skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just watched a part of the Joe Rogan podcast with Musk and I have to say he looks very unhealthy. Maybe I am wrong but to me he looks like he is drinking a lot or on some other drugs.

I can imagine working with a CEO who is pushing himself way other the limit is a pretty unpleasant experience.
To HN: Is there a body of economic theory or a good text that separates inflation of the base currency from some other term that captures its relative value to other currencies?
> I'm starting to understand why all the other self-drive companies use active sensors like lidar.

Every roboticist since the DARPA Grand Challenge knew this, as every team that finished had a Velodyne LIDAR. It was THE piece of tech that made that race possible. So for everyone who learned that lesson, to then see Telsas out on public roads with a feature called "autopilot" that did not have any LIDAR sensor attached to it... well... Let's just say we've been saying "I told you so" since then.
> Only if you don't use it. But a few lines below you could very well be using true legitimately too, in which case it wont tell you:

Good point!

Edit: but then, your expected original variable name, `tue` in my example, would be used while not yet defined:

true := false
if foo() || bar {
tue = true // Compilation error
}
...
if condition() == true {
...
}

Only possible case I can think of: you already defined tue, but tried to redefine it via variable shadowing:

tue := true
...
if cond() {
true := false
if foo() || bar() {
tue = true // Will compile, but not the tue you expected
}
...
if condition == true {
...
}
}
Starry wants to put high-speed 5G internet in reach of everyone
You're right that Musk does not need to score political points with the everyday person in order for Tesla to succeed.

But by the same token, Musk's "fitting into the current political and cultural trajectory" (whatever that means) is also of no value to Tesla.

The actual concerns people have are much more concrete.

Tesla has already had "a few years of optimization". They have been making cars for ten years now. They are still burning bales of cash. They have consistently failed, by large margins, to deliver on production targets. Major competitors who DO have a consistent history of large-scale production are coming out with comparable products that will actually be possible to buy without waiting in line for two years.

Their accounting chief quitting after a month only adds to the pile. Anyone who has been in management at a failing concern knows the numbers people are the canaries in the coal mine. No, it's not a guarantee they will fail, but only an inexperienced person would ignore it.
What benefits does mocking a HTTP service provide when compared to mocking the adapter code that makes the call?

App -> Adapter -> Service

App -> Adapter -> MockService

App -> MockAdapter
Susan Weinschenk on How to Tell Design Stories in Your UX Portfolio
The problem is when everyone is simply tracking an index, there are no more humans in the loop to avert disaster.
How Kubernetes Is Transforming into a Universal Scheduler – The New Stack
>Collectively, investors value this company (...)

Most large investors are just holding. The small amount of shares that are exchanged every day are bought/sold by speculators and they are backed by institutions that get paid for this intraday activity. Also, with all the short positions on TSLA, the bank are risking an almost infinite sum of money (in case of a short squeeze).

Since Tesla doesn't intend to raise capital for the foreseeable future, banks can only gain from volatility or from a major event that would force Tesla to raise funds.
Yes, it's annoying because mailbox owners have zero control too. If your brother in law complained to outlook that some emails are missing from his inbox/spam because outlook decided to reject them outright, he would get the same respnse. "We have smarter systems(r) than your judgement, sorry." (Remeber, you can't click "not spam", if the e-mail was not delivered at all)

The problem is the burden of not upsetting a mail filter got somehow shifted to the sender in case of big services filtering mail, which is ridiculous. Customers should talk to their providers if they're not receiving mail, because providers don't deliver it. But the correcting feedback loop is not there or/alternatively is much longer with more steps than in case of sender getting a bounce.
Can I as you what you are basing this on?

Tesla has more experience in terms of electronics, batteries, electronic drive train and software. They might not be as good in terms of building car frames but they basically figured it out and the M3 is not a mass production car.

It seems to me its the other car companies who are missing core experience on many of the core technologies needed for the future.
This isn't exactly correct. Oblivion's overworld and most dungeons were hand-built. The only procedurally-generated parts were unnamed caves/dungeons.
Hi, I'm the presenter AMA.

One general comment; not every question was intended as a WAT. Some were setups to introduce a WAT.
It's what makes mice fat. Can we stop pretending that things that work in mice have the exact same effect in humans?
Agreed - I wouldn't be where I am today without it either.

I think the biggest misconception about an MBA is the actual textbook education but I've heard many CEO/CTOs make the same statement - helped them decide their career path and boost their confidence plus made a lot of friends across many different industries.
I've recently been thinking about the various paper-based technologies (not strictly computational) that were used in offices and libraries to store, organize, retrieve, display, and send information before widespread computer usage. E.g., encyclopedias, paper archives, Rolodexes, card catalogs, pneumatic tubes, mechanical calculators, etc.

Can anyone recommend a book or resource on non-computational, paper/mechanical information technologies?

(And sometime I wonder if some catastrophic event - total cyberwarfare, Carrington event - might cause society to reimplement or reinvent some of this older tech. Who knows how much arcane knowledge is locked away in the head of Mildred from Archiving, who retired rather than learn to use a PC?)
I think it's a little early for people who don't "do" to call it that LIDAR is mandatory, and that optics and radar aren't sufficient. Autopilot is still in development.
I’ve never been at a company that fires people at the spur of the moment unless it’s something egregious without going through a process and having a performance improvement plan.
Meh; there are so many pathways to the creation of fat cells, or their precursors, (and this really explodes if you start considering some things to 'inevitably' lead to fat production based on lifestyle) from different food molecules.

Realistically, everyone who is overweight just needs to stop eating so much, and change what it is they eat.

Without anything else like manifest diabetes or heart disease or whatever, anyone who is packing too much weight can just limit their portions, reduce sugar intake, drink more water, and get 30 minutes of activity a day.

The greater your portion (calorie) limitation, sugar reduction, water intake, and activity, the more weight you will lose/faster you'll lose it.

Stuff like eating more veggies and fruit, and learning to cook and not eat processed bullshit is just icing on the cake.
He is bipolar and it's going to end with tragedy if it's not addressed.
I remember that story when it broke. But I thought there was a good reason why they didn't build houses. I can't remember, but it was something like the people didn't own the land they lived on, so building would have been giving the land owner a free house, not a hurricane victim. Or else armed thugs would steal any structure built.
It is re-inventing the wheel, but in another business context. I have yet to witness "re-usable" business logic, anywhere.
If the aim is to gather evidence of bad performance then the data gathered might not capture items that are evidence of good performance. Basically, you run the risk of applying a filter to the available data such that you're not accurately documenting performance.

The data will be tainted by selection bias and would not characterize what it claims to represent. Another more colorful term for such tainted data is a "shit list".

Sometimes the aim is not to document performance but to create a paper trail to justify future action. This kind of organizational behavior--bad faith bureaucratic procedure, biased scrutiny of performance, opacity of managerial intent, etc.--results in administrative overhead that can be expensive in both financial and human terms.

EDIT: remove "accurately". Combine 2rd and 3rd paragraphs. Remove "So" from start of last paragraph.
Holy crap on a stick. These new laws are just stupid.

I don't generally see eye to eye with libertarians (or whoever advocates for minimal interference of state), but out of touch laws like this are just the worst.
Isn't the number of IT jobs having a net increase?
> [Australia et al] ... I think I could handle that.

Fair point. Though the future might not be so rosy. But in an unfortunate timeline those countries are likely to quickly align with some others anyway.

However, deals made in peace are usually better.
Tesla is more than just a car manufacture. I doubt self driving + solar + battery + charging network etc is worth the kind premium they have over just being a car company.

But, analysis based strictly on car sales a mistake, especially as established car companies outsource so much parts production.
occupation is over, the police arrested a few of the occupiers, there are reports that a person was injured in the process.

Source: Our office is in the same building.
> Yes, I've never been comfortable with the device specificity of IPv6

these days it's really not much different from IPv4: During the lifetime of a connection, the prefix stays the same, so that's equivalent to the IPv4 address before that.

The actual machine address rotates very often, so there's no real value in using this for identifying unique devices.

If you want to profile specific devices, you're much better off using the same attributes you were using with IPv4 (user agent, TTL, other protocol specific fingerprint techniques)
“Eat whole fresh food, not too much, mostly plants.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t...
I have to also add, that the same parent company (Reliance) was also responsible for the mobile phone explosion[1][2] in India in 2002-03, at the very same price point. I can still remember the long queues in my hometown (pretty distant 2nd tier city) to get a hand on the Rs. 500 phone on the days before. They essentially put a mobile phone on every Indian's hands, and forced entire market prices to come down. Before that, the average handheld mobile was way out of economic reach for most Indians.

Reliance has gone through a lot of restructuring, family issues and some shady flak, but they have been the major drivers of both mobile and internet revolution in India. Interestingly, both at the same price point then (2003) and now: INR500 (USD7 at today's rates).

1: http://archives.digitaltoday.in/indiatoday/20030721/business...

2: https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/economy/story/20040105-in...
Anarchists are pathetic. Move to Uganda if you hate civilisation so much.
I can’t keep up with whether it’s fat, sugar, carbs, or anything else that I need to avoid to lose weight. I’ll just try to eat food that’s not very processed / not very artificial and eat small portions. I’ll just try to very roughly count calories and keep track of the simple math of calories in vs calories out.
I have not clue how you get to that conclusion.

I simply don't get it. Elon is incredibly successful and he did many things nobody believed would happen and he keeped the business alive against all odds in situation way worse then things are now.

Rip out autopilot? What, why the fuck would the do that? The autopilot works well and 10000s of people (at least) are using it every day and it provides them the base of data to improve their capability in this vital future business.
I hope you're right and the UK will prosper, but so far it fights imaginary enemies instead of conducting well thought out reforms.
What Does Google Know About Me?
New Alpha Release: Tor Browser for Android
Don't they also have some heavy debt obligations coming due very soon?
I feel like the comment was poking fun at the "fields", which are so hyped that they might as well be called hunting for the philosopher's stone.
Why I Don’t Recommend Xamarin for Mobile Development (2013)
It can also test (de)serialization, parsing of HTTP headers, fallbacks, etc. When you're testing business logic then using a mock adapter would be fine, of course.
That is not true. Single mode fiber definitely comes in at an angle and bounces off the cladding. You still have a cone of acceptance at play. You're confusing multiple terms and concepts here.
It's very good right now, especially with .NET core the new dotnet command, and VSCode's great support it's easier than ever to develop in F# on any platform.
Didn't he actually smoke weed live as part of that broadcast?
Are you still freelancing? Was it easy for you to find other clients after this first client?
Crappy ones also sometimes leak UDP packets. Or all DNS queries or whatever. If you use crappy VPNs it's your fault if you then don't get the protection you want, no matter the transport protocol.

Or rather: Using IPv4 doesn't guarantee non-crapyness of a VPN provider.

But: Working IPv6 support guarantees at least some level of proficiency by the VPN provider, so they might be more reliable candidates to begin with.
I like it too, but the use of bolding is a bit excessive and distracting. I feel like it makes sense sometimes, but then other times it feels random, like the bolding of

> By early June, Axios heard that Tony Bates and Marc Mezvinsky

> But even the core business

I feel like if they want to do this bolding to enable skimming, they should bold entire independent clauses.
Ahistoric nonsense. http://howardowens.com/lede-vs-lead/
Very similar to https://getsandbox.com/.
Scooter use is rising in major cities. So are trips to the emergency room
> ps. also you're not being very helpful with "No, that's not what he's saying" without telling me what he is saying.

It's a metaphor.

The implication is that in the absence of a bargaining organization and a written agreement, employees will go to their manager with a situation, and the manager will have to invent an individual policy on the spot, which will be more trouble for all, and probably worse for the employee. Certainly less fair, since not everybody has the same manager, or the same relationship with them.

Pregnancy is the vehicle of this metaphor. Nobody would claim that pregnant women would be better off without a written policy for maternity leave. All other situations are the tenor. There's no reason to believe that individual-serving-sized policies for other situations would work any better than for maternity leave.

sequoia isn't saying anything about maternity leave. They're using maternity leave as an example, to say something about the need for collective bargaining.
New Job: Weird On-Call Practices
On-call practices at my new job in a highly regulated enterprise environment are a bit wonky. Our team develops and maintains "business-critical" applications that fail often. Supervisor seems to think that "this comes with the territory". IT is a separate dept but support us 24x365.
Neither interview nor employment agreement mentioned on-call. Current rotation is 1 full week on 3 weeks off split between 3-4 applied scientists/developers. There is nothing written down about expected response time escalation etc. We get ~100+ emails per week about failing cron jobs and db server issues, some of which can be ignored, some need to be dealt with after hours on a regular basis, e.g. 1 weeknight per week and a few hours on weekends. The emails regarding system issues are mixed in with many other unrelated emails. We don’t do post mortems, pagerduty, nor track uptime. Culture appears to have normalized checking email at night.
I’m new at this job and looking for recommendations on how to make the on-call situation better. With young kids at home I do want to leave work at work.
Captricity is terrible on MTurk. They reject and don't pay. A lot of people who regularly work on MTurk avoid them because they are a scummy company. Read their TurkOpticon reviews or on Reddit or other MTurk communities. I hope they disappear.
> Yes, but even if you create a regulation that is $40k more expensive to implement than the cheapest option, it still results in a $49.95M in savings (regardless of who would be picking up the bill, at least when you consider us as a society that depends on each other to function) compared to having not set up that regulation at all.

Which is why those kinds of regulations are the ones you want.

But it's still worth carefully revisiting them from time to time, because $40,000/company/year is still literally having each company hire a person to waste their entire working life. This is what regulators should optimally be spending most of their time on -- evaluating the existing regulations for ways to reduce the costs without losing the benefit.
How expensive has mechanical turk gotten though over the years? I thought this was standard practice as well, running it multiple times to reduce human error and do random spot checking.

What is the current cost per HIT over years previously?
You can get far by blocking national domains like mx, ua, br, etc. If you're not expecting email from residents of said countries.
Who says they aren't? They're already charging $60k for their "mass market" $35k sedan.

Update: I guess technically it's $50k, the other day I read the average selling price was $60k and that was stuck in my head. Regardless, far away from $35k!
A study of the Popular Mind
By Gustave Le Bou
I think their support is a bit divorced from whatever the engineering reality is. I asked their support / sales staff about IPv6 and they said it was "only available w/ their business class service." I ended up buying my own modem and IPv6 has worked flawlessly ever since. The Motorola SB6580 they provided nominally supported IPv6, but they hadn't updated the firmware on it in years. Makes me wonder what exactly I was paying for w/ my "modem rental" fee.

Out of curiosity are you in one of the areas Spectrum took over, or are you legitimately on Charter's network? I am in one of the TimeWarner Cable areas they acquired, the IPv6 support was already in place well before the buyout.
Changing the title of an issue, presumably so it doesn't show up in search results? Deleting the body of the issue? Not leaving any explanation? Yeah, that doesn't seem normal to me. Can't say I approve.
Yes. There is an operator notation for the derivative where you can both avoid the not-quite-division and specify the variable you're dealing with. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notation_for_differentiation#E...
Polya explains the problem solving technique
Mirandas, bridges, overpasses
I'm so glad this exists! The feature of playing a MIDI file in a webpage was one of the things that inspired me to learn web development when I was 10 years old.

I'm especially impressed at the number of Rammstein MIDIs your site has! Das ist gut! :D

May I ask how I can contribute MIDI files? I may have some decent ones buried deep in my backup drive.
Purely anacdotal of course, but most of the really bad incidents I've been involved in with production systems were actually caused by a rushed response to an initial problem that seemed serious at the time....
I'm with you there, I have to admit I already did the true := false trick for the amusement and bewilderment of my colleagues.
11+tools+and+things+startups+with+limited+budget+should+invest+in
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> I’ll just try to very roughly count calories and keep track of the simple math of calories in vs calories out.

I had excellent results with this. No tricks, just count the calories (write down everything you eat) and stop when you hit your daily budget, whether it is a day full of ice cream or steak. Each time I weighed myself wasn't totally predictable as some weeks I'd lose very little and some weeks I'd lose more, but over the 6 months I made it a goal it was very effective.
Why Lockheed Martin is designing a tiny home to orbit the Moon – The Verge
And leadership at portfolio companies want to comment?

If a VC leads your round and then goes radio silent it can really hurt the company.
I use ditto all the time, granted what I really use clipboard history 2 on my browser.

works on both macos and windows

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clipboard-history-...

Make sure not to copy sensitive information though
Grant Applications Often Provide Early-Stage Funding
> What kind of PR effort do you need when every CFO you hire keeps leaving?

It's really gotten to a point where all the Musk-haters now believe their own bullshit. This post (and many others in HN's bi-weekly anti-Musk thread) is a classic example. Tesla had had a grand total of two CFOs since Musk took over.

> Could it be that that person is being pushed to stretch things a bit here and there to make them look better?

Could it be that that person is an alien sent from Venus to stop Musk from returning to Mars?

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.
It's clearly a software defect. I don't know how you could possibly claim otherwise. The reasons behind the defect are irrelevant from a customer standpoint.

A human driver who did that during a driver's license test would be failed.
How AI is revolutionizing manufacturing
No, this Chrome update is about hiding the "amp." subdomain from the original URL. What Google wants to achieve, is to make it impossible for the average user to tell when the entire website is being served from Google Cache.
Interest?

Look at Bill Gates. He could certainly build rockets, but he'd rather help people solve other, arguably more important, problems.

Or Larry Ellison. He'd rather go race boats and play with swords.
Non-AMP link: https://mashable.com/2018/06/15/gmail-ai-filter-email
>However, M3 production numbers are actually looking good now, and they are hitting their targets for the first time.

Really? Where can I read the official quarterly numbers? Of what quality are these cars? Do they all need to be reworked?

>Musk has repeatedly stated that the company will not need to raise new money

He said that prior to raising cash the last 3 times. He also said he was going to take the company private at $420. For some reason, I'm doubtful.
I agree. It is a refreshing, easy to digest format. I hadn't really noticed until you mentioned it. Which is a testament to good design :)
LIDAR is not necessarily categorically mandatory, but shadow braking and other autopilot failure modes demonstrate that it or something with its capabilities are probably necessary right now to enable today's "AI" to safely drive a car. My point about active sensing being able to decide edge cases explains why this is likely the case.

IMHO doing without precise active sensing would require a breakthrough in AI that hasn't happened yet.

On the plus side the fact that Tesla's autopilot is able to work as well as it does without lidar might indicte that with a lidar system it might be the best autopilot on the market. Who knows.