skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Finding an indicative difference in a tiny, yet random sample appears to have accomplished more than the guy yelling "small sample size" - and, which I find ironic - "waste!" here. They managed to add a tiny bit of contrast to a picture that's totally blank, and provide 15 pixels of data, please explain how that's supposed to be worthless?

By the same logic, if I manage to cure an extremely rare type of cancer under certain circumstances when it's detected early on, I get fired for having too little success? I mean, what? Seriously?

By all means, prove them wrong, but stop the yelling. That's even more worthless than any form of pioneering research.
Ke2, best by test.
Migraines During Pregnancy
Irrespective of the technical merits, a significant portion of the HN user base likely invested in $TSLA years ago and are financially incentivized to support all of Musk's claims, even if they wouldn't support the outlandish claims normally.
> Why? there is no clinical significance to this.

Some people just like systemizing for its own sake :)
Won’t they just get more funding?
The Solo Operating System [pdf]
Am I right to assume that if Tesla files for bankruptcy protection, all car deposits basically vanish? I assume there's miles of higher priority creditors lined up than consumers who paid a deposit. Do we have any sense of how many outstanding deposits there are still?
i see, so here we would basically have the communist party let that kind of reporting, uncensored, because of the grand chessboard game with Taiwan. It is an entertaining theory but I'm afraid the very existence of the factory, to begin with, discredits it entirely.
This discusses their stack:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/end-of-the-road-for-cloudflare-n...

C, Go, Rust Lua and other tech.
When I said "sufficiently small" I was including stuff on the order of "an average of .01 cents total as the result of the policy".

> it fails against its more psychopathic competitors

I see no reason why choosing to lose an expected value of .01 cents total, would result in failing against a competitor which does not do so. That just doesn't make sense. It isn't like there is a ranking of "what company in this field made the most profit", and then all of them other than the top 1 or 2 are immediately destroyed each month. No, a company runs out of business when it is not sufficiently profitable. Now, if something results in their products being more expensive, or something like that, in a way that significantly changes their profitability, or other things which might slightly change their per-unit profitability, then yeah, that could make them non-viable.

But, like,

have you worked in a large company? There are certainly inefficiencies in large companies which are the result of the continued choices of individual employees, even among large successful companies. This is obvious.

Companies are not able to perfectly optimize for profitability, even if they wanted to.
> Brown went further adding that because few Python core developers are also major library maintainers, library authors’ complaints are devalued or ignored.

PHP has a similar issue to this. The people writing C were not using the language. The best example is PDO. A lot of C was written, but it was essentially abandonware because the PHP users could not make any changes without getting the C maintainers to both agree and have the time.
There's a huge difference between voluntarily living in a van in the Google parking lot while saving for a downpayment with your engineering salary or lowering your burn rate for your bootstrapped startup -- and actually being homeless [1].

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/google-employee-lives-in-tru...
Context matters, as does reading comprehension. $200m/month = $600m/quarter...after 3 rounds of expense cutting.

That's $200m/month in net losses during a purely operational stage. It doesn't even include the costs of a planned Model Y launch or self-driving network.
I don't understand how this isn't completely obvious.

Because you're living in a bubble, and have grown accustomed to thinking that everyone else is using the same lenses to view the world as you are.
> As if having a psychogenic illness is some kind of weakness.

Having a mental illness is not a weakness. But the problem with the term psychogenic is history teaches us it probably doesn't exist, and if it did exist, we could never truly be confident of it.

Through the history of medicine we have had illnesses come up such as Multiple Sclerosis, that contemporary medicine at the time failed to understand, and falsely believing they somehow had good enough testing at the time that if they couldn't find anything wrong with someone then there could be nothing wrong, they label it a psychogenic problem. This happened over and over and over again. You'd think medicine would learn. On top of that psychology also over history has had this weird obsession with trying to fill the void in these cases, with big psychologists/psychiatrists seemingly trying to claim new territory in the name of their field.

The idea of the functional disorder presented in the story is testable in this case. (It doesn't make sense to me given the symptoms described but assuming it did). Take these patients, send them to this magical school that they said fixes people's functional disorders, and let's see if they recover. But please do not blame any of these people if they don't recover after this treatment, as is usually what happens when the labels functional disorder and psychogenic are applied. (You're not trying hard enough, you're not believing in the cure enough, etc.)

Conversion disorder is a particularly despicable label to give someone that for some reason some neurologist still do, usually because they can't just admit they don't know what's wrong. (See Jen Brea's story.)
Now that Google Voice confirms phone numbers differently, this scheme has returned in the form of asking the person to reveal their 6-digit verification code.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/b5h1e8/scam_to_use_y...
Except, of course, Google doesn't want that because much like 95% of their projects, they'll abandon it within 5 years anyways. Google wants the rewards, but not the risks, which with this project, they'll give the city to deal with after they lose interest in the project.
Talk about bait and switch.

Headline:

"When Male Runners Lose to Women: Conventional wisdom has long asserted men outperform women in long-distance races. Ultramarathon results prove that assumption wrong"

Actual article: men outperform women in long-distance races, usually but not always winning:

"By the most common perceptions about the biology of strength and endurance, physiology was stacked against St Laurent. On average, her male competitors had bigger hearts, larger lung capacities, and leaner bodies. And most results reflect that: in last year’s marquee Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc TDS, a 145-kilometre mountain race with more than 9,000 metres of elevation gain, the first female to cross the finish line came twenty-third. St Laurent, who placed fifth among women, came sixty-first overall."
I recommend looking into Ramit Sethi's advice on negotiation: https://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/guides/ultimate-guide-... (Don't be put off by the same name. Ramit is great.)
This type of belt tightening message also usually predates a mass layoff
Granted. Yet, I think about it this way: They're smart kids that have studied their PPE in Oxford and can write well, but know nothing about issue XYZ, say whether to use tabs or spaces.

But now, the issue comes up, and then they send someone out to visit a conference and speak to people and ask around who the experts in the field are, and (because they're The Economist) get an interview with, dunno, Guido van Rossum and Bill Gates and Woz and Don Knuth and Joel Spolsky and Linus and rms, and hear them out. Maybe throw in a few unnamed senior government officials and ambassadors and so on.

Then they take all their notes and condense it in one page for the magazine, providing some background, explanations, "colour" and the consensus (or factions) in the field.

Sure, if you know the subject in great depth, you'll recognise that it's not written by an expert in the field, and some details may be wrong, and maybe you don't agree with some characterisation. Yet, if you didn't know anything about the subject before, you now know vastly more than before.

I think that's valuable.
It's not a real check though. He stopped sending real once in 2008 according to the article.
Yes, it’s like the ultimate expression of hypermodern.

Other pro tip: if you do the full hippo with all the fixings (double fianchetto, pawns e6 d6 h6 a6) it also allows you to delay castling until you know which side your opponent commits to. This can lead to an awesome attack that comes out of nowhere and completely blindsides the hippo-unaware.
Merci Fabien!
1. Yes, many millions of people are still buying cars. Some of us love cars. Real men drive, and drive well – they don't ride bikes or trolleys to work. Driving is an essential element of grown-up level autonomy and freedom of movement.

2. Most people won't share their cars like Musk's car sharing scheme envisions. Why would you want strangers driving your car at all hours, and putting miles and wear and tear on it?

Autonomous cars are still not ready anyway.

3. Tesla can't go private for various reasons.
Seattle police use family DNA, latest science to identify killer 52 years later
Isn't XPath for XML? How would you use it with JSON?
I don't see any credibility in theories calling it an attack. The credible theories are ones looking at it as being an unwitting side effect of one or more things going on. Monitoring equipment. Equipment within the embassies. Environmental agents. Etc.
Number go down: the single trade that crashed Bitcoin
Most of governments are locked-in windows and will for a while.
To be fair, the current competition is largely a reaction to Tesla's accomplishments.
> most of the cities are fairly packed and have good public transport and improving

an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times today noted that the number of riders on the Metropolitan Transit Authority lines has decreased recently. people in LA, despite very severe traffic, are still willing to take private vehicles when they can. as the article notes, one reason is that about 20% of riders (reporting in one survey) said they had been sexually harrassed while riding the MTA.

"Metro is hemorrhaging riders. It needs to stop studying obvious fixes and start acting" - https://www.latimes.com/opinion/livable-city/la-oe-berker-la...
> That's the problem with i.e. "modern" communication apps (I'm talking about you, slack) where my four core CPU is on it's knees when doing simple things like switching the team or even channel, not mentioning starting the app itself. Another one is when I'm on the Google Meet chat, my browser eats 80% of CPU, I can't do anything reliably in that time, running anything makes chat to loose audio, lag a much, etc.

Again, this is a problem with programming design, not programming language. It is very possible to make good, performant programs in fancy dynamic languages, and awful, leaky, slow ones in 'high-performance' compiled languages. The impact of the language itself is really not as high as it's made out to be. Yes, python is 100x slower than c at multiplying numbers, but so what? Your program doesn't spend most of its time multiplying numbers. If you design a python program in a non-stupid way, for an application like a chat app, the performance hit compared to c is negligible.
Gas prices are highly volatile
Suppose you buy a Tesla and in 10 months they fold.

Who then maintains the proprietary software that keeps the vehicle running?
Legally they are liabilities that don’t as much disappear as they become claims. Deposit holders become creditors. It’s seventh in the priority list behind other secured priority creditors. It’s messy.

11 U.S.C. § 507(a)(7) provides the priority for Customer Deposits: “The following expenses and claims have priority in the following order: … (7) Seventh, allowed unsecured claims of individuals, to the extent of $2,600 for each such individual, arising from the deposit, before the commencement of the case, of money in connection with the purchase, lease, or rental of property, or the purchase of services, for the personal, family, or household use of such individuals, that were not delivered or provided.
Not true. The more external dependencies you add, the more likely it is that one of them will break. I try to have as few external dependencies as possible, and to pick dependencies that are robust and reliably maintained. There is so much Python code on GitHub that is just broken out of the box. When people try your software and it fails to install because your nth dependency is broken or won't build on their system, you're lucky if they open an issue. Most potential users will just end up looking for an alternative and not even report the problem.
I like python, its a nice simple language that you can use to pump out a proof of concept real quick with little hassle, but for full on production I avoid it. But I think this is a larger trend in programming, in my opinion the majority of programmers are super lazy. Everyone is in a mad dash to get the cool new thing out so they just slap a bunch of dependencies on it and damn the consequences of developer debt down the road. More people would rather roll with an MVP as the final product than build something from scratch that's more robust, resilient, and efficient. Then after a while you have this huge mess of old broken code that can't be fixed anymore and just needs to be redone from scratch.

Sure you are going to need to redo code anyways from scratch eventually. But, programmers like I mentioned, which is surprisingly a huge chunk, make problems worse for themselves throughout the lifetime of the code by being short sighted and stamping their approval on code their too lazy to rewrite because their boss doesn't know any better.
Bidets are cold water? And you need a "rag"?
Who is the enemy in this situation? I don't see how this applies to publicly traded companies.
Knuth: Fantasia Apocalyptica (2017)
How will the Lightning Network corrupt Bitcoin? The article does not say anything about that.
All the unecessary swearing...
If only Teslas killed fewer people than cars that sell in many millions. But alas...
Yeah, seems surprising that most of the comments are about the wages and not the racism.
There is no evidence at all for the assertion that "a significant portion of the HN user" base is invested in anything.
If that happens regularly, it makes stdlib less useful for other libraries to build upon, forcing them into (sometimes awkward) workarounds, and is a sign of the stdlib not getting enough maintenance.
As far as I know Tesla is still stuck in the rut of trying to over-automate their production while spending more money for worse outcomes than just hiring human assemblers.
Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018)
>$200 for a textbook with borderline extorsion sale tactics

That's the moment I fire up libgen
There's an influential rival school of thought that says when you're strong the enemy should know you're strong. If they think you're weak, they're not likely to attack you as a pre-emptive measure. But they're fairly likely to attack you for the normal reasons.
It sounds like the strategy is put in a lot of hours doing routine cases (where little learning happens) in order to experience the rare cases. This seems inefficient? Couldn't residents be called in to look at the rare cases?

I guess they would need to be close by when it happens, but that doesn't seem to justify sleep deprivation?

Or maybe there are other ways to increase the odds of seeing a rare case?
FWIW, economists try to capture that with quality adjustments or hedonic indices.

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/quality-adjustment/home.htm

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_regression
No. Bankruptcy isn't debt forgiveness. Buyers and the lawyers representing the class action suit would have a seat at the hearing and would be able to get in line for whatever is left.

That said: come on, people, Tesla isn't filing for bankruptcy. There are hundreds to thousands of perfectly normal financing options available to run a company with revenues like this that will stretch a cash shortfall into a decades-long decline. And that's assuming that their revenue won't continue to grow.

This is a story you cite if you want to "prove" that Tesla won't take over the world or is eventually going to be passed by Toyota or whoever. Large corporations just don't die like this.

I still don't understand the community of people who... really, desperately want Tesla to fail. Is this a politics thing about EVs? A reverse cult of personality around Musk? Hipster group think? It's really unsightly.
> Does anyone have a curated version of PyPI?

Pypi have thrown out the downloads counter—a huge misservice to coders. Like I got all day to figure out the best libs for ten different features which I only need in passing, so my primary concern is to not pick complete garbage.

So, my solution to that now is to look up Github pages for the libs and choose the one with most stars. As much as I dislike Github for its occasional typical proprietary behavior, Gitlab doesn't help in this case.
Someone deployed a miniaturized surveillance wind turbine.
>Write code on Gedit?

That's fascism, what's your problem if I write my code on CLion? Should I write code on a hipster typewriter and scan my printed document straight to the compiler? Does that make me a qualified programmer?
Yep.

The real genius behind the 360 was scalablity. Not only could you buy a wide range of different sized machines, but IBM has kept making better 360s to this day.

Intel has accomplished the same with the 8086 (by accident more than design) and so has ARM.

Once you get past the x86 and ARM the price/performance ratio gets a lot worse. Thus you end up with expensive WiFi routers that allegedly can work as a file server but can't really handle it, or things like the Samsung Smartthings hub that has to offload even simple things to the AWS cloud.

RISC-V could make the market for embedded chips competitive again. RISC-V scales even more than the 360 did since you can put in just the features you want, thus you might be able to build something which is high performance but doesn't waste a transistor on features you don't want.
I agree. Not a fan of Martin Fowler for many reasons but a good ORM is your DAO. Otherwise there's not much a point
Hopefully they can open source it and start and organisation like Mozilla. Others could use the software to make their own "Tesla" too.
Miss me with that anti-helmet study that doesn't address head injuries or deaths. People don't wear helmets to have fewer accidents. People wear helmets to protect their head when an accident occurs.

It doesn't matter if you lose more fingers if you lose fewer brains.

Also (2016)
I'm no fan of The Stranger, but this was a very good article and I think it's worth people's time to read it.

If you're wondering who Bret Weinstein is, this is a short snippet from his Wikipedia[1] page:

> Weinstein again experienced controversy when he became the focus of a campus protest at Evergreen State College, where he was teaching biology. His involvement began when he wrote a letter to Evergreen faculty in March of 2017. His letter objected to a change in the College's decades-old tradition of observing a "Day of Absence" during which students and faculty of a minority race would stay home from campus to highlight their contributions to the College.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bret_Weinstein
Step away from the delete button
This is hilarious. I lost it at
"Again, Black harasses without development. He has violated nearly every opening rule – frequent pawn moves, lack of development, pointless checks, and moving the same piece repeatedly."
The Fixers Pitting States Against Each Other to Win Tax Breaks for New Factories
> in US but most of the cities are fairly packed and have good public transport and improving

Cities like Houston are very much automobile cities. A large amount of the population lives in suburbs not well serviced (or serviced at all) by public transport, aside from park and rides to get into the city. I wouldn't call it good either - the commuter buses aren't bad, but the rail is scarce and feels very risky (https://abc13.com/travel/metro-promising-new-enforcement-too...), and the city buses feel even sketchier.

(I take the public transport into and out of Houston 3-5 times a week)
Sell to Panasonic?
The batteries were not faulty that is just how they react to stress, and the older they get the more susceptible they become, 20 years from now i would bet they become the most common cause of house fire while being charged.
Features are not bugs.
Sorry, but why does the world need, let alone desperately, any company? Let alone as questionable an enterprise led by a dishonest sociopath as Tesla?

Unless Elon is going to release Real Soon Now super-special spectacles that let you really see those reptiloid shortsellers from Nibiru that are conspiring in their reptiloid lairs against all that is good (for Elon)? Maybe bundles them with those flamethrowers?
I would be much more concerned about all the hardware that is pretty much unserviceable by anyone except Tesla.
> most results reflect that

But sometimes women do win these ultramarathons. You'd never see that at any other distance.
I'm surprised to see such a move from the South Korean government. The reason is that, back when I lived there a while ago, most of the government resources required Windows machines to access. Specifically, we needed ActiveX and Internet Explorer for many stuff.

Such dependence on Microsoft technology is not only found in government but also in corporations. Recently I needed to access my bank account there and the bank required me to install some anti-virus software that only runs on Windows.

I don't know how things are now in general, but I welcome this change.
Here's a related scientific study that gives a possible reason why:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4899381/

> Women have more body fat than men in both elite (Vernillo et al. 2013) and recreational (Hoffman et al. 2010a, b) athletes. In both elite and recreational runners the percentage of body fat is higher in women compared to men (Blaak 2001). It could be argued that fatty tissue may be used as an energy reserve and this could be an advantage for ultra-distances since runners tend to lose body fat during multi-hours running competitions (Karstoft et al. 2013; Schütz et al. 2013). Women might benefit from their higher percentage of body fat since both sexes lose a similar amount of fat during an ultra-endurance performance such as a 100 km ultra-marathon (Knechtle et al. 2010a, b, 2012a, b).