skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> will be able to take me from my apartment in Boston to my work in Cambridge, regardless of weather, time of day, etc.

Having driven from my apartment (at the time) in Boston to my job in Lexington going through Cambridge every day for almost two years... I will NOT take that bet and I'm pretty optimistic about self driving cars :P

But, they don't need to replace all driving overnight. They just need to replace a portion of driving to have a big impact.

Although, I often wonder if driving like muscles can become atrophied and if we end up with a situation like: "the car will drive me in fair whether but I need to drive myself when it snows"... if my body will forget how to drive by the time winter comes.
I'd be willing to side with you on that bet.
I'm looking at networks as having two primary operational functions.

One is a value function, which is best described by Tilly-Odlyzko: v = n * log(n)

(Tilly would be @tilly on HN, BTW.)

The "log(n)" factor means that as you add additional elements, the positive benefit decreases as n increases.

The other is a cost function, which is probabalistic between any two nodes. It's actually closer to the old (and incaccurate) Metcalfe rule: c = k * n^2

Where k is some cost constant. The larger k, the smaller the productive size of the network, the smaller k, the larger the network can grow. Hence: network size is constrained by the cost constant.

What you're observing is the cost constant of team size as a factor of interruptions. Since any member might interrupt you at any time, and those interruptions all have roughly equal cost, but the positive contribution a team member can make is limited by their ability to provide useful inputs, and the k factor is relatively large, few technical teams seem to scale much beyond about 6-12 members.

(Larger teams are almost always subdivided into smaller effective working groups.)
Why do you think it hasn't happened? In the tech sector, I've anecdotally observed differential success for those that foster a hiring strategy offsetting bias w.r.t the talent pool.
So on days conditions are bad, the city comes to a stand-still?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction_market?
Way too much to cover in depth. In short, it's all terrible. We're mostly using tools from the 70s, and we're still to this day plagued by use-after-free and out-of-bounds errors, nullpointer exceptions, awful debuggers, race conditions, slow compilation times, bad primitives for multithreaded work, just to name a few. We've known for decades that we can do better and ways to do better have been studied in depth by academia.

That's just the basics. Then there is futuristic things: Why can't we move running processes from one physical machine to another? Where are the debuggers that allow you to go back and forward in time? Why can't we visualize the data structures in our program and trivially change the data layout to see how that affects performance?

When I look at the demo of the Xerox Sparc interface (1982) and compare that to where we are today it's pretty clear to me we messed up big time somewhere along the road: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn4vC80Pv6Q
it was probably trying to drift park a la stanford's 'Junior'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY93kr8PaC4

But that trademark Volvo understeer doesn't like to powerslide.
"I think that's a good thing"

"I might agree that hiring wealthy candidates makes sense to the business"

Just parsing out those double negatives for reference.
> feign a complete lack of familiarity with it

Believe it or not, some of us are actually completely unfamiliar with it. I watched the Superbowl once about ten years ago, and that's literally the extent of my lifetime exposure to football.
He didn't do a bad job at that.

He also wrote over 100 books on alchemy (that he didn't publish because it would have been illegal to practice), tried to predict the apocalypse from the Bible, predicted a Jewish repopulation is Jerusalem from similar crazy bible numerologies, and, because he saw himself as a priest of the natural world, never married.
> Search ads are more relevant and more profitable than any other form of advertising. When someone sees a search ad, they're actively looking for the item of interest and may be ready to buy.

ActionCookBook accurately recreates my experience. https://twitter.com/actioncookbook/status/834439563032555521

ME: [views product online] Hmm. Nah.
[changes website]
PRODUCT: we meet again
ME: Sorry, no [changes again]
PRODUCT: bitch this ain't over
ME: FINE. FINE. I will buy this rug. Just leave me at peace.
REST OF INTERNET: this dude loves rugs, let's get him, boys
One could argue that a monopoly has no interest in improving service.

Also, it seems to me that both weaknesses described, legitimacy and provenance, are actually good for Gs core ad business, because if legitimate advertisers could reliably rank highly without paying, they'd have no interest to pay to out rank the competition. The competition who are buoyed by the nebulous practices Google pretends to frown upon, but for the sake of a delicate balance cannot justify completely stamping out.

The perhaps unpalatable and unutterable truth is that ad-supported search is a delicate business: be good enough to attract eyeballs, but not so good that advertisers who could pay you have no need to pay.
Smart computer can do dumb things very very very fast.
My question as well. There are several other great implementations of a color pallet generator which use color theory rules. My bet is that the GAN, in this instance, boils down to little more than a pseudorandom number generator.
Related, see comments.

https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/pull/3757
Right, but that's an idea or a design or an architecture (the realm of, if anything, patents), not a creative presentation (the realm of copyright). And the fact that I can go work for a competitor for my current employer and not have to worry about copyrights, just about NDAs and non-competes, makes me think that the copyright worry about clean-room reimplementation is bogus.
That's an interesting point.

What are the challenges behind creating a licensing test similar to the ones we take as humans(could be virtual)? This would be before allowing the software on the road.
No. On days where self driving cars don't work, price goes up, and the market puts more humans on the road.

So 10% of the time you pay the normal taxi price that you pay now, and 90% of the time you get the super cheap self driving price.

That's still awesome!
Found it !

https://youtu.be/PtgD5WRzcy4
Is this all based on chance at this point? Im looking to buy a set of headphones, Beyerdynamics DT-990. How should I buy them to make sure they're not counterfeit?
> You must be trolling but I'll say it once again, I know the general state of western economies. I understand that we are NOW in a period of low unemployment. I'm talking about the effect that immigration to certain western countries (half of OECD countries) had on employment levels, which you can verify in the study above whether you want to or not.

Are you kidding me mate? I have shown you data for +30 years!

> And as for the rest of your post...of course unemployment grew for all demographics during the recession.

Even though the crisis accentuated migration towards the strongest economies! Why aren't you going further than scratching the surface? I guess because it doesn't fit your narrative.

This is like discussing against a wall. You keep ignoring the evidence and then calling me a troll.

> Perhaps you're completely misunderstanding my point, because I never said that immigration caused unemployment, I said that it affected employment levels, i.e. the rates of employment between migrants and nationals, which again you can verify from the OECD study.

1) That's not what employment levels mean.

2) The nationals / foreign-born ratio is set to change, but as long as unemployment is low that's irrelevant.

> An OECD study of the impact of immigration on the unemployment of domestic workers in OECD countries (including the UK) during 1984-2004 found that an increase in the share of migrants in the labour force increases unemployment for those with skills most similar to the migrants in the short to medium term (over a period of 5-10 years), but that immigration has no significant impact on unemployment in the long run (Jean and Jimenez 2010).

> which again verifies what I'm saying and corroborates the data from the other study. So you keep saying you can't find any evidence of migration having any effect on employment and you now have two Europe-wide studies from the OECD showing that it does.

I'll read more about that study, thanks. Yet again, that's not what the LSE study says; it'll be interesting to find the differences and how big is that impact.

Yet again, you paint that as undesirable, when it actually ends up growing the economy and getting everyone back to employment - arguably with better skillset. It's pure competition.

In other terms, if I let you sell your stuff in my country, why can't I sell my labour in yours? As long as we play with the same ruleset it's fair.
>I actually didn't suggest a complete solution.

Nobody is saying you did. You yourself said "that is a perfect solution actually" in response to vinceyuan, who had a one-liner comment about "the source code of the monitoring software must be reviewed by independent and trusted software engineers/experts."

Maybe we are interpreting this in different ways.

How do you envision this "solution" working? It is a bit vaguely specified.

Who is doing the monitoring? What or who is being monitored? For example are we talking about monitoring the authorities to see if their access is done properly? Or are we talking about something / someone monitoring communications, on behalf of the authorities? Not sure what you had in mind. Can you explain how what you called "perfect" might work, were it to be developed at some point in the future?

I'll say up front that I'm skeptical, but let's see if we are even talking about the same thing. As long as you're being super vague, you don't have a solution at all.

And if you're just saying: there's no solution now but maybe one can be developed, fine (I believe you're wrong) but please clarify how you think it might work.
>If you make it a rule to avoid using 'let' everywhere, then you lose the safety mechanism of block scope variables, something that a lot of people agree is a good idea.

Which is why I said its bad practice in specific cases, currently. 2.5 Million iterations is a use case, not a general rule.

Programming is complicated, and as such you should know not to make the assumption that a use case isn't going to apply everywhere. Rather, you can say that microseconds of performance difference aren't a good reason to not use let, unless, you're not using something that compiles down to var, and you're going into the millions of iterations.

But, the point I was trying to make is that even when you talk about performance problems, devs jump the gun to 'pre-optimization', partially because they themselves don't know how well code performs, and partially because of misapplied dogmatism.
Has anyone ever looked at making a more "mainstream" fork? It feels like there's a lot of cool technology in TempleOS, in amongst the less cool stuff.
Audience effect
Starting a wholesale distributor business
Hello All,

Any ideas on open source order management and inventory, supply, fulfillment SaaS software to use when starting wholesale distributorship.

We are thinking of developing our own proprietary customized to our needs.

Should we start our own OR take open source and customized OR go with existing commercial solutions.

As per our market research, the products into which we are going to do whole sale is big one and we will need continuous customization and news things to launch.

Please suggestion, if any insights or ideas?
I feel like just having a browser extension is a major security hole for any password manager. Yes it's more usable and prevents domain spoofing, but it makes the attack surface huge.

Whereas to exploit a desktop app that doesn't interface with the browser (written in a decent way), you'd need code execution already.

Thoughts?
If I thought autonomous cars would be ready in 5 years, I'd be extremely hesitant to take that bet, specifically with regard to weather.

Personally, just around the corner means 10 years in the top 50% of weather. Operating in a blizzard may be very far away, and I'm fine with that. Would I take this bet? Probably not, but I'm passively optimistic.
I observe occasional referrals to our web-site from Qwant [1], a French search engine with focus on privacy. Although, I don't know if they're cash-positive or still burning investor's money.

[1] https://www.qwant.com/
What is your beef? The study's N and the raw evaluation numbers are even stated in the layman's article, you can even calculate statistical significance yourself if you don't trust the author's statements.

And they stated that UM is significantly different from the other three, but that LM, UF and LF are not significantly different from each other. What more do you want?
I spent almost equal amount of my life in China / North America now, it's interesting to see and compare what one side think about the other.

In north America, what I get is China is controlled by dictators. Life sucks over there because there is no freedom, a lot of corruption, no respect to rules, and is generally a chaotic mess. While in north America, democracy and freedom is wonderful, and everyone has the power to make changes of society, and in the end the government has to care about people to stay in power.

In China, what I get is the US (Canada is usually less discussed) is controlled by a corrupt and impotent government. Life sucks over there because the majority of the people, who actually has the power, believes the doublespeak of the government and are easily manipulated by the wealth. While in China, people make jokes about the official media, and if the government decides to do something people don't like, people simply ignore it and with enough people (there is always enough people in China) doing this, the government has to care about people's opinion to do anything.

I'm a little worried about the situation of both sides now. They seem to go towards what the opposite believes: on one hand in China, the government starts to get better at propaganda and manipulating public opinion; on the other hand in the States ... there is enough happening in the past year.
Microservices do not feel like a premature optimization. It does not feel premature to make architectural decisions around scaling based on the entirely realistic proposition that you will have more customers in the future than you do today. Architecture is exactly the area you want to get right since it's a pain to optimize when you have a weak architecture.
Going Under the Knife, with Eyes and Ears Wide Open
Who cares if a small subset of people use them? It doesn't make them worthless.
Do you have any evidence that ML is a good fit? You seem so sure.
Google attempts ‘universal’ file-sharing protocol
FWIW, the Wii U jailbreak is via stagefright. I realize it's not android, but worth noting it has been used in the wild in some capacity.
That's a good point, transactions are hard in the micro-service world. In my experience usually It's possible to re-design architecture to encapsulate transaction inside one micro-service. If you have transaction across multiple micro-service are they are really decoupled?

Similar problem is with doing asynchronous requests e.g. using RabbitMQ it is possible only with well designed boundaries as it's hard to control state of request if you do everything asynchronously.

Anyway micro-services is not perfect solution for everything, but even despite these problems I love working with them!
Actually, some software like facial recognition or OCR, does have sleep calls inserted because people don't believe it can be done as fast as it can be done. Thus, whenever I deposit checks at the ATM, I have to stand there and watch as some entirely unnecessary animation pretends to scan my check for ten seconds before I can have my card back.
> until now making a beautiful, powerful and modern app with a portable GUI was something only a few people would be able to do. Now any web dev can do it

Anybody could do it before, including web developers, using, say, Qt with C++ or Python.

Or are you suggesting that web developers are not capable of learning?
>Bloomberg reported earlier this month that a running joke at Otto was “safety third.”

"Safety third" is a burning man-ism. It's kindof complex to even explain the context for this, but it definitely doesn't mean what it sounds like.

An example of this would be: my friends and I build fire effects. Some of the guys on my team are professional propulsion engineers at a company you have heard of, and they build rockets. So when we're building little flame throwers, and they say "safety third", they're saying it as joke, yeah, but their version of "safety third" is "This is only 20x overbuilt, not 50x".

To somebody not familiar with how that term is used, it definitely does sound bad, though.
Especially HyperText/DolDoc is something that seems like a very nice feature to have. Perhaps one day someone might port something similar for Linux shells?

It seems like that is what the Linux 'text only' input/output should have been. Instead of parsing ASCII which will bring about the incompatibilities that we see today, it would have been better to have all tools input/output HTML/XML and translate it into human readable text in the shell for when output is redirected to the terminal.
IOW, Tesla will be to Uber as Uber wants to be to its drivers.
I don't know about other math departments, but most of the students and professors I knew during my math degree knew LaTeX.

From my cursory glance over the page, this isn't much simpler than LaTeX and it mostly just reduces a number of backslashes. It doesn't save me much time when typesetting equations. Nowadays, I mostly type LaTeX for MathJax or Jupyter notebook. Adding asciimath to Jupyter seems to be on the backlog[0], and it's dependent on CommonMark coming up with an extension system.

0: https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/issues/1918
> an ensemble of 12 separate models trained on slightly different hyper-parameters

Sounds like a PRNG to me.
And yet the US export of soft power to the Middle East largely ended in ignominious failure.

And there's plenty of intel out there in the open that the US funds propaganda abroad, such as Omidyar's co-funding of the Ukraine resistance (https://pando.com/2014/02/28/pierre-omidyar-co-funded-ukrain...).

Or in Chile, where the United States overthrew a democratically elected leader and installed a dictator who went on to commit over 300 human rights atrocities.

Indeed many of the technologies you cite as being invented by the US were invented within a military context! Atomic weapons were not, I'm sorry to say, America's wonderful altruistic gift to the world.

The US has certainly been successful projecting its power around the world - arguing that that has come from the sheer force of American global popularity is more of a stretch.
Who Killed Ötzi the Iceman? Clues Emerge
I've had some success relating one of my favorite jokes from the TV show "Big Bang Theory".

Dr. Stephanie: "So what did you do today?"

Leonard: "Well, I'm a physicist, so... I thought about stuff."

Dr. S: "Is that all?"

L: "I wrote some of it down."
That's why I also mentioned turret in the mix.

Skilled usage of goliaths with missile upgrade can counter carriers.

Carrier is the last unit in the tech tree, it's hard to call it a rush. Terrans can find about your carriers using comsat scans, especially because in Starcraft 1 comsats can only scan.
They could erase competitors from results.
Finding pages is becoming more and more irrelevant as people less and less create and host their own websites like they used to when the web was young. Web page creation has mostly been centralized to things like Tumblr, Twitter, and major news organizations.
Why There's an Xbox One Game Stuck to My Ceiling
My point is that in case British businesses have to overcome barriers (e.g. tariffs), their best bet at not going bankrupt is selling non-physical goods and services with as much added value as possible. That implies high technology and investment in research.

Non-physical so selling to America, Africa or Asia is as cheap as selling to Europe and added value to absorb the new cost of doing businesses (in case the UK does not remain in the Single Market).

If e22 encryption is outlawed in the UK, their businesses would be less trusted (harder to sell expensive things) and will be at the mercy of other countries' intelligence and espionage services.
Build me a search engine that only returns results which use https.
LTV = Lifetime value

No, it's not what you said. Your explanation misses the segment of customers that want the product every month but wouldn't exert a manual effort over and over again when it could be automated. Hence an increased LTV per customer with no change to the CAC. This doesn't really have anything to do with Sudden but rather subscription business economics. Automatic billing is not inherently bad; it's largely positive and convenient.

Also remember this company is not random — there's a ton of diligence involved with getting into YC as well as with VCs which they are backed.
About Leibniz stealing his work? Or his inferior notation methods?
Its a shame he hasn't hopped onto the OSS fad and taken advantage of GitHub to collect contributions.
Maybe it others could this a neat project for their master/thesis?
Just for context, here is where self-driving cars were 10 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xibwwNVLgg
Buzzword bucket naming strikes again...
I'm not sure why I'm being downvoted for this. It is a trivially verifiable fact that Mandarin Chinese has multi-syllabic words, and that these are not particularly uncommon. It's also trivially verifiable that the writing system is (to an extent) syllabic, which can give rise to the misperception that each character is a word and that each word is monosyllabic. This is all widely available, easy to verify information.
The weather is one thing, but I would argue that city driving in Boston itself is worse. It's survival of the fittest driving. If, for example, getting right up to the bumper of a self-driving car and honking makes the self-driving car pull over, every driver in Boston will do this, and the self-driving car will be stuck on the curb. You just can't imagine what drivers here are like until you live it.
The docket for the court case seems to be this one: https://www.plainsite.org/dockets/20370j96/illinois-central-...
You didn't get my point. It isn't about countries caring or not for their interests, it is about how they sell their interest to others, how do you convince others to side with you. It is about your sales pitch as a country.

Every empire pretends to be more than imperialism. Soft power comes from being convincing at it. No, China doesn't have good intentions, as much as the U.S., the British, the Ottomans, Spaniards, French and Romans also didn't. But, still, you are more powerful when you convince others that you are also "good".

If America explicitly gives up on even pretending to be good, what is the point of respecting America?