skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Context is important. Pretty much the entire aerospace industry is terrible at time estimates. SpaceX has accomplished some incredible things, so bashing them for "the whole Mars thing" when they are still hard at work on it seems premature and pithy.

And as far as I'm aware they never promised a 30k car? They promised a 35k car, which you can buy today (you just have to email them or go in person and ask for it, it's not available online)
I'd expect California to use the data from the EPA. The manufacturer already has to submit fuel efficiency and emissions information to the EPA.

So it should be free or cheap, since all California would be doing is querying the EPA for the data, then comparing those numbers to whatever California's standard is.
I'm on mobile and I don't see any problems
I think the point is that the energy inputs required to produce a gallon of gasoline could approximately power an EV vehicle roughly the same distance that a typical ICE could go on a gallon of gasoline. A quick google search seems to back that up.
Honestly, how many money-making initiatives do you expect to require programming a quantum-computer in the next 5 years? I can't imagine many people outside the upper tiers of a University lab or some highly-funded security arm at Google using this tech in the near-future? (Asking an honest question, not accusing)
Smarter custom properties with Houdini’s new API
Have you seen the machinery needed to cool down IBM's tiny qubit chip at the bottom? [1]
It would be nice if you could just stick these things into your PC over PCIe some day.

[1] https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4403/23518086798_3d3af8313e.jp...
In the mishmash that comes with acquisitions, I'm a remote manager who manages a team at the corporate office and few others remotely. On top of this, my team is an internal agency which works across multiple business lines, some of which are at satellite offices.

My biggest business gripe is the lower fidelity and higher friction with collaboration (planned and not) with my team and other departments / businesses. There's a loss of energy, creativity, focus, ease, alignment, etc. that just isn't there for me with email, video/phone, chat, etc. My biggest personal gripe is related. I'm more extraverted and the loss of regular social interactions is tough. I miss going out for lunches, breaks, drinks, walks, etc. with people that I think are interesting without having to do much to set it up.

I come in to the corporate office once a month for about a week. It feels like we get more done, have a good amount of fun, and clear things up faster. Even remote, we're still doing much better than the team before us which was full onsite. I guess that's why they keep me around. But I miss the tighter vibe and will probably soon start looking for something near me.

I've always felt that some hybrid approach would work well. Some days, everybody's in (group stuff); some days, everybody's working from home (crank).
> Would you approve of a law which forbade advertising of any sort?

No. People are entitled to speech.

> Would you approve of a law which required service providers to offer their service for free?

No. Making money is Virtuous and Good. Acquiring money by theft, deceit, etc is not.

> Would you approve of a law which forbade service providers from offering their service for free?

No. Charity is fine. In the cases people are actually paying with their data and the "free" is just legal trickery then yes. You already can't pay people in blood. Data is just as important.

> Would you approve of a law banning the sale of digital goods or rights to digital goods?

No. However, DRM should be illegal.

> Would you approve of a law banning subscriptions or recurring payments?

No. The only issue here is predatory sign-ons.

> Would you approve of a law forbidding the use of cameras in public places?

This one is difficult. At any earlier time, no.

> Would you approve of a law forbidding companies from having more than $X in revenue, for some X?

No, I wouldn't bother.
Solid points. There are a few common patterns that tend to slow Python down though.

For instance lists are dynamically allocated, so repeatedly appending to the list may cause it to reallocate.

lst = []
for i in range(10_000_000):
lst.append(i)

Runs in ~1.67 seconds on my system, using 3.7 (this behavior is also generally true for older versions like Python 2).

However due to the leaky abstraction, you can force allocation all at once which speeds things up, albeit at the loss of clarity.

length = 10_000_000
lst = [None] * length
for i in range(length):
lst[i] = i

Runs in ~1.21 seconds.

However in these trivial cases Python offers more idiomatic approaches, which also perform better.

lst = [i for i in range(10_000_000)]

Runs in ~0.44 seconds.

lst = list(range(10_000_000))

Runs in ~0.22 seconds.

Strings behave similarly when comparing the join method to incremental appending.

string = ''
for _ in range(10_000_000):
string += 'a'

Is slower than the more idiomatic join/comprehension.

string = ''.join('a' for _ in range(10_000_000))

Or even more concisely:

string = 'a' * 10_000_000

Still the trade-off is worth the versatility most of the time IMO. And like you pointed out you can always drop down to C if necessary.
Not bash, but CLI:

https://packages.debian.org/buster/bible-kjv
Something like this is unimaginable in the pre-internet age. Is it the most post-modern and post-internet event in the late 2010s?

But I wonder how many people will actually come. Time to get some popcorn.
They also say

> Chicago had the highest number of individual cameras amongst U.S. cities, at 35,000.

So we at least have an upper bound.

Actually if you dig in you can find a spreadsheet [0] with all the info. NY has 11k cameras total. If you sort it by just number of cameras NY ranks as #38 (as opposed to #58 by cameras/1k people)

Also digging in, they don't have data on LA. Though they do mention that there are 300-400k private cameras. Though the top 3 cities (all in China) have well over a million.

What's also interesting is the correlation between the crime and safety indices. Some of those cities have low crime indices (under 20 is good, above 60 is high[2]) and high safety indices (higher == better). The correlation is really off here.

[0] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bKBFiVXNzrgtW95j66Tp...

[1] https://www.comparitech.com/vpn-privacy/the-worlds-most-surv...

[2] https://www.numbeo.com/crime/indices_explained.jsp
Agreed. Ruby is a very fundamentally OO language, but its Enumerable interface is more comprehensive than many FP languages' equivalents (in addition to the standard map/reduce/select, it has methods for iterating over permutations of elements, n-sized slices, etc, all of which can be made lazy), and because it's an interface you can use it with custom data types easily. But FP enthusiasts often speak as if the ML and Lisp language families have a duopoly on higher-order functions. It's odd.
I wasn't aware you can use extensions on mobile Chrome... Anyway, I use an app for HN on mobile. Much nicer experience. (Materialistic is the client du jour)
"Shutting down thinking." Reporting on transgressions and laws designed to hold parties accountable is designed to shut down thinking now, and how those who would be affected by it are literally trying to kill the bill is considered "shutting down thinking." This is literally what you just said.
I think the back button might still get you back to your place in the comments, but it is a lot of page refreshes. It also messes with the progress bar you see in the thumbnail if you see the video somewhere else on the site again, you might think you didn't finish watching the video.
Text emoticons were featured in an 1881 edition of Puck magazine.
Is she really related to him ? Her dad shares the same first name, Svante, but the connection to Arrhenius I've only found mentioned on troll sites.

[EDIT] I stand corrected. There is afamily link.
Thanks for the summary. I expect that the misrepresentations penalties would difficult or impossible to apply for takedown requests originating from outside the USA, as seems to be the case in this instance.
Huh, interesting. I was assuming that the compiler would statically link in a bcmp in that case, but it looks like it will literally replace it with a call to bcmp in certain cases (as defined by the remainder of that point in the release notes). Apparently this was brought up and brushed aside as not an issue: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41035
Correct. There is no one brand of AR-15. It’s an interoperable platform (for the most part). You can buy a bare lower receiver from any manufacture (basically just a part with no moving parts milled from a single block of AL). Then just go and buy various parts kits or buy the parts individually to customize to you own needs. It’s what makes them so popular. You can customize them infinitely and they’re extremely affordable and very reliable, safe and accurate.

People who own them don’t think of them as the crazy “military style” weapons you hear them described as. Most who own then just think of them as “the most standard and obvious rifle you can possibly buy”. Like you go into most gun store and it’s just the platform that is everywhere. It’s “gun” in the dictionaries in heads of gun wonders. It’s nothing “crazy” to them.
Not particularly familiar with US market but the internet lead me to believe large chunks of it are 3D printable anyway?
Certainly no one is entitled to anyone else's property. And yet, somehow, copyright holders manage to act as if they were entitled to other people's money (their property) when those people apply their own materials and labor to produce copies of certain information, an act which doesn't involve any property belonging to the copyright holder.
group·think
/ˈɡro͞opˌTHiNGk/
the practice of thinking or making decisions as a group in a way that discourages creativity or individual responsibility.

What newspapers or media outlets are defending these sites? I have not seen a single one.
Cure for the common cold 'possible' after study finds key protein
Yup, that's what I was trying to clear up.
Data mining as a business model is fine, as long as the customer is making an informed decision, there are equally good alternatives out there which you can pay for in other means, and you're not drawn to a particular service because of network effects or platform lock-in.

However, customers aren't well informed, and if they were, they wouldn't use these services. Currently customers are getting scammed for their data. This is why we need regulation.
$ uname -a
Linux localhost 3.10.49-5975984 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Oct 8 17:25:20 KST 2015 armv7l Android
$ which env
/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/env

https://xkcd.com/927/
If you're going to drop $1k, you can probably do better than colt.
I lived under the flight paths near LAX for awhile. It was incessant and obvious, all the time. Aircraft engines are hard to ignore and they would rattle the windows (which were sound resistant). One of my goals in life is to never live somewhere like that again. It isn't bad until you live under a major one, then you realize it can be a constantly present annoyance.
The distinction between an elected politician and a "deep state" figure in this regard would be their identity.

You can probably name your Senators, maybe your House Member, and probably your local Mayor. You may have even voted for/against them.

What about the Deputy Undersecretary of Whatever who is in charge of that topic near and dear to your heart? You didn't elect them. You can't even name them. In fact, you probably don't even know that job and person exist.

I was in the Department of Justice and worked for a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in an agency you've never heard of just down the street from DOJ HQ. There were many lifers (worked there pushing 20 years) who I saw and heard say "Eh, I don't like the AG so I don't follow that policy."

Fundamentally, it's no different than the CEO of a major company saying "we're going to do X" and various middle managers saying "Nah, that's a bad idea. I'm going to ignore it."
The Sublime is a similar concept from the Romantic era.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublime_(philosophy)
There have been articles since at least mid 2018 talking about how Airbnb doesn’t need additional money and how it was taking steps to prepare for going public before early employee equity grants expired in 2020. After they reworked how they gave employees equity that summer and promised to be IPO ready by mid 2019 to assuage employees, many publications ran articles about it.

Here is one article from this past summer which continues to emphasize the exact same points a year later: https://medium.com/swlh/why-airbnb-wont-go-public-in-2019-56...

Here are some excerpts from that article:

—————

Airbnb’s last funding round was in the first months of 2017, over two years ago. There is a straightforward explanation for that. Airbnb makes money. It is that rare thing; a profitable tech company. That means it doesn’t have to run to become public quite as eagerly as other companies. Its growth can be funded by the money it takes in itself.

...

Getting access to capital from a vast pool of investors is one of the main reasons companies go public. Supporting an IPO is a time consuming and expensive affair. Since Airbnb doesn’t need as much money for research and development or expanding its market, there is less incentive to IPO.

...

There is one excellent reason that Airbnb will go public in 2020, though. That’s when some shares promised to employees will expire — meaning they won’t be able to reap the financial rewards that come with growing a company.
We really are not "swimming in environmental problems," you're just made to feel that way through incessant reporting on anything that might be construed as a doomsday scenario.

I hope there's a good reason for why the hidden hands have been trying to freak us out for the last 40 or so years.

In the real world however the climate is very nice most of the time, we haven't killed all bees, birds are still chirping away, cow farts aren't setting the planet on fire, airplanes and rockets are not depleting the ozone layer, etc. etc.

I'm honestly flabbergasted at how many otherwise perfectly sane and rational people have bought into the climate doomsday scenario without a shred of evidence.
Trying to estimate the population of birds in North America between now and 50 years ago seems like it would have an error rate of at least 29%. Are the counting and estimation mechanism even anywhere close to similar?
I get why people downvoted you, but I am very glad to have clicked that link. Thank you
Why do we still have such poor quality reporting on renewables:

> And then there’s the issue of round-the-clock power. Solar doesn’t work at night.

PVC doesn't work at night, but CSP most definitely does.

(By working, I mean a solar thermal plant is providing power well after sunset.)
I feel the same way. Some of my fondest travel memories are staying in airbnbs.

But in the past few years, at a seemingly accelerating pace, what an airbnb is has changed.

In the last few years when I've used them, not all but almost all of them have simply been unlicensed hotels run by investor-landlords who aren't present and at best will pay someone else to come meet you with a key, but usually just leave it in a lock box.

Everything feels cheap, and sketchy. There is no personality. You're not meeting anyone, getting local knowledge, living with a local. On the contrary, you're sometimes sharing the same apartment with other tourists.

If I don't get any of the good sides, all I'm left with is the downsides - unpredictability, suspicion from other residents in the building, the plethora of random ways things can go wrong when your host isn't available to help you out 24/7.

I'd honestly rather just pay the extra 20% or so for a basic hotel room to get the same thing but without those downsides. Booking.com or Hotels.com are now the places I go first, before Airbnb.

I'm not at all sure that Airbnb care about this to be honest. They obviously must be aware of it, yet it continues getting more like that, not less. I guess the growth and the numbers from running a cheap unlicensed hotel rooms service is just better than they could get from their original vision. Wish them well, but also wish the old Airbnb was back!
turk73, you are shadowbanned. Your comments only only show up if someone is logged in, and has showdead enabled.
So their business is still not sustainable without outside funding? Why do they need training wheels?
You can pull certain tricks with ballistic delivery methods. A depressed trajectory (flatter profile, lower apogee) would give you the option of coming in through a window, with an additional benefit in that it would be harder to intercept the payload.

You would also need to limit this strategy to payloads that can withstand shock loads of multiple hundreds of G (soups and hard cheese, maybe even bread adequately packaged. may need a different method for floral deliveries).

Proof of concept shouldn't be too difficult, most of the tech already exists (Raytheon and Northop-Grumman have had a handle on it for decades). DHS might not be too amused, however.
In the same sense as "Lawerence vs Texas" is anarchism of the bedroom. "If it is between two parties why is it anyone else's business?" as the default assumption instead of coversheet on your TPS report regulations as default.
You can ask Alibaba https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhima_Credit
What's funny is that a Mini14 ranch rifle would be more acceptable to anti-assault rifle people. Even though it's roughly the same thing.
Low-income, older Americans are healthier in affluent communities
Agreed. You very clearly articulated why the OP's comment bothered me so much. It's an incredibly glib thing to say. Bryne for sure is atypical in his communication style and beliefs, but that doesn't necessarily mean he suffers from a 'mental' disorder.
Ask HN: What questions to ask / discuss with the VP of my org?
I'm a tech lead for a team in a big company in SV, and a new VP of Engineering joined the org recently and setup a intro 1x1 with me.

What should I ask this person? Would appreciate any advice. Thanks HN community.
They're really not - the definition of using California household vs resident creates a huge unenforceable gray area for compliance
Most Beautiful / So in Love (Feat. Chandler Moore) – Maverick City Music – Tribl
When I finally read Romeo and Juliet, I was surprised at how many cliches and tropes were __from__ it.

There, I fixed that for you. ;)
I didn't believe that number but it seems like it's true if you restrict it to just north america monthly active users: https://thespring.io/investing/facebook-makes-more-revenue-p...

Average revenue per user is around $25 for global users.

This brings up a related issue that not all users are equal. Even in non-data mining business models, you still have some segment of the users subsidizing another.
No one said it was. This is Colt saying that the cheaper ones are in such high supply that their expensive ones are not worth producing for civilians.
Batteries don’t have to be recycled every 8-10 years, nowhere near. If you keep them within temperature and leave a safety margin they’ll outlast the car. There’s already plenty of data for Tesla batteries lasting hundreds of thousands of miles without significant degradation. Look after Lithium Ion batteries and they’re good for 1500 cycles, that’s 300k miles for a 200 mile car, 450k miles for a 300 mile car.
No, just no. This is exactly how the flat earth thing took off - people passed it around as a laugh, but at some point someone wasn't in on the joke and really ran with it. If that stuff continues pretty soon people will be shooting birds because they think they are drones or something. Let's not propagate that insanity, even if you do find it funny.
Point source pollution, and also I am guessing, about 85% of dense urban daytime noise where average speeds are below 20mph. HVAC and tire noise make up a considerable portion of the remainder. Big cities are about to get a lot quieter over the next 20 years.
In practice, this doesn't really work. You can compromise and build a system out of elements of each individual philosophy (and many people do), but there are going to be conflicts, and at that point you're going to have decide which system takes precedence.

The first issue is that many privacy advocates who believe in anonymity do not believe in data ownership (or believe it should be much weaker). To them, the jump from "data is an asset" to "I own my data" to "because I own it, I should be able to control what people do with it" is begging the question.

The second issue is that in practice, most anonymous systems also make it hard to verify data ownership. In order for regional restrictions to work, you need a way to tell what regions your users are in. The "anonymous" side's solution here is, "anybody should be able to convincingly and legally lie about their physical location to (virtually) any business." If that solution is implemented, GDPR and Right to Be Forgotten don't work because it's impossible to verify jurisdiction.

This is part of why efforts around GDPR and Right to Be Forgotten are focused on businesses. Businesses have a physical address, they're easy to track, it's easy to prove that they're advertising to a specific region, and you can force them to share internal data with a judge. It's a compromise, because applying GDPR to non-commercial entities or individuals would require tracking them on a mass scale.

It's not impossible to compromise -- I mean, privacy advocates do compromise all the time. We work together even though we're different, because we have lots of shared goals. But the differences aren't trivial in the real world. When someone sits down to build a system, they're either thinking about managing data, or eliminating data. That approach is a big indicator into whether you'll end with GDPR or Tor.
The laws are not generally part of capitalism, but imposed upon it to prevent various harmful activities. Pollution is an example: capitalism itself (the private ownership of the means of production) has no mechanism that could deal with it.
I'll point out that the investment in renewables has brought down their price many orders of magnitude. Every other nation reaps that benefit, it's just a bummer that more who could have shouldered the burden didn't. Both onshore wind and solar are now cheaper alternatives than nuclear.
What's your argument? You've so far told mecapitalism leads to terrible things happening in the name of growth unless there are laws against it, which there are, as 'capitalism exists inside a framework of laws'. Your own argument informs us that capitalism does not automatically mean environmental damage will occur.
> that is not the same as price discrimination being legal

From refurb's link below:

"Price discriminations are generally lawful"

See https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...
EV acceleration is directly proportional to how much current you can pull out of the battery pack, which is directly proportional to the number of battery cells, which is directly proportional to overall range... On paper, yes those numbers are feasible.
Every drone is going to record everything using multiple cameras and send them to their backend. That is quiet disconcerting. There are no legally set paths for the drones so they are free to go everywhere and see everything. Amazon and Google are probably salivating more at the prospects of getting these videos than the actual delivery itself. I am concerned about startups in the bay and even more so about companies from China and elsewhere that create these drones. At least with Google and Amazon we can cry foul and pressure them into not doing somethings. With the rest of the ecosystem its a free for all.