skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also don't appreciate it when comments are detached from their parents without a note from the moderators. I've had a few comments taken completely out of context because they were detached from their parent into their own top-level comment.
> The attempts to connect wave-function collapse with consciousness are unconvincing to me. It seems basically like tying together two things we don't understand with each other based on... not a lot.

This objection seems a bit superficial to me. I think there are plenty of connections. The idea of measurement & observer is baked into quantum physics, hello? But there is a taboo in physics on discussing this stuff.

It's nice to see some brave philosophers try to promote panpsychism. I wonder if the physicists will ever become more tolerant of things like this aswell.
It's not unusual for stocks to go up on layoffs, but as others have commented there isn't always a simple explanation either. But it wasn't a secret that Uber was going to be getting hit hard by quarantine - it would probably already be priced into the stock by the point. The news today is that Uber's leadership is recognizing that and aggressively taking action to protect the bottom line - sucks in the short-term for employees, especially those directly affected, but that's great news for investors.
Elon aims to be producing cars from the new factory by end of year. Is it possible that when he says factory they mean the tent structures they are using and continuing to build in Fremont? If so, then maybe his timeline isn't terribly far from reality. I agree that EOY might be ambitious, but by summer 2021 might not be. It all depends on the structure they build to meet that goal.
As another user posted, there’s a long list of terms dating back to 2012, so this isn’t recent. Even the post referred to dates from the end of 2019, so it isn’t exactly novel.

Google might well accept being excluded from China, but I’m assuming that the prospect of being allowed to re-enter that market is periodically dangled in front of them by the ruling party in China, and that consequentially Google has an ongoing motive to somewhat abide by the PRC’s rules.

Also, Google may be excluded from China, but Google also has a lot to lose if relations with China deteriorate, for example, if China somehow interferes with the primacy of Android there and therefore causes a massive dent in platform numbers.
Lego: The Future of Construction
I guess we are in agreement then ;)

If academics are writing predictive modelling software, I ask that they are qualified to do so.
> Uber's business model is replacing FTEs

Where are taxi drivers employees with benefits? At least in New York, they're mostly independent contractors. (A minority are sole proprietors.)
Eeeh, this kind of looks like a British apologetic that ignores the whole "hundreds of years of colonial occupation" thing they were doing at the time.

Blaming the whigs for a technical agricultural policy point they were probably right about [1] while waving off the background of extractive colonialism that created the dependency on the potato crop is a little convenient

[1] when there's famine due to economic shortfall in a country with an agricultural economy, agriculture policy interventions like food dumping and banning exports can make things worse by collapsing the economy. if you want to help, don't send rules send money
It’s almost impossible to lead en ethical life in this day and age if you do anything related to tech.

So the lesson is: Being ethical in one way is hard, so don't bother being ethical in any aspect of your life?
I was let go today from Uber. If anyone is looking for a Frontend/Fullstack with 7yoe. I'm here :)

Find me on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/travis-lawrence-b77400b8/
For those who aren't aware and/or won't look this reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJ9HrZq7Ro

As the other comenter noted, Tom Lehrer is indeed a national treasure, and his satire is top shelf.

From the light-hearted "The Elements": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcS3NOQnsQM (watch for the surprise at the end)

To the gallows comedy of "We Will All Go Together When We Go": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAEmhqdLFs

NB: I appreciate the irony linking to YouTube content in a 'WTF Google/YouTube' thread.
Why does it matter if the owner is reimbursing their non-owning customers? Restaurants do that all the time.
> Georgism holds that all wealth fundamentally comes from the land. This isn't completely true in the digital age but it is still true enough.

Yeah, I think that's most of the debate right there. A bunch of us seriously question whether it is "still true enough".
They can organize against project maven but apparently this issue isn’t attractive enough for them.
I would never take a cab in Rio de Janeiro or Sao Paulo, but I take an Uber frequently.

The really big difference for me here in Brazil, is that I can communicate to someone in case the route is bad, something is stolen, etc. Taking a cab is so ephemeral that I don't even have time to complain or ask for help.
Reminds me of the fact that Jack Daniels is produced in a dry county.
Here's the first result from Googling "hate speech":

> public speech that expresses hate or encourages violence towards a person or group based on something such as race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation

I might broaden the final bit to "immutable characteristics" instead of the specific list they provide. For the same reason, I probably wouldn't consider the comment under discussion hate speech, but I'm really curious what you find difficult about that definition.

Edit: see the followups for why something that is a social construct can be immutable, since multiple people have made the same flawed response.
Also curious about this. Happy to talk to anyone who wants to work with Go: https://getstream.io/careers/
Texas is rolling out the mat for Tesla [1]. They will move faster on permitting and reviews. Tesla seems to be moving quickly with GF4 construction in Berlin [2], even with German labor laws (which is good! you still have to make sure labor regulation is adhered to). Texas is not California. The deadline is not set in stone; it is an aspirational goal to motivate.

Lots of oil and gas (O&G) construction/services folks looking for work right now in Texas [3], so it's a good time for Tesla to move in. Also, Texas has an abundance of cheap wind energy they can't export due to ERCOT interconnect capacity issues. The SpaceX McGregor engine development and static fire test facility is only 90 minutes north of Austin, and Tesla already has an Autopilot R&D office there for the engineers they hired from AMD. Good pick for the next factory. Maybe a SpaceX HQ relo is in future plans.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-tesla-... (Musk, Texas governor talk about potential Tesla move to Lone Star state)

[2] https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-gigafactory-4-berlin-ground-...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/business/energy-environme...
Do not conflate this with hatespeech, it leads the discussion away from the issue. Communist bandit
refers to the government, not a protected class. It's not in any way similar to posting a racist/sexist/homophobic comment.

To be clear: hatespeech by definition relates to race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation. Communist bandit is unrelated to any of those categories.
>so if you're going to be compiling code it's totally worth it.

This always gets brought up as a use case, but how many people are building non-trivial codebases where compile times matter? If build times are under 5s, near perfect parallelization only nets you a 1.25s gain between 3700x and 3600.
Or move semantics including rvalue references. In retrospect, objects should have been moved by default (and destructors for moved-from objects not called), like Rust. Then copying can just be an explicit normal method (that returns its result by moving it!).
Dara hinted in his first email that there were more layoffs on the way. I consider them to be a single layoff, one portion of which took more time to execute.
That's basically the whole reason I'm sticking with PyCharm these days. Apart from that VSCode seems to tick all my boxes, but it's a deal-breaker for me. There's some kludgey workaround possible involving workspaces but it's rubbish.
https://twitter.com/patio11/status/936629310785437696
FWIW, open source is not an absolute good. It is undercutting the ability of your peers to make a living. It is making software a commodity, such that capital rich hardware owners can make a killing. See AWS.

Commoditize your complement. https://www.gwern.net/Complement
Very unfortunate that no ML/math acceleration works with these chipsets.

The standard on the software side is CUDA..which is nvidia only.
Would it have been possible for Argentina to use public encryption algorithms back then, instead of crypto machines weakened by US intelligence? No idea what was available back in the 80s.
Too big to moderate in relation to Google and Facebook sounds a little like too big to fail in relation to banks.
someone else posted this as news, discussions ongoing over here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23196177
You sort of do: before you sideload an app, you have to toggle a switch, agreeing that you are going to do something potentially unsafe. In the similar arrogant manner, they care about your safety purging Podcast Addict app, like parenting you.

The best solution would be an emergence of an Android fork and the corresponding platform, but this seems unlikely due to enormous (as in 100bn perhaps) startup capital required.

Do you propose any other constructive solutions?
That is such nonsensical believe that is blows my mind that people actually think it.

Do you really think Elon has a whole communication strategy design to 'keep the stock high' but then tweets 'the stock is to high'. How exactly does that make any sense at all?

He does the exact same thing with SpaceX and there is no stock market there. Why would he do that?

This has been his method before Tesla was a stock company as well. The same for the Boring company that only has a few investors, mostly him.

The reason he says what he says is the same as it has always been and he has explained this 100 times already, he sets targets that are very optimistic and he sets them publicaly, and even if they are off by 10% it still very fast. You can't achieve high goals unless you set them, and that is what he believes and how he has run his companies.

Elon has also said 100x that the short term stock market really doesn't matter to him, and he has proven that over and over again.

The reason for the stock price is not because what Musk says but what people believe the company can do and because Elon makes it clear what the priority is for them. It does not mean more then 1% of inverters believe Model Y will actually roll of the line in Texas by the end of they year.
Russian hackers tracked Ukrainian artillery units using Android implant (2016)
This is a good way to look at it. These investors are supposed to be the smart ones allocating capital to good business ideas. It's insane to me that anyone ever invested any money in WeWork.

And I agree with Uber, it's a great idea, but they subsidized their rates to gain market share. Too bad they don't have a plan for how to actually increase their rates to a sustainable level without losing that market share.

I think Uber failed in realizing that it's not that hard to create a clone of them.
1/4 glib, 3/4 honest prediction: if you are asking the question about yourself, it's probably Impostor Syndrome at work.
Canada tried selling planes to the US, we got hit by 200% tariffs.
Authors aren't actually incentivized to find accurate results, but rather publishable results, which typically means novel. Researchers also cite articles based on their impact, not their veracity. There are plenty of instances of retracted results continuing to be cited as if they are still accurate.

There are issues with both industrial and academic research, but I do think that industrial research is more transparent in its motivations.
If something is memory holed quickly enough after being flagged, perhaps combined with an automated algorithm that considers certain keywords, then the likelihood of people noticing flagged posts can be kept very low.

Of course this is all speculation, the truth of censorship on various platforms will likely never be known.
Sure, but then we're back to "What mental gymnastics do techies do to justify buying hardware they know is made in sweatshop conditions in China?"

Take that template and apply it to Googlers. There is no ethical consumption under capitalism; everyone has compromised a rigid belief structure somewhere.
I didn't claim they were good. My father is doing a Python one right now and I'm not very impressed. He is retired from the University but is still eligible to take the course.
The Dow is made up of 30 companies and is in no way reflective of the full economy. I don't see how that sums anything up at all.
Has there been a real profitable incentive to implement the technology? Then why spend the money for a risk that may not have an impact tends to be the mindset.
maybe this is the secret reason behind the sucess of cat (and dog and any other animal, really) videos--to escape the not-really-positive news for something unequivocally happy and cute and positive.
I pretty much stole Mike's business model, and peppered in some cloud-y saas for browserles.io. I'm almost done with year 3, and will hopefully hit 500kARR this year.

Mike's story was a lot of inspiration for me, and I think licensing + cloud-ifying your opensource projects are a ton more viable than hoping for Patreaon or other platforms to pay you. Self-bootstrapped indiehacker style was great for me, but it does require a lot of up-front time and commitment in seeing it through. Upside is that it's not monopoly money being dealt with, and everything is on your terms.
How venture capital follows the economy down and curtails innovation
With the worry about Coronavirus, hand tracking with cameras or something like Google Soli[1] might be useful in ATM’s, elevators, kiosks, etc so people can avoid physically touching the devices.

[1] https://atap.google.com/soli/
FBI finds al Qaeda link after breaking encryption on Pensacola attacker's iPhone
Counterpoint: this is (weirdly effective) reverse psychology. We know China runs slave camps near the NK border and slavery is typically demonized here in America. However, no one talks about it because China deplatforms relatively benign topics instead. Do we really think they wouldn't prefer a Winnie the Pooh image of their leader over slave camps? Even Tiananmen Square is preferable to forced human organ harvesting.
I get the feeling this was already planned. Freemont doesn't have much spare land to increase manufacturing capacity. California has to be more expensive (Labor, Regulations) than manufacturing in Texas.

Even if you'd need to fly your R&D team between Texas and California, you'd still be saving money
Or ideologues.
Look more at car service companies (Uber's original service), not taxis.
Similar to the jump that working on the YouTube moderation toolkit is condoning the CCP, yes.
I guess it is a case of self-fulfilling prediction.

It is an article about negative things and how they are negative for us. And it distorts our thinking, at the very least, it tried to distort mine's by imprinting "the fact" that negative news distorts our thinking.
I said "PDEs and stuff" above because the cases where chaotic behavior is most known to be a practical problem are PDEs. It's certainly also true that ODEs can exhibit chaotic behavior, and that's even occasionally a practical effect (chaotic orbits, etc.). It's just usually not.

And I'm not sure what you intend by those quotes? Sensitivity analysis is a normal thing you do with almost every model. Those sensitivities are usually small enough that numerical error is negligible--your 100:1 example above is such a small share of the dynamic range of typical data types that it wouldn't usually get any special attention. So "sensitivity" usually means the author is talking about the behavior of the ideal model, correctly neglecting numerical effects. In the rare cases where that numerical error isn't negligible, the author would typically remark on that explicitly, and on the additional steps they took to build an accurate model despite that, and on why that extraordinary sensitivity doesn't invalidate their model in the real world (given that real-world measurement uncertainties are usually much bigger than an LSb). That doesn't seem to be the case here.

Chaos is real, and it's cool; but in most (not all, most) practical work, it doesn't turn out to be that important. I first mentioned it only to show I was aware of cases where a single-LSb error could get amplified huge, and didn't think this was one of those rare cases. I agree that floating point issues may result in non-bit-exact results, but no one other than you is suggesting they explain anything close to the variation observed. I think we even agree that variation is probably mostly random numbers in the wrong order? So I'm not sure why we're continuing to discuss chaos.

In my first post on this page, I wrote:

> I'm not sure the "bug uncertainty" is any bigger than all the existing known uncertainty about the assumptions that go in to his (or any such) model, though.

So I think I agree with you? I'm just saying that from my experience, it's normal good practice in stochastic code to add a "deterministic from seed" mode. It's certainly possible to develop a good model without that, in the same way that it's possible to write good software without tests or source control--it's just harder.
This analogy holds water about as well as a sieve. You can't shop around citizenship in most other countries. You can't just willy-nilly decide to renounce citizenship in one and go become a citizen in another. I'm sure people will jump in here with counter examples but I'm also sure they'll be the exception and not the norm. You're also born into citizenship. Comparing citizenship to the job market just seems so silly.
I usually support my open source work with my full time job. it's not ideal, but it is what it is for now.
FYI if you're making a list you need to put two newlines after each item, otherwise all the items gets squished into one line. Properly formatted:

#Determine the users location

#access the phones text-to-speech API's and view any custom words added by the user

#access and read anything the user copied/pasted to/from pasteboard (clipboard)

#Record audio from the phones microphone
Bullshit. You are confusing different activities that involve not getting paid.

No, I'm not. Every media article on this, including by Teslerati and other pro-Tesla sites is unanimous on this point.

Not showing up for work, the person doesn't get paid, and contrary to your claim (there are no such "multiple reports" unless you are counting reddit comments?) Tesla is being nice and not firing them, but instead putting them on unpaid leave so their job is actually held open for a while. Not even the same ballpark as fired.

Only someone in Silicon Valley could think that being put on unpaid leave is somehow "being nice" to the employee. Many people live paycheck to paycheck. Also, Tesla wasn't being nice--they were following labor law. If they had terminated those employees without sufficient notice they would have violated state and federal WARN Acts.

This is by law, not Tesla's doing. They aren't terminated by the way… another word for fired… just on unpaid leave, again.

This is false. Tesla asserted that it would challenge any employee's claim that the termination was COVID-related, when the whole reason the factory was shut down was due to COVID restrictions. This is a heinous violation.

That's also the case at the Fremont factory.

This is also false. Employees in the Fremont factory work within 6 feet of each other at multiple stations when the factory is operational. At many stations on their lines, they literally work side-by-side as if they were in a meat-packing plant.
Bought one for a new PC back in January. The value is great and I haven't noticed a single bottleneck. I don't do anything too intensive, and the games I play haven't stressed it that hard. The best part of the upgrade has been Rust compile times. Coming from an older ThinkPad, it's a huge change.
I would think that having more transparency (eg: moderation/removal log) is much more appropriate than "he looks good to me".

I've already seen a few times where content demeaning YC companies mysteriously got disappeared... and then summarily blamed on automated removal. Who's right? No clue. But being able to see that log as it happens would be a significant good faith action.
Those rules applied today would result in indecipherable cesspools of memes at best or a community of authoritarian sympathizers at worst, who would be oh-so-happy to start conditioning their like-minded members to force undesirables away, either explicitly through bans or implicitly through non-stop hatred and coordinated harassment.

Neither one is the type of community I have any interest in participating in, and if some sort of mandate came down enforcing it on any of the large social networks I would no longer participate in them.
That's not really its purpose though, right?

R is "an environment for statistical computing and graphics". Note that it doesn't talk about software engineering at all.

I agree with you that R has lots of rough edges, but please remember that it's a 90's era clone of a 70's era language (S) and a lot of those rough edges and corners are legacies from that time.

I completely agree that the naming conventions (i.e. the absence of same) are super annoying, but again it's a tradeoff for the decades of statistical computing knowledge embedded in the system of R.

I find your disdain for R a little annoying, and while I'm probably not a computer scientist, it was my first language and I learned about closures, higher order functions, OOP, testing and interacting with API's from it, and it definitely gave me insight into how computers worked.

I'm sorry that you have to deal with horrible legacy R code, but that's no reason to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Build a snake game on micro:bit (simulator included)
Didn't they also have a factory that was a glorified tent whilst they were finishing one of their previous builds?
I find it more interesting that AMD Ryzen chips are the top 6 best selling CPU's.
"This question is locked and replying has been disabled."

See, they pulled a sneaky on ya
Bit easier to change employer than citizenship.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/28/fitness-tracki...
Smashing Eggs, Dumping Milk: Farmers Waste More Food Than Ever
I'm curious where you're getting your facts. Would be interested to read references to some assertions here.

> Ireland of the time was a state

As another (currently flagged?) sibling commenter has already pointed out, Ireland was not an independent state in the 1840s, it was ruled from London. This is, I think, pretty indisputable.

> Despite what's believed from the common narrative, most of the landlords, middlemen and exporters facilitating the trade and export of food from Ireland at this time were Irish, and many were Catholics

This is the one I have issue with. As someone only familiar with the "common narrative", could you elucidate with some links to sources on this? Everything I've read indicates that the majority of landlords were absentees from Great Britain, primarily Scottish & English Protestants.

It's certainly well-documented that Protestant landlords were not universally oppressive in Ireland at the time: there are plenty of accounts of wealthy families setting up soup kitchens and other nominally philanthropic acts, but I was unaware of the narrative of most landowners being Irish.
In principle you could also do that with a cab company, right? So the difference is really that you trust Uber. If anything, it's not the idea that's great, it's either the brand or the quality of the service.