skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Between housing and real estate prices, insurance, taxes, lack of government support, environmental protections, requirement to pay for health insurance for employees,layers of regulations, minimum wage laws, sexual harassment lawsuits (it only takes one and your company is over)...you just can’t operate a physical space with drills, laser cutters, saws, advanced electronics and machinery at a profit in America anymore.

There's also all sorts of zoning hell.
> The six of us worked around the clock, sleeping only a few hours during the two-day hackathon

Do you guys at least get paid extra for this type of insanity? I honestly can't see myself working for a company that promotes this type of Insanity.
The next issue is going to be the Alibaba's and AliExpress's. Good luck trying to collect taxes there, so that means that they have an artificial advantage over domestic sellers (or reseller/dropshippers).

Personally become a big fan of AliExpress. It's a much better experience than buying a 3rd party item on Amazon. Although, only if you're flexible on shipping times.
More people need to start hosting their own streaming service instead of automatically relying on Google Almighty to take care of life for them.

Kudos to Tesla for trying.
And then today in YC a blog about "Startup Ideas", there is a suggestion for a "Social Network for Children".

https://blog.ycombinator.com/13-startup-ideas/

Please, no.
Why not just use postgres on a single node ?

I don't think a small-dev or a cheap/freemium user has as much potential for critus data as you think it does.

I for one appreciate the slightly higher cost and hope citrus continue on
"When a Quad9 user clicks on a website link or types an address into a web browser, Quad9 checks the site against IBM X-Force's threat intelligence database of more than 40 billion analysed web pages and images. The service also taps feeds from 18 further threat intelligence partners, including Abuse.ch, the Anti-Phishing Working Group, Bambenek Consulting, F-Secure, mnemonic, 360Netlab, Hybrid Analysis GmbH, Proofpoint, RiskIQ and ThreatSTOP."

Why not share the database with the public? This is meant to be a free service, isn't it?

"Quad9 is designed to provide these protections without affecting the speed that users expect when accessing websites and services."

Very careful choice of words. It does not say it will not affect the speed. It says it will not affect the "speed which user expect". What speed is that?

I already check domains against a database of ones I want to block. I do this locally using djbdns, without needing to send DNS queries over the internet. The speed is better than any third party DNS service, including 8.8.8.8 or 9.9.9.9. IMO, there is no need to send personal, private DNS queries to "18 further threat intelligence providers".

"Telemetry data on blocked domains from Quad9 will be shared with threat intelligence partners to improve their threat intelligence responses for their customers and Quad9."

Telemetry. So they are collecting data about users' DNS queries. This would explain how the service is "free".

When a user tries to access a blacklisted domain, a host of "threat intelligence partners" are notified.

"PCH, which provides Quad9's network infrastructure; and IBM, which provides IBM X-Force threat intelligence and the easily memorable IP address (9.9.9.9)."

Quad9 suggests IP addresses can be memorized. I will rememeber that.

"The personal information protections and selectable DNS encryption, DNSSEC, and blocklist that are in place show that this project is in line with PCH's values," he said. "Quad9 will inspire trust in both individuals and businesses who understand the importance of securing their private browsing data."

If someone digitally signs a document, does anyone believe the document is hence "encrypted"?

When DNSSEC is used, does anyone believe that DNS is hence "encrypted"?

A less misleading description might be something like "DNS record signing".

Using DNSSEC does not mean the DNS packets are encrypted. Anyone sniffing the network can read them.

DNSSEC also makes DDOS easier for malfeasants.

Have those providing the DNSSEC signed records and those providing DNSSEC enabled third party DNS service solved this problem yet?

I am not implying that this "service" could not be useful for users who must use third party DNS service. The question is whether users who really care about security issues must use third party DNS services.

source: http://www.computerweekly.com/news/450430188/Free-Quad9-inte...

"HQ

1442 A Walnut Street

Suite 501

Berkeley CA 94709"

source: https://www.quad9.net

Is this an office of IBM?
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> 2% is HUGE at this point

Hell, on MNIST 0.14% is huge. Geff Hinton created an entire new architecture to get 0.25% error, which is far better than the baseline 0.39% error [1].

To be fair, he did reduce the error by 35%.

[1]:https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.09829.pdf
Datos IO Launches RecoverX 2.5 for Cloud Data Management Use Cases
He clearly couldn't handle the slides presentation in a SpaceX video I watched sometime ago. The irony made me chuckle.
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It shows both on the product page. 300 standard, the 500 is an extra cost option: https://www.tesla.com/semi/?new
No because this was not a self-selected group. It was people with no regular history of cold showering. My money’s on placebo effect here.
"it probably would be ruling the world, front and back-end"

So, what would be different about that? JavaScript does rule the world, front (definitely) and back-end (arguably, but there aren't a lot of contenders for the language that's more popular for new projects).
Bitcoin is a bubble, no plans to short-sell: Japan Post Bank CIO
Cautionary note. Don't practice Wim Hof method while in a pool or tub. Tim Ferriss opens a podcast on hof with a warning about a friend who passed out practicing hof method while in a pool and almost drowned.
Sounds like a bit of a catch-22: you don't want to collect the data until you've collected enough data to know that you're not causing harm.
Keep that HTTP2 garbage away!
I see what you are saying, I agree, we are just arguing over words.

Technically, you are correct - they don't lend out more than what is deposited, but what is deposited is 'created' (or at least deposited and lent money against those deposits are both considered 'in circulation') by they or other banks, ergo, banks end up lending out considerably more money than is created from the central bank.
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> Because the days of a service manual and a backyard shed are over

They really aren't, as much as the manufacturers like to tell you they are.

Sure, the sheer amount of sensors/vacuum systems/electronics/etc make it look too complex for the layman, but as long as you've got an OBD scanner and a laptop, you can make quick work of most things. The biggest issue is manufacturers currently having an obsession with inverse torx head bolts in unusual and frustrating places (i.e. pull the top end off the engine using only a 10mm, 14mm and 17mm, and then juuuust at the last step, there's a sudden 6.5mm inverse torx bit needed to be fetched from Narnia.). But you can always get parts.

Electric cars will be just the same - in fact, I think they'll be easier for the home electrician to work on. Most of the modular manufacturer-specific parts can be interchanged for other components (inverters, batteries, etc). It won't look as neat and clean, but considering that electric cars are fundamentally less complex than internal combustion engines I don't think people will struggle.
Hollywood sex offenders, who will give their earned currency to support this? congratulations.
take a deep breath, my friend, it's not the apocalypse. the US still has and is still creating new manufacturing. Tesla in the bay area. Boeing, the oil industry, all of biotech and medical devices. Even in the maker-type-world dig what Adafruit is doing is Brooklyn.

The good ol' days of a middle-class factory floor producing widgets with hand-operated tools is pretty much gone because of labor costs - gone to japan, mexico, then china, and now just gone-gone to automation. If you want to be a Randian captain of industry - that ship has sailed, docked, offloaded, and been towed to the breakers in south asia. If you care more about making new and better things more quickly, this is the best it's ever been.
Because it's not "Conservative" in any way, shape or meaning. It's not holding back to an older time. It's not being fiscally responsible. It's selling out monopoly status to the lowest bidder. And look, we have a corporate pro-Trump mouthpiece that was waiting for this law change.

If we're talking "Conservative" back to the good old days, I believe Adam Smith has some choice things to talk about appropriate regulation and prevention of monopolies. But that just gets inconvenient.

And as for your jab at sanctuary cities; do you know WHY they were made? Because immigrants were easy pickings. An "illegal" or someone who isn't sure is ripe pickings for all sorts of bad stuff. The conservative answer here is pretty simple: let them get hurt or assaulted or murdered - they shouldn't have been here!

But to funding, if the Federal govt wants to shove a thumb up their collective butts to decide again and again to not touch immigration, well, they can enforce it as well. The states certainly aren't funded for that sort of work. The feds are asking for free enforcement of their jobs.

I'd imagine that I understand conservative theory better, having been one a long ago, and worked for a local state congressman. And a lot of it is wrong, being predicated that you're some embarrassed millionaire. They've fooled enough people that way. Got'em riled up, angry. It always easy to go after "Other"... Like those Mexicans. Or right now, North Koreans.
>Most animals are way more expressive that the average person is able to easily understand

Is the market the average person though or the person willing to spend several hundred dollars on tech for their pet?

My guess is the latter would mostly consist of people who have spent decades in close contact with pets and are able to reliably read the body language of a dog with rather extreme accuracy and nuance.

If you've never owned a dog they're rather difficult to read. If you've been around them as long as you've been around people you can almost immediately discern a lot of information about them based on a glance.
The fact is if someone works for one of those companies, they are contributing to the problem. Maybe out of greed, maybe necessity, maybe ignorance. Moral judgements aside, it really doesn't matter why as long as they choose to work there - the company still benefits and the cycle still continues.

I'm sure teaching ethics would help.. but then again I don't think all the recent revelations about FB/Google/Twitter have done anything to make hiring more difficult for them. At most they pay 10-20% more and get the people they need. Parts of wall street are unethical and yet they get all the employees they need given the right salary.
I still prefer Hegel, particularly his Philosophy of Right.
How silly. One small company fails, and you jump to this end of the US scenario. You really need to take a step back, and get some perspective.

The US is the 2nd largest manufacturer in the world. That happens in the physical world -- something you seem to have forgotten. 150m people go to work everyday, doing plenty of things in the physical world too. Millions of businesses have figured out how to pay for health insurance, office space, and the rest that you think prevents companies from existing.

I'm sure TechShop put in a lot of effort into their locations.. but maybe you should take a tour of a Ford or Boeing plant. They operate all of that equipment, and a lot of far more advanced equipment, all at a profit.

And the socialist bit at the end? Even the Democracts arent that socialist.. no one that far left is electable in the US. Bernie couldn't even get through his own party (and before you scream: but the democrats conspired against him... that's right, his own party wouldn't go along with him).
The point isn’t to find an adjective for the communists, but to describe the society they live in, and whether specific actions or policies make it more or less that way.
I actually went and met Wim. I took one of his seminars. He had us all go outside into a pool of ice together for about ~1 minute with all of us chanting who let the dogs out while we froze. I walked out completely red because it was the coldest thing I'd ever done. At that point I was doing cold showers for about a year and a half.

I am a very physical person and his method was the first one to put my mind into a meditative state. You actually feel it in your body and shock it which silences your regular thoughts. You only focus on your breathing and how you feel in that moment. It gives me a really quick reprieve when working on a difficult problem.

You have people that take his method to extremes though, I remember one guy at the seminar literally pissed himself from holding in too long. It can make it all seem like pseudoscience. I can confirm that it has a very physical effect on my body and helps me meditate a lot easier.

A side effect of the ice training is that I sweat in really cold weather. I live in Seattle and people look at me funny cause I'm rocking a t-shirt and shorts but if I wear a jacket I'm boiling.
cobra / viper are nice, but to me they are a fair bit more heavyweight than mow. With mow also due to closures it seems easier to manage without globals, at least for programs where you don't also need a config file (which is where cobra / viper shines) but just simple cli it seems easier than rolling your own unless you just have one or two options.
Economy of scale (or rather, too small a scale to be economical) is almost certainly the problem.

Producing a newspaper of a certain number of pages of a certain quality requires the same amount of work, regardless of whether it is read by 10 people or 10 million, but your revenue will be proportional to readership; you have a small per-reader additional cost, to print or provide bandwidth, but it's largely a fixed cost, to research and write the articles.

I'm not sure how the internet helps or hurts. It will help in that you can start smaller on the internet, with a one or two person operation publishing infrequently, but when you try to scale up you'll run headlong into the "people don't pay for news online" problem.

In any case, if you want to run a "real" newspaper, you need a certain minimum number of subscribers to be viable, to hire enough people to research enough articles to provide enough information each day to really be considered a "newspaper". This, in turn, is where you could imagine unfair competition from monopolies. First, your larger newspapers will be able to undercut you, producing better news articles at lower cost per reader, if they have more readers. Second, a large enough conglomerate of regional newspapers can afford to run some at a loss. There are only so many available subscribers, and if you can deny your competitors enough to be viable, they'll also be running at a loss, and your deeper pockets will let you wait them out.
radiologists make good money without blood and knife.. well at least in the u.s. :)
Those VR glasses for augmented reality, the google glasses... but nope.
I have a journeyman in mechanics, tractor/trailers are much easier to work on than most personal vehicles due to the amount of room there is. They are also quite easy to repair, very similar to a computer as in hard drive is bad, replace it, injectors bad, replace it.
Doesn't care which distro you are using.
Jack of all trades master of none. What is Musk doing? This guy is all over the map.
working youtube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFN4BfbqlbA
Why though?

I need to stream something. I'm a car company. What's the point of making extra work for myself?

Greater control, perhaps, but for a press conference do I need this?
Yep. It's a stressor, which is the point. Strenuous exercise is also a well-known cause of heart attacks, but you should definitely strenuously exercise if at all possible.
I'm not sure "Linux" (by this I believe you mean Linux kernel and distros & open-source software) is hostile to the concept of proprietary drivers. There is only a small subset of users who are hostile to proprietary drivers. And I have no idea why you are suggesting Linux doesn't have a stable ABI.
"Young Smith, who is black, apologized to her team in October after she was reported by TechCrunch and other news organizations to have told a conference that a group of “white blue-eyed blond men” could also be considered diverse based on their different life experience and perspective."

"Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you."
I think that firefighting tech could actually be super useful
e.g. utilizing satellites and atmospheric data to generate predictive evacuation notices for wildfire spread. Like combine meteorology, topographic and residential mapping to do predictive early warning systems. IDK. The rest of that potential startup list looked completely useless.
RSS and Google Reader. What can I say, I was young and foolish.
I prefer reinforcement learning to mind-body philosophy. I think RL has more clear and concise concepts that can be tested and has the potential to create intelligence, something philosophy can't do. I replace the word "consciousness" with "agent" and the word "emotion" with "value function", "sensing" with "neural network based representation" then suddenly so many mind-body debates become easier to grasp. "Reasoning" is just simulation of consequences in the mind, something called model-based RL, the babble of a baby looks like a LSTM learning to generate text, and the chaotic movements of a newborn look like pretraining RL agents for motion control.

Then I visit philosophy forums and people still insist on "qualia this" and "free will that". Qualia is just sensation + action value associated with it, it feels like something because it occupies our perception and value judgement, and determines actions. So many fake mysteries in philosophy, created by fluffy suitcase words like consciousness.

Yeah, but why would sensation and value function feel like anything? Why aren't we p-zombies one might ask? Because we are agents in the world and not being good agents means death, so we have to feel to exist. RL and sister domains like evolutionary algorithms explain consciousness by the opposite of it - death. For example, what is consciousness if not that thing necessary for you to eat, protect yourself and reproduce - in other words, to beat death?

P-zombies don't fear death. Even if one existed, it would not have the drive to protect itself and it would be damaged or destroyed soon enough. So it's like something that can only exist for a short time and not benefit from evolution or RL, similar to a traditional computer program. I wholeheartedly agree with a recent article that put the blame of stagnating philosophy of consciousness on the shoulders of Chalmers and the (philosophically) useless concepts he produced. The "hard problem" is just dualism in disguise. Call something "a hard problem" and it becomes a category of its own, apart from science, in the realm of metaphysics, an euphemism for dualism.
Semantic ontologies that would totally change the nature of search.
A truck is a tractor without a fifth-wheel, and some weight distribution differences. They aren't really completely different products.

Regional haul tractors are decent market, but much smaller than long haul.

Utility and refuse better play to the strengths of electric vehicles, but I suppose garbage trucks aren't sexy enough for Tesla.
Until their skills are outsourced to imaging clinics abroad (maybe you mean interventional radiology, dunno)…
As an aside: nice idea! I'd buy the product, if I lived in the US.

The cookies are still quite high in calories per 100g, so if you could get that down all the better.
I was sure the Facebook Platform would take over the world. I thought the fast success of Zynga would create a blueprint for all web apps would be built in the future
Can someone with more experience in the field talk about the pricing of the Tesla semi relative to other semis? Musk said it was cheaper to operate from day one, is that not amortizing purchase price into each mile? Seems a little too good to be true.
Another actually interesting idea (in my opinion ofc): facial recognition scrambling jewelry/implants. Actually interesting.
Plus surprise supercar announcement?
New car as well!
Yes. One requires attention to a huge number of details, to be certain that many systems work together flawlessly. The other, you can just reload if it screws up.
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Details for those that couldn't watch the live stream:

-500 mile range on a full charge. On empty 30 min of charging will get you 400 miles.

-Lower drag coefficient than a bugatti veyron

-They're claiming cost per mile is less than rail for shipping goods.

-2019 availability

-Lane centering + other features (jack knife prevention)

-1,000,000 mile guarantee

----------------

Also they surprised announced a new roadster:

-New plaid mode (beyond ludicrous) 0-60 in 1.9s.

-620 mile range
YouTube may not work on Mars, they need to have this as a core competency, develop it now.
Serious question—

Does/would a high-end (e.g., Xeon-class) processor and/or a boatload of RAM help keep Code's performance snappy?

FWIW, I run my Code install quite light since my "duties and responsibilities", ahem, only require a few languages/data types, ergo, I am not pushing it hard at all.

FTR, I have a (licensed) install of Sublime, which I confess is snappier than Code, but the difference is so small I use whichever one is better for the task at hand and any difference dissappears under the pressure of an outage enforced deadline :-D
model S, 3, X, then the D, now a semi... what's elon trying to tell us.
While not babies, a lot of parents have problems communicating with pre-verbal and basically non-verbal infants... but it's also been found that infants can actually learn and effectively use signs (not to be confused with ASL or a distinct sign language) to communicate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_sign_language
_msw_ mentioned this in the announcement thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15640040#15640360):

"but the latest generation EC2 instances offload networking and storage processing to hardware. This is the case for both for instances that use Xen and C5 that uses the new KVM-based hypervisor."

So that seems to confirm an offload to hardware for storage.