skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Direct access to hardware is not the difference. It is easier to get things done today. You can argue that it was simpler in 1985, but I don't think that simplicity is the right way to measure things. You can present an easy-to-use programming environment to people, accessible to newcomers, usable by experts, and it doesn't have to be simple but it has to be possible to use it in simple ways.

Just personal observations here. Someone with a computer in 2019 can download Unity, which is free, and watch a tutorial on YouTube, which is also free. With near zero understanding of what is going on, and no prior experience, they can have some kind of rudimentary platformer working within hours. This is then a good starting point to learn programming (you can dive into C#) or you can continue to jumble together copy/pasted bits of code that you see online (kind of like how I remember doing with BASIC and library books).

Sure, there are a bunch of layers of abstraction, and those abstractions will break down all the time. You don't need to learn those abstraction layers, you can stay at the top layer and still get good work done, maybe working around a few problems that you don't understand from time to time by futzing around with stuff until it works. Or you can dive in and try to understand what's underneath an abstraction. That's the whole point of having abstractions in the first place. They exist to hide the complexity, to let you get work done without understanding the entire system. 72 layers of abstraction is a bit of an exaggeration. I'd say if BASIC has three layers (interpreter/machine code/hardware), Unity only has six (editor/scripts/engine/os/machine code/hardware), but who knows how you count them.

In my experience, watching people learn how to create things, it has never been easier to learn programming and start building things. The main difference is that in 1985, programming was considered an essential computer skill, and in 2019, you're expected not to program. BASIC was amazing because it was what you saw on the screen when you turned your computer on, nothing more.
Yeah, it’s a bit of a disgrace really. Influencing global politics and destroying the US’s reputation in the world is apparently less relevant than someone potentially influencing some stocks.

I dunno, looking on from overseas it’s a bit surreal. Trumps tweets have normalized too, so it’s no news anymore when he tweets something outrageous.
A subreddit would be great, no minimum size to open
https://archive.org/details/attentionkmartshoppers - not quite what you're after but fascinating nonetheless.
I was thinking of books like harry potter, the maze runner, series of unfortunate events, hunger games, divergent. Maybe conspiracy isn't the right word, it doesn't exactly fit hunger games.

I don't agree that it is mainly the olds who fall for conspiracy theory. In fact, I think that sort of thinking among young people is a sort of conspiratorial idea... The dumb boomers didn't vaccinate so its up to us young people to brave the odds vaccinate ourselves (even though only 1.3 percent of children are unvaccinated, it is unclear for what reason in every instance, and 50 year olds typically aren't in charge of vaccinating kids because... 50 year olds usually don't have children for obvious reasons. It is gen x and millenials not vaccinating their kids...). Again, conspiracy isn't exactly the right word. "Conspiracy theory" is just a tool to accomplish the same thing. I don't know exactly what it is... Give oneself some sort of importance?
It's a pretty useful attack vector since you can get an arbitrary program to load your payload under certain circumstances, so you don't even need malicious code running if you can find a vulnerable target. cough SharePoint cough
my new side project: Chaingang for hackers.

8 hrs of manual labor in the summer heat of a southern state.

code in the evening hours

the moment you ship, you are released
Except of course, that I am neither alt-right and I have actual experience in science. But don't let that stop you.
Tesla stock plunges on SEC reportedly saying Elon Musk is violating deal
I agree, but IANAB. From Wikipedia, this specie is of the genus
Chlamydomonas of the family Chlamydomonadaceae https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlamydomonadales that include a lot of multicelular species. So, they have many multicelular relatives, we should ask a biologist if they have a multicelular ancestor.
ECS is best done through Terraform, there's existing templates that will allow you to do this fairly easily.
350-500k annualized, not 500k for the year.

That exactly what the follow up tweet which was vetted clarifies.
It's stupid to think that the difference between 350k and 500k is immaterial, especially for a company which struggled to hit the low end of that range the last 2 years.

Tweeting that they definitely would hit the high end of that range, i.e., 500k, i.e., almost 142% of the low-end of the range, was a specific statement about Tesla's capabilities intended to narrow the range of the earlier statements in the interview. Ergo, the tweet was material information and it was reasonable for investors to interpret that Tesla would hit 500k by the end of the year, because it was tweeted by the CEO himself. The clarification about it being a pro-rated (i.e., annualized) number was not provided until much later. (And legally that makes all the difference.)
FastMail gives me 10GB of storage that's accessible via WebDAV. It works perfectly to back my collection of papers and textbooks in Zotero. That way I only sync the metadata to my Zotero account (which is basically just a sqlite database anyway), and can pretty easily get access to my entire reference collection from wherever I am.
That makes it way less interesting. The first time multicellular life happened it took billions of years and simple single cell organisms had to figure it out from scratch.
The settlement required approval for statement containing information material to shareholders, not any tweet about Tesla. That's why the 2019 projection was mention as the problematic tweet in the SEC filing
Not really if TT is saying they support it.
I'm wondering if an AI could be trained to recognize the good/mhea/bad tweets from Elon Musk (by looking at the time of tweets, reactions in the press, and Tesla stock price). A "Should Musk have tweeted that" app or something like that, giving a score for his latest tweet.
This isn't a mistake. Musk is on record saying he doesn't respect the SEC, suggesting he doesn't feel bound by his legal agreement with them. He does this on purpose.
front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19250552
The science isn’t the problem. The evidence and research are solid. It’s the communication.

Science comes in two flavors: research and experiments. Other things, even if attempting to sound scientific, are probably not science. One example is consensus, which itself isn’t science unless we are talking about behavioral sciences. The average person is not a scientist, certainly not a climatologist, but is generally decent at perceiving the basics of interpersonal communication and can discern if something is science or not regardless of their agreement or bias.

That is problematic, how do you talk to those people? They won’t understand the science, but alternate means of communication results in potential for arguments that are manipulative or far out of scope.

The idea is that climate change is a big deal. It is disruptive and that disruption will be very expensive and damaging, possibly catastrophic. Bad stuff. So, you want to convince people it is bad in order to change policy. Here is where the challenge begins, because policy discussions are generally political and not scientific even if all the supporting evidence is science and that evidence is overwhelming. The goal of science is advancing knowledge according to the scientific model, which is different than the goal of a policy conversation. Knowing nothing about climate or research a person can still detect that shift in conversation from science to policy/persuasion. Accounting for that without losing your message is delicate.

You can be good at science and less good at communication. If the conversation is purely fact and research based it isn’t emotionally compelling, but if it isn’t emotionally compelling there is no drive for policy change. At the same time if it is emotionally compelling it is open to falsification by irrational and illogical means. That is a hard problem to solve.
How much do the janitors in your own office complex get paid/valued?

Janitorial work always has been under-appreciated. But cleaning up shit tends not to be high skill work.
Trying to explain this to people visiting Australia is always amazing.

"It's so lovely and sunny here, why aren't you tan?"

"Because the sun is a terrifying ray of pain and death here."
A part of the development of new Tesla car features, and the deal with Australian battery plant were happening on Twitter with his account. Closing it down would hurt Tesla. The solution is having a reviewer for each tweet, just how Elon and SEC agreed.
> This is a technicality

It's the law. That's how it works.

Especially if you agreed to it.
On the pumps near me it's on the right, one button up from the bottom. Rather annoying that they (intentionally, I can only assume) are not labeled or give any other indication of their function. One station in my area keeps having to put new plexiglass covers over the video screens as people keep defacing/breaking them... I wonder why?
Show HN: Alerts for changing road conditions in Tahoe
Over the last month, road closures in Tahoe caused me some major travel issues. While I was snowed in, I built a Twilio app that texts you whenever Caltrans updates road conditions.

Today I just launched an updated version that shows you the current conditions for all roads in the Sierra Nevada. You can get this information via Caltrans, but it's spread over multiple pages and includes unimportant information.

https://www.chaincontrol.org

You can subscribe to alerts by texting START to 702-SNO-ROAD [+1 702 766-7623]. Alerts are only sent for significant condition changes, such as a road closing or chain controls going into effect.

If you're planning on visiting Tahoe this week, travel safe!
I know the official reason. I also know the real reason.

Honestly, do you think you are fooling anyone?
I use the Sunny app on my iPhone. It lets you calibrate different amounts of rain, waves, music, and bird noise.
Such designations already exist.

Tesla designated Musk's twitter account several years ago.
Why didn't the lawyers and board require it?
People definitely find it valuable but im pretty sure it isnt good for society. Influencers earn more followers for portraying psychopathic behaviors than they would for being themselves. And they definitely earn more money for themselves by portraying a lavish unrealistic lifestyle -- it only increases the quality and number of offers they get.
Nio is indeed cheaper than Model 3 in China.
I need the 3 brown 1 blue video to understand this one
I would rather he just let someone else handle Tesla and focus on SpaceX, Neuralink, and whatever other private ventures. He just isn’t meant to head a public company.
mm working in a soulless business park with no facilities has is downside compared to say central London
That time CEO of a company complained to Congress about Windows file extensions
There's a SNP which affects if one finds cilantro to taste like soap[0]. For many people where it tastes like soap, they don't enjoy cilantro. I'e come across people who profess it to taste like soap and like that, but not many.

[0] https://www.snpedia.com/index.php/Rs72921001
Actual government legal agency going after someone on a stupid immaterial technicality about requiring approval for disclosing material information that might affect stock:
The tweet didn't have material information. The 500k number was public and discussed on a public investor call.

vs.

Crazy guy that bankrupted himself trying to build a rocket company and a car company simultaneously is less than overly cautious about his tweeting and how it could be used in bad faith by a government legal agency in the USA to persecute him.
You’re right - SEC I meant, not FCC.

I’m just speaking my mind, new to this site. Sorry to have disappointed you.
> if you let rich people keep more of their money, they have more of the money. If you simultaneously take from poor people, they stay poor.

Not to join the debate here, but the use of language here really interests me. When talking about the rich, it's that we "let [them] keep more of their money" as if "we" (the government) has a right to every cent a person makes. When talking about the poor, we "take" from them, as if it's unjust theft.

Not trying to argue against you, it's a perfectly normal view, I just find it funny how much ideology paints language.
Of course, ordinary light, while still less energetic, penetrates still more deeply into skin, and it, too causes DNA damage. In situ DNA is damaged by light absorbed by less transparent molecules it is near.
Ask HN: Voice Verification for financial accounts – secure?
Schwab and Vanguard now offer voice analysis as an added security hurdle when calling in. Any security mavens out there have opinions on the safety/reliability/effectiveness of "voice verification"?
I get what you're saying, but the cool path thing is unique paths not correctness of spelling.
Yes. Getting out of contempt of court is so easy! Just add a little perjury on top. Who's keeping track anyway?
The Book of Why DOES have a section on climate change toward the end - he actually uses climate change to illustrate the idea of counterfactuals and even provides an example about how to calculate how much man-made carbon emissions X can be a "sufficient" / "necessary" cause of storm Y... GIVEN we can agree on a model.

Among other (likely more polarizing) reasons for why folks remain so obstinate regarding climate change, it certainly is possible that not every involved party may agree to the same model of how climate affects weather
Unfortunately, yes.

For very recent news...(sry for mobile link: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/...)

Title:
Man who worked as top 'conversion therapist' comes out as gay

[David Matheson is the man, in case you were aware of these groups during his time as an advocate]
WSJ is usually first on anything negative regarding Tesla. Might have to wait a bit for others to pick the story up.
You should look into DNA and RNA sequence alignment algos for possible improvements on your FFT. It's a huge and very well-explored space.
So, it’s been a while since I’ve dived in [0], but “time” as a dependency has been, what I would call, “engineered out of the system”. Instead, there’s concepts of (local) timers, Store-And-Forward Overlays, retries, communication opportunities and the overall realization that time is relative and synchronized time can be difficult at a protocol level when link-level distances are always changing (by miles to billions of miles at a time per communication opportunity).

[0] https://public.ccsds.org/Pubs/720x1g3.pdf
RCP 8.5 is, even according to the IPCC, highly highly unlikely. One could say the evidence for that scenario is... not overwhelming, or even whelming.

Evidence for "just what" is overwhelming... you find out the "just what" is nothing much, really.

There's a correlation between CO2 rise and a very small temperature increase, tht may or may not be a big deal. We don't know.
Ask how that worked out when the UK went for system built high-rise estates or the projects in NYC
That's a really interesting insight! I hadn't caught myself doing that, thanks for pointing it out.
10, even :-( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Bulger

The prosecution successfully argued against the 'defense of infancy' based on things the kids said themselves admitted they had planned to do to the victim.
While I have nothing against coffee shop working (done it myself plenty) I respectfully submit that irritating worker-sitters is the actual reason for the repetition and irritation. They'd rather free up our seats.
Nice refreshing list :)

I didn't think "Attention > Convolution" was a prevalent myth, given how integral convolutions are to SOTA image classifiers and GANs (if anything, I believe attention is unde-utilised here and due to grow in usage a lot)
Well, sure, but Malthusianism has had many famous dates. Wasn't the first one 1870 ?
Oh WebDAV, the protocol I loved and hated the last 20 or so years...

- There were proprietary implementations NetDrive and rebranded as WebDrive for winNT which set up a WebDAV mount as a drive letter. Worked nicely for code editing in a CMS but completely corrupt files once in a while. Unless you had a SMP machine, then it would regularly blue screen

- WinXp had the first native ‘NET USE’ support I think. It was built on top of the HTTP support in the OS but didn’t persist state properly, so if you didn’t know to disable automatic proxy detection in your internet options, every WebDAV action would take 2 seconds to do a proxy detect, ruining the experience.

- Actually getting WebDAV to work was hit or miss. It helped to specify the password on the command line to NET USE for some reason

- office supported WebDAV too, and depending on its mood would either treat a WebDAV drive letter as just a drive, or speak WebDAV natively

- I’m pretty sure the initial Vista release completely broke WebDAV. Never got it to work properly. Sad given that MS was supposed to be invested in this standard

- Getting it to work safely on OSX was another challenge, as OSX heavily caches content client side and if the server side content changed, either remount to see the changes or write a tool to send a poorly defined control command to WebDAV to flush the cache. At one point we automated the server to inform a local tool on the macs to do this flushing

- oh, and automating mount_webdav to log you in requires speaking some property protocol over a fd to the application. Which broke at around OS X 10.10. Got to learn my way around the WebDAV implementation in Darwin back then to figure out both this and the cache flushing. Thank apple for at least publishing the source to this

Well, fortunately I don’t need WebDAV as much anymore as I have in the past.
I am using WebDAV as a virtual file system for a personal project. It was the easiest way I could find to make a cross platform virtual file system without invoking FUSE which seemed slightly unreliable on Windows.

It works reasonably well though it is a bit slow. It was pretty difficult to find good documentation though.
Don't. Otherwise you'll end up with a visit from law enforcement for tampering with the equipment.
Or just replace window glass with OP4 plastic. Not cheap.
On the other hand, unreasonable fans will listen and will move the stock, so a reasonable investor might want to pay attention.
Jargon from the functional programming world in simple terms
Twitter has both pros and cons but I’m convinced that it’s mostly cons.

Going off tangent again, but the same analogy goes with Facebook - it was nice to connect with people and see their updates until it became this rotten, ad driven, divisive tool. Remember FB restricted to college users back in 2005?

Maybe there is some kind of “aging” phenomenon with social networks. They all rot. MySpace, Digg, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter and coming up next - Instagram.
The Tech Sector Is Over
+1 for Sony. This comment is written on a 2009 VAIO FW-4xx series w/big beautiful 16.4-inch FullHD screen, HDMI, dual-band wifi, SD slot, VGA, Bluetooth, dedicated GPU. Upgraded to USB 3.0 via the PC Card slot (eSATA too). Amazing keyboard and touchpad. Yes I've upgraded RAM and added an SSD (both upgradable without opening the case).

Best part of my VAIO: it runs Win7 Pro. Compared to a 2015-era Dell Latitude running Win10 Pro, it is more stable (Chrome crashes regularly on Win10, seems 8gb RAM is not enough for Win10), better touchpad (new ones lack edge scrolling), quieter & less active fan, way less behind-the-scenes activity (updates, unwanted services, malware checks, etc), Aero's look & feel is so much better than Win10. I really, really, can't understand Microsoft's strategy in removing so many of the good things about Win 7. Does anyone prefer the Win 10 UI over Aero???

The (very minor) cons of this 10-year old laptop: Blu-Ray drive no longer works. No sound except through headphones. The manual "wireless" switch no longer deactivates wifi/BT. Battery life was never very good, the machine is pretty much useless if I am not near a plug.

Really wish Sony was still in the laptop game.
To use the test set explicitly for evaluation is a deadly sin

I’ve seen tons of papers doing that and getting published, especially on cifar10. Not saying it’s a good practice, just that it’s fairly common.
Excitement?
They used to sell these (as regular-size fluorescent tubes) decades ago.
In a contempt hearing centered around violation of the terms of the settlement with the SEC, that's probably not a great argument. It's an error Musk would not have made if he'd simply adhered to the agreement and had a lawyer review what he tweeted.
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Suggestions for a novice to learn how to use a VPN? My sites are on shared hosting and want to switch to VPN, but don't know anything about it.
Quanta magazine article from 2013 https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-discover-geometry-...
Yeah, it's funny how we work. Heck, read my comment, you can probably just as easily pick out my ideology. I wonder if linguistics has a term for that. It's something like "spin", but not exactly because it's not intentional or malicious.
"It took "only" < 400 million years for life to develop"

Yes, that's what people assume, but the universe existed for billions of years before that, so what if life might have used all that time to evolve before it landed on Earth deep inside some rocks?
“According to counsel, immediately upon seeing Musk’s 7:15 tweet for the first time after Musk had published it, Tesla’s “Designated Securities Counsel” arranged to meet with Musk, and they drafted Musk’s corrective 11:41 tweet together.”

In unrelated news, Tesla announced a few hours later that this designated securities counsel was leaving the company.

“A person familiar with the matter said he was not a good cultural fit with Tesla and wanted to return to his family and law practice in Washington, D.C.”
The daily agitprop piece. Women have a higher life expectancy.

Also, no one is preventing women from building cars.
Apparently we live in a country where the government can murder thousands upon thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians, deny that it ever happened, and profit off of the destruction.

But god help you if you make a tweet that is subjectively incorrect.
Amplituhedron: A Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Physics (2013)
> if you're human, you're a customer

No. If you're human, you're a product. Can't have the product spoiled, now, can we?
I had been working on a pedagogical approach to social impact learning for many years now.

http://www.developfy.com became AmplifyAI.
If you're saying that the standard of 'reporting' on health and science in the media at large is often conflicting and distorted into a confusing and often contradictory form there is definitely validity in that. John Oliver has a great segment called 'Scientific Studies' I'll link at the end of this post, everyone should watch this.
If you are able to read the journals directly and have studied how to critically evaluate scientific studies I can guarantee that there is significantly, like thousands-fold, more consistent information.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rnq1NpHdmw