skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The SUV craze peaked in the late 00s. We've on average been moving to smaller crossovers since. Boxy 90s iterations of midsize SUVs like the 4Runner Cherokee, Durango, Explorer, etc and fullsize pickup based SUVs like the Armada, Suburban, Expedition, etc (regardless of age) have become much rarer than they used to be and the crossovers that displace them tend to be built for sale in other parts of the world with much more stringent passenger safety requirements.

I'm very suspect of any analysis that doesn't try to account for smartphone use. They came onto the scene in the 2010s and were instantly and obviously bad enough that they became a known issue and subject to regulation in short order yet the author doesn't even mention this.
Why colonize the nearest star - we have plenty of space around the Sun and surrounding it is more than enough material to construct countless O'Neill cylinders?
There's also a nice discussion from Sixty Symbols when the news came out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBzn4o4z5Bk
Yes, of course, that's what is in their heads. But it is a strange notion of "convenience" to be locked into certain patterns of living and purchase just to make sure we can easily do something we do very occasionally. I'm not sure where you rented, but from what I've seen a typical car rental is $40/day. It'd have to be long road trips before that really added up.
For our business domain we use https://dmarc.postmarkapp.com/ They have good help pages on DMARC and SPF settings https://postmarkapp.com/guides/dmarc but still the target audience is developers.
I highly disagree with the article because the model animal used in research is highly dependent on the question being asked (which isn’t mentioned directly at all). Author takes a competition approach - “we’ll lose out on all the sweet monkey data!” IMO, in neuroscience the tools are advanced enough (without using primates), it’s our institutional structure and our languages that can’t cope.
Officesync: Manage your Hybrid-Remote team
A lot of software consists of ready built models, but without the right parameters and constraints you'll just end up with garbage. I don't see a reason why this wouldn't be the case for deep learning models?
The fact that they hired him suggests to me that it's not possible at this point point in time anyway.
YEP.

Electric cars are something we must do to halt climate change, but we need to recognize it's an example of doing the same broken thing, just better.

At the end of the day we will have a more green version of what we have now, carrying over all the existing flaws of automobile oriented infrastructure (ie. pedestrian deaths, traffic).
At one point I commuted 90 to 120 minutes or more each way. I managed to survive it for about a year and a half or so and it was absolutely the hardest thing I've ever done in my life. I don't know how people can do longer commutes or for a longer period of their life than me. I would recommend anybody to keep a hard cap of 1h each way and only if it's absolutely necessary. Today I'd rather work for 50k and a 30m commute than a 2h commute for 200k
It's just a project to learn all the things that are web.
It's mainly a database for a game now with most of the information sourced from the game (including its localization files).

I'm slowly transitioning from MariaDB to Postgres - again as a learning experience. There is cool stuff and there is annoying stuff to reproduce things like case-insensitive + ignore accents (utf8_general_ci) in Postgres.

I've looked into FTS and searching for missing dictionaries to support all the locales but Chinese is one of the harder ones.
Offtopic, but currious what are your use cases when searching all HN and reddit comments? Im at the beggining of this path, just crawled HN, but what to do with this, still a bit cloudy.
China’s state media moves to reassure rattled investors after rout wiped $574bn
If you don't already you should document your project on Youtube.
It's a super cool project and I'm sure you can even get lots of Patreon sponsors that way and even commercial ones probably.
And forget getting the weChat payment functionality working with a foreign bank.
They tried to make exceptions for work vehicles which seems to have spectacularly backfired.
Bottom line - Apple is great if everything works as it's supposed to. Otherwise your experience with them isn't going to be better than anywhere else, other than their Genius Bar employees tell you to go eff yourself in a really nice way! The good news is most of Apple's stuff works so you're generally okay. That's what passes for customer service these days.
PID Control Theory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETHYi_8c2Es&ab_channel=Offic...
50 Years Ago, NASA Put a Car on the Moon
> IE was cutting edge until Firefox. The biggest problem with IE was all the insanely weird shit it did, not missing features.

This is completely incorrect. IE lacked CSS2, it lacked proper PNG support, it lacked HTML5 tag support for ages, its DOM implementation was missing functions for the DOM spec that it implemented, it lacked SVG support entirely, it didn't have meaningful developer tools (no, the browser toolbar didn't count because it crashed so much) until IE7... The list goes on. It's simply revisionist to say that IE wasn't missing features. It was nowhere close to the cutting edge, even when its releases were cut.

IE lacked just as much as it got wrong, even at the time.
Kinda what I figured. Th whole concept of a mainframe is pretty neat in that you can go through the 1000 page manual and have an idea about all that is possible, instead of an infinitely changing software tool ocean. The latter is probably better overall, but it would be neat to check out the mainframe paradigm.
Not sure if those "levels" were what the GGP, whom I was asking, meant. If they were, then no, they don't seem all that cut-and-dried and unambiguous to me: IIRC, there's controversy about them on this very comment page.
Seems like its had a lot of practice from how fucked up the faceplate is.
I've been hearing variations of this argument for about 30 years now.
"Actually, no, let's go even more conservative. You think our economic and scientific progress will stagnate. Today's civilizations will crumble, and many more civilizations will fall and rise. Sure, we'll eventually get the ability to expand throughout the galaxy. But it will take 100,000 years. That's 10x the amount of time that has passed since human civilization began in the Levant."

How far will these civilizations crumble? What will they use for energy, given that we have exhausted the easily accessible sources of coal and oil?

"Spreading throughout the galaxy would certainly be harder if nothing like mind uploading (which I'll discuss in a future piece, and which is part of why I think future space settlements could have "value lock-in" as discussed above) can ever be done."

"Mind uploading" is the wrong way to look at it. How about "mind copying" for a best case (whether that copying requires the destruction of the original is another issue); "mind simulation" is a less palatable case.

"But space expansion seems feasible, and our galaxy is empty. These two things seem in tension. A similar tension - the question of why we see no signs of extraterrestrials, despite the galaxy having so many possible stars they could emerge from - is often discussed under the heading of the Fermi Paradox."

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. (Yeah, that's pretty lame.)
> the message loop that Windows has used since Win95

I'm pretty sure Windows had a message loop since the very first version.
If they’re open no poach agreements, couldn’t they be prosecuted ?

https://www.lw.com/thoughtLeadership/doj-first-criminal-char...
I agree with you completely, except for the idea that I have too much faith in the legal system.
The vertical space is significantly larger, about 200km (400km-600km height) for usable latencies (35000km if we’re talking any orbit) vs only 3-4km for commercial flights.
Not necessarily "China phone number". I live in Malaysia and WeChat is very popular here, even among Malays. One Malaysian friend vouched for my account.
Good article, however I think it's too pessimistic about the possibility of extraterrestrials. I don't know if it's human exceptionalism or poor understanding of how mind-breakingly massive the universe actually is, or a combination of the two, but there is life out there. We've only been searching for a couple decades with our primitive tools and haven't even begun to scratch at an atom of the surface of places to look for life.
And apparently at his law practice "clients" would come in, but just ask to play chess.
They use a bridge between IRC, Matrix, and Slack.
Founder would rather build features than do marketing. Finally changes his mind
I've completely given up on promoting my stuff. It used to be very easy and straightforward. Like minded folks could find new stuff without a problem. Nowadays, there's just way too much content, the vast majority of very low effort, and you get lost in the noise immediately.

For example, I have an old blog post that got featured in podcasts, on dailyjs, HN, is linked to from MDN, etc. When I wrote it in 2014 I pretty much just submitted it to Reddit, that's it. Nowadays I couldn't recreate that exposure -- or even a tiny fraction of it -- if my life depended on it.
Email Marketing – How to Create a Profitable Email Marketing Campaign
Solo ads are advertisements on other people's email lists in which you're the only thing being advertised in that email. These ads have links to drive traffic to your website or funnel.

Email marketing is still a hugely profitable way of getting sales or making sales. The secret is to build a list of emails that people are willing to subscribe to because it will help them solve a problem. They are interested in that list because of the benefit that you will give them.

The problem that they are looking for a solution to is on their mind or it has been mentioned in their email. Because of this, these emails will be profitable in the long run. You should try and make them good. You are competing with other marketers who are also sending out good content to their lists. You have to make them good, or you won't be making sales.

It is not a good idea to add ads to emails that are already advertised because the people who have already been will know about your offer or message. They will leave your list after a while and will never come back because they have been educated about your product or service.

When sending out your first email campaign, make sure that you do not have any SOLO ads or email marketing campaign. If you have, it is unlikely that you will be successful in making sales. People will know and most likely will unsubscribe from your list. You will lose any conversions that you had from your previous campaigns.

When sending out your first campaign, try and make sure that the message has some sort of call to action. This could be telling them to click on a link, fill in a survey, order something, or whatever you think is the best way to prompt them to buy or learn more. If you have a product or service that you think is of value to the people you are sending your emails to, you should also include a donation link in your email. It may sound like it's just for show, but people usually respond better when you ask them to do something. I've seen this work 100% of the time. People tend to give out more money when you ask them to give. This way, you are making sure that people will get what they want.
You are missing what I’m saying. It’s not about a particular substance. All power to folks who want to face their demons. I want people the be healthy, like anyone else. This isn’t about the people wanting to quit.

It’s about the people that are building structures to enforce their own morality and dressing it up as helping addiction. Those that prey on those wanting to quit.
From the same author:

- His book on engineering management, An Elegant Puzzle: https://www.amazon.com/Elegant-Puzzle-Systems-Engineering-Ma...

- His blog also discusses management: https://lethain.com/
Intel Drops a Bomb on the Semiconductor Industry
Google's camera app does this in the Lens mode.

I snapped picture of the example picture; it came up with Swiss Cheese Plant.

Don't know how good it is. I've used it maybe seven or eight times in the past for identifying plants; it worked every time.

Most recently, over just this past weekend, it identified an Elm tree from a shot a branch.
Brains ‘memory center’ needed to recognize image sequences but not single sights
It doesn't work that way, you can't "tally up everything". If so, let's do that for humanity as a whole and conclude it's been a mistake.

Again, a huge part of crypto is perfectly legitimate, just retail buying/selling crypto via KYC exchanges. It's not lawless, just a free market of assets.

Which any individual can use or ignore as they see fit. You can use an investment strategy (buy and hold), trading/speculation strategy (minority of day traders) or indeed go the gambling route: super high risk bets using leverage.

Calling this entire spectrum consisting of hundreds of millions of users "gambling" is simplistic, binary thinking. Most crypto holders have less than 10K USD worth of holdings and rarely trade on it.

"800 billion market cap of Bitcoin" is already an absurd statement."

How so? Because you think it's worth less, or perhaps zero? If you're so super confident about that, short it. You'll get filthy rich whilst proving you're right.

But you won't short it, because you have no idea.
Its basically the Bernoulli's equation. Its because pressure is force over area and the mass of the body of water above it is area times height time density so the area cancels out. You can add velocity into the equation and its a conservation of energy equation. Similarly there is a continuity equation which is a conservation of mass. These two are the backbone of a beginning fluid mechanics course in engineering.
thanks for sharing your experience. this is helpful!
If you’re on Apple products, go get NetNewsWire in the App Store and use your iCloud space to sync subscriptions between devices. You’ll have to manually add RSS feeds, but those are usually discoverable by doing a web search for your site + feed or rss, or by adding /feed or /rss to the end of the site URL to see if it’s hiding there.
> Standard-setting was only partly in the hands of the people setting the type. Even more so, it was down to a growing reading public. The more texts there were, the more reading there was, and the greater the sensibility about what looks right. Once that sense develops, it can be a very powerful enforcer of norms. These norms in the literacy of English speakers today are so well entrenched that simple adjustments are very jarring. If ai trai tu repreezent mai akshuel pronownseeayshun in raiteeng, yu kan reed it, but its difikelt and disterbeeng tu du soh. It just looks wrong, and that feeling of wrongness interrupts the flow of reading. The fluency of reading depends on the speed with which you visually identify the words, and the speed of identification increases with exposure. The more we see a word, the more quickly we recognise it, even if its spelling doesn’t match the sound.

That's kind of interesting: one of the reasons English is stuck with such difficult spelling is that sight reading is so much more important nowadays than reading aloud.

If you just stop trying to interpret the words and just read them as pronunciations (which I understand how much reading used to be done), that phonetic sentence is actually not too hard to read.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/49/523.5

Specifically this regulation, the distinction between passenger and non passenger vehicles. A Lexus NX SUV should be considered and regulated as a passenger vehicle except for its 28 degree sloping chin giving it a “non passenger” vehicle exemption. This means it can avoid a slew of pedestrian safety measures.
I agree with reason 1, but reason 2 is an answer for, "should I use PG search in the same PG instance I already have", and that's a different discussion. You can set up a replica for that.
The main concern is that the encrypted data is stored on the server long-term. The longer it is on the server, the more likely it becomes that it is saved by an adversary.

If data is only stored for a minimal amount of time, we lower the risk of an adversary acquiring it
> I can't help but notice all the blogs tagged "software" in the list (so far). In fact, I think if there was a filter to exclude software blogs, there might be only a few remaining?

Sort the table by Tags.

There are 9 non-software blogs out of ~250 blogs. So, yes, about 96% software.
UK PM may block Chinese takeover of UK’s largest computer chip maker
On question 1, there was initial uncertainty about how effective (if at all) masks would be, and fear that if everyone wore masks, they would feel invulnerable and fail to socially distance. Subsequent studies showed that masks were somewhat effective and that they didn't give people a false sense of security. There was even some initial uncertainty about whether covid was airborne.

On question two, dunno. It seemed like a bad idea at the time, and most countries didn't do it. 70% of adults here (Ireland) are fully vaccinated, and masks are still mandatory indoors (and that mandate is generally still being obeyed). The only possible reason I can think of was as an incentive for people to get vaccinated.
Ok, thanks for clarifying. I'm European where I don't think calculations like this exist.
There is already a setting which prevents people not on your friends list from contacting you, as well as a setting limiting who can request to add you as a friend. What more do you need?
-I have next to no clue what I am talking about-
Wouldn't a "wheelchair as powerbank" be the best solution to get people as mobile as possible?
Plenty of affordable EVs exist in China. The US will no doubt have comparable cars soon.

https://egear.asia/cheapest-electric-cars-china/
> we're completely bootstrapped and haven't taken any external funding yet

Didn't you take YC money? That sounds external and not bootstrapped to me. Unless they've changed the rules.
The iSeries is a fascinating machine. It was, when introduced, years ahead of anything else - virtual ISA, single-level storage and OS-level integrated DB/2 RDBMS - and, in many aspects, it still is (Apple's Newton is the only other platform I remember that has single-level storage).
Seems that only applies to China weixin accounts. The rest of the world can still create an international wechat account.
FastAI.jl: FastAI for Julia
I know this is being downvoted, but I find it genuinely interesting how much negative fervor there is towards threads. So it's a useful contribution to me!

I use Slack threads everyday. I've only heard of one person in our org (or in any org I've been in prior that used slack) who had strong opinions about threads.

Thanks for the very genuine opinion. Perhaps I'll start refining my own opinions about chat app threads.
> What will they use for energy, given that we have exhausted the easily accessible sources of coal and oil?

That’s a source of much depression for me. We’re so close to being ready to fill the galaxy, while simultaneously close to a collapse that might prevent any future civilization from doing the same.

And what if we really are the only hope in the galaxy, or even beyond that, to propagate life that can truly appreciate the universe?
There is without any bloodshed and without any bloodshed. The Soviet Union fell down with very little bloodshed, but around 7 million people died from the economic disruption, and the democracy that came from it was rapidly compromised both by local oligarchs and foreign powers in most of it.

I don't think the Chinese would want a fall of the USSR scenario, however little the bloodshed is. Economic disruption can kill a lot of people and there is not even any guarantee the next system would stand on it's own.
Americans Hate Each Other
How is the performance of the UI? Is it still likes to get really warm?

I haven’t tried mine nowadays, and there is always great progress when I check back, but I simply can’t imagine using it as a daily driver.
If I flip between them I can see a difference, yes, but it doesn't exactly make my eyes bleed. Opened up a random PDF in Sumatra without something to compare it to and, now having seen it, still nothing jumps out. Then again, I grew up with bitmapped fonts in 320x200 on a CRT.
The BBC drama The Missing and spin off Baptise have a calm and friendly lead detective. Not sure where you are but it you can get them in your country maybe give them a try.
If you feel overwhelmed by all the blog posts out there, there are newsletters that will send you one or several articles a day and let you ingest them slowly. I particularly like Thinking About Things and Findka Essays.

[0] https://www.thinking-about-things.com/
[1] https://essays.findka.com/
How Congressional Investigations Work
Loma Prieta Earthquake, day 2.

Bank calls the Tandem support line: "Our computer is down. It crashed! How do we get it back up?"

It wasn't offline. It had fallen over, punching through some of the sections of the raised floor.
Video game developers at Activision Blizzard say they'll walk out Wednesday
None of the Discord servers/channels I'm involved in are that active so that sort of real time chat aspect is much less significant.

I agree with that you're saying but it's also not the only way one interacts with Discord. I might only visit a server once a week and try and catch up on the messages posted in that time.
But don't you still have the same server paradigm on Fluffychat as you do with Slack/Discord? That's very much not like Signal/WhatsApp.
"Indieweb uses Slack" in the sense that, yes, there is an Indieweb Slack team. There are probably also people who contribute to the Indieweb who use Twitter and Facebook and other fully proprietary systems, as well as many who use Micro.blog, which is built using established open standards but does not make its server open source.

Don't be the guy who strokes his chin and says "You say you're a vegan, yet you have a leather wallet. Interesting."
That doesn't seem very relevant to the topic of creating a personal blog.
you seem to reduce it down to pain. how is your notion of "pain" any different from not scoring well and being moved away from?
I knew that article would mention immigration.

Here's the gist:

* older people people favor policy that benefits themselves by sacrificing their kids

* young people have been economically tapped out and have lost confidence in supporting a family, thus wont have children

* population declines across the developed world [1]

* "elites" see writing on the wall and rightly anticipate economic decline

* elites and owners of assets (who are typically older) advocate for more favorable policies for themselves (lower wealth taxes, lower inheritance tax, NIMBY-isms) while also advocating for more immigration to keep labor costs down and population growth up

* young people get squeezed (again) with the double whammy of stagnant wages and high housing costs

And thus the US is set up for an ugly political war between:

* young vs old

* those who do not own assets vs asset owners

* anti-establishment vs establishment

* socialism vs capitalism

* closed borders vs open borders

* etc

Which is playing out as we speak.

[1] https://www.populationpyramid.net/world/2019/
Not Kidding About Those Blue Bubbles
Machine-Learning Non-Conservative Dynamics for New-Physics Detection
>Fairness means equality of opportunity, not the equality of outcome. Arguing for the equality of outcome is tyrannical and pure evil.

Equal rights means equal opportunity though, not equal outcomes.
> it's mostly politics now

That depends on who you follow. It's in your hands.
It relies on the idea of encryption being safe forever in the same way any other program does. If somehow the encryption used is broken you will have a lot more to worry about than your messages.