skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the kind of person who is willing to buy a vehicle with ho-hum performance, expensive repair bills, and poor fuel efficiency?

I think that's the key to it.

There are two reasons to buy more expensive things than normal: for better quality and durability (think of the famous Terry Pratchett passage on boots), and to show off. Most expensive purchases are a bit of both; a BMW, for example, is a showy vehicle when it's new, but it's also something that'll have a lower total cost of ownership than a Ford if you own it for 20 years.

A Mercedes, though, will cost you more over 20 years than an equivalent Ford. If you know that a Mercedes is a money pit (i.e., if you've ever talked to a BMW salesman), and you buy one anyways, you're practicing conspicuous consumption, showing off how much money you can spend on this money-pit of a car, and generally doing the opposite of Pratchett's Boots. This is noveau-riche behavior, which goes with the rest of being noveau-riche; Old Money buys Pratchett's Boots aggressively (Mercer and Sons shirts, easily-repaired shoes, etc.), which is part of how they stay rich for so long. (A fortune is an easy thing to lose if you start treating it like a genie in a bottle. Recall how the Count of Monte Cristo blew through 2/3 of his fortune in a decade; he has many real-world counterparts.)

> Have you got a link for the "language of cars" you're talking about?

No, but there's clearly a lot of interest in this. Maybe I should write a book about it -- even though I don't know cars particularly well...

Note regional variations, as another commentor brought up here; and note that here I'm talking about high-end cars. For really dangerous driving, look for working-class drivers with low-riding sports cars; twenty Mercedeses are less dangerous than one guy who thinks he's driving an F-16.
So if you are one of the people he 'likes' and will allow you to use his code, then does he give you a license? If he likes you, he would give you a license, which describes how you can use the code without getting sued.

But I thought by putting it on GitHub, and claiming that he doesn't believe in licenses, because he wants EVERYONE to be able to use the code -- that he wouldn't then 'allow' a special friend to use the code.
From Nick Lane's article "How did LUCA make a living? Chemiosmosis in the origin of life" http://www.nick-lane.net/LAM%20BioEssays.pdf

> The concept of organic soup is nowadays closely allied to the idea that the origin of life and the origin of replication are the same thing. Natural selection remains the only mechanism known in which more complex forms can evolve, and natural selection requires a replicator. Regarding the nature of that replicator, there is currently no viable alternative to the idea that some kind of ‘RNA world’ existed, that is, there was a time before proteins and DNA, when RNA was the molecular basis of both catalysis and replication. Some elements of the RNA world concept are almost certainly correct. However, there is a strong version of this theory which states that RNA was once the only catalyst as well as the only replicator and so all the basic chemistry of life was invented by RNA.(4) This ‘RNA first’ theory is difficult to accept from the standpoint of the biochemistry of modern cells. For example, many essential enzymes are metalloproteins that contain mineral centres, such as iron-sulphur clusters, at their heart.(5) There is every reason to believe that such clusters, with the structures of inorganic minerals like greigite,(6,7) have more ancient roots even than those of RNA.

> The recent abiotic synthesis of nucleotides using UV radiation and phosphate to purify intermediates(8) seems to lend support to the idea that the primordial oceans became a warm broth filled with nucleotides, which spontaneously polymerised into RNA, able to catalyse its own replication as well as organic transformations that ultimately yielded cells with lipid membranes, proteins and DNA – a purely Haldanian distillation, eight decades after Haldane’s essay. But the fact that nucleotides can be synthesised in ‘warm pond’ conditions hardly makes an oceanic RNA world more likely; by the same measure, the circumstance that amino acids can be present in some meteorites does not mean that life must have arisen in outer space. Setting aside the absence of geochemical evidence that a primordial soup ever existed, there are grave difficulties with the soup theory. To give a single example, polymerisation into RNA requires both energy and high concentrations of ribonucleotides. There is no obvious source of energy in a primordial soup. Ionizing UV radiation inherently destroys as much as it creates. If UV was the primordial source of energy, why does no life today synthesise ATP from UV radiation? Worse, every time an RNA molecule replicates itself, the nucleotide concentration falls, unless nucleotides are replenished at an equal rate. UV radiation is an unlikely energy source for rapid polymerisation and replication, and an unpromising initiator of natural selection

The ocean's not as warm or as concentrated as the experiments you're referencing.
Bookslut was born in an era of internet freedom. Today's web has killed it
"Got mine, screw you" isn't limited to Californian real estate though. It is unfortunately very broadly applied.
Not only that, but as technology improves and miniaturizes, I fully expect the distinction between "VR devices" and "AR devices" to disappear. In the future we will be able to switch between them at will and the worlds will blur.

Imagine walking through an AR doorway overlaid in your home, where you can see a beach on the other side. You walk through and magically are on said beach. You turn around and the door is gone--the illusion is complete.

More realistically, I see AR increasingly taking the form of your "main screen" with notifications, browser windows, etc. all accessible from there and just taking up visual space in your FOV. If you decide you want to focus on work or engage in another more immersive experience (movie watching, gaming, etc.), you slip into VR mode and suddenly the distractions are gone.

Again, lots needs to happen to get us there, but I see the blending of the devices as inevitable once the form factor is popularized. My guess is it will take something as sexy and revolutionary as the first iPhone to get this to go mainstream since you are right in that most people will not carry a giant headset around.
Nah, it's that plus ability to create propaganda to use against locals to further imperialist agenda and protect our assets over there. Voice of America, for example, was a CIA spokespiece being funded by the same group.
I think Android is a pretty good example of how "fracturing" is just FUD and not really that big of a deal.
Interesting, I hadn't heard of this term before but it sounds about right!

Maybe the next iteration will be assembly instructions specifically for Neural Nets built into CPUs...actually something like a convolution assembly instruction wouldn't even surprise me at this point.
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https://twitter.com/moxie/status/730230490653851648

https://twitter.com/moxie/status/730230320553828352

The Wire guys also withdrew the complaint.
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I made a command-line app for it: https://github.com/sindresorhus/fast-cli
Then have the default incognito be as described, with an option in settings to separate the two features.
What people mean is Tesla cars are unit profitable, ex capital expenses, R&D, etc.

If we assume the business is structured like most manufacturing businesses your capex, R&D, etc don't increase linearly with cars manufactured.

That means at some point Tesla will cross that threshold where the profit on each car is enough to cover those expenses and thus the company becomes "profitable" even on paper.

There is no scenario (known at the moment) where Tesla selling more cars would lead to increased medium or long term losses.

I'm a Tesla investor (from IPO) and I understand this. I knew when I bought the shares that they'd have to raise money several more times. Making cars is a capital intensive business and they've done an excellent job by making premium sporty electric vehicles to demonstrate that electric doesn't mean crap range or crap performance. Everything else is just scaling to get costs down and unit volume up.

People were also crapping on Instacart for saying they were unit-profitable in many cities but that's a good sign. It means we can see a goal line in the future made of dollar bills because the business is scaling up sales faster than expenses and eventually the two lines cross. It's also how Amazon ran their business for a decade and that seems to have worked out well for them.
Seriously, never in my wildest dreams did I think that technology would come down to this. Like many others, I dreamed a future where I could have an automated assistant at home. Just not this way! It's really all about ads and mining data, isn't it.
You have this story backwards and you should correct your post. Moxie and OWS didn't threaten to sue Wire. Wire sued Open Whisper Systems. That suit made, but did not substantiate, a claim that OWS asked for money. OWS denies that. I believe OWS, and not Wire.

The genesis of this claim comes from Wire having used GPL'd OWS code, apparently for the Signal protocol, without complying with the GPL. OWS demanded that Wire comply with the GPL.

Apparently, upon being told that they would be required to comply with the GPL, they inquired instead about dual-licensing. That's standard practice when a company adopts GPL code for their own product but doesn't want to comply with the GPL: they instead have to pay for a private license.

Instead of paying for a private license, Wire has apparently chosen to comply with the GPL instead, and withdrawn their complaint. I think that was the right choice.

The knives are definitely out for Signal now that its importance is being recognized by a wider audience. Complaints about Signal are, unsurprisingly, getting dumber and more venomous. For instance, last week, Nadim Kobeissi (the author of Cryptocat, a competing secure messaging system that I think you should avoid) was on Twitter talking about how impossible a GPL violation could have been given that Wire's Signal implementation is in Rust.
That's exactly what they're doing. Worse, fleeing after a visit make average jury think she's guilty.
> (it's totally normal for the heart rate to drop)

No it is not!

We are not talking going from an exercise heart rate to a resting heart rate. We are talking about a resting rate to a lower-toward death rate.
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OK, so what is it? The announcement neither says what a TPU actually is nor what it can do. It's a magic black box. No specs. No price.
In the realm of AI-powered products, having access to a large amount of users' date makes you rule, as it is a prerequisite to train algorithms that will understand many of your requests. I think many people are aware of the privacy issues that these new connected products come with, but what these innovations bring is so disruptive that for many people it's worth losing a bit of privacy.
It is reasonable to be concerned by the fact that using Google was putting all eggs in one basket, however on the other hand Google bets on the fact that having all your data centralized like that allows them to build a very rich knowledge graph that you are the center and that will allow them to understand you much better than any other services, thus providing a much relevant experience.
What you said. The ECI leaks say they use them gor SIGINT-enabling. In Lavabit, the court order was to compromise all the keys then lie to users that it never happened.
In the more recent years and in my environment it was first mostly MSN and later more and more Skype. Suddenly it switched to a lot of Facebook and later mostly Whatsapp.

None of these is bot friendly at all. Slack and Telegram have been a huge improvement for my daily automation needs.
That's not what happened. Wire didn't consult OWS documentation. They used the code itself, and (apparently) baked it into a closed-source product. How much sympathy am I meant to have for those people?
Google is doing this with Google Fiber and it's not exactly making a ton of progress :(
And in two comments, this entire article is summarised. Bravo.
The difference is that R&D spends money, and car sales make money. So for every incremental car you sell, you make money(or - lose less money).

Tesla would lose money per car if, for example, the raw materials cost more money than they were selling it for (this is not the case)
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QuickSynergy: https://github.com/cesarbs/quicksynergy-gtk

A simple and straighforward UI to use synergy on Linux for the most common use cases.

I haven't properly updated it in years (made some small changes last year though) but I know it's still in use e.g. my wife was surprised to learn it's quite popular at her company.
Here's an article including first hand account and quotes from Moxie: http://news.softpedia.com/news/wire-drops-lawsuit-alleging-e...

IMHO, no credence should be given to lawsuits and accusations made without proof and right before OWS integrates with two huge partners. The accuser even filed a voluntary notice of dismissal with prejudice. Accusations without proof are just mudslinging.

Moxie has a great track record; the burden of proof is on the accuser, not the defendant.
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> The Wire guys made very specific claims (where did they get the >$2M figure from ... and why would they simply invent such a figure).

Their court filing[0] says the license fee was "unspecified" and the $2 million figure was based on "information and belief" which is legal terminology used to dodge perjury[1]. If they had really been told that, they wouldn't be using terms that mean "I heard that from somewhere second-hand and think it might be true".

[0] https://www.scribd.com/doc/311974670/Wire-Swiss-GmbH-v-Quiet...

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/information_and_belief
it is also there to prevent unmonitored/uncontrolled access to babies. Prevent things like babies being mixed up. Aides taking wrong child for testing etc.
> Our goal is to lead the industry on machine learning and make that innovation available to our customers.

Are they saying Google Cloud customers will get access to TPUs eventually? Or that general users will see service improvements?
I'm waiting on that as well. But things are so early on and some of the SDKs Unity has to integrate haven't even hit v1., so it's a bit hard to support.

Also, even if they do automate handling the rendering and input aspects of each VR SDK, you will still have to deal with the various different platform / store level aspects. Google Play versus Oculus Home versus Steam versus whatever else comes in. It's already a struggle maintaining separate Rift/GearVR builds in Unity, when I have to maintain 4 different environments and their platforms? Yeah...
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If I recall correctly, it took Google a while to actually offer the boring stuff. For a while, you could get a Google Compute Engine but you couldn't just get a dang VM image, because Google knows better than you and you should do things their way. They've fixed it now, but lost a lot of potential market share for that conceit.
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If we believe the first form of life occurred on the sea floor, why shouldn't we believe that new forms of life are spontaneously occurring on the sea floor all the time?

Once a cell has formed, through the miracle of exponential growth its descendants will quickly suck up available nutrients until you run out of some key nutrient, and then it can never happen again.

Suppose that that formation of a viable cell was a 1 in a million year event. It would be essentially inevitable over a hundred million years. But the time from happening once to impossible is a lot, lot, lot less than a million years...
As much as I am loathed to promote Bing, Microsoft already has one if you type speed test into Bing.
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The upside to GS for Tesla to issue stock 3% higher is pretty minuscule, if anything (GS probably priced their take at a 20 day trailing average price, or whatever). The downside is enormous, and compliance and the SEC are crawling over the place. Plus, the issuance is going to take place at whatever price investors think the stock is worth. If investors think there's a big conflict of interest, they'll price that in.
Is not wanting to peer with somebody for free a violation of net neutrality?
So exploitation begat exploitation?
It's awesome that you, "are constantly optimizing for sub-optimal conditions which can include low bandwidth and low-quality". Out of curiosity, is there a way to specify a maximum bandwidth? (e.g. my phone plan has a monthly cap, that can easily be exceeded and result in a nasty bill; can I specify that Paperspace not exceed a certain data transfer rate when I'm on that network?)

The irony of the "phone on a train limit" is that I have a phenomenal fiber line into my house. So I know how awesome, "high quality, fast internet" can be!

I was not confused about intent behind "untethered agility". My point was, I can use my laptop completely and genuinely untethered where ever I want for as long as my battery lasts. In other words, by default the only necessary tether is for power; and even then, I can go for almost an entire workday before I need that tether. Paperweight, as well as the other VDI options, actually require a near constant network tether for operation.

edit: typo fix
Availability of head tracking, movement tracking around a space ("room scale VR"), and input mechanisms varies enormously between these. Room scale VR on a Vive with Steam VR controllers is just not the same thing as google cardboard.
What's wrong with her you mean? The type of people affected by rendition or hit teams are a rare breed. Ultra-rare. The typical method is arresting, optionally a high bail, plea offer, and then rough time in court. If convicted, you're in a prison where you usually get to at least talk to outsiders and maybe get out early for good behavior.

Quite the opposite of people disappearing you. Now that she's in Europe, the CIA's jurisdiction, she's at greater risk of this happening in form of thug violence against Americans, tourists, whatevet. I'm guessing that's uncommon to rare step, too, so dont know risk level
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You mean 24 hours before the announcement? The offering itself isn't for a while, right?
Ya, maintaining the Chinese wall between research and investment banking is a pretty central function of compliance and is regularly audited by the SEC.
I don't think it is, I am guessing they are going to go back to the well when the stock price is higher, but I don't really like that strategy.
No it's not that hard to imagine. But when I look at politicians, on either side of the Atlantic, that's not what I see.

I see a lot of hard working MPs lost in the system, doing as the party machines tell them. They're more subservient than powerful. I see the stars and office holders following a much more Machiavellian approach.

A good question is whether that's mainly down to the types of people getting involved, or the party machines that have developed.
It's the timelines. Let's take an example:

A new 100 unit building opens in April of year 1. 25 new students move in. This means overall the school district now needs one extra classroom. Usually the schools are at capacity already, so they need to roll in a portable and hire a teacher.

The problem lies in the fact that these kids are going to be in school in September of Year 1. Assuming it took a year to build the building, that means the district had to start spending money for the construction in year 0, and the teacher in year 1.

But the building won't get their first post-construction tax payment until Year 2. And that won't hit the school budget until Year 3.

So for 3 to 4 years, the school has had to front the costs of supporting those new students. By year 4 they'll have the revenue to support those new students, but they had to eat those first few years. And they won't hit efficiency until a few years down the line still.

If the developer has to make a direct payment to the school, it helps the absorb that cost.

As it turns out, in Cupertino at least, the developer has to pay $100 per new unit when they open the building, which at least helps offset the costs, but the school still comes out behind.
I think there will always be an API. In the case of Deep Learning you already see Caffe, TensorFlow, etc. readily available for developers.

I don't think the average developer will need to understand chip design but I do think _many_ developers will need to know how to use deep learning frameworks.
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> It's not to protect the baby, thefts of children (etc) are rarer than lightning strikes.

Maternity ward infant abduction is an ongoing thing, though now fairly rare (and even more rarely successful, with dozens of attempts stopped within the ward for each successful abduction) because of the security measures that have been instituted by hospitals in the last few decades.

But that's a success of the security measures, not an indicator that they aren't necessary.
I find it funny that some self-hating SJW came up with the acronym WEIRD to describe the population of the first world.

Ie it's pretty clear they started out with the acronym and then searched for the letters to finish it off. Would this sht pass if someone wanted to come up with an acronym for the illiterate population of the world that subsist on less than $1 a day and ended up with UGLY (for the sake of example)?

I find it equally unpleasant when people denigrate groups - whether they perceive them as 'underprivileged' or 'privileged'.
Hmmm I see what you're saying. It's a mess but I optimistically think it's still something we will be able to tease out, by looking at many genes in a genome.

FWIW, It was recently estimated that 2% of core genes per genome are from HGT. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_gene_transfer_in_ev... It makes HGT fairly identifiable and gives us a lot of non-transfered genes to work with when reconstructing a tree.
That app didn't exist until May 15th, and all the reviews for it are incredibly poor (as in, had zero functionality at all). I'd bet someone got an early leak of the name for Google's new messaging product, and tried to make a quick product and domain registration, so they can get tossed a few bucks when Google needs to buy the domain.
And yet all you have as a rebuttal is someone who PLEADED guilty, not who was convicted... I love the US kangaroo courts, where hardly anybody ever goes to trial.
Sure, but how does the raw length matter? The computer is storing it hashed anyway; the human can probably type five actual words faster than 3 pseudo-words.
Understood, but GPU's are very good at linear algebra. GPU's are HORRIBLE for crypto, just very parallel.
Possibly - the two sites I've seen with "hands-ons" do not mention this anywhere.
There are people from all skill levels on this site.
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Running a machine on a blockchain (Ethereum) is much more complex and error prone then recording transactions on a blockchain (bitcoin)

The Ethereum virtual machine has to be completely error free if any sane person is going to put their money into it. I just don't see that happening.

I do see a lot of glitzy websites using blockchain buzzwords, but there isn't much going on besides fundraising. This should be a concern for anyone speculating on Ethereum.
I'd recommend you read their financial statements.