skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bitcoin do not represent shares of an actual operating company though. Bitcoin's value lies in how many people want to link their net worth together.

Tesla actually has some sort of future final value, at some point it's going to be clear how many cars they're going to sell, how many engines and batteries and solar panels and AI modules and whatnot. At that point they're gonna pay dividends, and that's gonna decide a reasonable price point. And its current share price just doesn't make sense. What are people going to do when they receive 7 cents dividend per year on their 700 dollar stocks?

Or is TSLA going to pull an Apple and constantly come up with different types of devices to sell? Forever?
Until this moment, I thought you were dang. I couldn't recall the last time dang took part in a discussion!

dang: All HN fonts should be mnonospaced programmer fonts. Know your audience - we're all getting older. :)
I picked a random late episode, and I was pleasantly surprised to see him not shying away from discussing homotopy groups.

Reminds me that my brain literally turns to mush whenever topology and differential geometry comes into play - I can power through it, so far at least, but it doesn't seem to slot into my head as well as almost anything else I've come across.
I was about to say, sometimes Google Maps point you right through people's gated farms in that area. It's beyond me how Google maps those out as public roads
There is no theory in current state of the art deep learning. It works, but no one knows why, and no one knows how to fix a model that breaks.
Tit-for-tat is a dominant strategy. Promising to cancel the cancelers if you are canceled may seem hypocritical, but it may be a particularly valuable tactic.

As Yoda says, a Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.
It's easy to distill this down to religious wars but I think that distillation ignores popular bad behavior that creates these problems in the first place.

Anyone who engages in shaming, suppression, bregading/harassment/abuse is arguably not looking for discourse. In modern politics there are entire camps of people, even pre-Trumpism, who think discourse is dead primarily because they feel galvanized by the emotionality of their views. This concept has always existed but has grown quite a bit in popularity in recent years and has begun to underpin mainstream issues in science, politics, society, and more. The irony is that people will like and despise these things simultaneously, which is why I believe it's derivative of galvanization.

The fact that science is caught up in this, where discourse is at the heart of the process, tells me some group or some thing is instigating this co-opting. I hope we begin to reject these practices and accept them for the low effort anti-democratic efforts that they are.
Maybe the ski run it tried to take you on used to be a logging road.

My understanding is that most U.S. ski areas are on leased federal land formerly leased to logging companies, and the resorts go into the clear-cut areas, remove stumps, put in chair lifts, etc. The cat tracks are the remnants of the logging roads used to get the equipment in and trees out.
> Better made car.

In what regards? Teslas are mechanically sound, the paint and panel gaps seem to be the biggest complaint.

> The Ford mach e is the latest one.

Is the build quality different than what's in their current car and truck lines? Ford interiors have always been utter garbage IMO. There's nothing like plugging a USB cable into a USB port and then trying to unplug it and the whole interior trim panel comes off instead. And the squeaks and creaks...

We could compare to Fiat Chrysler who is "Highest in Initial Quality" by JD Powers. The chrome starts to rub of the interior finishes inside 18 months. The paint oxidizes on the exterior in roughly the same time.
I used to read pop-sci mags and get excited about the latest advancements in X, but nowadays I feel one of two things about X:

1. Neither I, nor my friends will ever be able to afford X

2. X is going to make my life worse

Usually I feel both.
> What processing companies are available to use that don't sell your transaction data by default?

Thankfully merchants are generally opaque in terms of the metadata provided to the payment processors. I for one am thankful my card statements have "Amazon purchase" instead of the specific item purchased, for instance.
Well yes, but the study was started over ten years ago :)
Interesting. Any ideas/thoughts on finding companies like that who would be interested in partnering? I’ve heard of this but most companies I’ve approached tend to defer to their normal enterprise sales cycle.
Ha. I think I have an even better story. Near Salt Lake City there's something like an island with two roads connecting it to the mainland: one on the north and the other on the south. My plan was to drive to the island via its north road (paved and well maintained) and at sunset leave the island via the south road. I got suspicious when in complete darkness the rather narrow road across a weird desert-like substance of unknown density turned into an off-road trail with rather big rocks on it. I figured that if I kept moving at this pace, about 10 mph, I would get to the mainland in 1-2 hours, which was ok as I was young, full of energy and had plenty of time to waste. 40 minutes later I met a real obstacle: a segment of the road was gone, perhaps it sank into that sandy something, or perhaps someone intentionally made the road unpassable to save drivers like me from an even bigger trouble. Anyways, after entertaining the idea of driving around this gap (I had 4x4), I decided that the sandy substance might be a quicksand of some sort and getting stuck there without a car at midnight would be rather dangerous, so I made a u-turn and at the same crawling speed started driving back. The thing is, whoever was maintaining that island, rightfully decided that it was night time and it was time to close a gates across the only unpaved trail across the island. That would be a rather big problem, and I was even considering to break the gates, but luckily there was a very rocky way around across the bushes, that was quite passable on my truck. So I did just that and kept driving for another mile or so until the road got blocked by some strange luminous sparks, that upon closer examination appeared a herd of bisons. Those bisons were quite melanholic and didn't see anything wrong with camping on the only road, but eventually they cleared the path and 3 hours later I finally left that island.
Checked and the Mastercard one someone posted below doesn't seem to be vulnerable to this. My real card number and a dummy mastercard number with valid prefix and check digit both returned a 200 OK in around 1.01s. A random 16digit number without valid check digit returned 400 Bad Request in about 800ms. Decided to check that one since they have a completely useless machine-readable catchpa.

For Visa it was 835ms for valid, 762ms for dummy, prefix and check digit appears to be checked client side.
That’s an interesting way to ask that question. GP claimed that iOS is not a licensed product while your question is about developing for iOS.

While the answer to your question is:

> Membership includes access to beta OS releases, advanced app capabilities, and tools needed to develop, test, and distribute apps and Safari Extensions. You must be 18 years or older to join.

essentially: yes. You need to pay to develop, the core thing is: is does not give an iOS “license”.

These are orthogonal.
> when the alternative is a longer prison sentence

That's simply untrue.
It is still active... I've just been lazy and haven't fix the archive yet.
Diodes part 4: Glowing ionic diodes recreated and my ionic thesis research
Starship isn't a very good option. While Starship can lift a lot of mass to LEO in order for it to be reusable it needs to then get it all to the Moon's surface and then take off from the Moon's surface and then get back to Earth.

Every gram of fuel is one less gram of payload. So a Starship either needs to carry all of its fuel needed for Lunar take-off and TEI (significantly reducing payload) or refuel on site. Since there's no LOX and Methane deposits on the Moon every Starship Moon landing would need both sent to the Moon ahead of it.

Even if you want to assume you can find a bunch of water ice under the regolith you then need to send up a water cracking factory, compressors, and literally tons of solar panels. Then you still don't have any methane. So even if you just have to send methane you've had to build a huge amount of infrastructure out of technology that doesn't exist just to reuse Starships. If you don't reuse Starships you don't get much dollar savings over using Falcons.

Starship is designed to use aerobreaking for landing. This is something that's viable on Earth and Mars but useless on the Moon. So any Starship landing on the Moon needs fuel to de-orbit and land, with aerobreaking only the terminal phase of the landing needs fuel.

Starship's economics only really work if there's fuel available in LEO, its destination, and its destination has an atmosphere for aerobraking. If those things aren't true it needs to carry all of the fuel needed for its mission from Earth's surface which significantly reduces its payload.

Doing shit in space is hard.
Plus

"X is never quite what it seems"
Last time I play Assassin's Creed:Origin, I have to stop halfway because I'm tired of all those senseless killing. I feel bad and sad for those virtual Roman soldier I've killed, how can that even happened? (P.S. I'm not the only one)

I think part of it is because videogames graphics and animation these day is so realistic(and it will keep getting more real) All the blood and gore and violence and how you kill someone are realistically depicted. Or maybe its objective clashes with my identity and values(I'm not okay running around and killing people in real life, of course)

Note that I can "kill" hundreds of infantry in Dynasty Warrior game (which is much less realistic) and doesn't feel a single thing.

I believe that what you consume, whatever it is, effect you one way or another, despite "researcher" tell you otherwise.
Dropping a link below in case you're interested - I have a side-project that takes a more literal approach to modeling biologically plausible neural networks (MCMC simulations inside 3D models)...

https://github.com/bradmonk/plasticity
> Ensuring that suppliers are ethical also disincentives industry/labor from leaving the US, as labor & compliance costs will be equalized.

We want lower-paying jobs to leave, to be replaced by higher paying jobs. I think the focus should be on the latter: improve people's skill and productivity, and make sure that people can make the transition from the old jobs to the new, including a proper social safety net to see them through.
Google maps has marked my parents in laws drive way as a road. The drive way is quite long as they are on a farm. Due to a right of way for an owner of a field who owns an enclave within their land they can’t put a gate up. It’s quite unmistakable you are going into someone’s house though. This has led to countless individuals showing up and driving through their land past their home. Lots of people stop and ask for directions. However a few times it’s gone beyond a mere nuance. They’ve had people show up at their door in the middle of the night and some won’t take no for an answer when they tell them google maps has gone wrong. On two occasions this has led to extremely aggressive behavior. My in laws are quite old and as the family tech guy I got asked to step in. I’ve done the whole google maps support thing but no response and deaf ears. It’s now Google’s fault how people behave but maps have consequences on peoples lives.
You think there is no evidence the sun will rise tomorrow?
> I guess we must be missing something...

There's a whole ton of unsolved problems:

- no true autonomy in chaotic/dynamic environments

- powering these machines for longer timespans is currently impossible (batteries endurance is measured in minutes, not hours)

- high skill level required for operating these machines (again - they're not autonomous in the slightest)

- paradox of complexity: it's easier to genetically engineer tomatoes that can withstand falling to the ground and being swept into a box than it is to engineer a machine that can identify and carefully pick ripe tomatoes as fast, as reliably and as cheap as a human worker

- motion planning and navigating unmapped environments is largely unsolved

- specialised machines are cheaper, more reliable and readily available: it's often more beneficial to modify the process than to program a generalised machine to perform human tasks, e.g. washing machines and dish washers don't need actual hands and tumble dryers don't need to use clothes lines yet all three work fine/better than the human version of the process

- AI safety is still in its infancy (even in the context of "just" motion planning and navigation); there's no such thing as tried and tested safety protocols for fully autonomous robots

- the state of the software (in terms of autonomy) is way behind the state of the hardware

- even Spot is for the most part still just a super low-volume solution looking for a problem
Given the number of recruiters I have met that have to deal with candidates that are fielding multiple offers, pinning offers against each other, or doing ghosting of their own I doubt this is true.
I've lived in Washington for 10 years and I have found several roads I am familiar with that have changed due to landslides in that time. I would guess at least 10 roads in the state have washouts that change the course of the road every year. In the wilderness they often aren't repaired and become footpaths.
Okay, I see where you're coming from then. I disagree, but I understand your premises & therefore your comments much better.
Might be. I do the same in biotech.
Yeah, it is a tube form of the same old pasta that's in spaghetti. I don't understand the fuss. It's actually not great. Try getting cooking water out of them. I would go with rotini or radiatore if I really needed the surface area otherwise a ribbon pasta like fettucine or tagliatelle, almost every time. Not a fan.
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It seems like the obvious solution to this would be a large sign at the entrance to the driveway.
> I simply don’t understand what Tesla’s moat is...

You said it yourself, no other car maker has their range, performance, and price.

An Audi priced similarly to a Tesla has a better trim because EVs cost more.

Audi couldn't built anything with comparable price, performance, range, and Audi interior trim quality.

> VAG built the super impressive Taycan, they’ll figure it out.

What's super impressive about it? I'm not saying it isn't nice but only manages to beat a Model S on track performance. In all other aspects, it's inferior.
That wouldn't necessarily help in the given example. Desert stream beds often look very similar to roads on satellite and furthermore, data rates are abysmal in most of these places. You frequently can't load much beyond the cached basemap to check.
Lol, no it's just off topic. What are hackers supposed to with the information in this article? How does it inspire you to start a new business, make an invention or apply technology? It's just meaningless banter over stock prices. Sure that's fun, and I partake, but it's not what HN is for.
How someone is attracted towards coding community?
This was previously submitted and flagged because it's "a hit piece." This article contains incredibly detailed information about pay for engineers and non-engineers and managers, broken down by level and by demographics. I don't remember when was the last time such detailed data about pay has been published.
Wasabi cloud storage service knocked offline for hosting malware
AB5 was terrible, and if prop 22 didn't pass, it was unlikely to be amended.

Lawmakers should be creating laws in the public interest, it's ridiculous that a brand new law like AB5 lacked so much public support that it could be immediately overturned. It's a pretty clear demonstration of legislative incompetence. They knew it was a bad law but rushed it through anyway.
I didn't mean it as whataboutism. I meant it as we should look at it as a global issue. Very easy to throw stones at the <latest developing economy>.
Yes but there are no convenient charging points, if the battery runs out then you need to replace it, not charge it. All the more reason to throw used batteries away (they’re cheap and it’s less to carry).
Hey, thanks! Usually I use the in app reporting, but the thing about maps in particular is often when there's a problem I'm either driving or at my destination and need to go. In this case, I saw the story and then recalled the earlier issue. I figure talking about problems on HN has a very high probability of getting the attention of someone who can fix them ;)
Thanks for highlighting the truth. There’s far too much FUD in the comments section these days, especially with respect to FAANG companies I’ve noticed in recent months.
It can easily go too far, so people are reluctant to see any but the most tasteful and opportune plug.
My favorite visa data to sell/buy is airfares. Visa gets the airport code of your departure and arrival, so you can group people into like “visiting Florida during the first week of June”. Or “flys to the Bahamas very often”.

Good stuff.
I had blogged about them, but for a different reason, also interactive - online turtle graphics:

Online turtle graphics in Python from Runestone Interactive:

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2013/02/online-turtle-graphics-i...

Had also mentioned that anyone can host a course there for free.
Mortifying. :)
It doesn’t exist. VAS is a US product offered by Visa US, supporting US cardholders only.
you cant gate it but you should be able to ~park~ vehicles in your own driveway.

there is a situation similar to this near me and it has caused damages and near fatalities as vehicles moving 50 mph roar down the driveway, round the bend and suddenly there are people, a well head a house and a seafright container up front and center.
One very amusing example of that being http://winterson.com/2005/06/episode-iii-backstroke-of-west.... (there is a fandub too, watch it if you have the time...)
> for images got completely blown out of the water by deep learning

Deep learning might be a good example. The underlying neural networks has been a “dormant science” for decades until its breakthrough.

I wouldn’t be so sure either that image feature processing won’t get another cite. More likely they will show up in preprocessing again as the boundaries of deep learning get pushed.
any advice for someone taking a stab at their first profitable side project? Mainly getting people to use it...
Any reviews on this course ?
Because flying into a building doesn't gain you any benefits in the game. It's not part of a goal, it has no purpose.

Since it's not part of the mechanics: as you point out, it's not (frequently) done. That seems to support the claim that it's not about seeking violence.
Whenever someone tells you this, ask them if they think religious texts make people violent.
Look at their product lines--Spot and Handle are the furthest things from humanoid. They've also done some static robot arms.

Atlas is their only active humanoid platform, which they've stated is mainly a research platform just for the sake of advancing robotics and pushing the limits.
The cert appears to be DV, and is issued to and by Cloudflare.

Issuer: C=US, O=Cloudflare, Inc., CN=Cloudflare Inc ECC CA-3
Subject: C=US, ST=CA, L=San Francisco, O=Cloudflare, Inc., CN=marketingreportoptout.visa.com

The cert for visa.com is similar.
And yet, fairly skilled operators in Afghanistan and Iraq still regularly miss American forward operating bases and their fixed buildings with them.
Isn't math itself a mathematical structure flexible enough to fit any data?
> Plus its a good aggression outlet for young boys.

Post-freudian hydraulic metaphor of emotions. That one's about as outdated as psychological views get.

We have experimental data that punching things when you are mad doesn't make you less mad, to give the most straight forward example.
this is maybe a mean sounding comment, but its what i would have appreciated hearing in response to my own thinking along your lines- you sound like a total mark. i have this single comment to go on, so obviously im extrapolating. but don't let a company's marketing ever fool you into thinking you know anything about them.
Had a similar experience in rural Romania. Google recommended a shorter path but the trip was longer because the road was an abandoned one. The average speed was ~10-15Km/h.
There is no way the general public trusts a sign over Google.
String theory may or may not hold the keys to the Universe, but it's so complicated that very few people understand it.

Should we stop giving taxpayer money to a group of people who can't convincingly make their case to the outside world, even if they are right?

Or do we trust their word without being able to check for ourselves?

I happen to favor the first approach.
OOT: it has been years I since the last time I read/hear about Facebook wall
> There's so much pain in the world, and it seems like the people most competent with the issues, are more occupied by nonsense. In almost all other professional trades, people willingly give their time and energy to solve problems. But when it comes to the most important machine as in - ourselves it's all for the money.

How many engineers work in, say, making education available for the poor vs "improving engagement" (generating addiction) for ad-based entertainment businesses?

Resources aren't usually allocated the way one would suppose is the best for society as a whole; but I don't see how that's in any way exclusive to medicine.
> These robots will be everywhere in twenty years.

Doing what? What can a generalist robot do that a task specific robot can't do better, faster, and cheaper?

I'll be happy to be wrong- they're really neat- but I spent 7 years in the Operations tech division at Amazon, working in warehouses especially, and I don't see any need for these robots vs alternative options.
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Can I be a hacker or what is this app for?
>Even prior to the pandemic, real wages were stagnant for decades.

This is not true from a global perspective. In addition, there has been significant immigration, where people are are entering the economy at the bottom (increasing inequality in a country, while they are making more than they would where they came from). This is not to say things couldn't be better, but the economy is global, and nationalistic perspectives presume a closed system.
Hi, author here. We have been doing the series of posts every year since 2016, way before Norfair was even a dream.
>> The problem is the direct proposition system. It makes good governance impossible. Most states require the legislature to approve all direct propositions, but California does not.

So the problem is...democracy?

You want things that other people don't want. Your claim is that they are too unintelligent to understand the long term ramifications of their choices.

I would definitely vote for something like Proposition 13 in my state, if I had the chance. You disagree. Why is one person one vote a bad rule, and how many votes should you get as opposed to mine?
It seems like the obvious solution to this would be for Google to provide a sensible way to accept corrections to their maps.

We had to get a change made to Google maps to prevent people getting killed here, and it took national news, and personal contacts within the organisation.

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
Piracy is illegal.
Reminds me of desmos.com which is aimed for education but is quite powerful, e.g. audio support for accessibility.