skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no need to put fraud in quotes, or inappropriately add "apparent". In fact, let's capitalize it to drive the point home: elmu Definitely Committed Fraud to try to trick shareholders into forking over tens of billions of their own wealth, directly into his pockets. It was an open and shut case, and he was judged guilty of having done so. I doubt shareholders will pass it again*, since the way he got it to pass the first time was by defrauding them. Remember: elmu committed fraud (multiple times, this is just the latest!) There's no escaping that. He's a fraudster in the eyes of the law (though perhaps not in the eyes of his fans).

As for your investment, just imagine how much it's worth now that 50 billion dollars of company wealth is staying with the company and investing in even higher returns (!) rather than into elmu's pocket, so he can waste it on another twitter on which to shitpost. elmu having that money wouldn't have increased the stock price over him not having it, but the company having it, probably will. So congrats on your increased future wealth!

Remember, too, the judge found, according to the evidence, including elmu and tesla's own statements, that he was motivated to perform even without the additional 50 billion in compensation on top of his existing compensation. So there was never any risk of him performing differently with or without, as judged by the judge of the matter.

* Honestly, I doubt it'll even get to a vote, and that he'll even be offered the same package when he has to negotiate against new people representing the interests of shareholders, rather than "negotiating" (*wink*) against his friends.
The Librem 5 may be a good fit for you. It has switches on the side that physically cut off power to the modem or WiFi whenever you want.
Everyone else saw Netflix making a lot of money and decided just making a healthy amount of money renting the rights to them they had to try and make more money releasing their own service. Gotta love modern capitalistic greed. I wish streaming services was like movie theaters where production companies are not allowed to own theaters (aka the distribution network).
You broke the site guidelines repeatedly in this thread, and you've broken them in other threads too (e.g.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38695587 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38539273 ).

We have to ban accounts that do this, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules, that would be good.
Sure the non technical world is (sadly) more familiar with Bitcoin.

I specifically said the technical world. Most people I know are technical to some degree and almost all of them would assume cryptography when they hear the word "crypto".
Content fragmentation, platform fragmentation, geo-locking, DRMs, "woke" censorship and revisionism... no wonder piracy is on the rise, again.

At some point I had like 3 different paying streaming services, and they still failed to provide enough content of interest. All canceled now. The dollar bin dvds at my local thrift store is a much better offer... this and piratebay.
> Finally when everyone is asleep, I finally have “my time” — which is still intended for projects like planning home reno, fixing things, maybe some tidying, and then to procrastinate or take a break from this 3rd shift of work I’ll end up on phone (hacker news is a fave).

What do you mean when you write that you have time to procrastinate? I have a feeling you might be confusing procrastination with not doing anything useful. Just because you watch YouTube, play games, or don't do anything particularly productive doesn't mean you procrastinate. You need some time to rest and to slack.
Yes, i meant it more like: "Unrealized gains billionaire". The phrase is not meant to be absolutely serious of course, but it passes a point across which i think it's important.

Not only better and better technology gives us more opportunities to compete with one another, but we become better at competing with one another regardless of technology. The edge one holds in anything such as making movies, making cars or what have you, gets smaller and smaller in duration. The timeline of the first mover advantage to capitalize on any gains gets shorter and shorter. In such a situation, copyrights, patents, IP, end up almost irrelevant.
i think the answer is complex...i used to get terminal viruses on my PCs...on operating systems i loved. Now - operating systems spy on me but i never have issues with "blue screens of death" (perhaps my internet hygeine is impeccable?

Small apps are 300-500mb where they would have been 3mb .exes in the past. This bothers me.

subscriptions bother me. as do adversarial business practises (the entire 3d drafting landscape is fucked for example...try to find one company that charges decent prices for hobbyists + doesnt involve the cloud, make everything difficult)

However software is more complex than ever, because what we expect to do with it only gets more and more complex.
The IRS makes tens of billions in revenue annually from penalties alone for what they deem is an underpayment. If the process were not adversarial, the IRS would not be able to assess penalties for underpayments so this revenue stream would presumably be diminished. Another explanation for the adversarial tax filing process is that it is beneficial to the IRS for it to be this way

https://www.irs.gov/statistics/collections-activities-penalt...
Nonetheless as TFA indicates, the iPod Shuffle 2G+ magically crammed USB into the TRRS audio connector in a way that was reliable enough to work in a mass-market product. As others have noted the design is potentially risky since power and ground are right next to each other, etc.
Yep. It's like a conspiracy theory cult. I quit after 50 pages and found it to be a pseudoscientific, dilettante intellectual circle jerk ad nauseum desperate for hidden meaning. I'd sooner spend time reading articles from [Big City] Review of [Each Others'] Books.
I liked some of the MIT lisp lectures where they show that you compose a program out of simple functions. Think of the input, the out, and then a made up function which transforms it in 2 to 5 made up steps. Then recurse, and think of steps for the steps. Etc.
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> And performance doesn't come close to Linux on the top end or even high middle end.

There are presentation about how Netflix uses BSD for video delivery for its performance, so it can't be that bad.
Furthermore, some content that's available overseas is also censored in US releases. I'm sure your mind just jumped to interesting places, but let me bring you back by saying one of the worst offenders here is Bluey. A literal kids show; for kids. In Australia! It's not like it's even some huge cultural norm difference like Japan vs America, it's Australia!

There's an episode that's not shown on D+ at all where the dad pretends to be pregnant with the younger daughter and then enlists the help of their neighbor (who is only ever referred to as [neighbor child character]'s Dad") in delivering the "baby". Great episode. Gotta pirate it if you're in America though.

Also lots of weird dumb censorship in smaller ways. There's a roundabout discussion of a vasectomy happening in the "background" (it's the foreground but- look mate don't make me explain it) and Disney replaced what would've been a nice advertisement for the benefits of male contraceptive that many men are hesitant about with whats instead a barely coherent conversation about something trite.

And they censor a horse (an actual animal horse, no I don't know why the dogs are sentient while the horses are just animals) pooping at a state fair while the girls were just remarking how beautiful the horse is (and they run away giggling). Has Disney ever been to a state fair?
Vegas makes a fuckload of money off everyone who thinks they’re smart but doesn’t understand statistics
If we wanna be frank: lotta tech is in silicon valley and Vegas is probably the closest "large" hub to travel to (Maybe Los Angeles is closer, but not by much). It's the cheapest option without simply staying in SV.
> Assuming you can trust your hardware. At this point hardware supply chain attacks are a real threat and nobody seems to know what to do about them. The problem seems somewhat intractable.

Which is a big assumption. Going to such extreme measures to bootstrap from scratch could be worth it if it provided an ironclad guarantee you couldn't get any other way. But if, after all that, you're still relying on a giant mass of proprietary code that just happens to be written in Verilog instead of C… then what's the point?

That said, for a recent attempt to at least make progress on trustable hardware, see Precursor:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor
They did and do this, however 911 happened partially because the FBI, CIA, and NSA weren’t sharing information with each other.
This is me being opportunistic, but I'm an organizer for indie tech conferences [0]. We're not selling tickets with set venue dates yet (although a fundraiser is happening.)

If nothing else, you might join the newsletter to see if it's your cup of tea later in the year.

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To incorporate something currently is only available in "native" program form is what I am thinking; like ffmpeg example above.
I explained that it's not bypassing transformers and not more efficient in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39254966
Until you want to be able to download language dictionaries or updated language model.
Or if your keyboard is actually a remote keyboard or shared keyboard taking input from some other devices.
Seems like this is a common error, systems that treat IPv4 and IPv6 addresses as entirely distinct things. The mapping is easily missed in new implementations. Wonder how many vulnerabilities there are out there with this same mistake.
I’m not talking about 30 years, I’m talking about 1. As another commenter mentions, the current perovskites record holder hit 80% of original efficiency after only 150 days, where silicon cells are expected 1% drop per year or so. I get that the form factor or cheapness of manufacturing could be relevant, but an efficiency record is fairly meaningless if the cells degrade well below average silicon sells in a matter of months
> The video in the file was not infected, but the downloader of the file could not be analyzed by investigators because it was encrypted by WhatsApp.[16]

Can anyone translate that back to tech for us? What exactly is being called a "downloader" here?
Rounding 1920 to 2k and 3840 to 4k is not too bad. And yes it's marketing to switch from height to width, but whatever.

Rounding 2560 to 2k is massively confusing. Don't do it. 2.5k or don't use "k" at all.

And when I go look at a couple torrent sites and scroll through movies and tv shows, I'm not seeing a single 1440p in the first couple pages. Some searches show barely anything at all.
if you think they can't be named for engineering reasons, then err, i dont know what to tell you.

How many games run on xbox, playstation, pc, windows, mac, etc. that include an entire UI library with native font rendering, events, buttons, windows, etc. -- lots ! Indeed, with multiplay, online updates, networking...

This is not an engineering challenge, indeed, their absence given electron/vscode/etal. is the sign of how bad things have got.

The engineering "talent" at Microsoft now consists of teams of script kiddies building javascript UIs on top of javascript UIs with teams smaller than, say, No Man's Sky and achieving much less.

The situation is, really, that bad.

Apple brought iOS apps to MacOS with relatively little effort; steam likewise via proton did a great amount more in brining entire non-linux game libraries to linux.

Making a stupid cross-platform UI library is absolutely trivial compared to either. Many game devs do it for every game they make. Yet companies like MS, indeed most software companies, don't have enough talent available or the incentives to do it.
That’s the weird part. I doubt they’re using the space so this strikes me as “think of the money we’ll save on hours” bean counting
> Yes lobbies exists, but it is not a single entity. Yes, political parties exists but they do not have absolute power. All these annoying things are the result of several parties and lobbies arguing and finding compromise. There is no they. It is the outcome of thousands of people thinking.

Thousands is still a very small number of people to control a country. Yes there are multiple parties and multiple lobbyists. But they're largely from the same handful of cities, the same social class, and representing that class' interests. Politics really has become a lot more centralised, placing a lot more power in the hands of a few people, not necessarily for nefarious reasons (or at least, not any more nefarious than the normal human desire for power), but nevertheless something that urgently needs to be fought against.
I can just imagine that moving to IPv6 is as messy on Azure than it is on AWS.

Don’t get me wrong, actually using it is simpler, you can just have your range and then be free to do whatever you want. But the fact that it was added later to a stack never made for it shows everywhere, which makes UX tough.

Currently struggling with metadata service weirdness and slowness in IPv6 land on AWS :’)
> The key stakeholders and their vendors are friends. They know each other, they get along, they get the product, and like you said, they've built their clout on the know-how of people and product.

It's not even a friendship in many cases: This is how CEOs fail upwards, after all. It's better to take on a CEO/vendor with a known incompetence level than take a risk on an unknown.

Look at it from this point of view: you're the customer, you have an existing supplier, who frequently fucks up. Due to the frequency, you already have controls in place to mitigate the fuck ups. Do you really want to try someone new with different fuckups that will get past your existing controls?
it's maybe negligible compared to the code-size bloat of web applications, but delivering large libraries over the network with only limited caching is less than ideal
Everyone is missing "but now held at the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) with workshops and training at the Sahara" part. So this more like they got passed to a different venue. Not "vegas hates them".
Whether or not house sale prices in Missouri are in the public record depends on the county. You picked a county where they are. In some counties they re not.
The problem is that it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy either way. The government can’t do anything without money but it can with money.

One of the biggest problems in the US is that federal taxes are so high, that there is barely any room for state and local taxes (where you’d get the most bang for your buck) to do anything useful.
We also believe in constant air conditioning unlike the East coast and defcon is probably not the group walking around outside the hotels much.

The heat sucks but it’s not like it’s that hard to avoid on a conference trip. It’s when you live here and have to hop in your plasma generating car that makes you wonder what the fuck is wrong with you
It's a 2D representation of very high-dimensional vectors. Something has to be left out and accurately depicting arbitrary rotations in the high-dimensional space is one of those things.
Yeah, HD, but not "Full HD".

The page has "HD (720p)" as max for all linux browsers. For each of the other OSes you have at least one browser with 1080p (Chrome at least). Why this restriction?
To piggyback this question - do developers have to find another way to access/update DOM update if using webassembly for web development?
Do you have any stats from which you know that adoption is limited? The thing is, you won't necessarily know if an app is using it unless you're deliberately checking the sources in the dev console, so there could be a lot of sites that you're using that have wasm running in your browser without your knowledge.

That being said, one thing that's potentially holding back developer adoption is that, in its current state, wasm is best suited to low-overhead languages like C, C++ and Rust. And then there's the fact that most of the code that runs in the browser is UI code, and it'd be hard to justify writing your frontend in Ruby or Python, which would mean that the browser download a big wasm blob just to write your code, worse performance than JS once it starts running, and a much less stable ecosystem.
Can’t tell if your other jokes are on the same level, but if they are, why do you expect them to not be downvoted? It’s basically disinformation. Maybe the difference is not Apple vs others, but just whether you were called out by someone or not.

It doesn’t take a fanboy to downvote such thing. I’d surely do, being an anti-fanboy of Apple, Microsoft, Google and Meta, if I knew the truth about the case.
The book "Bringing Down the House" by Ben Mezrich explains in layman's terms how card counting works for blackjack.
What assertion have I made?
I recently rediscovered one doing home archeology and it’s still working
TRS (not TRRS) is also used for compact MIDI (and time sync) cables.
>Why this restriction?

It depends on how secure your device is able to keep the decoded contents. The better the security the higher the quality they are willing to allow.
She was an amazingly competent firecracker, two traits that rarely go together and produce greatness when they do.
Yeah, Mozilla and the Chrome team were pushing a lot for it, and spent a lot of engineering effort on it. So far it seems a strategic failure, both for Mozilla which couldn't afford such diversion of ressources, and for the Chrome team after NaCl's retirement.
The problem is it doesn't work in a way which is effective to honest ends.

The best theoretical outcome relies on a strange world where people are normal right until a magically-frustrating trigger event remakes them into homo-economicus which read government budgets for fun and spreadsheets out their personalized cost/benefit analyzes.

I don't think that happens. Instead of checking where the money is going--or having a similar epiphany about all the "free" results they take for granted--people just go: "tax too high somebody fix it somehow", opening the door for demagogues.

One could imagine another model, where filing is easy, but the government is required to show you where it all goes... But that's not usually in the interests of the "anti-tax" politicians, since it would highlight deficit-spending or programs they could not cut without putting themselves in an uncomfortable reelection position.
This 1/8" TRRS connector is about 5 billion times better than any of the Mini-B, Micro-B, USB-C stuff that came out later.

I break a USB cable every week just because it gets wedged between 2 standing desks, stuck in office chair, gets slammed in car door, bent by thigh while in pocket connected to device, etc.

The people who designed USB Micro-B and USB-C are probably people who sit in an office all day and never bike, ski, etc. They don't realize that "consumer grade" stuff needs to be 10X stronger than military grade. Consumers connect devices together, stuff everything in pocket with wires connected and go skiing. Military people just sit in an armchair behind bulletproof glass and fire.

Never had a 1/8" headphone jack break that way, I've dropped bricks on those things, stomped over them, biked over them, had them sucked up by vacuum cleaners and vacuum robots, chewed by pets, they've been largely fine. A 1/4" headphone jack once got wedged between two standing desks and it was strong enough that the whole desk lifted off and the cable was intact, the jack barrel alone supporting the entire 100 kg of desk with everything on it. Cable still functions perfectly. REAL consumer grade stuff.
Those people were probably too young to remember pre-ads cable I feel like everyone I knew who lived through that era knew it would come to streaming as well at some point.
Seriously what is going on at GitHub engineering?

How was this not caught in a pre-production environment?
Yep. A film enthusiast would obviously not choose a streaming service. Quality sucks/can't be ensured even if you are on a good connection and most people aren't. (And if it's a gathering and everyone watches on their own device at the same time then in addition buffering is unacceptable.)

They eliminated legal ways to watch a film without streaming (apart from new mainstream ones that nearby cinema will show) so that's what they get.
Jackie Cochran and the Night Witches should be placed higher than her, in my personal opinion.
I'm not sure if it's doing exactly that, but it looks like it could be! Very neat. It'd be nice to see it for other langs, if Hy proves viability in the approach.
Yes when I first moved to the US, people would greet me with "How ya doing?" and I thought they really did want to know. It took a while to understand that it was just a way of saying hello.

I'm told that, in China, a way to greet someone is to say: "Have you eaten yet?" 你吃了吗

You are not supposed to provide a detailed answer such as: "Yes I ate a breakfast sandwich this morning at 8 am".

Instead you simply say "I ate" (吃了) or "Nope" (没呢)
It's a common bypass of server side request forgery filtering. Backends will try to validate that a user-submitted url doesn't resolve to an internal IPv4 address, but they'll happily allow an IPv6 mapped version for the same IPv4 address.