skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The argument also depends on several assumptions about the way this technology will work, which are likely to be wrong (e.g. that price of extending life will never be reduced enough to be available to poorer people, that having more time to learn, won't help poor people to become richer, that reduction of the fraction of resources spent on reproduction won't help society to become more stable and more wealthier).

I think you’re being overly optimistic. First of all, we already have a society where the rich have access to life extending services. The life expectancy gap between the rich and poor is 20 years[0] in the United States. While in theory we absolutely could provide this to the poor and they would probably accumulate wealth and reproduce more slowly, politically and socially I see zero evidence that this would happen.

Second, the price for a life extending treatment will be arbitrary. How much do you think a company that can tack 30 years onto your lifespan will charge? Again we could force them to sell cheap, but we can’t prevent ERs for charging $200 for aspirin, the political will just isn’t there.

> Accepting this line of reasoning means accepting that there are situations where society is allowed to kill some people for some greater good, which is deeply wrong.

A good point. However I’m a utilitarian at heart, if trading the rich only having 80 years keeps us from going into revolution or neufeudalism, I am will to accept that trade, even if I’m in the group who could probably afford said treatments.

> But even the worst case scenario, when everything on earth belongs to old people, is actually good, because it means there is more incentive for other people to go explore other planets and stars!

Or wealth could concentrate into few hands, and people could start binding themselves to richer patrons to guarantee access to life saving food and medicine, and the world descends into neufeudal torpor. Humanity has killed off massive amounts of itself for dumber reasons, don’t assume that a new tech will lead to your desired outcome just because it’s futuristic.

0. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/inequality/...
The #1 feature I've been looking for is just manual sorting of threads in the inbox and/or folders (via drag-n-drop or the like.)

This was such a sneaky-good feature with Mailbox (before Dropbox shut it down) and solves a bulk of my priority / triage problems with email. I've surprisingly had a difficult time finding any other client that can do this.

...Though, knowing HN, I'm sure someone probably has one up their sleeve =)...
Could it be it's a very intense place to work and people who get in that position decide they don't want to work the long hours when they could be making just as much money somewhere more cushy?
Democracy is a 51% attack
CloudFront isn't exactly the cheapest CDN. BunnyCDN is .01/US for their premium and half that for their volume service. India would only be .03/US (granted with only one datacenter in the South).
see https://web.archive.org/web/20180224032850/http://army.com/
Their "problem" can be solved through voting. But nobody cares about it, so they should accept it and "fuck off", as they themselves say.
Being in a car is life-threatening.
5000 cars per week * 52 weeks * 50000 average selling price = 13 billion dollar revenue per year
If the employee pool is larger than 20-30 but there are only "one or two people [who] were the actual target of the message", the problem might be bigger than those one or two employees.

Unless (or even if) those "one or two" are outright sabotaging team effort or egregiously incompetent, management delivering a vague message to everyone suggests broader problem in the company.

The problem may not strictly be a managerial one. For example, the team and its managers may be driven by decreasing revenue, changing market, new legislation, etc. In any case, it's hard to imagine a situation where "one or two" non-malicious mediocre employees would merit a broad message to the entire team.

EDIT: Change "an" to "a".
ah this is very cool. I see many applications of this

reddit r/worldbuilding type applications. For building video game scenes to tell stories, or to write fiction & fantasy novels.
I'd guess it's more that he doesn't want to test life support in PROD.

I feel that way myself, but I fear we aren't going to end up with any better choices.
Just printing money does not mean inflation is a result. For inflation to occur you also need money velocity.

What the FED has done is print a whole lot of money, but that money has largely stayed within the big banks and wall street.

Not as much has moved to the real economy because money velocity is low. Though inflation has picked up in the last few years. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2V
Ok, so called anarcho communists to be exact. Still, bunch of bullies.
The vanguard of the 50s is going to keep at this until they are all dead. It doesn't matter how much counter-evidence is accumulated. They are invested in their fat hypothesis, and will not give up.

Meanwhile, aside from the growing volume of supporting studied, anyone who has tried a low-sugar high-fat diet knows that eating fat makes you want to eat less, and not more.
I might be a minority, but I actually like this feature, as it has saved my ass a few times already in terms of replying to emails from my boss / boss's boss, so I'd vote to have it be optional rather than have Gmail remove it.

(Edit: it looks like you CAN turn it off in the settings.)
In my mind, the most salient point is this one:

FACT: The proposed new copyright rules will lead to direct surveillance of users’ activities online.​

This and the recent 5 eyes document to require backdoors for all technology and services are the same. The surveillance state is coming. It is being bought. You are being sold.

But don't worry, they are doing this for our own security and safety. No one need watch the watchers.
Government regulations written by the companies that are being “regulated”.
>See, it's easy to ask stupidly leading questions and spout completely baseless speculation. What's more difficult is actually examining the facts and drawing a rational conclusion.

In the first quarter of this year, the company lost Morton’s predecessor, Eric Branderiz, and Susan Repo, who was treasurer and vice president of finance. CFO Deepak Ahuja retired in 2015, only to return in 2017 after his successor, Jason Wheeler, quit after just 15 months.

A rotating door of financial executives screams financial problems. Please tell me what rational conclusion I'm supposed to draw?
It is worrying, but I don't know if I'd really call that a stock plunge.
nutrition is especially hard though. I doubt any study which suggests that one changed input has this direct output. There's so much more than just ratio of macronutrients. Total calories, when during the day you're eating them, lifestyle, exercise habits. Obviously you can get away with eating a lot worse and not get fat if you are expending all those calories.
The dystopian society and the crazy stuff ultra rich people do in the novel/show Altered Carbon is a direct result of people living much longer than "natural" which allows the wealth gap to widen to the point where the rich are literally living in the clouds.
There's a really good video on a cityplanner playing simCity 3000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUQaCoxybW8&t=1736s

Its interesting to see how real life mimics the simulation here
Fantine in Les Misérables sold her hair and then her teeth to pay for medicine for Cosette. It was her last recourse for money before falling into prostitution. A detail in a work of fiction, but not a stretch to believe it's drawn from real life.
Pretty sure all companies are about making money, no matter what they write on their webpage.
Does a dog have a Buddah-nature? (2000)
It's strange how much Elon Musk and Nikola Tesla have in common.
The Slimbook Pro2 is here
>What kind of error is that? They've aware of this, they are not correcting. All media who published the report and were made aware of the "mistake" kept it, even though the 50K is already proven wrong.

Who cares? What influence do you think this article and that estimate has?

"Disinformation"; that's laughable. Tesla and Musk are being sued and investigated for stock manipulation, but you're crying about Reuters being off on their prediction. Who is showing bias? Where is the outrage?

>And just as Tesla surpasses BMW and Mercedes in car sales in the US, it's only getting worse.

Sedan sales, while the whole industry moves to CUVs and SUVs. Do you think this is sustainable, or is it clearing a backlog? Why can you get a car in 2 weeks now?
TripleSec is open source and they’re basically doing a reference implementation from Applied Cryptography. You can see the details here: https://keybase.io/triplesec
You just don't seem to understand how the service you are using works and guess what. Its different then pure PG. It was not designed to work with your smart-card as it is not primarily about that.

Guess what, other people like me just realized that Keybase was not designed to be used like that and didn't use the smart-card together with Keybase.

I guess you can fault them for not saying that explicitly but since the made no mention of smart-cards and didn't evolve the security model in that direction it was pretty clear that that was not what they were about and therefore I did not expect it to be optimal to be used like that.
I think that would be something like 5,000 cars per week times 52 weeks times the average price of 42,000 dollars per car
Huh, we're building a campus in Berlin? Neat! I work in the Munich office, but Berlin seems nice too.
I suspect I could do that successfully. What I do instead is give up 0.5% per year and let WealthSimple[0] do it for me. Automatic weekly payments from my bank account get invested in whatever way gets me closer to a balanced portfolio.

It's a big cut for doing something I could do manually but I'm super lazy and it's a percentage of not much money anyways.

[0] https://wealthsimple.com or https://wealthsimple.com/invite/FCU4AG if you want a referral link which gives you (and me) some extra discounts.
Kind of depressing that yours is the top comment, given how many outright lies it is based on.

>From the outside it looks like Telsa is about going to go into a tough winter like moment.

From the outside, it looks like they have a product that's a generation ahead of the competition and is flying off the shelves.

> They need to start designing and building out manufacturing facilities for their next car and the help bolster Model X manufacturing.

They are. Apart from the Shangai one, they've never actually stopped building the Reno factory, which still has to triple in size before it reaches its final form.

>They are cash flow negative, they have about a year of cash runway left( optimistically)

Based on 2 quarters during which they built up a factory. Their guidance for Q3 or Q4 has them turning a profit. Usually, people doing these wild extrapolations form the basis of jokes (ie Discu Stu's record sales).

> And the most worrying thing for them is that their next car will compete head on with Mercedes, BMW, Audi, and GM. That will be the first time they've had to compete head on with a competitor.

This is growing the EV market as a whole. Tesla does not want to own 100% of a sub-5% EV market. They want to own a decent chunck of a 100% EV market.

People really, really don't like hearing this particular point, but their cars are approximately a generation ahead of other EVs. Specs wise, Taycan and EQC are essentially matching a 2016-era Model S / Model X and will be available about 2 years from now.

Everybody seems to have forgotten how the Bolt was supposed to be the "Tesla Killer". Look, I even found one specifically from the same source as this article: https://twitter.com/business/status/554725778420957184

Then people were "worried" about their ability to manufacture at scale: https://www.theatlas.com/charts/HkNUFo57f

The problem is that when you actually have to put real money down and these theoretical comparisons become real, things go the opposite direction. Current Bolt sales are flat/declining around ~1500/month, while Tesla is pushing out 5000+ Model 3s per week.
"We think Tesla is worth zero"
-Jim Chanos

You haven't been reading the same news I have. While there were plenty of red flags prior, Musk began digging Tesla's grave in earnest in fall 2016. He Started with the Alien Dreadnought, which was bonkers. He sold shareholders on buying Solar City using fake solar shingles which don't exist, that was $5b+ flushed down the toilet. Also he implemented HW2, which is thousands of dollars of hardware going into every new car regardless of whether customers pay for it. When Solar experts, finance people, Vehicle manufacturing experts and Autonomous vehicle experts get together and compare notes there's only one conclusion to arrive at: Tesla is fucked.

Alien Dreadnought, Solar City, HW2. I call it the ASH doctrine: Musk's 3 point plan to reduce Tesla to ashes. Post chapter 11 Tesla may have a life ahead of it, but it's been a slow motion trainwreck for years. The Shorts, the Media, the Koch brothers, they didn't destroy Tesla. Musk did. He's incompetent, and nuts. It's pretty obvious now, but if you were paying attention, it was obvious before too.
Writing tests for small, personal projects is hugely valuable for me. Running a well-written test lets me iterate much faster than running the entire script or booting up the whole app and poking at the UI.
You're kidding right? Any CxO position at a publicly traded company is long hours with a lot of work and responsibility.
How 3D printers are preparing students for life after high school
No, their problem cannot easily be solved by voting. Quite a few people care about the issue, but the issue is problematic as it's about balancing the common good versus private ownership. It's a nontrivial problem and it's one of the major political and civic issues that are currently on the table in Berlin (and other large german cities)
> It was possible on a $30,000 capital to make (or lose) over $1000 per day.

Maybe there is a typo in your example? Making or losing 3.3% in one day does not seem that impresive...
Python programs are easy to start but ML programs are easy to finish.
Most of Silicon Valley is not as highly indebted as Tesla. Apple, for instance, could literally afford to send all of its employees on vacation for 10 years while their headquarters is being rebuilt, without going into debt (Not that they would, of course).
Given that he knows his memes, and that “420” is a weed meme, and given it was a ridiculously stupid thing for him to tweet, I’m of the opinion he was literally high when he said that.
As a user, Wire has been fast and reliable and usable (even by non-techies) on iOS for several years, across a wide range of network conditions and hostile networks.

They are contributing to an IETF protocol (“MLS”) for E2E messaging, which is a long-term path to messenger interoperability.
This is a slight reduction of the FOIL method, a classic in any first year algebra course. A decent trick to remember on tests when you are trying to quickly solve a lot of algebra problems.
He's said repeatedly that people seem to assume it's an option that he work this much, but it is not at all because if he doesn't the company risks insolvency.
I'd hate the security guard to be injured, he's a nice person. (edit: this may sound wrong: I also hate that any other person got injured, but I don't know that person, so I sort of feel less personal involvement)
thank you for the feedback. Will add the "less relevant" ads option on the next update.
What is it with executives who feel above showing up to work? I worked at a company where the CEO worked 2 half days a week and the other execs were on cruise control, then they got angry that all the employees weren’t killing it (“this is startup! Work like one!”). Hard to enforce that culture when no one is ever there.
Clearly the answer is to create a copy of prod in a test environment (Mars?).
Another generator project I like: https://github.com/mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse
Guess.js: Libraries for enabling Machine Learning driven experience on the web
DHS Continues Facial Recognition Deployment with an Eye on Domestic Travel
This is a duplicate. The original posting was at:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17912618
To me it seems the exact opposite than stressed. It seems completely relaxed, him just being honest about nothing and everything at the same time. Taking his time to think before answering, sipping on a drink and enjoying it too.

I agree he doesn't look much like a CEO, but does that need to be something negative? I think I know Musk better as a person after watching this, in contrary to the typical Silicon Valley "CEO" corporate interviews.

EDIT: Should be noted too that this is pretty common for Joe Rogan interviews. Relaxed atmosphere and 2-3 hours of thinking out loud without much structure or agenda.
Well the argument that human activity isn't the reason for climate change isn't completely ruled out by this historical evidence but I think it provides compelling evidence that only the dishonest can disregard.
Which is why there are so many laws and regulations surrounding them, the most basic of which is a technical inspection every few years.

If your brakes don't work your car is illegal on the road (at least here in Europe). But apparently if its a software bug in the brakes then its okay to drive it around...
Is It Real or Is It Gibson? A New Virtual Environment for AI Training
My company offers a benefit where I have access to assistants who will find the cheapest medical service for me. That these jobs even exist is a sign that the market has broken down.
For EU people who want to take action: call or email your Member European Parliament (MEP) and let them know that don't supper the policy (or support it?!?). You can call them via:

https://act.openmedia.org/savethelink-call

Or email by finding your MEP details on:

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/search.html

More info on taking action can br found here (scroll a little):

https://juliareda.eu/eu-copyright-reform/
Making the rendering that different from the actual URL would be very confusing, especially if it varied from program to program or within programs. Links would look one way on websites and then have a completely different form in the url bar after clicking them.

That particular rendering choice would also have the downside of being the same for both https://www.google.com/maps/hawaii and https://google.com/www/maps/hawaii
> New tech companies are driving the rents up in the area higher and higher. The endpoint of this process can be seen in San Francisco, which once must have been a halfway livable city.

This is more the fault of NIMBYs and supply&demand-denialists who work hard to prevent new housing from going up. Yes, tech companies brought the demand because of good jobs, but last I checked, we wanted companies to offer high paying jobs, did we not? If the people need more housing, the solution is, shockingly enough, to build more housing.
While this is a good interview and interesting maybe for Hacker News. Why this sensationalist click bait title?

He does one tiny hit of a weed/tabaco joint in the whole show.
Given that Tesla owners are the most satisfied (cf. https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2017/12/21/tesla-po...), that implies that the other owners are even more happy with their Tesla that I would have expected.

All surveys about panel gaps points to Tesla being above average (expect in the first few cars out of the line, which are generally owned by employees).

If your friends' Tesla has serious software bug, I'm curious to know his experience with other brands! Unless he can't stand a small bug in an optional, beta feature.

As for autopilot, he knows he can turn the autosteer off and still get the best ADAS available on the market?

>inability to lock the car (turned out this was a 'feature' but one with no documentation and no UI feedback), etc.

I don't own a Tesla and only test drive one and somehow I was aware of that. Looks like PEBCAK to me.
FWIW, I do this in Mac's Mail.app by assigning different colors of flags, and sorting my inbox by flags, then received date.

This allows me to have business actionables on top, then personal actionables, then unfiled bills, then new incoming messages.
Stop sharing stuff you didn’t read thanks to a responsible design
He's a business man, not this 300 IQ god-like figure everyone makes him out to be.
The EU and its member states have a penchant for crazy laws like this, GDPR, local movie quotas on services like Netflix, arresting people who train their dog to do a bellamy salute, arresting people for having potato peelers in public, and so on. I can't think of a single reason other than vacation days that I'd ever want to live there. I'm aware comparisons to 1984 are a cliche but the EU truly has been inching towards it.
That's incorrect. Jio has already come out with high speed wired broadband called JioGigaFiber: https://jiofiber.co.in/. Poles have been erected in my locality and pretty much the entire city. It's way cheaper than the current broadband I'm using (Hathway) and I'll be shifting to it once it launches. Currently it's being rolled out in phases across the country: https://www.mysmartprice.com/gear/2018/09/06/jio-gigafiber-c...

"JIO GIGA FIBER will be the largest greenfield fixed-line broadband rollout anywhere in the world, with rollout happening in 1,100 cities of India simultaneously"
Pretty sure that there is no relationship. The instruction set is 20 instructions total.
Is he human after all?
The revolution devours it's own. What Tesla started is amazing, years ahead of competition initially, but there will be a very tough future ahead as electric cars become more and more the norm.
I actually would assume the usage stats would be very good on the feature. I am not sure if you can turn it off on the web, I will look again. Unfortunately it is a bit of a Pandora's box situation; just knowing it is happening is the problem. That said, out of sight, out of mind. As much as I like to think I'm driven by principle, I haven't stopped using Gmail yet.
Why stressed? It looks like when I sit around with my friends, smoke weed and talk about crazy shit. You don't have answers and sometimes you are like 'I don't know what this guy is talking about'.
>Tesla sold more cars in the US that Mercedes and BMW this summer? How many media reported that?

Please, that was one month of backlog deliveries (July, 16,000 deliveries) and only in the US. 16, Nobody expects that Tesla manufactures 16,000 Model 3's per month.

Meanwhile Mercedes sells 30,000 C-Class Saloon and Estate models per month globally. In the US Mercedes and BMW each keep delivering 12,000 or so vehicles per month in the same category as Tesla models are.
You might want to try Rust. It has a lot of the ML niceties but with a modern syntax and pretty good tooling. I wouldn't recommend anything other than JavaScript/TypeScript for frontend stuff though.
How is it helpful for you to present your opinion (about their opinions as facts not being helpful) as a fact? :)
Is Artificial Intelligence going to take over the world?
9 Common Pieces of Life Advice That Are Bad and Stupid
> "Palihapitiya in February filed for divorce from his wife Brigette Lau, a partner with Social Capital and co-owner of its management company. Soon he began showing up less often to the office, ..."

The disadvantage to not having a boundary between your personal life and work life, I suppose.