skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably both one and infinite. Hypercars usually run on +100% margins in an attempt to cover their absurd R&D, and this is the halo model of the hypercar, which usually run at even higher margins, so a +$300k gross off each model sold will not be unusual. Even then these types of cars never make back their investment costs, as they serve more as advertisements of their parent company more so than actual products.
True, but those are usually not on a moving vehicle and have the luxury of being as heavy and big as desired. Engines on ships instead are limited by weight and size, engines on cars/trucks a little bit more, engines on planes much more and at the edge of technology we have the engines on rockets which have to be as light as humanly possible whilst still providing high thrust-specific fuel consumption
That writeup mentions it has a "detachable steering wheel and brake pedal", which is surely going to give me nightmares where the Lego steering wheel pops off in my hand and the accelerator pedal sticks to the floor.
I don't think so. The size in BTC is 1143 (according to the article) so this is probably in the new bolivars.

Still not sure whether a record in such an inflationary environment means very much but it's a non-trivial amount of BTC.
As always, this scene[0] from The Pentagon Wars remains relevant.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQ2lO3ieBA
I live in the Bay Area, but grew up in southern California and went to college in LA. I fled LA when I graduated for all the typical reasons. That's all changed in the past 5 years or so. Right now, I'm very professionally satisfied and my partner isn't interested in moving, but going back to LA is on my mind for the first time in a very long time.

One note: the cost of living isn't that much lower. It's definitely below the Bay Area, but it's above Seattle (although maybe not for long, but no state income tax is an advantage).
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Very few places, like all of Canada, parts of the northern US, Alaska, most of Russia, etc...

Even then you have to be willing to keep the thermostat set at 55F/13C or the resistive heaters are going to kick in.
And you are absolutely right. It always starts with good people.

My company has good people. We have defined programs in place to make sure we have good people, or that the people we have are in the right seats and are engaged in their work. When we have toxic players who cannot be happy and engaged no matter where we put them, we move them out.

But we also had rapid growth, and so with good people came a scattered process - every project team did things differently. It has been steadily improving, and we are building the tools to make the process as effortless as possible. But before we did that, we spent months mapping out existing processes and standardizing them. It was painful. But it's also now fueling growth. More work gets done with the same amount of effort.

Management here tried to throw tools at it early on. It's the natural reaction. But thankfully, they learned quickly. We have a good management team.
Thanks, I'm checking it now! Also hey Andrew, long time no see (edit: I realised I have no details on HN - it's Sean, we worked together in ADI) :D
If they're EU citizens living in the US, they're under US law and jurisdiction.
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The F-35 will be complete when the enemy says it's complete.
What's the worst that can happen?
I've made this observation as well. It goes further than diet, of course. Cars and clothes is another example.

The only thing that could change this behavior is if women selected for mates practicing sustainability.
What about EU citizens living in the United States? They also fall under the scope of GDPR AFAIK.
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Wait is is this still true? Transactions are still public to the world by default? I remember seeing this a while back and would have thought Venmo/Paypal would have changed the default by now. I guess that's not the case?
Who even reads articles about Venezuela anymore? When it's too bad, people become insensitive about the issues.
gotta get that sprint burnt down
I was having a conversation yesterday with someone from Venezuela.

The new Soverign Bolivar is a weak desperate attempt at the Venezeulan government to combat runaway inflation with its normal currency, the Bolivar. Its inflation is just as bad as Zimbabawe, although devaluation isn't occuring due to moneyprinting, but rather low oil prices in 2015, which the Venezula economy mostly relied on. Its cheaper to use Bolivars as toilet paper than actual toiletpaper most likely.

Venezula is currently making an attempt at introducing a cryptocurrency of its own, but without the technical infrastructure or trust to back it.

I have been told that US dollars are treated as the formalized currency over there. But its illegal to trade US dollars to bollivards and can only be done in the black market, getting caught lands you in jail. Resorting to cryptocurrency/black markets makes more sense, as transactions are more secure and less volatile. IIRC mostly everyone still has access to smartphones/computers and potentially VPN's so trading makes more sense. Potentially as well local P2P wallet trading as well

I have known friend's families who have had lost everything due to government takeovers on their small businesses when Chavez originally took over. Maduro isn't doing the country any favors either
Not bad actually
“New immunotherapies that enlist white blood cells to attack tumors have shown excellent results. ”

“Napster co-founder Sean Parker has donated $250 million for immunotherapy research.”

It was mentioned.
How did you like Scratch, and how was it going from Scratch to JavaScript?

There's another visual programming language called "Snap!", which is inspired by and similar to Scratch, but has the full power of JavaScript and Scheme, everything's an object, and you can define your own blocks. Plus there are some amazing networking, speech and AI blocks, too! (It has a JavaScript block that makes it very easy to extend and plug in existing JavaScript code.)

I'm interested to know what you think of Snap!, from your perspective of going from Scratch to JavaScript!

https://snap.berkeley.edu

AI extensions of Snap! for the eCraft2Learn project:

https://ecraft2learn.github.io/ai/

>The eCraft2Learn project is developing a set of extensions to the Snap! programming language to enable children (and non-expert programmers) to build AI programs. You can use all the AI blocks after importing this file into Snap! or Snap4Arduino. Or you can see examples of using these blocks inside this Snap! project.

Here's more info:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17594403
i did google search for "refcount meme", and found out your comment as 3rd result, so it's not that popular...
Progress is slow because much of the long hanging fruit has been picked

Cancer is much more difficult and complicated than other types of diseases

Clinical trials bypass the FDA but very seldom result in cures or improved survival. It's not like people with advanced cancer are being denied experimental treatments, but the problem is for every success that gets media attention, the vast majority of these treatments do nothing or are even harmful
It's $1.2m actually according to the calculator, not $12m. So the asset went up 10x more than inflation in those 55 years.
"humanities majors don’t make much less than people who choose to study computer science and finance"
Uh...that's not a true statement, computer science majors make substantially more than humanities majors:
https://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2018/08/some-prelimina...
From the abstract -
"In the development of the new version of the protocol, the IETF TLS Working Group has adopted an ``analysis-prior-to-deployment" design philosophy. This is in sharp contrast to all previous versions of the protocol. We present an account of the TLS standardisation narrative, commenting on the differences between the reactive development process for TLS 1.2 and below, and the more proactive design process for TLS 1.3. As part of this account, we present work that falls on both sides of this design transition. We contribute to the large body of work highlighting weaknesses in TLS 1.2 and below by presenting two classes of attacks against the RC4 stream cipher when used in TLS. Our attacks exploit statistical biases in the RC4 keystream to recover TLS-protected user passwords and cookies."

and,

"Next we present a symbolic analysis of the TLS 1.3 draft specification, using the Tamarin prover, to show that TLS 1.3 meets the desired goals of authenticated key exchange, thus contributing to a concerted effort by the TLS community to ensure the protocol's robustness prior to its official release."
That's great news, will this be on par with Ghostery features wise or will it be less granular?
Maybe I'm my employer? Maybe I only work a few hours a day at my nice employer and an email here and there in my commute is no biggie? Maybe there's many other reasons why I want to send or read email?

Please do what you want with your time. Use your bus/train time for what you want to do, which includes voluntarily giving away that time at whatever cost you want.
Google releases OSS reinforcement learning framework for training AI models
The amount cited is 500,000,000 VES, not 500,000,000 VEF.

From [1]:

> The bolívar soberano (... ISO 4217 code: VES) is the main currency of Venezuela since 20 August 2018. Since that date, it has been due to replace the bolívar fuerte (strong bolívar, sign: Bs.F., ISO 4217 code: VEF) after a transition period.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_bol%C3%ADvar
Just imagine how the people who didn't save 85% of their paycheck feel!

I think we all worry about this; some are more frugal than others.

However, I know I didn't really worry about this the way I do now until I started having a family.
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> People who don't check their phones after-hours cannot be trusted to lead projects with demanding clients.

"Demanding clients" often respond positively to articulated, practiced boundaries. I'd be unimpressed with a project lead who simply allowed their client to set the rules. I expect the lead to know what's best for the project/team and to have the skills to communicate that to the client in a way they understand. We like the clients who "know the rules" implicitly, but that doesn't mean the others can't come to learn them.

The rare clients who really are so demanding that you can't even establish a boundary like this is probably dragging a whole fleet of problems behind them.

[And if you need to be available off-hours because that's what the project needs, that's different. Then it has nothing to do with how "demanding" the client is. It's the project that's setting the terms.]
Of course. But by "process," I think we all understand "defined process." If it's not defined and enforced, it's left to whim and chance. I wouldn't really call that process.
More like: it takes a lot of people to justify budget and tuition increases.
Presumably, they use sample recordings to train a model. This approach is in the domain of machine learning, a subset of AI.
I feel one of the aspects of this that's not covered is:

Yes while the employer may not be able to legally force you to handle emails outside of official work hours and doing so counts as working...

Depending on your job, if you don't check and reply to some time sensitive emails outside of work hours, you might a) become a roadblock on someone else's project that's due soon b) be late to respond to "emergencies" and this can affect how people perceive your overall effectiveness and performance.

Of course, company culture can minimize last minute requests, unrealistic deadlines, etc. to minimize these "emergencies" that need quick replies but many don't.
The attack on "fake news", by any other name...
Bitcoin Transaction Value Reaches $1.3T as It Passes PayPal and Discover
There are too many perverse incentives with H1-B visas. One way to fix it would be to make it an auction based on compensation instead of a lottery. This way the companies that are using it as a way to bring in talent would have preference over companies just bringing in cheap labor.
>"How can studies be improved so it identifies good/bad drug candidates better and quicker?"

These are not at all hard to identify, but too many people have "bought in" to the bad methods and incorrect results they generated. The main obstacle to progress in medical research is political rather than scientific.

Are you willing to give up cherished beliefs like "tobacco smoke is a strong carcinogen", or "amyloid-beta causes alzheimers", to get cures for diseases?
Mapbox CEO says the map calling New York City ‘Jewtropolis’ has been 100% fixed
Nearly all companies "steal" from their employees. If the company makes any profit whatsoever, that is surplus value which has not been paid to the employees who generated it.
Many places in both the US / UK are overvalued relative to their economical value.

Some developer in Glasgow tried selling us a parking lot - we did the math and there was no way it would generate enough income to collect on its price. We were better off directing our investment where the math worked (emerging markets, etc).

The parking lot had a higher price then an entire chemical plant in Kenya that had a monopoly on supplying life saving generic drugs to 3 countries in Eastern Africa.

A lot of valuation in the US / UK is based on the dollar having reverse currency status, so don't get on your high horse about the US being more 'productive'.

It didn't stop the glasgow parking lot gaining it value afterwards, but as the saying goes - "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent".
Main difference is that browser makers (Mozilla, Apple, Google for non-Google ads) are becoming hostile to ads and tracking rather than trying to be neutral.
Maybe, though you probably still want to fly above the weather, which puts a lower bound on your power requirements. To get above the weather, the energy needed is mgh plus whatever kinetic energy your aircraft still has (i.e. it's velocity); if you trade that for speed, you won't have a 200mph aircraft anymore.

Customers are definitely willing to trade time for cheaper flight (Boeing made this gamble and won in the last airframe generation), but there are certain practicalities that need to be met.
It's one-half of 'Silicon Beach'. Google LA and Snap HQ are here plus a ton of other tech companies. If you don't want to live in SF or NYC, then it's probably the next one down the list worth considering.
So you’d rather like that the employees foot the bill? Someone needs to pay for that prized 24/7. Note that you can scrounge up an on-call schedule with three people, two if you squeeze it.

Flex hours is a thing that helps, but even there must be an agreement that when you’re off, you’re off. Companies can be stuck in perceived crisis mode for years at a time.
Many companies like Google, Apple, Starbucks are dropping degree requirement
Come on, you can't serve 1.2 billion users without having the most talented people. It's just not possible. They don't need to bring people back from different divisions, I'm sure that at a division level GMail has the talent within it today.
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I hope at one point we can just move on and forward.
> I fear I would have spent _way_ too long on, shall we say, an "appropriate" reply.

When someone's only interest is in being right and explaining how right they are, it's not worth talking to them when you disagree. You can listen of course, but that doesn't need a conversation.

> I appreciate the TIL regarding a community to call out and avoid.

This was 3-4 years ago, I'm sure the community has changed at least a little since then, like any online community does. It also may be completely different today.

> With such people, it seems you have two options - argue against their views and suffer the continuous backlash; or implicitly agree by not arguing, and risk the potential expectation to behave contrary to your personal standards as a result.

Silence is not implied assent. Silence is the right solution to most situations. Having been on the arrogant end of those kinds of "debates" for far too much of my life, I've learned that silence is effective because it does not give the arguer any satisfaction in their prior arguments nor the opportunity to continue showing off their arrogance with further arguments.

> HN's moderation does a reasonably good job

Having been in many, many online communities for the past 20 years, HN is in fact a minor miracle. It is a bit of an echo chamber, but you can't really escape that while still having a "peaceful" community. cake.eat(); cake.have(); throws "Error: cake reference has become invalid"
This post has third party JS in it from Google Analytics that looks to be accepting a bunch of fairly unique looking parameters.
Good news. They should also refine their approach of "containers", and I've listed some ideas here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16866086

(perhaps their new approach comes close to these ideas)
> - range based for loop

Oh yeah.

How could I not include this in the list <bangs head>

I use them all the time.
I'm posting this from Firefox. I think this article, on top of other recent efforts by Mozilla, is the final push to switch me from Chrome to Firefox. I trust Mozilla a lot more than I trust Google these days.
You really have to compare cost over the entire life cycle, the effect of social services, financial regulations, tax rates, etc. will vastly differ between the very young and the very old.
Even at that price, it'd be a deal; the real car costs $2,998,000. [1] And I expect the Lego version would be be safer, too; any car with a top speed of 261 mph (420 kph) seems inordinately likely to end up wrapped around a freeway lamppost.

[1] https://www.motortrend.com/news/2018-bugatti-chiron-review/
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/eol-135779.htm..., The Oracle JDK will cost for production deployments but free for development beginning with Java SE 11. OpenJDK will be interchangeable with the Oracle JDK and Oracle will provide OpenJDK builds for free.
Consumer startups that said no to investor money
Or just sit down next to you for a few minutes until you use your device and then walk away?

I'd rather force them to smash my windows and doors rather than just give them what they want in passing.
Wasm with Go to build an S2 cover map viewer
While your R2 sequence is obviously better than the others for hyper uniform distribution on the sphere, I can't help but notice there are still spiral patterns. (are we looking at a pole of the coordinate transform btw?).

Is this fundamentally the same or similar problem as the rectangular stretch mentioned here? But with a "jacobian" stretch as opposed to a linear stretch?

Could you please read the short section https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal_matrix#Randomizatio... ?

It is very short, first it defines what is meant with a random orthogonal matrix, then it describes the problem with an incorrect approach, ... and then it describes a recursive procedure to generate a random orthogonal matrix of dimension D using D * (D+1) / 2 uniformly distributed numbers:

>Stewart (1980) replaced this with a more efficient idea that Diaconis & Shahshahani (1987) later generalized as the "subgroup algorithm" (in which form it works just as well for permutations and rotations). To generate an (n + 1) × (n + 1) orthogonal matrix, take an n × n one and a uniformly distributed unit vector of dimension n + 1. Construct a Householder reflection from the vector, then apply it to the smaller matrix (embedded in the larger size with a 1 at the bottom right corner).

I predict this will give a better uniform distribution on that sphere, if you share your code for generation and visualization I might try myself :)

Also, I applaud you for the extremely clear exposition of the problem, thought process and analogies presented. The one section I found harder to grasp was the one on dithering, as I don't fully understand the process from input picture to output pixel locations and intensities...
Nice work! I hacked together something similar for the browser after watching a FunFunFunction video about automata, https://brianzelip.github.io/automata

(not ideal on mobile)
Human Rights Groups Amplify Call for 'Killer Robot' Ban
90% complete, 90% to go
>Google ?

If Google is not hostile to all ads, then they are not "becoming hostile to ads".
I recently started a new job and took a fresh laptop as as good an excuse as any to switch to Firefox. It's great! It's fast, dev tools are good. I don't miss anything from chrome apart from the automatic google translate - joys of being in the EU.
That's great. You are in a small minority. Even the small feature set of Hacker News involves JavaScript.
Most of the friendzone is people not making their intentions clear. I agree with the “just friends” thing however. Just be careful you aren’t wanting more and stay in orbit around her.
A lot of men do have the fear of approaching women so I’d suggest not downplaying its effects or reality. The 300 number is to put a higher limit before giving up. And people do actually give up far earlier than they should in many aspects of life, not just dating.
How does this act relate to drugs targeted to specific genetic markers?

I think we're moving into an era when we need to consider that everybody is different, and a lot of cancers are different. This isn't like curing a bacteria, where (mostly) one-size fits all.

I wonder: is it possible to bring a drug to market that is ineffective and sometimes fatal to most people without a genetic marker, but is safe and will cure cancer for those with the marker?
> But he is talking about the quality of life, not the GDP.

The suggestion that these two things aren't related is an extraordinary claim.
If one's worried about an attractive wife turning into an unattractive mom; then yeah, it's probably not right for them.

Here's to hoping we all age perfectly!
Not sure what the official stance is, but people with Turkish names seem to (often?) transliterate ü = u, ö => o, as seen for example at https://twitter.com/mesutozil1088 and https://twitter.com/ismail_kupeli - not sure about Swedes.
Yep. Moz hits all the right talking points... then implements/participates in said behaviors. In a good way, supposedly.
In my personal experience, after you've been out of school for about a year, nobody cares the least bit about GPA or any of that stuff. It's a placeholder differential for someone who doesn't yet have relevant experience.

There's a big difference between someone born with a low-IQ and someone who actively maintains their own ignorance. You can argue whether the left is crossing that line in some places, but some portions of the right actively attack higher education, whether it's "trying to convert our kids to socialists" or "attacking Christian values" -- pursuing an education is positive, full stop, no matter what your IQ is.

Also, "stigmatizes and marginalizes right politicians"? You're arguing politicians on the right are being marginalized? And two examples you're using are the last two GOP POTUSes? That's not marginalization. And of course, notably, for all the "coastal elites" talk -- Trump is pretty much the definition of a coastal elite, a billionaire born into privilege who went to an Ivy league college and has lived in NYC his whole life.
You might consider that not everybody shares the same ethical frameworks as you. What you consider morally wrong, others might not.

Similarly there are often multiple use cases for technology, some more ethically ambiguous than others.
I use https://gist.github.com
How Brytlyt GPU database is between 190 and 1,200 times faster than Apache Spark