skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand that, but those are the easy ones, and I think they are the exception, when looking at all possible spaceships, rather than the spaceships we know of.

A definition for ‘elementary’ that I think is closest to intuition is that ‘elements’ are connected (for some definition of connected) subsets of a pattern do not touch other parts of the pattern and that would survive individually in isolation.

Problems with that definition are that, after cutting of the obvious elements, you may be left with stuff. Using the term ‘elementary’ implies that that stuff either must be elementary, or be built of other elements. The former is the easiest way out, but (as an extreme example) the resulting element might be a garden of Eden with a billion cells that, in isolation, would die out. Would you really want to call such a monster an element?

Also, if a pattern of <50 cells can be constructed from a few dozen carefully placed small ‘obvious elementary’ parts, less than 100 or so time units in the past, I think many would agree the pattern’s elements are those parts.

Problem 1: AFAIK, it is an open problem to decide whether such a set of items exists for a given pattern.

Problem 2: that set may not be unique, and there may not even be a unique smallest (for whatever definition chosen) one in the set of solutions.

Problem 3: if the smallest such set is way, way larger than the pattern it constructs, and must be constructed way, way in the past, do you still consider the pattern to be constructed from those many, many elementary parts?
Presumably, they're still working out problems in their manufacturing process. By the time they're selling to people who don't care about Tesla and just want a car, most of those issues will have been long ago solved.

The unknown is where the quality level will be when it levels off after all the obvious inefficiencies and easy-to-fix flaws are addressed. There's a limit to the quality that some organization can achieve at a particular price point.
It's a cheque that never gets cashed.
I think you nailed it on the head.

Even with the build issues they make better overall cars than anyone else.
This is a general product lesson. I read someone comment the other day that if you build a flying car, people will still complain about the door handles and trim. Tesla has revolutionized a technology, like an unimaginably odds beating underdog that changes the economics of human civilization. But the business, the function that decides whether they survive to affect the change they've proven is possible is really a question of, are they building a better car?

As someone bootstrapping a product, (and of course I think my product is the flying car game changer of my market) during the final painful trade offs before MVP, it's the scores of "details" like this I'm taking on water to resolve before showing it. Personally, I think you can only get way with breaking rules if you've demonstrated you know them first, and quality/experience issues cannot be sins of omission.

Where I'm confident I've developed a technology that will change the economics of a market, the moment someone puts their faith in it and lets it into a relationship they have with their stakeholders and it burns a bridge for them, for me to exclaim, "but, but, flying car!" means nothing.

These are not details and corner cases, they are the existential aspects of the business.

I think where Tesla is acceptable is that they are still in a market with legacies like Land Rover, Jaguar, and used supercars, where people tolerate bizarre diseconomies that would seem laughable to Toyota, Mercedes, and even KIA owners.

However, there is a chasm for them to cross fully where they are no longer a revolutionary technology, but actually a good car company. The lesson I take from articles like this is that what I think of as details as a technologist are in fact the differentiators in a business.
It's not often that I find a post that, after reading it, I have absolutely no understanding of what I just read.

Usually I have at least some very basic knowledge of the topic at hand.

I guess I should start by reading up on Conway's Game of Life...
>There's got to be diminishing returns on beautiful surroundings, surely - seeing a mountain for the hundredth or thousandth time can't compete with seeing it for the first time. So better to give dozens of people a chance to see it once than have a few people see it over and over again. (Or if someone really does want to see it over and over again, they can pay what it costs).

lol Who let in the robot?
Two comments:

- Lay people seem to have a very good intuition about the actual heritability of intelligence (taken to assess the genetic and environmental determinants of intelligence). [0]

- If you'd like to read an up-to-date and thorough literature review on human intelligence, I highly recommend "Intelligence: All That Matters" by Stuart Ritchie.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16468694
Now do Bumble.
Dataflow kit: New golang Web scraping library
>Didn't Elon Mask call Toyota's manufacturing "slower than a Grandma with a walker"

No, he said that of "Today's auto factories" not of Toyota in particular.

>and he thinks Tesla will school Toyota

The title of the article says that, but it doesn't appear Elon ever did, at least he is not quoted as such in that article. He is claiming he thinks they can eventually reach, via great difficulty, 5% more production from that plant than Toyota did.
Why not both? It's definitely not an either/or, you might have a beefy monolith of a backend and a beefy monolith of a frontend working in tandem for the best possible user experience. It depends on your projects; it depends on your project's needs; it depends on your user's expectations.

> Do they even try to solve the same problem?

They are different tools for different jobs. If a website wants to be, for instance, offline capable (such as a PWA suggests), you need to do more work on the client side. The more work you do on the client side, the more it likely behooves you to use a framework to help you manage that.

Just as you could write "vanilla" Python or Ruby CGI/WSGI instead of Django/Rails on the backend, you might want that framework to help you manage things like routing or template systems or ORM layers or whatever else you rely on the framework for.

Certainly at face value there's some obvious places of overlap there (hence the rise of "universal" or "isomorphic" frameworks where a NodeJS server can do the exact same rendering as a static site as the framework might do client side "live", sharing a lot of code between them), but that also doesn't mean its a competition between front-end versus back-end and even with universal/isomorphic frameworks it turns out the answer really is "both"; there are benefits to doing a lot of work on the server ahead of time and having the client capable of doing all the same work, to share and split the efforts as needed.
Thanks for sharing that link. The underlying paper is (of course) better than the popular article kindly submitted to open the interesting discussion here. In particular, the paper makes clear its own methodological limitations.
Reforestation and Environmental Impact at Lob (YC S13)
This is what happens when you have entrenched interests -- with capital to protect.

Innovation gets stifled.

And this shows that it doesn't matter whether those interests are private, commercial, or governmental -- nor whether the capital is material or political. (Or whether it is religious, I'll add, if you distinguish that from political.)
When you job hopped - did you wait for projects to be complete before you left to a new job? Did you have to ship?

I'm in a conundrum whether to leave or not because the project hasn't shipped.
I don't follow. Seems to me that whatever program/firmware on the router knows where to send incoming packets must also be able to trivially check and filter the addresses of outgoing ones.
I don't buy it at all. I buy a fridge; the next time I'm on a browser, its fridge ads all the way. No way it isn't 1:1.
> people feel like they are forced to live in cities

Based on what I know, people are flocking to cities because they want to be there, and companies are locating there in order to be attractive to employees. Cities have very high levels of services (due to economy of scale and density), restaurants, the arts, sports, walkability, bikeability, energy, community ... sustainability ...

San Francisco has all that in one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Many people prefer that.
I think 30 days might not be enough - maybe its best to create a new certificate every build or every month.
There is no actual logical link between scheduling and the actual danger of a drug.

It's all political whim.
I have a $20,000 Honda, and none of the listed issues are even imaginable. Considering my model is not among the top selling ones, I'd say what you describe counts as pretty significant quality control issues.
Obviously the prices of the commodities would be reduced with an increase in supply, but these numbers are staggering.
there's room in the digital TV subscription business for netflix, hulu and HBO to all thrive.
Thanks! I wasn't sure whether to link the summary blog post or the original paper. Having both is definitely good for the discussions here.
> and he thinks Tesla will school Toyota

When did he say that he thinks that?
The Peter Thiel money.
Check out DeepState, a Google Test-like library for easily using symbolic execution in C/C++ apps. It's still very early on but it's already usable!

https://github.com/trailofbits/deepstate
I just took a cruise. We had a single day where our clocks were an hour behind. Also, we were on the late (2000) dinner. You can imagine the fun of sitting down at dinner with our 2-year-old when his internal clock was at 2100.
I know eminent IQ researchers back at the time who declined invitations to sign on to the Gottfredson consensus statement (with good reason, in my opinion). On the other hand, it is still a reasonably fair statement of a lot of the consensus among IQ researchers, but as you say now twenty years out of date. (I read the consensus statement right after it was published.)
We already have separate planet times, for what it's worth [1].

I can't find it now, but I remember listening to an interview with a scientist involved with one of the Mars rovers who converted his whole family to Martian time for a few weeks or months after his rover landed, since those were the hours he was keeping for work.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timekeeping_on_Mars
The next paragraph explains why. The study is still accurate and they picked something old enough that should be known outside of specialists.

If they compared to present day research then naturally many books published over the past 10 years wouldn’t know about it.
I Went from Bad Student to NASA Astronaut’: Scott Kelly
I suppose I believe it's less important whether or not we collectively determine the correctness of the other person, and more important that I use their contrarianism to question my own knowledge. I'm less interested in judging their argument and more interested in using their comments to evaluate my own. Kind of a "less wrong" approach, but focused on my own model of reality.
A book that sent out a questionnaire to [mostly white] academics and then tried to conclude fact about different race's intelligence as a result of those questionnaires? It is fluff.

The whole methodology is set out here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_IQ_Controversy,_the_Media_...
Clicking that link in Firefox immediately offers up a file download. So does IE. I'd test with Edge, but my Edge is broken. :( I'm guessing you use Google's browser and Google doesn't assume Google's video format is a download when passed as a URL?
Either you have a lot of remote drivers, or you get the "your call is important to us" wait.
6 KICK-BUTT SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS TO HELP PROMOTE NEW BLOG POSTS
> it simply points out that 29 books disagree with what's widely accepted in the field

The study claims that. The textbooks claim otherwise. Why do you believe the study's claims? (I'd believe Wikipedia less than either.)
3 Product Questions
Musk has a long track record of delivering late (think how late falcon 9 heavy is, how late falcon 9 was)
Why does an OS have a “main” language?
Did you ever get tempted of returning it back?
Redox bills itself as a Unix-like OS. Seems to me Posix compliance, or attempting to get close to it would fall under being "Unix-like".
If I understand correctly, that will eventually allow 100% pure Rust executables, and these executables will be easily redistributable and work on any distro (only the latter is currently possible with the MUSL target).
I haver been looking at Rust as a replacement for a c microserver I made,

I have a thing that listens as root and serves as a user dictated by their id.

so it's

as root:
on connect fork:
forked process:
read request to determine ID
drop privileges to UID and GID of ID
process request

Because of the root component I want it to do as little as possible while being root, which c is good for. but it's also probably riddled with holes, only some of which I am aware.
GeForce Partner Program Impacts Consumer Choice [HardOCP]
Where are you getting these models?
Sure. I gathered that, but until you've done stuff the wrong way the learning isn't going to stick the same. I'm not saying _don't_ use resources, I'm saying do stuff, when it feels wrong read up on it to learn the right modern practice
Intelligence studies : Left :: Climate science : Right

The Left views the expert consensus on intelligence in much the same way that the right views the expert consensus on climate change. The consensus view is rejected not because of evidence, but because of what it does to their model of the world and fear that it will open the door to great abuses in the future (increased government regulation for climate change, and increased racism and discrimination for intelligence studies).
I'd agree that Tesla's all-electric powertrains offer a better everyday driving experience than a traditional internal combustion engine. However, we're talking about $70k-$100k+ cars here, and there are some really competitive ICE cars in that price range when you start looking at everything else.

For instance, while the entry-level cars from Mercedes don't really impress me that much, their more expensive models do, like a well-optioned E43 or E63 AMG. They really nail luxury in a way that Tesla doesn't. Also, I dare say I prefer their approach to the infotainment system.
> Not to mention, the system creates a virtual monitor so you can see your 2D desktop while in VR. You can reach out and "grab" a window, rip it from the desktop and position it in your VR world. Pin it, and when you enter a game that window remains and is fully interactive with the Touch controllers emulating a mouse. Maybe you want to play Spotify in the background of a table tennis game, or be able to check a Discord screen while working through a puzzler, or watch YouTube videos while flying your ship in Elite:Dangerous. One guy set up a video feed from his baby monitor so he could watch his kid napping while in VR. This is obviously not a standard feature of the Windows compositor.

Wait, is this new. I haven't used my Oculus in over 6 months because of how hard it was to interact with the desktop and a few other things while in-game. Is this standard feature now for Oculus' Framework?
Also confused. Are they simply criticizing the experiments (whose results may still hold), or are there evidence that points to the contrary?

What’s their motive? More funding?
Those people don't look for ways to improve. I am not worried about OP not trying to learn to do it the right way
I will have to listen through it on youtube. It seems to have that light, vangelis-y feel. If you like that kind of music and retro graphics, check out Knytt Stories. Very nice music, free download, and the Design Tour video should convince you it's worth your time. The author even played the acoustic guitar for the soundtrack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpnGL3ggGFk

I just realized something else about Into The Breach music. It could be put into many, many other games, and wouldn't feel out place. I mean swap it with Age of Wonders III, Hyper Light Drifter, Baldur's Gate, Nuclear Throne, Catacomb Kids, Rimworld, EVE Online, Homeworld, a Total War game, Samorost, Machinarium, The Witcher, Far Cry, Grim Dawn, Dark Souls, Cave Story, Bioshock, System Shock, Dishonored... I can't imagine it in Starcraft, a racing game or Day of the Tentacle, but otherwise it's the kind of music people say goes well with anything.

I really think the music is weakest part of the game. Pixel art is very good, design/game mechanics are excellent, interface deserves the praise. It's a very good game but I think they're just good at PR (self-promotion), like the guy from Ultima Ratio Regnum. He's good at procedural generation and wrote a few scientific papers (and RPS articles), but he doesn't seem to have ever released a game. URR will probably end the ultimate vapourwave. Game design and screensaver design are two different things.

Certainly self-promotion is a very beneficial skill to have and I can learn a lot from these guys.
What do you need explained? This is the nature of things according to the Standard Model.
> intelligence specialists agree

The author of one study says that; it's not a consensus of intelligence specialists. From what I know, textbooks are usually carefully reviewed by experts; in fact, they likely are far better reviewed than this study, which wasn't even published in a peer-reviewed journal [EDIT: As pointed out below, it is in fact peer reviewed; sorry, my mistake. I still expect textbooks to be more carefully reviewed than one random paper.]

From the article:

Reporting their findings in an open-access article in Archives of Scientific Psychology ...
I agree, I really miss the personalized style of a lot of the niche sites of the early internet. I find that history-related websites often maintain that style, for instance the Alchemy Website. [1]

By the way, I looked for awhile to try to figure out what year the page is from, because I very much doubt it's from 2018 or even from the 2010s necessarily. First guestbook entries are from 2001. (I miss guestbooks!)

[1] http://www.alchemywebsite.com
why not just create a pr for the repo?
This may be a bit off the deep end, but in 2014 the Journal of Intelligence had a special issue on the state-of-art for intelligence research (in psychology). It's open access :).

http://www.mdpi.com/journal/jintelligence/special_issues/int...
Agreed. The little guy has to ask for permission; the big guy can usually ignore it. (There are exceptions, but they are few and far between.) That's why I'm so against the idea that, as a society, we should tilt even more in the direction of asking for permissions.

My ideal is Leary from Demolition Man - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JizGkM6gbvQ - and no, I don't think that leads to living underground.
I realized this after I commented; I really should learn to read, might make this software job easier :)
This doesn't make any sense. He's taking a study over 20 years old designed to measure academic consensus and then using it to try and disprove 29 textbooks authored by leading psychologists. Couldn't the latter be said to be a (much more recent) form of academic consensus? Why should a measure of academic consensus over 20 years old be used as some kind of evidence against newer ideas?
For the New England states, they're far enough East that it makes sense for them to join the AST time-zone and do away with DST.

Birds start chirping here at 3:30am... that ain't right.
> Email is mostly a dumpster fire because of inflexible clients like gmail or outlook with terrible filtering and clumsy rules engines.

Then why don't you switch to a good client? The reason email works so well is that you have that freedom!
>No, he said that of "Today's auto factories" not of Toyota in particular.

Last time I checked the big automakers all operate under Toyota's manufacturing philosophy (again, they literally wrote the book on this subject), and more than once Elon has dismissed industry's knowledge and experience in this field.

Even without involving Toyota, most of "today's auto factories" operate at a better efficiency and are producing higher quality vehicles in a larger quantity than the Tesla factories. Maybe Elon is right, but it's best to say that kind of things after you are proven right.
Maybe based on distance as the crow flies. But not based on density, and (when the subways aren't as broken as they are at the moment) not based on commute times.
We are well past Einstein at this moment.
Why gamification is a disaster for humanitarian learning
>It's a clever approach as modern SAT solvers are surprisingly powerful. I actually use this approach myself in some of my (personal) work, e.g. to automatically find execution paths through a target binary for reverse-engineering purposes.

I'm interested in the latter, do you have any readings/blogposts/books you would recommend?
If you think spending $800 to buy something is a better idea than spending $300 to fix something you already have, I respectfully posit that you may not be average.
I think it's even funnier to see how many Chinese people - even those Chinese people who are fluent in English - take the folksy word 方言 and try and shoehorn that into the precise linguistic term "dialect". For whatever reason Chinese the world over seem to believe in literal 1:1 translations of Chinese -> English terms, when they really don't mean the same thing. It makes it very hard to talk to them.

We all learn classical Chinese at school, and that must be a completely different language.

Of course it's a different language. It's not completely different. Languages can be related to each other. Old English is a different language than English. If English was written in Logograms instead of a phonetic alphabet, many of us could probably read Beowulf the same many of you can read the works of 老子.

Again, if I had the Chinese mindset, there would be a language called "Indo European" which would have various dialects like "Persian" and "Russian" and "Icelandic". There would also be "Standard Indo-European" - aka, English. It makes no sense.
Debugging WordPress performance issues (stuff happens checklist)
>3 cells forward, 3 reset steps

Yes, you've got the right idea. It's actually more like "3 preperation steps, 3 steps forward"

There's a proof (http://www.njohnston.ca/2009/10/spaceship-speed-limits-in-li...) that a spaceship that travels n cells vertically and m cells horizontally must take at least 2*(n+m) generations to do so.
I find it unusual that one can use a polarized axiom as the basis for what's considered rational thought. Life is deep, unfathomably complex, nuanced, and believe or not, bipartisan. You can introduce more flavour by expanding your window beyond two disparate colours.
Is it public? Can I take a look?
Discussed in 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7702805
San Francisco is also less sanitary than many of the poorest slums in the world.

https://sf.curbed.com/2018/2/19/17029308/trash-needles-feces...

I am not sure I want my children dealing with human feces (and the risk of diseases such as hepatitis A) and used needles as part of their childhood experience.
My concern is that constrained production and quality issues could lead to long repair times. There was a Motley Fool story last year about someone whose Model S was in the shop for over seven months:

https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/03/07/repairing-my-tesla...

Discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13821109