jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Several of Musk's numbers don't add up. No pickup has a bed capacity of 3500 pounds. That's 1.75 tons. Even full sized US pickups top out at 3/4 ton, unless they're super duty which adds greatly to weight and lowers MPG painfully. A 1.75 ton load, especially raised as high up as shown in this prototype, would flip the truck in the slightest of turns. 3500 is surely a fake number.

Second, this is going to be a very heavy truck, 6000 pounds or more. No truck with thick stainless steel body panels can weigh less than 5500 pounds. How that much weight can deliver 250 to 500 miles of range... sounds like fantasy #2. Apparently Musk is imagining that battery technology will advance a lot before this thing ships. Or he's just making stuff up.

Finally, the claim that the bed will extend to the ground to form a useful ramp. Nah. These folks have never lived with a pickup. No object heavier than a bicycle is going to make it up that 45 degree incline and into the bed without crashing into the cab before it can stop, especially given the polished floor of the demo truck. That's fantasy #3. No telling how much more reality distortion lies beneath that funky exterior.
I work out of one. Not much has changed, but the coffee mugs are half the size (seriously) and what was regularly fruit water is now usually plain iced water. Not really important in the grand scheme of things. We still get billed monthly, and have access to our workspace.
The concept of AI to the average person outside of the computer bubble is "human intelligence made artificial"

So if it's not actually thinking, then technically, from the perspective of an average layperson, it is not real AI. However, the "AI effect" is still real, but it's related to a problem local to academics and AI laypeople.

Most non-AI-laypeople/AI academics believe AI is a machine that can think like how a person thinks.
Going on about 17 years here.

It's not looking great for the future in terms of staying a developer. It's getting harder to find reasonable jobs anymore. My current one and the last one are/were disappointments.

I think the best words of advice are: Devise a career backup plan. I don't currently have one even though I have exerted effort in that direction. Probably end up a stocker at Home Depot or something. Hope not.

At some point, knowing another language or framework may be interesting to you, but it is pretty much immaterial unless you are going to use it on that job. For instance, I love Kotlin, but there's no Kotlin developer roles in my market hardly. Waste of time. Same thing happened with Clojure. I never learn.

You will be too expensive: I recently went after a Kafka Architect role which I should have been a slam dunk for but when it got to price the other side suddenly got all wobbly, excuses appeared, and poof, it disappeared.

Companies want cheap, throw away talent. I will say it again: Companies want cheap, throw away talent.
Looks like they have a bug to fix
Unfortunately your link doesn't seem to be correct.
The only bug here is the default password.

After authentication, the fact you can make it charge or dump power into the grid is by design. If I wanted the grid to suffer, I can do this by plugging in and unplugging a multi-kilowatt heater every few milliseconds too. Residential properties have a fuse (usually 60-100Amps), and anything you can do without blowing that fuse won't damage the grid.
There's a video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNLEEogFo18 where People Data Labs' chief executive speaks at an insurance conference this year about their business.

They describe the data as being sourced from a 'data co-op' of over 1k companies which share data. It wasn't clear whether that means that those companies are collaborating and pooling data, or whether it's a roundabout/wordy way of saying that they scrape public personal information from thousands of sites.

They also claim that they're GDPR and CCPA compliant; I'm no expert but I do find one or two references that seem to suggest that scraping EU citizens' personal data without consent hasn't been GDPR-compliant for some time.

It does also raise another question: even if PDL themselves aren't GDPR-compliant, would any resulting fines against them reclaim a significant portion of the utility captured from the distribution of that data? As per comments on this thread, PDL API keys seem to be free to create.

Hypothetically speaking it could be within the interests of a group of businesses to provide a small amount of funding towards operation(s) that harvest and redistribute personal data: if the revenue base is low, the operation(s) can eventually fail (once legal proceedings catch up with them) and the group as a whole incurs little cost.

The speaker also takes a question from the audience regarding potential use-cases for this kind of personal data, and answers that knowing about an individual's life events (such as marriage) can be an opportunity to sell products to them, as can differentiating pricing if they'd just started smoking cigarettes.

Although I'm no expert, my understanding of insurance has been that risk is spread across a large pool of customers, allowing them each to pay similar premiums despite potentially slightly different backgrounds, with the understanding that they mutually benefit by paying into a shared fund so that the (random, potentially high-cost) risk of loss to each member is greatly softened.

We're seeing a situation here where more precise, per-individual data is being collected across large populations and could potentially be used for price differentiation.

If the insurance industry doesn't defend itself, this could lead to premiums which are essentially calculations based on 'pre-existing data' -- information which the consumer may not have consented to sharing, and which an insurance company might not be able to collect from application forms.

We don't seem to be particularly good, collectively, at escaping from cycles which seem to introduce or further wealth disparity at the moment and I worry that this kind of tech-driven attempt to optimize revenue efficiency of the insurance industry would only lead to further inequality.
Careful with your anecdotes.
I had a very similar thought regarding gaining API keys for Tesla vehicles after realizing I can get generate API key knowing only my Tesla Account user name and password only.

Honeypot free WiFi at a Tesla Super Charger with a legit looking login page: “Free WiFi for Tesla Customers, Login to your Tesla account to access.”

API End points include vehicle unlocking, speed limit settings, etc. Some are not available while the vehicle is motion, so at least there’s that.

(Full disclose: I own a Model 3)
webkit.org MX records point to Apple, but Gmail can send and receive emails on behalf of any account that supports POP/IMAP/SMTP.
No, different PalmOS lineage.
>There's what, like, 10 places in the world where you'll have enough compute to be able to train cutting-edge neural networks

You can just use a smaller amount of compute with transfer learning style stuff.

I can probably fine-tune a transformer model with my pocket money and beat any NLP solution from two years ago.
My guess is that the ICO wont fine them very much as it did not include full credit card numbers. However they might up it for failings in process, lots of remedial measures etc.

They might not even have PCI compliance issues alas.

The management will argue that they knew nothing, although that is becoming less of a defence now.
"Plotting armed violence to overturn a legitimate election result isn't"

There are already laws and means to deal with plotting armed violence. None of them include (or should include) banning the phone company / app company / phone maker / etc.
If you are so concerned about this you could start sending them 50% of your paycheck every month.
Can we not say the same of the Alt-Left too? Well over 100+ days of violence and destruction in major cities across the country... that's not acceptable either.
I am loving people who don't understand that they are literally supporting billionaires while claiming to be anti-corporate resistance.

Definition of Liberal used to be: "Willing to respect or accept behavior or opinions different from one's own; open to new ideas. Relating to or denoting a political and social philosophy that promotes individual rights, civil liberties, democracy, and free enterprise."

I am still a liberal. But I am not the current liberal.
you aren't the president. Any future elected official now has to consider if these social media companies are a good medium to communicate with the people. If that elected official doesn't play big tech's rules, the looming threat of a ban might change their mind.

It's crazy naive to not see the implications of this
No, they care what Trump’s followers think he said, because they’ve already committed one heinous act of violence.

Read this carefully. They are looking at the actual response to these tweets. Not their own personal feelings. The actual effects on other Twitter users.
There's nothing stopping you from using an anonymous Twitter account to login if the site supports Twitter authentication.

Alternatively, MyOpenID and some other OpenID providers allow you to choose what pieces of data to present to the requesting site when asking you for permission to authenticate with them.

Facebook is another story, as they want every profile to correspond to a real-life human and only present an allow/deny choice for permissions to the requesting site instead of finer-grained access control.
Wave got this in the end.
I like Workflowy. However, I'm used to jumping between words using ctrl+arrow keys. When I do that in Workflowy, I'm taken a level up or down. It's very hard to get used to.
"Unbelievable, dangerous, greed-headed and yet another example of the craven idiocy of what passes for regulatory oversight in this country."

He provides no justification for this statement. Why is it these things? Given the title of his blog, I'm assuming he has a pre-disposed bias on such matters.
I'm not sure he's talking about a separate "Internet ID" that should exist. I think he's talking about websites adopting OpenID and/or OAuth as authentication methods, with a smaller number of trusted entities as authorities (Facebook, Twitter, Google, MyOpenID, Verisign, etc).

I'm not sure where people are getting this idea that he's talking about creating a new concept called an Internet Driver's License. He's just trying to encourage service providers to adopt OpenID/OAuth instead of traditional logins.
Specifically, its businesses and citizens'll be doing just fine.

The government will probably be fucked up. But when was the last time it /wasn't/? I suspect even the older of HN's community'd really have to dig at their memories to remember a time when Cali's government was functioning at or near spec, regardless of party-in-power. We're pretty good at the whole revenue-generating shtick, but the governance bit seems to keep eluding us.
Well, the concrete lid blowing off was just the beginning point. And the point to putting the silos out there was that there wasn't much to target. There was a joke going around at the time that one of the silos towards North Dakota went off inadvertently and caused $40 damage.
And this is why I always hit the comments before clicking on the link. I've seen a flux of these bait headlines, only if I know the URL will I click otherwise I will go to comments.
> Not really. The site operator has done nothing that has not already been done before, and it's little more than a basic nmap scan for services (which anyone can do).

Merely because something is easy, or common, does not make it ethical. In fact, I think those factors should be entirety unrelated to ethics.

Theft has been done before. Theft is easy to do. Therefore, it's ethical to steal. This seems to be the logic you're following... Correct me if I'm wrong?
That looks amazing. One would expect it to be slower given all of the interesting language features.

I've been wanting to learn one of the up and coming languages (Rust, D, Go, etc.). Would Nim be a good choice?
I usually make it available on localhost and use an SSH tunnel to access to it. Nothing fancy, but effective.
Nice quote - "Finding out that you’re not the Rebel Alliance, you’re actually part of the Empire and have been all along, is painful."

Conceptually agree but feel something is missing in the argument.
When I say DHE, I mean finite field DH in general; I have no beef with replacing the old TLS DHE mechanism by the one from the ffdhe draft, with curated prime fields to work with.

Index calculus. Over prime fields it has seen essentially no major progress (beyond small complexity tweaks, some of which are useful) since 1992 with the number field sieve. Index calculus also exists for elliptic curves, under some conditions: once again, over prime fields things seem fine (modulo MOV, anomalous, etc curves). I suspect we will also have to drop RSA if the index calculus for prime field discrete logs ever improves significantly. Likewise, some efficient attack against P-256 or curve25519 has a good chance to eliminate most or all curves in that size range.
I love that quote -- I think that's a quote from Mike Boyle.
Some would argue that if it lowers your opinion of the author it is an "autoding" already (whether you're willing to admit it or not).

Take this scenario: You have a single position you are interviewing people for. You've got two candidates with entirely even qualifications. The only perceivable difference between them is that one of them writes interview code with variable names spelled like in the original post. The other guy spells things the way you would expect. I'm willing to bet you'd end up hiring the second guy. Sounds like an "autoding" to me. Or would you argue that you would not do that?
They cite one single site for the data - compete.com. If you look at Quantcast/Alexa, neither reports that same drop.

None of these sites are accurate when used as a sole barometer. Sometimes my site looks like it has dropped off the face of the earth for a month.. then in a few weeks it goes right back to normal.

Compare:
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/digg.com/
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/digg.com
http://www.quantcast.com/digg.com
Hm, wasn't Facebook launched in 2004?
Edit: OK, they seem to work pretty well. This is a nifty idea.
As an individual over even the fastest internet connection there is no way you can do High Frequency Trading. You need latencies of sub-millisecond to do this. The guys that do do this have very expensive hardware co-located at the exchanges. All this costs a LOT of money (a friend of mine who developed an HFT platform for a large bank reckoned you'd need about a million bucks to have even a vague chance of comepeting). Additionally it's also VERY risky, and not the free lunch it's portrayed in the media. You're "picking up pennies in front of the steam-roller" - one mistake and you're f*cked. And trust me, mistakes get made: if an order doesn't fill/complete and you're left with an outright position you can lose a lot of money very rapidly.

So forget HFT. However yes there may be opportunites for relative value / alpha / rich-cheap type analyses, which AI/ML could help you with. But bare in mind that markets are often "confounding" - and never do what they are supposed to. So play carefully.

Edit: I should also add that HFT requires a very fundamental knowledge/understanding of contracts and their pricing (mostly futures), how exchanges match and fill orders, how curves are constructed, how the markets operate and so on.
I was actually thinking of it the other way around, the comfort factor of a girl that I assumedly don't know very well being offered my ear buds and the potential awkwardness that this may engender, regardless of the actual condition of my hypothetical ear buds (which would be very clean) or my general rule about no one using my own ear buds (to which there are admittedly some rare exceptions, with people whom I know well enough). But I guess judging by the downvote, not Steve or anyone else must think this way. Message received.
At this point, neither Cassandra nor Redis are in the critical path of their timeline service.
Do you know if there is a place to download historical "real time" data for testing?
hm. See, in the example I gave, it is maybe 5 minutes of actual work; if it takes 2 to 48 hours, that's 'cause I wasn't working on it.

I think this should be fairly clear to the customers; I mean, nearly all of the competition has this stuff automated and nearly instant.

the only thing I can think of is that it means I'm still alive and probably not on vacation or something.
Several developed nations have companies (etc) guilty of disasters similar to these. e.g. Union Carbide.
Looks like your only course of action is to send them the tracking numbers (again?). For $126,000 it's worth taking the time to do it. You may find all the money in your bank account tomorrow.
>You can indeed shorten it to 1-2 minutes if you use a slick operating system

Which OS are you using that takes 5 minutes to boot (and what hardware)? I'm just using Kubuntu 10.04 with a pretty standard install (though I've stripped most unneeded apps). It did boot marginally quicker (as did my other comp) with 9.10; though shutdown now is very quick.
How selfish of you, to save the good porn sites for yourself
That's why I prefer the "If it ain't broke, don't break it" locution.
i wish i could upvote this a million times. People need a quick way of judging things and your degree is generally the first barrier. This is not optimal but it's how the world works.
Where was there a tone of religious extremism?
My general rule now is to not buy a tech product if it's not hackable. Even my wrist watch (a Timex Datalink) is running custom software to enhance its interface.
It was almost certainly sabotage, chemical plants (including the UC plant at Bhopal) are designed to make accidents like this impossible. After the fact investigations all failed to reproduce the alleged accident mechanism.

Also, completely coincidentally, UC was involved in a dispute with the union.

Lastly, "US Company" is inaccurate. The plant was only 50.9% US owned, and 49.1% Indian owned.
forsst.com now redirects to forrst.com
Exactly. This is what we do on CallTheWeb. Not only is it much safer, but it allows our users to contribute messages to multiple accounts (say, their personal account, as well as a company account). If you tie things to a single email address, you limit your power users.
Well, potentially, if Angular 2.x adopts the virtual DOM like React , Angular directives could be used in native Apps,just like React Native. There is no reason why it can be done.Any framework that isn't tightly coupled with the DOM can be "ported" to plateforms outside the browser.
If you are downvoting my comment, please tell me why so I can improve my comments in the future. Cheers
I understand you may disagree with them, but there's no need for an ad-hominem attack. I like to believe our community is above that, even as a lurker. Instead, why do you disagree with the assertion that its an unfortunate name?

(It appears @comex gave a pretty convincing argument for why it is at this level in the thread, and I know I read the name wrong at first!)

quick edit: http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/rapere isn't looking too good, either.
https://gist.github.com/pwr22/c63c0e3f3309d0c95344
Well there is something unfunctional about OOP, encapsulation of state and some implicit assumptions about mutability. Although I do agree that neither paradigm is at odds with the other. Scala demonstrates that there can be a fruitful interplay between both.

As for the existence of sophisticated type systems I again don't disagree with you. I'm having a lot of fun playing with TypeScript and mixing and matching dynamically and statically typed portions of my code. I'm looking forward to see where that line of work leads because it is an extremely pragmatic approach to type systems and helps me program instead of adding unnecessary cognitive overhead.
I'm not an expert, but I wouldn't think so. To me, full dependent types just means you have pi and sigma types. I don't see anything fundamental about pi and sigma types that would prevent you from having bottom in your language, or from allowing users to define partial functions.
Or just use vim or any other editor smart enough not to try to slurp the whole file in one go.
I imagine Google views this as a positive thing, trying a million ideas, so that hopefully it increases the chances of having at least one good and popular idea. The downside is, a lot of products they killed were good ideas, but its sink or swim and they don't get the products the needed love and attention so they don't take off and thus they kill them. And now even when releasing a good idea or good piece of hardware people will always be worried if it will be gone tomorrow, which leads to less adoption and more axing of products.
This was released a day or two after T-Mobile. Hmm...
I feel like, if we're not writing data-interfacing applications with PUT and POST as specifically different actions in mind, we're doing something wrong.

People think in ambiguity; adding a new item or replacing an existing item, as in this example, shouldn't be something an application needs to guess at.
I don't think that's accurate as well. Since it is not all dog. Lol, I know it is hard. May be just say "dog and human" ?
Nope, happily employed here. What prompted you to leave?
But ES doesn't hand over a loaded gun . Someone went out of their way to load the gun up.
Most of the time such "features" are about addressing the detractors who say they will only facilitate drug deals. Because, you know, that's one major way to shoot down any public goods.
It's super easy to get a general programming job, though.
What was the name of the site the guy allegedly ran? I couldn't find it in the article.
You may want to check out Crystal https://crystal-lang.org/ -- you will get all of the positives you describe, while avoiding perhaps 3 out of 4 of your listed negatives. (I think your "ease of iteration" point will still probably win for PHP vs any compiled language.)

Also, I'm very curious: how does the KLOC count compare for the PHP and Rust versions?
> which of things that 2022 kids are into should we be buying up for 20 years from now?

Streamer memorabilia: https://www.gwern.net/Startup-ideas#streamer-memorabilia

Tho I think the average HNer is too out of touch to make good investments in this field and would be better off asking their kids
Like draw.io with fewer features overall but some additional icons.
Yes, thanks I do "even live in London". In fact, I've lived in and around London all my life. Uber is fine, it's about as great as any of the other identical apps, and frankly, is far worse than being familiar with the local public transport 99% of the time inside London.
Have been using Telegram for work for a few months now instead of (or in addition to) IRC - it's been very good, the mobile and desktop clients are great.

Tested Tox last year but it was super buggy. TextSecure looked good but doesn't seem to have as many users. I think Telegram will keep growing.

I just watched Durov's talk with Jimmy Wales from a couple of years back and he comes across like he genuinely cares about ideas that benefit all internet users more so than money. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEHd4HbOLYM

Still, doesn't seem like a sustainable path to have the messaging infrastructure be a responsibility of one company, both for security and financial reasons. Surely some kind of tox style p2p infrastructure would be better?
Funny because although I'm paraphrasing a little, it's precisely the reason why Brennan started 4chan. And he has more or less stated this multiple times in writing and through livestream. Christ, you can ask him this and he'll say that.

But I'm guessing blindly believing rampantly biased media surrounding the subject is more your style, right?
Pretty much all dictators breath, too.
Is destruction of property to be considered violence?