skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> backed by a team surely comprised of at least hundreds of top Amazon engineers, was so slow and inaccurate.

You'd be surprised. Many many AWS services are launched by a single 2-pizza team (8-10 developers). It's in Amazon's DNA to act like a startup, ship something quickly, collect feedback, then iterate, and scale.

Rekognition will get much better in time.
I only want one if it can expel the solid wall of light behind it.
Was curious if the OPA acronym for the project is an allusion to a often used word among Greeks.. an exclamation during celebration or when lighting this deep fried goat cheese called saganaki after it's been sprayed with alcohol.

Technically asking a question about the authors is a project question, so I'm not sure why I got downvoted :/.
Hey! The Tap is made with soft-touch TPU and it looks more like rings than brass knuckles. If an officer did ask to see it, they would be more interested than concerned.
> vehicles are taxed based on weight- a 1 ton pickup will cost more each year to register than a compact car or motorcycle

An F-350 is 3.7 tons.

Two problems with this
1) It's unlikely to be proportional to road damage - if a 1 ton vehicle that costs $100 to register, a 2 ton vehicle should cost $1600, and a 4 ton vehicle should cost $25k.
2) It doesn't take into account mileage. Own a heavy truck that you use on your own land, and do about 1,000 miles a year on the road, and you pay the same as someone that has the same truck but does 50,000 miles a year commuting.

The odometer idea elsewhere in the thread probably works well for the U.S, just have a website to post your mileage when you drive into mexico/canada, and again on the way back, with spotchecks at the border. People who do significant mileage on their own land will be annoyed, but they currently pay gas tax on that mileage
Facebook's Zuckerberg apologizes to EU lawmakers over data leak
Can someone create a bodycam sophisticated enough to let the police know if a suspect is wielding a weapon or not?
It's doubtful that state changes are the bottleneck for application performance, for most applications. Rendering and managing the lifecycle of your components usually yields much more tangible perf. gains.
It is not just that aggressive selling. For years and large databases, Oracle database was better then MySQL for years. It was expensive, but came with better tools, had better performance on large data (including when queries were badly written as many of them are), reporting and what not. None of it matters for smaller projects, but it did mattered for larger projects and in particular for large projects under time pressure. I have worked with all three, MySQL/Oracle/Mssql and imo, "MySQL is going to put Oracle out of business" was largely wishful thinking.

Once you take "open source is better then proprietary software" as an axiom, then it is easy to ignore weaknesses of whatever open source alternative is there now or claim them irrelevant.
Recently I was in a late 1800's home in Denver. From the outside it doesn't look mansion-like huge, but it was huge. It had over a dozen rooms, and long since renovated "servant's quarters".

Hindsight isn't really 20/20, is it? I look back on that era and think how blatantly racist and classist it was. But in contrast to today's segregation based on race and class, all we've done is move the servants out of the homes they serve, put them on public transit, and make them live 50 miles away. It's just feudalism vs a kind of neo-feudalism.

And meritocracy in practice is different than meritocracy as an ideal. Perhaps Vulcans have the extreme discipline required to actually adhere to a strict system of merit. But humans do not. Anyone in a meritocratic environment lowers the ladder to friends and family, people they like, which immediately corrupts the meritocracy. Meritocracy in practice corrupts itself, the very thing the ideal proclaims to avoid. And even the ideal version pretty much pre-supposes that those without merit, without wealth, don't really deserve anything other than what they have (or don't have), there isn't anything to do about it, and it might even be immoral to intervene.

The book of Job, and numerous stories of Christ in the New Testament are very critical of wealth and merit. And that's probably why the message doesn't go over very well anywhere with institutional power and wealth, be it the Pharisees, or Silicon Valley's wealthy (and regardless of whether they're liberal or conservative).
Whether or not you like the implications behind something doesn't make it less true. There is a book called 'Behave' written by Robert Sapolsky which lays out that human behavior is determined by the configuration of your brain, hormone levels, culture, the environment you were raised in, etc (basically all things over which you have no control).

For example, if you have an underdeveloped prefrontal cortex then you are going to be more impulsive and have a hard time delaying gratification. These people are way more susceptible to committing crimes and it is purely down to bad luck that they weren't born with the right genes (or had some sort of injury that damaged their PFC). Another example is if you have a smaller amygdala, you're going to have a higher pain tolerance and experience less fear than someone with a normal sized amygdala. Again, this can change your behavior quite a bit as you won't be able to relate to what the average person experiences when they are in pain. These people will have less moral compass than others.

With those things in mind, Sapolsky agrees that if an individual poses a threat to others, we should still lock them in prison for the good of society. But the more we understand what leads to human behavior, the more we're going to realize how many things are out of our control (almost all of it).
Why? NJ already has an abundance of deer and a shortage of things that kill deer to the point where deer are a problem.

I don't expect the BBC to know that but I do expect an animal control officer in NJ to know that.
Well yeah, but the implied point is that there must be some depth and workload where having a branch predictor fast or slow makes much less difference.
Some businesses don't have IT staff or technical individuals, so cloud ends up being this nebulous resource that just works. Dedicated server means you are comfortable setting up your own servers to some extent. I agree with the comments thus far, you just need to be one of the technical people to appreciate the difference between cloud vs dedicated.
If you're interesting in a reactive template library that doesn't require a compiler for non-standard JavaScript syntax, check out a library I've been working on for a little while now, lit-html: https://github.com/Polymer/lit-html

Where JSX would look like this:

const view = (state, actions) => (
<div>
<h1>{state.count}</h1>
<button onclick={() => actions.down(1)}>-</button>
<button onclick={() => actions.up(1)}>+</button>
</div>
)

The lit-html would be:

const view = (state, actions) => html`
<div>
<h1>{state.count}</h1>
<button onclick={() => actions.down(1)}>-</button>
<button onclick={() => actions.up(1)}>+</button>
</div>
`;

Nearly identical. lit-html uses `<template>`s and cloning, so that it doesn't have to do any expensive VDOM diffs.
The copyright on Steamboat Willie only protects Steamboat Willie. Copyright is specific to the work it protects; it does not provide general protection of the characters in the work.

Mickey Mouse the character is protected by trademark. Unlike copyright, there is no time limit on trademarks. As long as they remain in active use and defended by the mark holder, they remain protected. To be clear: Steamboat Willie could enter the public domain tomorrow and it would not affect Mickey's trademark status.
Humans aren't single-threaded, most can glance at their phones mid-conversation with no interruption.

Your second paragraph amounts to a kafkatrap (wherein denying the validity of the argument automatically means it applies to the denier).
>Even a single fertile couple cannot successfully reproduce in the wild (if you doubt this, watch a few episodes of Naked and Afraid). The minimum viable reproductive unit for homo sapiens is a tribe or a village.

Do you have evidence for this that's not a reality TV show?

Edit: I have found the Lykov family who had two children in isolation; they did already have two children who would have been 13 and 6 at the time of the third child's birth in isolation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lykov_family
Everything has been written about multiple times, don't worry about it.

If your blog is the first place where a reader runs into a particular information or insight, they will find it valuable, even if chronologically, someone else wrote about it first.

There are like three people in the world who have original ideas (the only example I can think of right now is Robin Hanson), but the number of people with successful blogs is much higher.
It was a decade ago. It gets worse: she didn't like seeing her sisters have a good relationship with me. She's the most socially skilled of them by far. She set out to turn the others against me, and mostly this has worked. She'd diminish my positives, magnify my negatives, and make a good sister-sister relationship conditional on a bad father-daughter relationship. Being the social leader, she created an "us vs. him" situation.

Talk about revenge... I had no idea that such a seemingly insignificant event could have such long-lasting and extensive harm.
Ahh the old "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear" defense for mass surveillance. Don't study history much do you?

If you believe this will only ever be used to stop thieves and people that victimize others you are naive at an unfathomable level

>The Federal government has been doing this type of surveillance either using facial or LPR data on interstate corridors since at least the 90s.

lol... You believe that is justification or a defense. The fact that the Federal Government is doing something that people that value privacy oppose does not mean we should allow local law enforcement to do it even more efficiently
One can always invent blockchain buzzwords like "Dark Gravity Wave" but even copying code requires understanding of algorithms.
What you described is precisely what's not happening though. In that there are no consequences to my frequent phone checking. If I'm playing a game and waiting for a match to start for example, it's not affecting me negatively in any way to just open youtube and watch a quick video. That's one of my points here; in that enjoying smartphones and being addicted to them gets muddled.
I don't think this is true with SaaS.

You still run it in AWS, Azure, Google.
> Time to abolish prisons now.. is that what you are trying to say?

i'm not quite sure how "abolishing prisons" is suggested by what they posted. what leads you to that?
This is pretty cool. Some feedback:

1. Lock screen functionality would be good. It's sort of jarring to go back and forth between this (pleasant, mellow) and my normal lock screen (looks just like my normal phone).

2. It'd be nice to be able to resize the custom background images.

3. Not sure I like the distinction between "tools" and "apps", especially because I try to view all my apps as tools. It'd be nice to be able to add a custom tool (I wanted to add Audible for example) that would just be on the one page.
You're assuming that drug rehab programs are a net cost to society.
> ...thus gets to the heart of the actual empirical disagreements between them.

I'm not sure the disagreement (between bears and bulls) is necessarily to be found in a different outlook on the future.

One can conclude all those conditions are likely to be met in the future and yet be bearish on the stock.

I'm overall optimistic on Tesla as a business, yet it seems my optimism is already fully factored in...no real upside, which is surprising given the risks.
I too would like to see a citation for this at least. It doesn't make sense to me why this would be the case.
Exactly.

Not sure where you're from, but a good 30-50% of people drive the speed limit.
Google it, you'll be surprised.
Thanks for the suggestion! I’ve added it to my Audible queue.
The tweet and the responses only talk about how much of an improvement it is over the previous Tesla Autopilot. There is no mention of how it compares to the MobileEye version.
Why take 50% of the money used to lock people away in a metal cage and fund the best drug rehab program every conceived by man.

I dont think you have any idea how much money is in the prison system today
I'm asking because I dont know, but have you been involved in cases where the OS was free but the db was 40 grand/cpu? Is the os free as an add on from the db vendor?
Yes! This to me represents a gigantic, gaping loophole that the statists have run through. It's why everyone pushed "cloud" so hard, too--put your data in our cloud, it will be safer there, we promise!

I'm a law abiding citizen (mostly) but even I can see the ramifications of total surveillance and I want no part of it, public or private, it sucks.
Hehe I got myself an Arduino and Raspberry PI. Maybe we could share projects and the like?
Fruity Loops Studio finally comes to the mac
It's honestly less a tragedy than lots of problems that have hit first-movers.

They are facing issues due to the fact that they are unable to make quality cars that people want at a price people will pay. They aren't losing out due to (for example) dealer networks being locked in with existing car makers.
I don't quite get what you are talking about -- Elizabeth Holmes was charged with fraud: https://www.wsj.com/articles/sec-charges-theranos-and-founde...

Others may be charged in the future, I assume.

Is your complaint that she didn't go to jail?
> how accessible / semantic is the markup it produces

Not very, from my experience. You would basically need to introduce a sourcemap equivalent.
Smartphones provide useful functionality in day to day life.

Do they now?
I suspect that total involuntary surveillance is not something the majority of the (United States) populace signed up for.

The legal Expectation of Privacy[0] continues to be important, even if there are people who think that it was a legal handwave that only existed due to lack of adequate technology.

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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectation_of_privacy
Real-Time Crypto: a big data approach to analyzing and automating crypto trading
Sure — security is, in abstract, important. The security requirements of different systems vary, though.

I'm much more worried about things like this in edge machines that talk to the public than some backend data-processing pipeline that doesn't talk to the outside world at all.
There's no blanket ban on political articles. The mods tried a "no politics week" once, but it didn't even last that.

The guidelines only say to avoid "most" stories about politics.
Yeah, thanks. I am only trying to hint at the possibility that there are other avenues to consider than a simple "crime gene", ie. the answer is probably not as simple as the poster wants.

Genetics and the human body have proven to be increasingly complex.
Who's implying to believe in magic here? I certainly don't.

I'm just trying to warn about the pitfalls of monocausal explanations for complex issues..

You should try to ask the OP the same question..

But, to be fair, the title of the submission to HN has been changed, to something a lot less of clickbait.

Maybe I would not have engaged otherwise, actually. Makes you think..

But still, downvotes = disagreement, I thought HN would be better than that.

Apparently, I was wrong.
Computational biologists, specifically those who utilize network models, are hoping to make this idea more concrete. It's well-known now that some real-world (including biological) networks are scale-free (mathematically, their degree distribution follows a power law). As an example, many gene networks have "hub" genes, that are related to several genes, whereas the median connectivity of a gene is fairly low.

Separately but also related, there's a growing sentiment that biological networks are self-similar - higher-level network-modeled abstractions are in fact topologically similar to lower-level subnetworks. This analogy may seem almost Hofstadter-esque at this point, but in a few years, who knows...

Some links:

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/srep07628

[2] http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/9/74/2131
Let me be devils advocate here for a second...

Let's first assume that Tesla succeeds in their production volumes and positive gross margins in the next few quarters, and is able to solidify and stabilize their financial situation this year. What this article misses is the scope of upside that is what I believe the Tesla bulls are seeing (Disclaimer: I am a Tesla bull).

In looking at the next 10 years I see:

- Batteries being the primary constraint in progress in volumes of electric cars for automakers (which positions Tesla and vertically integrated companies like BYD well, but traditional automakers without a tight grip on battery production at this point not as much).

- By looking at Tesla instead as a battery company, you can see how the vertical integration and scale (with the addition of plans for additional gigafactories in China and Europe) can be a unique competitive advantage against other auto companies. The more expertise Tesla gains by making better, cheaper batteries, the better.

- The article you linked and many Tesla bears do not consider the opportunity with trucks, and different segments in the within logistics / transportation market (Tesla could release different truck sizes and modes). Again, we are looking 10 years out, right?

- Tesla Energy, which is about grid storage (hint: requires batteries here too) will become a significantly larger market as certain grids around the world increase their share of intermittent energy sources. Grid scale battery systems are already becoming competitive alternatives to natural gas peaker plants.

- And don't forget about SolarCity. They could do a lot with SolarCity, and make progress in various segments within rooftop solar, as costs of solar cells continue to decrease in the next decade.

Not saying that Tesla is not without immense risk and that they do not have a very challenging few quarters ahead of them - but saying the upper bound of their upside is related to capturing the entire automobile market is not fully putting into account their long term plan and strategy.
> Beyond that, there's easy ways for Tesla to sweeten the deal. For me, Tesla offering free supercharging on the Model S but not on the Model 3 had me order a Model S immediately.

Why not just buy supercharging on the Model3?
I got this and pretty quickly dismissed the error, which when it caught up to me, horrified me with how blase I had just been with my security.

However, this news is exciting, it's almost like a feature that tells me which sites care about security (at least a little)
Ben Makuch of Vice Takes on Police in Supreme Court of Canada
That the process basically hasn't changed since the farm opened in the 1800s.
Show HN: TimeCoach.me – your personal time coach
Just an idea I had for a long time. Thought it would be interesting with some pilot persons
That would depend on how many people were buying the Model S simply because it was the only Tesla sedan available at the time. The more you add premium features like performance mode and dual-motor to the 3, you increase the chance that someone who was considering the S might down-grade to the 3.

Even today, if you want a Tesla sedan NOW, you need to buy an S (or an X, if you're looking for an SUV). Once the 3 burns through the existing reservations (which I suspect may happen fairly quickly, given that many people will choose to hold out for the $35k unicorn), then new buyers who want a car within a period of weeks will be able to choose.
I lost it at the starwars elevator music.
For the first time I think the title should be something more click baity. It really should be AutoCAD running with WebAssembly inside Browser.

Are we finally coming to the era of Application on the web as we have envisioned 20 years ago?
Several species of flatworm have made a home in metropolitan France
> To those who view this story as political (such as HN moderators), think about it.

It is political. That's not even really debatable.

> Press freedom is a much more fundamental issue than political affiliation.

Maybe, but that doesn't make it not a political issue.

> Much of the discussion that has been suppressed by mods on HN has had to with the knee-jerk characterization of stories like this as political.

This story is one “relating to the government or public affairs of a country”. It is, therefore, squarely political.

This story is also badly distorted and hyperbolic; most of the things at issue were done to mainstream reporters before they were done to WikiLeaks, especially including investigating attempts to get and reveal classified information as potential espionage or conspiracy related to espionage, and not giving reporters advance notice of surveillance related to investigations in which the reporter or the people they were communicating with were subjects or targets. (Notifying the subjects and targets of surveillance of the surveillance tends to be counterproductive.)

> HN mods have shown a strong pro-authoritarian sentiment

Support for this inflammatory claim is called for here.
I went the surgery route, I had a Microdiscectomy. It was a minimally invasive surgery which I felt relief immediately after. Before the surgery I was barely able to walk and couldn't sit down for more than 10 minutes at a time. After about a week of taking it very easy I was able to return to work where I sit in a chair most of the day.

I was given the choice of physical therapy or surgery, I couldn't stand the pain much longer and wanted to stay away from opioids, so I chose surgery.

Sometimes after heavy activity it flairs up and gets sore but it's completely manageable, enough where I don't have to take anything for the pain.
For me, this would functionally be no different than just deciding I wasn't going to check.

Alarms would make sense if I had trouble remembering to check if I didn't check constantly, but the problem is the compulsion to thoughtlessly reach for my phone to check for notifications every few minutes. If I could batch up notifications therefore making the act of grabbing my phone and looking at it pointless, that seems like it would have a real impact.
Rate Limiting: Delivering more rules, and greater control
Computer History Museum Makes Eudora Email Client Source Code Available
But are there fundamental reasons why yubikey isn’t good? The amount of money spent doesn’t mean yubikey isn’t good, and they’re trying to accomplish different things (yubikey doesn’t have an OS running Facebook on it that could be used to attack itself, nor does it try to authenticate its secrets beyond a button press).

Note Google uses Yubikey to authenticate it’s employees into their laptops — hardly just nerds piling in their sock drawer.
What is the difference between path tracing and ray tracing?
Bitman is aiming to move to AI
So you want to tax the usage of roads, not the fuel.

Tax the fuel to cover the externalities of that (pollution)
Tax the road use to cover the externalities of that (cost of using the road)
There are a number of alternative streaming services with a better selection. One that comes to mind is Filmstruck, which has the entire Criteron Collection but there was another successful one I can't remember the name of.
Gitlab 10.8 released
Interesting timing. Just today we got a cold call from an Oracle sales rep. ;-)

Fortunately, our awesome Purchasing person got rid of them quickly.
It was deleted by the submitter. Please reach the moderators directly at hn@ycombinator.com if you have questions like these.
Hangover Hack released