skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if these could be used for irrigation without having to run water lines.

How much does the MOF cost to produce?

What is flow rate?

How would wide-scale use of these in an area effect the regional climate?
You are right, in theory one can go electric and keep a dealer network. Although, the maintenance is supposed to be dramatically less (less moving parts in EV vs. ICE, no complex engine). So, even if you want to keep the dealer network, they would make far less money than they use to. The dealer network might just die slowly.
Tesla decided to rip the band-aid. Legacy car manufacturers might have to deal with this issue, and repurpose their expensive network.
You still repair an electric car yourself (esp. body). But those electric cars are getting more and more sophisticated, it would be more like repairing an iPhone.
I'm sure the metrics say it boosts engagement or they wouldn't do it, but to me it renders their UX unusable -- I can't read a description because the video is blaring at me.
It doesn't address the point. Homework that doesn't count won't get done, so won't provide feedback.
Unfortunately, the "Freelancer" posts outweigh the "Seeking Freelancer" posts by ten to one or so. I tried posting in the last thread, and the only response I got was from someone asking me to work on a project which involved helping people buy a certain substance which is still illegal in my state. Didn't wanna touch it.
There's no long term ramifications because these devices simply do not work as advertised.
I second that. I had Yaris hybrid from Toyota and the biggest problem with it was rust in brakes. As the car typically engaged regenerative braking charging the battery there was too little heat in the brakes. That lead to accumulation of moisture and rust. After Toyota replaced the brakes the second time within 3 years they strongly advise to brake really hard once each few days. There was zero other problems.
Not “all kinds”. Users routinely approve the use of their friends list, and in this case, this is what was downloaded and data mined, in addition to user’s own profile information. I know this is too much nuance for a lay person to handle, but I expect more from HN readers.

The scummy part was that the data was obtained using an app that’s unrelated to what the data was eventually used for, but Android is totally ripe for that as well.
>Consider this: ramming car into objects becomes a hobby and people starts to do that and take pride in it. They practice it every week.

So, demolition derbys? Is there a higher rate of murder by car among people that participate in them?
I wanted to add to your housing price comments. True, housing in Portland is cheaper on a nominal basis than Seattle, NY, LA, etc. but prices have been rising more than 10% a year for the past 5 years or so. The near eastside neighborhoods (the walkable and bikeable ones) have more than doubled in that time. Pay scales have not kept pace. If you have a $500,000+ home to sell in a different market, you'll be able to buy here. If you are moving here hoping to be a first-time homebuyer, good luck.

Also,, we have plenty of sunlight. It just gets heavily filtered through a gray drizzle for 9 months a year.
the information that Google stores about me on their servers

I've not seen anyone address this, but reading between the lines, many people seem to hold a view that the existence of these finely-grained personal data profiles at this massive scale is fine so long as they exist only on the servers of fb and goog, but why? What makes that acceptable or reasonable, besides the persuasiveness of large amounts of money?

I think the clearest path forward is that no one should be creating these kinds of data profiles.

I don't think a bot learning my route to work, or a doctor's appt(along with a swath of more "monetizable" personal info) so it can alert me to potential traffic delays is a reasonable trade-off for the massive societal problems the behaviour of creating these data profiles poses.

If this data is such a monumental danger when it escapes the permeable confines of the fbs and the googs, then it shouldn't exist within these companies either, not just because as we've seen the confines are quite permeable, but also because the potential for negative use of the data doesn't change depending on who has access to it.

It can be persuasively argued that simply creating and collecting these data profiles is itself a negative use of the data.
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In fact, the media has a direct incentive NOT to inform people about this because they often use Facebook and Google advertising.

That's less true for the old school media companies, but most new media companies are very tied to advertising networks for their revenue.
Yeah, I doubt they're white-listing their domains, my point is just they are (arguably) the worst offenders of auto-playing videos, so I take this announcement with a grain of salt.
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I'm not saying there was conspiracy but there was complacency.

The reasoning "batteries are expensive" is circular.

As Musk said, technology doesn't advance as a function of time but as a function of R&D investment. See atomic bomb or space race for the most dramatic example of how throwing money at the problem compressed the timeline.

Car batteries did not get cheaper because 2 years passed but because Tesla and Panasonic invested 5 billion dollars in a giant batter factory. And by creating a demand for lots of batteries, there's incentive for many others to invest in researching better batteries. And before that, cellphones and laptops were driving investment in battery research.

I see no reason why all this couldn't happen 10 years ago if car makers invested a sliver of their profits into electric car R&D instead of, you know, putting it all in Diesel and then writing software to cheat emission numbers.

And as a corollary, if Tesla didn't push the whole field forward with giant investments, BMW would be "objectively" saying in 2030 that batteries are too expensive to make electric cars viable.
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

They left out part of it
It does make you less valuable, for the reasons described.
If a group has a security policy that makes it hard for them to install Python 3, of course there's no way in hell they're installing Docker.
I'd avoid talking about your backpacking and instead talk about it as "got involved in the asian startup scene, offering my sysadmin services to foreign companies"
Tesla Model 3 production could be nearing 2,000 units per week
On the contrary, centralization can actually reduce the amount of content, at least for certain types. For instance, nearly any automobile will have a dedicated forum, and often these forums will provide some of the most helpful information, simply because they concentrate people around a specific subject. Whereas asking a question in one of the general automotive subreddits will typically yield poorer quality answers or will simply be lost in the noise. Thankfully reddit somewhat solved this problem w/ subreddits, since it's pretty common knowledge that the default subs are complete garbage, but youtube hasn't really done much about this. Sure, if someone made a video for your exact probem it is nice, but for finding specific information youtube is pretty poor.
If companies can make compliance cars, then regulations work.

The answer is expansion of these regulations because the industry will be dragged kicking and screaming into the electric future.

Why 2020? It's China's deadline for auto manufacturers to provide mass market options in the china market or be fined/removed.

Regulations? Need MOAr.
No, you pawn it off on the police and military to do the dirty work for you.
In my opinion he opened himself up to that sort of attack when he decided to turn his persona into a brand.
The Nissan Leaf, with a 68% smaller battery than a Tesla, cost more to build than its selling price until 2015 (5 years into production and 7 years after breaking ground on the battery factory) according to Nissan's CEO. GM only made about 25,000 Chevy Bolts last year and lost money doing it.

If anything, they're both perfect examples of what I said.

Nissan had to start building a supply chain for the Nissan Leaf in 2008 to make it profitably in 2015. It took nearly 10 years for them to replicate the battery assembly lines, electric motor assembly lines, and car assembly lines for Leaf across 3 continents to sell it worldwide at "mass production" volumes.
> workingnomads.com

Is that URL correct? I'm trying it and I'm seeing what appears to be an error page in… Dutch. I'm gonna guess Dutch.
When US companies sell their phones and other electronic devices around the globe under the guise of free trade, that is OK. The world has to accept it. Even thou USG and its intelligence agencies have a proven track record of tampering the devices, pressuring companies to leave backdoors in software and hardware and spying on the planet.

Now that Chinese companies want to do the same under the same guise, that is not OK. USG is against it. Even thou there is no proof that the devices are tampered or backdoored. (I assume they are, but there is no proof.)

Funny how the same very thing that the US has invented for their imperial purposes ("free-trade") when it was strong and alone in that position comes to bite the inventor in the arse now that China does the same.
Regarding the “making composition difficult on purpose” I suggest the book “Trust the process: an artist’s guide to letting go” (https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1570623570) which has lots of interesting material on how to stimulate creativity, and explicit advice about how to use the limitations you have as stepping stones to move forward instead of like constraints that impede your progress.
It's hit or miss, but I've had more legit contact than gray area or sweat equity contacts.
From the article, it sounds like Kubernetes support will just be OS enhancements rather than actually including it as a feature like WSL, OpenSSH, or bsdtar and curl.
True, but this seems to be a simple case of reacting to a person who steps in front of the car. Automatic braking technology exists on even cars that aren't considered "self-driving".
They're also subtly saying you should ignore the Model 3 being shipped in 2018 and 2019. You should really wait for the "real" (read: our) EVs in 2020 and later.
Apparently the legitimate use in 2018 is to provide incredibly targeted and but amazingly low quality ads.
You're welcome.

Irregular verbs generally tend to be the ones that are used most often, and that are most archaic.

Looking at languages there are lost of interesting patterns you can notice. It's even more fun if you look at ones from an entirely different family. Some agglutinating languages may have no irregular verbs at all.
Two way street. Pay better, offer better workplace, and other offers won't be appealing.
The current Ubuntu long-term support release is Xenial, which comes with only Python 3 installed. If you're talking about Trusty, its support is ending fairly soon.

On Xenial, you have to separately install an optional package for Python 2. When you try to run /usr/bin/python on a fresh Xenial install, it'll tell you that you need to install a package such as python-minimal==2.7.11, whereas /usr/bin/python3 is already there.
> almost definitely won't get done.

While I believe "almost definitely" is a bit too strong, one of the most important lessons undergraduates need to learn asap is learning how to learn effectively. Homework is only a tool that can be very helpful when learning, but it's not the only tool available.

> which is useful to instructors

That's nice, but it's the instructor's job to serve serve the students.

> Is the class understanding the lectures?

In most classes, this should be easy to determine simply from interacting with the students in class, the questions they ask during office hours, etc.

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The ideal instructor should offer regular homework problems/projects that are clear examples of what the students will be expected to know, and check the work of anybody that wants to take advantage of the instructor's knowledge. However, if a student feels their time would be better spent elsewhere[1], that's their business.

The exam will reveal if they made a good decision. Like any skill, many students will make mistakes when they first attempt this kind of project/time management. Fortunately, as undergraduates, the consequences of failure are usually having to retake the class. Later in life, failure may mean losing a job or other far more damaging consequences.

(For the record, when I was an undergraduate at UC Davis, many classes had optional homework. I spent a lot of time working on it for some classes, and others I skipped because it was trivial compared to what I was doing every day at my job.)

[1] e.g. other classes, a job, their own self-study, or maintaining friendships at a social event
Optimizing genes leading to an intelligent neural network is what biology did basically. If your optimization problem changes the behavior of something able to compute in order to maximize the ability to solve a task, then that's inventing things IMHO.
> They also do not have the capacity to produce vehicles at the rate of companies like BMW, Mercedes, Honda, etc.

I don't buy that for a second, esp given that they are now out-selling the S Class[1].

[1] https://electrek.co/2017/05/26/tesls-model-s-leading-us-larg...
IMO, if I'm thinking about work more than 8hrs/day, I'm doing it wrong. That's just me though. I love my job, and I love not worrying about it when I leave.

Different employers can have pretty different expectations about this. I always try to let potential employers know it's important to me when looking for a job. Usually it's as simple as "Work life balance is important to me. Can you describe how your company handles that?"
"I don't have a ton of networking skills"

Work on this. I have built my consultancy over the past 6 years and it started with me doing freelance and now we do over $1m/year in revenue.

I attribute the majority of success to networking. Here are some of the things I did early on (and still continue to some extent).

1. Local meetups. Great place to show off, hear about leads, etc...

2. Find influencers / networkers in your area and buy them coffee. Ask tons of questions and end with "Who else do you think I should be talking to?"

3. Build stuff - I decided I wanted our team to be known locally for doing crypto dev, so I just started building cool stuff and showing it off at the local dev meetups. Now we have tons of crypt contracts!

Whatever you do, come at it with the attitude of wanting to contribute to the community using your gifts/skills. The work will follow.

Best of luck!
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MOF’s are not mass produced, and while a method has been proposed to scale up production, as far as I know it’s never been tested. It’s also a solvent-heavy process, and often uses a lot of benzene.

MIT the university is an amazing thing, but MIT the press release machine is pathetic.
You can, but you need to copy-paste the hash to the URL manually, which is not exactly good UX.
AVX512 will severely clock throttle an intel chip. I only want to see real world tests on a workload when comparing the two.
Thanks for this PDF :)

Do you think TitanX has real time capability?
I fully expect various hacker groups to have a field day with this after it goes into effect. It will be a whole new world of swatting. Find someone you don't like online, crack their website, place offensive material on it, call the internet police.

Worse yet, government agencies just gained a new tool to take down and ruin any technology individual or technology company they don't happen to like even easier than ever before.

The concept of competence as a politician has come up now as a talking point for the first time I can remember in a sustained way. And I think there's plenty of room to talk about someone besides Trump in that light. This bill is written so unbelievably poorly that no one knows what it means. At least not the people who wrote it and support it. Everyone pushing for it has a different take on what the standard of knowledge means and what the intent of the bill is.

This bill is either intended to be misused in the worst possible ways (in which case, the people pushing it are bad actors and lying about what they want it to accomplish) or they are utterly incapable of writing effective legislation--they are incompetent.

I'm going to laugh my ass off if these corrupt politicians start using the law against each other and hiring people to fuck up rival's websites and tie them up in criminal proceedings.

I certainly wouldn't shed any tears if Paul Ryan suddenly found himself in front of a jury arguing that he didn't knowingly facilitate child porn on his congressional website just because it was sitting there unnoticed for 6 months.
Google has abandoned page rank for pretty much that exact reason
I was shocked when I saw people were doing that. Some would just make the 6 months stints disappear and add to the job before! Some have generic 10 years "Person Name Services Ltd" where they do "consulting work" but actually just merge all the embarrassing experiences into it.
Not sure what do you mean
I'm the co-founder of Moonlight! I used to freelance full-time (and still do it part-time). I had trouble finding gigs that matched my skills and interests, e.g. optimization algorithms in Julia. Other sites were mainly web development, but it seemed tough to justify a high hourly rate while doing less specialized work.

So, I started Moonlight, where we match you based on skills. People are hiring for things right now ranging from machine learning to Elm web development to PCB design. The average hourly rate is over $100US/hr.

We are still in our early days and small (as a team of 2), but I'm making it my full-time job to help you get quality freelance projects! I want to keep jobs specialized and at a high hourly rate as we grow, and not sacrifice quality.

Feel free to reach out to me with any questions! (philip@).
We mapped the whole genome and connectome of C. elegans, no? And most of that is understood. For example, it seems to be a good model for substance addiction (especially for nicotine). That seems a pretty complex emergent behavior to me.

If you mean bigger biology, yes, sure, we don't have a full map of functional genomics for humans, but we're getting there.

Or maybe not, maybe it's so exponentially more complex, that it'd take as much time to understand it as it took for evolution to work it out. (Especially considering that evolution played with every individual, whereas we like to constrain our data gathering to non-aggressive methods.)
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Really depends on the goal. Is the goal to teach everyone in the class? If so, "just let them fail" is a poor strategy. (It's also one that will get the teacher bad performance reviews.)
Most van companies offer a "chassis cab" option [1] - basically a van with the cab present, but most of the back missing.

There's then an ecosystem of companies that will work with end users to design, build and fit custom van bodies. If you want a mobile broadcast van, or an ambulance or a mobile command centre? That's where they come from.

If you see delivery vans that aren't standard models, they've almost certainly come through the same ecosystem; companies like VW generally aren't in the business of working with end users on custom products.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=van+cab+chassis&tbm=isch
Absolutely not true. The Nissan Sunderland plant (which produces over 500K cars per year on two lines) produces both the Nissan Leaf and Infiniti Q30 in low volume on line two (might be line 1, not certain now). The Q30 was introduced from a slow ramp up without stopping production of the line around 18 months ago and is a low volume car.
The hoops a password manager has to jump through to get halfway decent integration into a browser is basically begging for security vulnerabilities. Seriously, just look at how much JavaScript is riding behind webextensions like LastPass, KeePassRPC, Bitwarden, etc. It's staggering.

I dont have any interest in using Lockbox; I already have a self-hosted open-source password management solution (Bitwarden, in my case, but that's just an implementation detail) that works for much more than just my web browser, which means I'm way more interested in hearing how Mozilla plans to make this kind of integration smoother and less error-prone.

I need to sync passwords for apps on my phone, for desktop apps that aren't web browsers (and for multiple browsers on several platforms), and Mozilla's one-off reinvention of existing software and protocols for their singular use cases is just xkcd'ing the problem, sadly.
>Malicious hacking is already illegal with significant penalties.

Yes, more people should end up in jail.

>If the victims failed even basic security measures, I'm quite happy to give them their share of blame.

Please detail how you have established that the victims themselves personally ignored security practices.

>There have been plenty of reports of exposed databases with no password protection, places that stored passwords in plain text, folks running unpatched OSs... You can't just ignore security and pretend that you're not at fault.

You are making broad claims. Remember that the non-technical business owners/managers/CEOs etc need our help, and they don't need people shaming them for using vendors or consultants who might have made made mistakes.
I doubt that you are an expert on all topics you post about. I'm actually well educated. So now I am claiming this. Mostly in mathematics, physics, logic, and history. I'm not an expert in any area outside of mathematics.

However, just like you, my lack of expertise does not preclude me from having an opinion and stating those opinions. Since there are experts who agree with me that the 2nd amendment gives the government powers of regulation it's hard to credibly claim that my position is ill informed. Even if my reasons are ill-informed why should I stop from engaging in conversation? That's the best way to learn.

I've not denigrated anyone or suggested that anyone was ill-informed or otherwise try to diminish those who disagree with me. I'm not so full of myself that the act of dissent from my position causes me to lash out or attempt to quash said dissent. In fact the contrary is true. Several times in these threads I've said to those with whom I disagree that they should fight for their rights and remain vigilant.

Stand up for your beliefs. I will stand up for mine. I hope someday that gun ownership will be viewed with horror by the general populace. My position will not win out if well reasoned individuals who disagree with me remain vigilant and proactive.

Keep fighting the good fight!
It stems from the Protestant Work Ethic and religion more generally. One of the biggest sticking points, if not the single biggest, between rational humanism and religious viewpoints is the place of suffering in the world. Rational humanists view suffering as negative, and something to be avoided, alleviated, and prevented, hopefully to be eliminated. The religious view suffering as purposeful, as bearing meaning, and of a potential way others might be driven, out of stark desperation, into the arms of their religion.

The Protestant Work Ethic measures a persons virtue by how much suffering they endure in their work. The more poorly paid the work is, and the greater the suffering it causes, the more moral the worker. Desire for respite is vice. Desire for pay based on the value of the work being done is greed. Desire itself is far more immoral than any suffering inflicted, and something for which forgiveness should be sought.