skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If Pelosi demanded that Verizon or Sprint interrupt calls to stop people saying false or misleading things, the public would be outraged.

I really wish this were true. Maybe it once was. But today, if that call involved a Nazi speaking to a white supremacist about suppressing black votes, I'd guess that a large fraction if not a majority would support that censorship. Those of us who disagreed would be widely painted as at the least, Nazi/white supremacist enablers.

I think this because that seems to be a very common reaction to Twitter blocking DMs that included the NY Post link, a much milder violation of norms that the Nazi phone call hypothetical.
They would exit as a stream of extremely small and infrequent particles over billions or even trillions of years, depending on the size of the black hole, in most cases ending once all the stars have died and universal expansion has emptied out almost all of the accessible universe.
Maybe Tesla should link these features to a user's account, not the vehicle. If I sell my iPhone, I'm not selling the apps that I have installed on it.

A side effect of this approach is that you could get a new Tesla and log in to activate the features you already paid for. If you crash your Model 3 and insurance buys you a new one, should you have to pay for Autopilot again?

That said, that approach may piss off people as well. Imagine paying $50k for a Tesla, and only being able to get $30k when you sell it because you paid $20k for features that won't transfer over to the new owner. Even worse if your new car isn't a Tesla: that money would be lost.
Scotland can provide, at most, less than 5% of required capacity if you turned every available loch into pumped storage. Claiming that pumped storage is in any way a viable grid-storage system that can handle baseload in the UK is inaccurate.

Even if every battery production facility on the planet was dedicated entirely to producing storage batteries for the UK it would take almost half a decade to meet the requirements. You can claim that more will be built, but there are resource pipelines involved that are not as elastic and just throwing a pile of money at someone to build a factory. Battery production is growing, but nowhere near fast enough to meet the requirements for grid scale storage.

Right now fission has no competition from renewables+storage because the storage part of that equation remains a fantasy.
Kind of same here. I start functioning at 7 because the world doesn't care i need these these two hours. I still rarely fall asleep earlier than 12PM, and it takes perhaps a week for the lack of sleep to accumulate so i crash with a migraine at 9 or 8 PM. I love my kid but sleep is a fuck.
at this point, it should be abundantly obvious that the point of mask-wearing is collective protection from asymptomatic people. You’re a bad person because you’re actively putting others in harm if you’re not wearing a mask in public, because there is a chance you’re an asymptomatic carrier.
Product-market fit for a B2B company
Per the article, it is a forced cough.
I just visualise it as different instruction pointers with their own stack and shared heap. But I’m coming from Java so that might be an oversimplification!
You might not know if you are sick or not, though. There have been many asymptomatic cases.
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All I want is the work truck equivalent. I don't want all the features. I want it to be cheap and just have basic features. It needs to be reasonably repairable too.
More and more I'm ready to abandon time zones altogether and use UTC (or another equivalent) as my default. In the past I thought the idea to be ridiculous, but now I don't think it's so radical.
But you can set up timezones, so that the difference is minimal when rounded to full hours.
The high point of the sun doesn't need to be precisely at 12:00, that would be silly, especially as the high point of the sun has a seasonal variation too. But we can keep the difference small.
> what is the justification of Telsa' [...]

"fuck you, give us money".
I agree. And don't forget about an extra hour of light in the winter! It gets dark around 4:30pm in New York during standard time, it's depressing.
> Maybe this was influenced by industrialisation and 9-5 culture.

Yeah, exactly right. Before industrialization, you’d simply wake up with the sun. If you ever go camping or on long outdoor trips, you might notice your schedule becomes suddenly much more aligned with sunrise. Mine does, anyway.

> I’d rather go to sleep earlier so that the 4am feels like 5am

That’s totally reasonable, but hard to achieve alone. We agree on the workday schedule norms together as a society. Flexibility would be nice, but much of industry depends on schedules and people physically working together, so they don’t (yet) have ways to relax the rigid schedules. Another thing to consider is the summer nighttime is less than 4 hours long (not counting any twilight at all). That means if you sleep 8 hours, you do have to choose which end to cut into.
Ask HN: A Simple Boomark Manager?
I’d like a simple bookmark manager which stores only title of the page and it’s URL. With Search, Tagging and browser extension.

I don’t want an overwhelming visual list of bookmarks.

Does anyone feel the same ? Which one would you recommend ?
More stuff on masks:

A visual demonstration why masks don't work:
https://videopress.com/v/4egEyh2b

We did not identify any experimental volunteer studies that investigated whether surgical masks or N95 respirators could protect against infection:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/epidemiology-and-inf...

Face mask use in health care workers has not been demonstrated to provide benefit in terms of cold symptoms or getting colds:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19216002/
There is a lot of good things to be said about PHP. Personally, I do not go along with the typical critique about it. Which usually points out edge cases of PHP's behavior which never have been a problem for me in real life.

At Gnod, we are heavily invested in PHP. And it continues to look like that was a good choice.

What I would like to see discussed more is PHP's decision of not having an import system but to instead use a "namespace" directive in included files. This puts the burden of avoiding name conflicts on the included file rather then on the including file. While in Python and Javascript it is the other way round. Which in my experience makes things more logical and requires less tooling for an enjoyable coding experience.
...and if anyone needs a buy-and-own Illustrator/Photoshop replacement for a laughable price - Serif Affinity is the way to go!
Assuming that people didn't like all year round DST, it's presumably because a lot of people actually like the shift depending upon where they live. DST year round means that where I live sunrise would be about 8am in midwinter. Meanwhile someone far west in a timezone is getting a relatively late dawn in the summer in spite of the fact there are lots of daylight hours.
> “if you view it as a savings technology then it's the best one that's ever been created”

IMO this crown belongs to ETFs.

Putting all your eggs in the Bitcoin basket would be an extremely risky strategy. A portfolio of ETFs is a much better place for most people’s savings.
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For some values of "suit".
And there is the typical HN unfounded hate for Bitcoin. I hope you never change HN.
Also, Oregon was as close to a white ethnostate as has ever existed in America; in 1844 they passed a law that force freed any slaves after 3 years and expelled any free blacks from the state on pain of repeated lashings. The original state constitution forbid slavery, but also had a “whites only” clause.

Oregon has been a complicated place for a long time.
Weird. I wonder if a major piece of software released a new version that required more work to update existing software?
Yeah, I find this really annoying too. Java has all the right integration to windows trust store and you can write custom code to use it. But it’s not sued be default.

This makes using internal CAs a nightmare.
It's not a surprise at all.

Firstly, PHP has always been around, WordPress based websites still have like 1/3 share of all existing websites.

Secondly, in the recent years it got a very mature language, got loads of improvements and performance optimizations. With PHP 8 being planned to be released by the end of this year, it will be another major step forward.

Thirdly, Laravel, Symfony and other open source stuff are awesome.

I think if PHP does a major comeback as a decent platform for development and somehow gets rid of the undeserved reputation, those PHP devs who stayed with PHP and didn't switch to RoR, Django, Node or other platforms will be winners, including me :)
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>Anything that in any way reduces the flow of virus particles by definition reduces the spreading of the virus.

It does not. It's possible for a filter to break some droplets into smaller droplets that linger in the air for longer. Evidence suggests that masks are still a net benefit, but this is by scientific study, not "by definition".
Oof that projection. What follows is a conversation between nine_zeros and his boss.

---

Boss: nine_zeros, I told you that your budget was $100k per quarter, but over the past 4 quarters you've managed to spend $500k per quarter! We don't have that kind of money!

Nine_zeros: I know, I know, but it's fine, don't worry! My trend line is going down so there is nothing to be concerned about.

Boss: That doesn't matter NZ! You've already gone $1.6M over budget! Your trend line going down doesn't change the fact that you've already spent that money, money which we don't have.

Nine_zeros: It's all the difference in the world. Just look at Stevens, boss. His trend line is going up while mine is going down, that's so much worse than me.

Boss: Except he was only spending $200k in his first quarter and has only just now gotten up to $400k! You were spending more than that every quarter. It doesn't matter if his trend is upward and yours is down if you've spent way more money. It will take him many more quarters to get to what you spent in your first! It's easy to have a downward trend when you spend an unbelievable amount of money in your first quarter, anyone can do that.

Nine_zeros: Wake up sheeple! Pull the wool out of your eyes! Stop being such a fool!

> nine_zeros is fired

Fin.

---

Look, I agree that this country is headed in the wrong direction. But it's clearly not Trump's fault, you've just been led to believe that by the news media. This country has been waning in some areas for decades now. At the same time, some things have been getting better. Crime is way down from where it was 30 years ago, for example. You wouldn't get that from watching the news, but you will from reading the stats. The news isn't gonna tell you that though. If everything gets better, what will they have to report on? They make all their money on outrage at the moment. They don't want things to get better, because then they'll be out of a job.

But yes, there are all sorts of things that need to be fixed. Trump, however, is a symptom of the problem, not the cause. Orange man bad is a misdirection that an unfortunate number of Americans have swallowed – hook, line, and sinker. Things aren't gonna get better under Biden. He's been in Washington for 40 years. Hell, he helped cause some of the problems you mentioned (cough incarceration of blacks cough). He'll just lull far too many Americans back into a sense of complacency by offering a much higher level of decorum than Trump, while at the same time continuing to allow things to fall apart in the background.

If you want to fix this country, stop being such a partisan and calling everyone who disagrees with you a "willing fool".
ETFs are all managed by the banking system that I'm happy to be outside of at this point. Thanks, but no thanks to GLD and other scams that ,,may send the value of gold in dollars if it doesn't have enough''
I agree. It should either be tied to the account holder, and transfer from vehicle to vehicle owned by that person, or be attached to the car and be transferred right along with every other part of the car.

From a little bit of reading, it really seems like TSLA is trying to have it both ways on this, where it can just disappear after any private transaction?

The fact that there's question here is insane. This should be an easy question to answer from the purchase agreement, but I downloaded a purchase agreement I could find, but it didn't say anything about FSD.

Has anyone here bought a Tesla with FSD? Did your purchase agreement say anything on the subject?
This site is quite honestly the laughing stock of many communities that recognize this when it happens, which is comically often.

It's quite embarrassing indeed.
When my kid was 1 year old, she was on a sleeping schedule where I would wake her up just in time for me to get her to daycare before heading to my 9am daily standup, and then falling asleep at night at whatever time she would be sleepy as a result of the morning wakeup time.

Maybe I could have planned for the clock change better and done something gradual but, the abrupt way we did it had the effect that she was totally thrown off and could only sleep a couple of hours on each of the two nights following the change.

As luck would have it, staying up with her all hours for those two nights that year left me with a terrible cold that left me miserable and exhausted for more than a week.

I don't know if this answers your implied question or not. But that's what happens to many parents every year.
I had a similar error happen while testing my autonomous vehicle several years ago. My GPS module was in simulate mode and wasn't giving correct data to the feedback loop that needed it. In the absence of correctly changing data, a runaway effect took over.

It's the same basic failure that crashed the 737 max.

When the feedback loop is broken in closed loop controls, failures like this happen.
I was a little confused (haven’t read the article) by your comment, but it made more sense if I read it as a response to this other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24952161

Not sure if you meant to reply to that.
> if you view it as a savings technology then it's the best one that's ever been created

Bitcoin is a terrible savings vehicle for the same reason cash in checking accounts or collectibles are: there is no basis for its value.

Baseless assets other than gold have been numerously proposed, usually about once every generation in every cultural sphere going back to Republican Roman times, but unvaryingly fall out of favor. This is why savvy portfolios consist of productive assets, not Beanie Babies.
I don't think there's any special sauce, at least nothing that justifies stupidly high audiophile pricing.

ESS "sabre32" DAC ICs are widely regarded as excellent and even integrated into high end audio products, yet they can be bought in small quantities for 12$ each: http://www.shawelectronics.com/es9018k2m.html
This year is just rude.
Bitcoin Cash is what we call Bitcoin now. Lighting is obvious vaporware nonsense that solves only the problem of how to keep Blockstream in control of the GitHub repo they (Adam Back and Greg Maxwell) hijacked years ago.
I came to the comments after reading the first two paragraphs for an explanation and then back to the sure once I learned there were links at the bottom.

I think a good side project for OP would be writing books (not a slight).
Those installations are borderline profitable because either they are a small drop in the bucket of the required storage capacity (c.f. Tesla battery farm) or are heavily subsidized to make renewables appear viable. You are also making some large assumptions regarding battery improvements that may turn out to never be realized -- there may be interesting new chemistries and techniques that work for smaller scale but are infeasible for one reason or another at large scale. It is also possible that the opposite is true (e.g. like for fuel cells) where bigger is better in terms of efficiency and production costs, but so far I have no seen any indication of this.
This comes up on every single article about timezones. Humans need to know what time it is based on the solar day. If it's 5:00 AM for me and 5:00 AM in Sydney, I have no clue if anyone in Sydney is awake. Timezones are for humans, not computers.
And then why the hell bother? You've now replaced a coordinated government-implemented system with a complete patchwork system at the company, school, and individual level.
This article has fancy animations and whatnot, but lacking in real data. So for anyone not convinced, here is a statistical analysis from my home state South Carolina. The numbers speak for themselves.

https://scdhec.gov/news-releases/dhecs-third-data-analysis-m...

https://scdhec.gov/news-releases/update-mask-requirement-dat...

Highlights:

When comparing the jurisdictions that have mask requirements in place to those that don't, the jurisdictions with mask requirements have shown a 44.2 percent greater decrease in the total number of cases during the five weeks after the requirements were implemented.

Jurisdictions without mask requirements have experienced an overall increase in total cases of 1.2 percent when compared to jurisdictions with a mask requirement in place.
One can burn more and reduce the chance of unintentional burns. What you don’t want is random bits of high voltage wire kicking off fires where you aren’t expecting them, which saps resources from proscribed burns.
ETFs are simply mutual funds married with high frequency trading.

Read about Authorized Participants if you're confused as to what HFT has to do with ETFs. Overall it's a decent improvement over the very old idea of open-ended funds, given the recent digitalisation of trading and super fast market making with tiny spreads.

PS. I like ETFs, I think they're achieving exactly what are they supposed to achieve.
Get up and stretch several times a day. If you can, spend some time outside walking around, enjoying fresh air and looking at nature.
> Avoiding capital controls like in Lebanon

I personally know someone whose Lebanese family had food on the table for awhile in large part because of Bitcoin. They aren't even particularly interested in Bitcoin. It just happened to be the thing that worked best for their situation.

I live in a Canadian neighboorhood with lots of immigrants from poorer countries. There's a Bitcoin ATM near me that seems to get a decent amount of usage, mostly by people who look like they might have family in other countries. It might get even more usage, if not for the fact that buying Bitcoin in Canada is pretty easy via exchanges like Kraken and Bull Bitcoin.
What I remember of That Hideous Strength was Lewis caricaturing his ideological opponents while idealizing his allies.

If you don't already agree with his conservative, Christian point of view, it can make for frustrating reading.

Apart from this, nothing notable springs to mind about this book.

There are far, far better ways to spend your reading hours.
This is a good way to blow out your laptop's speakers. One simple `cat /vmlinuz > /dev/dsp` and poof.
Reminds me of those 5001 DOS game demo disks you could buy cheaply at markets.

Good times.
RIP Sean Connery.. Hunt for Red October was a decent movie...
There also appears to be a viral load issue. Exposure to a few droplets containing the virus carries risk of transmission, but exposure to many lung-fuls of contaminated air seems to have an even higher risk[1].

[1] SARS-CoV-2 viral load predicts COVID-19 mortality

Elisabet Pujadas, Fayzan Chaudhry, Russell McBride, Felix Richter, Shan Zhao, Ania Wajnberg

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2...
I never considered the fact that submarines can have windows.

edit: also, they've got an arcade machine about submarine combat! Wonder whose idea that was.
I'm wondering how the Cybertruck will care on that front. Aren't other Tesla models pretty awful on the repairability front?

I bet there's a market niche for what you're describing
It follows the car but, iirc, at least the Tesla certified preowned cars get it reset before they are resold.
> what bank in the world would charge only $23.46 for transferring $166 M?

I have never paid for a wire. I’ve also overseen multibillion-dollar wires for which there were zero transfer fees.

If you send and receive wires, get a bank account that doesn’t charge for them. (This is almost every account at e.g. Fidelity or First Republic.) Consumer accounts usually optimise for a different basket of needs than large instantaneous transfers. If that is something you care about, there are a myriad of options superior to Bitcoin.
HN hates Bitcoin. I have never seen such a smart group of idiots in my life.
Yes. I can assure that most retail and service industries, to pick just two examples, are going to be keeping the same hours year round.
Further, I fail to see how a mask could become saturated so quickly. I'm usually only wearing a mask for 5 or 10 min at a time.
The emails are pretty clear, e.g. this part

"Overall I think this piece can work best if it is significantly narrowed down to what you first discussed with Betsy"

The changes requested are "significant".

"I do think you should treat the origin story of the hard drive – that it came from the Delaware repair store – with a bit more skepticism. It’s true that nothing has emerged yet to significantly undermine it, but it remains a very strange story surrounded by many unanswered questions."

That is a clear request to change the message, whilst admitting there is not much grounds on which to make the request - not mere wordsmithing.
None of this adds up -- there must be details missing.

First, if a dealer advertises a car with a feature and the car is missing that feature, then you have recourse -- with the dealer.

Second, how does Tesla even know that a car has changed owners? What triggered Tesla disabling the feature at this time for this car?

I mean look, if you want to sell your Tesla back to an official Tesla dealer and they have an agreement with Tesla to disable software add-ons before reselling... then that's Tesla's right. But then the purchaser would never have seen any extra features enabled in the first place -- there would be nothing to complain about.

So what is actually going on here?
Apparently HN still hates Bitcoin, you're comment will be removed in 3, 2, 1...
Ok, I can't imagine myself dropping attention from driving. As a member of a national roadkill prevention awareness org and having lost close friends on the road: I would never had imagined that it would require you to drop attention.

I imagined it was something you could enable and then disable by just breaking like cruise control or auto parking with toyotas.

But now I see how complex it becomes because of the wheel, even tesla owners in the comments of the article don't like to let their hands off the wheel.
It is but with 70% being non-reproducible we should be careful what we conclude. Humans are not robots. Lots and lots of factors in play.

I have worn mask since march and have no problem with doing so, I believe they help curve some, but scientific rigor not clickbaity politicized headlines on NYT is what is needed here.
I still don't understand how the wall clock prevents them from getting up an hour earlier or later.
The new hummer ev is a step in the right direction. The original hummers had a pickup style so hopefully that's next.

Edit- I've always missed the true small trucks like the 90's era rangers and b2000's. I feel like that's an excellent place for a new ev truck startup to begin. The new rangers and colorados are as big as the old f-150's.
ETFs are still subject to whatever country's tax laws. Imagine putting your retirement into various funds only to have a Brexit type situation destroy your hard earned money.

Bitcoin is borderless, permissionless storage of value. Game theory built in (anyone powerful enough to attack the network is better incentivized to participate in it.)