skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>His point about wild animals is very accurate, but that's not considering that animals bred in captivity ("free"-range or otherwise) would not have been if not for meat demand. It's debatable whether non-existence is preferable to being raised and then killed, but the dichotomy isn't between wild animals vs. free-range animals

The idea is is as follows. Might be worth just reading the article:

"If ethical vegetarians believed animals have lives that are unpleasant but still better than non-existence, they would focus on reducing harm to these animals without reducing their numbers, for instance by supporting humane slaughter or buying meat from free-range cows.

I will argue that if vegetarians were to apply this principle consistently, wild animal suffering would dominate their concerns, and may lead them to be stringent anti-environmentalists."

http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2016/03/oxford-uehiro-p...
There's also outsourced services that pay people to solve captchas all day, Mechanical Turk style. At this point I think they're a moral necessity, given that recaptcha will often flatly refuse to allow accessibility options for some users.
You realize that only a portion of people get audited right?

Sure, your government could calculate everyone's taxes but I'm guessing those taxes would need to go up...
This comment seems to fall very far outside the principle of charity that HN requires from users.
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The history of labor is in this form of protest. Googlers are more comfortable than many others. The further down the chain you go the more precarious the workers and dependent on their pay checks, and the easier time management has retaliating.

This stuff is legally protected because before we had legal protections, conflicts devolved into straight out armed struggle, with employers hiring mercenaries (notably the pinkertons) to break up employee resistance with guns.
* consistent standard library (huge win IMO)

* efficient utf8 binary strings (which is actually conforms with utf8 standard), no mixup with charlists

* mix etc standard tooling

* macros

* enum stuff

* pipeline operator "|>", which by its mere existence enforces input/output param's consistency in user-written functions

etc
You have to specify a bunch of information regarding the width, height, color, positioning in the call of the function. There isn't anything analogous to css in programming languages so you're left with a big ball of mud.

HTML+css is the easiest GUI toolkit to learn to date. It's so easy that young children in middle school are taught it in their web elective classes. And one reason it is so easy is because there is something like css.
Not true for the US, either. I wish it was! Maybe in big coastal tech cities, and there are exceptions even there.
Musk says there will be a driving demo later today. Up next, the neural nets person.
> "All we need to do is improve the software" - Musk [12:07 PDT]

That's an old claim, see this 2016 press release [1]:

> as of today, all Tesla vehicles produced in our factory – including Model 3 – will have the hardware needed for full self-driving capability at a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver.

At this point I believe the claim once I see the self-driving functionality having been rolled out to the public and the accident number been reduced.

[1]: https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-tesla-cars-being-produced-now...
The thing I don't get about Tesla is why they keep heaping more on their plate rather than just (for large values of just) re-doing the motive power bit. That alone is a massive challenge and it is not something they've licked at economies of scale that allow a $10K vehicle to be brought to market, which is what it will take to really make this a success.

Every extra they tack on to the base product is one they will be expected to deliver on as well diverting attention from the main problem they are dealing with, which may in the longer term leave open enough room for the competition to wiggle through.

Sure, autonomy is a big deal, but it is also something that will once cracked be an instant commodity and there is a lot of money and talent focused on that particular problem, which is surprisingly hard to do well.

If Tesla ends up going under because of one of the side shows (Solar City, autonomy, Power Wall etc) that would be a serious loss.
It depends entirely on how they design the system. They don't necessarily need to send all the data from the cars back home when they can send test cases to cars, run the tests in a shadow mode to collect real world results, then send the test results back home.
I linked http://greaterfool.ca higher up, but I think it's the best source for Canadian financial info. Garth Turner does a really great service cutting through the bull with a blog article every day of the week!.

Search his site on google for "canada debt" for plenty of articles with links to real data / surveys.
You can try Wix.com or squarespace.com. they're pretty cheap if you cant host your own using namecheap.com and something like linode.com/digitalocean.com(these can take care of domain registrars as well).
> We'd be eating less tasty burgers for no real reason

I'm curious, have you actually tried these (especially the newer versions)? Honestly they're getting close to indistinguishable.

Honestly, GHG aside, I'd be excited for when this scales up and becomes cheaper and easier to produce than real beef.
Surveillance Video of Tesla Exploding in Shanghai Parking Lot Goes Viral
The NLRA is pretty complicated and it comes down to what you can get the NLRB to agree about, but this does qualify as protected concerted activity. Anything which is collective organizing in the interests of the employees w.r.t. working conditions is protected. Protesting gender discrimination is literally a text book case. I recommend "labor law for the rank and filer" as a nice introduction to the field.
Japan has that figured out, too: you can’t register a car unless you have proof of having a parking spot.
Musk: "Lidar is a fools errand"

Let's hope he is right.
The underlying lesson that I have learned (the hard way) repeatedly: anything that may change the traffic pattern can result in difficult to predict infrastructure issues. This can be as related as a changing protocol (as shown here) or a seemingly unrelated like a UI change.
Google Maybe An Excellent Employer, But Not Because Of It's Food
Lou Gerstner Discusses Changing the Culture at IBM (2002)
"LIDAR is a fool's errand. Everyone relying on LIDAR is doomed." edit: beat me to it
Eating grazing animals is more humane per unit of protein than industrial crops or factory farming.
No, I meant exactly what I wrote. For example, if you were to try to duplicate Google today, you would drown in content farms and other sorts of BlackHat SEO because Google has been engaged in just such a Red Queen's Race with the BlackHats for over a decade.

So even if you come up with a scheme that rewards WhiteHat Turks, the BlackHats will inevitably crack it unless you insure it's a moving target.
If there is a sex-defined bi-modal distribution of neurological characteristics, meaning for instance in IQ, then there are two separate but overlapping curves for the sexes, then it's true that there is both overlap and difference between the sexes. This difference is clearly evident in physical traits like height, which is an objective measurement, whereas the utility of IQ will be debated for decades, most likely. We can't argue that IQ is non-overlapping though, there are low and high outliers in each sex or in every subgroup that will overlap with every other subgroup (same goes for race, economic status, education, any socio-dem slice you can think of). Given large populations, this is practically a certainty.

IMO, the problem arises in the subjectivity of psycho-metrics, which can be very lackluster tools. IQ, cognitive function, working memory, long term memory, and on and on -much harder to establish a clear difference between these across the two sexes, given with such imprecise and arbitrary measures.
Reminds me of stories about "letter writers" sitting outside post offices in rural India. Only difference is that some customers couldn't write and some couldn't even read.
One feature you guys can pull from that is allow users to provide a gist of what needs to be in the message and you guys come up with actual message. Some people like me lack the skill of coming up with beautiful words ;)
“Anyone using Lidar is doomed”

Strong words from Musk about sticking with video only.

Later on in the software talk:

“Lidar is really a shortcut which sidesteps the fundamental problems...and gives us a false sense of progress”
Second that, pry rules!
But nobody has EVER argued that, have they?

I'm saying it's a pointless statement and trying to demonstrate its ridiculousness.
"It's like having two appendices. One appendix is bad"
https://www.fixmystreet.com/ helps with the potholes in the UK. Opensource as https://fixmystreet.org/
I'm staying away from these free services after data scandals. My tax return is highly sensitive data. I don't want it to get in the hands of advertisers in lieu of saving a few bucks.
Replace Africa with MiddleEast and it's the same, $8500 is the average salary, only a few private companies actually pay a reasonable salary, bad education, no training, expensive electronics/internet, and non-techy bosses/clients (the worse!!)
To summarize, it appears that their new chips can do 96x96 dot product in a single cycle (multiplying neural network weights by values), and have hardware for activations (ReLU, softmax, tanh) and pooling (as in convolutional neural networks). This results in a crazy 144 trillions ops/second.

How does this compare to TPUs and the Neural Engine in iPhone CPUs?
After escalating the issue to human resources, she said she faced further retaliation. “My manager started ignoring me, my work was given to other people, and I was told to go on medical leave, even though I’m not sick,” Stapleton wrote. After she hired a lawyer; the company conducted an investigation and seemed to reverse her demotion.

For the sake of argument, let's postulate that this is exactly what it sounds like: straight up retaliation. If so, here's the question in my mind:

What flipping moron thought that:

a. this was a good idea

b. they could get away with this

TBH, I'd say that IF Google management were that upset at this individual's actions, it would have made more sense to just straight up fire her, as opposed to this kind of childishness. NOT that I'm saying any of this justifies firing. Just saying that outright firing somebody you disagree with makes more sense than keeping them around and trying to fuck with them as, whatever, punishment I guess? That's braindead stupid as far as I can see.

And actually, (a) is the more serious question in many ways. Seriously, what did they think they would gain from this retaliation? Who wins in this scenario? Nobody, as far as I can tell.
Rather, maybe, "our application can't handle short intense busts, and we haven't built a queuing proxy in front of it"?

That speed observed by clients should come from somewhere. In their case, they did not have a large reserve of performance to tap.
> Participants who reported that feeling empathy was mentally demanding or made them feel insecure, irritated or distressed were more likely to have avoided the empathy deck during the experiments.

I didn't know empathy was something that you could choose to feel or not. I thought it was a kind of bond that needs something from you, something from the person object of the empathy, and something from the whole situation.

And that you couldn't avoid to feel it at first, but could make it diminish consciously with some effort.
I'm gonna say Elon is being extremely bold selling a technology that's current leader in deaths behind the autonomous wheels.

also I can't reconcile how the new hardware is this huge leap ahead beyond raw computing power if, by Tesla own claims, previous hardware was perfectly capable of autonomous driving.

seems people were getting fooled either now or before.
It's called "protected concerted activity". It is protected under the national labor relations act. These laws were passed in the context of mine owners hiring armed mecenaries (the pinkertons for example) to break up strikes.
Sure, but I mean, if you have Google on your resume, you can work pretty close to anywhere, and a lot of other tech companies will pay competitively for you, right down the street. People should never just... quit without a plan, but six months later, it's hard to imagine that anyone who wanted to leave couldn't have found a new job by now if they were actively looking.
It's from 2017, but this article is more informative and discusses the accident that led to the discovery:
https://scienceline.org/2017/03/fight-save-coral/
People are eager to reduce meat consumption in general due to meat's heavy environmental impact, questionable ethics in factory farming, and general unsustainability due to a growing population. Because it's made of commonly available plant-based ingredients like pea protein and canola oil, Beyond meat is highly unlikely to have long-term health effects. Society is advanced enough to properly identify every essential nutrient that comes from meat and recreate it in a plant-based form, so why not replace meat?
> I regularly see fast food or other low income workers wearing $1000 worth of designer clothing while carrying a brand new iPhone or something, while taking the bus.

I always found it interesting that I see more younger people wearing Canada Goose (not during winter), Comme des Garćon, Y-3, etc. in Toronto. Yet this is the city I hear the most from in terms of indebtedness, rising cost of living, being priced out of the city, tough for millennials, etc.
Amazon has same day delivery and prime now in a lot of the US - I can get the same order before 10 get before 18 from Amazon in my town.

I don't have a ton of experience with UI/UX on JD or TMall, but my experience with alibaba and aliexpress hasn't left me particularly impressed there. But I also have no problem with Amazon's interface and experience in general, which I know lots of people don't like.

Product offerings have never been an issue for me. The overwhelming majority of my online purchases come from Amazon, and the ones that haven't made recently have been pretty niche - handmade Japanese chef knives, limited run board games, manufacturer direct audio equipment...

I can get assembly for furniture, etc., as an add-on for a lot of purchases on amazon, which someone mentioned as a differentiator in another thread.

I can't talk to the merchants instantly, but I don't know that I really want or need to. I rarely have a question for them, and when I have, I generally don't want to get bogged down in a live chat or phone call or whatever, so the email system on Amazon works fine for me.
It's a bit more complicated than that. For example, rental income and capital gains on sales of property or owned items don't typically have reported forms associated with them. But for probably 90% of tax filers, the IRS should already have everything it needs and know the exact amount owed.
Q: "What's the primary design objective of the next-gen chip?"

Mumbled Answer: "Safety."

...doesn't that mean the current-gen chip... isn't as safe as you want?
It's called "protected concerted activity". It is protected under the national labor relations act. These laws were passed in the context of mine owners hiring armed mecenaries (the pinkertons for example) to break up strikes. I highly recommend "labor law for the rank and filer" as a history and primer on the law here.
No judge would agree to that as damages.

The smart car documentation is worth some amount of money. But there is no way in hell that it is worth 10 million dollars.

In law, there is this concept of "damages". Smartcar did not get lose 10 million dollars because a company stole their docs.
> On the modern battlefield, one side having considerably more processing power than the other side might swing the strategic balance. This means more sophisticated missiles, ECM, battlefield coordination, targeting, etc... all on the side having access to the superior chip fab technology in wartime.

At least for space applications, it is common to use very old processes because of certification and, more importantly, processors that use larger processes are easier to radiation-harden. I don't know whether this also holds for military applications, but it seems at least plausible to me.
Facebook makes its first browser API contribution
Salesforce.com buys Salesforce.org, and that’s the only straightforward part
I was reading in the section about power cuts, and I was wondering if there are any data centers in Africa?
The IRS does in fact compare the data you send them to the data they have. Presumably the IRS, famous for it's computer system, isn't hand-checking every return.
>In other words, if corporations stopped trying to prevent sexual harassment and discrimination

If by 'other words' you mean, someone else's words. Eliminating harassment/discrimination is common sense for a company, ethically and for liability sake; he's not advocating against that.

But if you're a shareholder or investor in a software company, that suddenly diverts funds and resources to fight social causes (outside the scope of your mission statement), you have every right to have concern or be critical.
I think it's related to who Musk is, and the kinds of things he wants to achieve.

SpaceX isn't trying to just do what has always been done and just make it 5 or 10% cheaper. That's boring. SpaceX is completely turning the launch industry on it's head.

Tesla is the same. Elon isn't interested in making "just" an electric car. He wants to change the world, and electric cars that drive themselves will do that.

Can he do it soon? I'm not an expert, I don't know. But damn it's exciting to watch.
Genius, I would make one, but seems like Google Goggles is already doing this via: https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/101543/how-can-i...
I lived just fine on 16m² for 2½ years, and I had plenty of space for everything I needed to do. I could have 3-4 people over in comfort, any more and we just used the common room or a nearby cafe.
You could add another class 'C' and start naming the networks by the elements and the hosts by the chemical compound resulting!
Everyone getting into business knows that competitors want to copy them. Not only that, there are only so many ways to do things, so it's usually a question of how much you're copying.

So inferior goods (using the economic term) can add low-cost options for consumers and are thus a social benefit.

While copying itself isn't bad, in practice those companies often releasing products that are unfit for sale or engage in deceptive advertising.
But they were the first one to mention anything resembling that metric. There's no reason to bring it up unless you think someone uses that metric, or alternatively as a straw man to argue against.
Otonomo apparently has an office in the U.S., so presumably they'd fall under U.S. jurisdiction:

https://otonomo.io/about-us (see bottom of page)
>I think calling people 'white' or 'black' is stupid and I don't do it (and not just for this reason). But Williams does use these words to refer to people elsewhere through the interview.

He does it because those are realities. Instead of ignoring reality (people have different skin colors and ancestral lines), we should fix our racist perception (that the colors mater regarding people's worth and merit). Blacks or whatever should be able to claim their colors AND the rest be fine with it. Neither blacks nor whites should be asked to erase their colors (or other aspects of their identity).

Btw, the part about children not seeing color is not true either: several studies suggests that babies prefer their own colors when shown pictures of people.

Before modern "scientific" theory of races emerged (circa 18th century) to justify the slave trade and colonialism, and especially in the ancient world (Hellenistic, Roman, etc), you could be whatever color and nobody cared (they might still consider an african tribe primitive, but for the same reasons we consider them, e.g. hunter-gathered like living, no education, etc, and not for their color. The would not consider Ethiopians -- which were equally black-- for example primitive).

Someone like Herodotus could wander all around the middle east, Africa, etc and not consider the people "inferior" for being of different skins, just different. Even slavery wasn't based on race or color (slaves where just people from places who lost a war, or had debts).
I tried the impossible burger last week, from a local chain called Super Deluxe which aims to reproduce the basic burgers from In-n-out (and mostly does quite a good job). I could tell it wasn't meat, but it was a near thing. The texture was just slightly too soft. Otherwise it wasn't half bad.

What did surprise me was the aftertaste. I get a fairly strong aftertaste when I eat chicken, for example, but not beef. I'm certain not everyone experiences that, and I've never had an explanation. Interestingly, after the impossible burger I got the same strong aftertaste. That may be a clue I can use to identify what causes it to happen for me.

I'd have another one, but I do prefer the beef version a little, and I don't often go to Super Deluxe so when I do it's going to be the real deal.
It can be difficult for sure. Trial and error mostly.
Approximately 0 English speakers use the long scale. Exactly 0 do in the US.
Microsoft workers pressure company to stand by embattled Chinese GitHub repo
Seems like this system is vulnerable to vote trading. Additional votes in a single category cost more so the logical move becomes to trade those additional votes to someone who wouldn't have voted for it in exchange for your vote on something you wouldn't have voted for. A group of people coordinating votes becomes significantly more powerful than an individual expressing their own interest, making it the dominant strategy. Seems like it would end up with even more distorted dynamics than the ones it was trying to solve.
At what point did it become apparent that adding more pipeline stages to boost the GHz number wasn't going to help? Wast it at 180 or 90nm?

Seriously asking, because just "xyz did N GHZ" makes no sense in this era.
There already has been, though it's nascent. Check the proceedings of AAAI 2019 or any of the more recent non-NIPS conferences for details.
Nah, I doubt it. Just look at how successful Apple and Microsoft are in China.

Other brands too. You don’t see the government changing the laws so Li-Ning can beat Nike.
It reminds me of the recent discussions around eyes and prions:

"Infectious 'Prions' Found in the Eyes of Patients with Fatal Brain Disease"

"The results also raise concern about the potential for the disease to spread through routine eye exams or eye surgeries, during which equipment could become contaminated with prions, the researchers said."

https://www.livescience.com/64140-creutzfeldt-jakob-disease-...
is anyone knowledgeable with how this compares to Waymo's solutions? I'm curious.
It really depends on use case. They all have their pros and cons.