skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks. I'm surprised your description applies to all those places, but to be fair I don't really have direct experience riding taxis there.
Yes but until that's decided in court, is this not confessing to a crime?
Playlists are definitely on the roadmap, along with adding more services (Youtube Music, Pandora, etc.).
Don't read this. There's so much misunderstanding in this article, I'd be surprised if any good discussion came from it. And refuting it would take ages.

For example:

> And apparently typing your name, age and other information is not consent. How is this supposed to work by the way? I give you my name but I don’t consent to you using it or remember it?

The way it's phrased is misleading. If you need the data and are going to use it in the obvious way, e.g. for shipping a parcel to my address, legitimate interests works fine. If you're a scumbag marketer or data broker/reseller (etc), then yeah, it's going to impact you. That was the idea.

So instead of bikeshedding arbitrary scenarios, let's do something more productive with our day.
> Any why would a system that takes into account actual benefit to the public or not, to absolve someone of something that is otherwise a crime, would be tantamount to "anarchy"?

Without a clear set of laws things get messy really quickly.

We do allow for subjective peer input in a trial, that's exactly why the jury exists.

But to say that someone shouldn't even be put in front of a jury just because you think they broke the law with good intentions is undermining the purpose of law. Who are you to decide what was a "benefit to the public"?

There were people who thought that Guantanamo was a "benefit to the public" so should they be allowed to torture people?

There were people in the NSA who thought that mass collection of metadata from phone companies was a "benefit to the public" so maybe we shouldn't investigate those things.

That's not how I want the law to work. We should investigate all of those things, regardless of what you think is beneficial, under a strict set of rules of law. And we use democracy and international order to shape that set of rules.

If you think this is crazy and oppressive you should look around at how non-western countries handle these things.
try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_emission_standar...
great summary.

there are remarkable parallels to Andrew Wakefield's paper about autism, vaccination, and his hypothesis about the gut.

Perhaps this should have been published in the Lancet[1]

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS014067...
I always feel that Fortran is under-represented on the benchmarks game, so let me take the opportunity to say fyi that we are usually happy to accept better programs.

If you wish to contribute a program then please follow these instructions:

https://salsa.debian.org/benchmarksgame-team/benchmarksgame/...

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
2040 is pretty far away, plenty of time for the techs, markets and infrastructures to mature.

Besides, it's only about new ones. You'll still have 10 good years of second hand cars, probably 20 since anticipation will make people stock on models they think they'll sell well. And of course you'll have the obvious delay that is exceptionally given at the end of every single of those big shifts.

So 2040-60 seems a reasonable target given how important it is for humanity. And a deadline will give incentive to find solutions.
It seems to me like musicians have always been in a precarious relation to the economy, same as all other artists. The only difference is that for a brief time in the 20th century the average person was willing to spend money on music, unlike every other time in human history.

Nothing will ever stop people from making music, and 99% of working musicians are making a meager living doing what they enjoy, just like always.
Air taxis starting trials in Singapore, to be safe as commercial aircraft
I'm sorry the non-sustainability of your lifestyle puts the world at risk.
As someone with extremely overbearing helicopter parents that now has a lot of issues that I have been working through over time with a therapist, please don't surveil and micromanage your children. It ultimately led to a lot of distrust of authority, anxiety, depression, social isolation, making worse choices in attempts to circumvent security controls and attempt to have control over my life, and other long lasting negative effects. I can guarantee that anything you implement (gps tracking, cameras, filters, logs) will be easily identified and bypassed, causing distrust and potentially even less safe decisions/scenarios.
It's becoming hard to believe anything that Tesla puts out or Elon says. It is a real shame the $35K 3 turned out to be a lie, the amount of PR that phrase has generated over the years is on par with all of SpaceX.
I asked as an aside to the matter of control group - what is considered "given" about "the method of measurement" ?

According to this professional medical trial, the recorded ASD scores are "based on the Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS) rated by a professional evaluator"

You should have specific knowledge of that evaluation in order to criticize it as relying on "subjective questionnaires" and shouldn't introduce doubt by simply stating something as "given".
I think the Slack default of "Notify me on every new message" is the absolute worst thing. Change it to "Notify me on direct messages and mentions only". I'm not sure why anyone thinks this is a reasonable default, but I've seen it with other chat applications too -- Hipchat was the same, IIRC.

I don't monitor Slack (though everything I say here applies to any 'chat' app). It can interrupt me, but only when people @-mention me, and then at least there's a reason. Sometimes I even ignore those for a while until I'm able to shift focus, but that takes some discipline. If you don't have the discipline, close Slack (or set to DND) for a few hours while you work on something.

What's the alternative to Slack -- Email? That's a million times worse, in every way. It's a necessary email when talking externally, but would ban it in a heartbeat for internal comms, if I had my way. In my view, every every email breaks down into three categories that are better served by another means of communication:

* A task that needs to be completed == A ticket

* Information to be shared to a group of people == Internal CMS posting (eg, wiki)

* A discussion about something (which will usually lead to one of the above) == A conversation in Slack (asynchronous, equivalent to email) or a meeting (synchronous, if decision needs to be made quickly, and/or everyone is discussing in real-time anyway)

The only thing e-mail is actually useful for is notifications from systems you don't monitor/use frequently and that can't notify via Slack, and communicating with people externally.

Likely the people interrupted by Slack messages (assuming they don't use the brain-dead default of 'notify on all messages') are also currently interrupted by every e-mail or phone call that comes in, so I'm not really sure you can blame a lack of focus on Slack.
> Many hash tables in use today are actually either O(n^2) or O(n log n)

Do you have any citation for such an extraordinary claim? Or are you not talking about lookup complexity where n is the size of the table?

I would think that a hash table with an O(n^2) or O(n log n) lookup is not a hash table at all. I mean, a simple linear search is O(n).
In my experience, as a mentor:

Quite a lot of people are certainly capable of growing, but many (most?) aren't. Either they aren't capable, or they don't feel like it.

Luckily you can almost always tell from the get-go who will grow and who will stagnate.
Tesla seems to be coy about the terms - for example, how much does it cost to exceed the annual mileage cap? At the end of a lease, would you get a discount on a subsequent lease or purchase?

This is all probably moot, as I imagine Tesla's lease has a clause allowing it to unilaterally change the rules at any time, and it has displayed no reticence in doing so over other issues.
Emily Short has a collection of world class IF games and is my favorite writer. I haven't played Counterfeit Monkey yet, but have played some of her other work like City of Secrets, Bronze, and Alabaster to name a few.

Another good IF game is "Blue Lacuna" by Aaron Reed which has its own website. I'm about 1/3 the way through. I practically wept in the first 15 minutes of play. The technology and writing of modern IF far surpasses the INFOCOM games of the 80s.
The downgrade offer is only for those who had already ordered. Not that you can downgrade at any time. It makes sense to offer this as your choice might have been influenced by the "permanency" of the decision.
Because it worked so well for radio, tv and newspapers.
I find this, and SpaceX, so inspiring. It's easy to feel that technology just moves itself forward. After all there are billions of people on Earth with people working on a countless array of different problems. And each day things seem to move forward, almost inexorably so. And so it's easy to feel that the value of the individual is really relatively low.

Yet imagine a world where Elon did not exist and thus SpaceX did not. Much of what he's done is stuff that we could have been working on decades ago. For some time we were. NASA as early as the 70s had already laid out plans for a Mars expedition including a tremendous space ship that would be assembled and fueled in orbit to take 5 man crew on a 600 day manned expedition to Mars, including landing of rovers similar to the moon.

Those plans got canned by Nixon, and space never really recovered. Not only did we not "inexorably advance" in space, we regressed. Today we're struggling to do a manned flyby of the Moon - when we went to having barely put a man in orbit in 1962, to putting a man on the moon in 1969. The point of this is that technology does not advance by itself, let alone inexorably so. I think it's extremely likely that had SpaceX not come to exist, it's entirely possible that we would still be effectively where we were at near the turn of the century.

Progress of our species, in spite of there being billions of us, is still dependent upon the individual. And SpaceX's plans have very much followed the old quote of Gandhi, "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." But of course we've not yet won. As remarkable as this achievement is, it's but the starting line for where we need to be. And that line will not move forward unless we move it forward. But "we" does not mean waiting for somebody else to do so. As SpaceX and Musk have demonstrated, it's ultimately up to the individual to get up and move that line forward -- for the betterment of all.
Note: you have seen one of the better organic farms.

In most countries the requirements for what constitutes as organic are so loose, that you are not going to see differences similar to this one.

I feel like sourcing from places that you trust is the best way to proceed. I would not trust a label, just because they claim to have organic produce.
This is an essay about maximizing personal outcomes. Maximize for income, for impact, for prestige, for a software outcome, you can differentiate on all these things but you are still essentially a thief.

Software is a collaboration and I would submit that most engineers have accepted this for one reason or another. The outliers who maximize their own personal outcomes are useless.
A site like youtube requires so much CPU/GPU power, storage capacity and bandwidth that it's highly unlikely that a new competitor[] will appear, and completely impossible to decentralise.

[]If we don't count the likes of Facebook, Microsoft, etc as competitors, since they would manage the site in the same way Google does.
I can't imagine there won't be exception for Northern BC, Farm/Industrial Vehicles, etc...
I don't know if the cost is ~$5K to Tesla, but I for one am sold on their EV business and less so the 'self-driving capabilities'.

I think all these self-driving options are being bundled into it because other car companies already add various forms of adaptive cruise/lane-keep to their base models so Tesla wants to have these things to stay competitive (prob adding the 'advanced functionality' to seem like they have a competitive edge).

I wish that Tesla did have a non-smart car option. On the flip side, that makes me sound like one of the tech late-adopters who didn't "need" a smartphone, where a regular phone could have sufficed. In 5 years time, there may not be non-AI (not necessarily full self-driving) cars.
I generally agree that the lack of automation for seemingly simpler problems is good argument. However, there are a number of automated subway systems:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automated_urban_metro_...
Fair enough, but to bring this case up without mentioning mandatory union dues and the costs of unionization feels disingenuous.

Unions very much are a middle man between labor and management, and the collective bargaining agreement that this potential Creators Union would sign would hamstring a creators freedom in this space pretty significantly as well.

Is what it is, both choices have positives and negatives from my perspective.
This is a "FINALLY!" app for me; something that I've talked about for years among friends, former Rdio colleagues, etc.

The soundcloud resolution is hit-or-miss, and I would be interested to see youtube in there, but the "auto-redirect" option is solid; if you managed to figure out a "cookie-dependent embed", where the auto-redirect setting also decides which service's player to embed in Twitter or Discourse, this would be magical.
What's the nuance then?
I would take this a step further: VC funding requires fast growth.

When you take VC funding, you're put onto an 18-month cycle: 12 months to grow your KPI's, then 6 months to raise the next round of funding.

Remember, the VC business model is 9 out of 10 investments fail and the last one makes at least 10x returns. Your probable failure is built into their spreadsheets, and if you don't believe/can't execute your 10x hockey stick story, they're going to cut you out at month 16. 2x growth is failure. 4x growth is an acquihire into another one of their portfolio companies (with the 4x profits going to their liquidation preferences, not to you). 7x growth and maybe they'll toss you a (dilutive) "bridge round" to buy you another 4-6 months.

VC funding is great if you're willing to commit to that game, but make sure rapid growth at all costs is the game you want to play. "Lifestyle business" is often used as a pejorative around here, but the reality is the average founder can make out just as good if not better owning all of a smaller pie than a down-round-diluted large pie.

If you want to play the VC game, understand the constraints and requirements you're committing to. It's a tool, and just like any tool, make sure you're using it for the right job.
I’ve had this card for a few years, I rarely encounter someone who doesn’t accept it. (United States) I carry this card, the citi cash back master card and the amazon prime visa. Figure at least one works and I prioritize best reward.

Also the categories they offer 5% on (amazon, gas, restaurants, grocery) are likely to take discover.
You can’t compare EV-1 to Tesla. GM would have had a liability tail for the EV-1 (injuries and Magnussen-Moss parts/repairs). Tesla doesn’t have that problem since they already sell cars outright.
> Presumably the spoken Japanese language predates the writing system, no? Or if not, I would imagine that a couple hundred years ago, a significant portion of the population couldn't read Japanese but could speak it.

You're correct. Prior to the industrial era, most societies had very low literacy rates. But nearly everyone could speak, and many people who were illiterate could even excel at speech and language related tasks.

Among the worlds most grammatically complex languages are the Inuit languages of the far north areas. These languages were completely unwritten until very recently.
"full autonomy" means lots of different things to different people.

Some people think of it as being able to drive anywhere at any time in any condition. This is unlikely to ever happen before AGI. What matters in Tesla's case is more likely being able to drive in some small number of places in specific circumstances without a physical driver in the vehicle (but possibly a remote one to handle unusual circumstances).

Now I don't think Tesla is going to even get to that in 3 years, but it wouldn't surprise me to see Waymo there.
Ah, another Tesla announcement that's backtracked after a couple of weeks.

Purely as an outsider looking in it seems like there's a lot of caveat emptor about buying a Tesla: wait times seem apt to increase, models seem like they'll be arbitrarily subject to conditions, and random conditions seem to get attached about which models can and can't use chargers.

There also seems a high likelihood of waiting a long time and paying $2,500 deposit for something which never arrives. And if you do get stiffed, there seems to be an attitude of 'it's your fault' (usually for not spending even more money with Tesla).

Not the kind of consistency I'd want when making an investment in a car, to be honest.
Following your argument, isn't then drone operatators in some respects illegal combatants? Or really anyone not easily identifiable as enemy combatants?

Not that I think that arguing from the point of international law, and especially war time international law is of much relevancy in this case.

US has in recently shown little respect for many aspects of what was thought to be international law, but through US acts the water has been muddied.
The relationship with the ICC, one of the foremost attempts at establishing a legitimate international court for war crimes comes to mind. It is however far from the only issue where US recently shown an amount of disrespect to international law usually only seen from totalitarian regimes.
I've been building a company for the last 10 years. For the first 9, no VCs ever contacted us. In the last year, we've gotten pounded with requests, and have thus far declined to talk, but maybe will eventually.

So my tips:

1) If you are going to raise money, decide to do it and go at it hard. Talk to lots of investors, all at once. Until then, I wouldn't meet with any investors. Just thank them for their interest and tell them you'll contact them later if you decide to raise money.

2) To decide whether to raise, start with your goals. Decide what you want to achieve with the company, then analyze your company (business plan, spreadsheets), then choose whether to raise now, later, or maybe never.

What you want to achieve is isn't a simple sort of expected value (EV) question, for a profitable, boot-strapped company. You may prefer to take the option that maximizes the chance of a certain level of return for shareholders, over the option that maximizes the absolute EV. It depends what you want, what your risk tolerance is, what you think your business can achieve, and whether you think VC money helps you get there.
Paranoid about what?
I don't view GDPR to be quite as useless as the author does, but the point about the user having to protect their data themselves is spot on. GDPR only protects you against good actors that are under EU jurisdiction. Everyone else could very well be doing whatever they want with the data you leak. The EU can't fine a Chinese company if the Chinese company has no presence in the EU.

Another thing the author doesn't mention is that GDPR sets a minimum amount of cost/effort to run a website that's way beyond the actual hardware cost and the cost of making the website itself. It requires every website operator to be familiar with how GDPR works, because you need to know whether you're collecting personal data (you probably are) and how you need to handle it. Furthermore, if you are collecting personal data then you must respond to emails of users who request to know what data you know about them within a set amount of time. In the case of a small website, such as a forum or blog, I would consider the cost imposed by GDPR to be greater than the cost of making the website itself and renting hardware to run it. I think it disproportionately impacts smaller sites. It essentially leads to small sites simply breaking the law and hoping that nobody complains about them.
Sure, if you take today's technology and apply it to 2040 then it doesn't paint a pretty picture. However if you assume that technology will advance over 20 years, then things do look better. Battery technology, cost of solar and other off-the-grid energy sources, and electric vehicle supply chains have changed significantly since 2000, and will likely continue to do so by 2040. It's very difficult to predict what things will look like by then.

And yep, in places like BC where most of the population lives in cities, you tend to get laws much more oriented towards what city dwellers want.
This is pretty cool. People might think it's cheating to pull in a crate. But IMO the fact that its super easy to pull in a crate in Rust is one of the best things about the language.
Sounds like the author wants his tools to be as fully featured as the code that will embody the resultant design. In that case I would recommend learning more code instead of relying on a proxy that will never be as flexible.

The best designers I’ve worked with not only understand their own domain but the possibilities and limitations of how it will be executed, because they are also developers.
The long tail is more alive than ever, but algorithms have always been a bad way to find it. Instead, listen to personal recommendations on web forums etc. There are people who are passionate about any obscure micro-genre you can imagine, and they'll point you to the best of it. Bandcamp and Soundcloud are full of long tail music that's completely ignored by the mainstream music industry.
That's true. Let me clarify: the first calls for regulation I saw get a lot of popular support on HN were for the meatspace business practices of Uber and AirBnB. Since then, I've seen a growth in support for regulation of activities done primarily or purely online, GDPR's opt-in tracking provisions being one of the most visible examples.
I'm skeptical of autonomy in three years myself, but embedded engineers are hardly a convincing authority on the subject.
There is https://textfiction.onyxbits.de/ for playing Z-machine IF on Android

not voice controlled though
Using Fitness Functions to Create Evolving Architectures
It’s not unreasonable to heavily critique the fact that Tesla deadlines are blown repeatedly, and yet who among us has gone from 0 to 300k+ vehicles manufacturer and sold per year in 12 years and delivered an EV into an elliptical orbit with a privately developed heavy lift vehicle?

Don’t say something is impossible while someone else is delivering, slowly and missed deadlines or not.

@sbov (deleted reply while I was replying)

> So are you saying Elon's statement was right? Or are you just saying "its hard, give him some slack for making statements he knows are complete bullshit"?

A pessimist’s “bullshit” is an optimist’s missed deadline and inaccurate forecasting.
Well, a cryptocurrency monetary system is just code rather than a bunch of old guys with nukes.
And it apparently only takes 10mA before you can't physically let go of AC, thus screwing you anyway. Imagine being stuck there, slowly electrocuted to death. bigclivedotcom did a video where he actually tests this ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5R-KBa18ME

EDIT: Perhaps I should make clear: he quite literally runs 240V mains from one hand to the other, slowly reducing the series resistors until he can't physically let go anymore (at a bit above 10mA for him). Live, on camera. Neat! (He doesn't die; saved by a safety foot pedal).

(Also check out his other videos, including the recent ones about the vintage household appliance that cooks hot dogs in 60 seconds by running 120V directly through them!)