skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we would have to understand better how instinctive behavior ends up affecting this kind of cognitive processes, but I think it would be possible. Examples that immediately come to mind would be some cats' aversion to cucumbers due to resemblance to snakes, or superprecociality [1] in newborn animals who can walk within minutes of being born or fly on the same day they hatch.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precociality
Sure, electric cars are an improvement, but they aren't the end-all-be-all of climate change. The bulk of the problem is out of the hands of individual choice.
The existing mechanisms y'all have been using (suppressing posts with many flags or with many comments) seem like they just don't work at the current scale of hacker news even if they did when it was smaller. In particular, the fact that the system(s) were exploited to push a YC survey down on the front page is a bummer - I have no idea where else I'd find out about a YC survey other than YC's website unless I rely on some site like techcrunch to publish a writeup about it days later. (Where will they see it if it gets pushed off hacker news?)

Once a story hits a certain vote threshold it probably needs a reprieve from some of the automated filtering mechanisms, at the very least. Disabling comments in response to flame wars would be much better than suppressing the story itself. Flagging seems good for fighting link spam, but a flagged story with many comments would suggest an intense (and not necessarily heated/flamey) discussion that has value and would naturally attract flags from people with an axe to grind.
Don't know whether they were rejected by YC, but I do know they are often cited as one of TechStars' standout companies.
The real question is whether Tether can survive a substantial net outflow of funds. So far, that hasn't happened. Someday it will.

Tether was basically a workaround for the severe problems that cryptocurrency exchanges seem to have paying out real money. "Withdrawal limits", "pauses", "verification", and just not paying withdrawals are continuing problems. Kraken: [1] Coinbase: [2] (Over 1000 Better Business Bureau complaints!) But getting money out of Tether is hard, too.

[1] https://www.bbb.org/us/ca/san-francisco/profile/financial-se...
[2] https://www.bbb.org/us/ca/san-francisco/profile/financial-se...
That's not what cynical is.
It's around $7 per gallon in the UK already.

The net result is on average we drive smaller cars with more efficient engines.
While I am not an expert in the terminology I would argue that what you describe is a direct result of the commoditization of aviation, namely optimization and making it economical and safer.

Usually new tech goes like this: it is exciting and shiny and new and nobody cares how does it work internally as long as it delivers. But when it gets commoditized, the attention turns inward.
Depends on your ISP, no? I've been in a few and for most of them I would have a different IP just by rebooting my router.
> so I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here.

The poster I am replying to claimed:

> important to note that exactly one of the two "sides"

I.e. they were making a mutually exclusive claim.
That doesn't really say much about what the prosecution learned from nest.
Whoa back up - he claims it was built off Inception V1? Truly impressive if that's the case...
No one is dismissing life or death concerns they are dismissing your comments.
Get em, max
I can really recommend https://artemisspaceshipbridge.com

It's a game where you and your friends play as the different officers on a Star-Trek like bridge, like Helmsman, Weapons and of course Captain. Use a large TV as the main screen and use your laptops for your station. It's really fun.
I wish we could use them. Too bad they're not HIPAA-compliant (Mailgun is the only big provider that is, last time I checked)
Mandrill (Mailchimp) changed their terms of use which resulted in an exodus of high-volume customers who refused to pay Mailchimp's exorbitant bulk email rates. Sendgrid was johnny-on-the-spot helping people migrate.
Edit: Wow. I know this crowd understands that personal experience doesn't transcend epistemology. I know the vast majority of you know that's a terrible argument. This comment section is blatantly political.

This is sad.

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No they don't. People tend to ignore epistemological difficulties with personal experience, but that doesn't mean they transcend it.

Do you know what epistemology is?
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/sep/24/americans-chas...

> The Foreign Accounts Taxation Compliance Act required all foreign banks to disclose the financial information of any American with assets over $50,000 sitting in banks outside of the US.

> Steep penalties add muscle to the law. If a foreign bank – not just in Canada, but anywhere – fails to report even a single US citizen as a customer to the IRS, the US Treasury department would withhold 30% of the banks’ US income as penalty.
Actually, the earth will kill us, the rich will survive in their underground bunkers, in a few hundred years, it'll clean itself off and we will rise again.
What about postcodes makes heuristics break for regex but not a general parser? I'd assume if the format changed it'd break both all the same.
It really is night and day between a good dev and a bad dev.

The key factor that you're probably not thinking about is time. A good dev doesn't think faster or have blazing fingers that fly across the keyboard, a good dev is constantly setting him/herself up to shave time off of future tasks, and those investments are constantly paying dividends.

Those "bad" teams can definitely produce software that runs, but they do it 10x slower than a "good" team could.

What takes a bad team of four six months to make takes a good team of two only 5 or 6 weeks.
The main advantage of present day internal combustion engine vehicles over electric vehicles is lower cost. Once you require carbon-neutral fuel for ICE vehicles they're actually more expensive over a typical lifetime.

There is definitely a place for carbon-neutral fuels in applications where energy density is paramount, particularly aviation and long distance shipping. There is also a niche case for fueling heavy-duty ground vehicles like large trucks. I don't think that carbon-neutral fuels are going to be cheaper than electrification for passenger vehicles and light duty trucks, though.
Which equations are missing from the paper?
Not in Scotland https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/693445/dont-know-why-myste...
This was my impression as well, in that what I've read suggests Tesla is making claims on the basis of percentage chance of injury from NHTSA data, but NHTSA does not take a position on whether differences in those percentages is significant.

I can't say I've verified the percentages myself though, nor do I have the requisite understanding to say whether there are margins of error present (which would make Tesla's claims correct but potentially statistically meaningless.)
> fossil fuel electricity generation is plateauing^0

The graph you linked mostly shows exponential growth, with a slowdown in the last measured year. But similar kinks are visible twice before, with growth continuing at the same pace afterwards. I wouldn't call that "plateauing".
Yeah been using Monodraw since it came out - great application and the few times I've wanted new features the devs have added them!
I think that's a far smaller risk than fragmentation. Without one company to control the ISA are we going to end up with a gazillion variants and extensions? How do you compile a program for that?

Hell there are already a ton of variants defined in the base standard. I guess at the moment they are targeting embedded systems where it's reasonable that you compile your program specifically for one chip. Hard to imagine that working on the desktop though.
>"Catastrophic climate change" is no longer my primary concern here. I don't think we're going to avoid that.

I don't know about you, but I will live to see a destroyed climate. We should do everything in our power to soften its blow when it comes.
I recently learned that the parisian subway and suburban trains contain a lot of particulate pollution (e.g. PM10), caused by braking (electrical brakes would reduce this) and rail grinding (maintenance done to reduce squealing in curves). The small particulate pollution is actually worse than what you find in traffic jams in the city center...

I'm looking into buying an anti-pollution mask. It will probably look weird, since nobody wears masks there... People will probably think I'm sick or something. Maybe I should buy some techwear clothing to complete the "goth-ninja" look, but I'm not sure how that will fly at work.

I have an air purifier at home since 3 years (Philips AC4072/11). I think it's a good investment, since I spend around 50% of the time at home. It also seems to have helped with my allergies, but that might be placebo.
honestly man just don't ever date/hook-up with your coworkers, it will almost always cause more trouble than it was worth
Not just added, but headlined in their release announcement. Yet there was no "FOR USABILITY" section, and more than three years later, VLC 3.0.4 STILL has the same constellations of bugs and egregious usability issues.

I would also hazard a guess the mobile user is larger than the anime user base, and they're just as concerned with usability as the desktop users.

Are you seriously suggesting that there are people who believe that VLC needs to focus on anime more than usability?

Is it just you who feels this way, or can you point me towards some evidence of that, please? Because if you read the VLC bug reports and discussion group, and even this thread, you can see that there are a lot of people who agree with me that VLC needs to focus more on usability. Where are all these anime fans demanding VLC focus less on usability and more on supporting their anime fetish?
> Electricity & "industry" account for 50%.

Sure, you have to solve the problem in multiple places.

But electric vehicles can actually help with some of this. For example, they help significantly with the storage problem for solar, because you can charge your car while the sun is shining and keep that entire load outside of what needs to be generated from fossil fuels.

> He mentioned that one ocean-going freight vessel pollutes more than 450k cars combined (here is an article in that same trend (2).

That is with reference to particulate emissions rather than CO2, and the reason for it is that ships have basically no emissions controls because nobody cares about air pollution in the middle of the ocean. So they burn horrible sulfur-laden garbage fuel with the obvious consequences.

The solutions for that are known -- stop letting them use that fuel, apply emissions controls -- but nobody has bothered to pass that law, because it would cost money. And it's still not a reduction in CO2.
To put QuickTime and WinAmp in the same sentence? QuickTime (on windows) is one of the worst applications I've ever had the misfortune to use (it was pretty much a requirement to view many .mov files). You couldn't even play fullscreen without paying.

Winamp on the other hand, I can't name a single application that does what it does better today. Also, barely any media player today looks native either.
I very much agree, and came here to say this. While I don't see a pressing need to do a survey like this specifically for men, it seems jarring to me that the survey was only sent to women. Why? It would have been no more difficult to send it to men as well.

The results would likely have reinforced the need for things like Callisto; their lack gives anyone opposed to this sort of thing ammunition to attack the concept without addressing it on its merits.
Attorney here! (Not providing legal advice, though.)

The elements of common law civil fraud are as follows:

1. Somebody intentionally misrepresents a material fact in order to obtain action or forbearance by another person ("I am traveling to ILM from SFO" but in fact is going to IAD);

2. The other person relies upon the misrepresentation (United prices the fare as though the passenger were going to ILM instead of IAD); and

3. The other person suffers injury as a result of the act or forbearance taken in reliance upon the misrepresentation (United gets less fare).

Note that profit is not an element of fraud, although here, one could argue that the potential fraudster did profit in terms of the difference in fare.

So United has a fair argument that, given the facts at hand, intentionally misrepresenting one's travel plans in order to obtain a better fare probably constitutes fraud.
Dude, every sci-fi story about robots and the three laws is about robots defying these laws. It's a narrative trope, it has nothing to do with an actual AI design.

If you're interested in the subject - check out "Rationality: From AI to Zombies" by Eliezer Yudkowsky and "Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies" by Nick Bostrom.
Mole - cli app to easily create ssh tunnels
Codeless GraphQL, REST testing
since no one posted the posterchild for this: skiplagged.com
Actually, most abuse cases don't involve strangers.
I'd be more inclined to blame neonicotinoid pesticides than change in temperature, but seems plausible I guess.
I'm well aware of what I'm wishing for. No need to be condenseding. I certainly don't presume you and I would see eye to eye on the society I'd build.
In this case it's probably more about the intensification of agricultural practices than directly about climate, but yes -- the warnings are dire.
Those 100 companies don't include oil companies I hope? Because including them would be completely nonsensical, and would totally ruin any point you are trying to make.
Attorney here! (Not providing legal advice, though.)

No, because overbooking is disclosed in the Contract of Carriage. See https://www.united.com/ual/en/us/fly/contract-of-carriage.ht..., section 5G.
I'm not too knowledgeable on how these deals work, but figured someone on HN would know:

A quick Google search shows that Twilio's market cap is currently $7.4 billion. Does this $2 billion "all-stock" transaction mean that they are giving away over a quarter of the company to pay for this acquisition? Or how else should I read this?
* a complex neocortex finally gets emulated and trained (current ML techniques)*

"Emulating" or "training" neocortex has nothing to do with current ML techniques.
OTPs come with a lot of overhead. In order to get value out of them, it takes a trusted channel between both end points to establish a good OTP. This alone is hard, very hard!

There are significant size issues, but those are solved by replacing an OTP with a fixed size key K that is expanded somehow. eg a stream like

[ sha(K, 1); sha(K, 2) ... ]

Though to be honest I am just reinventing AES-CTR here.
However, besides this the biggest issue is keeping state. You don't just need to keep all of the shared keys, but you need to remember and be synchronized on where in the stream you are.

In the end, essentially all you want to achieve can be done using AES-CTR or really any kind of symmetric encryption. In general, symmetric encryption has been pretty reliable. OTPs are just not worth the trade-off with respect to symmetric encryption.
You laugh, but actually yes!

Trade, while it's a pretty efficient market today, is not efficient as far as raw materials -> manufacturing -> products go and how they are moved.

The most common thing today is to move raw materials to a location where the manufacturing and labor is the cheapest..., the finished product may go right back to where the raw material came from. Seems silly right?

The tariffs will alter where raw materials and finished products are sent, if sent anywhere at all.

Ideally, raw materials, manufacturing, and final delivery of finished goods would all be next to each other.

Of course scarce, or regional, raw materials are different because there may only be a few places in the world to obtain them. But that's not the norm. Governments can economically incentivize all three steps to be at least in the same country so we aren't shipping things across the ocean for basically cheap labor/production cost.
If you want to

- be very employable => JS/Express/[a-myriad-of-other-things]

- be able to do anything (including trending AI/ML) => Python/Django (you won't be as productive as with Ruby/Rails and won't the same happiness experience [in regards to web])

- be very productive in Web env & enojoy your time => Ruby on Rails
That's what I'm hoping will happen - that EVs will lead to a big drop in demand before Peak Oil leads to a drop in supply.

But hope is not a strategy.
"I asked 100 users and 65 of them quit because of all the telemetry"
As a newbie to AI and ML, what puzzles me most is that what is really to ultimately it to work is a very well optimized and trained model - but once you have that model, who do you need?

Am I wrong in this understanding?
PS: Please don't heat with wood, it's very very polluting. There's more to pollution than just CO2.
1. It wasn't his job. It was the YC network he was thrown out of.

2. His own testimony was that "John Levy called me and said that because I said "build the wall" I am now removed from the network."
Because I can read.
Just deployed this to production. It was by far the best js client I found for my needs.

I would love to see some sort of mutation batching if that's not too far out of the scope of the project. Right now I'm just using a class to build mutations in bulk and send them across in a single POST.
This isn't a competition. I intended my comment to make one point, you interpreted it as another.
"John Levy called me and said that because I said "build the wall" I am now removed from the network"
> The huge amount of innovation has been in the likes of reducing cost, increasing safety etc. Now everyone can fly, only the rich could fly in the 50s and 60s.

This is much more about regulatory and financing changes than technology. Air frames are more expensive than ever. Planes are somewhat more efficient, but fuel is also more expensive.
discussed 3months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17606027
Depends:

* Do you like to be able to build things fast?

* Do you prefer not having to reinvent the wheel?

* Do you care if it's not the new hotness?

If you answered no to any of those, run away! Rails is mature-ish. It's boring now. Its ecosystem is stable. Your sanity won't be tested.

Reads...

* Michael Hartl's Rails Tutorial is probably the book you'll want to read to get a simple grasp on Rails (it can be overwhelming).

* 99 Bootles, POODR (Sandi Metz)

* some RSpec book

* Finish it off with https://rebuilding-rails.com/
These salaries seem way too low. We need to demand higher salaries as developers. Supply and demand. We are needed. We save money. We make companies lots of money. We should be compensated much higher. At least if we are good at it and not just average.
I feel the same way about the win/win nature of it. And my employer competes with Apple Watch.
Yeah, that happens with some websites. It's usually pretty apparent. Although sometimes I disable the reader view because I think a paragraph was skipped, but it's just poor writing.
> The form and function of Unix-based operating systems hasn't really changed much since the 70s, but even then the most significant investment in their development (Linux et al) has been in the last 20-30 years.

Investment is of course different than results. New generations of chip fabrication are exponentially more expensive, but advances in processor speeds (especially for single threaded code) have plateaued.
Here's one of many possible improvements: keep track of stories that had to be "rescued" from being flagged to death, and anyone who flags more than one of them loses both flagging and voting privileges.

Here's another: if you had to turn off flagging on a story, turn off the comment-based heuristics at the same time.

Here's a third: rethink the comment-based heuristics, and consider what kinds of discussion you're trying to curtail.
This summer was very atypical; in previous years my house was getting all kinds of insects visiting it during the day, this year very few. Also, there were too many bees I found lying dead on the floor - I had to pick one almost every day - something is definitely up.
Yes, of course it's still worth learning. Whether you learn Rails, Django, or anything else, the concepts will apply pretty well for any web framework.

I've been making screencasts for Rails developers at GoRails (https://gorails.com) showing how to build various features of websites in Rails.

If you're a beginner though, I would first recommend the Rails Tutorial - https://www.railstutorial.org/book
There are serious limits to the scalability of that solution. We can't all just sell the cars we have and buy something 25% better every year. And frankly, we've squeezed most of the efficiency we're going to get out of internal combustion already.
Beware - clicktrap. Disables Back button on Chrome.
So no one should try to prevent security flaws because that particular flaw hasn't happened and only fix them when they do?

The question shouldn't be "has it happened." The question should be how realistic is the chance of this happening in the future?
It is oddly silent on what government institutions MUST do within 48 hours...
First game to seriously try and build it?

Artemis Bridge Simulator [1] is nearly a decade old now, and has several clones and derivatives, including AAA VR title Star Trek Bridge Crew.

[1] https://artemisspaceshipbridge.com/
It is literally what I love about the English language. You can easily generate new words that are easily understood.

In the same thought, it's completely unnecessary.
Creating synthetic fuel requires a lot of resources. Growing it has a massive environmental impact and the necessary farm area would be very large. Solar cells would require a fraction of the area and can be put onto roofs or into areas not suitable for farming. Synthetic fuels also don't fix the efficiency problems of combustion engines. So electric cars would require only a fraction of the effort to be powered compared to combustion engine cars with synthetic fuels. On top of this, synthetic fuels do not solve the exhaust problems.
I highly recommend checking out "On Intelligence" by Jeff Hawkins [1] - an amazing book where the author of this paper elaborates on his theory (as of 2004).

Also, I'm currently reading "I Am a Strange Loop" by Douglas Hofstadter [2], it's relevant to this topic and super fascinating. I bet you'll enjoy reading it!

[1] https://www.audible.com/pd/On-Intelligence-Audiobook/B002V8L...

[2] https://www.audible.com/pd/I-Am-a-Strange-Loop-Audiobook/B07...
I would add "engineering lying to my face about the status of a highly visible product and then telling me we have 3 months worth of work left one week before launch". It really happened.
LSP service supporting Swift and C-family languages for any editor and platform
A friend of mine is a commercial landlord in NYC. He told me how this works... Companies will seek extremely high rent, and make concessions to the tenants to offset the high rent. E.g., rent this space for $50k/mo, and we'll give you free storage, free power, and free construction build-out. Then the landlord sells the building with the ultra high lease included as an asset, to get an even higher value out of the sale. Rinse and repeat.

The amount of money they get from the sale of the property with the high lease offsets the loss they're taking by keeping it empty. And they don't have to bother with as many annoying tenants.
Find ways to contribute towards actions that scale. Climate change is hundreds of problems actioned simultaneously.

http://www.drawdown.org/solutions-summary-by-rank