skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They lied about being the best in the world about their chips. Nvidia posted about them.

They lie about autopilot and fsd being driverless, while they are irresponsibly deployed driver assistance technologies.

Their whole argument for feasibility of driverless cars is that humans user only their eyes too, and they have a lot of data. That is like saying that if you outfit a million gopro on people, they'll have better humanoid robots than Boston Dynamics.

This whole convoluted scheme about fronting cash, wow. If they are so confident about their cars earning 30k$ a year, they should have no problem raising money via equity or debt, and pivoting from a car manufacturer to a taxi company. Later they can fire the drivers and be driverless taxi company.

Solar City, another wow. I didn't know solar panels are made of batteries, or that Tesla is the only company that makes batteries in the world. Are you just closing your eyes and denying that they laid off solar City personnel? That the 2 billion dollar was nothing but a family buyout, and infact a spacex bond bailout?

According to Elon musk and Tesla fanboys, Tesla is an amazing company. They have the most performing and cheapest batteries in the world. They have the best AI chops, not just to make the best chips, but also use it to make the most automated factory, and have the technology to have their cars be fully driverless. Their factories are so advanced that air friction is a problem, and they use strobe light to see robots. But after all these advantages, they don't sell batteries, direct AI products, manufacturing expertise, driver assistance technologies, EV drivetrains etc. They only sell cars at luxury prices, that too at a loss, while having shitty interiors, fit, finish, panel gaps, paint etc.
If you're a rideshare driver, regulations are headed to employee classification instead of contractor status due to how much control Uber has over the transaction and the work conditions (you don't get to set the price, the when, the where, or the how). If you're an employee, minimum wage requirements (and other benefits) kick in. If making minimum wage as a driver breaks Uber's model at ride prices without subsidies, the business is unsustainable (which should be no surprise to anyone; I don't think there has ever been any evidence Uber could or would be profitable).

The whole "you're an independent contractor, don't work for poverty wages if you don't want to, it's a choice" argument is almost out of runway thankfully.
Yay, I am the 0.01% without even caring a lot :D

Very happy with my Nexus 5X, and why would I upgrade? The Pixels are just expensive and I don't see any benefit. A shame that I'll be in real trouble if this one ever dies.
I want to link to Revery - a native, cross-platform GUI library written in Reason/OCaml.

It brings React's view=function(state) model to native applications, along with CSS box model and Flexbox. It has the developer ergonomics of Electron, but without the need for its heavy runtime.

It is still under development and I'm looking forward to playing with it next time I try writing a GUI app.

https://github.com/revery-ui/revery
I wouldn't get too excited. The way the Chromium project responded to concerns over the API change leads me to believe that Chromium has a lot more restricting... I mean "redesigning" of extension APIs in the pipeline regardless of what users want. Think about it.

1) Propose API changes with blatantly obvious impacts on some of the most popular extensions. Include no explanation of how these extensions can rationally adapt to these new APIs and provide the same or adequately similar functionality.

2) Don't bring any timing data to justify the performance claim that ad blockers are taking an irrational amount of time implementing their content filtering. When others run these same tests they find no performance issues.

3) Characterize any strong reactions to such a suggested change as inappropriate. Feign surprise and dismay at the fact that such reckless API changes, which would drastically change the status quo on the web, are invoking.

4) Condemn those who didn't react the way you expected when you threatened to vastly change their web browsing experience for the worse. This helps diminish user input in the future, by tying everyone with honest opinions to those who express their opinions in an inappropriate or unprofessional way.

5) Act insulted when people point out that your employer, who is in control of the situation, happens to financially benefit from the changes.

The above experience was so distastefully handled across the board, I really think it justifies a unified and community supported "ungoogled-chromium" project without any of their trademarks in the name. That way we the users of the web can determine our relationship with the browser. It's the user's agent, not the browser vendor's agent.

But most importantly, use Firefox with containers and uBlock Origin.

PS. Despite the above, kudos on the port of NoScript. Never give up, never surrender.
The main basis of opportunity cost is knowing both outcomes of each decision and choosing the outcome that makes the most sense based on resource scarcity (ability to both strike and work at the same time in this case). While they may very well know how much money they'll lose by not working those 12 hours, they certainly don't know the true cost and gain of the same decision, thus making the opportunity cost unclear.

That's really the basis of my comment. It's not an assumption, it's quite black and white.
Of course others are working towards the same. That's the point and value of competition - and what Elon wanted to cause (whether you take it up as clever PR or genuine care) other manufacturers to start producing EVs. The point is in a highly competitive environment every incremental improvement is potentially a huge advantage in getting to market and scaling faster; Elon referenced the exponential aspect of this, especially in terms of the amount of sensor data they're already capturing and able to analyze compared all competitors combined.

Citation needed for it not being industry leading, for their specific use case - hoped for TOPS along with maximum energy usage considerations? TOPS alone isn't the only factor, doing operations efficiently is required to keep energy usage as low as possible. Unless the lead engineer and whole chip team is pulling a fast one over Elon's head - he's not an idiot and not going to move forward in a direction he's not confident in.

I wouldn't say ~1MM chips per year is small volume, and that's fine that they're producing in small volume - especially because they have the next version coming out in I think Elon said 2 years. They're likewise not building the facility to produce them themselves, they're outsourcing it - I think they said to Samsung in Austin, TX?

I'm not making assumptions, and wasn't referring to that data you were referencing. Elon has said they had to divert resources from battery-related production; yes, it could be a convenient false story, however we can agree they're under a lot of pressure and have limited resources - so it's believable enough.

My whole argument doesn't revolve around "Tesla says" of your generalized statement - however it does try to put down my argument to elevate yours. If you don't want to give any amount of trust to what Tesla says - yes, they've not been honest/straight-forward in all situations which isn't ideal - then the foundation for your arguments aren't taking into account a lot of the proof points. Just like now I believe you're being genuine in your belief, and that we just have different experiences, understandings, analysis - I suppose it's possible you have financial interest in Tesla failing and haven't disclosed that, however I won't make that assumptions - and will assume you're speaking in good faith.

I don't really get what you're defending or your point is? Do you think Tesla will completely fail? Do you believe their stock is overvalued? That all auto manufacturers are now investing shittons of capital towards EV vehicles and infrastructure is perhaps the strongest signal that the market is there, and Tesla is leading it - and Elon believes they're 3-7+ years ahead of everyone else; and during even only 3 years they get get much further ahead in the race.
> You should (look back).

Tell me about it!

> Mapping it to Ctrl is a much more sensible choice.

Never considered this, but just moved my pinkie to Ctrl and then to Esc and then to Ctrl... hmm... I use Emacs bindings in Insert Mode, wouldn't this interfere with them?
Interesting, however this just reflects an overfitted model. Fundamentally, this photo is not that different from a fashion influencer's posts.

We're a fashion engine and our system fully detected both of the people and all of their apparel (the person in question's shirt, his pants and it sees the "printout" as a low confidence handbag, as well as his shoes).

Not to say it would be impossible to trick our system, however, this method would not be sufficient given a good object hierarchy. Our system would have to have a triple miss across two methods - would need to miss his pants and his shirt and his body with the localizer, as well as his pants and shirt with the segmenter. And, if we were serious about detecting hiding people, you'd be surprised how gosh darn reliable the shoe detector portion is.

I don't see it being terribly feasible (and definitely not reliably so). Let's just say, it's not even close at all at this point. We miss zero of these things today.
https://frontendmasters.com/teachers/shirley-wu/
That CV Dazzle project is fascinating. The link to the warship Dazzle camouflage is also hilarious in the sense that that is what people have to turn to in 2019.

It reminds me of the comic book The Private Eye by Brian K Vaughn. In that story the cloud "bursts" and online privacy evaporates overnight so everyone turns to intense camouflage to protect their identity. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Private_Eye)
That comment was sarcasm highlighting how your previous comment is putting the well being of the company above the well being of the drivers.
Tap what?
For an interesting book on the subject of time in the philosophy of physics, see Huw Price's Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point. It does a fairly good job of laying out what the problems are.

* http://prce.hu/w/TAAP.html
What I'm saying is that consciousness doesn't add anything to the art of 'predicting the future', and plays (as far as I can see) no discernable role in this art.
I did this recently. An upgrade to a Mac with a touchbar prompted it, but I should have done it over a decade ago.
How do you input a number like that?
Especially with Lyft as an alternative for both workers and customers, the gig workers have more-than-usual power in this context.

If drivers are willing to accept Lyft's regular wages for a day, and refuse the temptation of surge pricing on Uber, price-sensitive consumers will see surge pricing on Uber and turn on the Lyft app.

If the goal is to threaten Uber's brand/customer-loyalty, this play might work?
No. You've misread the argument; she is only enumerating what she has deduced, and the first deduction is that speech and physical assault are both expressive intentional action. This premise was in doubt in the paper she was responding to. She never claims that speech and physical assault are at all the same, but rather, that speech does not merit a special category when differentiated from other actions.
Even worse, in this model they can effectively just build in the cost of the fines in the business model. It's just a cost of doing business at this point.

I'm sorry, but this shit isn't going to end until the U.S. actually punishes white collar crime. Fines _do not_ work.
WASM: Universal Application Runtime
Tasker's OS hooks have a negative impact on battery life.
I started using Brave a few weeks ago. Not because of privacy concerns - mainly out of curiosity.

One thing I did NOT expect is the noticeably faster performance. (Presumably due to the lack of ad content loading.)

This is a big deal at my house. We turned off wired Internet service to save money during a job search. (There's only one HS vendor in our neighborhood. (And this is in Austin. Go figure.) We're tethering our phones and foregoing any high-bandwidth use cases.

Has anybody published performance benchmarks?
The current gigafactory build-out should be able to produce at 35 GWh/year but is currently producing at 24 GWh/year.

It wouldn't be surprising if Panasonic halted expansion of the lines to concentrate efforts on fixing problems with current lines. But rather than admitting problems they tried to spin it with a weird press release.

Both statements can be true. Tesla is battery limited at 24 GWh/year, and Panasonic says they can meet current demands at 35 GWh/year.
The author has attempted to show rationally that speech is not fundamentally different from physical conduct. You are simply asserting that it is. That's not very convincing.
I would happily pay $10 per year to never see pintrest again. I would strongly suspect this rings true for the vast majority of people.
Not specifically software developers but several of the places I have worked at broke their on-call positions as follows

Non-salaried
-10% base pay differential for on-call employees
-2 rotating employees were scheduled at a time as first point of on call contact. This gives people a bit of buffer to plan their lives even though they are technically on call.
-All time called in paid as over-time (1.5x base pay rate)

Salaried
-10% pay differential
-For each on call hour worked, received 1 hour of vacation time. This kicked in after working more than 8 hours over their normal 80 hour pay period but applied to all hours worked. Kicked in immediately if they were called in on hours that were not pre-scheduled. Vacation time paid expired in 1 year and was paid out at 1x salary rate as of time of accrual if not taken.

Some work environments and hours commanded additional pay bonuses. i.e. overnight work was paid at +15% of base.

Most importantly, whatever you work out, run it by legal and HR to make sure you aren't violating any labor laws and make sure you don't abuse your employees.
Is it really hard to learn a new language tho? Its not even a hard one, its like a if you mashed java and javascript together. Its pretty simple to pick up.
Aaaand you are shooting yourself in the foot. Those Harvard/Stanford/MIT graduates will have both higher GPA and prestige, which is all that matters in the beginning (and via networking) throughout your career. You might feel good about getting an A in some impossible class, but nevertheless you are already seriously disadvantaged when competing for high-end jobs comparing to grade-inflated schools. Nobody cares that only 2 persons in your class got A in a given semester and most happily accepted just some passing grade, or that half of the students had to retake a particular class.
If they all drive for Lyft, they won’t get Lyft’s regular wages for a day, supply and demand dictates there won’t be enough demand and they’ll get lower wages.
I struggle to see how this can be seen as a bellwether of the economy. 3M sells things that should be reasonably recession-proof: people don't stop buying scotch tape in hard times.
Yes it is, and the community here likes to pretend this is a gathering of great thinkers and intellectuals where the big issues are discussed.
I was just about to write more or less the same comment before I decided to refresh the page.

I just started coding as if I was working with a version of Typescript.

I only Google from time to time for the standard library docs.
Yea, I always wondered about the (frankly amazing) backwards compatibility. Windows could probably be a much better system if they just get rid of support for these old systems. Same for these super old MS-Word formats. Doesn't need to be as drastic as Apple does it, though.
I agree, mostly because I believe the mixing of environmental catastrophe muddies the waters of both threats when there is value in knowing which is more... urgent at a point in time. Splitting the clock into a human-human clock and a human-globe clock would be more useful I believe.
Ask HN: What License for New “Open Source” Project? Commons Clause?
I am currently working on a project which I want to "Open Source" soon. I write it in quotes because I am also thinking about adding Common Clause to it which even though the code would still be open and free to use and for 99.99999% of the people it should make no difference it would not be allowed to be called Open Source anymore.

The reason I want to apply Commons Clause[1] is simple. On the one hand, do I want that everybody no matter if a private person or big company can use it totally free for themselves. On the other hand, do I not want that another company commercializes it and at the same time does not do anything to further the project. If the chance really arrises, I would prefer to commercialize it myself and so fund improving the project and giving part of the profit to other Open Source projects which are important for mine. I think that this would be in the end in the interest of everybody (obviously except for the cloud providers).

So would love to hear what you all think about it. Especially if it would cause anybody not to use or contribute to a project with uses Common Clause or other concerns you would have.

Thanks!

[1] https://commonsclause.com/
I had problems only with the laptop version, and again it's because the shitty nvidia support for its optimus technology and the fact the drivers are still not good for the specific laptop dgpu under linux

Tbh it's workable, not like it totally fuckups your config, it's just a pita and often a single kernel or nvidia driver update breaks all the acpi config and you have to fix them again. I want a system that just works after installation or updates
Alphabet's Wing gains FAA license to fly drones for U.S. deliveries
I'm not 100% sure a static image on cloth will ever work well for that kind of general countermeasure. So far all adversarial stuff except the dazzle camouflage face paint require pretty precise position or view relative to the object being labeled.
The hard limit on how many apps a folder can hold?
It's really cool that you weigh in on discussions on HN. Or I suppose it feels like that to me primarily because I grew up reading your quotes in info text boxes in programming texts. And it's cool to have that person responding to comments.
Are a lot of jobs really algorithm development though? Every job I've had just used existing algorithm implementations for sorting, FFT, etc. I feel like to do well at software interviews I have to brush up on dynamic programming, sorting, greedy, etc. algo development even though I've almost never had to develop a serious performant algorithm on the job.
This is HN. Everything Google does is evil. Don't forget that.
Very interesting. I remember reading that traffic accident rates go up significantly in Muslim majority countries during the first few days of Ramadan (daylight fasting), so there appears to be an adaptation period with decreased performance before the benefits kick in.
I don't understand. Do you think its necessary to have a self-concept in order to exist intrinsically?
And the situation in medicine is exposed to additional confounding factors - the placebo effect exists (for both faith healers and doctors) and (at least for doctors) has been getting stronger: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/placebo-effect-gr...

So the effect of the ritual of seeing the doctor and undergoing treatment has increased in strength, possibly as people have grown to trust doctors more.
The litmus test is "will it survive if Google pulls the plug on it?", and I suspect the answer is "No".

But this is true of so many widely used open source projects.
Using the old timey keyboard layout[1] (a relic of pre-touchscreen phones)

So 1800-flowers would be 1800-3569377

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.161
"Yeah how insane are they, to think that they should get health benefits? Must be lunatics."

- Some software person that likely works in a job with great health benefits and thinks they're somehow more entitled to them.
There's still a potential failure mode where both vanes get stuck at the same anomalous reading, so therefore still feed bad data to MCAS. There's more likely a threshold of equality rather than exact equality in measurement going on I'd imagine, but I'd have to see their code to know for sure what their definition of "equal" is.
Fair enough from a QA standpoint, except the FAA authorities (according to the article) gave them a pass on not documenting it (at least, not documenting it until later). It seems like the FAA was too trusting in this case.
Tasers don’t look anything like guns, unless guns come in bright yellow now.
I feel like there is a real distinction as far as the state of "journalism".

I think there are a lot of people doing real good work ethically and professionally.

I think there are a lot of people who don't do a good job.

The thing is I think most people decided the two dependent on if it fits their point of view... so the whole situation is muddied.
If you assume rideshare demand remains consistent and that riders just switch over to Lyft (which doesn't seem entirely unreasonable), then presumably the overall supply/demand curve remains fairly consistent. Obviously some fuzzing around the edges will remain, but otherwise the broader conclusion holds?
Sounds like the rhetoric of someone who has never had to live paycheck to paycheck. People at the bottom of the economy take risks daily that people at the top couldn’t even imagine.
Are you a salaried employee?
Facebook News: Protecting the EU Elections From Misinformation
Or write a C function called http_request, refactor all of Lynx to use just this one function, and then do something like

#if PLATFORM === 'WASM'
then
fetch()
else
the actual sockets and stuff
end
I find this quote fascinating:

"What I think that means is there is no holy era of time. It emerged. If, in the distant future, we find ourselves in a universe where all the stars have burned out, and all the black holes have evaporated, and all the radiation has been diluted by the dark energy that expanded our universe, and all we have is some very cold bath of photons here and there—basically thermal equilibrium; de Sitter space, as we call it—there will be no sense of time anymore. There will nothing you can do to determine whether time is going one way or the other. Time will then have un-emerged again. It will be like the poem, This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper."

I am not a cosmologist, but if all of space reached thermal equilibrium, if space does have any mass (perhaps a tiny amount from the dark energy it contains?), and the entire universe is essentially one uniform mass, wouldn't that mass then collapse upon itself, in a kind of big bounce?

If that is true, then time never really ends, it just "slows down" a lot (not much can happen, and not terribly quickly) until the next sparkup, whereupon time speeds up dramatically (inflationary theory).
A lot of phones come with the English alphabet on the 12 keys, three letters to a key. Similar to older phones that had a physical dialpad. You could then dial the "word" you want by looking at the number on which the correct letter is. That's one way these systems could work.
Sure it is, but I can see why OP looks down on it – just like their web rendering engine, it may be open source, but it's Google holding all the cards and ultimately making all the decisions. It may be opensource now while it's useful for them, but it may end up just like Android over the years: more and more closed bit by bit.
True, unless enough Uber customers jump ship to Lyft to support Lyft's demand.
This is somewhat misleading. While technically true, they are comparing .org TLDs to the newer gTLDs (e.g., ".google"), but the legacy TLDs should not grouped with these for a reason.