skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> YIMBYs want [...] American infinite appreciation.

I'd appreciate a source on this. Most self-identified YIMBYs I've met in San Francisco would be ecstatic if housing prices stabilized or fell – in fact that's one of their primary objectives.

Vocal YIMBYs I've met are either (1) young people who don't own property, for whom the current stratospheric prices are out of reach, or (2) employers who have to convince those young people to come and work in the Bay Area, despite the unbearably high cost of real estate.
Nobody said there wasn't wealth and promise for many in America. If you remember the first comment you replied to.

"But we also have lots of studies showing that the best of the lowest socioeconomic class almost never do better than the laziest of the uppermost socioeconomic class."

The entire point is that there is inequality of opportunity and unequal return on equal potential not that there isn't opportunity.

If you recall the post I replied to you said

"So why do penniless immigrants keep coming here? Do they know something poor people in America don't, or are they simply misinformed?"

This is terrible logic. This is a wealthy nation with lots to offer but people here have actual problems here too. You are glibly dismissing these actual problems with bad logic which personally makes me very angry. Who the heck are you.

Imagine if someone was talking about how racism was still a problem in America and you piped in with how your black doctor friend's practice was doing great and people shouldn't let negatives become a self fulfilling prophesy.

Well no shit but what we were actually talking about was inequality in America which we can actually do something about.

From the individual's prospective whatever society does the individual ought to do the best they can and for many decent lives await in spite of challenges. From the perspective of society we ought to try to maximize everyone's chances as best we can.
> "But Google and Amazon are betting that the next of wave of computing products will be AI-directed services"

That seems like a stretch of a conclusion. Amazon has been excelling at cutting out the middleman and reducing costs that are unnecessary in an internet-centric age. Alexa feels like an experiment to see if they can make that even simpler, while cashing in on the IoT fad.

Slight nit pick, using underline for emphasis doesn't work well on the web, it just makes it look like a link.
AMD has announced 7nm parts also. So, they are only slightly later than Apple with TSMC 7nm.
For the clueless like me, is there a joke here?
Nice! How can we stay up to date?
Both of the projects mentioned are in the top 10 of crypto projects and have billions in their marketcap, why don't you think they'll exist in the future? Over 100 engineers and scientists work at the IOTA foundation, and EOS probably has similar numbers.
We are already there, 200 miles is already plenty. The vast majority of people only commute and the average commute distance is 16 miles each way so a 200 mile electric car satisfies the main use case. Married households could do an electric car for commuting and a gas vehicle for longer trips.

The main issue is one of cost, a secondary issue is style. Tesla's are expensive, but other automakers will fill the gap, with cheaper cars. Unfortunately today all electric cars except tesla are uniformly ugly.

I think people are ready for an electric car for daily commuting, but the cars need to be in the $20K range, 200 miles, and not look like crap.

Also keep in mind it doesnt make sense to sell an existing car to buy an electric car, so there is a 8-15 year lifecycle for people to ditch their old cars.
When you compare Apples to Apples (as it were).

Apple's iPhone 5s is getting it's sixth year of support starting with the next release of iOS.

If you splurge on Google's own flagship device with a similar pricing model, you only get two years of OS updates with an additional year of security updates.
Pointing out that someone might be viewed as putting forward "dismissive reactionary political statements against the removal of exlusionary language" is most certainly an attempt to smear and label someone.
Elon has always marketed Tesla and himself with Hollywood like publicity. It's not surprising some of the headlines read like tabloids. Whether they're true or not who knows? As long as Elon is in the limelight they'll be around.
Can someone do an ELI5? There is so much confusion and speculation that I can't figure out what the hell is going on.
Brave doesn't touch first-party ads. If you wish to advertise to your visitors, we respect that. But opening a tunnel to third party ads and trackers, which are foisted upon the user without their consent, is not okay.

Ads are no longer pixels on the screen; they're so much more than that. They're monitoring your activity, your movement, your most intimate details, and more. They're collecting this data, storing it, selling it, and all without your consent.

Users have the right to protect themselves. Unfortunately, the current solution (simple ad-blocking) hurts the web and all who create it. Brave wishes to deliver a better solution; one that protects the user, and serves the content creator.

By improving the system, you reduce fraud, which in turn creates more revenue for the content creators and users alike. Everybody benefits under this model, unlike the current model, where everybody is equally, and increasingly suffering.
It is wrong. And it's annoying.
Lmao, thanks for making me laugh at work.
We're energy independent in the 1970's sense, which is when the term originated. We are no longer subject to the sort of oil embargo OPEC initiated in 1973 over Western nations' support of Israel, because the West now has sufficient capacity to plug any gap in supply.
>I like your idea

It's the only peaceful way to govern copyright.

>but it's hardly the case currently.

You should advocate it to be the case or else you will suffer more and more socialized enforcement of a contract in which you are not a party.
A) It's a foot compared to historical levels, it's 10cm since the 1990s.

B) It's a constant problem in Miami where high tide is now above the level of many roads so they've had to jack the roads up several feet more.

C) Venice, Italy is routinely flooded because of sea-level rise and it's only getting worse.
I had the opposite opinion of the GDPR and have the same opinion about this legislation (namely heavy-handed internet governance, which is not unique to EU, is problematic regardless of original intention).
That's right. This article is about the production of crude oil, not necessarily the capacity for production.
If you wish not to see ads (even ads which don't track, and pay you 70% of their revenue), then you stick with the default, out-of-box experience. Brave is an ad and tracker blocker, by default.
if I use an electric drill to hurt some one I am at fault not my electricity provider

The physical equivalent is more like you sending pirated dvd's through the mail to your entire neighborhood. The equivalent law would then require the post office to check all packages upon sending to verify that they contain only content which is not pirated, which for privacy reasons they do in an automated way that sometimes blocks the package with the family movie you're sending to your mom (because your daughter was wearing mickey mouse ears and the automated check thought it was a disney movie).

Oftentimes when you physicalize online legislation it becomes apparent just how invasive and silly it is.
The iPhone is the centre of Apple's universe. They want all their customers on a supported iPhone.
How often you hear about people being prosecuted for falsely flagging content as offensive online? How often you hear about prosecutions about false copyright infringement notifications? The latter happens only very rarely in cases of blatant abuse, usually coupled with massive fraud and other crimes (never happens to automatic systems big IP holders use, they just write it off as innocent error in 100% of the cases), the former happens never.
I love apple products, but number one thing I still don't understand is why Siri insists on taking up the entire screen. Siri should be a small overlay much like on mac os, its such an oversight by their software engineering team! This still hasn't been addressed on iOS 12.
Wait, what?

If someone takes a "leave of absence" that ends up lasting several months, and that becomes a permanent leave of absence (read: they quit), that does indicate problems. Not in a one-off scenario, but in Tesla's case where they've lost dozens of executives once they realized that [possible bias here] Tesla is clearly engaging in fraud, it's not just a one-off thing. The smart executives are jumping ship, leaving behind either a) the not so smart executives or b) the smart people like Straubel who are close enough to Elon that they wouldn't leave.

see: bogus solarcity acquisition to avoid the dominos falling in Musk's highly coupled empire, clear intent to cause a short squeeze with the bullshit going private tweet [if you look at musk's actions/statements leading up to that, it's clear the shorts have been stressing him out], Musk having borrowed money to purchase even more Tesla shares, worker injury rate [this isn't fraud but I decided to throw it in there], etc etc etc
I've normally heard it that they pay current insiders rather than try to get outsiders to join. Though I'd appreciate links to well documented cases to the contrary.

Also, really, none of this matters for 99.99% of the companies out there. The weak point is far from hiring practices. The weak point is almost always cybersec or social engineering.
Possibly, but even then... 1 million users is a lot. I don’t think I’d ever sleep if one of my apps had 1M MAUs.
Actually yeah .. the original SE was a special release now that I think of it ...
I have a Samsung Tab 3 thingy. Apparently I got this back in 2013 !!!

I still use it for videos at the gym, and as a ebook reader at home. The battery is fine. The screen is still great.

They force download some upgrade every year. Last year i relented and stuck a $20 memory card in it.

Granted - this is a top tier device from a top tier manufacturer..
Medicinal Soft Drinks and Coca-Cola Fiends: The Toxic History of Soda Pop (2014)
I don't think most casual iPhone users are going to see privacy as a primary feature to look for, but it is extremely frustrating that half the time I try to use Siri for basic things like "call my wife", it just spins and spins and I eventually give up and find the Phone app and click the dang call button myself. I know that's caused by the server because sometimes it times out after like 60 seconds and says something about how Siri services are busy, please try again.
> The cultural differences between Detroit and, say, San Francisco is miniscule compared to differences between London and Berlin.

As someone who's spent a significant amount of time in each of those cities and all around both the US and Europe, I can firmly state that this is _not_ true.

The cultural differences between European cities is vastly overrated. On the other hand, the differences across the US - particularly differences between urban metropolitan areas and everywhere else - are massively understated.
I hate the loss of the home button.

Face ID is fine, but multiplexing so many different features on to the single, poorly-placed, side button has been a huge negative for me.

The side button is way too easy to hit when the device is in your pocket, and when that happens you're activating Siri, or Apple Pay, or some accessibility shortcut, or you're taking a screenshot, or you're activating emergency mode.

I've lost count of the number of times I've pulled my iPhone X from pocket to find that the screen is on, Siri is waiting for a command, and the accessibility menu is on screen.

And when I actually need to take a screenshot, or shutdown the device, I can never remember the actual key combination. It's such a mess.
It isn't just about your city. If the working poor find it advantageous to live your city for one half way across the state that is less people to work the lower income jobs - now it is more expensive to get the toilets cleaned in the office. This raises your cost of living, and lowers it in the other city.

Of course how this all works out is very complex and messy and will take dozens of years before we see anything significant.
Edit: Actually it's already 30cm from global warming. That is something. Sorry that I forgot that: https://climate.nasa.gov/system/charts/12_seaLevel_left.gif

Old: ok so 10cm global sea rise + 15cm tide fluctuation, which might well reverse.

I can't believe some cities are built so close to the water when storm surges and natural tide fluctuation over decades is over 50 cm (20'') as seen in Alaska etc.
^^ This statement still holds somewhat.
I believe the current govt and RBI are being dishonest (probably for the good of the country) and are lying about the 99.3%, because there are enough strong rumors that the earlier regime resulted in unaccounted duplicate numbered currency notes. Which means, even if banks received more than 100% of genuine notes back, they cannot report it saying so.

And if that rumor is not true, then there is enough data to track how many in India became overnight lakhpatis (those with more than 100,000 in their account). Now if RBI has enough tech chops to crunch that data and keep an eye on it, they can easily find the top 1K or 10K evaders and go after them. Are they doing it? I'm not sure. But they have enough evidence in hand.
Also, http://relational.ai/ — high performance relational database with integrated AI written in Julia, which gives them JIT compilation “for free”: just generate Julia code for a query and run it. This lets them run circles around other databases in terms of query speed without even breaking a sweat (in terms of implementation effort; the CPUs are probably quite hot).
A nit, i believe ITAR is open to US Persons which would include greencards & permanant residence beyond those born in somoa or from overseas us citizens.
Another way to think about it is owning an electric as a primary vehicle (most trips are under 50 miles or whatever) and the gas car as as secondary, long range vehicle. This makes way more sense than hybrids for two car families. We own a Nissan Leaf and its definitely our primary vehicle, it gets 10x the miles/day as the gas car at a fraction of the maintenance cost. We pull the gas car out for the weekends or trips to Canada. The drive train on either vehicle is comprehendible, I dare you to look under the hood of a hybrid and say the same.
Marking emails as done is just as easy in gmail as it was in inbox (I switched back a while ago). In inbox, swiping to "done" is equivalent to applying the archived label, which you can (in android and web, though apparently not ios), have swiping/closing the email do.
There are some question marks on how sustainable the US oil boom is as the extraction methods are quite capital intensive. We are at historic low capital price and have a fairly high oil price and still the profitability picture is not pretty.

To dig deeper see: https://wolfstreet.com/2018/08/15/shale-profits-remain-elusi...
Sad to see this here, but if anyone is interested in a new tool with some of the features of Inbox (snoozing, pinning and more to come), we're building Monolist (https://monolist.co).

Monolist integrates directly into the tools you use and surfaces things that you can act on inline in the app (missed Slack mentions, Asana tasks, Calendar invites etc.). We're actually working on a GMail integration right now and would love to hear from the community what kinds of Inbox features we could replicate successfully.
It doesn't hurt that many flagship Android phones have similar notches now. The new phones have similar sizes to the prior years models, but larger displays overall. Consequently, the notches don't have much impact. The notches (in practice) are less annoying than most detractors had anticipated.
> There are fines for behavior like that.

In theory, there are. In practice, the abuse of both copyright and offensive content notifications is rampant and almost never punished. You have to get to real hardcore crime on massive scale before judicial system starts noticing, and even then it can take years and a lot of effort to get it to do anything. In most cases, such abuse is completely unpunished or gets slap on the wrist.
And the most expensive. Maybe they could get J. Ive to use his best "I'll be your server today" voice and purr about how, "We think you'll agree that this is the most expensive iPhone we've ever made."
Are those groups focused on sj polices? If they're groups where that's not the focus, and they've injected those policies. (I.e. let's say a HN user group) That's a problem. How comfortable would you feel stating a disagreement without even mentioning your identity or status? How comfortable would you be in stating the disagreement if you weren't 100% confident on what you were saying?
what's wrong with leaving emails unread?
Some have ads, but they are definitely not crippled by ads and malware.
>The problem is that a supply chain CEO who lacks a passion for products and has yet to articulate a personal vision of where to Apple will go is ill equipped to make the right organizational, business model and product bets to bring those to market.

The author makes the argument that because Tim Cook does not demo new products, Apple is incapable of innovating, and is just cruising on the goodwill of the brand.

What a crock. Tim Cook is no Steve Jobs, and Apple is most definitely different without Steve. But, under Cook the following has happened: Apple Watch, AirPods, HomePod, iPhone X, ARKit, Siri Shortcuts, FaceID, iMac Pro. Everything in that list might not perfectly suit every user, but the argument "Without Steve Apple can't innovate!" totally falls over.

Steve gets a lot of attention for his innate sixth sense for product, his masterful presentations, and more. But, I think this era of Apple proves that he was also great at creating a culture and ecosystem that can perpetuate without his presence.
I lived with some bedouins in Morocco near merzouga for a few months who had about a hundred camels. I really doubt they were sitting on millions of dollars of camels.
Beer has sugar (alcohol) in it. It gets sticky like juice when it dries.
Now this is just getting silly.

> You seem to think that technology equals "venture capital that shows up in the tech news".

The companies I mentioned all have had great real success. They have hired thousands and thousands of people and ended up selling for billions. This "drone valley" is exactly the "venture capital in the news" that you are talking about.

> you don't seem to know much about Switzerland as well.

Why wouldn't I know about Switzerland? We have already established that Switzerland has a great reputation and good conditions. Sweden and Switzerland have a lot of industries in common. Like pharmaceuticals, construction, chemicals and automation. The Google office is well know as is banking, watches and other large brands. ABB is even Swiss-Swedish and of course Kamprad used to live there. And yes, I have been to Switzerland. At least a half a dozen time over two decades and more counting stopovers in Zürich mainly going back from Hong Kong.

This just doesn't have much to do with the topic at hand. Many places have great technology, but fail to break into new areas. Which is what I have been saying that Sweden is probably worse on papper yet far more successful in this regard.

> Or why Switzerland is one of the world leaders in research?

Because of good schools, high salaries and dedicated people. Which is perfect for people who want to have a good career. Not necessarily for starting successful companies in new industries. If you haven't noticed it is rarely "the best" people who start startups. They have too much to loose. It is the restless, the dropouts, the migrants etc. If you read my previous comments you can see that I am pretty bearish about Sweden's future for startups as well.

My question is simple and I have asked it repeatedly i.e. what indicates that this "drone valley" will go anywhere? Don't blame me if you can't come up with an answer.
One of the best demos I remember from university, was on the first day of a digital logic class. The professor passed out a bunch of short pieces of yarn, then proceeded to explain that they were the length of a clock cycle in a typical CPU.
Apple's been using the S designation since 2009, with the iPhone 3GS. Then the 4S, 5S, 6S, and 6S Plus.

The Xbox One S came seven years after the iPhone got an S.
So what's wrong with topbanana buying the SE for his kids right now?
The vociferous pro-capitalism faction here should cool their jets about the liberal nanny state for a moment and start thinking seriously about what's happening here, lest things far worse (in their eyes) than this bill start happening.

The American public is angry. They feel, and justifiably so, that someone has been screwing them for decades - that the lot of ordinary working people has gotten worse, while economists and the media rave about the booming economy and the rich are clearly getting richer. This anger expressed on both sides of the political aisle in the form of quasi-third party insurgency candidates - Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. They might have radically different solutions, but they touched the same nerve. "Make America Great Again" is exactly how they feel - that something terribly wrong has happened to America, and radical steps are needed to fix it.

The "neoliberals" of the center-left Democrats are discredited and in eclipse. The way candidates get ahead right now is through loud denounciations of corporate greed. And while Trump's xenophobic demogogue act works for the moment at distracting the anger away from Wall Street (for his supporters anyway), it wouldn't be that hard for the next demogogue to target that anger at Wall Street instead.

And if that happens, Senator Warren's bill might be cold toast compared to the revolution that comes.
Here's a quote from this excellent article:

> An error rate of even one percent will still mean tens of millions of acts of arbitrary censorship, every day.

And a redundant -- positively defiant -- link and page title:

"Today, Europe Lost The Internet. Now, We Fight Back."
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/today-europe-lost-inte...

Firms with 50 or less employees should stay that small, really.

VPN providers in North and South America FTW.
https://github.com/shashi/APL.jl
> On another side, network effects of nodes on a grid become unmanageable above about 6 nodes - a group of 6 people will have 36 one-on-one interpersonal relationships to manage.

Network effects grow surprisingly fast. Between 2 people there's only 1 bidirectional edge. Between 3 it's 3 and between 4 it's 6.

| people | edges |
|--------|-------|
| 2 | 1 |
| 3 | 3 |
| 4 | 6 |
| 5 | 10 |

Intuitively, this is important because in a conversation, each member must project and rationalise each other communicator's response to a message. In other words, each member must be cognisant of every other members response to every message. Between a few people that's manageable, but the combinatorics really grows for n >= 4.
The article itself cites GDPR, Arts. 6(1)(c) which, aside from 6(1)(f), are exactly the provisions that can and should be used to comply with the GDPR while allowing for U.S. discovery. The rest of the text reads like scaremongering to me.
It's probably different for each person; "identifying as" is a subjective, self-reported marker. That said, I'm sure at one point you tried out being "punk" or "preppy" or whatever label you were attracted to as a kid. At some point it just sort of... stopped being you. Did all of the factors that made you feel like you belonged to that group disappear? No, some were useful in your general personality. But you stopped calling yourself "punk".