skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The car horn is a safety feature that is designed to be used as a warning mechanism. It's a poor analogy to compare it to "comfort", which literally translates into the passenger in the back also reclining and reclaiming the same amount of space.

At the end of the day, the person paid for a seat and that seat comes with comfort features that they can use.

To reiterate, it's a poor analogy as no one is honking at you or keeping you from sleeping or waking you up or whatever else a random car horn would do to you at 3 am (at which point you should be calling the authorities because if you live in a civilized place, that ought to be illegal)
I wish this existed for the git remote.
There are no behavioural questions, the intro bit at the start is just there to not abruptly start asking questions, help you relax a bit, and also nice in case the client wants to look at the video to find out more about you. We do insist that your code works correctly, that's true. We're not overly anal about the format of your solution, but we do expect to cover all edge cases.
> what's the new thinking there?

In a nutshell: Using compile-time facilities which are within the language itself. Compilers will expose information about the platform, about themselves, etc.

A couple of examples:

* https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/source_location

* https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/types/endian

> can you build big projects across clang/g++/intel without preprocessor workarounds now?

Well, first of all, s/now/when C++20 is fully and widely adopted.

Still, a good question. Possibly not? I'm not sure. But you would need a lot less of them than previously.

> has the number of viable compilers in use dropped

Not really.

> and compatibility amongst those that live on increased?

Well, if they're compatible with the standard, that says more than it used to.

> how about stuff like debugging/instrumentation?

Maybe if constexpr(in_debug_mode) ? Not sure. I'm not on the committee...
To me “a conspiracy theorist” is a person with a specific mindset: they dedicate their time to learning about and sharing conspiracy theories - usually they believe in several ones - with an unconscious intention not to find real answers, but to prove their beliefs.

Cautiously suggesting that some unproved assumption may be true and needs more research or using scientific methods to validate it does not make a person “conspiracy theorist” or “freak”, though ,unfortunately, they are often labelled as such in our society.
I'd wager the problem with ivermectin and other treatments is that Trump mentioned them. I can't stand the guy, but I also can't stand the Sith attitude that you either take a stand 100% against anything he says or 100% in favour. Unfortunately for those in the first camp, there are peer reviewed studies showing promise for some repurposed medicines. Ivermectin for example has been shown to be helpful both as a prophylactic and as a treatment (which I'll try to explain below).

Here is the highest quality meta-analysis of ivermectin for COVID treatment, fully published in a highly respected journal [1]:

"Moderate-certainty evidence finds that large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin. Using ivermectin early in the clinical course may reduce numbers progressing to severe disease. The apparent safety and low cost suggest that ivermectin is likely to have a significant impact on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic globally."

Another paper reports a very lucky event. As COVID swept through French care homes in March 2020, an outbreak of scabies led to an entire care home being prescribed ivermectin. Almost nobody died of COVID. Here's a DeepL translation of the results, shortened for brevity:

"Sixty-nine residents and 52 staff received [ivermectin]: median resident age 90 years (84-94), 78.3% female, 98.6% at least one comorbidity at risk of severe COVID-19. 11 subjects had probable or definite COVID-19 (7/69 residents and 4/52 staff, frequency 10.1%). Among the residents, 90.9% (10/11) had minimal COVID-19, no oxygen or hospitalisation, no deaths. Among the [77 care homes with COVID outbreaks], 45 were included as controls, i.e. 3062 residents (median age 86.2 years, 77.3% women). Among them, 22.6% [95%CI 16.3-28.9] had COVID-19 vs. 1.4% [care home where ivermectin was prescribed] with an attributable mortality of 4.9% [95%CI 3.2-6.5] vs. 0% [care home where ivermectin was prescribed]."

On the balance of probability, ivermectin is effective against COVID-19 both before and during the disease. I've seen anecdotes that it helps with long COVID symptoms in some too, but not read any proper studies, so we might one day add an "after" to "before and during" too. What's more, it's almost as cheap as sugar pills, and among the safest drugs ever invented in terms of side effects (read the quote from the first paper above again). That we're not even trying this in the rich west is the crime of the century. Studies of ivermectin only began in the UK a few months ago, when we already had evidence early last year that it's potentially interesting. You've got to wonder why conversations over repurposed medication are being suppressed.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1097/MJT.0000000000001402

[2] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annder.2020.09.231 (in French)
Chimeras are another problem, although very rare.
If the box were closed it could be Schrödinger's cat!
the worst is video players without separate audio control.
Will QR codes become mainstream in Europe?
Yeah, the mosquitoes in northern Norway can be brutal. I have family in the region and was invited on a fishing trip to one of the large salmon rivers. The air was thick with HUGE mosquitoes and after a while I gave up trying to keep them away. A blood bath indeed.
False analogy... but you know that already. One is a comfort feature, the other is a theoretical psychology test.
That seems incredibly wasteful and time-consuming.

You could only ship the source code and package-lock file and run `npm ci` or `npm install --production`, which would only install dependencies you're actually using on your production machine, rather than including testing libraries or build frameworks.

Even better, you could set up a build and take advantage of tree-shaking (to some extent at least), then ship less code in fewer files.
Can you buy the right to hurt another person without their consent?
Magit-Section
Supposing you had unlimited engineering resources and development or capital costs weren't an issue, are smaller blimps fundamentally superior to larger ones in some important way? For instance, are smaller blimps inherently faster or easier to control in windy conditions?
> So unless that there is a subset that is that stable,

This is kinda a point of rust that every compiler can compile code of all previous versions up to rustc 1.0.0.(Sure it isn't perfect, there was some fallout especially during the earlier rust days.)

So you could require language/library compatibility with e.g. 1.55 while any compiler >=1.55 _should_ be usable/compatible for building it. (You still would need the 1.55 compiler for development to make sure you stay compatible.)

Now I guess there are still problems with that I guess and what they would like is probably some form of rust LTS version. Theoretically there is little problem with bumping the minimal rust version every year or so (due to the compatibility guarantees) BUT on embedded you might not have "proper" upstream LLVM support which would mean that when rust bumps LLVM you might lose rust support, I guess.
Fair enough. It was a /r/WallStreetBets reference.
I have heard lots of people praise Tailwind, but have only used Bulma (and Bootstrap to a lesser degree) in the past.

I tried to look into Tailwind for a small project I'm developing right now, and literally got stuck immediately on this:

Right now, I use toggles from Bulma-Extensions [0]. They work great!

If I wanted to have those in Tailwind [1], that would be $279 (+tax) please.

I don't need anything fancy, or any other Tailwind UI component. I just want a nice toggle.

Maybe I could write that myself, but you probably get that it's more about the principle of "how easy is it to find well-made second-party UI components and extensions". And Tailwind is not looking great.

[0] https://wikiki.github.io/form/switch/
[1] https://tailwindui.com/components/application-ui/forms/toggl...
Good movie on the subject https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8548830/
Now implement this in an interview.
Older versions of bootstrap work just fine too.

I've been using v3 and v4 in various projects without issue.

I don't feel like upgrading a CSS framework is as important as an NPM library, since I wouldn't expect security issues etc. to crop up here.
Look for a random I2C chip that has not been upstreamed yet (a sensor of some kind). You can then hook it up into a Raspberry Pi style board and use a similar device as the starting point for your new driver. It can be hard if you're not knowledgeable, but not a "several years of experience needed" thing.
This is down to a startling lack of imagination and flexibility on the part of healthcare providers and government healthcare regulators. They could train unemployed batistas to tend to COVID patients in a couple of weeks hugely reducing the pressure on the rest of the health system. You don't need to know all the shitloads required to be a doctor if all you're doing is tending to covid patients to try and somewhat reduce the dying.
Although I feel kind of sad about the city and the people (ordinary people living there especially) I can't say this is bad from the philosophical point of view, as long as they are happy and non-aggressive. In the end there is absolutely no meaning in life other than being happy. And happiness is just a chemical reaction drug junkies supposedly exploit. They usually live a short life in inner tranquility and die in bliss, don't they? So their life seems logically correct. Perhaps I should have gone their way too but I'm just too addicted to my actual life, love and the room for self-development and exploration the world still offers so drugs can't get me (I gave them a try).
I hope it has a good collision avoidance system. There are lots of small planes and helicopters in Alaska.
If it were merely a comfort feature it would not be controversial.
tailwind guys do a thing called headless ui https://headlessui.dev/ it has a toggle, you can take that and customise it how you want.
India did this with the United Payments Interface, and is it a thing of beauty. You can use any bank account, any payments app and pay to any other bank and any merchant. Ridiculously low interchange fee too since the backbone is managed by the central bank.

I thought most of Europe was on the path to adopting open banking APIs? How is this coming along?
I know of a company that requires (or at least did a few years ago when I interviewed with them) new grads to have a GPA in of at least 3.0 out 4.0 to even be considered for the position (US-based aerospace company). A classmate of mine had circumstances (mostly out of their control) that caused their GPA to be lower than the threshold so they couldn't hire them despite them having glowing recommendations from current, highly respected employees. The hiring manager wanted to hire them but couldn't. So they were brought in as an intern and was hired as an "internal hire" in order to bypass the hard GPA requirement.
Where are you based that it allows you to generate this profit? These days, it’s pretty hard to get hands on crypto mining hardware as well!
This is somewhat of a straw man fallacy often cited by proponents of profit centric healthcare. In reality it happens relatively rarely and is usually linked to the effectiveness of that treatment. In the UK, a typical example of state provided healthcare, some extremely expensive treatments which can only increase life expectancy for a few weeks or months are not approved as there is little benefit. But not every health insurance policy in the US will cover this treatment, especially without some copay. On the other hand, a treatment was recently approved for use which costs £1.795 million per patient. The cost to the patient for that treatment is zero.

I find this argument not only provably less relevant than the poster thinks is is, but also it's not much different from dying as you can't afford to pay even the copay for your cancer treatment. The USA can't even sort out decent healthcare for children, who haven't yet had the opportunity to get a job to pay for their healthcare.

No healthcare system is perfect but that's not a reason to not seek something better, fairer and more efficient.
Y Combinator’s European founder intake continues to grow
You are responding to a conservative commentator who is trying to muddle and make non-scientific conservative positions more palatable and less non-sensical.

I have noticed that wealthy, educated, conservatives (for tax benefits) work hard to justify and provide some vaguely scientific and logical grounding to all kinds of weird conservative talking points. This might be by punching hard at some corner of the liberal/scientific consensus on an issue that is not quite well developed or the audience lacks full detail on. This equalizes both liberal and conservative positions as some what unscientific, while the reality is quite opposite. You will never find rayiner attack conservative talking points, only liberal ones.

You think you are in a scientific discussion, but you are actually participating in a political one.
I'm not a web designer but sometimes I have to set up a web interface quickly for internal tools or whatnot and I find Bootstrap very convenient, especially for responsiveness. I've not used it before version 4 though, so I came with no preexisting ideas about how a web framework should behave and be designed.

I think Bootstrap 5 came with important improvements over Bootstrap 4 like not requiring jQuery (although it works very well with it) and the "gap" utility classes.
When learning electronics as a hobbyist, amasci had some really nice non-textbpook explanations of voltage, current and transistors. Really made you think deeply about the subject.
Here is an example about transistors.
http://amasci.com/amateur/transis.html
Show HN: AI-Generated Illustrations of Plants
Hi HN,
I've been playing around with AI art (who hasn't) and wanted to share the results of last nights run: 300 auto-generated plants in a big collage that you can zoom into and explore.
My end-goal with this is to work on some sort of speculative biology project. GANs like the one I used here are great for generating nice-looking images in bulk, which could then be curated and refined into some sort of consistent work.
Happy to answer any questions on how this was generated or on AI art in general :)
I’d say it’s more like we have a lot of similar genetics (the plane) and then some small differences (the seat you are in) but yeah the analogy is a stretch, “similar” is not really a quantitative term but I think you are assuming we are more different then we really are. But that also varies per parameter.

For example there is a reason we test drugs on mice, because they are pretty similar to us (mammals), of course there are also differences.
That's sad, but hilarious, but really sad
Apple should either remember those privacy-related settings or don't enable any privacy-leaking settings (like iCloud photos) by default. At least as long as they claim to be privacy-aware company.
> Shouldn't you be more upset with the airline for designing and selling a product that is almost unusable because of how uncomfortable it is?

Precisely. As the article/book author is correct to point out too. And this applies to so many products and services these days. We're conditioned to accept what's made available, because there's usually little we can do about it directly. So companies are free to engage in "value engineering", successively making every product asymptotically approach the border between "fit for purpose" and "fraudulent marketing".
I can always tell what my wife is buying for my birthday, I get ads for the stuff she searches for even though we do not share devices, Google seems to make associations from the IP address.

I watched a video review of a drone on YouTube and that was a huge mistake, got slammed with drone ads for weeks afterwards.

Watching any video mentioning “Planet X” seems to sign you up for a semi truck full of crazy also.
> Grow more plants in the ocean?

That would help, but is a bit risky.

> Restore corals?

A good goal, but probably too tiny to matter much.

> If you remove all the CO2, how will the plants survive?

Nobody wants to remove "all the CO2".

> Do we know the balance?

Not in exact detail, but getting closer to 1900 levels would be good.

> Why is CO2 vilified so much?

Seriously? You ask this in 2021? Because it changes the weather and those rapid changes cause extinctions and habitability problems. Including killing corals.
Pre-Unicode issues still haunt us today, kept alive by various file formats that rely on system encoding.

Under the Apple "Mac-Roman" encoding [1], the standard MacOS encoding before OSX switched to Unicode, byte 0xBD currently is capital omega (U+03A9 Ω). However, in the original 1994 release of the character set, they erroneously mapped to the ohm sign (U+2126 Ω) Apple eventually fixed this in 1997, as noted in the changelog:

# n04 1997-Dec-01 Update to match internal utom<n3>, ufrm<n22>:
# Change standard mapping for 0xBD from U+2126
# to its canonical decomposition, U+03A9.

However, in 1996, Microsoft copied over the mac encoding to CP10000 using the incorrect character [2]. Unfortunately the codepage was not corrected when Apple realized their mistake.

This discrepancy leads to a huge number of strange issues with various versions of Excel for Mac (BOM-less CSV, SYLK and other plaintext formats default to system encoding) and other software that use Microsoft's interpretation of Apple's Mac-Roman encoding rather than Apple's official character set mapping.

[1] http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/APPLE/ROMAN.T...

[2] http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/MAC/RO...
Our skin needs a moderate exposure to the sun, like 3-4 times a week for 15 minutes in summertime.
where the hell is electricity that low..
It's strictly a comfort issue. (for both parties, and the hind passenger can always comfort themselves the same way via reclining their chair too... not rocket science - pardon the sarcasm)
One of the first websites I ever could get to. I was in high school at the time, and feeling pretty alienated. This kept me sane and gave me a hobby that then turned into my career. I'm grateful.

Check out the guy's youtube channel, too, cool mechanical levitation stuff.
it really depends where you apply tho. most of the startup and FAANG are woke now. they wouldn't hire a sniper except if he is a minority then the balance is even.
As an alternative suggestion: don't. The web was fine when you had to zoom in and out. If anything, make it "responsive" with dynamic font-size scaling.
What's your process of reconstituting yourself?
Recovering from burnout is not easy so tips and tricks would be helpful.
if we do, we will die of starvation and pollution pretty soon, unless we start making wonders really fast
Most of us have an idea of how we prefer to learn.
For example, do you prefer listening to podcasts or reading content by yourself to understand a topic?
Most likely, you believe that you are either an auditive or a visual type of learner. But there is no research to back up this theory.
I don't think this would be the case. The government seized "X SEK" of BTC. The government auctioned those BTC off at the end, like they would anything else, and there was BTC left over after that, I don't think there should be any reason why it shouldn't be returned to the proper owner after that.

This wasn't part of a fine, rather, they simply took the BTC as part of the drug money, so it's not like the government could argue that if it lost value they should be owed the remainder.
If they broke the ability to easily connect 1x monitor in the attempt to support more than 3x monitors, I don't know what to say. The needs of the many should outweigh the needs of the few.
I think you can just use the `Callers()` function from the "runtime" package to the get the call stack, though in general I think it's a bit overkill. I think what you should do instead is to wrap errors with '%w' [1], manually adding context to them as you pass them up your call stack. That leads to more readable code and won't incur any performance overhead. It's tempting to have the call stack available for debugging, but IMHO it creates too much overhead when doing it indiscriminately for all errors you generate, which for me also goes a bit against the "spirit" of Golang.

[1]: https://go.dev/blog/go1.13-errors
I am a big fan of Bootstrap 4 and Bulma, haven't really touched Bootstrap 5 but I have been using Bootstrap since the early releases and it saved me thousands of hours. If I were the author instead, I think it would be beneficial to go on their Github repo and voice concerns constructively. After all the people behind bootstrap are developers just like us, frustrated from most CSS things and useless PRs/open issues. A little help goes a long way!
The abstract has strong https://xkcd.com/793 vibes.
> and helped start a company that made shirts with upside down pockets

Okay, I would like to know more about this... Who was it for?
As the other commenter said, you can just use HeadlessUI and add CSS styling on top of it. They have examples for React and Vue. There are also third party sites with free components where you can just copy the styles

https://tailwindcomponents.com/search?query=toggle

You don't actually need to pay for TailwindUI. Most people just use those as starting packs to get good looking projects off the ground much faster cause then they don't need to style so much from scratch
Thanks for the links to the FAA UAS research and certification work. Sense and avoid is indeed correct in the research being done (though not yet the active federal law governing airspace).

You did mention some aircraft are not equipped with transponders, which I took to mean the common use of the term in aviation: a 4096 code mode A/C transponder, not ADS-B out.

Slightly under half of general aviation aircraft are not equipped for ADS-B out (the overwhelming majority of these do have a transponder) and at this point, it seems fair to conclude most of those will never be equipped. (If you chose not to equip for the Jan 2, 2020 requirement, all that would compel you now to take on the upfront and recurring expenses associated would be change in usage requiring regular access to 91.225 airspace. In fact, for many non-ADS-B out airplanes, 4096 code transponders now provide little value, so the first time they need non-trivial maintenance, I’d expect some portion of those to be removed instead of repaired because they’re now primarily a convenience item and don’t on their own provide access to any airspace by rule.)

I can readily imagine a future where UAS operations are allowed under 500’ AGL over cities (aircraft are already blocked from operating there except during takeoff and landing). I don’t expect a near-future where class E airspace is open to drones unable to reliably see/sense and avoid aircraft that don’t have ADS-B out. There’s just too many such aircraft and will be for decades to come unless 91.225 is substantially expanded.
I was always intrigued by how other people paying attention to posibilities that each IDE gives you. For me it was always a simple vim, which I can use on any machine with simple predefined .vimrc file (can be done mainly from scratch with a few seconds). Sometimes, where I am talking to other people about some tech likes, they alwas make a big eyes where I am talking that i use vim, nano, emacs etc. I think that comfort and convenience are playing a very important role, sometimes too important imo.