skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can we ban nerf guns and adult slides? Good grief, much of Silicon Valley feels like a kindergarten.
Three New DNA Studies Are Shaking Up the History of Humans in the Americas
Sure, but the only real main similarities are they both have bodies, tires, windows, seats and a steering wheel. Just about everything else is completely different and needs to be "invented." The hard stuff.
Florida refugees must be stopped at the border!
Ask HN: Command Line History
In a past HN response to me, someone indicated that they keep a large history file for their shell. I have always set mine to not be created due to privacy concerns but this comment continues to stick with me.

For those who like to keep their command history: how much did you decide to keep and do you back it up and/or sync it?
We really do. It’s in nightly; likely to hit stable early next year. One of its precursors is being stabilized as we speak.
The car part is the easy part. The alternative 'fuel' part on the other hand..
That is actually pretty neat.
There are quite a few e-car models in that price range, like Citroën C-Zero or Renault Zoe. Tho I wouldn't really consider those as "Tesla rivals".
Running docker daemons that handle arbitrary code in a multi-tenant scenario is a security and scaling nightmare. I don't blame them for trying to get out of the morass.
Isn’t their cheapest model now $45k?
There is not uncertainty. Film-produced cells are sufficiently cost-effective now and their price is still dropping.
Well, Tesla has been building electric vehicles infinitely longer than them, so
I saw a quick flash of unstyled content (in Firefox) where all the text was jammed into one paragraph with no breaks. And then the page rendered normally.

So I glanced at the source code, and it surprised me to see that it was not a typical HTML document, but instead an XML document with a stylesheet. It is very rare to see a non-HTML page on the web, whether it is the XHTML serialization of HTML, or fully custom XML.
https://news.mit.edu/2018/artificial-intelligence-senses-peo...

Sometimes locking your doors isn't enough.

And you need to be careful about your VPN. Make sure it's in an area that doesn't have an agreement with the NSA, and even then you still need to be very careful.
For Bay Area HN folks: check out what San Jose has done with the bike lanes downtown recently. Separation from traffic using a combo of parked cars and barriers.
Why is this comment being downvoted, but the parent is being upvoted? Both are completely unsourced, big claims, neither of which belong on HN. Please stop using your vote as an opinion button.
Mature adults also don’t sexually harass their colleagues.

My priority is to have swift, clear consequences for harassment. If you are drinking at work and in your buzz behave inappropriately, I want you walked out of the building for the alcohol and spare the victim from the more harm.

You don’t need to infantalize folks. It’s really simple: if you want to go get drinks, there’s a bar down the road.
At minimum, Tesla took the leap of faith that everyone else was afraid to.

I think it's difficult for the board members of traditional car companies to justify serious investment in EVs just 10 years ago. The major auto makers are heavily reliant on their supplier network in order to build cars. And the suppliers can't survive selling parts to just one manufacture, most of them need to sell to at least three automakers to survive. This is how the industry ends up Takata airbags / Bosch fuel pumps in half the cars sold in USDM/EUDM.

It's hard to justify paying a supplier to develop technology you know they will license to the competition, but it's also risky to start developing battery tech independently. So most companies just bought what was available on the market.

The original founders of Tesla knew this, which is why they licensed Lotus/Toyota parts and focused development on their own batteries and engines.
Under the current regime, doctors are not allowed to use judgement. Doctors face ruination of their career, even criminal prosecution, if law enforcement disagrees with them.

Doctors therefore do the obvious thing to protect themselves - they don't prescribe opiods.
You can "preorder" it and give them that much money, but they will then follow up with you and tell you that you won't get your car unless you buy more upgrades to push yourself further up in the backlog. So realistically, you can't buy a car at that price.
Wait, what? How are they prohibited from having dealerships? If anything, the problem they have run into is that some states require them to have dealerships and sell through them instead of selling directly to the consumer.
You can also use a fake IP for the default gateway on a wholly different segment with local segment ARP, or an IPv6 default router with 4-wrapping, or set up a router that uses promiscuous mode to capture all packets it receives from your “default route eth0” host. These are all irregular solutions, though, so I didn’t want to go too deep into the confusing weeds.
I think there is some aversion to building a product that is too motorcycle-like; regulators may start to get ideas if the scooters look too much like a Vespa.
I'm confused as to how that article is relevant.
The layout of casinos is also a minefield of dark patterns, but I'd have been surprised to see it crop up in the middle of that comment without explanation or follow-up.
> Neither do I see what this feature tries to solve that say filtering out closed issues with `invalid` tag doesn't.

My first thought: security disclosures.
"The letter O is used because the growth rate of a function is also referred to as the order of the function"

order of...order of

yeah I know there is no "growth"
Except it does not eliminate counterparty risk because it still has central points of failure it even got hacked and people lost money.

https://www.ccn.com/cryptocurrency-exchange-etherdelta-hacke...
The Future of Safe Self-Driving Cars Is Thermal Imaging
I for one think Andy's response is articulate and well explained. The technology does have a lot of potential to do good, and it seems that everyone is focusing on the bad side of it.

"Rekognition is actively been used to help stop human trafficking, to reunite missing kids with parents for educational applications, for security and multi-factor authentication to prevent theft."

Can it be used for evil? Yes. Should Amazon do its best to prevent it? Sure. But at the end of the day that is the responsibility of the government.
Tcl is a great example of a language that should have fixed literally a couple of bad design decisions early on to be sensible. Instead, it is a complete nightmare to debug. I refuse to allow its use on any project.

One great example is how a variable name can be expected yet its value is extracted instead, and seem to function sort of. Yet it’s stomping through your code base and messing with values you didn’t think it would. Finding this is simply not worth the trouble when arguably dozens of other languages would not even have the problem.

Or, the “error on line 1” where the “line” is a massive nest of loops and other statements. Tcl (at least at one point, supposedly this improved) couldn’t offer any more help. And again, this was a completely unnecessary debugging headache that no other language would have.
Well that's a nice diversion however do we have any credible hint that solid state batteries are a) viable and b) mass producible ?

It's not like the late 00s where SSDs were viable but deemed not yet cost effective. Solid state batteries IIRC don't even have a proof of concept much less any adoption.
Make it out of what? A competitor several years down the road?

What are you talking about, and why do you think Musk isn't apart of Tesla? Seriously stop spreading this nonsense.
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Hi! I really appreciate you sharing this with the community. The documents and code look really clear and concise. I do have one question. Is it possible to change the dependency on Mujoco engine to something else (to for e.g. Roboschool)?

I don't have access to a computer with GPU and I am currently using google colab to do my DL projects. I tried installing Mujoco on colab but unfortunately, the computer id generated seems invalid. Any help is highly appreciated.

Thank you!
A datasheet for a related non-power-of-2-sized product from Micron gives a hint as to what they're doing:

https://prod.micron.com/~/media/documents/products/data-shee...

Page 28:

"For non-binary memory densities, only a half of the row address space is valid. When the MSB address bit is HIGH, then the MSB-1 address bit must be LOW."

They basically cut off the upper 1/4 of the address decoder.
light is slower in the atmosphere, did you adjust for that?
and now pg knows all the boomers on the site stored in the upvote list here.
Why is that bad if you have users with older browsers? I have thousands of paying customers with a very wide range of browsers. Why should I make their lives harder by using flexgrid?
It's really hard to generalize European countries. For example, it's possibly to pay ~20% tax rate in Germany (after tax credits due to Kids) after having gone through free university with free healthcare.

And then you have Sweden with 70%
It allowed you to trade any ERC-20 token, indiscriminately. If you point an ERC-20 contract address to it, it would add it automatically to the user interface.

Also, I'm not talking about if it's illegal or not, the point that I can't get over is that the ED guy didn't scam or hurt anyone. It was an honest, transparent, open source project.
This is a great read and not overly long. For a legal filing from the SEC about a cryptocoin marketplace, it doesn’t get much better than this.

The size of the fine strongly indicates (in my totally non-expert opinion) that the SEC was actually deeply grateful to the EtherDelta founder for educating them about how his operation functioned and how this marketplace even worked. I wouldn’t be surprised if he helped write the document we just read.

This is not even a slap on the wrist, this is practically them saying “job well done, sir!”

The point of filing in the first place and ultimately reaching this agreement was clearly a learning experience for the SEC and a practice run for starting to better regulate this new technology.

They learned the ropes with a defendant who didn’t even own the company anymore, and basically hired him to consult for them. The plea lets the SEC put a feather in their hat and try to better establish that they want to regulate even smart-contract based non-custodial trading engines.

Which really kind of sucks because a truly non-custodial smart contract trading engine carries none of the risks that the national exchange regulations were designed to protect against, does it?

Maybe there is still manipulation of the order book that could occur.

And also, which specifically comes up in TFA, the fact that EtherDelta picked which securities were displayed in the book was a key aspect of them being an exchange. If you’re going to, even implicitly, endorse specific tokens, you are going to be subject to these regulations.

It would be great to know specifically how far back you would have to walk from the EtherDelta “line” before the SEC would not pursue enforcement. Is any centralization at all fatal?

I’m going to guess you need a fully decentralize trading book, and users need to explicitly identify the token they want to trade (i.e. by selecting the correct book) before there is no longer an individual person they could target as an exchange.

Basically, I am guessing, you have to get to a point where you aren’t even capable of collecting transaction fees beyond what the miners require to include the transaction in a block.

Overall a very interesting post.
I will be convinced VW are serious about this only if they intend to conceal a NOx generator somewhere in the chassis.
I'd like to comment here that issue trackers are tools for maintainers, not for users. A maintainer doesn't owe you any response to issues, nor do they owe you any way to report them. The maintainer has the right to stop working on their code at any point and completely take it off GitHub at their own discretion, should they want to.

(If you think that issue trackers should be for users to be able to tell each other if they've experienced the issue too, then that's part of the problem with "+1", "Me too", "fix this please", and other useless comments. That's what a forum is for, and today they're super-easy to create. You don't even have to host them yourself, nor do you need to be affiliated with the project!)

Lesson: if you don't trust the maintainers, you can't trust the software. Keep your own fork and issue tracker if this is a problem, but don't force maintainers, many of whom are not acting in a professional product management capacity, to do extra work for your benefit.
> Examples of this?

Me. I was forcefully removed from the lobste.rs community by "pushcx" (after years of activity) for posting "a lot of really negative comments" and not playing along with his culturally insensitive offer to "help".

When will these people learn that faking cheerfulness cannot be imposed on the whole world? Anyway, to add insult to injury, all my comments with negative scores were deleted after the ban.

"I appreciate that you haven't attacked anyone", he wrote, before going on his little power trip. Involuntary humour is better than no humour at all, I guess...
The massive rise of carrier grade NATs perhaps.
Thanks! I chose Spectre after evaulating every one of these. Skeleton came very close. It's old but still looks incredibly good IMHO.
That prestigious institutions up until the past few years used male pronouns to refer to generic individuals as being "proper English", which this document ostensibly is, and this explains the document's use of them?
I left my job to do more meaningful work. I took a big paycut to do it. But I guess it wasn't meaningful enough because I want to do something even more meaningful, but I can't really go any lower right now.
First one to mention a number (money), loses.
But that Acer laptop from 2008 would no doubt let you upgrade the RAM and HDD, which is my overall point.

Apple has turned their products from some of the most high-class computers and devices on the planet, to, it seems, greed and drivel.
> You can pretty much tell if this article is meant for you in about 1 minute.

That's only the case if you already know what you're looking for!
> it is unfair to turn your back on law breaking that may benefit some people (and of course certainly benefits the immigrant) while harming others

Who exactly is harmed by someone coming to this country? They don't qualify for any benefits paid for by tax dollars. They do however pay taxes. So in fact they are a net positive to anyone who is already here.

I'm curious how you think they harm a citizen just by being here.
In my opinion even if this was a huge problem for ground base telescopes it wouldn't matter, that negative externality would be tiny compared to the potential benefits.

That said, this project will approximately double the number of man made satellites. I believe these satellites will be smaller than normal, but also closer than normal.

I'm not an expert, but I think number of satellites is actually a really bad predictor for impact. In particular there was one set of satellites that had really bad effects for some reason. See more here [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_flare
>EtherDelta is still a clear violation of the Exchange Act. All securities exchanges must be registered, most tokens are securities and EtherDelta was running an unregistered exchange selling those securities.

Let me get this straight:

Old men write words on dead trees.

Old men send men with guns to blow your brains out if you do not agree to their words.

These old men get their salary by stealing tax payer money and allowing convenience stores and gas stations to prey in the poor and all unfettered exchange of cash for lottery tickets.

But god forbid that a man wants to invest in a token startup.
A series of headlines:

2009 - NSA offering 'billions' for Skype eavesdrop solution [1]

2011 - Microsoft buys Skype for $8.5 billion. Why, exactly? [2]

2012 - Skype replaces P2P supernodes with Linux boxes hosted by Microsoft [3]

2013 - Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages Subhead: Skype worked to enable Prism collection of video calls [4]

1. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/12/nsa_offers_billions...

2. https://www.wired.com/2011/05/microsoft-buys-skype-2/

3. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/05/skype...

4. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-...
They probably meant having company owned dealerships.
I'm not a network engineer, so take this with as much credibility as you'd give an explanation after a few beers:

Most network providers have peering agreements to handle reciprocal traffic flows. In other words, if you're Comcast, you send a shit-ton of traffic to, say, Verizon. But Verizon also sends a shit-ton of traffic to you, as well. Generally, companies will have peering agreements that express the price for which they will route traffic for other network providers, and generally if there's a lot of reciprocal traffic, the peering will be "settlement free" - in other words, neither party charges the other to route traffic. So, in the example above, you as Comcast would agree to route Verizon's traffic across your network for free as long as Verizon did the same.

Cloudflare is a CDN, which means they push a LOT of traffic out across a lot of networks, and it's likely they're not getting as much inbound traffic as they're pushing out. That makes it harder for them to negotiate settlement-free peering, since they're not providing as much reciprocal value to their partners. By owning 1.1.1.1, they can now claim any trafic sent to that IP as "inbound" to Cloudflare's networks for the sake of peering agreements. Since 1.1.1.1 gets a bunch of traffic from either misconfigured equipment or people doing silly tests, routing that traffic helps improve Cloudflare's ability to negotiate better peering agreements.

Which, honestly, is pretty clever, since most of that traffic is garbage.
Speed of light in air is still ~0.9997c (and approaches 1 as altitude increases), so it's a much less noticeable difference than it is for copper or glass
So when your high functioning alcoholic blows a .22 after taking out a telephone pole and hurting another driver, what do you do then?

What portion of responsibility will the victims attorney pin on you?
For me, the default answer is "yes" for many reasons:

* I'm not smart enough to handle most browsers well in a short amount of time

* I'm not primarily a designer and these frameworks are often gorgeous by default

* I don't want clients to pay for me to reinvent the wheel, and I don't want them left with my personal framework when there are many, better documented ones available

* These designers thought more than I did about accessbility, and I place a high priority on it

* These frameworks can sometimes deliver a lot of bang per byte, and I'd rather be writing stuff only I can do than wasting time trying to get mine as small and efficient as theirs
Do tell which ones fit that qualification?
It seems so. Though, I’m in no way advocating server-less. :)
How do you know that Photoshop could be a lot faster than it is right now? I would not dare to make such a statement unless I have seen its current codebase.
Hi!

A few people had this question on Twitter also. Our response: "Several of us at OpenAI are thinking seriously about how to make something like this happen! I can't promise anything, but we definitely want to remove barriers to entry." (https://twitter.com/jachiam0/status/1060595172285632512)

In the meanwhile, you can still use Spinning Up with the Classic Control and Box2d envs in Gym (which don't require any licenses at all). And what's more: for most of these environments you don't need a GPU! CPU is fine.
I said nothing about eliminates. But not having the training makes the employee a five million dollar liability.
Here are some charts for you: https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&...
I met John Collison and Courtland Allen today – this is what I learned
Hey everyone :)

I really want to share with you something amazing that happened today!

There was an Indie Hackers meetup in Dublin, Ireland. I'm from a city called Cork that is about 3 hours drive from Dublin. As soon as I heard Courtland was interviewing John Collison at this meetup, I decided to travel up from Cork to Dublin!

And it was amazing. I learned so much during the interview, and took loads of notes! I even got to speak to John about some of my ideas. I also spoke with Courtlands +1 Cloey about becoming an ambassador for Indie Hacker events in my city!

Here are some of the things that the interview covered:

1) Core attributes of a promising founder worth following: - Progress/trajectory over time - How well they lead a team & - Make the vision happen - Most impressed when someone is way ahead of where you thought they would be when you check up/see them a few months later.

2) Indie Makers have such a benefit of being small, fast, nimble workers in comparison to big companies.

We can easily pivot and vastly change a project of ours. We can change as we learn more about our users.

Big companies can take months/years for even the smallest of pivots.

3) Before you find a product market you can pivot your project as many times as necessary until you find something that works.

Then you only have one thing to do: scale, scale, scale.

4) Be obsessed with the little details. - listen to every single person who uses your product - reply to every single person who emails you about your product - ask them what they like and do not like - iterate your product, make changes, pivot if necessary

Well, you get the idea! John & Courtland had many interesting things to say. So much valuable information in such a short amount of time. I can hardly believe it.

You can read more about it here https://twitter.com/joeytawadrous/status/1060681217216036864
> So you have to take a 5 years loan to buy a new car? 10 years if you have a low salary?

Most people with good to high salaries just lease their cars anyway, at least that's been my experience in Germany. People on low salary don't buy new cars or don't own cars at all, dense country with a decent public transit system, no need for everybody to own one.

Peer-to-peer carsharing also has been rather successful with Drivy, which is an option low-income people make use of if they should ever actually need a car for something.
Right. It's an ancient dumb law that seems pretty unique to this industry going way back. How many other industries are prohibited from having their own stores and selling the products they produce themselves? It's like telling Apple they can't sell their hardware at their own branded stores and must only sell them from 3rd party retailers - at an additional markup so the retailer can make a few bucks too. It's anti-consumer and anti-competitive. If Ford wants to open their own stores to sell their own cars (not "dealer franchises"), why shouldn't they be allowed to?
When you believe the bill of rights applies to everyone in the world which is becoming a common view, ICE seems like the perfect hill to die on.