skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why there are no reports on Catalonia protest from Western media?
I've searched on Youtube, there are not one single video about this event from NONE of US media(CBS, Bloomberg, CNBC, NPR, Foxnews...)... I'm very surprised by the results.
The most popular and high priced phone has had fingerprint authentication since 2013. If there was going to be a rash of people cutting off fingers, wouldn’t it have happened by now?
YC, not Lambda School, is unbundling education
Do you have any experience with the Google Maps API? I would love to implement this.
Right, so hedge your bets on unborn spawn. That’s the best we can do to steer a ship in the right direction for future generations.
I tend to take this kind of article with a grain of salt, especially when there are definitive statements like: "To be successful over the course of a career requires the application and accumulation of expertise". This idea that top-skills are required to succeed is comforting for us craftsmen and craftswomen but ultimately misleading because it forces us to only look for paths leading to skill improvements.

I strongly believe that success is mostly opportunity-driven. Exploring the search space to find the most opportunities (ie. the Ferriss way) or exploiting those available by putting the effort in (ie. the craftsmanship way) are two valid non-mutually exclusives strategies. As always, either of them can work but for the best result I believe a combination of the two will outperform any strategy applied narrow-mindedly. Now, for the mixing proportions...
VWs were the first popular cars for EV conversions. You've been able to buy conversion kits for them for well over a decade. The fact that this one may be coming directly from VW is interesting, but this isn't really a game changer in this niche.
Do you know any projects that try to solve this problem?
Crafting an SVG by hand is fun, but it can easily get out of hand, after which a svg minification tool can do wonders.

I'm working on a small side-project (https://visalogy.com) that the entire site is using less than 20KB JS, and 25KB of CSS. Logo is half a KB, ridiculously small over Brotli/GZip. A fully functional site weights less than 150KB with all assets.

Instead of doing everything by hand, this digital pollution can be removed with proper building process. Automate image compression, uncss, svgmin, etc to the CI pipeline and you will have the best of both worlds.
I don’t see how buying other products will help stop privacy abuses.
I want to see the Snowpiercer / Speed reboot based on this concept.
Yeah, probably. I'm just answering the first two sentences of the post I was replying to.
Dual class structures are easier for investors to swallow in good times. When things go bad, those investors will discover the downsides.

I own shares in two dual-class companies:

Berkshire is one, and there, the dual class nature has the effect of giving more-serious/rich investors more votes. The coming century will test whether that is a good idea.

Starrett is the other; there the dual class structure is designed to protect a once-family business that is still run by the family. To me, at present, it is a feature, not a bug. Without the dual-class, Starrett probably would have been bought out in a hostile takeover/leveraged buyout. Instead, the company endures, with a long-term vision. The coming decades will test my optimistic thesis.
If it's 'most cars' then why not just buy one of the ones where you do fit?

I've never heard anybody here say that they bought a truck because they're too tall for normal cars and tied with the Swedes this is the country (NL) with the largest proportion of tall people worldwide.
Haha one can imagine this will be rapidly bred out of the species since it's such a significant maladaptation. Like dressing in Vantablack and running on a rural expressway.
HTC launches a cheaper version of its blockchain phone
Which browser/device are you using?
Americans don't understand how lucky they are, to live in a system where less than a thousand civilian deaths is enough to so severely damage one of the country's most powerful corporations, with very close ties to the military.
Are you sure it leads to entirely bypassing the OS buffercache?

If I understand correctly O_DIRECT (the usual flag of open(2)) is one of the possible behavior of WAL updates, precisely the 'wal_sync_method' setting
( https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/runtime-config-wal.html ). Therefore it will indeed not let any data written by PG in the buffercache, but what about data _read_ (not written) by PG? The documentation lets me think that those data will, just after being read and without any specific disposition (posix_fadvise(2)...), be in the OS buffercache.
(I didn't check PG's sourcecode).
Melting Permafrost Imperils Arctic Residents
Perhaps but I like my interpretation of the art more than yours. Not that yours is invalid.

Also, anyone notice Jesus looks super Irish? I thought they would all look much more middle eastern than that.
Is 256 the upper limit, or is it just a magic number to be avoided? Is a train with 258 axles OK?
Interesting to learn that inflammation is just like saying cancer. While the different types share the same base descriptor, they can be entirely different things.
Yeah, tall people can be found around the world, but regular people driving trucks is pretty limited.

A tall person I know bought a BMW 5-series. Apparently it was good for his size.
Shouldn't they also not have anywhere around 256, because if a 258 axle train has a couple of missed detections it'll still look like 0?
I think the sedentary part is far more important. I grew up in the 1970s in the US, and if anything, we ate worse than we do now with our current concern with calories and nutrition -- we had fast food a couple of times a week, drank soda daily, and ate those awful sugary cereals like Lucky Charms. And yet we didn't (on average) get fat the way kids do today. We burned off those excess calories running around outside and riding bikes.
http://londonelectriccars.com/
Will try to reduce the download size. Unfortunately I don't have much control over the embedded map but I assume Google has optimised this to a decent extent
I was beat to that action before I was born and in fact, by that time auto makers were advertising that their cars were were quiet. Luxury cars like Cadillacs were so quiet you couldn't even hear them running when standing outside right next to them and even quieter inside.

Try cutting off the "mufflers" on your car and see how far you get before getting pulled over a gifted a citation for it.
How come nobody in Europe is so tall that they have to drive a truck instead?
The sun heats the object and causes it to emit vapor, it emits more vapor on the side facing the sun, these emissions have a measurable affect on the orbit.

See the section on 2l/Borisov

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet#Long_period
Thank you for that link. I never thought of my browser as a test bench before. (Of course, now I want a DVM, function generator, scope, logic analyser, spectrum analyzer and all the other goodies ;) ).
Hi HN. I’m feeling sad today. I just wanted to say that I hope all of you are having a good weekend and working on interesting projects or just enjoying life.

Be good to yourselves!
Why not both? You can stop personally contributing to the problem while you also advocate for system-level changes. Also, there's likely personal benefit (e.g., improved health, decreased cost) that comes with making these changes.
So this Forkner guy was the chief test pilot for the 737.

He sends emails saying the MCAS is out of control. He also is the one that tells the FAA MCAS should not be included in flight materials, and he later emails them to remind them to remove it when they include it anyway.

His attorney says he's a nice guy and was under pressure from others.

Great. Indict him, bring him in, and have him testify under oath who these others are and what exactly they ordered him to do.

As to the claim Boeing couldn't turn over the letters they found before the second crash to the FAA because the FAA itself was being "criminally investigated", first what difference does that make given the FAA is still the oversight agency, and second given that that investigation didn't start until after the second crash and therefore wasn't even a thing at the time they discovered the emails.
TFA doesn't seem to go far enough. Does anyone know the particulars of the simulator experiences that inspired these comments? Was the simulator that inspired those comments an accurate reflection of the real plane? Was it the same simulator that was used by airline pilots? If not, which was more accurate? Can the programmers of the simulator be made available to investigators?

If the point is just to stir the pot a bit more, that's fine I guess. Keep up the pressure; everyone at Boeing and FAA who took part in pushing this through owe a lot of suffering to the families of their victims. I'm just not sure that someone who interacted with a computer simulation is going to be the best-informed Congressional witness. That is, if the goal is really to find out exactly what happened.
Change Bourne shell code while it's running:

$ vi ~/.functions # fix
$ . ~/.functions # load latest
I think it will fly again. I won't be surprised if it takes years and some modifications to the systems before then. It may in fact turn the 737 Max into an overall loss for Boeing due to lower sales and contractual fees owed to the airlines for the planes that have already been sold and re-certifying pilots to fly it

But fixing the 737 is going to be strictly less money than developing a new model for Boeing. The right call here is to fix the issues both in software and possibly with the addition of more redundancies in the sensors. They were definitely bloodied by this but the plane itself is salvageable.
There Are Two Hard Problems of Consciousness, Not One
Marvin Steinberg: About Marvin Steinberg
Is this for thermoplastics? Or does it include thermosetting plastic and rubbers?

It would be interesting if they could actually recycle car tires, I believe what currently happens is burning or shredding into mulch.
> How do you prevent nepotism

Why prevent nepotism when everybody is a cousin?
This is the most obtuse and rambling critique of child extends parent i've ever seen in my life
You are quite spot-on with:

> No self-awareness, no reflection, no ability to consider the broad impact of their behaviour.

And as much as Zuckerberg is bad, I have to say, that this is true for many more people than just people, who are CEOs. I have the feeling, that this applies to the majority of the population by now.
In combination with Facebook for these people it means, that whatever gets likes must be a good thing, as determined by "the community", no matter what the actual impact may be.

It is even sadder, that we already had philosophical works, which usually people learn in school about, but don't seem to actually understand, that they should think about them and perhaps apply them or parts of them to how they live. They just don't care and choose to remain ignorant. What about the categorical imperative of Kant? If you live in Germany you ought to know about it! How often do people ask themselves, if what they are doing is the right thing to do these days, using tools like the categorical imperative or any other philosophical theory, that someone from the past has put years into coming up with?

I am not saying "take this theory and apply 100% of it to your life". But people should think about their actions from time to time. Is Zuckerberg even aware, that his company had to pay the highest amount of cash _ever_ for privacy violations?!
IIRC, it was intentional. There was a resistor or something on that pair so that you had to give it a good whack to activate. The idea was to keep you from accidentally doing that kind of program break, which could actually break some programs.
It's probably because any good conversion kit would be highly specific to that car model, it'd still require a ton of work to cram in the batteries and do the entire conversion work and still cost a lot. What's the benefit over a fully electric car at that point?

I think there's a pretty good explanation why a lot of electric car conversions are hobby projects, where you don't pay for labour converting the car and the car is generally interesting for the person in order for them to eat the costs.
> Are you planning on putting the batteries where the gas tank was? Will they fit?

No, batteries are larger. People tend to use the trunks for batteries, or convert pickups and put them in the beds.

> Will this have an adverse impact on vehicle dynamics?

It can, which most people deal with by placing the batteries carefully to maintain the same balance as before.

> How are you going to manage charging these things?

Most people put the charging plug where the gas cap was.

> What happens if the battery pack ruptures? Is safety even a concern?

Same as if your engine explodes. Safety is a concern in any car. Problems can happen in any car. Most DIY EVs put a cutoff switch, or even a main line you can literally cut right next to the driver as a final safety net in case of extreme emergencies. Better to kill the car than a person.

Does the fuel gauge show battery life or is it now useless?

Most people replace the gauges with new ones more applicable to the new information they'll need.

I know you had other questions, but it has been 10 years since I dabbling this space, and I don't remember every detail. But yes, there absolutely are new problems to solve. And people have been solving them for 20+ years now. There are books written on it, so if you truly want to know the answers, go read some of the books. Most of your questions either have easy answers, or are just a matter of making a choice between a few options.

The hard part is not putting together a working EV system. Most people's hardest task was mounting the motor to their transmission, because it often meant a custom designed, and custom machined mounting plate.

So again, you are correct that it is more than an engine swap, but not to the scale you are describing.
This is a horrible move that will harm international students from no-name schools more than it equalizes nationals.
Not sure about Youtube, but in general I saw lots of print reports of the riots in Catalonia, and I'm not even much of a newsphile. I'm in the U.S., btw. I wonder how that compares with, say, Europe?
For the same reason pianos have a keyboard.
We played through Kings Quest (V? I can't remember) as a class when I was in grade school. My math/ science teacher had a copy and would let us play for a few minutes at the end of the day after assignments were done.

We did eventually beat it after much trial and error, but only with the help of a cheat sheet she had printed off :) I do remember it being brutally hard.
Yeah, I think Worm really fits the HN crowd. It's a de- and re-construction of the superhero genre, with really creative superpowers. I love the world building in Worm, it's internally consistent which is something that gets hand-waved away in most superhero stories. It starts out as a sort of young-adult superhero story but slowly morphs and escalates to a sci-fi epic.

I really admire the work ethic of the author, he has been delivering high-quality chapters every week since 2011, and you can just read it online for free.
Hey man. You'll get through! Wish you the best.
Sunk cost fallacy. Look it up.

Your future value of waiting does not change with time.
> Compact cars cause back problems for the very tall among us.

If you're interested in a smaller vehicle, you might want to try a Bolt. I'm a stocky 6'5", and it fits me well.
"There have been plenty of times where a hardware issue has been covered by a software fix, but only in Switzerland have I seen a bug fixed with a bureaucracy patch."

That's an amusing perspective, but it actually looks like it might be a hardware issue that cannot be patched purely with software, as it arises in the trackside devices that detect passing trains.

I hope the method for verifying compliance with this rule does not suffer from the same problem (it may be moot: a train of 64 20 meter wagons would approach 1.5 km in length; not unusual in some places, but perhaps not Europe.)

It is a bit of a stretch, but Boeing's MCAS problem might be also classed as a software issue 'fixed' with a bureaucracy patch, as the failure to make use of the available hardware to make the MCAS software fault-tolerant was 'patched' with an FAR directing pilots to the existing trim runaway procedure.
Once you get past the fact that murder is the primary way to change monarchical leadership, it's quite smart.
Oh you know I was wondering why you thought he was being sarcastic. But I just now realized you think I was being sarcastic.

No, I'm not, that's the system I have. There are as many relevant sensors on each RPi as make sense. For example in the bathroom I monitor methane. I obviously monitor humidity and temperature at all stations since having those values is useful to adjust the accuracy of the measurements from several of the other sensors.

It works well, I have logs that allow me to understand effects of people being in places and various cycles during the day, which I find interesting.

I trust it much more than Nest or whatever other crap is out their commercially which is on the most part designed by half-wits, marketed and maintained by sociopaths, and definitely is nothing one would want to trust their life to, or even trust it'll still be working 6 months from now after the company that took your money grows bored with the project and shuts their servers down. Who wants to share this sort of private and intimate household information with some sociopathic corporation anyway. IoT only makes sense when you have complete control of the servers your stuff communicates with, and full access to the software stack.
If you replace "theory" with "European-based jargon and notation patterns" then this is all pretty decent though imperfect.

What most people call "music theory" is not what would qualify as theory in any other field. At best (and it's rarely at its best), it explains music like chemical diagrams explain chemistry.

Any actual theory of music has to be based in human psychology and then the assertions tested against how well they explain music we can observe across the world and through history. And that exists, but it's in stuff people call "music cognition" and even there, folks are often too deferential to the untested hypotheses that claim to be "music theory".
You really haven’t heard about the multitude of cases where DA’s and law enforcement were complicit in convicting innocent people? Do you think that a justice system where DA’s actually put a “B” by Black potential jurors to find a reason to keep them off the jury (the case went to the Supreme Court), or the case where an eye witness didn’t say anything about facial tattoos, the police wanted to convict someone, so they used Photoshop to remove tattoos from the person they wanted to convict so they would “fit the description” would be above forcing a suspect to unlock their phone?

If the government will condone torture to get information out of people because of the “War on Terror”, why wouldn’t they do the same for the “War on Drugs”?
If you click through, 256 overflows to zero, which means the system thinks there's no train. 258 is fine.

> "Any trains which bring the count back to exactly zero move around undetected, as phantom trains."
I agree. But without tools, marketing, lobbying, policy-making, etc., it's hard to make lasting changes.
But where do the batteries go? If you replace the fuel tank with heavy batteries you’re going to have terrible handling.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6382467/wings-drones-...
69 decibels measured at 15m during delivery.
Presumably it should be quieter during the flight since it can climb up to 120m
Are you sure? His argument is one simple paragraph:

The `Car extends Vehicle` or `Duck extends Bird` type of tutorial
obscures more than it illuminates. In good OO programming, we don’t
make class hierarchies in order to satisfy our inner Linnaeus. We make
class hierarchies in order to simplify the code by allowing different
parts of it to be changed independently of each other, and to
eliminate duplication (which comes to the same thing). Without any
context as to what the code needs to accomplish, you can’t make a
judgment about whether a particular design decision is good or bad.
The law says "equal to 256", so the higher numbers should be fine.
Denial of Death by Ernest Becker is a great read.
Which hasn't stopped then from loading 10 megabyte of random crap instead.
The article does not really support the implicit thesis from the title - it lists some diseases that are caused by bad inflamation, some items are maybe surprising - but it does not mention diseases that obviously have different causes like infections. Overall clickbait with no content.
The price issue seems like a somewhat false dichotomy, because the more expensive brands don't operate on razor thin margins, so they could (and would have to) cut prices if there wasn't a back-pressure from the bottom-feeder brands.

On top of that, I wonder at which point does planned obsolescence and lack of quality becomes the broken window fallacy? What's a difference between a glazier's son running around and breaking windows, and the glazier installing a delayed-action chemical that cracks windows months after installation? What's the difference between either of that and designing products to fall apart sooner and sooner?

> Outside of a few cases you can still buy the watch that will last 60 years or the amp that will last 20.

Perhaps from artisans. I don't trust you can buy such things at any premium brands. There is every incentive to cheat, charge premium prices while still cutting corners on quality, and pocketing the difference. People eventually wise up to that, but that takes a lot of time, so it's reliable only with niche products.
If a dual-class share structure allows the CEO to divert 100% of dividends into his personal bonus, and prevents investors from having him removed even if he does, why wouldn't he?

Does an investment with those properties sound like a good investment to you?
Keep in mind that lots of unsprung weight is not a good thing. Causes lots of issues with wheel control in acceleration and braking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsprung_mass
Dave feldmans theory was very intriguing. Haven't read the article cuz of sign in.

But the idea was that inflammation, for example cholesterol is transporting energy to any place where it's needed. If you have a cut the body activates inflammation and the cholesterol is taking fat and protein to the place where it's needed.
Somehow I can't imagine driving an A/C compressor is high on the list of needs for classic mini owners. Or indeed, as also mentioned in the article, the owner of a Caterham. The Caterham has a kind of A/C that does not require a compressor, and since they are designed to be built from kits, I can't imagine the other things you mention will trouble them either.
If you don't give a shit about the fire hazard you could just strip the individual cells from a planar pack and shove them anywhere they will fit. Properly protected packs are gonna be chunky though, which will necessitate more space than would be available in the old European compacts this motor seems to be designed for

Though now since I think about it an unholy fire hazard would be in character for a vehicle invented before seat belts were a thing