skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Tesla Roadster went on sale in 2008, so I'll give them that. Though the Nissan Leaf went on sale in 2011, prior to the Model S, and was/is still 1/2 the price. I credit Nissan with producing something for the 99%.

I always thought the VW (diesel) Rabbit pickups were neat. A 50 MPG truck back in the late 70s. I was considering a modern VW diesel wagon, until the scandal. I love my EV though, so no more diesel. Clean diesels have too much emissions crap on them to be reliable.
Yeah! I couldn't have described it better than you just did!

Feel free to take a look at the code and star the code if you like it. I'll keep upgrading it and adding more Reinforcement Learning variations
What is the point of subjecting macaque monkeys to diesel exhaust fumes?

Don't we already know that diesel fumes are harmful, wouldn't it be enough to measure the concentration various compounds / particles?
Soros is the ideological enemy of the Bannon wing on the political spectrum and yet they both agree on regulating Big Tech. It's an exciting, and bipartisan, time for the antitrust movement.
> she didn't want to become cat food should she died suddenly.

I had a great-great aunt who lived alone and hoarded cats and dogs (and many other non-living things). She was partially eaten when they finally found her. My grandparents eventually moved in to that property, and now my parents have it as a second property.

Every time I visit, I still get a little shudder when I think about what it must have been like to stumble upon that scene (a weeks dead, partially eaten corpse surrounded by dozens of hungry cats and dogs...) - I'm not sure which neighbor discovered her, but that poor person...

[Edit: fortunately, my parents didn't tell me the story until I was 18, I had visited my grandparents at that property every summer for most of my childhood. I imagine if they had told me earlier, my trips to the basement of that 19th century house would have been a bit more frightening]
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That's maybe an inverted compliment?

It would be worse if the title read "Soros approves of President Trump".

That would be twice as bad.

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P.S. your profile quote is pretty thought provoking...

"If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die." Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway.
>Because their business actively contributes to these shortages

NIMBY regulators are the ONLY significant contributor to long term shortages in affordable housing. In other words, the local voters are the ones responsible for their own pain.
> I see SQLite as a file-format with a SQL interface.

I love the description from SQLite's website on the subject:

> SQLite does not compete with client/server databases. SQLite competes with fopen().

https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html
I doubt there would be any serious compiler design lecture about implementing a JavaScript engine that would use anything other than "pass by value" to decribe how arguments are placed into the stack upon calling a function.

The problem is trying to apply terms without understanding what they actually mean.
The demand will ALWAYS be there because Robinhood targets emotionally driven investments. This bullish market has also contributed to inflated egos around investing. Robinhood is now a fashionable trading application. If anything that should be a sign that we’ve entered a near speculative craze market wise.
It's interesting they didn't have confidence in the babysitter's ability to take care of you for an evening but still chose to hire them and then monitored them via payphone.

Most times when babysitters are hired, now or a generation ago, they're trusted to make reasonable decisions so the parents don't have to worry.
No worries! Here's also a link to the current progress https://www.floydhub.com/diegoalejogm/projects/atari/29 in case you wanna check the machine usage too
I've seen a Google car park. More to the point though: I feel like your definition of preprogrammed route is broad to the point of uselessness. Either that or you don't really understand the difficulty in SDCs.

>the car has to be remote controlled by a contractor

For legal compliance.

I'll repeat the question you avoided: if Waymo isn't an innovator or a leader in this space, what companies are, and what are they doing to demonstrate their superiority?

Your argument appears to be tautological. Google is not innovative, therefore nothing Google is doing can be innovative. If Google appears to be doing something that is innovative, someone else is doing it better or Google is lying.

No evidence can convince you of the contrary, because that evidence is simply Google using its immense power to mislead you or the person you're talking to.
>They need to address the issues

If by "they" you mean NIMBY regulators who won't allow more housing to be built, then we agree. This is not AirBnB's fault or responsibility.
Yep Wayback Machine places origin in June 2002.

https://web.archive.org/web/20020601182120/https://ds9a.nl/a...
Why do you believe Ben Franklin had anything to do with daylight saving time? The only thing I've ever seen by him in regards to DST roundly satirized the idea.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time
The possibility of me ever getting a message remotely like that is so remote that the very idea could power the infinite improbability drive and take me to the restaurant at the end of the universe.
> Imagine... Where functions compete with functions in every other program on the filesystem to see who is most efficient. Where scripts need to constantly copy themselves to other folders simply to maintain their integrity.

That sounds a lot like computer viruses.
Did you read the last sentence of that article? "This limit applies to margin accounts (Robinhood Instant and Robinhood Gold), but not to cash accounts."

Also day trading is not a limit on total buys/sells - they're specifically saying it's a limit on buying/selling the same security repeatedly when they are lending you money in a margin account.
I wonder what proportion of drivers will be actually heading somewhere, as opposed to the primary purpose of the journey being to make money from Waze Carpool.
I spend 12-15 minutes each direction, driving to and from work for my "first shift" job. I think I'd ask for 15-20% more if I had a 40 minute commute, and still resent having to drive that long.
Absolutely. And, as I said in another comment, the marketplaces for renting vacation homes, houses, etc. was very fragmented and generally not very good until AirBnB came along. A lot of their business still depends on sketchy host behavior but there was clearly a legitimate need for a better service.

Also, in cities, I'm not sure I even want to spend enough time in wherever I'm staying to have a memorable experience. The city is the experience, not the place I'm staying. Not that I hang around where I'm staying most places but definitely not in cities. Or if I do, it's because I'm working :-/
NIMBY is only a small part of why boom cities do not have enough high-density, affordable housing exists. Not every metro area in the United States is as myopic as the Bay.
And local functions.

And __cleanup.

And statement-expressions.

And Blocks is nice too.

All of this should be standardized.
Causal inference is a great field. That's something you can do with machine learning.
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To make a long story short, it was because you boil the wort when you make beer, and the kinds of beers that people drank all day were small beers and session ales, with lower alcohol content (and cheaper to buy).

Those things actually are related. Franklin proposed that Parisians could save on candle wax by getting out of bed earlier, as a joke. Nobody actually changed a clock until WW1 when Germany did it to save lamp oil.

Franklin likely promoted the lark lifestyle only because he was one, rather than from any real evidence of objective superiority. He participated in a business group that looked at successful businesses with an aim to emulate their practices. It is possible that his advice to work early was just cargo culting, in following with a long line of sanctimonious lark philosophers that painted their owl counterparts as slothful or lazy.

Standard business hours favor being a lark because those are lark hours! And then they have the nerve to be all chipper and cheerful every morning, at a time when every decent owl would prefer to be getting one last REM cycle in. How do you think they'd like it if we made them stay up past midnight every day?
Google does offer it for Gmail; it's just bundled with other services not a la carte.
Having 5% of the audience holding their phones up as high as they can to video tape the concert at any given time makes it harder for everybody to see. Then it's my crappy experience.
My perspective grows stronger every time someone close to me dies: the true value in photos is the faces.
As a tech person, that is where I try to maximize my pixel budget.

I actually prefer candid home video infinitely more -- most pictures on social networks are as authentic as pornography stills.
>> For every big winner, there's some family who had a dad who mortgaged their house and lost it all.

That's silly. Just look at the growth in the total crypto market cap over the last few years (or even over the last six months) and it's clear that this can't be true.

The vast majority of people who have been involved are way ahead.
This may be one of the reasons Intel is trying so hard to ensure (through shoddy software design) that such a patch would not be active during benchmarks, so they could hide behind such a statement being harder to prove.
Refactoring is almost never a priority at a real company that has brought a product to market. Either the culture there is receptive to it, or you're better off learning to live with it. Sometimes you can get away with small, incremental refactors of things that touch the new code you check in.
It's all relative. After a couple weeks of waking up to temperatures around or below 0F, the rise to the mid-teens felt like an early Spring.
I can completely see this happening. I have interned at small startups in the past where practice like this was rampant.
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Whether it’s Uber or the NSA stories of staff spying on people for a variety of reasons... it always comes down to people who seem to have access to things that they probably shouldnt have gotten access to in the first place. Users should be protected by having their data encrypted and anonymized so no other human being (staffers, governments or hackers) can connect an ID to the data. This way they can still access the data and use it for what ever work related purpose, with less risk of these things happening
Everything is passed by value.

A numeric value is put into the call stack.

Which in the case of references happens to be the address of pointee.

It is only pass by reference, if what is put into the call stack is the address of the actual variable on the caller stack holding the data.
Are carpool lanes that common? I've heard of their existence, but I'm not sure I've ever seen one anywhere (Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, France or Finland, that is).

And how are they enforced?
Hey, thanks for answering! It's probably closer to the truth that WhatsApp was just insanely overvalued in comparison as FB has been very aggressive in eliminating anyone that threatens their dominance. I'm a long time twitch/JTV user who's been there almost since the start (close to 10-year anniversary now), so I'll take this opportunity to say thanks.
It is not—this is something we are working on still. Sad for us too—Firefox is my daily driver! Hope to have this out in the next couple months, but it's not a simple port, unfortunately.
I would hesitate to attribute the decline to Big Brother when there is already a widely accepted hypothesis explaining both the increase and the decline.

tl;dr: Lead exposure has been shown to stunt intellectual development and increase aggression. With the 50s came the personal automobile, powered by leaded gasoline. Crime rose as that generation grew to adulthood. In the 70s use of lead in gasoline declined due to the clean air act. As that generation grew to adulthood crime rates fell. In the 90s the use of lead was banned. That generation is reaching adulthood now.

Lead polution peaked in 1973, violent crime peaked in 1993.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead-crime_hypothesis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/lead-exposur...
As the father of an autistic child, I’ve experienced “cookie licking” at home as a literal thing.

Seriously, the kid dumps a bunch of snacks out and “marks” them all for herself, later.

That term was immediately grokked when he said it :-)
I think, given the extreme bullishness of this area over the past few years, the opposite is more likely true: for every loser there are hundreds of winners.
That wins the "saddest news of this day" for me :(. I still remember waking up at absurd hours to chase the flares when I was a teenager.
It sounds like there's precious little certainty to be had [1]:

So far, nobody has recovered ancient DNA from archaic human skeletal remains in Africa. The 2000-year-old Ballito Bay boy is not the oldest, but there are no DNA results from truly archaic specimens, like the Kabwe skull from Zambia. As a result, we don’t have the kind of record within Africa that geneticists have built for Neanderthals and Denisovans in Eurasia...

Morphology does not tell the story of modern human origins...Did short faces and rounded braincases really make a difference to the survival and success of modern humans? Maybe they were chance legacies of the population that gave rise to our gene pool. We don’t know.

Conclusion:

We have to discover more fossils. That’s the way that we will start to solve these new problems and shed light on old mysteries.

[1] https://medium.com/@johnhawks/the-story-of-modern-human-orig... via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16234903
On a similar note, the band OK Go (when I've seen them, at least) would let you buy a burned CD of the show immediately after. IIRC you also got a code to download the post-mixed version online.
Imagine if your browser history was local but every time you use the history feature to revisit a page that URL was sent to Mozilla. How private is that really?

The Pocket code tells Mozilla what ads are being shown and which are clicked on. Since they know that the criteria for ad X is that phrase Y or Z is in the history, then they are gathering data on the type of content you are looking at on the web. This is only one step removed from the actual URLs.
When I did an internship at a national lab, a lot of the hard rules about security relied on the fact that you had gone though their hiring process and would follow the rules.
There were different access levels, for sure, but only like 2 or 3. You might have "had access" but you shouldn't be anywhere you didn't have a good reason for being.

Lyft should be checking on this, running audits and whatnot, but they also should be setting good policy and culture to not abuse access.

Basically, I think its reasonable to both allow many people access and expect them to not abuse it.
That's usually the role of the ITU[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Telecommunicatio...
I just wish Nissan wasn't so stingy with the battery. A nice 200+ mile battery with truly fast-charging would be truly awesome.

Nissan already uses Chademo, which is partially compatible with the Supercharger in Teslas, so they should be able to partner with Tesla and access the Supercharger network.
That needs to wait until Falcon Heavy is in service.
It is only pass by reference if what ends up in the call stack is the address of the actual variable on the caller side, not what it points to.
Video recordings are modified (white balance, stabilisation, etc) then compressed so any signature at the raw CCD stream is useless (except for internal camera security).
Google has 7 different products with a billion users [0]. So few successes indeed.

[0] https://www.popsci.com/google-has-7-products-with-1-billion-...
Good analogy!

Funny, but in fact there’s even a whole class of self-replicating biomachines named after computer viruses!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_viruses

The similarities are eerie.
Litecoin's supported on Coinbase, if that's the route someone wants to take.
I believe CPython does something similar.
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So do you think the “small retail investor” (Wall St. PC speak for “poor person”) should not be able to take the same risks as those of “accredited investors”?

Accredited investor status is a very non-libertarian idea. By forbidding a class of risks to the lower and middle classes, it excludes them from the corresponding class of rewards. When the lower/middle-class investor can only take a subset of the risks another investor can take, it means his money is worth less. The accredited status works as a gatekeeper against class mobility. In some ways it seems similar to disenfranchisement (“pass a test to vote,” “pass a test to take this risk”).
> "You'll be happy when they add the Nike, Netflix, Tesla, or Chanel logos then so long as each is only a standard icon?"

Quoting myself...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16233707

"If most detractors were honest with themselves the reason that Pocket had the backlash is because people saw it as a move towards the commercialisation of Firefox. The fact that Mozilla now owns Pocket outright seems to be largely ignored."
I don't think banks are trying to asses trustworthiness. I think they are trying to asses how likely they are to make profit.

What happens if more people of a group more likely to default take out loans? More of them default, further harming that group.

We do need to address institutional racism, I just don't think asking banks to behave irrationally will be effective in addressing it (or good for either party).
(I work at Google, but these views are my own):

This works until you need some kind of ombudsperson. At some level the data needs to be accessible and audit-able, otherwise what am I to do if my driver just drops me off at a different place than where I asked, or doesn't pick me up.

You need to know that I was in their vehicle, otherwise how can they charge me if I ruin their car. You need to know they were my driver.

There absolutely should be data privacy guarantees that are as strong as possible. But "encrypt and anonymize everything" doesn't work. (edit: and note, I think this is an unfortunate truth, but still a truth).
Isn't that what I said? That's what I was trying to say, at least, but keeping the language more js-oriented.
What protocol / library do you use for that? afaik there is nothing since this can only works properly on HTTP/2 which REST doesn't really use.
> BlaBlaCar which basicly has a monopoly when it comes to carpooling here

Wait, BlaBlaCar is actually a brand and not a placeholder for "some car[pooling] company"? Because blabla is how we write "blah blah" in dutch (n.b. "bla bla" also works in dutch).

Edit: Ok so it's a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blablacar
Wow, this looks super neat. How does it work in practice?
This post speaks to the value photography brings to my life, as something that can exercise sensual creativity. But, there is a caveat. This does not work in correlation with social media. This isn’t to say one should not share their photos, but that there can be a few different agendas at play there and this comment concerns the more personal one.

I am often critical with art and normally one to make things harder than they need to be, but I don’t think my photography habits show it. I approach photography much like the author and, for me, it has nurtured a very special relationship between myself and the world around me that I feel so many miss out on, including many photographers. There are many ways to explain the zen and fulfillment of photography but experiencing might be harder for some people. I recommend stashing your photos and not uploading them to social media for long periods of time after shooting them. Shooting film helps with this. Also don’t shoot simply to document. Shoot because your visual senses are nudging you.

Gear trap is awful. Shooting film has few defensible benefits, but it does prevent the gear trap. I shoot on a trusty Contax G2 with 3 lenses, using Velvia 800 or Tri-X 400 maybe push a couple stops and use my own flatbed scanner. This is a simple and reliable setup that no new equipment can compete with. For someone starting out, look for a decent condition rangefinder with around a sharp 35mm focal length lens.

Also, I like the author’s photography!
With regards to non-business stays in cities, I'm more than happy to use AirBnB if I can simultaneously save money and support a small business. I've used AirBnB for beach vacations before and it worked out great for that as well, equally a scenario where hanging out at the house wasn't desired. We were at the beach all day.
I think the point is those types of incidents are incredibly rare.
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I wouldn't have said "shit source", but I think he's better viewed as a reasonable populariser than a proper source. He is up with the literature (in the sense that the day after a new paper is published, he blogs about it), but he's not an authority in any way, and some of what he writes about e.g. the gendered aspect of IE migrations is a bit florid and unsupported by facts, as far as I can tell. You'd never find a reputable scientist in the field (lets say someone from Reich or Willerslev's labs) pushing lines like that.

Regarding the Out of Africa (OoA) model, that is definitely still the consensus model. What is becoming clearer is that subsequent to the OoA event, there was substantial admixture within OoA populations, backflow into Africa, and introgression from Archaic Humans (i.e. interbreeding with Neanderthals etc). Razib refers to this as the "Braided streams" model, rather than a model where populations split and then remained isolated.

The real revolution in understanding seems to me to be the role played by human migrations in hte formation of modern populations (i.e. the refutation of the "pots not people" view popular since the 60s.
When you say aim for 10 years net: if the company nets $100k/yr, you think it'd be reasonable to ask for a $1M sale?

Where does this 10x multiplier come from? I thought the prevailing multiplier (for small SaaS) was 3x net.
Ah, the good ol’ ”imagine gravity like aaaa... sheet of rubber”. Except this time for biology!
He wrote a paper (humorously) suggesting that Parisians would save on candle wax if they got out of bed earlier. Apparently Germany missed the humor when they pushed the clocks back in WW1 to save lamp oil.

It is possible that DST would have happened without Franklin, but I blame him anyway, because I never liked his sanctimonious attitude toward waking up early.
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Every time I see someone talk about "the MSM" as a pejorative like this, I laugh, mostly at you, because the alternative is literally conspiracy theorists and, of course, the far right.

And, indeed, a quick search for Razib Khan brings up this: https://undark.org/article/race-science-razib-khan-racism/
I’m at a financial services firm, and we have an entire internal risk department to ensure employees aren’t exceeding their authority. Surfing the wrong websites? Badging in and out at abnormal hours? Accessing internal apps in ways you shouldn’t? Access immediately flagged for human intervention and you’re locked out. Our data scientist team improves on the heuristics constantly.

At some point, organizations with data have to learn how to manage IAM [1] properly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_management