skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They are specifically designed to function like a slot machine.

I work in the gambling industry, making literally slot machines.

Slot machines are heavily regulated and there is a lot of "engagement" tricks that can not be used in the gambling industry. The kind of trick that Candy Crush will use.

The dangerous side of gambling is for people that think that they can "win money". But the games themselves are kind of boring by design. Regulations force us to make them boring. (And that is a good thing, I will not work on this industry otherwise).

The future of on-line games and mobile games is regulation. Micro-payments, push-notifications, etc. cannot be used without limits. People have right to their mental health more than companies have to higher profits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBKHnKkNSyw

"The Huawei does not have anything close"

The P20 Pro's night mode is arguably better than the Pixels. It is sharper, works in worse light, and has more natural colours. You also seem to be confused into thinking that DXOMark enables every special mode. They don't. The reviews are overwhelmingly simply the auto settings.

The argument I'm seeing in favor of the Pixel generally is "waves hand {magic AI!}". Sorry, I don't care how much HN is infected by Googlers and Pixel fanboys, there is zero evidence of any magical AI in the Pixel results, and they look absolutely bog standard.
Seriously though, you should read "Lost and Founder"[0] by Rand Fishkin of Moz for some insight on what's in store. VC's expect very high multiples on their return 10x is not even close, even small seed funds look for 40x+. That said I am not totally convinced of either model something like TinySeed[1] looks like a step in the right direction. At the end of the day it's about the fit for your business you're not going to escape burnout based on how you are funded.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35957156-lost-and-founde...
[1] https://tinyseedfund.com
"A 6 year old's brain has no chance against a team of trained data scientists. We all know this."

Hell, I'd argue that many 40-50 year old brains clearly don't stand a chance against a trained data scientist.
Agreed, the article is a very basic and imprecise overview of Tesla's finances, it brings no new insight. The more informed shortsellers and investors go to much more depth. The headline is quite... bold, given that the author doesn't know much about Tesla's finances and corporate finance in general.

By the way, last quarter was a big surprise to everyone, bulls and bears.
The victim complex with this company and the Musk fans is ridiculous.

The company was a financial dumpster fire losing exectives at an alarming rate (they had their Chief Accounting Officer leave after 29 days this quarter). It's just less of a financial dumpster fire now. Their payables increased by more than their earnings and are still more than their cash.

Would you consider yourself financially healthy if you had $3000 between your savings and checking accounts but a $3500 credit card bill (that has been growing QoQ)?

I haven't checked lately how many liens were filed against them but last count I noted was 18 filed this year - vendors aren't getting paid anywhere near terms, this isn't just managing cash - there are still a lot of red flags even if you think (and I would agree with this) the situation seems to be improving.
This has always been a form of Luddism. Tech is inevitable.

I view tech similarly to how I view sex-ed in 2018: it's been proven that if you do abstinence only education then bad things happen (teen pregnancies, stds, etc...). Your kids are going to grow up to be adults with bad tech habits if you don't start teaching them how to use it responsibly and protect themselves early.

Help them find good content. Have days where no tech is allowed on the weekends, but don't keep them away from it completely. Give them time to unwind with tech and choose stuff themselves, just as you probably do. Teach them about privacy and the problems that can come up with tech so they know how to deal with it themselves. Teach them that too much tech isn't good for you and you need to do other things too.

Monitor what they're watching and make sure you talk to them when things get out of hand. Expect to have some occasional issues, and treat them like you would an adult: are they sad? Is something going on at school? Is the tech affecting their ability to do other things at the time?

Eventually your kid is going to use tech. Teach them early how to be responsible with it.
FilmStruck is shutting down
Would you feel better if the parent were deeply involved in a newspaper or book? How about if the parent was constantly screaming obscenities at the referee? Parents aren't honor or duty bound to pay rapt attention to every second of their child's life. It's one human caring for another, and few humans have identical interests.
I think clojure has that; I could be wrong, though, I've never used clojure.
Don't be surprised when Google suddenly starts enforcing space limits and dumps your data.
What the call caused was police to show up at the door. That is where the responsibility of the caller ends and it should be punished accordingly.

The police caused this man's death. Citing the investigation as proof the officer was not in the wrong is being obtuse. Look at the body cam video - what you'll see is the victim being shot without any effort to confirm what they were told, and no effort to try to subdue with nonlethal means.
It's funny because the subtitle is:

“I am convinced the devil lives in our phones.”

Over a huge ominous image. You are dead on about 80s D&D/satanism scare mongering.
Agreed! And I'm thinking that some sort of language (or document format with technical markup) is going to become normalized to take advantage of this software, shifting from pure "prose".
It's easy to adapt one's moral values to what brings in more money.

"Yeah, I'm getting these paybacks from companies, but I do it to support my campaign, else this scoundrel, my opponent would have gotten elected, who would have voted for very bad policies".

Besides, long term, the system self-selects against too much morality. If they can't trust you to keep your mouth shut and play the game, you wont get the support you need to get to the next level.

The one willing to put up with everything and anything, either participating, or keeping their mouth shut and pretending to be above it while still allowing it to happen, becomes President.
As a movie buff, this is sad news. It was my go-to source for Criterion Collection films, and many of the films in their library are hard to find and are often only available on out-of-print DVDs.
Not quite $3k, but I paid $4500 for a 2012 Chevy Sonic a year ago with a clean title, a bit over 50k miles and no real issues.

I brought it to the mechanic once for a check engine light and I had it back by lunch with a trivial fix for like $150, and other than that am just doing normal maintenance.

I could buy a Tesla or whatever if I wanted to without it really noticeably effecting my immediate position, but from the perspective of my car being an appliance that does its job, I see no reason to spend more than I did, at least until I can get something that I can go to sleep in and wake up 100s of miles away at a beach or ski resort.

There are other ways to incinerate 50k that I'd get more joy out of than buying a car, but even beyond that I'd rather just leave it all in investments to get my capital gains above my expenses as fast as possible.

If you had enough in capital gains to buy the car from just those gains, or if you are a person that is really genuinely going to get $50k worth of joy out of it and make enough that the expense won't add any stress then I would start to not be able to argue with it financially, but I think both of those are very few people.
The status thing must be important for tesla sales, considering that for its price point it s not a luxurious car, but rather mediocre. The novelty and eco factor however are guaranteed to keep its status icon for a few years, or until the first better competition comes along.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBKHnKkNSyw

Except the Huawei does and in actual same-setting situations the results are better than the Pixel.
Maybe they're more likely to report imposter syndrome? How exactly can we distinguish between a self-aware narcissist who knows they have imposter-like tendencies and someone who gets satisfaction over having a pathology that others will be sympathetic towards? Nothing I've read here suggests an answer to this, I think.
Address the Root Cause [Clojure Blog]
Author here. What do you mean by "short?" The piece is 1,500 words, which is about double the length of a typical newspaper column.

I'm not going to get into the exact economics, but Ars writers write about a piece a day, and the average piece gets tens of thousands of visitors. Revenue per article (for most mainstream news site, not just Ars) is significantly better than $0.001 per visitor. High-end advertisers are willing to pay a premium to put their ads next to high-quality content and to know the demographics of the people seeing their ads. None of us is getting rich doing this though!

We're also fortunate to have a significant base of paying subscribers, which makes it easier for us to write in-depth pieces that might not generate enough revenue from ads alone.
And how do you spin up the rocket?
Can you explain how overdoing it with Quake and Diablo is not the same ball-game as overdoing it with Fortnite?
Does anyone know the relationship between stress and hair loss?
You've gotten me wondering: Why AREN'T certain games subject to the same regulations as slot machines?

Is that a state-by-state regulation? A federal regulation? And does the regulating code specifically mention physical machines?

Thanks in advance for satisfying my curiosity.
A compromise might be to author with AACS but silk-screen the disc key onto it? The DRM is how the disc key is protected, once you have the key it's simple decryption.
Importing human mass from mars is not really self sufficient.

1. The website estimates $500/kg for Earth to Mars, but that number has to go significantly up for human cargo. It could easily be $250k to ship a human if cargo weight is $500/kg. The math works out that replacing the population would cost $250M per rotation. It's probably easier to have kids, even if 4% of the population is dedicated to the task.

2. Finding colonist that will be psychologically prepared to not have kids will be significantly harder than not filtering on that variable. This is the type of thing that can weigh heavy on the mental health of colonist.
Not really:

ovov@ovov ~> cat repl.py
while True:
print(eval(input(">>> ")))
ovov@ovov ~> python3 repl.py
>>> x = 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "repl.py", line 2, in <module>
print(eval(input(">>> ")))
File "<string>", line 1
x = 1
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Tesla is already ~2% of US car sales based on their current rate. BigAuto does not have that much room to swoop in and they don't have much time as they need vast infrastructure for battery manufacturing or a charging network among other things. My guess is we are going to see a round of car companies fail as not all are going to make the jump.

Considering they don't sell pickup trucks, vans, etc things look even worse for existing companies. Who also have legacy concerns like dealerships and pension obligations dragging things down.

PS: ~30k/month * 12 months / (0.02) = 18 million per year. (Though not all these sales are in the US.)
How is your cousin now? Any-long term effects because of this?
A big hole on Instagram and the cause of hacking
The wiki edit screen has a Markdown preview tab https://www.dropbox.com/s/ouq7mwgazyyv6nc/Screenshot%202018-... but it disables typing.

I think you can override the default index of pages with a custom one.
>daycare

Is the daycare cooperating with your desire for near-zero screen time?
I heard the same arguments about SpaceX though. Building new cars are large, complex engineering projects, that have insane complexity around operations, manufacturing and technology. Plus things like Brand awareness and identity.

So image that GM wants to really compete with Tesla. They want to go Electric only. How do they:
1) Deal with dealers - which aare independent, and have their own view as to the product mix?
2) Develop efficient batteries and capacities - Tesla has a insane percentage of this capacity right now.
3) Deal with their unions, who definitely have a opinion about things, and are not going to let the company try anything new without their blessing and buy in?
4) Change their marketing image / brand identity?
5) Develop a electric drive-chain that is as efficient as what Tesla has?
6) Develop a network of chargers?

All without taking their current business model?

Note, VW really is trying to do it this way, and I am very skeptical. There are already a lot of signals that their plans are foundering despite a lot of hype around their battery contracts for example, they had to change tact yesterday and announce their own Giga-factory. Nevermind that VW's brand in the US is just slightly north of Enron's.
From 2016. Add that year to the title.
TIL I'm a narcissist. Not how I expected this morning to go.

I think these kind of categories that come from psychology are useful and also dangerous. Our innate tendency towards heuristics makes it difficult to talk about this stuff, especially with words like "narcissist" that have strongly negative connotations. The brain is a complicated mess. Maybe the most complicated mess in the universe. We try to impose some order on it without understanding it. It's true that "everyone in this room loves me" and "everyone in this room hates me" could be manifestations of a similar neurological configuration, and we could put the label "narcissist" on it. But the label is somewhat arbitrary and the behavioral results are often very different.
So you either won the car maintenance lottery or DIY'd it and disingenuously priced that at nothing. Good for you -- but not good for planning purposes.
Here's some low hanging fruit to get us started:

1. Ban gambling in games. That is, if real money is involved in the transaction, then there should be no element of chance involved. If not that, at least properly enforce gambling laws to games given that gambling is illegal for children anyways.

2. Decouple real money from in-game money. If you can buy something for real money, you should not be able to acquire it with in game money. If you can acquire something in game, you should not be able to buy it with real money instead.

Problem is, policy makers are clueless when it comes to games. These policies have no chance of passing anytime soon.
I'm not convinced about the multi year advantage. Everyone else has EVs out. They are not pushing them, probably because they are reaping the profits on past ICE investments, but the next tech platforms under development for years now at VW/Mercedes/BMW are electric.

VW is planning to get to 10 million EVs by 2022. I'd give credit to Musk and Tesla for bringing forward this point by several years, but it would be silly to write that goal off as empty bluster. (After all they have been selling a well reviewed plug in electric vehicle since 2014, even if no one ever heard about it, and it was priced relatively high. Maybe so as to not interfere with ICE profits).
The biggest corruption scandal in Latin America’s history
Same here. I wonder if there is any statistic of new UI vs simple mode usage.
Previous discussions:

2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14247269 (261 comments)

2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5375735 (176 comments)

2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=504667 (39 comments)
> your rule implies that dating anyone in a consensual, non-coercive way implies that relationship is wrong

In a word, no. It implies that the class of covered activities is too risky for the company.

Consider company rules about receiving gifts from vendors. Typically, there's some limit, like $25. If you are negotiating a contract with somebody and they give you a $26 pen or even a $100 pen, is that morally wrong? No, unless that's enough for you to improperly favor them. But it's still forbidden, and the danger to the company is significant enough that they still ban it.
It's strange, excel and greenscreen pricing grids could do 100x-1000x what a traditional pen and paper cash trader could do in the 80s, but trading/technology headcount increased massively since then.
This is an important point, although I can imagine AI could be trained to spot things that don't belong or are unusual provisions in an NDA. This may be what you're getting at, but it's easy in a contract review to focus on reacting to what's there and it's harder to know what's missing. An NDA is a relatively simple, cookie-cutter types of agreement with widely agreed elements. Other agreements not so much. How would AI figure out what's missing?
I'm rather young (25-30), so I didn't get to know the first "AI winter", but to me there is still potential for improvement of neural networks. Both hardware (new DSP cores) and theories related to NN (transfer learning, layers architectures) can be improved, and also new business applications who are not yet developed because of the impact on people's jobs. We didn't reach the full potential of neural networks, IMHO. Wait before we start connecting 100's of today's neural networks together and see what happen.

On a bigger scale of time, we could say the "AI winter" actually never existed, as all those last decades were dedicated to developing the hardwares and concepts we needed for today's algorithms. It was a long iteration of the loop 'hardware <-> algorithms <-> applications <-> new hardware needs'

"AI", as I imagine it, is not a product someone can sell. It's not tangible, it's hardly measurable, it's not only one technology, it's more a philosophical concept too me.

Edit : As for example, there is right now a link titled "Generating custom photo-realistic faces using AI" on the front page. It's misnamed, as an actual "AI" would probably not let itself be "used". The title would be better named "Generating custom photo-realistic faces using Neural Networks" (or "Deep Learning", or "Machine Learning")
That makes sense, thanks. And as others have mentioned it's therefore not easy to compose higher order derivatives.
I can see the logic behind the statement 'message passing is a pretty effective antidote to coupling' but I personally subscribe to the idea that actors don't compose. In light of that I think use of actors and messages implies some level of coupling which may not be obvious. Actors can't be arbitrarily composed together without knowing which actors they will be interacting with, making their addresses available and understanding their protocols so they can communicate together. Functions have no such requirements so I don't totally understand how message passing implies less coupling than conventional function-based architectures
I’m not entirely up to date, but my impression was that as long as the rewards are not redeemable for cash, it’s fine.
I'll have a look, thanks.

As for that though:

>You're thinking about it on a too small scale, but there are many more factors - it's not just a single transaction! Consider what happens to stocks when a company does something unpopular.

Their success might not depend on popular demand or any stock market. They might have control over something valuable like oil or water supplies, which is not very elastic in its demand.
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> I feel like I wrote a microservice, but without any of the challenges of an separate app

You feel that way because you did :)
> When you take VC, you've just hired yourself a board full of bosses.

Agree taking funding brings back an element of having a boss again Alan. It's certainly a trade-off of the VC route, and one of the main reasons I haven't taken funding before.

That said, I still think you get a good amount of autonomy by (co-)founding a startup, as you're often free to execute how you choose, but with the agreement that you'll pursue a path that can give an outsized return for your investors. Investors rarely want to dictate what and how you do things, in my experience.

> When does that ever stop being true?

Again I agree it doesn't, but it's something many bootstrappers don't quite understand when starting out (I didn't way back when), and I think is a point worth noting.

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Happy to make edits if there's ways I can clarify this better. Gotta ship something before EOP today but will revisit the article tonight.
I think you’re being an alarmist.

My iPhone adds incredible value to my life and I find screen time very useful in helping me control my own urges to over consume enjoyable content. I don’t think people at Apple are intentionally selling you cigarettes or opiate like products.

If parents can’t understsnd spending too much time on phones or infront of TV is potentially harmful then it’s common sense we’ve lost. Nothing else.

Take it easy.
We bought a Model 3 last week because we wanted to support a car company that was all-in on EVs and sustainable technology. We feel climate change will be the defining event of our generation and we want to support technologies and companies that seek to reduce our carbon footprint and combat climate change.

Most auto companies like GM and Ford are producing EVs to meet regulations that they're actively trying to get rid of. Others like VW are only doing it as part of legal settlements. Supporting them financially would be potentially to our benefit and not the planet as given the opportunity they'd dump EVs and go right back to the ICE. The remainder aren't investing in technology, they're just licensing it from the big 3.

We needed a larger sedan and considered hybrids like the Accord or Camry but older models only have efficiencies comparable to small sedans like the Corolla where as the 2019 models see much higher gains. Additionally the hybrid models are a premium approaching the $40k range.

With the full Federal Tax credit, the Model 3 we bought will cost around $44,000. This is the first new car either of us has bought and while it's a non trivial cost, it's something we can easily afford.
This happens with my school aged kids as well. I don't think it's "addiction" but the nature of kids and screens.

I've learned to keep my kids' screen time limited and it works best if it's a rigid timing (after homework but before dinner). I give them additional time if they watch in French audio track - in fact that seems to minimize the crankiness when its time to put away the devices.
CA.pl is decidedly clunky. It really needs a rewrite.
>Sure a tablet is a few hundred dollars

You can get basically disposable tablets at Walmart for ~$50.
As others said, sometimes we are voting on a lot of offices and a lot of initiatives/propositions. A voter is in several different type of districts, and the boundaries often don't line up, so your neighbor may be in the same federal congressional district, but not the same state congressional district, etc. Commonly in California, I voted on congressional districts, water district, lower school school district, high school school district, community college school district, water district, sanitary district, flood control district, vector control district, county supervisors, and I wasn't even in a city to have city supervisors or mayor. Almost all of these electrions are timed together, in order to increase turnout and reduce the election expenses.

Ocassionaly, we have hundreds of candidates for one office (ex California governor recall replacement that got Arnold Schwarzenegger into office).
This is only a good thing for GitHub's competitors. MS will ruin Github, so I would recommend just not getting attached to it and change over to somewhere else now, while it's easy.