skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first few thousands of cars generally go to employees and investors. I don't think anyone buying a new model Tesla in the first year has any illusions about the fact that the car will have many more problems than one a few years into production. What I am hoping is that Tesla models won't have to change dramatically to stay up-to-date and that slow iteration on the vehicles over the years allows for million mile versions to be eventually produced.
The main issue for me, and I'm on the fence, is that the cure is worse than the crime in the majority of cases. Any guilty plea, likely coerced, will result in a permanent record which is searched by all employers and will pretty much remove the chance for gainful employment for 7 years. In some states, this is for life. The only way this would be remotely helpful if it somehow was a "wake up call," totally shocking the person into going straight. I'm not sure how likely this outcome is, but this person wouldn't be able to stay straight for long, because he can only get crap jobs for the next 7 years. No reason to pursue a good career, and the best medicine for a shitty life is more drugs.

The way the punishments for drugs are administered today, it almost guarantees repeat use, because people are set up to fail in life, which leads to despair, which leads to more drug use and eventually more crime.

If not completely legalized, I would be ok with a small citation (like a speeding ticket), no arrest, no criminal record, and free drug counseling (not forced because it would get you fired). I would actually be ok with a robo-call every week nagging for counseling.

The bottom line is the US governments have one tool, and it's a big ass hammer. They aren't capable of learning anything else. Not in my lifetime anyway. Might has well rule the drug war unconstitutional. It's only legal under the dubious and often abused commerce clause. We had to have a constitutional amendment for prohibition and repeal. I don't see how illegal drugs are any different.
Rein in Facebook like we did AT&T
> a key assumption necessary in actually delivering value turned out to be pretty much false (basically we saw almost no adoption amongst users).

I'm leaning out on a limb here, but if this means what I think it means, you have developed some app that tradeshow visitors are asked to install to reap some benefits that don't interest them. If that's kind of what you are doing, pull the plug now. People don't use that kind of thing.
Jason Lemkin recommends giving it 24 months to start a B2B SaaS. B2B SaaS is a long road despite the big splashes sometimes seen like Slack or Intercom.

https://www.saastr.com/if-youre-going-to-do-a-saas-start-up-...

Also watch the CEO of Segment talk about their journey to product market fit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6pl5GG8RQ4
GitLab renders math (via KaTeX iirc):
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/markdown.html#math
We have, in the past, had code that computes the roots of quadratic equations in what appears to be a needlessly complex way. It's deliberately uncommented, and deliberately has an innocuous name.

When a newer employee comes across the code they often "simplify" it using the quadratic formula they know so well, and which they believe always works.

The tests go red.

They roll back and look to try to understand. Eventually they either work it out, or they come and ask for advice. We work through the test case with them, and point out just how important it is that:

* There are tests;

* Routines have useful and enlightening names;

* If the code is complex, there's probably a reason, although not always;

* Sometimes a comment might be useful.

It's proven to be a really useful learning experience, and gets people up to speed very quickly with things. It's then left again as a learning experience waiting to happen.

Of course, this can only work in a culture where people work constructively to understand what's going on, and support each other - a place where it's OK to say that you don't understand something, and know that others will work with you. I've been in places where this wouldn't work.

All in all, I've been lucky.

The tests, by the way, only have a moderate size b, but have a very small a. In this way b^2-4ac is very close to b, so one of the solution paths is subtracting nearly equal quantities, getting small rubbish. But then you go on to divide by a very small number, giving big rubbish.

The geometric interpretation is that the parabola is very, very flat, so if you move it even the tiniest amount up or down the roots move very far, very fast.

It's a useful example - my thanks to johndcook for the write-up.
They’re not talking about the mechanical operation of the car, it’s things like gap consistency between doors and the frames.
This is slightly off topic, but I have noticed that about half the time on HC when someone says contact me that they have no contact details in their profile.
Nope, actual rejections that had to be called in and confirmed.
> it also prevents citizens from voting

It is widely believed, and I think established by White House recordings, that Nixon established the War on Drugs to attack people he didn't like: Hippies and blacks.

I believe that in public affairs and politics, the way to evaluate and act is to look at the (expected) outcomes and to ignore all the rhetoric. First, the outcomes are what matters and there's not a high correlation with the claims made ahead of time. Second, politicians are sophisticated enough to know what the outcomes will be; I think it's reasonable to assume that they know what is going to happen.
One argument would be that by legalizing these drugs, it's much easier to offer treatment and addiction therapy. Users are less likely to get help when their habit is illegal, and the stigma around illegal activities makes citizens less willing to fund social programs that might help because they view it as helping criminals who don't deserve their hard earned tax money.
While I understand the sentiment of learning by building, would it be appropriate to build a large software system in such a manner?
> antirez doesn't seem to be completely against merging it

First-hand report from the impromptu Friday post-conf devmeet: he's gonna merge it! ;)
That's what sensory deprivation tanks are for. As the brain is a constant pattern-matcher and input-filter, depriving it of fresh inputs seems to turn it a bit hallucinatory, it starts to make up stuff (could be described as boredom, perhaps?). Feynman seemed to enjoy the experience somewhat (described in "Surely you're joking, mr Feynman").

Of course, every person's experience could be unique and different.
> I don't think that a reasonable argument could be made for legalizing meth or heroin

Do you literally mean this? That all the arguments in favor of legalizing heroin are unreasonable? I'm curious to hear what you think is unreasonable about, for example, Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It by Jim Gray or Drug Crazy by (unrelated) Mike Gray.

It's hard for me to understand the position of prohibition of (especially the more dangerous) drugs, but it's very hard for me to imagine how you find these positions unreasonable.

Here's a talk advocating legalizing all drugs which I think is something like the definition of reasonableness (15 years old - it feels a little dated now, but still good stuff): https://youtu.be/xEC2IK4piwI?t=5067
Indeed, all the examples appear to be showing datasets that would benefit from good data visualisation and in some cases dimension reduction, but all of them are terribly represented. I don't think this necessarily a problem with the library, but the examples certainly do not exemplify good visualisation of high-dimensional data.
Can anyone recommend a good classical playlist on Spotify?
Legalised doesn't necessarily mean "sold in shops".

meth and heroin are destructive. But illegal meth and heroin are more destructive than a medically supplied legal form.
If the tax is high enough, it encourages organized crime to form a black or gray market, as is the case for cigarettes in the US, which are smuggled and sold on the black market.

This results in a quasi-prohibition which has many of the same downsides as full-on prohibition, such as the enabling and funding of organized crime, people getting killed or thrown in jail, and other types of violence.

Though the profit margin for smuggled soft drinks is likely to remain too low for organized crime to bother getting involved, I'm not convinced it's the right way forward compared to voluntary, education- and health-based approaches.

On the other hand, I am in favor of the $0.10 charge for plastic and paper bags in California, where lots of people often bring their own reusable bags rather than pay the fee for a disposable bag. Perhaps a reasonable surcharge on soft drinks could make a difference to overall public health.
This is the part I'm wondering about - my uncle died of a malignant brain tumor recently. I wonder if it would be possible to use a technique like this to transplant parts of a healthy donor brain to his brain. I read about two being done on wikipedia but it seems like something that is largely out of reach for now.
Incidentally, that's what "Holocaust" means, and why many instead use the word "Shoah."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_the_Holocaust

> The word "holocaust" originally derived from the Greek word holokauston, meaning "a completely (holos) burnt (kaustos) sacrificial offering," or "a burnt sacrifice offered to a god."

> In Judaism, Shoah (שואה), meaning "calamity" in Hebrew, became the standard term for the 20th century Holocaust[2] (see Yom HaShoah). This is because 'Holocaust' connotes a sacrifice, and Jewish leaders argue there was no sacrifice.
Sounds like more of a culture problem, and no software can help with that.
>Also watch the CEO of Segment talk about their journey to product market fit.

this is exactly the lecture that crystallized for me the problems i'm facing (i watched it last sunday). we (full-timers) have no product market fit and we (advisors/investors) are simply plowing ahead (and have been for months) trying to figure out whether that's actually the case or whether we're simply failing as novice entrepreneurs (bad at sales, bad at messaging, etc.)
You have my attention!
I do notice no Google names, though. Google has tended to favor Nature in the past, e.g. AlphaGo went there instead of to an open-access ML journal. Of course regular Nature has an established level of prestige that this new Nature spinoff doesn't yet. So it'll be interesting to see which way they go on it.
Sorry, I don't "use" HN for flamewars. And just to be sure I checked several pages worth of my comments just now, after all I could be misremembering.

I also don't recall being "warned" about this "repeatedly".

I do try to correct gross misinformation. With facts and figures.
Add scribus to that list as well. And Darktable. Immensely useful things.
Your chemistry is scarily bad, are you trolling? When elements combine into molecules the result often behaves very differently from the components.

> Basically if someone says they are allergic to MSG, but not allergic to all of the other foods that contain glutamate, is like someone saying they're allergic to table salt, but not allergic to all of the other foods that contain sodium, which is not medically plausible.

OK, so how come I can eat table salt but chlorine alone will kill me?

Go back and complete that chem 100 course
Find something you actually believe in working on, or go make money (regular job)

Those are the two options everyone always has. If you're not doing one or the other, I don't know what the hell it is that you're doing at all, and sounds like neither do you.

A more meta point - you need to know what your life is about, instead of going by what's 'responsible', or whatever else. You need to know what it is you're doing with your life, then you won't be in emotional turmoil, because there won't be success or failure, just steps along the path.
Good visualisation of high dimensional data is almost all about the mental model and mapping of dimensions, barely ever about the library. ggplot2 is excellent for displaying high dimensional data in R if you can reason well about your own data. If you can't, no library is going to save you.
I meant legalizing the sale of the drug, not usage. I don't think addicts should be considered criminals.
> And before anyone brings up the straw man of "he profited"... on 25c per disc?

Sorry, I could not find any resource where it says that he was profiting 25c per disc. I have found some others stating that he would be covering his expenses if he were to sell them for 25c each, and then the blog post from Microsoft states that he was selling them for $3.5 each. It really makes more sense that each disc costs 25c when mass-duplicated in China, than $3.25.

You already have already shunned this argument with your "straw man" talk. Would be a shame to step back just because you've laid that trap-threat to whoever replies. Here it goes: From what I've found, I'd say he profits $3.25 per disc and not 25c. The blog post from Microsoft also states that he made a revenue of $92,000 from this counterfeiting business. Here comes your straw man: $92,000 * ($3.25 / $3.50), approximately $85.500 is what he profited.

I don't know how much an average HN user is gaining, but that is a lot of money for me.

The argument on him being a selfless recycler is impossible to believe in, as the evidence shows that he labelled those discs to look like original Dell recovery discs. This leaves us either nothing but him being an "idiot with delusions of grandeur" as you've said, or he really was simply just making money out of this.
The average entering MBA student is 28 years old the top universities.

23 year MBAs probably went to an no-name online degree program
I think you can really benefit from HN advice on your actual product. Want to link to your website/landing page here?
That’s a really narrow view of the world by someone that’s probably never sold to business. MS products worked exactly the way people who were paid for them care they worked.
In that case move onto something else. Unless the side with the problem can force the other side to use your product then you don't have a viable business.
The trouble is that we treat all drugs and addiction as a crime. At least in the US, treatment options for opiad addictions are stupid expensive. Only rich people go to rehab. The normal person can't shell out that money or take that time off work.

America needs to have better treatment programs and options for people who want them, and less stigma from punishment and less funding for private for-profit prisons.

A good case study is probably Portugal. I heard a speaker tell an audience that if you are caught with serious drugs in Portugal, you go before a board, and basically lay our your life before them. They then give you required next steps; treatment options or whatever. But if you're supporting your family, paying your bills, have no debt you're not paying on to buy drugs, then they might just tell you to come back in six months. It's a case-by-case individual approach from what I understand.

Other alternatives are safe injection houses. If you're going to inject, at least have a safe place with clean needles and nurses who are there if something goes wrong or you finally decide you want to quit.
> I'm interested in knowing how much of my file and URL history is being sent to MS.

If you use Edge it was already able to send browsing history to MS. This is by default, IIRC, it tried to convince me I wanted it last time I setup a win10 box.

https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edg...
you're very close and

>People don't use that kind of thing.

is exactly one of the key hypotheses that needed validation/falsification. what we are facing now is whether we really falsified it given poor marketing/education on the part of the organizer.
Scalyr CEO here. I'd love to hear more about how you're thinking about attack surfaces – drop me a line? My email address is in my profile.
Meth is legal. It's a prescription drug in most of the world, e.g. Desoxyn in the US. Heroin is a prescription pain killer in the UK and several other countries.

Many of the most notable destructive aspects of drugs come from impure and unknown products, gang/cartel distribution, and treating drug abuse as a crime rather than a disease.
Computers in North Korea run on look-alike Mac software called 'Red Star 3.0'
And they almost blocked Google's push services.
As of now, they appear to have reverted to point bans, and unbanned almost 3 million of Amazon's addresses.

But some 17 million (!!) is still banned.
Thanks, it means a lot!
Well I already use ggplot. I'm not sure ggplot does 3D much....
About the reasoning, well who knows.
Perhaps you're not enjoying the work, or you're burned out because you're working too hard. Take a step back and think about WHY you want to quit NOW.

Keep asking yourself why, why, why, and find what is the real root cause. Do you want to do something else? Are the failures you've had demoralizing? Do you think it's impossible to fix the product? Is your market smaller than initially expected?
> I bought a book on the topic by Ken Forkish "Flour water salt yeast", and I've fallen in love with the process.

Does this book actually have a process that makes a "fluffy" interior like the baguettes and boules I can get everywhere in France?

Normally, my bread excursions always come up what I term "artisanal"--nice flavor, but kinda "chewy". I have no idea what I need to change to fix that, and I can't seem to find anybody who does.

I would even be happy making "Ye Maligned Plain White Sandwich Bread" just to know the process as I could probably figure out what the differences are. But I can't seem to find anybody who can tell me how to do that either.
Inferring the most generic type in the presence of polymorphic recursion is not decidable. It's not that HM has a problem with it, it's just plain not possible.

OCaml and Haskell support it by requiring type annotations.

In general, polymorphic recursion is occasionally useful for some specific data structures (see Okasaki's purely functional datastructures for some examples) and when playing with GADTs.
Maybe that would feel to much like playing on your own, and not seem very fun. If you could give each “player” an indentifiable characteristic it might be bring out some weird psychologycal effects. Either something kind of abstract like red v blue, or something more anthropomorphic like boy v girl.
“The thinking that guides us is: what can we do to pleasantly surprise players? It’s not that we’re consciously trying to innovate; we’re trying to find ways to make people happy. The result is that we come up with things other people have not done.”

Love this. Focuses you without restricting what you’re doing. We have a now 10 year old app/social community that we’ve been trying for several years to grow/innovate. In past years, we focused on growing revenue, which we needed to do to pay the bills. It helped some but not as we expected. Recently we decided to double down on our product, innovating our community and app to try help users. I really like the concept of “pleasantly surprising” our users. Will be putting that into play.
This is a lot of fun.

Why are some of the choice buttons colored in the easy quiz? Sometimes it seemed like a hint, sometimes just random.
Client-side is not really feasible (emscripten TeX has been done, but the packages to load are just too huge...).

Server-side, https://tex.s2cms.com/ does a nice job and outputs svg; https://upmath.me/ by same author is markdown editor integrating it - see tikz examples there.
Show HN: This – standardized project tool for running common tasks
Anybody who studied in Yeshiva (Jewish religious school) knows that almost all of the kids have glasses. It could be a combination of causes rather than just one. I a yeshiva people study from books from the moment they wake up until they go to sleep. So it might be the combination of reading all day and not doing any outside activity together that cause this problem.
I can't see anything in the tutorials or examples that makes this a good library for visualisation of high-dimensional data. It seems somewhat equivalent to base graphics in R, which is much less useful for visualising high-dimensional data than anything based on Wilkinson's grammar of graphics, like ggplot2 in R.
The Wikipedia article on this is remarkably balanced, with arguments on both sides: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arguments_for_and_against_drug...

In general I believe that there exists a healthier balance towards decriminalization than what currently exists in most states (particularly due to how criminal rehabilitation is treated by society), but that full and absolute legalization of all drugs would cause more problems than it would solve.
If you present an example of high-dimensional data I'd be happy to help you reason about how to visualise it (although this is perhaps better suited to StackExchange).

edit: if you feel you need 3D, you've already failed to represent the data clearly
https://github.com/ezelikman/Context-Is-Everything
The code will be posted here when available!
I feel like every week I get another reason to turn JS off.

Really says a lot doesn’t it.
French spying agency tapping Australia’s communications
We know that, but employers are looking for React.js developers, not Software Engineer Architect. Whatever you like it or not you need to have a relevant tech on your CV.
>heroin, for example. They're just too destructive/deadly

How is heroin inherently destructive/deadly? Most of it's problems seem to stem from its illegality.
I think the conviction rates and arrest rates should be entered into evidence in this argument. Compare them with various other studies about marijuana usage and you'll find whites, blacks and Latinos use marijuana in pretty much the same rates.

And to be fair, a drug arrest if you're white is no cakewalk. You need a good lawyer and money, and even then you'll be doing a shit ton of community service.

I'd like to see more studies showing these types of arrest/convictions by income. I have a feeling being poor (and being stuck with a public defender) plays a bigger role in drug crimes. There are more poor minorities, but that's a bigger causality issue that's considerably more complex.
> The average entering MBA student is 28 years old the top universities.

That sounds about right for the mean, with the median a few years younger, and then a smattering spread out of a larger range above the median than below.

> 23 year MBAs probably went to an no-name online degree program

No, they are probably younger tier, direct entry from undergrad students at conventional insitutions. No name online MBAs Target mid-career people, and are probably much older.
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https://open.spotify.com/user/mluby/playlist/2N8jJpqY5hf9hqp...

I'd suggest finding one that shows the name of the composer as artist rather than the performing orchestra.
It seems like you have had some progress but lack strategy, or a vision - ie what is your business here to solve. So instead you are placing lots of bets to see what works.

Look up the EOS methodology, or read the book Traction by Gabriel Weinberg, it’s a good read with lots of helpful tools.

Ultimately if you like your team, want to do something to change the world, have the support of your backers, perhaps do some services consulting and sell your time for money.

This approach will give you income, and at the same time you can start noticing problems in your clients you can help them solve with a product.

It’s the easiest way to get started, and the revenue provides you a longer runway. The client logo’s and case studies help with your credibility too.