skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was wondering how soon someone would try to trash Tesla (or Elon) as it's completely off-topic and a false equivalence.

I see a lot of Teslas on the road, as I also drive one.

I see a lot of Superchargers around, and see (yup, I trust it) a lot of people around the world using them.

I see a lot of Powerwalls getting sold and installed.

I see huge Megapacks getting sold and installed.

I see a lot of solar being sold and installed.

I see manufacturing plants being built around the world.

I see that Panasonic is selling Tesla millions upon millions of battery cells, so they must be going somewhere.

I saw their earnings report for Q2 2021 and it sure seems like they are doing very well.

I see they have massive data and super computing power, currently being used and being built.

I see there are 70k+ people working for and getting paid to work for Tesla.

Oh, FSD is late. We've all underestimated our projects. So, this is the equivalency you're looking for? I see betas of FSD in cars on the road. I know people that are actively testing it. It's a hard problem, not a lie. It's just someone being overly optimistic, not overtly optimistic. I'm an investor, I understand the problem because I know what I invest in. I am not angry nor do I believe it to be a lie.
It's pretty good for SWE to have positive alternatives to everything you mentioned these days, isn't it?
It is available also on Android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.clubhouse....
How do you roll back after a botched OS update then? Boot into a rescue cd?
Duolingo is great for producing a cursory introduction to a language. But yes, there is no substitute for immersion. For example I spent some time in Spain after learning the language basically on Duolingo. I’m sure I spoke like a 2 year old, but at least I wasn’t totally helpless (I was even able to give someone directions to the airport!). Contrast that with my experience in France where I barely knew anything, and felt totally out of place and awkward.
I have a couple Kindle Keyboards and a DX. I wish Amazon would re-release them with a high res screen and updated electronics. No other changes.

I've tried the newer Kindles, and keep going back to the KK and DX.

Well, I would make one change. Have the last page read be the screen display when off instead of those boring and useless pictures it shows.
>Filtering rooms by language, proximity, rating would be helpful for example.

Wow. This should be tablestakes for a company worth 4 billion dollars.
At the risk of being repetitive, “finding common ground” cannot be a one sided action, else it is seeking mere conformity. And the reader is a side to this; if the reader is stuck at a perspectival narrowing, they will feel like the argument is not working towards common understanding with them while it might as well be their narrowness preventing them from being receptive.

Also common ground is not a geometric mean; eg in an imaged conversation for and against capital punishment, common ground is not killing the convict just a little. It is about showing the work that lead to people to their own conclusions, which usually tend to have more in common than people expect.

Not being conclusive is OK for such discussions, and people have a right to defend their positions, as long as it doesn’t degrade to name calling and other conversation killers.

The most dominant name calling in this thread right now is from people that condemn all participants for not being sophisticated or conciliatory enough. That is the performative contradiction I’ve been talking about.
Aren't their vaccines significantly less effective than Moderna, Pfizer, etc.? In that case, I'm not sure we should let their earlier release reflect negatively on those that took longer to be ready. On the contrary, maybe we should instead consider the possibility that the Russian and Chinese vaccines were rushed.
The only OS endorsed by the Holy C.
Matt writes brilliantly on irrational, ridiculous, silly happenings in the world of finance. My guess is he's happy for a such a steady stream of subject matter.
«I just want to grep the internet” +1
> Optimists deal with the intended, manifest, short-term, and readily grasped.
Pessimists deal with the unintended, latent, long-term, and that grasped only with difficulty.

Man, this is DEEPLY untrue if taken as a rule. Some of the most naive, shallow, and short-term thinking I’ve seen has been by pessimists and technology skeptics.

Malthusian predictions are the most glaring and there’s a 200 year long history of its wrongness, spanning over the most explosive expansion of both population AND wealth/wellbeing in human history.

And I know many of us on HN are sick and tired of tech bulls**ters and are understandably jaded about many aspects of tech progress, but Malthusian ideas have, when some have really taken them to heart, led to some pretty rotten results, such as the British letting the Irish starve. But we still have plenty of similar zero/negative-sum thinking today on both the left and the right (although it seems the vanguard Left today is Degrowthist, there was a time when it was the Left that was most optimistic for the glorious future and accused “Limits to Growth” types as using Malthusian ideas to reinforce the status quo).

The reality is that humanity has massive potential, but also massive agency for good AND ill. To surrender to zero sum, degrowth/Malthusian/neoLuddite thinking has huge consequences because it leaves us without the tools we’ll need to address the problems of today and the future. Malthusians can’t only see the short term use of resources by people, not how people working together can actually create greater abundance long term. They look at the amount of land, the number of mouths and number of births to extrapolate poverty and starvation but they don’t look deeper, to the Industrial Revolution that was happening under Malthus’ own nose, how those people working together increase yields and develop better medical technology to resolve the problems that in the short term seemed insurmountable. Progress has negative consequences, but the status quo is absolutely murderous long-term.
> more voluntarily reports of causing harm than any other vaccine in recent history, btw

Given the amount of doses administered, we would expect this, right?

Or are you making the claim that the proportions are higher?
Has Nikola prototypes that can actually drive by now? From a quick look, there seems to be suspiciously little mention of that, despite there being a clear motivation for them to widely promote that after the video scandal broke last year?
Occasionally finding duplicated things in google services makes the scammer's story believable. Knowing that google is has a history of terminating accounts (and your livelihood) on a whim gets the emotions involved and clouds your judgment. I didn't love the channel, but I really empathize.
IMHO there is a middle ground between spaghetti straps with copious side boob and "trad-wife shit".

This channel is pushing the boundaries and the boundaries pushed back.
I would accept False.

I would also not complain if a "Warning: why are you comparing strings and integers" was raised.

Operators like +,-, ... should raise TypeError, or similar.
Not saying you're wrong, but to explain "how is that possible over 20 years without ever blowing things up": he says he uses visual studio since the beggining (the full blown ide).

Since he's working alone, he can easily use the local backup feature of it, which allow to easily rollback to automatically made copies of files, diff and cherry pick between current and backups, etc ... It's basically done automatically for you.

As long as you save your project regularly and don't need to merge code with anyone, it can go a long way.
Huh, they made cellular-only models? That's such a bizzare idea.
The German state has no shortage of tools available to make their interest in you an uncomfortable situation.
Proxmox backup node

https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-backup-server
Df is just like OpenTTD. Both are like Chess, easy to start, fun to play casually but it takes years to master. Great games, complex if you want to and a time sink if you don't keep an eye on it. Have had many hundreds of fun hours in both games
Cracking Open the Android/iOS Grip on Smartphones and the Mobile Internet
How popular is it? Considering working there.
It’s #57 on IMDb Top 250 (https://www.imdb.com/chart/top/). Also won the Best Foreign Language Film that year (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/79th_Academy_Awards). That’s how I heard of it.

I saw it as a boy and it had a profound effect on the way I view government. Privacy feels like just a word until you see it violated like it is in this movie.
> many people don't seem to actually have beliefs. They have some vague set of heuristics that they use to respond to the world

You're right, from what I've understood. Instead, the humans are first and foremost social animals. Staying friends with the others, is what's important to them -- and one of their main heuristics, is, what do my friends (the others in the tribe) think? And to copy those opinions.

> Anything to avoid updating their priors

Changing ones believes, can abandoning one's friends? And historically (hunter gatherer tribes), that could mean isolation and extinction
The Right to Start on Make;Cast
Currently learning embedded development. There’s a kind of precision needed in this space that wasn’t important in higher level mostly frontend work. I need to know that the loop executed exactly twice since the last update, or whatever. But there’s also a ton of stuff I don’t need to worry about. Input sanitization, animation curves, view layering, network request invalidation, stuff like that. I think the premise is wrong. There is no easy or hard domain. It’s all about the specific thing you’re doing within that domain
> The main advantage of the consortium’s new transcript model is not that it provides more information than grades by virtue of nuance and detail, but that it provides less, by means of not having a readily commensurable scale. The proposed system will make it harder to compare prep students with each other. It will make it almost impossible to compare prep students — summarized with a radar plot of character traits and a “featured credit” of “exhibit moral courage in confronting unjust situations” — to the plebs who are still reporting that they earned a 3.9 GPA including an “A” in AP Calculus.

...

> This would be one more step in a long-standing trend in college admissions, as described in Jerry Karabel’s book The Chosen. From 1898 to 1919, Harvard, Yale, and Princeton opened up their admissions requirements by adopting the College Entrance Exam Board and abandoning a Greek-language requirement. These reforms made admission more open to non-elite boys, who as a rule were unable to take the schools’ proprietary entrance exams and attended high schools that did not offer Greek. As a result, the Ivies saw a sizable increase in Jewish students, and Columbia even experienced WASP flight, which its peers dreaded. Although Harvard discussed an explicit Jewish quota in 1922, this proved unpalatable, and so between 1922 and 1926 the big three Ivies adopted admissions boards that gave a heavy emphasis to qualitative evidence of “character” (read: WASP culture emphasizing muscular Christianity, club membership, and athletics over book learning) as a pretext to limit Jews.
I really miss my old, old Kindle keyboard. It was the perfect form-factor for reading fiction, and the physical page turn buttons on both sides were literally perfect - holding the Kindle in either hand, the page forward button is in exactly the spot where my thumb wants it to be.

When the last of my old Kindles with the physical buttons died, I broke down and bought an Oasis, and... it's wildly better than a modern Paperwhite or a Kindle Fire, but it's pretty shittily designed from a usability perspective. The whole thing should be as thick as the offset thick edge, in order to hold it comfortably, and while it is nice to have physical turn buttons back, they're really awkwardly placed to use if you're trying to hold the thing in one hand and use your thumb, as one does with a Kindle.
GM’s reputation is trash with anyone but patriotic “GM/Chevy” Americans already.

So long as the public are willing to believe they’re essential, they’ll remain too big to fail and don’t need to worry about their reputation.
Visualising changes with semantic Git differences
so I'm a bit confused - lithium has a higher electronegativity than sodium.

why bother with sodium at all? cost ?
Clipboard clears after 10 seconds.
> the alternative is that we continue to kill with impunity

Who did you kill recently? I did not kill anyone but you must have given your statement.

No, I do not think that you killed anyone. The type of hyperbole used in both this piece as well as in reactions like yours only serve to polarise the issue without offering any upsides. The alternative to this type of hyperbole is to change yourself instead of trying to change others. Aim to find enjoyment into becoming less dependent on those things which you deem to be bad or harmful - whatever these might be - without proselytising your newfound purpose in life. If you're successful it will rub off on others in a far more effective way than by you trying to force your way upon them for the greater good. Walk the walk, don't talk the talk. Only once people ask how you managed to walk that far the time has come to do some talking to help them find their way.
When those came out we thought it was free forever :-(

https://xkcd.com/548/
I'll chime in as well. I forward everything from gmail to another account I have. I pretty much never got any forwarded email for years because the gmail account is only really used as an identity for google services. A few months ago I suddenly started to get a significant amount of spam forwarded for no known reason.
It was fun for a moment during the pandemic, but after I could be with people again I deleted the app. There was also a non-scalable factor to being on the inside of some of the clubs. Early clubhouse days you'd get to hear important people say things that they wouldn't say in public. By the time I left it was chalk full of grifters.
There is less signal to noise when it comes to reinfections because the data is just harder to come by, but the preliminary evidence shows that reinfections do happen, but quite rarely (some numbers from a few waves of infections showed only 1 out of 150 positive results were from people who had tested positive previously). There has also been evidence that intensity of infection is correlated to post-infection immunity (i.e. if you were asymptomatic you have less immunity than if you were hospitalized)

It is reasonable to believe that having had an existing infection will boost your immunity against future infections and that both vaccines and previous infections will protect you on a diminishing basis, say, for a year or two. (based on existing covid evidence and the behavior of immunity to other coronaviruses which are common in humans which are usually very mild and referred to as a "cold")
Ford is the obvious leader for electric trucks, what does Nikola have that For doesn't?
Which is surprising....do they even have a car in the works?
The end of World War I was somewhat chaotic [1] as General Pershing (US Commander) and other high ranking officers issued orders to cease hostilities on November 11th, but did not clearly state what to do in the interim. Lower level commanders either believed that territory held when the armistice went into effect would be kept, or sought to enhance their military careers by one final action, ordered offensives right up until the last minute. General Pershing would later have to testify before congress on why there were so many casualties on the last few days of the war, but no action was taken against him.

[1] Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day, 1918 World War I and Its Violent Climax Paperback – October 12, 2005
by Joseph E. Persic
>there simply is no agency that could field and coordinate that many undercover agents nor surreptitiously replace all normal people on my route

It's entirely possible that a person can reason like that and reject some theories, and it may even be comforting to see and feel things that are easily dismissed.

However, paranoia does not necessarily involve things that are so clearly absurd, even to a healthy observer. You're talking about one end of a distribution, even for a given person, and an almost infinite number of possibilities are in a gray area.

It's possible to observe patterns of coincidence without a particular theory, and rejecting a theory or switching to a different one doesn't make observations go away.

Those observations can be mistaken or selective, but that's a separate issue.
A framework for localizing global climate solutions
It reads to me more like technical specs for a sex doll or maybe dating simulator software, but I guess everyone is different.
Should Zoom build this in as a feature? Why or why not?
So stationary?
Clubhouse was great/innovative around Jan-Mar.

Then the new blocking mechanism was implemented in tandem with their whole "enable creators" motto.

Both destructive initiatives on their own, but especially the whole creator model. Feeds look like spam and/or "programs" are structured and oriented to a creator's platform.

Like a bad vegas conference with emojis.
Sure, but it also removes most of the reason to use Git.
I like Lua's solution to this dilemma:

5 == "5" -- false
5 + "5" -- 10
5 .. "5" -- 55

It's just dynamic enough, none of the conversions are surprising and they're frequently helpful.
> Consumers shouldn't have to waste time sorting through products that are broken from day 1 in non-obvious ways.

They're broken via legislation, not any fundamental part of the product.
Well, I find it questionable to build roadway/infrastructure foundations out of something vulnerable to structural degradation from exposure tp petroleum products.

One wreck involving a fuel tanker without sufficient containment and the entire subgrade starts to dissolve and buckle and sink?
Anyone feel like FSF moved from maybe engineering idealists to a very lawyer driven type org?

The big GPLv3 push and development - plenty of attacks on folks actually shipping product on GPLv2 and building communities around that model (which keeps software free but allows users of the software to do what they want with it pretty much including putting in devices that are locked down - cars / tivo's etc).

Here's an opportunity to really advance in an interesting area with ML -> something that may open up programming to more people -> may advance computers ability to program and modify their own programs in the long run.

And regardless of the FSF attorney stuff, places like china, tiny little LLC's with no assets will very likely use the wonderful amount of code on the web to develop solutions in this space, even if FSF claims everything is a violation. Where is the vision anymore from FSF.

One thing that's been sad about the FSF -> it's gone from what I would consider a forward looking idealism sort of thing -> here's how we could do / make cool stuff that let communities work together -> to now sort of a legal compliance type org that really is focused on "actionable claims" " protected against violations" etc.

Question - does the Linux community and other successful larger open source communities welcome the FSF and their attorney's into the discussion? I can hardly imagine the BSD's, the Linux folks really connecting anymore with them.

Is there space for a different group, maybe a collection of actual develops shipping code in larger communities to get together, no FSF / SFC lawyers present, to think creatively about the future? What should we be working for, what is fair to everyone, what helps society, what works around pro-social community building?

A tool that helps with cross language building blocks for common functions etc (stackoverflow on steroids) - just how bad is this?
I don't know about mirror neurons personally, but the cult-like behaviour, evangelism, and buzz words in business has been easily observable for decades.

Now you go into subreddits like /r/superstonk, bitcoin, GME, Dogecoin, etc. And the cultish religiosity is palpable in these echo chambers too.

So I'm not really surprised by this, if what you've shared is true.
Could someone explain to me why Linux needed all these different audio systems?

I remember when ALSA was the successor to OSS. But there were also others I can't name. JACK too, but I think that's still in use for professional sound production (not sure why anyone would use Linux for that). Then came PulseAudio which was The Future 2, which had a bunch of incompatibilities with existing programs that either caused latency or an absence of audio. But it got better over time. What was it, a little over a decade since PulseAudio got fully rolled out?

Now there's yet another project called PipeWire.

Frankly, this is one big reason I ditched Linux. The illusion of "choice" is more like a bunch of people just one-upping each other for the sake of it. I've seen it time and again with things like the FFMpeg vs Libav debacle, the various spinoffs of GIMP that didn't pan out, most desktop environments, and so on. Actually, at least there's sort of a better argument for infinite DEs, but I don't see audio needs being all that different between various users.
there is already another calendar management app called Clockwise, maybe try a different name to avoid confusion?
Syntax error. Unexpected end of line.
On a similar note, zsh-history-substring-search has become something I look for everywhere.

https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search
It really is just so incredibly simple, the people who want an office the whole week or just for a few days, or part of the weekdays, should be able to do it, and stay home when they need/want it. (As long as the work gets done obviously)

The primary obstacle is the large contingent of authoritarian managers who are fundamentally and completely unable to either trust or delegate, so they crave control over every detail to compensate for being placed in a position they can’t handle.

The saddest part that these completely useless, drains on human productivity, fascist individuals are rewarded greatly by the incentives of our paltry economic system..
Nope, the SEC demands to get all the gains back plus pay a fine. He may go bankrupt after this.
Looking forward to the ELI5 version of this. It sounds interesting but I have no idea what they're saying.
Author here: happy to answer questions about semantic diffs and Reviewpad in general!
Place a beam splitter between you and fire a laser. Get entangled particles back.

Or place an entangled particle emitter between you
60% of the time, it works every time
Will we? The trend has been for countries to protect their big losers, those underperforming companies that are too big to fail. Started in Japan in the 80s, then Europe in the 2000s, and the U.S. since 2009. Arguably communist countries have always functioned this way, with state-owned enterprises.

The result is a coupling between between the fate of the nation and the fate of its major employers, with loose monetary policy, regulatory capture, and explicit fiscal bailouts to protect it. Then instead of the deadwood being cleaned out, the whole country becomes deadwood, and you get lost generations and social unrest as the only way to throw out ways of doing business that aren't working is to throw out the people in power.
There are several languages where this sort of type coercion exists. Javascript, Awk, Perl, Tcl, and PHP as you mentioned.

For the most part, the developers in those spaces seem to know the pitfalls and how to avoid them.
So that's why some websites fail to log you in with numerical usernames and/or passwords that start with zero.
The day police bombed a city street (2020)