skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AKA society. I like to think of society as a collective unconsciousness. An interaction of innumerable systems which are (mostly) not well documented (as a result of the vast count). That pretty much describes the state of brain research too.
I don't think that's quite right. You can theoretically detect the local curvature of space by measuring the angles made by a sufficiently exact triangle. If space is flat, such a triangle will have interior angles that sum to a half turn. If it's curved, it will deviate from that. And that's something you can do more or less entirely locally and is a property of the space you're inhabiting.

We can know the Earth is round without any reference to Euclidean space or Euclidean coordinates- just trace out a big triangle and you could observe that the interior angles will sum to more than 180 degrees.
Tesla paid back (almost all of) SolarCity's solar bonds in 2017. Only Musk personally (and his cousins) still hold that debt.

[0] https://electrek.co/2017/04/14/tesla-solar-bonds-elon-musk-s...
That's not true. Offering to the public equity that hasn't received approval from the centralized gatekeeper is mislabelled "securities fraud" and is a criminal offence.

The term "securities fraud" as defined by securities law statutes is political-speak, and very misleading.

Fraud involves deceiving the counterparty in the exchange. But "securities fraud" need not involve deception. It can be completely non-fraudulent. The term is therefore an Orwellian misnomer to give the public the appearance of a victim.
It's far more likely to be the opposite, at least for the next 4-5 years.
> claims by Daily Stormer that Cloudflare supported Daily Stormer

claims by an anonymous person in their comments
Improving the performance of cached hash table lookups
Binary formats, such as ladder logic in control systems, as an example. Which also typically can only be edited by a first party program.
Yeah, prohibition has worked out lots of times.
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> I guess it wouldn't change much in European countries

Why not?

Via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r..., here is another table (same countries, same order) giving road fatalities per 10⁹km in 2015:

UK 3.6
Spain 7.8
Germany 4.9
France 5.8
USA 7.1
Too important for what?
In my experience you'd call that something like a neighborhood watch or even a militia. Like during the LA riots, the Korean shop owners banded together to keep their property from getting looted.
Investors do not demand that companies pay a dividend, and prefer companies do not issue a dividend, when the company is growing rapidly. Investors would prefer to keep that cash in the business, to use as fuel for further growth.

Recently, Alphabet and Google revenue growth has been around or above 20% per year. Take a look at their Q4 2017 earnings statement [1]. Here is a table based on figures in Item 6:

2013 $55,519,000
2014 $66,001,000
2015 $74,989,000 (+14% YoY)
2016 $90,272,000 (+20% YoY)
2017 $110,855,000 (+23% YoY)

Compare to the net operating revenue of a company like Coca-Cola [2], which pays about $1.50 dividend per share per year on a price of about $0-47 per share:

2013 $46,854,000
2014 $45,998,000
2015 $44,294,000
2016 $41,863,000

Most investors in companies like Google expect to get more return by keeping cash within the business to use for growth, resulting in share appreciation, than they would get by receiving a dividend. If growth slows or stops then investor sentiment will change. There are other figures to consider, but these figures represent significant growth for a company of Google's size.

Madoff's business was a scam and pyramid scheme that depended on a steady stream of new investors to pay off his old investors. Google and Coca-cola operate real businesses that collect revenue from paying customers; Google's is growing rapidly while Coke is holding steady or declining. There's no similarity to Madoff.

[1] https://abc.xyz/investor/ [2] https://s22.q4cdn.com/984101753/files/doc_financials/annual_...
>Just like it should be okay to be a workaholic if that's what helps you sleep, on the couch, at night

The problem is that workaholic men who put their career ahead of their family do better in their career than women who put their family first. So the social pressure is for men to change their life choices, and companies to change their cultures, to accommodate women.
Your observation is contrary to my experience. Where I live UPS and Fedex put packages on my doorstep while USPS leaves them in a post office fourteen miles away. Letters too. Similar stories in other rural places I've lived. Sometimes they don't come for days when the road is bad, but USPS never even tries. I'm pretty sure UPS and Fedex lose money every time they deliver to me, but they do it anyway. USPS never has.

Maybe that wouldn't be true of first class mail as it is for parcels. But we won't know as long as it remains illegal to compete with the USPS in first class.
We could certainly have a discussion about taxation and my views on it, but I'd rather discuss a more clear cut subject.

That subject is someone being prosecuted under criminal law for offering a security to another consenting adult without having met the mandated requirement of having that security approved by the ordained regulatory agency.

Edit: responding to below:

>>why you might also believe that securities frauds are victimless.

It's not "securities fraud" though. No fraud need happen for someone to be prosecuted under criminal law for offering a security to the public.

The fact that you label all securities offerings without government approval "fraud" supports my earlier point that your position is "based on sweeping and prejudicial generalizations that they're all scams".
Can you point to the source? I've been a SpaceX fan for a long time and never heard him say that.

Starlink, SpaceX's satellite constellation, is the cash crop.
I also don't like that it's mostly reading and listening comprehension, with little writing and as far as I know no spoken.
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I'm pretty sure the comment you responded to was sarcasm, given the prevalence of red light districts in the Netherlands.
So, here's an example. Suppose you're in a toroidal space. It's an Asteroids world: you're in a cube, and if you pass through one wall you find yourself passing back into the cube from the opposite one.

If you look in the right place, you will see the back of your head- several times! So there's an illusion of seeing yourself in several places at one time. But toroidal space really is different from normal space (even if it's basically flat and Euclidean, the geodesics are different).

So it seems to me that you can have warped spacetime that produces illusions like duplicate galaxies.
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Right. NHTSA/DOT are being sued over Tesla's refusal to provide data from an existing FOIA.

So Tesla files an FOIA and claims they are the transparent ones. This is a bad attempt at PR.
Oh that, no. That should die with android, it's horribly difficult to understand and unhelpful.
This thread is living proof why many people are seemingly unable to learn languages (well): they're more concerned with tools and methodologies instead of simply putting in the effort and learning the language they want to learn (emphasis on "want to learn"). Yes, it's (sometimes hard) work to learn a language and there is no magical fairy dust.
One of the points the author makes is that you should track the problems you have, and the ones that reoccur will be good signals to solve them.

Does anyone else feel pretty content with what they have?

Because this strategy I think Paul Graham has talked about in one of his essays for ideas. And to be honest, I do genuinely feel like I don't have much if anything to complain about, and so I can't really think of startup ideas. To the point where I'm just consulting at the moment because I can't think of any startup idea to work on.

I mean I have ideas of problems I want to solve - but they've all been met by massive resistance because they're huge problems. Like for instance one idea I had was I hate making food, but I don't want to eat out all of the time. Can you crowdsource cooking from your neighbors? So I tried building that platform. I instantly discovered there were huge safety regulations about cooking, and that really baking (or anything that isn't extremely perishable) is the only thing you can pretty much do out of your home and not get slapped by the state for violating health codes. So I'm just sort of defeated...the only problems I want to tackle just seem massive and I can't seem to find the divide-and-conquer algorithm to help the world in a smaller (but still meaningful) way.
I read things in his post that indicated he's aware of his luck and privileges and neither takes them for granted nor credits himself for having them.

I know lots of jerks out there parrot the victim-blaming nonsense that everyone could just be rich and successful if only they did the right things (while our whole economic system is based so much in exploitation that it's actually impossible for everyone to be middle or upper class, our system wouldn't run that way)…

So I understand taking Sam's comments in that light, but from my reading, I think it's a fair assumption he's not one of those jerks, even if he's also not one of the people focusing primarily on the injustices etc.
I live in a rural area in the lower 48 and USPS won't deliver here. We have to go to a physical post office and stand in lame lines to get packages. We also have to pay an annual fee for the PO Box, and sometimes there are waiting lists.

FedEx and UPS happily deliver to my front door, 25 miles and down a long dirt road from the nearest town.
Why do you need 20,000 questions, though, when a typical user isn't going to need that many?
fair enough. that is quite impressive growth. i've been listening to too many peter thiel talks.
Yep, I'd switch a large share of my family portfolio to SpaceX if --and as soon as-- it were possible.
No, it proves that the path of the visible photons we're detecting have been altered by forces of attraction.
Restriction of range is a potential concern, but not all studies are subject to that criticism. Bruce Sacerdote's study of Korean adoptees randomly assigned to American families found, for example, that the adoptive families represented perhaps the middle 90% of the SES spectrum. Obviously you will rarely see children adopted into the lowest percentile, but you can compare children taken from the lowest percentile to children who are raised natively in that percentile, and you typically find small or nil differences for most outcome measures in adulthood.

Plenty, of smart, dedicated people have been trying for decades to devise interventions to permanently boost IQ among children raised in poor (for the first world) conditions, and unfortunately not much has turned up. Instead, there is a familiar pattern of small pilot studies that show initial promise, but whose gains tend to wash out when the program scales up to a less than one-to-one child/child psychologist ratio, or even when the children are followed up on in adulthood.

The gains from permanently boosting IQ among low-IQ children would be so great that it might still be worth banging our heads against that wall on the off chance that we find something that might work. But we should keep in mind the base success rate of past interventions.
>Could they just disable or scale back the autopilot?

The problem with this is that Tesla clearly believes that autopilot plus an attentive driver is safer than an attentive driver alone. I think that is most likely true.

It is possible that autopilot plus an inattentive driver is less safe than an attentive driver alone. I think this is plausible, but I don't think there is any real evidence to prove this one way or another.

The question then becomes does Tesla have an obligation to save the people in the second group from themselves and in turn put the people in the first group in greater danger?
> Autopilot, as used by the aviation industry

Which is a tiny tiny percentage of the general population.

As has been said it is what the general population understands "autopilot" to mean which is the important part. The fact that the niche and general understandings are different should not be a gap that a company inserts itself into to mislead the public as to their products capabilities.

Yes, most people don't know the nuances of what "Autopilot" means in the aviation industry, but trying to educate the general public is a losing proposition vs just telling Tesla to rename the system.
Re: your last paragraph: yes, that is how it works. That $1000 rate is known as the "chargemaster" rate and it's absurdly, incredibly inflated. A hospital maintains a chargemaster list, which is how they bill uninsured patients. Insurers negotiate rates which are a fraction of this chargemaster rate. The chargemaster rates are also not public, I believe.

So, unintuitively, uninsured people (at least the ones who can pay their bills) are great for care provider revenue.
If you believe tax voidance is a victimless crime, it provides insight to me as to why you might also believe that securities frauds are victimless.

Its not a trick question.
Why isn't Walmart drawing his ire as well then?
Have you seen AMZN's valuation lately? ^_^
This is clever, but it requires strict following of best practices (nobody has copies of production data, and backups and the like are guarded with proper access controls. Keys are never written to log files, etc).

Make sure to get any DB backups as well, otherwise the key could still be out there somewhere. If you store the key under version control as well (bad practice but we've all seen it done) you'll need to rewrite git history to make sure the key isn't recoverable at all.

There could be an infinite number of ways a key could unintentionally persist, so something to keep in mind with this approach. Good reason to be disciplined with keys and other secrets to make sure they aren't leaving the environment.
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This video is horrifying, I assume even the sensors on cars with automatic braking sensors should be able to identify a barrier that large in front of the car. I am way oversimplifying this but I'm sure there is some level of prioritisation in Tesla's Autopilot software to decide what action the car should take. Is the Autopilot software prioritising staying in lane (the car appears to stick to the left white line) over collision avoidance?
that's a great way to lose your CEO job and get sued by your shareholders.
You can always join on decrypt(key, a.column) = decrypt(key,b.column).
that seems pretty simple, really: the company chooses one jurisdiction to operate in
I was already leery due to their hostility towards third party repair and servicing, the always-on data connection which you have no control over, and their general attitude of "we'll switch your car off if we don't like you".

Adding this "we'll pull the black box data and use it to blame you for everything if anything goes wrong" approach just makes me even more wary.

I mean, I'd love an electric car with the performance of a Tesla but not if it's going to be a spy and/or can be taken hostage at a whim.
> The fatality rate for helicopters is 1.3 deaths per 100,000 operational hours, compared to 1.4 deaths per 100,000 operational hours for fixed-wing aircraft. A person is more likely to survive a helicopter crash than an airplane crash.

Are you sure about that? I'm willing to bet that for each crashed vehicle, there are far fewer people on average on each helicopter than in the average airplane.
This is somewhat untrue and physical connections between laptop motherboard and display are often poorly shielded and broadcast your display (think of every physical connection as an antenna).

Sauce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g9yUiAHiFo

This talk is old and we've advanced a fair bit since then.
> Accredited investor laws are disgusting. Personally, I'd much prefer to hold securities, tokens, equities, currency on-chain than via some broker

These are unrelated. You can hold stocks, bonds and commodities in your own name. It’s inconvenient and carries no advantage over owning them in “street name”. But that isn’t an accredited/un-accredited difference.
That's not much more than an Uber Black to be honest...
That's true, it's a 1960's style AI (an "expert system"). It's rule-based and, frankly, really, really good.
Maybe... but I see the system being bandwidth constrained. If each spacecraft is 20 Gbps and how many will be visible over the USA at a time? 50 or so? So 1 Tbps for the entire country? That's less than the capacity of a single neighborhood in Denver on gigabit fiber. Not to mention the capacity of 4G networks across the country. Some of this smells like the first round of Iridium to me.
>>>a criminal history was not an bar to employment. These were not empty words.

>>>required us to care about the pasts of the candidates

Kind of sounds like they were empty words.
"Why on earth wouldn't you be horrified by a company creating a shadow profile of you?!"

While we know the general class of such malicious activity is happening, the specific domain and scope is unknown to non-insiders. More importantly, the mammalian response actions to the emotion of horror are completely unsuited to the threat model in question. We need to be -completely rational- to have a decent chance of responding to this in a way that serves our general interest.
The first part of your point makes sense, the second less so. If you have a pay for no ads model, you would get wealthy users willing to pay for it, and poor users unwilling. Meaning you could ONLY advertise to people without money to buy your products. This is a less than ideal scenario for an advertiser.
Unfortunately a lot of the crazy talk about backdooring encryption in Australia is bipartisan because whichever party disagrees with it will be made to look "weak on crime / terrorism / paedophilia" and don't want to take that hit-in-the-polls.

If the punishments for using illegal encrypted services are less than the punishments for whatever crime is being committed, this won't work. BUT, if the punishments for simply using encrypted services, that we've already been using "safely" for years, are in the same ballpark as serious crime / terrorism / paedophilia then there's the potential for a lot of collateral damage that will make the passage of such laws difficult. If such laws do get passed, there could be a lot of stand-by-their-principles IT types (like me) serving long sentences for texting their partners asking whether milk should be purchased on the way home.
But none of those charges that got him needed SESTA to exist...and he was charged with 79 felonies:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180409/18423839598/feder...
That's not true--the most censored websites are actually inaccessible.
A quantity of options does not mean every option. The barista in question is not likely someone who can just choose to switch to a much more lucrative job. They could pursue that direction, there's always room for improvement, but as Sam mentions, there's a compounding-interest here. So, someone starting at a lower point has to start with very small productivity decisions and persist as they slowly compound to become something more substantial.

Also, while the economy isn't zero-sum, there are zero-sum aspects to it. We can't have every garbage collector suddenly become a high-end programmer or something or our system will fall apart due to piling-up of garbage. Any one garbage collector could better their lot, but until we have dramatically automated everything (and that's still a long ways off), we need people to collect the garbage.

In short: we don't have a caste system, so any arbitrary working class person can rise to higher classes. But that doesn't change the system, it just shuffles where people are. We don't have an economic system that can function without a working class.

If/when the working class gets paid better, then they can afford to invest in improving themselves more because they won't be desperate for every day's income just to survive. Some people will make poor judgments with such freedom, but others will thrive. So be it. I agree with your "who am I to say otherwise" quip as long as you aren't appealing to total-relativism.
> Morals are the things you value, like liberty and happiness

I disagree, the conventional and I think the more widely understood meaning of 'morals' would be 'principles' or 'standards of right and wrong'. I think the term 'values' would do just fine.
Nothing requires Google to do business in Canada, and it's not like this is the first Canadian law to extend to things that happen internationally.
Exactly. That would be a violation of fiduciary duty, which is not a good move for CEO
Sure they aren't related, but they are related to the parent comment which mentions both.

I was just stating that the former is a form of discrimination to restrict opportunity and increase wealth disparity. The latter is just a preference. Both were being discussed in the parent comment.
I've always had lots of ideas, just none I've wanted to follow through on, now I'm in the early stages of an idea I think will be useful ( at least it will be for me ). It's an idea that was simplified out of another idea that's just too large for me to tackle at the moment. In fact it's an idea that's been part of a variety of other ideas. It's also part of a number of other peoples products, and is probably one of the trickier bits of their products, but it's not a product in itself.

So, at the moment, my market size is at least 1, because I want it.

Odd thing is, given I have free range on everything, I'm suffering tech choice anxiety, which is slowing me down a bit.
When people refer to prohibitions failing, they're generally referring to consensual or victimless crimes: drugs, alcohol, (non-coerced) prostitution, gambling, etc.

That's not the case here. Coercion and violence are component to human trafficking. Taking down Backpage and similar websites isn't "prohibition" any more than laws against murder are.
I didn't apply them to the sequels. I applied them to the Paul W.S. Anderson movie.

Directors pretty much define the quality of the movies, so it's more important to follow them instead of the franchise itself.
Google makes money advertising to Canadians. that sounds a lot like operating in canada
The “shadow profile” scandal has to do with Facebook’s records of your visits to other pages that embed a Like button.
Drawing a conclusion about the investigation before it's finished seems like pretty obvious spin.

> TESLA: "The only way for this accident to have occurred is if Mr. Huang was not paying attention to the road, ..."

Nobody knows what happened. Huang may have had his hands on the wheel, which the system failed to register, and the car made a turn that he wasn't able to correct in time without hitting other vehicles.
Doesn't this create a big conflict of interest in their Zestimate algorithm that's core to their business?

If they provide lowball Zestimates, that allows them to buy homes for cheap. Or if they own the home, they can increase the value prior to sale.

Hard to trust when they could easily use this estimation system to their other business model's advantage.
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Well, I wouldn't say we understand
C. elegans neurobiology and behavior "fully", but great advances have been made at the systems level:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2904967/#__ffn_... [overview of behavioral assays at systems level]

http://conferences.union.wisc.edu/ceneuro/program-info/organ... [next major conference]

And, of course, my favorite, WormWeb:

http://wormweb.org/neuralnet#c=ADA&m=1