skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, every dealship I've ever dealt with is the same. They under pay and under train their mechanics and so have lots of problems, but the real issue is that they have huge incentives to intentionally screw you over as soon as the warranty period is over: they can sell you a new car.

I don't drive any more, but when I owned a couple of cars. The first time it happened the dealer told me I needed new brake rotors. I thought it was kind of strange, but was too preoccupied with my 80 hour a week job to think about it. When I picked up the car, I said, "Just put the rotors in the trunk." because I naively thought that it would be my responsibility to dispose of them. All of a sudden they turned on me and started demanding why I didn't trust them -- which, of course, made me suspicious. I eventually got the rotors after threatening the manager with calling the police and took them to an independent mechanic. Of course they were perfectly fine.

Latest was my wife's car a couple of years ago. My wife took her car to the dealership to change the oil. When she got her car back they told her, "We were looking at your car because your a car inspection is coming up" (In Japan you have to have an inspection every few years and fix whatever the inspector says). They told her it would cost more than $5000 to fix everything, and suggested that they had a wonderful used car that they could do a nice deal on in a trade. That way she could avoid the cost of the inspection (wonderful chaps).

So she said she would think about it. When she got home, I noticed an small oil leak and told her to get them to fix it. She drove back and they refused. "It's an old car", they said. "There is nothing we can do. You should trade it in because it will save you lots of money. But anyway, it's only a small leak, so just top it up every week."

My wife is Japanese and trusts people... sigh... Anyway, about a month later, no surprise, the engine light went on. She took it in to the dealership: "Oh the battery is dead. You have to buy a new one. Also, there is a serious problem with the electrical system. It will cost $2000. Why don't you just trade in your car for this younger model?"

Luckily, down the street from us there was a young guy who was just getting started setting up his own shop (he was working out of his home garage until he could raise enough money to rent a building). I asked him to take a look. Sure enough: the oil pan was over tightened, which cracked the gasket. Oil leaked on the battery lead, which corroded the insulation. This caused a short. It needed a new battery lead and a new oil pan gasket. He also did the car inspection and fixed everything up... all for $800.

TL;DR: Never do your repair work at the dealership. It should be obvious, really. It is run by the same people who sold you the car -- they are out to screw you over no matter how they can do it.
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Looking for a solution users to easily embed our dynamic page/widget into their website and also allow customization's like styling etc. I see that google maps etc. use iframes, fb does it with div mounting. Are there any other solution's?
Nine inch nails. “We think we’ve climbed so far, on all the backs we’ve come down...”
Sure, I'll give one. 30 thousand emails were illegally deleted, even after a court order was given telling the Hillary tech people in charge of their email service not to do so.

The law broken is the court order telling them to hand over all the emails.

The reason for no prosecution is because of politics. That's how the world works, shrug.

Some of the hacked emails in question, could have been some of the ones that were illegally deleted in the first place.

So they were in effect, undeleting emails that were illegally deleted.
I mean it's not like we aren't being marched right into this.

From the devops perspective, social media is following a make-one-break-one change process. As sufficient numbers of Mastadon hosts spawn, corresponding Facebook nodes on their server farm will be drained.
I agree wholeheartedly, this almost exactly mirrors my experience. It put strain on my health and my relationship.

The solution, for a time, appeared to be charging enough money so that clients used me as a last resort; but even then I eventually found myself awash of money and having no time still, and quit trying to do two jobs.

You don’t get any more time, it’s precious. It’s also easy to lose track of time that isn’t billable (like client acquisition). Sell your spare time at a premium, or not at all.
Is it reserved? A charger that may or may not be available doesn't solve range anxiety.
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What you're saying is true. But it's also true that some decisions make your luck surface large, while doing nothing gives you no chance of being hit by the lightning. In fact, some strategies to increase your luck surface scale, and produce greater than linear surface area as a function of effort, unlike a lottery.
It was as much on US turf as Hanssen when he received money and dead-dropped secrets. Neither the hackers or Hanssen's handlers were not caught on US turf.
It's not hypothetical. We haven't observed it in nature because any organism that evolved this would simply go extinct. But similar "evolving to extinction" phenomenons have been observed. Such as genes in mice that make the entire population male, or transposons in plants: http://lesswrong.com/lw/l5/evolving_to_extinction/

>it will not achieve a monopoly and not remove the existence of evolution.

Yes it will. It's easy to do simulations. Statistically the children of the organism with less mutations will have an advantage. Eventually the gene will reach 100% of the population. The population will stop evolving and eventually go extinct.
They will be forced to release it if NTSB asks for it.
The "Democratic National Committee". On its face, election fraud. Besides the loftier stuff like subverting the will of the people and the authorized government.

> And for bonus points, please tell us why Trump hasn't thrown Hillary into prison yet, as promised.

Because they play golf at the same country clubs, and their IRL actions aren't bound by the marketing characters they play? It would be kind of like shooting someone after you beat them in chess - totally uncool.

But I don't see how this is relevant, unless you assume that by criticizing one ignorance club I must be a cheerleader for its twin?
/s ?

It's a pretty unfair comparison, with 1 death on one side and over 30k on the other...
@walshemj: "But would they actually work from a known location id assume that US offensive operations are not done directly from Langley"

You forget this story is aimed at people who mostly get their news from Faux Television ..
No US governance agency looked at the servers. Only a paid contractor. uS government would need evidence right? The DNC didn't want the government snooping around. So they paid crowdstrike. Why wouldn't they take the free assistance from the US government? The US government angencies have a lot more resources than say crowdstrike...
Age old adage: Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.
> core competency

3 years ago Uber hired ~50 specialists from CMU to work on autonomous vehicles. I'd call that a core competency.

https://www.theverge.com/transportation/2015/5/19/8622831/ub...
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Why?

edit: lol, even asking a simple question is worth downvotes apparently. Oh well, I got karma to burn. Bring it on.
The point that I was trying to make was the advertisers dictate what is on the platform and not the content creators .

Also I beleve that advertisers had that power but it wasn’t enough for them.
No because the rate is per million miles driven. It allows us to compare two different things. The sample size is one but it isn't looking great so far.
> Same deal with English.

>

> Which is similar in complexity to English, just the order of speaking is reversed.

Yes, I was mentioning these to paint an accurate picture, not to contrast with English :)

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As a native Marathi / nonnative Hindi speaker, I can tell you that the Hindi numbers are pretty hard to get, and took me forever to get used to, even though the variations are almost the same as the ones Marathi has.

(However if you asked me about Marathi I'd have the exact same response as you, "what complexity? oh wait I see I've memorized everything oops")
Because the real numbers are a fiction and fractions are all there is. Google "wilberger."
col·lo·qui·al·ism

noun
a word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically one used in ordinary or familiar conversation.
Yes, there are previous devices that use a Peltier cooler to condense water directly out of the air. The article you link mentions these as a contrast to what this device is doing: "Another method of obtaining water in dry regions is called dew harvesting, in which a surface is chilled so that water will condense on it, as it does on the outside of a cold glass on a hot summer day, but it “is extremely energy intensive” to keep the surface cool, she says, and even then the method may not work at a relative humidity lower than about 50 percent. The new system does not have these limitations."

This approach uses a "sorbent" that adsorbs water at night, and then then uses sunlight to generate heat to drive the water out of the sorbent during the day. It does not use a thermoelectric cooler: 'The new system, by contrast, is “completely passive — all you need is sunlight,” with no need for an outside energy supply and no moving parts.' Rather than requiring active cooling, this approach requires heat to release free the water from the sorbent. The passive heat sink is used to help capture the water after the heat from the sunlight forces it out of the sorbent: "The desorbed vapour is condensed on a condenser and the heat of condensation is rejected to the ambient by a heat pipe heat sink."

So as best as I can tell, your theory that the paper (which you haven't read) is simply lying about what they are doing? Not impossible, but I think it would require some greater level of evidence the "Notice the heat sink". And while we're at it, how does "biomass available to burn" imply that they are using a thermoelectric aka Peltier cooler? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_effect

(Yes, I agree that it would be nice if the press release would actually link to the paper that correctly describes the apparatus, but its regrettable failure to do so does not give license to make up your own details as to how it works.)
Keeping yourself private is a hard problem, what with so many places in your software stack where you can leak your identity. This is why we need software that will _continuously_ and _automatically_ anonymize you on all your devices, from desktops to laptops to smartphones. And, then, on the end of your internet travels, all exit node vulnerabilities (in Tor Browser) need to be _automatically_ and _always_ mitigated.

May I point you to my project which solves these problems? I am just asking for your comments on my project description, not any money. You can see the link to my HN posting in my profile.

I think the scourge of mass surveillance (indirectly the problem of seeking complete anonymity) can be defeated with some patient work.
Tokomak is uncharted territory. It’s hundreds of PhDs trying to solve problems literally no one knows how to solve.

A lot of what Tesla has been doing is low hanging fruit. Supply chain optimization. Industrial design. Roboticization. These things aren’t science, they’re engineering. They’re applying known principles to the litany of problems an electric car entails.

There’s not much new science in a Tesla. Most of it could have been done years ago. There is some iteration required of course, but that’s why starting earlier would’ve made a difference.
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Not if you believe in panspermia.
This is why you shouldn't do VPN (or Tor) on end devices. A network device routing your traffic should do that.
So that their AI would learn how to block bus stops and bike lanes?
Yes, and?

This problem goes well beyond any single political candidate.
Mike Bostock (creator of D3) has a bunch of great code examples on bl.ocks.org.

I would start with his General Update Pattern (the link below goes through 1-3), which is key to understanding D3 as binding data to SVG elements (hence the name Data-Driven Documents) and animating any transitions.

General Update Pattern: https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/3808218

Also the documentation is great, so check out the intro here:

https://d3js.org/#introduction

btw, if you're using D3 purely for charting, expect a lot of work to get something that looks decent. There charting libraries that have taken care of the styling and add functions on top of D3 to make your life easier.
That pretty much tells the story. A single, last man standing vendor like IBM with a business model of making money on Mainframe/“Midrange”/Old-School Unix boxes will never, ever be Intel. POWER is cool, but who cares.

It’s more productive to think about how to harness lots of cheap ARM cores if intel isn’t doing it for you.

My employer has a few. It’s fast and looks impressive. But when you cut away the bullshit, it mostly exists because the sales guy presented a story where the cost of a new POWER box is a better deal than maintenance on the old one.

If you really dig into it, there’s no scenario other than a license play where a transition to Intel isn’t more cost effective. Even in those scenarios, you can usually engineer a solution (Oracle, etc) where you deliver a better ROI on commodity hardware or cloud hardware.
I'd suggest thanking the developers instead. :)
It may have been an executive that just said to turn off LIDAR for testing. Then the engineer probably mentioned it wasn't ready for live testing, was overruled, did it knowing it wasn't ready, because if he refused he may have been fired.
I don’t think ebook piracy has jeopardized book sales though? Music piracy certainly did.
It's not, because we have considerable detail about that one sample. This wasn't simple bad luck, it was performance on par with a completely distracted driver.
The boat that has all the $100k sales on it from people that don’t want to wait 2-3 years for a BMW.

That boat. It’s red row boat in case you’re curious.
“Only” work 9 to 5?

Don’t forget your commute. And you’ll still need your wife to get the kids to school and pick them up. Hope you earn enough for that and she’s happy st home. And you should help out with dinner and the lunches and homework. And when you get the kids to bed it’s 8 and you’re exhausted.

Enjoy your weekend.
How do they know the Moscow IP was not another proxy?
Make me think of my days as a landlord when the government started making laws to persecute landlords for drug dealing going on in their properties. Like those failed laws, this one just doesn't pass the smell test. Even Google, with their awesome AI, can't police their platform. And why should they? We pay the police to be the police.
Political? Meuller is a Republican, appointed by a Republican. Our country was attacked, maybe you should start acting like that's not just some "political" narrative, because it's still happening
We do it via a one-line javascript snippet.

eg:
<script src="//example.com/blah/widget.js?id=xxxxxx"></script>

widget.js is a server side script that creates the widget and echo's it out. Many ways of doing this and the easiest is a bunch of document.write()'s for the html
Why would NASA's defences be comparable to GRU?
>The optimistic take on this is "wow, we might get mass production of electric cars in two years? Great!"

And a bunch of other major car makers,too. It is simply amazing what a change has happened in the last year.

Why are people so focused on looking at the past? I mean, we are going to be living in the future, not the past.
>It would, after all, be setting up a competitor

There is nothing paranoid about that.

Evolution is not some magical 'forward' direction where every species becomes more technologically capable, or even more dignified.

It might be true that our species' now has a limited opportunity to become multi-planetary.

The first person to get to the moon was Korolev, and he would have continued rotting in a gulag had the urgency for a space program not been there.

And before you say the US is so much unlike Russia--our competing Vanguard program should, from an industrial standpoint, have won, but it was a massive failure, and embroiled in politics of its own.

Humanity needs competition to keep us honest, in the same way that the veracity of ideas needs to be tested by experiment to keep them honest.
"By 2020" -> "By 2025" -> "By 2030". It's all vaporware marketing announcements meant to gloss over the fact that the only pure EV they currently sell is the laughable i3.
If you have any :) I'm happy to rent where I please.
^ this. also, there's an entire family of laws[1] designed to protect people from certain risks they take on when they decide to help someone in dire need.

These are all extreme examples, but I think the parent post example (not giving feedback b/c of liability issues) is cut from the same cloth.

Businesses take liability risks day in & day out. For some, the calculus concludes that (practically) selfless gestures, like giving applicants feedback, aren't worth that risk. That, imo, is a shame.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Samaritan_law
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Experiment to Determine How Flows of molten metal can generate magnetic fields
How will Section 230 changes affect Bitcoin’s blockchain?

https://gizmodo.com/child-pornography-that-researchers-found...

"The researchers write, “our analysis shows that certain content, e.g., illegal pornography, can render the mere possession of a blockchain illegal.” ... As the researchers note, “Since all blockchain data is downloaded and persistently stored by users, they are liable for any objectionable content added to the blockchain by others,” which is likely true under many countries’ laws. The researchers continue, “Consequently, it would be illegal to participate in a blockchain-based system as soon as it contains illegal content.”
With 'Siren,' Unreal Engine blurs the line between CGI and reality
I have no economics background (well I guess I took a macroeconomics class once), but Martin Shkrelli (yes that Martin Shkrelli) has a pretty great playlist on youtube [1] that goes through exactly how to do fundamentals analysis. Warning: the videos are long and dense.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARrNYyJEnFI
What kind of fierce debate are you looking for? Without having read any of these papers myself ...

I suspect Turing’s Test is a topic that lends itself to philosophical debate and is accessible to non experts.

With most modern papers the most likely source of debate is their assumptions and methodology. For instance, you can probably read any number of machine learning papers which follow the format of (data set -> result on that set) and critique their methodology. (Basically, for this category of debate, if you’re not finding problems you’re not thinking hard enough.)

I don’t know what people write about in the fields of HCI, VR and AR but there’s probably lots of stuff to debate about their assumptions there.

Or you could go for the bitcoin paper which is at a unique intersection of CS, economics and game theory. There’s shockingly little intelligent writing on this topic.
[This is Julia, the OC] In some ways, this article is a response to this sentiment. It's true that luck is an important factor, but you can make your own luck through hard work. Being successful with startups is not like winning the lottery, because lottery winners just sit around holding a ticket. Startup founders are constantly working to attract more luck - or lightning - to themselves.
Probably because they have seen that IP before whilst investigating other cases.
Oh I agree that you can stack the odds in your favour, by working smarter/harder etc. or jumping on opportunities - but end of the day, that is essentially the equivalent of buying more lottery tickets to shorten your odds, isn't it?
I think Amazon is the perfect example that killing employees by spreading/polluting cultural environment.
There's a lot of possibilities. Remember how the Dutch hacked Cozy Bear's security cameras? One could do a lot with info like that, and it seems unlikely that those were the only vulnerable cameras, since that's not usually how IoT ('the S stands for Secure') stuff works.
How does that contradict what the other person said?
Hmm, but wouldn’t his priorities be correct in the context of this crash? There hasn’t been any suggestion (so far) that the crash occurred because some hardware component stopped working; rather, it seems like the software failed to identify the pedestrian in time. So better software seems precisely what was needed. Though I can imagine that better sensors might also have helped…
I’ve often wished for a reporter scorecard, showing how many times the reporter quoted unnamed sources that turned out to be garbage, and how severe those were.

Columbia Journalism Review publishes insightful articles on these and other problems.

With the modern need to push fast headlines for outrage clicks, I don’t see the standards rising anytime soon.
The Only Reason We’re Examining Facebook’s Sleazy Behavior Is Because Trump Won
Wordnet is free, and used by many offline dict apps.
military intelligence... greed, incompetence, office politics
I absolutely agree. The opportunity cost of each hour per week goes up, not down. If you are considering freelancing work on the side be sure to set the hourly rate above your regular wage. That’s just my opinion, as I prefer to spend my non-work hours focused on other aspects of my life.
It's not just sv, I would include most tech driven companies. Microsoft and Amazon come to mind.
That the two major candidates raised so much money means that other candidates barely even get a look in. Arguably a different facet of the same problem / part of a much broader problem that the two major parties are so entrenched.
Machine learning and AI are data hungry algorithms and the concern is there isn't enough "emergency situation" data. Also a detector can not have both a 100% probability of detection and 0% probability of false alarm. You have to sacrifice one for the other and that is usually influenced by weighted probabilities and priorities (e.g., a smooth ride).
I can name at least two established companies (FB and SpaceX) that will tell you why you were rejected. I 100% respect when companies are willing to do difficult, potentially perilous stuff like this.
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And it's still 1999?
Ending the electoral college would have nearly zero bipartisan support. Democrats have a popular vote advantage, and the demographics + immigration picture of the US guarantee that will remain for a generation at least (as far as one can reasonable project into the future anyway). The Republicans are fully aware of that problem, they'd never support ending the electoral college. Republicans broadly also do not believe in what would be closer to direct democracy.

If ending the electoral college had any meaningful bipartisan support, it would already be dead as a system, as changing that is overwhelmingly supported by Democrats.
First, stop the thirst within. I am going to try an experiment and live in nature on land that I buy. Why do we need so much junk?
Similar discussion with POWER8 from 2015
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10519548
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Driverless cars are also being tested in relatively nice driving conditions. People, on the other hand, drive in all sorts of conditions. X deaths per Y easy driving miles is going to translate to many more than X deaths per Y representative driving miles.