skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What's the point of a leather dashboard and doors?

Aesthetics, then passenger comfort. It's certainly a _nicer_ feeling when you rest your hand on quality materials in the passenger cabin.

That said, I drive a Tesla Model X with the all-white interior - Tesla is famously vegan - so it's all pleather - and it made me a pleather convert (it's just unfortunate most pleathers you see are cheap and nasty and wear-down too quickly).

> ambient lighting

That's not a luxury feature - some form of ambient lighting is standard in every car I've been in. It's essential to help you navigate the passenger cabin in the dark without turning on the dome-light which can dazzle or distract the driver, such as seeing where the glovebox is or other controls.

> Or heated arm rests?

Same reason we have heated-seats and heated steering wheels: passenger comfort in cold weather. Also useful for people with poor circulation where being stationary (in a car seat) gets really uncomfortable.
One of the cradles, the other being the Chinese, which was lucky enough to be in a lusher climate.
I find mercator maps for Mandelbrot to be fascinating, I hope we can use them better than we do right now. Maybe to pre compute values before making a render of a Mandelbrot zoom?
It's something I think about a lot, but it doesn't seem like a good trade-off. It's more expensive, and for real-world use-cases a torquey diesel seems a more fun fit: in city traffic, I'm going mostly 0-70 km/h, so torque at low revs is good. And when I'm going longer distances on the freeway I'm not accelerating anyway, I like the low rumbling noise of my diesel and fuel economy is good.

It seems to me an M-car mostly makes sense if you're going to the track, which I never do. CMIIW
Potential Superpowers
Very good blog article thanks for sharing. It's not really the 3D equivalent, though? Only adapted from 2D
Or TTF? Aren't all font formats programmable?
reddit.com -> old.reddit.com -> i.reddit.com
Sure, it's simpler to implement, but that isn't useful for an end user, especially when markdown already exists.
Seconded this. I bought mine from Zenni optical as well.

It's amazing that we don't have backups for critical personal items, such as our phone and our eyewear.
My brother turned off traction control on his RX-8, then crashed it into the side of the onramp. Friends don't let friends turn off traction control, unless they're professional drivers.
Is the “What is AM/PM called?” question on-topic?
But you asked for a clone of Google Reader. Which theoldreader is. (bazqux.com is better though)
I agree with the article and most comments here. Although I am not in the US but Europe, similar trends have evolved here: pressure from getting a good job, non-satisfaction with the status quo, high pressure from the race against the peers and much more.

My direct question to this community. What do you think could help these people/us? What are tactical quick win measures and what are strategic long term measures that could work? I am interested not only in "getting your shit together by yourself", but also in what help can be offered to the people that suffer to help?
This is probably the reason upvotes still work with javascript dissabled. It’s a feature.
I live alone I can rarely can get perishable items in small enough quantities that I can use them before they spoil. After throwing such items a few times I have almost stopped trying to cook anything as it is cheaper to buy ready made meals plus I don't have to do the dishes after.
Chandrayaan 2 is on a mission unlike any before
How do you deal with a consistent look and feel in a product with different frameworks? What about code reuse?
In on the fence with my warby parker glasses. They seem to scratch far easier than my previous lenses. After 18 months I can't wear them in the dark anymore as they are so scratched that off axis light causes terrible glare.

On the other hand, I can buy new glasses five times as often, and I usually will break or lose my glasses due to misfortune within 7 years, so it's still cheaper.
Yes, it's an amazing invention!
Short term and long term disability insurance is a thing. And it is fairly standard as part of the insurance benefits that most companies offer their employees.
Tangential but as an effort to go green- I'm considering not buying new Led acid batteries for my UPS and reusing the old ones from my old laptop. Does anybody know if this can be done?
Polish Village to Reward the First Couple That Gives Birth to a Son
HN works perfectly with javascript dissabled. It’s a feature
Mass circulation media date to the early 19th century, so approaching 200 years. Benjamin Day's Sun wasn't the first "penny-press" newspaper, but it transformed the concept, in 1833.

Developments (and cost reductions) in printing and paper-making, as well as rapidly increasing literacy rates, climbing from 25% or lower around 1700 to 90%+ by 1900 throughout much of Europe and North America, also meant that prior to 1800 there really wasn't a mass-circulation media of any stripe, outside religious mass, and that there very much was one afterwards.

Though yes, your observation that this has been going on for a while is valid.
You are not wrong, but of what you mentioned only "nickle and dime" and "could not make a newer chipset" is very relevant. They never invested back their gains into Amiga R&D.

What they should have done:

kept Amiga extensible - kept the external bus when cost optimizing the A500 into the A600. (Instead the A600 was a crippled, slightly incompatible A500 that split the market and made it slightly less interesting to game developers.)

The chipset in A1200 and A4000 was too little, much too late. The A1200 was a case study in cheapskating and crippling an already anemic CPU. (It came with a disabled L1 cache. If it had only had 64 kilobytes of more RAM, they could have enabled the L1 cache.)

Should have partnered with SUN and made SunOS (Solaris-to-be) for high end Amigas, more powerful than what they ever produced. (They basically said "fuck you" to SUN.)

Etc etc.

It could also have helped to buy fewer business jets for the CEO, but I think that was more of a symptom of what was wrong. If they had done fewer completely idiotic moves, they could have afforded a few jets easily.
Yeah IN/ Not IN should be able to use index/hash scan when given normal values. I am under the impression from the note though that this is related to subqueries fitting in a IN/NOT IN clause, eg:
SELECT * FROM tableA IN (SELECT * FROM tableB)
No, It’s not needed. I have been using it without javascript for years.
I think they have realised the club they are in is very toxic and are, I'd hope, leaving.

Twitter is a toxic curse on all who participate. If you're not an awful human being it'll soon make you one.
It's very similar to Futura, another geometric typeface that was in fact used for a lot of body text.
Depends on the movement etc... If it's a higher end or vintage watch is good to look for a specialist.
RE the thread at https://lobste.rs/s/solbtw/this_is_dumbdown_alternative_mark... could you just write a parser (in Tree Notation) that that converts a language in Tree Notation into BNF?

e.g. to produce BNF of dumbdown

Also, to parse BNF and produce a (bare bones) version in Tree Notation.

This would make it more accessible while also demostrating its power.
Ring’s smart home plans would sound great if Ring itself was less frightening
Of course the referendum was flawed. The Leave campaign was lying and there was foreign influence. And the question on the ballot was the wrong one.

Most leave-voters don't and didn't want the no-deal total chaos they are getting now.

There is no absolute "duty" to implement any referendum. If the referendum had any other outcome, wouldn't the Leave campaign have lied, bullied and cheated their way to another referendum a few years later?

It's not democratic to ram through your political agenda on the back of a referendum a few years ago, against what the voters want. It's even less democratic to fail to even ask what the voters want now.
In the later books, perhaps the ones by Brian Herbert, they discover a planet of Jews, mostly unchanged for 15,000 years, except they have created some self-fashioned bene gesseret-like women.
you mean like reddit?
Amazing. One thing I'm not clear on is this: did they have to re-establish the brain activity -> muscle movements model for each patient? Because presumably that wouldn't have worked for a paralysed patient. In that case, the question is how hard is it to generalise a brain activity model so that it can be trained on one population and then used to get data from a paralysed person's brain?
That was my first thought, but I don't want to lose years of journaling if I lose my phone.
When events become goto-statements
Your post was downvoted based on peoples' silly biases against the idea of anybody but the original author contributing to a sci-fi universe.
Is this specific to vaping supplies, or would it also impact CBD oil tinctures?
There have been observations where the observed additional matter 'lagged behind' colliding galaxies, because dark matter only interacts gravitationally. If gravity itself were to behave differently, and the additional mass would always come from the observed matter, the dark matter should have been observed right where the colliding galaxies were, but since it didn't, it's a good indicator for the actual existence of gravitationally-interacting dark matter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster
I love this. Yup, it's something I've completely left out, but that was (partially) intentional. I wish I did a better job explaining this, but yes - the technique I talk about won't let you master anything, but will let you scratch the surface on a lot of things really fast. There are things I want to master, but there are too many things out there that fit that bill for me and I still haven't found something I'm able to spend the amount of time you've put into 3D modeling without getting distracted.

I hope to write a follow up post to this when my own thoughts on this topic are more clear.
Six months with Firefox, worth it?
How Amazon's Subcontracted Delivery Network Allows It to Shed Responsibility
> I've never worn glasses... But it does seem that in Europe you can get them in the range of €2-€5000.

Glasses have two components: frame and lenses. Both can vary widely in prices.

For frames there's components (from cheap hard plastic to metal e.g. shape-memory titanium alloys) and branding & style.

For lenses there's material (basic polymer, impact resistant, high-index, …), complexity (e.g. bifocal) and further treatments (polarised, photochromic, anti-reflective coatings …), the actual prescription likely has a complexity impact as well.

€5000 glasses I expect would mostly be down to branding and style (e.g. dior frames or whatever). Aside from branding and style, most of the price would come down to the lens'.
It was exactly that topic which is why I included the "sometimes" qualification :-)
Wrong word - delivery rather than deliverability. You just want to know about the SPF and DKIM fails.

Last thing you need someone on a self-hosted email server is running EDM campaigns.
Or anything from the APL family such as APL itself, or the ASCII-only derivatives J and K.
Poisoning Agnes Sorel
Fair chance old laptop batteries are going to be well and truely past their serviceable life.

Lead acid batteries are highly recyclable, and more easily recycled than lithium ion cells anyway.
At the end you mention you may have found a good resource to improve your writing. Which resource is that? It's something I want to get better at as well.
> By not calling syscalls based on their numbers on Windows. That might sound crazy

Not really. Only on Linux are direct syscalls an official ABI. On most unices (e.g. solaris, BSDs, OSX) you must dynamically link and go through the platform's libc.
Being a glasses user I can definitely understand the peace of mind part. However, I find that I rarely seem to break or otherwise damage my glasses. Maybe it's just me.
AmigaDOS was developed on SunOS Workstations that were modified.

I don't think the Zorro bus was as good as ISA or PCI and the A600 was like you said it was. The Amiga needed a networking adapter to work with networks and Apple Macs later had them as default or via a NuBus slot.

Plus most of the software for the Amiga was video games which limited the system to video games it needed more business software.
It can still easily work with JavaScript disabled and implement the change.
Interesting words left out of his analysis that I caught in a recent re-read.

* Zurna: A Turkish clay Clarinet of sorts, somewhat of a grandchild of a similar Egyptian instrument.
* Tabla: Egyptian word for drum (also Hindi, I'm not sure which one came first). Called Derbakki by Kurds/Druze/Syrians, Dumbek and Darbuka in Turkish, and Tarabukka by the Slavs.

Spice orgy. Not an Arabic term, but rather it seems to be a reference to an early Sufism ritual where Hashish would be taken before and during a week-long Sema (think non-stop whirling dervishes). Theoretically they were not sexual, but rather considered to be an "orgy of spirituality" brought on by long-term extortion of the senses (try spinning for 30 seconds .. imagine doing it for 24 hours).
> depending on your size of course, it could easily be cheaper to have a dedicated "build engineer" maintaining a build farm. This is how the majority of people do it. (I work in the video games industry, it's _MUCH_ cheaper to do it this way for us)

Cheaper to have a dedicated build engineer than using Codebuild? I just looked at my bill for August, my startup has $50K/mo. AWS spend across 4 regions in US/EU/Asia. We use Codebuild to build and deploy all of our infra from GitHub, including a ton of EC2 for our dedicated apps.

Guess how much my bill for Codebuild was in August? 17 cents!
$0.17 CodeBuild
$0.06 Asia Pacific (Singapore)
$0.07 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)
$0.02 EU (Frankfurt)
$0.00 EU (Ireland)
$0.02 US West (Oregon)

I'd like to see you hire a build engineer for $0.17. AWS services are dirt cheap because they let you automate all of the stuff that would require dedicated engineers for, while you can focus on your business, or what differentiates you.
I'm sure you can get rid of them if you've got any sort of local giveaway group. Somebody near you is still listening to music in their car via cd-rs or etc.
Awesome idea and execution!
Can I upload by brain yet?
> I’m lucky enough to have a PC that boasts 32GB of the stuff. Now, that amount of RAM is – to be honest – overkill for most things I use my PC for.

You should not care about how much ram chrome consume if you have 32gb, however i think you should switch to firefox if you care about your privacy and the future of the web.
Physicist here. It's roughly right, but it's kind of the picture we had 50 years ago. 50 years ago, dark matter and modified gravity were both reasonably equally good hypothesis. Then we got a treasure trove of astrophysical, galactic, and cosmological data from nearly a hundred distinct experiments.

The results of _all_ of these experiments do not fit with the naive theory. And they each can be fit perfectly by adding in dark matter. But that's not important; the crucial point is that all of them can be _simultaneously_ fit perfectly by adding in the _same_ amount of dark matter. That's practically the definition of what a good scientific theory should do. Put in a single parameter and explain a hundred observed results.

Meanwhile, modified gravity theories have fared extremely poorly -- they were originally designed specifically to fit galaxy rotation curves, and accordingly it is very difficult to massage them into fitting anything else. Usually if you get the rotation curves right, the astrophysics and cosmology come out disastrously wrong. You could probably get it right if you added a pile of ad hoc parameters, but that would be bad science.

Unfortunately every discussion of this subject ever just hyperfocuses on the nearly 100 year old galaxy rotation curve observations... probably because it's easy to understand.

> Is there any prediction that would prove the existence of dark matter?

If dark matter interacts in a non-gravitational way, and is present near the Earth, then the smoking gun would be directly detecting it in an terrestrial experiment. (People also work on indirect detection, by looking at possible products of its decay or annihilation elsewhere in the galaxy, but this is less definite because such products could be made by something else.) Of course in all these cases, the specific kinds of predictions depend on what you think dark matter is made of. Unfortunately, its good scientific properties (i.e. fitting a lot of data with remarkably little input) also mean that we have very little to go on here. Practically any kind of new "stuff" that interacts weakly electromagnetically could work.
> In my father's day a cashier could buy a home in a nice neighborhood (like the bay area) and live comfortably;

Saying "I just want to live in a nice neighborhood (like the Bay Area)", is like saying "I just want to drive a decent car (like a Lamborghini)."

The Bay Area is absolutely nothing like the vast majority of America, and should be the absolute last place you'd look if your goal is to live a low-stress middle-class life.

The reality is that the median home in America costs $125 per square foot. I don't know how old your father is, but let's say 1973 as the benchmark. The median home then was 1500 square feet. An equivalent home would cost $187 thousand in today's market.

I don't know about cashier, but the average electrician makes $55,000 per year. More than enough to easily afford the $1000/month mortgage needed for the 1973 home your father bought.

Right now there's a desperate shortage of electricians and anyone with a high school diploma and a work ethic can easily move into that career. Nor are we talking about homes in burned out cities or isolated rural communities. Just check listings for Omaha, NE for example. Omaha has one of the strongest job markets in the US, with the third lowest unemployment rate in the country. Plenty of homes at that price with that size can be found in the center of the Omaha metro.

The typical HN audience is massively distorted when it comes to this. By and large the average HN reader lives in one of America's ultra-high-priced metros like the Bay Area, NYC or DC. The average HN reader isn't anything even remotely approaching a middle-class American life.

They're competing in cut-throat winner-take-all games to obtain ultra-prestigious positions at elite startups, FAANGs or Wall Street firms. I'd strongly suspect that the average HN reader making $100k a year "feels" poor, even though that's the top quartile of Americans. (And much higher than that adjusted for the average age of HN.) My guess is that many HNers making $500k+ a year still don't even "feel rich", despite being in the top 1% of Americans.

The point is that the perception of economic conditions found on HN probably tells us about as much about everyday Americans, as the court of Versaille would tell us about the lives of 18th century French peasants.

[1] https://www.realtor.com/advice/buy/average-price-per-square-...
[2] http://www.aei.org/publication/new-us-homes-today-are-1000-s...
[3] https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/electrician
The War of Jenkin's Ear
> Amazon got really good. Especially these days, when a NAS drive fails, I can order one and it comes in one day.

Amazon is on my never buy spinning drives list until I have evidence that they will pack them appropriately and not just toss the manufacturer's box inside a much larger box with maybe two air pillows so the drive can slosh around.
I also ask myself this question. How can anyone use an OS where the creators deliberately hide some of the documentation?

I would love to read up on windows internals, but there are no real resources out there. A few books that at first glance appears to cover it, but then just deals with the application layer and up to point-and-click.

This is why I don't use windows anymore. I don't ever again want a job where I have to debug why old program P stopped working after an update. I prefer to be able to learn stuff.
The thing with PostgreSQL is that it may decide that it can find the result faster without the index, than it can with the index. This is sometimes due to the fact our development machines have alot of memory and its easier for PostgreSQL to store the table data in memory and not bother with the index.

This is a problem when trying to test an index on a small dataset. It may look like the index is not useful, when infact it will be useful.
Gravity is weird. On the face of it, it seems to directly contradict the second law of thermodynamics, that overall entropy in the universe must increase.

Entropy generally involves "spreading out." It eliminates gradients, it doesn't fill them up. It is weird that there is a way to increase overall entropy by bringing diffuse parts together.

Despite the term "entropic gravity", I still don't understand how this or other versions of gravity do not violate the second law. Does anyone here?
That's a very subjective point. 100 people would very likely give you 100 answers, based on their individual physiologies.

Note, this a physical thing, rather than merely an opinion thing. Some people have a very acute sense of color and can discuss about very fine color differences that other people are simply unable to perceive.

Similar question: when does red turn to orange?
What is the pocket pinch for developing a mobile app?
switch to firefox you will be surprised :)
I believe that the blame here is mostly misattributed.

Caching (a good thing) and also the remote sites being bloated. I'm not sure if or should the browser be fixing that ?
By old I mean used not old-by-age. I usually buy a new laptop every 3 years
Not but I certainly wish for a way to merge all the contacts from thunderbird, my 3 web mail services, my phone et have them offline on my laptop.
Agree, and the service providers are fairly supportive stakeholders. But is a small group of entrepreneurs in Venezeuala and tech companies going to change the administration's policy on Venezuela? I doubt it.
Explained much better than me, I've removed my reply!
But the undown/unvote links are hard to tap on mobile as well. On firefox on android it's always an exercise in patience.
I never thought about that, but that's a neat trick.
Seconding. Sending back the whole page on AJAX upvote seems unnecessarily wasteful, and sounds like something trivially fixable.

Taking data from 2.5 years ago[0], HN has ~300k daily uniques. Assuming 10% of that are users, each upvoting one story, that's 30k unnecessary page renders per day. That's ~2% of the total views (though the more expensive views - AFAIK when you're logged out, you get cached pages?), so on the one hand it's not much, but on the other hand the fix should be trivial and have minimal impact on code readability.

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[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9220098
The Directorial System of Government
How Cloudflare Workers Are Used for Malware Campaigns