skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most news-worthy takeaway is obviously that the panel vote overwhelmingly against recommending the booster, something I think most people would have expected. Approving it for a small, high-risk subsegment of the population isn't particularly newsworthy.
I don't own or plan to own a Tesla, but if i did, I'm sure I wouldn't use the self driving feature because it seems more inconvenient than simply driving yourself. It's not even a driving assistant, you become the car's assistant.

Edit: to be clear, I plan to buy an EV in the future, but I'll drive it myself. Most of my driving is in a 15Km radius, urban, and babysitting the self-drive seems like more trouble than it's worth.
Great, thanks - I was unaware of such an option.
To remember book titles years later, or even months later, to revisit, or just to share with an interested friend or family member.

As a repository to clip highlighted text or notes and/or annotations.

I have been using `goodreads` over the past decade, but the app / website has largely languished, and is frustrating, especially the slow load times.
I don't think the constraint is like normalization.

Consider a platform with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omni_wheel

There are 3 degrees of freedom for rigid bodies in the plane. If you have four wheels, then there is a constraint.

Associate with each wheel a unit vector along the direction it can impart force, perpendicular to the direction that it imparts no force. Now take a vector indicating the velocity you want to travel in (ignore rotation for simplicity).

To figure out how the velocity of each wheel, take the dot product of that wheel's unit vector with the target vector.

To see that normalization doesn't play in the constraint in the omniwheel case, note that any valid assignment of wheel velocities is still valid if you scale it up or down.

I think the case here is more complicated because it's not a euclidean space. There are poles. I believe underlyingly my analogy holds, though, if you think about manifolds and tangent spaces.
Even HN users don't actually RTFA
I’m 100% convinced I would never have learned to code without Meteor… it made so many things simpler. You should check out wasp[0], which has a lot of philosophy in common. Disclosure: I am investor in the company behind the project.

[0] https://wasp-lang.dev
This is a pretty confused article that tries to find flaws in ebooks without using a distinct definition of what ebooks are. The author is also pretty uninformed about the history of ebooks and misunderstands the target market. My first ebook format was the .LIT format books from microsoft, a format released back in 2000 and supported on windows 95. I also don't know what scholarly nonfiction the author reads but every single research paper I've read has been a pdf. Ebooks are much bigger than the kindle.

The author cares about mainly aesthetics aspects of physical books but then argues those aspects makes them superior. That's not what makes a book valuable. The actual words and meaning matter and only if you consider poems does formatting matter.

Art books aren't books in the traditional sense, but it seems that is what the author of the article seems to care about. With an iPad, you can keep all of the pages and formatting you would find in a typical book if you stick with a pdf. For really complex books, you could just make a pdf of scans. Even comics now come as a digital archive (CBR/CBZ) of high res pictures if not pdfs. I personally prefer digital copies because I can zoom into art that is impossible to do on physical copies.

Being able to change font type, font size, line formatting, line spacing and paragraph spacing without having to reprint a book is fantastic. Making different iterations and improvements of a book wastes nothing. These are positives, not negatives.

These arguments make it clear to me that in a few decades people will see physical paper books the same way people see records/cassettes today. Luddites seem to care more about what the experience is supposed to feel like rather than what it can be.

People's attachment to physical books is the reason why ebooks are so expensive. They aren't supposed to be equivalents, ebook distribution is free, lending ebooks doesn't make it unavailable to others, ebooks aren't tied to any specific device. But things like copyright or library lending laws treat ebooks like physical copies. If you're that attached to books, you can always take an ebook and print it out yourself.

You see people argue that music sounds better from actual records but digital music has become such an easy and mainstream thing, no one argues that we should be choosing records over digital files. School children today are using digital textbooks, the era of paper books is ending. No one argues that dictionaries need to be physical books only.
False. Use of dynamic memory allocation without GC, without reference-counting (which is GC) and without manual memory management is the usual practice in C++ and Rust.

Reference-counting GC is available when it is not too costly, which is common, and more convenient, which is rare. Ordinary automatically-generated destructors handle almost everything, almost all the time. Once in a great while, performance demands a concession such as an arena allocator, which also is not "manual memory management", and also not GC, and is radically cheaper than either one.
You should come and see my kid's school during drop off and pick up.

The number of soccer moms driving Escalades and other oversized SUVs in their high heels would heal your misconceptions about large car ownership in the US.
- How do we know the search results are not hijacked/registered ?
- How do we know the queries are not sold as a database ?
- How do we know if and/or what third parties are involved ?
- Which jurisdiction are we talking about? ( Does GDPR apply? )
That book sounds interesting! Could you share a link?
I don't get this one. How can something be true for only some people?

If you say "people shower every day on average" then that might be true in hot sweaty climates more than in temperate ones where people might shower every other day instead, but that's not really what's meant with misinformation. So I'm not understanding how the things that one means when talking about misinformation -- e.g. that lemon juice cures cancer or that homeopathic medicine works better than placebo pills, those kinds of things is what we're talking about right? Isn't that universally false (or true, if something is not actually misinformation but only labeled as such because people don't like the facts)?
Depends on what specifically interviewers are looking for, but:

- You do have production experience, just not with the new software
- You know the new software, and especially if it’s new, you probably know it as good as most other developers
- Your prior coding experience won’t 100% transfer over to new tasks, but it won’t 0% transfer either. For example many programming languages are very similar, if you’re familiar with one general-purpose language you’re ~almost~ familiar with all of them (C++, Rust, C#, Java, Scala, Kotlin, Swift, TypeScript, etc.)
> I [..] could never get the performance or package size to a good place.

Do you have any more details on that? I'm curious how close this got, and what were the main issues (on both size and speed).
France Recalls Its Ambassadors to the U.S. and Australia over a Submarine Deal
I had a terrible experience renting from Klass Wagen in Romania this week. I think they're scamming their customers as much as they can before going bankrupt.

I booked a SUV with my Sapphire Preferred card that has primary car insurance on it but when I went to pick the car up, I had the sleaziest sales experience of my life.

The agent tried to sell me their insurance for $70/day but I told him, no I'm covered. He said due to COVID they have a new policy that any scratch, dent or chip, no matter how small, will be fixed and the cost deducted from my $1700 deposit.

I was ready to decline until he showed me the car I booked. It had so many scratches, dents and damage, including coffee stains on the headliner, that I gave in and took their insurance because I needed to leave that day. As we were taking pictures and documenting the myriad of damage, I realized I was going to be on the hook for something when I returned the car. He said they cash in 90% of deposits... I think that was a lie as well.

Lo and behold, once I took the insurance, I got "upgraded" to a nicer and cleaner car.

After seeing other reviews, a bunch of people fell for the same scam. They must be hemoraging money and have resorted to such scummy practices, it was really off putting.

I'm going to try and do a charge back for the insurance part, I felt really bad after the experience.
It is automated, not manual, memory management. Just not GC.
Why on earth would an artist apologize for insulting someone in a work of fiction, even if that fictional work was inspired by real events? Imagine all the apologies that would be required if every historical portrayal needed to apologize for not being accurate to the underlying events in some aspects? It would be the end of historical fiction, particularly in our current era of tender feelings. Netflix does not owe anyone an apology here.
Just don't. It's not worth it. Pretend it was cancelled
Personal choices that have the ability to significantly negatively impact many other people have something of a tendency to get regulated and controlled in some manner.

That's reality and it's not unreasonable. The thing we need to sort out is where to draw those lines to optimize for best outcomes for both individuals and society.
> none of the benefits of Bitcoin ever get reported on here.

They being...?
Show HN: POP3 Client Pkg for Go
I developed a Go package for POP3 mail servers. It is the first package that I developed in Go. I've been writing Go for 2,5 months, that's why I am newbie in Go. If you use and give feedback about coding style, project structure, Go, implementation details, I'd like to be happy.
Kudos on this! Interesting approach. What variety of apps can be built with this? Do you plan to focus towards a specific category of apps?

Shameless plug. We also built a platform - Lowdefy - to develop web apps in minutes / days by only writing yaml or JSON. So far we find that it really empowers any developer to develop a web app (Especially backend / data dev who not feel like learning CSS / react / webpack etc)

Check it out https://github.com/lowdefy/lowdefy
It’s the worst on “Shorts”. There’s no way to pic topics and I’ll often get stuck flipping through the same 3 channel videos. For a while I thought “oh it’s in beta must not be much content.” Then after a while something I did made it recommend other channels and now I’m stuck in another set of 3-4 Short channels :/
A few comments seem to be referring to situations where too much THC is ingested which is certainly becoming more common due to the availability of THC both with legalization of d9 and the legal gray area of d8

But this article is referring to a much different condition: cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome[1]. CHS occurs in long term heavy users eg smoking every day for a year or more. This recent increase feels more like a result of the COVID lockdowns - it is not hard to imagine many occasional users of marijuana switching to every day use after getting stuck at home

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabinoid_hyperemesis_syndro...
Came here to ask this; it's essential to have this, as likely you'll do something like was demo'd in the video - start with a single list, maybe move to multiple. Note, the items disappeared.
You can actually do most of this today; you just need to have the metric equivalent amount at least as visible on the packaging and pricing labels to satisfy the EU rules. Milk is still sold in pints (technically some multiple of ~0.57 l, but near enough), some foods (e.g. jam) are still sold in 454g (i.e. 1 lb) amounts. All changing the rules does is allow you to remove the metric sizing, and I'm not convinced there's any burning desire for that. (The "metric martyrs" were largely against the additional work to add metric prices alongside Imperial ones; most places today no doubt use software to generate the price labels and will just keep things as-is.)
https://twitter.com/TroyTeslike/status/1438979124270452738?s...

https://t.co/fGeTeJB2RR?amp=1

https://twitter.com/troyteslike/status/1438779359574298624?s...

fueleconomy.gov says 132kWh, 138kWh depending on which model. That is rated capacity. The same website says that Tesla Model S has close to 100kWh usable/net capacity and close to 110kWh rated. The 520mi range Lucid Air has that 138kWh gross.

"This website is administered by Oak Ridge National Laboratory for the U.S. DOE and the U.S. EPA."

It pays to keep an open mind. Sometimes >110 != 113. So we have >110, 113, 118 total, and 138 rated as possibilities. The 138 rated looks the most legit.
They already ignore it, and being scientific about 2.7°C doesn't do jack shit to change their mind.

Link the 5°F to all sorts of concrete bad stuff going on instead 10+ year problems like New Orleans being underwater.

For instance, "Houses in Oregon burned down because of record temperatures!". Use hyperbole, but make it personal. Hell, turn the narrative around if it manipulates people to care: "Five things the government doesn't want you to know about record temperatures!".

It's just like the problem with US politics. One side plays fair, and the other doesn't. In the age of influencers, a dipshit like Joe Rogan has more sway than factual reporting by reputable news sources.
It _really_ isn't.
It's also overstated, culturally, especially in online circles. Most people will never be elite in anything in their lives, so these genetic limits don't impact most people. They're sometimes used as a crutch to justify not working harder.
Actually I might prefer the gnomes
Apparently this is an emotional topic; personally I have no stakes in it (besides that I'm a trained electrical engineer and had lectures in patent law), I'm just curious; Colby sent me this link which describes an experiment where they built Lilienfelds device in the nineties: http://public.gettysburg.edu/~bcrawfor/BECrawford-MS-UVM.pdf
> This is the hardest thing for us to admit, culturally

Is it? It seems pretty obvious. And unless you're aiming to be an elite in whatever field, it's pretty much irrelevant. Barring serious defects, most people can do reasonably well in most disciplines (physical & mental) if they apply themselves. Of course, if everyone were to apply themselves equally, the genetic lottery would still win out, but that's not something that seems to happen?
If your cache misses are measured in milliseconds, you have a bigger problem than GC pauses.
https://en.cryptonomist.ch/2021/01/20/chainalysis-crypto-ill...

Here's a source if you're curious
implying the antivax are not smart, really?
Culture war basically - so they can continue to soak up the votes of the reactionary right. A bit like the Texas abortion law, but without the horror.
When I first saw this car (pre-internet), it was in the music video for Depeche Mode's "Never Let Me Down Again"... I refused to believe it was a real model that wasn't just made for the video. It just seemed so impractical.
Tesla will open FSD beta software to owners with a good driving record
Is anyone stopping you? Can't you just make an appointment at a vaccine site? They aren't even checking ID. I know people who have already gotten boosters.
HN doesn't know anything about hardware so everything is exciting.
How is Russia hemorrhaging territory? What territory have they lost, when, and to whom?
nah, just quoting satoshi
In my country we say "Estás viendo, pero no ves" (You're seeing, but you're not seeing).

The data is clear. It has been a warning for 50 years, now it's been proven not only right, but conservative. The more data there is, the more people who want to disbelieve will refuse to see it.
Try it. I can tell you from the other side that if you know your stuff your evening (2-3 hours) output will be way better than many that take 2 days.

If you don't try you've already lost.
It's funny how saying vaccines might create variants was "debunked", yet this discussed as a potential risk by the FDA today: https://youtu.be/WFph7-6t34M?t=15138
Early treatment (for most healthy people without co-morbidities) and recovery, with long-lasting immunity that is 10X better than vaccines and does not expire after 6 months.
On the plus side, single-family zoning laws are being dismantled on the west coast. This will lead to people demanding more transit since there won't be any parking. Of course, the only transit available will be busses because most cities/burbs are so poorly thought out that there is no room for light rail. But i'd love to see more bus routes and frequent schedules where I live. The cost is crazy: $5 one way to go from my house to the city center, once per hour, and no times per hour at night. That's gotta change.
Monorail pillars are also not an edge case. Plenty of cities have monorails. Just because FSD doesn't work there doesn't mean it's an edge case.
You can accomplish this without a dedicated extension by using either uBlock Origin's element blocker, or if you're handy with CSS, the Stylus CSS manager.

Using uBlock Origin, right-click the part of the page you want removed, select the "remove element" option, confirm it's got the right bits selected, and nuke.

Using Stylus, you'll be opening up the element inspector and finding the relevant selectors. Fastest option is to apply a "display: none important!;" directive to that.

Stylus is by far the more powerful and flexible of the two, and you can do far more with it if you care to. uBlock should be sufficient though.
Weaponizing economics: Big Oil, economic consultants, and climate policy delay
The example is excellent since while the dna research can be executed in parallel the trials with humans (and animal trials before) do take real calendar time. And unlike test tubes where breakage is part and parcel of doing stuff breaking human experimental subjects is frowned upon and their involvement is scaled up slowly in stages for ethical reasons.
Well, yes, that's the point. Maybe the ruse wasn't good enough to fool the more sophisticated SV investors, who either didn't buy the "Stephanie Jobs" persona, didn't feel saavy enough to risk investing in medical technology, or just smelled the snake oil. But it was good enough to fool the less sophisticated ones and the non-SV orbit of investors. The ones dumb enough to buy the act and naive enough to accept being told "this is high-tech stuff, we have Smart People on it" and fall prey to pseudo-scientific song and dance.

In other words, the VCs that were hoodwinked were precisely the ones who trusting enough to be sold by the prejudices but lacked the expertise to know where the dog-and-pony show ends and actual technical ability starts.
> If it works, it's science. If it doesn't work, it's not science.

I would suggest that "science" is loosely based around the idea that objective truth can be derived through collection of empirical evidence by attempting to reject null hypotheses.

Of course it is incredibly limited and we ascribe credit to "science" for a lot of things which are not "science".
urrgh this reminded me of the several months that the only thing YouTube wanted me to watch was WH40K videos. To make it stop I had to go through and delete every WH40K video i ever watched from my watch history then mark all on my home page as 'never recommend again' for a couple weeks.
I don’t think it’s a case of needing to act dumb to get a job. It’s probably a case of asking difficult questions that make the interviewer dislike you.

I definitely think you should ask questions, just carefully select which questions. I usually try to ask about company culture, the team and the expectations of the role itself.
I don’t have a strong point of view yet.

Linux [1] and Mediawiki [2] are two communities finding success with email lists. In those examples, the list archives can be read like a forum. Replies must be sent by email. It seems like the archive browser could benefit from a UX upgrade.

[1]: http://vger.kernel.org/

[2]: https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mailing_lists
It'll get worse.

This is a YC site so it's a dick thing to say but look at every YC company that got big. They might start out with nice ideas and bloviate a lot about bullshit (Reddit still has the tagline about staying for empathy - lol).

But every single one of them gets worse after cashing out. They do not give a shit. It's always been about the money. If it weren't they'd have enough pride to make better software then they do and more than that enough pride to actually fix things instead of bloviating.

Their business model ensures that they will continue to add features to a bloated and overmarketed project to people that don't know better. We better off? It's possible. But I know that watching their interactions here over the last past decade, when I had the chance, I made sure we didn't use Gitlab for some unis you've heard of and going forward I always will.

I'll never get over their data loss incident. Not so much that it happened (though they should have had enough expertise around to make sure it never happened), but the reaction to it like it was just a funny mistake. I realized then that these guys haven't been in real small companies that could go bankrupt if they lose a chunk of data or they had and didn't realize how careless they were.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13542587
Before Building a Connector App on Shopify You Should Know
If you are planning on building a Connector App on Shopify, you should know you must have the company you are connecting Shopify with also agree to Shopify’s API terms and conditions.

For example, if you are building an app to connect Shopify to Google Merchant, you will need to get Google to agree to Shopify’s API terms (https://www.shopify.com/legal/api-terms). As you can imagine, this is next to impossible.

Surprisingly, Connector Apps already approved and in the Shopify store have not yet had to abide by this requirements (only new submissions). We recently had ours rejected for this reason, so just want to give everyone a heads-up.

Unfortunately, it is becoming ever more difficult to develop for the Shopify App Store.
Why must we click 3 buttons just so the algo doesn't recommend the same video, couldn't they use the like/ dislike system instead, seriously baffled how those buttons aren't factored in at all.
Good on her.
This rollout plan sounds like a strategy to collect training data for future FSD enhancements.
I watched from the first vote, discussion of how to change the question, second vote, and post vote discussion. They didn't seem to want to wade into details of what "higher risk of severe covid-19" means (though bmi 35+ was mentioned) and figured the FDA and CDC would be more specific (panel vote, as I understand it, is non-binding and FDA can do whatever they want to it).
Sorry to say this but then you are doing it wrong (not you you, your company - and I get it some are like that but not all). Our prettier and linter auto fix where possible. I literally just run them before I commit and let them auto fix. That's it. Done.

Some linter stuff the cmd line can't auto fix but IntelliJ can for some reason. Some I need to do myself. So what.

Sometimes I forget and the build complains. So what, I run, git commit --amend and force push. Done.

Since I'm a manager too I actually sometimes don't even amend and commit a 'aaah crap forgot prettier again' and push that so people see that it happens to all of us.

Caveat: we also squash our branches and each PR is exactly one commit on master (rebase merge strategy). Meaning your branch is yours to do with until its merge time. Nobody minds what you do. YMMV.