skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Working for free devalues the entire profession, and disrespects us all. It reenforces the idea that people should have to work for free to "prove themselves", which shuts things out to only those who can afford to work for free (people from rich families, people who don't have a family to support)
„Democrats and Republicans are rather similar in linking individual characteristics to genes and race, even IQ, aggression and homosexuality.“

https://twitter.com/degenrolf/status/998856273725743104?s=21
>It's generally accepted that AP2/2.5 is now in general better than AP1

Not in most forums/amongst most owners

https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/83vtk8/autopil...

Most tests show that AP 2 does a few things better, but is less reliable overall.

>the amount of people who "thought they would get a $35k car?"

That is not publicly available data. However on Twitter Musk said that he refused to answer the analyst question about reservations because it would make Tesla look bad as people were still waiting for different models. I think it's more likely most people are waiting out for a cheaper car than a more expensive one.
You seemed to be implying magic by arguing against crime being caused by biochemical processes in the brain. As far as we know all human behavior ultimately boils down to stuff in happening in the brain and the brain is a biochemical machine.
Despite of all these realities/bubbles you described above (assuming most of them are true/accurate), Tesla led the way of electrification of transportation industry and showed us that EVs are the future of sustainable transportation. I am sure all the Tesla fanboys all have their own nuanced reasons to support Tesla and Elon Musk, but if I had $100k to spare, I'd support this noble goal (aforementioned, sort of a success at this point) and bet big on Tesla and Elon. Perhaps that's Tesla's strength - the vision and a goodwill. Everything else is secondary.
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Usually this sort of thing would go to IBM, Accenture etc.

AWS has tried to position themselves as being different from the old 'dinosaurs', but the public sector market is probably ripe for them to move into. They've already made steps with GovCloud, now it's time to get specialist teams and consultant contracts going.

If Amazon didn't do it I bet Google wouldn't be far behind
Sony says PS4 is at the end of its life-cycle
But why do you expect batteries to be anything other than a boring commodity business?

Boring commodity businesses are a fine place to make money, but they aren't so likely to go to the moon.
> Downvoted for asking a simple question

this seems a bit reductive.

sometimes people asking leading questions that are a bit... let's say tired, aren't all that interesting. if there is a point to be made, they should just make it.

"smart people" (as you say) sometimes prefer forthright discussion.
Or we could curb the landlords and build some decent real public housing for a lot of people that is not the prison system. Have you considered "hacking" the problem of these landowners who charge too much?
~100 times the intensity required to kill even the hardiest microorganisms, bad.

https://phys.org/news/2018-04-proxima-centauri-flare-powerfu...
It's a slightly higher-flown version of "We can't talk about your problems because other people have worse problems!"

The problem with that idea, in addition to it being morally repugnant and utterly disdainful of human life, is that there's always a worse problem. Oh, you want to talk about polio? Malaria is a worse problem! Oh, you want to talk about income inequality? Access to abortion is a worse problem by far!

It's a perfect way to shut down any discussion, simply by shouting "HEY, LOOK OVER THERE! WORSE PROBLEMS!" and claiming the moral high ground.
Mandela, though he was in solitary confinement for much of the 27 years he spent in jail, came out of it spiritually and mentally unscathed. And we have a suicide epidemic, if you'll believe the press, of people who were never in jail, and were surrounded by people whom probably could have helped the person.... provided he or she asked for help rather than deciding they were lonely or alone.

I'm not saying loneliness isn't real... all I'm saying is, it is a choice that needs to be recognized as such, even if we keep choosing it over and over and can do no other sometimes.

So if you feel lonely, unless you're in solitary, please at least TELL SOMEONE how you feel... if nothing else. Tell me, I'll listen.
Two things:

1. That's a non-sequitur. Drug rehab programs that are part of prison diversion schemes are implicitly a matter of public policy. A single individual writing a single check is meaningless in that context.

2. "Saint or GTFO" is a debate tactic used by the foolish who think their opponent is a bigger fool.
Playing a song for a crowd without the rights is illegal, hence why no major DJ software has a spotify integration
Admitting fault and a need for change is also the only way to actually start a change that does happen. I agree though that you should also hold people to account for the follow through to real changes.
I can recommend Sweet Maria’s, they have quality beans and provide great resources about home roasting techniques.
Do not know why you are getting downvoted, but I enjoyed your mini-essay :)
Whether or not Robert Sapolsky likes the implications behind that does not make it less true (or anyone else for that matter).

When did this notion take hold that we can answer such complex matters with simple solutions?

Do people on here even realize how old this stupid Nature vs Nurture debate is?

Probably not. I guess most older HN users have already abandoned ship, leaving only the greenhorns behind.

At least that would explain it.

And again, I am not arguing for anything here. I am just the Devil's Advocate.
I work for one of the banks listed as supported by Plaid. I am intensely skeptical about the claims they say their API can provide, knowing how our systems work internally.

Real-time transactions, for one, are not really real-time. There are many things that get in the way of making these real-time and the issues go all the way to the terminal where you swipe your card. Identity is also sketchy. Many people still share bank accounts. It is an unwritten rule that an account !== a person.

I'd be curious to know how they pull this information. There are some APIs available, but we are careful to hand out access. If they're screen scraping, then, well... god help them.
These terms tend to be used interchangeably. In the context of your original quote I think path tracing is the more accurate term. Even Arnold Renderer is described as a raytracer. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_(software) )
I'm surprised the article didn't mention immune system mosaicism, where populations of immune cells have mutations that allow them to look for different proteins. And I've heard a neuroscientist speculate that the reason there is so much brain mosaicism is to allow different neurons to express different surface proteins and allow them to recognize and avoid attaching to themselves.
Security and the “All or Nothing” Vendor Paradox
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Caffeine in a warm, moist, bacteria-rich environment, has a half-life comparable to that in the human body.

Compost your grounds, they're great.
> Thus, the blanket ban on political articles

The blanket ban on political articles was very brief and ended a long time ago. Many political articles (including, IMO, this one) run afoul of the general guidelines, “Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon”, but that's not a blanket ban.
>AFAIK that means it'll take more than a jailbreak to get to them, although I don't know if OTP apps are using that capability or not.

sure, you wouldn't be able to extract the keys, but what's preventing you from generating thousands of codes and extracting those instead? since they're time based, you could easily generate lots of them for a long time into the future (eg. 10 per day for the next 5 years). that should afford you plenty of opportunities to do a login attempt.
Funny when you go on the mixpanel glassdoor, many of them talk quite negatively about this CEO (I believe he stepped down recently)

Not to say the advice is bad
"Saint or GTFO"

As an aside, I have not heard that type of argument paraphrased this way, but it is terribly amusing.
How Many Objects Can Be Juggled (1997)
Although debugging in haskell typically feels different than procedural or OO languages (much less state to rely on, so debugging is used much less to understand what happens, and much more to control that your next logical step checks out), grandparent's assertion that you can't printf simply lacks merit.
That's the concept of minimal viable population (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_population). Basically it means how much inbreeding is acceptable to have viable descendants.
Because law enforcement is more confident that they can create laws to benefit their interests through the courts rather than the legislature
>my default belief is that these technologies are over hyped and cannot provide the scale of performance or detail of prediction that could make them effective as oppressive surveillance tools, at least not for a long time.

you've never heard of the chinese police state's facial surveillance which they're using to throw countless uighurs in jail for stuff like jaywalking, i suppose?

>as a concerned citizen who sees the danger in Orwellian surveillance.

you don't see the danger because your paycheck relies on you not seeing it. the rest of us are not so willfully blind.
You are actually correct, I have seen statistics like that.
It's really funny where you can find correlations, if you think about it.
I think the issue, ultimately, is buffering. Kernel interfaces that can't preallocate space at request time are problematic. If you can allocate space sufficient to store the event(s) at the same time that you request notification, error handling is easy and obvious from a design perspective. Unbounded, asynchronous buffering in kernel space is simply a non-starter unless you don't care about consistency and reliability. Linux developers generally follow (coincidentally?) the GNU directive[1] of lazy, dynamic allocation, and it's why Linux interfaces can be so problematic and why everybody throws up their hands when one raises concerns about OOM handling.

The reason EVFILT_VNODE works where inotify doesn't is precisely because EVFILT_VNODE requires an open file descriptor, which indirectly behaves as a preallocated buffer for storing pending events. But just like with signals, like events are coalesced and ordering can be lost.

I think the most straight-forward solution to fork notifications is to block the forking process if the event can't be enqueued. That might be the only proper solution, period, if you want guaranteed delivery with the new PID. That creates the potential for deadlocking, but that already exists with other facilities like file locking, pipes, etc.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#index-arbi...
It's basically how industry works; Ford was neither the first person to create the automobile, nor the first person to introduce mass production techniques.
These surveillance theater and immature or improperly applied technologies do more than just waste tax dollars. For decades the courts allowed flawed hair analysis to be used as evidence. When it could result in innocent people being sent to prison, a fuss must be made that's stronger than just worrying about what it will cost.
Based off of Elon Musk's last tweet, it sounds like he's preparing to leave the company. Can Tesla do this without him?
A warning to startups: remember the downsides of A/b testing
I was hypothesising that there may be biochemical processes that regulate your response to (society defined) morally deviant actions.

I am only asking questions to point out the answer probably isn't as simple as the poster seem to believe.
Sure, that's the ideal situation. Paying no tax and having high property values. Ultimately I'd assume you still want the property to be worth more than what you paid for it. You and the government's incentives are aligned in that sense. Of course you still are moderately adversarial since they are taxing you.

I was just trying to point at that local governments are also encouraged to have high property values for tax revenue. They also tend to have a bit more power to be able to affect large areas property values by force. If people cannot/don't utilize the government to enact policies to force people out, it seems to me that it would be pretty difficult for people to enact those policies without governmental power.

What we see in places like San Francisco are property owners and governments teaming up to drive property values up in a mutually beneficial relationship.

Edit - It could be said that the government itself is rent-seeking in such an arrangement.
I enjoy backseat driving as much as the next person. It's fun to tell someone with money that they should spend it on X and not Y. But it's probably not productive, though it does lead to lots of clicks and outrage.

Would it be more productive to simply promote specific unmet needs in the Valley?
>In that there are no consequences to my frequent phone checking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_overuse#Health

There's a reason that the first step in addiction therapy is getting the subject to be able to admit that there's a problem.
>BoM trees

Bill of material trees? Could you maybe elaborate more?
Code Blocks, Procs, Lambdas, and Closures in Ruby
Then you need to send lit-html over to the client also. This would be a great alternative if one doesn't already use Babel, but what's the selling point otherwise? Is there an easy way to combine lit-html's render with the HyperApp one?
> But still, downvotes = disagreement, I thought HN would be better than that.

downvotes can also be for perceiving questions as posed in bad faith, non-sequiturs, being reductive, rude comments, etc.
> It's really easy to insult my opinion as well.

Fair enough, and somewhat deserved. (But only somewhat - your tone kind of led me into temptation. Still, I apologize.)

> The only thing where Go helps "really large codebases" is quick compile times.

Which was, in fact, explicitly their intent. In comments on this same article, people have been complaining about how long it takes to compile GHC. How long would it take for Haskell to compile a 10 million line program? For a program that has, say, 50 people working on it, and that lives for 20 years, that adds up to real money.

Now, you could argue that, if go didn't increase boilerplate so much, you wouldn't have so many lines to compile. That's a fair criticism. Still, just focusing on compile times, would you rather compile 10 million lines at Go's speed, or one million lines at Haskell's?

> But it is really easy to create a fast compiler when the language is anemic in features, this is no feat at all.

The "feat" is choosing to focus on compile time rather than on features.

I disagree with you on exceptions. Go's error handling approach means that you only have to worry about your function and the functions you directly call. Java's approach (or worse, C++'s, since the exceptions are unchecked) means that you have to worry about what every function in the call graph can throw. As the size of the program increases, knowing everything that can be thrown by everything you call becomes unreasonable. (I don't know enough about Lisp's approach to know whether it suffers from this problem or not.)
Is it unusual that HN discusses violins so often? Seems like this comes up a lot.

One common theme is that extremely expensive old violins aren't better than modern, well crafted violins (these new violins are still expensive, but measured in the tens of thousands, not millions).

While this doesn't surprise me, I do wonder if it misses (to some extent) the point. My guess is that a mass produced, relatively inexpensive violin could very well be as "good" as a more expensive, unique one. But one thing we know about artisanal work is that it's expensive because it's unique and can't be produced through mass production, not because it is strictly better.

I like violins, and play them, mainly early jazz, Irish, bluegrass. It's clear to me that different people are looking for different things in a violin, and that you may not get this from a mass produced instrument. It's not that the more expensive one is better in a blind test, it's that it produces a tone that is hard to find in most instruments, and because it's fairly unique, you'll only find it in an older instrument or a hand crafted one.

This article is interesting, in the idea that some violins are altos and some are baritones. This ins't surprising, we know that violins (and other musical instruments) excel in different registers, and that there are often trade offs (volume, tone, brightness, richness).

Part of the problem, for me, is that I just don't get to play very many violins. I don't feel ok about going to a high end violin store and playing their instruments all afternoon.

But personally, I am on the lookout for something. One thing I really like about Irish music is the airs - slower pieces with long, often open notes, that often aren't played with vibrato (sometimes they can't be directly played with vibrato, since there is extensive use of open strings).

I don't want to get into a big debate about whether vibrato "should" be used in Irish airs on fiddle, cause my opinion is go ahead, if you like it. But to me, there's something about the way a note can ring, almost like a bell, that you can achieve when you draw the bow properly across the string at a particular harmonic, but don't add any additional vibrato.

This article has me thinking there's probably an analogy to the human voice here as well. Baritones, Altos, but there's definitely a style of singing (common in cathedral choirs) that relies on a pinpoint "ring" rather than an operatic vibrato.

This article makes me thing there probably are some styles of violin that would excel at producing these notes. Downside, I don't have $10,000+ to spend, and I doubt a high end shop would enjoy me running this experiment on their inventory.
I created a new account to reply to this interesting post, but for some reason it was throttled instantly.

I assure you that my comments are always thoughtful and respectful, even when replying to a flame.

Seems like the mods just revealed that they can watch people type in real time :)
Are you aware of how much money it costs society to send someone to prison? A LOT more than a rehab program.

- You have direct cost of imprisonment ~$60k a year

- The costs of prosecution (no idea what this costs though)

- Once someone has been to prison they are much more likely to be involved in crime again, and become a repeat customer of the industrial prison complex

- We loose a tax payer

- The perp will have no retirement fund, thus the government is on the hook again during retirement years.

- Increased insurance costs for everyone else due to a higher crime rate

I don't have the time or resources to do an accurate cost estimation but we could do some basic napkin math. Lets say 10 years in prison during their lifetime and a loss of $15k tax per year over a 30 year period (due to time spent in prison and loss of earning potential once they're out).

(10 * $60k) + (30 * $15k) = $1,050,000 loss to the State. That's a shit load of money. Crime prevention looks a lot cheaper now doesn't it?
Challenges in Plutonium Science
I hope you give the mechanism in the lecture.

You are not wrong, but the way you answer it it is just concept definition.
It has a name.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
I lived in Germany for a period and was amazed by this as well. It's hard to reconcile with the fact that they are one of the most privacy-centric countries there is as far as technology goes
It's not affecting in ways that you notice right now, but we don't really know the true effects of never letting your brain be bored.

There is some evidence that boredom is good for you as explained in this post: http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170719-how-moments-of-bor...
Agreed. Not only is his writing just a bunch of loose thoughts imagined into very Brooks-centric concept, this is also the guy who left his wife of 20 years for a woman 25 years his junior. How do they spend their time? He pimps work like "The Road to Character" and she leads an institute that studies and teaches "character". Just...what?
Me too. Although I thought what he was going to say is the limited genepool would make grandchildren impossible (well nearly...) and generations after that impossible.
People will be outraged until everyone starts doing it.

How long until we see tons of marketplaces to sell your home & business surveillance videos?

Maybe security companies will start offering free versions of things like Nest as long as you let them sell the video in their marketplace. It's the 21st Century way after all.
Without context, working for free requires careful thought. But in the context of this conversation "free" means without monetary compensation, but you're still receiving the benefit of the mentorship (and thus not free).

TLDR; No one's advocating working for free. The Warren Buffett approach is "trade money for time with a good mentor."
Another thing ruined by businesspeople optimizing for numbers...
Oracle has the best technical sales people for a reason.
> Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison were great friends

Whoa whoa whao, this is the opposite of what I believe to be true, I have little to believe they were really friends, in fact when Oracle bought Sun Apple stopped integrating ZFS because Jobs didn't want to be associated or beholden to Larry Ellison...

[0] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/06/zfs-the-other-new-ap...
In the western world at least, we're surrounded by experiences provided by for-profit entities, but very few of them profit from maximizing our attention on their product like app-makers and social media do. They don't create products that are designed to monopolize our attention. Check out the book Attention Merchants or check out humanetech.com.

Filling every idle moment of your life with apps on a screen is actually keeping you from being with yourself. Tech has gone through three stages:

1. Tech that insulates us from the harshness of nature in order to promote our survival (clothing, heat, etc).

2. Tech that enhances/automates our abilities for productivity and convenience (telecom, industrial tech, etc).

3. Tech that distracts us from the human condition (social media, television, never-ending games, etc).

I used to be like you, thinking the tech in my life was only in service of my best interests, but I had a change of heart. Wrote about it here:
https://medium.com/@gcpofnyc/seeking-a-healthier-relationshi...
how will you feel when they start arresting serial jaywalkers?
How to Install Docker on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Can you expand on "literally everyone is worse off", and I'll assume you meant literally in the colloquial sense, as an emphasis.

OP gave an example where he was better off. Do you mean that the trade-off is not worth risk/down side?
I agree it's a legal matter, but completely illegal is not realistic. What's needed is a legal/privacy framework that addresses these new technologies. Unfortunately, I have zero faith in the law makers to understand the technology enough to really do anything meaningful. Instead, we will probably have to wait for a SCOTUS case at some point in the future to define the legal side.
Just get started, that is the hardest part.

Once you've gotten into the habit of writing, you can move toward whatever interests you most.
The Settlers 2 on PC could also be played with 2 mices.
does plaid store you credentials? or how does it authenticate to the bank?