skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Much better to design the production process first and then fit a building around it than to try and fit the production process into a pre-designed building that's made too look pretty.

What do you base this off of? What "magic" production processes are Tesla utilizing that other OEMs are not? Aren't EVs far simpler to assemble? Tesla are building some of the lowest-rated cars out there in terms of fit and finish. Why do you believe they are doing anything from that end "better" than other manufacturers?
There are several independent reasons.

First, people who need a psychiatrist (or doctor in general) sometimes do a simple background check on them. Like, put their name in Google and try to find some reviews, just to see if other patients were satisfied with them or not. Some topics that Scott debates would be quite inappropriate for people seeking psychiatric help. For example, imagine that you are suffering from paranoia, and you find out that your psychiatrist seriously considers the possibility that superintelligent robots may soon exterminate the humankind.

Second, although Scott is generally left-wing, he is not fully 100% on the side of the left-wing orthodoxy. For example, he would write an article about how Trump is a horrible person and a disaster for America, but would also mention that a few details that the mainstream media said about him were factually incorrect. For some people, anything less than 100% compliance is unacceptable. (Often heretics are more triggering than full enemies, because the enemies at least fit into the black-and-white picture, while the heretic ruins it.)

Third, in the discussions below the articles, multiple political opinions are allowed. Again, this is quite triggering for some people, because according to their logic, why would you allow anyone to express their opinion on your website, unless you actually agree with them? Of course, this is reported selectively, like "did you know there are fans of reactionary politics on SSC?!" without mentioning that they are debating there with e.g. hardcore stalinists, and that both sides are just a small minority in the mostly moderate audience.

The second and third point are why some people are so eager to expose Scott's identity, and the first point is why he tries to prevent it.
Paying someone a living wage should never be voluntary. I guess we can abolish the minimum wage because everyone will do the ethical thing?
Am I misunderstanding the title there or is it simply made to be catchy but wrong?

The actual beginning of the article says this:

"Researchers have shown why intense, pure red colors in nature are mainly produced by pigments, instead of the structural color that produces bright blue and green hues."

So the research has to do with the origin of different colors in animals, not "why blue and green are nature's brightest colors". A quick look at a Scarlet Ibis or a Poison Frog should make it clear that opposing red to blue in a battle for "nature's brightest colors" would be an irrelevant endeavour anyway, and that isn't what the researchers have been doing in the first place.
Simplify financial reporting with cost allocation
Except such aggressive orcas are new while boat noises aren't. And some of these incidents are with sailboats.
How to Emulate an Amiga 1200 on Your Linux PC or Raspberry Pi
To be clear, I personally think "contractors" is often a pretty scummy way of avoiding legal obligations. I agree with your McDonalds scenario.

But it doesn't help to confuse that with orthogonal issues. If you demonstrate that you confuse the two issues, you erode confidence that you are capable of producing correct solutions.
> and neither is India. I'd encourage you to actually go to these places. When I went to India I had to stay in a barricaded hotel with bomb checks. I had people requesting to get a picture with me as I was so unusual every time I went out.

This sounds like some nonsensical attempt to reduce things to race

> India has more than two thousand ethnic groups,[14] and every major religion is represented, as are four major families of languages (Indo-European, Dravidian, Austroasiatic and Sino-Tibetan languages) as well as two language isolates (the Nihali language[15] spoken in parts of Maharashtra and the Burushaski language spoken in parts of Jammu and Kashmir (Kashmir))

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_India
Hi HN. I come from a parallel universe in which book recommendation systems are not based on genre, ratings or communities. Book recommendations are based on their content.

(A silly idea I have been thinking about: https://www.lessmarcos.com/posts/2020/09/content-based-recom...)
You will see several post from me regarding native vs mobile Web leaning on the native side, but the fact is that unless one is doing games or requires access to hardware specific capabilities, most stuff is actually doable as web app, specially with Google increasingly pushing ChromeOS features into Chrome.
I can't think of any type of game that's harder than a micro-heavy RTS like StarCraft. The difficulty of playing that game competitively at the highest levels is off the charts. The amount of stuff you have to manage simultaneously is absurd.

That's probably why I liked Total Annihilation more back in the day. It wasn't as micro-heavy, so the gameplay was more about broader strategic and economic concerns, and you'd end up winning by throwing larger hordes of units at your enemy than they could throw back at you.
CVE-2020-14365 flaw was found in the Ansible Engine when installing packages
"Why the Left Coast..."

And he lost me.

Skimmed the post expecting more taunts at liberal ideology, was not disappointed.

Some valid points to be sure, but easily lost when the author appears to have an "agenda".
> I guess slavery is worth having since someone, somewhere, "chose" to do it...

Are you suggesting that "someone, somewhere" chose to do something that intentionally made them worse off than they were before?
good point of view: when you are unable to do anything to change, and the future does not sound good in your country you just leave it! I did the same: some call it "voting with your own feet" :)

I suggest you would totally avoid Italy due to very high taxation, but most of all a huge mandatory pension rate if you are a sole trader that is well known to give you nothing back: the rate was over 27% had to become almost 32% but fortunately they locked and now lowered to about 26%).

U.K. is much much better (taxation is human, and the best of it is that you know very clearly what you do have to pay, it is all written very clearly on the gov website): it is harder to get there after brexit, but I still strongly suggest it.

I would give a try to Romania, Malta, Portugal.
This looks really interesting! FYI, the rumin front page works, but the about page currently gives a 500 error code (HN slammed?)
There's a Magic Wormhole implementation in Go that ships windows binaries: https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william
Google takes licenses very seriously as well: https://opensource.google/docs/thirdparty/licenses/#wtfpl-no...

They certainly have a lot of eyes on them, so any mistake with licenses could be very costly.
I immediately thought of the "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair: dark, despairing, depressing.
> Unlimited 3G hot spot and $20/month for tablets with unlimited data can’t be beat.

It can if you spend a lot of time travelling - Google's data packages (on 4G!) are good in most of the world at no additional cost.

There's also a service aspect - Fi was often better where I am (downtown in a major US city) than T-Mobile (which my work phone is on).

That said, T-Mobile seems to be more customer-centric than AT&T - who even in 2020 seem hostile to doing business, and I'd consider them in future or for my iPad, just for further network diversity.
IBM repays millions to staff after messing up its own payroll
In China NEO does battery swapping all the time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1Ld5WByT34

Its really not very difficult. The battery is designed to drop right out if you unscrew the bolts. This system is open to the public.

Tesla just realized it didn't really make sense as its very expensive and super-charging is fast
enough for nearly all situations.

Tesla cars now no longer allow battery swap as they added an additional protection layer under the car.
The scientific process should actually result in people verifying things that seem obvious all the time. Admitting that you might be wrong and checking it even though it seems obvious was a major factor in starting to really increase the density of correct knowledge.
Here, let me help you with that: https://xkcd.com/391/
What you are asking makes no sense. Are we really arguing that slaves had free will to choose where to work or if not to work?
Implementing Records in x7, a Lisp made in Rust
The UAW is an odd example of a super multi industry union. The Resident Advisors at my university were obligated to be UAW members.

The UAW theoretically got involved in the employment contract negotiations, but none of the RAs could get in touch with them despite paying union dues. There was a group trying to organize action to leave the UAW and form an independent union.

Large organizations tend towards incompetence and corruption over a prolonged period of time.
The process to get a major change for Rust is:

1. You write up a proposal. We have a template so that you get the structure right and some general prompts to help you ask the right questions.

2. You can post it on the forums, as a "pre-RFC." This is like a vague temperature check from anyone and everyone. Nobody is required to pay attention to these, but it can be a valuable step if they do. This step is optional for everyone involved, you can go straight to step 3.

3. You take your proposal and submit it as an actual RFC. The teams are required to pay attention to these, and they either accept the proposal, reject the proposal, postpone the proposal, or give feedback designed to drive the consensus of the team towards one of these states.

When people say "the team is ignoring threads," they are referring to threads that are in step 2. Most discussions aren't full proposals yet. And they generate a lot of discussion. And then people never move to step 3. Those that do are guaranteed feedback from the team in some fashion.

Your initial edited comment:

> that still leaves the question of why they [edit: the crates.io team] haven't made such a RFC

Nobody is required to make an RFC for anything. If the team doesn't want to write one up, they don't have to. It's on the advocates of the feature to start the process, no matter if they're on the team or not.

> [edit: and told people commenting on the forum threads to instead comment on the RFC, where the crates.io team can evaluate] yet.

They didn't say "comment on the RFC," because there is no RFC at that stage. They said "please make an RFC." This is the same process every single major change to Rust goes through. It's pretty standard. The vast majority of people who desire this feature never actually do it though, because they tend to post on the forums, get a ton of comments from people, and then burn out, it seems.

I hope this helps. To be honest this thread is so old I'm likely to lose track of it and not reply further.
Another thing, Nikola’s entire quarterly revenue of $36k was from solar installation for Trevor himself, and they are not a solar company . As a founder myself, I hate to doubt any other founders, but this isn't something an honest founder would do.
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If you go to rate a book on good reads and hover over each of the the 5 stars, here are the "title" attributes of the links:

* title="did not like it"

* title="it was ok"

* title="liked it"

* title="really liked it"

* title="it was amazing"
Protocol buffers solve most of the issues mentioned by people here, on top of being typesafe, space efficient (no need to encode key names because everything is an ordered struct), and having great tooling.

https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers
Its (obviously) not about the renumeration of any individual, but about accountability of the source. There are several examples - Tabacco, Asbestos, Bopal, Oil, Medication, ... where billions of dollars of fines assessed against the sources, not exactly small numbers.
> Paying someone a living wage should never be voluntary.

I didn't say it should.

> I guess we can abolish the minimum wage because everyone will do the ethical thing?

No I don't think that.

I'm not arguing for or against a living wage - it's just an example of something you could force a subcontractor to do using your contract with the prime contractor.

Whether you think the living wage should be voluntary or not... it's not an example of an issue with subcontracting. Subcontracting doesn't make any difference to how much people are agreed to be paid.
I miss screenshots or a list of (unique?) features on your product website. In fact your description here is more comprehensive then the website.
It's an Entrex D116, which is a clone of a Data General Nova 1200[1] if you don't want to watch the video.

There's an archive with some pictures from an eBay listing here: https://entrex480.blogspot.com/2017/05/entrex-480.html?m=1

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_General_Nova
Mauna Kea Telescope and Fear of the Dark
I think it's a bit far fetched to assume that recruiters tailor interview questions based on these Github repo's. For me as a junior data scientist it really useful to test my own knowledge and highlight areas which I need to study more.
The AGPL is a terrible license that is extremely vague and unclear. Please don't use it. Depending on how you interpret it, it's either completely useless (can be trivially worked around, thus giving you no extra protections over the GPL) or imposes onerous requirements on all your users, including the developers themselves. It is not a Free Software copyright license, but rather an EULA, since it imposes conditions beyond redistribution and also on usage (a big difference). As far as I know it has not seriously been tested in court and I don't see that ending well when it happens.

I recently found out that I may be violating the AGPL because I use dspam with my mail server, because I run Gentoo Linux, and the Gentoo ebuild includes a patch, so by installing dspam I have applied a patch to it (since Gentoo builds from source), and then put it on the internet, and I'm not including some kind of offer for the patched dspam source code for people who connect to my mail server (I don't even know how I'd do that). I didn't even know dspam was AGPL, all I did was install a package (but Gentoo unfortunately considers AGPL as Free Software and allows it by default with no explicit acceptance required, unlike corporate EULAs which they do force you to acknowledge by default, so I was clueless about it). It's just a huge massive can of worms of a license. Just don't.
You could check out Nextcloud (a fork of owncloud), which has a decent photo explorer/app included.
I really, really wish that there was something to the emdrive/mach effect drive/etc, but alas, physical theories do not exist to make our lives better.
PhpSploit: Framework which silently persists on webserver via evil PHP oneliner
The point is essentially one of dependency and voluntaryness. An actual government collecting taxes or essential to life with no viable alternatives isn't an actual choice anymore than "your money or your life is". Even if the optimal outcome rests on choosing them that is still a choice.

The point of the edgelord thought experiment is if they can exploit it without choking the goose who lays the golden eggs and losing it anyway. Competition is one means of it just like regulated monopolies for utilities. If people stop using Google in the apocalypse how can it not be apocalyptic for them?

We have seen plenty of "invulnerable incumbents" fall once they are so stupid they lose the net advantage of scale and a good name.
Insects are stronger in number. That you kill one that is biting you or buzzing around your head doesn't matter.
This is gonna be weird seeing timestamps starting with 16- from now on
Of course it isn't. The issue is that the majority of fear against nuclear comes from nuclear weapons and improper management. People have erroneously thought that nuclear power technology is similar to nuclear weapon technology when they meltdown. The reality is that a meltdown isn't even close to a nuclear chain reaction. Chernobyl was an example of poor management and Fukushima was an example of poor design. These failures were not do to nuclear material.

Nuclear material is obviously dangerous when used improperly. The fear of 'fallout' has stunted the growth of a superior technology. I believe we would have made a far more significant change to C02 output if society had invested money and effort into nuclear technology instead of renewable technology. Not that I'm anti-renewable but, MSR and other nuclear technologies have the potential to be far more reliable, cost effective, and environmentally beneficial in the long run.
Fiction: “2666” by Roberto Bolaño, “Captivity” by György Spiró (though this one edges close to “non-fiction”)

Non-fiction: “Evicted” by Matthew Desmond, “Chernobyl Prayer” by Svetlana Alexievich
What drives me insane is that the arguments for hydrogen trucking here is even stronger for building a damn train track. If 25% of trucks are running the same route for their entire life span, then they don’t have to actually be trucks; we are paying for flexibility that we don’t actually need.
The crazy part is how a hacked-together prototype wouldn't even be that hard for a company the size of Nikola. Trucks already exist. So too do hydrogen fuel cells, electric motors, batteries, and high pressure gas tanks. Just take all those components and hack them together into a working first generation prototype truck, and get some on the road.

Tesla did a great job of this in its earliest years on far less funding than Nikola has now. They took existing cars (Lotus Elises) and all they had to do was put in batteries and electric engines. You have to walk before you can run, which Tesla did and Nikola seems to be failing to do. Jumping straight to building an entire truck is lunacy.
Sounds like you've rediscovered original sin, renamed it bigotry and hypothesized the existence of a small number of non-bigots who, perhaps, we ought to refer to as saints.

Also, there's plenty of Christian existentialism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_existentialism
At least Theranos never went public. Nikola did have to go through its proper SEC fillings before being traded on a stock exchange. How they managed to do it all fraudulently is beyond my comprehension. Would the SEC also be held responsible, these accusations turn out to be true?
Fuck Cloud Messaging
Their flickr album has a bunch of pictures. Highly recommended, really awesome images!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/slaclab/albums/721577137971034...
> If you _want_ these notifications, then my argument does not apply.

Then your argument has a very minimal reach and doesn’t apply to the post you replied to.

Few apps have irrelevant and useless notifications. They usually have some relevance or use.

Many apps, especially social media, play on reward centers to form addictive behavior. They are wanted in the sense that they are irresistible and are sometimes useful.

The realization that they are troublesome makes them unwanted while still being irresistible.
What I wanted to ask was, can anyone name a single, legitimate company that has threatened to sue short-sellers and ended up not being exposed as a fraud and/or bankrupt?
I remember when Eric was CEO of Novell. When he left Sun someone high up sent an email with the slight joke “short Novell” in it.

Eric is smart, no doubt but Google’s success was him getting out of the way and letting him just talk to stroke his own ego

Now he has the government backing him to stroke his massive ego

Does anyone really think Eric does anything for “America’a” interest or your interest?
> This is a technology which could transform space travel and see craft lifting silently off from launchpads

Not with 12 millinewtons per kilowatt! In space, sure but not from launchpad.
They claim that "laypeople" can predict if the study is reproducible, but they only got a 59% accuracy. It's technically true, but it's too close to 50%. I can't find how many of the 27 studies there "reproducible" and how many no. Specially because half of the subject were first year students of psychology that should have a minimal idea of the subject.

And the 67% when the people is informed about the strength of evidence is even less impressive. How much accuracy would have a parrot that just repeat the information?

To be fair they translate the strength to the evidence from a numeric scale to a simple words scale, and the participants should translate it back to a numeric scale. The real question is how good is people doing this task with random numbers, without additional information like the description of the study.
ha! 8 years ago - Peter Thiel: Google has $50B, doesn't innovate.
Source: https://youtu.be/2Q26XIKtwXQ
I use Nextcloud (open source) hosted on a cheap VPS. Auto upload works great from Android, and the storage is synced to my notebooks which serve as a backup.

As I have all the files locally on my notebooks, I can use any offline file viewer, such as KDEs Gephenview or DigiKam to index and view the photos. There are also cross Plattform clients and cross server federation also works nicely for me. The software is pretty amazing. Nextcloud even keeps an incremental backup of your files accessible within the web app, which is amazing if you mess up your office files.

I would like to extend it with a NAS or some more read-only offline backup.
When it comes to the brutality of life, I think we're well above political ideologies. Let's not forget http://guantanamodiary.com/
Generating Weekly Funnel Charts from GA Data
It won't because the person reading it may be reading the contract but they don't have full agency for the company to enter a contract/license agreement for the company. It would never hold up in court.
Diversity Explorer: ethnicity across England and Wales
That was the gist of my comment. Nvidia could have easily been PowerVR, if Intel had shown earlier interest (~00s) in developing a serious graphics product.

As it was, it seems they made the Microsoft/Internet and Microsoft/Mobile mistake and saw market evolution only as a threat to their existing portfolio, rather than as an opportunity.
> Impact on the body - prolonged unmoderated sitting in bad postures, eye strain due to constant staring into the screen, bad eating habits, etc.

Yep, offices have a terrible impact on people. Working from home gives you the opportunity to eat better, have far fewer snacks thrust in your face, and to get.out and exercise at lunch.

I spend much more time in my local environs now I don't have to travel away from them each day.
That would make social sciences half-bullshit and half-obvious :)
Umm. It's very hard to fake actual contributes to actual OSS projects. You might be able to fill your GH account with crap that might fool some people into thinking you have a "profile" but when you say you are "Committer to X" or "Contributed X feature to Y" then that isn't fakable and is the only stuff I look for.

So yeah, it might not be useful for recruiters/sources that don't understand the technical side deep enough to evaluate but it 100% sure be good signal for an interviewer if they know the fields and projects in question you are hiring for (they probably should...).
Since we're being pedantic, "Nazi" is always capitalized.
GNU coreutils printf also supports insertion of thousands separators with the ' format flag, which gives another way to add them to numbers:

EPOCH=$(printf "%'d" $(date +%s))