skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I disabled? I have cerebral palsy that for the most part only affects my left hand. I’ve been programming since 1986 when I was in 6th grade. I type decently fast with one hand and I inadvertently learned to touch type just by spending so much time on a computer.

I don’t need any special accommodations. I decided to click “no” at my current job at $BigTech. My interview process was remote, I’ve never met any of my coworkers in person and probably won’t until 2022.

My job was always designed to be remote so there is no telling when I’ll need to fly to one of the offices.
Thank you for the pointer and I will.
True and now imagine that 70% of the web is accessed through mobile devices today. The format of these web stories is basically identical to a vertical phone, I think they exist so mobile users browse through more content more quickly.
These decisions may not seem to make much sense for us now because browsing on a desktop always feels more efficient but they aren't designed to be efficient for us, they are supposed to be efficient for a somewhat desinterested mobile phone user who was going to click away but now he or she sees a flashy little story and thinks "eh ok, I'll watch what they want". Google may even envision a future where the normal search list results are an advanced feature and regular users all prefer to click on stories because that's where all the offers and gimmicks and easy to digest information is in. Ever since I underestimated TikTok, I am a little more careful to dismiss these new developments. In a way, these mini stories are another variation of tiktok mini stories.
I imagine the people who thought the stories UI was acceptable also signed off on the landing page.
Tesla’s valuation, while insane, has allowed them to raise a ton of cash. So even if the stock tanks, the company is unlikely to go anywhere.
"twice" is probably a reference to some measure of energy density.
Ask HN: Will It Work?
For the last couple of months I have been building app that would allow people to rent ('share' as I call it) their belongings to other people. An example of this is a guitar. I have a guitar that I don't play too often and would like to both make money by lending it to someone as well as allowing them to experience it instead of buying and potentially not using it later.

However, recently I have realized that what I'm building is effectively something people will use very rarely since it is a platform where you go to rent stuff that you don't use often. Is this adding real value to people? Would you rent things instead of buying them? What kind of things would you rent? (e.g. game console, lawn mower, surfboard, etc.) How is this different from what Airbnb is doing with homes? One big difference I see is rental of homes makes sense because they are very expensive to buy and you wouldn't want to buy a home everywhere you travel to. What is the threshold for buying something vs renting it?

Thank you all in advance for your contribution!
This journal explicitly allows posting submissions to arxiv.
Good, Apple totally violate antitrust with their store policies. The ban on competing browsers is a glaring example too.
What did you find painful about Reagent? I used the first version of Om for many years, which by now is definitely old and outdated, but it still was much more enjoyable and productive than directly using ReactJS. Reagent is a small, simple library that makes interacting with React quite straightforward as well, so I'm curious your pain points.
I wonder how one goes about proving that such large computations as BB(27) are physically impossible in our universe?
heat dissipation. "charging" a battery is an exothermic chemical reaction.
It’s possible (and indeed uh ... recommended) to write frontend tests that are resilient to DOM changes by not depending on things that are not essential to the functionality being tested. Eg select a form field by its label, not by its position in the DOM, and use specific data attributes if there’s no better choice. Then when you gut the HTML for UI overhaul, if the functionality hasn’t changed, the cypress test doesn’t change, you just make sure you attach the attributes to the right new elements.

Of course if the functionality changed (like you split something up into 2 pages) yeah you need to update your UI tests cause you are testing a different experience now. But they are UI tests, so yeah. That’s appropriate.

I dunno. It sounds like you found other parts of it unwieldy as well, but the idea that the tests are inherently brittle is wrong. Time spent maintaining UI based testing is saved many times over when compared with the manual clicking around that it saves imo.
There is a difference between $10k multiples and outlawed for gas guzzling
The Moral Case for a Wealth Tax Has Never Been Clearer
I got to see Hudson Bay's org, at least the HBC Digital arm, from the inside when they acquired Gilt Groupe in 2016. It was an unmitigated mess, and the talent attrition was immediate. Management was chaos. They had told us that the acquisition was primarily for Gilt's tech and talent, but post acquisition they had zero clue what to do with us. Political infighting between HBC management and pushback from Gilt management that stayed created an environment where little got done. Existing HBC projects, though incredibly outdated, costly, and hard to maintain, were given priority. Proposals and work to improve existing HBC properties were quickly shot down by HBC staff. The indecision and political infighting doomed Gilt further, and they unloaded the property to Gilt's main competitor Rue La La two years later for a massive loss. Friends that were still around have told me that HBC lost over $100 million on the deal, and reporting backed that up [1].

This development and their continued decline does not surprise me in the least, based upon what I witnessed.

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/rue-la-la-buys-online-flas...
I had no idea they were still making Supras, I thought that line died with the 96-98 models. Is it still a straight-6?
> We've had multiple drug dealers

Wow, how did you find out? Got calls from FBI or something? (Just curious.)
Skoda begins using driving data to display in-car ads
A strategy as old as hedge funds themselves: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-02/hedge-fun...
I made a couple of small PRs to an open source library I use and they were great little mini projects that were very rewarding and useful! I felt better after what has been a long time working on a project that has consistently failed to be delivered. It felt like actually, no, I am a decent developer and I do enjoy it.
might be useful if you want to test something out before buying it.
Also, the image moves slowly behind the text, somehow inducing motion sickness without forcing the user to sit in a car.

It’s like the blink tag, but instead of being the result of a drunken bet on Castro St in Mountain View, it’s the result of $1,000,000’s in engineering effort and focus groups.
Not much if Toyota can't compete on price. Range has not been an issue since 2015, and the marginal increase in consumer demand won't go up much if a $150k 500 mile electric hits the market.

The real issue for electric is that a 300 mile electric costs more than $35k because the world wide battery production capacity is limited.

If solid state batteries are easier to produce and the price comes down faster than lithium ion then there might be a crossover point by 2030. Until then, this probably means cooler high end sports cars (formula E?)
We Are Sikhs
I agree that the ICE rumbling is amazing. I’m genuinely concerned that as California (and eventually other states) ban ICE cars the entire infrastructure of repairs, sales, and eventually gas will collapse. It just seems like its days are numbered.
Yahoo had Freecycle groups that gave away items for free to others who could not afford it. Your idea is like Freecycle but with extra steps for fees and rentals.

It almost sounds like a Pawn shop that rents items.
> Hell their API’s are providing a longer forecast than the actual website. That’s silly.

forecast.weather.gov doesn't show longer than 7 day forecasts because forecasts beyond 7 days are not very accurate[1]. So why show something that has a 50% chance of being wrong?

[1]: https://scijinks.gov/forecast-reliability/
Saying something is "technically true" or "at least mostly true" is a red flag. Try saying these out loud:

1. Try this sushi, it's mostly fresh.
2. Sure, I'll give you a ride, I'm mostly sober.
3. I know what I'm doing, I'm technically a doctor.
Clojure. I wanted to love you. But at the end of the day types matter (to me at least) and spec just feels like an afterthought.
Nice coolaid we got here. Anyone ever wonder if Solid state batteries were that awesome, why don't we have them in our smartphones, let alone our cars? Well because they are ridiculously expensive to make. Good luck getting even remotely close to the Tesla price range using a solid state battery in the next decade.
TW2 port was a bad eON wrap job wasn't it?
Unfortunate to hear, appreciate the reply.
No word on energy density or other metrics other than charge time. Tesla is also working on solid state batteries as well.
Even without any features enabled and not sending any headers, fingerprinting would let the server track what pages you visit and when (even across websites).

There's not much they'd do with that information (as you say, while it's technically possible, no one cares enough to make an advertising system that works without JavaScript).

The main use case would probably be a primitive way to track which pages are visited in which order, how popular various links are, which paths people took to get to a specific page, etc. Normal tracking stuff which I don't personally have a problem with, but privacy activists often tend to.
It's like Obamacare -- deeply flawed but hey at least they're trying to do something.
I think you may have read from where I linked and then into the following complaint. The complaint supported by paragraphs 139 - 141 is "RESPONDENTS FAILED TO COMPLY WITH GEORGIA LAW PROVISIONS FOR MATCHING SIGNATURES AND CONFIRMING VOTER IDENTITY FOR ELECTORS SEEKING TO VOTE ABSENTEE".

The following paragraphs talk about a different issue (which also happens to relate to signature verification).
Federal contractors (this includes many large companies, because many large companies have some government business) are required to ask.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303287804579447...
We drink aluminum cans in cardboard cases. Then trade in the empty cans for cash. No plastic needed.
ARM64 can't be that easy to decode, since ARM's recent high-performance cores (A78, X1) decode ARM64 instructions into MOPS and feature a MOP cache: https://www.anandtech.com/show/15813/arm-cortex-a78-cortex-x.... And we don't know that the M1 doesn't do that. Also, even on Zen 2, the entire decode section is still a fraction of the size of say the vector units: https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/annotated-hi-res-core-d.... And the cores themselves take up a small amount of the die space on a modern CPU: https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/m22pkncJXbqSMVisfrWcZ5-102....

A bet doing 8-wide x86 decoding would be tough, but once you've got a micro-up cache, it's doable so long as you have a cache hit. Zen 3 is 8-wide the 95% of the time you hit the micro-up cache.

The real question is how does Apple keep that thing fed? An 8-wide decoder is pointless if most of the time you've got 6 empty pipelines: https://open.hpi.de/courses/parprog2014/items/aybclrPgY4nPyY... (discussing ILP wall). M1 outperforming Zen 3 by 20% on the SPEC GCC benchmark, at 1/3 lower clocks-speed. That's 80% more ILP than an Zen 3, which is itself a large advance in ILP.
Which is hilarious how badly managed BOM is, but how much we trust it.
If there’s any site I’d like to see converted to Google Stories, it’s killedbygoogle.com
i’m no export so there will be no citations. i was just thinking, the current state of plastics is they pollute oceans and jeopardize entire ecosystems. and they’re made from oil.

an idealized argument for how, strictly speaking, this outcome doesn’t have to be the case, is not really that useful?

we don’t really recycle plastics because it’s cheaper to just make new plastics. saying all we have to do is recycle plastics is not an actual economic solution?

i never comment anymore. thought i’d give it a shot heh
Full review here https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4oC8cvUb0kI&feature=youtu.be
Air can remove a lot of heat. A 98% efficient battery charging at 400kw is only producing 8kw of waste heat. At most you need a modest radiator and some fans.

By comparison a normal 200HP engine at 30% efficiency is producing 667kw of waste heat into the air with a tiny percentage of that going out the exhaust pipe.
Thats pretty fascinating. I think PG made it pretty clear that none of the VCs thought airbnb's idea had any potential at first, I guess somehow they managed to turn it around, at least within the YC cohort
Wow, can't believe I haven't heard of Obsidian. Thanks for sharing. I'm going to check it out.
I've fully switched to DDG. I still bounce over to google maybe 5-10% of the time, but to me that's a pretty big win. 90-95% of the time I avoid being tracked by google at the cost of 5-10% of the time wasting a few seconds skimming results on ddg before jumping to google.
This deserves some kind of literary prize.
I'm colorblind and I always wonder if I should answer yes because of that.
Major Bay Area retail theft gang arrested
The pro-America types want tariffs and less immigration. The business types disagree strongly.

The religious types have had complaints about LGBT. Again, the business types disagree strongly.

So there you have the business types being almost libertarian, fighting against the rest of the party. They won't get tossed out because they bring most of the money.

Sometimes the religious and pro-America types are at odds over immigration. Mormons and Catholics are particularly fond of immigration.

Supporting Trump or not is partly a matter of priority. The business types more concerned with regulations will support Trump. The ones trying to run factories in America will support Trump, but the ones trying to outsource production won't. Mormons see that Trump made the first openly gay appointment (ambassador to Germany) and built over 500 miles of wall, so they aren't too happy despite liking the supreme court appointments.

And yes, there is style. Some people like the smooth-talking political dishonesty that we've had for decades. There is the idea that that is somehow proper. Trump fans hate that stuff.
The math in article is correct when it says that those communities need to raise taxes by few hundred dollars per year.

However, the article talks a lot about increased density, and even says outright:

> Ultimately, though, I think no amount of bandaging with higher tax rates or user fees is going to be a long-term solution

The author presents no no evidence of this fact.

The only way this can be correct is if raising taxes by a few hundred dollars would make those houses so expensive, that people would move out and houses would stay empty. I doubt this is the case, and I see no data to support this for this in the article.
Interesting, so they already had revenue before they even applied to Y Combinator. I wonder: how much was Y Combinator part of their success? Would they have been successful without being part of the program as well?
I don't think this is a good idea unless you already have a great talent in making game. Leaving your job will put a great pressure on yourself.

Instead of doing it yourself. I think you can start by hire some developers from 3rd countries to get the job done. There are not short of talent developers from there.

When you hire a good developers, you can focus your time on tweaking gameplay, design, marketing, and build a community around your game.
Perhaps the killer app for cryptocurrency will be paid porn? Might be a stretch, but it's hard content to moderate and the demand for it is huge.
I got caught off guard by your notation here. For those using commas at home, that's one thousand four hundred eleven kilobits per second, or 1.411Mbps. At first I thought you were saying it was one and a half kilobits a second.
Your first mistake is calling it a New Year’s resolution
Foresight, maybe. An idea of what to do with them once acquired? Debatable.
Swathes how vast? Have you checked? Everyone seems to know of one, nobody seems to know one. And what happens when the big tech companies start pushing wrong information, or censoring right information? Or, a better question, how do you know they haven't started already?
Thanks! I have to say I prefer the classic look of the Mk4 supra, this one looks really aggressive.
The assumption that a "wealth tax" will lead to a more equitable system is predicated on the assumption that: the government can use your dollar more effectively than you can at creating an equitable [wild, wild] world. "It is very easy to dream about how to give away other people's money," as a cynic on youtube recently commented. But to look to the government as some sort of Arbiter of Fairness, as Thomas Sowell might say "Cosmic Justice," is very naive. The government has no one person you can point to and hold accountable, but when you look in the mirror there is definitely someone who fits that description. I do not think the solution to a more equitable society is greater taxation, because typically, the wealthy will not have it (and will do all in their power to prevent it), and the tax dollars already at play have yet to achieve it. Were it the case that we were part of the way there and simply needed more funding, the argument might have merit, but the fact remains that many points of access are not equal and it does not come down to simple taxation, the problem is a societal, individual, collective, and motivational one. Without addressing the actual root causes of inequity, distributing -or "redistributing" as people like to say- funds will amount to little more than an invitation to use force to take from the haves and deign to the have-nots, without creating any meaningful method of creating more value or unlocking more creativity in between.
My point wasn't to show that Clojure can produce a concise final function -- it was to show that each step in the process of developing that function can be evaluated within the editor (sorry, I tried to communicate this by including each form's output; not an easy process to show in a static comment), without copying and pasting to/from a REPL, without even leaving your current buffer. If you can do that with JS I would genuinely love to know (since I write JS frequently).

> Picking Clojure over JS today is a very hard sell.

I'm not sure I would choose ClojureScript over JS on the frontend. I haven't worked with ClojureScript much nor thought much about the trade-offs.

> Defaulting to immutability it's not as useful in single-threaded environments like nodejs or the browser.

It might not be as useful, but I think it's still useful. With immutability, you know that inside a scope you can do whatever you want with any data (ignoring atoms for a moment) and you're not going to step on somebody else's state.

> with the difference that JS has a big enabling ecosystem of libraries

ClojureScript has interoperability with all the JS libraries, no?

And if you need strong typing, then I'd agree Clojure is not a good fit.
In the suburbs, the whole neighborhood is basically a park with houses in it. Kids care far less about imaginary lines on a deed than adults do. Consequently, they bomb around the whole place and they’re all still in earshot as you work in the garage with the door open. By unspoken agreement your neighbors take over when the kids end up in their yard, since their kid is also among the horde. You can yell when dinner is ready.

By contrast, the park at the end of the street requires far more ceremony. You round the kids up, and go with them. You have to haul whatever they will play with with you (and back). You sit there as they play. Sure, you chat with folks in the neighborhood, but everyone is a little restless since nothing is getting done other than supervision. Some eventually task nannies with this duty since there aren’t enough hours in the day.

It’s basically a space-efficiency vs. time-efficiency tradeoff. I’ve looked at it from a family raising perspective, but you could certainly consider it from a single twenty-something perspective, DINKs, retirees, etc. and have each shown in different light.
I'm confused about why you think the wire would be a challenge. I'm not at all knowledgeable about high voltage/power stuff like this so maybe I'm missing something?

A quick search tells me that 1000 kcmil wire is rated for 450 amps [1].

Another quick search finds that reasonably sized 1000 kcmil rated for 15000 volts are available and reasonably sized for a vehicle charger [2].

[1] http://wiresizecalculator.net/wiresizechart.htm

[2] (note that kcmil and mcm mean the same things) https://www.lighting-gallery.net/gallery/displayimage.php?po...
The fancy stuff with the reorder buffer, decoder, and branch prediction is the most important thing. The M1 is just as general purpose as any Intel/AMD CPU, and indeed even more so because it's designed to scale from cell phones to desktops.

Specialization helps when it helps, but doesn't do much on typical programs and M1 still excels on those.
Electric bus 'opportunity' chargers that run at that power are in use: https://insideevs.com/news/429760/siemens-bus-charging-infra...

The contacts are on the roof of the vehicle and the charger drops down onto them.

I'm not sure how that adapts for smaller vehicles, but they aren't starting from nothing.
Currently shopping for an email host. For 2-3 accounts, Protonmail is pretty pricey, compared with tutanota... I've heard good things about protonmail, but does anybody have experience with tutanota or any of the other alternatives listed?
Liquid cooled cables would be fine for this; they are already used for 350 kilowatt charging.
I have the same question. I’ve had a trans-metatarsal amputation on one foot and the little toe and the bone behind it on the other. My balance is way off and I move like I’m 20 years older than I am. Yet, I hesitate to say I’m disabled because I can still move (not run at all, but I can still walk). I don’t think disabled, I guess, at least not in public.

It’s a kind of personal question to be asking.
As mentioned in the comment elsewhere in this thread, I run an API service (oikolab.com) that does this. You can get hourly data for any location from 1950 onward.
> Frankly it feels like visiting the Dell web site: are you a small business? Medium business? I never knew what answer will give me he best price or product.

For Home vs Business, always choose business as it hides their least-attractive products.

Regardless of declared business size, I find I get the best pricing (sometimes as much as 20% off the list price) by choosing the option to speak to a sales account manager - even if the account is just for yourself. Back when I was running my own shared hosting company out of a rented quarter-rack I got some great discounts on their R-series servers and whatnot.
I have the exact opposite experience. I find DDG's searching to be much better than Google's - which has turned to garbage. Having said that, I've noticed the quality of DDG's search results have dropped quite a bit in the past couple of months. Don't know what could be causing that.
This data was stolen from the EU drug regulator. You're saying the gov't shouldn't have patient level data from clinical trials? How do they evaluate the drug?!?

And Pfizer-BioNTech is running the trials and analyzing the data. Why wouldn't they have that data? Are you suggesting they try to get their drug approved without it?

I'm so confused.