skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, it’s not like everything is done on the screen. Blinkers, wipers, volume, cruise speed, skip track, horn, gear select, can all be physically controlled.

The only thing that I’ve ever felt was a little distracting is climate control, because you’re adjusting individual degrees with a fairly small touch target. However it’s also a totally non-time critical adjustment.

Defog/defrost is a 3-state toggle control so it’s easy to tap with minimal distraction. I find it’s strictly better than the physical toggle I had in my previous car, which I also had to look at to press because it was in a field of identical buttons, and which didn’t provide the same functionality with just two taps (going from cool defog to hot defog)

I think people dramatically overstate the idea that people are adjusting climate or radio channels without looking, unless it’s being done on the steering wheel. If you have to reach the dash, most people are going to look at it.

What’s great about the responsive touch screen is that there are activities which are massively faster to accomplish (like pinch-zooming GPS maps) which are significantly slower and more arduous on other cars I’ve driven with physical controls. There’s also a lot more functionality that can be provided. And providing remote control over the same functionality becomes a lot easier when there isn’t a physical switch that could get out of sync, or where your physical switches all have to be “soft-toggles” so they can’t physically get out of sync with the current digital state.

Honestly the HCI group at Tesla has really done some very impressive work overall. The design is quite beautiful and extremely functional.
Working hard isn't the only factor influencing how much someone is paid. It also depends on qualification and eventual productivity.

As I started this argument, the goal of an employer is to pay as little as possible for given work. Let's turn this argument around: if male and female are equally qualified, what would make anyone pay male _more_? If a female accepts to work for less, than she's going to be hired in the first place!

So, maybe females are paid less because they are less productive on the average? It's quite plausible, because they objectively have more distractions then men (giving birth, raising children, etc) . This is a rather valid reason to compensate them with higher pay, but presenting it as 'equal pay for equal fork' is an intentional deception.
30 by 30: Conserving 30% of US Land and Sea by 2030
I just feel very sad for you that you feel that way, because you don't believe you can get it unless you get given this thing first.

About personal responsibility and choices, if you don't believe that then that's not something you can benefit from.

I'm not giving you advice, it's your path not mine, and I don't want the karma nor responsibility for affecting yours, I'm simply sharing my feelings about these things. If it inspires you or if helpful, that's good. If not, still good for me, and you still have the way you like anyway. So there's good their for you, either way, i think.

One last comment i thought of it i think sometimes if you have a very specific idea of what you need to get, you don't see the value in other gifts that show up along your way.
idk, the first three paras are pretty clearly an erectile dysfunction joke. It continues:

> One thing is true though, while I kept it up, it was glorious in many ways. It was the hardest[…], it was the biggest[…], it was bulging[…], it was throbbing[…]. It’s so great in so many ways that it has a list of haters who will be extremely aroused by this post.

> I know I’m going to get a hundred PMs from all of Voat’s hottest girls (Voat has some hot women, fact) with tips and tricks on how to help me keep it up. […]
Reddit attacks people if they don't have just the right amount of left leaning beliefs for the occasion.

4Chan basically requires you to prefix and postfix all your nouns with certain slurs.

People are mostly the same all over so I assume like 90% of the stupid crap you see on Voat or anywhere else is just people trying to virtue signal to each other and they don't honestly believe that garbage (even HN has its own brand of this) and only a minority of users honestly believe what they type. People are very good at fitting in.

Sure, it looks bad if Reddit is your frame of reference but if 4Chan is your frame of reference then it's just the same old layer of garbage on top of whatever content you're actually there for.
Something should be drafted regarding online news sources, or perhaps classify them as websites that get > 50 million unique visitors a month... something like that
Most places allow you to break the boxes down and put them out in 2'x3' stacks tied with twine.
You're right, this a big limitation, that the spines are not digitized.
There were a bunch of insightful comments when the wikipedia articles was discussed here last year¹. Some about Oberon in particular, and some about the surrounding ecosystem and history.

¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21383016
We all agree with random DUI checks, right? They're pretty effective at scaring off DUI-attempts.
Spotify's Discover Weekly has a pipeline straight into my brain and not only what I like, but what I will like in the future.
As far as I can remember, it was a platform full of fascists that were booted off of reddit, so nothing of value was lost.
How the computer got its revenge on the Soviet Union (2015)
Never heard of it. A quick tour shows it to be full of quite unpleasant people. Good riddance.
There is a point where fitting a little more code on one screen actually helps. Usually not though. Our brains can only see a screen at a time. There is some optimal mix of terseness, especially when you know your reader (probably you in a few months!) will grok it, vs verbosity. If I find myself untangling a single line down the road in my brain it was too complex. Python is already so expressive! We all find our style, but generally I know I did it right if I look back at code at think “wow that’s easy to understand” vs “hmmn, what was I thinking there?” Heh.
I did read the post.

A 5-coin Taek's Tornado is simply an insecure RNG if given biased coins. A one-time pad generated with it would not suffice. Not even if it has 127.6 bits of entropy in every 128 bits.

If you take the 128-bit chunks they reference, and throw that through a cryptographic hash function, then you'd be safe (don't ask me to prove it).

But they don't quite get there. They talk about using one as a way to avoid throwing away entropy, but not as a means of scrambling up the 128 biased bits into a suitable PRNG.
> It would indeed be incredibly exciting if it would lead to a less silly explanation of the redshift than "universe is expanding".

It won't. There is no question about whether the universe is expanding. The issue is over how fast it is expanding; we have two different theoretical models that are giving different answers, and we don't understand (yet) how to reconcile them.
That's like someone on Microsoft's kernel team claiming that they've never heard of QNX.

It's certainly possible, even likely, but such an admission would be a gross condemnation of the knowledge of the developer regarding their necessary domain knowledge.
In fairness we also have an obesity crisis.
Banning them stops them spreading this content on mainstream platforms and stops normal people falling in to the trap. It also makes the site tolerable.
Gaining 3x Throughput by Migrating from Aurora to a Scale-Out MySQL Alternative
Off topic and minor question: Aren't epicycles using trigonometric functions, which is a different paradigm than fourrier transform?
I don't remember the difference with Taylor series btw
Vintage Basic – Games
They all probably read Clean Code, the discussion on functions in that book may be the most harmful/costly to programming in the last 20 years.
This is the #1 feedback so far (and good feedback) that having a way to jump directly to a number would be appreciated. Will see what we can do!

https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/4320
Apple had a long history in music prior to Apple Music. I have no doubt that Apple could make a car. But I do doubt that they could make a self driving car. Google is still trying to figure it out after a decade of research and development.
> much of the things that made Lisp attractive before are already available in Python, Java, etc. and I see no "enlightment" in learning Lisp.

I have not found englightenment either, but I could not find another production-grade language that can model anything like a tree (eg. abstract syntax trees) and let its user extend the language itself without the language authors.
I’ve written a lot of comments on this the last few days, so please forgive my brevity. But the “magic” of hooks is that they’re not functions (though they look like it), and their use transforms components into not functions, again even though they look like it. Where a functional component is props in -> data structure out, a hooks component is a closure over state and its return value is something like a constructor or factory resembling the data structure you define. The component is no longer referentially transparent, even though it has all of the telltale signs that it should be.

All of that makes not only that component hard to reason about, but makes every function component suspect. And there goes the simplicity of “it’s just JavaScript”.
The common problem seems to be the car
Hard same.

The best organizational level technique I've found so far is to add the rule of three to code review checklists. An abstraction requires at least three users. Not three callsites, but three distinct clients with different requirements of the abstraction.

Obviously it's not a hard rule, and we allow someone to give a reason why they think that it's still a good idea, but forcing a conversation starting with "why is this even necessary" I feel has been a great addition.
I am not sure whether you're responding to any point in my comment, but I never said delusion was an excuse; negligence can be criminal.

>Founders do not get a get-out-of-jail-free-card for being amateur psychopaths.

I don't think you have to be a psychopath to run a Ponzi scheme, and in any case, if you were, you'd be a professional psychopath.
The key concept they always helps me is to minimize side effects per function. One thing goes in, one thing comes out (in an abstract sense). Multiple side effects starts getting dodgy as it makes the function harder to predict and reason about. I do err for longer easier to read functions. And don’t compose into functions until it’s clear you will actually reuse the code or you actually need to reuse it :) DRY is good but premature composition is just as annoying as premature optimization.
Yes, definitely that. I've also seen entire piles of tests be flaky because:

- They relied on something or other over the network, or
- They used Selenium to try to see whether the Dom was updated correctly, and either Selenium itself or the way the code interacted with it made _all_ the tests flaky to some degree.

The general trend I've seen is that the more "e2e" a test is, the flakier it is.
Enterprise IoT is going to be a big thing... You know because as Deloitte says to paraphrase, "your stuck on a plane that's going nowhere because of a technical.. turns out its a 10cent part.. how are you going to get there? You need a smart factory ecosytem, ... it's not a supply chain but a supply network" or however, the podcast ad goes.

C3, Palantir, Salesforce and probably a few other companies / consults are investing in this space. It's the whole integrate all the data silos into some cloud, public or private, with +snowflake style data storage and build your business around data in order to drive real time feedback to solve customer problems.

But you are not wrong, "productizing a data processing pipeline" is big business.
Yeah, I was scrolling through some of the comments and saw things like "kikeflix" as an insulting variation of netflix, references to "hitler was right", etc.

First and last time I ever actually went to Voat. I'm not sure anything of value is being lost.
Clarification: Eating mostly plants is sound advice if you consider that it means eating fruits, vegetables, whole grains and legumes.
All in all, these people think as hard as us that they are right, that they are the better people, that they have the better ideologies. I just can't fathom it. I'm convinced at this point that the only way to think about it is to understand that the IQ average of that group must be pretty low.
I've never had this problem. The better food stores have good quality fruits (Wegmans, etc). Even the places like Walmart have some decent fresh fruit and have good frozen stuff.
As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, this is a variant, not a strain.

This variant does not have any genetic differences in the spike protein targeted by the vaccines. It is unlikely the vaccines will be differently effective.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19624164
It’ll charge over a proprietary connection and you’ll be carrying a dongle for your car. You heard it here first folks
In the comments (which I don't recommend reading, they're full of extreme racism), an apparently regular user says they tried getting donations before but it's never enough to last more than a few months.
This is the fallacy of a "free speech" site. It gets taken over by extremists and soon you are just talking to each other in an echo chamber and agreeing with each other. And then you lose interest. That's why I never visit r/politics in Reddit anymore even though I am somewhat aligned with the political attitude of that sub.
sure!

Electric Universe (Thornhill, Birkeland, Scott, et al)

Plasma Cosmology (Alfven, Lerner, et al)

Infinite Universe Theory (Borchardt)

Recycling Universe Cosmology (Mitchell)

Subquantum Kinetics (La Violette)

Modern Mechanics (Bryant)

Push Gravity: (various, book: Pushing Gravity)

The Static Universe (Ratcliffe)

Steady State Universe (Hoyle, older)

That's a good start at least. ;-)

All of the above have one or more books written about them.
Good overview here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_distance_ladder

More:
https://www.math.ucla.edu/~tao/preprints/Slides/Cosmic%20Dis...

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2020/10/10/climbing-the-cosmi...
What's interesting to me is that someone obviously found the ads looking for someone to complete the assignment and reported the cheaters. Should have played the long con and given them the "answers" and then once it was turned in they would have known who did it.
> 've opted to organize most of my code around the ~/namespace/src/domain/repo scheme. I never lose track of where a folder is

Yes I do the same! I don't lately write any Go but I really appreciate the organization this way
The best label I've heard for the excessive layers anti-pattern is "lasagna code."
Lol - the 'overkill' approach was mostly one of expediency, since I had spent most of the summer I had to work on this project just trying to get my hands on the disk drive and then powering it on without blowing a fuse. I only had 2-3 weeks to throw everything together, so the 'robot' was basically the Z-stage of a Makerbot 3D printer with some acrylic widgets to push the read-head, then the signal was fed into an analog comparator chip and then into a shift register in my FPGA board. The craziest part is that it worked, and I was able to recover the data!
Tesla’s not worried... The apple car will cost $300k, only take you to “approved” or licensed destinations, and be replaced in 6 months with newer, “better” model with cooler features.

I heard a rumor that tires are extra.

lol j/k
> The funny thing about free speech is it needs to be policed.

I can't agree with that — 'policed' and 'free' are really practically opposites. I wonder if a better formulation is "free speech needs to be parented": that is, subjected to social pressure by people who have the maturity to exercise their freedom with wisdom.

If I could figure out how to encourage communities to develop in ways that encourage parenting, rather than subjecting them to imposed policing, I'd have a potential product on my hands. I haven't got that figured out, though.
Westerners Grow Wary of China Travel over Threat of Detention
Yes. If you disagree, jump in front of an oncoming train at the last second. After all the train has much more power than you and therefore the burden falls on the train operator to keep an eye out for you and save your life.
> Why is this alternative plausible theory recieving such little attention?

If you're referring to the paper published by Wetterich in 2013 [1], it's because it isn't plausible at all: his theory requires that atoms are shrinking, and that is easily falsified by local experiments.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.6878
Those seem like interesting combinations. Where are you?
That's sort of the question isn't it. Is it that there are so few of these neutral grounds that they collect the people unwelcome anywhere else, or that those ideas out-compete everything else unless there's a finger on the scale?

Personally I think it's a hybrid. Extremism and outrage are memetically advantaged in all circumstances but the specific atmosphere is what chooses the flavor prevalent in a particular community. Voat was formed by far-right elements and so that became the culture.
Reddit has usability problems by design. Reddit want to make it as obnoxious as possible to use on a mobile phone, so that you’ll download their stupid app. They also push you to login to view more content, so they can track you.

Reddit is just a cesspool, and it’s by design. Absolutely nothing to do with scaling problems.
This looks amazing. Can the author explain the implementation choices?

* Why WASM?

* Why Canvas?

From what I could see, it seems to repaint the whole canvas every frame, so I'm guessing this uses a custom implementation of immediate mode GUI.
How to Manage Performance Evaluations in the Work-from-Home Era
This is a disgusting abuse of law (as usual it feels like these days). Streaming is essential to some people during these times as an outlet for relief to the stress.
> Free speech platforms usually end up being extremist platforms.

...when the popular platforms stop being free speech platforms.

Reddit, in its earlier days, was never dominated by the Voat contingent. They were there, but they were far less extreme there than they were on Voat. And then whenever they would post rank inaccuracies, there were clearer-minded people to point out why they were wrong, in the same place where the same people could see it. Meanwhile in the 7% of cases when they actually had a legitimate point to make, they could make it, and the people who benefited from hearing it would actually hear it instead of continuing to be unawares and consequently continuing to be wrong about something.

But it doesn't work to have one popular platform which allows nearly everyone except for Those Deplorables and another that allows "everyone" but the only people with the incentive to move are the people being forcibly ejected from the popular one. Because witch hunts are bad, but if there is a place that owes its existence solely to a policy of not having witch hunts, it's going to be full of witches.

So the answer has to be to stop the witch hunts in the places where everybody else already is.
Hmm, sorry, are you talking to me?

None of what you say follows from my post at all. Unless you think "responding cryptically" is a form of feminism.
> I don't like the idea of having to dodge humans randomly entering the road

Attitudes like that are why cars are the number one killer of small children in the USA.

I think the idea is that car drivers should be able to see a human and adequately respond to avoid deadly collision (this usually means driving slowly and with more caution in areas where there are humans. this also can mean driving a lighter/smaller vehicle but that seems harder to do nowadays with cars getting beefier over time).

Trains, after operators see an obstruction on the tracks, literally cannot respond in time.
It's easier to regulate one entity, harder to regulate many. People like to pretend that small businesses that hold people's data don't regularly get breached, store passwords in clear, just sell your emails to spam agencies, etc.
They go on to say that in this case it's probably the opposite, scientists calling up journalists. Which seems relevant given the OP in this thread linking to a scientist making a number of statements based on unproven hypotheses.
Third this recommendation. I've done a ton a research on positioning for my startup, and even used the the OP article to "position" our startup before I found Obviously Awesome. April's book is hands down the best resource on why positioning matters and actually provides a framework for how to do it with your team.
Read many posts and what many folks are missing is the amount of space the US has... it takes more than 1 day of driving to get across Texas alone.

Where I live there arent even roads being improved in many areas. You just drive across the dirt

None of the countries folks are comparing have close to the amount of space to cover.

Yes bigger metro areas are dense enough to have public transit... problem is most folks dont live in that area and commute in. Example ...areas like the SF bay area has folks traveling 2 hrs 1 way on train or car to get to the office
“Why Google fired me- their MOST successful diversity recruiter”
Edwin from Stripe here. We’re trying this out on Stripe hosted invoices at the moment.

We’ve always had something similar in the footer, but wanted to see if customers receiving the invoices could use a bit more context on what Stripe hosted invoices are.

(Again, just a trial—if folks have feedback on this [or anything invoicing!], feel free to get in touch directly with the team at suzannex@stripe.com and rotimi@stripe.com.)
On TWiV they call it a SWAG, scientific wild ass guess
It takes two to tango. Without the jaywalker there is no safety issue either. So jaywalkers should jaywalk accordingly.
Probably a big part is that it soaks the rice (with no heat) for an extended period before cooking. I think the soaking is roughly a third of the total cooking time.
But how would they increase loading speed on their main website to get a better ranking? Probably like many others: only load empty frames and pull in all actual content later. Which is similarly awful. With the difference that AMP can easily be parsed by e.g. screen readers.
Were the drivers impaired? Why couldn't they see the people, or drive slowly and carefully enough to not kill?
Yes! "AHA" (Avoid Hasty Abstractions) is the remedy to too much "DRY".
And all that started when it became known that Hunter Biden used PornHub to publish his homemade porn: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/huge-breaking-exclu...
ASIL D certification isn’t comparable to mobile phones.
I don't know this person and can't vouch for them, but at the least it's a good list of recruiting/hiring fails.
Yes context switching is a huge cognitive load. Abstractions enforce context switching.
Or use a soda stream.
Arizona has this law.

If you get hit jaywalking its your fault.

We also have stupid motorist law where if you drive in a flooded area you have to pay the cost to rescue you
I love idea of "json lines" which is implicitly here, in jq. You can convert giant json array of objects to "json lines" and back with jq.
A lot of tools could produce them, and then you can mix and match jq, simple unix grep, head etc, because each unix line of your stream is a complete parsable json, guaranteed.

back in a day I've loaded a lot of data to postgresql and elastic search after preprocessing it with very simple but powerful chain of CSV parsers (I've used CSVfix), jq, sort, grep, etc.