skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You entirely missed the point. We can never include every single relevant variable to perfectly explain the observation. It's impossible.

This doesn't mean statistics is useless.

This is the meaning of the phrase "the map is not the territory". All models are flawed, but some are useful.
I have two of these workstations, a dell and a lenovo w520. My lenovo is from 6 yrs ago. 8 cores, 20gbs of ram. It's a beast. I figured I needed the power. The truth is that they both have been sitting in the same spot now unmoved for a year. One at work and another at home. Last time I traveled with one, I hated myself. I carry around a chromebook or a lightweight lenovo carbon if I need to carry things around. With 24/7 cheap internet. If I need power I can VPN to work/home/cloud.
The article raises good points. One important aspect is missing though; the reliance on web services, SaaS, and the like. Free software is not enough. We need free software that runs locally and offline.
Fair enough;
All day "strategy meeting".
Sounds like a retro game!
The point I didn't make clearly enough is ad blockers probably wouldn't exist if others hadn't introduced this kind of feature through userscripts and add-ons. If only Apple can enable these abilities, it's up to other ecosystems to innovate and define access.

In my opinion, the most important branch the Web could take right now is going from transparent content to opaque content. Now I can filter, transform, organize and augment content accessed through my browser, and even remix it, all enabled by the inherent organizing of the technology, which suggests to the larger society more can be done. It's an open question though, and that technology could be changed to restrict what can be done with content.
>they measure themselves by their weakest performance, and suddenly their performance becomes historic.

Yeah, is called PR. Shitty, but everyone does it.
That was... a lot of fluff.

A 15 year old kid who has "seen everything there is to see on the internet"? I mean, really.

This is the exact same 'restlessly disengaged' phenomenon humans have been experiencing since the dawn of the species. It's part of having a complex brain. Other animals probably even have it.

There is no end of stuff to do and see! Sometimes you just don't feel like doing anything. And that's okay. It might be better in my mind to consciously redirect, or to take a nap instead of zoning out on a screen, but to each their own.
Though difficult, one thing you can do is stop buying things from companies that rely on the aforementioned exploitative labor practices.
I have written about it a little bit, in my articles about freelancing, on my site typicalprogrammer.com.

I mostly use email because my clients mostly use email. If I can get them to use Slack or report/track issues in GitHub, great, but usually they use email. I have five active customers most of the time. I use Google Inbox for organizing and finding emails, Google Keep for notes and lists, and GitHub issues for tracking bugs and programming tasks.

I got into the Google Drive/Keep/Inbox world because I used a Chromebook for three years as my main computer (still use it fairly often) and was on Android before that.
Is this a serious comment? Of course it's not good enough.

I'm supposed to wait until after I leave the doctor's office and fill the prescription to know the side effects of a medication I just spent money on? So if I don't like the side effects I have to make another doctor's appointment and wait until the doctor has availability?

So I go to my doctor and say "I have X problem." Doctor says "take these pills." I go to the pharmacy and read about the medication. I say "well these side effects don't look good, I don't want to take the medication." I go back to my doctor, the doctor says "here's some different pills" and I have to fill that second prescription and compare the two side effects.

No, that's not good enough.

There's also the problem that that information is given in a vacuum, there's no information given about what the alternative treatments are for your condition and what the side effects are for those alternative treatments. That discussion rarely occurs to my satisfaction at the doctor's office because oftentimes the doctor seemly doesn't know about the side effects or is misinformed.

This has just been my experience...

For me, the medication in question was given to me in an acute setting. I asked directly about side effects and I was brushed off as "oh most people don't have any side effects" or something of that nature. Especially when the medication is administered by a nurse and I was just given pills, I had to firstly ask what the medication even was.
I thought it was common knowledge that you should not rely on system provided Python, Ruby, Tcl etc. They are there for scripting the system and nothing else.

If you are Python developer, install specific version your project needs and use that. Same for any other language.

Not sure what you mean by outdated compiler? For what? C, C++ etc are distributed with Xcode and clang is usually standard compliant and recent.

BASH is the only problem. Newer BASH versions switched to GPL v3 and Apple will never upgrade to that.

My personal solution for that is to disable system integrity protection, build latest bash and install in /bin.

This way most scripts that have #!/bin/sh or #!/bin/bash and rely on new BASH features just work.
Yep! I've tried explaining this to my gf. I told her that I just need days where I have the freedom to sit around and do nothing for a few hours because without feeling rested and bored, I don't have as much mental motivation to try new things or finally tackle projects that have been kicking around in my head for months.

When I'm never bored I feel like I'm too busy. Then when I get some small bit of downtime, I don't want to do anything because I never know when I'll get the next small bit.
That's very unlikely to happen, ever. (Too many "int var;" out there.)
64GB (1), I don't think there has been a 16gb limit for several generations

1: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/processors/...
Excellent idea, but I couldn't make it work in Chrome. I got empty results, unexpected UI weirdness, stuff that never showed up. If you can make it work, it'll be my new favorite thing, but it's not there yet.
Sure, for autonomy ~level 3, this would be okay. I, too, dislike the rhetoric "just patch this one specific killing bug and voila, full auto!"
> Remember, no car in history ever had 500,000 pre-orders.

That's true, Citroen had a pretty good run with their record of 80,000 pre-orders (it stood for 60 years). But that was before the internet, all of the orders were made in person, they were non-refundable orders and there never was any doubt that Citroen would deliver the cars.
> Remember, no car in history ever had 500,000 pre-orders. No car even came close. If anyone expected Tesla to ramp up to that kind of production overnight, they are delusional.

Although you could be pedantic about what consitutes a pre-order, this isn't strictly true. Demand for the Mustang is truly unprecedented, even by the Model 3. Have a look at the Mustang production from that timeframe: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/19...
Looks really barebones for now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p05SKePDAcs

In fact, in its current form I don't really see the appeal. I can already get a "flat" web browsing experience like that without needing to put a headset on. Might be useful for a situation where I want to quickly pull up a web page without taking off my headset; but on desktop VR I can already just use regular Chrome or Firefox for that, no need for a specially-built browser.

I guess this is more about experimenting with the new UI paradigms VR/AR enable? Once they start adding better support for 3D content on the web I can start to see this making more sense.

> Mixed reality is the wild west. How do you type? How do you express emotion? How do you view the billions of existing 2D web pages as well as new 3D content? How do you communicate? Who maps the world and who controls what you see? Can we build on our work with voice recognition and connected devices to create a better browsing experience?

There are indeed a lot of interesting questions here. I think most of these problems are going to end up being handled by the VR/AR windowing system (whatever that might be) though, not by individual apps. I don't need my web browser to implement its own keyboard.
I tend to think Tesla benefits far more from hype and Elon charisma than is being hurt by FUD. There are still many real risks to their success, from outright failure to middling future sales. It wouldn't be shocking to see them eventually exit sales and license their tech / batteries to major automakers down the road as the major revenue stream.

All that said, their fanciful production plans can't hold much weight with institutional investors after so many misses, so it should be priced into the market.
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"this is our current state of the art with automation and safety and yet we allow companies to slap a radar and a pretend safety driver and hurl a ton of metal down the pubblic roads"

This is what bugs me most: Who on earth ever thought it's a good idea to allow a company like Uber with their history of corner cutting and shady business to test such dangerous technology on public roads?

The mind boggles.
I realize that you're mostly ranting, but on the off chance that you're serious: check out std::make_shared. It's a helper function that can allocate storage for the object and shared_ptr's control block in one go. It comes with its own caveats (what doesn't in C++?), but it has the answer to your concern about allocations.
Signal works pretty well for me. I mostly use it on my phone, but occasionally on my desktop, but never had sync issues.

Matrix.org + Riot.im are a pretty solid combination. Plus, you can bridge to IRC.
> most pen testers are entry-level ... What is probably scary is just how many commercial sites can be compromised by those standard well-known techniques.

... and the thought that there's an army of underpaid, underappreciated folks who spend all day every day honing the craft to perfection.
Obviously this proposal will be rejected because both companies and governments are addicted to the power to control and manipulate that data gives them. We need a strong leader who will go against the grain of these massive entrenched interests and be willing to stand up to the media onslaught such a stance will bring. The mainstream media will attack anyone who threatens their advertising based business model. When will there ever be a leader that doesn’t bend to the will of the media and deep state surveillance machine.
I suppose you only have looked at free Linux software, as opposed to paid-for software?
Well, my modest FX8350E keeps working very fine.
Bankruptcy is precisely when a well-capitalized buyer might buy Tesla.

If TSLA fell that far, the shorts would get paid.
I think the idea is that UAV operators/pilots might not even attempt landings. There's a future where assume control of UAVs as they approach station, and release as they return to base.

In that scheme, they were probably expecting the UAVs to land automatically on the carrier, with something like ATARI being the backup.

This way they can leave their operators focusing on mission tasks instead of recovery.
2017 was its best year, and it produced ~101,000 vehicles: https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/3/16846860/tesla-2017-delive...
Even if such a law would become effective somewhere I could imagine ways around this:

What would happen if a transportation service provider would also offer the service of collecting points dependant on the used stations and those points can be used for special offers.

This way they 'need' to collect movement data to check for abuse of the system in order to offer the 'basic' functionality.

I agree with RMS, but it might be difficult to express such law without loopholes for companies.
I wonder if they do model the movement of the deck.
What is next, Apple building its own wafer-steppers / lithography machines?
They won't reach proper automation until they're getting 5,000 to 8,000 Model 3s per week. But, of course, nobody really does automation to the level that Tesla is trying to do, so their current mix between labor and automation (as they continue to build up their automation line) is approximately what other car makers do.

Getting full automation to work is really hard, takes a lot of labor and time. I think they'll do it, but the task should not be under-estimated. In the meantime, they've already achieved a production rate per factory line similar to what a typical automaker like VW would do (on the order of 100,000 per year for a factory).

Like SpaceX around 2015 or so. Respectable, but not yet Earth-shattering (i.e. 2017).
Yes, I remember it very well, and it's been reinforced nicely by other comments. It does seem GIMP developers have their own idea of reality. Congratulations on having the most heralded open source graphics editor, by the way.
Why not just give users more power over their newsfeed, instead of assuming that the site engineers can get the balance right.

A user could be able to specify "I want 50% of my newsfeed to be from immediate family, 35% from close friends, 15% from acqaintances." Use a pie chart slider bar to make it clear. Then let the algorithm figure out how to interpret that chart.
> Can’t work on a plane

With the cramped economy seats that have become standard these days, the iPad Pro with a SmartKeyboard is pretty much the only thing I can use to work on an airplane (because the keyboard is so short). I wouldn’t be able to fit a full laptop in front of me and be able to type without hitting other passengers in the face with my elbow. But yeah, it’s pretty restricted. No real dev tools. Text editing works fine though. It also requires some thinking ahead, as I need to sync any files I want to work on to local storage on the iPad.
You might be interested in looking at Bitwig Studio for audio production. I've heard it's similar conceptually to Ableton Live and it runs natively on Linux.

https://www.bitwig.com/en/home.html

I agree that audio production on Linux is pretty good these days. Ardour is a pretty good DAW. The only problems are jack being a PITA sometimes and the lack of plugins.
I take it you understand the specific optimization.

Is there a reason they keep talking about a '32-bit' this and that? or should that be '32 byte' as that would be 256 bits?
That biography was mind blowing. Shows all sides of Elon good or bad. But showed how hard he really worked to build companies to scale.
Can Elon Musk Avoid the Fate of John DeLorean?
Nice script, but 10 runs aren't enough to give reliable results. Not even close.
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I think there's some middle ground between saying that the analysis is rigorous and saying it's useless, no?
A quick Google turned up some refutation of your statement:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9907147

Looking further, it appears that Sweden has decreased the amount of transparency by requiring that people make specific requests that notify the taxpayer of the request.

http://www.businessinsider.com/sweden-salaries-freely-availa...

Apparently, there were issues. I'd like to see this experiment run for a longer period of time in more culturally diverse environments, though.
'We used to quip that “password” is the most common password. Now it’s “password1.” Who said users haven’t learned anything about security?' -- Bruce Schneier
Had a similar experience where I live. It looks like the algorithm decides you don't need a flight to where you live, just a hotel, so the overall amount ends up cheaper. Switching from Flight + Hotel to Flight Only gave me a more meaningful result.
I use the iPad for more than ssh to remote servers. I write a lot, for example. I also use it for watching movies and playing games.

I have played with the Surface quite a bit and I know a few developers who use them (or have used them and given up). Partly it comes down to not wanting to use Windows.
When it's RMS, free means Free (under Libre terms) & Open Source. And yes, I agree; back to local and offline first applications is a must.
As much as I want Tesla to win, I messed around with the back-seat center cup-holders in a friend's model 3, and they seem to be constructed with extremely cheap plastic that is quite embarrassing.
Using one example to represent the industry is the issue in your premise. This list nicely proves my point:

How many EVs is Volkswagen selling per year?

How many EVs is Subaru selling per year?

How many EVs is Fiat selling per year?

How many EVs is Ferrari selling per year?

How many EVs is Daimler selling per year?

How many EVs is Ford selling per year?

How many EVs is PSA selling per year?

How many EVs is Hyundai Kia selling per year?

How many EVs is Mazda selling per year?

How many EVs is Suzuki selling per year?

Tesla is in fact still embarrassing the auto industry and selling EVs by an order of magnitude beyond what nearly all of the major auto companies are. The above listed companies are selling millions of fossil-fuel vehicles and should be heckled aggressively for it.

The fact that so few major automakers are selling EVs at all, demonstrates that what I've said is correct.

But hey, all these fossil-fuel makers have great plans for the future. One day soon.

The question is: how come those companies aren't being bankrupted for the horrific products they're producing by the millions? Where's the FUD attack on those corporations (which would actually be useful in dramatically improving the world)? Priorities are entirely screwed up when its the EV maker getting smacked around for not selling enough EVs.
Reading a book doesn't change fundamentals. Tesla is heading for a rough time, I sincerely hope they make it through and hope that Musk will not come to regret making that stupid joke.
Eh... I'm not Gen Z and I get this quite often too. Sure there are a few dozen new articles on the front page of HN, but not all of them are interesting to me. Sure there are thousands of subreddits but good ones are hard to find and eventually you'll run out of interesting content there, too. Random Wiki pages are fun, but for every good one there's a hundred boring ones. I used to use StumbleUpon but again, the signal to noise ratio is just silly.

I don't think your assumption that these teens just don't know how to discover content is correct. The problem is that content isn't interesting. There's only so many times you can hit random on Wiki and stare at "List of famous dogs from Bollywood movies" before you want something more engaging.

Your comment, to my ears, sounds like "these kids need to put down their Nintendos and go play a nice game of kick-the-can!"
> "That's very sad, and a direct result in my opinion of the gamification of digital attention"

In my opinion it's teenagers thinking they know everything or think they are much smarter than they are with a new 2010's era spin.
Yeah, and you need more than 2 data points to claim it is exponentially. This is bullshitty PR.

TO: 10 vehicles

T1: 40 vehicles

Is production growing 4x per T, or 30 vehicles per T?
Jeff Dean writes directly in binary and provides the source code as documentation for other developers.
> Way to spin all the production issues and delay of the previous quarter into a positive.

I don't really like Musk but sending positive messages in Investment relations is the key to keeping the company afloat. At one of my previous employers we lost top 4 customers and 10% of our revenue. But, the investment relationship site said - "We are up 1% in revenue, if we discount top 4 customers".

If Tesla admits and says - "We have improved but we are still behind on our original promise" then the stock price is going to drop like a rock.
Is this an 8k standalone binary? It’s amazing either way! I’m curious as to what counts as part of the 8k and what might be assumed as part of the platform.
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As someone who falls into 'Generation Z' (at least technically. The line between generations is a special kind of confusing), I'd say on average that's the exact opposite of true - there's so much to do I'm almost never bored, but the result of that's been absolutely disappointing - it's made it infinitely harder to dedicate myself to learning new things, or reading books. There's simply so much to do that it feels almost neglectful not to try and get everything done.

Then again, I suppose that might just be a chronic lack of an attention span, which I've had years before I had internet access, so my experience is more than likely less common than average. There's simply too much to do and not enough hours in a day.

EDIT: I will say, though, that the internet's been incredibly beneficial to most, if not all, of those who've grown up with it - the world's never had a better comprehension of the English language.
Another great tutorial I have found is the guy who runs an AI on twitch that plays GTA-V. Here is his object detection tutorial playlist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COlbP62-B-U&list=PLQVvvaa0Qu...
> Exactly this. At a fundamental level every individual has an infinite number of "dimensions" (in ML parlance) associated with him

And of course, this applies not just to people but to most complex entities or ideas. The problem is, when dealing with humans, even intelligent ones, good luck getting them accept this approach when it interferes with their political/emotional/fiscal beliefs or desires. For reference, see recent discussions here on topics like trade tariffs.
Earlier discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16551072
I had a personal SPARCstation 5 at university. I named it 'sparky'. I probably could have done better.
What matters is not how many they made, what matters is if they cut corners just to boost that number. Ideally those would be better quality cars but it looks very much like they were doing everything they could to just increase that one number without qualifying it in any way.
Haha joke's on you! It's equal pay until we go past equal, then it's "women are better and deserve to get paid more, shut up troglodyte!" It even says so in the article. Cities where women get paid more are modern globalized places, but where the reverse is true, Silicon Valley is "gender gap gully." The title of the article is even "Women finally on top." The mask is off.