skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No one has been confused I don't think. I saw the considering the $420 buyout, I took it to mean just that.

Clearly options traders didn't, since all options above $420 went to zero.

> The short sellers around tesla have been pathetic. Note I don't own any tesla stock, but the short seller hype train is just ridiculous around tesla. How there has been no action there is mind boggling.

I disagree. I think the behavior of the stock holders have been pathetic. The short sellers demands for greater transparency and a company not entirely based on smoke and mirrors are easily met. The company itself has refused to meet those minimal standards.

> He's a crazy guy willing to take crazy risks - look at SpaceX -> they are operating COMPLETELY outside all norms.

So? This shouldn't be an excuse for fraudulent behavior. Everytime I bring up a specific problematic behavior of Elon Musk, someone wants to reframe the conversation around the totality of his behavior, rather than the single criticism. I don't know about rockets, but from what I hear, Elon has done a great deal for him. Good for him. That doesn't make any of his behaviors faking a buyout ok, his behavior in the SolarCity merger, or his behavior with the Boring Company.

If we want better businessmen, we have to hold the ones we have accountable. Continuing to refuse to do that for Elon is spawning generations of people like Trevor Milton who assume laws don't apply if you're charming enough.

> The conflicts with solar city were crazy - they were also public. I thought it was a terrible deal - but that was public too. If you think Elon is bad for tesla and you own stock vote him out by running your own board slate. But he has a vision for a fully integrated solar and powerwall type product no barriers. You get an app, the sun charges the battery. They had and have ideas around charging cars mixed into that. Not sure if it's a good idea - plenty of competitors coming for Tesla, but they may be able to deliver something here with their solar / energy AND car companies. And the trend is towards this type of integration - so he gets to take a crack at it.

He lied to shareholders about both SolarCity's financial state and faked a product in order to secure the merger. You can say, "these are public companies" all you want, but the public companies voted for the merger purely on Elon's word, which apparently isn't worth much.

> Importantly, you are Elon, you own 22% of two companies - Tesla and SolarCity with highly overlapping missions. You want to integrate solar / energy / cars. I mean, what would YOU do. Go do a deal with some company in China the way others have tried? These folks saying it's such a bad idea / deal - what was their much better proposal? Elon already knew the Solarcity board and management etc etc. I really am curious what was the amazingly better option to get where Elon wanted to go. Easy to criticize, harder (much) to do.

Not fake a product and lie about the financial status of my company. You know, the bare minimum.
>IANAL, but I think she absolutely has a legal case.

If she does, it seems like a bunch of greedy lawyers looking for a big pay day would be willing to take her libel case on contingency which would cost her nothing. If a lawyer is willing to risk a ton of their own firm's money because they're confident of a winning big multi-million dollar judgement from the filmmaker, that would a good signal that Amanda has an excellent case.

Maybe her phone is ringing off the hook with calls from such lawyers but I doubt it because such defamations lawsuits against works of fiction have been historically hard to win.

Another aspect that's made more confusing by the various replies in this thread is that the film's official marketing (trailer, official website, posters) do not mention "Amanda Knox" or even have a tagline of "inspired by a true story". Instead, it's the various news media (such as Vanity Fair magazine article she cited) making the parallels to Amanda Knox.

Yes, the filmmakers may be sly about avoiding the mention of "Amanda Knox" while being fully aware that the media outlets will make that connection in the minds of the public for them.

>The small penis thing doesn't seem relevant here,

To clarify in case the sequence of ideas got lost in the replies... I mentioned the "small penis" informal rule was a strategy for Amanda Knox to hypothetically write a fiction story about someone named "Mack Dorkin not being well-endowed" and the real Matt Damon not pursuing a lawsuit to silence her. It wasn't about "Stillwater"'s filmmakers using that strategy to protect themselves from Amanda Knox.
Not all of us buy into the claims capitalism can do no wrong and should be turned upon the world with no limits that some libertarians seem to have. You will never hear me say capitalism is in essence a bad thing, but like most concepts it has to have limits. Otherwise you get fascism, J.P. Morgan, Epstein, etc.
Rule of thumb is always: if you need it, do it, otherwise, don't. Real world cases could be:

1. If you write a unit tests and really need to have a double of that particular component, then do it. Otherwise, don't.

2. You need to decouple the dependency (maybe these are circular), then do it. Otherwise, just take on it as a dependency.
I'll start taking these climate protagonists seriously when they make coca-cola stop using plastic bottles.
I just opened amazon incognito, searched for "couch", and everything seems to be available in a week. Some in 4 days.
'Traditional' journalists are often mendacious bastards, but also, as a general rule, not stupid enough to flout court orders. And looking at paragraph 70 of the original judgment it doesn't look like this case was anywhere close to raising issues of principle about whether other journalists could comply with similar anonymity orders. Which are routine in Scotland and statutory in England and Wales, and have been for years. And journalists are not, in fact, prosecuted on a whim for contempt of court.
Perhaps they have attempted to take advantage in the past and it turned out to be a dead end? Information is cheap and the cost to reproduce it is zero. This UI/UX stuff isn't info people are going to pay for, because it's available elsewhere for free.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1420950032669286402.html
This comes down to companies failing to fire people.

If someone is toxic to a team, they shouldn't remain at that company (much less on that team).
Particles are compositional.
I actually can claim what I said because of the facts of the case. No one can deny she was his intern, no one can deny that he was the President, no one can deny that he shouldn't have done it given his position of power over her future. You are the one who is incorrect.
I would be so nervous to be in the middle of space with an hockey puck of antimatter.
I'd be interested to know what HN's experience with Yarn 2 has been. Yarn 1 was compatible with NPM, so switching was easy, but Yarn 2 seems to need explicit support in a lot of cases.

Had anyone found significant benefits from switching to yarn 2? And conversely, has anyone had any issues with this?

EDIT: It seems that there is also a 3rd option: pnpm. Experiences with pnpm would also be welcomed.
Nobody is saying it's a data leak

The fine is for not getting explicit consent to use data in targeted ads. Maybe they ruled that something buried in a huge T&C document doesn't count as consent
I didn't see anyone mention this, but this is completely wrong:

"This annoyed them and they decided to make a new CPU that no one would want to use."

Facts:
1. Itanium grew out of internal HP efforts to define their next generation architecture, presumably in response to their difficulty scaling the Precision Architecture.

2. Intel only got involved part way through.

3. Nobody ever "decides to make a CPU that no one will use".

Itanium for all its issues, was used in great number, but nowhere near what it was supposed to. The failure of Itanium was a bet of handling cache misses with the compiler (like Transmeta, my alma mater) and having a design by committee (lots of nice ideas in isolation, a disaster in aggregate).

There are so many technical problems with the ISA, too many features, too much performance draining complexity. Something as critical as registers is burried behind (IIRC) three levels of indirection (rotating windows, modulo scheduled registers, etc). The big bet on predication didn't help code density nor cycle time.

It's really a shame that Intel throughout history has botched ISA design after ISA design. That it can be done right is exemplified by Alpha, RISC-V, and ARM64. If the rumored acquisition of SiFive happens, then maybe they can finally get it.

EDIT: Typos
Q-CTRL, Machine Learning Technique Used to Pinpoint Quantum Errors
Copyright lawyer sanctioned to carry notice of past history in future filings
How to Get Smarter – Mental Models
Independent schools are only 7% of students in England[1] (even lower for the whole UK) and public schools would be a tiny fraction of that 7%. They are still greatly over-represented at Oxbridge, even if not quite to the extent that they used to be.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_school_(United_Kin...
How about, the experts who said COVID was going to become endemic were right?

It was well understood a year ago that we were never going to eradicate it.
In other news, unvaccinated Americans more likely to die from a lightning strike than Covid.
Docker has a lot of quirks and rough edges that may be attributed to its history. It was open-sourced rather hastily from dotCloud, and caught on largely due to its appeal as an easy-to-use, open, and complete package for containerisation, unlike other containerisation ecosystems that already existed. In some ways it's an example of a "worse is better" solution (which is not a bad thing). Some of the things you mention are just the typical sort of bad design decisions that get made without the benefit of hindsight. I'm sure we have all made similar missteps while designing systems. It's also true that some of these flaws made it more approachable, and actually helped with adoption. For example, a reproducible image build would be great, but it would not be as easy for a newbie to throw together as a quasi-shell-script Dockerfile that lets you run whatever non-reproducible commands you like. That less-opinionated disposition of Docker was part of what made it easy to pick up. In the near future we will probably see a new containerisation ecosystem rise with an overall better design and more disciplined approach. Docker will always have its place in history as the implementation that made containerisation mainstream.
> Breaking Changes
> Node 10 isn't supported anymore.

10 is LTS
Is there a way to slow down the animation or make it more choppy, so it better recreates the experience of running After Dark on my Performa 25 years ago?
This was an $100 billion deal at the time. It would have been the largest LBO of all time. If there hasn't been any institution revealed to have been financing it at this point then there wasn't one.
I don't know about private. But the largest employer in the world is the US Department of Defense employing an estimated 2.8 million people which is about triple what Amazon employs.

WalMart has about 2.2 million world wide of which 1.5 million are US employees.

Amazon, according to the article, has about 950,000 employees.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walmart
No they don't regulate international travel but they could have publicly come out and said this would have been necessary. Any government sidestepping them would have taken a huge political risk if they had been wrong (and they would have been!). It's a big thing for a government to overrule the WHO.

I'm sure that they would have done it if they had been about science and not about politics. All the knowledge of how serious this was, was there at the start.

I think the discussion of how it came to spread worldwide is even more important than how it emerged in the first place. In particular because we keep making the same mistakes with these variants. The failure to contain the British (Alpha) variant should have been enough warning to up that game. If Delta hadn't spread to Europe and US we would have been in a great situation with current vaccination levels because Alpha was not that dangerous after all.

I'm just worried we will make the wrong choices again for the next one which may be even more destructive. For Delta we're too late. For whatever is next we may not be.
Possibly. The color difference could be explained by choosing an inconsistent illuminant. It's something most people don't notice, but I'm very illuminated.
I agree, I think this is why tracking/cookies that do so should be illegal. Then at least the big guys like google will stop doing it. You'll never stop all of it though.
Your dev team needs meetings? Sounds pretty disorganized.

Our team is productive, manages their time well, and communicates without meetings. Did anyone actually need a meeting, ever?
Biden Directs Agencies to Develop Cybersecurity Standards for Infrastructure
I tried updating my teams frontend pipelines from Yarn 1 to Yarn 2 since there seemed to be some significant performance improvements.

I spent some time trying to understand why I needed a third party plugin to run the equivalent of `yarn install --production` I just said fuck it and I'll let the frontend team figure this shit out.

So yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if the Yarn 1 usage is significantly higher than Yarn 2
Interesting.

For what reason are the aliens trying trying to stop us from discovering new physics? Stop us from blowing ourselves up? Blowing them up?
Interesting concept. Are you extracting existing compounds from the milk and concentrating them to a therapeutic dose, or are you using milk proteins as a scaffolding for synthesis?

Have you mapped out the mechanism of action by which the peptides are antimicrobial? How does it compare to antibiotics derived from fungi?

How scalable is this if it works as well as you hope it will? Is there a path to peptide synthesis without requiring milk as an input?
Your comment was marked dead (until I vouched for it). If a comment is dead, by default people can't see them unless they have "showdead" turned on in their preferences.

Your first two comments are not dead, your three most recent are (were).

I'm not sure why. You might email hn@ycombinator.com
Though the article was published today, the content of it deals with a prior timeline (2020-2021).

Furman required Liebowitz to give a copy of the sanctions opinion to every current client, to file it on the docket of every pending case, and to include it on the docket of all new copyright infringement cases that Liebowitz or his firm might bring in the following year.

...

Not that it matters much now. Furman only required Liebowitz to share the sanctions order for one year, and the mandate expired on June 26.
The opportunity costs can be profound as well. Doing B rather than A level work on many tasks can allow you to get 2-3x more things done.
Walmart, which has a presence in communities of all shapes and sizes, is the largest private employer in the nation with 1.5 million workers. Yet the number of Americans who rely on the corporate giant for their livelihoods is dwarfed by the number who rely on the federal government for their paychecks. The federal government employs nearly 9.1 million workers, comprising nearly 6 percent of total employment in the United States. The figure includes nearly 2.1 million federal employees, 4.1 million contract employees, 1.2 million grant employees, 1.3 million active duty military personnel, and more than 500,000 postal service employees.

https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/438242-the-federal-gover...
What part of GP's post made you think they supporting jailing people you don't like?
I think the big unreliability I have seen, and often hear people complain about is, work gets done 90% of the way then they just basically stop showing up. Or some of the work is bad, and they have no desire to show back up and fix it.

I guess the issue being that, it is more profitable to ghost them. Is HomeBreeze going to insure the jobs?
I believe that he has shown that to be the case in advance.
The something is data dependencies.
I love daria.

I didn’t really watch it on MTV - just an episode here and there, but ended up sitting through all the DVD’s one summer.

It’s a really great show, and I don’t understand why people get their panties in a twist over the original music being cut out of the DVDs. It was never a part of the story (except for the R:E:M song, but I think they kept it in), which together with its characters can more than stand on their own.
"Compiler Oriented Programming"... nice one.
Can someone explain the practical use for this? Better batteries or something?
The purpose of the state isn't to house, clothe or feed people. Nor is it to write software, conduct scientific research, or help you to find friends.

The purpose of the state is to protect your right to voluntary pursue these and other rational pursuits necessary for a flourishing life.

If you want more housing, stop making it illegal to build more housing. Our zoning laws, minimum parking requirements, stroads, absurd NIMBY environmental review processes, etc. are the reason American cities are unwalkable places that alienate everyone from everyone else. As a result of our own laws and regulations, only the rich can afford to live in the increasingly scarce parts of cities built before the automobile wrecked urban life.
It might be easy these days with the amount of edgy cartoons that exist now to forget back then, there really wasn't any. Shows like The Simpsons, Ren and Stimpy, Beavis and Butthead, and even Daria I suppose were not really like any other cartoons out there.

They subverted the tropes everyone had taken for granted since the 50's or so that TV was expected to have. They outraged parents and the extreme conservative groups that wielded fairly significant power at the time.

Shortly before that we had 'the Dungeons and Dragons' scares and it was the time of the violent video game and explicit music crackdowns. Those cartoons became targets for those same kinds of people.

Without those shows, we probably wouldn't have the kinds of cartoons we have today.

I would definitely include more than just the two cartoons in the article and MTV as the sole disruptors of cable.

But, the cartoons of that era were definitely disruptive in a way that's hard to appreciate without experiencing.
Interesting. Does he also say that tech CEO's don't get enough? Lol.
It seems to be popular for European bureaucrats to bash on "evil foreign tech giants".

I suppose if you can't grow tech at home, the next best thing is to regulate and tax it as much as possible.
Not really, it was supported till April, 21
https://github.com/nodejs/Release
If 'everything' does not include my phone, I keep a copy of my password manager database file on it, including embedded ssh files.
I agree. Imo, 99.99% of public discussion is driven by this motive...but that is probably because 99.99% of public discussion is always driven by that motive. This is how people be.

On this issue specifically though, I would say that it makes no sense to engage with oil companies. They aren't big polluters (even companies with large downstream chemical operations aren't particularly big polluters, not zero but not huge either). I understand why investors aren't engaging with China or Iran but one of the biggest coal-fired power plants in the world is owned by a publicly-listed Polish company. South Korea, India, Germany, Indonesia, even Russia...very little engagement. What about airlines? Fund managers, and the executives that are ferried in for meetings, are voracious users of intercontinental air travel...nothing? What about the pollution in electric battery production? What about US coal miners? It just seems, so far, that fund managers are going straight for the least important part of the system. I believe that investors should engage with these issues but there is relatively little careful thought (there are exceptions, Chris Hohn is one).
More of this! Onward to the next companies.
Ok, read it and will wait until Monday for the official thread.
>Saying "energy is conserved" is the moral equivalent of looking at Newton's laws and just ignoring GR.

If you're not expecting the spacetime background to be changing rapidly during your experiment, it's pretty moral to say energy is conserved.
Analysis: Why TV audiences are tuning out the Tokyo Olympic Games
Consent is only valid if it's informed and specific. More than that the data minimization applies - you can't require using personal data if it's not necessary.

https://gdpr.eu/article-4-definitions/

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...
Without ruining too much of the books (they are worth a read), there is conflict between us and the aliens and limiting technological progress is an important part of their strategy
AI tool streamlines feedback on coding homework
It is true that successful people often discount the role of luck in their success, but the fact is that even while we don't get to choose what opportunities come our way, we do have control over how we choose to exploit those opportunities.

I find your moral calculus about taxation rather odd. Just because someone didn't earn something doesn't mean other people have a right to take it. For example, just because someone is blessed by genetic lottery with a luxurious head of hair doesn't mean I have a right forcibly take that hair and make a wig to cover my own balding head.
A related thing: exponential search. It's the sorted-array equivalent.
There were a lot of people in the world who thought they were going to graduate from making $3/day to $10/day. For most, that is now unachievable and will remain unachievable for the foreseeable future thanks to the economic destruction wrought by the lockdowns. This will translate into far more deaths and misery than Covid-19 could have ever inflicted.
You can avoid the problem of multiple expansions by using base 3 numbers that don't contain the digit 2. The resulting space is equivalent to the Cantor space mentioned in other comments.
I think both cases exist commonly.

There are plenty of people entirely capable of A marks in most educational situations who don't get them because they don't care and don't do the work. Something changes and they get interested. The jump from an indifferent C to a solid A often isn't that far.

Somewhat related: There are more PhD's than you might expect that were also high school drop outs.
So I guess he didn’t have enough money and power to open the right doors?

Or perhaps it’s really hard to win a defamation case against works of fiction. No matter how much money and power you have.
Is there somewhere that actually talks about LTS releases? I'm trying to find when it's EOL and I'm getting mixed information - one page said it was April 2021, you're saying it's still LTS?
I mean all the farmable land will be up there in a few decades. Seems like a good investment.
First test of Europe’s new space brain
> Not only does encryption during data recovery make everything much more difficult, but should you pass away, your family members might not have the skills required to access the data.

Terrible advice regarding encryption. Really if you have important data that your family needs at the time of your death you should have a plan for that as well. Not avoid encryption because it’s “too hard”.
You can always spin a new one and have the load balancer redirect requests.
https://nodejs.org/ru/blog/release/v10.13.0/

> This release marks the transition of Node.js 10.x into Long Term Support (LTS) with the codename 'Dubnium'. The 10.x release line now moves in to "Active LTS" and will remain so until April 2020. After that time it will move in to "Maintenance" until end of life in April 2021.

Node 10 is past EoL at this point. 12 and 14 are the current LTS releases: https://nodejs.org/en/about/releases/
Iron, type-level validations for Scala