skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if Tesla gives different service for Model S vs Model 3.
"nihilistic capitalist" = "I want to support myself full-time with this"

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> you are supposed to call a tow with a blinking light

Citation needed.
Nah, been doing it professionally since 1997.
True, though some cars fall into “limp mode” making it challenging to drive very far. That typically limits the max RPM if a potential catastrophic drivetrain issue is detected while not also stranding you.
No, but any specific cherry-picked anecdote won't happen to more than a handful of people. That shouldn't be surprising.

(also, 1 and 3 are the same thing.)
The fraction of serious accidents that are caused by mechanical failure is just 12%. Of mechanically induced accidents, two-thirds were caused by the failure/degradation of the tires, wheels, or brakes.

https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...

So for diagnostics other than tires, wheels, and brakes, we are talking about a system that can prevent at most 4% of accidents, and probably much, much less. Given the huge number of false positives, I'd much rather cars notify the driver in detail (not just a vague "check engine" warning) and let the driver decide how to proceed, rather than irrevocably disabling themselves.

Consider: we could also probably eliminate 20% of accidents by prohibiting drivers from driving in wet conditions, but instead we reasonably instruct drivers to drive more cautiously and accept that some wetness induced accidents will occur nevertheless.
Well, yes, maybe we can start to move homework and grading away from useless busy work.
You are making some serious mistakes in your citation of that:

1. a polygenic score is not 'the impact of common variants'; that's the SNP heritability, such as the GCTA or LDSC. It's not 1.6%, it's closer to 30%. You edited out the part of the abstract which correctly specifies this: "the single-nucleotide polymorphism heritability for the extreme IQ trait was 0.33 (0.02)"

2. that is not the best predictor of intelligence; it is not now (that would be Allegrini et al 2018), and it was not then either - you have to go all the way back to like 2014 for 1.6% to be SOTA and I'm puzzled why you cite Zabaneh at all, which is one of the most obscure IQ GWASes... The actual SOTA is 11% or higher.

3. your claims about power are obviously wrong, as Allegrini et al 2018 uses far less than 'tens of millions' and still greatly outperforms it. (Which has something to do with those rare beneficial variants not existing which they were looking for...)

So, we can predict 11%, not 1.6%, and common variants have a large impact, 3x that, and rare variants account for even more, easily 50% including what you might call semi-rare variants (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/106203v2).
> I absolutely do not open an IDE until this process is done

How do you deal with changing requirements? Or when your understanding of the problem changes midway into the project? I find that one or the other happens frequently. It's nobody's fault (most of the time), just the result of the reality that customers don't always know what they want and are frequently unable to accurately communicate what they want.
Sonnenschuld is a beautiful word! Thank you!
That’s the point I was addressing. It’s not the responsibility of the scientific community to pay attention to everyone. The threshold of communication is an awareness of the fields existing models and results.

Getting published in a reputable journal is generally a low bar and probably a good yardstick for joining the conversation. That might seem excessive, but it drastically improves the signal to noise ratio and frankly works.

Now, complaints after that point are reasonable, even Einstein disliked QM. However, eventually the old guard dies and new people are willing to consider new idea at which point science marches on.
"Catastrophic failure" is a common engineering term that essentially means "complete and irreversible failure."
One of the founders of Substack here.

It's built in house. Thank you for the kind words. I'm not sure I'd call it a clone of HN, but that's definitely one of our influences :)
I don't think the problem is that a car broke down (happens to any car). But the higher end the car, the higher end the service you expect. A Ford Focus is anything but premium so I'm sure few people expect premium services attached to the purchase. A ~$60.000 car is a different story.
You used to be able to learn how to produce explosives via the Encyclopedia Britannica... now, not so much.
"Disconnect" also belongs to the expression - essentially, a tiny explosive is used to ensure that the safety switch disconnects the battery from the load side, permanently and without arcing: https://insideevs.com/news/334322/tesla-patents-pyrotechnic-...
So, yes, car manufacturers do exactly this right now. But if you want exact details, or if you have an older MY car you can plug in your own odb-ii reader and download one of the many apps to get those details.

My car just threw a CEL and it was because I put low octane gas in. I knew this but also found this by using the handy Forscan app
When I referred to knights as weird, I was thinking more of how their movement patterns are incongruous with rooks/bishops/queens that move in a straight line but are blocked by pieces in the way. Their weirdness is what makes them useful (uniqueness may have been a better word).

I liked the way another commenter described it below: knights can move to the closest squares other pieces can't move to.
Exactly: the war was almost over by D-Day. And Russia could have swept over Germany, but instead stopped and waited for the Allies to catch up. The Warsaw Uprising was crushed while Soviet troops stood back and watched.
Google will be making making it easier for devs to write portable mobile apps. But it will also need android deva to learn new language.
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=...

> Avoid enormous network payloads Total size was 64,215 KB
This is a constant struggle in design, even (especially) when targeting highly technical audiences. We frequently conflate the familiar with the simple or user-friendly. People will shout "how intuitive!" when a designer repeats an interface that's currently familiar in a context that forgets why the original interface was helpful.

So we get a few nice touch gestures: scroll, zoom, etc. We then expand adding more until learning all your gestures (on that particular os for that particular hardware) is more complex than ASL.
The nice thing about Swift is that many broad programming patterns will ultimately be shared between Swift and Rust, and Swift has better support on Apple platforms. That's quite nice if everything you've had available before was Objective C or Objective/C++.
Yes, to read blogs.
thanks for this!!
Hope this will solve my main annoyance with
Firefox:
sometimes I change Linux distro and then I lose all of my firefox settings, ("sync" would be better and keep flags changed by the users, but I don't think that the FF devs bother about it)
ISTM they could just have a different mode for the system that lowers latency and increases droppage. For a sportscast the occasional pop or crackle wouldn't hurt anything.
What about this situation said it was unsafe to drive? Not able to drive and not safe to are different things.

I’m reminded that many gas engines can drop into a degraded mode and still run when there is a problem like a sensor failing. Even a small oil leak can still be driven with. Degraded but not stranded.
do you have any references for this? how does the tax revenue 'decay' to 0. Prop 13 doesn't reduce the tax over time but fixes it at a certain amount upon purchase (if the property is new) or transfer if it's sold.

All new houses and transferred properties are taxed at the value they were purchased.
Half of this essay is spent memorializing a toxic editor with examples of behavior that were completely counterproductive. Yelling at an editor because they went to lunch is bold criticism, it's being a jerk for no reason or benefit to anyone.

Beyond that, there's nothing of substance here to persuade me that caring about people's feelings is an actual problem. The author takes a commonly understood, generally accepted, uncontroversial point -- that being nice is not an excuse to be wrong or to tolerate bad behavior -- and then makes a vague case that something is wrong with present-day emphasis on empathy in communication.

Then they go on to conflate a lot of criticisms together that doesn't really relate in any way. We jump from talking about how criticism should be pointed, to talking about how "nice" is applied too generally as an adjective, back to criticism of reviewer standards. It's all over the place, I suspect because there is no focused point to make. It's just a vague rant that people aren't allowed to be rude any more.

And to that point, holy heck is this author living in a bubble if they think that people are too focused on being nice today. Our political discourse is more tribalized and militarized than ever before. Has the author looked at Twitter recently? Where is this wonderful, fictitious society I can join where everyone dulls their criticism out of concern over what its effects might be?

This is an unfocused, pointless criticism of a problem that doesn't exist, supported by nothing more than poorly written, vague anecdotes, smothered in good old-fashioned 'in my day it was better' irritability, and I have no idea how it managed to make the front page of HN.

Aside from those complaints, it's very nice.
By jove, I think it's trying to kill us.*

I was driving the other day and pondered whether measuring pulse/blood pressure/other factors that indicate stress while traveling a recommended route (or even passively, correlating to time+day) could positively inform route quality.

(*It honestly seems to prefer them, even in Seattle where everything is a reflective sheet of glass and pedestrians are shrouded in urban camouflage 300 days of the year.)
The total size if you don't do anything on the page is already bad, but it's also different than if you actually try scrolling. Scroll down to the bottom and watch what happens.

Also lol at them having the gall to give their desktop page a 97/100 and then saying "Use video formats for animated content. Estimated Savings: 42.57s"

42.57s!
I have the exact opposite reaction. There are very few things that can go wrong with a car that are dangerous enough for the car to automatically refuse to be driven. For what is the equivalent of the check engine light coming on, the car refuses to even be driven to the mechanic. I've had a history of older jalopies, but I've driven for probably a decade with a check engine light on. The odds of having your Tesla deciding to strand you in the middle of nowhere seems a lot higher than it saving itself from bursting into flames.
todo.org

Org-mode realllllly makes it better. I keep it open and have 'Pre-launch' and 'Post-launch' todo items, plus major design features have their own heading with steps broken out.
> He was neither given rental nor Uber or loaner etc

That's surprising. Whenever I take my honda in for service, I always get offered a loaner (even if it's just a couple hours of service)
If they try so hard to avoid taxes my government should damn well try very hard to fine them.
This actually isn't true. I build telecommunications software and although individual carriers may offer a binary true or false response to a DNC request, the actual DNC list is a csv of all the numbers in a given region / area code that are on the list. You must pay for access to the list, per area code or you can pay a larger fee for all area codes. From experience, this is why many telemarketers don't obey the DNC list. They want to, but they also don't want to pay the greater than $15k it costs to access all area codes' DNC list. You're also not allowed to resell access to the list in any way, so any service offering a scrub against the national DNC is violating those terms. Most services that say they do that still require you to give them your DNC access info (SAN).

The pay to access part I think is what separates it from the IP Address list here.
The Google version will route you past the retail outlets that have paid Google.
This red to green color scheme isn't so great for colorblind people like myself. I prefer blue to red.

// Break at scripts/knight.js:369 then run
sC = sequentialColor;
sequentialColor = (low, high, gap, long = false) => sC(240, 0, gap, long);
Curious to know this as well. The drawings, diagrams, and flow charts are an absolute delight!
That experience certainly makes me really think about the value proposition. If I’m buying a $60k car, it breaks after 5k miles, and they can’t get me a loaner?
It's pretty awful; I used to work in ad-tech, and if we had this level of click fraud our customers would have had our head on a platter.
I wouldn’t go as far as to say it’s “developed in the open”. It’s significantly more opaque than Swift or WebKit, for example; I’d describe it as “accepting of patches”.
No, definitely not Groupthink. It's open behaviour.

It's really hard to find non-fiction examples of cabals, but when applied to real life I stick with they are almost always emergent behaviour.

I would have thought the Phoebus cartel is an example of a cabal, but it seems Google doesn't agree.

But it's an example of progress kept back from emergent behaviour.

There's a reason there's two memes attached to Phoebus cartel, 1. They stopped long lasting light bulbs, 2. Actually long lasting light bulbs burn to much electricity.

The emergent behaviour from 2. caused 1. which made them more money.

This is not Groupthink.
I hate to say this, but Swift is to Objective-c, what Scala is to Java....

It was very exiting and promising at first, but it became bogged down due to its sheer run-away complexity and over-academic approach to programming....

To an outsider, or iOS new comer, Swift looks much better than Objective-c, (due to Objective-c weird syntax), but to many insiders, Swift seems like a huge missed opportunity...

The use of Swift, outside Apple's ecosystem is going to be limited.
I feel almost as bad about the CIA going dark as I do about the FBI supposedly going dark: not at all. You reap what you sow, you arrogant bastards.
My wife saw a Kia Stinger in a parking lot the other day and started drooling over it. “Why didn’t you get this one??” I asked her to remember the horror stories we have gone through with our Ford dealership, I told her Kia service would be worse by 5 orders of magnitude.

You are being downvoted, but poor customer service is a real reason to avoid certain car brands..
> That’s why Swift’s expressive and very lightweight syntax

And a few paragraphs later:

extension Array {
func sorted<T: Comparable>(
by keyPath: KeyPath<Element, T>
) -> Self {
sorted { $0[keyPath: keyPath] < $1[keyPath: keyPath] }
}
}

I can't say this is lightweight any longer.

My greatest gripe with Swift comes not from Swift itself but from its standard library. When most new languages start with their own standard libraries that are usually interfaces towards C APIs or POSIX, Swift's Foundation is half of MacOS and then some.

I recently needed to read some data from a file in Swift, and it took me quite some time to realise there was no fopen equivalent. Read/write files is a function on String? And getting a file handle is an excercise in figuring out proper dir names and user enums? [1]

There are a few other weird things in the language itself like guards which IMO are an entirely unnecessary construct that can be as easily solved with regular ifs. Or Optionals that have no way of working with them except unwrapping them (either with ! or via guards).

SwiftUI, however, is a very interesting approach, and I hope there are more frameworks (especially UI frameworks) like this.

[1] https://twitter.com/dmitriid/status/1201441652507844608
My interest in math and all things STEMy stemmed from computer games. Then I realized basic solutions could be generalized, and that got me interested in more abstract aspects of mathematics.

I think a curriculum based around game programming could provide a concrete context for many STEM disciplines.

Then you get into the story, consistent gameworld, art and sound side of computer games and you can introduce humanities subjects such as the classics, philosophy, art, and music.

So, in short, we could base an entire Uni curriculum, spanning the sciences and arts, all centered around creating a computer game.

And best of all, the student's capstone will be something any person can play, instead of dragging themselves through pages and pages of hard to read writing.
Swift has come a long way. I remember first trying it and XCode acting like it couldn't figure anything out in Swift, and you could almost never bring up an autocomplete or search for references or jump to definitions or any nice feature in an IDE that worked just fine with Objective-C. I decided to give it another shot years later, and I'm working on a simple game in Swift right now, and it's been a much, much smoother experience.

Although admittedly there's still some bizarre behavior. Like
this morning while iterating over a simple for loop, XCode decided it was just going to stay on the final item in the collection and keep looping until my memory ran out, over and over again, and I couldn't find anyone talking about this online, but eventually decided to do a "Clean Build Folder" and then Build, and that fixed it (but why did it happen in the first place? So odd!).

And it still doesn't always think a class I wrote or renamed is valid when referencing it in another class, but a rebuild or quitting and restarting tends to fix that.

Still, I'm liking it a lot, and having a lot of fun with Swift now. SpriteKit is great for making games, except for the lack of cross-platform capability, but if the game somehow manages to take off, I can write some wrapper classes to have the same behavior as most of the SpriteKit classes I use and port it easily enough.
I did try this and I believe it didn't work for some reason that I can't recall. The recommended practice seemed to be to create a "Page" related to the group and then have a link from the page. But then I need to curate content for both, a total hassle.
How, and why would this have anything to do with memory corruption vulnerabilities?
How long before Snapchat's lawyers send a letter, insisting that the name be changed to something less misleading?
The Fundamental Theorem of Politics?
Here's my game-theory-style explanation of politics:

Let "A" and "B" represent individual candidates, political parties or both.

A and B want to win elections.

A wins the election.

Question: What does B --the loser-- need to do in order to win the next election?

Case 1: A has bad ideas and may or may not be competent

B can win the next election by staying out of the way, allowing A to push their agenda forward. A will deliver negative results and people will elect B at the next possible opportunity.

Case 2: A has middle-of-the-range ideas and may or may not be competent

B has to do just enough to ensure A's outcomes are negative. Without this subtle influence A could get lucky. If B can nudge A into delivering negative results, B can win. B has to interfere and sabotage while making sure they are not connected to the failures.

Case 3: A has excellent ideas and is quite able to deliver

B's only option is war against A. This means character destruction, interference, sabotage, time-wasting, fabrications, lies, etc. B has to engage in an all-out attack against A. Without this A will win the next election. Worse yet, the risk is a change in ideological alignment of voters that might last multiple future elections. B, facing an existential threat, has no choice but to attack.

With this simple model one can observe politics and reach a few conclusions by noting how the losing party behaves after an election.

This, to me, in the last 30+ years of paying attention to the way this game is played, explains what I've seen in politics throughout the world. Sure, there are variations, such as, in some countries, B will depose, jail and even assassinate A. I believe, for the most part, the three fundamental scenarios cover the majority of circumstances.
This is what I was going to suggest. I am working on moving towards react and some other better practices for our current jQuery/spaghetti code front end and I needed to be able to handle multiple entrypoints and types. I messed around with webpack and create react app and gulp and several other things for days before coming across parcel. It just works.

Want to build your react app? Just tell parcel where your index.js is and it will see your react and react dom imports and just build it. No config needed.

Want to do react in typescript? Just change your entrypoints to index.ts. Done. Even handled the yarn add commands for you.

This allowed me to easily have a few different react entrypoints as well as just a few random .ts files for use on pages that aren't built in react yet and then I just watch or build using a wildcard and it takes care of it all.

So far, I'm a big fan.
Ground handling equipment for most of the 737 operators is designed around the low clearance. So if they were to make it sit higher, operators would have to remove a significant amount of equipment.

Also the 737-10 does sit higher:
https://www.geekwire.com/2018/boeing-737-max-10-landing-gear...
They're obviously wrong and engaged in puffery when they claim to be SOTA. Look at http://www.nature.com/mp/journal/v20/n2/full/mp2014188a.html , for example - that was 3 years before and had a similar PGS of 1.2%. Or, if that's too obscure, look at the SSGAC EA2 / Okbay/Selzam et al 2016 (no excuse for not knowing that one), 2 years before, and more than double, at 3.5%.
I'm curious which receiver(s) run Linux
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Anecdata:

The night modes of my displays (iMac, MacBook Pro, iPhone, iPad) definitely help me be a bit more relaxed compared to staring at them in their normal mode, especially during the nights.

That being said, reduction of blue light does not help that much either. I found that a much stronger contributor to my staying awake is the light of the screen itself. I found that if I am in the mood to nap during the afternoon, the smaller difference between the my phone's display light and the ambient light helps me fall asleep much, much quicker compared to when I am staring at my phone with all lights turned off. The difference is much more pronounced and obstructs my brain's desire to doze off.

So IMO the reduced blue light has an effect. But it might not be that big indeed.
The few that turn out to be right get funding and recognition, exactly as many of the researchers mentioned in this article are getting now.

Some of the ones that are right eventually get funding, as long as their proponents stick around long enough and produce enough results to convince someone to fund them. On the time scale this article talks about, I'd expect a quite a few people who had ideas worth looking into gave up and went off to do something else instead.
I think that's unfair. OP is pointing out what he considers to be poor design on a site meant to celebrate great design. Pointing out hypocrisy (not saying I agree with OP or not) is different from unconstructive criticism.