skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could it just be luck? Some author writes a hit story. That story influences followers. If the original story was a downer then suddenly there are more downer followers. It becomes a kind of culture or bubble that most people are unaware they're viewing everything through that lens.

Further, modern media takes that even further. Plenty of producers, marketing people, people with the purse strings just want more of whatever was popular last year. Which creates a trend to produce more of the same.

Yes, real life events are also an influence but similarly, one extremely popular title can influence followers for years/decades.

To put it another way, if there was no Walt Disney would there be 150+ famous family oriented feel good animated movies that have influenced so much of our culture OR, would we have some entirely different culture because one artist (or team of artists) works didn't have that particular level of influence.
Version 7 Unix[1] (the first Unix I ever used) was also small enough to understand well. Since we ran it on a PDP-11/45[2] that had only 256K of RAM and the root file system lived on a 2.5 megabyte RK05[3] disk, it had to be pretty small and simple. We even had the source code for it. I've held on to an ancient copy of the printed documentation for it all these years. I think it's still my favorite OS.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Version_7_Unix

[2] https://gunkies.org/wiki/PDP-11/45

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RK05
Thanks for the feedback. Aside from your formatting feedback, what else could I improve to make the post less basic?
Yup, also AvE https://youtu.be/880a_XgvBEo and they both did it 2 years ago.
Your bet is nonsense, and nobody is making the argument you're framing the bet against. There's not the slightest similarity in the massive teratogenicity of thalidomide vs waiting a few months for safety data on a vaccine. Not getting an EUA is not at all equivalent to a black label. You completely ignore we have two vaccines that work better already, that have research behind them from post-SARS1 and MERS research with the mRNA approaches. Astra will get approved after it proves its safety.

Where did I miss anyone mentioning sars-covid-2 besides you? You are the one that brought it up, and I still have no idea why you did. The FDA is right to make sure vaccines are safe. We know AZD1222 is less effective already, so it better be at least equivalently safe and that requires data.

Are you confused and think you're replying to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26048470 ?
You are not alone. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/10/07/americans...
That it is. It's also pretty awesome with salmon [0], 43°C for an hour then take it out, pat the skin dry, and crisp the skin in a cast iron skillet with some oil, serve immediately. Crispy skin and buttery soft salmon makes for a great texture contrast and tastes absolutely delicious.

[0] https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2016/08/sous-vide-salmon...
Running a free mirror would get them some of the hits, not all.
So why it’s called “right” if it means ownership ?
Yeah how's that going? We've reduced "coding" to knowing the latest soon to die script kiddy framework.

I'll take native languages that shows the beauty and challenges of coding on a machine over the slew of useless frameworks hogging hardware and stagnating innovation.
Oof, my bad. Not just you. Fixing now!
So this is essentially AI-guided fuzzing for math equations?
As someone who bought a used 2010 low mileage element. The touchscreen radio/gps is slow and uniquely terrible in a way I had forgotten 10 year old tech is.

It’s not heat but only radio/gps thankfully. Looking for a drop in replacement has been challenging as it’s not clear how one will work with the back up cam and steering wheel controls.

I’ve just started looking however
> This is a good talk

That is not a good talk unless you already advocate for abandoning standards, and celebrate Linux's growing power to dictate how the shrinking number of remaining OSes design things. You might easily miss it if you're already onboard with systemd, but in his point by point address of systemd's shortcomings - he repeatedly handwaves and redirects.

Systemd is a mess, which is an amazing accomplishment considering the fact that it is supposed to be this great unifying/simplifying layer. So awful that the DoD held out for the longest time in formalizing any kind of baseline security audit procedures that address it. Compare that to something like Solaris SMF. I've never had a problem with the rc system that made me blame the underlying design, but if I did - systemd would be at the bottom of a very long list of my potential solutions, right under 'Set the machine on fire and pickup a copy of "Industrial Society and Its Future"'.

I really like the guy running the OpenZFS project, but it is painfully obvious that it is only going to increasingly cater to Linux - and coincidentally a lot of the really annoying aspects of the project are a result of that. For example: that Rube Goldberg build system, with massive amounts of code duplication... that wouldn't be there if not for autotools and gnu export symbol games.
I bought this book for self study, but never got around to reading it.
The latest thing on Zoom meetings: A live goat
Oh man, that's a ton of words and effort for "elections have consequences". In 2022, the GQP, yes, the party of qanon, as they won't kick out their qanon members, have a brutal Senate reckoning having to defend a ton of purple and blue state seats.

So yeah, if things go well, maybe the Dems will have the balls to do what McConnell has done for 10 years which is blow up "norms" to get what they want. Especially if the far right wing SCOTUS members do things that are INCREDIBLY unpopular among normal non far right wing Americans, like kill Obamacare and healthcare for 15 million Americans, and kill abortion rights which is currently supported by a huge majority of Americans.

Essentially, your argument is it would be awful if the party that won the House, won the Senate, won the Presidency did what they wanted. That party supports policies that are incredibly popular among Americans. The other party represents terrible policies that Americans hate, like no COVID relief, banning abortion, racism (birtherism, "build the wall", "send her back"), lawlessness/anti democracy i.e. 1/6 insurrection, "hang mike pence", all of these things the average American does not want. But lets clutch our pearls when the party that WON, NOT YOURS, tries to do what is was given a mandate to do. SAD.
I wrote an article recently about a method I use that I call the "funnel architecture". The idea is to concentrate important high-level concepts of your client app's infrastructure into a single file - the intent being to let that stand as a form of documentation of the app's infrastructure/architecture.

https://kopi.cloud/blog/2021/funnel-architecture/
I can't get over the oilyness. These things are like sponges for whatever they are cooked in. I wish they cooked more like a falafel patty, where the outside forms a crust and acts as a grease barrier for the inside.
Plastic is more expensive, easily scratchable, and isn't as rigid as glass. Glass makes a lot more sense unless there is a very high risk of it shattering.
Sand mining is causing environmental degradation around the world, to river beds, agricultural lands, etc. Taking that out of the equation could be a net benefit. Especially if it's at least as permanent as glass.
I would be interested in a tool that converts a list of html files into a single pdf, with consistent formatting.
This is an excellent video, probably the best TL;DR on all things quantum computing I have ever seen (the first 1/4 of the video), making clear the limitations. A great example of what all science comms should be like.

some choice quotes:

> quantum initiatives differ somewhat from nation to nation but they usually contain research programs on four key topics:
- (1) quantum computing
- (2) the quantum internet
- (3) quantum metrology
- (4) and quantum simulations

## (1) Quantum computing

> quantum computing quantum computing is one of the most interesting developments in the foundations of physics right now.
> [...] this speed up only works for certain types of calculations, so quantum computers are special purpose machines [...]
> the problem with quantum computers is that for them to become commercially useful you need to be able to bring a large number of qubits into controllable quantum states and that's really really difficult [...]
> estimates say the number we need to reach is roughly a million qubits [...] status of research is presently at about 50 qubits
> [...] the major question for quantum computing is not does it work; the question is will it scale.
You usually find that perps and short term futures have higher rates than longer term futures. A very common strategy is to buy longer term futures and sell shorter term ones.

If you're looking for cheap delta, longer term futures are almost always the way to go. They are a lot less liquid, though. retail has a strange fascination with swaps. I have two theories for why this is: 1) they are easier to manage (you don't need to roll them). 2) they look cheaper on am absolute basis than long term futures.

But if you want long delta, go with long dated futures. If you want short delta, go with swaps. The extra juicy trades come from buying long dated futures on one exchange and selling high rate swaps on another. However, you need a lot of margin or a sophisticated system to manage the risk.
> GP is saying that people like the taste and texture of meat.

Why are you interpreting what I wrote as if I claimed that people like the taste and texture of *raw* meat? That's probably the most uncharitable possible interpretation of my argument. Stop being ridiculous.

> there is no need to replicate the texture and taste of meat as you have infinitely many ways to structure the taste and structure of plant based food, including ways that are superior in both taste and texture to how people prepare meat.

This is so absurd I don't even know where to start.

The whole point of the article and the plant-based meat alternatives it talks about is that finally there's something that's close enough to ground beef in taste and texture that it can be substituted, but it still needs to come down in price to be a viable everyday alternative. Every alternative that came before simply wasn't good enough, and only really appealed to people who were already vegetarian. And the success of Beyond and Impossible shows that there is clearly a market for products that replicate meat, because a lot of people want to buy stuff that tastes like meat.

When it comes to actual beef, there's absolutely nothing like it yet, in neither taste nor texture, and texture is the part that is hardest to get right. If there was something even remotely comparable, we wouldn't be having this discussion, because everyone would already be happily eating that alternative.

I'm sure you're happy eating your little salads, thinking they're superior to every other dish in existence. But you clearly don't understand why people like meat, and what they like about it, which is why you appear bewildered by these products and claim that there is "no need" for them.

These products will be a cornerstone of future environmental policy and ensure we can meet our sustainability goals for the entire planet.
Just wanted to say thanks for using the old.reddit link.
There are plenty of people who drive classic cars built from 1950 to 1975. Some people drive even older cars. I once saw a Ford T stopped at a 7-11 to buy gasoline.

Will that Tesla S be the same in 2045 to 2090, or even in 2120? It's looking like the answer is no. The only ones left will be mounted on platforms in car museums. There will not be auto shows featuring real Tesla cars, because the electronics will be dead and impossible to fix. No reasonable part replacement will be possible because of digital signatures.

We'll see some car bodies that get hollowed out and then draped over the innards of newer cars. Somebody already got an unsupported Tesla S running again by installing a gasoline engine, even cutting through the floor to install a transmission tunnel.
I'm in this boat, and I'm decent at SQL and find the Numpy API to be pretty intuitive, so I'm not sure what it is.
That was already solved by just adding a second sheet of glass with an air gap
> If the average person expect their car to least 10 years then a lot of people are expecting their car to last more than 10 years.

Right, but how many of the people that expect their car to last more than 10 years are buying new cars? The signalling I get from Tesla is that they don't care a whole lot about the used market (as evidenced by this issue).

I think consumers don't realize how much they actually care about the used market. If you buy a $60,000 car that you sell for $20,000 when you're done, you paid $40,000 to drive the car. If you buy a $60,000 car that you can't resell because it's dead or too risky for buyers, you paid $60,000 to drive the car.

Unfortunately, that cost doesn't manifest until years later. Roughly now, based on how long Teslas have been around and their expected lifetime number. I would not be surprised to see Tesla start losing orders if they can't support the used market.
Indeed one shouldn't do something like this. I hope they realize their mistake :).

Also thanks for pointing this out, I haven't read that thread that closely, only remembered it being on the hn front page recently.

FTR it seems that Jonas Strehle, author of this Github repo, is not affliated with the authors.
EVs make sense but at this point self driving cars are fantasy vaporware. Executives should be tired of embarrassing themselves in public with grand pronouncements of “just 6 more months!” by this point.
Thanks. Got an HTML doc through.

FYI, (at least in my document) quotes and apostrophes and em-dashes don't work properly.
I'll put away my Blueair 680i Classic with a CADR of 934 m^3/hr (550 CFM) before it hurts Dyson's feelings. Someone could buy 3 211+'s rather than a 680i, but they'd take up 3x the volume, use more electricity, cause more noise (although the 680i is moderately loud on speed 3), have more filters to buy (3x $80 vs. 1x $105), and not integrate with smart home platforms (if you don't need this, the 605 is basically the same as the 680i). For 700 sq ft / 65 m^2 areas, the 680i is the better deal and filters better than the 211+. I put a couple of logging Plantower PMS5003 + Arduinos on top of mine and relocated around to confirm, and found it was producing air below detectable levels of PM1.0, PM2.5, and PM10.0. IOW, damn clean air. Maybe not viruses or all bacteria, but it will filter out essentially all fungi.
great, I have an email listed in my bio. Can you send me a message?
It’s not just about laziness. Many commercial footprints, developed for power efficiency, low cost, and compact size are nearly impossible to hand solder, so hand solder repair becomes less & less common in a downward spiral.

Few people know how to solder a circuit board anymore. But few people know how to churn butter, dress a hog, write with a fountain pen, or navigate by compass anymore either.
Hmm, perhaps I somehow ended up with a really old copy of the code. I downloaded a tar.gz or zip file with a bunch of Python 2-only code (it definitely did not run under Python 3, I ran it under `2to3` without issue) directly from the wisc.edu site.
This could potentially be game changing for SETI.
>Problem with that comic is that it doesn't take skill acquisition into account.

I'd argue it can help skill acquisition to avoid getting into one thing too deeply, because the more different items you do, the more the commonalities appear; the more chances you have to see if your approach is optimal.
Google thinks to themselves: if only we'd had this policy 12 years ago, we could have stopped that evil Satoshi Nakamoto guy!
So “buying” A Tesla is basically just signing up for a $20,000/yr car subscription.
It's better to put it out and let others take a glance, isn't it? I don't think scientists actively seek media attention. I think it's other way around, media looking for hot stuff in science.
EPOC [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPOC_(operating_system) ] on the Psion Series 5mx [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Series_5].
Also when I tried seeing what people that actually develop vaccines had to say. It sounded like crash programs to produce a vaccine would take a year before there was enough capacity to mass vaccinate people. And then six months to vaccinate everyone. The required trials didn't slow anything down because they were done in parallel.

Also, some of the vaccines they developed for covid didn't work. A year ago people were somewhat dubious about mRNA vaccines because they'd never been tried before. And then previous vaccines attempts have also resulted in vaccines that make the infection worse. Or caused dangerous side effects.

I don't think with vaccines there is this 'one neat trick' that professionals have overlooked somehow.
Efficacy is irrelevant. Rolling out AZ vaccines will not slow down Pfizer/Moderna vaccination rates, because the bottleneck is supply. Even assuming J&J + Novavax there's still a drastic supply bottleneck.

At worse, we'll just give a bunch of people a placebo. I don't believe there's lack of efficacy, but with millions of subjects, the answer will be apparent in a matter of weeks. If so we'll simply re-innoculate those people with Pfizer/Moderna. There's literally zero cost to this scenario, besides monetary spending that's a rounding error in the federal budget.

The only consideration should be safety. I'm so confident in safety that I'm willing to give you 10-1 odds, up to $500/$5000 that there will be no more than 35,000 deaths attributed to the AZ vaccine globally within five years.
A friend of mine was part of the AZ trials, the control wasn't a placebo because lack of side effects would let the person know which group they were in. Instead it was some other common vaccine that would produce similar side effects as the real one.
It's not an entirely crazy concept. There are several barriers in the body that isolate systems from one another that can be challenging to cross, and the blood-brain barrier is probably the most difficult of all of them. The existence of the blood-brain barrier has been known since the early 20th century (despite the difficulty of actually finding it!), and it wouldn't be entirely crazy to a priori believe that the placental barrier would be similarly strong. As it turns out though, the placental barrier is probably the weakest such barrier.
I really love the F-150 and it's size, but I don't need all the power it comes with and would love it to be a little more fuel efficient. I realize the coming hybrid model is going to be a fortune more than the non hybrid, but I am curious how expensive an all-electric model will be.
The chances that Tesla will buy out a legacy auto company are zero. It makes no sense. They are all saddled with crushing debt loads, dealer networks, and stranded assets. None of them have anything Tesla needs to become the largest car manufacturer in history by 2030.
This was one reason I thought programming the classic Mac was great training — the nature of the memory manager, where most data structures were double-indirected pointers and the inner pointer could move at will -— you had to understand pointers or you’d never be able to produce a stable program.

Edit to add: and yeah, I’m also not sure it’s relevant outside OS-level programming, which most people never get near at this point.
> Rather, we'll discuss what it feels like to be a programmer. We'll talk about the emotions in being a programmer; the feelings of frustration, guilt, anger, and inadequacy. We'll cover the struggles in learning new things and keeping your skills current.

This is a refreshing change from the productivity-focus that seems prevalent here. Thank you.

A book about minimalism boils down to "It's ok to say no". But that doesn't mean it's wasted breath to talk through it. Sometimes simple, valuable lessons take time to digest.

Likewise; This book may have a simple lesson at its core, but such a valuable lesson is worth unpacking. It's worth taking some time to relax and digest it.

I'm looking forward to reading this. :)
It seems like I’ve seen this movie before. A large automotive consortium puts out an optimistic press release announcing its full commitment to EVs https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1086902_volkswagen-will...

Then it turns out that the primary cost contributor to an EV is the cost of batteries. Automakers being relative nobodies on the lithium market, they are paying retail for it and passing the mark-ups to you, the consumer.

At that point compromises must be made, and the announced vehicles advertise either an unimpressive range or some atrocious price sticker or both. The market compares the $/mile-of-total-tange, at which point Tesla emerges as being fairly competitive on price.

The large company discontinues the vehicle lineup, citing overrun cost issues and market disinterest for EVs save for a few Tesla fanboy diehards.
And no one here spoke of any scientific conspiracy theories.

What was talked about was making statements too quickly to the media in excitement; the rebuttal to that was somehow that no scientific conspiracies run amok.

I must say that I find that that in the vast majority of cases that a “conspiracy” is rebutted, no conspiracy was alleged at all.

Someone, this morning, was also about a website that promoted the idea of the corona virus being a government conspiracy; all I could find on that website was the belief that mandatory curfews and closing ships went too far and curbed the citizen's freedoms too much. I found no alleged government conspiracy on it, and he could not point me to where to find this.
Fantasy vaporware that I still routinely see driving past my house.
The FDA approved emergency use authorizations for both Pfizer and Moderna within 3 weeks of receiving the applications.

Johnson & Johnson just submitted their application, with emergency use approval expected by the end of the month if there is nothing wrong with J&J's data.

I don't see how this is "a bit slow". It's rather fast, considering that the FDA does their own analysis of the submitted raw data and has a committee of outside experts and representatives of consumers, industry, and sometimes patients also weigh in.
> There's not the slightest similarity in the massive teratogenicity of thalidomide vs waiting a few months for safety data on a vaccine.

You're right. They're not comparable. Spuriously waiting for Covid data is way worse than thalidomide. The latter resulted in two thousand deaths, whereas the former will result in two million deaths.
Didn't realize Rashid Buttar is his brother.

I once went down rabbithole of Rashid sites, they're crazy!
> have to deal with legacy decisions from their early years of cars failing and all of the weird service issues and NDAs and bricking cars that are resold and have to make good on their FSD promise

I honestly think they were hoping to make that up in volume. As it gets cheaper to make cars at scale, some portion of the savings goes to fixing up the issues with the cars they already shipped. They haven't been able to scale their pipeline, though.

> I think Tesla is going to earn a similar reputation as other car manufacturers as time goes on.

Long term, I don't think it's going to go well. "Move fast and break things" is a bad principle to apply to a car. I can use DDG or Bing if Google doesn't work, but I can't summon a Kia when my Tesla won't start. I don't think they can use that velocity to create features consumers want enough to deal with the instability. They might strike gold elsewhere though where the instability is less of an issue. It might be okay for self-driving semis to break down, if they're cheap enough that you can afford extras to use when some break.
Optimizely pulls the plug on its SF HQ