skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I know it has little to do with the numbers, but I just got a Model 3 this last weekend.

Originally I was quoted as 2-14 weeks for delivery, but then I was told they had some already available I could select and receive within 2 weeks. There was one available that was exactly the same as what I wanted, so I chose it. Why I had to even choose is weird.

The whole process has spoiled me. Scheduled test drive, financing done online completely (omg that used to take forever to do in person), no annoying sales guy to work with (just ordered online), delivered right to my house.

The car is also fun to drive. I haven't had a new car in 20 years, and driving was just a chore. But now I look forward to driving it, even on my commute to/from work.

It has been weird getting used to how EVERYTHING is different from a normal car, but again, I'm not sure I can go back.
I wrote something like that many years ago using OpenOffice format which is basically XML, and then I translated to PHP. (http://jeffrey.io/wall-of-shame.html KaPowie)

If I didn't have so many different ideas, then I'd love to return to it.

Ultimately, I'm realizing if I want to storm this market, I need to create a successful revenue engine to explore the space. How I would do it now is provide two hacks:

(1) special format for tagging regions within the spreadsheet as either tables, objects, or values with static types.

(2) a wizard to walk through the transpilation to provide guidance and look into oddities in the sheet.

The purpose of (1) is to automate the tagging process in (2), and the key is to turn the process into a predictable game so you can move back and forth easily. Now, if you transpile from Excel/OpenSheet to Adama, you not only have source control but a reactive database with full history and auditability.
> it allows for great performance, so you can make ten/hundred times more mistakes per second than in other, "safer" languages.

This is false. For a long time C performance used to be inferior to Fortran, which is arguably safer than C. It's hilarious that the strict aliasing and `restrict` keyword was born out of making C on par with Fortran and UB became a major issue to C programmers as a result!
Top Security Failures in HealthTech Apps in 2020
HN traffic isn't all that demanding[1]. Websites falling under the load are a testament to the poor quality of the software stack used to host them.

[1]: <https://xyrillian.de/thoughts/posts/latency-matters-aftermat...>
They usually state production goals but didn't for 2021. I'm pretty sure internally they're aiming for a million delivered this year.

Also the fact that Q1 beat Q4 is quite the feat since the S/X lines are down and Q1 is a terrible quarter for automakers.
The stated reason for removing Stallman is the belief that he is "toxic". You may disagree with that but it has nothing to do with Stallman's political views.
I did a geography O-level (the UK exams for 16-year olds at the time) which included a map-reading exercise. It just so happened to be a couple of miles from where I lived, and I knew it well. Still only got a B though.
Casio to Release First G-Shock Smartwatch with Wear OS by Google
Somewhat humorously, Firefox is free like swag. You get it for free, but you get bugged constantly about all the other great things Mozilla is doing.
it signals in-group membership to others. it doesnt actually mean anything.

>hello, i too am one of "us" *wink wink*. lets mutually support each other in conflicts with people from the out-group.
Does anyone know of a punch card system still in operation doing useful stuff
Life in Weeks
This sounds like a mediocre design. An entirely separate key hierarchy per app would avoid any possibility of confusion signatures with those generated by another app, even if both apps were web browsers.
Dear younger me:

You're a crummy entrepreneur. Don't start a company. If you do, quit early. All of that "stick to it and you will succeed" is BS coming from successful people, because they don't interview losers like me.

Listen to the naysayers. They're not always right, but they're right way more often than not. You can live a perfectly happy mediocre life without becoming the one-in-a-million who goes to space or becomes super wealthy. Somebody has to succeed, but I can tell you from experience that it wasn't you, and everybody knew it. Save your money for therapy -- and maybe you won't even need it.

Sincerely,
The One Who Fucked Around And Found Out
I don't get it. I use free software and I'm more than happy with it. Am I supposed to not be happy with it or what?
Well, if we are talking illegal activities, Norway shares a long, marginally patrolled border with Sweden where alcohol is significantly cheaper. So if you are into smuggeling, I would try that first, before trying to arrange something up in the arctic sea.
Good thing the software usually has a forum attached where volunteers try to help others without recompense. You can go on there and yell at them about how they’re not working hard enough for you (in their free time from their job that actually pays their bills).

How dare they not put the effort in to make the software understandable and perfectly easily usable to you, personally, because you are so super duper special??
Misleading headline - the note at the top of the article states as much:

>Vaccinated people can still be infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus and suffer the symptoms of COVID-19...Taken together, this means vaccinated people are highly unlikely to transmit the virus when they are not suffering symptoms.
There's still a substantial group that thinks the impact was part of a 1-2 punch with the eruptions of the deccan traps, which produced a far larger impact on the atmosphere but over a longer period of time. Iridium from the asteroid impact is found in the basalt deposited by the deccan traps, so they definitely happened concurrently.

That said, if you look at the patterns of extinction, survivors seem limited to things that could hide in burrows or in deep water and then survive for an extended period exclusively on scavenging, as if everything that happened to be on the surface was suddenly killed and then photosynthesis stopped working for a few years. Notably, species that would normally be very sensitive to climate change like small amphibians survive whereas generalists capable of long distance migration die out. There may have been ecological stress beforehand but a singular cataclysmic event turned it into a mass extinction.
Worldwide data: https://cleantechnica.com/files/2021/02/World-plugin-vehicle...

VW is pretty impressive, did they have any popular electric vehicle before last year?

edit: Yes, they have a massive growth indeed, if they continue like that they'll likely overtake tesla already this year: https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1130931_vw-group-sold-al...
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Philippines: Illegal structures found on reefs near where Chinese boats gathered
> Everyone knows you won't.

I think the most important thing is that you can, if you want.
+1 (815) Execute
Not every open source project is polished. Fair enough - that's evident. However, that doesn't mean it's not useful. Sometimes a snippet from an abandoned project on GitHub is exactly what you need.
Is there any evidence of this because it sounds very hyperbolic. Stallman can barely use a computer at this point, so I’m not sure why he would need to be destroyed by multi-billion dollar companies.
You are right the web is so rewarding that snails crawling as little they can :Ð
I wonder about that. Tesla might be an electronic (as well as electric) car, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were fewer subsystems and fewer chips overall.
> The background is that this has been wargamed and the the US could "lose fast", although this is probably in a "defend Taiwan" scenario. I wouldn't assume anything about a hypothetical "fair fight".

Taiwan is China's backyard. USA defending Taiwan requires significantly more resources than other locations.

China has absolutely no capability to attack say... California, outside of nuclear weapons (at which point, the wargame is simple. We retaliate with our superior strategic weapons and MAD).

A "Fair Fight" would be a hypothetical Antartica fight: far away from both countries, where the two navies meet on neutral grounds. China only has 2 carriers right now, and they're smaller 70,000 ton carriers. USA has multiple Gerald Ford super-carriers over 110,000 tons.

As far as projecting a shield or area-denial, those carriers are superior to what China can do. Its only within the "radar + missile area" where the USA loses.

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China has additional carriers on the way, but I'm not convinced that the carrier, nor the aircraft they're loading them with, can perform like a Gerald Ford Supercarrier or its loadout of aircraft.
The process is annoying (2-15w wait) but better than haggling with sales guy for 4h in the middle of the workday. Also the cars tend to be fun to drive. I miss my stick shift, but much better carseat space.
Phonetically, English has about 9 or 10 vowels, depending on accent. Consider bill vs bike, or goose vs look.
Volkswagen sold 134000 EVs in 2020, so about 33000 per quarter. Ford sold 6600 Mach-E in Q1.

Judging by this great report [1] you would expect a worldwide market of about 800k EVs in Q1 2021, with Tesla and Wuling as the most significant producers.

1: https://insideevs.com/news/498088/global-plugin-car-sales-fe...
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What's the blog generation workflow ?
Well said goodperson!

"vc/entertainment" science & research vs "open/real" science & research
Interesting! Do you have any examples of wines like that? I tried to search and found nothing.
year over year is much more indicative than quarter-over-quarter.
To assume that an English reader would know what "dots" are in your example seems unreasonable. As the sibling comment said, if you wrote that in japanese it would make perfect sense. The sort of meta statement would be "That other language doesn't have X, which the one I'm using has. It instead uses Y, which has the same approximate meaning.".
Hi! So, first of all, I think I need to make the description of Goblins clearer. It says "A transactional, distributed actor model environment", but "transactional" and "distributed" are two separate components. This follows the "vat turn" communicating event loop model of E, where every message handling in an event loop is done in a transaction. It isn't meant to say distributed transactions. You can build distributed transactions a couple of ways though: as an abstraction on top of the distributed object system provided, or as a consensus model where a quorum of nodes agree on the order of messages for a deterministic vat/event loop.

By the way, the "open source version of E" does do distributed garbage collection, but it can't collect cycles across a network barrier. However, the original version of E did collect cycles across the network too: http://erights.org/history/original-e/dgc/

However, you needed hooks into the garbage collector for it to work, since you had to do some introspection of how things were rooted iirc. Mark S. Miller told me that originally they thought this could be fixed because Sun had promised to make Java open source, but they took a damn long time to do it. In the middle period, apparently the E folks said "please! just take this patch... you can have it even!" but Sun didn't merge it.

But Mark also told me that he learned not to push for this, because the cycles-across the network stuff turned out to not be common enough to bother, and you could build distributed acyclic gc using just weakrefs (and weak maps) and gc finalizer hooks, which are much more common than the rooting-introspection stuff.

Not sure if I got all that right, but there you go.

Anyway, I'll fix the tagline for Goblins for next release to make it clearer. Thanks for the feedback.
SQL dbs vary.

You can write

select a from b where 1

in MySQL and Oracle, because those db's treat true and false as 1 and 0, you can write

select sum(a=1), sum(a=2) from b

others like microsoft sql and postgresql enforce a separate boolean type which means you have to put the ternary operator into the sum.
I once lived in a LEED certified apartment complex. Unfortunately, I do not recall the specifics of their certification. My hot water would never get hot enough. I realized the hot water heater had a device on it to limit how often heating occurred. I promptly disabled it and had normal hot water again.

One of the other "green" aspects of the complex was that it only had compact car parking. However, the area I live in is rural/suburban and a very large portion of renters here work in the shale oil fields of the area. These workers drive trucks. Big trucks. The parking lot was always cramped mess. I often pondered the irony there and also how much more carbon was emitted by the body shops fixing all the dented doors.
“History” is often used to mean “written history” as in the opposite of “pre-history”. That seems to be the sense in which the parent is using the term.
Maybe that the quotas are very low

24 bottles of liquor, 6 bottles of fortified wines, nearly 300 cans of beer, and unlimited wine annually is low? I'd hate to be the liver of anybody drinking that much.
Tesla has by far the early mover advantage here; the % growth of the traditional players moving forward will be key as Big Guys start taking the market more seriously.
Yep, but probably it has nothing to do with LEEDs, but just Canadian own construction experience that is not even code mandated.

LEEDs for example allows for buildings with completely catastrophical thermal design to get certified: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Aqua_Tow... (Chicago)
Obviously yes, they entered different niches. But that's true of any technology. The question in my mind is more: if PyPy hadn't been preoccupied with fighting a compatibility battle with all the churn in upstream python, would it have been chosen instead of V8 as the vehicle of the new concurrency revolution? I think there's a reasonable argument that it would have been.
Wow... that is just comically low.

I know the Mach-E is supposed to be more "luxury" than the consumer facing model 3/Y it copied from, but to only sell 7000 of them means they aren't even trying to sell them.

Maybe that is because the individual dealers have the ultimate say in what they sell, but still, there have to be at least 7000 Ford dealers in the world, and they should have been able to sell at least 3 each.
I don't think I've ever seen an HN thread with this many different suggestions.
I'm curious about this as well -- it's absolutely great to have a Firefox Send equivalent back, but how long can this sustain itself?
Reducing them is great. Trusting China to self-regulate their emissions is the height of stupidity. Us paying China to then turn around and lie is even dumber yet.

Want to reduce CO2? You'll need to embargo China and then start ramping up domestic regulation.
tolerance generally excludes the intolerant, yes
Motte-and-Bailey: The Academic Threat from ‘Lived Experience’
I think I want my first MacBook once the new one is released. But things like these make me wonder if I’m ok just using my X1 Yoga hackintosh for longer.
I'm interested in hearing more about this: I greatly enjoyed The Pentagon Wars of course, but I haven't heard a defense of the Bradley's development process yet
Supreme Court sides with Facebook in narrowing the federal robocall ban
The accusations that Stallman is a 'serial abuser' are strictly innuendo at this point. The flow of his detractors is one of wilful misinterpretation and unreasonableness.

Removing Stallman isn't an economic decision, true enough. But it is the same hubris of believing that someone's political trappings and status should determine their influence on technical matters. The Free Software community can survive without Stallman. But it is extremely worrying if the Free Software community feels Stallman is so at odds with their mission that they want to cast him out.

Stallman has flaws, but his commitment to that cause is really beyond question. It is appropriate to give him a voice in deciding how these projects are run. He is a reliable lighthouse for working out what is and isn't free about software.
If you weren't already aware, you can just drag the selected text slightly and it will retype it at the current prompt position, without dirtying your clipboard. QTerminal does the same on Linux, and likely other terminal emulators, too

Or if you are copying it out of iTerm, replace "slightly" with "to the other terminal" :-)
Depends. I clicked through to read about mandatory alcohol consumption, but thinking about it further, consider the case where you have "1 GB of disk quota". In that case, it obviously means that you can use no more than 1 GB of disk, it definitely doesn't mean that you must use 1 GB of disk.
>You'd probably be better off phrasing it as deep neural networks.

I phrased it the way I did for a reason. Large Random Forrest models are also not easily interpretable. Even large logistic regression models with feature interactions and feature hashing aren't easily interpretable. It's not a question of the model technique used but rather the amount of parameters and how many feature interactions are modeled.

>And to be fair, if you just need to see how the predictions vary as a function of the inputs, you can again hold all but one constant and run a bunch of different values through the model.

This only provides a partial view of the feature impact due to non-linear interactions.
I assume this is just meant as an observation, not a criticism. I've certainly experienced this with some free software for various purposes, where you wade through 3000 forum posts to get it to run and someone chimes in, "oh, it only works if you install in in X directory...". Sure it sucked to read 3000 forum posts and google things for 2 hours, but, once it worked, it worked.

I don't know why this would be a "problem" though. This year I got a free snowblower. it had all the parts, but it didn't work. After much reading, disassembly, and other mess, I got it to work and now I have a snowblower.

To me, commercial software is often about ergonomics and immediacy - if I can pay to have it now, with no work, great. But, free software can be about capturing marginal value below the market clearing price. If I need to put in some time and effort but I don't need to spend any currency, then great! I've succeeded at getting a job done and exchanged time for cost. Seems reasonable, and it's nice to have the option. (obligatory hardware example: just look at youtube for the humongous number of things made with washing machine motors. Sure, they're inconvenient, but they are free and available. For a lot of people this trade is worth it.)
Show HN: Backprop – Serverless platform for machine learning models
I worked in a LEED gold building. One summer weekend, I stopped by the office to pick something up and noticed that the AC was still fully operational and keeping the building cool, despite there being no one in the building.
> "Somehow, such critics missed the successful conclusion of the Cold War, the abundance of food to the point that we subsidize farmers, the creation of medicines..."

I'm not sure what the answer is, but it's such a fundamental problem that it's solution will have to step on the rights of some people, as you can't have respect to authority on one side and social bubbles reinforcing the opposite view on another. And they can't be equally worthy of respect. Case in point - how the hell did antivaxers become a significant portion of the population, in a pandemic, of all times?

.. But once you start censoring, it inevitably will end with overreach, because power is corrupting.
From their readme:

> SkiffOS is a lightweight operating system for any Linux-compatible computer, ranging from RPi, Odroid, NVIDIA Jetson, to Desktop PCs, Laptops (i.e. Apple MacBook), Phones (PinePhone), Containers, or Cloud VMs.

> Uses Buildroot to produce a minimal "single-file" host OS as a standardized base cross-platform operating system "shim" for hosting containers. Most Linux platforms have widely varying requirements for kernel, firmware, and additional hardware support packages. The immutable SkiffOS host system contains everything needed to support the hardware, cleanly separated from the applications.

https://github.com/skiffos/skiffos
If anybody is looking for a free alternative that just works, I'm using [1] for a demo on my product's homepage [2]. I suppose it is a bit different in scope though (updated daily instead of near realtime).

[1]: https://exchangerate.host/
[2]: https://starboard.gg/#visualization
Also cool: https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasa-satellite-reveals-...
Now that is a hot take if I've ever seen one.

Over the past decade, I've worked with teams that dumped Word for Google Docs or MS Project for Basecamp/Jira. But Excel is always there. Nobody ever asks for a Google Sheet with product performance or financial projections data.
I got a car during the pandemic and the only difference is that I had to talk to a salesperson for a few minutes. I actually prefer to talk to a person for big purchases. You’re exaggerating this “process”.
What’s dangerous in a PDF besides JS which is not executed in macos Preview.app?
As Azure was the root of this issue, I wonder if they've actually made changes since this quote:

> Azure CTO Mark Russinovic on July 19 said Azure had 99.995 percent average uptime across its global cloud infrastructure, but promised improvement. He noted that three high profile outages between September 2018 and May 2019 were the result of “multiple failures that only through intricate interactions led to a customer-impacting outage,” adding: “In response, we are creating better ways to mitigate incidents through steps such as redundancies in our platform, quality assurance throughout our release pipeline, and automation in our processes.”

Source: https://techmonitor.ai/techonology/cloud/microsoft-jedi-cont...
Declaration of toxicity is purest politic rhetoric, you knob.
> The RTFM philosophy combined with a wall of single-file manpage with no tutorial is something that I really wish died already.

With respect: what do you do for the tools you use to help this situation? The software is open source and accepts patches, and I'm sure they'd love to accept a patch that adds user-friendly documentation to the tool.
Could be. The statuspage from the device shows darkhttpd as the server, not nginx: https://nns.ee/blog/status.html
S/MIME – Best ways to send an encrypted email in 2021
Or you end up like me on Christmas Eve 2019 picking out the truck you want, sitting with the sales person for 3 hours even though I'm not haggling, and I offered to pay what they put on the sticker. I said, I want to be in and out in 30 minutes.

And now, here I am April 2, 2021. The vehicle is still untitled, unregistered, and basically a paperweight sitting in my driveway, because the sales guy screwed the paperwork up so badly, that the DMV cannot make heads nor tails of it. The bank is constantly hounding me for a title, I tell them to talk to the dealership, they say to talk to the DMV, and over a year later, I've been paying $800/mo for a car and insurance I cannot even use.