skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amtrak is not technically part of the federal government. It was set up as a private, for-profit corporation that is jointly owned by the government and the railroads whose passenger operations were turned over to Amtrak. The federal government's control over Amtrak is meant to end once Amtrak is able to operate independently, but Amtrak has never really been on a path to independent/profitable operations and will probably never get there.

Amtrak's biggest challenge is that its service is inconvenient in most of the cities/towns it serves. For example, in Syracuse, NY, where Amtrak has 8 trains per day (four in each direction) that arrive at reasonably convenient times, the station is located on the outskirts of the city, far from the city center. Cleveland has the opposite problem: the station is near the downtown area, but all of the scheduled trains (4 per day, two in each direction) arrive between 1 am and 6 am. Where Amtrak is convenient to use (e.g. the NEC) it works reasonably well and is actually competitive with driving or flying.
I agree with your point that Apple should not be able to yank/revoke access and treat your account differently than anyone else’s other than by court order. This is worrisome.

My initial question was tangential and more thinking out loud how they deal with lower sales velocities.
This is a great question
A car coming to a halt gently in the middle of a highway is extremely likely to precipitate a multi-car crash.

Heck: this is the type of situation which most self-drive systems currently have a very hard time dealing with - a stationary vehicle where they don't expect it.
Same for the U.K., Germany, The Netherlands, and Switzerland based on my experience in each; however this is the opposite of my concern, as I’m saying the American map that Amtrack are trying to show off with looks worryingly blank.
Adaptive cruise control + lane assist can keep the car in your lane at highway speeds without input in specifically clear weather and well-marked roads and as long as the road doesn't curve too much. Lane assist doesn't work when the lane markers are obscured, so it fails specifically during the times you find lane keeping stressful.
Couldn’t agree more. It can be scary at times, but at least you’ll feel intrinsically at ease.
Here’s a a similar tool that’s been around for a while and works great: slidewriter.io
That is right. Note that there are many panic-like intentional crashes caused by various safeguards.
Just focusing on why hacker news exists in the first place, lots of start up people are just your normal American that thinks they will be future millionaires. That they are special and full of merit. Corporate culture nurtures this and of most people turned away from that here they would be utterly lost.
> just fucking sleep at the same time every night.

I’ve had excellent success doing the exact opposite. I get up at the same time every morning: 4:30AM (have been doing this for a decade now). I want to be asleep within 5 minutes of laying down in bed. If that’s not possible, I stay awake until it is.

I usually go to sleep between 9 and 9:30PM. Every once in a while I stay up until 11 or 12 or fall fast asleep at 8. Once every few months I’ll sleep in until 7:30AM.

The biggest advantage to me is that I’ve made no other lifestyle changes. I’ll drink a coffee at 4PM, have an awful cheap bed, use screens until I’m ready to sleep, don’t need any substances to fall asleep, etc. I just sleep when I’m tired.
Project Veritas? Really? These are the guys who have cut together several "Homer Badman" style videos of their political opponents and tried to pass them off as news. They also tried to plant literal fake news and were caught[1] by a traditional media organization. I'll be surprised if this lawsuit results in anything.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42150322
Sum-types are missing in your list ("either A or B").
On the positive, the personalities you’ll be forced to work with at YCombinator companies is made clear by the fanaticism found in the comments here.
Ask HN: Is there any way to remove corporate buying from PC sales data?
For 25 years, I've been reading press releases from Gartner (https://9to5mac.com/2020/01/13/idc-gartner-pc-mac-sales-q4-2019/), trying to convince me that using Linux or buying a Mac was a futile move, which would doom me to computing irrelevancy. Back in the 90's and 00's, this made more sense. Now, however, about half the people I know are using Apple products, and I'm convinced that these global sales figures are being propped up because of corporate sales. My gut feeling is that it's 50/50 these days. I'm very interested in getting the purely-personal sales data extracted from the set, and using that for the comparison. Is it possible to get a personal/corporate breakdown of sales from, say, Dell, or Best Buy? A few of those data points might paint a very different picture than the one Gartner has been peddling for the WinTel industry for decades.
Lane assist during a snow storm would be a game changer. The number of times you end up driving in poor conditions in the northland is a pain. The 2008 Kia Rio had the best window for driving in snow. The A-frame window that looked directly at the center line was brilliant.
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I want this built into notion.
Sounds like prima facie to me.
Inferior in the same way your chrome sandbox is inferior to node because it can’t access system files.
The negativity here reminds me that there is a spectrum among engineers: between high-level and low-level thinking, between goals and means, between abstractions and operations, between simplification and optimization. Most sit somewhere in the middle, but if you put two people on opposite sides into a discussion, you’re going to see fireworks. “My implementation runs 10x as fast” verses “My implementation is maintainable.” Both types of thinking are necessary, but you need to know where the other person is coming from.

This essay is a thought-piece, exploring possibilities. It isn’t a specification for a new form of computation. It’s an imagination of new possibilities.

And as such, it has a lot of merit.

Take a look at “Weight Agnostic Neural Networks” by Adam Gaier and David Ha at Google Brain: https://weightagnostic.github.io. Their research shows that very small RL neural networks can be evolved with shared weights to solve control tasks. My immediate thought after reading the paper was that an FPGA would be well suited for this kind of model — certainly at inference, but possibly at training time considering that the model is trained without backprop. The limit on training becomes the latency in updating the FPGA during the training loop. Moreover, you should be able to run many versions of a model on a single FPGA by dividing it up into batches.

If there’s one thing we know about DL, it is that computational power always wins (The Bitter Lesson - http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html). You can tackle that in two ways: increasing compute or increasing compute efficiency. The Transformer started out as the latter: replacing sequential RNNs with parallel Attention. It seems likely that the next big breakthrough will also find a way to get 10x computation out of current hardware.

Maybe the idea of non-differentiable highly-customized networks will be that breakthrough. Maybe the essay is right that we’ll find the breakthrough with a new paradigm in hardware itself, Maybe not. It’s worth thinking about, if only because it is so fascinating.
The primary motivation was securities fraud, they raised billions in funding based on this lie.
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You need more than GPT3-generated text. As the article notes, slander sites often feature photos of specific individuals, taken from their social media profiles or other sources, and sometimes cropped in some way to make the target look even more ridiculous.
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If it was an object in your house, and they made it disappear and left you some money, that would be theft.

Thoughts?

I'm not convinced 'making digital goods disappear' is good. I know WHY it's done and totally understand the justification, but I continue to dislike and distrust the practice.

Should we normalize the idea that everything we own is fungible, at the discretion of a third party, for its exchange value? Under what conditions do they get to swap out our property for replacements or money?
The last sentence "There was no importance to what I was doing, but ultimately there was. The diagrams and the whole business that I got the Nobel Prize for came from that piddling around with the wobbling plate." reminds me of Steve Jobs' speech at Stanford - "Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backward 10 years later."
From the J&J trial results [1]:

Vaccine efficacy (VE) against central laboratory-confirmed moderate to severe/critical COVID19 across all geographic areas in which the trial was conducted was 66.9% (95% CI 59.0, 73.4) when considering cases occurring at least 14 days after the single-dose vaccination and 66.1% (55.0, 74.8) when considering cases occurring at least 28 days after vaccination.

I have seen estimates as low as 40-something % for single doses of the mRNA vaccines, but this may have been an underestimate caused by only considering the first two weeks after inoculation. Given enough time for immunity to fully set in, the real number may be over 90% [2].

HOWEVER, those numbers all refer to symptomatic disease. Prevention of hospitalization and death was 100% in the J&J trial.

[1] https://www.fda.gov/media/146217/download

[2] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2036242
This is about indemnifying the manufacturers, exactly what the USA did. Why is it unthinkable for other countries to do the same?
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes
So what you're saying it that's it's utterly essential for the posters complaining about The NY Times to source their claims? Why don't they do it then?
Throw back to how Tesla promoted Autopilot as recently as 2019:

>Full Self-Driving Hardware on All Cars

>All Tesla vehicles produced in our factory, including Model 3, have the hardware needed for full self-driving capability at a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190118080103/Tesla.com/autopil...

Seemed very confident about it at the time...
hard pass.

even python is not used for data science, all heavy lifting is done in C/fortran, and python is just a glue
So what do you do for a living nowadays?
If Apple released Xcode for iPad, it'd highlight all the inadequacies of iPadOS and iPad's form factor (in its pure undocked state).

Development needs a proper keyboard, and a significant screen real estate. An on-screen keyboard shared with Xcode's UI, and further splitting the screen with the app being developed would be very cramped.

iPadOS also has no consideration for command-line tools and shared things that don't belong to any app-silo. If you ever needed something not built-in into Xcode.app, it'd be awkward clash with sandboxing. Is Xcode build supposed to launch a Siri Shortcut of Ruby.app to run a script, with all the GUI animations in between?
The many histories of biological psychiatry: Anne Harrington, DPhil (2020)
They did ask those questions, and it was their defense in court in many cases. Unfortunately, due to a few factors - lack of funds for competent defense lawyers (many of the accused had to represent themselves against the huge teams of Post Office prosecutors), insular court process that involved only internal Post Office investigators and prosecutors, false information given by the Post Office to the accused that they were "the only ones having this problem", "say you're guilty of false accounting and we'll drop the more serious theft charge", and finally, the union representing the accused sided with the Post Office and offered no help at all (and, bizarrely, the Post Office was and I believe still is the major funding source for that union... I'll leave you to do the speculation...)

In addition, the Horizon system only offered the accused the "client-side" data, so to speak - they could see what they had inputted and what the system had printed out. They couldn't see any kind of internal transaction data, or what happened to the data once it was inputted. Post Office repeatedly obstructed attempts of the accused, their lawyers, and even the third-party auditor they hired to examine the system for faults to retrieve that data - likely because they knew that handing over that data would immediately show the flaws in the system.

The whole thing just stinks of corruption, to be honest.
Yep I don’t get why they always build these fantastic concept cars but always dumb down the design for the release.

Interestingly in some podcast Franz von Holzhausen (the guy responsible for Teslas design) mentioned that he was tired of always designing concept cars and never releasing them before he went to work at Tesla.
I will second refactoring UI. It is how I learned design.
The winter storm in Texas did a big damper on NXP, Samsung, etc. Some fabs are not at 100% so I highly doubt it's going to take 6 months to recover.
It is not necessary for bad software to remain bad. There may be a reason for some decisions, but it does not mean that such decisions must be permanent.

Xcode 12 UX is an example where Apple seemed willing to invest. There may be reasons pbxformat is bad, but there is no reason Xcode 13 or 14 couldn't address them. After all, it's only software.
Banks moved a lot of operations from London to Frankfurt due to Brexit.
“Balanced and justified criticism.” This is the flag. The tell. Lots of people claiming no ideology on here which is ironically a very problematic ideology in itself. What isn’t justified about dragging google. Sorry, if you don’t think that is justified then I don’t think your knowledge is balanced. Might have too much corporate look aid!
So I'm not sure how we get to that reasonably priced point.

Well I'm no expert, but other countries seem to be managing it just fine.
Customized car parts are often a major part of a subvendor's revenue, but they are stuck in a monopsony situation - nobody but audi will buy an audi rear seat height adjustment lever. The market power of large automakers mean that they can very quickly become the primary revenue source of a small vendor, and there's no collective action that various vendors can take against the automaker. The automaker can then get away with conditions like having the vendor pay massive penalties for not delivering a number of parts within a 15 minute time window, changing delivery volumes on short notice, or payment terms where they pay for parts months and sometimes years after they are delivered, and the vendor has to sit on their costs in the meantime. The vendor can't afford to lose the automaker as a customer, but they also can't afford to have enough margin to swallow a back-and-forth variation in demand without adjusting production volumes. In this case, the automakers ended up in a tight spot because they had fucked over all their vendors in this way simultaneously, and so ended up in a situation where their production lines were literally standing still because the vendors could not deliver as they had just finished adjusting to the previous change. This is when the automakers shifted to offering way-above-market money for product, because the alternative was massive losses from stuck production lines.
Yeah, fair points - I've not see the ioniq 5 live yet so will have to wait and see. I thought they'd nailed it as they had a longer wheelbase than normal. We'll see.

VW.ID Buzz looks pretty bad@ss, to be honest. But if we're going down that route, I'd be sending up some prayers for a VW.ID Beetle. I can dream.
> and also subsidized

Name a form of transport that isn't subsidized.
I don't know whether Apple/Google/Facebook-Oculus/Microsoft/Sony, etc. already noticed (most likely not), but I already stopped buying anything from them, for exactly the reason that they might terminate my account without even telling me why, and without a possibility to object or even talk to a human being.

In an ideal world, everybody would do so, and the problem would go away very quickly.
Note that New York to Chicago by Amtrak is so slow largely because there's no direct route. You either take the Great Lakes route going through Albany, Buffalo, and Cleveland, or the northeast corridor route to Washington DC and then another line to Chicago. The more direct Keystone line through Pennsylvania only goes as far as Harrisburg.
Used to think this but now I’m not so sure. If you aren’t already a skeptic I can’t imagine what else you need. People used to pay the national enquirer for fake news. People want to believe horrible things about other people and will not be encumbered by facts or rationality.
Well, it's a good thing nothing like that exists anywhere online. :)
> It’ll be okay.

That's just terrific. Thank you for sharing.

I'm sorry for your loss.
I'll take inferior and well tested over superior and untested any time.
You know what would be a great idea? After closing down so many businesses that we had to have the treasury print money to give to the tax payers, we take it right back...
Not everyone optimizes for fast or cheap. Some prioritize comfort, or scenery, or not-being-in-an-airplane for whatever reason.

Some really enjoy getting off at one stop for a while, and getting on the next train and continuing the journey. Or just deciding that this place looks nice, and getting off here. Try that in an airplane...

There's a growing niche of transoceanic travel by container-ship and bulk freighter, too. It's neither cheap nor fast, and that's the point. It's truly unplugged, where the journey is part of the destination.

Throughout the entirety of human history except the last hundred years or so, long distance travel has been a borderline-boring activity. Maybe that's not such a bad thing -- our brains need some downtime to reflect and defrag. We're just starting to appreciate en masse that "monotonous" can be kissing-close to "meditative". Rail is part of that, and as people catch onto that, it's making a comeback.
Why are you assuming exponentiation is constant time? For machine integers it near-enough is, but there are fewer than 100 Fibonacci numbers that fit in a 64-bit integer so you may as well use a lookup table. For arbitrary precision integers it definitely isn't.
Dogemusk: A New Generation of Meme Token That Exposes Centralized Cabals
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As Vitalik Buterin once said:

"Excessive and naïve reliance on any formalism intended to decentralize authority can inadvertently have the perverse effect of reestablishing monopolies and oligarchies. Only by making technical systems that offer a variety of mechanisms for checking concentrations of power and by simultaneously building social ideologies constantly on the lookout for failure modes of these mechanisms can we hope to succeed where previous attempts at decentralizing authority have failed."

While we see first-hand the ridiculous amount of concentrated power platforms such as CoinMarketCap, Etherscan, CoinGecko have and how that may choke many projects which do not belong to their cliques or cabals supported by the same group of VCs.

To embrace Vitalik's vision of radical decentralization, no one will own Dogemusk. Dogemusk will grow itself as an embodiment of the radical decentralized future that first attracted me to the crypto sphere.

If you want to help contribute to the Dogemusk ecosystem and build fun and meaningful applications with MUSK, send me a message or develop yourself.

And if you as centralized exchanges want to list MUSK, do as you wish and check our bulletproof code and simply add MUSK to your exchanges. We will not play your pay-per-play sponsorship game as I know too many ins and outs of this circus show.

If we do not embrace radical decentralization, we will soon become the Draculas and Goliaths we are trying to slay when we first embarked on this crypto journey.

Some Links:

https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/the-meaning-of-decentrali...

https://t.me/offcialdogemusk

https://www.dextools.io/app/uniswap/pair-explorer/0x1964b392...

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5332807.0

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The cars by themselves are really good. But the problem for musk is without self driving the electric is already commoditized and so the value proposition will be a race to the bottom on prices. So he is hyping FSD and selling cars.
Nothing on the internet is funnier than the Elon Musk police. Just see a therapist or something.
> What is Waymo waiting for then if they are this far?

Quoting from the gp: "in our defined operational conditions."

The operational conditions (weather, location) are probably way too limited
Tesla M3 lane assist works well at high speeds with heavy rain (dark conditions but not night iirc). It felt like it was better in recognising the lanes than me, maybe because the front camera is mounted higher than my eyes :D
I created Dogemusk as a direct response to Dogelon, especially for the amount of nepotism it has shown regarding its expedited listings on centralized token tracking websites such as Etherscan, CoinMarketCap, and CoinGecko.

Dogelon was created last night (04/22/2021), and within 1-2 hours of its listing, the token has been listed on those major tracking websites, which is very unheard of for a new and anonymous project. Other projects have development teams working very hard days and nights, and then the listing application to these token tracking websites takes weeks to fulfill. However, what makes you, Dogelon, so special and so privileged and so connected that you get listed within 1-2 hours?

This in my perspective, is the utmost display of nepotism and exposes a ton of centralized deal-making behind the scenes in a decentralized crypto world we are trying to build.

We are supposed to win by merits, not by shaking hands in the back, yet this is what's happening with centralized token tracking platforms such as Etherscan, CoinMarketCap and CoinGecko, they will favor a VC-backed project that they know or a project that's built by their friends or a project that's built by someone they want to suck up to for their own personal gains, at that process, many many fantastic projects with hardworking devs get their token listing applications ignored.
It was ordered to stop in Germany.
Is this a decentralized future we want to see? With 1-3 teams and each team with 3-5 people making decisions for thousands of projects and decide what is good (or more like what is convenient for their own advancement) and what is not? Especially when almost all projects early on only have one-page websites?

I started Dogemusk as a community-building experiment in direct response to Dogelon.

I do not have anyone to call, any VC to suck up to because as a software-oriented person who believes in fair opportunity and equal access, the presales and rounds of venture raising conducted by VCs directly go against building fundamental values for a company with equal access and opportunity for all. (Yes, some of you VCs who dumped 100-200x presale tokens on public token buyers with your ICO, IDO, pre-IDO, or whatever you call them).

I set the token supply to 1000 trillion, with 500 trillion sent to Vitalik Buterin. The other 500 trillion Dogemusk tokens were added to the Uniswap liquidity pool then sent the liquidity V2 tokens to burn address. I have no access to any of the tokens, and I have to get them in an open market on Uniswap like everyone else.

The future of DogeMusk is up to the community. We will not suck up to Etherscan, CoinMarketCap, and CoinGecko with their promotional packages and their ladder-climbing patronage and nepotism to get listed. We will thrive in decentralized exchanges.