skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "I don’t think anyone’s seen anything like this outside of the military trying to service vehicles in a war zone. I pity any customer taking delivery of one of these cars. The quality will be shocking"

Ouch, that is scathing, proof will be in the pudding though. If there are a lot of QA issues (which it seems reasonable to assume) then the recall rate + bad press might sink them. It's a scrappy (maybe desperate?) move, one which you would expect from an underdog, so good luck to them.
The previous word from Musk was that they just had some minor problems with their production line and were on track to ramp up to the normal production rate for the line. Starting up a new line for a new model sometimes takes quite a while, and Tesla had a much more optimistic schedule than is normal in the auto industry. But they seemed to be getting that under control.

Now they're operating a temporary manual assembly line in a tent? This indicates much bigger problems. And a coverup of them.
I know very little about AI, and even less about management. But phytel's story as told in TFA is depressing af. I wonder why nobody is held responsible for this catastrophic failure. Why isn't the head of Watson health out on the streets looking for another job?
So all of these are basically Bitcoin. Bitcoin's been going for a decade with minimal use for any of those things. That suggests none of them are significant user needs for most people. (Or, at least, Bitcoin is a terrible match for any need that does exist.)

Some of those aren't real needs. E.g., "without needing a bank" is not a real problem. The "diversify with an asset that is truly global" is similarly an ideological statement, not a financial one.

The "without taking fees" thing is slightly more plausible, but in practice most people are happy to pay 2-3%, or have merchants pay that, and payment networks aren't free to run, so I'm not sure how plausible it is. Sending money to family can be solved much better with non-blockchain methods, which is why Bitcoin has approximately zero foothold there.

The "inflating like crazy" thing is similarly mostly a fantasy. How many countries are falling apart financially but where rule of law, power service, and internet service are stable enough to run blockchain nodes? How much better would a barely-accessible digital currency be than scarce USD? Why not just buy some directly useful inflation hedge, like medicine or canned goods?

Even if it were good for the "financial collapse" use case, that doesn't mean much in the rest of the world. The US dollar and the Euro are useful in unstable financial environments because they have value elsewhere. But the reverse isn't true; nobody in the US holds USD because it's the black market currency of choice in Caracas. So that use case isn't anything to build a real system on.
I've not read the paper but am impressed by their presentation and the experience and community which they have already created around their 'SafeNet' browser.
I'm inclined to believe their mathematical analysis of their own system is sound. They say its based on a system with proven O(n^2) messages requirement, with an elaboration reducing message requirement to a more scalable O(n log n)
It might have something to do with most parsing libraries having a Monad/Monoid and Alternative type. Those two together give a truly excellent programmer experience for writing pragmatic, readable, and correct parsers.
What the heck? I was literally just reading about the Cornfield Bomber yesterday! I guess somebody else read the question on Aviation StackExchange [0] asking what autopilots are programmed to do upon pilot ejection.

Another very interesting case of a plane flying after the pilot ejected happened with a Soviet MiG-23 in 1989, which flew from Poland to Belgium, before crashing into a house and killing a man [1]. The map of its flightpath is interesting [2], imagine being one of the F-15 pilots that intercepted it. It would be nerve wracking having to intercept a plane heading straight into NATO airspace, and then completely bizarre when you discovered there was no pilot on it.

[0] https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/52862/if-a-pilo...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Belgian_MiG-23_crash

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20120426041634/http://images3.we...
Not at all - one can very reasonably assume that 'very frequently' means after it has been discovered during a traffic stop, in which case it is valid to ask how often djrogers has been in that situation.
I use a Kinesis Advantage. The keyboards is split into two angled ortholinear sections. It's the best layout I've ever used.

Look at your staggered keyboard. The left and right sections are not even symmetrical. Put your fingers on the home row, then naturally extend them to the next row. You will see that they're all over the place.

Staggered keys are a relic from typewriters, not an ergonomic design choice.
True, those same people spend billions on building the tallest buildings, the biggest man-made island systems, CERN, atomic weapon stock-piles, advanced military systems, ahhmmm, what else - when there are fundamental human problems that need solving - health and welfare, slavery, poverty, etc.

In all the essentials, we are no different to those who have become before us.
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Why would a car built in a 40+ year old factory have lower defect rates than one built in a tent? Honest question here...
I completely agree. It's naiveté. Technically, my local county recorder's office is a blockchain that has existed for centuries. It's cheap, reliable, correctable, enforceable, etc. It has all of the features without the downside.
I don't think that's the same. The website linked by this post has barely, if any, design (in form of CSS or otherwise) at all. It's not "brutalist", it's whatever the default browser layout and settings are.

That's how the web and HTML used to work: Focus almost entirely on content, semantic markup, the browser mostly decides how to present that information to you--along with your personal preferences.

So "brutalist" design does not apply, because there is no (visual) design involved.
Neither Object.entries nor the File constructor are supported in IE11. WebRTC support was only introduced in Safari 11, for example. As much as I'd like to only have to support modern standards, a large portion of people use outdated browsers. If we assume 10%, we would have to either provide additional support to those customers in the form of helping them download a new browser, or cut them off completely. That's a massive decision.

While I agree that these features are well supported, they're not well enough supported to use carelessly.
Apple acquiring Tesla after they go bankrupt is the logical endgame here.
What point are you trying to make? That Cornell law school is trying to be political here?
Musk's desire for full vertical integration

One reason for Tesla's vertical integration may be that they want ordinary components like seats done Their Way, but they don't buy in big enough quantities to get major suppliers to do that. This is why you see a lot of high-end but low volume cars with Recaro-branded seats.
Isn't the visual appeal of a power station a secondary factor at best? Just not sure of the relevance of your reply.
>What about scholarships?

I believe scholarships are a nearly perfect indicator of intelligence. Self motivation toward education is certainly another. These things allow people to move from one part of their class to another. And by class I don't mean the ever shifting terms politicians use, I mean the very specific meaning when the term was coined: those who must work to survive vs those born never needing to.

>Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg

1% of the population is in the top 1% of intelligence. 0.02% of the population are billionaires. Clearly intelligence is a trivial factor for immense wealth.

For that list, some of the people you cite as smart were born to wealthy parents, others not. If we assume[1] they are intellectually in the top 1%, then this very list shows no correlation between inherited wealth and inherited brains.

Since the claim is that the rich pass down smart genes, we should look look at the top hereditary billionaires in the world and see if there is any evidence that they are all in the top 1% intellectually.

Is Prince Alwaleed of Saudi Arabia super smart? How about Liliane Bettencourt, who does not even have hand in the business which makes her a billionaire. Or Georg Schaeffler who drove the company he inherited deeply in to debt. How about the wife of Steve Jobs.

Most relevant would be those who have been ultra rich for generations and only married other rich people: is Prince Charles among the smartest people in the world?

And the fact that rich Japanese adopt unrelated adults into the family who then run the business for the heirs. Obviously genes are irrelevant to wealth maintenance here.

>In the 60s China and Korea were African level poor, but they had high IQs

For that last several centuries, China's GDP was so low famines were a regular occurrence. Only in the last silver of history have they become rich. So obviously this has nothing to do with genetics but with changes to society both inside and outside China.
Hacking a company is against the law. Full stop.
For an existing property owner, any construction, noise or inconvenience is a "taking" that they can avoid by protesting. It's rational when you think about it - what's in it for them?

Also, developers are shysters who are profiting from that disruption. Why should existing owners help them?

So those are the underlying issues to address.
The question made it to HN [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17391550
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1463301 describes the study that is being run to determine the best design for incorporating Firefox Monitor into the browser UI.

(Disclosure: Although I work at Mozilla, I have not worked on Firefox Monitor)
Its a bit like - Why use C when assembly exists. Why use C++ when C exists. Why use Python when C++ exists. They all have uses.
There is room for disagreement but there is certainly a strong anti labor sentiment on this board. There's a strong pro labor group as well, but I have seen people on here state outright that unions are inherently immoral and not just that unions as they have turned on in specific situations are bad.
I'm not sure the "let's build it in China" route would have worked out well here. If you're building something that's just like what lots of other people are building, you can probably outsource it to somewhere that's already building something like that for other people. If you're building something that's not, then putting the manufacturing on the other side of the planet in a different company's hands, is suicide.
Not really a coverup any more. He has already admitted that they went full-in on robotic automation that has not worked out.
There ought to be some sort of regulation preventing this sort of thing - like the Glass-Steagall Act in banking that mandated separation of investment banking and commercial banking operations.
Ummmm... you got a little sidetracked. We can do all of that without also going into debt. We shouldn't constrain future cash flow when we don't have to. And we don't have to. During a recession, we have to.
Why should we not treat all people humanely?
Probably because that StackExchange question is also on HN frontpage right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17391550
Why aren't tall buildings economically useful?
Such a stupid argument.
While I get what you're saying, isn't that a very "supervised ML" way of thinking?

In a world where unsupervised learning was easier to apply, it might be possible to start with data, compress it to a low-dimensional manifold, and use that understanding as inspiration for better directions/questions to pose.

So I guess the real problem is that humans expect anything branded as "intelligence" to have the ability to learn in an unsupervised manner, while breakthroughs are closer to the regime where the goals are supervised while the solutions are discovered. Of course, the amount of supervision probably lies on a continuum, between everything being completely specified (classical programming) and everything unsupervised ("true" "human" intelligence).
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Thankfully I’ve never procreated.

Imagine being trapped in an unwanted life, wanting to die, but staying alive because it is “right” for others.

Some simply want to be dead, not seek medical help. The arrangement of western life, however, is that one is expected to “seek help” when they’ve decided to pack it in.
As Docker has proved to me, people don't care about saving space anymore.
The time of shared libraries has come and gone. And yes I realize you can use shared libraries in Docker, but at that point it's acting more like a static library oddly enough.

Side note - anytime I see Drepper mentioned I cringe a bit. I don't like to badmouth people, but I can't think of a worse figure in recent open source history.
It is a solution. Buying real-estate is not as economically productive as say creating a factory. We created factories in china, imported their goods, gave them $$$, with which they are slowly buying america. Remember every time u import, you are selling your country. If its not balanced with exports, you are eventually handing off the country. America was long depending on fooling other countriesby devaluing dollars, but tgat does not work with china.
Don't know why I didn't register until 1997, but I guess by then it'd grown way too big to keep casual copies lying around.
Exactly, if the company is not able to convert its designs to product right here, how will they do that same thing but thousands of miles away in China?
> you run it in GCP where they take care of that part for you

Although I'm generally inclined to agree with your positions on this thread (biased as I am due to my Ops profession), this doesn't seem like a valid criticism.

If Docker-on-GCP actually does address all the issues from the perspective of the developers/customers/users, then it's a plausible solution. The only consideration would be cost.
The key part of the original post is to SILENTLY disable the remote interface. This only leaks if there are two devices (a thermostat and temperature sensor) that don't know about each other or the other's secret offline status.

With a doorbell, the assumption is that the app would be made to show 'ringing doorbell' when the doorbell is actually offline and silent - not as presently implemented where the Internet of Shit app doesn't have any fault handling and simply HTTP GETs {"doorbell":"ring"} and discards the response.

Same for the thermostat, as for the Android privacy APKs that show bogus location data, white noise from the mic, bogus contacts, or the inside of a lens cover from the camera to apps that request those permissions needlessly.
FTA: "The chaos of how Musk is going about this makes it difficult for him to provide the standardized, repeatable work routines that allow people to function"

It's not so much the tent that's the issue. It's more to do with the "fk it, we're in a bind, quick, everyone in the tent" approach which is raising eyebrows. Say what you want about Tesla, but they do make for interesting watching. I'll be grabbing my popcorn for this new episode in the story :)
that inherently seems off; conservatives are defined by trying to follow traditions and precedent. Not changing is their thing
This exactly.

The top 1 or 2 post on HN right now is about civil forfeiture in the US, a policy I’d guess most people familiar with it today had never heard of before the Oliver segment on it a few years back.
I don't think the factory is 40 years old. They built it in the last 5 years.
For those in the top of their industry for many years still pulling in millions of people every time they create something (music, movies, soundtracks, TV episodes) and have a large video, streaming, Youtube or TV presence, are pretty good along with those that have been doing their thing for 20+ years.

You can normally tell how good it is by how high quality their trailer video is (the best made their own and are actually doing things, besides just looking back at the camera) on the site along with viewing their free Youtube videos and interviews. Even better when their name is almost synonymous with their industry

Most notable on the site are:
Armin Van Buuren,
Hans Zimmer,
Gordon Ramsay,
R.L. Stine,
Deadmau5,
Samuel L. jakson,
Gordon Ramsay,
Christina Aguilera
Remember that China has had expertise in manufacturing personal electronics since well before the iPhone. Cars, not so much.
The building and the tent is the wrong comparison. The right comparison is between a well setup assembly line (say at some other automaker) and one tossed together in a parking lot.
Just want to understand, does this mean that a Hacker (white hat one) cannot play and hack a 'Big Web' that does not provide a sandbox? We are curious, right?
How can it be fair if it's set up by the company? Even if it's an "agreement" between an employee and the employer, the employer is in a much more powerful position and can force a better position. The whole point of unions is to have enough labor negotiating together than it can argue on the same footing as the company
I think it will be a new tool for a lot a technologists too (ie myself)
Because you've had 40 years to iron out any problems on the line.
I've heard previously that they go so far as saying the charges are against the property itself so the owner has no standing to sue the government which keeps them from ever determining the constitutionality of civil forfeiture.

This is generally how the cases are titled - U.S.A vs $200,000 US currency, for example. Here's a list of recent federal court cases where the defendant is "currency" [1]. You can also view publicly posted forfeiture notices, which give an indication of the magnitude of this problem, here [2]. But the owner can still attempt to get it back, it's just usually at a very high legal cost.

[1] https://prnt.sc/jzcl8c

[2] https://www.forfeiture.gov
if the people who participated at the time would ever have imagined the need for whois anonymizers and weird tricks to keep your email address from being picked up by robots and spiders.

My name is in there. People easily imagined these things and more, they're not hard to imagine.
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Would be extremely appreciative if there's anyone out there that would help in:

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You could also charge a fee to everyone who calls 911.

Seriously though. The police are a service provider who are employed by and act on behalf of all citizens. If we want functioning law enforcement, we should be willing to pay for it.

We might not appreciate it on a daily basis, but functioning law enforcement saves individuals a lot of money. Imagine if they didn't exist and everyone had to to organise their own security.
> I was implying that there was another path that would have resulted in an even more positive result

Ah, the old "I intended the exact opposite of what I said" ploy.
@lostcolony didn’t ask anyone to prove anything. I just read his comment; he merely asked for clarification.
What is wrong with our society? We need AI to tell us how to be healthy? Is this real? Sometimes I feel like I live in the twilight zone.

PSA for anyone with a disease that man and corporate picked a name for - you are feeding yourself towards that disease. Fix your diet (and 100% rid yourself of animal products, processed sugar, wheat, and any "food" that comes in a package with a label on it - hell stay away from anything that isn't a fruit or a vegetable), go on a dry / water fast, and heal yourself. Stop relying on doctors, AI, whatever the hell they produce supposedly for you.
I would disagree with your assertion there that bureaucracies are terminal. Historically, military dictatorships tend to overthrow bureaucracies, while democracies overthrow military dictatorships and bureaucracies subsume democracies. Each of these transitions can be understood thermodynamically; each transition results in a lower energy state for the problems facing them at the time:

Bureaucracies lack military response time. Dictatorships lack economic stability. Democracies lack efficiency. Each of these are actually each model's strength, but over time becomes fatal.
I disagree with the theory that we can grow our debt forever without consequence. I never advocated pegging to anything.

Private banks create money through lending, correct. Lending is constrained by the supply of creditworthy customers. Money is not issued by decree by the Federal Reserve or the government.
Not sure how the procreation part is relevant. You are part of society and many communities whether you like it or not.

I guess I don't understand how life is wanted/unwanted. I have no concept of what it is like to not have life, so how could I possibly prefer it? I think because I can't rationalize it makes me think that something else might be at play. At the end of the day seeking medical help has very little downside even if it isn't helpful. Not seeking medical help when it could have been helpful seems like it has a tremendous amount of downside with very little upside.
Defacing the wikipedia page isn't a productive way to vent your frustration, but I can sympathise with why those vandals are frustrated. I wanted to view the Australian electrical wiring standards document only to find it cost something like $200 for a single document. I was able to obtain the NZ version, which is nearly identical, for free. Personally, I would have paid up to $30 without too much complaining.
What am I expected to do in this role? Why has this job position opened up?

What is the long term focus of the company? Figure out whether they are champion players, trying to survive, or comfortable and making money. And whether their plans to meet those ambitions are sensible.

Try to get a feel of the culture. Are they more of a family? Are they strictly work/life separate? Are they serious or playful? Does everyone go home at 5? Is everyone on time? Does the company try to bite off more than it can chew? Is overtime common? Do employees own a part of the company (shares/equity)? How many core members are on a part time basis?
According to recent press coverage, Tesla will both be bankrupt within the year, while killing every driver that attempts to use Autopilot; and at the same time be the savior/catalyst of the automobile industry, bringing electric and self-driving vehicles to the masses.

Can we ratchet down the Tesla hysteria a few notches?
It's not that the author is incorrect, it's just that the argument he used was a straw man. i.e. they are unrelated domains. However the metrics that are used to qualitatively measure the performance of each model's performance on their respective problem domain may be useful for research. For example, we know that deep neural nets are currently state-of-the-art for image recognition, and so if our problem involves a similar image recognition problem, we might be wise to start off with a neural net. We don't have to start from scratch; we can use "transfer learning" to get some base weights (bottleneck features) going and refine our model from there.

The point is, there is no panacea, no "ultimate algorithm" for any and every problem, and yet the author demands this of machine learning in that section of his writing.