skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here are some more headlines to help put this in context:

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

"Tesla Model 3 sales in China spike 7% in August"
https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-model-3-china-sales-august-2...

"China now accounts for nearly one-quarter of Tesla revenue"
https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/28/tesla-china-revenue/

"Tesla Model 3 Maintains Its Position as China’s Most-Sold EV Model in August"
https://www.caixinglobal.com/2020-09-10/tesla-model-3-mainta...

Ah, I did see this at the bottom of that caixinglobal link:

"In August, the Hongguang Mini, a two-door micro EV launched by General Motors’ Chinese joint venture, claimed the title of the second most popular electric car model in the country, with sales of 9,150 units, the CPCA statistics showed."

So I can see both perspectives on this small question about sales figures in the short-term.

The tie-breaker for me? The innovations presented at Tesla's Battery Day event. I don't think GM is going to be able to catch up to that, because they simply haven't made the investments required to do so. Tesla is ahead by a decade on battery manufacturing and software, including autonomy.

What does GM have? A legacy of fuel cells, and a failed partnership with this little fraudulent company named Nikola...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/21/business/nikola-trevor-mi...

I take no pleasure in this knife twisting, but if you look under the covers, legacy auto is absolutely mired in scandal after scandal:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/23/business/bmw-sec.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-34324772

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-daimler-emissions/daimler...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/business/uaw-indictment.h...

I wonder if GM will even exist at all in ten years.
It would be great if more people became skeptical, critical thinkers who no longer passively absorb what is broadcasted, podcasted, printed, blogged, vlogged, or tweeted by other people. But these people haven't grown intellectually vigilant. They've grown especially credulous about thinly supported stories from outside the mainstream. It's like figuring out that the popular Santa Claus story doesn't add up and replacing it with a story about how the Easter Bunny secretly runs the world.
It’s extremely far from perfect, and I know of no native speakers which use that automatic mapping. It’s like trying to read something through google translate: the point gets across, but the errors distract.

And it IS like the simple -> en example I gave, at times. Because there are more differences than just character usage. It also affects word choice and idioms. Even when the automatic translation picks the right character, it can still come off as... weird.

That’s why native speakers don’t use these features. It puts the text into an uncanny valley that is annoying to read.
Yes, that would work. But that would be a departure from existing imgui paradigm where the output of imgui library is a 2d bitmap. At that point, it gets really close to the vDOM territory ...

As for the stable identities, yes, it is important. But I also don't see much of a problem with explicit Key: the UI components ultimately will have map back into a data object, which should have enough contextual information to provide the said Key.
I'm expecting MS/linux in 5 years or less and I think WSL is the first step.
It was easy to switch but there is a lot to be said for sane defaults. With each new iteration of Windows I'd find more and more insane defaults (for me at least). It started with file extensions being hidden by default. Then system files too. By the time XP was released I was finding that I had to spend an hour just configuring the system how I liked...and that was before I installed any software.

Users will sometimes reach a point where they say "If I'm having to spend this much time configuring new installs to function how I like, then I might as well install something else that already ships with the defaults I like". And this is why many power users started drifting away from Windows in the decade of 2000 to 2010.
Wonderful. So when, as an individual, I watch a company:

- evading most taxes,

- offering 0 support to users,

- breaking the user experience to force users through their “app funnel,”

- shutting down independent developers without recourse,

- bullying any small fish in their path,

- conspiring to depress labour salaries, and

- shirking any societal or moral obligations,

...that’s just business.

But then when, having observed their psychopathic behaviour, I decide that I don’t want to be part of funding this evil entity, now I’m holding a double standard by accessing the content this monopoly has become the sole gatekeeper for.

Give me a break.

(Leaving untouched the fact that their business model revolves around collecting as much private information as possible.)
My company is trying to switch to Google Docs, but it still has some pretty basic missing features that makes it quite difficult. For example it can't number headings and figures automatically, or do cross-referencing (saying "see section 1.2.3").
Word COUNTER: A simple Python script that counts a specific word in text file
>> I really don't want to listen to your 3 minute audio file when I could have read it in 30 seconds.

Almost 19yrs ago, at my employer, it was common for people to send an "Octel" which was similar to a voice message. There were a couple of reasons to send an Octel instead of an email:

- You couldn't quote/parse/forward it (often used for more sensitive messages)

- The system also had an optional feature where you couldnt forward it if the sender didnt want.

- This was before smartphones, so it wasnt easy (though not impossible) to re-record it and forward it.

- It captured nuance better than email.

- It was harder to respond quickly and you thought about your response more carefully.

Most of these seem like good features, depending on your perspective. However, in 2020, none of these are possible anymore, especially with a gmail attachment.

http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/octel-messa...
Yes, the middle class has the luxury to not be bothered with immediate survival. A food on their plate and a roof over their heads. A time to think.

Some might say that with that luxury comes the responsibility to improve the situation.
People think that the only reason that Apple didn’t allow you to choose your default apps for browsing and mail was because it was trying to be anti-competitive. Even though Apple makes no money from Safari or Mail.

But it took Google 5 years to support split view for Gmail on iPad. There should be a minimum set of functionality you have to support to be eligible to be the default app that goes beyond what Apple requires.

Edit:

Yeah. I hated iTunes on Windows and Safari for Windows during its brief existence. It’s just as off putting seeing an Apple app on Windows that acts like a Mac app.

Don’t get me started about the old QuickTime for Windows back in the day.
Because it sounded like he made profit of the works of others, but it's the other way around. They made profit of his work.
A lot of people of viewing this as a positive story. I’m not sure I do.

Empty boxes are still making their way to the end of the process where a hack is being used to fix the outcome.

The problem of the empty boxes still exists. In fact, it could be many problems down the line.

I saw an interesting comparison of mechanics vs engineers where (no intended slight to mechanics) mechanics will fix the behaviour but engineers will perform Root Cause Analysis.

While I agree that the expensive consultants don’t provide much value, and the solution fix is affordable and nicely and lateral, I don’t think this is what you’re really want.

I draw comparisons to the endeavours that Tesla is making to more efficient manufacturing lines.
Where can i find that study about stock options?
And unsurprisingly, in real companies where this matters, they use scales.
The urban legend, like many, proves the opposite of the truly good lesson.
"a distro implies GNU/Linux"

So you mean your definition is "distro" is slang for "GNU/Linux distribution", whereas an os using the linux kernel is not necessarily a "Linux distribution"? Or can it be a "Linux distribution" without being a "distro"?
I think following any of those links and comparing them to the https://www.ycombinator.com/deal/ page is a good illustration of how these programs fail. The bureaucracy for applying is daunting. The Accelerator will not fund pure startup ideas, rather technologies that have reached TRL 6-8, so not just a proof of concept demo, but a functional system in real life environment. The European Innovation Council will fund prospective technologies but only in well specified areas of interest.

Most recent unicorns will simply not thrive in this environment, it's more catered to the professional grant seekers or already successful companies, that can absorb a financing round of 500k-2.5 mil €
"First define your notation. Then define your terms"

Shadowed? Is that like.. peter pan?
I admit the comment was phrased in an unnecessarily inflammatory way, and I apologize.

The point wasn't to draw a line between "programmers - craftsmen" and "programmers - assembly line workers", but to highlight that programming is very much craftsmanship, and because of that, I disagree with the thought "I am a craftsman, not a tool maker" in the comment I replied to. A craft is almost by definition something that isn't streamlined to the point you can reasonably only focus on using tools you're provided. There's always a benefit in doing meta-work - work to make your work easier. This applies to programming much more than other crafts, because the skill set you need to build tools is literally the same as the one you use for working with those tools.

Also note that the comment didn't say the assembly line workers aren't creative (though on a perfect assembly line they can't be creative at work, by definition) - but that the type of work doesn't leave much space for bottom-up improvement.

> Building your own 3d printer doesn't make you creative if you're using a kit, it's the parts you make that are creative or not.

If building your own 3D printer lets you shorten your iterations compared to your old process of sending CAD drawings to some company and waiting a couple of days, thus saving you effort and money, then building that printer from a kit is very much worthwhile and it's what I'd expect a craftsman would do. Too much focus on the work immediately in front of you is bad too (see also: greedy algorithms). This whole topic isn't an issue of creativity, but pragmatism.
Processed chemicals used for battery making cost many times the cost of raw materials, and it will be so until competition can weaken the big chem oligopolies currently dominating the market.
A story is a narrative, fact or fiction.
Well it's more than that: it's also parks, public transport, nice civic infrastructure, a lot of local civic things, generous benefits when out of work, cheaper education, probably higher relative salaries for 'many others'.

The US may not average $120K for devs, it's probably lower across the board. Then you actually do have apparent inequality problems in the US and if that were taken care if, it would be even less.

It's not as wide as indicated by salaries, but it's still a gap.
Indeed, it should be going through ASCAP alone, and BMI shouldn’t be getting a cut.
Those people need to watch a few episodes of the TV series Life After People. Watching it, and realizing that everything around us would literally start to fail in a matter of days without us as its caretakers, really brought home the impermanence of everything. Skyscrapers are certainly not going to outlast ancient cave dwellings. In a matter of a couple hundred years, I would be surprised if a single skyscraper was still standing without us to keep it up. I’ve seen unmaintained buildings falling a part after a mere decade of disuse; a skyscraper lasting for a century or two would be extremely durable on the scale of modern buildings.
Which do you think?
"Note that leaving terrorism unchecked also has a cost."

True, but I believe there were a LOT less terrorists on this earth, before the US started its War On Terror.

So fighting terror, yes, but maybe not by blowing up whole weddings, because one guest has a cell phone that was linked to a bad guy?

(sadly not really exaggerating)
Yes but if the developer experience is that for a year and a half they can’t fix a bug that is preventing people from doing the first step of engaging with the source code, that doesn’t bode well.
OpenAI offers a fine-tuning api.

How did come up the one minute estimate? According to a quick google search I did, the fastest SSDs these days have a bandwidth of 3100 MB/s. So it would take 112s just to read the weights.
I absolutely agree with the opinions Jaron Lanier has on Social Media, especially Facebook, and that it has not made interdependence any better but actually made it far, far worse. (For example I (factually) believe that radicalization, on both sides of the political spectrum, got completely out of control once Social Media became the most popular thing on the Internet due to the bubble effect and the ease of censorship).

So yes, please stop. And don't let the digital door hit you on your way out.

Additional reading:

http://www.jaronlanier.com/

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/27/pionee...

https://www.ted.com/talks/jaron_lanier_how_we_need_to_remake...
Why should he "learn from a situation", and how can you have regrets?

The way I see this:

1. He spent $1000 of his own money on something. It was a legal transaction. (Some people spend that on car stuff, others spend this on computer parts, and others spend this on their addiction to anime). Others, in other countries spend money in ways the US deems "immoral."

2. Other people tried to take what he spent it on and then apply this on his performance and tried to associate that action with "how the work place may be" (Is there evidence that he treated gay married individuals differently?)

He did have an affect from this. (All the details aren't clear.. also I don't think they're important for this arguement from this). What is your stance on punishing him for doing #1 and #2?
You're right; for accessibility, at least for screen readers, you need something a lot like a DOM (whether real or virtual).
I don’t want to drive slower so I will vote against this.
Because rebooting kills all your running applications.
I don’t know whether they’re Unicorns, but at least we have companies like Booking.com, Adyen, you could argue Gitlab has Dutch roots, and smaller ones such as MessageBird, WeTransfer, Usabilla, etc. These are more well known names, but there are plenty and plenty of smaller ones, where “small” can still be around a hundred employees.

Again, I’m not claiming that our startup climate is anything like what your see in SV, but it’s definitely a fairly healthy scene, and it would be an insult to characterize these as grant chasers.
That’s not accurate. It’s easy to change jobs on an H1B visa. I did it 6 months ago, the processing took only two weeks.

Also it’s wrong to say that you wouldn’t have the same prospects as the local people. I’m a foreigner on an H1B visa but I make $400K/year and never felt disadvantaged in the slightest compared to Americans.
Wow, that is beautiful. The aesthetics remind me so closely of the original SNES Tales of Phantasia (absolutely stunning art, to this day) but with a warmer/lighter feel, like Chrono Trigger/Harvest Moon.

https://images.148apps.com/2014/1/37154/219974/img-0815-600x...

Thanks for sharing this. Out of curiosity, where does the art/assets for this come from?
"And what did you learn from this experience?"

Probably not to donate to causes you believe in six years before you receive a promotion at the organization you've founded and helped lead for a decade and a half?
> Rather, it's really hard to start a company in Europe

As always, depends on where. Sweden has (or used to, at least before) basically a website where you can create a company, and it's mostly free to start the company as an individual (at least the basic form) so you can't really complain that it's hard.

In Spain, it's also relatively easy, just have to go sign some papers (and depending on company type, invest some money into it), but it's hardly "really hard".

Not sure about the rest of Europe, but can't imagine it's a lot harder than these two examples (counter examples incoming surely).

Although, if you with "it's really hard to start a company" mean "it's really hard as a unknown startup to raise funds from VCs", then yes, European investors do way more due diligence and are more risk averse, compared to US investors. But there are more things than startups :)
What about having different access roles for certain people to certain servers?

Is that covered in the NixOS approach as well?

Sounds interesting!
>Interested in disussion or pedantic corrections?

Not necessarily, no.

>So, the same thing I referenced from my dictionary lookup: that literally was used for emphasis while not being literally true.

You still don't get it, and you're wrong as you didn't reference a dictionary.

Both literally true, and used for emphasis are both false statements. There are people who care (literally), and there are enough people who care that "literally no one cares" (figuratively) is incorrect. QED.

>And I argued that this issue is something generally fixed fast (within days by most companies), and thus the speed MS fixed it doesn't prove that it's not a small (trivial) issue.

That is not fast for a critical customer data leak by any stretch of the imagination.

>I wrote "days" precisely to argue these issues are fixed fast. Replying that such issues are fixed in hours, not days, doesn't counter my point, it's just a pendantic correction that re-inforces it.

You wrote "days" because you appear to be clueless. It does counter your point because there is a large difference between a couple of hours and a couple of days. It's a pedantic correction that re-inforces that you're wrong.

>You'd be surprised. Don't believe the hype:

I can hear the goalposts being scraped across the ground.

All of what you listed only proves my point that this was by no means a "slap on the wrist". Multiple indictments and the largest fines ever levied to an auto maker by definition makes this not a wrist slap. QED.

The sentencing and fines were at the top of the sentencing guidelines for the crimes.

>Poor people have gotten worse sentences for stealing a TV...

No they haven't.
DNS blocking doesn’t work on ads in YouTube’s mobile apps.
The cost of a pilot is pretty insignificant when you're talking 747s. But for a small single engine aircraft, the cost of a pilot is high enough to be a barrier to entry for many markets. These routes would be a pretty big deal in alaska, smaller hawaiian islands, and the USVIs at least as far as domestic routes.
>Potential for Liquid Water Biochemistry Deep under the Surfaces of the Moon, Mars, and beyond

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abb608
I mean that "middle class" doesn't mean you're in the median.
tiny cars are popular already .
Better yet, let's get rid of cars altogether from city streets. This is coming along very nicely... https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/14/21257849/elon-musk-boring...

Autonomous driving is just around the corner, too, which means that there is no need to waste space on parking structures, either. Here's a Tesla engineer that gave a great technical talk demonstrating their progress as of early this year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx7BXih7zx8

EDIT: yes, there are clear reasons why having an three-dimensional underground structure will absolutely affect the social dynamics above-ground in a city, yet it remains true that it is possible to banish cars from downtown cores in the near future (i.e., say by 2030 or so), given the present shift to electrification and autonomous driving. These issues are worthy of debate, and I'm just trying to shift the conversation to what's current. I'm not trying to rain on anyone's parade! I love the goal of city streets for people, as exemplified by the beautiful laneways in Melbourne (11 minutes): https://vimeo.com/131396094
Well not a savings now but the field is only really making it commercially viable soon. Long term with no space needed for crews planes can become even more specialized and in many configurations. No worry about schedules, no worry about having enough pilots certified on the plane, and besides lower salaries and benefits the insurance risk is reduced.
They won't sell these small cars in the US because they claim the US market's only growth is in huge SUVs and trucks. Well that's a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you brought to market a $5k EV that fits two to a parking space, I can promise you that the market is definitely there.
If we can detect traces of life (fossils) I am pretty sure we can detect traces of many of the artefacts produced by an industrial civilization.
I'm curious why the title (and its reoccurrence at the bottom of the article) are missing the r and v, but hydroxyvitamin is spelled correctly throughout the article otherwise.
The main use case for me, simplistically, is I still don't have an equivalent to Microsoft Word that I can run in Linux and that is still the standard for business / office applications. So I need a Windows desktop I can access ad hoc throughout the day interactively as I am doing things. Rebooting to do so would be prohibitively time consuming.

Of course, this is terrible, but it is what it is for now. The online office apps are slowly creeping towards viability but they are still a long way short. When (if) they get there I might be able to change this.
Because IMGUIs are designed to be procedural, making it easy to couple changes in UI with changes in control flow. Requiring an ID for every widget would get really annoying really fast, considering IDs would become voided pretty often. The default is no IDs, leave the ID assignment up to the developer who knows if and when an ID would be stable

You can wrap tools like Dear ImGui and Nuklear into a reactive framework that handles state management and IDs and such and presents an API with a declarative interface a la React, but at that point you're pretty much building your own UI engine and just passing rendering on to those tools, which is not simple to architect.
We sent humans to space and robots to Mars and other planets, we are extracting energy from nuclear fission, we will likely build an artificial star soon enough. It's extremely unlikely that we could have missed some mysterious quartz power source.
I moved US->UK almost three years ago, and I took a 30% hit on compensation in the process (same job, new regional pay tables).

What I lost in raw compensation I more than made up for in:

- Holiday (29 days vs ~20 days)

- Sick time (unlimited vs coming out of holiday balance)

- Healthcare (I was just made redundant... but I still have the NHS, unlike my American colleagues)

- Employee Rights (e.g., "At will" employment versus a 3 month notice period, which would usually be paid out upon redundancy)

So while the compensation is higher in America, you also end up working quite a bit more and taking on more risk. Especially around notice periods and access to healthcare should things go poorly.

It's entirely possible to make a six figure base salary in remote areas of the UK. Personally, that's more than sufficient for the lifestyle my family and I want, so we're not champing at the bit to go back.
Argentine lawmaker suspended after sexual ACT during virtual session of Congress
JK Rowling is a transphobe now because she said the word for a person who menstruates is a woman. Cruel and obnoxious, or basic biology? You decide!
I don’t want to pay taxes for schools since I don’t have children. But I’m an adult capable of understanding that what I personally want isn’t necessarily what’s best for society at large, so I suck it up and do it anyway without complaining.