skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we learned anything from Tesla it's that electric cars are a very "fake it 'till you make it" industry. You have to raise a ton of capital to get off the ground but once you're making a real product, people buy it.

But you can't exactly go down to the local credit union and apply for a twenty billion dollar loan. So the only way to build something is to hype the nothing that you currently have in order to get investors to give you a ton of money so you can actually build something.

It's like the people confused about Tesla's current share price in the middle of a pandemic. But it's the response to the pandemic which has given them the greatest boon they could have asked for -- very low interest rates. That causes investors to borrow money to invest, which is what's holding up stock prices in general. But on top of that they're selling a product with a higher up-front cost and lower operating costs, so lower interest rates make for lower car payments make for more customers. The company itself still has a lot of outstanding debt which can now be refinanced, and lower interest rates make it cheaper for them to borrow even more to continue expanding.

Nikola benefits from a lot of that too, though you can't really gain customers through low interest car loans before you have a product. The issue for Nikola is that "fake it 'till you make it" only works if you eventually make it. If they don't generate enough hype to raise as much capital as they need to actually bring a viable product to market before the bottom falls out, poof.
I’ll start use it when AWS adopt it :) This is only used in retail orgs... the ecosystem is the biggest issue.

Edit: in Public API
It starts with a rant about how odd it is that the consulate is burning documents. Even though that's probably standard procedure for any country's consulate if it's in imminent danger of being shut down.
You could (short) sell the stock at the same time you buy the warrants.
> There was no statistically significant difference in overall analgesia administration by race, but there was a statistically significant difference in opioid administration by race. Black children with appendicitis were less likely to receive opioid analgesia than white children (12.2% [95% CI, 0.1%-35.2%] vs 33.9% [95% CI, 0.6%-74.9%], respectively; adjusted OR = 0.2 [95% CI, 0.06-0.8]). No other covariates achieved statistical significance in the multivariable model.

There difference between "any analgesia" and "opioids" in the pediatric population is almost entirely "ibuprofen." There was no difference in the administration of ibuprofen.
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My biggest pet peeve with this work is that they incorrectly say:

> These adversarial examples have been recognized since 2014 (here's one of the first papers on the topic).

Adversarial machine leaning has been around since 2006. It's only since 2014 that people decided to call them Adversarial Examples.
> do you ever hear about ER docs who become depressed or mentally ill from being exposed to so much horrific human suffering?

Yes you do! But I would imagine it is at least somewhat offset by the fact that they are doing a lot of good: they are saving people from death while also witnessing death. I think a content moderator would struggle to feel such a strong sense of purpose.
If computers can help with spam, they can certainly help with other well-defined and well-audited types of illegal and misinformed content.

It would be worse to not invest in more automation, even malpractice.
Cool! JSON5 looks intriguing.

The core project implements a JavaScript module [1] but it looks like there are also experimental JSON5 libraries for Go [2], Python [3], Ruby [4], and Rust [5].

[1]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/json5

[2]: https://github.com/yosuke-furukawa/json5

[3]: https://pypi.org/project/json5/

[4]: https://github.com/bartoszkopinski/json5

[5]: https://docs.rs/json5/

I noticed that JSON5 doesn’t include a Date type. There have been discussions about this in both the JavaScript [6] and spec [7] repos but with no resolution yet.

[6]: https://github.com/json5/json5/issues/3

[7]: https://github.com/json5/json5-spec/issues/4
If Tesla would thrive in a world where gasoline was priced correctly, it would surely fail in a world where automobile infrastructure (parking, highways, sprawl) was priced correctly. This is not a reassuring line of reasoning.
Machine vision will likely be one of the last of these, though; the visual cortex is a pretty large chunk of very sophisticated hardware.
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> occasionally

Precisely. How often? Close to never.
Having worked as a psych tech and later as an EMT in a major public hospital in Houston, you’d be surprised about how not-well paid many allied health professons are. And the janitors get to clean up the blood and hear the exact same screams or being on the receiving end of drug fueled rage attacks — and they aren’t getting paid much. If you sign up to work in what is effectively a battlefield hospital, you are exposed to the vile underbelly of society on a daily basis. And how does a union matter? It doesn’t shield you from getting attacked or vomited in by violent drunks or attacked by hysterical family members.

Let’s say a content moderator got paid $200k per year, that doesn’t change the images they see. This isn’t about money as much as it’s about the requirements and preparation required for the job.
Trust me, I have a whole trove of rants about how HN talks about JavaScript. Lotta rants in that trove.
I was playing around with this here: https://jsbin.com/zebipenidi/1/edit and tried editing the keyword to other things.

When I tried other strings (my name, "null", other CSS "words" like opacity) it broke.

I wonder if this is because the initial variable definition needs to be valid css in order to be replaced?
And again, you run into the problem where nobody wants their website to work like that. In fact, limiting the person's audience really only works with facebook's system where people post content specifically to their friends. Other sites like Hacker News, Reddit, youtube, and various other forums aren't even designed with the concept of friends that are the sole consumers of your content. You're specifically posting in a public space that everyone can see. That's not a social media thing. That's just an internet thing where most things are visible to everyone.

And again, people still post horrible content to small groups just like they post it in large ones. You've divided the problem up, but you haven't really solved anything. Someone has to moderate the content.
Thanks for sharing that's awesome!

Bookmarked. I'll think more about implementing it as a shell script.
To some extent, the 1900s distribution model of dealerships is a burden.

When you buy a tesla, tesla gets 100% of the revenue.

When you buy a VW or a ford, what % cut does the dealership take?

How much does it cost to have 800 cars sitting on a lot, vs order on demand?

Auto industry is ripe for innovation, glad we have someone innovating. I will hopefully never need to talk to a car salesmen or do the dealership thing again.
This can be thwarted fairly easily https://arxiv.org/pdf/1607.02533.pdf
This mirrors my experience. Even down to the book recommendation in sub comments (the body keeps score).

Learning to incorporate all of me, my physical and emotional needs, had drastically helped me improve from being burnt out and depressed.

For so long I focussed on my rationality without any regard for my emotions. It’s like droving a car without being able to see out of the windows. I needed to listen to me, my body, learn to interpret it (still learning), learn what it needs, what I need.
Yeh Vox can't be a trusted resource. They never actually give the devil its due and never display the strongest counter argument to it's claim.

You could argue the EU for example had a stronger response the the last recession. Yet like Germany growth since them has been in GDP per capita terms 2k. The US gdp per capita grew 20k yet was considered to have a much worse response because how they left so many to figure their life out.
Honestly, I would say skip calculus and go for linear algebra instead.

Really, 90% of the advanced mathematics I do is linear algebra, and I don't have a code-monkey job. Linear algebra has so much mathmetics bang for very little complication bucks.
Yeah It’s more like a spec, they expect you to write the query optimizer, analyzer basically a new query engine. They offered a document based “reference” implementation on Kotlin though so I think expert could follow it.

Point is AWS might not make up its mind yet on whether this does more harm to their DB business or not
Separate from the details of the consequences of global warming itself, more generally my hypothesis is that in order for a civilization to become aware that it is consuming too many natural resources requires a level of advanced development that can only be achieved by consuming too many resources. In other words, it might be more likely than not that when a planet produces a civilization that enters an industrial revolution it ends up burning through its natural resources in an unsustainable way and ends up collapsing. The easy access to resource surpluses that ignites the industrial revolution is also what causes them to overshoot their planet's capacity.

For us it's not just CO2 pollution that is a problem, there are many other resources that we are over-utilizing in an unsustainable way. And it seems that we are completely incapable of coordinating as a planet when the sacrifices are large. The hope of the techno-optimists is that technology will save us. It's a high-stakes bet that technology will figure it out before it's too late. Maybe the Great Filter is that when this bet is made across the universe the odds are generally in favor of losing.
May be easier, but it means something. Growing in a down market is a thing.
You're probably running into the notice-dislike bias: you (not you personally, of course, but all of us) are more likely to notice the things you dislike and weight them more heavily, whereupon they become your dominant image of the site. People with the opposite preferences have the opposite image, I guarantee you.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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Re time stamp and decimal, probably no surprise that it is used heavily by QLDB, where having a very clear time for a change is important and a common use case is logging debits and credits as a financial ledger.
It's getting where you need your lawyer involved with the hospital administration to negotiate terms before surgery, such as: no out of network procedures, no out of network diagnostics, no out of network pharmaceuticals, and no out of network staff, 3rd parties, or professionals of any kind involved . . .

I had ObamaCare 2 years ago, urologist diagnosed me with double hernias (old age, not injury).

I was referred to surgeon who was "in network", we set up hospital to be "in network".

A close friend explained in more detail the hazards:

You have to call and determine if EVERYONE who might be involved is in "in network".

Turned out the anesthesiologists had a mafia grip on that particular hospital and they were not in network.

I called and had everything shut down and rescheduled for another better hospital whom had an anesthesiologists group that also had a mafia grip on their hospital - - - but they were in network.

In the end I legally obtained ~$55,000 worth of hernia surgery for about $450 in copay.
I’m scared for my future, what do I do?
> My only problem with json files is that you can't add comments to them in a persistent way

JSON was first designed as a data exchange format between computers (that was lighter weight than XML (which was lighter weight that SGML)), so that fact that it's being used in persistent fashions is getting away from its primary purpose.
This is a disingenuous argument. When all mainstream platforms decide that your opinion is not welcome, your only real alternative becomes either silence or small echo chambers where you're more likely to enter into radical feedback loops. This is not healthy for our societies.

Historically, public spaces have been used to confront ideas. Free speech isn't a luxury, it's a necessity that ensures our societies don't devolve into radicalized micro bubbles that are more likely to resort to violence. The issue that we're facing is that the public space is being replaced by the virtual private space, which doesn't have such guarantees. We're already seeing the effect of such divisiveness already, and it's only going to get worse. So should we just accept that free speech is dead? I don't think that's the right direction.
I'm not trying to reassure anyone. Tesla, like the rest of the American economy, is headed for an abrupt disaster.
>Fundamentally having more cards is bad, because it increases variance in what you can draw.

StS has a number of enemies that shuffle bad cards into your deck, so this dillution works both ways. On higher difficulties more of these cards get shuffled into your deck. Trying a "thin" strategy with no countermeasures in such a fight (high damage output to end the fight fast?) can get you railroaded. You also start out with 10 starters that you want to dillute because virtually any card is better than them. Cards with "draw" and "exhaust" written on them also let you workaround the problem of drawing starter or negative effect cards. Picking up one or two versatile 2-cost cards early (attack or block card) can give you a good way to use your energy even if you draw mostly starters or negative effect cards while avoiding excessive deck dillution later on.

StS does offer you worse cards at the beginning of the game, and limited ways to remove or upgrade these cards, so picking up too many cards can burden you later on.

Really to be good at StS deckbuilding mostly requires you to know which enemies will come up when and building your deck sufficiently to survive them without shooting yourself in the foot long term too much. Jorbs is usually focused on building his deck to beat the hardest fight in the game while absorbing the minimum deadweight to survive until that point. Watching a stream can give you a rough idea of what a good "pace" for adding new cards into your deck is.
> It’s the climate change company

One (extreme) way of looking at it, is that it's a company that's enabling climate change, at a tiny scale (as they aren't really that big).

Regulatory credits, that are driving their profitability, is selling other car manufactures ability to produce gas-guzzling vehicles.
Applying some form of transformation is a weak countermeasure to adversarial examples. Especially simple ones such as low pass filters.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.07397.pdf

Neural Networks do not learn what humans learn. They can learn completely different and sometimes much smaller features.
Doing exactly that - moving to a different country so figured I'll do hotels for a while.

A surprising number don't have even basic desks in the room unfortunately
There you go json for humans https://hjson.github.io/

This allows trailing commas and comments. This can also reads strict json of course. Libraries are available for all popular languages.
Thanks @anurag, we should get connected at some point, just shot you a message :) .
Because he is unaware. Krebs is a clown
> But I'm not sure you want to hire a department of sociopaths.

Why not, if they do the work well?

And anyway, they'd be working from home, these days.
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This is the "Macs will have just as many security vulnerabilities as Windows if they ever get more than 1% of marketshare!" from 2002.

Year after year we've heard this repeated.

I recently saw a post saying GM is launching 12 EVs. Then I looked into it, and it's like, a new Bolt, a lifted Bolt under Buick, GMC, Chevy brands, and a few other concept cars multiplied by 3 brands.

I guess the Merc EQC is out, but I've never seen one. I've seen the odd Jag I-Pace. Some eTrons now. Lots of eGolfs here in silicon valley. I saw a truckload of Taycans in Portugal, and a grand total of ONE Taycan in the US, at the VW ERL facility in Belmont.

We just keep waiting.
Sounds like /b/ during the gore era.
> What we really need is Fawkes face paint.

Check out https://cvdazzle.com (archive link, because honestly I'm surprised the site is still up: http://archive.is/v39xI)
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Snuff films are, fortunately, still only a subject of urban legends, since those films you mention do not meet the definition. Were those films made in order to entertain other people than the person who made them? Were the films ever distributed to any of those people? Was anyone ever actually killed in any of these movies? If the answer to any one of those three questions is “no”, then the movies, horrible as they may be, were not “snuff” films, as commonly defined. From what I can see in your reference, the first two of those things are decidedly not true, and the reference is unclear regarding the third.

(The films were, according to your reference, made only for blackmail purposes, and therefore certainly not made for enjoyment of any viewer, nor were they ever distributed to other people for their enjoyment. The reference does claim that people were killed in a specific place which was also filmed, but does not, what I can see, explicitly state that any murders were actually filmed, other than incorrectly calling all the films “snuff” films.)
> some systemd subsystem wedged during the upgrade. Now networking is broken.

All software has problems. Without specific details, blaming your problem on systemd specifically seems just as unreasonable as blaming “Linux” or even “Unix”. In fact, in past years during the old OS wars, there were many such rants, blaming “Unix”. (See for instance The Unix-Haters Handbook.) Become a curmudgeon, and idolize the past, at your own peril.

I recommend, instead, to live in the present, to use currently normal software, and to fix every problem as it appears. Ceasing to upgrade permanently (possibly by moving to an obviously dead-end fork) is never a sensible option in the long run.
There was this: http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/Sexp.txt but it was never even accepted as an RFC, it seems.
The comments are better than the article.
> understanding what a state machine is and how to structure your program using that concept

I don't really understand this when people say it. My first instinct is that you're talking about keeping functions as pure as possible.

The other thing I think of is simply understanding all (Or most) of the possible states in your program, which seems like common sense.
OP did said that those features are good for a config format, and that's precisely how vscode uses it.

For data interchange formats comments do presents major problem.
I believe conditionals is referring to if statements (and their ilk, switch/case/cond etc). Rules is referring to rule systems and/or more generally declarative knowledge systems. Things like core.logic in clojure (or prolog, datalog and minikanren in the wider world).

Stuff like this is not specific to clojure, however it would be harder to have an embedded rules system in your language if its not a lisp. You'd probably have have to resort to a string based DSL (something like drools in java).
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The OP tweet this about it [0], which links to the CSS spec [1]. It seems like a variable defined as initial triggers a different behavior than a traditional "syntax" error.

[0] https://twitter.com/James0x57/status/1283909866915074048

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/css-variables-1/#invalid-variables
There were six changes outlined in RFC 8259, three of which were moving from ECMA-262 to make ECMA-404 a normative reference, one was to explicitly state UTF-8 should be used in a particular section, and one was 'to increase the precision of the description of the security risk that follows from using the ECMAScript "eval()" function':

* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8259#appendix-A

Not very Earth shattering revisions IMHO.
But after Corellium had shown their product to Apple and tried to get Apple to buy them. Apple did nothing until Corellium started selling access to the public with their product.
I've read that ~high-dose opioids after trauma reduces PTSD.
Was going by the information on rt.live regarding closing and re-opening for NY and CA, it shows the following dates (and may well be incorrect):

| Shelter Start | Shelter End | Reopening Start
-------+---------------+-------------+------------------
CA [0] | Mar 19 | ? | May 25
NY [1] | Mar 22 | May 28 | May 15

Agreed that NYC itself didn't re-open at the same rate up but my understanding is that it was similar in CA (county by county and the more populous counties such as the SF bay area did not re-open as much).

For sure though, when NY locked down the community spread was likely far greater than it was in CA which I think shows in the C19 related deaths.

[0] https://rt.live/us/CA

[1] https://rt.live/us/NY
That sounds great, but is Kotlin really the only current implementation?
Actually the system breaking tomorrow isn't likely to be the case due to the transferability property of adversarial examples.

Adversarial examples transfer between different models trained on different datasets with different architectures.

A new model from yesterday's data is essentially the same architecture, just with some fluctuations in decision boundaries.

Might it affect the success over time? Sure. But not tomorrow.
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What would really help JSON5 take off is if it gets bundled with browsers by default. For now it doesn’t seem all that appealing to add

<script src="//unpkg.com/json5/dist/index.min.js"></script>

to every HTML page as extra JavaScript instead of a native browser implementation.
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<Shortly after the government claimed that Microsoft was a monopoly that could not be competed with>

The DOJ sued Microsoft in the mid 1990s. Chrome came out in 2008.
This is cool!

I created another page that is more UNIX terminal-like over at https://jetholt.com/terminal/ that you might like too. It's a lot more like the framework that you created.

There's a preponderance of Tech people who create terminal-like projects, so I think that we replicate it purely because we see it so much every day, and to relive the feelings that we had when we first started seeing the power and beauty in these things.
We've got a Model 3, it's been super solid over 2 years and 34k miles. VW's been making eGolfs for a long time, and... where's this world dominance? When will they flip the switch?

And, you can definitely test drive a Tesla, if there's a showroom place nearby.
134 people shot the Prime Minister of Sweden??!!!
j/k
Good point Draug!
Hmmm... do you know what version you have?

It should work on iOS 11.3 and up... maybe. They might have smaller limits on the number of operations per calc()..? Can't think of anything overtly incompatible.

Unfortunately Safari is today's IE6 in web dev since they're so far behind on so many features. Except it's worse since you can't test without owning their products or paying for a service either... wish I could check it out, there's probably something to learn