skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Aerodynamics and safety legislation about things like gaps between engine and bonnet (hood) are harsh mistresses.

Yeah, but it is also a bit of an excuse for everyone just copying a model that sold well in the previous year. You can find "sport" cars which are still pretty different and yet perfectly obey the legislations.

> I'm not a car guy

I'm not either. I probably only step in a car once a year (I do everything by bike).

However, we are talking about aesthetics. External aesthetics. That is, what is exposed and seen by others: other car drivers, motorbike riders, bicycle riders, pedestrians, horse riders, everyone passing by. The huge majority of the time, cars are just parked with no one inside.

This exposition is continuous. The number of cars in my country has doubled since the 80s (despite basically every home having a car already then). It is aggravated by the fact that nowadays the paint jobs are much more resistant and many people don't bother parking the cars in a garage or any kind of shelter and just leave them in the street, in the public space. Even in the country, in my village, the streets & roads are now surrounded by a never ending line of parked cars.

Those wheeled devices are seen much more than what they are used.
You know, half of the reason I come to HN is because it seems like every other thread had someone with a random life experiences to share, like the surprising number of people here with experience is the gas-pumping field.
Try saying/doing that in the airplane industry. Pilots are trained to use the checklist in all operations.
For some reason in katex you have to use \begin{aligned} instead of \begin{align} but it works.
So if you're framed by deepfake the only way to prove it's not you is to come up with film of you elsewhere. And so you're going to film yourself wherever you are to mitigate being framed...?

The other probably more appealing use is to have a credible figure (say maybe Greta Thunberg) say she was just kidding about climate change and global warming. Fake news is going to have a party. It's going to get ever more difficult to tell what's true and what isn't.
Ok but how about if you combine all truck attacks vs all shootouts

Not like Americans can do anything with the guns. You gonna stop what's happening right now with your pistol? Go on then. Literally the time to shine that liberty. You've got a guy threatening to be Hitler 2.0 (hi Godwin!) and making moves towards that.. nothing

Oh they'd just make it worse? Maybe you shouldn't have them so easily accessible then

https://www.theonion.com/search?q=%E2%80%98No%20Way%20To%20P...
Also it's one thing to say something is preventable/curable with exercise and another to say what's your plan that will cause a significant number of people to start exercising.
> There are traders who demonstrate skill, by consistently making profits

With a large enough group consistently making profits would not necessarily be a demonstration of skill. Even if the returns were completely random several traders would constantly perform well above average.
Thanks to oldhatemach for the writeup. I appreciate it.
In some areas, they do not have the latch on the handle to prevent that. They may (also) have a warning sign saying do not leave unattended.
Come for the hacker, stay for the news.
My primary goal for Shrugs wasn't better memory efficiency but a better user experience (i.e. using native controls, having multiple windows, quicklook, etc). It uses quite some memory because it does (too) aggressive caching and prefetching of messages (I have enough RAM, fast access was more important to me).

It is worth noting that the official Slack app has gotten massively more memory efficient about a 1.5y ago, its bad reputation comes from the time before that (when it easily used more than 1GB of RAM). (I think it still has other performance issues, but they aren't as big anymore, it is doing quite well IMO)

Having said that I'm working on improving memory consumption in Shrugs.app - it is a tentpole feature planned for v1.1 (it'll take some time until this will be ready though).
> Well Microsoft did give them some sort of discount or something for their azure servers for training. I think it was part of the agreement or something

I think about half of the money Microsoft invested in OpenAI has been cash, the rest was in the form of Azure credits.
What is the code intended to communicate? It we don't know the intention we cant say which example most clearly communicates this intention.
> they’re not buying from an exchange

Most trades haven’t been executed on exchanges since at least the 90s. Sophisticated investors are fine with this. They often seek out off-exchange execution for a variety of benefits.

The problem with Robinhood isn’t how it executes trades. It’s the kind of trading it encourages. It’s not in the shadows, it’s front and center in the UI.
Considering the extent of our abilities to modify videos after a recording is made (After Effect, Blender and all those post-editing softwares out there), it's hard to prove in-video other than a livestream as you mentioned.

The only solution I can see would be to use an impartial third-party with legal weight to attest the current time to be as declared on video and on paper.

Another idea would be to make and film a transaction on a public system (Bitcoin blockchain?) with a proof of the transaction and its timestamp?
Much of this discussion focuses on how already existing companies handle the transition to remote work. This necessarily involves subjective perceptions of fairness.

But if you start a new company that's remote from day one, why on earth would you pay people based on location?
In France for instance you can donate to laquadrature.net. They do a really great job given their small size. You will probably find similar associations in other European countries.
White also helps with visibility of the car, especially in dusty roads.
I don't think the area you were in had anything to do with it. The zip code is supposed to match the card.

And you don't have to guess the exact amount of fuel, you just pick a number greater than the cost of a fill-up and less than infinity/your credit limit.
While the author is right about his particular case, it doesn't generalize to every case. A few years back I was involved in a startup that was writing software to optimize climate control systems in very large buildings. Unfortunately such buildings are usually decades old, and have antique internal networks. In many buildings, it was impossible to get the data out. (Network bandwidth problems: We wanted data from thousands of sensors every 5 minutes). They had twisted pair wiring. I'd say we were two to three decades early to market. We needed buildings to have their internal networks upgraded, and yet they had no immediate reason to do so.
It's the other way around. A few of Roku's early RF remotes used Bluetooth, but now they all are based on WiFi Direct.
"Responding to change over following a plan"

We don't give estimates for large, difficult projects. We do have a roadmap that is documented. We do decide what is next, and maybe lay out a month or two of a swag at what we'll get done, but mostly we just keep moving forward, delivering at a reasonable and sustainable speed.

Sure, leadership gets their own idea of what schedule we'll hit. And we often do meet their expectations. When it isn't correct, we tell them what stopped us from hitting it. But we do not approach such things as a "delay" - it is just how software dev works.
I remember the launch of Chrome. It wasn't that better. The process isolation was nice (especially for flash) but not earth shattering. Their marketing was good however (see the linked comics).

The V8 javascript engine was the real deal however. It forced Mozilla to significantly invest in its own javascript engine.
And there's also universally an override to that interlock and the manual tells you exactly where it is. Usually you just pop off a little cover on the gear shift and depress a mechanical button under that cover with the key to the car or any thin enough piece of metal long enough to reach. If Tesla doesn't have something equivalent for charging cables that can be used by the owner then that's a flaw with Tesla. There's a reason why everyone else has an override.
> Peugeot has some nice special colours. [...] Not that a lot of people buy them, so...

Oh, on their catalogues, car manufacturers do still present various colours in general. However, once you get to their seller, he always announces large delays for coloured ones, while "you can get the grey/black/white tomorrow." They twist the buyer's arm this way.
It's pretty much gone away as a problem for cars, there's been design changes to vehicle fuel tanks, and the use of ethanol as an oxygenate means that water doesn't really build up over time (the ethanol allows the water to mix into the fuel; 'dry gas' is often just a jug of alcohol)
Please stop using CDNs for external JavaScript libraries
Very sound advice.

I would add this quote from Fooled by Randomness:

Unfortunately, the inherent randomness of stock markets means that, just like millions of monkeys hammering on typewriters for long enough can eventually produce Shakespeare, so can unskilled investors produce great track records. In fact, it is very likely that some will.

Consider for example a cohort of 10,000 investors who, for the sake of argument, are relatively incompetent: each year they only have a 45% chance of being profitable. In other words, you would basically be better off investing based on the flip of a coin.

Nevertheless, despite their lack of skills, after 5 years based on probabilities alone we can expect almost 200 of them to have been profitable every year. They would boast flawless track records and enjoy praise for their exceptional skills.

Of course, in the long run, the randomness that sustains these “acute successful randomness fools” will turn against them. Wall Street has seen many traders, who after years of success have one devastating quarter where they lose everything in one huge blow-up.

Often their short-lived success was due to the fact that they simply happened to be at the right place at the right time, i.e. pure luck.

We often mistake luck and randomness for skill and determinism.
Adaptive Measurement Devices
I remember this being shown a few months back, I believe it went offline for a while (mistake me if I'm wrong) but glad to see it back. Any new features added since the last time?
The world is not so binary.

Just because one member attended a BLM rally and another was photographed with an Anarchy flag behind him does not mean they were immune to radicalization.

These people are part of the larger militia movement that has been egged on by the factors I mentioned. Whether or not you personally like Trump, having the president of the US cheer your cause is both validating and motivating.
They recommend the VIX all the time mostly sarcastically, or do you mean the recommendations went to even higher levels than normal
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglophone_Crisis
Guide to Vue 3 Composition API
How to add types to your local storage
I’ve never heard of any organization asking software interview questions about the basics of loops or classes. If you are asking that, it is very, very weird of you.

Meanwhile asking about data structures and algorithms is an extremely ubiquitous industry standard for interviewing new grads and entry level programmers up through experienced veterans - and is practiced by nearly every tech company and tech recruiting agency under the sun.

Your expression of surprise about this suggests you are not very aware of the tech industry or software hiring practices.

But regardless, all the same issues would apply to asking about loops or classes that apply to asking about linked lists or sorting. In professional work, none of that is ever addressed in a time crunch with someone actively surveilling you and assessing intermediate explanations - so concluding someone is bad at coding from a poor interview performance is just flat wrong.
Tesla has more cash on hand then they have debt. They don't have a lot of debt for a car manufacturers? Maybe look up the basic facts next time.

The difference is that Tesla had a clear buissness plan to profit that they executed step by step. And the only reason they lost money is because they were expanding production capacity.

The analysis of the cars clearly showed that they had great margin on the cars, by far the best in the industry for BEV.

The same can not be said for Waymo. Its basically burning money and not even a clear plan on how this can eventually be recaptured. Tesla already makes money with teams that work on this stuff.

> In the meantime legacy car manufacturers are catching up with Tesla's offering

Wait, are you somebody from 2014? Because we have been hearing that since then and its still not true. And even if it were, it would not be a thread for Tesla, its a thread for ICE vehicles.

> but Tesla has lost its top spot in markets it led until recently.

Tell that to the 18% global market share in terms of EV sales. Its more if we are talking BEV. And its even more if we are talking revenue. And its even higher in terms of profit.

The facts actually say that Tesla has been expanding its global market share. But of course if you only read media articles that say 'in August Tesla fell to second spot in Lithuania' and BS like that, then you end up being misinformed.

Tesla also a has 3 gigantic new factories coming online next year, plus they easily have the best strategy for battery scale.
The memes are great on that subreddit, when the March crash happened and people were posting gifs of 'Order 66' being executed from Star Wars... priceless
I'm not taking offence on her part, I'm saying that there's a degree of propriety for certain things and not acknowledging that for a wider audience is incorrect for the format. MIT editorial style guide for instance:

> The best way to deal with professors is to use the capitalized Professor Irwin (second reference) for formal writing. In more informal writing, depending on the audience, a professor may be referred to by his or her first or last name on second reference.

http://web.mit.edu/comdor/editguide/style-matters/titles-peo...

> Use Dr. in first reference as a formal title before the name of an individual who holds a doctor of dental surgery, doctor of medicine, doctor of optometry, doctor of osteopathic medicine, doctor of podiatric medicine, or doctor of veterinary medicine: Dr. Jonas Salk.

> If appropriate in the context, Dr. also may be used on first reference before the names of individuals who hold other types of doctoral degrees. However, because the public frequently identifies Dr. only with physicians, care should be taken to ensure that the individual’s specialty is stated in first or second reference."

https://umc.utah.edu/communications-style-guide/

Note that there is consideration for how the public reads these as well. If it's for more than just a personal note, then a more formal tone is likely more appropriate. Which is both obvious and all that I was saying.
Oh, the original comment was about the WebKit wrapper. Well, that this is using as much memory isn't very surprising. Why would Slack use less memory in a WKWebView than in an Electron frame? It is essentially the same app (with the Electron app providing a set of extra platform integration benefits).

Any performance differences between the two approaches should essentially boil down to the Chrome vs Safari differences.
It's hard not to feel helpless.

Consider the Iraq war. The largest worldwide protests the world has ever seen, but the US and UK didn't give a shit. Saddam didn't have WMDs, so the US and UK governments made up "evidence". The UN vote failed, so the US strong armed the UK into joining them in a ploy to blackmail UN members for votes. The US and UK went to war anyway, even though the UK's own legal advisor had previously thought it illegal - funnily enough, he had a complete u-turn after a visit to the US. How many killed as a result? How many children maimed? And for what, to score political points and further line the pockets of the rich and powerful.

And what consequences for all of this corruption, for all of the lies to the people of the US and UK? Nothing.

Western governments, and their security apparatus, particularly in the US and UK, are utterly and completely corrupt, broken. They are so good at controlling the narrative that most of the populace doesn't even have a clue what is going on, and would give half a shit even if they did.

We are well and truely fucked.
Ask HN: Will this pandemic and Starlink result in an exodus from major cities?
This looks amazing. I have long wanted to crawl some of the big museum collections, and you've done tons of them. How much space do all the images take up altogether? How many images in total?

Some feedback: The "About Us" etc. links at the bottom are hard to click on the main page, as the infinite scroll moves them as soon as you get there. I also managed to get Chrome to peg a CPU core at 100% and essentially block the tab by scrolling down for a few minutes. A pagination system would make longer (> a couple of minutes) painting browsing sessions much more stable/possible.
How to Generate Hundreds of Email Leads in Seconds – Prospect Role
That discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23491940
I think that ignoring abuse oriented towards men is a common blind spot in our society.

My first upload to Youtube received a comment, "You're nothing but a big fat Jew!" I think that this is quite representative of the hate of the Internet at large.

This sort of blindness towards abuse towards men is not just here on the Internets. In real life, progress made against ritual genital mutilation is happening for women but not for men.
FTTX
Yeah, I think that's it. I guess it wasn't strictly octaves after all. Hey, I was 10 or 11 when I heard it. My guess at the time was that the tones were a tuning reference for anyone who wanted to play along with the tape. I now realize they would have been really bad for that.

How common was it for cassettes released by major labels to have those test tones? I should clarify that at home we mostly listened to religious albums; many were released on small labels, but some were distributed by A&M. So maybe the test tones were more common in mainstream music than I realized.
Slightly on topic; I wrote a small blog post about my dealings with the urge to create.

https://aarontag.dev/2020/06/14/the-urge.html
Almost all HN posts get ignored; the speed of change on the front page can be insane at times, and most of the time people don't have the time to browse beyond the front page - especially when they find an engaging submission there, or an interesting discussion.

My big discovery has been to treat HN as a place to, well, discover interesting stuff which is (often) outside of my comfort zone. The one thing HN is not, is an advertising channel; I read, and (sometimes) contribute to discussions - and only post spam links to my project when I think I can get away with it.
I‘m an economics student from Germany. My plan for the future is to do a masters in CS. One day I want to work in the US tech industry. I‘m not sure yet if I will do my masters in the US or in Germany. In Germany higher education is free, but if studying in the US would help with getting a visa (and later GC) it would be worth it for me. Do you think that studying in the US increases my chance of a visa, and how likely is it that I get one with a econ BS and an computer science MS?
The squalene in question that's derived from sharks has been used for decades. I've never heard of it before. Only now I do when it could be used to save untold human lives. Really?
Not sure "terrorist" is the right term here given the main objective isn't to spread fear or make a point, but to kidnap (and kill?) an elected politician.

If Al-Qaeda had genuinely wanted to harm the US financial system as their main goal, flying into the twin towers wouldn't have been terrorism as it wouldn't be about terror.

Though I'm unsure of a good term that encompasses violent action against the state...
Didn't read the article.

My question is: can coding be a "skill"? In my mind is more like a career in the same way doing surgeries is not a skill. It can't be just a skill that you learn and forget about it.
No need to film yourself. You just got to make sure your deepfaked alibi is better.

I wonder if in the future it's not about being able to afford better lawyers, but better fakes.
I don't understand why you didn't get more upvotes. This is a great angle (that aligns somewhat with Sytse's comment further up) that I hadn't considered yet. It's also a good counterpoint to the "having a boss is not natural" idea.
Just think of the long term co2 savings we could make by not stopping the virus.
"They keep our fish stock healthy, they keep the food chain intact, they keep diseases out of other animal populations," she said. "Good luck trying to replace that when we lose them."

Isn't human predation (fishing) a suitable alternative to shark predation for this purpose? I guess they eat a more wide diet of fish types.
Just looked up your app. Love the idea but still too many features missing, especially editing messages.

I'll keep an eye on it. I have no problems buying after it gets good enough. Thanks for your work.
Zope 5.0 Released
I absolutely agree that performance matters a whole lot, it's one of the most important considerations in software.

It's also true that many developers are not very good at spotting where and how to improve performance, and what trade-offs are appropriate, and that's what I meant.

Write the straightforward version first that's easy to read so that when you need to improve performance, it's easy to use a profiler to go in and rewrite the non-performant parts in a less readable but faster way.
"However, the extraction of shark squalene has been a more attractive option for producers as it can cost less and yield greater quantities than nonanimal alternatives."

Now you've got my attention. How much larger are concentrations of this substance [0] in sharks when catching sharks and extracting it from them is easier than getting it from "[...] nonanimal sources includ[ing] olive oil, sugar cane, wheat germ, bacteria and yeast."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squalene

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Edit: here is some information:

"[...] deep-sea sharks are targeted for the squalene market because they have some of the highest concentrations of squalene in their livers, some taking up to 20% of their body weight", from https://www.sharkallies.com/shark-free-products/cosmetics-wh...
"Let's save the Earth by letting loads of people die"?
GitLabs' founder explains it best. I personally stand by that choice and it totally resonates with me.

That's not to say that either is wrong/right.

https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/compensation...
Great value for the money – waterproof Bluetooth 5.1 earphones
It’s interesting how that idea has been around for so long - it wasn’t new when A Random Walk Down Wall Street came out in the 1970s - but there’s a never ending supply of people who think they can beat the odds and investors who want to believe.
> I attribute this to the increasing attitude of treating a car as an appliance.

Perhaps we should do the same test with smartphones. People use colored cases for their smartphone, but a lot of people also use a transparent case.
Already happening in several city centres in NL : all knives are forbidden, even if you are a tradesman(?) like carpenters etc.
They did indeed use Excel to process the data. They could have possibly used a more recent version of Excel but saved the data in the legacy file format anyway.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54423988