skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The unsold stock of cars is so high right now that carmakers are renting out airports and have container ships parked full of them.

https://www.torquenews.com/1084/subaru-leases-airport-park-3...

https://www.torquenews.com/1084/subaru-leases-airport-park-3...

On the bright side, you can get an Aston Martin for $20k off, which is probably in the ballpark for my budget for my next car. ;)
I’m almost 30 and I know I look like a teen because salespeople who knock on my door ask if my mom is home and flight attendants don’t want to let me sit next to the emergency door (you have to be FIFTEEN for that!). I can buy child tickets to things without a question asked. Of course celebrities don’t really look like teenagers, because they’re meant to look attractive. Real people who look young look like gangly awkward teens :)
Slack’s new iPhone app hits the App Store ahead of official launch
Parent comment is nowhere claiming that it is the only reason. Given that there wasn't enough testing capacity, contact tracing capacity or hospital capacity, what would you have differently? And on what basis?
Sorry, but this site has a terrible, incomprehensible, user interface. No help, no tooltips on mysterious icons, no UX flow.
> Home Depot is open and packed to the gills (literally people lining up to get in the front door at my neighborhood Home Depot which is about 20 minutes from the Tesla factory). Most of the people shopping there aren't doing anything essential -- their home improvement projects and gardens can wait

Shops where I live mandate masks and either gloves or hand sanitizer. Also, people have to wait two meters from each other and only limited amount of people can be in at the same time.

It seemed reasonable to me to allow shops like Home Depot if the above restrictions are hold. You are more likely to get Covid by prolonged contact then by brief one. And if they expect people to stay at home, it makes sense to allow them to do something with that time so they dont go crazy.

Gardening and home restriction are reasonable, smart activities for lockdown.
Redfin co-founder sues company for alleged infringement over 3D home-tour tech
BentoML vs. Cortex for ML model serving
The average age of death of coronavirus victims was about 10 months younger than the average age of death of non-coronavirus victims. So if you die it takes 1 year off your life expectancy. And maybe 1% of people will die that are infected (and lets assume everyone will be infected.)

So coronavirus decreases your life expectancy by 3 and a half days. For comparison, sitting in front of a TV for multiple hours a day (as many people have been relegated to doing) decreases your life expectancy by 6 years. Smoking is 8 years. Owning a car and driving it regularly is a few weeks IIRC.
That was cool to read your reply. actually looking back over my code, I see my achievement was better than I thought. I only used addition, and rotation. no mult, nor xor.

technically tho rotation can be thought of as including multiplication and xor. but also not. so I don't know.
To be fair, this would be a contender for the most epic discovery in human history. Would you simply give the solution away?
Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS
Agreed. Especially with the Musk stunt, too many people in the bay area and CA are questioning the continued SIP, and it would be good for the government to come out really transparent in how they are making the decision.
Max/MSP and Pure Data: Miller Puckette
As I mentioned above, there is a technique called lucky imaging, where you take lots of short exposures and only use the best ones. In astronomy, this can be used to reach the diffraction limit. You need a bright source, however, and it provides a narrow field of view.
That's quite the endorsement, there.

Before Bitcoin, they were using stuff like Walmart giftcards.
For a variety of reasons, I only use Firefox. I recently dumped Spotify for Google music. The user experience was just not good enough.

Each morning, I would sit at my desk, and press play in the browser tab that Spotify was running in. Nothing would happen. No music, no loading indicator. Just nothing.

Sometimes I could get Spotify to work by reloading the tab, but most often I'd have to destroy the tab and create an entire new one. Then the site would work again. I never investigated why. I have a job to do, and I just want the music player to work. I'm not reporting a bug in a consumer music service.

I tolerated this for about a year. One day, the annoyance just reached a breaking point. I cancelled my subscription and signed up with Google music.

I sympathize with the Spotify developers. Delivering software is a hard job, and I know that from experience. Delivering it to multiple runtimes is even harder. But here's the thing:

Google music works without issue in Firefox, just like all their other products. To me, that is standard of quality for web applications. Anything else is not good enough, and people shouldn't tolerate it.
Discover new art wherever you are. LittleBig.Art
"Life is more or less a lie, but then again that's exactly the way we want it to be. We wouldn't be comfortable with it any other way." - Bob Dylan
Interesting idea for an app
Ask HN: Who is the best hacker of all time?
Who do you consider the most talented and well rounded cyber hacker of all time?
I use a custom browser keyword search to find existing archived pages before saving one, personally. Eg: ar <URL> for:

https://wayback.archive.org/web/*/%S

I'd imagine it would be useful for IA to implement some message for scenarios where a page has already been saved within a certain timespan and provide both a link to the already saved version and offer to save again. As this would mitigate mass savings of an identical page that can occur when some popular link is accidentally shared with the /save/ URL instead of the static URL or when it's a popular page that people want to archive.

Archive.is displays such a message (to the effect of, 'this page was archived <date>, if it looks outdated click save') and also redirects to the most recent copy.
I Built My Own Forecasting Tool Using a Weather API
Turning off your rigs makes them an unprofitable investment you almost certainly are paying interest on if you're running a large operation.
For the BMW C1 you need a motorcycle driver's license, though. (unless you have regular car driver's license that was issued before 1980)
You are trying very hard to educate some hardened heads. While I appreciate your efforts, I should advise you to let things fail. Natural forces will establish the facts and show that cryptocurrencies have no place in the evolution of state-controlled economies of the world.
Even if buying goods with crypto is out of the question for you (say, because you don’t want it linked to any physical address), you can still buy a decent range of services. A whole suite of digital services (VPS, VPN, bulk data backup, domain registration, etc) is buyable with cryptocurrencies. A number of places will also accept donations in Bitcoin. Depending on your social ties, you might commission digital art with Bitcoin.

Now, most people I know who hold Bitcoin are motivated primarily by other reasons. But still, I can cut down my cash spending/donations by a few $1000/yr just by doing those things above — which have fairly loose ties to my physical person — with Bitcoin.
Average death rate is 1/65-1/80 per year, or 1.5-1.2%, depending on country life expectancy.
Gilbert Strang's linear algebra course blew my mind back in high school, and I still use insights from it every day. Strang has a particular lecturing style where he approaches every topic several times, often beginning many lectures before the main treatment. At first I thought it was a bit confusing, but later I realized it helped build fluency, just like a language class.

I'm really thankful to MIT OCW for putting his lectures out for free -- in fact, I think I'll go donate to them now.
I always thought it would be amazing to have something like this for composing music.
Every item on archive.org has a bit-torrent file, I believe. This doesn't solve the problem of working out which items are the most popular, but if you can figure out that then you would be able to manage storage and bandwidth. I suppose the real question is: how many other people use bit-torrent to download from archive.org, as opposed to direct downloads. I (sadly) suspect it's a very small fraction.

Semi-unrelated, but if you're looking for ways to help and have a spare server, Archive Team [1] is always looking for additional capacity. Although Archive Team != archive.org, they do grabs of at-risk content which (almost always) get uploaded to archive.org. [disclaimer: I help out with various Archive Team projects, the most recent of which was the backup of Yahoo Groups).

[1] https://www.archiveteam.org/
I clicked this article to look for ways to contribute.. bandwidth. But there is no torrent/ipfs like method to help, just cash. I'd be happy to run a service that would help Wikipedia, archive.org, ddg (any service I believe in) decentralize. I always keep my Ubuntu torrents open for launch days and some beyond. I have a server running and I don't need my 50/50 fiber all the time.

If I was a better software dev, I'd try to make a daemon which I can feed a list of websites which I want to support with my caches that can be upgraded (like the DNS system?). Like a folding at home for bandwidth.
HTML5 Image Editor SDK
Are you taking everyone on ycombinator to be a fool. The previous comment talked about 'terrorism' so when you use the word 'terror' it's connected to have the same meaning.
For personal projects, Kanban has been a very good way to stay focused on incrementally building features for a minimal prototype of an idea. With free tools like Trello and GitHub projects it seems more for for personal use.
Dockerizing a Kafka Streams App
And it is, maybe, in 11 years usable if the current speed is maintained.

So we have for 5 Years a really good editor-backend.
It looks ... interesting :) It has a max speed of 45 km/h which makes it primarily usable in cities. One edition of the two editions of the Twizy can go 80 km/h.
I’m really curious to read more - shame it seems that this series never got a part two? If so, not that I could find.
I've also found it useful when I want to create a re-sizeable video window to suit whatever else I'm doing, as it conforms to the browser size (I was doing this when I was watching FastAI lectures). As you say, much more pleasant!
My bad. I just mis-read the article. Just now I went and downloaded the paper, and I see no group size specified, nor indeed any details of the procedure they followed. That might just be the house style of the journal. However, they mention that models predict that creativity increase with the size of the group (to a point). But they don't specify this point.

The recommendations they draw are:

1. Combining group and solitary brainstorming

2. Having group brainstormers interact by writing instead of speaking (“brainwriting”)

3. Using networked computers on which individuals type their ideas and read the ideas of others (electronic brainstorming)

They nicely give some recommended readings:

- Paulus, P.B., & Nijstad, B.A. (Eds.). (in press). Group creativity. New York: Oxford University Press.

- Brown, V., Tumeo, M., Larey, T.S., & Paulus, P.B. (1998). Modeling cognitive interactions during group brainstorming. Small Group Research, 29, 495–526.

- Osborn, A.F. (1957). Applied imagination (1st ed.). New York: Scribner.

Many institutional brainstorming sessions I have attended are a complete waste of time, for all the obvious reasons (mostly ego-dominance and poor leadership). This the paper refers to as 'production blocking'. However, I find that managed correctly, there are few better ways to introduce diversity of thought into a process.
The Metal That Could Spark a New Resource War
Just ask dang :)
Oh btw I meant YC founders don't use HN other than for marketing..
> I feel for the guy, things are tough now. I hope he finds the peace that he seems to need.

On a Human level, I would agree.

Selfishly and pragmatically, I hope he never does; who else has done so much to enable the progress that is needed in the World right now? People like him are a once in a generation, not because he's a Genius (which I think he is) but because of the amount of risk he is willing to absorb and keeping going at all costs and motivating more and more to the cause in the process.

I think Dr. Zubrin said it best: he's not motivated by Money, he's after Legacy and that draws the best efforts of Humanity forward in order to be a part of it. He is an archetype character out several Sci-fi books.

6 Kids is a good shot at Legacy on it's own, but perhaps setting the bar this high for them in his Lifetime and the opportunity to out-do each other after setting the bar so high was the goal.
Anyone who has seen footage of a modern car factory and a post-COVID hardware store will know that this is absurd.

Car factories like Tesla's are already very clean places. They're already dealing with physical and airborne dangers—robots need clearance and the air must be aggressively exhausted and scrubbed to deal with fumes from paints, plastics, solvents, welding etc.

Much of the physical part handling is performed by or assisted by robots. Much of the transport is performed by conveyors. Employees generally don't need to be in close proximity or touch the same surfaces as other employees. Unlike a consumer store, Tesla can effectively mandate 100% compliance around PPE, whereas hardware stores are full of self-entitled pricks who don't wear sufficient PPE and linger in aisles forcing people to regularly trespass the 6 foot buffer...
The Cities We Need
Sorry to break it to you, but USA is regarded as number one facade democracy/banana republic around the world. Many people regarded it as such before Trump, but it really exploded after he got in office.
Why is this being downvoted? Is it incorrect?
That's a terrible analogy. Orange supply could be infinite should we maximize orange production, this is not how Bitcoin works.

If there were only 12 oranges produced on all the trees in the world every hour & it cost $500 an hour to operate your orange farm. You therefore have to sell your oranges for at least $42 to cover costs and make a small income

However now there are only 6 oranges produced every hour (not 12), what can you do to maintain profitability?
Richard Stallman, the last true MIT Hacker.
Ask HN: What are some great hard tech engineering blogs?
Hey HN! I wanted to know what are some of the hard-tech (loosely defined ranging from climate tech, space exploration, autonomous systems, biotech, nuclear to name a few) blogs that you follow?

My understanding is that hard tech companies usually face a different set of obstacles while building their tech, namely, unporven technology, iteration rate etc.

Please post away!
I don't know that any ideas are "proven". Evidence based medicine works on just that:evidence. The hypothesis that you do not get immunity, given the evidence from all previously observed cases of coronaviruses is the least likely. Why would you then act as if it were true?
He has threatened to move production elsewhere though, so how much does the really care about the workers?
I'm from California, Musk and his followers seem REALLY culty to me.
It is not so simple. Some examples: If there is no lockdown, companies are not forced to have employees WFH. So while you may be OK with getting the virus, I might not be, but I am no longer free to not go out since I might lose my job over that. Sure, you could say that it is my choice to give up a job that requires me to work. Then it's a question of values and politics, and in my value system, that is unfair to me and not a good decision.

Second, let's say that the lockdown is lifted and hospitals are running out of capacity. Doctors and nurses are having to leave people to die because there are no beds or ICUs. Let's say the people dying are all above 50 yrs of age, but there is clear evidence that without lockdown, 2000 people die everyday and with lockdown, 200 people die everyday. Is your freedom worth sacrificing 1800 people every day?
I once had my card skimmed while I was overseas. Westpac reversed all the transactions and sent me a new card.
DataGene: Python Data Similarity
Eclipse Foundation's Move to Europe
There is a German guy named Klaus Fiehe who has apparently been called “the German John Peel”. He played sax for Geier Sturzflug back in the day, is now with the Bollock Brothers and has been hosting somewhat off-mainstream radio shows for decades now. I love him very much and there is a very humble archive at https://fiehe.info. It only goes back to 2012, unfortunately… Nothing of the scale TFA boasts.
AWS unleashes custom Arm processor – Graviton2 – in new EC2 M6g instance type
I love this trail of thinking though. Like, what if I told you that there are museums named after a violent domestic abuser? Should we judge Picasso for who he was, for his work, or for both?
I think it's just the banks 'she'll be right' attitude.

ING still uses a client code, which is written on your card plus a 4+ digit pin code on both Web and app to login.

It will take one decent breech for them to wake up..
I was impressed by that interview and am thinking of trying the supplements a bit to see if they do anything.

This article was jolly also https://www.bostonmagazine.com/health/2019/10/29/david-sincl...
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To a first order approximation it is.

And the reason we need to try analogies and hyperbole is because even people who are arguing in good faith don't get exponential growth.

Normal people look at 2 on day 1, 4 on day 4, 8 on day 7 and think "Oh, about 4 every 3 days. Shrug. No big deal." Horizontal.

Epidemiologists look at that and go "AHHHHH! Doubling every 3 days. Shut everything down or we'll have a million in 2 months and 10 million a week later." They're looking at the vertical section of the curve.

This is similar to people misunderstanding fire. Most people have experienced a campfire. The energy drops off like 1/r^3, so it's no big deal. Most people haven't experienced a wind driven wall of flame where the energy drops off like 1/r so things simply spontaneously combust next to the flamefront. And that's just cubic vs linear.
I don't know who the CEO of JP Morgan is, but I imagine he might be one of the few who would pull out a Pinephone with a his own custom software stack with encryption for all his communications and perhaps some other special tools.
I agree! I solved it by implementing mostly-racket-compatible for loops for guile scheme. Since then I can't not think of for loops as recursive macros :)

Edit: the loops actually got more powerful recently: The for/foldr was a great addition where you can replace most non-tail-recursive functions with it, even though I probably wouldn't use it for tree transversal :)
I'm really surprised that nobody mentions tig [0] when talking about git. It is by far the most convenient git visualizer I've ever used, and I use it hundreds of times a day. It's written in C so it's super fast (loads a huge project in a few seconds), and it's a CLI so you don't even have to leave the terminal.

[0] https://github.com/jonas/tig
When I hear "ICO/coins/mines/tokens/blockchain" my brain switches to "scam mode" and I switch to something else.
Ouch! Thanks for sharing the stories.

My Kawasaki Z900 (2017) is pretty comical for wheelies, more so with a pillion on your R1 as you noted.

Here's a pick of a stock version of the bike. Because of the position of the pillion seat, it being so far to the rear, the short swing arm and because the pillion seat sits so far up and away from the rider. The front wheel lifts with such a trivial amount of power to the front.

I've still had a few rides on it with pillions but god damn, like you said. It does not inspire confidence with an additional passenger.

The Adventure Tourers I've had I was a lot more comfortable with, to date that's a Tiger 800 (2015) and a current Kawasaki Versys 2020 (1000CC). Both were great for additional passengers. Especially the Versys with the electronic suspension to cater for additional pillions or luggage.

My experience with riding with pillions must be close to, maybe, 2-3000km at best. And that's being generous. I've not had any accidents with a pillion, only when solo. As you've shown, motorbikes are fickle beasts.
I would like to take this opportunity to ask, What happened to .web?

.web in my view is the only possible challenger to .com, but it has been years, and those dispute seems endless with no update.
Politics is definitely important here, because at the end of the day it is a question of values. If the majority of the nation wants to keep business open even at the cost of hundreds or thousands of lives every day, that is a question of politics. I can only say that I hope they have all the right, accurate information when making this judgement.
I wonder why no one mentioned the Smart. Here in Europe they're quite popular in dense cities. One advantage is they can be parked sideways on most streets, which not only helps with finding a spot but is also easier.

According to Wikipedia[0], a Smart is actually shorter and it can also be electric.

This actually has quite a few shortcomings compared to a Smart:

* Cannot carry a passenger

* Requires a motorcycle license, which many people might not have

* Technically a motorcycle, so safety standards may not be up to par

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Fortwo#Third_generation_...
US unemployment is extremely generous.
You might not care, but look at the COVID-19 statistics coming from New South Wales. I think they're entitled to have their perspective considered.

(Disclaimer: I also live in NSW and I wouldn't live anywhere in the USA even if you paid me a literal, tax-free million dollars.)
> there is almost always a human in the loop somewhere verifying that the documents submitted by the user are valid. This is harmful to the user...

This might be the first time in which I've heard someone call the human in the loop "harmful to the user". It's a good thing that name changes require a human in the loop; the potential for abuse is astronomical otherwise, and the upside of having a human in the loop for legal name changes greatly outweigh the potential downsides.

Most of the other problems that the article mentions fail to exceed the threshold of "minor annoyance or moments of embarrassment". It would definitely be nice if any system that needed your legal name would also provide a "preferred name" field to avoid these moments, but I'm not sure that this problem actually rises to the level of importance that the author gives it.

"Just don't record legal names" is nonetheless good advice for the majority of systems.
Sounds cool. What did you need 3 phase 4 quadrant for, if I may ask out of curiosity?
Actually I have been payed a couple of times to produce such reports for higher management.

You know, pay a couple of work days at external consultant rates for getting the higher ups to sign a project.
Until a few months ago I owned a Corbin sparrow, which looks almost identical. It was great; I could park it anywhere, drive it with a regular license, and go safely on 101 in the commuter lane (the vehicle has a monocoque design -- basically you're inside a huge motorcycle helmet). It was quite convenient until I had a kid and a very large dog.

At one point I was on a board which had (including me) three separate sparrow owners!
Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same as before?
I'm looking for mind games, plot twists, brain expanding books, and literally anything that transforms me into a smarter, wiser person.
Would this Teensy be suitable for real time audio processing? I mean little-to-no latency.