skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Empirically, what other US car company is making as big of a difference in greening transport?

No car company, particularly in the US, is in even the same league as Tesla when it comes to advancing electric cars. “Oh, but it’s just a niche”... the Model 3 is already outselling the Bolt, and the Model 3 has a lower base price and is just at the beginning of the ramp up curve.

It doesn’t have to be this way. Other car makers are perfectly capable of building EVs & the associated infrastructure. Musk isn’t magic, but empirically no one else really seems to care. So of course people just tear down the only company actually doing something significant here, because modern intellectual discourse is primarily about “deconstruction” and cynicism.
Model S and Model X batteries last even longer than we thought
SOMA isn't fogged in like other areas of the city (ex. Sutro Tower and other areas), so not sure it will be a thing. There is some fog in SOMA, but usually not the thick blanketing kind.
One problem is the world has layered effects of bias.

Imagine a simple system where people are only evaluated for credit cards and mortgages, and businesses can only offer one of these services. Some people are systematically denied credit cards. Now they have to have more cash for daily needs, which makes them objectively worse as home owners, so the mortgage loaners pick up on this fact and start systematically denying them mortgages.

There's no business opportunity here. For either lender, the prospects in this group are worse, only because the other lenders think so. Breaking the barricade is much harder than just starting a new lender or either type.
Did you re-design the UI, or just re-implement the same UI as native widgets?
That's what happens when you use a centralized service, especially if it's state approved.
It happened in a lot of cities nationwide, from what I understand. Didn't know about Detroit, but am not surprised. I think possibly the fact has even been established that it was the result of a, well I'm tempted to use the word conspiracy, but let's say "effort," of Standard Oil, Firestone Tires and Ford, but don't quote me on that.

A lot of places felt the need to take the suspiciously over-enthusiastic step of burning the trolley cars... ostensibly to strip the wood & recover the scrap metal.
From observing non-techy people it's because of intent. When you go to YouTube or Pandora or whatever you intend to make your phone make noise. When you follow a random link from your Facebook news feed on to an unknown website with a 'funny' article you don't. This is why autoplay videos are now blocked from playing audio as well.

This can't be resolved with a confirmation dialog as people don't read those either.

I do hope Apple add support for PWAs in the future, though perhaps with some very guarded APIs available to avoid exfiltration of contact lists and excessive background work etc.
There has been a lot of construction of the same style going on in the last few years. Here are 14 new buildings coming up - https://sf.curbed.com/maps/san-francisco-high-rise-map-2018 - all of them with the new glass look. The skyline is going to change fast.
Person X works hard to get that raise, promotion, bonus, whatever to build a better life for themselves and their family. Not so it can be siphoned away by person Y sneakily charging them more. All dynamic pricing of this kind should be forced to be transparent. Display the real price alongside the custom one they want to charge you.
This is completely false and has been debunked countless times. Your telemetry data is no where near as invasive as what Facebook or Google does.
That is probably the exact opposite of what you really want. If the problem is that someone's name is Bob and the AI thinks Bobs are evil, what you want is for there to be 100,000 other factors for Bob to show the system that it isn't so, as many factors as possible, so that the one it gets wrong will have a very low weight.

You don't understand. My point is that institutions making such decision should not be able to make decisions according to these 100,000 unexplained factors. If you're a lender, you can look at employment history, records of payment and other objective related criteria. You can't look at, say, eye color, however useful you might think it is. Institutions should be able make these decisions arbitrarily, at the level that they effect lives. There should legal provisions for auditing these things (as there are, on occasions, provisions of auditing affirmative action, environmental protection behaviors, insurance decisions, etc).
I have no idea what you are talking about. People that buy crypto currencies are exchanging money for digital rights (which some believe are better forms of money). How that relates to you stealing $100 from me is beyond my comprehension.

People that hold USD have their pie diluted, and they are even lied to about it by using a CPI figured calculated from consumer goods and not a more rounded figure of all asset prices (or actual new money injected/ removed).
You can choose to not use the internet, but that's probably akin to choosing to living in another country to avoid registering for the secret service.
France’s government is building its own encrypted messenger service
I don’t need to Google it, I’m well aware. Part of why I said what I did.
I agree with you that this creates a new attack vector. I understand Microsoft is doing some research in the area of IoT device security. This paper describes an interesting approach [1]. It seems there is an eye towards compromised devices (from the fourth page):

"Highly secure devices have renewable security. A device with renewable security can update to a more
secure state automatically even after the device has been compromised. Security threats evolve and
attackers discover new attack vectors. To counter emerging threats, device security must be renewed
regularly. In extreme cases, when compartments and layers of a device are compromised by zero-day
exploits, lower layers must rebuild and renew the security of higher levels of the system. Remote
attestation and rollback protections guarantee that once renewed, a device cannot be reverted to a
known vulnerable state. A device without renewable security is a crisis waiting to happen."

1: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

n.b.: MSFT employee, not associated with above work

e: hmm, I realized that the IoT linux offering is actually paired with the MediaTek chip announcement. I guess this is the product incarnation of the technology from the paper?
Ask HN: https://hackerne.ws not working
I always just go to https://hackerne.ws because I forget the Hacker News URL. Just recently I noticed hackerne.ws isn’t returning anything. It does receive pings, so does it need a fix somewhere?
Calling currently existing models AI is no different than calling a Model T a car. It being more primitive than what may exist in the future is of little consequence to the public dealing with the consequences of AI today.

AI can only learn from the data it has, so it will always carry some sort of bias, because it is impossible to collect the nuance of every last bit of context into a digestible data format. At best it's an advisor, but it should never be a decision-maker.
> Making a mistake doesn't revoke someone's property rights.

This is a non-sequitur, nobody is saying anything about anyone's property rights being revoked.

The teen asked for access, and the content owners, via the permissions they had configured, granted it. Sure they can later decide that this was a mistake, but that doesn't make it theft for the teen to have asked for access.
I don't have much knowledge on this, but in your (or someone else's) opinion, how does this compare to HackerRank[0]? Would you say these problems are easier, on-par, or more difficult than HackerRank problems[1]?

[0] https://www.hackerrank.com

[1] https://www.hackerrank.com/domains/algorithms
So, I guess Linus super-wins?
Russia just put the pressure on Amazon and Google. They are basically forced to decide between keeping one customer or to have other services blocked too. So its actually a smart (sadistic) move in a power game, by Russia.
I normally only use Linux, and when I've used Windows it has only been as a user, not an administrator. I'd prefer that people didn't ask me to help with Windows problems, since I'm obviously not an expert, but bizarrely many Windows users seem to know even less.
And then Linus would fork it, and everyone would follow his fork instead of Microsoft's.
What has more concentration of power, monarchies or representational democracies?

I'm suggesting that we can create a new form of governing that further decentralizes power.
Enterprise edition is almost the same as Pro. I use it as a labo PC for free. After expire, I reinstall.
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6278/1196
> Poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) is used extensively worldwide in plastic products, and its accumulation in the environment has become a global concern. Because the ability to enzymatically degrade PET has been thought to be limited to a few fungal species, biodegradation is not yet a viable remediation or recycling strategy. By screening natural microbial communities exposed to PET in the environment, we isolated a novel bacterium, Ideonella sakaiensis 201-F6, that is able to use PET as its major energy and carbon source. When grown on PET, this strain produces two enzymes capable of hydrolyzing PET and the reaction intermediate, mono(2-hydroxyethyl) terephthalic acid. Both enzymes are required to enzymatically convert PET efficiently into its two environmentally benign monomers, terephthalic acid and ethylene glycol.
I went through the stats for those above as well. I used the Pixel because it's by far more prevalent than any other Facebook-hosted stuff (plugins etc).
I think it’s just a branding thing. Notice how e.g. the app is named “Google Chrome” (but not “Mozilla Firefox”).
Where in Europe would the reaction be anywhere near as negative as in the countries listed above?
We’re mostly talking about large comp packages here, and I’m guessing they all vest over 4 years? I’m not saying devs are particularly pampered, just that there’s no comparison with the warehouse workers.
Windows doesn't have apt-get of course.

It has an app store, and it has an installable package manager - https://chocolatey.org/
> Don’t make me pay you to make my app available to your users. My app enriches your platform. Without good apps, your platform will be abandoned.

> Google asked for a token $25 one-time fee. Probably to avoid spammers and decrease truly junk apps from entering the store

So he found an excuse for google to do it, but somehow Apple is evil when they do the same?
You can't really build stations any other way. New York is way too expensive to buy property alongside the road as an access shaft, and in any case you need to be able to access both tracks from any given entrance. So either you have an island platform directly under the middle of the street or two side platforms on either side, both of which would need a connecting passageway the width of the street, from street to platform.
100% agreed. Somebody elsewhere in this thread just did the "blame the user" thing again just now:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16854568

Blaming the user only works (for some value of "works") in a situation where a power relationship constrains the user. E.g., we've all seen customer service agents dealing with shitty in-house software. They can't easily quit, so they will just accept being told they're "doing it wrong".

But that doesn't fly when the user can easily make other choices. People who get blamed for "not doing enough research" when they have trouble using Bitcoin will probably not work harder. They'll just go back to using credit cards and Paypal and Venmo, which a) work much better, and b) have people who are trying hard to make that work well for them. People whose Bitcoins get stolen mostly aren't going to go and become security experts. They're going to use existing methods, which they generally understand how to secure, and which often have security and anti-theft measures built in.

Sure, they may pay a little more in transaction fees. (Although those fees are often hidden, so they may not notice.) But in effect, those fees are buying insurance. They're buying security teams. They're buying user interface designers who work hard to make things easy. For many people, that's worth it.
Netflix Proves It Can Raise Prices Without Losing Customers
OK, now explain how OpenAI and Neuralink fits in.
How is that bizarre? One of the main selling points of Windows is that you don't have to be a mechanic to drive the car.

It still baffles me that people see that as a negative. "Any fool can use a GUI". Yes, that's .. that's why GUIs are popular. They make things easier to use without having to know the details behind them.
It's not like he was already paid that, he only gets paid that if the company hits incredibly aggressive milestones that would render that amount a rounding error.
If you didn't know Microsoft used to have its own version of Unix a long time ago: Xenix. Never seen it personally though, my first experience with PC was MSDOS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix
how is this better than pgp? what does it do that keybase can't already do?
To be fair, judah said "going to Apple.com and clicking Mac shows me the base model for $4999.00"

Doing what he said takes me to:

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/imac-pro

On which the only computer I see without scrolling is the Mac Pro. My UI design friends constantly tell me anything "below the fold" may as well be invisible.

Clicking the "Buy >" button takes me to

27-inch Retina 5K 5120-by-2880 P3 display

$4,999.00

I know there are other options, but that's the default path for a naive user wanting to buy a mac from apple.com.

I hope casual users don't end up following that path often!
I'm sorry, but I have a hard time believing that. My university had a decent CS program, but not top 10 or anything. You wouldn't be able to get past the required intro to CS class without knowing how to code fizzbuzz, much less move on to the later courses. Unless the students you're talking about cheated on every assignment and test, in every class.
How the APNIC password hash leak was discovered
> That is probably the exact opposite of what you really want.

No, it really isn't. In an ideal world, the reasons behind a decision are transparent, auditable, understandable, and appealable. Machine learning is none of those.
I am sure Facebook looked at today's internet discourse and thought - If whatabout-ism works for every discussion out there, why not us? Hence, they asked -
What about Google?
What about Twitter?
They just dint go the full mile and asked -
What about Amazon?
What about those emails?
What about "world peace"?

But, whatabout-ism misses an important point - we cannot get everything all at once. Everything happens one step at a time.
You would be shocked. Truly.
For those who don't have time for a 10 minute podcast every day, "Hacker News Daily" lists top 10 ranked stories from HN every day: http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/ Obviously, it will not be as curated or opinionated as the podcast.
My touch bar 15” MBP keyboard was replaced on site (took about 2 hours) at the Portland, OR Apple Store.
Ah, but without the 24x7 hype cycle, the media cannot feed addiction to media.
I think the lock in effect of social networks is orthohonal to monetarisation model. It is difficult for social media startups to succeed regardless of how they (or facebook) make money.
You can run an x client just fine, with any Windows x server running on the host, just as you would with x forwarding. It's not perfect but it does work.
Visualising Australia at low tide and high tide
What the fuck is this comment? Seems excessively shill-like. Oh... I just remembered why I stopped coming here.
Not sure about your questions, sorry. Perhaps try asking on reddit.com/r/askdrugnerds. And a minor correction to your comment: The ~0.35 is showing standardized mean difference which is more a measure of how much it reduces someone's depression by, as opposed to what you're asking about which is about what % of people respond to a given treatment.
> So... do you need a laptop for that or an eReader?

Interactive learning is critical, and I'm some cases superior to passive learning. An interactive device can become passive, but not so much the contrary.

> but until we know how to properly introduce computers into the classroom as a general purpose educational device

1. We can only know how they can be used in the third world by giving them to the third world. Any lessons learned with first world children are not obviously transferrable. This is a big problem with a lot of research in psych.

2. You're assuming the third world kids getting these, or who would most benefit, are already learning in a classroom. I see no reason to accept that assumption. Seems to me, the ones who benefit even more are those who have little to no access to consistent education, so your objection does not apply.
Low power is relative: NT is good at saving battery on laptops, but these are supercomputers compared to IoT hardware. The most minimal NT system that I have seen so far was still 50MB. Not sure if MS was able to shrink that further. But in a world where every byte of flash or RAm saved can lead to essential power savings, this is far too big. With a custom linux kernel with no extra drivers and modules and busybox in userspace, you can get much smaller than 50MB.
Very few of those places built the airport extension first, or spent the entire bank account on just the airport extension. Given limited dollars, airports are at best a middling concern.
I'm curious about your thoughts on https://github.com/denschub/schubio/blob/master/_posts/2018-... and https://github.com/denschub/schubio/blob/master/_posts/2018-... specifically. As someone who is new to both the Diaspora* and ActivityPub protocols, the Diaspora* patterns of publishing messages seem to be much easier for me to reason about particularly for semi-private FB-esque social networks (as opposed to mostly public social networks akin to Twitter or Youtube comments). My reactions echo what is mentioned in those links, but maybe I'm just thinking about it wrong.
Yes, there is no coercion involved whatsoever when your choices are working for pennies or being homeless, hungry, in prison, or on the streets.

The only difference is that the modern slave owners are smarter and so they use a form of coercion that is more efficient. That is the only advance they have made past the plantation.
Is this a 'fork' of an ARM/MediaTek chip?

I'm currently on the Espressif platform for our stack.

How does it compare overall and in terms of security?
Mark Zuckerberg said yes, but he doesn't call the data a shadow profile [1].

With apologies to Shakespear:

"What's in a name? That which we call a shadow profile
By any other word would smell as repugnant;"

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/baig/2018/04/1...
Maps with React Native, Rails, and PostgreSQL
The main factor is mode, not behaviour. The point is: the probability of paychological trauma involuntarily caused to others is much higher on a bike than on a car, regardless of behaviour. Seatbelts and other minimum driver safety are obligatory for the same reason.
What if you are using a smart IDE like editor that, for instance, minimizes and concatenates your css and js files?

It’s going to want access to all files in that directory, not only the ones you are editing.
Either way, they're delicious and I'm glad people are throwing them there.
Ask HN: A month to learn a new programming language
I find myself with one month of free time between jobs and I've decided that I want to learn a new programming language and implement a small ray tracer in this.

I'm familiar with imperative and OO programming models, so I was thinking to dive into something completely new to me like Standard ML, Ocaml or Haskell.

I would love to hear your suggestions about what new programming language to learn (as long as it is not a paradigm that I'm already familiar with).

Thanks
Finally, a succint, pithy explanation.

This is great. Makes me want to use it.
It was kind of ok.

That is how I learned UNIX back in the day.

As anecdote, given the UNIX prices even for PCs, the teacher would carry a PC with Xenix into our lab and then each group would have about 20 minute turns to test what was already prepared typing on MS-DOS.

This is why getting a C compiler for MS-DOS mattered to many of us, we wanted to maximize our slot as much as possible, it wasn't about its qualities.
$1 towards government services is still a $1 of non-subsidy not being collected somewhere else.

Realistically speaking, who is making leisure or business trips where a few dollars is a major concern?
It's on a slower update ring and only gets security updates, not feature updates.

Sounds fine to me.
WCA’s Time Critical network members receive validation – Supply Chain
> The free market and users are completely capable of choosing quality apps

You should get your ideology out of the way. Apple's customers generally expect Apple to curate its App Store and expect Apple to not allow malware in its App Store. This is true for Google Play and the MS Store, except that they are in a poorer position to demand greater scrutiny for its developers, and are lousier app stores for it.

TL;DR: an app store is not a government, it is more like a mall: its patrons expect it to exercise some oversight ensuring that its vendors don't sell lemons.
The problem is that there is little remaining rail capacity into New York as it is and it would almost certainly be more productively used for commuters rather than occasional travelers.
At what quality settings?
It's heartening to see that the Chinese public will not stand for homophobia. Countries that look to China as a model (looking at you Russia) should take note.
There's a big difference between $25 one-off and $99 per year. I make a niche app that gets about $20-$50 per year in sales. I'm not interested in making money on it, but it would not be worth my while developing such an app for iOS. OTOH, I've made back my $25 Play store fees and can now make my app free.
I think the key element missing here is the lack of infrastructure to support technology. I wonder if this would have been more successful if coupled with something like Project Loon.
Let's get it straight, machine learning models cannot reason anything. They follow the rules and data supplied. They cannot recognise in any way that the rules by which they operate or the data they are supplied with are or are not reasonable.

Much as there is much hype about AI and machine learning technologies, all of such systems will be, for the foreseeable future, very simplistic models of what we think we know of intelligence.

As humans, we have blindly forgotten that we know very little about the world around us, including ourselves. We think that we have a handle on reality, but we are just plain ignorant. All the models that we have for deep learning and AI or GAI are barely scratching the surface of what "intelligence" is and means.

We may get some useful tools as a result of the research being undertaken today and what we have undertaken over the last lot of decades. But we have millenia to go before we even scratch the surface of what we understand of the universe around us, let alone understand what intelligence means.
JFK is actually even easier, in that you have LIRR trains departing from Jamaica to Penn Station (and in the future, Grand Central) every few minutes at nearly all hours of the day, and the transfer is a single elevator ride. You can be in Manhattan within 35 minutes of leaving the terminal.
Some back of the napkin calculation that I made some months ago, hopefully still useful to think about where the Boring Company is going : https://medium.com/the-naked-founder/elon-musks-boring-compa...