skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the western US (at least), although most car journeys are short and daily charging makes the most sense, not being able to use a single vehicle for longer journeys without enforced long-ish breaks currently acts as quite a deterrent to the all-electric car vision of the future. Currently, with gas/diesel vehicles, the same car can function more or less equally well for just about every type of journey, and it has long been a dominant habit of the US consumer to target what they perceive as their most demanding use. In the US, at least, one version that most demanding use is "driving for two days or more".

I love trains, but train travel across the western half of the US is a joke, and isn't a lot better in the eastern half. When the train can take you, it's great - we used it to get from Santa Fe to Chicago last thanksgiving. But change the destination or origin just a little bit, and it becomes almost absurd to thiking about using it.
Neat, would be useful for students' homework.
PyCharm (and all JetBrains IDEs) have the IdeaVim plugin available. It does an excellent job implementing all basic vim functionality, and only stumbles on the more obscure stuff that a small percentage of vim users are likely to miss.
Huh, what do you know.

Still, this is unforgivable in my book:

[] + {} == "[object Object]"
{} + [] == 0
Autism severity can change substantially during early childhood, study suggests
Show HN: Dark Mode PDF Reader, Built Using Electron and Pdf.js
Hacker News law:
In every thread about Go someone will bring up rust.

Don't mind.
He should have been smart enough to get some questions wrong
Surely you could use a random number generator to do this?
The most mendacious president in U.S. history
There is a fantastic what if that talks about this.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/
Pure speculation can sound rational and thorough, but most often it leads towards the ideas that seem most dramatic and exciting, and that conform to your own preconceptions and prejudices.
Are you from 2056? I can't be sure what will stick with people over that time, but I can look back at the Reagan/Bush administrations in retrospect.

Also, I think maybe younger people don't appreciate how much less people were plugged in to a very narrow channel of hysteria and BS before the late 2010s and the rise of ad-tech.

For a hint of what it was like, look at your local newspaper if it still exists or current events on Wikipedia.
Thoughts on Modafinil
Perhaps one day I will. When I last started a big JS project it wasn't mature enough to build a company around. This does seem to be changing.
I admit to not knowing a lot about battery tech, but how exactly does a driver of a vehicle abuse the battery? Isn't that a function of the vehicle design rather than behavior by the driver?
This is where a drone platform with an OS driver / control software would be great.

I bet the sensors and the control systems all have memory overflows or number range issues in the software that isn't being dealt with because it's a closed system. Add to that few if any customers are asking to use their drone as a static tripod.
Ask HN: What has happened to C-19 Daily Exercise?
In the UK the lockdown was introduced with an allowance for daily exercise. I was one of the many that took up daily exercise. However, over time, I have noticed there are now not as many people sharing the countryside route I go on. A couple of months ago there were ten times as many people including joggers and dog walkers that should have a high commitment level.

I only have the anecdotal story to tell, does anyone have data or their own anecdotal information to share regarding daily exercise during the lockdown?
Cool stuff. I wrote a similar post explaining and implementing RSA in python on Colab[0]. I did NOT leave the math out because that was the most exciting part that I enjoyed while studying RSA. Maybe you'd wanna make a similar implementation for fun for ECC.

[0] https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1ccyVKHHXFczk_3u5WoV...
> Also, how do you actually use the keys to encrypt/decrypt?

One of the changes in modern cryptography compared to stuff from the 1990s is that we rarely have cause to use public key encryption at all.

A typical modern design uses a key agreement algorithm to choose a large shared secret known to both parties which is then used to do encryption with symmetric algorithms.

The elliptic curves show up in the key agreement algorithm and in a Digital Signature scheme used after the encryption switches on to prove who you really are, but we often don't use them to actually encrypt anything (and so likewise we don't use them to decrypt anything either).
They added this (reference and comparison to old heads of a PR) at about the start of the year.
Is it that hard to provide a proper link or reference and a hint why I should bother?
It is never persisted outside of RAM. The flight computers are never powered off during a mission. You rely on two flight computers to always be functioning, that’s why the system is one-fault redundant.

You can think as each string being “functional“: given the same set of inputs you expect the same set of outputs.
They did complain about the thermal camera cutting out as the thrusters fired in real life and not in the simulator at one point. Was that fixed in the later test?
Just expanding. I was already writing it when your post appeared.
For the layman, is this "discovery" legitimate? Does this mean dark matter is erroneous? What are the cosmological implications? Is somebody getting a nobel prize for this?
Sorry dont know. Did hear mention of big loop
The fact that many scientific breakthroughs were happy accidents is no coincidence. Luck favors the prepared mind, and one of the best ways to prepare yourself is to build a lot of stuff that doesn’t work. The only reason it’s so common for breakthroughs to be “stumbled upon” is because those who discover them were, while not realizing it, preparing themselves to be able to have the “that’s funny...” moment countless others missed.
@parentheses: see palemoon maintainer's response to my bug report, you may find it relevant.
COTS software is nowhere near what I'd call "spaceworthy". They either determined the UI was not life-critical or ignored that fact.
In some vid he says he had the chance to go to spacex, but than wanted to continue what he's doing.
I'm sure he would be retired if he wanted to
There’s a big difference between market value, and cost of living.

There are plenty of places with lower cost of living where a software developer can earn Silicon Valley-level salaries.

That’s especially true when you consider that lots of compensation comes in the form of stock options.
I’ve heard stories of companies outsourcing to the Phillipines, etc. They build an ecosystem to train workers overseas. Then other companies swoop in.

Pretty soon, the salaries are the same as in the US.
A man who builds Blockchain Islands
>“though I have no doubt exceptions can be brought forward, I think the following rule would be found generally true: that ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will tend to be ages of despotism, whereas when the dominant weapon is cheap and simple, the common people have a chance. Thus, for example, tanks, battleships and bombing planes are inherently tyrannical weapons, while rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon — so long as there is no answer to it — gives claws to the weak.”

-George Orwell
Hmm. I use bottled ink in a converter, so I don't think about the actual ink level. My Metropolitan with a Fine nib dries out much less than my Medium-nib Lamy (especially since Japanese nibs are smaller than European nibs). The bigger issue for me with the Lamy is it drying out on the nib while the nib is in the cap, which might have more to do with the official Lamy ink I've been using than the pen itself.
This fragmentation between what works on what dists makes me sad. Philosophically I've always admired BSD for the consistency, considering how there's just 3-ish of them, realistically I'm a Manjaro user as I don't have enough Linux-fu to set Arch up.
You're not wrong but invertible filters, noise or no, are simply not anonymizing and should not be used for that purpose.
Not if you hijack the camera directly* :)

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/posts/creativetech_tensorflowjs-bod...
What he's done is super impressive and cool, but has he acquired the necessary base knowledge to work on an avionics, propulsion, etc team at SpaceX?

I'm not in any of those fields, but I'd have to imagine there's a large amount of background knowledge that someone with an aero or mechanical engineering degree has, that he hasn't picked up with model rockets.
Independent thinking doesn't gel well with hierarchical, procedure based organizations.

If anything being a Cop these days seems more like herding cattle through a slaughterhouse. They just get people who will to turn the crank of the mincer.
fuchsia.dev?
I'll be forever grateful for what GitHub has done for the OSS community. People today don't remember what they replaced, namely Sourceforge and various home-grown tools of various levels of dysfunction.

Would anyone doubt that open source contributions, and individual contributers even more so, have grown by an order of magnitude or more in the last decade or so? And that GitHub's process improvements and standardisation were the major factor in this?

It used to be, you had to mail patches to some mailing list, with each projects having their own set of arcane rules, sometimes written and sometimes informal, but always enforced with that very special enthusiasm stale organisations devote to policing arbitrary norms because that's the sole remaining source of the old timer's power differential.

Or at least that's how it seemed to me, for I never felt courageous enough to try.

These days, I fire off smaller contributions several times a week, and contribute some medium-sized feature once or twice a year.

Meanwhile, the most impressive thing about GitLab keeps being this strange quirk of them, that among all the companies I know, they are closest to being a total clone of an existing product. Or at least they were in the beginning, when their CSS still had ".gh-wide-3" class names.

Yet despite this, or maybe because of it, they are also the only company that repeatedly lorded it over their competitor when they came late to implementing some minor feature. Seriously: I noticed it the first time because it's a level of pettiness not usually seen. And since then, there have been three or four more instances.
What's more likely? That there is a grand conspiracy by shady elitists to protect the NWO by assassinating black thugs in a ghetto? Or that black thugs are shooting each other, as they tend to do, taking drugs and killing themselves?

The article tries to tug on your heartstrings by pointing out that black residents live in higher crime areas than White residents: funny, that.

It goes on to say that black men comprise 50 of the 65 homicide victims for the year, yet conveniently fails to note that all but 1 of the 15 known killers are black men.

It's incredibly disingenuous and dangerous. It riles up the kind of conspiracy theorists who rave about White supremacists and systematic killer cops, directly and significantly contributing to the rioting we see now.
Yeah, that's probably it. I'm still on the blue official Lamy that came with the pen after many months of occasional writing. I use Noodler's Black from a bottle in the Metropolitan.
Gimballed thrust puts this squarely into all the cool hobbies involve ITAR territory.
It's basically the same technology. They're pretty common in airplanes nowadays. Here is an example of a portable unit intended for use as a backup:

https://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/avpages/iLevilSport.p...

And another one designed to be panel-mounted:

https://www.dynonavionics.com/pocket-panel.php

If you want to get more details, the search terms you want are EFIS (electronic flight instrument system) and AHRS (attitude and heading reference system, pronounced "ay-harz").
Finally some sense. I am so tired of people complaining about markets being irrational
Another reason is that if you do it inside your flat (which many people do in Germany) and then do not open your windows enough there will be mold. Especially in winter this can be a problem.
Interesting! That's more information than I thought. Thanks for informing me!
Thanks for reaching out! Since I have the chance I'll add - Nomad is pretty awesome, and I love the work your team is doing.

My org looked at Nomad at a time when there was a lot of pressure from above to deliver something as soon as possible. Two weeks just weren't enough to full lay of the land ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Funny thing is even if I could plug in my own service discovery into Nomad, I would probably chuck it away and replace it with Consul after a few weeks anyway haha
related thread by steveklabnik: https://twitter.com/steveklabnik/status/1267135697435136006?...
Summary of projects by Niklaus Wirth, 1962 – 1999
In this case what you were experiencing might have been the lack of compositor, which adds a 16ms delay, or just using a slow editor. The theoretically best possible average latency under a compositor model at the top of the screen is 16+(16/2)=24ms which isn't that far from the 30ms I observe at best on macOS. Cutting the compositor would still halve average latency.

Unfortunately Apple shows no interest in getting rid of that delay, while Microsoft is moving towards sometimes using hardware overlays to avoid that (see raphlinus's comment about DirectFlip), and Linux lets you disable it at the cost of tons of artifacts. Apple only recently tried to add compositor bypass for fullscreen Metal apps but the way they did it is super opaque and I have never succeeded at getting it to trigger and they have no example program that they say definitely does it.
The national police force in Canada rapes and murders native women with complete impunity. It might be a bit better in that there are less extrajudicial murders, but it's far from being great.
It varies from person to person, but for me: cut down/eliminate sugar (my soda consumption is now 1-2/year whereas earlier it would be every day, multiple sometimes), cut down/eliminate lattes, eat only as per hunger, diet is more of a whole foods plant based but I take eggs regularly and meat once a week while shunning all packaged/frozen food. Still lot more veggies than carbs. And exercise, it is not an option, you do not need to binge on it but you can not lose a month just being a sloth. You need to move. I could always walk but after stents it took me a month to go from initial 0.8 miles attempt to 1.0 miles but keep working on it slowly and steadily never adding on a massive risk. Last year I did my first (and so far only) 10K which I could not have dreamed of a decade back, and touch wood, the recovery times after these are fantastic : not so when I did the first 5K.

The bad side effects: focus. There are times when you are in the zone and you want to finish some piece of work, and the watch tells you to get up because it is 50 minutes after the hour. 2 very conflicting needs: moving for health vs sit and focus. If I was not overthinking of health, I would rather focus and get the job done in one sitting.
This is an excellent point. People with high IQ can become a liability as they understand better the situation and may refuse to obey orders that are counter to their values. Or they could raise in rank and interfere with how the whole force is being operated: they could change things from the inside
That's the easy bit, hard is pay wages in another country and ensuring your obey all local laws and regulations. You basically have to set up an entity in the countries you wish to hire from and then become familiar in the law there which is quite a hurdle.
Writing qualified candidates off as "overqualified" is a form of corruption and is very common in tech. It's far easier to cover up with the boredom-mitigation argument, than to admit low IQ/experience is easier to "manage".
It would be awesome to have a data set of scripts and the corresponding filmed scenes
I was generally aware of MTBE, but I didn't know it was universal since the 70s nor necessary for all grades of fuel. What about iso-octane?

Also, I happen to have a car from the 80s and in looking for information about the consequences of using fuel with ethanol, some say it can be a problem while other people say at that point in time it was designed to handle it. So I'm not clear on what diversity there was in the types of fuel available over time.
The topic of the week is an extrajudicial murder committed by a team of four cops; where was our restraint in deciding the fate of George Floyd? Do these officers deserve nicer treatment than this system gave Floyd? Did Floyd deserve this treatment, too? If so, why didn't he get it?
The Unbundling of Reddit
What does this do that the provided clipping feature does not?
Your theory that people with high IQ are likely to disobey orders doesn't seem to be based on anything other than personal hope.
Both your claim and the parent's claim are equally shocking, and the evidence for both is hearsay from someone who lives on the street. How do we know who is being sincere, who is pushing an agenda, who is mistaken, who is experiencing cognitive dissonance, etc.
As noted in other comments, GL.com does have some performance problems. A self-hosted instance is a completely different story, thankfully. All of the on-prem or cloud hosted instances I’ve gotten to use were quite snappy.
Conference dates are independent of patient heath, so you can just look at the numbers directly across many healthcare systems and several decades. Vastly more data generally trumps better analysis.
h/t Tristan Hume https://gist.github.com/jart/49cfc20d21f619c2547016be3038e89...
The Saturn V remains the most powerful rocket ever built
More aggressive policing does not imply more solved crimes. It does not imply that actual worst wrongdoers get caught with some kind of effectivity.

However, it implies antagonized population where even innocent people will avoid police contact, whether reporting of crime, informing to police or otherwise cooperating with them as much as possible. It implies that people dont see police as an institution to protect them and dont use them as such.

More aggressive may mean quotas for arrests - leading to arrests that have nothing to do with public safety. It is easier to arrest someone apparently poor for loitering or sorta kinda open bottle of alcohol then someone actually violent.

Same with fines. For example, if the masks are mandatory outside, cops can either issue warning or give you a find. In most cases, warning is enough to make people comply and take it seriously. Fine is used only when people refuse to comply. If cops were aggressive and issued fine immediately to everyone who had half nose out of mask, we would not be safer.

More aggressive means exactly that and nothing more.
Interesting, thanks for sharing!

I'm assuming your team is using vault for PKI, but is there a similarly happy path for issuing certs without Vault.

I started off just using `openssl` but it all felt very janky, and I didn't really have any idea how CRLs should be setup
How many middle-class consumers are buying luxury cars outright I wonder? Would you consider having to put a downpayment and then pay monthly with interest on a space tourism ticket "affordable space tourism?"

Whatever the actual cost - I do hope it happens in my lifetime.
Try DOS w/ XT keyboard.
I use multiple hosts to backup my repos: I host gitolite.org on a $5 VM and then have it configured to automatically push to gitlab and GitHub on every change.
This has been my experience too. It’s humid all year where I live, my clothes either 1)do not get dry or 2) spend so much time wet that a musty smell develops.
This reminds me why I don't go on Twitter anymore.
In my experience, this is highly dependent on the number of projects hosted on a GL instance.
Honestly you don't need any particular skills to install Arch. Just time and access to the instructions. It's a neat way to spend an afternoon once, but I just switched to Manjaro too on future installations,
A Turing complete language executing unsigned code in a sandbox that allows HTTP and HTTPS requests to 0.0.0.0/0 and ::/0 is not something everyone wants in their life.
Not a technical limitation. There are privacy considerations to embedding a YouTube video on a web page, and I’m guessing the WebTorrent developers used a static image video thumbnail as a courtesy to their privacy-conscious audience.

EFF has a workaround for the privacy issues with their MyTube script: https://www.eff.org/pages/mytube-limit-privacy-risks-embedde... (it’s jQuery but could probably be implemented vanilla JS at this point)
Well, I guess that gives more ammunition to the people in Parabola asking to switch to GitLab.
I worked at a mostly remote company for 5 years. It works very well with on-call rotations but it's a big problem for product work.
Is this meant to be sarcasm? (Honest question)
"OKs" is such a terrible word to use for a court case. The court isn't ruling on "what's okay" it's ruling on what is and is constitutional. Cheating on your girlfriend is not OK. It's also not unconstitutional. Here, because high intelligence people are not a protected class, courts apply something called "rational basis scrutiny." Under this extremely lax standard, so long as the government can articulate a plausible rational principle in support of a policy, it passes Constitutional muster under the equal protection clause.

A better headline would be something like: "Court rules that the Constitution does not require unelected judges to overturn the policy of a politically accountable police department to not hire people with high IQs."
Geosmin
Trump says he will designate Antifa a terrorist organization
Changing coding habits to be stream-friendly
> When I hear your first point, I consider the possibility that these are not retaliatory murders, but rather ways to keep something secret.

That contains as much conspiracy as "somebody is hunting down the protestors".

There are simpler possible explanations, I believe, e.g. people who join (or organize) riots are usually not the stable boring kind that live long, predictable lives full of planning and quiet afternoons. Drugs, crime, violence and mental health issues are probably more prevalent in that group than in the general population.
Zero-Shot Learning in Modern NLP
Open Source Fact-Checking Software
If they filled the dragon to its capacity of 7 it would be closer. I believe hearing that NASA will only use up to 4 seats.
I don't really like KDE, so of the environments I've used, they don't use Dolphin. You can install it otherwise, but it tends to be buggy. Part of it too is that when you open/save a file in Windows, it effectively gives you a file explorer. There are some apps that roll their own, but on Linux basically all of them roll their own. A lot of the times they lack features like simply being able to create a new folder when you are saving something.
That could be interesting. Do you have any links to projects pursing this type of thing?
There was an article floating recently about the death of corporate R&D .. SpaceX might be one exception (or maybe first of a new wave ?)