skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author of the memo indicated that special steps were taken that would/might lower the false negative rate. Unfortunately the reference points to an internal document, but this would seem to indicate that the bar is lowered.
The reason why this is possible is because DMCA by itself is biased towards interests of copyright holders and therefore can be abused. You can always claim that some domain is used for protecting copyright and therefore blocking access to that domain as well as distributing software that can do it is clearly a violation of DMCA.
Put my war3 dota hat on... LoL is a simplified dota which are tailored to less-skilled players. The basic elements are all the same.
Yes, that article isn't specifically about automotive batteries but I figured it was still fresh in reader's minds. It wouldn't surprise me if ICE cars had similar problems with conflict minerals, particularly in the catalytic converters.

I'd love to see a really exhaustive study comparing the environmental effects of ICE and EV cars when taking into account the entire product lifecycle from mining, transport, manufacturing, power generation and distribution, refining, etc. I've seen studies comparing a few of these things but nothing that goes from the time some alloy is mined or oil is taken from the ground through the entire life of an automobile.
Sure. Again, costs nothing.
Is there a difference between 'raises' and 'borrows'?

I read this as Tesla took investment of $1.8B (presumably in return for shares), but in this case they have issued $1.8B of bonds, so they've effectively taken out a loan.
They also mentioned that in the beginning the bot figured out that the best way to win was to not play the game (aka hiding in it's own base). Then it started running around wildly, dying to enemy towers in the wrong lanes at the map. So it definitely took some nudging getting it to do something more than being AFK in base.
I think my though comes from the use case where you have thing1 and thing2 that you want to be able to communicate via the internet. But you would rather not be accessible from other devices.
Yes, it's a testament to how strange the financial environment is that people would lend such money speculatively at low interest.

Those are the prevailing rates but I think the bond holders are getting a lousy deal considering tesla's actual risks
Will you consider a set of AIs based on the same underlying architecture that can perform several different online jobs as well as their human counterparts truly intelligent, without any reservations regardless of the approach used [1]?

This would include the ability to communicate with their human hirers and collaborators in natural language.

[1] We can also think of the human brain as a massive structure of relatively simple neurons with methods of communications among them that can be translated to mathematical parameters.
Words and actions are inextricably linked in complicated ways. I don't know anything about who you are or your situation, but I will say that the "sticks and stones" attitude is much easier to believe in if you've never been in a minority group. I used to buy into it, in fact, until a big bag of empathy hit me like a truck as I got older.

Even the conservatives and alt-righters admin this, which is why they're so upset about people using politically correct language, even by their own free choice. "Happy Holidays" anyone?

I, for one, would find it pretty disadvantageous in my studies to attend classes at an institution that endorses (even silently) a viewpoint that questions my right to the pursuit of happiness, to marry who I want, to be the correct gender, or even to exist. Organizations can and do limit that speech in certain environments that they are responsible for.

That said, the first amendment is hugely important, but limited in scope in the consequences that it protects you from.

Of course, it _is_ important to not simply refuse to hear or allow speech that you disagree with. There is a balance to be struck there.
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They do. But if you can drag out litigation & appeals in the courts for a decade or three, viola, private beach.
Not whole lot but some of this stuff can be seen in this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpa5wyutpGc

I still can't quite tell if this behaviour was coached to the bot or it figured it out itself.
I generally agree, but there is a line. See my comment above for a longer take on that.
Musk is a genius business man...
You should not underestimate his skill of creating illusions.

I for myself only learnt this ~2010... Before I always thought he was the founder...
about 3 months ago I bought some USB-C <-> USB-A [1] cables on Amazon. I plugged one into my MacBook and it immediately turned it off and banned it from the system. I started to smell electrical burning. I yanked the cord out of the wall and never touched it again. Threw away the whole pack.

The cables were made in China and re-branded by a USA company.

Don't buy cheap Chinese garbage electronics.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0161GVULY/ref=oh_aui_deta...
I feel like there is some confusion between being successful and being professional. You could deliberately practice a sport or music for ~10,000 and be really damn good, but that doesn't mean you will go pro. That part is about luck and connections. Just because you are very skilled doesn't necessarily mean you will be "spotted" or "discovered" for example.
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I don't agree. I believe currencies not backed by countries have a real use in the world, and labeling any and all as a Ponzi scheme is a misnomer. Anything has value if we assign it, and even if 5% of the world considers crypto valuable I'd call that a successful currency, to those who value it.
The status quo is that the sources are tenuous.

Most of what was lifted is from evolutionary psychology.

Claims from that field, and used in his write up, have not held up over time.
Why isn't he thrown in jail, or why isn't the fence bulldozed down? Where I currently live (a somewhat well-off area), bulldozers (and self-entitled assholes) are a common occurrence.
Did you see how much Snap was/is paying on infrastructure? It is _insane_. $2 billion over 5 years.

The amount of waste that is obviously happening there is maddening.
Personal experience is anecdotal by definition.

What are the other problems?

Anyways, I'm not defending, just surprised the HN crowd accepts a few anecdotes which are statistically insignificant given the Amazon volumes.

I see questions like, how do people still trust to buy on Amazon? Aren't they aware of all the fraud?

And the answer is no they are not, because they've never been frauded through Amazon, and know no one who has. And that's the case for most Amazon shoppers.

People on hacker news have seen the outliers, the blog post about a single third party fraudster, and a few commenters who maybe experienced something similar.

There are many great 3rd party sellers on Amazon that operate in good faith, and give just as good an experience as 1st party Amazon. But on HN, it seems people see black or white only, and somehow they conclude all black even though the canvas is majority white.

I feel like I'm back in 2000, when some people were asking: How can you trust buying anything online, aren't you afraid of the fraud?

I've ordered countless items on Amazon, in the hundreds, most from 3rd party, never got frauded, never had issues. If you go by anecdotes, add this one to your samples.
For example, the web page with copyrighted content can load a script from admiral's domain that would check whether a user is allowed to view the page or not. Adblocker is blocking that domain and therefore circumventing copyright protection scheme which is illegal under DMCA.

The people who invented this are really smart I must admit.
On what though?
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"Raises" could be a debt or equity event. If you're selling portions of a company (equity) you would call it a "raise" but you're not "borrowing."
I buy your arguments. However, I am curious (primarily as a thought experiment): what would happen if Filecoin was able to solve (3) - (8)? By opening up the barriers to entry and creating a perfectly competitive marketplace, economics says that the price of storage would then equal the marginal cost of providing that storage (i.e., electricity, networking, and amortized hardware cost). Presumably that's lower than what Amazon and others charge.

Would love to see a theoretical analysis of Filecoin's impact on the storage market, presuming that it can build the foundations for competing in that market.
This holds true in most of the west as well and provides access for river paddlers/floaters/fishermen.
I have one that you may find interesting. A double parallel I discovered about 12 years ago and so far I haven't heard anyone else mention it.

There is a bird we call `swallow` in English, which has the same name as the action `to swallow`. I looked up these in an etymological dictionary and found that they have distinct, yet similar roots.

The Sino-Japanese word for the bird is 燕(tsubame). The action of swallowing can be written properly as 嚥下 (enge), in the same register as its antonym 嘔吐 (outo).

Coincidence?
There's an episode of My Name is Earl based on this premise.
Agree. I send some people here[1], but they still mess it up.

[1] http://www.nomarketplace.com/us/
I haven't read Gladwell's book, but I would imagine that time spent practicing is only one of several multipliers. Natural talent and the right coaching at the right time would be too others.
Your poetic parody reflects a truth, that's why I stated it is neutral. Gaming the system isn't inherently evil, it wasn't an accusation of bad ethics. To clarify my point, I'd like to paraphrase my previous statement without metaphors.

Many evil/fraud companies game the system to access unjust benefits. But every now and then one is able to find some company rising among the other, deserves appreciation. It is only natural to think that such companies must have analyzed the system more than the ones they surpassed, otherwise they would go unnoticed among all the cheaters.

Back to metaphor; The system is like a blade: a killing device on a killer, a life saving device on a surgeon. It is true that there seems to exist more killers than savers.
Ponzi?
Do you mean that interpretation of "nice guy" an actual term of modern feminist jargon? I hadn't known that.

Or do you mean that it is a human eternal, the instinctive reaction of womens' inner bullshit detectors?
> We changed around your copyrighted work to remove stuff we decided we don't like.

That is totally ok. For example, if I record a video from TV and remove the ads is that a violation? I think it is not as long as I use this video for myself and do not distribute it.

Copyright laws should not regulate what I do in my house or on my computer. I should be able to modify any copyrighted work as I wish as long I am not redistributing it (and yes, I should be able to inspect and patch copyright protection schemes too).
> Equating temporary and removable birth control with "castration" is ludicrous.

The 'chemical castration' comment was about Depo Provera specifically. The injection is NOT removable: you're basically stuck with the effects for 3+ months, unless you know to use the antidote (which is not covered in doctors' curriculum for using this class of drugs on their patients).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_castration#United_Sta...
If tesla can get 500,000 cars out there, ICE cars are toast. Enough of legacy cars and makers.
You guys talk as if he was advocating genocide

All I got from the document was him questioning entrenched beliefs about diversity.

Thats barely the end of the world
I'm dying to know what the plans were now!
Because git is implemented as a series of scripts around some core C (or Perl) programs. Really cool project, horrible architecture. I don't use Mercurial, but it's kinda nice that they only use one language.
It's not much of an illusion. Tesla was still working on hybrids when Musk joined on. For better or for worse, Tesla as it is now is Musk's baby. Not untruthful to say he was a cofounder, though with a heavy caveat.
The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded in 2016 to Oliver Hart, who made contributions to contract theory, and more specifically, the incompleteness of contracts. NPR's Planet Money has a good introduction: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/11/18/502475485/episo...
> Amazon didn't really care or do anything about it. They offered a return or an exchange

Sorry to sound like an Amazon fanboy, but what else could Amazon do for you?

They offered a return without even questioning you. I don’t know a lot of companies that would do that.
This[0] discussion from the other day has some interesting comments about employee compensation. And then there are acquisitions like this[1], in addition to the infrastructure costs that have been mentioned.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14983800
[1]https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/21/snapchat-buys-zenly/
I don't know what it is for Boston to Providence

$29, one way, 33min. Northeast Regional is $12 for 40min, MBTA is $11.50 for 63min.
Outliers is a fun read, and short. Just as with all Gladwell it's long on idea consistency and short on numerical rigor.

But this is sort of a misinterpretation anyway. The point isn't that 10k hours is enough to make you a master in isolation, it's that masters don't get to be masters before 10k. At the top end of elite practitioners of any art, talent still matters.
Sumail won once until they gave the bot insane creep blocking skills.

https://twitter.com/Phillip_Aram/status/896162260455800832
Here is the section from the memo that I'm referencing:

> Philosophically, I don’t think we should do arbitrary social engineering of tech just to make it appealing to equal portions of both men and women. For each of these changes, we need principled reasons for why it helps Google; that is, we should be optimizing for Google—with Google’s diversity being a component of that. For example currently those trying to work extra hours or take extra stress will inevitably get ahead and if we try to change that too much, it may have disastrous consequences. Also, when considering the costs and benefits, we should keep in mind that Google’s funding is finite so its allocation is more zero-sum than is generally acknowledged.

In general I agree that a rational analysis and science based approach is valuable. In fact, I think research into diversity actually does support the idea that it provides benefits. But it's not simply as black and white as science good, empathy/moralizing bad.

For instance, it may be objectively better for a company to do a lot of things that we consider immoral or harmful to society. For instance, how much does maternity and paternity leave cost a company in productivity, time, and the expense of providing a replacement worker? In fact, it might just be more profitable not to hire women of childbearing age at all, which actually was socially accepted for a long time. But these days our society has come to the general conclusion that this is actually morally unacceptable, and the benefits to parents and society outweigh the costs to the company. A very similar argument could be employed regarding the hiring of employees in the reserves or national guard.

I think you have to look at things holistically, as an entire system, and yes, morally.
There is no such thing as being equals; one party will always have at least a little bit more power than the other.
It is their website but after I download the content to my hard drive it becomes my files and I can do whatever I want with them privately (as long as I do not redistribute it, claim authorship etc). That is how copyright should work, but of course the actual laws might be biased to the interests of some party. There is nothing new if you learn the history of human society, some groups of people always wanted to have more rights than others.
I feel like the modern day "This used to all orange grove" has become, "I used to be able to drive from Hollywood to Santa Monica in 20 minutes." These days you can only do that at 3am or so after the bar close traffic dies down.
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The interesting question is whether Musk himself portrays himself as the founder. I don't think he does? There are lots of stories though of how people take a business and make it huge, and take credit for being the founder when they weren't. The most popular story these days may be Ray Kroc due to his work at McDonald's and the corresponding movie The Founder.
In a glider, turbulence is often the first indication that you are flying into a thermal that will lift you up, while the sinking or neutral air between thermals is often smooth. After having experienced this for a while, the onset of turbulence triggers positive emotions, even when you are in an airliner.
I've seen that image of “nice guy” far more from MRA, PUA, and other anti-democratic than from feminists, despite having a lot more interaction with the latter.
They might use a scheme that would allow access by default and block it with a script from that domain. So blocking the domain becomes a circumvention (today I finally learned how to write this word).

Or that domain could be used to collect views stats for copyrighted content and make decisions based on that stats. Blocking this domain is obviously messing with copyright protection scheme which is illegal inder DMCA.
> The second graphic confirms my hypothesis ... that los angeles employers have somehow staggered their hours (or given the employees more liberty) and that rush hour has become more equally distributed over a larger time range.

That could be it. I left the Los Angeles area in 1988, so have no idea what is going on now, but just going by my memory of what it was like when I lived there I'd have guessed a different explanation.

That would be that at 4 PM you are limited by the traffic from people going home from work. By 7 PM that's largely gone, but now you are running into all the people who going out for the evening to eat, attend concerts and movies and sporting events, do evening shopping, and so on. In Los Angeles, those kind of excursions usually involved a freeway trip.
I usually have less than 5 tabs open at any time. Side tabs are a huge waste of space for me.
Programmers dont have individual offices ?
How can you think with others distracting you ?
https://www.cnet.com/news/tesla-motors-founders-now-there-ar...

'....a Tesla representative said that Eberhard and other principals in the dispute have come to an agreement. The company did not reveal any details of the resolution, except to say that there are now five, rather than two, agreed-upon "founders" of Tesla.'
Recent study found that after adjusting for unobserved familial risk factors, there is no link between poverty and crime so you can strike that [1].

I am sure given enough time we'll find out that race has little to do with it either.

[1] http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/bjprcpsych/205/4/286.full.pdf
In the interview, they literally said they coached it to have certain behaviors.
Going pro shouldn't be the mark of success on this endeavor. There are a very limited number of seats and very likely pros have committed well more time.

The fact he got to a 2 handicap is evidence you can become a master. Especially since he suffered a physical limitation after about 6k hours.

Talent matters. Age matters. The ability to "get it" faster matters. Access makes you get it faster.

But to go from no game to a 2 handicap is proof extremely hard work pays off. To be in the top 5% of anything makes you elite even if it doesn't make you a pro in an extremely selective occupation. A top-5% engineer can work anywhere and make top money.
There are three layers at work in the confidentiality demo.

Coco is at the bottom of the stack. Coco handles replication of data across a network of TEE-enabled nodes, ensuring confidentiality and integrity of the data. The data is only in the clear inside each enclave. Coco enforces network-level authentication, restricting connections to actors authorized by the network constitution. At this level there are no smart contracts.

In the middle of the stack is the ledger. In the demo that is Ethereum ported to run on Coco. We disabled a few Ethereum APIs so that transactions and smart contract state cannot be read directly. We also added access control to APIs that expose events.

At the top of the stack sit smart contracts that are hosted on the ledger. Here the DApp developer can add public read methods to expose any data that they want to expose, and they can implement access control within these smart contracts to restrict access to appropriate counterparties. This can be based on RBAC with arbitrarily fine-grained rules.

In the case of bitcoin, some design would be required. Today, the scripting language is used to decide whether to unlock UTXOs at the time that they are consumed as inputs to a new transaction. If bitcoin were integrated with Coco, there would have to be some modifications made to apply access control somewhere. This could be done in the ledger code. For example, it could only allow read access to a given transaction by the counterparties (it is not obvious how the counterparties would be identified, but in the P2PKH case perhaps the caller could sign the request with the private key corresponding to the public key hash of either an input or an output). Or the bitcoin ledger could be augmented by allowing the creation of scripts to govern access. They would need to be accommodated in the transaction format and stored along with the ledger. This would be a bigger change obviously.
You are thinking about contracts in a limited and restricted way. The economy today is about contracts, everything involves an agreement between two parties. It is not always necessary thousands of signed pages, sometimes they are simple things. There are thousands of standardized contracts that are signed by thousands of people and only a small percentage of them end up in conflict.

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If HN doesn't upvote this to the stars, you suck. It is the essence of what HN likes, it's great tech presented well. Go find that book, go read about Mike, come on people, dig a little.

I don't care about the upvotes, I care that you go read. And read something that will help you see.

Maybe this thread is dead and I need to do a top level post about Mike.
Sounds like a communication problem.
The Turing test is hardly a new measure - it's been around for ~70 years and hasn't been passed yet. But otherwise I agree with what you said - this is just my personal measure of when we'll be in society-shaking territory.
That is smart but the primary reason why that is possible is the copyright laws that are biased towards the interests of copyright holders.
You don't have to bet the barn for heaven's sake. $800 in bitcoin 5 years ago makes you a millionaire today. Most software engineers are going to be just fine making one or two gambles on that order, and if it means they get more involved in new tech and have fun all the while I think it's a great idea.
Other countries have broadly equivalent AML statutes. Bitfinex simply believes they can get away with breaking those laws in smaller juristictions.