skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Going against an epistemological vein of science,
popular science writers make the discoveries of
scientists available to non-specialists by empha-
sizing what academic scientific papers necessar-
ily exclude: the human stories and emotions of
the scientists behind the discoveries.

This is a really weird statement. Professors love telling stories about how this-or-that is discovered; there's a downright attraction to the human side. Further, a human story about how an idea came to be can make great reading whether or not the idea turned out to be true in the end - Freud's cases are still interesting, but these days mostly as literature. A fun story might pique your interest in something, but it better not convince you that a theory is true! (i.e. keep your aesthetics separate from your epistemology for a long and happy life.)

So, Feynman's storytelling doesn't go against any vein of science, and even worse for the author's point aesthetic human stories aren't strict epistemological resources in any context. So in that sense the claim seems to miss the way the veins flow in science, and the way epistemology works in general.
I imagine this looks more intuitive than normal code to a mathematician: They are no strangers to complex notations and they prefer the brevity they offer.
at $250k per unit, 15 trucks is $3.75M. That's less than the cost of a 30 second superbowl commercial for wal mart to hop on the Tesla PR machine for a day or two. The trucks could never leave the lot and they'd have gotten their moneys worth.
I was comparing different browsers.
I would assume their Tesla Ranger service would be deployed for break downs, replacing your traditional emergency roadside contracts your fleet might have, amortizing the Rangers across both passenger and semi vehicles.

When your Diesel engine fails, you’re stuck on the road. The Tesla Semi can limp home on two out of four motors (although a battery failure is going to require a tow).
Solar can cost as low as $.06 / kWh (without subsides) : https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/solar-now-costs-6-pe...
Most people having those requirements are the major reason these areas are sparsely populated.
Pspg pager is working with mysql client too
> but their cash burn is frighteningly high.

In 2004, I sold a small position in AMZN because they were taking on $100 Million in debt every quarter and taking losses with no end in sight. I lost faith.

That was expensive.
Can whales even see much out of the water? I assumed they had the same blurry vision out of the water that humans have in the water due to the difference refractive index of water and air.
How about positing a one-to-one correspondence between our subjective experiences and patterns of neuronal firings in our brains?
People are upset because Elon made public statements about production numbers. 1,500+ Model 3's by September and 5,000 by year's end. They delivered 220 last quarter, are losing reservations, and are running out of time and money. My bet is the Semi doesn't see one delivery.
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I think the software development field is still pretty new and evolving. Think about it, 25+ years ago very few people were hired straight as software developers.

Most came from other industries to capitalize in the market need.

It will likely change as the current generation that started as developers go to 40+ and continue in the field.

will se...
China wins its war against South Korea’s US THAAD missile shield
"When I arrived in the office one day I saw my boss coming in with a new big Porsche. I said to him 'nice car' and he replied 'well, if you continue to work hard and give everything to this company, I might be able to get myself another one for Christmas'"
Sorry for off topic but it is a difficult topic and goes beyond Wikipedia. I read on hacker news the complaints that many (even peer reviewed) studies are never reproduced because there is no incentive to reproduce/verify someone else's work. Also, I've read that the "sugar lobby" may have been behind previous studies linking eating fatty food with obesity. Given these facts, how do we create guidelines that allow original research?
Who mentioned the first amendment?
Back in the day when Bill Gates was CEO of Microsoft and was hitting the big money, I remember hearing about his building a huge $5M house (when a million dollars was a million dollars) that would have digital-everything and be 100% buzzword compatible. This was probably the 1990s.

I'm wondering 1) how it went then; and 2) is the house now obsolete after just 20 years?

A house being obsolete in 20 years is one thing, but a whole city being obsolete is quite another.
People expect their software to improve over time, and thus receive updates, and this is perfectly reasonable. Most software is never "done". If it is a small module written in a highly mature language and operating in a stable, slow moving ecosystem, then fine. In those cases, simply document that updates will be few and far between and that this is expected for the above reasons.

More likely, development simply slows down because the maintainer got lazy, moved on to other interests, or doesn't have time for other reasons. Users don't like this and they are right to worry that the maintainer may be unresponsive or that the software will not be quickly patched in the event of a security vulnerability being discovered because the software is not actively maintained.

Your software is not complete. It is merely functional. In fact, it may not even be functional, as the rest of the world moves on without you and your code rots away.
So just because we don't have yet means we will never? Oh my, I think that might be a fallacy.

Not that you are wrong because of that but you are wrong for different reasons. Possibly because Star Trek has little to do with an Übermensch and considering the context you also used the word wrong.
English has always been scattershot; just chuck words together, it works fine. According to this article, most languages are pretty simple,

Get Fuzzy wasn't my favorite comic, but I remember this one - "you can wordify anything if you just verb it":

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/26/5c/0b/265c0bee514fc65ca2ea5f283...

But the author makes a good point...how many people would have the foresight to know that they're going to "verb" 'wordify' at the beginning of the sentence? I wouldn't. I don't even know what I should be nouning, most days.
But fishing boats are (relatively) new to their environment -- Orcas have coexisted with sharks for ~10 million years.

It seems unlikely that they've just learned that behavior in the ~200 years we've been observing them scientifically
How, exactly, would one "force Twitter's hand"? Twitter sets their policies, there are no mystical forces at work here. Your tone implies you're doubtful, but isn't this Twitter punishing "wrongthink"?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15724797
But in how many of those 10M years have humans been observing and recording Orca hunting behavior toward sharks? The first writing systems only date back ~5000 years.
The big deal is that there's no observable difference between the world where your robot is conscious of itself and has subjective experience of its surroundings, and between the world where your robot merely behaves as such, speaks to you trying to convince you that it indeed has subjective experience, but in fact it has none, its experiences are just a movie screened in an empty cinema where nobody is watching.

This unobservable difference goes the most basic axiom of science -- if there's no observable difference, then there's no difference. Yet, somehow I have subjective experience. You might also have it, though there's currently no way you can convince me that you do.
Show them somehow it is still supported, update the minor version or something.

In general:

If I come across a 3 year old binary, and no news article about dev activity it looks "dead and unsupported". Also on GitHub, if there is no commit for 1+ year, it looks "dead and unsupported", piling up of Github issues is also a bad sign. Using "dead" binary asks for troubles down roads, when you want to use it in a few months and it stopped working.
You think I haven't heard that one before?

I was consistently top of the class in my religious studies and by no coincidence the only one who didn't identify as a Christian.

My understanding of the Catholic faith, Abrahamic religions in general, and their pagan origins, stems from a historic and analytic approach to theology and my personal experiences simply reaffirm what I understand the Catholic Church to be. A system of control that operates via moral gatekeeping, social defamation, and historically threats of violence.

The Church was the embodiment of anti-science dogma for centuries, the bastion of bloody wars of conquest, and is responsible for destroying the lives of countless individuals to remain in power and stave off any changes to the socioeconomic status quo.

The Church you think you support and the Church as it is are two separate things, and you cannot see the forest for the trees when you are in the thick of it.

This isn't the kind of discussion the mods like on HN and I don't wish to be chastised, so let's not discuss further.
Not anecdottaly, provably.

>Or some groups of people?

I've deliberately not singled out any specific group of people but there is some evidence from Sociology and Biology studies that certain genetic or social groups of people will not have as much interest or understanding of computers.

Of course the social groups can "fix" this much easier, provided they have a desire to do so.

But again, not mentioning any specific groups specifically because it is not necessary. You can get the same results by replacing "computer skills" with any other skill or job and repeat to get the same results.

>I don't think any diversity initiative calls for random people to be inserted into jobs.

The assertion of the comment I responded to was that "People can learn on the job and can become not 'bad'" and asking if maybe there is something that makes some people bad at computers naturally, to which I responded as you have seen.
The article doesn’t say... How is “the richest 1%” defined? Is it by networth? Yearly total compensation? And at what values must one be to meet the definition?
> So for non-security critical software, it is sometimes better not to update that often. This update fever is bad both for developers and users.

What software is non-security critical anymore?
That's a bold bet. You don't think they can deliver one?
It's a bit tricker than it sounds, though. We cannot be aware of the absence of awareness. This could imply that we can only be aware of a sense of 'awareness' insofar as it was in fact differentiated from awareness itself, though a missing second step that is probably familiar to you (but it's a bit late at night for me to articulate it coherently).
In what way does this respond to my comment? I asserted that America's amendment does not exist in other legislations and that democracy has been far older than america. None of which are relevant in your comment.
Thus wasting other people's time and productivity?

I'm using the Atom editor. It's kind of annoying how it pushes new updates every week. Previously used Subline Text 2 which just worked and did not have an update for years.
Government Outlines When It Will Disclose or Exploit Software Vulnerabilities
I think the two biggest modern differences that would affect the quality of the bread would be (1) modern flours are probably way more consistent than ancient stone-ground flour (and don't contain rock dust/grit) and (2) the oven will keep a much more consistent temperature.

I'd have to imagine slap-and-fold is a pretty old technique, even if why it worked would be as mysterious as the leaven itself.
See also: "The richest families in Florence in 1427 are still [in 2016] the richest families in Florence"

https://qz.com/694340/the-richest-families-in-florence-in-14...
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http://www.technicalsuport.com/customeroutlookservices.html
Very well done. Unfortunately there are already thousands of mobile apps that do the same.

Yours is the best I've found so far, but I'll not use it nonetheless. I've already tried others and failed.
Human-Free Automat Technology Is Coming to More Restaurants
profit was the fun that they had :)
Consumer protection and regulation have declined in popularity in the US.
That explains the philosophical reasons, but just like cryptocurrency is weak compared to fiat currency, ICOs still sound even weaker than stocks.

It's nice that there is no regulation, but in the case of both fiat currency and stock, it is the regulation that gives it value, because they are backed by a system of laws and an army to protect those laws.

Like with stocks, they are already somewhat subject to the psychological whims of the shareholders, but what keeps most stock prices fairly stable is the fact that everyone who holds it knows that the worst case scenario is that the underlying company is liquidated and everyone gets some money back.

With a crypto coin, if the masses just decide that it isn't worth anything anymore, then it just isn't worth anything anymore. It has no backing in reality as far as I can tell.
This thread might give some insights about the coding style: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13565743
The important thing will be to build for upgradeability, so that a house/city with 20 year old tech can be upgraded without tearing it down and rebuilding from scratch.
Solar chargers built by Tesla’s solar business unit
Ancient Greeks famously started new cities with a... city square, and built around it. This is because public matters were most important to them and focusing on private matters was the definition of egoism and a bad citizen.

Whenever I hear about another smart city project, it seems to be done for show. There are pictures of architecture, vegetation, various mechanical systems or circuits. As if people living there didn't matter. Everyone will fit in and it will be great because concrete will do the thinking for you.
Ask HN: Open or Closed Systems Developer (Career Choices)
What's better and beneficial in the long run :

1.Develop or work on open systems where not a single company has control e.g webdev, systems programming with open languages | frameworks like node.js or ruby, rust etc

2. Develop or Work on proprietary systems e.g mobile or flash where a single company controls the platform ? such as iOS or Windows or some X-company shit I don't know about

Having given a hard thought at this as someone starting out: I would think open systems are better since no one is holding you by the neck ?
> So for the extra risk of having zero leverage in determining how the company operates, and no ability to recover assets if things fail, you hope for a much greater return than you get through traditional investments.

This was the best explanation yet, thank you!

It almost sounds like gambling, in that I have no control in the outcome nor any way to recoup assets, expect that I can't even calculate the odds of my return on an ICO. :)

I guess my question is, what is the end game? Doesn't someone end up at the bottom of the pyramid so to speak, stuck holding the bag with the whole thing goes spiraling down?
It would be great to have electric semis in our cities. Less noise and less air polution.

This order already show that Tesla's semis are a succes because it's the first small step to a better world.
https://www.xbtfreelancer.com/
You did. "Freedom of speech."
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Not an expert in this field, with costs or anything. My guess if not subsidies, it's a bet that electric energy will be cheaper, or batteries get more efficient to meet that price point in the 2-3 years it takes to ramp up production. In that time, they can get pre-orders.

This reminds me of car companies advertising guaranteed gas prices for certain types of cars back when gas started hitting $3/$4 mark. I would see commercials of new cars saying $2.50/g for the next 5 years or something similar.

Found one: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/chrysler-extends-gas-card-...

Chrysler, $2.99/g for 3 years if you buy new car.
> There is such a thing as finished software. With no major bugs. That does not need constant updates.

The general attitude (both on HN and elsewhere) is that if any security update exists for a product you use then you are a complete moron not to update it immediately. There is virtually no acknowledgment of any nuance on the topic in my experience.
There was a time in the past where Amazon could not have done that at all.
TSLA is taking on $1.5 billion in debt every quarter or so. Not sure if this is the same situation.
Walmart Canada apparently ordered 15 and Loblaw (Canadian grocery retailer) ordered 25, on a claimed move to a completely low-emissions fleet.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/tesla-electric-truck-walmart...
Of course, if it's anything like HTML, the formatting will vary over time that you really want a more permissive parser like BeautifulSoup. I haven't found a cli interface, so I briefly wrote my own ages ago: https://github.com/jldugger/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/select.....
Some human beings that live near the ocean do go in the water.

Here are some more facts:

Great white sharks

world population: <3,500 [1]

fatal attacks on humans from 1990-2013: 35 [2]

Orcas

world population: >50,000[3]

fatal attacks on humans in the wild since the beginning of recorded history: apparently zero

Here are some bonus videos of people swimming with orcas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ3mDXF3bcE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNtbaQyJx-0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErCfpYYuWuo

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/feb/19/great-wh...

[2] https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/fish/isaf/contributing-fac...

[3] http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/15421/0
> What software is non-security critical anymore?

LaTeX, MATLAB, CMake...
I've worked at both Microsoft and Amazon, and they have opposite strategies for integrating large code bases. Microsoft prefers putting everything into one giant project and having different teams touch different parts of it (there are lots of advantages in this, incidentally, especially in terms of servicing). Amazon goes the opposite way, by essentially using package management to keep track of and manage dependencies between a huge number of smaller projects. Amazon's solution works well for them, partly because it matches their service oriented architecture. But at the same time, it's the only thing of its sort I've ever seen that was actually built to a sufficient level of quality. And it represents a tremendous investment of dev work over a more than a decade.

Microsoft is capable of doing that kind of work (and they sort of are with some of the azure stuff they're working on) but it's a non-trivial project that requires a tremendous amount of investment of time and resources. And that's just to get to square one, let alone something that is competitive with their other infrastructure (keep in mind that microsoft also has tremendous investments in build and CI infrastructure). That's a very hard sell, especially from a risk management perspective.
This article should be catnip to all interested programmers.

Particularly interesting is the final tenth or so, drawing attention to the explosion noun-compound constructions in the body of scientific writing, even when compared to the peak of contemporary publications (i.e. Nature-published articles).

I also enjoyed the deliberately stupidified translations which invite refactoring into better English, and draw attention to the actual mechanisms of the underlying language.
Whether or not software can be finished with 0 bugs is sort of irrelevant. Windows and other software users use most will basically never be "finished".

The updates that are causing the fever are not just "bugfixes", they are the current state of living software--always expanding and improving (at least in intent). The fact users see software that hasn't been updated as dead is a reflection of their learned expectations. And they are correct, it likely is dead in the "no longer improving as my other software is" sense.

The real issue I have is how shitty most update processes are. Thanks for rebooting my PC Win 10, yes Sublime Text, please tell me again in a dialog that there is an update, etc. Some apps have done much better here like Chrome and Discord, but it is not an easy thing to build.
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The problem with freelancing is you spend a lot of unpaid time lining up jobs. Does that really pay off?
Thinking about it, that would mean they emit some kind of Bremsstrahlung, or not? If that is the case, I am wondering about the angular distribution of the emitted gamma photons... I would consider it rather random. This would beg the question, how do you focus and direct the gamma beam into the gold can?
Before they are bankrupted? Possibly.
LG V30 review – the teen has grown up
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/us/politics/white-house-l...
> Is there any difference between light falling in your eyes and your experience of vision, and light falling in a corpses eyes, and its experience of vision?

One would argue that there's more chemistry going on in neurons feeding to the optic center, but I'm not well versed in neuroscience to tell you where the signal stops.
The utopian dream of a benevolent dictator
Notably not true of the United States over any great stretch of time.
TLDR:

Financial and medical fields have a lot of rich people because of regulatory capture (i.e. no or little competition because they make the rules).
I remember reading about that as well. Something about everyone wearing electronic badges that identified to the smart house who was in the room.

Also a trampoline room.
We keep hearing the argument that government subsidy or protectionist legal barriers are responsible for inequality, but I think it's an inherent feature of capitalism.

Owning the means of production, whether it's a company or factory, land, patents, natural resources, or simply a brand name, give you a share of "monopoloy power" to some extent, and puts you on a different plane to workers.
Your wealth automatically rises with the hard work, creativity and success of those workers, and allows to you to buy ever more "productive assets". The value of which constantly increases to remain beyond average workers' grasp.
What is it with academics and purple prose?
> Denying the existence of qualia would mean denying that we have subjective experiences. Dennett doesn't deny that. But he does deny that many of our usual intuitions about qualia are correct, by showing how they lead to inconsistent and incoherent thinking about our experiences.

I don't think you're right. See here[1]:

> There is a limited use for such interpretations of subjects' protocols, I have argued (Dennett 1978a; 1979, esp., pp.109-110; 1982), but they will not help the defenders of qualia here. Logical constructs out of judgments must be viewed as akin to theorists' fictions, and the friends of qualia want the existence of a particular quale in any particular case to be an empirical fact in good standing, not a theorist's useful interpretive fiction, else it will not loom as a challenge to functionalism or materialism or third-person, objective science.

According to the man himself, he thinks that they are "theorists' fictions" and "not empirical facts" -- that's about as "they aren't a thing" as you can possibly get.

[1] http://cogprints.org/254/1/quinqual.htm
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That's because Amazon's core business was in a domain where they could make sizable revenues from day one and scale as they went along.

Building 500,000 cars is a bit different than building out a website on which to sell stuff other people already made.

So yeah, I would expect Tesla to be spending more along the way and making less in the beginning.