skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a superb writeup. Question about brand value: the consequence of a programming error for Tesla includes collisions and death, whereas Apple bugs usually don't kill people. (Insert comment about Maps here.) Is Tesla's brand value more fragile?
> Political discussions usually descend into arguments about competing values. People have different interpretations of the trade-offs, and the friction turns into a lot of heat, without much light.

The same can be said for discussion of any topic that pulls in peoples' identities and not just their rational faculties. It's something we should strive to overcome through thoughtful discussion, feedback, and examples from the community of HN users, not something to suppress or avoid.

Most people go through some period of time in their lives when they are highly emotional/irrational in their analysis of important factual information. It's something to be outgrown, not simply shut down.

Sadly in this case, the mods have not outgrown it and they have been given moderation powers, and rather than respectfully engage with others they use those powers to suppress and intimidate, in the process decimating what was once an occasionally feisty but ultimately respectful community.

It was truly bad judgment to give the mods such power. Unlike the youthful vision that makes young startup founders visionaries, the mods have youthful hubris and a strange, disturbingly machiavellian taste for authoritarian control.
It's like the Michael Scott Paper Company all over again.
Not when what you're writing.

Is shallow, empty corporate-speak.

Dressed up like insightful life lessons.
An offtopic note, but those analysts' comments included in the article made me smile.

They now as much as the next guy on hackernews or reddit..

How about old good "wait and see what happens"?
> The comment is essentially saying that if I do great things and become a role model then I'm not welcome because we already have plenty that "look like me".

The comment isn't about you at all. The OP said we need more role models like Grace Hopper and less like Jobs, Woz, etc. Reading this as "White men should stop aspiring to become future role models" is silly, it's about a desire to increase the diversity of tech role models. It really just sounds like you're playing the victim here, for no real reason?
"Reality, however, often has a way of stubbornly refusing to conform to the axioms of free market economics."

Great article.
> The engineering of early macbook pros was absolutely over the top and ridiculously expensive... but Apple knew that they were buying trust with that added expense.

This is a myth. Early Macbook Pros weren't even actually unibody, even though they were advertised as such. Instead they glued two pieces of aluminum together, which would come apart after awhile. Numerous issues with screens delaminating and such as well.

They were certainly better-engineered than their existing counterparts, but build quality at Apple has always been a third-tier concern.
Email Is Dangerous
This author won't stop 'til he gets enough.
You can't sign up as both a rider and a charger? It seems like it should be pretty easy to ride home, sign out, then immediately "find" the scooter and get $5 while you charge it up.

I guess the can discourage this by making you drop it off at the nest before it can be checked out instead of letting you immediately check it out again the next day for the ride back to work or wherever.

If your house is near a nest you could still make it work I think. The only caveat being that the bird will probably disappear during the day while you are at work unless you hide it in your office.

I don't know, it seems kind of easy to game.
The vulnerability allows a user process to see data from the kernel, which could let it take over the machine. That's a huge problem on a multi-user machine, but not on dedicated servers that only run code the owner wants to run.
Oh come on. Have you worked at a large company? It's just politics. You support the people you work for until you switch jobs. Honesty is not common in corporations. Zuck is a dousche and so are his friends.
> So liberal words, liberal values being expressed, but pure greed when it mattered.

But liberalism (both in the modern American sense, and in the classical sense of which both modern American liberalism and mainstream modern American conservatism are subsets) is a system which overtly valorizes greed and the pursuit of personal gain in a facially neutral common market-based environment as both a deontological good and a practical engine of social progress. (Modern American liberalism differs in its expression of this from the modern conservative expression of classical liberalism in favoring modest and limited active correction of the impact of past deviations from the ideal of facial neutrality as a matter of Justice and restoration of the ideal neutral condition whereas the conservative expression of classical liberalism favors studious current facial neutrality.)
Grail raises $300M to develop a blood test for cancer
FYI - https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2017/05/...
I listen to a lot of beats or samples usually. J Dilla is fantastic
On Tesla's viability, stock price and debt, I think there can't be better quote than this:

Tesla’s current price is arguably fair if most cars are powered by electricity in 10 years, if most of these cars are made by Tesla, if Tesla can make those cars with sufficient margin and quality control and can service the cars properly, and if Tesla can raise additional capital sufficient to cover a $3 billion annual cash drain and another billion to service its debt.

https://www.researchaffiliates.com/en_us/publications/articl...
Lemonade open sources their insurance policy on GitHub
Two ideas that come to mind:

Quantum computing understandable for simple tech people (not quantum physicists). There is so much noise (as in SNR) on the internet about this topic, and I think I have a reasonable grasp of it, but I don't have a big audience nor the time to write it all down. A good source on that would be great.

Machine learning: where are we and does it hold any promise for future work, or is it a dead end beyond optimizing what we're already doing with it? Neural networks sounded like "oh, with enough compute power, we can simulate a brain right?" but so far the models show no level of true understanding whatsoever (to the best of my knowledge).

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While writing answers on the IT Security StackExchange website, I often find that answers of mine which I found dull and uninteresting (they logically follow from basic knowledge) are popular in terms of views and votes. Usually it's somewhat predictable, but I'm regularly surprised by what people find interesting and useful. One example was about receiving email without a "to" field ('how did it end up in my inbox?'), which I thought was a niche question (only people who run their own mail server would have that, I thought, and they know SMTP right?), but 80 upvotes tell a different story.

And like other commenters said: it's not so much about what topic you choose, but about how well you can explain it. Of course pageviews is your quality of writing multiplied by the general interest level (bad quality but huge interest might still get you a lot of views), but most of the time there turn out to be a lot of people interested if you only explain it well, so the quality matters more than the topic.
The problem with discussing politics online is it ends up as an identity issue. People end up trying to score points not actually discuss things.

In the end there are places on the internet to discuss just about anything. HN is limiting politics is a large part of why I am here and not somewhere else.
Creating and Deploying Firebase Cloud Functions and Firestore Rules – Video
In my eyes, the Yubikey is a bespoke toy compared to the latest-gen iPhone Secure Element.

Apple just has a lot more riding on their chip, and since they first introduced a secure element back in 2014 have spent perhaps 2 orders of magnitude more dollars on security R&D than Yubico ($4mm angel round in 2007, $30mm raised in 2017)

Apple’s secure element is in, what, more than a billion devices, and powers how many billions in Apple Pay? Yubikey by comparison ships devices that mostly nerds pile in their sock drawer with those old USB sticks they don’t use anymore.
Yes. That's exactly it does and more. Like, you can trigger an event for all or the important actions on the product, track them, create funnels or whatever and analyze. It's a pretty popular product.
Because then all of the scooters would he missing their batteries?
Why? The surveillance is there.

I used this with some personal video surveillance to identify some thieves who were casing driveways to find cars to get into. Instead of wasting hours looking at footage, I was able to give the police excerpts that helped them identify the perp. Also, because of the circumstances and footage, they were able to charge him with a more serious crime than petit larceny, which means he won't be back next week.

It's an effective tool. If you're allowed to have a camera, you should be allowed to look at it with whatever means you want.

The reality is that the horse is out of the barn. The Federal government has been doing this type of surveillance either using facial or LPR data on interstate corridors since at least the 90s.
Susan Solomon, Winner of the 2018 Crafoord Prize in Geosciences
Ask HN: Why was the submission regarding Tesla Model 3 braking issues deleted?
The post was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17126765 which linked to https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/22/teslas-musk-admits-model-3-braking-issue-promises-fix.html

Now it's gone and not apparent that it was a dupe or violated any rule.
It would be easier if cells had an intelligent designer and weren't just soups of chemicals that interact in millions of ways.
Bitcoin discussions for example have similar limitations and I would be happy to ban them as well. In the end HN has limited bandwidth and there are more interesting things to discuss.
How does this compare to Inferno, which you can also use JSX and Hyperscript with - https://github.com/infernojs/inferno

This seems smaller in footprint, but does it also win in runtime performance and stability?
The Apple Watch surprisingly useful with everyone that works on their feet
So you try it first, and only adjust when you have real evidence that this is not working for you.

That's the whole point -- in order to find evidence that it isn't working, you have to start looking at the false negatives --

or that is to say, where the "light is not".
60 Minutes: “The Theranos Deception”
I can totally relate to the future me being a cocky asshole part. I just had this experience coding the other day. I got about 15 minutes in thinking "this will be way better", git mv'ing files and committing etc until I ran into the exact same roadblock and it all came back to me. Now there is a sheepish trail of commits with messages explaining why I was wrong and it wasn't way better. I could have force pushed the commit before I started the changes but I wanted to shame myself so maybe I'll remember next time...
Reminds me of the Palantir / New Orleans situation.

http://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/crime_police/art...

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/27/17054740/palantir-predict...
They might not even have their license to handle electrical appliances! The horror!
So, crime is driven by biochemical processes as well?
Police should be given full access to the latest technology. The criminals will have the latest tech. DNA, face recognition, speech recognition, big data, ML, AI, whatever comes next. However just like with guns and wiretaps, there should be laws controlling the appropriate use of these powerful tools to avoid becoming Big Brother.
Is Facebook Just a Platform? A Lawyer to the Stars Says No
I would argue that low interest rates in part caused this skyrocketing home value effect for the simple fact that low interest rates have convinced people over the last 30 or so years that borrowing is more profitable than saving (I'm grouping all interest rate regimes after 1981 into the low interest rate category). Would be nice if we could put to rest the notion of home ownership as a good forced savings plan, investment plan, etc.
And this is ignoring the use cases that are 'for good'.

http://www.marinusanalytics.com/articles/2017/10/17/amazon-r...
Antarctic seals recruited to measure effects of climate change
I've been working on a project, now at http://www.knode.io for quite some time. It went from Rails to an Elixir back end with an Angular 1 frontend, then a brief experiment with an Angular 2 frontend, and finally to an Elm frontend. It is a complex project with JS interop using ports to render (a) mathematical text and (b) Asciidoc. Plus, there is a Latex-to-Html parser-differ-renderer package that I wrote entirely in Elm (2K of code).

I couldn't be happier with Elm in this project. Many major refactors: instead of the usual white-knuckle experience with prior languages/frameworks, it was, like, zen.
taking all this into account the current valuation of $47bn is remarkable!
I usually just go with squarespace if I'm lazy. generic, but good UI and usually gets the job done.
Probably because they're not trying to actually solve a problem. They're just on the hype train.

More seriously, if the name of the game is efficiency then a distributed ledger isn't the answer.
They are actually liberal, they are not progressive or leftist. People get confused because conservatives have spent a long time equating those, and they are sometimes allies against conservatism.
Mark Zuckerberg faces European parliament – watch live
This is good for Bitcoin— er I mean Tesla.
It won't be fast, that's for sure!
Which would hamstring performance.
> One of the key functions of caffeine in the plants that produce it is allelopathy – the ability to reduce competition from surrounding species by suppressing their growth.

Wow, makes sense. I never stopped to ask why the plant produced caffeine in the first place.
> Rekognition performed so poorly compared to our prototype (which was not state of the art or anything, just good enough for our company’s bespoke conpliance problem). It was just so bad. Overall intersection-over-union scores on our training & acceptance data was really poor, and perhaps worse, the latency of the requests to Rekognition was abysmal and completely unusable for us, especially for images that had a large number of identifiable faces (Rekognition service calls isually timed out at 5 seconds and returned whatever amount of faces it could process).

Criticizing the technology's performance is tangential to the emergence of the technology on public streets, and its adoption by local governments for surveillance. It does not matter what performance it has now; I argue and predict it will improve, and then your statement becomes moot.

The issue is not how well it performs. The issue is allowing it to happen, and without trust from the people.

My fear is: government wants surveillance, and businesses pursue revenue, so there is no incentive among those two to question their actions.
That isn't as unrealistic as you think, there's some people on Reddit posting about working for Uber Eats with Boosted Boards in NYC, and I know of at least one other that does it in SFO:

https://www.reddit.com/r/boostedboards/comments/8jzokl/11_an...
Dear Mr. Musk,

If you can make me a TRON-like one-to-two seat motor pod, for around $10,000 then you can take my money.

Sincerely,
The Guy Who Really Wants a TRON-like One-To-Two Seat Motor Pod
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17126150
Why not go to the actual example from the article, which is that if you allow trading, then you will encourage strategic behavior from parents in picking schools in future rounds.

People who don't engage in strategic ranking will on average be worse off than they were before.

If all people engage in strategic ranking, then it essentially imposes the 'search cost' of gaming the system optimally on all participants; this search cost may be much greater than the local benefit of swaps.

Also, some parents (e.g. the locals, the wealthy and connected) may be much better at doing strategic ranking then other parents, so it may inherently advantages certain groups over others.

I think there is legitimate debate over whether the local benefits to the few are more important than global objectives, but denying that there are shared objectives (e.g. 'fairness' and de-escalating local competition) that sometimes demand local sacrifices is silly.

I would be individually better off if I didn't have to pay taxes and not receive services, and yet we all recognize that if everyone could individually opt out of taxes, then the entire system would probably collapse.

And don't tell me that I had the rational choice to pay taxes: my tax obligation was put on me because of my citizenship and birth, which I did not enter in out of my free will.
The TD MySpend app does this.
Senators Call on FCC to Address Identity Theft and Fraud in Public Comments
The World’s Best Violins Sing Like Humans
The time horizon definitely differs based on what you're trying to do, and the industry in which you're trying to do it. We've seen that our hard tech companies tend to need more money and time before producing meaningful milestones, and those milestones almost never look as they would for a pure software business.

Companies are usually judged relative to expectations in their field. This goes for founders as well, who are judged relative to everything else the investor has seen.
This is an exceptionally simple library to use in place of React. Both its performance and the development experience have been great.

My company's been using it in production for more than a year now without any issues. Highly recommend giving it a look.
No but seriously, who else wants a VP of Social Good trophy
Hat tip to Adrian Chen for posting the quote below on Twitter. Surely, nothing can go wrong.

"In a February debate over revenge porn televised on the Irish national broadcaster, Mr. Tweed squared off against Niamh Sweeney, Facebook’s policy chief for Ireland. Ms. Sweeney said that one way Facebook was trying to address the issue was by inviting individuals to preemptively submit naked or other embarrassing pictures of themselves so the company’s software could block efforts to post the images. (A pilot program is underway in Australia.)"
In China, Photo of Trade Talks Embodies ‘Young’ Country Passing Aging U.S
Why Don't You Care?
Does anyone know how good Amazon Rekognition actually is? If the technology is not good then it might post more problems than it solves.
There isn't a single reason to use symbols except that they save space. They aren't a magical spice that turns sentences into true proofs - the best they can do is let you write text that is already a proof in less space. Logical form is only worthwhile if you're doing so much logic that you can't print the word therefore that many times!
write about the requirements of your side-project, why you started it? what would be the use of it etc.
Blog about every feature that you develop and how to use it.
This will help in documentation when your prototype is ready and you might be able to attract audience who are interested in your prototype and might help you with beta testing/refine the features. You can also get early feedback without finished product.
For technical posts look at your commit log and pick the one that you think is most complex and describe it. It is possible that it may not be to the level of your satisfaction and you can refine it in second pass until you think it is ready to go. Idea is that is is easier to refine than writing from scratch. my 2 cents!
> - Around 40% of their cash in hand is from refundable deposits, from people who thought they would get a $35k car

Do you have a source on the amount of people who "thought they would get a $35k car?" Autopilot itself has always been an add-on feature that costs money.

> It is universally accepted that enhanced autopilot is worse than mobileye's system right now, and in general both are basically lane-keeping system with AEB. Waymo and GM/Cruise are far ahead with their FSD capabilities than Tesla(again, widely accepted)

What? It's generally accepted that AP2/2.5 is now in general better than AP1. From first hand experience, the lane keeping and the ability to perform on local roads/ramps is far better than what AP1 cars can do. I believe the only thing that AP1 does that AP2/2.5 does not yet do is read speed limit signs. AP1 also shows cars adjacent lanes on the dash, which AP2/2.5 does just fine when you use the turn indicators to do an Auto Lane Change
I have a better one.

Knock knock... blank page... <Ctrl>+<Shift>+<I>: "Uncaught TypeError: cannot read property 'a' of undefined."
This is brilliant--way simpler than my mental model of how my Zojirushi makes perfect rice every time.

Link for the lazy: https://www.quora.com/How-does-a-rice-cooker-know-when-the-r...
> More seriously, if the name of the game is efficiency then a distributed ledger isn't the answer.

And if you're only looking for immutability, then time-stamping is already good enough (and available since the late 90s or so). I suppose you can use a Merkle tree and then proceed to put "Blockchain" in your marketing materials without technically lying.
Stealing a Yubikey gives you immediate access to the 2nd factor, and I might not notice right away.

Stealing my iPhone gives you almost zero chance of accessing the second factor, I would notice a lot quicker, and I could revoke access (remote wipe) with a single click versus having to re-enroll a new 2FA at every single site individually.
> In fact, several progressives including Bernie Sanders have actively campaigned against private charities.

It's very common for progressives and leftists to be skeptical of tax-subsidies for private charities viewing them as mechanism for redirecting resources from public priorities to the private priorities of wealthy donors.

It's less common to see them actually campaign against private charity as such, and I suspect any claim of the latter is based on the former.
The Lindy affect applies to survival as much as it does to upside. If a business has been the same way for 30 years, it's much more likely to survive another 30 than a new company, but those 30 years will likely be similar to the first. Not all parts of the economy have such a fast up and down curve, so the 30-year business might be an appealing investment or not. Huge delta might be for some investors, but Lindy effect durability is very desirable to others.
Ban them all you like, they will be used regardless.

We'll see about that. I'd say legal bans are worth a try at least.

Privacy is dead, and nobody can save it.

If you keep repeating that to yourself as you go to sleep each night - by gosh, eventually it will become true.
Also, we can't zap lazers at living cells to see what their doing because it kills them, so actually making the discoveries is challenging.
Not sure how HN has limited bandwidth. It would seemingly be easy to simply ignore Bitcoin discussions if you don't care for the topic. I avoid discussions of Ruby on Rails but do not believe they should be suppressed.
In all honesty, we already have Big Brother.

All this does is allow his Little Brother to help him keep tabs on us.
whoops that's what I've been doing past few weeks...
No that's not what I'm saying. I understand the issue is complex. I am saying that crime looks different in Norway because their population is very different than the US, and that in the parts of the population that are more similar to the US you have higher crime rates.

I never claimed immigrants are somehow intrinsically more disposed to crime. In fact, the report doesn't make that claim either. It shows that crime rates vary greatly based on where immigrants/refugees come from.