skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aldous Huxley’s wife's letter about injecting him with LSD right before he died
Chevy (or LG) and Hyundai clearly know how to make a battery that competes on price.

No, they don't. That's my point. They've made long range EVs that they are selling at a loss, or only in small numbers which implies either loss-making or supply-chain problems.

Tesla doesn't have any magic technology

Thats not clear. Look at the recently announced Audi and Mercedes EV efforts (and the Jag i-Pace) and see how they compare with Tesla in terms of battery size, weight and efficiency.

Sandy Munro says the Model 3 is at least 4 years ahead of anything else. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2018-10-25/why-tesla-s...
I've been using this app as my HN client since I've had my iPhone. Great work!
i am using Razer BlackWidow keyboard - the closest thing to IBM keyboard that i could find.
None of the other people I communicate with are hams, so if the grid goes away, I'm still pretty much limited to yelling.
FWIW, several language communities call this "the Thrush combinator"[0]. Armed with that term, searching the web for background/info/theory on this topic will be easier.

0 - https://debasishg.blogspot.com/2009/09/thrush-combinator-in-...
I grew up in Iowa/Minnesota, and buffalo is (was) used there. But is it a regionalism or anachronism?

To me, “to buffalo” canotes a combination of verbal bullying and deception more than physical bullying.
Actually similar to the electron microscope Feynman describes for pharma-biochemistry is the new microED (micro Electron Diffraction) for biological structure determination.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5656569/

The ability to see the actual atomic organization of a molecule (and its various confirmations) of previously "uncrystalizable" compounds is also amazing. There is money to made building these lab systems! It needs to be automated ,but everyone will need to upgrade.

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2018/10/18/sma...
Thanks a lot! I've been looking at a lot of different CSS frameworks lately. So far I'm considering Semantic UI, Bulma, Tachyons, Tailwind, and a few others. I initially skipped over Spectre because I thought it was a just a lightweight grid framework, and didn't realize it had so many components in less than 10kb. That's really amazing, and I also love the super clean design. You also get a little bit of Tailwind with the functional classes.

The only thing I don't like is how it uses native browser select dropdowns. They're really ugly, so it would be nice if there was a proper select component (although I can just add my own CSS or use Select2.)

Anyway, this looks really awesome. Especially for a landing page that needs to load really fast.
Since it's part of what looks like an overall project (ixy) to show how it's possible to do this sort of low-level programming in a variety of languages (the roadmap includes js and python), the developer experience is an important component of what they're trying to shed light on.
I wish this was a React lib with components styled already.
There is no opposition between microscopy and sequencing. To the contrary, technologies are converging on the microscope as "omics" data (sequences are one type) are now moving to the microscope because of the need for additional information such as cellular states or spatial information.
For example, in mass-spectrometry imaging, mass-spectra are associated with regions of an image or single molecule fluorescence hybridization (smFISH) techniques are used to produce transcriptome data at the single cell level on a microscope.
Humans, like other animals, are probably meant to just spread our genetic material all over our species gene pool.
This is a key point when considering Tesla stock. In order to justify the current price, Tesla really has to become the next Toyota.

Volkswagen is an $85B auto maker and the second most valuable. Tesla is already a $60B auto maker. If Tesla becomes the next Volkswagen in 10 years, they will have gained 42% returns over 10 years or about 3.6% annual returns. Given the high risk that Tesla won't become the next Volkswagen, it seems over-priced.

Even Toyota, at $192B, seems like it would be lackluster returns if Tesla reaches their heights in a decade. That would be a 12.4% annualized return. Now, that's a very good return, but is is likely that Tesla will become the next Toyota? Why not the Next Volkswagen at $85B or Ford at $28B or GM at $51B or Mazda at $7B? Those are all successful auto makers with good profits.

Worse, are cars really the future? More and more people are migrating to cities and looking toward public transit. Even if cars become green, they're still congestion in a world whose urban population is increasing a lot where congestion and parking are becoming larger problems.

Even if cars are the future, will people own them? If self-driving cars become a reality, demand for vehicles could fall by 90%. Most cars are idle most of the time. If I can just get a self-driving taxi everywhere I need to go, it would be a fraction of the price of owning a vehicle since I would be sharing vehicles with many people. That would lower the demand for vehicles a lot. Even if Tesla became 100% of the auto industry, if that industry is a tiny fraction of the size today, it would really hurt Tesla's finances.

Really, I think there are two ways Tesla could hold up to its expectations. 1) Being more than a car company. Tesla might become big in other industries like solar power in addition to being a car company. They'd probably need more than just solar as an add-on, but there are markets out there. 2) Tesla's vertical integration works really well and beats out competitors. One thing to note about this: the vertical integration also exposes them to a lot of risk. When you have several outside companies creating the same component for you, if one doesn't deliver, you don't have to push back projects - you just buy from a different supplier. While you pay a mark-up, you also get different companies and teams working on the same problem to drive down price and drive up quality. It's certainly possible that Tesla will do excellently with their in-house components and keep that going for decades and it could provide them a strong price advantage against competitors.
See:

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/buffalo (verb)

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/dog (verb)

"buffalo" is almost never used as a verb in everyday speech.
And yet, Tesla has the third highest average selling price of all manufacturers. Clearly there is an expectations mismatch.
Bearsville, Woodstock, Saugerties. The Rondout in Kingston has a certain charm but may be impacted by flooding.

Downside is you need a car or take one of the Peter Pan buses. Could Amtrak to Rhinecliff and taxi.
>autopilot

Other than marketing, are they really ahead of the competition?
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Depends on the market. I live in the Netherlands (next to Germany) and even though NL is one of the most expensive countries to own a car, luxury german cars are very common here. So are Tesla's by the way.
This is called Middle Management, and exists entirely to buffer high level decision makers from day-to-day workers.
Maybe I missed something, but all of these network drivers in Go, Rust, C# etc are just re-implementations of the original C driver, where it would seem to me that the real work happened.

That would make the ports still be an interesting experiment, but not as impressive IMO.
the Netezza shared nothing database appliance used FGPAs as helper cards on each of the x86 data blade servers. A little more about it worked here (and via The DuckDuckGo.)

https://www.slideshare.net/classicboyir/netezza-pure-data
Until autonomous rideshare services take over. Then regional monopolies will arise due to the infrastructure needed to support those fleets.
in chinese the ma sound have several meanings (granted, with different tones).

but it can mean mother, horse, hemp, question... there is certainly a chinese version of this around the corner :)
It's funny, because Buffalo buffalo are actually Bison bison bison. And when one decides to buffalo, the other is usually cowed.
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There's an entire subreddit dedicated to these things.

Definitely worth a check.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WordAvalanches/

EDIT: Adding some good examples:

https://www.reddit.com/r/WordAvalanches/comments/3ogese/a_sw...

https://www.reddit.com/r/WordAvalanches/comments/6so5w4/the_...
Thanks! Sounds a bit too scientific to my ear but good to know
Humorous but does this move us closer to true AI?
It may be this:
https://github.com/fwalch/tum-thesis-latex

At least it's linked here: https://www.in.tum.de/fuer-studierende/bachelor-studiengaeng...
How does MemSQL reach consensus between nodes?
Focus on weights to understand neural networks
> They were asking for code snippets. They were not asking for a program that shows off all the power of the language.

Talk about missing the main point of my comment. Code snippets that simply embed other paradigms are typically non-idiomatic or just syntactic noise if you're not familiar with the syntax. Code snippets that show off the problems for which the language is perfectly suited are unintelligible to those that don't understand the paradigm. Code snippets simply aren't all that useful if your language has a fundamentally different paradigm.

> Nope. No constraints here.

Strange because they published a paper about adding constraints years ago [1].

[1] https://www.mercurylang.org/documentation/papers/padl_solver...
I still can't help but feel this could be obviated by a more top-down approach, like decomposing into modules.

Even with a well-specified dependency tree there are areas where an incremental build can still bite you in the ass. Things like inlining and transitive dependencies ... I think you still need to build from scratch to be sure.
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Are you adjusting for inflation?
Honestly, I don't think so. More likely this will be just a syntactical sugar.
Which CNN should I choose?

I could never find the time to test them all, nor have a quick idea why one architecture is better than another. To improve this, I created some go-to checks to see the pros and cons of each one.

I discuss one of those in this article.

What are yours?
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Ultimately affordable housing isn't a factor of price as such. There have always been very expensive parts of town. It is how abruptly the city ends. Once these smaller cities get expensive there it nowhere to go, the rest is suburb. 10 000 new people in NYC is almost a rounding error, while even 1000 people in a smaller city (with a small core) could be significant.

This is also what San Francisco suffers from. It goes from city to essentially suburb extremely quick. While cities like New York, Paris and Tokyo just go on and on. Of course we only talk about those examples because they have developed that way over decades.
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I guess there have always been "Great Wars" in history - I remember reading that the Battle of Brunanburh in 937 was called that for generations after (probably in Michael Wood's superb book In Search of England: Journeys Into the English Past). Now we don't even know where Brunanburh took place!
Yes, the i3 is a remarkable car on many counts including how it is manufactured. But it really is a niche vehicle that is only ever going to appeal to a small segment of the market.
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I trained a bunch of neural networks to hunt in a virtual world last night
NYC literally has an app where anyone can press a button if they're standing somewhere where they feel like a tree should be planted, and if you press the button a couple hours later a group of guys will show up and start digging a hole and plant the tree. For all of its problems, it's the only city that works at least somewhat like a city should.
Which competition are we talking about?

GM Supercruise is the only other thing on the market that is comparable, and with Nav on Autopilot I'd argue Tesla is a fair bit ahead.

Maybe they are not ahead of Waymo, but can you buy a Waymo? If not then when will you be able to?

There is Comma.ai which I am impressed with and think will be the general autonomous solution to many (most?) non-Tesla cars going forward, but their product at the moment is for hobbyists and not consumers.
I guess I just don't see any mystery. We've used a language of symbols to communicate and think about the world around us since language first evolved. That fact that it works well should come as no surprise to anyone. Especially since we use a language of symbols to discuss the language of symbols so things that don't fit neatly into that system are inherently undiscussable.
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A pipe operator compiles directly into the AST and completely disappears before execution.

64 |> Math.sqrt |> Math.sin
Compiles in the AST to
Math.sin(Math.sqrt(64))

//curries variables away from functions
var realPipe = (a, ...args) => (...initParams) => {
var acc = a(...initParams);
for (var i = 0; i < args.length; ++i) {
acc = args[i](acc)
}
return acc;
}

//if first parameter is a function, curry to delay execution
//if first param is not a function, curry, but call immediately
var pipe = (a, ...args) =>
(typeof a === "function")
? realPipe(a, ...args)
: realPipe(...args)(a)

I'd note that this pipe implementation also bleeds its abstraction. JS has first-class functions, but this will never treat a function as data. You must be aware of how it works so if you are passing a function (for example, a getter function), you must manually curry it afterward.

This complication is why most pipe implementations don't actually mess with that data attribute part (they just skip to the realPipe implementation), but since the pipe operator can handle it, I figured I'd try to as well to show the issues.
Agree that you need a balanced set of skills. However the advice in the article is pushing it too far.

Being a generalist is great in terms of broadening you career options, at an early stage anyway. But until you truly master something most of the higher tier opportunities remain closed to you.

These opportunities are much rarer and often not advertised. But the competition is also less intense and arbitrary. It is also in human nature to enjoy getting better at something. This path is actually not as hard as people think, and way more fun than keep picking up new mediocre skills.
They need to make a new Spacesaver model (one without the numpad) and not only will they have a lot of new customers, they will also have each one of their old customers come back to buy one.
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If you need/want the original, you can also get SDL -> USB cables (I bought one on eBay), which is a nice alternative to adapter dongles.
You don’t need lodash or a new operator for the example provided:

departments
.flatMap(d => d.employees)
.map(e => e.salary)
.reduce((p, v) => Math.max(p, v), 0)

That said, the pipe operator is nice because it allows similar chaining patterns on subjects that are not arrays, as shown in the proposal’s README: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pipeline-operator/blob/mast...
Not all mechanical keyboards are clicky. I hate the sound, but love my mechanical keyboard with black switches. No tactile feedback
See, it’s the perfect interview question!
Prince is cool, I've used it 10 years ago or something. No fuss about that.

It's a bit pricey, though (at leats, pricer than "free"). So we're using WeasyPrint on more recent projects.

WeasyPrint is open source and written in Python. It's much slower than Prince, though, but this can be mitigated by caching renderings. I'm would bet that it's as standard-compliant or bug-free than Prince, but it's good enough for us.

When / if our customers ask for more speed or pixel-perfect support (with the $$$ to match), we will definitively try Prince again.
> There's a lot you can do with a collateralized-cryptographic-asset-on-a-distributed-ledger (or stablecoin) that you can't do with a bank account. (...) That would be like if all banks implemented the same standard, and you could use any app to control your accounts.

Sure, given universal adoption. In reality, it's more like an API that controls, charitably, one bank - why shouldn't people just use Stripe / Paypal / ...?
I think we're talking about different levels of the system. The attack in this case was not about an individual employee unilaterally taking an improper action, but about a company being officially compelled by a government to take an action that was contrary to the interest of an end-user. In the financial system this happens all the time and is considered somewhat unremarkable.

If this company had had a dual control mechanism where multiple security officers had to be involved in order to issue signatures, presumably the company's executives would have told those security officers "we have to issue this signature because the government requires us to", and presumably the security officers would then have done it. It wasn't a rogue action from the organizational point of view, only from the customer's point of view.

Also, in a messaging application new public keys have to be certified extremely frequently because new users and devices are constantly joining the system with new keys. Presumably this happens in an automated online fashion (otherwise, the security officers aren't going to get much sleep). That makes it even more challenging to subdivide the responsibility for certification, for many reasons.

I don't mean to disparage the precautions that financial organizations have implemented, and I agree that some parts of the software world sometimes seem extremely cavalier in comparison. But I still think that in this particular case the threat models are extremely different.
That is correct. It was a federal court that convicted him of racial profiling. He also cost the taxpayers 4 million dollars (out of a total of about 150 million) by failing to cooperate with legal proceedings and being charged with contempt.

For the sake of clarity, a jury is not required to be found guilty. An accused person has a right to a trial by jury but that right is usually not exercised due to the cost of litigation.
The link is broken. It points to https://ihodl.com/opinion/2018-11-08/rodger-ver-blockchain-l...

when it should point to

https://ihodl.com/opinion/2018-11-08/roger-ver-blockchain-li...

There is no d in roger
I second the advice on CS50. I took it when learning to program and found it very valuable.

There is a subreddit [0] for the class where the instructor (David Malan) posts frequently. Very helpful for asking questions and learning more!

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/cs50
This is very interesting, good job. I had made something a bit simpler back in the day, it's a single server binary you can run (and I run a demo server you can use) but I think yours has a few more features.

Maybe you can use it for inspiration, it's called Gweet:

https://github.com/skorokithakis/gweet
Next article in the series, "Why I killed my co-worker"
Artist.
For those interested, there is a guy selling old-school re-creations of "Model F" keyboards (circa 1981-1983) here: https://www.modelfkeyboards.com/

Sadly, they do not have the 103-key layout.
With the way syntax for function calls works, the innermost thing is executed first, and you end up reading stuff from right to left:

third(z, second(y, first(x)))

With the pipeline operator (and assuming a language that allows partial application), the order in which things execute matches the order in which you read it:

first x |> second y |> third z

The benefits start getting more noticeable when you're talking about stuff like manipulating sets of data. For example:

myList
|> filter (x -> x.color == 'red')
|> sortBy (x -> x.count)
|> first

compared to these sorts of pyramids of doom:

first(
sortBy(
x -> x.count,
filter(
x -> x.color == 'red',
myList
)
)
)
> BMW's net profits just tanked 24% in Q3.

What caused this?
The future of cryptocurrency seems like this-

>Bitcoin is digital gold, even if economists hate it. Humans around the world started believing in a deflationary currency.

>Centralized non-stable coins took advantage of noobs that didn't understand the purpose of blockchain was to be decentralized.

>Smart coins failed to scale, and might be seeing their end. POS and DAG are untested solutions that might provide a future, but it will be years before people trust it.

>Stable coins are centralized, but provide the ability to transfer assets with limited costs. These will require centralization

>Fast/cheap/privacy coins are looking to beat bitcoin at moving money.

That said, just because a crypto is useful, doesnt mean that it will grow in value. The value may be using the coin rather than holding the coin.
The average American home was around 1500 feet 30-40 years ago and people raised families in them just fine. Instead of 4br 400sq ft each with en suite bathrooms, you had 120sq ft bedrooms for kids. It wasn't until the excesses of the mid 2000's that 3-4k sq ft homes became somewhat common, and outside the realm of mansions. Now the trend for home size is decreasing.
The great thing about NYC (and a thing that is lost on most people visiting the city, including myself before I moved here), is how many options you have for your living situation.

Want the crowds, the city life and the noise? Live downtown. Old-school New York? The upper west side. Brownstones on quiet, beautiful streets? Any number of Brooklyn neighborhoods. A quaint New England-y fishing village? City Island. Conservative-leaning, leafy suburbs? Staten Island. The ethnic enclave of your choice? Peppered throughout the city. Cheapo cool kid artist communities? Bushwick/Ridgewood. Want to own a boat and live on the water? The Rockaways. The list goes on and on, and that's not even touching Jersey, Westchester or Long Island.

The beauty of the city is that all of these places are unquestionably, culturally 'New York'. They're also, for the most part, quite well connected to the city core on affordable public transit, and in many cases quite affordable by big American city standards.
The objects under test are brittle and bound to change dramatically. Selenium can't offer you insurance against this.

I now remember a test suite we had on my project (automotive). We tested against the code structure... that is, we would follow a variable's lifetime and check that its value is correct throughout execution. Two releases later, guess which function got slightly refactored and threw off some 20 testcases?
These are LOUDER. Significantly louder. If you don't like MX blues because they're clicky, this has an actual spring that deforms. And of course, no attempt to soften the noise.

If it's an original, they have PS/2 connector instead of the more modern USB, so you'll likely need a dongle.

There are no hyper keys at all - no logo keys, no menu key. Of course, no volume control, no media keys.
Hmm.

So it seems to me that the value is primarily in pushing back the frontier of the interface with the legacy system, right?

If you can provide very high levels of likelihood that the issuer will not be shut down, it works.

I'm just not convinced this is practical.

KYC is _always_ going to be required at the interface (with the legacy system), which means the interface won't be used much, which I think makes providing proof that reasonable exchange for USD is possible very hard.

And if you push it back further and require KYC for every transaction - at that point it's PayPal with an API.