skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is especially interesting in light of "Can We Go Electric Before It’s Too Late?" https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/10/where-america.... The answer may be "no," but Tesla is a big part, and outside of China likely the biggest part, of the answer.
> working in a nice company that lets me solve hard software problems is the most important thing

A thousand times this. Working for a small company it is expected that they won't be able to pay a highly competitive salary, but I have quite a few benefits.

However the most important part by far is being able to work solving software problems. Sometimes when doing explorative work I actually get to implement and (hopefully) reproduce recent scientific papers results. The highly technical work plus the low-pressure enviroment has been great for my mental health.

I even get to leave early the days I have classes, with no reduced pay.
Virgin Media in IE certainly supports IPv6. Used it for over four years.
On the top of my head, I can list Minecraft, Elder scrolls, Fallout, Factorio, Cities Skylines as modern games that have a vibrant modding community. Minecraft really helped me get a better programmer.

I strongly disagree with the point this article is trying to make, it feels like some kinds of proxy-gatekeeping (our games were so much better)
This doesn't address your main point, but you might appreciate an easy workaround for this problem: access the video at

/embed/$videoid
There's nothing in the US constitution that prohibits taxation without representation.
One of the challenges that men who have been sexual assaulted by women meet. Is that their stories are not believed or rejected, because some people believe that, "women can't do that to men".
The parent posters have a tone, that at least to me. Indicate he might agree with that, and I'm fairly sure that is why he is getting the downwotes.
> "we helped Callisto send a survey to 125 of the 384 female founders who have participated in YC"

Anyone aware of similar efforts to survey the male founders?
I'd wager white-collar crime happens more than street crime.

It's known that it costs us between 250 billion to 1 trillion dollars yearly, but pursuing the crimes isn't prioritized by the FBI/IRS because of the costs of litigation, the possibility of destabilizing the markets, and the war on drugs/terror.
Why do people like Tiger Woods even bother getting married, if they have no desire to be faithful? I think this is the same class of question.
Article could really use a disclaimer clarifying if the author owns stock in Tesla.
Ah, "hysteria", from the Greek for uterus. Basically the theory that those darned women just let their emotions run away with them. Keep digging, newly created account.
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Two things:

- where is mother nature github repo so I can file a pull request to patch atoms size

- I'm happy about the constraints actually, I'm pretty sure there's plenty of space at the software layer to improve use of hardware/
If you're not sure of the difference between interest and harassment, you're probably part of the problem. And I'll note that guys who say that rarely have trouble telling the difference when it's another guy expressing sexual interest in them.
Excellent points. Would love to chat some more (enclosure design, CE/FCC certs, etc.). I don't see an email in your profile. If you are open to discussion, please email me (my email is in my profile).
Deciding which stack you want to target.
A CEO selling off a large share of stock in the company (s)he's running is a de facto red flag. Often it's headline/breaking news.
I am a fan of Tesla who feels like a lot of the coverage has been really unfair. I still largely agree with the point that you are making, and I don't really consider this article to be better than some of the "bear" case articles that I have seen from time to time for the past few months.

Having said that, I think it is also a little unfair to imply that the work that the (???) are doing to try to push a false narrative and to get that narrative into the press has been unsuccessful. I'm honestly not even sure what to call these people. Are they really shorts in all cases? Maybe call them the twitter-geniuses-who-use #tslaq a lot?

An example is this article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/business/tesla-cars-quest...

Despite the title, did that article actually unravel the mystery? Or did it just devolve into unsupported claims of soft demand and quality issues, along with a poor job of setting an appropriate baseline for how much inventory a typical auto-maker would have in-transit?

I wouldn't attribute it to malice, but would these poorly researched articles exist were it not for the "tslaq" crowd stuffing "tips" to friendly reporters? And do they have something to gain from such mediocre work?
I hear the argument of this article and how important it was (being able to mod/participate in mods) but computers are also fading for gamers with the next generation.

The Kids I interact with are on tablets/phones, not the PCs we had that we could modify and upgrade and tweak as we saw fit.

Currently I feel like we're in a period of very locked in devices that stifle creativity by default. Even PC games are always online so you can't get all the content of the game, it has to be server-side unlocked or bought.
Parents' laptop recently had an inscrutable problem where only a handful of sites worked. Turned out to only be able to load ipv6 websites. On virtually every Google result while fixing the issue, the only way to see the contents was from Google's cache, so it seems like server side adoption is still pretty scarce.
From what I have heard, the issue isn't paying taxes, but filing them. Do you not have to file even if your income is below $127K? As in you need to file and disclose everything, but won't owe any taxes?

The burden I always hear about is that the reporting requirements are high, and institutions in other countries are not equipped to provide as much detail as the US wants.
and then you carry the possibility of more possible events with you into every interaction. You have to become hyper-vigilant for even average workdays.

The 'event' is more than the time it takes to happen, it colors the rest of your interactions with a company. (Do the other people know? do they condone? Who is safe? if the initial event was minor, will that person escalate?)

exhausting.
That's pretty much like making the window smaller. Not a good solution if you want to be productive. Less thinking for the IDE to render the graphics via OpenGL. If you look at CPU usage it still spikes, but less, so the UI is actually still very energy efficient.
In both cases the difference was energy use. Airplanes could be a lot faster and more powerful before the oil embargo, when everything shifted to save more fuel.

With CPUs the story is similar, we could have kept going on to 6/7 GHz but the energy constraints, both of supplying that energy and dissipating the resulting heat, would have been prohibitive. Even now, things are still changing, we have better liquid cooling and even more commercially viable phase change cooling. These allow 5 or 8 GHz, respectively. But most of all, parallel computing is in much better shape, both theoretically and practically, it's a much more viable approach now than it was 15 years ago.
Why is the Tesla stock illiquid? It's publicly traded.

It's not liquid as far as Musk is concerned. Ignore the aspect of "CEO dumps $COMPANY stock" for a moment. The kind of numbers Musk would need to dump would also affect the share price. 'cuz, you know, a bunch of supply just came online without corresponding demand.
Please read this: https://www.vox.com/first-person/2018/10/4/17933530/sexual-a...

The negative encounters get lots of loud attention, rightfully so. This author is making the point that women don't have to protest, speak up, or report all the totally normal, healthy encounters they have with men.
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I recommend Sean Parent's talks: http://sean-parent.stlab.cc/papers-and-presentations/. Pretty much everything is very good. It's usually C++-centric, but his subjects are deep enough to be useful to software engineering in any language.
Obviously, otherwise all the non-citizens (e.g. green card holders) who pay taxes in the US would have to be allowed to vote too.
> My assumptions about most men having respect for women's basic rights was really misplaced

Are you saying that from most women having been harassed it follows that most men have been harassing women?
It didn't match my "gut feel" either, but I'm having a hard time finding a good case of a faster rampup in that data. I don't think a minor refresh would count.

Can you cite an example?
exactly. Requiring to input a phone number to receive a SMS to confirm my identity is a big letdown (for me at least).
The best thing I can think of, albeit against the core concept of socializing, is the equivalent of PageRank, for social networks.
More or less how StackOverflow works, or here in HN, where with my meager karma I cannot downvote.
Of course this is complicated, and does not work for gathering the millions of users for advertising purposes.
So, we have to deal with the harassers and trolls, alas :/
Bethesda (fallout, elder scrolls) is basically the only AAA studio that makes an effort.

I'm mostly saying that AAA games not having modding is just a big loss, especially given how this generation of games (Fortnite, Overwatch, League) are magnitudes bigger than anything before it.
I suspect as they fix one issue (production, etc), the next in line becomes the bottleneck. Now it’s delivery logistics, but once that’s fixed, it will become service, which already seems to be straining.
Travelling salesman is about finding the shortest/cheapest path that visits all nodes. I don't see why you'd want to involve all nodes for a payment route.

If you meant "shortest path problem" instead, then it seems that route planners for road networks have already solved it reasonably well.

I suspect the challenges for lightning have more to do with keeping the map up to date.
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> In democratic republics, which are the norm in the West, the people pick their representatives and both the legislative and executive branches are determined by that vote.

And in real, rather than idealized, democratic republics, there are often systematic distortions in representation favoring certain identifiable interests, allowing those interests to attain controlling power with a minority of the vote.

As stated above, the US federal government provides a good example of this.

> It makes no sense to try to turn around the facts to pretend that democratic governments are not voted in by the majority but instead by a minority.

Both the current President of the US and the current Senate majority were voted in by outright minorities. The House majority was voted in by a plurality, but still the majority faction is substantially overepresented even if you consider only the ratio of major party votes.

> That's absurd and has no bearing in reality.

The current US government may be absurd, but it is absolutely reality, and not unique among democratic republics in history in being elected despite not commanding majority support in the electorate.

Denying reality isn't productive.
I agree both scenarios are toxic. But there might be a possibility worth considering that one fuels the other.
This must be reflected in insurance rates. How much more does it cost to insure a Model 3 than a Camry?
A big part of it is being wise about what code should not be written. Either the KISS principle or just being very conscious about costs and benefits.
If you're the person's superior at work: don't. If you're a peer, you use your words and respectfully ask if they'd be interested in going out.
I haven't noticed the need to re-download every game over and over (most patches seem to be ~1 GB), but I have noticed Steam is bad for having old versions of MMO's - typically you install the MMO and then the MMO basically re-installs itself with what's actually the latest version of the game.
You can already use Redux with any UI layer or framework, whether it be React, Angular, Vue, jQuery, or vanilla JS.

The starter kit package just provides some additional utilities for common use cases. You could use it in a TS app already, you'd just have to stub out the type declarations yourself. Reworking the package to be written in TS is mostly to allow easier integration with users building their apps in TS.
That's quite a few moved goalposts.
At varying levels there are government agents at any level of criminal activity undercover. My dad was an undercover narcotics police officer for several years (while I went through middle-high school) embedded in the biker gangs in the Southwest US in the late 80's and early 90's. A lot of it is/was BS and a lot wasn't.

I can't speak to specific numbers, but there are a lot of organizations out there with varying levels of operational complexity. It wouldn't surprise me that there are a great number out there. Also, it's not like there aren't people in many of these organizations who are actively engaging in violent and terrorist acts.

Some of the most violent and vocal are actually left wing groups. That isn't to say there aren't right wing groups that aren't a problem. It also doesn't help that people tend to lump them all together.

I see a lot of those who are Libertarian or conservative speakers that get violently protested and lumped in with the extremists. It's really hard to have pragmatic and practical discussions these days when the majority are so closed minded on one side or another.
May? That's pretty old.

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-model-3-solidly-profitable-s...

That is more recent (July) and shows 30% on the long range, without dual motor or performance bumps, all of which are probably really profitable add-ons. Of course who knows who is paying this guy to do the teardown/sourcing for the article.

I'm guessing the 35k version rolls out when it becomes profitable to do so to keep on target with the debt payments.
I'm an American who is a permanent resident of Germany, and the main reason is that the level of assets a normal middle-class wage earner can accumulate (think six figures) is not worth it to banks here to deal with the US-mandated paperwork, and so none of them will sell me stocks, mutual funds or index funds, despite my openness with both the country of my residence and the country of my birth. The only realistic savings mechanism I have given Europe's current near-zero interest rates is real estate; I can buy property, but I'm a bit hesitant to do that at the moment, given the disparity between purchase prices and actual rents. After FATCA started being enforced more heavily, there were Americans whose banks closed their checking accounts! Fortunately, I've not had a problem with very basic financial services, but no one wants to open a brokerage account for me once that American passport comes out.

If I had eight figures to manage, no matter where I was actually resident, they'd probably figure out how to deal with the bureaucracies on both sides of the ocean...
A company can be doing well and have its stock massively overvalued at the same time.
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Isn't this just an iPhone SE?
Or when the CEO (petite woman) and co-founder (old man) go to VC meetings and everyone thinks the the co-founder is in charge and the CEO is his secretary. Shit like this is rampant.
If you're self-employed, working and living abroad you must pay self-employment tax regardless of the foreign tax exclusion amount. It's ridiculous.
It isn't just YC though. Society has a very strong double standard here. Men socially are likely to have a hard time if they report anything and it is found out: "you should have just slept with her". Women who report it will get sympathy for what happened if people find out. While in both cases the victim will be uncomfortable and probably not want to talk about it in public, women can talk about it to their closest friends while men cannot.
To use an analogy, a Ford Fiesta and a Ferrari FXX aren't going to compete in a race together but they're both cars.

To use an analogy, public urination and murder aren't doing to result in the same penalties but they're both crimes.
> I am still not sure how often women simply consider sexual interest to be harassment.

In this setting it's at a minimum incredibly unprofessional, especially between people who don't know each other well and are potentially customer/client or investor/investee.

Imagine doing this stuff in a sales meeting.
Okay. I feel like it's time for experiment ! Or, one might say, "reproducing the behavior of which is spoken".

"I think the immigration flows into Europe are over the top, the EU population cannot seriously be expected to cope with them, or with the economic consequences of said flows, without massive protests"

This is not even a racist statement, at least not in my opinion. But it is definitely "something you can't say". Let's see how quickly this post gets downvoted.

One might argue "but surely nobody would be baited out that easily and transparently", right ? Let's see.

I leave myself fully open to being shown to be very wrong here. I'm making it real easy. All that has to be done is that such a statement must be left alone when it's an obvious bait, and in facts repeats 3 times that it is bait.

Let's see.
That sounds quite depressing. Would you be willing to share your problem description as given to candidates here? I will say that I have several friends who work in various industries addressing your real question and none of them would be particularly identified as a "data scientist."
It's getting downvoted because people don't like it when other people point out that the groups they belong to contain abusive people. It's typical tribal behavior.
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1) Straight from Business Schools - Folks who go into technology tend to become PMs after their MBAs

2) Internal transfers - Software Engineers switch to PM

3) Management/Technology Consultant -> PM: Folks switch from consulting (where they are implementing products designed by vendors) to becoming PMs in the vendor companies.
This is anecdotal of course, but I can't think of a single game that behaves like this, and my library is pretty sizable. Would be interested in an example.

I also cannot see the justification on a technical level for why this behavior would exist. All in all I'm pretty confused by this comment, tbh
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In theory, cows are spherical. In practice, you can't actually do this.
How does "losing a year of education" relate to my ability to decide and remember which errands I need to do in what order? If people lose 'a year', how does that respond to varying levels of education? Are they losing a year of education, as in quitting school to work, or a year of development, as in comparing 15 year olds to 16 year olds? The two are substantially different, and seeing them conflated makes me think I'm not the only one confused.

I have no idea at all. I'm not trying to be snarky, I completely failed to grasp what's being lost until I went and looked at the paper.

A year of education is certainly quantifiable when we're talking about learned facts and skills, or even about economic success, but I don't understand it as a measure of cognitive impairment. The studied harms should still be relevant to a farmer who's never spent a single day in a classroom, and the analysis in the study focuses on older adults losing fundamental capacities that are important to decision-making and daily functioning. Using a metric that's based on education doesn't clearly convey losses like that, especially when we're talking about not missed advancement in children but decline in older adults.

The actual result obtained in this study was performance on a set of scores on verbal and mathematical tests relative to a population average. The result in the lead study was a set of verbal and mathematical tests relative to a population average. Expressing one as percentiles and the other as IQ doesn't change the fact that those things are far more similar to each other than either is to keeping children in school for an extra year.

(On a final note, I don't want to open the IQ debate, but I do think the usual problems are uncommonly irrelevant here. I specifically pulled a lead study which was conducted in China, used a Chinese baseline, and compared among same-age children, which avoids the biases mentioned. IQ may be a terrible general comparison, but if we don't need to compare between samples in different studies then it's really just a percentile.)
Does what I want, thanks.
That’s interesting. What prevents you from just opening a Vanguard account like any other American? Friction on the German side?
Some opinions betray ignorance. I'd say this is one case of that.
That also conflicts with people's expectations of games to be constantly updated and patched. Valve added a built-in custom game creator for Dota 2, but game designers still run into issues since any breaking changes in Dota 2 can potentially break their games, and Valve doesn't want to maintain two separate copies of the game to appease custom game creators.
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I think either the Internet will self-regulate by developing a "hey let's not lynch people" norm, or the brick-and-mortar crowd will slowly develop some backbone against Twitter mobs.

I can't predict the future. But I'm a great fan of that quote: "If something can't go on this way forever...it will stop."
Can you clarify what "this happens" refers to? What happens to you regularly?
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Lots of pronouns tossed around there.

The EECS department is moving, but nothing I've read has indicated a change in numbers.

Is what a peer with Sloan? The College of Computing? Here are the current schools and departments: http://www.mit.edu/education/#schools-and-departments. Considering the EECS department is moving, it seems to me that, yes, the College of Computing is an organizational peer of Sloan. The term "college" is strange, given that everything else is a "school".
There's a cultural gap: I just want my hair cut quickly once my gf has told me it's too long. On the other hand she likes to dress up and go to the hairdresser and have an experience (how she manages it while working for a startup and looking after her kids 1/2 time I haven't been able to figure out).

I'd be glad if haircut could be uberishly provided to me at work (I wouldn't want the mess at home) while her experience requires a dedicated space and several people working there (and several concurrent customers as well). A machine that did it would be better if the capex/opex tradeoff were worth it.

Oh and I can't take my dog to the haircutting place (he has to wait outside) while he does come to work.
I just see it as sexist. "Appears to be much higher" is an unscientific basis for sexism. I think that this might just be because members of this community are mostly men, so male->female harassment being more common is a statistical certainty. But the same goes for the ratio of, for example, heterosexual men to homosexual men, and anyone in those demographics affected by harrassment are left out in the cold. We have a [dead] example in this thread of a male victim who has been the target of female harassment.

You don't fight sexist behavior with more sexist behavior. Just conduct the survey of everyone. Use demographics after the fact to establish trends, don't go into it with bias.

In other words: the methodology used here literally covers up sexual harassment. It's just a sex no one cares about.
I think you meant to say "Apple Watch".
This article is written by Alex Blumberg and has embedded links to that podcast.

I actual wonder how that works, did gimlet pay for this placement in nymag?