skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my opinion, it's a question of what you want to optimize for, speed of execution/accessibility/responsiveness or speed of software development.

The modern web is a stack of abstractions that separates the code in what the site is written in from the underlying machine that renders it. This stack of abstractions makes it many orders of magnitude slower than it theoretically could be to render, but makes it many orders of magnitude easier to program. In other words, this seems like the age old debate of "interpreted vs. compiled" [0].

While the front end ecosystem is sprawling and modern web pages are slow and clunky, the barrier to entry, for most people, is at an all time low. It's easier now to create a web page that works consistently for the vast majority web browsers with minimum effort. The render speed and accessibility might suffer, but this is always the price of abstraction.

Jonathan Blow has a talk specifically lamenting this point [0].

[0] http://blog.gmarceau.qc.ca/2009/05/speed-size-and-dependabil...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ4GcZs7y6g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvBySbGueww https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URSOH4F3vbU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlIZ2Q3Rvc8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpk9Q5gCyIY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK6YZ3NFjuE
Yeah I agree, there are "generations" of technology, and I think that people in the 60's looked at the progress of transportation tech from 1910 to 1960 and thought "at this pace we'll all be zipping around the solar system like it's nothing by the 2000s." It was not easy to form an intuition of why the first generation of space tech was going to hit physics-imposed limits that would "slow that progress."

To be fair we still made lots of progress with space tech after the 60's, and I think via SpaceX and others we are hopefully now starting a new S-curve unlocked by cheaper access to LEO.
If you're concerned about Intel's ME, AMD's PSP is basically the same thing.
My understanding is that it's not live remote driving. When the system doesn't have enough confidence in an environment, it asks for remote assistance to label objects and manually add enough data so that it can resume route planning.

You can see a little of it in action in this ride:
https://youtu.be/D1sZnbORfAE?t=862

Even in remote assistance mode, the car already has at least a short path planned any time it's moving.
Being skeptical of one particular vaccine does not make someone an antivaxer.
“One driver allegedly cut her trip short after falsely claiming to have arrived at her destination.”

Terrible
I don't know how you can "deliver" such snark; if you gave 100 people shots and 30 developed clots, by your erroneous reasoning, N = 30.

What matters is the number of clots relative to the normal (incidence) rate, and the odds that you'd find 30 clots when sampling a randomized size-matched subset of the total population.

Please don't try to talk with authority on a topic when you're undereducated, aside from coming across as an ass, your brazen confidence and lack of knowledge just gives room to counter-argue that would instead harm your supported causes.
In one section it also says “right” and it should be “write”.
1. The tech isn't ready to deploy.

2. There are hardly any Democrat leaders left who care about or can talk to blue collar workers.
You're on one right now. Although it'd benefit from some mobile compatibility...
The issue is cognitive biases make the total sample size irrelevant, which is something to be aware of. Unfortunately, said biases are not willful which makes them far more insidious a problem to notice and deal with.

Anyway, as a simple test try and count how many cars you can see next time you go for a drive, how many people’s gender you can infer, and how many you can positively identify based on their looks. It’s significantly safer to try this as a passenger.
I agree with you, and I'd say that we are perhaps in the bottom, or the middle of the S curve in software. Despite all the technological progress in hardware, our software is very slow and buggy. We end up increasing complexity in the name of 'productivity' and going up in abstractions, but we end up lacking fine-grained control and performance in modern systems.

I hope that we see a paradigm shift back towards writing robust and performant systems instead of stacking abstractions. Sure, Monads and Transformers are all fun to use, make code coincise and are very satisfying when they compose well, but, what's the hidden cost, and is it worth it?

As a user that encounters bugs at a disproportionally high rate, I'd say no. The trade-off in increasing abstractions is not worth the trade-off.
Waymo is and will always be vaporware.

The "future" of automonous travel is going to be large geofenced shuttles with no other cars on the road (think large college campuses, corporate campuses, amusement parks, etc.)
The measure of what is better in all these companies is determined internally and generally by the business. So it ultimately serves the business and only serves the user indirectly—-if at all. Obviously you optimize for different things—-performance, reliability, simplicity perhaps. And the business has more stakeholders who want different things, more metrics, more integrations with their third-party tools, etc. That’s not to say your measure of better is wrong. It’s probably not and I probably agree with you! But it’s coming from a different place I think.
How does that relate to your assertion that people buying a place and renting it out do not add any value?
> If a Cloudflare customer has configured their origin server to respond only to Cloudflare IPs, then they MUST also verify that the "Host" header on any request actually matches their domain name.

Out of interest do you provide any automatic checks for this? It seems like it would be trivial to add some kind of verification step that simulates a request with a bogus host header and checks the status code of the response.
Around the time Krafcik was hired Google/Alphabet was dealing with scandals and fallout from egomaniacal leaders like Tony Fadell, Andy Rubin, Anthony Levandowski, and that guy they put in charge of Verily.

Larry and Sergei realized they weren't very good judges of character, and so they went in the opposite direction and put the milquetoast John Krafcik in charge. Their hope was that Krafcik would be better at forging auto industry partnerships.

I'm not sure what Waymo would look like today if a tech exec had been in charge, but I doubt the CEO would have had much of an impact one way or the other on the hard problems associated with self-driving.
I assume that's the number of confirmed cases? Because we know that's a huge underestimate, even in countries with widespread testing. For example in the UK approximately 15% have had an infection already, and that's with lockdown measures etc: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...

I'm making the assumption that we want to reopen our economies again at some point, at which point the infection risk will obviously rise much higher than that (unless we have reached herd immunity). The only way to prevent that is to get people vaccinated. And right now for many countries in Europe AZ is the only vaccine available, since the supply of the mRNA vaccines is for too low.
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otoh never feeling pressure to move despite economic growth hugely favors long time landowning families (read: white people) and locks out newcomers from needed economic opportunities.

Prop 13 disparately impacts minorities, arguably to the point where it's illegal under the fair housing act [1], and imo the racism angle could win out in a marketing campaign in today's climate.

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3012949
I think the clots from contraceptive pills that you refer to are considerably less deadly than CVST. I don't know how the numbers stack up, I suppose indeed contraceptives are more dangerous than this vaccine anyway. But in any case, you're doing an apples-to-oranges comparison.

Contraceptive pills are taken by millions of women, of course, but there is a large proportion of women (possibly a majority) that do not want to take them. Alternatives like the condom, IUD, sterilization, etc. are widespread even if they are more uncomfortable, precisely due to the pill's side effects. And no one (or no one in their right mind, at least) questions a woman's decision to not take the pill.

Here we are talking about a vaccine that your health system actively calls you to take in the context of a campaign, no alternatives are given (in the words of a politician in my country, "vaccines are not yoghurts, you cannot pick your favorite flavor"), and while you are free to refuse it, you are then called an antivaxxer, and not given any guarantees about being able to take another in the future.

The standards really cannot be the same for something that you take at your own risk among tens of alternatives versus something that you are pressured to take without even a clear guarantee of alternatives. And you cannot use contraceptive pills as a metaphor for something that people just take willy-nilly without a second thought, because plenty of women definitely don't do that.
I thought that was post-modernism?
I have no idea. But higher taxes send money to the IRS so the question is irrelevant.
It's like we haven't learned anything from horror movies.
I find that any change I would like, I think about the change and how it fits into my values structure over a few days and change my mindset on the matter. Then I slowly shift in little steps towards that goal. When I experience barriers, I take those seriously and incorporate the insights into my mindset and maybe adjust my it accordingly. In a sense the initial mindset work is asking myself to be serious about what I really want and how it fits holistically into my ways of being. Then I am more motivated because it's not just -I have this idea that it's what I want" it is "I want that" so I trust I'll get there and allow myself to work through the full complexity of the change.

In particular, this gets rid of the "I must exert energy to do this" dynamic that can be an unbreakable barrier in a depressive state.
As noted below, my initial wording was unhelpful and misplaced.

The infrastructure costs are covered by sponsors. The 'They should monetise' was a 'they' that I now understand are external organisations rather than nixos themselves.
Find something related that you're passionate about. Study it, do some small projects, market them, make that a niche of your professional persona. Become not outdated in a specific thing that you enjoy. It will reinvigorate you as well as your career.
Yeah, besides beauty being quite subjective, mentioning beauty as the primary differentiator gives the impression that utility is less of a focus. In today’s environment where there’s an abundance of new software lacking depth and maturity, promoting the “beauty” (whatever that is) of a product is more often an indicator of just that.
This specific issue is going to be solved by IPv6 though.
Math checks out, 600 is up to 82 000
Why pay tens of dollars per month on AWS for side projects? A 5$ linode is the max I'll pay for any side project - especially if it does not make money.
No, I don’t have all the same constraints. For example, I would walk away if any of the organizations that I work with insisted on tracking visitors. I stopped taking paying customers years ago for this and similar reasons. But if a site is bad for the reader, it’s bad. The developer has failed, even if the customer got what it wanted.
This seems tangential to the NYT article, which is specifically calling out differences in the assessed values of the same type of assets as a function of their actual market value. Particularly they’re comparing houses that are often assessed by the same government entity under what are supposed to be uniformly applied standards. The consistent under assessment of high value homes versus the simultaneous over assessment of low value homes, across a number of different geographical locales would seem to point to some kind of systemic issue. I don’t think we should so quickly dismiss it. And anecdotally, in my area, I see a lot more police patrols in the pricier neighborhoods than the cheaper ones. In most middle class neighborhoods you have speed bumps in the road, the higher end ones get regular police presence to deter speeding so they don’t need to put up with such aesthetic blemishes.
You’d better see those numbers, then: desktops saw a major rebound since COVID. Employers are buying their remote employees home-office workstations, rather than laptops. A work laptop (as we’ve mostly stabilized on for the last decade) doesn’t make as much sense when the employer knows they won’t be asking the employee to commute, let alone travel for work. May as well get more bang for your buck with a fixed installation.
Good, and commercially successful, don't always go together.

Amazon is commercially successful but few would argue their UX is good.
What's fascinating is that moores law was successful far longer than people imagined.
Your age?
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The photo clearly doesn't provide any real evidence for her story, but it's also reckless speculation to say that "real patients" tend to not take photos with medical equipment. People take photos of everything these days. For a more extreme example of something you would expect people to not photograph - just think about how many people post photos of illegal activity on their social media profiles.
The most striking thing to me is that apple never kept any written records of its collaborations with the government. Not even emails. It was all hand shakes and whispers. I would have guessed that there is some kind of official proceedings involved in such a thing. I thought it was interesting that he said the DOE engineers seemed really sharp. I wonder how they incentive the best people to work a government job.
If an effect of the disparity of assessment, which this article is about, is that black people are paying a disproportionate amount of tax (I don’t think you’re disagreeing with this?), do you not think it should be called out in articles like this?

If not, why not?
Do you have any thoughts on what new skills you think you need? One approach might be to either start doing some learning in those areas, or even trying to get a job where you'll learn a bit about them.

Honestly, I usually am able to get a better perspective on my problems if I just take a real break -- get away and stop thinking about them -- along with really getting some exercise and enough sleep and eating healthy foods. Maybe checking in on some friends, if not actually trying to help someone out. Clears the mind.
Simple - don't light it on fire.
The 7 fatalities come from the UK, where the numbers are considerably better than in some other countries. In Norway there have been four deaths of over 50s with less than 200K vaccinations, which is especially bad, in Germany it's somewhere in between.

The 1 in 100K estimate comes from the EMA. Here they report it:

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-56616119

"The EMA, which has assessed data from around the world, estimates there is around a one in 100,000 risk of a CVST in people under the age of 60 who have been given the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine"

(not the primary source, but it's quite clear that the British national media station would not have a bias against the British vaccine...)
Don’t forget what happened in the early 2000s, hauling it and dumping in the Gulf of Mexico:

https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2003/07/17/barge-sets-out-t...
I’ve seen this in action already and it works quite well. A company called Optimus Ride is shuttling people between an apartment building and a local dc metro station on a mostly private road.

I am surprised Waymo did not try to target this market first as its a lot lower risk and easier to pull off.
But I filmed myself putting my big beautiful fake car in your driveway and put it on the internet to increase global mirth.
My personal experience and physiatrist says that it does.
It doesn't have to be "the" solution for it to qualify to be "helpful".

> I'm always seeking social activities.

I am not sure if this was framed in a negative view, but social activities are also supposed to help with depression.
They'd still be on the road with other people and the actual delivery of a package requires quite a bit of "common sense" absent some sort of drop-off zone with a beacon.
ah, no. Firefox doesn't run on IOs.
You don't build 82K for prototypes. You build hundreds to a few thousand for prototypes as you're scaling production.

82K is way too many to build when your design isn't finalized. It makes much more sense as a production goal when they hit mass production, or the number they expect to be able to sell.
Not that I agree with Salafists at all, but it's odd that many people's reaction to this is to mention them.

To a large degree, local so-called Salafists (at least the politicized ones) have been largely silenced, imprisoned, and otherwise "dealt with" since 2013.
SSN is used as taxpayer ID, that is why it is needed.

Now, there is absolutely no reason it could not be OTP'd (or uniquely derived for each account).
But your peepee shrinks to planck length
> he heat energy increases the pressure of the newly created CO2. This higher pressure is placed on one side of a turbine or a piston, and we extract useful work by moving it from a high density state to a low density state, causing it to cool in the process.

You run the hot, high-pressure gas through a turbine to give you less-hot, lower-pressure gas. You then extract as much waste heat out of that stream as you can via a heat exchanger process, to pre-heat incoming fuel/air and to recover more energy by boiling water to run through another turbine.

At the end of the process, you have a medium-temperature stream of combustion product that has high concentrations of CO2. You capture the carbon from this stream, before releasing the last bits of gas to the atmosphere.

You gain usable energy out of the process because all of the heat movement happens through a turbine (to directly generate energy) or through a heat exchanger (to recycle the heat to other more useful parts of the process).
Search engines use scraping. I would guess that most websites want to be featured on the search engines?
> Reddit’s redesign is so unusably sluggish that I don’t stay on it long enough to run into any other problems

I agree with everything you said, but allow me to reiterate this point. Reddit's redesign is the most hostile thing I've ever seen. It explicitly blocks me from reading the discussion. What's the point, then? It's absolutely unusable. If they ever remove old.reddit.com, I'm not following a Reddit link ever again.
Why does Vienna provide this service if it adds no value?
Would Apple Pay really work for a $1,000,000 purchase? Anyone up for giving it a try and reporting back to HN?
An L2 driving agent was never the goal.

An L2 car isn't a self driving car no matter what Elon says.
>Source?

https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100

You can change the week yourself.

If you pick a few random weeks before 2000, you likely won't find this pattern that I identified, with the same artist in the Top 20 multiple times.

If that's not enough evidence then there is a Python web scraper: https://github.com/jocelyn-ong/data-science-projects/blob/ma...
It is efficient enough to make you rethink the limitations of JS apps, it is basically glitch-free, and it works remarkably well as a full-featured tool for designing screens collaboratively and/or working with SVG.

That said, Figma sort of exists in an “app-like” vertical when it comes to web frontends. The other big vertical, and the one probably being alluded to in this tweet, is “magazine-like”. Those frontends have a much different goal, one that prioritizes responsive design, accessibility, progressive enhancement, and so forth. NY Times has been among the best in that vertical for a long time.
For people who downvoted me, I realize that this opinion is not popular.

However, one of the ways rich people keep control of their wealth is through all sorts of trust.

I highly recommend that people go Google “ charitable remainder trust” or GRATs and learn about them.

When billionaires give to charity, they are almost always getting something huge in return. They get to sorts of positive press as well.

I’m not arguing for or against any particular policy here, just that when billionaires ask for higher taxes, they’ve already gamed the system. It’s a way of looking good without actually doing good fat least, nowhere near as much as it looks).
> Are we certain that nature would 'repair' itself?

Our mere presence casts an anthropic shadow over observations of how likely disastrous environmental outcomes have been. For example, any extinction worse than the end Permian extinction would likely have prevented mammals from surviving, and humans then evolving. So just by our presence we can rule out the occurrence of such an event, even if (without us) it could perhaps have been likely.

Perhaps planets like Earth are just normally unstable, falling into states that destroy their biospheres, and Earth itself has been extremely lucky. There's no reason to think that luck will continue.
I appreciate your comment. But isn’t my conception of quality the only one that matters? If a doctor saves money for her employer by skipping some expensive test, and my health outcome is worse, her employer may be happy, but we don’t say that she is a good doctor.
You made my day^
..or you simply don't pull a permit. 'Round these parts, it's more common than not to simply avoid getting the county involved when possible, although I don't doubt the building department uses satellite data to catch the more outrageous avoidance.

You do have to wonder why your taxes go up if it were based simply on assessed value. Should the total .gov take go up simply because property values increased? I'd be more attracted to the idea if you took the government budget and parceled it up based on your property's comparative value. For one thing, people would keep a lot closer eye on expenditures than they do given a system where the tax never changes (or slowly increases over time).
Thanks. I am open to the explanation that I did not appreciate it.
What do you mean "well beyond any reasonable physical limits?"
Surely we can agree that growth in total energy usage must stop at some point? With continuous growth, you run into the limit of the earth's ability to radiate heat into space, or later on, the energy produced by the sun, in worryingly short timeframes.
Hacker News and the old reddit is the pinnacle of user experience for a site of its "genre". The new reddit perfectly exemplifies what @antirez is saying. It's amazing to me that hundreds (thousands?) of people who work at Reddit thought that that user experience was an "improvement" over the old reddit.
I don't find the argument convincing. I've used the web all day for decades, it's fine. Some sites are slow, some sites are buggy, some sites don't meet contemporary design standards... this is nothing new, it's the same as it ever was.

The one quality that truly differentiates the new web from the old web is the Cambrian explosion of ad tech, but this isn't a "front-end" problem, it's a cultural problem rooted in the shifting expectation that everything on the web should be monetized. There isn't really a solution to this, ads are the opposite side of the coin for people producing goods and services that are ostensibly providing value to the economy in the abstract sense... this is the web we all wanted.
A first good step would be to add the external cost of fertilizers to the price. We are all paying for the destruction of oceans, the result of using fossil fuels in the production chain, and the by-product which get stored in large pools like this, and yet they can easily out compete more ecological minded production since the cost get applied to society at large rather than the industrial farm that bought the fertilizer.