skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used current tense. Not past tense. There was all sorts of weird stuff that happened around the time of Nazism in Germany, including strong proponents of Nazism in the US at that time. Lest we not forget the internment of Americans of Japanese descent civilians during WW2. Again, these are unfortunate things that happened in the past.

None of that justifies any other country doing anything in modern day. It's like saying "Oh Germany had Nazis during WW2 so having Nazis today is okay."
Exactly. It's like assuming everyone has a Mercedes, a smartphone, or a butler. M4A is also not a solution for universal healthcare because Medicare isn't very good: it requires multiple types of paid co-insurance, rations healthcare, and doesn't pay doctors enough to motivate them to help patients. Medicare is a bare-bones, half-measure that doesn't offer a healthcare system. The common refrain of "It's better than nothing" is an invalid rationalization to settle for substandard healthcare.
why are you commenting here? write something more interesting if you want to be a part of this
Electric vehicle startup largest UK listing in history
Elon Musk has start up ideas, and most start up ideas fail. Yes, he overhypes the ideas, but this is common in the start up world.

The difference is he has been involved with three large successes - ebay, telsa, and spacex. This success/failure ratio is leagues better than just about anyone else. And he did this in three very different industries.

So his self driving car effort will likely fail, or at best be very late.

But we do need more people willing to take chances like this who can also execute as this is rare.
Try recreating popular applications & see what it takes to make them live!
> That probably isn't the fault of the PDF, but the PDF reader you're using.

Completely agree. Try something that isn't Adobe Reader!
Repeatedly asserting that doesn’t make it true.
Unless I missed something on the page, I'd like to be able to see the components and/or some examples of them in full wireframes before I download this.
I cited two specific ways used to keep “the flood gates” closed.
How do we know which ones are jokes and which ones aren't?

From what I can tell, the ones that are jokes are the ones he said a few times but made no progress towards. Like the self driving ones. And the ones where he throws paying customers his product killed under the bus.

I don't find that kind of joke funny.
As far as I can tell California is slowly coming back on to classroom schooling. I've heard mixed messages depending on the district. My kids play travel ball so my Facebook feed is full of people all over the north part of the state and their experiences. All hearsay of course, in the grand scheme of things.

One parent was complaining that the return to school in their district was doing zoom meetings from a classrom instead of at home.

Me? I left CA when I saw the writing on the wall back in May. My kids have been doing in person school for the entire 2020-2021 school year.
Apply Hanlon's razor instead.

Consider just how "excellent" MongoDB was as a database before they bought Wiretiger and made it default. Ahem.
The obvious answer isn't really applicable here, though it does cross the lips of plenty of moderates. The reality is that the Democratic party is forced into being a "big tent" party of "everyone left of the Republicans," which represents a simply massive spectrum, and therefore they have less consensus than the Republican party. Take, for example, Joe Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia who drew some ire after FiveThirtyEight found he sided with Trump's priorities 58% of the time. He's been vocal that he would never agree to eliminate the filibuster, because he's basically a Republican in all but name.
So you're just going to move the goalposts rather than respond. Classic Chinese propaganda.
LG to end loss-making smartphone business
Yeah, I know. Maybe a better wording is "the limited functionality of a system like autopilot."

My point is Full Self Driving implies it's "the real deal": A self driving car you don't have to pay attention to at all. Not "Advanced driver assistance on city streets."
> Every privacy offending feature on FB is 100% by default opt-out

Uh, what?
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what if we are just some primitive form of rock compared to the real life in the universe and they don’t give a fuck about us at all?
Haha. The older Samsungs are waay more cheerful and higher BPM. They sing like they're so proud of clean clothes. Oh and then if you turn if off, it does a song too.
This is the next big thing. Companies like Attentive are way ahead of the game.
It took me a while to understand your React example (or at least I hope I get it now). But I don't know… I agree that React has some pitfalls and lots of people don't get it right (especially forms!) but there are ways (clean ways, in fact) to solve this. It's not React's fault, though. Handling complicated state has always been hard and it's not exactly easier in jQuery or pure JS.
The HP Touchpad was such a joy to use. WebOS was really smooth and significantly more responsive than Android tablets at the time.

One specific feature I miss is when switching apps, the app cards were live views of the app, rather than screenshots like in Android.
It typically takes about 6 months to 3 years for generic drug prices to decline due to how we approve generics in the USA. Most people don't know that we have an insane policy whereby the first generic drug applicant receives an extended period of market exclusivity.

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/abbreviated-new-drug-application-a...
Electric Vehicle Bubble Watch:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nDqrN9ZLdCX_-2Hg6Out...
I thought the roof tiles were on the market?
Ah, looks like one of those features no one asked for but got built for the performance review ;p
Is it possible to replace the firmware on LG or other smart TVs with this?

Is there an OSS alternate smart-TV firmware community?
I'm not in it, but my cat is. I wonder what kind of spam he'll start getting.
Robust potential functions are a huge part of ML. Many people have researched robust potential functions for use as loss functions. Its use in ML algorithms predates use for SLAM, tracking algorithms, etc., which only used it after classical ML.

Neural nets typically don’t benefit much from it because you can use batch normalization, dropout and clever activation functions to achieve the same results, by having the network learn diminished sensitivity to outliers that produce neurons which saturate the low end of an activation function.

This is preferable because many of the robust potential functions involve absolute values, order statistics and other non-differentiable quantities that are hard to put into backpropagation-based optimizers. You almost always would need to relax the loss function to something that trades off smoothness against outlier robustness, where convergence will be slower and slower as you crank the trade off closer to outlier robustness.
This whole thing feels like layers upon layers of complexity. Not to mention, the brittle aspects of any javascript project - immature, lack of robustness and dependability. Your stuff is working on Node v12? Good luck with Node v14 - both LTS versions. It is a shitshow. Let's keep Javascript inside the browser IMO.

SveltKit is literally 2 months old.
Is this a business you are interested in starting? How can I contact you privately?
How could a tool that checks for a specific phone number be k-anonymous?
I've been experimenting with ways of using Web Components with the ECS (Entity Component System) pattern. I'm not sure it will ever become the preferred way of writing web apps, but it does offer promise in exposing some alternate ways to structure Frontend code.

Here is an example Calculator App I've made: https://codesandbox.io/s/fervent-elion-isq29

And here is the ECS library I'm using (which I've written): https://github.com/brochington/ecstatic
15,000 people a year still die in the US with HIV.

https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/overview/data-and-trends/stat...
Musk is an awesome CEO and engineer when it comes to rockets & EVs, but has absolutely no idea about AI besides science fiction.

Unfortunately he bought into deep learning hype where AI is always going to be "almost there" (that is until funding runs out).

Which would be fine if he's a private citizen and AI enthusiast, but putting this brainless FSD monstrosity on public roads is irresponsible and going to kill people. Check out FSD videos on youtube, this is scary stuff.

And it's not about moving fast and breaking things, tweaking the models for endless "edge cases" won't help with the infinitely long tail. The whole deep learning approach is fundamentally flawed. This "AI" has no idea what it's doing.
Ugh, I really hate when I stumble upon a research paper only available in html and not in a standard two-column pdf - I find it much harder to read in general
The discussion isn't about GDP but about % of the population in poverty. If you have a country where the bulk of the population suffers in poverty while an elite does very well, that country will look great in terms of GDP, but the poverty stats will show the truth.
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Is this a live-streaming (forever-loading) SVG? Neato!
Activity Is Not Impact
Well as a fellow techy who respects logical arguments, I understand what you're saying and don't disagree with your main point.

OTOH, outside in the real world i.e. Twitter and Reddit (haha), this rationale is not what was being used to attack dissenters and anyone who dared question the official standard line. Anyone who pointed out a very relevant example of a "colloquial" slippery slope- especially if it was something that was labeled as a conspiracy that we'd never allow happen or to get that far - e.g. vaccine passports, full time remote learning, restricted travel and forced government quarantines at inflated costs, fining small businesses for having one customer while Costco and Walmart are packed to capacity, etc. 6 months ago and was now occuring or being openly considered - was attacked by the mob who maliciously or mistakenly were peddling the "slippery slope argument has been debunked, just like the Earth is not flat - you are banned for 48 hours" to shut down debate.
India manufacturers it for $6 a month. Gilead looks the other way as long its only used in the 3rd world.
This isn't specific to the gig economy?

No one tends to jump at the chance to take responsibility for anything whether they are a company, charity, government, or small child.
And Ozymandias himself is Ramesses II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias#Origin , so in reality his posthumous recognition will probably last for a long time yet.
>Which definitely isn't delivered today: https://youtu.be/8IUn2mDE-xo

From the video it does show that it has the full self driving capability, sure its not perfect and may make mistake but it may improve in the future.
Sorry about that. I didn't think about the overflow effects. Alas I can't edit the post now.
Are you open to the argument that PDFs are not trying to solve the issue that you’re describing?
This seems to be a bag of a lot of different projects across the entire stack.

What part would be the most interesting one? I.e. the one that's actually proposing an OS based on a browser?
How many obvious spam text messages have you received? And how many have you reported to your telco provider....

You’re putting a lot of faith in telcos to care enough to put systems in place.

And spammers will burn through sims. They are looking for the most lax network for sending. Presumably the receiving network can block texts arriving, but wouldn’t actually stop a number on a competing network from being able to send messages (but would likely flag it to them).

And then there’s the time delay to be exploited. If it takes 3 days for a number to get blocked, can you send enough messages in that period to make it worthwhile?
There are forums where people root and hack on their TVs. I just saw a zero-click exploit for webos fly by my Twitter feed yesterday.

https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/rootmy-tv-coming-soon-dev...
Simulating Slime Mold
But in this case, which isn't atypical, it WAS easier in jQuery. Much easier. I had it working fine with jQuery but wanted to see if I could make it work with React. Here's the full component: https://gist.github.com/polydevuk/96d89642f114707b2f1a0cc316...
'Imminent' reservoir wall collapse threatens polluted flood of Tampa Bay
Similar to the other responses, it's the fact that I can manage my network remotely from a simple app or UI. This helps me answer phone calls from my family asking why Netflix doesn't work on TV #2, when I'm not at home. Won't solve all problems, but at least I can narrow it down and troubleshoot.

And I like the fact that I can an overview of the state of my network; one of my wired links to an AP would degrade to 100 Mbps at times, and being able to see the link speeds easily was very helpful (it was a bad ethernet cable in the end).

Before I moved to Ubiquiti I had a spate of problems with my fiber broadband, which would stop working for a few minutes at random, resetting my RDP connections. I had a vendor-supplied Linksys (I think?) router, and trying to troubleshoot it was painful. If I ever have such problems again I'll have much better diagnostics.

That said, I won't buy any Ubiquiti gear that requires the cloud, and my faith in the company is eroding. But, like others, I would be at a loss what to replace my gear with at the moment. I just hope it'll function well enough until either Ubiquiti gets it act together (again?) or a viable competitor arises.
C++? Safe??
https://rescript-lang.org/

Based on ocaml’s type system which is a delight to use.

I’ve been working on this codebase for over a year and I’ve yet to see a runtime error. Maybe there was one minor one, not sure. It’s remarkable.
Show HN: I made a goal tracking app in the style of 'the x-effect'
Yes, there is SamyGO, which is dedicated to Samsung TVs. https://wiki.samygo.tv/

There are custom firmwares, rooting methods, compatibility tables, etc.
> How do we know which ones are jokes and which ones aren't?

Good question. For me personally it's always been obvious and I've yet to be wrong, other than the time he said he would drive cross country on autopilot by a certain date. He's very obviously been wrong on Autopilot/Full Self Driving dates. I read every tweet he writes and I have a good sense of his personality having watched most interviews with him since the early 2010s when I originally started following him via SpaceX.

> Like the self driving ones.

I don't think the self driving ones have been jokes. He just really underestimated the difficulty of it. He has many times tempered his well known self driving tweets with less talked about tweets talking about 9s of reliability and how hard it is. People naturally only see his most wild claims reposted the most so assume most of what he says is the wild claims when that's generally a tiny minority.

And they have been making progress towards it. The system as of a few years ago compared to the system today is dramatically different. At current rates they're probably 2 years or so away from a system that matches Waymo's system, but works almost everywhere in the US, not just one city.

> And the ones where he throws paying customers his product killed under the bus.

To be honest... I'm on the side of Tesla on these. I'm not a fan of blaming a company when people misuse a product that's gated behind warning labels that say to not use it improperly. So when people die and he says "people shouldn't have been using the product this way" he's right, they accepted the risk when they turned the feature on past the warnings.
"I have my own definition of aesthetics, too."

"Lay it on me."

"It makes art historians’ hair stand on end. Aesthetics equals the image in a work of art—and the image need not be a visual image—but an image from our five senses, plus the apparatus that generates it. For example, at CERN, I asked a physicist for his definition of aesthetics, and he said, “My notion of aesthetics is nicely laid out wires.” I saw them. There are these units of parallel wires, nothing crossed over, and the wires are color coded. It was beautiful."

Props to this dude for a new achievement in épater le bourgeois.
> Fast forward and it turns out that we had been near the top of an s-curve when it came to space tech

It’s true that the types of rocket engines we have today are not that much more advanced than the ones we made 50 years ago. But rocket motors have never been mass produced, and we haven’t poured billions of dollars into research (let alone commercial production). We haven’t had the decades of improvement that came with integrated circuits, but we haven’t done the decades worth of R&D either.
For quick personal things I have a massive hack over webpack that makes anything "<filename>.static.<suffix>" into an output. This means there are no parallel directories for assets and my code can be a million times more modular.

Its a hack. There are edge cases. It was a proof of concept that has carried me over the line. I even have extra plugins for server side render and compile time render.

I keep meaning to write it up and try and port the tests to weboack itself (so I can argue for missing features), but it does what I need, I'm not a front end dev, im busy elsewhere (in life and work).
Engineers cost money. A LOT of money. A few tens of thousands USD for libraries is not a major investment.
Biden stopped it before the EO went into effect.

https://archive.is/eh5GV
Probably not big by US standards, but WiFi attenuation across multiple floors is such that an AP in the living room won't provide any decent signal one floor straight up. Depends on the materials and layout of your house...
Social Skills Notes
The Last Question

https://www.physics.princeton.edu//ph115/LQ.pdf
An implementation in go (not by the author) can be found here: https://github.com/fogleman/physarum
A note, the pictures seem to have vanished in the Tor version of the article. It would probably be better to link to the original version on Ex Urbe: https://www.exurbe.com/the-borgias-vs-borgia-faith-and-fear/
A coincidence was that it was on same day as the traditional showing of the Ten Commandments movie on Easter Saturday. Two of the Kings Seti I and Ramses II are depicted in the that movie.
Two data points. I briefly caved and created a FB account, and I'm grateful for some of the life events that occurred as a result, but I couldn't handle it any longer and closed it.

And now I'm missing out on virtually everything related to my family, my hobbies, the club I helped found.
This partially might be more of a what's old is new again, but here's what I use:

- 100% server side rendered

- Progressively enhanced (fully works without JS, but having JS enabled makes it nicer)

- In select places where I need SPA-like snappiness I use a ~100 line long DOM diffing algorithm (I request full HTML through AJAX and diff it into the current page; if the user has no JS enabled then the page just refreshes normally)

- Running on a single, cheap VPS; no Docker, no Kubernetes, no serverless

- No SQL database; I just keep everything in memory in native data structures and flush to disk periodically; I have a big swap file set up so that I can keep a working set bigger than the RAM

- Written in Rust, so it's fast; I can support tens of thousands of connections per second and thousands concurrent users on my cheap VPS
plenty of these have been done before, but I just wanted a simple way to create those github-style activity calendars for my 50-100 day goals.

I was also inspired by r/theXeffect
I've played with HTMX (and previously intercooler.js). Just wanted to say - everything you touch is awesome. Thanks for your efforts.

I also like Alpine.js and Stimulus.js projects. They're trying to simplify the insanity of front-end development.

Go + HTMX is super powers. It peels away the piles and piles of framework layers and still gets you 90% there. For the 10%, just use React/Angular/Vue.
Rigid formats sound great but that's unfortunately it's not 1985. Almost every document across most major industries is in .pdf and benefits from mutli size output(print, desktop, mobile). Adobe would not have spend millions in their assinine AI if this wasn't a problem. No one in the "insert any industry sector here" is using secure html document's to sends files, or any other format.
I'm a big Elon fan but this website is pretty eye-opening... Many great entrepreneurs are delusional optimists. But seeing it all in one place like this... wow.
Even you don't sign up for FB, they keep a shadow profile on you from activity from people searching for you.

Even if you don't sign up for FB, they get your contact information from your friends. (That might just be WhatsApp, but at least one of the two gives people the "opportunity" to upload their contact list to find matches.)

Sure, FB knows a lot less about me than they could, but keeping off their radar entirely is effectively impossible.
I lost more. Never once did it occur to me to come up with ideas what others could have done to avoid that.

Like Californian emigrants bringing bad habits to Arizona, this guy proposes to bring fiat rules to crypto. Stay away and stick with your fiat; crypto is not meant for that.
I'm aware of the history, in the same context of why it not a good idea to use a steam engine in a train anymore
Try this for a starter guide: https://prettydiff.com/2/guide/unrelated_dom.xhtml

For a practical example try this: https://github.com/prettydiff/semanticText
I remembered those body modifications where people insert small magnets under some finger's skin.

After a while a new feeling arises...
Is waymo (or anyone) working on autonomous buses?

Las Vegas had autonomous buses for a while, but they're gone. Too slow and the routes were very limited for some reason.
The definition of minimal life as a thing with a single nucleotide is weird. If I have to pick an arbitrary number, I'd choose at least 100. (Anyway, with their model they get that when the Earth appeared, "life" had ~10000 nucleotides.)

> In particular, photosynthesis or
chemosynthesis is needed to be independent from organic resources.

It's weird because the current estimation is that photosynthesis appeared like 1000 millions years after the fist cell. So if this article were correct and the initial cells population came from space, they probably would no have photosynthesis.
I spent a lot of time with CDK last year using Typescript. Very impressed with it and I have zero regrets after moving over our app's infrastructure to being deployed with it after 9 months in production.

I felt like being forced to use typed IaC helped me understand AWS API's and services themselves better.
There are such systems. And we're in fact making a very feeble attempt to do exactly that. Right here. In this thread on HN.
Iberian sailing innovations were clearly advantageous, enabling the Portuguese to venture south along the coast of West Africa and establish trade with Brazil.

Once shipping had advanced to a point where commerce could be transacted over large distances and durations, amongst multitudes of parties from different demographic origins, the bottleneck for the expansion of international trade was exposed as finance and risk management.

The full importance of financial risk management is revealed by Portugal's decline as a maritime power from the 16th century. British bond traders and insurers used increasingly sophisticated financial instruments to ensure (and insure) British commercial fleets ruled the waves for the next 300 years.