skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Holy crap! Those teslas catch fire a lot more than gas cars!
> We forced the world after 9/11 to block anonymous Internet.

This is just wrong. Whenever I travel I just get a 30 day or so SIM card. They've available everywhere. Not to mention WIFI access points here and there, e.g. at hotels, coffee shops etc.
Most of Tesla’s ass-covering mechanisms can be circumvented easily. The steering wheel nag in my Model X is easily fooled by any kind of asymmetric weight on the wheel. There are other mechanisms, like seat belt and seat weight monitoring, but these can be easily circumvented as well.

To Tesla’s credit, they have reportedly recently started using gaze tracking on cars equipped with a passenger-facing cam, which is much harder to circumvent. If you look at literally every other public sale automaker doing self driving, they use gaze tracking.
A few years back, I saw an online rumor, that I decided to try for myself.

I left my (locked) iPhone 6 in front of a TV overnight, that was left on a Spanish channel.

The next day, ALL of my Facebook ads, across all devices, were in Spanish — along with about 20% of the ads that I came across during regular web browsing. Took about a month for them to revert back to English.

I do not speak Spanish. At the time, I lived in a rural New England area, where census data reported very low Hispanic population. Zero reason for me to get targeted with alternative language advertisements.

I’m not a Luddite of any kind. Several decades of tech industry experience, specifically with ecommerce software engineering. Hold all available certifications for Google marketing, Facebook marketing, Hubspot marketing, along with many more. Know quite a bit more about this topic than the average Joe, and it concerns the hell out of me.

Since that day, Facebook’s apps haven’t been allowed on any of my devices, and their services only get used by me for work purposes.
I always played as the Spanish (who gain twice the gold from slaughtering a native village) because in order to fit 50 colonies on the map of the US you had to take up all of the land, and most of it was already occupied by native villages. It was impossible to defend most of the inner villages so the only available option was removal, hence picking the Spanish to gain double gold since I was clearing the land anyway. I never was able to get all 50 cities built in time and still try from time to time.
I’d actually argue that this would have detrimental effects. What’s stopping a company from visiting your site, seeing what’s popular, and stealing it all for themselves?
> Why would I show an ad to someone who literally just bought my thing?

The majority of targeted advertising I see is for items I just bought. There’s also a reasonable explanation for this...

Not every merchant shares purchase data, so if you do any research anywhere before making a purchase, they know you are interested, but as there was no tracking beacon on the site you ultimately bought from (or the purchase was misidentified or delayed or any number of reasons), that’s why you are now seeing targeted ads for it.
My first thought on seeing the tree in the right front quarter of the car and the fact that the driver's seat area is uncrushed, is that there was a third person, who departed the scene. I'm guessing whatever data the car collected to tell one way or the other perished along with the electronics. But don't these cars also upload telemetry all the time?
Right wingers live in a perpetual state of delusional persecution, much like the so-called SJWs they love to rail about so much.
Should it then be added to block lists in various tracker-removal browser addons?
As an abuse survivor, let me say that lawmakers and LEO did not begin to care about sex abuse, until gobs of money and power started to come with it (during 80's-90's). Before then, women and children knew (from exp) that few/no police or officials were there to protect them.

Given what internet+sex-trafficking bills actually accomplish, it's fairly clear they're designed to cripple the power that the internet brings to the electorate. The trafficking rhetoric is little more than marketing.
As a non native english speaker I have a recurring problem with this:

> getInstances(); // ok, returns an array of instances

> getInstanceId(); // ok, returns an id

> getInstancesId(); // ??, returns an array of id

> get InstancesIds(); // ?? returns an array of id

> getIdsOfInstances(); // ?? returns an array of id

> getAllInstancesId(); // ?? returns an array of id

> getAllInstancesIds(); // ?? returns an array of id

How do I conjugate that ? And what about the possessive `s` ?
Yea especially with vr.

Agents photos are really misleading but with 3d a small room feels like a small room.

Edit:
One thing I did notice with matterport was a lot of personal information can leak out about who lives there.

Made the BBC recently:
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56718046
Tesla has not thought of incorporating a sensor to ensure that someone is actually behind the wheel and not at the side of the wheel? I would find that unlikely.
New surveillance Law.
Multiple implementations is a fact of life for popular and useful languages. (Not Rust yet.)

Standards exist to make multiple implementations palatable.

See Python for a stunning example where they botched the standardization effort and ruined the language for good.
They are all new, I'm guessing bad luck.
this is also why Amazon started dropping the item names in the email order confirmations
My life has improved a lot thanks to Bitcoin, that equals very objective value for me. Maybe you are talking about "value for society" or something more abstract? Value is very simple concept and Bitcoin obviously provides it to many in rising fiat value. These "doesn't provide value" just seem to throw the commonly used definition out of the window and talk on another definition plane.
super! loved the sketches. hope the pricing change works out well. surprised that you make 400$/month in sales. your bet seems like it will pay off in less than a year. how did the pricing increase pan out?
The first result for my query says "copious amounts of water are recommended as the best means to extinguish a high voltage vehicle fire." What did you find?
> We forced the world after 9/11 to block anonymous Internet. You cannot get Internet anywhere without ID.

This is clearly false here in Canada. Open and free Wifi is everywhere, and you can purchase sims with cash and no id.
Lithium ion battery is not the same a lithium fire by itself.
I think guitars are like bicycles where the optimal number to have is n+1 where n = the number you currently own.
getInstanceIds
For those who need an even greater challenge, modify your hike with rucking weights.
From their own Manuel:
FIREFIGHTING
USE WATER TO FIGHT A HIGH VOLTAGE BATTERY FIRE. If the battery catches fire, is exposed to high heat, or is generating heat or
gases, use large amounts of water to cool the battery. It can take approximately 3,000 gallons (11,356 liters) of water, applied directly
to the battery, to fully extinguish and cool down a battery fire; always establish or request an additional water supply. If water is not
immediately available, use dry chemicals, CO2, foam, or another typical fire-extinguishing agent to fight the fire until water is available.
Apply water directly to the battery. If safety permits, lift or tilt the vehicle for more direct access to the battery. Apply water inside the
battery ONLY if a natural opening (such as a vent or opening from a collision) already exists. Do not open the battery for the purpose
of cooling it.
Extinguish small fires that do not involve the high voltage battery using typical vehicle firefighting procedures.
During overhaul, do not make contact with any high voltage components. Always use insulated tools for overhaul.
Heat and flames can compromise airbag inflators, stored gas inflation cylinders, gas struts, and other components which can result in
an unexpected explosion. Perform an adequate knock down before entering a hot zone.
Battery fires can take up to 24 hours to extinguish. Consider allowing the battery to burn while protecting exposures.
After all fire and smoke has visibly subsided, a thermal imaging camera can be used to actively measure the temperature of the high
voltage battery and monitor the trend of heating or cooling. There must not be fire, smoke, or heating present in the high voltage
battery for at least one hour before the vehicle can be released to second responders (such as law enforcement, vehicle transporters,
etc.). The battery must be completely cooled before releasing the vehicle to second responders or otherwise leaving the incident.
Always advise second responders that there is a risk of battery re-ignition.
Second responders may choose to drain excess water out of the vehicle by tilting or repositioning it. This operation can assist in
mitigating possible re-ignition.
Due to potential re-ignition, a Model S that has been involved in a submersion, fire, or a collision that has compromised the high
voltage battery should be stored in an open area at least 50 ft (15 m) from any exposure.
Warning: When fire is involved, consider the entire vehicle energized. Always wear full PPE, including a SCBA.
Whoohoo! downvoted because i stated an opinion after a synopsis of an author (a fact).
I have no idea. I'm also not a firefighter. As electric cars become more common, we'll need to have a solution that is not "spend 4 hours trying and then call the manufacturer."
Safely taking steroids to achieve a movie star look is just about as realistic as driving a new Mercedes.

Sure, you need to spend some money on medical supervision. Beyond that all it takes is ~6 hours a week at the gym.
> Musk is a lying ignorant grifter and he has inspired innovation in the electric car industry.

That's not how I would characterize his actions. "The ends justify the means" would be closer. There are rational, mutually beneficial motivations e.g. go to the Mars to save humanity from extinction, or through solar energy.
And there are nice projects based upon it like NewPipe (https://newpipe.net/#download) on Android.
You need to consider that a very, very small percentage of companies have IPOs.

Many "successful" exits are actually acqui-hires, where a larger company acquires a dead or dying company for its talent. Often the product from that company is immediately shutdown, or at least shelved and no longer actively developed.

Other "successful" exits pay some percentage back to the recent preferred shareholders. Earlier investors are not made whole. Common shareholders generally get nothing.

Founders will still spin these "exits" a positive because they didn't have to shut down. The reality is the venture was a failure. Employees got jobs... that they could've had anyway.
TL;DR I for one welcome our new insect overlords.
So it seems pretty possible that they followed the standard procedure and it didn't work?
March 2020, heydays of coronavirus paranoia. I came back home from somewhere, put my keys onto the dining table and went to the bathroom to clean up. My girlfriend, upon seeing the key-chain on the table started reproaching me for being careless about hygiene. When I returned from the bathroom I saw her washing the key-chain in the kitchen sink. This time I got angry and asked how come she hadn't thought that the usb memory-stick attached to the key-chain would be destroyed when being washed. I dried the keys along with the usb-stick, sat down at my table, opened up Facebook only to be greeted by an ad on top about water-proof usb memory sticks. I felt a chill ran down on my spine.
Better than going with the first result out of your head (pour water on it) which is what they did.
I've been involved in a few of these sequences. The most recent is this one:

https://oeis.org/A294249

My early calculations have been superseded so I'm no longer mentioned, but I was involved in the initial calculations for this sequence:

https://oeis.org/A013998

It's an interesting and useful project. Any time you have a thing you don't understand it's worth finding some way of converting it to an integer sequence and then looking it up, just in case.
Then again, could be fun to screw with them a bit. I wonder what would happen if you just kept clicking I already bought this on everything that pops up. Or better yet, just write a script that clicks it every time one of those ads appears. I wonder if it's possible to go through every single item they advertise and what would happen if you did.
It's fairly standard, in my experience, and makes sense if you come form the position of the company.

In the budget a certain amount of money is allocated towards the incentive scheme. If the company does not perform as well as planned this pool is reduced appropriately (you can't pay bonuses with money that doesn't exist).

If you take the original pool of money you can express it as a percentage of the entire payroll, and that percentage is what, on average, everyone's bonus will be (for example 6%). Alternatively, that percentage is used to calculate what the pool will be in the first place (before scaling for company performance).

You then have the individual perfomance scaling, which is designed to reward people excelling at their job. The individual has a starting percentage-of-salary bonus, and that percentage is moderated up or down depending on how they performed relative to their peers. Relative to their peers is super important here, because the total bonus pool was worked out based on the starting percentages (and then moderated by company performance) so the final bonuses are really just an allocation of that pool between the employees. In some companies managers will literally take their employees' performance reveiws into a big round-table meeting where they argue why specific team members should receive a 4 or 5 rating (the highest), as there are a limited number of 4s and 5s available in the incentive scheme.

The final calculation is fairly straightforward then.

From the company's perspective, an individual's bonus is = (total payroll) * (incentive scheme budget allocation percentage) * (company performance factor) * ([potentially] business unit or department performance factor) * (individual performance factor)

For the individual it's built up in reverse, and it's the accountants jobs to make sure the numbers match in the end!

bonus = (employee salary) * (base bonus percentage +- individual performance modifier) * (company performance factor) * ([potentially] business unit or department performance factor)
Facebook and fear in Manila: Maria Ressa’s fight for facts
Often times it's because there is no good solution. That is, you can't really fix the problem without being overly strict and making common use cases impossible or awkward to use. So you settle for something that usually works for most people. Bad designs have a tendency of creeping up.

The thing about things designed with bad edge cases is that they can have dire consequences for some people, but as long as it works for most people, they stick around. Forever causing pain.
I wonder is it possible to isolate a whole country from the rest of the Internet? There are so many services in China that are almost exclusive to people with a Chinese phone number and a WeChat / Alipay account. That sealing the rest of the Internet does not affect Chinese residents using those services.
Changes like this are normally discussed and voted on by the community, right? Could someone link to the discussion where this decision was made, so we can better understand it?
You need to cool the battery enough though. So you need water to carry away enough heat.
Perhaps we should stop adding new mechanics to civilization, and go back to refine a few really good ones. Civ6 with all of the DLC turned on is absolutely oppressive with the number of choices you have to make beyond turn 100. It turns off all but the most dedicated players.

Most of my friends went back to Civ5. If you really don't want to be bothered with all the decision making, you can always play Venice. Makes it easy to bring in more outsiders.

In my experience, the most fun I have ever had in civilization is struggling with simple barbarian mechanics in early game while all of my equally-casual friends encounter the same difficulties. The player who got the island by themselves usually wins the science victory, but I don't mind the win conditions. It's more about the journey.
> It's madness to use any unnecessary energy or resource on crypto finance, when there are more energy efficient alternatives.

Agreed. Cryptocurrencies that use proof of stake are a great alternative to cryptocurrencies that use natural resource scarcity.
that last statement, I agree with completely. I think it's one of our largest cultural blind spots - we like simple answers so we give credit to the people at the top of the decision making chain. It's why executive salaries and bonuses are so out of control high, and so many low skill or even high skill / not management positions are underpaid. We should be granting credit the way that movies do. For want of a shoe, the horse was lost etc.
Put a large bell jar over the car and then pump out all the air? Or maybe pump liquid silicone into the battery compartment? (The theory there is you need a flame-retardant 'foam' at very high temp but you could submerge the battery compartment in...something like silicone, to isolate it from atmosphere; there would be heat as the batteries discharge, but no combustion.
Thinking about a sand hydrant is the most entertaining thing I've done all day!
Wasn’t there a recent article posted here how safe Teslas are?
A lithium battery fire is considered a class B fire, so pouring water on it is not standard procedure. They should have known that in the first place, but if they had googled it, they would have found out very quickly anyway.
Dug the 68k.news link in the post: http://68k.news

Now that takes me back to an early web. I kinda like it. I got more content from scanning one screens-worth of that page than the actual Google news.
Well Teslas are known for their incredible acceleration, and then if the occupants weren’t wearing seatbelts, even a relatively low speed crash can cause severe injury.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=how+to+...
What do you propose? Damaged batteries short and burn, it's the way it works. The energy needs to go somewhere. Damaged fuel tanks leak fuel much (MUCH) faster and burn much hotter and more dangerously. Do you demand that that be fixed before we allow ICE engines to become more common?

This whole "we couldn't put out the fire" nonsense is click bait. Battery fires burn longer, and that's important to know and requires different techniques to manage. But objectively they are safer than gas fires. Period. There is no serious debate on that point.
> On top of all of this Kaiser, a medical doctor and infectious diseases expert, has had an immeasurably difficult job over the last year as the public health officer for an entire county during a pandemic, a position he was recently removed from after gaining a reputation of being ahead of the curve on things like requiring mask-wearing.

Some people accomplishes so much, they are a hard example to follow.
Girls will be girls... We don't know if it's a boy or a girl. Haha, well you're certainly passionate about this.
> Is it possible that Facebook is a big enough share of the internet that they can block the Streisand Effect? My money is on "no".

The co-ordinated efforts of a small number of corporate actors probably is. We live in a gov-valley-sov-corp media ecology with fairly sophisticated mechanisms of message control. Maybe the old netheads were wrong about streisand effect - maybe that was a temporary material condition.
The CCP can force Chinese to use this, but why would anyone else use it? I can’t see the USA or EU changing architectures unless our governments mandate it, and I see no moves in that direction. We are barely able to get people to implement IPv6 after 20 years of kicking people in the ass to do it, so it will not happen organically.
The IA version is also over a year out of date (2020-01-21 vs 2021-03-29)
Tesla recommends spraying the battery with copious amounts of water. Read all about it:

https://www.tesla.com/firstresponders

Lithium-ion is different than lithium…

(my other comment is a question because I haven't seen any information about what procedures they did follow)
I've been mining for about 4 years now (1btc/month and 35-40eth/month since March 2017), and this is the first time I've heard someone trying to say PoS would lead to MORE decentralization. To be fair, I don't regularly converse online with other miners. I mean, I see what your arguments are here, but I'm just not sure I agree.

Usually the only people trying to promote PoS are the ones who are financially well-off enough to buy the masternodes. You could make the same argument for mining -- to do it on any worthwhile scale you better be prepared to spend a minimum of $500k -- but "worthwhile" is subjective, and some people are fine only making a residual income off of their mining, because they feel like they are contributing to the "cause" -- to keep the network flowing -- amongst other reasons. Initially, I got started with mining out of pure idealism about decentralization, anonymous currencies, and the cypherpunk roots of it all. That turned into me making significant investments to mine on a larger scale. Maybe people doing it for those reasons will be less important as time goes on and it's more mainstream...I don't know.

My other business is legal MJ cultivation in California and Michigan, and it's the same thing in that industry -- the only people wanting, or not minding, the expensive licensing and startup costs in California are the well-financed companies who can afford it all, who can wait many years for profits if necessary. Everyone else wants a way for easy entrance in the market, low licensing costs, etc.

As for government interference, I was a "traditional market" operator for ~14 years in the MJ business, and have experience with avoiding scrutiny from the government. In fact, the issues with bitcoin mining are identical to that of growing marijuana on a large scale -- exhausting large amounts of heat, the intake of large amounts of fresh air or cooling BTU's, using large amounts of electricity, the need for good airflow in the facility, etc. With that said, you could structure your mining operation so that only a very targeted, focused investigation could find you -- it wouldn't be easy to "fish" and find it. For example, the main indicator would be the electricity usage, but there are tons of legitimate businesses that use far more electricity than a mining operation. Establish a business that is in that industry, buy a warehouse for that purpose, get your electrical installed, and then run all your miners through your own VPN or Tor (I've never tried to run them on Tor, because I was always worried about speed/connection problems.) They would see large electrical usage, yes, but that is normal for your registered business.

In this hypothetical government overreach scenario, hiding a mining business -- if you really had to -- wouldn't be any more difficult than hiding a large scale grow operation, or a meth lab, or anything illicit really. You just have to know what you are doing, but people have been doing this for decades and decades without problem.
Another thing many people don't realize is that alcohol has much the same effect as sugar.

A bit of an oversimplification, but for the purposes of diet, alcohol effectively is liquid sugar. The top ten list of caloric density starts with fat and alcohol pulls up second place.
Sure. Cut the wires. It is now isolated.
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