skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "why" and "why now" is that the USPS's debt has been growing and isn't sustainable in the long run. Unless structural changes are made, tax payers will ultimately be left paying the bills. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/15/postal-se...
The point of a Taxi system is to heavily regulate it into a monopoly where owners get to gouge riders and drivers have to pickup riders wherever they are told, no matter how unsafe.
Except that shares all the same ABI issues as shared libraries. If they wouldn't link at runtime they won't link at package-install-time either.
Hi, look into Vitamin K2 and Boron if you haven’t. Both are good complements with Vitamin D and are useful for bone density.
yes/$3 a month.
This is... rather surprising to me.

My perception until now was that EVs from "traditional" car manufacturers like VW, Renault, and Hyundai are not really competitive with Tesla's offerings on range, efficiency, advanced features, and value/price. I would not have expected Tesla's share of EV sales to drop so precipitously in any market. From the OP:

German EV registrations by Automaker

Automaker July 2020 YTD 2020 YTD Share
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Volkswagen Grp 6,023 23,400 38.3%
Renault 2,851 9,917 16.2%
Hyundai Grp. 3,214 7,353 12.0%
Tesla 203 5,306 8.7% <--
Daimler Grp. 2,105 5,305 8.7%
BMW Grp. 1,499 4,898 8.0%
Groupe PSA 301 2,026 3.3%
Nissan 304 1,475 2.4%
Jaguar 73 386 0.6%
Honda 43 144 0.2%
All others 182 886 1.4%
----------------------------------------------
Total EVs 16,798 61,105 100.0%

In particular, I would not have expected Mercedes/Daimler's and BMW's respective shares of the EV market to be so close to Tesla's this year in Germany or any other market. Remarkably, it seems that Mercedes and BMW EVs combined outsold Tesla by 18x in July (2,105 + 1,499 vs 203). Those two brands compete in the same segments and for the same affluent customers as Tesla's existing models (S, 3, X, and Y).

Perhaps there's something unique about the German market? Or perhaps there's something unusual about the July figures, e.g., Tesla supply issues? Is there anyone from Germany here who can shed light on this?

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EDIT: It appears that supply issues were a key driver of the loss of market share. See https://electrek.co/2020/08/13/tesla-sales-sliding-europe-co... (copied from gardaani's comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24144057).
GPT-3 is uncanny, funny – and a big deal
Welcome to capitalism in 2020 mon ami. Enjoy the ride.
That’s what I recommend as well but I see this as a situation where you want to do both: put checks into your normal processes but unless you’re able to have 100% consistency across every team and account, you deploy tag policies to ensure that you catch manual work, experiments, vendor-provided stacks, etc. Tag policies cover all resources which support tagging so it’ll include things like those IAM roles you created for security monitoring outside of your normal development flow, etc.
Thx! I tried to keep things pretty simple technology wise. I use Vue/vuex for the frontend and node/express/sequelize for the backend

The architecture is a bit more unique local-first approach (everything is saved and loaded from a localstorage cache and can be immediately interacted with, Then the slower-to-retrieve source of truth version of your data from the server is transparently swapped in for the cached data when it's ready)
That is a great word.
"fringe theories" are bullet proof against solid argumentation. The counter argument is: you are a paid shill of - insert boogeyman shorthand here.

If fringe theories would be susceptible to reason then the bulk of them wouldn't exist and the remainder would not be classified as a belief system but just another theory waiting for confirmation or rebuttal.
I really don’t see the problem with just statically linking everything.
We're big fans of supabase :D
Is Rome supposed to do what Svelte does?
No, but were it a regular problem, I'd absolutely bring up that it's likely an annoyance and a productivity hit for most people and a good manager would try to help fix the issue.
Clear is kind, unclear is unkind
>I always believed in treating people equally despite their race

That's cute. Many people don't. The system in which we live certainly does not treat minorities very well. Hence we have affirmative action and other efforts to provide temporary redress until there is genuine equality.

Is that a problem for you? That people who have experienced systematic racism might get an extra helping hand to try and break the cycle of racism, poverty and exclusion?

Shame on you.
I think the trick for step 1 is to make some task that are small enough to be done in your spare time. Something like you finished all your assigned tasks on Friday at 3pm and we all know that you should not ship on Friday, so you have 2 free hours. Then you can configure a C.I. system to do some automated tests, or add more tests.

If you ask/take for a full "free" week to make a major refactor, you will not get it. Some small task when all your work has been done is easier to do.

Also, remember to have a sane amount of worktime, like <=40 hours per week.
The author has been cautioning against over-use of Vitamin D in this forum; this article raises the point about correlation specifically:

Using this study method, Vitamin D deficiency is correlated with many diseases. But correlation does not equal causation.
If a country loses access to state of the art tech, they might as well become a third world country within 5-10 years.
Compressed GPU texture formats – a review and compute shader decoders – part 1
That includes public images? That'll hurt OSS. That's a bummer.

It wouldn't surprise me if people move to Github's registry for open source projects. https://github.com/features/packages
Do the terms of service cover this?
Linux (and predecessors) have supported a Compose key for decades, which is more discoverable than hidden combinations like Option+e. (Compose e ' → é. The arrow is Compose - >.)

But what's the significant advantage of Mac OS's layout vs e.g. Microsoft Windows US International layout?
Well, the man came out and said it himself

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/08/12/postal-se...
A pointer is an absolute locator of a byte in the address space of a process, while an integer index implies a certain base (start of the module-private array) and a multiplier (object size).

By using handles, "user code" is freed from having to know the base and the multiplier, which allows for a more compact locator that remains constant in case of base/multiplier changes.
Does anyone know exactly what is happening here? It feels like some of their competitors may be selling their cars at a more affordable price due to levies/import costs + perceived brand value for European, Korean and Japanese products. I might be off the handle on this one. Also, if this trend continues, how will TSLA pricing remain so high once the hype simmers.
Based on your comment, I would guess that you never tried out numba. Of course, it can also do general python and loop optimizations. And in my experience, numba worked for every case where I couldn't get pypy to work.

And I stand by my opinion that that is something that the pypy developers should consider: is this actually usable as a solution to practical problems? Or is there something else that people use instead? If so, why? Analyzing your competition is usually a good way to learn about your own strengths and weaknesses.
I ask because Intel's cache comparison is vs. Zen2. So my assumption is they (Intel) target AMD 4000 with slightly more elements/accelerators to get a better look than Zen2. I'd expect AMD 5000 to be released at the same time as this *lake CPU.
What a hero
Been there, done that.

I was writing an interpreter using shared ptrs all over the place.

Performance was fine until I linked pthreads, at which point it took a nosedive forcing me to refactor the entire project.

No one really tells you this. People will say don't use shared ptrs because they're slow, which is far from the whole truth. They're pretty darn fast as long as you don't enable threading.
I am a Java, C#, C or C++ developer, time to do some Rust
No, I'm trying to draw an analogy. Companies over the past few years have been expected to vocally articulate a commitment to a certain set of social values. This typically involves hiring diversity staff, mandatory training, letters of solidarity, etc. The mission of the corporation is still to make money, just as is the mission of a greengrocer.

> isn't that life in general

Sure, it still happens, but if it happens repeatedly in the workplace, I might try to reduce it. I also sincerely doubt that a terrible racist person will stop being one because his company implements mandatory diversity training.
I read the comment to mean that Intel isn't worth the higher price compared to AMD these days. How does someone saying they won't buy Intel CPUs translate to a complaint that the company is setting up prices for their benefit?
Zen 3 will likely ship before Tiger Lake at least on EPYC, but it's TSMC N7+, Zen 4 is 5nm Samsung and/or TSMC but 2022.

I do agree that Apple will likely take a hit to their margin if that's necessary to ensure that their new ARM laptops are clearly more performant per $ than their outgoing x86 ones. Whether that will be a significant spoiler is an interesting question.
The FAQ[0] says pulling an image once every 6 months will prevent it from being purged by resetting the timer.

It doesn't seem like a big deal really. It just means old public images from years ago that haven't been pulled or pushed to will get removed.

[0]: https://www.docker.com/pricing/retentionfaq
NeurIPS Paper Reviews Released, Controversies Resurface
So this means that open source projects need to pay to keep older images alive?
If you're doing async IO, I strongly recommend using a library that abstracts much of the pain away, like libuv. Deal with just the libc functions (or system calls) is a way too low level API for many applications.
No, Rome is a tool chain that is supposed to replace your separate tools for linting, building & testing.

So you might use it with your React app to get rid of eslint, webpack & jest (at some point, it's not there yet).

Svelte however is an entirely new framework which is fundamentally different from react/vue/angular in some very interesting ways (which I won't get in to here).
From what I understand, ground based astronomy is still really important. Not everyone can afford to spend millions to get a new satellite into orbit. Plus once it's up there you are stuck for decades. You can't make changes or test out new hardware. There's also bandwidth problems. A lot of projects are coming up around rapid full sky surveys. IE look at the whole sky every 15 minutes or something like that and look for rare transient events. That would be tough to do in orbit.
No, it wants to be your one stop shop:

> Rome is a linter, compiler, bundler, and more for JavaScript, TypeScript, JSON, HTML, Markdown, and CSS.

> Rome is designed to replace Babel, ESLint, Webpack, Prettier, Jest, and others.
As a non-retina display user, LibreOffice works fine, and it is multiple gigabytes smaller than even a single Microsoft Office application.

What are you using word processing for? Of all the todo list apps I've tried or bought, Emacs' org-mode is my favorite.
Yeah. Im surprised that both of these left out Prototype.js which, to me, seems to be the father of these client-side libs
tl;dr images hosted on free accounts without downloads for 6 months will be (scheduled) removed.
Yes, and could be a huge pain to develop in. We always wrapped the handles in library calls to assert them, which minimized problems.

Ideas are in a wheel, same ones always coming around again.
No surprises here.

In markets where all cars are taxed a lot and fuel is taxed even more an expensive EV will do good because of the fuel savings relative to a comparably equipped ICE vehicle (basically it's more car for your dollar over time).

In markets where all cars are taxed a lot, fuel is taxes more and there exists cheap EVs those cheaper EVs are gonna steal a substantial market share from the expensive EVs (all the people who were over-served by the expensive EV but bought it anyway because it was still cheaper than the ICE vehicle).

Basically just roll fuel cost and taxes into ownership cost and this makes perfect sense. Teslas are cheap (relative to similar ICE cars) in Europe. Other EVs are cheaper still (because the lower the purchase price the more the operating cost dominates) so of course people buy them and that steals share from Tesla.

Also, drive-trains and prices aside, Tesla doesn't sell compacts and Europe buys a lot of compacts.

Edit: Since apparently this doesn't go without saying, I'm not making a value judgement on fuel cost+taxes, car taxes or anything else. I'm just saying that these things contribute to the total cost of ownership and that you have to look at total cost of ownership in order to make sense of the stats the article presents. It doesn't matter where the number comes from, just what it is.
Yeah I was going to say he probably won't be happy seeing it presented this way considering his current public opinion on Facebook.
It's the iPhone atory all over again.
I am still amazed how many people go around saying that there isn't "any evidence" that Russia actively interfered in the 2016 US election.

We both have access to Wikipedia, right? Or is all that Fake News too?
> If you only ever develop desktop client software for Apple and Windows Systems where there is a whole fucking company to tell you these things via an API you are really not even in the same league as a developer that tries to ship software to different Unix like systems and at least somewhat adhere to standards and technical best practices that have been developed by a community.

Isn't this an admission that linux is worse? Less skilled developers can successfully create working applications for Windows/Mac because they have unified and documented APIs to access these operations. But on linux you have a heterogeneous system that uses standards developed 50 years ago and require greater expertise to work with.

"My system is harder to use" is not a selling point.
Right now, the project is clearly missing contribution guidelines, but now that it's a bit more public these will be added soon, possibly along with some tickets that are ready for pickup. For now I am very focussed on implementation.
That said, I have created a quick issue for you with a small tasks and high value: https://github.com/Byron/gitoxide/issues/7
Thanks a lot for your consideration <3
Yes, he claims to have found a way to drastically reduce construction consts. First of all, reducing the tunnel diameter, as the digging speed is constrained by volume. Second, he tries to improve the technology of tunnel boring machines. With the smaller tunnels, there is the requirement for smaller vehicles. You can't run standard trains through these tunnels. For now, he is using Teslas (quite obvious choice) to demonstrate the tunnels, but equally it is obvious, that to increase the capacity of tunnels, you want more bus or train-like vehicles. It is so funny how people critisizing Musk assume, he wouldn't understand so simple connections like seats per vehicle and transit density.
Time for someone to create a new service that will pull your images into /dev/null once a month.
Israel and UAE reach historic peace deal, Israel to suspend annexation
Only if they never got pulled for 6 months
Dwarf planet could host life
And there's also plenty of us that recognize what some are certain is best for the community, may not be.
E.g. politicized forced vaccination
It is not surprising to me at all.
Tesla are bad at servicing their cars in Europe. Model 3 and X are FULL OF ISSUES. Embarrassing issues, solved decades ago by brands like VW.
I myself live in Europe, liked a Tesla, went to see it and compared it to my 10 year old German car. Decided to stick with a German car in the end.
I am from Germany and you'll see a lot of french EVs (e.g. Renault Zoe) on the road here since they're relatively cheap and you can get some tax deductions.

Not so many people want to spend Tesla money for mediocre build quality.
Well, μέθοδος is derived from μετ᾽ (met᾽: towards,after) +‎ ὁδός (hodós: road,way). So 'way' is a synonym in both senses.
It's a very "loud" piece of software. Messages about various things they want me to try (ads), tabs popping up with a fancy page telling me the browser updated (this might be OK if it happened like twice a year, but it's more like every week or two), and a busy, distracting default page.

This stuff bugs power users, but if you watch people who aren't in the power-user set, it's pure usability poison to them. Ditto UI elements moving around after an auto-update. Confuses the living hell out of them. It's about as far from good UX as you can get—a mediocre UI that never changes is far better UX than a good one that behaves unpredictably, and I mean from the perspective of normal people, not HN nerds.
Tesla ships cars to different regions in waves.

The previous months were primarily going to US customers (partly due to an ongoing pandemic). Notice how deliveries to Europe will spike in follow-on months as ships arrive.

Tesla tends to have very vocal fans and haters. Each month there is a different article highlighting how Tesla is in dire straights due to the precipitous fall in sales in X country. The next month an article will say how Tesla crushes competitors in X market.

Source: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10Uh_GSkShwPPlrE5mOJc...

https://electrek.co/2019/09/18/tesla-model-3-best-selling-ca...

"With another wave of deliveries in the Netherlands, Tesla Model 3 has become the best-selling car in the country for the year as it now surpasses 10,000 units.

Since the European launch of the Model 3 earlier this year, the vehicle clearly reinvigorated Tesla’s sales on the continent."
Heard good things about the Kia Soul Electric and the Hyunadi Kona EV. If I lived somewhere that is not deeply involved in oil production -- and thus not friendly to EVs -- I'd consider the Kona. Not a lot of storage space, though, and I don't believe the performance matches Tesla.

I'm still not sold on Teslas, too much hype and questionable behavior on Musk's part, but if they keep delivering I'd think about them in the future (again, pending leaving Oil Country).

VW lost my trust after Dieselgate.
I'm increasingly close to doing an AMA where I just let HN ask me any conspiracy related question right before I burn this account... I figure it would get lost in the sauce though...

Any specifics you are most curious about?
Yeah my point was to be a disclaimer on your comment for what a stupid idea it is.
> it probably has some default behavior in screen readers to explain that it's collapsable.

Yes, and it reads leaves as collapsed, the user expands them and there's nothing there. That's confusing.

> The alternative of using some show/hide element with an onClick handler probably doesn't work as well for screen readers without a bunch of aria tags.

Yeah, `aria-expanded` (you need an expanded CSS class anyway) and maybe `aria-owns`. Titanic work.

The cool thing about accessibility is that you have to think a lot less. You just open https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices-1.1 , find the widget or scenario you need and do as they say. Win-win.
It also lets you run extensions that are not from the Mozilla Addons site, there is no option for that in the standard edition.
I used to think that way, but have come to the conclusion disk and memory issues should be handled by page / block level deduplication.

Security updates are a plus, but introducing bugs through a shared library is a minus.

I would prefer we focus on robust application sandboxing instead.

At the server datacenter level its pretty much how its handled anyway, you have isolated vm / containers sitting on deduped storage.
even model 3 is huge compared to most cars on the road here.
Nice article. I really liked MeteorJS and thought it had lot of potential. Sad to see it didn't make to 20 projects in 2020.
That’s why we train them to want rewards first, then use that to get them to do what we want
I welcome competition but I am very skeptical of this. The article feels like is using some shady stats. All cars are not the same. The price point absolutely matters, even more so in EVs. The correct way to compare them is in the appropriate market segment. Nissan Leaf sells in droves in the US but it doesn’t mean they lose a threat to Tesla. I want to see the breakdown by segment and if people are actually choosing a comparable car over a model 3 or S or X.

Also the biggest advantage Tesla has is their supercharger network. I haven’t seen it replicated anywhere and it takes years to do so. I would give the edge to Tesla and only buy their cars as long as they have that insurmountable advantage.
Have you ever tried reporting a phishing site through those legitimate channels?

I have, and my experiences have been that:

* The domain registrars are apologetic and well-meaning, but tend to explain that they aren't empowered to take this stuff down without being ordered to by Law Enforcement or similar. There typically isn't a mechanism available for getting LE to respond before the phish campaign is over.

* The hosting providers chosen by phishing sites are either "bulletproof hosts" who are tacitly complicit, or more commonly are so low-end that the support departments are massively underfunded and abuse reports take eons to be processed.

Either way, the phisher achieves their objectives before the site is taken down. That being the state of affairs then, although I don't choose to use the kind of tactics outlined in the blog myself, I find it pretty hard to condemn those who do.

EDIT: I do agree with you that submitting the URL/IP to abuse blacklists is a helpful and positive thing to do. Here are a couple of submission URLs (there are many more): https://pulsedive.com/submit/, https://www.abuseipdb.com/report.
Conversely, we live with the minor fit and finish and service issues with our Teslas because we prefer it to legacy automaker offerings (and, of course, the Germans are going to defend BMW and VW to the bitter end like Wirecard minus the accounting fraud because it’s a significant amount of their economy).

Going to a dealer? Nope. Supporting emissions cheaters? Nope. Supporting automakers who had to be dragged to develop EVs by Tesla? Nope!

Different strokes, the market will sort it out. As long as Tesla does well in large markets like the US and China [1], they’ll be fine. Europe isn’t exactly a car centric society.

[1] https://electrek.co/2020/08/11/tesla-dominates-electric-car-... (Tesla still dominates electric car sales in China, over 11,000 deliveries in July)

EDIT: @bzb4 https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/study-americans-fee...

> One clear takeaway: people are fed up with the old-school experience of buying and selling a car at a dealership. 87% of American adults dislike something about the process of purchasing a vehicle at a traditional car dealership.

> More than three in five Americans (61%) feel like they're taken advantage of at least some of the time when shopping at a car dealership.

> Over half of Americans (54%) would love the ability to buy or sell a car without ever leaving home.

> Two in five (42%) would be comfortable purchasing a car online without a test drive if certain assurances (like a money-back guarantee) were in place.
This will begin November 1, 2020
I think that ANSI-C is a lot more portable than Rust, to be honest.
And browserify, gulp, grunt, babel..
They announced theirs in the internal layoff letter, so that was planned even before the layoffs were public.