skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have to suspect a significant group of people can tell the difference. It's just not me.

Various research seems to have been done on wine tasting, but I don't think I've ever heard of a study that wound up supporting this. They always seem to find that experienced, respected tasters can't tell a red from a white, or rate the same wine differently depending on where they're told its from, and so forth.

Is there any persuasive evidence around that wine tasting isn't more or less bunk?
If the company in question is Openbet, it's closed source.
Just one high-fat meal sets the perfect stage for heart disease
Based on the definition of bureaucracy [1] I disagree with you. I do think the tail is wagging the dog in American politics these days but I do not think bureaucracy is the reason. I actually think the bureaucratic parts of our government work quite well. Examples being the National Park Service or NASA.

I think the real problem is that our elected representatives (politicians) are so concerned with reelection that they manipulate their constituents rather than acting as representatives. It's more of an electoral problem.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureaucracy
How did they get this many people:
Number of employees
37,543 (2017)

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc.]
How's it still ddr3?
But then they end up spending even more in gas than they saved.

Also, poor people aren’t buying new cars, they’re buying used cars. So it’ll take a while for new more efficient cars to trickle down, and by that time they’ll have depreciated well past the theoretical delta in price.

It could also be that regulations lead to a superior and different, not necessarily more expensive design.
About the MacOS High Sierra 10.13.4 Update
Makes sense to upgrade a proven design rather than risk everything on the F35.
Why do you think that hosted cochroachdb would be cheaper then hosted spanner? Google has been optimizing spanner performance for years so I would expect that it will be cheaper to run for quite a while. Of course the markup can be different but I wouldn't expect it to make a huge difference.
http://collectui.com/challenges/landing-page
It's a running joke about DropBox. The giveaway is in the link in the parent's post.
Don't forget about the Polish. They too broke the encryption before, but then they were invaded, and no precision machinery was available to increase the number of rotors to 10.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis_of_the_Enigma
Turing did it too, independently.
There have been multiple times posted about this and i not following too much, but i haven't seen anybody who can tune even small cnc for small scale production in less than year where there virtually 0 defects (problems arise from software, used materials or even production changes; and they take long time). What i saw from PR tesla rushed and now got problems came to them. Of course it can happen and with human personal
Great stuff but this name really doesn’t work. Make it a name with positive connotations.
Market never adapts to things that are more expensive short term - like cleaner energy sources. Why would you put yourself at a competitive disadvantage (and thus lose money) if you aren't forced to?

Sometimes the regulation is needed for thing that are actually in higher (i.e. not only shareholders' but entire society's) interest. Such as clean air or not wasting non-renewable fuels.

That is not to say we should go batshit crazy and e.g. ban all non-electric cars now but look what has happened with e.g. solar and wind after the regulations went into effect. At the start solar was several times more expensive than fossil fuels (e.g. coal), nobody would touch it as it simply wasn't competitive. After the regulations on coal and other "dirty" fuels went into effect making them more expensive to use along with subsidies for the solar panels and such, solar experienced a boom and now solar energy is almost at the same price level as fossil one and the costs are still going down. Even oil companies are investing in it now massively - simply because it became profitable (plus it is a good PR ...) All the while we have got a chance to breath cleaner air and have fewer cancers, for example.

Free market is not a solution for everything and especially in the US you have plenty of good examples where it made the situation beyond fubar - e.g. the healthcare system.
"Make America dirty again"?

In due time possibly the entire world since air knows no borders.
Fit-html is a minimal Web Components framework
I kinda wonder how confident we can be in allegations of insider trading. Say there's a company like Equifax that was on the verge of disaster and a major fall in its stock price. How many executives and middle managers satisfy the two conditions of (1) having received stock in the company and (2) being somewhat aware of the impending disaster? I imagine dozens if not hundreds. At any given point, it's natural that some of these people are selling stocks for reasons unrelated to the disaster.

I mean, imagine you're an employee who has stock in your company and want to sell it to buy a house or something. Do you basically have to ensure there's no impending disaster before you dare to sell your stock, otherwise you're a criminal?
Were Obama’s disapproval ratings not always in the 40-55% range, which are right where Trump’s are? The data suggests they were.

Considering how laughably biased the media has been against Trump, relative to the exact opposite treatment that Obama had, he’s actually doing amazingly well in this regard. I think Trump has made a tremendous number of mistakes, but just going by the numbers, he seems to holding better than Obama ever did given the headwinds he faces.

My guess is Obama’s disapproval rating would have started off far higher too if Republicans were rioting in the streets and claimed cheating in the wake of his election. But Republicans didn’t do that, and took a considerably higher road than Democrats have done since Trump’s election. It has been shocking and terribly disappointing to see how poorly Democrats reacted to losing, and that poor sportsmanship is still playing out. It turns out that the “party of tolerance” is only tolerant of those in its own party.
The thing is American toilets are bizarre to start with. You guys have an insanely high water level, and accomplish flushing by basically just draining it.

Australian toilets are very different - the water level is low, and the flush is accomplished by violently dumping water from the tank into the bowl from a rim - which, having experienced both - effectively washes it clean with the percussive action.

Australian toilet flush example (work safe, nothing in it): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RWoJ2VNd3o
Where did you read that? It said you either take an unpaid day or use paid vacation day. Never mentioned anything about having to volunteer. I do agree that it is not proper practice to have your workers take unpaid off days when they might depend on the income.
How long have you been doing this? I was drinking a ton of coffee every day (4-6 cups of strong drip coffee) for the last 2-3 years. It helped a lot with my motivation and general energy levels. Recently (in the last year or so) I started getting some pretty significant mood swings, I'd basically feel horrible every week for Monday/Tuesday. I also had some alarming blood pressure measurements (up to 150/110 or something) which finally prompted me to quit the coffee. Not only did that reduce my blood pressure down to 136/90 but the mood swings and general funk have pretty much gone too.

I still think coffee is great for short sprints / crunch time, but I don't think I'll go back to ongoing high levels of use.
The leaker simply "connected" Facebook to the outside world.
Who is talking about ten and 12 year olds? The magazine is literally called Teen Boss.
The X1 Carbon has low power LPDDR RAM which means it can sleep for a lot longer with minimal battery drain. This is a very useful feature for me, as my laptop is almost permanently sleeping.
You are not quite correct. Article V places two restrictions on amendments.

The first restriction has now expired. It stated that prior to 1808, no amendment could give Congress the power to forbid the importation of slaves, and no amendment could establish or grant power to establish a direct ("capitation") tax.

The second restriction is still in force, but what it actually says is that "no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate".

So equal representation in the Senate could be abolished by an amendment, if every state ratified it (since that would satisfy the requirement of each state giving consent to "be deprived of its equal suffrage"). It's also arguable that the 17th Amendment -- which changed election of Senators to be by the people of each state rather than by the legislature of each state -- already violated this clause by causing the Senate to cease to represent the states.
Is there a convertible "Yoga"-kind version available?
You'll be on an insiders list and will have to obey extra trading rules. Basically, you'd know not to make the mistake. You also usually have to inform the company secretary of your intent to trade. This is in the UK.
I know that, but I don't understand why it is seen as such a roadblock. A supplier would add its tag on thousands of parts each day, which would find their way into thousands of products and thousands of end-consumers each day. The suppliers would be well identified by their physical location and the physical products they produce.

I think people raising these objections have not worked in a physical supply chain in the floor plant? I don't know, I have a difficulty to wrap my head around the objection. I am receiving a truckload of parts that I ordered - these parts have a barcode or a RFID identifier that tracks their provenance - the only change in the system would be that when I acknowledge the reception of the truckload, another block is appened to the blockchain-based history of the parts : Supplier + me the manufacturer. And so on across the supply chain.

I don't understand, are we talking about a scenario where a rogue actor would send me for fere a truckload of parts I have not ordered or something like that ?
CockroachDB's SQL implementation is still heavily unoptimized for actual business queries (subqueries, unnest, (recursive) CTE, schema changes). Features like this either take way too long or are not even implemented yet. Some of them are in the 2.1 milestone though. Let's hope.

I'd really love some kind of distributed-for-performance database using the exact optimizer and query planner of SQLite plus std plugins (FTS5, JSON, transitive_closure, spatial). Something like a mix between Bloomberg's comdb2 (which uses a modified SQLite frontend) and rqlite (distributed-for-safety).

Note: You can save most of the shortcomings of CDB on the SQL client side today, but don't underestimate the time it takes to implement CDB-specific workarounds...
XDS Modula-2 - https://www.excelsior-usa.com/xds.html
So you became less embarrassed at his easy dismissal of something that you were afraid of?
Same issue here. I had a generation of the X1 Carbon where they had removed the physical mouse buttons, and it's the only laptop I've ever had to return.
Here's one I found.

http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/cgi/ch01_01.html
Shameless self bump but I worked pretty hard on this.

https://caratz.io

Also took me awhile to design the forum thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3220677
Because you have sent them a purchase order and they have sent you a truckload of parts that you ordered? I'm sorry I don't understand the objection here
I've found the older article 'PC Gaming Is Still Way Too Hard' to be quite amusing, but not very similar to my experience (although I only built two PC's).

In my experience, the process of checking compatibility of the parts, and getting the parts can be a bit tedious (I had to wait multiple months for some parts). I did order DDR3 memory for a mobo that only supports DDR4 and bought a powersupply that was way too big for the small form factor case I was using (luckily I could return it).

I found the actual build to be, by far, the easiest part of the process. Everything was basically plug and play (in the sense that the colors, annotations and connectors made everything very obvious to me). I also never experienced a crunch when I mounted the CPU.

To be fair I didn't really use the manuals. If I would have broken something I would have a very different story.
>> experienced, respected tasters can't tell a red from a white

This is ridiculous. There is no way this is true. I'm an idiot and I can tell the difference blindly between a red and a white.
What you’re saying it quite the opposite to what it actually is. All docs are in one place (well, two places both hosted at tcl.tk), one of them is the actual docs (also installed as manpages on your system), and the other one is the wiki, a huge source of useful information written by both developers and other users.

I can't think of how Tcl/Tk docs can be massively outdated given that Tcl/Tk maintains almost 100% backwards compatibility, so most of the old advice works just as is.

Regarding open source, nearly all tools are not only open source, but usually under very permissive licenses (e.g. Expat or BSD-2), and there are in fact very few commercial closed-source tools (basically Komodo, what else?).

Are you sure you actually tried Tcl/Tk and not something else?
Tesla is 15 years old.

Tesla has produced 300K cars.

Tesla just recalled 123K cars.
They have very efficient top loaders now, which work well. There should have been water spraying on both the wash and rinse cycles.

The GP's building owner maybe didn't read Consumer Reports to find a good one, or it is just not working right.
> If you put a sticker that looks like a toaster next to a banana, your classifier will see the toaster and not the banana.

No it won't (as demonstrated in the video). This is the direct result of having CNNs. CNNs recognize pictures because of what a (at most) 32x32 set of pixels look like. It recognizes 1024 pixel patches as being toaster or not.

So no, a toaster for an image classifier is VERY different from a toaster. It's how the corners of the surface work. It's the grid within the top. It's the reflecting aluminum near the plastic border. It's the ...

A sticker doesn't have the vast majority of those properties. So a sticker with a toaster doesn't actually (usually) cause a misclassification (one imagines you can of course make the sticker good enough, but ...).

But you can collect a lot of those 32x32 patches that are really, really "toastery" and then scale them, find something that is "somewhat fractal" (looks the same at different scales) and put that on a sticker. That looks nothing at all like a toaster to you, but it looks a hell of a lot like a toaster to a CNN.

If you learn CNNs by knowing their predecessor "trick" (google "haar cascade") this makes a lot more sense.

The reason we aren't fooled* is that our eyes don't recognize pixels. We recognize a wavelet encoding of a picture, not a grid of pixels. We recognize something that's like this description "a red blob, with a smaller green blob in the 2 o'clock position, a blue blob near the bottom, then that green blob is actually split into light green on the left and dark green on the right, and that blue blob really has a white top and a black bottom and ..." (you see you give details about a large average then afterwards describe the parts where that average is wrong. Rather than describing a grid top-left to bottom right you describe it as "average of the whole grid X, average of top left Y, average of top right B, average of bottom left Z, average of bottom right A, then recurse).

* truth is you can fool humans partially with these stickers. You can make stickers that clearly are plastic stickers but you strongly feel that if you tough them you'll feel a cat's fur, or an insect/spider, or ... despite looking nothing like those things, and of course you can tell they're stickers). And of course, there's Dali.
Without knowing any existing pages or stats from the original page this claim is weak bravado.

I worked out one time Ive more than 300 million online sales/signups/downloads under my belt. I like to think that gives me some credibility. And I agree with OP that simple, basic and even ugly pages can be extremely effective.
I ate a paw paw once, and since then I've been trying to find a definitely identified paw paw tree so I can recognize them in the wild. The fruit was so delicious and the seeds were really interesting and unique. If any of you are willing to show me a paw paw tree in person, please shoot me an email.
Is the "low profile" HUD any different than typical ones? Also why do they mix up the HMD? Is the HMD going to replace HUD by using some kind of parallax-free motion-compensating technology? I'm confused by the article.
Getting Started with MongoDB Atlas
Presumably these engineers run a hose from the tail-pipe of their running car into their children’s bedrooms.

Thought not.
tumblr ?
Actually I think you're right. I Geekbenched my phone when I upgraded to iOS 11 and thought it was a bit slow, but it checked out ok. I just did it now and it's 30% slower than it should be. At some point the battery must have degraded.
I don't give a s**t about testing
And don't forget about their precursor - Gearhead Garage! :D
Great question! The answer is that it won't always, but it will sometimes. Because this is very counterintuitive.

Here's my back of the napkin model, caveat emptor.

Say we're calculating total cost per mile. What inputs do we need?

Fuel price, fuel efficiency, amortized vehicle cost, maintenance/repair costs... both of those last two are dependent on length of ownership in both time and miles, and how old the vehicle was when it was purchased. Purpose of the vehicle is a secondary factor too, affecting efficiency and wear/maintenance.

I'm going to ignore or hold constant some of those but toy with others.

Say fuel is very expensive at $10 a gallon, and also there's a lot of low hanging fruit to increase the efficiency of a vehicle. Say you can get another 5 miles per gallon over your 20 mpg by raising the cost of the vehicle by only $500. And say you don't significantly increase its complexity or repair costs while doing so.

Before you drove 100 miles per week at $50/wk. Now you drive 100 miles per week at $40/wk. You plan to own the vehicle for 10 years. You pay off the difference and get pure profit by the end of the first year.

Sometimes fuel won't be $10 a gallon though. Let's say fuel is cheap, and the low hanging efficiencies have already been exploited. Let's say fuel is $2 a gallon, and you can only get wring 35 mpg up to 36 mpg for another $500.

Now how long does it take for the improved efficiency to pay off the premium?

Just over 60 years.

Increasing the miles driven per week pushes it back the other way. It all depends on your assumptions.

Basically we're looking at a benefit to the driver whenever:

(price_per_gallon * miles_per_week / old_miles_per_gallon) - (price_per_gallon * miles_per_week / new_miles_per_gallon) >= increased_vehicle_cost / lifetime_weeks_owned
Well, I don't see how it's very much different from, say, LiveJournal friend request (except that it doesn't have to be mutually accepted) or a similar feature of MySpace (I think they had it too) or even last.fm.
Yep, Foveon is one of the most underrated camera technologies. It's basically a medium format camera in a compact digital package. I fervently wish Sigma would make some progress on camera usability!

One example review, for readers who don't know about Sigma's awesome camera tech: https://www.photigy.com/sigma-foveon-sensor-review-dp3-merri...
On iOS, it doesn’t scale correctly, and scrolling seems to be pretty broken
Not sure if it's because I'm viewing it on a 1440p display, but the node garden animation in the background is super laggy. When I shrink it down to mobile size it looks nice though.

Edit: the scrolling is also janky, I think as a result of the node garden rendering/processing.
It's LPDDR3 (low power). I'm guessing the Intel chipset does not support LPDDR4.
Note that Hipp before working on SQLite was a member of the TCL core board and wrote something similar in the early 2001: A database-driven web server in a self-contained executable named TWS where dynamic content is served from TCL.

http://www.hwaci.com/sw/tws/index.html
I share your zeal, but the answer to apparent incredulity isn't to raise the level. People have different tastes when it comes to programming languages and methods, and that's okay. There's often things we can learn from different techniques.

To our parent's points, it's more verbose if you're used to passing data into a separate template file. That can help abstract the markup from the data processing. To their point regarding designers, many are more comfortable working with HTML files than application code. That can be a benefit for many teams. Clearly some lispers agree, as they've implemented alternatives like Mustache templates.
CGI is one of those "simplest thing that could possibly work" tools: for every request to a specific url path, the webserver runs an executable. Headers passed in the environment, stdin and stdout plumbed to the network socket.

Back before serverless, we called it shared hosting.

Of course, fork() is not especially fast, so people came up with Fastcgi: persist the process and let it handle multiple requests. Then people started writing java where the startup time was prohibitive, and "application servers" like Tomcat came into being.
Bare in mind that Space X doesn't really care about trying to control the internet - their focus is making money from putting stuff in space so they can build the BFR.

So a better comparison as others have said is comcast and mobile broadband providers. The more competition the better as far as I'm concerned.
Postum[1] might be the opposite. Coffee for Mormons that didn't want to break the rules. I tried it, and it was awful. But ask any Mormon you know, and they usually at least know what it is.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postum
Have you tried a trackball? I use a Kensington Slimblade with my multi-monitor setup at work and I find it far superior to a mouse.
Why would you leave money on the table? The longer a customer has been with you the more inertia there is to switching. If you incremented by a small amount every month, most of them wouldn't care.
Well that was a bit ranty and doesn’t really address the issue. If you don’t like YouGov, would you prefer https://scholars.unh.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1251&co...
Or design it to be coated with an appropriate epoxy.
The Hobbit: A Long-Expected Autopsy
I can hear a single plane or helicopter miles away. It's going to take massive improvement in noise dampening to have roads of flying cars. Not to mention all the other challenges.
I switched to a Razer Blade Stealth, its around 400€ cheaper with the same specs except a QHD+ display (glossy, touch, 3200x1800). I'm wondering why Thinkpad only offers their WQHD (highest available resolution, 2560x1440) glossy? Also still no 4K/QHD+ display, still no 32GB RAM support. I don't really see much of a advantage anymore, they only reason for me to stay with thinkpad would've been the keyboard that is just fantastic in comparison with _any_ other manufacturer.

/edit clarified resolution/ fixed grammar
What kind of Lisp system was used to run this? Would it work with any Common Lisp? What other things are required, like libraries or a database etc.?

I'm guessing reddit.asd lists some:

:tbnl (a toolkit for building dynamic websites)

:cl-ppcre (a regex library)

:trivial-http (a HTTP client)

:cl-who (a library for using S-expressions as HTML markup templates)

:clsql (a SQL database interface and ORM)

:clsql-postgresql (a PostgreSQL connector)

:cl-smtp (a SMTP client for sending email)

:ironclad (a cryptography library)