skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Low-Friction Lending Library

Most people end up accumulating dozens or hundreds of items that they only need a few times a year. In my case these are things like camping equipment, a soldering iron, an electric drill, paper cutter, etc. — but everybody has their own unique list. I’d much rather not have to keep track of all this infrequently-used inventory and instead rent it on demand, especially since I have limited storage space. Lending libraries for this type of stuff exist but are too high-friction to be popular today — it’s substantially easier to just buy something on Amazon than rent it from a local depot. I think with automated inventory management and (potentially) sidewalk delivery bots the cost and friction can be brought low enough to turn this into a popular and defensible subscription business.

I know that my sentiment isn't original, but I can't help but feel sad that this is essentially a startup idea that is only viable because it fills a hole created by the atomization of American society. What happened to borrowing a tool from your neighbor?

This is not to say that this is a bad idea, or that nobody needs this, or that people who prefer not to borrow tools from their neighbors are bad people, but it just feels like something is being lost.
Weird. This is what I'm getting:
"formattedDeposit" : "$1,500",
"hamsterDeposit" : "$7,000",
"hamsterFullDeposit": "$50,000",
"hamsterTotal1" : "$261,000",
"hamsterTotal2" : "$326,000",
> 3a. As a result, we have to run R4 instances for some of our web tier - despite not needing the memory - because they have the highest network allocation. To make matters worse, AWS won't tell you the network allocation. You don't know until you start dropping packets.

Ugh, I hate that. They also have hidden limits on the number of incoming tcp connections you can have.
There's absolutely no way that they would get the performance I'm seeing from an emulated disk. We're talking to real hardware, exposed via PCI passthrough.

Now, exactly what form that hardware takes is an open question. I would assume it's something like "NVME interface hardware" + "ARM CPU which implements the EBS protocol" + "25 GbE PHY", but that guess is based solely on "that's how I would design it".
"DFM" stands for "Design For Manufacturing" ?

https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1143825
Are you sure about that range? It seems really really bad.
So I wouldn't say C5s don't work at all with NLB instance target groups - I'm running one right now.

I wouldn't be surprised if you're hitting an edge case with the tighter integration* between NLB's and instance associations. If you haven't already, please do reach out to support.

* from the docs "If you specify targets using an instance ID, the source IP addresses of the clients are preserved and provided to your applications. If you specify targets by IP address, the source IP addresses are the private IP addresses of the load balancer nodes."
The form is not checked, you can enter any arbitrary nonsense and it will let you through. I recommend using an @example.com address which won't be routed.
looks like that's for en_AU, or Australia.
Curious what "hamster" means in this context.
I was thinking of something different: Amazon sells X, and super-sketchy company B claims to sell the same X "fulfilled by Amazon." I believe Amazon ships from the same stock to people ordering from both A and B. In other words, even if you order your X from Amazon, you might get an item from B's stock, since they're mixed.
There is a brown fat adaptation beyond shivering that does happen.
Can you link the 401k changes? All I am seeing is a proposed significant reduction in the pre-tax contributions. You could always choose an after-tax option so this looks to be strictly worse.
Parents usually figure this out after a few weeks. Also kids needs change over developmental time. So crying is just language for communicating based on emotion: Hangry, tired, hurt, potentially dirty diaper.
Got it from here: https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/16/16657580/tesla-live-stre...

No idea what their source is though.
Re Adwords for Outdoor and Transit Advertising

While not the same exact idea, I have been kicking around an idea about creating a marketplace for ad inventory consumers can offer. A marketplace where businesses can connect with airbnb hosts, uber drivers, college students, etc.. to place advertising in guest rooms, as bumper stickers or on t-shirts.

It's not completely thought out yet. But I'd welcome discussion.
As someone who started with Z80 and 6502 assembler, I think that in some ways the old days of programming were better, as there were just fewer libraries and APIs. You were working close to a bare-metal machine.

These days you can get a lot more done, more easily too, and help is easier to find, but there are a lot more levels of libraries between you and the machine. Choosing the correct platform takes time and sometimes guesswork.
Launch an ICO as a Service
Same here. I didn't join because of those training classes - it was just too much money, and too much hassle.
JetBrains DataGrip is pretty good. It's not free, though.

https://www.jetbrains.com/datagrip/
For the most part, as in this case, it seems like idolatry tends to emerge from the bottom up rather than being decreed from the top down.

The Pope and Cardinals would really prefer it if people would pray to a nice abstract God in a nice abstract sort of way, but superstitious common people really want to be able to have a nice neat physical object that they can entreat for the safe return of car keys and the like, and these two streams reach an uneasy compromise at the local priest's level.
The site is showing in Chinese for me. It really irks me when sites don't respect the browser's language. Surely this is a solved problem?
>>I would say the majority of 40 year old programmers are just as useless in the other direction.

This has nothing to do with age. In most people's case swim lanes are set early in life. If you weren't good enough at 23, unless some major incident in your life changed you, chances are you will be the same at 40.

This has largely been a problem- most people feel with this popular phenomenon called 'Nerd culture'. Some people have it all figured way early in life, others take long, many never. This fact alone counts for different starting points in life, overall seriousness, and the net time available to make progress. Also if you started out as a Nerd earlier, you are more curious, and more eager to learn, change and adapt to things. Than people who start out later, who just wanted a job to provide for their family, and are in purely for 9 - 5 kind of a job, those people will routinely find themselves stuck in the wrong job- As they have to spend bulk of their time learning things. While they might want to spend that time on recreation.

This whole thing about learning and exploring things just for the heck of it doesn't come naturally to most people.

From my own childhood I remember a bunch of bullies from my lane, routinely taunting and beating up kids. One of them grew up to his mid-20s and woke up to the financial realities of life. He then went to college and did his engineering. But that was 8 years after I had finished my degree, and had a neat 9 - 10 years experience compared to him. I once met him in a bus and he came across as a totally changed person, but he still struggles. Largely because the impulse to do things is different, he just wants a job, and beyond that bulk of his early life throughout childhood, teenage and early adulthood were spent doing unproductive stuff. So there is just no desire or curiosity, or even the mental tools required to sustain a continuous learning life long marathon campaign.
> You had to pay for a brutally waitlisted class

For better or worse, that's been the model at every makerspace I've been a member of/looked into. And I think it makes sense, insurance-mandated or not. Lots of expensive, potentially dangerous machinery that if used wrong can destroy itself, its user, and/or those nearby.

Also, in my experience once you've built up enough trust with the admins they'll let you get a crash course from a member who knows what's up and skip the fees and formal training process.
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My requirement doesn't take away from your needs in any way because my problem is with the color choices, contrast, etc. A good choice of colors, contrast and font sizes can provide for both needs (which it certainly hasn't all this while).

When I go around, I usually don't keep the phone on hand or use any navigational aids (for various reasons, including not letting Google know where I am at what times and dates). There are times when I want to map out a walking route or a driving route and just need to memorize some of the street/road names to know how I'm headed. That also helps me later so that I'm not always dependent on a map that's not in my head. There are also many turns around the world's streets where there are no distinguishing landmarks as such. For people who follow the navigation aid all the time, these things don't matter.
Looks like a re-run of Knight Rider...
I mean, with Semi's isn't a big thing going to be about self driving, therefore not needing such experienced drivers?

I'm not saying have a kid on there, but what angle do they have if not for self-driving? Poor range, unrepairability?
I commuted between Minneapolis and Houston in 2008. I had an apartment in both cities.
I had the same issue. Tried zooming in and tapping the images to see a larger view, but there was no way to see things clearly.
> The conclusion of this paper from 2001 supports revoking the rules, or at least that the rules aren’t necessary for their stated goal of providing diverse opinions

Hmm... From reading your quote, it sounds to me like it's saying that the rules are working properly. What these changes are going to allow is a single company with a known one-sided agenda to buy up all media in several markets. How will that work out?
You might have a good reason for thinking that, but I can't tell from this comment.
The poor guys are self-DDoS'ing themselves.

They keep requesting https://livestream.tesla.com/haveReservationsStarted every 30 seconds. Most of the requests are failing with 502 HTTP errors.
So, would this be a modification of a bounty system?
There was a location near me, but I could never justify spending that much money on something I'd use for a a day or two a month. Between commutes during the week and traveling on weekends there would never have been time to make it worthwhile. Sad to see them go under though.
ATS uses infinite precision ints only for the proof/dependent type checking. The ints used at runtime are machine ints. It's to avoid overflow during type system checking.
The only important idea in that list is the last, firefighting tools
> Diesel mechanics tend to be ridiculously intelligent and very resourceful

Cooool! Can we have a story about this?
Can someone tell me if their study design compensates for bias introduced by not everyone completing the study? It looks like only about 70% completed it.
Codename for venomous bats?!
Getting a 502 response. Also Tesla should probably update nginx since v1.10.2 is at EOL with an outstanding CVE.
Japan became the first country to mandate urine screening all infants for neuroblastoma, a cancer of the nervous system primarily found in children younger than age 5

The result was overdiagnosis, unnecessary treatment inflicted on infants, infant deaths due to side-effects of treatment and no improvement in outcome.

A Halt to Neuroblastoma Screening in Japan
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200405063501922#t=a...
Throughout history military power has been tied closely to wealth and population. Theorists of AI and robotic weapons talk about how that relationship could significantly weaken:

You don't need a large population to build a robotic army, and while you need wealth, it may be that you just need better AI developers (who could be AIs themselves) more than you need more robots. Or maybe you just need to find the right combination of AI, hardware, and tactics first; win quickly and it's too late for the enemy to learn.

Singapore with its high-tech foundation, for example, could become one of the most powerful nations in SE Asia, and maybe even beyond.
Could that induce a heart attack? Like drinking a glass of ice water after mowing the lawn in hot weather.
Mijn Randstad Inloggen – Randstad Voor Werknemers
People are central to Randstad. Whether you're looking for a job or are looking for people before a job. At Randstad, we want to know who you are and what your motives are. That way he knew that ultimately a good match between the candidate and the organization would arise.
wow thanks for that :)
I have read the same comment (slightly modified) on HN since telsa announced their first vehicle.

Tell me, have you actually worked on a new model truck? Because the days of a service manual and a backyard shed are over
Yes, but you may not realize that SmartLook is also getting all that information.
At least the helmets don't have people's junk and a sweat on them all the time. Whole thing is pretty gross when you think about it.
Am I the only one who thinks it weird this type of “breakthrough” announcement would come from a EV company? If they really did have such batteries, I think they’d make way more selling the battery than the car.
I thought the classes were pretty helpful and a pretty good deal, considering they had a maximum capacity of a few students at a time. I’m sure the instructors were only making peanuts out of it. I didn’t have any trouble getting into class slots at the SF location, when I was trying to do it a couple years ago.

The bigger problem for me was that equipment was under some contention, meaning that it took signing up for a particular (maybe 2 hour) block of time a couple days in advance. I was trying to prototype things and learn basic stuff at the same time, which meant that my original computer designs were typically wrong the first few tries, and I wanted to do several rounds of iterative improvements to my designs. That is: 10 minutes of cutting, followed by 30 minutes of fiddling with a computer program or vector file, followed by 10 more minutes of cutting, etc. With a 2 hour block of time it’s only possible to get through 3 feedback cycles in that style, after which I sometimes had to wait a few days to try again at a time that would fit in my schedule. I would have been dramatically more efficient if I could have shared a 6 hour block of time with 3–4 other people.
It really depends on what you already know and your level of interest in learning something new.

I can still crank out a pretty neat Web App in Code Igniter over lunch!

But, nowadays, I use Meteor which makes things very efficient while making an old hag look cool too :-) (Meteor allows you to leverage the great work available in the node community quite seamlessly)
I prefer to put elon@tesla.com. Hopefully it'll incentivize them to stop this crap
Since I can't see anything except a spinning wheel on the button and "Event in progress" here are my questions for others:
What is the payload (tongue) capacity?
What is the tow (pull) capacity?
Is there any mention of being able to pull a fifth wheel?
Congrats! Very exciting!

May I ask, how did the buyout offer come about?

How did you market/SEO your startups in the lead-up to launch during stealth mode in order to get a buyout offer?

What signals would a company be looking for in order to decide to offer to buy out a just-launched ML startup?
I can offer my anecdotal experience. Been shutting off the hot water at the end of my morning showers and enduring the cold for a few minutes for the past 3 years. I have noticed that I get fewer colds. And with the colds I do get, their symptoms are lighter, and they go away much quicker, often gone in a day or two. And I haven't caught anything real bad, like a flu, since.
Yikes. NGINX throwing 502 errors. No bueno from a company with a market cap of 52 billion. Plus they seem to be running over 10 minutes late.
Sometimes i do cold showers at night, instead of the morning, and I still feel like I get the same benefits.

interestingly enough cold showers in the morning wake me up, and cold showers at night relax me. Not exactly how it works, but it does.
Diaper rash is largely due to not changing diapers frequently enough and not just cleaning after soiling. It's just excessive moisture / chafing The best way to cure diaper rash is to expose the bottom to the air for a long period of time.
Really happy not to be the Tesla DevOps group right now.
I agree with you, but I think you're definitely talking more about teaching using a small microcontroller (Which a STM32 definitely qualifies as) rather then what they're doing here. The Raspberry Pi runs full Linux, so their code is a fair bit removed from direct hardware access and has a decent amount of boilerplate before you can begin to start messing around with GPIO. They do still eventually memory map the GPIOs, but IMO it's not really the same.

That said, I think the AVR ATTiny and ATMega chips easily fit the bill, and possibly better. From a teaching perspective, they meet all of what you're talking about, and IMO they're better for simple circuits like flipping LEDs because they can really work with basically no extra components - you can just plug it into a breadboard like any other simple chip.
Might be an internal name for the Semi, found another snippet in their javascript

product: "HAMSTER",
> Kicker is in the US, government funded research is primarily through defense spending

Agreed. There are serious consequences to shifting government spending to mostly defense and reducing everything else. Also, it creates a large group with vested interests in continued and increasing defense spending, which includes favoring use of the military over other tools of state power.
Nice, I hadn't heard of this place before, but a little far for me. I was actually looking at techshop and planning on going there since I had some small projects I wanted to do.

I'm on the peninsula, is there something similar in this area?
>>I can structure it as a traditional SQL relational database with proper indices if needed.

These sort of things are the reason I have to these days deal with programmers who show me their several thousands of lines of code and feel proud about it, until I show them it can done with a few SQL queries. Or that Java/Python program who proudly flaunts their few thousands of lines of code weekend project, which is basically a awk command that can be written under 3 minutes.

Only a few months back I was asked to review a backend application. The developer explained passionately how his massive structure of Java code plays with the store, which happens to be a key-value store, while the application is largely transactional in nature. Despite explaining to them why this isn't great idea even from an operations perspective, let alone conceptually or design wise they went ahead. Last time I checked they have to often deal with dirty read/write issues in case of temporary failure, and disk crashes apparently are common.

These sort of issues can be avoided if devs sit down and get basic exposure to things SQL, which by the can be done under a few weeks.
Why are they hosting their own streaming service instead of using YouTube?
I bet they outsource these live event streams.
First, they came for the Nazis...
The comment you are replying to is about repair, not about the drivers. Did you maybe mean to reply to a different comment?
Can you explain why a python developer should make the switch to rails for web apps?

The difference between Django and rails is pretty small from my oberservation. They have similar ease of use and performance characteristics.
Also, there is this issue: In what way is the robot superior to a donkey?
I absolutely adore polite disagreements on the internet. It's so rare.
From Singapore:

$ ping 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=60 time=2.04 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=60 time=1.96 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=60 time=2.18 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=4 ttl=60 time=2.10 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=5 ttl=60 time=1.99 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=6 ttl=60 time=1.97 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=7 ttl=60 time=2.18 ms

--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
7 packets transmitted, 7 received, 0% packet loss, time 6016ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.965/2.063/2.185/0.099 ms
$ ping 9.9.9.9
PING 9.9.9.9 (9.9.9.9) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=1 ttl=60 time=2.23 ms
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=2 ttl=60 time=2.18 ms
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=3 ttl=60 time=2.28 ms
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=4 ttl=60 time=1.97 ms
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=5 ttl=60 time=2.05 ms
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=6 ttl=60 time=2.22 ms
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=7 ttl=60 time=1.93 ms
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=8 ttl=60 time=2.08 ms
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=9 ttl=60 time=2.17 ms
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=10 ttl=60 time=2.05 ms
^C
--- 9.9.9.9 ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 received, 0% packet loss, time 9018ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.939/2.121/2.289/0.115 ms

It's possible that their APAC mirror is in Singapore.
The video is livestreaming for me, but it's stuck on "Standby for the Tesla semi unveil". Anyone else seeing this?
inducing hypoxia will make you euphoric but is generally a bad idea for much the same reason that huffing paint thinner is a bad idea.
#2 is expected to work. Can you reach out to me directly (joemag@) and I will make sure we take a look.
> and figure out how computers could make workers more productive

Meh. Why half ass it? Figure out how computers could make workers obsolete. Cause someone else will/is.
I love Tesla, but there’s something poetic about even the livestream being delayed by 10 minutes
I've had this techno on repeat for about fifteen minutes now.
Elon plans to go to Mars, surely he can handle video streaming...
shitty tools team.
Er. So is this actually on? I'm getting hold music that feels straight out of Knight Rider.
USTREAM
Instead of batteries, semi is powered by several hamsters on wheels.
still playing the "standby" slide at 2012 PST. i assume this to mean the event was scheduled to begin at 1900 PST?
Second class-action law suit lodged against Tezos
It's Drupal...
They are not. They are using ustream. But they are ddosing the server hosting the page with the player.
So you can watch it at work without "sitting down" and watching a video. And you also don't need a headset.
I'm liking the music. Can anyone identify it? Would love to use this during work.
Yep same here. Don't reload -- I tried opening the stream in a second window, and couldn't get in at all (stuck on submitting the "watch event" form)
Linus wrote it with the code library interface only in mind. the cli was a hodgepodge just to access the interface, and i bet he had a bunch of other specialized hacky binaries that he used for his day to day tasks.
youtube stream for those getting errors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFN4BfbqlbA
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Don't have any particularly good story. They are just really good at understanding and fixing anything mechanical using the most basic of tools. I actually think that the type of brain that makes you good at programming is similar to being a good mechanic.
Is it possible that that people who are more willing to tolerate pain and uncomfortable situations are less likely to take sicks days, even when sick?

I've trie the wim hof method. It's a pretty incredible feeling but I'm afraid of collapsing and knocking myself out.
This is only a semi-reveal. Maybe the stream will work after they do the complete reveal?
So if I throw out all my Apple devices and forget my current iCloud password, the photos are gone?

Or does Apple store the encryption key for me somewhere as a convenience, so that once I get new decides and reset my iCloud password, I regain access?