skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
more like non-traditional dissident phrenologists
I completely understand that and agree with it.

It doesn't answer my question though. What kind of education, besides the education we already give about being a safe driver is the kind of education needed to be "good" at driving on snow and ice?

Asking as someone who is reaching a point where training a younger human how to drive is about to be a thing, and I'm always curious what others think of how to drive in this mess.

I've got all kinds of strategies and tactics passed down from my old man, and you know what? After researching I learned that almost all of them are orally traditional wives-tales and actually have more anecdotal histories of helping my dad avoid a tree than any actual real value when the rubber meets the ice..
I saw someone recently post the idea that Java/Scala/F# almost functioned as LTS/Stable/Dev in reference to how these languages were sharing impact.
The article discuses the entire Northern California coast.
I think clipboard managers (like flycut for mac) are under rated. I regularly use the last 3-5 clips.

Heck, it'd be great if clipboard history was baked into the OS.
People Want to Feel Like Athletes
corner-cases should either be mentioned in the comments or be handled in the code. if they are neither, then the author missed them.

a future developer potentially forgetting to update a comment is not an excuse to avoid commenting.
Don't discount the fact that a car may not have direct sunlight where it's parked, particularly a city car with high buildings surrounding it. I could park a solar panel in my driveway and it wouldn't receive direct sunlight until about 1pm.

At 1pm my south facing rooftop solar array is at 97% of peak output, and by 2pm it's down to 82% and falls off pretty sharply after that. At some point in the afternoon the shadow cast from across the street would block that direct sunlight.

According to their specs, the car goes 255km on a 35kWh pack which is ~7.286km/Wh. It says it can produce up to 245km of range which is roughly 33.6kWh a week or 4.8kWh a day at best. In my case, it would be closer to half that value at best (2.4kWh), we've been having overcast days and my array has been outputting half it's normal capacity (1.2kWh). That's over 60km of range which would probably work for me but is 1 day's commute for a lot of people.
It's not odd at at all, it makes perfect sense: These videos are about a fantasy of self-reliance and retreat from modern society.

Purchasing land, getting building permits, etc. are not part of the fantasy, so they are never going to feature in the video.

It's like saying "these videos of hot bikini models oddly omit all the dieting and exercise"
Ask HN: What cool DIY kits do you know?
Hello.
I find some interesting DIY kits.
For example, Backyard brains offer kits, which allow you to create cyborg cockroach:
https://backyardbrains.com/products/
The Odin company make CRISP genome editor kits:
https://www.the-odin.com/beginner-kits/
With Ben Eater you can create your own computer or videocard:
https://eater.net/shop

Do you know anything like this stuff?
Banking apps(avoid going to bank to deposit check, or going to post office to pay bills)
Podcasts (alternative is reading a blog)
Airbnb (alternative is hotel or possibly a BnB)
Valid point. Yet millions of people each day make buying decisions based on a simple 5-star rating. Trading shares is a very pure way to represent market value, whether that is company stock or cryptocurrency. We see an opportunity to apply the concept to a professional digital reputation? Where the TRU Score can be used as a form of currency.

Separate from the TRU Score, the platform provides the ability to connect with professionals across different service types, by "matching" services offered and services needed. So, you could offer your services and people could find/connect with you, independent of your TRU Score.
While I'm not a fan of the data gathering done by Google and Facebook, the magnitude of tracking done by China are far, far greater.
I recommend the "inside Java" podcast. Its from the java developer team at Oracle and worth a listen.

https://inside.java/podcast/#:~:text=The%20Inside%20Java%20P...!
Yeah, that's all incredibly troubling to me. I'm shocked that so many people fail to see the parallels to historic misuse of technology by states, e.g., IBM and the holocaust as outlined above:

"Mankind barely noticed when the concept of massively organized information quietly emerged to become a means of social control, a weapon of war, and a roadmap for group destruction." [0]

Is it unreasonable to desire that your dollars don't go to organizations involved in war, oppression, corruption, etc.?

[0] https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/bl...
I don't think there are any details on the implementation out yet.

Judging by this article https://www.sohu.com/a/415394669_344262 (in Chinese) the company behind CAID is https://www.reyun.com/. Pretty hard to find info on them and their product in englisch though. The only quick result I got was this: https://bloomgamer.com/2020/10/reyun-data-completed-its-c-ro...
_How to make everything_, especially since the “Reset” is closer to the overall arch, but more as a proof of concept far less contemplative. What it lacks is Malick-esque sequences it gains in how… average, as in, not great is the host. These guys learn a craft and it shows. HTME is here to prove that you _could_; personally, he fails more often than not but you can see how one could.
To my chagrin:

1) Robinhood for normal stocks

2) Disney+ vs AmazonPrime/Netflix

-> HDR for no additional fee, remastered exclusive content, a very full non region-locked (AFAIK) library, consistent streaming quality, straight-to-VOD shows, and premium movies.

->Some might argue not 10x, I can be convinced to agree. It's a solid 1.5x at a minimum though.

3) AWS Workspaces vs RDP

-> Ease of use out of the box is just unparalleled.
If you did that for money - that's OK. However if you love programming but aren't good at it - quitting is not the right move. I'm constant under-performer who failed to get a degree and failed many projects after that. I wouldn't even try visiting sites like Leetcode because I need no confirmation for my miserable level of proficiency. Still there's a tech boom worldwide and there are so many jobs that even under-performers have plenty of chances. You just need to be in one of (many) places that has lot's of jobs.

Right now the system is rigged in your favor. Interviewing is an art and not a science - you just need resilience to get through. Every article out there seems to be about solving some hard problems, but the bulk of the industry is glorified CRUD (web)apps - you can do it. Instead of doing something that you love and learning to live with a failure you're setting yourself up for a job you'll likely hate for the rest of your life.
and it make the road so much noisier too.
Spectrum: Open-source Audio Unit ports of Mutable Instrument eurorack modules
Here's one case where I clocked an over 3x improvement when measuring time only. Probably would go as a 10x improvement in some cases (accessibility, intuitivity etc)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2gwzTWADns
Psychedelics.
Yeah, that should clearly read "... and competed with them as the final seller of doors".
> I mean the scientific system

I have great confidence in the scientific method, precisely because it doesn't ask for my trust. The "scientific system" seems to be largely designed to obfuscate the implementation of that method.

I can't help but notice that, even amidst social pressure for people to use these vaccines, the underlying data used to produce the reports remains unavailable, and will remain unavailable until the conclusion of the monitoring of phase III of the trials. I'm not sure I understand the reasons for that, and I'm quite sure that this is the first time in my life that mainstream scientists and medical journal editors have expressed such consternation about a vaccine approval process.

> and the vaccine/medication authorization process in general in the western world

I think it's not unfair to say that this process has failed and is no longer relevant in an internet-connected society. Countless cases demonstrate this, such as the capricious and scientifically unsound reject of cannabis happening contemporaneously with the approval of opioid preparations touted as non-habit forming, when even a single dose (of the drug and of common sense) easily refutes that claim.

> - your best bet is trusting the current system as of now

Why? When I can do my own research, access experts fairly directly, and make my own health care decisions?

> - improving the system is part of the system. That's what's hard for e.g. science denialists to understand. (Don't get me wrong, I'm not hinting you are one of them, just came to mind.)

I think everyone is interested in improvement. The question is which parts of "the system" have shown promise worth keeping. It seems to me that involvement of the state as a gatekeeper will necessarily result in this system being used for regulatory capture and profiteering first, and public health second or worse.
I did, the main issue is that jaotc doesn't do any pruning of the unused methods, so it generates too much assembly code.
If i remember correctly, compiling just guava was to close to 1 gig.

GraalVM native image is far better, it "compiles" more slowly but the resulting executable is not too big.
I switched to Azul's Zulu[1] build of OpenJDK some time ago specifically for Alpine Linux support and its worked great for me.

[1] https://www.azul.com/downloads/zulu-community/?package=jdk
Sure, but 22W is still a trivial amount of heat & power in the form factor of a desktop system. Fans don't need to spin for that (or if they do it's at the lowest RPM - still silent). Fans do need to spin, and with some moderate oomph, to handle 80W, though.
Great list. I agree with pretty much all of them but I'd also add the following to my list:

- Multi-Core CPUs which enabled switching between applications pretty much instantly.

- Solid State Storage
Google Warns Mac, Windows Users of Chrome Zero-Day Flaw
NO.
You guys in north American culture have to much problems about being addressed.

I mean, ofc racism is very bad ( In any form and regard every aspect of the different race ).

But come on, part of staying alive and being mature is just accept the differences.
End of the day, the market is doing that anyway. Remember the private equity folks are buying up the means of production -- contracting out trucking or whatever is meaningless.

It's obviously building an old-school Trust, but under our current legal philosophy, as long the private equity / public companies slowly boil the frog and the commodity doesn't increase in price quickly, there will be no Federal regulatory action.

All of these things are re-treads of what happened between 1880-1920. The cost efficiencies driving profit are about using computer tech to reduce labor and other costs. In the old days, it was spinning machines powered by coal/gas/electricity displacing water or craft work. It's more profitable/lower risk to build a monopoly and slowly implement cost-cutting than to be forced to do so by a competitve marketplace.
We see similar developments with C# borrowing features from F#, with records in v9, pattern matching, etc.

While it's good for C#/Java, it does make it harder to push for adoption for a language such as Scala and F#. Why bother investing in the languages with a much smaller market share when the big boys adopt good bits and pieces from them constantly?
The definition of free speech is not at all limited to the absence of legal constrictions. Russell addresses this quite directly in "Free Thought…":

»When we speak of anything as “free,” our meaning is not definite unless we can say what it is free from. Whatever or whoever is “free” is not subject to some external compulsion, and to be precise we ought to say what this kind of compulsion is.
…
Legal penalties are, however, in the modern world, the least of the obstacles to freedom of thoughts. The two great obstacles are economic penalties and distortion of evidence. It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living. It is clear also that thought is not free if all the arguments on one side of a controversy are perpetually presented as attractively as possible, while the arguments on the other side can only be discovered by diligent search.«
I don't want a bulky, heavy, non waterproof, and less reliable smartphone (due to more moveable parts) just to have a easily replaceable battery.
However the US Congress is pushing the PRO Act which will basically force you to join any union and it actually forbids right to work laws. It will even permit unions marching against related businesses as a means to intimidate others; in others say your supplier has issues well they can then march on you and vica versa.

Welcome to the pay off for the election
This is a list of differences in average income by ethnicity (in the USA).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_U...

Indian Americans are on the top. Russian Americans are 12th in the list. Dutch Americans are 54th.

Do you think that this is a proof of Indian supremacy and Dutch mediocrity? Or is there a policy that systematically oppresses whites of Dutch ancestry and elevates whites of Russian ancestry?

Obviously none of those is true.
Looks like Empirecred and Klout merged?
And I value the creators of Spotify who create good software and a great infrastructure for the service they're offering. I think we should move away from this sleazy consumer mindset that the creators of Spotify should not be rewarded for the service they're offering.
Not sure what you're implying, I've created and sold "real products" to the tune of millions of dollars in revenue. I think I have "enough experience to comment on the situation." Weird to have such an accusatory tone when speaking on HN.
Gmail.

Using web-based email clients was a nightmare before Gmail. They had limited storage space, and the UX was pretty bad, they were hard to search, etc. You spent all your time figuring out what you wanted to delete, or seeing your emails bounce when people had full inboxes. If you didn't log in for a while, your account would disappear.

And then suddenly, you got a GB of storage. For free. No questions asked. And its UI was simple and easy-to-use. And you could search it.

A lot of other products are 10x better in individual areas. For instance, Google Sheets was much more portable/shareable than Excel when it launched. But even today there's no comparison, Excel is superior for actual spreadsheet functionality. But Gmail was better on every axis, even against local clients like Thunderbird and Outlook.
Same experience. A few refreshes and it works.
Yes that would be me! I would spend the money just to get a few extra hours of free time per week, that I save from not riding public transport, and being able to make fewer shopping trips, for the guarantee of being able to get into nature and where I want to go on the weekends.
How to reduce the environmental impact of your next virtual meeting
huh, I wonder how the corals and ecosystem survived back then?
Without the fee or with?
On the other hand, look at the validation:

- Why not check the length of the string before the switch?
- Why return a string which is (meant to be) identical to a variable?
- Why not set the regex into a variable and then only have one if-block?

"Don't repeat yourself" is a very good rule for many very good reasons, but a big one is that you don't have to change 10* different places to change 1 thing, which gets rid of a whole class of extremely common bugs. Also, it makes it much more obvious what the code is doing, since your brain only needs to parse 10 different one-line assignments instead of 10 different six-line blocks.

* Replace "10" with whatever the actual number is.
I definitely think it's a good idea. The other week my girlfriend's Western Digital external drive stopped working, I wanted to open it to figure out if it was the drive itself or the sata-to-USB logic. Took me 20 minutes to open the case, and I damaged it significantly in the process. Turns out that it was only the USB adapter that was out of order, I bought a cheap-o USB 3 case and now it works again.

Yesterday I wanted to fix the light on a USB wallsocket I have, I gave up because after 10 minutes I couldn't figure out how to even open the thing up. I tried squeezing it, tapping it in various parts, prying at various seams, nothing would give.

That being said, I really wonder how you could regulate this easily. Lack of screws could be argued to be beneficial for aesthetics for instance. Modern smartphones are a pain to repair in no small part because size is very important so everything is crammed together, and highly integrated components are usually smaller and yield better economies of scale.

I think it's a good idea, but I'm really not sure how it could be implemented well.
Direct Air Carbon Capture Is Crazy
running slack, skype and zoom in a browser tabs instead of 3 extra electron apps
> That's a fair characterization of the workings of the state, which has never really lived up to any democratic norm to be honest, but if you actually walk through Singapore and see how people live, honestly it is a successful multiethnic society.

Well, this is the LKY argument: In terms of outcomes, people are unequal and there will always be persistent differences between ethnic groups. The ranking isn't necessarily fixed over thousands of years (Greece was once the world leader and now has fallen behind), but at any point in time, there is never equality of outcomes. There will always be some groups ahead and others behind, and these positions change very slowly, and not through any mechanisms that can be controlled by policy.

It shouldn't be government (or private sector) policy to try to pretend that they are equal or to try to make them equal, as that only leads to racial resentment, constant race wars and a Handicapper General to equalize everything. The SG approach is to suppress anyone trying to stir up this resentment or trying to advocate for racial equality. Once people learn to accept inequality, mind their own business, and just do the best they can for themselves, then you can have a successful heterogeneous society.

But that approach offends the West's moral sensibilities, which is to try to have incredibly heterogeneous societies while insisting on equal outcomes. So the West will destroy itself with a combination of constant lying about race ("we are all equal, differences must be due to some form of oppression") as well as the imposition of a series of ever more tyrannical Handicapper Generals as it vainly tries to make the human nature conform to a delusion.

So whereas you make it sound like an accident, that despite permanenent racial inequality SG looks like a nice place "on the ground", LKY would say that it is because of the acceptance of this inequality that people in SG can live in relative peace whereas in the West this is impossible.
later on they switched to requiring a social media

This is outrageous. Contact is in my profile. If enough people complain to our reps maybe we can impact this in a positive way.
Hi,
If you're interested in learning to build Audio Units, it can be a uphill battle. Most of the examples are very minimal and incomplete. When I started out, there was no complete synthesizer or effect that had been open sourced so I had to stumble through a lot of weird bugs, edge cases, and incomplete examples to build Spectrum.

Spectrum's powered by open source. The main DSP code is based on Mutable Instruments code(1), which Emilie has graciously open sourced for many years. Her code has inspired and empowered countless little synth designers like myself to make something else of value, so I figured it was sort of my responsibility to do the same and share what I've learnt.

(1): https://github.com/pichenettes/eurorack
The point is that this "decentralized" movement has a central organization that has a lot of money donated to it, and that the central/important tenets of that central organization probably has some measurable influence in deciding which "decentralized" parts of the organization get funding/donations/focus/marketing.

So if the "BLM" organization views the nuclear family as something that has to be abolished, then one can assume that they wouldn't donate to local BLM chapters that don't subscribe to that idea. Maybe not always, but a greater than 0% chance for sure.

With this whole "decentralized" argument, we might as well say the Republican/Democratic parties are decentralized and that what the RNC and DNC do/say hasn't a huge bearing on the way that the individual local leaders/sub-organizations of the parties do or how their rallies behave. It's more "centralized" than BLM, sure, but like with a lot of things, it's not a black/white description. It's rather a range, and we can't just say "no it's not" when we can clearly see that the "central" portion has some bearing on the smaller parts.

So, my thinking on this also aligns with the Sorites Paradox:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox
Plus Nvidia can offer a full refund of the MSRP, fully knowing that even used cards go for more.
Google Play drops commissions to 15% from 30%, following Apple’s move last year
I apologize, you are right. I misread it as talking about cents based on the second reference and then my brain just decided to take it's own path.

Thank you for taking the time to make me go back and look at my numbers. My apologies for wasting _your_ time.
That's what ambri is developing , instead they use another transition metals that have the properties described in the paper.
An artist isn’t entitled to having their work funded unless someone voluntarily funds it. This does not require legal fiction.

Entire genres of music have been created from inexpensive musical equipment and free software. Art has never been more accessible to the people than it is now.
Security Analysis of Apple’s “Find My ...” Protocol
Why do we have to want something like that to happen? Why can't we just be like "Hey, just so you know, this stuff happened. Make sure you're not being duped into investing in Gumroad without knowing who you're investing in." Especially considering the terms on Republic not favorable at all for investors.
> In his 1995 book, The Vision of the Anointed, Sowell argues persuasively that, “The family is inherently an obstacle to schemes for central control of social processes. Therefore the anointed [essentially his proto-term for “woke”] necessarily find themselves repeatedly on a collision course with the family.” This is because, he continues, “the preservation of the family” is fundamentally a source of freedom. “Friedrich Engels’s first draft of the Communist Manifesto included a deliberate undermining of family bonds as part of the Marxian political agenda.”

In The Republic, Socrates famously argues that children should be raised in common, ignorant of their parentage. If you're going to take an ultra-rationalistic approach to raising children, "treat every child as if he/she is your own" is the ideal.

This debate has been going on forever with victories and losses on both sides. Public school is an example of a triumph on the rationalist side. Of course, just because public schools worked out doesn't mean we should "abolish the nuclear family" but it is a good argument for the utility of this long-running debate.
Because the alternative is to starve?

You can take advantage of people when they’re in dire straits. That’s not indicative of some greater truth about the price of labor but a fact of exploitation.
Getting a strong vibe of 'let them eat cake'.
Check out Alfred.