skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lets not go all fault-finding on this Act. Commercially available drones has gained some superior capabilities and this worries authorities. As common man we aren't allowed to have such capabilities(by now we should be used to this :)). Risks posed by drones to facilities/routines of authorities far exceeds the interests of drone hobbyists. This is an attempt to put curb on commercial drone and its use.
Thanks, just read his Wikipedia page. Can’t believe I didn’t know he was
So the guy literally built a fucking reusable rocket company, most popular payment service, an electric car company that now all of the huge car monopolies are trying to mimic and replicate and still can’t catch, and he did all of that during 20 years, 99.9% of people sit on a couch for 20 years without doing anything. But experts on hacker news still think he is a terrible ceo. I am pretty sure most of those experts achieved nothing in their life and only like to judge other people...
Ah I see, so the same 2FA just repurposed for things it wasn't intended to do. Thanks.
I work for the guy, and I don't think anyone who has worked closely with him would believe that SpaceX or Tesla would be anywhere near what they are without him. He is an extraordinary leader who is deeply involved with all of the engineering decisions that happen at both companies. You'd be very surprised at how much impact he has on fairly low level decisions.
Even the Go isn’t really plug and play yet. I wanted to watch the Connect 5 keynote yesterday morning. Pulled out my Go.

- Wouldn’t turn on. Took me a few times plugging both headsets in to realize I was pressing volume not power.

- couldn’t connect my controller. Thought maybe I had grabbed the wrong one but it turned out to be a dead battery

- Oculus Venues needed an update. Did that

- then it asks for my FB login. Take the headset off, get my phone

- turns out it’s a new phone, need to reinstall the Oculus app. Wait for that to download

- Connect my FB account via the browser

- now Venues loads, needs me to watch a Terms of Use video. Watch it. Nothing happens.

- hit the < button, the only identifiable option, it just takes me back to the Venues menu

- click into Connect again, watch the Don’t Be An Asshole video again. Still can’t move past it in any obvious way. Press all the buttons repeatedly

- close and restart Venues. No change. Give up

Total waste of 30 minutes.
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>>TBH, it doesn't matter what the original intention was if it doesn't work. 2nd layer works.

It's by no means established that Bitcoin's 2nd layer technologies can work as a full substitute for on-chain transactions.

It certainly has major shortcomings, and consequently being used very little, right now..

>>Bigger blocks are a populist movement which disregard science

There is absolutely no scientific evidence that big blocks don't work.

What's unscientific is claiming that the LN can act as a substitute for on-chain transactions when it's an unproven experimental technology.

>>Nobody care's about "what satoshi intended" in terms of on-chain vs. off-chain. "

It's not about "what satoshi intended". It's about the original scaling that plan Satoshi published. Bitcoin's original adopters were told that Bitcoin would be able to match Visa's throughput by scaling on-chain.

That was the experiment they signed up for.

Changing that plan without getting consensus from the community, and through restricting debate on /r/bitcoin, is extremely disingenuous and elitist.
I think Chrome for a while has simply refused to let you visit a page when there's an SSL problem (at least for certain types of problems), which seems like a reasonable solution to the "people will just ignore warnings" problem.
I'm not sure about my statement but I'm not sure about yours either.

Before Bitcoin was created I would have said such a system was probably impossible...

I guess my point is that the world is a complicated place to try to understand.
Honestly I'm kind of surprised how little buzz there is about the A12's neural engine. ~5 tera-ops in your pocket, and it can run your models. For this particular set of math, that's comparable to a top-of-the-line desktop GPU from 3 years ago.
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It's interesting that you bring up this point because these are all aspects that would have to be taken into consideration before autonomous highway driving is safe for trucks, tire blowouts aside.

Most people think of driving on a highway as the simplest thing there is, but when you have tens of thousands of pounds, sometimes unevenly loaded, sometimes as barrels of liquid that slosh around and change your center of gravity, all that on a stormy, windy, icy day driving in the mountains, it can make for very uncomfortable driving. Is it solvable? I don't see why not, but I think it might be a bit more difficult than it sounds.
IMHO, If Elon musk were a chinese entrepreneur, the Govt would be more than happy to fund him and allow him to focus on what he is good at, innovate the hell out!!! SEC should answer the American people first on why it failed to hold any bank exec accountable for the worst financial crisis of our time that brought the world to an economic collapse.. double standards ?? https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/finance/309544-why-ha...
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Yes, but browsers give huge warnings about password fields on non-SSL sites. Password in the clear won't happen with any major website.
Rich isn't even necessary part of it. Musk, as well as many other people in the news, exemplify white cis male privilege. If a female or non-white CEO did half the shit Musk has done, she'd be out. Look how Marissa Mayer was vilified online despite doing nothing really out of the ordinary.
These are the same users who connected an untrusted block of hardware directly to their router and presumably gave them a their Facebook login and password.
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Hedge funds make money not only on gains but also on fees. Even if the fund goes down, he’s making fees.
That's because after he took over complete control he retroactively titled himself a “founder” even though he was not, in fact, involved in founding the company (he was the leading funder of their Series A, and has been the main stockholder since then, but “funder” and “founder” aren't the same thing.)

Musk may be brilliant, but he's got a long history of a slippery relationship with the truth.
First class functions are vital. Not so sure that anonymity is vital.
In the beginning, there was uppercase
On the topic of parks, "American History Tellers" (https://wondery.com/shows/american-history-tellers/) has an excellent series on the history of parkland in the USA. I highly recommend it, and the rest of their series.
He can't. He lied. There are many people saying untrue things in this thread. Not all of them are as obvious.

I hope to God the auto industry doesn't lose the competition which scares them into changing themselves more rapidly than the coming fires and floods. The whitehouse is no friend to the renewable energy industry, advocating for the reduction of the price of oil.
I don't want to turn this into a "laissez-faire capitalism vs state-planned economy" debate, but I'm noticing this is the rule rather than the exception.

With so many incredibly gifted and hungry tech rockstars just searching for just one lucky break out there, how on Earth is it that all these clueless individuals continuously get to run major tech initiatives at major companies?
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Not to mention the Solar City buyout was pretty explicitly a bailout. SC had already retained bankruptcy counsel.
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Butterfly raises $250M for portable full-body ultrasound scanner
This is true. Now that this is a couple of days old and unlikely to start a flame war, I’ll say: I’m an anarchist-capitalist. I tend to get along with the right merely because I grew up around them and my “social camouflage” fits them better.
You overestimate SpaceX's importance.
Ask HN: Is this a good idea to onboard new employees?
We have this idea to maintain a log of 'events' or decisions we take in our team. So whenever a new employee joins our team, she/he is able to gain context in a short amount of time by just going through the log.

For starters, we can just maintain a repo and commit these decisions/events to it.

I guess, then, the question is:

1. Is this really needed ?
2. If go ahead with this approach, what are those events or decisions worth committing?

some examples from the top of my head:
* we decided to rewrite the auth flow. why? => ...
* we chose language xyz for this particular module...

We obviously have a wiki that has concrete things like setting up your laptop, information about existing products, blah blah.
Yep! Here you go: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/08/cloudflare-ceo-t...

Matthew Prince is a human like everybody else, and honestly, I would rather have him guarding my back than a lot of other tech CEOs.
Writing was on the wall as soon as mobile overtook laptops/desktops as Apple's cash cow, but it is still disappointing. Dumbed down, lowest common denominator UI will eat the Apple ecosystem.
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Is there an e-mail? I tried looking, but the contact form I found required me to register, and thus looping back to my original problem.

Could it be I'm using an alias of Cloudflare@mydomain.industries?

Edit: Attempting "cf@domain.industries" and receiving the same error. Assuming you're accepting .industries registrations, it could very well be my corporate firewall blocking requests to something. I'll attempt again this evening from home.
Surely the law should apply no matter how “innovative” your company is. Yes, the SEC should also be held responsible for its failure to go after banks, but this is not mutually exclusive with action against Tesla.
Artificial sweetener anyone? How about some hair dye? (still allowed today in the US but not in Canada)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead(II)_acetate

Sodium Pyrophosphate is also a "fun," somewhat toxic additive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrasodium_pyrophosphate
Realistically, if any alternative currency starts giving a sovereign currency any real competition inside a sovereign controlled market, it will get shut down more or less immediately.

If X% of Americans or [insert nation] are doing their transactions with bitcoin and the Treasury is losing a measurable percentage of income stream it's game over. Best case, it gets nationalized and [new currency] will be mandated to be pegged to the sovereign currency and taxed appropriately.

The existential political aspect is what these folks seem to not understand.
Agreed, piwik with lots of traffic is a major problem that can slow the server to a halt (for those of us without a massive budget)
Not tracking all subreddits makes sense I guess. But I searched for "Jailbreak". But got a user with that username.

Searching for "ios programming" shows me some guy wyager and the discussion link is to HN, not reddit.
I'm going to take this opportunity to talk again about the new Gmail and how horribly bloated it is... Scrolling skips frames all the time. And now you're forced in the new version, you can't 'go back' anymore...
In the graph, did you forget to change the label from "iPad 6th Gen (Wifi)" to "iPad Pro (2017)"?
Who would shut them down? Is this something the ICANN prohibits? Is ICANN even involved here, as Njalla is (to my knowledge) not an ICANN-accredited registrar? They simply buy the domains from an actual registrar and let you use them.
Does he just straight up bonus it to himself in this scenario or does he like funnel Sears contracts (for example like employee toilet paper or something) to businesses that he owns 100% privately, like "EDDIE'S PAYPA FUHFILFMENT CO. INC."?
Facebook adopters were never cool. It began as a place for uptight Ivy bratlings, then grew by being more square and "safer" than Myspace.

Nevertheless, your larger point holds, Facebook users are even less cool now than they were before.
>His ESL Hedge Fund has dropped 80% in value from its peak in 2006 to 2016, and has almost certainly fallen more since then.

this statement is kind of misleading because "value" means NAV, not actual losses. it could very well be that the fund neither made or lost money, but 80% of the investors pulled out.
I think it’s not a great idea for onboarding. New employees aren’t going to have the context to get the most out over even the most well-written decision documents.

That said, this is a fantastic idea for all your current employees. Documenting why a decision is made is going to help people really think through the reasoning behind their decisions and is going to be incredibly useful 1-2 years from. Is when you’re trying to figure out why you didn’t do [something much simpler].
Black people from the hood are murdered every night in Dallas but when it happens near people with money suddenly its a Big Deal.
I didn’t, but I can provide some advice since I see this type of comment and nobody really gets advice on this kind of thing. Your comment wasn’t inflammatory — it was factual. However, it only contained a fact, and in that fact, the wording sounded like you were being not only factual, but perhaps a little too stuck to your guns.

Controversial comments on HN are generally appreciated as long as they have both commentary and supporting evidence. The commentary part is key. Many of us have read HN for years and are very well aware of these events. Thus, posting about them isn’t news to us — it’s just noise. A new take on it or an interpretation from you is always welcome, but just “spreading the news,” is somewhat the antithesis of Hacker News in the comments.
If you had never visited the site, how would modern security practices
have prevented the attack?

HSTS is useless in this case isn't it?
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All I can say is that the Star Trek: Discovery name drop will age extremely poorly.
Good Lord. If there was ever a better way to say "cash is king".

I would be dejected.
Key point is that my monitor has a far better DPI much thanks to having to only render a much smaller viewport. TrackIR works great with that, until VR display tech hits that next gen level.
Thanks for catching the error!

Should be fixed now, for reference the error was because I was estimating the count. Turns out that couldn't handle only special characters.
the sort of people who could be convinced to install one of these things on their network in exchange for a theoretical $15 per month wouldn't be detered by a broken SSL warning.
On a percentage basis of test scores, Tesla is in the top 1% of test scores and was rumored to be in contention for the very best test score with their newest model.

The glowing review by the actual owner is justified by empirical data.
In Carmack’s talk today he said many people find 60hz uncomfortable, but far fewer need 80hz to feel comfort. And 72hz is 3x 24fps which most videos play in so it helps for smooth video playback. And 96hz would be a substantial performance hit.
Proof of concept: https://samy.pl/poisontap/
I had to go back and re-read, your comment was so unexpected... but nowhere did I see anybody say Apple products had no utility.
Once you go beyond dual socket boards (and even then, they're not widely available), you're firmly in the territory of custom form factors, and extensibility usually happens via proprietary daughterboards.

At this point it's not really consumer-grade hardware though, so I wouldn't really classify it under "off the shelf".
I agree, it seems unlikely that you could get an IRB sign off any study that wasn't simply post-death statistic study.

You /could/ try to control that by try to separate the groups into "type of cancer" and "stage", so that you're comparing like-to-like when looking at mortality. But even then there are problems ("stages" are subjective, and there's evidence that they're slowly shifting so that old stage three would now be considered stage four), different Drs may be more aggressive at directing people to chemo, etc.

I think there's also basic issues of what we're comparing, e.g. are you undergoing chemo in an attempt to live a bit longer, or as an attempt to not die. Because at the "you're going to die within 3-6 weeks" you're going to get radically different survival rates for chemo than "you're going to die in 3-6 years". Which makes me wonder how you would deal with "EoL" chemo that does cause the cancer to die back?

I'm having trouble wording it, but what I'm curious about is what happens when you have a patient that

1. Is dying, and given 3 months to live. Can choose between chemo and hospice
2. Chemo successfully pushes the cancer back
3. Cancer comes back 5 years later
4. Patient chooses hospice
5. Patient "dies in hospice" 3 months later.

Which group should the patient be placed in?

This is why I'm glad nothing I do impacts peoples health/safety/etc
The headline is written as though the market is tanking, but "the median price for all Bay Area homes sold in August was $830,000, up 12.4 percent annually" -- fewer homes are selling because they're so expensive, but it isn't causing prices to decrease. They're still going up.
>>You have to be pretty damn anal to think using a colloquial term suddenly discredits all the other information in that article.

There is some validity to his point though. Every time I read the word "give-up-itis" I reflexively feel negative feelings towards the article. It feels as if they are trying to be funny but not in a good way.
Also check out Korengal, another documentary that picks up where Restrepo left off:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korengal
I think that depends on their strength vis a vis the state. The less powerful the state they operate in, the more brutal they can be. If you compare gangs in lawless lands vs gangs operating in lands with stronger gov, the ones operating in weaker states tend to be more violent because there are fewer resources to supress them.

Where can you expect gangs more violent, Japan or Philipinnes? Brazil or Chile?
> The paid version I'm offering to companies has said feature.

Should note! That is not the projectpiglet.com version (that wont show you any user information, don't want you to pay unnecessarily). I'm offering the paid version which can be hosted and deployed by a given company internally. To do that you'll need to contact direct via email.
Sure, just like how it's Microsoft's problem that Windows 98 still gets used in a few places.
To be fair she failed at her task, while musk created couple of successful companies
Ok , so you agree that in theory its the same, but in practice it isnt ? Bcoz i havent seen/read/heard anything so far even after a decade that any action is taken or any one under investigation for the 2008 crisis... where as one tweet a few days ago from Elon is enough time to go after him !! Sounds very selective !!! Also, IMHO, just as US govt announced auto bailout in 2008, they should announce one more bail out not just for Tesla but all US auto companies working on next gen innovative tech especially focussed on creating US jobs as the recent tariffs (from all sides) can have -ve impact on US jobs (those building auto plants outside USA) /US consumers. SEC can leave Elon alone with a warning /small fine. They shouldnt be dictating who should be CEO or who shouldnt. Elon is a job creator !!
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I think in the context of that, they were thinking about governments.
> people like you want reversible transactions, and people like me don't.

I don’t buy that. Let’s say someone stole your life savings, would you still not want reversible transactions? What if someone stole your parent’s or sibling’s life savings?
Right now they're basically a hack to achieve net metering, which means that the grid maintenance and capital costs of the grid's power production will fall disproportionately on users not able to afford the systems.

There'll eventually be a correction as storage ramps up (and this makes the payback calculations unreliable). Either connection fees will make up a significantly higher percentage of a bill, or owners of the systems will need to pay for power like commercial properties do with dynamic pricing.
The author thought of it - it says "Requires minimal resources" in the README.
Who would have though #yolo #420 #blazeit is not a good way to lead a company?
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Psychosomatic is actually an interesting one -- it's not just "lazy doctors" -- there's plenty of evidence to show that the brain is totally capable of causing a range of side effects all on its own (Placebo and nocebo trials have made this clear).

If you want annoying go for "Idiopathic". For example I have idiopathic optic nerve hypoplasia. The last three words mean my optic nerve is narrow than it should be - I have a gap in one quadrant of my peripheral vision - the "idiopathic" bit means they don't know why.
People like a vast majority of people want the ability to recover after a fuckup or theft. The FDIC exists for a reason, as do chargebacks. With the exception of a paltry minority who care more about their ideology than anything else, reversible transactions are the winning feature.
Very very important. Most of the life of a software is in maintenance mode. This needs enhancements, bug fixes and refactoring. Readability of code significantly affects the time taken to make these changes.
Phone-based VR has major issues:

- difficult to adjust the inter-pupillary distance

- display not optimized for VR (phones don’t need OLED, low persistence, or high refresh rates)

- you can’t prop up your headset and fire off a quick text
Peter has become some kind of guerilla youtuber. I have seen him on at least six different channels in as many months (most recently https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEZCxxKp0hM).

The funny thing is he's about the only one I'd actually like to meet in person. Nothing against the other folks (Mark Rober from above seems really nice), Peter just seems like he'd be fun to hang out with and build something.
Ok. I'm sorry for harassing you. Regardless of anything else, that alone is worth a hellban.

We may not see eye to eye, but ultimately you're the bottom line. Talking about it publicly does nothing but reinforce that yes, you are in fact the bottom line and no, that won't change. And your bottom lines are eminently reasonable – I've seen how much you have to deal with on a daily basis, and my reaction is mostly embarrassment at being classified into the same category as them.

For now, I'll try to focus on writing quality comments and serve out my sentence.

(I'm still going to launch LN as an experiment, but it's in good fun. The median outcome is that people will show up to harass and say "This is stupid.")

I managed to get Lumen's startup time down to 18ms:

$ time lumen -e 1
1

real	0m0.018s
user	0m0.010s
sys	0m0.006s

This is finally on par with Rust, and I can focus on demonstrating that XSV can be written with the same performance qualities. In a Lisp, no less.

It's on npm: `npm i -g lumen-language`. I figure that HN has shown that people can do interesting things when hellbanned, so I may as well throw my hat into the ring, if possible. :)

And thanks for making it three months rather than permanent.