skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NewStyle-Collinstar+Capital+to+Establish+$300M+Blockchain+Fund
I’ve noticed the number of Tesla cars on the road in SV is around 4%, possibly more. It surprising how quickly they’ve become commonplace, even on their home turf.
The 1975 SF police strike, which ended when the police detonated a bomb at the mayor’s house.
> No-one talks about this as a problem to solve.

Maybe you just don't read the right places because people definitely talks about this as a problem to solve. For example, Julia already stores e.g. inferred code in the precompile files. There isn't a huge leap to also stored actual compiled code from that. Just because it is possible to invalidate code and cause recompilation doesn't mean that it isn't worth storing ahead of time compiled code in the 99.9% cases where invalidation doesn't happen.
Well, green hydrogen costs about 3-4x the kwh it takes to charge an EV battery for the same distance. At 3-4x the cost, it's just not worth doing it. Besides, the infrastructure is simply not there. If you run out of battery, there are gazillions of options for getting a charge. If you run out of hydrogen, you can probably count the number of fueling points within the maximum range of the vehicle on one hand.

At that cost, hydrogen may never be worth the trouble. At least not for anything where battery is an option, which appears to be just about anything with wheels lately. The Tesla semi is about to hit production. 500 miles on a single battery for a heavy truck. Hard to argue spending 4x the energy on hydrogen for that. They are not the only truck manufacturer trying to target that market. At 4x the operational cost, the longer charging times are inconvenient but acceptable. And even those are coming down.

Green hydrogen (as opposed to converting coal/methane into hydrogen) is a very small market as of yet. Long term it might prosper. But short term, the best applications are probably those where batteries are just not feasible. By short term, I mean the next 30 years or so. Heavy transport, shipping, aviation, industry, etc. Plenty of growth opportunities there before even trying to compete with normal EV road traffic; which is becoming routine and very cost effective right now.
>It sounds to me like a measure of conformity,

yes. people need to realize if they want to work/live in japan stuff like this comes with the territory.
As someone on the spectrum as well, I have a question, if you don't like meeting new people, how are you supposed to collaborate with others? At Google at least, we need to work with people across teams all the time. Or you are hoping for a forever-remote gig?
Not true, Ford Mach-E is $42k at 305 EPA. $36k after tax credit, so even cheaper.
I don't think tests can ever replace specification, it's like trying to replace a mathematical proof with a computer experiment. Unless it's something like property-based tests, but even there..

My take on specification is that you encode it to be executable as your program, during development. Ideally, the program should encode the specs in the most straightforward way possible. To "specialize" the spec into tests first and then "generalize" it again from tests into a working program seems like unnecessary hassle, and frankly prone to information loss.

It's interesting, because as I state in another comment, I have a big disagreement with a guy who loves TDD. I guess I am a theorist (I derive my feeling of correctness from simplicity of the code) and he is an empiricist (he derives his feeling of correctness from many small tests), and it somehow defines our approach.
Gavin is hilarious. Check out his show Get Off My Lawn on censored.tv. Also partners with Anthony Cumia on some nice Compound media stuff.
A good 12-hour shift in the taxi for me was 200+ miles, with hopefully 1/2 of those paid miles.

I don't know what percentage of paid miles rideshare drivers can get. My friend recently took a 60+-mile ride share trip. That driver certainly had to drive most of the way back empty.
Coding by yourself can obviously done anywhere. Working with other people is much faster and easier in person, and arguably the more important part of the job for high level engineers. This is why I think hybrid office/remote is a pretty solid approach.
Let's not forget a certain government lab originating pathogen that made quite a stir at around the same time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks
I'm also intolerant to citric acid. It's good to see it come up here as it's hard to find 'paper' on it and this community cross-references into interesting fields, which are absent most of the places I've been able to find any information about it.
Elon mentioned that they are targeting 20 million vehicles (per year) by 2030. See the Battery Day presentation for more context.
Hahahaha.. this is brilliant!!

And treat this comment as an acknowledgement for all future occasions on which I quote you.
And then what? They send it to some collection agency, who sends you letters reminding you over 2-3 years...and..if the amount is a couple of hundred€ drop the matter...it'd cost them more to pursue it further...
Toyota bet on Hydrogen, and that bet has failed to pay off.
> When the reality is: if you work in tech you're likely receiving good health insurance coverage from your employer, and you're simultaneously paying lower taxes than in Germany.

As long as you don't get fired and as long as you don't get sick. But yeah. If you are young, healthy and in tech you have good health insurance in the US. Congratulations.

So, maybe, when we foreigners talk about this aspect of the US healthcare system we understand completely how it works and just don't see it as equivalent.
I'm not sure why the gap is so different here, but in the states a model 3 SR+ is $39,990 before incentives while a prius prime MSRP is $28220, which is pretty significant difference (40% ~ difference)

Plus in the states there's also subsidies available for plug-in hybrids, not sure about finland.
I bought at 48k car in Q1 partially because of the autonomy potential. If FSD doesn't meet your expectations then don't buy it.
I didn't say Assange could take advantage of whistle blower protections. Just that it's weird that the govt provides whistle blower protections at the same time that it "abuses the justice system to stop the publication of embarrassing information"

The US Govt publishes embarrassing information almost daily. The issue is more complicated than this forum leads on but its clear to me which side of the issue you all fall on judging by all my downvotes.
True. Cliche almost. More cultural than linguistic. Plenty of (usually different) contexts in America or the UK where "Mhm", "sure", and "we are looking forward to moving ahead with that" means nuh-uh.
> looks like the explosive growth came to a halt

128% YoY growth in gross profit

998% YoY growth in GAAP Net Income

920% YoY growth in GAAP EPS

151% YoY growth in production

120% YoY growth in deliveries

All the while building out two more factories and going through a global pandemic and supply shortage.

Yup. Definitely looks like it's come to a halt.
4. is actually true -- in certain SF bay area it probably needs 2 dev salaries to get a house now.
The compile time latency is really bad for some libraries. I was recently testing out computing class groups using https://github.com/oscar-system/Oscar.jl and was surprised to hit *several minute* latency due to LLVM compilation. For me, the most striking things are that (1) there is no indication in the REPL that calling a function is slow due to LLVM compilation, rather than the function actually running, and (2) it is difficult to avoid paying the compilation penalty every single time you restart Julia, since caching the JIT in general is a technically very, very difficult problem. I wonder if there is an easy fix for (1) that I don't know about: some way of showing a spinner or something saying "I'm compiling code right now".
I kindly disagree. It may appear that chess is a memoization game, but when or if you want to become a master of the game , you'll notice that rote learning will not take you there.

You do need to understand phases of the game, set up strategy, estimate your position, know when to attack or to defend, and have confidence in your technique.

Mind you, that is only for the plain master title (FIDE or even a national master). Grandmasters are a whole new level in comparison, aliens.
Linux Mint 20.2 arrives: Top desktop Linux keeps improving
It's enough to have the ability to turn off audio. That's useful for restroom breaks, but also for when officers are not interacting with the public, since they should have some privacy for cooler talk (well, maybe they should, or maybe they shouldn't, but I've not thought enough about that myself).
This is cool! Similar to one of the goals I'm trying to accomplish with Archivy (https://archivy.github.io) with the broader goal of not just storing your digital presence but also acting as a personal knowledge base.
An interesting opposite is happening as well. Presumably due to their confidence regarding their electric vehicle palette the Volkswagen CEO appears to be shifting towards lobbying against ICE vehicles in Germany: https://twitter.com/herbert_diess/status/1418174370850222087
Also plain old social anxiety and performance anxiety!
I've always been bullish tesla and a lot of the arguments against them ignore the underlying ideas (will electric vehicles, power storage and solar be major areas?). I think the power storage piece is also going to just be huge and would love if they let their cars feed into a transfer switch etc.

The stock price does seem very high though even if you DO buy into their story (which I do) - but a lot of the stock market feels high - just a lot of money sloshing around these days.
Ranchpal – Think AI perspective. Think sustainable farming
Not when there’s an alarm clock set.
What's needed is qualitative not quantitative change, AI needs a fundamental breakthrough to mimic natural cognition to some minimal degree, but it's all pseudo-science at this point unfortunately.

The current deep learning approach is a dead end.
I think there are two main reasons cited by companies. First, protection of IP - they see it as easier to protect Intellectual Property if work is done on site (this is 10x for government contracts). Second, there is a fear that employees are goofing off. I've found I generally work harder remote, to ensure I am visibly being productive. The belief in many managers though is that if you're not 'butt in seat' at the office then they can't look over what you are doing.

I don't think either of these arguments hold water, for the reasons below.

First, with a VPN and modern controls on means of exfiltration you are able to maximize your protection against IP theft as well as to monitor your developers (see second point below though). That said, if a smart thief is going to steal your data, if they have physical access, if they are willing to accept the risk (this places doubt on smarts), and if they put the time and effort in, then they will likely manage to steal something.

Next, trust your people, but verify. Hire the best you can, pay them well so they are happy, and treat them like valued people. When hiring use background investigations, etc. to vet. The more you monitor, the more you say you don't trust them. The more they don't feel trusted, the less happy they'll be. The less happy they are, the more likely they are to leave or worse, commit the theft.

Last, a riff off the previous point. If you get good people, treat them well (incl. help when they have issues), and trust them to do their jobs - most people will perform at their best in a reliable and consistent manner.
This - before the update to Model S that included the rear screen, it was getting REALLY hard to figure out why you would want to pay 2x for an electric car unless you wanted the... ventilated seats? marginal range improvement?

If 500+ mile range becomes an S/X exclusive for a few years, feels like they need to do more to differentiate.
The fact that cheap sedans have such a low profit share in the industry, and already get great mileage, probably means that will be one of the last ICE segments to get eroded.
Thank you for the link. FWIW, as I understand it, that indicates that social is neither the majority, nor the most common form of breach, but it is increasing over time.

That's the problem with using first hand experience. Unless you're doing a statistical review and your experience is actually collating data, the chance that your experience accurately reflects real world data is wildly dependent on the topic, and with one with as many variables as this, I would expect the chance a statement like that be correct more akin to luck than an correctly inferred results from a relevant subset of data. i.e. What industry you work in, what your actual job is, and what you already know about it is likely to wildly influence what you see. Even someone working in the security industry is likely to see only a subset related to their job/interests.
What is the return on investment of a decentralized world?
What is the return on investment of a centralized world?
I would rather there be a way to turn off audio than have the camera come off its officer.
> I believe the reason is that while Pinyin's X and Q may sound like "sh" and "ch" to English speakers, they are actually different sounds (and contrast with the "sh" and "ch" sounds that also exist in Mandarin).

Neither Mandarin sh nor x exist in English. X is sharper and is a little more like shy-, whereas sh is darker and a little like shr-. In reality they both strike English speakers as being quite like sh, because we use the space differently.

I've heard various native English speakers who are fluent in Mandarin saying e.g. Xi as Si. I don't know if there's a dialectal difference in English or in Mandarin or both that accounts for it.

> That said, I still wonder why -ui was chosen for "wei"

It looks better, if you have a certain aesthetic.

> "shi" is pronounced "shr"

As far as I know Mandarin speakers just consider them the same. Pinyin is designed for native speakers.

> "-ian" is pronounced "yen"

The e in Pinyin isn't really the English e sound. It's more like the American short u in fun or the NZ short i in pin. It's not obvious what letter to use to represent that, but e is not completely unreasonable. When they do have an e-sound according to the internal logic of Mandarin, it's a variant of an a-sound.
Whilst crypto maximalists can be annoying, there's also anti-crypto maximalists such as the source you're linking to.

It is legitimate to raise the Tether concern yet he confidently drops into very binary conclusions driven by his pure hate for crypto.

For example, his claim that it's 100% a scam whilst this fact isn't established.

Or calling any trade in crypto "shady". This one shows his true colors. A huge amount of people just deposit dollars on a KYC exchange, then buy and sell whatever crypto they fancy.

None of this is shady. It's fully legal, taxes are paid, it's like stocks. Yet according to him, any trade in crypto is shady.

Or, the claim that the 800 billion market cap of Bitcoin is solely based on Tether. That's an absurd statement.

As said, maximalists can be extreme, but so can anti-maximalists. He deeply hates any and all crypto, has zero nuance, and is not open to any type of discussion.
I hope they are close to deciding where the next few factories will go. They probably need to start building those as soon as Texas and Berlin begin production.
As a sci-fi writer just starting out, what suggestions do you have for me?
Hi, everyone

I'm currently working on my sci-fi short The Imagine Machine, and a sci-fi series The Creationist Game. As someone quite new in this area, and I know I'd run into some pro-readers here, what are the suggestions you have to a sci-fi writer?

Honestly, I will be touching on topics that I knew some might get offended. Examples being, if you guys recall Peter Thiel's question on: What is the thing that you believe in but no one else does?

Well, I believe we are not all human.
I know this is so, anti humanity, but theoretically speaking, if monkeys and human were of the same ancestor, then at one point up in the genetic tree, we were considered both monkeys. The divergence must've happened down the hill somewhere. So, in the eyes of those in the future, we may or may not remain human.

I fleshed out this debate in my book. Do you guys think I'm get in trouble for this?

AWK me
> One characteristic of self-organizing processes is random fluctuations that can be amplified by local interactions between agents.

It is going to be amazing when we are able to design self organizing organisms and create emergent behavior at will. Our current infrastructure is efficient but fragile, the same applies to software. Even that we are already moving in that direction. Dozens of pods on Kubernetes are more resilient that a more traditional active/passive architecture. Smaller more numerous components controlled by environment status instead of direct control is getting closer to this type of design.
> Maybe things have to be a billion times better before we get real FSD?

One problem with this kind of estimation is that it's not actually clear that we can get there from "here" using current approaches. If it turn we can't, estimation is pretty hopeless if history tells us anything about putting a timeline on breakthroughs...
Thanks for being honest, far too many people cannot admit they are wrong and double down and call Tesla a fraud only making them look worse in the future. I've certainly been wrong about companies before. I shorted AAPL for a week in 2002.
The erosion of trust in our institutions is of paramount importance to undermining their legitimacy. This is a painful necessary part of the project.
How do you know they live in an exurb? Maybe they just live in a town two hours away? Why do they live in that town and work in another? Maybe they have family or social responsibilities that force it - I don't know and neither do you.
Hmm, my goal is to do something memorable during a workday and not just showing up.

Let alone the fact that in IT, you can rarely produce something worthwhile after 4-6 hours.

It would also be hard to respect arbitrarily chosen rules, that have no proven effect on productivity.

It's hard to see Japan being competitive with archaic rules like the above.
3nm and the future 2nm and 1nm is all with research from Europe.
At this point, I don’t believe a word this man says. Everything has been turned upside down because of politics and my trust and faith in government scientist is approaching zero.
I'm not sure we should answer homework questions here, but this one is cute so...

At first sight it seems like O(N log(N)) at worst, because the outer loop does log(N) iterations.

But you can actually get tighter. The number of inner loop iterations is

N + (N/2) + (N/4) + ... + 1
<= N + (N/2) + (N/4) + ...
= N (1 + 1/2 + 1/4 + ...)
= N 2

so we can write O(2N).
Then ignore that line, the rest is nevertheless relevant.
Technically, you're right, but I think a centralized database doesn't provide much trust beyond current govt reporting methods.

The nice thing about decentralized blockchains for government transparency is that it is absolute and mandatory.

I'd worry that a centralized database would simply omit some expenditures if they were used for black-ops or things that could otherwise hurt the reputation of the government.
Arrow is just an intermediary
That hasn't stopped government officials from unmasking the identities of people in intercepts for political purposes.

For example, Tucker Carlson, Gen. Flynn, and others.

It's better not to have the record around where politicos can be tempted to abuse it.
yes, this is the dark part. The stated premise is actually quite good though -- it's the hidden intent and implementation are both no bueno ...
That's great to hear. I found some info about it which looks promising.

https://www.npopov.com/2020/05/10/Make-LLVM-fast-again.html
Sounds great doesn't it? Too bad in reality with public insurance you get the basic care, while with private insurace (more equivalent to the US system) you get much more.

For example you can find German news articles about how public insurance doesn't cover some tests that confirm/deny if you have some life threatning condition or not, even if you have all the symptoms and the doctors says that's the next step - while private insurance does cover additional tests.

And private health insurance is only available to individuals earning well above the average German salary.
I, like many veterans, love the VA.
https://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/pressrelease.cfm?id=5328

My understanding is that that the veterans' choice private options would still have been payed for by the VA.

https://www.va.gov/COMMUNITYCARE/providers/index.asp
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpomete...
I have found this comment on liburing[0] which clarifies some things for me. So is it because something like getaddrinfo is not just a simple operation, but a hodgepodge of stuff like "first try nscd, then read resolv.conf, then make a bunch of requests using one of many different protocols"?

I think I have a lot more to learn about DNS...

[0] https://github.com/axboe/liburing/issues/26#issuecomment-738...

> [re: implementing getaddrinfo] It's not planned because it's not a single operation but a complex beast reading files, exchanging messages, etc. IMHO, as it's not a single operation it fundamentally doesn't fit liburing, but implementing under some framework on-top would be more viable.
Our entire neighborhood seems to have at least 1, sometimes 2 each in Cupertino/Los Altos.
Fair question.

We've had a few articles recently about disinfo, notably the disinfo for hire one[1] as well as a good piece on Assange[2]. I thought it was an interesting counterpoint.

The Colbert vid in your sibling's comment is a doozy, btw, you should definitely check it if this interests you!

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27958095

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27952463
That's a bit of a dark pattern. It popped up asking cookie permissions, and THEN took me to a page to pay for a subscription before I could read the article.

Perhaps they could wait to see if I would pay for the subscription before opening the cookie floodgates?

Here's another link to the article, for those who haven't subscribed. It's an interesting situation for sure: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/croatia-s-plan-to-put-tesla-on-e...
2018 Video Shows Dr. Fauci REINSTATING Gain-of-Function Research at NIH - Defending Its Use

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjUd5otL-ms
But that's not a hostile situation. He didn't engage you at all.

He felt uncomfortable and moved away. Maybe over-dramatically, but it didn't cause you or anyone else, including himself, any harm. Again, I encountered this behavior too. It made me feel uncomfortable, but it was understandable. Some people just don't feel comfortable. Honestly I'd rather someone do something to feel more comfortable than let me invade their space and bother them.

Not sure on the rules in the US, but bars and restaurants can certainly restrict people from entering for various reasons.