skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the commenter was saying how quickly they burned through goodwill, but it seems like it’s taken 11 years (and the death of the major author)
I think you can find which stat I was pointing out, especially in real terms.
Perceived value. It worths what people are willing to pay for. A lot of things work that way. Skeptics might wonder how long it would last, but less about how much it should be worth. People aren't only buying tech.

We do have a lot of scammers and useless coins, but tech is only one indicator of value, not the ultimate method to predict perceived value.
I mean, you don't have to guess. There are plenty of battery teardown videos where they count the cells. IIRC it's on the order of 5-10% kWh reserved.
There's already this for arXiv: https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/

Their job is a little bit easier because arXiv papers have the .tex source available, so you can use one of the various tex2html variants, instead of having to extract the paper's contents from a rendered PDF.
> It is not like you cannot tell a good story here without embellishing and distorting it.

You can't tell a complex story in a short time and numerous characters on screen. In books you can. In movies it's borderline impossible and therefore simplifying/dumbing things down is a filter you need to apply first.
I've noticed a 5mpg decrease with every car I've owned in pretty similar driving conditions over 5-10 years and immaculate maintenance.
The cord is an iOS restriction on all cars in my experience. It does seem kind of silly to me.
The irony is not lost on me that HN decries social media for being one massive echo chamber and are just as detached from the real world themselves.
I bet China says all the same things about us to also justify building things that spy and kill.
I’ll take the lifestyle and economic security of Western Europe over anything in the US.
> We're empowering "I have no mouth and want to scream". We're making it come true.

I really don’t think Siri will ever be that effective.
Decisions taken by British still haunt India to this date. Especially their division of states.
With phones and regular usage you are likely doing full charge/discharge cycles every day or two, which is hard on the battery. That's not really the case with electric cars. When you have 200-300 miles of range, and you only regularly drive, say, 20 or 30 miles per day, it's pretty easy to keep the battery around 70%-80%, which should significantly extend the life span.

Obviously the batteries still degrade, but they should be usable long past 3 years assuming regular driving habits.
I'm afraid I don't understand your analogy, all of that has even less to do with Richard Stallman, who does not work on GNU software and hasn't done that in decades.

Edit: I had to look up Naughty Dog that made me more confused, they only make Playstation software, but as I said in a sibling post: GNU has always supported multiple kernels.
They can build a basic covered garage somewhere on their 5 acre lot.
Well for one a stance based upon human agency. "Enabling" is also a massive weasel word of propaganda to attribute all indirect actions and consequences to the target while ignoring the actual actors. The ones committing human rights violations.

Limiting everyone to only non-toxic crayons short, dull, plastic knives that cannot even cut bread would reduce ability to inflict harm. To call blaming the tool childish is an insult to children. Is Sony now responsible for production and distribution of child pornography for making camcorders, screens, and computer memory?

I don't even like Facebook but I can see the prevailing arguments are utterly deranged.
Catching fire when no-one's around seems like it could go a lot worse than catching fire with a driver present.
I'm talking about a garmin watch, not an apple watch. Either the Garmin software is to blame, or Apple is not giving them the API access they need to send through only the desired notifications.
The US couldn't even be called a democracy until the end of Jim Crow.
The sentiment ITT seems to be overly dismissive of the value of a system that can reliably run for decades. How many of the new Kafka systems being stood up today would you realistically expect to still be running in 2061? How reliably do you expect those systems to perform over that 40 year period?

The trade offs are quite apparent, but the value these systems provide is perfectly obvious too.

I’m not sure I buy the extensibility argument either. In my experience the COBOL typically runs on the core processing system, the bit of the bank that runs the central ledger. This is usually a small portion of the banks technology footprint, and the rest of their integrating systems can run anything they like. I’ve worked in quite a few banks, and in my experience .NET is a lot more ubiquitous than COBOL is.
This is something of a perennial drum beat. Businesses have been fleeing California since at least the Obama admin, maybe the G.W. Bush admin.

Businesses and people have been fleeing Kansas since the 1970s, we don't hear much about that. Why not?
Show HN: Rotating LTSpice symbol ie. asy file automatically by Bash
rather they got to live life in easy mode

Not quite. Every generation has things that are advantageous, every generation has things that are terrible.

Interest rates for the boomers got as high as 20%. They couldn't afford to borrow for a house, even if their wages were good. Millennials have lower wages (relatively speaking), but interest rates won't kill them if they can save enough for a house deposit.

Two different generations: two different problems causing the same outcomes.
I mean in like 2 years, half of which is in matchmaking after a six figure signing bonus. Not really a moral sacrifice. By the time you think it's a good idea to voice a contrarian opinion in a company group chat, you've already graduated.
I can be pretty sure that a diversified set of stocks, bonds, and maybe some real estate are not an outright scam, or that someone is going to make off with all of it because the whole thing is completely wild west.
People really do rip on PHP from what I’ve seen. Not sure about Java developers though. I work on a node.js team and the only fun we made with an incoming Java dev was to joke that things will be easier now that he doesn’t have to worry about types. And then he switched us to using Typescript.
I wonder how the nuclear submarine stuff will affect ANZUS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANZUS

"New Zealand was suspended from ANZUS in 1986 as it initiated a nuclear-free zone in its territorial waters; in late 2012 New Zealand lifted a ban on visits by United States warships leading to a thawing in tensions. New Zealand maintains a nuclear-free zone as part of its foreign policy and is partially suspended from ANZUS, as the United States maintains an ambiguous policy whether or not the warships carry nuclear weapons and operates numerous nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines; however New Zealand resumed key areas of the ANZUS treaty in 2007."
> This ad changed their view and now though that the Kindle app on iOS was a promotion of how easy it was to move to Android.

I don't read it that way (most of your post I agree with though). I think the point was that before this email, Kindle devices had their own customers, and Apple wanted Kindle as a feature on their products to increase the appeal of iphone/ipad. But eventually those customers started doing all their "kindling" on their apple devices, so now from apple's perspective they think "we are providing you customers/making you a market, pay us". This is what the whole second paragraph is about.
> I don't think this is fudging at all. Tesla's big selling point is the FSD package... and most people select it by default.

I mean even if there weren't data showing that as completely untrue...

https://electrek.co/2021/08/31/tesla-survey-take-rate-full-s...

... then why would Tesla bother to offer FSD as a subscription service if everyone is buying it?
"That includes having conversations with the teens’ mothers.
'Nobody wants to see their kid get shot or killed or hurt, especially the mothers. We’ve done a lot of work with moms in this unit'”

What about the fathers? It's as if they don't even exist. Parthenogenesis, maybe?
> I'd genuinely like to know if a cloth bandana has any value,

https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/2020/08/16/face-masks...

Better than nothing, but there are better options.

> if grocery stores are dangerous

I don't think it's possible to make a concrete answer to that question. The "danger" of any given place is going to just be a placement on a spectrum based on the airflow and how crowded it is. Where the line is to define something as "dangerous" is going to be pretty subjective. It's like showing a white-to-black gradient and asking where "dark grey" ends and "grey" begins.

But in your other post, you said:

> What are the actual results from non-vax drugs or treatments?

This is one where there is very clear scientific consensus, yet people ignore it. Take of course Ivermectin, where it's been proven that while it does somehow kill COVID in vitro, the dosage needed to make it work in vivo is higher than the maximum recommended dose.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7172803/

> How long are the vaccinations likely to be useful?

At the time of the invention of the vaccine, this was unknown, but I've always failed to see how it would be a valid criticism against the vaccine enough to choose to skip the vaccine entirely. Whether it would require a booster after 6 months or if it lasted a lifetime, they were proven to significantly reduce hospitalizations and death from COVID.

> Did early large-scale vaccination simply cause forced evolution of variants?

Anyone with a basic knowledge of microbiology acknowledges how quickly bacteria and viruses can evolve (Hence why doctors always plead for patients to complete their anti-biotic prescriptions and not stop taking them once symptoms subside!). Evolution of variants was inevitable. But if we had achieved 90%+ vaccination rates quickly enough, we could have mostly eradicated it before a variant could have taken hold.

And we totally could have. It's really disheartening to see the graph of COVID cases and deaths this year. From January to July, the number was plummeting as vaccinations were being distributed, but some time around June/July, we reached the point where everyone who wanted a vaccine had one, and it was only the anti-vaxxers that were holding out. Eventually, Delta happened, and cases/deaths have been skyrocketing since the beginning of August.

Of course, over 90% of the people being hospitalized or dying from COVID now are unvaccinated (There's even a subreddit dedicated to anti-vaxxers dying to COVID, https://old.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward) , but that still isn't convincing them.

At this point, I'm convinced absolutely nothing will convince an anti-vaxxer. Data doesn't matter to them. Peer-reviewed studies don't matter to them. They think the CDC and FDA are corrupt and everything they spout is a lie. If they get COVID, they'll talk about (but not follow through with) suing the hospital for malpractice when the hospital doesn't give them Ivermectin because Joe Rogan told them Ivermectin cures COVID.
I would expect to see it struck down by a Supreme Court ruling. You cannot just declare speech a new drug to get around the first ammendment. An 18+ law may past constitutional muster however.
Java 8 was out 7 years ago ... That's like century in the software world
> It's an impressive project, but I'm not sure the niche is big enough.

Big enough for what? Instead of a gratuitous critique of its "benefit to professionals", maybe you could comment on the project's design choices and implementation. That would be more useful to us amateurs.
Power requirements on a sub vs a civilian power plant are on a different scale. A vessel reactor is small enough it easily contained and shielded, by comparison. You get free cooling. And it doesn't have to be cost effective.

I'd like more civilian reactors too. But scaling is an issue.
Ask HN: How safe is space travel today?
As I watch the Inspiration 4 all-civilian crew head up into space via SpaceX, I’m wondering, how safe is space travel today?

From a lamens perspective it all looks terrifying. People sitting atop thousands of pounds of jet fuel which is burned at incredible force.

There must be so much that can go wrong but perhaps some of the fundamentals are being solved by SpaceX (and others) to the point that some of the previously scary stuff is more so part of a boring checklist?

I know there’s a few rocket scientists around here :)
The government(s) will be happy to receive & evaluate your generous donation of upgrades to the myriad existing record keeping systems, and further generous donations of your time to train all staff on how to enter and search for the additional written characters, so long as the process does not significantly disrupt operations. "Patches welcome!" (^o^)/

But in seriousness: it is their concern because changes that seem minor can require major changes to electronic systems, and allowing special cases that necessitate lookup in ways the electronic systems can't handle (perhaps even requring manual search through hardcopy!) really throw a star-mangled spanner in the works.

Naming is already a special case problem in Japan, where people are accustomed to having no idea how to pronounce most people's names because the parents used non-standard readings of the kanji characters and/or used kanji from a special exempted list of archaic kanji that almost nobody can read. If you're wondering why the government doesn't require people use only the official "common use" kanji, at least just for this one problem, then I should tell it has been tried — enough people raised a fuss about being unable to register their child's "perfect name" that gradually a list of "allowed only in names" kanji was created and expanded.

And if I recall correctly, when registering a name, you can specify a totally unrelated pronunciation using the simpler non-kanji phonetic characters, so even just "common use" kanji are almost "all bets off". A relative few kanji have such common pronunciation in names that they can 'usually' be guessed.

And the problem is the same with many Japanese place-names, having little or no correlation between written form and pronunciation or meaning.

So, why is the spelling of a chosen name any concern to a government? It gets crazy out there, in Name Land. How mäný variatǐons of spelliñg cån ße ællowèd before people give up on pronouncing it?
The German legal system knows a similar concept in § 153a StPO. Basically, if a crime isn't considered particularly severe, and both the prosecutor, the accused, and in some cases the judge agree, the criminal charges are dropped in exchange for "stipulations" (typically restitution, paying a certain amount of money to the state or a nonprofit, working community service, anger management courses, ...) - which means you're never found guilty, making it a great deal in most cases.

The idea is that less severe crimes can be handled without the full overhead and without excessive punishment. In practice, this can be 'a bit' controversial, e.g. when Bernie Ecclestone resolved his corruption charges this way by paying 100 million EUR. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Ecclestone#Bribery_accu...
"former citizen Daniel Gericke". Which country does he pledge his allegiance to now?
Ah, maybe it’s just my opinion that a car need not be more than a silent torque machine..

Glad that you mostly agree with my statement.. if the regulators weren’t dragging their feet we could have this “platform” as an industry standard.. Ford f1-volty (:
I'm not looking for any corporate secrets, but generally speaking:

* what sort of things can bets be placed on? Real sensitive business stuff, or more mundane things?
To pick on your example, what's wrong with people using food emojis for prurient reasons, like eggplant and peach?
At least with a car you might be able to replace the battery. Maybe. Of course the auto companies have the same incentives as the mobile phone companies to want you to replace the whole thing.
Yes. The goal is to find (or approximate) the median without storing all the elements. Instead, it approximates the median by finding the median of randomly selected samples from the elements.
This is whatabouttery to a fine degree.

You start with "I don't know what an Ethical company means to you _or if it should matter_;" I'm a sincere egoist, so I declare: no! It shouldn't matter to you, or to anyone, what my or anyone else's notion of ethical is! Ethics isn't a universal, it's not endemic to the individual experience, and neither is ethics-having in the first place.

I contend that ethics-having is vital to the human experience like vitamins are vital.

Having said that, what would an ethical company look like _to me_? I have one simple test: whether a B2C company enforces that their product or service be used only in specific ways. Any company which fails this test is de facto unethical, and downright uncivil.
> I don't want to speak well of the USSR/Russia

Why?
That definitely worked out best for us. We all win when Amazon is the only significant ebook seller. The justice department cementing Amazon’s business position was a good thing that happened.
Yes that's right. The price of a futures contract is not a prediction of the price of the underlying commodity in the future. It's simply today's clearing price between hedgers and speculators. If a hedger feels they are underhedged, they are going to buy (or sell) more of the futures contract until they feel safe, and won't really care about the impact on price of their hedging action. Likewise, speculators can bid prices way up (GameStop?) with little regard for fundamental value today or in the future. It ain't magic...
Have you actually work at one of these companies or did you form these notions based on others' perceptions of legacy companies like IBM and Oracle? None of the FAANG are known for good WLB outside of Google. Actually a common criticism of Amazon and FB is PIP culture so I'm not sure where you can fall asleep at the wheel for two years just because you were sociable.
There are about 160,000 fires involving personal internal combustion engine vehicles per year.
SpaceX Launches First All-Civilian Flight to Orbit
Welp. I bought a domain I needed from them a few weeks ago (waiting to transfer it out); didn't have much of a choice. Are the dumps posted already?
HA also has a pretty great community. I've done a couple small changes and have had very positive experiences
That's super interesting. My familiarity with Irish song isn't great, but I had a fun several minutes minutes reading the poem over and over slowly getting an idea for what rhythm/pacing suited it. Thanks!
That's quite some constrained use case.

It's useful to have multiple schemas during development, and to allow the database owner to manipulate them, and not require superuser for these tasks. It's great that this will now be the default.

It will make some of my DB initialization scripts easier. Currently database owner can't even remove the public schema in a new database, because it's owned by postgres role.

I regularly make differently named copies of schemas and switch between them just by altering the search path in the app, just to try out some modifications or to run testsuites. You can drop and recreate an entire schema in a single transaction without the app having to close connections to the database at all, etc.

It's useful for so many things, where grouping some DB objects together has benefits.
Competition Is For Losers
Sheriff's Office Told Officer to Play Copyrighted Music to Shut Down Recordings
NB: Title condensed from "Officer Claims Sheriff's Office Told Him To Play Copyrighted Music To Shut Down Citizens' Recordings"
What would CCP gain (compared to the status quo) in doing this move?

To test US loyalty to other Asian allies? Seems... Convoluted, reckless, and not at all something China has done in the past.

China and Taiwan are already co dependent.
In case anyone else feels that this article leaves enough wiggle room to accidentally end up with something like 015a described, here are the 3 rules I implied in answering the above post:

1. All structure and content goes to backend.
2. Find good names for size-adaptive sections.
3. Responses to write requests can be anything.

I think 1 and 3 are covered in the article, but elaborating on them is probably out of its scope. And 2 is more of a general programming advice.
This is the epitome of taking good from things even-though you know it is total garbage. ;)
Lol, you're talking as if it's unique to Facebook. Anyone with money and a modicum of technical expertise can make a messaging platform. The hard part is monetization.
Gasoline fires happen all the time. They just don’t get press.

No method of packing enough energy in a car for hundreds of miles of range is going to be perfectly safe. Stored energy is stored energy and any material with that much really wants to party.

It does seem that the Bolt has an issue. I’m glad I opted for the 62kWh Leaf for an affordable EV and so far I think there has only ever been one Leaf fire. It happened years ago and they have been on the market about the longest. The Bolt has slightly more range but I looked at both and liked the Leaf more. This was before I heard about fires.
Well, I stand corrected. My guess is the sticker price shocks people into not choosing it then. Most people I've spoken with equate Tesla with self driving...

It's notable the FSD survey had a peak in 2019 - perhaps 2020+ is impacted by covid related things (reduction of income, etc). Or, perhaps it's being influence by monthly stories of Tesla's driving into parked objects and the like.

Still, it was a tactic to break FSD into a separate line item so marketing could tell everyone the cars were cheaper than assumed.
You don't have to involve them, just insert custom sequences with defined purposes mixed with the real vaccine. I am not saying it's happening but don't you think it's a bit odd to see such a big push for a vaccine and not for other proven strategies such preventing vit D deficiency and giving NAC to decrease oxidative stress? The directive seems to be to vaccinate the entire population, not to prevent deaths.
I wonder how well it does with stopping for school buses?

Here in Washington I see people getting that wrong all the time, usually in the direction of stopping when they do not have to.

The rule is that when a school bus has its flashers on and/or its stop sign out you stop unless:

1. You are going in the opposite direction, and

2. The road is either a divided road (separated by a median or a barrier) or has at least 3 lanes.

I see people going the opposite direction often stop on three or four lane roads.

(The reason you do not have to stop on a 3+ lane road or divided road is that the law requires that if school has students from both sides of such a road the school must have separate bus stops on each side, so that no child has to cross such a road. School bus stops can only serve both sides of a road if the road is 2 or fewer lanes).

(I've not been able to find a definitive answer on whether or not a road with one lane in each direction and a center turn lane counts as a 3 lane road).
Is it better that they never do such research and just keep their heads in the sand?
Rivian completes first production vehicle of its RT1 Pickup Truck
Ah, good catch, I didn't see that before. Since it was signaling and displaying a lane change to the left just before that I wonder why it didn't signal a sharp right turn then. Maybe it thought that's how the road went?