skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the clickbait approach to journalism.

Investigative and traditional news journalism will still focus on unusual deltas or events — and in this case, those deltas should be in Tesla's favor. A good example of newsworthiness might be if firefighters failed to put out a battery fire or if the NTSB (edited from NHTSA) focused on a particular incident for some reason, e.g. to learn and see how this event is being handled versus others.

"Tesla on fire" isn't newsworthy.

"NTSB monitoring emergency response to Tesla car fire" probably is. (edited from NHTSA. Source release: https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/NR20180509.as...)

"Tesla batteries catch on fire [more or less] frequently than gas cars" is newsworthy. It may even be worthy of further investigation in either event.

"Tesla on fire" isn't newsworthy.
Separating thousands of children from their families is what capitalism does. That's the outcome. They just pin it all on Trump like there has ever been any other capitalist "utopia" that didn't also turn out like this. Cue the chorus of: But they had good intentions, this isn't real capitalism...and on and on. At least the place hasn't gone all Pinkerton on it's people yet, hopefully it never does.
Very much agreed. I meant it as a tongue in cheek comment. I am however deeply disappointed by the vague and useless updates on https://status.slack.com/2018-06/142edcb9e52c7663

They might as well have written:

- nope but maybe at some point a yep
- still nope
- nope
- nope

... I know many companies don't like to give details in the heat of the moment (and the engineers that understand are likely working on it), so I really do hope they give us a good retro after it's all over.
I use Matlab over Python for scientific computing mainly because the documentation makes everything easier.
> I wonder, can someone tell me why there are so many obese people in these video clips, if food is so hard to come by?

If those people are alive (as they observably are), then logically they are getting food.

When you're poor, you generally can only afford low quality food. Low quality food is bad for your health, resulting in many problems including obesity and diabetes.

Low quality food is generally processed grain. It's cheap to make and cheap to keep "fresh," which is why we have so much of it in the US. Think high fructose corn syrup, and almost anything that comes in a box, and do the thought experiment across the food chain from the farm, through manufacturing and distribution, to consumption and the doctor's office.

When you see a population of obese people, don't think that their food problem is solved; realize that the food they have practical access to is a problem. (And yes, many rich people in rich countries are obese and have a choice, but many of those obese people are poor and do not, and we're not talking about a rich country at the moment.)
Replace by "overrode my decision capability" (meaning you cannot act beyond reflex) or "overran my symbolic capability" (it was so big you cannot describe it) or perhaps overrode your other senses (couldn't sense anything else physically) or perhaps "stopped your self model from updating" (blocked integration of other perceptions).

Better? Definitely less poetic but perhaps more accurate.
Google solved this by having it talk to you naturally so you never even consider responding differently. Seems like a winning idea.
I have _never_ heard a car alarm that wasn't a false alarm. And living in a large city, I hear one almost every night.
Just as we sign a £100K+/annum contact with them...

At least it happened before we've migrated.
> The Model S, which was being driven by Barrett Riley, was traveling at 116mph three seconds before the collision

What do you expect to happen when a lithium ion battery hits a wall at high speeds?
They very likely have all of these protections in place, and more. Large-scale outages of mature systems are almost always a cascade of small human errors that, each on their own, would have caused negligible damage. It's only when they happen to align with each other that a large disaster is realized.
Batteries provide oxygen, fuel and a way to get that fuel hot enough to ignite (electrical energy) in close proximity. The higher the energy density the easier they will light up and the harder it is to put them out. Unless there's a fundamental breakthrough that allows us to use different materials to store electrical energy this is always going to happen from time to time.

Only the most die-hard of fanboys ever claimed that having a bunch of lithium batteries on the floor of your vehicle was an improvement in safety over liquid fuels.

All forms of energy storage are going to have the potential to destroy things by releasing that energy. The big difference between a bomb and energy suitable for conversion into mechanical power is time.
Lyft's Valuation Doubles to $15.1B Over One Year
Why? People call businesses all the time and get robots, why would it be different the other way around? As soon as the boss figures out you're hanging up on people trying to get reservations you can bet hangups will stop ASAP.
Reader view in safari or firefox is what you want. I have it turned on for all websites and haven't looked back.

I honestly don't know how chrome users can use the web nowadays with how bad things have gotten.
Electric cars are a different beast in terms of fire. Fire crews know how to put out a conventional fire. Remove the fuel and/or source of ignition and fire is out. Drain the tank, disconnect the battery terminals, and it is safe to haul away. A battery fire is different. You can never really remove the energy potential without discharging the batteries, something that cannot reasonably be done at an accident scene. So the wrecked Tesla is a different animal, something more newsworthy, than a standard wreck.

I read about a concept car that was going to integrate capacitors into its carbon fiber frame. High electrical potentials, encased in a mesh of carbon, doing 100kph down a public road. What could possibly go wrong? I think more boom than burn.
By the time you level up to subconscious diaper changing the kid is usually past the stage where messy diapers happen at night, but yea if you detect something nuclear down there its best to turn the light on and get it done right. XD
GPL and other libre licenses have termination clauses. Eg,

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> Moreover, your license from a particular copyright holder is reinstated permanently if the copyright holder notifies you of the violation by some reasonable means, this is the first time you have received notice of violation of this License (for any work) from that copyright holder, and you cure the violation prior to 30 days after your receipt of the notice.

> Termination of your rights under this section does not terminate the licenses of parties who have received copies or rights from you under this License. If your rights have been terminated and not permanently reinstated, you do not qualify to receive new licenses for the same material under section 10.
> his father had installed speed-control technology on his son's Model S to limit its maximum speed to 85mph

Is there anywhere near Mountain View where it's legal to drive even 75mph, let alone 85mph?
So do you believe everything you've heard about?
It does, yeah. But powershell inside conemu is a fairly decent experience.
Meanwhile, IBM has poured Billions with a capital B to turn Linux from a hobbyist me-too to a top-tier OS.
Trump != capitalism

Capitalism is:

- freedom to own property
- freedom to use or trade property you own
- freedom to trade services for property or other services

Of course that's not enough to create a viable society. Whatever else you add to the sauce is not capitalism, it's something else.
I have a bash alias "ddg" that opens duckduckgo on w3m for searching error messages and such. Despite "responsiveness" and all that, the best way to use a graphical web browser is full-screen; with a tiling wm, text browsers are often the best choice.

I pity the fool that switches between jupyter notebooks and stack overflow answers using a mouse and tiny tiny tabs. That fool was me ~18 months ago.
Looking at the code in the examples, the first style thing that I would suggest fixing is that the name of a boolean variable should be a yes/no question which the value is an answer to. So don't name the boolean "temporary". Name it "isTemporary" instead.

Moving on to the actual point, for a balanced view just look at cyclotomic complexity. In a function, count the decision points. Every if and loop counts. Any function with 10+ decision points is too complex and needs to be refactored to make the control flow more obvious.

Following this rule will let you use if quite happily, while also avoiding the problems with it.

(A side tip. If your language has some variant of "unless", don't use it. Ever. Our brains do not do de Morgan's laws naturally. So you can write code that is clearer upon writing, but is much harder to keep straight when you're debugging. The time that you need to understand your code best is while debugging, so ease of debugging is more important.)
back up for me.
Yeah, it's really funny and ironic when you cost customers money!
Additionally, consuming mostly processed grain leads to micronutrient deficiencies, which can in turn cause food cravings that are extremely difficult to resist -- causing people to overeat the food that is available.
What does "crashed to springboard" mean?
That much water is probably enough to react with all exposed lithium, while removing enough heat to prevent damage to other batteries or battery cases.
No, just use a compiler that doesn't actively attempt to malicously sabotage you. C has perfecly well defined semantics for (eg) null pointer dereference: read or write memory location zero, and consequently probably crash. Not "silently rewrite the pointer to nonzero-but-still-pointing-at-address-zero-somehow and proceed to bypass subsequent sanity checks for no damn reason".
Let's say the self hosted chat app does go down. Now someone has to fix it. Someone who probably has something better to do. In a cloud hosted solution, the person in charge of fixing your computer doesn't work for you.

My experience with self hosted solutions is that they go down way more often and take longer to fix than cloud solutions.
While we're at this, I found the explainations by 3Brown1Blue to be very intuitive when it comes to neural networks, especially for folks who're new and don't necessarily grasp concepts when explained primarily through math.

What is backpropagation really doing?
https://youtu.be/Ilg3gGewQ5U

His other videos on this topic are just as good.
It would probably improve the code quality quite a bit, but mostly I think they'd use the money for other projects, which is something that happens with big companies, too. The reason you see Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple get into "everything" is because they make so much more money than they need for their primary businesses.
I agree, it is not that bad. HN is a grumpy bunch who wants everything to be a text file and every millisecond of loading is precious time wasted.
There are so many open source solutions, Mattermost, Rocketchat, etc, why are companies willing to pay $100k/yr for Slack? What was the defining feature that others didn't have? Even Discord feels like it has far more features than Slack.
Although you present it as ridiculous, whether or not 2+2=4 is actually a serious topic among mathematicians. The search term you are looking for is "alternative axiomatic set theories". The alternatives may or may not be useful, but a lot of math we use today was not originally useful and it's a good thing people worked on it.

I understand that you are concerned about a general distrust of science that stands in the way of human progress. I am too. But this distrust is only partly caused by "those with an agenda". The other part is that science is sometimes oversold by zealous adherents. Then, when the results are more moderate, people feel lied to and they grow distrust. Being more critical about science, far from being the problem, is actually the solution to the problem you are concerned about.

Elsewhere in the thread the question of eugenics etc have been raised. And I understand you know they are psuedo-science etc., but without you personally labeling all the pseudoscientists how is someone supposed to tell the difference? (And if there's an oracle who can tell us what is true or false we can just use that, we don't need science.)

A more modern example might be this paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26834996. tl;dr it is a quite well-designed, peer-reviewed meta-analysis published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology from a credible researcher who concludes that precognition exists (which is ESP, basically). Now obviously that is bullshit, but A) isn't it a little backwards to say something is obviously bullshit when it has strong evidence behind it, B) if obvious bullshit can make it through the scientific process what does that say about the usefulness of that process?

The scientific method as it is practiced is deeply flawed. It is operated by fallible humans, funded (or not) to advance an agenda, and so on. At various times it has been the scientific view that the sun revolves around the earth, that electricity exists in two fluids, that flies are spontaneously generated from rotting meat, and on and on. Modern times are actually the golden era for scientific acceptance and its influence on human lives, and yet it is those same scientific discoveries – the combustion engine, atomic bomb, antibiotics and mass communication technology – that threaten our civilization.

Being critical of the scientific method is not only important, it is necessary. The temptation throughout human history is to find some "holy grail" that will lift humanity beyond its current vantage point. Once upon a time this was actually a holy grail, but in modern times science – perhaps due to its effectiveness – has often captured this slot in human psychology. But a grail science is not; it's a human system with human triumphs and human weaknesses and the sooner we get a realistic picture of that, the better for learning how to use it to achieve our objectives effectively.
Did you read your own link? It undercuts all the points you're making. They make a bunch of shoes there still (it's not clear if they've even reduced Chinese production or moved new capacity to Vietnam) and they are moving further up the value chain to luxury shoe production. And the reason for the move (increasing wages) means more consumption and more capacity for consumer deleveraging.
Seems like a ridiculously low amount of money from the world's largest company. Doesn't Linux power their entire business?
It’s amazing that we allow a car to be sold that can go this fast. They bothered to pass a law limiting electric bicycles to 28 MPH but my car will go 155. Why?
"Why does there seem to be so many people sitting around? Surely with so much manpower available, there are way to make them productive on a large scale?"

Yeah well, how to organize society? Let it organize on their own, free market, etc. - or organize it from top with commands.

In theory we have the first and they have the latter. But it is never that black and white.

Even if some try to paint it like that. And I doubt that there are really starving, "just" that it is hard to get meat for example. Only the very basics. So you still can get fat with rice and beans, but still suffer from malnutrition.

.. and "Revolutionary Kellogg's" ... I found quite hillarious.
Name a search engine that's better than Google

I never stated that Google isn't the best search engine out there. I stated that I hoped the natural language learning from Duplex would filter down to the Google search engine.

But while we're on the topic, find a search query in which Google will return a list of movie reviewers in the city of Chicago. It can't. It is so focused on second-guessing search queries that it will only return lists of reviews of the film Chicago.

I had this exact very frustrating experience once trying to find the name of a woman I met who publishes a popular movie review blog in Chicago. There's even a "guild" of sorts of movie reviewers in Chicago, but Google could only surface that as high as the 10th page of results.

I know I'm not the only person frustrated with Google's desire to second-guess my searches because I heard a comedian on the radio last week who did a bit that lasted five whole minutes on Google second-guessing searches.
AFAIK, they provide only administrative support (payroll, HR, etc). That's not really "much of" the work on Let's Encrypt.

There's a whole lot of other facilitating not included in that.. like infrastructure (hosting, development, test), management, technical support, etc.
IMO the solution to this is one instance, one domain, and one IP per person with some kind of financial sustainability (i.e. you pay for it) but it's very difficult for people to swallow.
With great power comes great responsibility.

I might not code daily in C++ anymore, but it would be nice that the software I rely on, specially in devices I am not able to upgrade, wouldn't suffer from such issues.

Butcher knifes are deadly sharp, yet those conscious ones do use proper gloves when handling them.
There isn't enough lithium at play to worry about water+lithium fires. Not every battery cell is exposed. The water is needed to reduce temperature, to prevent undamaged cells from being cooked by the burning ones. Foam removes oxygen but that doesn't reduce the energy potential contained in the damaged cells It won't prevent them from cooking off their neighbours like water will.

Water is also needed to unsure and carbon fiber doesn't burn, releasing all sorts of nasty stuff.
Or DNS.
Ask HN: Robhinhood portfolio tracker
I use robhinhood here and there. I'd like a way to create weekly reports on how I did. Nothing complex, just a simple report showing me positions over the last week and how I did rolling it all up into a single Profit/Loss number.

Any tools that you really like and/or use?
Yup, every time one of the popular centralized XaaS platforms go down, there's always the snarky "Heh, well my stuff is self-hosted...", and they are always the types that have no idea how to value their time.
This command line turns the two files everybody on the rest of the Internet cares about into the single file that Microsoft, in its unvarying quest to be different for no reason, has decided is the right choice for their software.

Specifically you've got a Private Key (which your servers need, but you mustn't show to anybody and so must be very careful to protect) and a Certificate (which is a public signed document and it's fine to show it to anybody, if you lose it you can just get another copy). Completely different security profiles so it makes sense to keep them separate even though you need both...

And then Microsoft says OK, let's use RSA's (the company not the algorithm) PKCS #12 to bundle these two items together into a PFX file. Now we've got a file that we'll call a "certificate" but in fact must be kept private at all times and not shown to anybody.

The worst thing about PFX / PKCS #12 is that as here you're usually going to see it because somebody skipped the vital step that actually makes any of Public Key security worth having. The Subject / Applicant should always generate their own keys. If you let the Certificate Issuer make the keys, the whole enterprise is basically a charade because instead of just acting as an Authority, now they're proxying for you entirely, if they want to impersonate you they can trivially do so at any time. Security goes out the window.

One of the great things about Let's Encrypt is that they illustrated that you can do this right (Let's Encrypt never sees your private keys, indeed if you mistakenly present them they'll revoke your certificate on the rationale that now the keys are revealed and the cert is worthless) without making the end user jump through technical hoops like typing in OpenSSL commands they don't understand. Your keys are made on your machine, but unless you care you don't need to know about it.
Why we believe in an open cloud
Thank for posting this! I recently had quite a few discussions about this topic with people who insist to _always_ use if/elseif/elsif/... constructs in such situations. I tried to argue that in most situations a "if (a) {return}; if (b) {return}; do_c()" construction is much easier to understand but I had only little success convincing them.
I loved this format so much. It feels like some of the people who are complaining are acting as if this is going to replace text somehow, which I hardly think will be the case. There is plenty of room for both formats. I thought this was the perfect middleground between a documentary and an article. Documentaries often feel biased or like they're trying to manipulate the audience or something. Articles, at least to me (though it's a function of how good your imagination is), can sometimes feel a bit too distant from reality. Language is too abstract, too manipulable, and some phrases are too loaded to not be distracting. Short videos with scenes from everyday life, coupled with a slight bit of interactivity (the "next" button) makes it much harder to zone out of (unlike a long-form movie), and to me at least made it much more somehow connected to reality. I definitely feel like I have a much closer and personal understanding of the situation, much more so than I would have gotten with a documentary or an article.
Technical people who haven't used IRC can barely figure out IRC their first time using it. Trying to sell IRC to a company would be hilarious. Bob in Accounting getting on IRC and feeling comfortable with it's UX?
C++ is not "letting the programmer fully control every knob". Quite the opposite. Buggy, insecure, broken software is usually not the intention. The developer wanted one thing, and got something else, because of arcane details of the language. C++ is just a bad programming language, and "but it's powerful" is not invalidating that fact.
But what if they're wrong?
If I am not mistaken, this homemade pseudoscope works on a slightly different principle - it switches the perspective from which each eye sees the object, without any left-right reversal. The two-prism device appears to preserve the perspective of each eye but does a left-right reversal of the images on each retina (I confirmed the non- left-right reversal in the mirror case with a pair of hand-held mirrors.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscope#/media/File:Pseudo...
This has been down for hours for me as well, not just 30 minutes.