skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Supplemental: Listen to this and tell me how enthusiastic these "moderates" are about a democratic future for Syria. At this point you cannot convince me that they are anything but utopian Islamists who want to manipulate the United States into killing for them. If we dispensed with Assad, they would immediately get down to the business of fighting each other.

https://youtu.be/e4phB-_pXDM?t=1548

I have no patience for people who cry crocodile tears for a supposed loss of civility and use it as cover to push utterly cynical policies that will have massive real world impact. It's disgusting, actually, and not so different from the crybully Left.
A few manufacturers do already offer upgrades. E.g. BMW offer an upgrade for the i3 from the original 22kWh pack to their newer 33kWh pack.
Close your eyes and imagine how alienating it must feel to be a conservative/libertarian/non-leftist working in tech right now.
"Amoral" is used by sociopaths to justify their immoral behavior; "morality doesn't apply to me".
>Are people inclined to start shooting game wardens/park rangers?

It might be a small factor, but not really.
Legal gun owners aren't typically the ones using them against law enforcement anyway (it's not much different than Europe).

Remember that you (as US wildlife enforcement) are a long way away from civilization and medical aid.
As such, the chance that you'll potentially be dealing with animals with sharp teeth, claws, and fangs is substantially higher than the average person going fishing on Saturday once every few months. This is the reason geological survey crews (like the USGS) tend to be armed as well.

Contrast this to Western Europe, where any animal of sufficient size to harm a human is endangered if not already extinct. The density of civilization is much greater than it is in the US; if you are injured by something a gun can defend against it's much more likely you'll be quickly rescued. The requirement you be armed out there is much less.
Since Musk is not making electric cars just for the profits, maybe Tesla will produce replacement batteries with better specs at lower cost. Tesla cars are designed to have battery packs that can be easily replaced contra Apples recent devices. Tesla car batteries will be the first ones, at volume, that people with electric cars will want to replace. If Tesla sets the trend other car manufactures will be at a disadvantage if they don't follow.
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Whatever gets you through the night.

HN commenters are turning this place into another safe space. Contrary views are not tolerated.
Not trying to hijack this conversation, but how do you convince a company that regular 1:1 meetings are worth it?
The automakers have a short term problem. Which is their profit margins are aligned with being an older stodgy industry. However they now need to make large investments in new technology driven by a real risk of going out of business if they don't. The last time we saw something like this was the big push to add emissions controls and improved crash safety back in the 1970's.
Just noticed a rather glaring typo, so here is the edit: When I said wireless router, I actually meant using an individual computer's wireless card as a component in a mesh-network. I think the idea of transient spatial networks is rather sooncoming and futuristic in the sense that it is adaptive evolution of technology... It would be cool to build something that would allow anybody to broadcast their own wireless network in a radius from their machine, and have other people that connect do the same, so that effectively you get a mini pooled intranet of sorts.
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Yeah, Nix is cool but ain't nobody got time to learn it since Dockerfiles are so easy.
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Is there a good solution for getting the code onto a chip? Last time I tried with the open source GCC stack, I eventually gave up and installed the painfully large (~1GB) IDE from TI.
I don't know where journalists get their facts, but this article is terrible.
1) FirefoxOS was killed a year ago.
2) We never attempted to bring FxOS to other kind of connected devices beyond phones and TVs.

If they had took the time to check the projects being worked on (see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Connected_Devices/Projects) they would have understood the activities a bit better. For instance, the device built for SensorWeb was based on a cortex-m4 CPU, running bare metal code written in Rust on top of freeRTOS.
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Most likely from the compressed pages.

I recently bought a 2GB Ideapad to use as a toss around machine. I wish it had come with 32-bit Win10 but MS's stupid rules require 64-bit on any processor capable of using it.
I had the same experience. There were some really varied backgrounds. There was an engineer, a consultant, a nurse, a couple entrepreneurs, a handful of blue collar workers and some stay at home parents.

I was really impressed how well they grasped the concepts of American justice. When someone said "he's guilty because of X", a lot of people jumped in and said "we're supposed to look at alternative explanations and if they are reasonable, we need to find him innocent."

It much improved my faith in the jury system.

This was in SF and I will say that all the 20-something tech guys did their best to get our of jury service. In fact, all of them did.
- Add an upper bound to the number of investment properties someone can own. Owning more than one or two is clearly parasitic behavior. Banning this parasitic behavior allows breathing room for minorities to get onto the property ladder.

- Add tax subsidies to encourage employees working from home. This will help stop gentrification, etc, since developers can work from unconventional neighborhoods more easily, and also means that employees don't have to pay extortionary rent/interest for housing.
Locally, definitely. If urban heat island effects are a problem then co2 displacement would be beneficial. There is also the future possibility of processing waste streams locally and using that.
> incredulous that a private enterprise can put things in orbit

What's with this commonly repeated narrative that SpaceX is the only private company in space? I think the formation of ULA between Boeing and Lockheed was garbage as much as the next person. Just like Boeing buying McDonnell Douglas was garbage. But look at a list of rockets to take something to space and they are all private (ULA, Orbital, and SpaceX).

SpaceX plays the game just like everyone else. They hire the retired generals from the military. They bid on government launches. They use government ranges for launching.
Throughout this entire election and transition I've been wondering if Neil Postman's son is going to remind people of his father's warning in "Amusing Ourselves to Death". It's truly surreal that this detailed prediction I read years ago, written two years before I was born, has been playing out in such a spectacularly... real way. There's this feeling you get when you understand what we're in the grips of yet you also observe and experience just how overwhelmingly impossible it is for everyone to confront the same realizations in order for us to course-correct and avoid what increasingly feels like an inevitable disaster.

Neil Postman was both somewhat deterministic in his beliefs about our future and then reluctantly optimistic when pushed. In an interview he jokingly qualified his optimistic statement with "but remember I'm an American which means I'm eternally optimistic". I think he was also very struck with this feeling, that it is all so clear what is happening yet the dance continues and to warn people, to educate, to improve things in a systemic way that'd be sufficient enough in capacity to combat these omnipresent machinations is so overwhelmingly difficult and complex that one feels a bit hopeless.

In that same interview he said "..to the extent that there would be a serious conversation among Americans about these issues I think we could pull through." (Link to end of interview: https://youtu.be/FRabb6_Gr2Y?t=27m)

Because this problem is so complex and deeply-entrenched in so many facets of our existence whatever course-correction can be made will have to be the result of a phenomenon which I'd describe as very much "emergent". And that phenomenon will be an amalgamation of shifts in thought and behavior spanning all facets of culture and society. You could say "organic movement" but I am not even so hopeful as to think one or a few "organic" movements would suffice. I believe the shift would have to be systemic but also cultural, only a shift in our beliefs- in what our culture deems valuable would provide enough motivation to re-center ourselves around a new definition of civic duty.

Ever since I wanted to be a web developer my dream was to start a successful startup that would allow me to then fund the development of a web technology, likely a platform of some sort, that would help solve some of these bewilderingly complex problems primarily rooted in education. I am always trying to think of how a web technology could fit into the puzzle.

However, if a the American people do not start a discussion about this problem (not one facet of the problem like "fake news" but an acknowledgement of it's deeply-entrenched, multi-faceted nature) than we cannot give it a name and fight it. We cannot begin to plan solutions if we do not first have most people on board which the fact that the problem exists in the first place.

If you've read this far maybe you too are interested in this problem and maybe a couple web developers slowly ideating and iterating over time could be a valuable contribution? Feel free to hit me up: james.checks.his.email at gmail dot com.

*edited to add link to interview.
Thank you for you observations, but I've been on this site twenty-times as long as you have (according to your profile) and am quite aware of what I'm doing.

> "Avoid gratuitous negativity."

The submission was talking about how apt 1984 and Brave New World are for describing our current predicament, and my comment was explaining how they didn't quite catch it either. Gratuitous negativity is a decent way of describing the zeitgeist of the times, sorry to say.

>"Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

>"Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downvote you or proclaim that you expect to get downvoted. "

As a matter of fact, it does work on occasion, but again if you read my post the thing I was complaining about was the practice of rank-banning.

In case you're a little unfamiliar (with a 90 day old account, that's expected) the deal is that one of HN's ways of dealing with undesirables is to give them a "rank ban", which will cause their posts to fall more quickly to the bottom of a list of subthreads. There are other banning mechanisms.

> You'd do better to get attention for your cause by not treating everyone on this site like a demon.

I don't particularly care whether you pay attention to my "cause" or whether you find it too coarsely worded for your delicate sensibilities. Some folks will get it, some won't, and most will be too busy with other random stuff on here to notice either way--the point is to say something, in my own voice, for my own reasons.

And hey, you should totally feel the same way about your own posting. :)

EDIT: Removed slightly douchey remark about "wet behind the ears".
This article is inaccurate. Mozilla canceled Firefox OS a year ago. Mozilla is now canceling the Connected Devices project, which was exploring IoT and "Web of Things" technology outside of a browser:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Connected_Devices/Projects

This CNET article more accurately describes the affected Connected Devices project:

https://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-layoff-firefox-device-rele...
That is correct, as well as another host of nightly-only features. It's gonna be a while before Rocket is stable.
It amazes me that people would prefer Trump be left, unopposed, with a room full of spineless yes-men, than advised and challenged by someone with a scientific and progressive plan.

I'm about as anti-Trump as you can get, and I still think people mad at Musk over this are actively doing damage here with their shortsightedness.

There's one thing Trump supporters in general are consistently right about - he IS president of the US whether we like it or not. Impeached, voted out, assassinated in the future, whatever - for now, he IS president of a large country. The more people he has willing to speak up and tell the truth to him and to the public, the better.
My experience with Tizen on my 2016 Samsung TV has been great so far with a pretty rapidly growing application base. Not seeing any obvious reasons why it would die on this platform any time soon barring Samsung removing it from their devices for some reason.
Nice job on this. Been looking for something like it for a while. I've experimented with a few other Ethereum frameworks, namely Truffle, but none integrate so smoothly with Node.js.

Also, the command line tool is probably the most helpful portion of Delib...you mind giving more details as to how you built it?
Would love to hear your actual complaints/issues here, though.
The article just says "it doesn't work this way", hard to tell what you are having an issue with.
Charging by the byte would disincentive users from exploring the Internet.

That effectively kills the Internet as we know it.
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Shrug. I have to do the same thing in OSX. Every major update I google what's changed and then disable 90% of it. In what world do I want Siri on my laptop…
Given current system costs and pricing ability within certain segments, companies that offer EVs face the near-term prospect of losing money with each sale. Under a range of scenarios for future battery cost reductions,
cars in the C/D segment in the US might not reach true price parity with ICE vehicles (without incentives) until between 2025 and 2030, when battery pack costs fall below $100/kWh...

So the real business is 7 to 13 years away.
Oooh! I just arrived at work and things are calm, this will be interesting reading! We use sqlite for mostly every tool we develop.
If I could do it all over again I would probably opt for Google. The Kubernetes support is wonderful and the overall user experience blows AWS out of the water.
I previously worked at an outsourced call center that handled internet support for Cox Communications. I worked there for three years in both tier 1 and tier 2 support positions. Just because you are transferred to someone that answers the phone saying they are a supervisor doesn't mean they are or that they have any more authority than the previous person. I don't know about other call centers but at this one escalating a call to a supervisor only amounted to transferring the call to one of my coworkers on the floor. Sometimes the cubicle right next to me. I took 100s of these highly escalated calls myself during my time there. I wasn't the supervisor of anything. After you've worked there long enough (about six months) to prove you can handle a call you are magically qualified to answer escalated calls saying you are a "floor supervisor."

Threatening to call or write some gov't body doesn't mean anything at this level. The support reps are not there to fix your problems or improve your services. They exist to satisfy your outrage and or upsell you. As long as your anger is satisfied, you will probably keep paying your bill. If your outrage can not be satisfied with the tools that reps have access to such as a form of credit, a new modem, or a service call you are wasting your breath. From what I could tell higher corporate people at cable/telcos are highly insulated to consumer feedback. The only thing that they understand is service cancellations by the 100,000s maybe millions. Massive numbers of customers jumping ship would get there attention. How long have people been cutting the cord in favor of Netflix etc and cable companies are just now beginning to come up with competing offers?
Aren't most of those "native" apps just webapps packaged standalone with some framework anyway?
I use snapchat every single day. I know my friends who've moved off facebook and Instagram use it extensively too. Its the facebook for young people. No one I know who is under 20 uses facebook anymore. Mostly because their parents are on facebook. Snapchatters post a lot more stuff that they won't usually post on public social media. After 24 hours it goes poof.

I expect a dip after IPO and then a nice rise like facebook once they figure out how to advertise to the teens.

Worth a wait and then buy once all the adults think its worthless.
> You either have a hardware problem (mechanical disk?)

Windows 10 cannot work on a hard drive?

In a way, it makes sense: when my father upgraded from Seven to W10, W10 never worked properly and killed the hard drive in a matter of 3 days.
What are the downsides of transfer learning? How can it fail?

And do you just arbitrarily select the "cut off output layer" for the pretrained model when retraining with your own data on new layers?
It doesn't just have to be solar. There's plenty of other forms of renewable energy (hydro, wind, tidal) that all become more viable and efficient if you can add storage.

Better grid technology will help too. If we can transmit energy efficiently over long distances, there's less storage required. Build a global grid and the whole planet can run on renewables: it's always sunny (or windy) somewhere.
"The House of Windsor only formally dates back to 1910."

House of Wetten (1030) -> House of Hanover (1710) -> House of House of Saxe-Coburg and Goth (1826) -> House of Windsor.

There is a long lineage for the Windsors. Note the name change in 1918 from Saxe-Coburg to Windor to avoid diplomatic incidents by association. To get an idea of the breakdown of English aristocracy and estates, read this insightful article by Charles Spencer, "Enemy of the Estate" ~ http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2010/01/english-aristocracy-2...

"I am thinking that Florencian plutocratic houses simply never rename themselves."

Yes, that's what it looks like.
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Yes. The link below is an early summary of the project [1], but I'll summarize here too:

We were examining how the different individuals involved in a disaster response could best communicate their needs to the pilot of the UAV without causing significant cognitive burden on the pilot.

We explored using sketching, virtual spotlights, and audio communication. The UAV's video stream and sensor data was pushed out to client devices where users could apply annotations to the video stream that would be reflected across all devices. The pilot would see these annotations unless they toggled out of the collaborative mode.

Hardware-wise, we used a little ARM SBC (ODROID-U3) hooked into the UAV's existing piloting system to serve everything either direct to the client devices or back to servers in our mobile response lab. I believe we used Nexus 7 tablets for the UAV pilot and iPads for responders, but responders could also use their own devices if they preferred.

[1] http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=12...
Are you comparing the web now to the web then? I would even argue that Chromebooks are a pretty big flop.
The amount of street violence the last few days has been astounding.

Someone is going to get killed. Some guy got knocked out face first in the street at Berkeley and people were hitting him on the ground.
> "most code is worthless, there is very little that really should be protected"

I think a better analogy would be that most parts of software (i.e. functions) can be thought of as words in literary works, it's not how you spell them but rather how you string them together that makes the work unique.
This is a bullshit statistic that has somehow become a meme on the internet. It just flat out isn't true. There's EVs with over a hundred thousand miles on the original pack still doing great. Please stop repeating nonsense as if it is a fact.
I think the author describes my point of view and defuses many of his own points at the very bottom of the page:

also, you are likely making one circuit, not planning
on mass-producing 1,000,000,000 of whatever it is; who
cares if you spend a buck where a dime might do? you
want it to work first time every time, right? this is
art not technology (eg. industrial capitalism); we
have different design criteria here.

That's exactly right. I'm usually making one circuit, and not mass-producing them. My inefficiencies will likely be limited in scale to no more than cents per month on the electricity bill. If I were mass-producing, then of course I'll reach for the low-power switching FETs.
My biggest issue with it is the forced restarts.
> people love to leak when they've already been let go

Where do you get that from? If you are a MoCo employee, email me. My email is in my profile.
You also need to publicly post job listings for PERM labor certification (for green card) and LCA (for H-1b petition). They probably have employees that want to move off whatever visa they are on (typically H-1b to green card, or STEM to H-1b).
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I don't think we ever did formal testing on this (external battery packs were plentiful), but I do recall some of the early versions of the MPEG-1 decoder causing tablets to heat up.
That is true. On the same HW, Firefox OS was better than Android.
But those numbers being moved around are not equivalent. A centralized power plant is vastly more efficient and clean than thousands of little gasoline engines. This is true even for coal.

Not to mention it allows us to make policy decisions about where our energy comes from at the source without changing anything at the consumer side. If we find out that <energy source> is unhealthy, unsustainable, running out etc... We can change one power plant rather than millions of autos. If OPEC turns the taps off, we aren't all suddenly paying twice as much to drive to work.