigation and ICBM launches.
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1344319775464415239
Well the ussr had its chance and collapsed into oligarchy. But maybe the Chinese system of authoritarianism and reeducation camps for uighurs can still save us.
This is hard for practical reasons. The civil service needs to be a place where everyone can get a job without knowing someone inside, so a lot of best practices in the private sector (referral-based hiring) don't easily translate.

It's akin to the Postal Service visiting everyone's mailbox each day - not efficient, but important.

THAT SAID, there are massive improvements that can happen in hiring - if agencies have incentives to pursue them!
It's about priorities. Adding accessibility is a feature, just like syntax coloring or debugging. And the reasonable way to prioritize the features is to look at how much effort would it take to implement a feature (and maintain/support it in the long term!) vs. how many new users will it bring.

If you are designing a custom control framework from scratch, supporting accessibility properly is not trivial, and the amount of new users it would bring you pales in comparison with almost any use case-focused feature. So it makes sense that the author would not be willing to implement it.

I also don't like the current approach of arbitrarily targeting small vendors and shaming them into putting unpaid time into a feature that will not pay off for them. It surely gives you the sense of power and moral superiority, but it is extremely toxic and demotivating to small vendors.

I think, a better alternative for people concerned about accessibility would be to offer free help adding accessibility to the products they are concerned about. I am certain, had you approached the author with a ready-to-use pull request instead of calling them ignorant, they would have thanked you and merged your changes into the code base ASAP.
Yeah, a tweet said this is the beginning of a decade of those sorts of attacks which I agree with. It’ll start with pip, npm, etc, then move to bigger targets.

For that reason I’ve moved away from those managers and stuff like react (I trust facebook but dependency trees are huge) - the worst part is you can’t not patch, but you might be doomed by any upgrade.

I think eventually it’ll snuff out innovation in medium sized businesses and government - large businesses can afford the cost of manual review and startups will ignore the risk, but middle-tier will be screwed.

I’d love to see a crowdsourced review model, but I just don’t think it can be viable without getting abused.
Happy New Year :)

كل سنة وانتم طيبين وفي كل خير :)

A really great place and a wonderful house of beautiful thoughts and ideas, one that has been of great benefit to me and has added quite a lot to my life. Thank you so much.
Towards the end of the second video, 3:50-ish they mention how Nintendo is being anti-competitive by fully controlling what (and how) software can run on their systems, and their reasoning is "quality control". Sounds familiar?
Yep, such a disaster it's died a thousand times.
Me too! Been reading for years, first post. Thanks for giving me the motivation to create an account. Happy new year!
If 2021 is like 2020 was personally, I know I won’t make it to 2022.
Yup, such a disaster it's died a thousand times.
A couple days back Nintendo was on the front page of HN for threatening people and tailing them, iirc?

Also, they've been pretty assertive about DMCA, and they aren't very kind with streamers from what I understand. (Also, they really seem to not be interested in supporting the tournament communities for their games like Smash.)
it's angular motion that you care about, so it could still be a long time. We can put some hard lower bounds on how close it could be, though. For example, it's probably not a wormhole mouth within a few ly of our solar system.
Happy new year!

Here's to doing a better job of keeping politics off HN in the future. This starts with the users.

Thank you to the mod(s) for their best efforts.
which assembly?
Microsoft Flight Simulator (FS2020) vs. Real Life – Landing in Gatwick UK
> In comparison, very few people distinguish paper cash money from a bank credit backed by a fractional reserve.

I would add the words "in the modern era". My grandparents generation regarded those two as very different, having lived through the bank runs of the depression.

The difference between their gen and mine is due to the advent of the FDIC. This would also address your point about Mt Gox: Had there been insurance, Mt Gox would not have been such a clusterfk.

So no surprise: Coinbase and Bakkt both tout the insurance of their holdings. It's not quite FDIC levels (ie, a defacto government backing) but it's getting closer. As a consequence, it is not too hard for me to imagine a time that custodial accounts will have nearly the same confidence as a private wallet, because the equivalent of FDIC will likely be created by bitcoin-based institutions.
I'm assuming OP is referring to the company hiring "stalking" folks hacking their consoles. Previous HN thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25508782
Part of a solution for that are term-limited civil service jobs - that keeps a rotation of talent and low performers can't stay forever.

That said, you raise an important problem - how do you manage poor performers without allowing a bad-faith political official to fire people unfairly?