skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty well. The large car companies are prioritizing the markets with the strictest emissions standards. Renault and Volkswagen EVs outsell Tesla in Europe. Toyota's already in a good position for fleet emissions because it's been selling hybrids for so long.

EVs are still only a small percentage of the overall car market. The world's biggest car companies won't stop being the world's biggest car companies. They'll just start selling more EVs.
>Decision to open has nothing to do mask. Its politics.

Decisively false. Masks influence pandemic influences lockdown.

> And whether mask actually help with the pandemic, its still inconclusive.

Do you have a credible source for that?
How the Zodiac Killer's cipher was broken [video]
> That being said, I know a couple of people who work there and they don't like their job

I’m not surprised. I haven’t met anyone who deals with Oracle because they want to, only because they have to.
I've been doing ROS professionally for ten years and have presented twice at ROSCon. I would argue that part of the difficulty with this is that ROS is many different things to different people. I'm a low level platform/OS/firmware guy, so I tend to care most about the build system, dependency management, the relationship with the host OS, the standardized sensor messages, and the approach to logging (rosbag).

People in the perception space may care more about all the standard camera drivers, the publicly available SLAM datasets, and the zero copy nodelet system for passing image date through a pipeline.

People in controls care about the simulator integration, and the flexibility of move_base and its successors through a rich plugin system.

Then there are people doing stuff with manipulators, people doing realtime industrial stuff, people doing quadcopters, people doing academic research, people trying to build a product, people doing web frontends.

It's a lot of use-cases, so it's hard to recommend any one "getting started" path because it depends a lot what your interests are and your expected end goal. But generally speaking a safe option is to get a robot like Turtlebot up in the simulator, get it map-making and navigating autonomously, and then start mutating that— add more sensors to it, or write your own planner, or make an rviz plugin that does something interesting, etc. Maybe swap out gmapping for cartographer, or set it up to explore on its own.

These kinds of tasks will familiarize you with a lot of the tools that almost every ROS person uses, so that you'll have more of a sense of what the potential next steps are.
"I determined absolutely that never would I join a company in which finance came before the work or in which bankers or financiers had a part. And further that, if there were no way to get started in the kind of business that I thought could be managed in the interest of the public, then I simply would not get started at all. For my own short experience, together with what I saw going on around me, was quite enough proof that business as a mere money-making game was not worth giving much thought to and was distinctly no place for a man who wanted to accomplish anything. Also it did not seem to me to be the way to make money. I have yet to have it demonstrated that it is the way. For the only foundation of real business is service."
Henry Ford - http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/7213/pg7213.txt
So can a website, these sort of hypotheticals just seem like pure scaremongering.
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However, this will likely be taken care of for me, because I'm 1) not an essential healthcare worker, 2) not a senior citizen and 3) live in a large urban area. Those people will get the vaccine first, and in mid-june (or later) based on the fallout of the vaccine if things seem normal I'll get it.
I'm curious what it will do to tech salaries as well. Will developers working remotely for SV companies from LCOL areas be compensated the same as those in SV? Will smaller firms elsewhere have to raise salaries to compete with locals taking non-regional salaries?
:) Nice

As it happens we were toying with taglines today and minded to go with these:

Want different results?
Value your right to privacy?
Trying to escape Big Tech?
to add, I think the general argument here is that aiming for output doesn't mean the input will be good/beneficial.
Ah, one last thing. I'm not sure how hard getting employment visas are but a selector for 'will sponsor visa' might be interesting
> We’re using Brave’s new private CDN to fetch RSS feeds anonymously via the browser and the browser’s personalization capabilities to rank the headlines for users with a simple algorithm that will make the experience interesting for everyone.

Can't get much simpler than "chronological", I hope they don't get too fancy with the same black box ordering that's ruined social media for news aggregation.
Did we read the same article?

Let’s be explicit and instead of talking about sales tax which the article claims sometimes acts like VAT and sometimes like a gross receipts tax and instead use those terms explicitly.

In the gross receipts tax regime, tax is applied at every boundary between businesses and so having fewer of these boundaries (ie being vertically integrated) gives a lower final price with workers receiving equal pay. In this way, the tax system incentives vertical integration.

In the VAT regime, the final price and total tax paid is the same whether or not the business is vertically integrated, and so the tax system doesn’t incentivise one option over the other.

The key point is that we first compare two competing business structures under the same tax system, and it turns out the tax rate doesn’t affect the argument so long as it’s positive, and then we compare how those structures relate to each other in different tax systems (where the rates don’t matter because they don’t change the relationship between the structures that both live under the same rate)
> opened my backpack to find it burning hot

Right? It's like, trying to suffocate itself. I just turn the damned thing off before going home now.
Genuinely curious: Have you looked at moving to a graph database?

I can’t conceptualize a dataset that could survive(/be performant) in a document store, but not a graph.
I'm curious about how it plays out... everywhere. I live in what's being called a "Zoom town", with lots of remote workers who seem to want a smaller town with more outdoor access (Bend, Oregon if you're curious). House prices are going through the roof.

But Bend was already hot, and on people's radar. Yesterday I saw an article about housing heating up in Baker City Oregon. This is a small town of 10K people that is certainly in a nice area, but hasn't been known as much of a 'hip' place to be.

https://www.bendbulletin.com/business/realestate/baker-count...

There are quite a few smaller towns here and there throughout the west. It'll be interesting to see if the dispersion to these kinds of places is fairly uniform, if people stick more to already 'hot' places, and of course what happens when the pandemic is mostly played out.
> and still the iPhone is at 28%,

It's not.

It's more like 25% and dropping

In Italy iPhones used to be 50% of the market, because they were a status symbol and it was literally the only smartphone available, ten years after they have dropped below 24% globally, but new sells are much less, because

The number of people buying their first iPhone is declining. Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference this week will showcase how the technology giant is diversifying so that it no longer has to rely so heavily on its signature product.

-- 20th June 2020 - Bangkok Post

Regarding new phones Apple is now third with 10% of the market share in Thailand behind Samsung (22.3%) and Huawei (17.6%)

Consider that 25% is a minority, 75% is 3 times larger.

Apple is not gaining market shares anywhere, except in the US.

In China it dropped from 25% to 17%, in Europe from 17% to 14% in the last year.

The article was about ARM in computers, Apple computing devices are only 8% of the total in Thailand.

They were 9% at the beginning of this year.
Yeah the only difference now is that their voice is amplified and they can suck more people down with them.
Plus of the 10% of the shares soldo, most were to institutions with an understanding that they are going to hold it "long term" (i.e. which may be just a few months). Part of the IPO road show is for the company to select investors that believe in the company and who will be "good" shareholders.
You mean the pads? Those definitely are - that's one of the items you can get from Herman Miller themselves in their online store (vinyl or leather), and there are third party options too.

Even if you mean the arm rest mechanism, that's replaceable as well. As are cables, the seat, lumbar support, gas cylinder, you name it.
Is public transit good in Austin?
I don't think it's accurate or fair to ascribe motivations to Apple based on a relevant, yet arbitrary, line in the sand that you chose to draw.
White House orders FDA chief to authorize Pfizer vaccine Friday or resign
> In one of this paper's experiments, for instance, a computer split a pot of money between itself and a human participant; this person was led to believe the computer was also a human participant. Sometimes the pot was split unevenly, and the human participant was given a chance to take vengeance by reducing the computer's pot without enriching his own. Researchers discovered that participants classified as having higher TIV scores were "strongly associated with behavioral revenge" in this scenario.

In retrospect, dictator game allocation scenarios presented to a pile of undergraduates by way of a screen were probably nonsensical back when I was helping my social science grad student friends implement them as crappy Perl CGI in like 2003. I'm disinclined to expect much better from this one.
That's why we use metrology to measure its capabilities. Not human opinions.

Sound can be analyzed extremely objectively.
> Weak, soft, approachable in the beginning but, becomes silently more dominant and sucking your energy for their survival. If you cannot regenerate fast enough, they throw you to the side to find their new victim.

That sounds a lot like Borderline Personality Disorder. Another tricky one because the disorder itself causes resistance to diagnosis and treatment.
> Tesla is only a success on the stock market. They are not profitable

Tesla has had 5 straight quarters of profitability.
I was being downvoted. I kinda want the downvotes back. Makes me feel like a rebel.
Maybe, but it's also a bit like Cubans in Florida, who tend to be quite conservative - they left Cuba because they didn't like the political situation there, similar to why a lot of Californians who move to TX are coming here.
I mean, Austin is pretty close already. Their housing prices have been sky-high for a while now, especially compared to Dallas and Houston.
Likely irrelevant, but reminded me of this[0]: """Basically, we’re moving because of William Whyte‘s rule: virtually all corporate relocations involve a move to a location which is closer to the CEO’s home than the old location. Whyte discovered this principle after an extensive study of Fortune 500 companies that left New York City for the suburbs in the 1950s and 1960s"""

Tesla will likely move its HQ to Texas following Musk's move (if it hasn't already), which would seem to be in line with Whyte's rule. However, it is likely both would have the same underlying reason (legal, financial, taxation or otherwise), rather than just "making it more conventient for musk".

I wonder if Elison or Katz have also moved to Austin recently ......

[0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/03/28/finding-an-office-...
The Annual Cost of Sales Tax
Thanks. I bring this up just because of very real geopolitical information/misinformation wars that we seem to find ourselves in today, that it is important for the reputation of your company to be very clear of the sources of funding, or any other indications to whom the Mojeek may be beholden. I say these things with the greatest respect, and with a great amount of excitement, so that your company can gain the confidence you will need to grow.
I was a vaccine trial participant and got injected 6 months ago. I'm still alive. AMA.
Generally, this is (poorly) used to refer to x86 decoding things to micro-ops.
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VAT is more complicated than sales tax. Far, far more complicated. (I deal with VAT, sales tax, GST, CST, HST, and other consumption taxes as part of job.)

The simplest form of consumption tax is the (Australian) GST: a flat 10% on almost all goods and services.
Would a direct link to the paper be more to your liking?

Also, as a side note, the amount of negative karma you have suggests that you probably don't understand what belongs on HN in the first place.
Another anecdote - I have been using my Bose QC 25 for 5 years without any issues. Yes, the plastic ones. Worn almost every day.
For starters conspiracies were created by the CIA, but an underlying fact of truth is part of what makes a conspiracies a driving factor. The question one asks themselves is, If Microsoft was not forced back in the 90's by the government to break up their monopoly on controlling the Operating System sector we all would be using 1 OS today and that would be Microsoft. Just as these major tech giants as Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Twitter and the rest are allowed to censor the freedom's that the internet was designed for. Freedom of speech and your way of thinking. Not to be limited or call out what someone thinks is misinformation. The thing that really pisses me off about this site is I get limited on how many fucking things I can reply to. Says I am posting way to fast. I must be faster than the damn computer.
Not sure why James Gurney isn't getting more clicks. Another great gouache painter focusing on instructions, tips.

https://www.youtube.com/user/gurneyjourney
CA can save the strong lose the weak
> Your right to swing your fists ends where my nose begins.

I keep seeing this analogy when it comes to masks and COVID-19, but I don't think it's a great one. The difference between me punching your face and not wearing a mask is risk and intent.

The overwhelming majority of people do not intend to transmit any virus to those around them. It's pretty difficult to punch someone in the face without intending to harm them.

We also cannot avoid risking harm to someone else. Despite my best efforts, I risk hurting someone every time I sit behind the wheel of a motor vehicle. However, there are clearly some risks that are too great. If I punch you in the nose, it's a pretty sure thing you will be harmed. But if I do not wear a mask in a public space... the odds aren't particularly bad on any single outing.

What makes the mask thing really troublesome is pinning down just what the risks of transmission are with and without masks over an extended period of time in a variety of normal scenarios. I've seen enough to personally conclude that wearing a mask in public spaces is probably a good idea if I cannot avoid public spaces altogether. It's just hard to convince everybody that masks are effective enough at reducing risk - and that the risk is great enough to warrant the (very minor) sacrifice of freedom - to mandate them without also overstating their effectiveness.

I stand by the gist of your argument, though. There is a significant difference between risking harm to yourself and risking harm to those around you. I just wanted to address that analogy since I've been seeing it everywhere and I think it oversimplifies the conflict.
That said, something like ~50% of Americans said they won't get the vaccine (we'll see what really happens when folks' doctors say it's ready and they should get it) so maybe nonessential non-senior citizens might be able to get it faster than expected
Victimhood chic is here to stay. There are too many forces at play both at the individual level and at the systemic level.

And that becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy in any divide.

But hey, now we have Apple's $549 AirPod Max to both alleviate the pain and create some more at the same time.

Happy complaining!
We’re about to get 10 million data points.

To me it doesn’t look like they have a lot of data yet.

Don’t these studies typically need to go for much longer?

The Pfizer study:

43,448 patients ages 16 and up.

19,000 vaccinated patients

170 people caught the Coronavirus

Of the sick people:

- 162 received a placebo

- 8 received the vaccine
FYI this just came out today:

White House chief of staff told FDA chief vaccine must be authorized Friday or he needs to resign

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/11/politics/white-house-fda-chie...
Beware multiple options are possible
I'm surprised to see such a high percentage of "NO" responses. I'm genuinely curious to understand why
I have a peanut allergy so I will likely wait based on the allergic reaction news.
Have you ever been to Austin? It has the worst transportation network in the entire state of Texas, and that's a really low bar. The bus network is mediocre at best, the rail system (actually only one line) is practically useless, and there's only two highways that are notoriously gridlocked at all hours, even in non rush-hour.
Expiring Eviction Moratoriums and Covid-19 Incidence and Mortality
Are you a zombie?
RSS failed when it became another siphon to pull you onto their site to view ads. (I.e. only putting "above the fold" in the rss feed). Exporting your content nicely structured actively works against the business models of ad-supported sites, and there are no replacements for ad-transaction-supported monetization on the horizon. While Google has control of the market we aren't going to have any decent way of aggregating news.
I mentioned this in my other comment but should have mentioned it here too: I got these in 2015/16, so I can't comment on what the line is like now. My main point was that shipping with Linux is no guarantee that they'll work well, as ludicrous as that sounds.
The iphone 6 has a certificate store from Dec 2018 with no updates in site to the root store.

Sites/Apps were already breaking on my parent's iphone 6.
"No" people, why not?
While your comment on biases is correct, “sloppy” is a bit harsh; I would think of this as a best-effort attempt to reach out to the community through known popular channels.

I’m sure there are tons of Emacs users who go about their work without a fuss who aren’t aware of doom-Emacs and don’t care about Emacs communities, so it’s hard to make a survey representative of “all” Emacs users. C’est la vie.
I'm curious to hear people's rationales for 2) and 3).
Assemblywoman Gonzalez is somewhat notorious for being a blowhard on Twitter
I'm really interested in the people who are saying 'no.'
Pfizer? Side-effects?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25097578 (which led to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25097685)

Evidence that no one reads the FAQ! https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
This is a popular joke among conservatives, of course, but the reality is the opposite.

There are two types of people moving from Cali to Austin: people who can't afford living there anymore, and people who can easily afford it but are tired of paying high taxes. The latter group tends to be on the more conservative side (essentially the FYGM section of the political spectrum) and their wealth does give them the ability to influence local politics.

So, if anything, Austin, one of the most liberal cities in America, is more likely to shift to the right as a result of these migrations from California and other blue states.

edit: downvotes by conservatives are laughable lol, keep them coming guys!
Unfortunately my vaccine choice is somewhat limited by medication I'm on, and therefore I may have to wait for the right type of vaccine.

This is why it's important that everyone who can take it does take it, because there's a percentage of the population who can't, and we are only protected when the community reaches some level of heard immunity.

If you're able to take it please do.
(This is all conjecture) Whether or not Texas "purpled" because of Trump or population dynamics is an open question in my mind. I think a person's political identity is mostly environmental rather than principled. Yes there are some beliefs which are ingrained in us but mostly those beliefs don't enter into the political arena much.

Californians moving to Texas make it blue-er and themselves red-er. Who knows how this effects the electoral calculus into the future.
An experimental mRNA vaccine. No thank you! I'll wait a couple of years and see how many of you get down with some weird autoimmune response.
Perhaps Boulder, unless it's already too late?
Yeah, I would assume the majority of the people answering 3 would probably be required to wait anyway.

I'm 31 but Type 1 diabetic so I'll be interested to see how early I can get it. The main risk factor for COVID seems to be Type 2, but with how much Type 1 can ruin just about every aspect of your health, I wonder if I'll be able to get in line sooner. If I can, I will.
Average high/low temperatures in the summer for Austin are:

June. 92° / 72°

July. 96° / 74°

August 96° / 74°

Average high/low temperatures in the summer for Cupertino are:

June. 75° / 55°

July. 76° / 58°

August 76° / 58°

Austin will never, ever be like Silicon Valley because of this. The freedom you get from cooler weather is great from an energy utilization stand point and for allowing safer and more desirable conditions outdoors. Not to mention you have much more beautiful choices of nature in Northern California. Think about whenever you travel to Austin for conferences, it's oppressively hot and you basically travel from one air conditioned building to the next. Now imagine 10 years time of increased global warming. California will still be coastal to one of the coldest waters in the world at this latitude, which is a natural air conditioner. To me this spells the end of Oracle's supremacy in anything other than selling smaller and smaller volumes of mainframes. They've started focusing further and further on cost reduction.

Edit: For those downvoting me, Texas is a wasteland of has-been tech companies that couldn't cut it when in competition with the west coast and the rest of the world. Oracle isn't going to change that.
My friend, has HN ever been anything other than right-leaning? Realistically speaking.
Apologies, there's a new Pew survey out a week or so ago that says intent to get the vaccine has risen

https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2020/12/03/intent-to-get...
Was using poison gas a significant factor in preventing more killings? Did it help arrest Reinoehl, and bring him to trial so he could be found guilty in a court of law and be punished appropriately? Aren't the protestors supposed to be the "unlawful" ones?
You're confusing supply-and-demand-driven cost of living with liberal vs conservative politics.

NIMBYism and desires for high-paying jobs cut across the American political spectrum.

(Existing property owners in Austin, however, may be ecstatic if their property is suddenly priced like SF value... but that doesn't mean they're gonna want to relax zoning and increase density and change the shape and character of their neighborhoods, like we're told is the answer for SF.)

(And of course, fleeing higher prices by nature means that *demand is overall higher in the place you're leaving. Which makes it hard to say it's been "ruined.")
> MBAs are better at measuring and capturing value. Weaker at creating it.

Spot on! I've described the difference as "creating vs scaling value."
In the best case, supply constraints nicely follow the change in risk/reward this way. Then by the time you are eligible, the risk profile looks right...
Just curious but not enough to read the documentation, is there a max setting or can I easily bankrupt my competitors with Apache bench running on a raspberry pi?