jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I agree with all of what you are saying.
But, the truck shown lacks wipers or side mirrors, it has a brake light on the tailgate (illegal in the US so the design they ship will need an entirely different rear design due to the 100% width tailgate), they didn't actually test their glass before smashing it twice on stage, the most common pick up designs are single cab, not crew cab but their design is not adaptable to a single cab design, the bed is shorter than the F150's, Rear visibility is much worse than competition(in fairness the AP cameras will help), they are back to the Roadster's Yoke Style steering wheel which has been proven to be unsafe (as it lacks grab points and is uncomfortable for one handed use (you can't 10 and 2 it)). It very clearly is half baked and an attempt to hit every one of a set of crazy goals much like the Roadster 2 when they should be trying to just ship 1.0. This is Model X all over again, it will be late, over promised to the point where they will spend crazy money making it actually happen and when it does ship it will lose money because it costs too much to make.

To be clear, I think it looks freaking awesome and I would love to own one. I also think they still have not shipped the Roadster or Semi, the Model S and X refresh is next year and the Model Y is still a year plus away even though it shares most parts with the 3. This is the same story as Apple's iOS 13 launch, they have packed their schedule with cars to finish while building a bunch of new factories, while just a year ago they were taking all of Tesla Solar's employees and putting them on the model 3 R&D line. I'm bearish on this not because I hate what they have done in the past but because I want them to actually succeed mass market and be stable. Keep in mind, the truck market is supposed to be a larger market in the US (but more than 2X) than the Model 3's segment. Why can't they just ship a good, shippable, profitable truck with Tesla's DNA? It's like the falcon doors, a bit power mad, in a year this is going to be the example people use to say why Elon should not be CEO of Tesla and it sucks, because Elon at his best is probably the best CEO around, at his worst he will trash the company for a cool looking truck.
It's definitely relevant to a general discussion about trucks. I just couldn't tell if I was missing something and it was somehow directly related to trucks in urban environments.
French speaking Canadian, I still say soixante-dix, quatre-vingt, and quatre-vingt-dix.
A credit card number/CVV/Expiration Date allows you to make transactions, but doesn't give you transaction _history_. Online banking username/password do give you full transaction history. My point was that giving away username/password is a terrible idea from a privacy standpoint compared to entering your CC.
Not sure about the top part. I know several programmers, mathematicians, etc. who think they are geniuses and other fields are trivial.
I have no issue with zero-indexing. It is just inconsistent. Either everything should be zero index or nothing should. In this case nothing should.
Couldn't we just piggy-back off of GPS signals? They are, after all, an array of orbiting atomic clocks...
I like the idea of Soylent, but everything I have read lately on nutrition seems to suggest that gettings vitamins and minerals from real food should be a priority and is against multivitamins. I wonder what is people's view on Soylent as a replacement for fruits/vegetables? Is the nutritional makeup somehow different from a multi-vitamin? If it isn't, then it just seems like an overpriced protein powder alternative. I can't seem to find any info on their site.
There is something to be said for not taking DRY to extremes. This appears to be one of those extremes.
Do you know of an example that shows category theory being applied to solving a CS problem ?

From what little I've seen of it category theory seems to be more abstract than conventional abstract algebra and I've rarely heard of even group theory used in the development of an algorithm
Agreed. The Netflix Prize was $1M, and this doesn't seem like just 1% of the work. Not to mention Netflix only required an non-exclusive unrestricted license from the winning entry, rather than full reassignment of copyright (see tgflynn's comment.)
I really do not see why this behaviour is unacceptable.

It cannot be unacceptable to have accidents. Or, you can choose to not accept it if you like but they will still happen.

This was not a serious accident like a poisoning due to dodgy food labelling or a car crash or a bulldozer knocking her house down, and therefore it does not require legislation and it certainly does not require "horrific pentalties".
totally needs some collaborating features to be useful for a team.
Heh, this question gets posted every time something from my blog appears on HN.

It's a live-chat tool for websites that I'm testing for a friend and his startup. Honestly it's proving pretty useless with the kind of traffic I'm getting (high churn), but on websites with videos or long posts it's pretty awesome.
For shredding, I picked up the Fellowes Powershred W-11C Cross-Cut Shredder. Also not super cheap, and pretty noisy (what shredder isn’t)

My Fellowes Powershred MS-450Cs isn't. I paid $170 for it, but totally worth it as I hate the loud shredders.
I wouldn't drink Earl Grey with milk. Earl Grey has a strong perfumed aroma from the bergamot orange; I might add lemon to it, but not milk. Milk goes best with strongly steeped black tea because it takes an edge off the bitterness.
Key phrase: tyranny of the majority.

You can bet that the founders and VC's (or other institutional investors) own a super-majority of the shares. Therefore, they can simply write the rules to give themselves whatever they want. For even more fun, sub-groups of VC's can team up to force out founders or other VC's.

One way this is typically done is to increase the share count by 10X, then sell these new shares for 10 cents on the dollar to a sub-group of new investors.

As an existing shareholder, you MAY have the right to buy into such a deal, but only if you are a "qualified investor", meaning that you have substantial liquid wealth. Otherwise, you'll be left sitting on the sidelines.

Even in a "normal" acquisition, the current shareholders will have to vote on the deal, so it's not uncommon for the large shareholders to cut lucrative side deals with the buyer that give them much more profit than the average shareholder.
Correct me if I'm wrong. But this refers only to unsupported interpreted code right? Ruby for example, is OK according to this section?
First, a quick clarification of 'successful'.

This should almost be one of his points. (I agree with his enumerated points.) Figuring out what you want from blogging or writing or anything really is half the battle.
Labour used to be much cheaper. The master builders could afford to build beautiful buildings with twiddly adornments.

Where I was living earlier this year was near Guildford, in Perth, Australia. Not far away is the old Midland Rail Yard. The site is dominated by three giant industrial sheds built for rail engine maintenance. Internally they look much like any 1900s factory, with brute thick walls to support fixed cranes and fantastic natural light from 2-story wall windows and sawtooth roof windows.

Outside the brickwork is formed into lovely arches with tasteful adornments. All in all these utterly functional buildings are beautiful.

(Only half-decent photo I could find online: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sengster/134135743/in/photostre...)

Today you could not justify the cost. Brickwork of that kind takes too long and so costs serious money; windows like those allow too much heat in. So instead we get lego buildings, giant concrete cubes without soul or feeling.

Where the money is spent these days is no longer on craftsmanship, it's on wanktastic monuments to some puffed up architect's desire to win an architecture award. Go find a building in your city that has won any such award since the 60s. Dollars to donuts it is ugly and impractical.
Probably, but part of the reason I didn't want to register for a new account was just so I wouldn't have to go through inputing all my information again.
"The sources of information you place value in purposely use that narrative in order to capture your attention long enough to sell their advertising partners' products. Fear is the most powerful attention mechanism available."

Haha. You mean documented evidence of crime and real people that have been robbed? You're right. I should just ignore it and chock it up to "fear".

The story linked here tries to get me with sympathy instead of fear. You shouldn't fall victim either.
> As great as it would be for the government to be completely transparent, that is simply not practical.

That's a naked assertion. Do the thought experiment: What if there was a "super-Snowden" who, after a warning to enable spies to escape, leaked ALL classified information. Everything. The whole ball of wax.

How much day to day security would the US lose? Would the Russian navy land on the shores of Brooklyn? Would the Chinese somehow become an instant dominant power? The fact is, Snowden did not ding our security one bit. The transparency he forced was probably beneficial.

So let's stipulate there is some down-side to total transparency. Would you take the bet that the benefits are greater than the costs?
> I don't think that you can bring up 'fast driving' on the US side of things, if you want to compare yourself to Europe. What am I missing?

I think I made it clear that I am talking about population averages. Average speeds depend substantially on how much driving is done on slow city streets versus high-speed arterials and highways, not on how fast the top-end highway speed is.

Americans drivers spend more time on highways, and especially on fast suburban arterials, compared to their European counterparts. Your 90km commute at 200km/h is atypical.
There is a strong advantage to a homogenous ISA. I am glad to see that newer chips have more full support of these instructions. Maybe they are still emulating them with micro-ops without real acceleration still convenient.

Regarding the mobile lineup and AVx2, honestly I wouldn't know. It is very much possible that they disabled it to avoid competing with higher lineups. But a more likely (IMO) reason is that to add 256 bit support added enough costs that the were either unacceptable or simply aren't justified by target workloads when evaluated in simulations.

The physical reasons I was alluding to revolve around power, area, and capacitance (delay). These inform the cost ($$$) and performance of chips. Some of these big features (like AVX3) push the limits of what you can do without having to use high performance transistors or deal with intense power draws.

Another physical reason is that sometime parts suffer effects during manufacturing. Modern design of chips is inherently modular, so sometimes the only option is to disable certain parts of the chip.
A swivel chair works nicely for now, but I'm very eager to see what interface devices Oculus is working on.
If I had to guess, he's saying that at the current rate of software and research progress, we won't be able to cobble together the weak and specialized subsystems that we currently call "AI" into anything more interesting for quite some time. Not an altogether uncommon belief, esp. amongst those that specialize in robotics or other practical AI applications, because they know first-hand how hard it is to create humanlike behavior with any of the techniques we know of today.

But self improving AI is not remotely predictable based on our current progress, and really, it's not even the same field as what we call AI today: extrapolating our current progress to predict where we'll be in 50 years is like asking a bombmaker from 1935 to look at a log log plot of historical explosive power in bombs to try to predict what the maximum yield from a bomb in 1950 would be. It doesn't matter how slow the mainstream research is if someone finds a chain reaction to exploit, and it's impossible to predict when someone will successfully exploit that chain reaction.

IMO there's very good reason to believe that we're already deep into the "yellow zone" of danger here, where we have more than enough computational power to set off a self-improving chain reaction, though we don't actually know how to write that software. What we really have to worry about is that as time goes by, we creep closer to the "red zone", where we don't even need to know how to write the software because any idiot with an expensive computer can brute force the search through program space (more realistically, they would rely on evolutionary or other types of relatively unguided methods). That's exceptionally dangerous because the vast majority of self improving AIs will be hostile, and we want to make sure that the first to emerge is benevolent.

So yes, there's a lot of uncertainty here, but I think it's a mistake to say that we don't need to worry about it until it's here. By the time it's inevitable and the mainstream has started to even accept it as possible, it's probably going to be impossible to ensure that (for instance) some irresponsible government won't be the first to achieve it merely by throwing a lot of funding at the problem and doing it unsafely.
As I understand it, there can be a big difference in liability. Generally speaking, when you contract with someone, the liabilities are generally limited to what is defined within the contract. When you employ someone, you open yourself to the full spectrum of labor regulations and liabilities.
I use Hugo for a few things. I'd mostly recommend it.

But in the worst case it can take minutes and hundreds of megabytes to update my blog to S3, even for a simple text change.

Not amenable for quick updates, or updates in the field.

You can add layers of tools to improve it, of course. But then you're back to it not being much different to wordpress + CDN.
Up to 16 meters.
What do you think of the Belgian situation (closed borders, quarantine and generalized confinement) ? We are closing our borders and heavy fines are thrown around (4000€ for crossing the border) but it seems the Netherlands aren't going hard enough for the moment.
Talk about hacking willpower, I used to have a group of friends which we will set our own goals each month and place a $150 bet on it, to keep each other motivated throughout the month.
Herd immunity in Sweden is the strategy since day 1. Same as Netherlands.
It all comes down to:

1. If two users access the same page, do they see the same content?
2. How often do you update the content of the website?

The reason to ask yourself 1) is to know if the content has to be generated on the fly. If it's a blog post or a hospital "about" page, then the content is the same for everyone. There is definitely no need to fetch it from the database on every page load. Like Eric says, "get it down to static HTML and CSS".

Cases where the content is dynamic are social networks (FB, Twitter), search engines (Google, any ecommerce search feature), and any logged in content (cart, likes, friends…). For the latter, I've seen cases where the logged in content is only fetched via JS after the initial page load. This hybrid solution probably saves a lot of bandwidth.

The reason to ask yourself 2) is to know how long, as a content creator, you are willing to wait between updates. I can imagine that updates to a blog post or a hospital "about" page are allowed to take several minutes. In that case, static websites are favourable.

I guess the waiting time is correlated with the amount of updates: the higher the amount of updates, the shorter the waiting time you would want.

The reason why CMSs like WordPress are still popular is because of their ease of use. I've had several clients ask me specifically for a WP solution. I guess the issue is that it's hard to detach the dynamically-created content from a dynamically-served website. There are cache plugins, but I'm still looking for a custom solution where WP is only used as a non-public CMS, that then, at a push of a button, gets generated into a static website (or even a Gatsby one).
Relatedly, some engineering students from Tunisia created 3D printed protective masks and started supplying hospitals as they have a shortage of those. The prototype is open source : https://github.com/FAB619/Protection-Mask--COVID-19
That would be over 600 meters, impressive :p.
EDIT: the parent author corrected his entry to still impressive 16 meters.

And of course tides/sea level is almost the same duality as weather/climate.
Even your local circuit court probably has a 95%+ conviction rate. If you're innocent of a charge that carries 20 years and your attorney says you have 50/50 shot at trial of winning, or you can plea guilty and take probation what do you do?

Most people take it, and now they have a record. Any future fuck ups (guilty or not) and you're looking at real jail time.
What other options come to mind?
Well, it is easy. You just say it is, while your army of engineers slaves away in the background 6 days a week to prove you right. Tada!

Pharaoh: "Pyramids? Pffft, easy."
Letting the colours and fonts get in the way of something you admit 'could be amazing' seems a little short-sighted.
I wonder how much reduced the grief would be if systemd could run on top of another init process as just a supervisor (similar to how daemontools work, and runit can work).

but then the argument is that systemd needs to be init to properly manage the cgroups etc.
I wonder if you can turn around and face the glass walls when sitting, or if you have to have them to your back. If it's the latter, there's zero privacy advantage in this case to having a private office.
On this video the trajectory seems a bit weird. It looks like the rocket does its approach slightly to the right and afar, and then when it gets closer it changes direction and goes towards the camera, more or less in the direction of its tilt. As if the rocket began to tilt only around the end to a point the engine could not compensate anymore except by adding a large horizontal acceleration.
I think they're one and the same. Something about the will to power that drives people to amass that much wealth also means they don't respect or really care for social niceties.

And there's no reason for them to be nice to be effective - or even liked. Try talking about Jobs being less than a saint on HN and you'll get a lot of "But... iPhone!" as if creating fantastic products excuses moral failings.
I remember when the Atkins diet was a fad. I actually read the book. Eliminate sugar was half of the first chapter. What was in the rest of the book? Putting the sugary (nutrient rich) foods back after a few weeks so you don’t damage your organs. What did we have? Stories about people getting organ damage because they stayed in the induction phase for six months. Stories about idiots that only read ten pages.

What you are describing is an elimination diet, which does in fact heal digestive problems by eliminating all food you could be allergic to and then adding them back in one at a time.

You are describing an elimination diet as performed by an idiot that only read ten pages.
I generally restart only when necessary for updates and multiple months of uptime is pretty standard for me.
A link might be helpful: https://takeout.google.com
Enter Django.
Not sure if you mean this page or not:
https://www.phusionpassenger.com/
But as they say, it's an application server. Similar to mod_perl for apache/php, unicorn or indeed nodejs (which can function as an application server for Javascript).
Also this is not the first time Google acting dirty - Youtube working crazy slow in Firefox, 15-20 attempts needed to solve stupid reCAPTCHA in non-Chrome browser only.

Great reason to leave Google.
The people who hold btc consider the wealth made from it useful. BTC functions precisely as well as a payments system if the price is cut by 99%.
I keep meaning to try this out. Every time I boot a fresh Windows 10 install I am traumatized enough to walk away and not try again, though.

The install process is pretty bad - the same ancient UI that came from Longhorn. Towards the end you go through about 20 differnt checkboxes to un-toggle all the various annoying settings you don't want like tracking and advertisements on the login screen. Creating an account is also a headache - MSFT is really pushing the online signin stuff now. Everything also feels sluggish to me, but perhaps that is due to the machine I am using (i7-3770k, 16gb ram, but kinda old in general) and there just feels like an abundance of noise and crap everywhere (Windows explorer is like a junk drawer that wont close)

I ended up using it for one thing - I managed to pay Titanfall 2 through the entire campaign on an Xbox controller. That was a pretty fun experience. Recently I wiped the box to start giving Fedora a shot as a sidekick box.

I cannot quit macOS though. It is just too good at staying out of your way and not being annoying (I am on Mojave) - and the muscle memory is strong.

DHH's take resonates with me: https://m.signalvnoise.com/back-to-windows-after-twenty-year...
VR was of course developed independently by Barbara Liskov and Brian Oki and then revisited by Barbara Liskov with James Cowling.

However, it is common practice and perfectly acceptable to refer to VR as a variant of "Multi-Paxos" because that's actually EXACTLY what it is in theory, the protocol maps one-to-one, cf. Dan Ports (he explains it nicely here, see slide 46 if you want his bumper sticker version): https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/csep552/16wi/slide...

The more you understand VR and Multi-Paxos the more you will see that this is true.

In fact, and you may be surprised/disappointed at this, but Raft is also a variant of Multi-Paxos very similar to VR (cf. Heidi Howard https://groups.google.com/g/raft-dev/c/cBNLTZT2q8o), except with tighter restrictions on leader election that make it less efficient than VR, which is why we chose VR over Raft coincidentally.

By the way, that's a fantastic post by Marc Brooker and was part (along with references by Martin Thompson and Heidi Howard) of what made us pay more attention to VR in the first place.
Quite a number of redditors lost a lot of money too. If you sorted by new on WSB last week when GME plummeted, you could see lots of posts with 5, 6 and even 7 figure losses.

Given that 6 million of the current 8.5 million WSB subscribers joined after GME popped, I think most retail investors probably lost money. At this point it's a minority who got in early and made a lot of money.
Hmm, creating a new developer account is like a 15-second process; I don't see any way they could possible enforce the NDA.
I've always wondered, can people actually look at the images of the die and understand what's going on? Do different components of a chip always take the same shape?
The "bullshit" is just the claim that Apple always has the best implementation (sometimes they actually do, sometimes they don't). Nobody assumes that they are incapable of doing it in time.

Ultimately, it is an interesting marketing play, I suppose - the "it's not a bug, it's a feature" of marketing, maybe?
Cutting edge is always jenky. I personally figure Apple basically kicks back while other people develop and test, and then they release once it's been tried and sorted a bit so they don't have to release jenky products.

If you really believe Apple spent 2 years developing and perfecting cut&paste you are crazy. They waited until they wanted to implement it. What their cue was, I don't know, but I have my suspicions.
IMO you were extremely lucky to get any response whatsoever. If I am Patrick I would have quickly dumped you in the pester / annoyance category. Bringing Steve jobs into the mix the second time was fatal, regardless of time frame this is not something to bother him with.
I notice that both of your comments in this thread are currently at 1 point. Have you been downvoted "just because you disagree", or is this more of a hypothetical grievance?