skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks really cool, and it's only a 4.5 hour drive.

As an aside: Is anybody familiar with a curated list anywhere of interesting "geek" tourist destinations? Just today I've seen this museum and the "rotary jail"-turned museums [1]. I would love to plan road trips around these kinds of attractions.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21337410
Irish Constitution as a git repo with the commits as amendments.

https://github.com/adrian/irish-constitution/commits/master
The thing about aspirin tablets vs. herbal tea, is not so much the delivery method itself. It's that the active compound in the tree bark has been discovered, isolated, and dosage-controlled so that you get a fixed amount in each tablet. Note that we still use drinks as a means of dispensing medicines -- consider cough syrup or Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold.
> Hyperbole much?

I don't think so:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaWdEtANi-0&t=36m16s
I'm afraid you didn't pitch that very well. No one here is sold.
In my opinion the problem has to do really with the validity of the content being pushed around on social media as it's too easy to outright lie or post misinformation, if lies and misinformation go unchecked then how does factually correct information ever get across...

At this point we might as well all quit Facebook if you haven't already especially with them denying to take any responsibility when they've practically created and allowed for the situation we have now.
Apparently it's technically possible in Git as of a year or two ago, with some conversion bugs probably still lurking, but Github/Gitlab still don't support it. And the frontend tools like "git commit" don't support it. The project in this answer is using git hash-object to create the commit from raw bytes. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21787872/is-it-possible-...
The issue is that it is doing the opposite of what they want because everyone started doing it.
> - Smartphone usage among pedestrians

and drivers
Andy Budd: thread on public speaking
The same way all these hydrocarbons got there, organic matter got there (at some previous time or through processes that moved it there) and then, under the right conditions, microbes decomposed it.
4.7% percent with structural cracks seems awfully high. I thought planes were regularly and thoroughly inspected.

Source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_Next_Generation#Str...
That's around 100,000 engineers worth of salary. Good luck (:
Fantastic, thank you for sharing the insight!
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The problem with contracting is that you have to learn to sell. Which is also one of the main skills of raising money, something that the GP post struggles with.

I myself would love to have a more independent job but I suck terribly at selling myself.
"Why Brown and Haugh went the convoluted route and chose to rotate the cells instead of the circular cage, is a mystery."

Any guesses? It does seem like a dumb idea to rotate the massively larger/heavier cells.
Yea I can't wait for the announcements to happen in the coming weeks. So far the best rumours I've seen seem to have them topping out at 48c for the new TR line, but none of them have been particularly authoritative looking, just that there haven't been leaks of anything looking at 64c yet. I suspect that what might happen is that they'll announce with up to 48c but then a few months down the line they'll announce the 64c cpu. That would line up well with what looks like caused the delays with them not being able to get the quantity of the chiplets they need. They'd be able to frontload all the lower core count demand and then when they don't need nearly as many of them start making the larger ones.
yes it is a rate, from the article: "The number of pedestrians killed — 6,283, an increase of 3.4 percent from the previous year".

It may not be the number you are looking for, but it is by definition a rate. It would be interesting to know what rate per pedestrian trips or pedestrian-miles are, but that data would be very hard to get across the entire US.
Are all domestic buildings grounded this way in the US? Here (Sweden) I believe houses that aren’t far from transformers are only grounded at the nearest transformer (where power is transformed from 10kV 3-phase into 230/400V 3-phase+neutral for distribution to each house.
If I put my number or email on my page, and I adjust the privacy settings to "only friends", I understand I am making that information available to my friends. They are free to copy that information by hand, or by copy-pasting, into their own address book. I have explicitly made it available to them. Facebook includes information about your friends, such as their birthdays, in your data export. Their decision to not include off-Facebook contact information is a business decision designed to make leaving Facebook harder. It has nothing to do with privacy.
What is the url for your quiz website?
Does anyone know how DoH works in browsers when connected to a new WiFi network with a captive portals?
Both types implement the `Client` interface. So either type can be passed into a function that accepts the `Client` interface, but a `CachedHTTPClient` cannot be passed into a function that accepts an `HTTPClient` (you would have to pass the `CachedHTTPClient.HTTPClient`) and of course not vice versa either. You can do the same thing in Java (forgive my syntax):

public interface Client {
ArrayList<String> getUsers();
void createUser(String name);
}

public class HTTPClient implements Client {
public ArrayList<String> getUsers() { /* ... */ }
public void createUser(String name) { /* ... */ }
}

public class CachedHTTPClient implements Client {
private HTTPClient httpClient;

public ArrayList<String> getUsers() { /* ... */ }

// In Go via "struct embedding", this method would be generated
// automatically; in Java, we have to write it out. NBD.
public void createUser(String name) { this.httpClient.createUser(name); }
}
https://wanderlog.com (formerly TravelChime - YC W19) is pretty great too. I used it over the summer to plan a family visit and it was very useful.
Thanks for the good news, I'd prefer either of them but definitely Sanders more. I voted for him last time.
Is that why VW was doing very aggressive discounts on the eGolfs a couple months ago? I got mine, a 2019, for dirt cheap, little over 12k new before the tax credits.
How much does threadripper usually cost relative to epyc for same # of cores?
> It's like re-inventing the wheel after everyone stopped using the wheel.

32% of Americans use RSS every month just for podcasts alone.
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There's also COIN-OR:

https://www.coin-or.org/

When i compared them a year or so ago, my conclusion that OR-Tools had more focus on engineering, making the whole thing easy to integrate etc, whilst COIN-OR had more sophisticated solvers, and gave you lots and lots of knobs to tweak.
I find the parent post a bit hypocritical. He's being an armchair protestor advisor to what he or she deems as "armchair protestors".

Not to mention the "advice" he gives is being implemented concurrently with the protests. Lots of people have been deleting their accounts and requesting refunds. Shoot I even sold my Activision shares. Whether this "vote with your wallet" attitude survives the test of time, we'll see.
"Combined with the 737 Max and 2010 737NG Ducommun critical structural parts deficiencies and burying of the internal Boeing blue-ribbon panel's findings, it's only cognitive dissonance and profiteering that keeps a rational person from concluding extensive and pervasive regulatory capture hasn't damaged the quality and fitness of Boeing's products and services designed, manufactured, overhauled or repaired in the past 20-25 years to an unknowably broad and deep systemic level that is fundamental uncertain to know the extent of the risk that lurks because of "self-certification" and other lax practices."

I just want to point out that this is a single sentence, and it is not easy to follow.
New Global Initiatives Start in Pursuit of Mapping Entire Ocean Floor
> Americans still have reservations against hatchbacks for some silly reason.

They're not selling the ID.3 in the US initially.

Europe will get the ID.3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPjvgXWA78E

And the US will get the ID.4 which is a bigger car on the same MEB platform: https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/motor-shows-frankfurt-mot...

Longer term they probably will make both cars available in both markets.
There actually should be one of these already.
"Impressed" is the "blazingly fast" of recruiters.
This is pretty funny. I had something vaguely similar happen to me, although not nearly as major.

In my matric year (grade 12) I took three first languages (although I already had two first languages by grade 10). The department of education did not like it, but I did it anyway, with some encouragement from my language teachers.

Fast forward to the final exams, I did well enough to make the provincial top 40, but was excluded due to what I still think was a bug in their system. Funnily enough, I walked to the provincial minister for education (later the national Minister of Health) and told him what happened. For a short while I was a radio celebrity due to the minister personally telling people "Look, this white boy got a B in Sepedi so you guys really should stop complaining and do better." [1]

The error was not corrected and I was actually at the ceremony by chance for having gotten best in English in the province. I also randomly got a call from some trust and got about $100 for my creative writing essay.

In any case I guess the whole radio thing was more amusing to me and actually was a better prize in the end.

[1] In South Africa, a B is 70%—79%; I had gotten 76%.
>Surely planes have some sort of socket like cars?

Unfortunately no, and often it’s not trivial to legally install one.
That's a project manager or scrum master.

It's hard to find a good one because execs don't like the idea of ICs having assistants, which is one of the perks that execs use to make themselves look better by getting credit for someone else's work without spending their own salary on it.
We Got from Wall Street Big Swinging Dicks to Silicon Valley Big Swinging Brains
Heavy editing can drive me crazy. The really bad ones are the podcasts/videos that jump in between each sentence. It's really disconcerting to hear somebody talk with no pauses in between sentences. I like the format of Joe's podcast because it feels like a real conversation and I'm participating in it, even if I'm not. Editing would ruin that feeling and make it something else. There's plenty of other podcasts that service that.

Joe's issues are that can be long winded at times, and he fails to press people on some issues which occasionally sucks (the first episode with Jack Dorsey, the last episode with Alex Jones, or the recent episode with Bob Lazaar). Most of the time, however, that's exactly what I want. I don't want two blowhards shouting at each other, I want two people trying to understand each other's ideas and to learn something new from it.
We don't know the counterfactual world. Maybe we spend $12 b building it, then we don't run the DARPA AV challenges and the world is behind on CV instead. Maybe that's better, maybe that's worse.
Book Town
I'm really curious about marine cloudseeding as a potential mitigator to permafrost melt. Essentially, high-efficiency saltwater aerosolization to create nuclei for cloud formation...

Here is a 2019 paper on the critical role of clouds in arctic cooling
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-44155-w#Sec7
This is a really poor excuse. Just because you're technical doesn't mean you're not responsible for presenting your content in a appealing and clean way.
Man I wish ever bill and law was under version control so you could do a git blame
So, your first two points miss something important.

The two sensor setup would basically mandate Level D simulator training. That was a non-starter to maintain the 737 MAX sales pitch, and would also have likely led to inconvenient questions that would have kept sales depressed because of too much attention being called to the actual implementation details of the plane.

That came out in the original 60 Minutes Expose on the 737 MAX iirc.
I can't read the article because of the paywall, but have they also factored in the future cost of lawsuits and compensation payouts to airline operators of the 737 MAX for loss of revenue from the grounded jets?

The loss of passenger seat revenue, along with long term storage fees for the grounded fleets, plus the costs of getting those aircraft airworthy again, not to mention costs of leasing alternative aircraft to fill route demand... the costs would be staggering, and Boeing will have to foot some, if not all, of it.
I was reminded of the panopticon [1] prison design paradigm. The rotary controls the prisoners physically by only allowing one cell door to be open at once, while the panopticon doesn't necessarily limit how many doors are open at once. The rotary jail doesn't make it easier to watch the prisoners, while the panopticon allows the wardens to convince the wards that they are always watched.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
Clouds mitigate warming from melting sea ice
~/Library is normally hidden too, but that doesn't stop NSUserDefaults from sticking things there.
I love they can just use google docs and publish a "site" like this so easily to share. No html required. I hope Google doesn't start getting political and pulling these kinds of docs.
I love the lingo. Once you understand it it gives you an upper hand in negotiation with people who use it. The mistake most people make is to start using it all the time. The trick is to use it with people who speak it and don't use it with people who don't speak it. Simple, just gotta learn to speak other people's language. I have to admit though “I have talked to that resource”. is cringe worthy. "We have a resourcing problem" OK "That resource over there in the red shirt isn't producing enough output to meet deadlines, we must hire additional resource." Not OK.
Kinds of Robots
Thanks. We've changed to that from https://paste.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/23e31a29f427066ef261b2ffa7fd9b....
Yeah agree...too much damage. And not just in the US. The polarization has amplified all over the map.
I'm not great at reading financial results, but $TSLA is up ~17% after hours, so I'm assuming they did well.
After hours price : Tesla Stock is up 16.70%

+ Adjust earnings per share of $1.86 vs. expected losses of 42 cents per share (major reason)
> It's like they're all rats in a Skinner Box

We're all rats in a Skinner Box. Just like me, you gave this site access to your camera and let it scan your face for minutes so you could see the result. I don't think it's fair to judge other people for not caring about privacy immediately after uploading your likeness to a random site.
I'll bite...what are examples of phony bits?
That’s Meltdown, not Spectre.

Meltdown arguably does fit your description, but AFAIK the cost of checking permissions in the right place is almost zero, so it’s arguably better described as “we never realized it would be dangerous to not check permissions here” than “we skipped the check for performance’s sake”. (AMD processors were not vulnerable to Meltdown.)

Spectre, on the other hand, is sort of an inherent flaw of speculative execution (not related to permissions checks). Speculative execution itself is definitely a shortcut, but it’s a shortcut that’s crucial to the performance of all modern high-performance processors, with the result that nobody really knows how to deal with Spectre. Intel was apparently hit harder than AMD by side channel mitigations collectively, apparently because Intel was doing more aggressive speculation – but those mitigations are only partial. Both vendors’ processors are still vulnerable to Spectre attacks even with mitigations applied [1], and that will remain the case even on future processors, for the foreseeable future.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05178
Yeah, nobody ever removed/added/altered content in a darkroom. Completely unheard of. Or framed a picture just so. Or chose the most flattering angle </sarcasm>

Photos have always been edited. This is putting technology into the reach of a few more people, but it's only "lying" if you believe photos represent some absolute truth. They really haven't since almost the beginning of photogrophay

I'd suggest looking up "Self-portrait as a drowned man" to see how far back that reaches: http://thenonist.com/index.php/thenonist/permalink/self_port...
Oral History of Pierre Lamond, legend of semiconductor and venture (2017)
The Bombardier saga played out extremely well for Boeing, given Airbus picked up an amazing new plane for the sum of $1 (Canadian $, probably!) ...
I tend to agree, the opener wasn't the issue for me.

When I get these kinds of cold mails the opener doesn't really even register...the problem for me is that recruiters and job postings in general very rarely give any real substance about the work itself, i.e. some clichéd phrase about disruption or exciting something something.

I suppose a possible cause could be giving too much info and running the risk of a candidate going direct to the employer
We can all thank Adam Curry for that!
Thank the relevant deity. Now I can sleep at night. The restless nights can now end and I can resume a normal life again. Whew!
And then the whole melting of sea ice thing. Sea ice is pretty much the whitest/most reflective surface on the planet. It then melts into the darkest/most absorbent surface on the planet.

Are there any stabilizing forces we know about? I only ever hear about these types of positive feedback loops, and it scares the hell out of me.
Refugee to video game developer / CEO
Highlights:

$143M GAAP Net Income (vs $74M loss expected)

Trial production started at Shanghai Gigafactory

Model Y production moved forward to Summer 2020
Wait, you’re not using React.StrictMode?
We've put in the URL above that has the same text.
He became CEO only half a year before the first flight of the 737 max.
Nim: Building a Web Framework
Yes, which is the bond interest rate and the amount they charge customers.
Yes, I loved that comment!
Doesn't this mean it should either be broken up or nationalized?
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21337594.
Why do you use phones for that? Couldn't you do the same through headless browser sessions?
Do any popular mobile apps capture camera info while you are say scrolling the feed?
Windows application developers in general have a long track record of disregard for the user’s filesystem and other visible shared resources. Let them modify the user’s start menu and they dump a folder there with their company's brand name there and fill it with crap. Let them populate the Add/Remove Programs list and they’ll fill it with all kinds of incomprehensible stuff (even MS itself is horrible here, polluting it with MSVC Runtime This, and SQL Server That...)

It should be no surprise that developers choose to dump non-documents into the user’s Documents folder.
TPU Creator on Inference Startup Groq (Batch Size 1; Compiler; Numerics, More)
Threads merged into https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21337594, which was posted first.
I have the hybrid Pacifica and it is a great car. The transmission and electric drive is amazing. I think the car sells itself, as I suspect the ID-3 will. But I don't think the ID-3 will be available in the US :(
Also all the games that now dump save files there.
Would the cells and prisoners actually be heavier? If you have a giant cage of iron bars, I imagine the interior structure, which just needs the walls between cells, and the floor, would be lighter actually.
ccc Essen did a quite sophisticated project in 2013 regarding the German Grundgesetz (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5756354)

https://github.com/c3e/DocPatch

docpatch genereates neat versioned markdown like this:

https://github.com/c3e/grundgesetz

now also here with the rest of german law text:

https://github.com/bundestag/grundgesetz
Just the parent folder.
From what I read, AMD explicitly chose some details to be close to Intel's, e.g. cache size, size (and existence) of micro-op cache and so on. Software / compilers and Intel CPUs are optimized for each other, so it's best to be similar and a maybe a little better where it makes sense. While that strategly doesn't yield something vastly better than Intel has, AMD really needed something good so it wouldn't go bankrupt. Due to the process situation and a few nice energy-related innovations like clock stretching (allows running at voltages very close to instability), AMD actually did get more power-efficient high core count CPUs.
Node.js 12 LTS and New Features
It also works as a plugin to Apple Photos, allowing you to use Photos to organize, and Luminar to edit them.
Maybe because they are so much heavier. Prisoners would probably be able to make the door revolve much more easily. The cells, even if it is possible turn them with a hand crank from somewhere, wouldn't be movable from the opening by hand.
Zhaoxin Shows Off 8-Core x86 CPU at 3GHz (based on VIA x86 license) (2018)
Show HN: Auto post all your Zoom chat recordings to a Slack channel
It's good advice, but I think that like a lot of such articles it's talking about how to run, when there's a need for more articles on how to walk.

That is, the first duty of technical documentation is to be complete and correct (at least for practical purposes). Once you've got that far it's time to pay attention to optimising it for the needs of your likely readers.
I wish I bought some TSLA a few months ago when it was $180! :)
A photo is expected to be the truth in most contexts.

"What is truth?"

I shot a music festival this past weekend, and I'm in the process of processing it in Lightroom. Part of what I'm doing is to make images that the artists can use for their own marketing. So I'm making various refinements to the images like making face a bit brighter and sharper, and smoothing out skin blemishes, and maybe whitening teeth.

Am I lying to people by creating an image that is brighter and sharper? Is it going too far to make the skin look smoother?

And even if we grant that I've changed beyond what the optics delivered, that's only part of the experience. Is it out of line for me interpret a bit to try to carry what's being lost from the rest of the senses - the fact that there was fantastic music all around, friendly people, and all that? Maybe a brighter, sharper face is a legitimate way for me to depict the gestalt of the experience.
Uh... examples from 50 years ago is not what I was picturing.
The externalized cost doesn't seem so bad if you don't care about prisoners' feelings or if they die in a fire. Unfortunately, I think that mindset is probably more common, especially historically, than many realize.
Unfortunate about SWA, but united is and for 20 years now has been trash anyway.