skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From that CR article:

> Tesla fell six spots from last year and now ranks third-worst (27 out of 29). The Model S dropped to “Below Average” this year, and its Overall Score is no longer high enough to be “Recommended” by CR. Owners reported suspension problems and other issues that included the extending door handle. (Please see chart below.) The Model X SUV remained “Much-Worse-Than-Average” for reliability, with ongoing problems including the falcon-wing doors and center display screen. On the flip side, the Model 3 sedan has “Average” predicted reliability based on owner feedback

Note that none of those issues appear to be related to the electric battery and drivetrain. They are design and manufacturing issues with systems that are present on ICE cars also. It's a demonstration that the goalposts of "reliability" are themselves shifting away from focus on the propulsion system.

Admittedly, ICEs have become incredibly reliable themselves over the last few decades. But there is an order of magnitude more complexity required to achieve that reliability in an ICE vs an EV.
Fyre festival pitch PDF (no embed)
> In 2018, Reddit received 28 requests for the production of user account information from foreign governmental authorities (excluding emergency requests). Reddit did not comply with any of these requests.
yes no american would want your high paying high prestige job.
But you're not, and insisting that others say you are seems to be a bit of a melodramatic strawman.

The H1B system has been abused by corporations. This has been to the detriment of American workers and H1B holders.
Infrequent Access Storage Class for Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
To play devil’s advocate, maybe he desperately needed the money. It’s unlikely, but that’s probably what his lawyers will argue. If that was the case, a guy in his position you’d think would be smart enough to take out a loan with his stock as collateral and not do anything fishy that could resemble insider trading like selling $10m worth of stock before earnings....
"They may have a lot of brilliant ideas, but they will not be able to express them."

Part of me thinks this is true...but the amazing thing about programming is how many high-quality tools encapsulate the hard bits so that you can do pretty brilliant things.

Yeah, maybe you won't be a pioneer in computer vision or perception engineering, but you'll certainly be able to build useful products with robust libraries and frameworks.
Ya but in the 50s that extra dollar every hour would probably cover your mortgage payments on your 2000$ beach house. Today the beach house is worth 25m and the extra dollar doesnt cover lunch.
Woah, OK, we clearly picture this service working very differently. I'm not asking for everyone to be geotagged in some publicly accessible database. Ew. I just want locally running facial recognition paired with speech-to-text which is smart enough to recognize introductions, so that when five people introduce themselves to me in quick succession after I stumble off a red-eye flight, and then three weeks later one of them comes up to me acting like they know me, I have some chance of knowing who the hell they are.
SpaceX Crew Dragon!
But everything on GCP is encrypted?

If you really want, you can use your own keys end-to-end.

I'm satisfied that Google treats adwords and advertising areas of the business differently to business services. Apple, Twitter and many large banks use GCP - do you really think they would do that if Google was snooping at the data?

Please back up any claims with evidence.
They already have an accommodations for the visually impaired with the audio captchas.

https://support.google.com/recaptcha/answer/6175971?hl=en
I wonder if this is a sign that the new sexy war is being translated to Venezuela. Managing two wars in different continents at the same time is too costly probably.
No. Please, no.

Man, I hope you're joking, but I dread people would take it seriously.
That's pretty cool and all, but that's not "AR" (although it could be used for it).

AR : Mirrorworld :: The Internet : Google Maps
Speak for yourself - after spending a week snorting Oumuamua dust, I think I have it all figured out.
Neural Networks follow puzzlingly simple strategy
The deductibility of employee stock compensation would be the obvious answer here.
> wouldn't the oxidizer-rich half run hotter?

You try running it as hot as possible, but without burning metal. You have about twice as much liquid oxygen by volume than kerosene in a typical engine, but you can heat kerosene to higher temperatures without burning. So... I don't think you'll get higher temperatures with oxygen gas generator?
Ah I see! I also only hear my own voice when reading (I think this is the norm). When I'm really absorbed in the book I forget that I'm "hearing" it but I no doubt am actually hearing it so it's interesting to see that isn't the case for everyone :)
This quora answer (https://www.quora.com/What-bands-signals-and-protocols-are-u...) claims that even the 70m DSN antennas have a hard time hearing the rover to earth transmissions. That is 10x the diameter so 1000x the surface area of a 4.8m dish like the one the guy built.

That said, there are no doubt interesting hacks you can do to help this but steerability is always going to be a concern to maximize the SNR of the very weak signal coming from the rover.
The framing of the article is incredibly rude and dehumanizing to the workers themselves, while burying the actual lede (global outsourcing companies) deep at the end of the page.

It's part-and-parcel of the New York Times to lay the blame for bad policies at the feet of the people least in control of and most harmed by those policies.

It's objectively bad reporting.
For what it's worth, I don't think there's anything wrong with having an H1B. The system of tech consultancy companies (some of which are American) staffed up by H1Bs are what is being abused, where there are already people doing the job being directly replaced.
No personal liability. We assume some of these investments will fail for us.

% of the sale would be roughly $100k / Valuation Cap (which is negotiable at time of investment).
Original academic publication available at [0]

[0] https://openreview.net/pdf?id=SkfMWhAqYQ
Jainisms logo makes it a barrier to entry for many in the West. I'm surprised they don't rebrand. For me consciousness means more about actually making a choice. You can be aware but unconscious. I guess this is where 'woke' comes from. Choice is a byproduct of your moral framework and if this is dictated to you then maybe you are not conscious? There are stages of awareness. You can pluck a string at it will vibrate. Arrange several in accordance with each other and you have an instrument. We ourselves are like instruments in that respect. You press our keys (senses) and things start to vibrate and reverberate. (yup i'm ripping Diderot). But I do feel strongly that all thought is just a diff between world states. I don't find anything particular profound about it. Western religions deprive animals of consciousness to feel better about eating them.
> The universities do not know whom you see yourself as in the future, and even you often do not know that at the age of your enrolment. It is believed that it is better to teach you all the basics, than to miss something important.

Definitely agreed. Unpopular opinion: I'm a strong proponent of a CS university education, as opposed to something like a bootcamp, for this very reason. An understanding of how OSes work; basic discrete math, etc - those are fundamentals that shouldn't be ignored just because an engineer doesn't work on them on a daily basis. (Unless if the job description is for front-end development only, in which I'm less qualified to say whether a CS education is needed or not.)

And, most importantly: a university CS education gives you knowledge on what you don't know about CS. Otherwise, ignorance of your own ignorance just feeds upon itself.
H1-B's are not an issue.

The issue is the "consulting" IT companies abusing the H1-B system.

Make it illegal for these labor arbitrage companies to exist and at least this problem will be solved.
Fuck reCaptcha (2018)
I bet he means western economists aka lobbyists
Nasa Selects New Mission to Explore Origins of Universe
What isn't subject to definition creep?

Murder now, for some, includes abortion.

Censorship now includes, for some, private companies removing bad actors from their private systems.

Come on, that's lazy to dismiss it that way when society literally changes all the time.
Show HN: Launching my web-app today – BudgetPad
Google: spins off robotic car company Waymo, announcing public-facing robotaxi service launch in 2018

Also Google: "Our standard for 'what a machine couldn't possibly do' is identifying a stop sign."
H1 Absolutely DOES lower power of an employee. You are basically a "slave" to a company until you get your green card and are free to quit.

Especially in today's socio-political environment.
Bingo.

There is also the simple, brutal reality of the food chain.

Being most aware and capable, also means seeing all of that, where the lesser beings are, and treating the world with respect.

Should anyway. Our nature easily demonstrates otherwise.

Animals are a lot like us. Simpler mostly.
Once you have your I-140 approved, you can extend your H1B for 3 years unlimited number of times.
>You can only conclude that recaptcha is a ml training exercise.

They're not secretive about it

https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/
Once you've got a green card application in, you can renew your H1B yearly ad infinitum.
Amen to that. The labor pool must not be artificially expanded when we have had no real income growth in a generation.

Free and Fair Trade and assisting the American worker are the only things Trump is good for. The rest has been a disaster. But if Hilary were in charge, we´d still have unfettered globalization no empathy for the disenfranchised deplorables. Let´s just keep pumping them full of opiods.

https://freebeacon.com/issues/hillary-clintons-prescription-...
> The role of a union is to defend the interests of their members in particular and workers in general.

Sure, but going about it by antagonizing their customers is not productive.

Implicit in your argument is the idea that workers have nothing to offer in exchange. I don't believe that's true. Businesses are always offering more money and perqs to get better workers. Unions can endear themselves to business by offering things in exchange for what they want, and by being partners in the success of the business.

Being enemies is a doomed endeavor, and likely why unions have declined over the years, unless they got special government rules to keep them in place.
The university gives you fundamental knowledge, which will not become obsolete when you finish your education.

The university in it's modern form has a effective history of several hundred years. That puts it far ahead of specialized engineering school but naturally hardly eternal.

What's interesting about this generally appallingly snobby and shallow article is the way the division between intellectual and manual labor has remained a constant even as this society evolved quite a distance from the time when universities mainly produced priests. The division between skills requiring a university education and those not requiring one has in the US become fuzzier and fuzzier. But division still remains a fundamental prestige point simply because no other division has replaced it (things are complicated now to create alternate division).

Moreover, it's also testament to how far programming has fallen away from other engineering fields whose on prestige guarantees them a place in the university.
We (staffers) wanted to consider google g suite for integrated mail/calendar. We couldn't because as an Asia-Pacific entity, we felt we wanted a guarantee our data was in Asia-Pacific (preferably Australian) DC and under local law.

What we found, is that only the US State and federal governments can demand US located data from Google. All other economies and agencies can ask for local, but cannot have it a checkbox requirement: Google retain the right to host you wherever they decide, subject to laws they decide.

Somebody else has noted that Microsoft, for all their faults, actually looked at customers in Europe and said "you know what: we can declare hosting in ireland is subject to EU laws and we will (at the right price) guarantee your data is in the EU, subject to EU law" and for that, I salute them.

I think Google got this wrong. I think microsoft got this right.

We didn't go with G Suite. We went another direction with mail and calendar.
Screw apple, the utter greed, to add nothing and want half.
> I'm not clear what the efficiency gains are here at all over a SSME style staged combustion cycle.

You have higher pressure in the chamber with full-flow approach. Since the mass flow is the same, and Isp is higher, thanks to higher pressure, you're winning.

And you have higher pressure because you supply more power to pumps.

Reducing risks to destroy the vehicle due to leaks is, I agree, very secondary benefit. May be even tertiary - how about possibility to optimize turbine frequencies for both propellant flows without losses on gears?
Oh wow so it really is. Great work
I know the politics are complicated, so take this with a grain of salt, but I can't help but think that the easiest way to keep H1-B visa holders from taking high tech jobs away from American citizens is to make them American citizens. :)
yea, most old terminals had black and green CRTs; or black and amber. For some reason the ambers were still called "green screens".
Here’s What’s Better Than Money/IPO Valuations from a Founder's Perspective
Yes. For more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleaning_event

and:

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/mer/images.cfm?id=1823

The second link shows about 18% power drop after 90 sols ~= 90 days.
also Starship test vehicle
Depends on what you would like to focus on. If you want to capture the complete demand curve for a product, then you're right. In that case the participants shouldn't be aware of any other alternative to get the product. But you could also choose to focus on users who aren't willing to pay the current price and better understand their distribution. This would allow you for example to determine which promotion would most likely turn a free user into a paying user.
porsche builds their cars for track work, so even hard driving around town is light load for them (maybe not the macan).

Hard launches are among the toughest thing you can do to an ICE car. Most cars with launch control can do a few launches and then something overheats and the car refuses to do any more for a while. A car journalist tried to launch a PDK 911 until it failed. He got bored after 50 straight launches and stopped.
Any way to get involved on the investor side?
If this heuristic is constantly necessary then there is nothing to remember.
H1-B employees and American Workers have both been abused by corporations in the US.

I have seen this first hand how many people trying to get a junior software development job with decent background experience get the “ladder of opportunity” shoved down the second they try to approach it.

I work for one of the Big 4 Consulting companies. Three months ago I met a random barista at a coffee shop who said they wanted to get into software development. I remember thinking “sure whatever”. A month later I was really impressed by their progress. A month after that with even more progress I said I’d hire him because I easily could give him 15-20 hours of extra work that he could do for my team. I said the typical Freelancer hourly rate is to take the yearly salary, divide it by 2, and then that’s the hourly rate. So assuming he would make 80k entry level, hourly rate is $40. This person person just started to cry, loudly and emotionally, when I said that. He said he’d never though he’d make that kind of money in his life. Keep in mind this person had a college degree and was 29. My dad was the kind of person who would never cry, and I try to be like that too, but it was really hard not too at that point.
I have a very different vision. It is becoming more and more difficult for China to keep their internet closed.
Just curious -- Is Finn actually popular with any audiences? Aren't minor villains from the original trilogy more popular than Finn?
Begin Greencard processing and get I-140, after which, you can keep extending your H1b beyond 6 year limit.
OTOH, succeeding at self-driving cars has the potential to save lives by the thousands.
Wait, what is stopping me from using something like selenium, and mouse automation tools like in python and simply do what a human does?
I've read this thing as well (wish I'd be able to link it) how this guy was like "nono, we might have got it wrong" — it's clearly the high-thinking non-creative (non-artful) jobs that are going to be lost first due to the advent of AGI
Off the shelf spam software like Xrumer[0] has been cracking those captchas for 10+ years.

Recaptcha isn't obnoxious for fun, it's obnoxious because this is the state of the arms race right now. There's also the challenge of creating a captcha that allows blind people in.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XRumer
Are they actually going to detail what content they banned or quarantined? When Reddit previously went on a quarantine spree, I recall a lot of reasonable content got the hammer as well, probably because it doesn't align with the political groupthink of Reddit.
I was going to post about Bloomberg Terminals, but figured since I'm late to the story, someone else already did. Yeup.

It's funny how little credit we give to business users these days, and how much marketing UX there can be.

There was a time when business students attending college and their crufty professors could manage using email by telneting into the mainframe to use Pine. And the technology was a wonderment to them.
What You Don't Know About Python Variables – Codementor
Frictionless retail and ecommerce
I wouldn't be surprised if the anomaly detection is overfit to banned users: comes from Kenya, or Russia, or China. Doesn't initially seed the account with in-person connections. Shares an IPv4 address or telephone number with other folks who have been banned before.
> Heartbleed

Anyone who doesn't make an effort to update. If your hardware is still Heartbleed fucked and you're selling it, you deserve to lose money.

> Meltdown

Intel and AMD.

> Who gets sued

Noone. Here's your product back, it's defective, please cut me a check, that's all.
‘Stuff’ Is Getting More Expensive
You had to buy another device. You couldn't use your collection of data and programs stored on those floppies. Many questioned, "What's wrong with floppies?". And the collection of same questions being mentioned in this thread about earphones.
> you also had a good client

I had a fantastic client. I don’t know if it’s because the rigging industry is full of “holy sh, we gotta think on our feet” situations or what, but for a seemingly “low tech” client they grasped on to an iterative and flexible approach so much better than most clients I’ve ever had from the tech industry.
do you have mod_security and the standard rules? Yes

do you write custom rules based on your actual application? <- not a real question
It would depend on what constitutes a valid caller ID.

At least some of the robodialer operators programatically check out a block of numbers from a VoIP vendor, make a bunch of calls, then release the numbers. If all they have to do is correctly report the number they're calling from, that's pretty useless. The called party has practically no recourse because the number that called them never accepted inbound calls, and has been disconnected by the time you call it back anyway.

How could 'valid caller ID' be defined so that robocallers can be identified?
>So I have absolutely no incentive to make my life harder by insisting on correct answers, and every incentive to tell Google what they want to hear.

I guess this is where the misunderstanding is. You don't think Google wants to hear the correct answer?

Trying to guess at what the daily/monthly flavor of "correct" is seems like it'd do more harm than good, resulting in some kind of nondeterministic guessing game of "well, trees on the horizon are probably assumed to be a mountain" that never settles on actually-correct answers (and, I'd wager, is often more inconvenient to the user than just answering correctly would be, because now there's a layer of indirection on what they think a system thinks of an image, rather than just what they think of that image).

If everyone just answered "no, that's trees" instead of a hand-wavy "I think you think it's a mountain", I feel like this captcha would be significantly easier for us humans (because we could actually give real answers), as well as less inconvenient for people who just want to pass on through and get on with whatever they were doing before a site wanted to verify they weren't a bot (because they can just, well, identify images instead of playing a game of "what does the machine think?").
I think the underlying point remains how do we feel about this. What I like, is the evidence-based models which point to higher cognition aren't now observational by anthropomorphism, but are founded on an experiment: I construct a situation which demands a higher order thinking function, and I put an animal into a test, and I observe sequences of actions, which demand indirect cognition, operating on future state, or about the self, and image of self, or cognition of the projection of "what it would look like if I could see it, from the other side" type models

So the ethics has been there forever, but what is newer (I do not say new, because people did experiment before. They are just really well formed experiments now), is a constructed model based on better than belief: its based on experiment.

The other side of the coin, is that some purely observational behaviour in higher primates now has to got back into the ethical pot: If we know chimps can do higher abstract reasoning, and we also observe chimps kill and eat the young from 'other' tribes, what do we now think about that killing and eating?
It allows access to certain features. I believe Hyper-V and a few others are locked behind a license door.
I can see why you’d feel that way but for me it still blocks a lot of stuff I don’t want.
I block some domains/companies via my hosts file and run a pihole but there’s always the odd advertising network etc I, or my pihole didn’t knew about that gets blocked by uMatrix.
To model Raptor's hypersonic turbulent combustion SpaceX used an internally developed simulator, which uses wavelet compression to vary resolution across many orders of magnitude in both time and physical dimensions:

https://www.nextplatform.com/2015/03/27/rockets-shake-and-ra...

Here is a fantastic talk from the NVIDIA conference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txk-VO1hzBY
Spent some good minutes on this. Scary as hell. Thx for sharing it
This is not true anymore, at least not the second part. It's not possible to select JAPAC data location (yet).

https://support.google.com/a/answer/7630496?hl=en&ref_topic=...
Isp often defined as "thrust per unit of mass flow". That is, how many Newtons of thrust engine gets from each kilogram per second of propellant spent. Since N = kg * m / s^2 , and mass flow is in kg / s , Isp becomes (kg * m * s) / (s^2 * kg) = m/s , i.e. Isp has units of speed. In vacuum Isp is equal to the speed of gases flying from the engine.
Those aren’t legitimate. Please don’t suggest that here
^ this guy drives an accord
The "cool new stack", in this case, is native, vanilla javascript that works everywhere without downloading anything and without a need to learn someone else's library.
If real numbers get this guy's goat, I think he will go ballistic when he hears about bra-ket formalism that quantum theory instructors foist upon students of physics.