skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found a combinator blog pot on the company, there's also an Oprah interview.

From the article: "Your condoms are currently in Whole Foods, Target, and CVS, and you’ve garnered tons of positive attention for your one-for-one business model that donates a condom to a female in a developing country for each one sold."

https://blog.ycombinator.com/interview-l-condoms-talia-frenk...
I have kept away from Google since they started promoting their alt-left political agenda. Just software for me, thanks. At least I found a new appreciation for the open source movement.
Great! Other recommendations: City of Quartz & Season of the Witch (on LA and SF's civic development), everything by Jane Jacobs, Organization of Man
Compelled to chime in here and say that you can just as easily write bad HLL that the compiler can't do much with in the first place.

Also back in 2016, I participated in a pseudo-challenge on the fasm board [1] and it is trivial to optimise both the C/C++ as well as hand-written assembly. IMO comparing how good a compiler is at optimising is akin to how good it is at figuring out your intentions (and they all suck at that).

1: https://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?t=19103
Bought my Subaru in 2015 and at the time, a used model with 30k miles was maybe 2k cheaper than brand new at the time...
but if the entire supply chain knows this is coming, will the growing scarcity of gasoline make these cars worthless anyway?
Many of the temperature charts have an uptick at the extreme right (end of December), and then (if you imagine them wrapping around to January) have a non-continuous drop at the start of January. I think there's something slightly funky there.

I saw at least one celsius chart where the data overflowed the maximum (20C) and the plot mashed against the top of the frame.

You could avoid having to double render the same data (and wasting space) by putting celsius on the right y axis of the farenheit chart.

Once you fix the bugs, pay a UI designer to give all of the pages a refresh. Work some SEO, and see if you can find a way to give search engine bots all of the various city pages (which I assume you dynamically generate). Throw in some hotel/airline-ticket site affiliate links and you should get a nice stream of income from this.
Interestingly, my observation here in Bend was that the worst shortages were in the middle of last week as locals rushed to fill up so they wouldn't run out... Could have been worse up near Madras, though, which is smaller and had a lot more people.
> No one likes you because of what you buy - that's not how it works.

Some people really are that vapid. Anecdotes aren't worth much in this space but a lot of people I know are recreational shoppers and the extent of their conversational capacity is places they've dined at, things they have and shit they like.

Now, maybe most people don't mind that sort of person. I don't think it would be uncharitable to call me a misanthropic arsehole. But I enjoy people who can think creatively, have even just an interest - not necessarily foundational knowledge - in science, history, politics, economics, engineering, and technology. To know whether someone is interested in these things does require some knowledge signalling - but that's not what we're talking about here.

We're talking about stuff you buy, and I was suggesting that anything used almost exclusively for signalling which lacks utility should be toned down if you don't want to be a slave to your possessions. Someone interested in astronomy might have a reflector telescope in their living room - it has utility and indirectly signals what they like, which is fine. Someone who likes eating but has never cooked a meal in their life and surrounds themselves with celebrity cookware and stylised kitchen appliances should consider just saving money for eating out - the return on investment will be greater.
Yes, they will not sell it now. But once everyone is into it thinking ahhh its a great idea and a great tool and share their private/public data though this. Then, these companies will turn around and sell your data to monetize on them which is the first thing any company is going to do.
Surely the (already) observable relative difference is more important than what the car thinks it's speed is? Both cars might read 60mph and go at different speeds. Therefore I don't see much need for that to change.

I think more interesting would be smarter traffic control systems which communicate with cars in cities to advise traffic flows - a simple example being a (wirelessly) counting down light rather than red/amber/green.
It might have the opposite effect, making them more rare and increasing prices even.
> when something needs to get decided or done, does the country get together and get it done or bicker and in-fight?

You phrased this wrong. It should be: when some small group of people believe that something needs to get done, do they just go out and do it, or do they try to co-opt everyone else's resources using government power?

> Slavery - Somehow, the "land of the free" was one of the last developed nations to condemn this practice.

And somehow, the "something needs to get done, so let's get it done" methodology ended up killing somewhere between half a million and a million people and leading to a century or more of Jim Crow. If that's what "getting together to get it done" looks like, I'll take bickering and in-fighting.

By contrast, countries that were willing to countenance something less than "getting it done" the abolitionist way (such as Britain, which simply bought the slaves' freedom by paying off the slave owners) ended up ending slavery with no loss of life and a much smoother social transition.

Not to mention that, if the abolitionists had simply left the South alone, they probably would have ended slavery on their own, and probably sooner than 1865. In 1831, the Virginia State Legislature was considering a bill to abolish slavery in the state, and there was a good chance it was going to pass. If it had, the other slave states would probably have followed Virginia's lead. Then word came that William Lloyd Garrison in Boston had published an abolitionist pamphlet calling for no compromise and just forcing the South to end slavery, and the bill died.

> Climate Change - There is largely universal consensus that if current trends continue, there has been and will continue to be an accelerating increase in human suffering.

A consensus that is based on flawed climate models that do not make correct predictions, and economic numbers based on no predictive power whatsoever. Consensus is worthless if there is no predictive power to back it up.

> We can accept that our scientists can predict the movements of celestial bodies across distances mind-bogglingly vast down to the minute, but trust our "guts" over them.

That's because astronomers can back up their predictions of the movements of celestial bodies with a track record of accurate predictions to many decimal places, over a period of more than a century. Whereas climate scientists, as above, can back their predictions up with--nothing.

> Some might argue that the US is rejecting a goal chosen by everyone else, and doing so as a brave stand of individualism.

Yep. If everybody else has a consensus that we should all shoot ourselves in the foot, should the US follow it?

> Do I need to go on?

No, you've given quite enough background to see where you're coming from. Hopefully I've done the same.
Yes, what I'm actually looking for is the 2nd one. (that is, I don't care that the backup happens now or in 15 minutes, but I care that when the backup runs, the tool doesn't have to rescan the whole filesystem)
For some reason I read this as Sophos. That would not be good.
Narrowing the Scope – Department of Justice modifies warrant for disruptj20.org
"Would love to hear differing opinions :)"

Erm... A decrease in demand does not lead to an increase in price.
Regarding 1), I use org-mode with inline LaTeX to write first couple of drafts, which has a nice visual table layout. It also has a Markdown-like syntax for markup. I export to LaTeX after I'm fairly satisfied with the result. For math-heavy documents, I start from LaTeX. In my opinion, that's where it really shines.

Regarding 2), there are many document classes that don't look like scientific papers although LaTeX ships a limited number of document classes (book, article, report, and letter). Here are two third-party classes that come to my mind:

- https://ctan.org/pkg/hitec is a nice class that is

- https://www.ctan.org/pkg/tufte-latex is inspired by Edward Tufte's books and provides a similar-looking handout/book style.

And here is a list of some other classes: http://texcatalogue.ctan.org/bytopic.html#classes
And then, they will be billion dollar companies screwing mundane users data which they collect over time.
>Good drivers really distinguish themselves in the moments where the inputs and behaviors that are expected do not occur (ex: tire blow out).

Autonomous cars will be much better at handling these types of situations - in your example, the machine will know what's going on few milliseconds after it happens and will be able to adjust speed and direction almost instantaneously. All you need is lots of sensors.
If anyone is on the same boat here's the best non-smart/IoT/lock-in tech I've come up with for a single room setup with wireless speakers:

1) 4 to 1 HDMI splitter with audio out: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/HDSW4-HDMI-Switch-4X1-With-A...

2) Connect all your sources through HDMI (your PC, your TV box, a Chromecast, a raspberry, etc). There are versions with more inputs if you need that. That one has a nice simple remote.

3) Connect the HDMI splitter audio output to a RF audio transmitter: https://www.altoproaudio.com/products/stealth-wireless

4) Use some powered studio monitors with one of the RF receivers each (there are plenty to choose from)

This way if you're streaming audio+video everything syncs up because the RF link adds very little latency (unlike the Sonos that adds 70ms). The chromecast gives you easy streaming of audio and video from all your apps and if you are only streaming audio you can just turn off your TV/projector and the audio still works fine. The speakers can be placed anywhere there's power. It doesn't have the fancy multi-room and 5.1 possibilities of the Sonos nor the good industrial design.
Like so often, technologies are overrated in the short term and underrated in the long term. Blockchain seems like something revolutionary but, like the internet, it feels like it's probably going to take a decade to discover where the real, solid, lasting value will exist.

For example, how many would have predicted the rise of small, fairly low-tech, text search ads as the multi-billion dollar revenue linchpin for all global search.

Similarly, whatever the core long-term value of crypto-currencies will be, it probably hasn't been truly understood yet.

Most of these ICOs are similar to the period before the dotcom crash when simply adding .com to the name of a failing business was enough to lift it's stock value. Anyone else remember that or can give an example?

Whatever rises from the rubble of this cryptocurrency bubble bursting is what will no doubt be most interesting and what will no doubt end up being truly world changing.

Looking forward to the middle/end-game.
> Why do the cars not communicate their speed, so your car can adjust speed to maintain a safe distance?

How do you deal with spoofing info for/from another vehicle?

What happens when someone decides to see what happens when they `inter_car_radio.broadcast(myspeed=0)` or `inter_car_radio.broadcast(myspeed=120)` when the speed limit is 80?
How many miles will an Uber driver drive in a year - how many miles are they putting on the car? It pushes their value down, similar to taxis or police cars.

Consider 2 similar 2015 Priuses, one with 32,000 mi, the other with 92,000 mi. The one with lower mileage will usually net a higher sale price.
A slightly related issue that I find somewhat unsettling is how easily big companies that are being sued by state or federal governments are able to settle in out of court proceedings.

From my understanding, the argument for allowing settlements is to help one or both parties somehow save face, time, or money. However, what everyone (including people who are not affiliated with either party) loses out on is the possibility to establish a precedent. Some of the cases that come to mind are the HSBC case where some people who were following the court proceedings started to sense and publicly state the real possibility of actual criminal wrongdoing (https://www.wsj.com/articles/hsbc-agrees-470m-settlement-ove...). Compare that to a guilty plea by BNP Paribas here (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jun/30/bnp-paribas... and https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/bnp-paribas-sentenced-conspir...).

In comparison, see what happens to an individual (https://www.cnbc.com/2014/03/19/soc-gen-rogue-trader-kerviel...), and how people try to avoid it (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-09/ex-socgen...).

TL;DR: Big companies get to settle all to easily in cases brought forward by government attorneys without admitting guilt or wrongdoing, which is in contrast individuals (even wealthy ones) who often basically become the targets of what effectively becomes (sometimes faux) moral crusade. Companies end up:

1. Doing something that breaks the law, but in a sufficiently obfuscated manner.
2. Getting caught by government usually via the observation and study by keen citizens and/or outright whistleblowers.
3. Involving their legal team to both prepare for fighting the case, and to give PR guidance and statements. Marketing and salespeople downplay the concerns from both consumers and customers.
4. When the case becomes sufficiently uncomfortable, settle it with government for some fraction of the total estimated damages and not admit to wrongdoing.
5. Write off the settlement amount in the most tax-friendly manner possible via in-house or third-party accountants.
6. Get praise internally and externally for being scrappy and disrupting the establishment/government/noun-used-as-a-pejorative (yes, you too dear HN contributor/lurker).
7. Rinse and repeat 1-6.

I think a few of the things that Uber and AirBnB have had to settle essentially map to the steps I outlined above.

Note:
a. The sources above that I cite might not be the best ones to support my claim, but the general issue and the unwillingness to resolve it properly remain.
b. I realize that step 6 is mean/snarky/typecasting. My aim was to remind the reader that audible/silent praise/rebuke do have power, and that doing nothing does register as a signal in some situations.
"If the car falls apart as you drive off the lot, you're out $35K."

Obviously, cars rarely fall apart as you drive them off the lot. Yes, there could be unexpected expensive repairs. But there's basically no realistic scenario in which you're going to be out the entire $35k.

I understand that you're exaggerating for effect, but it's this kind of thinking that convinces people to purchase expensive warranties that aren't (statistically) worth the price.
do the streaming apps on apple tv offer the content in good quality?

i have some cheap tvs and notice the roku performs way better than the native apps
One thing not to do is remove "minor" pleasure because you _think_ they are signalling. The [research says](http://time.com/59684/the-simple-thing-that-makes-the-happie...) "savoring the small things" is hugely important.

That includes enjoying your cup of coffee. If you genuinely can't taste the difference, don't buy it. But if you do, then buy good coffee.

Adding small, every day joys that you savior to your life is worth your money (and time).
Update: Youtube "AI" censoring US Army destroying Nuremburg swatzika: https://boingboing.net/2017/08/14/film-of-u-s-army-destroyin...
> Given that humans do without detailed data of this sort

Humans learn by using data from their interactions with the environment, since childhood. That's a ton of data and there might not be a way around that.
It might be that there's a paralysis amongst many people in choosing a password safe and then starting to use strong, unique passwords with each account. What do you recommend to your parents and family, for example? I use 1Password, but do people with more basic requirements than team/client password storage feel that they can justify a paid service?
I'll definitely check it out. Thanks for the link.
Interesting...react native. What's their decision behind not going full native rather a combination of react native w/ native modules like AirBnB. Wondering if they started off with native then added react native or other way around.
> If F# is pushed too far from C#, what's the point? Just use Haskell...

But you said it yourself:

> I think the main strength of F# lies in its interoperability with C#.
> As we can see, Aero introduces at least one frame delay (~16.7 ms for 60 Hz refresh rate) and leads to time discretization.

Yep. There is one built-in frame of latency in the Windows composition engine. It's even documented here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh4...

Rather than performing composition as late as possible, which would be beneficial for latency, Windows performs composition as early as possible, at the start of the frame. This introduces a completely unnecessary 16.67ms extra latency into everything you do. There is no supported way to disable the compositor on Windows 8-10 (though the article links to a scary-looking hack that apparently works in Windows 8,) so you're stuck with this.

I really hope this situation will be improved with future updates to Windows 10. Microsoft are still making improvements to the compositor, for example window resizing is much smoother in the creators update, but as far as I can tell, the one-frame delay still exists.
Likewise Perth has the same error. "The warmest time of year is generally mid-February where highs are regularly around 63.7°F (17.6°C)". The text in Overall Perth Travel Experience by Season is also wrong.

I like the concept though.
There's also Copperhead OS. (You pay quite a bit for the privilege of security though.)
I like the false pretense for "neighborhood protection", when really this is a lowering bar for plate collection likely for more intrusive advertising. Even if you were able to pay cash or epay system obfuscate store purchases at a retailer, they could still nab your plates.

Really, if a criminal were to drive in and loot a house in your neighborhood, what self respecting criminal wouldn't use dummy plates or a lifted car to commit robberies and at least some sort of identity obfuscation. Let's not pretend this is a noble invention.

While out in public you may not have a right to privacy, there's certainly a level of general anonymity that most of us assume. While such plate reading technology has existed for some time, now it could be easily deployed by a overbearing ex-lover to know if/when person is home or worse, a hate group outside an abortion clinic.

File this under war on privacy to further usher in a technocratic hellscape future.
I generally agree with this. Tutorials are most useful when they illustrate the building blocks for larger problems, and when they explain the why along with the how.

With a little practice, you learn how to dismantle a problem, recognize the elements that make it up, and pattern-match the portions of other problems that share some elements. You can pull steps out of one how-to guide and apply them to your problem, "patching" the instructions on-the-fly as necessary.

In fact, if I don't have time to customize an answer for someone's question, I'll give a summary of how a problem breaks down, and point them to someone else's tutorials that cover aspects of the solution.

But the key is that in the general case, no one has written a tutorial for your exact problem. Most of the elements of the answer are already out there, and they are accessible when you learn the more general skill of decomposing problems and solutions into their constituent elements, matching problem-parts to solution-parts, and stitching together the whole fabric of an answer.
grat ideas. Although I like this the most
>The other huge opportunity I think is in web "filters". We've gotten to the point now that there's just a lot of crap out there, and with ad blockers and readability filters we've started to dabble in a meta layer. I think a future web browser will go full meta, where by default you don't see the actual web page, you see a thumbnail and a bunch of views on the data in that web page, and you only dip down into the giant messy interactive ad-riddled view if you want to.

The web browser is the only one who knows how much time I spend on each webpage and what I like inside each page. so it can optimize for that.
"The monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force, also known as the monopoly on violence"

I think the "legitimate" is implied - a State is a thing that creates Legitimacy and enforces it through Violence. To supplement this it monopolizes Violence by inflicting Violence on those who commit it without Legitimacy.
Have you floated the idea of writing some parts of your app in F#? How did that go over?
Cars should not depend on information from other cars, they should treat them just as suggestions, or intents, not actual events. In your example, the reported speed of the car will depend of many factors like tire size, quality of the sensor or even humidity or temperature, so it can't be trusted by other cars.
The article was published on Sunday, December 20th, 2015.

Although at the time this was published Atom 1.3 had been released, however I do not know when the author recorder their data. Atom 1.1 was from Oct 2015 so thats not to out of date.
Google touts Titan security chip to market cloud services
As someone who doesn't use either, what are the big features you see missing in Google Sheets?
Cleveland Cavaliers Send Kyrie Irving to Celtics in Deal Including Isaiah Thomas
This does seem like a weird move, given:

a) the high price of Sonos equipment

b) the HomePod coming out sometime in the near future

c) other competitors that are starting to be more competitive (eg. "smart speakers", bluetooth speakers, etc)
What are the specific differences between this and electron?
Because they generally shouldn't change, unless someone is illegally swapping plates.
Plex just updated their privacy policy to infuriate users before walking it back after many people complained loudly.
Not sure why this is being downvoted?
Blaming the result of the election on piracy seems like... a stretch.
I think it's likely some other resource might be a constraint in that tight a timeline though. Either something for the cars themselves, or the infrastructure for charging them.
> There used to be a time when beta software was a thing. Prompt the users to become testers for your beta software.

Firefox already has opt-in telemetry, and Firefox already has a beta channel. It's unclear to me how it would help to tie telemetry to the beta channel; that would just make the existing problems (not enough data, and biased data) even worse, since there are probably far more users willing to share telemetry data than to use beta software.
> Interesting getscale, sanrights and spinalsingularity all have much higher weights than everyone else.

Much lower actually. They have e-05, e-06 and e-11 at the end. I think the list is from most successful to least successful YC startups, but unsure why those ones are at the very bottom.