skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tesla is a different story entirely. Uber is burning cash by subsidizing operations (aka buying customers); Tesla is spending it on capital assets and R&D. Money spent on operations generally won't benefit you beyond the current quarter; but capital assets (including intellectual property as the result of R&D) retain value over time and often pay for themselves in a relatively short period of time.

You'll notice a common thread throughout Elon Musk's "big bets" (Tesla, SpaceX, etc.) He is extremely conservative with operational spending, and all of these companies are very capital-intensive. Just look at the difference between a "Tesla Store" (small, maybe 3 or 4 employees, cars can be stored offsite wherever is cheap) and a normal auto dealership (huge, dozens of employees, majority of expensive real estate is used for parking cars). The Tesla store is very efficient compared to the auto dealer.

When you have high capex, it makes it easier to fund your company through debt rather than equity since those loans/bonds are backed by capital assets with a non-zero liquidation value.
So we agree on the facts, but disagree on the precise meaning of words. Other than recreating ancient brews, it's moot anyway as all ale sold nowadays contains hops.

I occasionally brew in very small batches. I've brewed ales without hops, including one which was loosely based on an Ancient Egyptian recipe. Recipes here: http://web.onetel.com/~hibou/Ale%20Recipes.html
I'm not trying to be too critical, but the first thing I look for whenever I come across a new game engine is an actual game implemented in it. Unfortunately, almost none of these engines ever seem to get around to providing a MVP.
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We used node-html-pdf[1] for this, but it depends on phantomjs which uses an ancient version of webkit. We migrated to electron and its contents.printToPDF(options, callback), but that has the drawback that we have to start a X-server[2] with our backend code. I have hopes with a headless chrome we can ditch the xvfb-server and have one less dependencies. The setup is a pain, but the results are very good and looking very decent.

[1] https://github.com/marcbachmann/node-html-pdf
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xvfb
Haha this is too funny, definitely participated in Booth hacks, thanks for getting this off the ground for us!
> The LA Times, which uses AI-based software to automatically write up the USGS alerts, did issue a news story based on the alarm notice

lol who knew it would be so easy to get into AI. I can use my templating skills (or mail merge for that matter)
I can't speak for anyone else but sparrows are far and away the most common bird I see.

I mean I'll grant that I like looking at blue jays despite them also being notoriously aggressive.
I'm really excited about this language. Here is a link where Blow live codes and explains features:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmV5I2fxaiCKfxMBrNsU1...
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If I'm seeing this correctly, it's already at 321USD https://cryptowat.ch/kraken/ethusd
What we need is not to drop the optimising compiler entirely, but make the parts compilers are good at available for programers to use in a more controlled way. Something along the lines of what https://www.confluent.io/blog/turning-the-database-inside-ou... does to the database.
It's not my API, it's the standard IPFS writable gateway API, documented here: https://discuss.ipfs.io/t/writeable-http-gateways/210

And there's an example usage here: https://github.com/jes/hardbin/blob/master/js/hardbin.js#L25

There is currently a bug which means you first need to DELETE the filename (in my case "content") that you are trying to replace if it already exists, but apart from that it is straightforward.

I started fixing the bug here https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/3931 but ran out of steam - hopefully I'll continue soon.
> The federal body said work it was doing to revise and update information about where the historic quake struck had caused computer systems to misinterpret the data and think it was seeing a novel event.

It doesn't seem that implausible for a program to be reading through a dataset and issue a notice for a measurement above some value. If the dataset encoded years in just two digits, it (almost) makes sense that the program would report it 100 years off.

Imagine:

with open(file) as f:
for record in f:
year, month, day, time, magnitude = record.split()

if magnitude > 5:
raise_alarm()
Huh. Okay, that was not immediately apparent from viewing the project— it looked like a hand-written Makefile. Link for the curious:

https://github.com/bkaradzic/GENie

Appreciating that CMake has its warts, it also has a ton of mindshare and has lots of convenient modules for handling common dependencies. What are the motivations to use a Lua-based scheme instead?
I guess for #2 you didn't get a chance to try out Schema? (Now at https://github.com/plumatic/schema) Or if so, I wonder what you found lacking in it? http://www.lispcast.com/clojure.spec-vs-schema does a good job highlighting some differences..
Really not the same thing (e.g. pandoc for html -> pdf via LaTeX) as having a webkit based renderer. They do not look the same at all; sometimes it is good to have a LaTeX output but most of the time you are going to want a more accurate representation of your HTML.
I'm getting so sick of hearing the word 'disrupt'. It's been so overused that it I feel that it has basically lost all meaning.

Edit: I see that the HN title has been changed in the meantime.
Here sir, have an internet.
I'll have to try that again. I thought I had tapped on a couple and it didn't work but maybe I just didn't hit the right spot.
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It already exists: https://github.com/mozilla/positron
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They call this "catching a falling knife", or more charitably "buying the dip". The conventional wisdom was that you shouldn't do this, because if it crashes to below $2 that's more likely to be because it's worth $0 than because of a glitch, and you're more likely to lose your money. But it's absolutely something you can try, and I wish someone with serious backing would try - I suspect the conventional wisdom isn't true any more.
Finding out a company employs this technique is the quickest way for me to not buy anything from them.
IPFS isn't "uncensorable" and shouldn't be promoted as such. Nodes must openly host your content for it to be available in the network.
Solaris, the system were ease of use is an enemy.
You are an extreme minority. People who frequently travel internationally are a tiny niche market. Most users just care about having a service that works where they are.
For whatever reason lambda cpu time is much slower then test on your laptop time. Something that takes your laptop 5ms may take lambda 100ms. Some may be oversubscription, some could be cache thrashing...
Gotta get those eyeballs.
I find GENie/premake way simpler to read and write. Also, you have more flexibility since your build scripts have full-fledged Lua capabilities.
I remember last time I looked at their projects page it was very underwhelming. Doesn't seem like that has changed.
Excellent comment. I feel this while taking a mind numbing course on "Spring Cloud". Everything about it drips of mediocrity, but I can add "Expert in Spring Cloud' to CV and get hired by company who wouldn't care a bit about carefully written software.
Don't expect much for another 3-5 years.
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They now have a walkway to be able to cross over safely. Cobbles sure still happen and it's scary to see hot steel spaghetti fly into the air from within the pulpit.
HAT-trie, a cache-conscious trie
Everybody on the network is a node. As long as anybody who is hosting the content (even implicitly, in their cache) is online, it remains reachable.
... with a red carpet to the White House?
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Which ASICs are for Ethereum? A quick search says GPUs are still popular?
exactly the same thing happened to me with Litecoin on GDAX.

They sold off my entire holdings for $0.01 - $0 after fees. At the time LTC was trading for something like $25/LTC.

It took about 3 weeks to get anything but an automated response from their support team.

This was the response:

"After further review, this sell was due to a margin call of your margin position on the LTC/BTC order book. A series of large sell orders were placed on the LTC/BTC order book on May 21, 2017 around 1am UTC causing a large price decline which triggered a margin call of your position when your maintenance margin ratio was exceeded.

The trading engine and margin call functioned as designed. The large price decline was due to the relatively low liquidity on the order book at that time."

They eventually refunded the coins.... but a couple of days later removed half of the refund with no explanation. I'm out of pocket by about $1200. I'm still waiting for a response from them on that one.
I'd love to see some sample code. I've tried something similar to detect the postman in my security camera stream, but failed over lots of small technical details.

Does anyone know a good tutorial on reinforcement learning that describes a practical application like this?
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Yet none of those same people have an issue with taking their phone out of their pocket constantly and glancing at it which has... a camera on the front! But I could see the issue of never knowing whether or not the glass camera is recording and whether that recording is going to wind up on youtube.
> before the race weekend, all our simulations, which had been firmly plotted around a more conventional qualifying strategy, had told us we were likely to finish third.

That was 2006. Do anybody have information about to the software racing teams use to simulate race strategies and how many GPs they test? Thanks.
Great marketing campaign, but philantropic stuff needs to be long term to be of any use. Short term stuff can in fact be counter-productive by hiding that there is a problem that needs to be resolved.

The best solution for almost every response he got is: Introduce better legislation. Even charities are just bandaids over actual problems.
You might like to look into Parnis. The brand is used by a group of Chinese makers producing watches with decent, if budget, internals and styling inspired by famous brands. Some people find it's a good way to see what style of watch will suit them when they're rich, some people think it's cheap plagiarism. I've got two that I'm very pleased with.

If you decide on this path you'll need to do a bit of research and exploring first. A good starting point is this thread: http://forums.watchuseek.com/f72/buying-parnis-read-first-79...
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You need people on the ground to recruit and hire drivers, hand out ride incentives (especially on campuses), manage out-of-home advertising and local events, manage the in-city staff...

It's easy to think everything is handled online via digital advertising, but ops-heavy businesses like this require bodies on the ground.
Not all games need to be the next Crysis.

If fact, the majority of them gets abandoned even before memory pressure starts to be a relevant issue.

Even if Go isn't at the same level of D or Modula-3 in regards to memory management (heap, stack, global), it is already quite usable for many types of games.
> Here in Britain, we have Roger W Smith, the only watchmaker in the world who makes everything by hand.

I don't know if Roger Smith literally makes everything from scratch, but if I recall correctly Philippe Dufour and FP Journe are approximately as "in-house" as he is (though Journe is becoming relatively mainstream these days).

I would say Dufour is approaching the same legendary status Smith has, especially considering the waiting list (and auctions) for Simplicity models.
Sorry, I meant your gateway. Thanks for the documentation, I had no idea this existed. I'll have a look, but if you already know how to use this API and would like to issue a MR, I'd be grateful.

EDIT: I have updated it to use the Gateway API, thanks for letting me know.
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Is this related to that xkcd where he calls that task virtually impossible?
I hate combinatorics. Number theory and algebra are so beautiful and profound and I feel combinatorics just sucks out all the soul.

Also strange that he cites Hersch, who, if I remember correctly became relevant during the post-modernism vs science wars, unless this is from that particular conflict--in which case I wasted my time reading this at all.
You must live in CA.
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I question whether students are ready to read classic authors before middle school at the earliest. Perhaps one can read Huckleberry Finn as an adventure story before that, but is that more than surface familiarity? Don't know about M&Ms, though.

Anyway, as I say again and again: there isn't one US education system. Within the District of Columbia, a populous but geographically small area, there are practically if not legally speaking six or seven at least: public schools, magnet; public schools prosperous; public schools shaky to desperate; parochial schools; private schools; charter schools. And within the parochial, private, and charter school worlds there are considerable differences.
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>heliography

Maybe you meant "hagiography"?
I would suggest that formulating conjectures based on data is specifically not maths.

Some mathematicians start with data, and no doubt about it data is effective. But I'm specifically saying that that is employing a tool of the scientific community (see [1]) as a starting point before then proceeding to do some actual mathematical work. This distinction is why maths is often classified in the Arts rather than the sciences.

But if you can point to a maths textbook that teaches someone "general theories" by printing 10,000 data points followed by a QED then I'd suggest it is a pretty extraordinary theory.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method

EDIT I'll throw in an example; a software consultant might be involved in invoicing for a project. The invoicing is still accounting work, even if it is being done for a software project.
Fair. Personally I'll occasionally look at the source to see if there's any obvious trickery going on. It would be interesting to do a study to see what people consciously think about that type of thing.
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email sent. I might have up to 3 pairs for sale. I'll contact my buddies who I got into the program.
There are no ASICs for Ethereum. It's currently impossible to get latest gen GPUs from any retailer, or for anything close to retail price on eBay, because there's a mad rush to get into Ether mining.
Nope, but how much are you paying the sysadmins?
I don't see a reason why you should be refunded anything. As I understand it, you were margin long and you got margin called after someone dumped into a relatively low-liquidity market.
Yeah, similar sentiments in the PPT presentation here: https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?cid=171ee76e679935c8&pag...

CMake is "too complicated" and "you need to be an expert". Understandable, I suppose. There are certainly specific things in CMake which are pretty terrible, like the add_custom_command/add_custom_target dance, but from the perspective of someone who has had to become an expert in it (via ROS/catkin), I would be unlikely to give it up. There's just way too much stuff it gives you for free, especially when it comes to things like packaging, testing, etc.
It is effectively uncensorable because the world is not 1 government, but 200 something. And no matter how much kicking and screaming the US does, not every country will comply.

It also uses the fact that the IPFS cache is also used to deliver content to others, similar to the way Bittorrent allows downloading and uploading based on blocks of content.

There still has to be someone hosting it initially to spread. But even that can be done over Tor, given the patches from OpenBazaar and IPFS.
I was expecting an error considerably larger than a fuel calculation which ended up giving a better race strategy in terms of surviving the first corner, and netted the same position overall as predicted! I used to prepare my own rally car (up to WRC level), and made many mistakes much bigger than that, but I guess that explains why he works for an F1 team and I'm currently looking for job!
Truly affordable housing. Something in the $300 range at the most. Lots of regulations, at least in California, do things to prevent micro apartments, which I think could help the situation.
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I think the fact that most of the DBs that failed the Jepsen test are also running thousands of successful production installs is the counterargument.
The conventional wisdom was for stocks, which are much higher volume, liquidity, etc, and aren't a newfangled math experiment.

I think with these coins it could be a decent bet that we'll see this happen again in the next year or two.
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Ask HN: What has your experience on the Bitcoin subreddit been?
I found it to be quite the worst place to be on reddit. I'd heard that there's notoriety for callousness with insults being hurled every which way but I experienced it myself.

Curious what other people's experiences have been line on there.

Also, are there alternative places where civil discourse on the future of bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general is done?
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You can also check out the used market. I mostly buy mechanical watches from the 60s through the 80s, you can often find cool vintage stuff with some patina for $20-60, including shipping. Check out the WatchUSeek forums, or the WatchRecon app on Android. Many sellers are in Europe, too.

If you want a new watch, I'd start looking at Seiko, Citizen, and Seagull watches in your price range.
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It's not "related to", it's "illustrative of" the pitfalls of market orders. The point was that even in highly liquid markets (i.e. Swiss franc), you can have sudden gap moves and liquidity fluctuations and a market order will just match against whatever momentary, ridiculous price happens to be there.

I would note however that after the SNB event many exchanges and brokers busted the trades that were done at extremely off prices.
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You can't legislate societies problems away. Legislation is just bandaids applied with the threat of violence for those who seek to remove them.
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Most rural areas do not have bus service available, and even in larger areas (think cities with up to 100,000 people), bus services are quite limited. Outside of large cities the US simply does not have the same culture regarding public transportation that you find in much of the world. Also, although sometimes it is wasteful, in areas that support multiple schools (think elementary, middle, and high school), starting times are already staggered so that the same buses might pick up high school students first, then middle school students, and finally elementary school students, and have similar routes for taking them home. So while there's certainly downtime, it's not quite as bad as it might sound. Finally, I believe - though I might be wrong - that school buses have different safety standards than other buses, which could cause problems for districts that were to try and push the students to city/county bus services.

Regarding security, I can use the high school I went to as an example. When I went there, it was a very open campus, and fences were only used around the athletics fields, and were more to stop balls from heading into the street. During expansions and renovations, however, they built additional buildings around the edges of campus to act as barriers, and added more fencing, leaving only about 3 entrances to the grounds that were more easily monitored. This was despite the fact that it was a very safe area with low crime. I personally don't like it, but I suppose it's an easy way for schools to show that they're trying to make it harder for things to happen.
Haha, I was in dilemma. But since most people are not aware of it, I chose the future tense. But you are right, it is already.
What's wrong with using templates vigorously?
is the sort of housecleaning I would expect if the company had to file for bankruptcy

Uber is at a critical inflection point, and still remains a unsustainable company blowing through enormous amounts of cash. They desperately need to line up more, so unless they get their house in order they will not be an ongoing operation.
Ask HN: Are any developers slow typers?
I know this may come off as silly, but I feel like I cant be the only one with this issue. I've been a professional developer for the past 5 years and I still feel a bit embarrassed at how slow I type compared to my co-workers and peer developers. Anytime I pair program, do a live demo, or even chat on slack I feel like I should hurry to keep up. On occasion, people would call me on it asking if I need a different keyboard to get more comfortable. Any developers also fall guilty as a slow typer? Have you done anything to try to improve your typing speed and actually made progress? Would really love to know.

-Bob
This comment thread is the only reason I know everything had moved to YouTube... I had been wondering where the hell all of the tournaments had gone for the last few months... Open Twitch, click CS:GO, see if there's anything on has been my flow for 2+ years.
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Okay, the other thing I would say having examined this a bit is that GENie seems to be much more "project" oriented than CMake. CMake has a concept of projects, but its usual model centers around targets and directories as the main unit to reason about. That is, CMake's most native output format is a Makefile, with adapters to generate IDE projects.

GENie seems to be focused first and foremost on a project/solution-oriented IDE workflow, with the Makefile generator as the one that's tacked on. So I can definitely appreciate that if you're working on a project where everyone's in an IDE anyway, it would make sense to use a generator that has the IDE's concepts as a first class citizen.
Could be cheaper.

I'm in the Netherlands. 1600€/ year for a bachelor's and master's degree in theoretical chemistry, 5 years full time.

Also, semi related, doing a PhD afterwards for 4 years paid me a ~1800€/month salary.

I'm pretty happy with my local circumstances.
Just doesn't make enough money (according to a comment of his on that post).
> 'You can't legislate societies problems away'

Could you elaborate? It seems pretty obvious that you can. No child labour, minimum wage laws, equal rights etc.
Which problem do you think cannot be solved with legislation that can be solved usefully by one-time application of money?
wkhtmltopdf works quite well for us, even with modern web technologies.

Here's an example fully rendered in React:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/ud-reports/comps-report-86.pdf

And one with svg charts:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/ud-reports/chart-report-89.pdf

With -webkit- prefixes you can use even flexbox, and and with js polyfills you'll have all you need.

Of course if I would start a project now, I would use chrome headless, but I don't feel wkhtmltopdf is that bad.
Many of the comments make a good case for why requests per month is a close to meaningless metric. My blog, hosted on a single Amazon spot instance for about $11/month, serves close to that measure at times.

How big is each request? How peaky is it? Etc.