skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably quite high- many pickups are utility vehicles for contractors etc. and drive less than a couple hundred miles a day. Electric trucks might need a low range gear for extra payload torque, but they'll be much more torquey than normal trucks regardless and much more fun. The savings will be several times higher than for normal EVs since fuel consumption and driving distance are so much higher.

It is a tricky technical problem though. Aerodynamics are not valued in trucks but would be required for an EV. Trucks have low beds and big engines, which is very non-ideal for batteries. Putting the batteries in the front is bad for driveability. Putting them in the normal skateboard spot raises the bed. The huge leftover space where the engine was is a big part of the look, but it's so high up that it would be hard to use as a frunk, very bad for aero, and increase the cost and size of the truck for no good reason.

There are good reasons the telsa truck looks like it does- the low nose avoids the problems with normal pickups without making it look like a cabover. The cover in the back allows them to have a deeper bed even though they had to raise it a bunch to put in batteries. There aren't many concepts of what a pickup without a giant, long hood would look like.
Mint Press is known for publishing copy for Sputnik and Russia Today. This isn't newsworthy nor does it belong on HN.
Hey Noam, this is some great work; I'll need to sit down and give the paper a deeper read. Also, the visualizations on this blog post are incredible.

I saw a talk on the Libratus agent a while back, and one of the most interesting takeaways was that the behavior of the bot had already started to impact the professional players, who now spontaneously bet large amounts to force other players out of a hand. Were there any behaviors your agent demonstrated that surprised you in the same way? What insights might we draw from this cooperative AI system that may have more general applicability to other planning domains?
Nature Astronomy paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0930-9
Not the most shorted, but up there. It was #50 on a list back in August (https://seekingalpha.com/article/4285222-heavily-shorted-sto...). Today it has dropped off that list: its short ratio is still 20% but the bottom of that list is now at 24%. That 20% figure has been relatively constant.

Top of the list: GameStop, followed by Bed Bath & Beyond.
Water animation gets easier thanks to BYU professors
Hanabi definitely has traits involving theory of mind that I've not seen present in other games.

For example, I've played Hanabi with 3+ players where the person before me deliberately gave a misleading hint to the person after me. For example, "this is your only blue card" indicating a blue 5 even though only blue 1-3 have been played. They were counting on me to anticipate that the mislead person was now very likely to waste that valuable card & realize that I could only reasonably avert that misplay by playing a blue 4, which is how I came to realize that I must be holding a blue 4.

Perhaps that depth of theory of mind can be useful in poker, but I must confess that I'm not playing poker at a level where it'd be helpful.
Well, we released our beta search for Tor yesterday: search4tor7txuze.onion/ (works obviously only in the Tor browser). That’s as good as it gets regarding making it technically impossible, isn’t it? More complex obviously for a browser - but the answer can simply not be „only no data at all is good“, because that’s a destructive approach that only favors the worst privacy intruders; no one would then be able to build up competition. We work hard to be as transparent as possible about what we do. Show me any other company that builds a big data product (like search) that is so transparent about „yes we collect data, but it’s non personal - here is how we do it, please scrutinize us“. Are we perfect? Hell no! But we try and we go a long way to be challenged to improve. If we were shady - would we be naked in front of you, showing each step we take? We would not even interact with the tech folks (especially not on hacker news, where people really know what they talk about), but scam people who know less (at least that sounds like a more reasonable strategy to me if I would want to fool people - which we don’t).

(EDIT/Disclaimer: I obviously work for Cliqz)
Twitter is about to ban more kinds of content. https://gizmodo.com/twitters-nsfw-purge-looms-1840243559 I wonder if they're trying to make themselves more palatable for buyers.
You say you're copying Google and you use that to promote your product, it's very hard to believe you are privacy friendly.

You're also owned by a media company, that makes it even harder to believe that you're going to respect users privacy.

Add to that the tone of arrogance of articles such as "the world needs Cliqz", you can see why it's a no-no.

Every few days there is a post on HN trying so hard to convince the readers that Cliqz is the best, even though the articles read between the lines, that the Cliqz team does not have the capability to make its own search algo or make slightly more complicated queries.

I am experienced enough to know where this is coming from: managers that do not know what they are doing and engineers drunk from glory that do not see their own mistakes.

Please Cliqz hire a search engine expert. Hire great engineers, they are going to cost twice, but you're going to get a search engine that actually works.

Please, or the HN community will have to bash you every time you post an article.
By definition, everyone agrees that "gratuitous" use of JS is bad. You're glossing over the nuance of the debate which comes down to the specifics of when something is actually gratuitous.
This platform wasm will come. And it does not You do not need to be evil, especially in the beginning. Java or .NET Runtime and Libraries are a bit heavy for a small web page.

And from there it is just the next step to run a base platform like Android user space or a simple runtime like blazor.

In the end wasm is a runtime. There were physical Java Processors and I am pretty sure there will be webassembly processors.
AI Hardware Built from a Software-First Perspective: Groq’s Flexible Silicon
The GDPR IS the legislation, at least, I thought so.

If you're serious about this, the network shouldn't be making these requests unless you've explicitly allowed it (meaning the request is blocked at the network/OS level).
I wasn't commenting voting, I mentioned voting.
But that's per square meter of membrane, that's huge!

For comparison, the sun delivers about 1 KW per square meter (at Noon, in Arizona).

Fig 11: https://www.newport.com/t/introduction-to-solar-radiation
> The issue is that there is speech accompanying the malware

I'm either misunderstanding what you're saying, or it doesn't make sense. If a bunch of people take signs (with legitimate messages, free speech) and hang them off a bridge over the highway (causing accidents), then those people go jail. The fact that their message is free speech is irrelevant. The source of the message is being punished/jailed, not the message.

Am I mis-representing your statement?
All search engines have search-engine results pages.

They're looking at how users use Google Search because the data's there. They're making a competitor to Google Search. That doesn't mean they're rebuilding Google Search's SERPs, or making a Google Search “clone”; I've got results from Cliqz for queries I'm confident have never been put into Google before, meaning it's functioning as an independent search engine.
Honey 'sandwiches' used to fight superbug infections
I bought one second-hand a couple months ago. It's neat and all, but between the poor software and the severe extent to which it darkens the rest of the world, it's a pretty resounding 'meh'. I still have hopes for using it for productivity, but it honestly doesn't hold a candle to the original Hololens. (Can't speak to the Hololens 2 yet; going to get one in a little while though, hopefully!)
That's fine. If the Chinese government wants to commandeer their own citizen's resources to DDoS other people, that's on them. They could very well also direct their state controlled ISPs to do the same. Doing either would be obviously be attributed to them and would be cause for them to be de-peered - solving the problem.
I didn’t even know they had gotten beyond vaporware!

Why would someone spend $2,300 on this equipment other than as a developer kit? I assume there is virtually no compelling content or services available to make a consumer interested in shelling out that amount of money, or even 1/10th that amount of money.
> Technically true, but…I doubt anybody would seriously use this mitigation.

People don't usually do this purposefully as a "mitigation", yes; however it is still a useful feature to have when dealing with poor connectivity. But more on topic, you seem to be talking about Android somehow doing something else? Is there a way that Android lets you get location services (see below) without sending your location to Google?

> this makes your iPhone a dumber dumb phone than it already is

If you're going to argue, please do so with at least the barest hint of good faith please.

> You cannot get location data without enabling Location Services.

You can get basic location data by turning on your GPS and making a couple of CoreLocation calls. You can get additional location information by sending this location (or a location query) to Apple to get some additional information about it, as mentioned in the quote you shared. In any case, we both know exactly what information we're talking about: you can figure out where you are without talking to Apple, and if you want to know about restaurants or turn off the sprinklers when you get to work then you're going to have to go through them. Whatever you choose to call it is not relevant.
I do not count calories, I went for the "just eat half" diet (what half is depends a bit on the day) + no sugar crap (I will have a good cake but nothing industrial) + fruit + vegetables.

I lost 16 kg, gained them back because I was dumb and stupid to do the above and I am now on the way to slowly loose 25 kg and keep at that.
Blindly dismissing the lowest bid would get you in court and lose in no time.

Dismissing a very low bid must be dismissed, giving good arguments that the bid is not realistic is something completely else.
My personal tech journey has been doing more advising within the corporation regarding how to roll out new IoT stuff. Spending more time the with more senior people in the corp and seeing projects that are having problems because they don't really have a vision has been an eye opener. I'm a tech person and want to code or otherwise engineer my way out of every problem, but I'm seeing over and over, it's the clear customer value (customer can be anyone, including yourself) that gates success. Clear customer value can be tech heavy, aimed at tech users, but the tech by itself doesn't have much value.

Things that I see that are cool really solve a problem. I am finding that I am doubling down on looking at the problem that is being solved before I deal with tech. Tech is critically needed and you learn useful stuff on the way, but what I am learning, repeatedly, is that the really cool stuff is the product of the clear customer value and delivering on the underlying tech.
I read all those short F Comcast and monopoly comments to convey what I wrote in short form.

It’s been known for a long time that the only way to improve internet connections is to run fiber wire. It’s also been known that Comcast and other monopolies lobby and spend money to fight it. It’s known that they stand to lose money by becoming a dumb pipe. So there no discussion to be had, in my opinion, other than governments running their own fiber for their citizens.
> And figuring out what is a "conspiracy" or "junk science" should ultimately be left to the reader, with algorithms otherwise ranking content as neutrally/objectively as possible.

I think the vast majority of the users would prefer this as well. Just give me a chronological timeline and gtfo.

There's a small extremely vocal minority of users that want to censor any and all thoughts they don't approve of. This group has tons of journalists in it and for one reason or another, Twitter has paid outsized attention to it and let it shape the product and company policy, to nearly everyone's loss, including Twitter.

In fact one of the very best things about Twitter is it gives regular people a way to refute journalists, bad journalism and media agenda. It gave the audience a voice and they use it. "Protect journalists" seems like code for "protect the narrative".
And even if it does work for a while, there still needs to be the original signal to copy

I'd say they need to start somewhere. Using other search engine's results is a ways to get things started, so that they can build their own index on crawled content later.

For now, it's great to see another competitor for Google coming up.
Hmmmm, I think it's a bit of an unreasonable expectation to think technology should prevent companies from breaking the law.

Most meatspace laws are expected to be followed despite there being little to no physical barrier to breaking them (e.g. there's no physical barrier preventing me from throwing a brick through a window, but it would still be vandalism).

Why should we expect laws in software to be different? Why should the burden of compliance be shifted from the individual/company to the infrastructure?
I'm with you buddy, people putting question marks at the end of statements is obnoxious.
Did you "live through" it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21725341
Hashes can't protect the content if it's feasible to enumerate all possible values of the content.

You can't hide individual letters of alphabet with a hash. Not even with a salt and an expensive hash. It's a hopeless case where a brute-force attack takes only 26 times (or 676 for a pair of letters) longer than a comparison you do during normal operation.

BTW: it's also not possible to use hashes to hide/anonymize phone numbers or IP addresses. The attacker can generate hashes of all possible values and see which one is it.
Twitter wasn't profitable two years ago. Eight straight quarters of positive net income can do wonders for attracting a buyer.
The only problem I have with the very wealthy is their influence on government that the average person doesn't have. They can afford teams of lobbyists to pitch support to provide loopholes to make themselves more wealthy. They can influence elections through large donations to PACS that favor the wealthy.

Other than this, I really don't care how much money they have.
> 0 - Peace 1 - Trade War 2 - Financial War 3 - Electronic War 4 - Shooting War

How many major wars in the last 100 years were preceded by trade wars or electronic wars (I don't know what a financial war is, trade embargoes? - embargoes are not trade wars)? Perhaps my view is a bit us-centric (there have been many small wars in africa that I don't know the history of), but I don't think that us conflict participation in Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Grenada, Vietnam, Korea, WWII, or WWI were preceded by those sorts of policies. To find a trade war that preceded a war I think you might have to go to the US fighting in central america (banana wars), or maybe the civil war.

Meanwhile the US has engaged in trade wars with plenty of countries it hasn't fought with, dominantly europe (via the banana trade wars, not to be confused with banana wars, e.g.), and Japan.
I forgot they existed, thank you for reminding me!
Living in a college dorm isn't a common occurrence for most people for the majority of the nation's history.
Google search worked well enough for me when it was launched 22 years ago. So the patents to that early version should be expired. I'd be happy to use a competitor's service if they would reintroduce a Search API, and PageRank, just give me a programmatic interface that doesn't throw up Captcha after a few searches. I'd pay a reasonable price for the compute time + profit margin.
And what do you think happens to sites caught serving malware? They get put on safebrowsing blacklists. That problem solves itself.
Why not just email me my water bill?

Am I so worried about the security of my water bill that it needs to exist behind a password? I’m perfectly happy if anyone who wants to put my address into the website can see exactly how much I currently owe. They can even pay it for me if they really want to.

But if you need to put in your own meter readings I get that that’s different. I’m really complaining more about my own local utilities and other companies that have totally pointless passwords that make paying bills extra difficult.
For as cool as this is, cost is the problem.

$2300 is an expensive experiment, one that might not be for me.

You want to get developers to bet on new tech, to innovate, then get the cost way down. Make me as an individual developer willing to take the risk that I might not have the time or the mindset to follow through.

I can't imagine that the cost of production is more than $500... start selling them at that price point.
This is really great. I'm trying it now on my local dev environment.

I'm looking for a GDPR-friendly analytics solution for a media property I am building so I am very excited in this space.

For something like this to be viable for us (am not saying we are your target user type) there are some notable things missing which I'm guessing you may add over time.

* Browser type / UA
* Viewport/Screen sizes
* Time on site/page
* Bounce rate
* Pathing

The other thing that you should look into is custom dimensions. So I can label certain templates as a page-type (say 'posts' versus 'pages' versus 'homepage' vs 'tags' etc).

There is more beyond that (event based metric like subscribing to a newsletter) but that would within reach without too much extra effort.

Given the code is available, I'm going to dig into the plugin to see if I can help on that.
As someone who was a bit underwhelmed by the original Hololens, this assessment is utterly disappointing. Don't get me wrong, a lot about the Hololens was quite interesting, but clearly far from being ready for primetime.
Well QT can easily render on any device context (like Canvas) or Xamarin could also easily ship their own controls to render on a Canvas (Microsoft owns more that enough code to do that).

It is a matter of time till we see desktop application hosted in a wasm enabled browser.
AMD’s 5nm Zen 4 CPUs could arrive in 2021
> But hey: if somebody offers you 11X revenues. You’re going to take it. I know I would.

Not if it's only 15x profits!! And those profits are more or less guaranteed.
This is whataboutism. Believing that businesses who can’t afford to pay their staff a living wage shouldn’t exist doesn’t entail any position on the issue of unprofitable tech companies.
I don't know if you live in a rural place but in New Hampshire, when there are storms, it can take days for electricity to come back, and then even more time for cable (there's no fiber) to come back.

Why wouldn't Starlink be an improvement over that? Just because it doesn't work during the storm?
Karl Guttag estimated in the same range last month: https://www.kguttag.com/2019/11/10/all-magic-leap-patents-ha...

His whole blog is a pretty compelling read on the current and near future state of AR.
> Modern JavaScript addressed these issues, hence its popularity over Flash

I think that while this is technically true, technical adequacy didn't lure developers away from Flash player. I believe that the real turning point was when Apple decided to break Adobe's monopoly on the web by disallowing Flash player on all their products.
I don’t think minimising costs was a goal there.

If so, it seems to have been at least somewhat succesful. That Wikipedia article: "the station's mezzanine became sought as an events venue”
Go: Work-Stealing in Go Scheduler – A Journey with Go – Medium
I have come to believe that the claim that administration increased dramatically is a myth.

Take a university that provides decent statistics:

http://irp.dpb.cornell.edu/university-factbook/employees

click workflow trends. The workforce composition is virtually unchanged over the past 20 years.
This is an early beta product for wealthy tech-savvy trend-following early-adopting VR-wanting consumers. That's a tiny market.

Classic case of a company having no idea what they're selling and who they're selling it to but expecting billions just for existing.
Some examples of search results from Facebook / Discord / Twitter ? And on the same level as other pages, not in some separate field ?

Browsers can do a lot of things these days that are not part of the Web : display pdfs, ftp folders, rtsp streams...

The browser becoming an OS inside the OS is at the crux at the issue. (And the main reason is likely Google trying to wrest control of personal computing from Microsoft.)
$2300? Yikes.

Curious if the quoted 100k-unit estimate was for the so-called "Creator Edition" (clearly targeted at devs and early adopters), or if it was supposed to include a more mass-market unit that hasn't shipped.
It’s still a trivial fraction of the company.
So react native?
Oh yeah, I mean Gates fostered so much voluntary trade that his company faced the largest antitrust suit in US history.

Super voluntary.
Profiling a Go service in production
You must be very close to a large datacenter that houses the CDNs used by those large websites if you are seeing sub 5ms latency.

For any of the users we are talking about (underserved populations in areas without fiber internet), they will never see those latencies even with the same fiber you have.

If you live in rural Wyoming, there are going to be practically zero services hosted within 500 miles of you. You are not going to get 5ms latency no matter what you do.
>and in case I'm totally wrong, what mitigations are feasible? More trade war such as by compelling ISP's to null-route Chinese businesses like Baidu.com as a form of sanction?

A slightly less broad measure that's just as effective would be to block unencrypted http traffic from entering China. Want to get unblocked? Get letsencrypt.

A even better (but slightly greyhat) route would be to inject HSTS headers with the maximum expiry date. This will cause any visitor's browsers to get "infected" with an unskippable warning, forcing them to upgrade no matter what.
The original Hololens was underwhelming in some regards, but they got a few things very right: text was crisp in most circumstances, the contrast was great, and the software mostly Just Worked (TM). All of these things are absent on the Magic Leap. The only advantages it really has are the controller (which is ... okay, I guess) and comfort.