skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think they're trying to hammer home the point that autopilot is very much not level 5 self-driving. The media is constantly referring to "self-driving" Teslas, so of course it's easy for members of the public to get confused, but this is very different from e.g. the Uber self-driving fatality that occurred recently, where the car was supposed to be able to drive 100% autonomously. Tesla is extremely clear that these are only driver assistance features, but people keep getting confused about it, so they keep doubling down on their message.
Identity is social... if you make a friend because you're a Pisces or whatever nonsense, regardless, that friendship is entirely real.
I don’t think creative destruction means what you think it means...

They don’t control anybody’s time. I don’t use Facebook. Nobody is forced to use Facebook.
That's a good point, your comment led me to research a bit more, and I learned that prop13 did in fact caused local governments to rely more heavily on sales taxes. Ironically this has contributed to the perverse incentives against building housing inventory, since commercial zoning is more likely to generate sales tax and other business-related tax revenue.
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oh you... you know what i mean, you have to have some standard way to talk. Bytes are tooooo generic. you don't want to be that guy at the party that is always saying but.... but you are technically correct :)
That's more subtle, as individual anonymized data point can not identify an individual, but a linked set of those can, with a very high percentage of confidence.
Facebook can always play the card that each data point are anonymous, hence not part of your data, and keep everything.
Here I am, sitting at work, trying to come up with silly ways to pronounce a combination of "semi" and "infinite."

Seminfinite -- sim-infinite -- has a nice ring to it when said quickly.
They aren't rare, they are just really expensive to mine and process in the western world. The chemicals involved are nasty and radioactive waste is one of the byproducts. China has lax enough environmental laws and is willing to absorb the blow. Wonder if enough R&D could solve the processing problems.
I read in an older article that POSIX software compatibility may infringe on Oracle's copyrights. Maybe that's why?
as a complement to that perspective, i think we're all basically experiential learners, and seeing, hearing, and touching/moving are simply parts of the "experience". sure, one person might focus a little more on the voice of the speaker, and another might be watching more intently, but all of those components combine to create the immersive experience that locks new information into our brains. but as you say, teaching should incorporate mutiple modes of stimuli, because all learners need all of the modes.

incidentally, that's why most conferences and such gatherings are not so useful for learning new things--they're designed so that people talk at you, rather than involve you. the purpose is often to display the superior knowledge/ability of the speaker, for various commercial purposes (having been on both sides of this).
While it's unlikely you'll ever face a problem like this, do know that lying is a punishable offence, which your comment incorrectly demonstrates. You need to take a moment and review "18 U.S. Code § 1001 - Statements or entries generally" [1] sooner than later.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1001
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That is an interesting point, but I think the PLAN can bring force to the East China Sea disputes much easier than something between Guam and Wake. I don't think the US would allow them to even build up forces in the Marshalls without hostilities.
Ya, I wouldn't be surprised if it gets some kids into chemistry. Whatever it takes to draw them from video games. (Although, I credit video games for getting me sucked into computer science)
One team I was part of kept a separate backlog of technical debt and experiments. It was nice to have a place to say, "in 30 days, look at this hacky thing and see if it's worth making better". Or, "I noticed this is a mess, here's how I might clean it up." We'd occasionally talk over the backlog and prioritize it, which helped communicate both the general make-things-better spirit and specific issues like you mention. I really liked it.

One thing that made it work is that we worked on it in small slices all the time, without involving the product manager. It was still visible, so there'd be the occasional question, but as long as we kept delivering user value, nobody worried to much about our mysterious code concerns.
> Mostly because videogame plot lines aren't as good as we give them credit for.

I would phrase this differently. The interesting parts of the game stories emerge from actions and choices made by the player, not the parts of the story that are actually written. I don't mean that the writers on games aren't doing a good job. Just the opposite, actually: they know how to write the right bits to keep the game interesting, and to help the player work with the game to create interesting stories.
Thanks, my comment was a genuine question. If that is the case, then their PR statement is indeed very cold.
You gotta understand, it's a reflection of supply and demand. Companies will treat you exactly how well you are valued by the marketplace, no better, no worse (in the long term average). There's an extremely vast oversupply of non-engineering talents (MBAs) etc, so they're treated poorly. At least with engineering there is some semblance of balance. There's still some oversupply of engineers but it's not nearly as vast as other areas.
I used to bash CICO as being an over-simplification until I actually looked at the numbers.

The average american eats 3600 calories per day. Fat ones eat more; perhaps 4000 to 8000. This is far beyond amounts recommended to lose weight effectively: 1500 or less.

There are lots of variables in human nutrition and metabolism, but the biggest by far is the fact that people are eating 3-5x the amount of food they should.
Kids get obsessed about things, i.e. fads. Now there's youtube which enhances and lengthens these fads, making mini-celebreties out of kids/young adults that can capitalize fast enough.
There's at least one example of something that's even worse. Street Fighter: The Game: The Movie: The Game is as horrible as it sounds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4UdQVYkCZg
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There are semi-infinite reserves in a LOT of other, easier to reach places too. Mining toxic chemicals from the ocean is lame when there are better alternatives. Its better for humanity if we pollute some isolated corner of the Outback or Manitoba rather than the open ocean.
It set off the overheated discussion detector, as mentioned in
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. We watch for those and eventually restore the ones that aren't flamewars.

Would you please stop posting these submissions? Ranty plus meta is a super bad combination for HN.

It's users, btw, who have flagged your posts—not moderators. We're also getting emails complaining about them. I'm sure you're sincerely passionate, but it comes across as trolling.
> So the crux here is the naming of the not-really-self-driving feature

It should be called, ”I’m Feeling Lucky.”
That’s not how antigens work.
They wouldn't do it by building up forces, they would do it by building an airport.

https://nextcity.org/features/view/the-worlds-emptiest-airpo...
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Google created Golang and then created a tool to convert Python2 -> Go.

https://github.com/google/grumpy
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There's nothing implying that Google wants to make a POSIX compliant OS. Why do you think that's important for a Fuchsia type project?

The other huge Google OS (Android) doesn't benefit from POSIX either at all - the POSIX interface isn't even exposed to the user applications.
How do I invest in the companies that are doing this, as an American?
The reason tesla needs to make this kind of statements is very simple: Guy in a renault has this accident and it is just routine, renault won't see their shares fall and there will be next to no coverage of the incident. In the case of tesla any accident gets to the front page of reddit, trends in twitter, is shared in facebook, let alone printed on newspapers, these statements are needed to fight that amount of bad PR.
I don't think it's a stretch.

They even made an actual arcade game for the movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cvErIWbwZI

And the way it shows other characters, especially Q-Bert and Zangief, was hilarious.
I've thought of structuring that by having a Panama company develop and own the IP, and using a US, EU, or Canadian company to do the payment processing, and just pass the revenue through. That company would have no profits, and thus no taxes. I'm hardly an expert though, so I don't know if it would really work.
I have something similar, except it's based on sunrise/sunset. It hooks into my Mac's Night Shift timer to also enable dark mode and a darker color scheme in all my text editors when it's getting close to sunset, and undo it when the sun rises.
This strikes me as one of those ideas that seems so obvious in retrospect but I hadn't thought of. Looks gorgeous, nice work!
Maybe I don't understand exactly what I'm supposed to be listening for, or maybe my ears are bad, but I don't think I can hear the missing fundamental unless it's actually being played.

I also don't quite follow how arbitrary harmonics can result in a specific note--is the idea that if you conjoin any 2 or more harmonics of Note X, their pitch will sound like the pitch of Note X even though it is not technically being played?
How long until she is out on a book and lecture tour, and on new company boards making millions?
Required reading for anyone not familiar with this absolute corporate slavery scam: http://archive.fo/ByJ8X
I wasn't really trying to go down the "what about" route in my comment. I think these companies (and many more) are part of the same issue: collecting so-called "shadow profiles" on non-consenting "customers", and not providing (meaningful) ways to opt out.

As for the article you pointed to: it deals with the fallout of the leak. I want to deal with why were they allowed to collect that information to begin with.
We get it. Theranos is finally suffering through fate it deserved in the first place. Justice is happening. Serious question, is this news or tabloid at this point?
Some of those like span are more of a library or jit features than language things.

There is still a lot to be done to match C++, in the meantime syntax is getting uglier and uglier (I prefer const& to ref readonly). That's the problem when performance is being surfaced into language so late. In my opinion they should focus much more on being able to create zerocost abstractions than they do now.

I'm waiting for a ref read-only that can be exploited for performance by jit. There are lots of things missing for performance like generics specialization or type classes. You have to go through box unbox inside typeof(T)==typeof(int) even though the type is fixed inside the if statement.

I hope that shapes proposal is going to be worked on, however I doubt it's going to happen any time soon.

I hope that c# and jit teams start working on harder things that will help c# dominate performance oriented software engineering in the future.
The tools for analyzing already recorded music is extremely accessible today; especially if you can find stems for the tracks you're interested in (any songs that have appeared in Rock Band or Guitar Hero have stems available if you dig a little or extract them yourself...pretty sure Rush songs have appeared in those games, and certainly something Gadd has appeared on has as well).

You could do that analysis.

Session players often seem superhuman because they've really deeply studied so many styles and genres. They're like world class athletes, in that their lives revolve around playing their instrument flawlessly and with minimal rehearsal time. Some of these famous tracks were done in just a couple of takes, and the session players might play on dozens of tracks for multiple artists in a week. Most rock bands would kill for that kind of efficiency. (And, I'd bet there are session players that'd be able to replicate Peart's style reasonable effectively.)
> I don't follow you, how would a decentralized (and presumably non commercial) alternative be affected by this?

Are you anticipating a specific exemption for non-commercial operations? That hasn't been true historically.

For example, the notice and takedown rules in the DMCA require you to register an agent with the copyright office. There is no good reason for this when you have the info listed right on your site, but it makes a great trap for the unwary for anyone without the resources to hire a lawyer to tell them that, and causes grief for distributed networks where it isn't clear who should have to register and it almost certainly isn't the case that every participant actually has. Because the law came about as a negotiation between the big players with nobody even considering how it would affect small businesses and individuals or network architectures different from the then-dominant ones.

Or the regulatory nightmare in finance that has successfully destroyed a huge number of small nonprofit credit unions, or the medical industry where none shall enter without an entire law firm on retainer, etc.

People have just gotten used to it so they don't see what's missing. The idea that any individual or even pair of individuals could conduct a medical trial in today's environment is quite ridiculous, so nobody expects it to happen and then no one is surprised when it doesn't. But that was once the source of most of the progress in modern medicine before it was de facto prohibited by law.

It may be true that federated systems won't be affected because of a lack of enforcement, but that's cold comfort. Plenty will opt out of a system where they have to break the law in order to operate, even if the law is almost never enforced. And laws that everyone violates but are almost never enforced are inherently dangerous because they give the government a pretext to go after whoever they want for unrelated and pernicious reasons.
There's a Vice on HBO episode where they covered the Chinese practice of "renting a white guy" [1]. I mention it here because in the segment there was a white expat employed to masquerade as a doctor giving presentations on subjects he had zero qualifications for. They used his foreign appearance and language to lend credence to what was being presented, it's a disturbing scene.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jGSerN_1sM&t=14m
So, ∞/2 is a thing?
Yes. Ive never used facebook in my life, yet thanks to someone sharing a picture of me 10 years ago, and tagging it, it knows my name and will auto tag me in others.
> IIRC "shadow profiles" are the profiles Facebook builds of non-users based on data those people didn't share, like their friend's contact lists.

From a development standpoint I clearly defined the 'shadow profile' you just explained.

Facebook provides OpenGraph APIs that app developers can access personal data that is granted by a user. Previously to OpenGraph v2 you could access all friend data and pull down the whole social graph for any friend level shared data through one initial person, those were shadow profiles. For each individual permission you only needed one friend to agree to it if the other friend shared at the privacy defaults of friend access to everything.

That has been shut down at of OpenGraph v2, look back on that time where they added it, lots of scammy sites were mad they couldn't build shadow profiles anymore. I built games on Facebook at the time and this was obvious to many game companies that were just there to collect data on users to sell not about the game. Remember all the birthday apps and zombie infection games? All data syphons. Facebook shut it down back then, not really because of privacy but partly, mostly largely because they were scared other companies were getting access to the whole social graph like many did including Zynga, CA, others.

Were 'shadow users' a problem, yes, but go try to pull friend data or personal messages today, those are unique permissions you have to be granted by each user that you access and for each action, you also have to undergo a Facebook app review and justify use of them like you do with background geolocation on Apple.

Part of this attack on Facebook is to bring in the government filter and firewall [1] as an extension of FOSTA / SESTA and most of these issues are resolved at Facebook already.

If you don't want a government censorship filter [1] that the ISPs and large companies like Facebook will run, then understand that this is opening that can of worms.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2017/04/internet-censorship-is-advanci...

EDIT: for the people arguing details about 'shadow profiles'

> So what is a Facebook shadow profile, and where does yours lurk? [2]

> A Facebook shadow profile is a file that Facebook keeps on you containing data it pulls up from looking at the information that a user’s friends voluntarily provide. [2]

> You’re not supposed to see it, or even know it exists. This collection of information can include phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and other pertinent data about a user that they don’t necessarily put on their public profile. Even if you never gave Facebook your second email address or your home phone number, they may still have it on file, since anyone who uses the “Find My Friends” feature allows Facebook to scan their contacts. So if your friend has your contact info on her phone and uses that feature, Facebook can match your name to that information and add it to your file. [2]

[2] https://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/what-exactly-is-a...
Like storing the passphrase in the hint field...?

Shit happens. Software is hard.
Every scene has a different actor playing Shepard.
> It is as if the brain knows that the harmonics are related to the fundamental in integer multiples, and calculates the fundamental all subconsciously.

Isn't this fundamentally (no pun intended) how overtones work?
That’s interesting because for my use-cases, ridesharing and on-demand car rentals are substitutable goods. Ever since I moved to SF where ridesharing is noticeably more cost effective, I’ve shifted my more towards ride sharing. If prices on car rentals goes down with this Uber deal, I see myself shifting back in the other direction.
I wonder if there are any templates for Saas Products that you could use?
TLOU is basically a movie. I played a few hours and got bored because it felt like I was watching mainly cutscenes with gameplay interspersed. Interesting movie, just not a great game.
Somewhat aside, but the brain having to "flip" visual information because it's "upside down" seems suspect to me. Turn it sideways while maintaining all the connections it has to the rest of the body, and what changes? Is it getting visual information sideways that it has to rotate now? Probably not.
I don't know if 'learning styles' are a thing or not, but I will point out that there are two broad categories. The first, which is often refuted in studies like these, I think of "sensory input" learning styles. The VARK (there are others) are basically, roughly, talking about how we get information into our brains. More or less the five senses.

More interesting to me are a second group, the cognitive learning styles, such as http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/Lea...

These are more about the mental processing that goes on. Are you better at learning one step at a time, or do you need to get the "big picture" before the steps even make sense and are somewhat tractable to you?
I've been reading HN for at least 4 years and I always knew there was some level of bootlicking around the ycombinator stuff but it was easy enough to ignore and move on. I couldn't do that this time.
To me you ignore too much students' responsibilities when it comes to their education. I suppose to you I seem to ignore too much teachers' responsibilities when it come to education. I don’t think that I do. I invest as much time/energy as I can to their learning. But they have to be willing to do some work.

You say it isn’t magic and seem to imply it’s easier than I think it is. Based on my experience I think this is naive. But maybe I’m jaded. Two students this semester told me I’m the best math teacher they ever had. One told me I’m the worst.
:-) I will be sure to be more specific. Actually, I think it is the other way round. All other business units marketing, finance, communication are fairly well understood by everyone. When it comes to IT they don't understand why the DBA seems to earn a big salary but he cannot help fix the MS Word issue. Afterall it is IT. Therein lies the problem.
It would be fine if they weren't hypocrites.

They have zero loyalty yet they demand it from their employees.
My guess is never. I can't imagine any company that would want her on their board.
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Haha - family of 4. Expensive travel hobbies. Too much house. "Fatfire"

https://www.physicianonfire.com/fatfire/
didnt OP say he works for JPMorgan?
The first Mass Effect honestly felt like playing through an interactive movie for me.

How well it would do as a movie is beyond me but it couldn't be any worse plot wise than that terrible Valerian and the whatever 1000 movie that got released last year.
> iTunes on Wine

Abandon all hope...
> This letter and its contents are confidential. We request that you not share or discuss this letter with others, except your attorneys, accountants and other advisors bound by confidentiality obligations. The unauthorized disclosure of this letter could violate the terms of agreements between you and the company, and could additionally depress the amount realizable upon a sale of our assets.

So much for that clause
This whole article is about a fantasy where someone would loan $10M+ more to Theranos or make another investment. Is there any chance of that happening at all?
Dude get real, please. He couldn't dissolve the company even if he wanted to.
That would work, although it might be illegal, depending. Probably not, but IANAL.
Jeez, that damned media again misinforming people. Who could have expected a feature called AUTOPILOT to mean self driving, who?!
...so, finite then?
The road was not a blockbuster, blockbuster video games don't translate to the same level for movies.
Asking as someone less involved in reading about the funding side of starts than probably many of you, can someone explain this quote?

>The most viable option that we have identified to forestall a near-term sale or a potential default under our credit agreement is further investment by one or more of you.

Surely, the company can't in earnest expect any more VC or angel funding after their most recent round of layoffs, right?

Is it common for startups to ask for funding when it's very clear that the company is in such bad shape, with very little chance of recovery?
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I still don't see how this woman is not in federal prison.