skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's much less awful than the Mini Clubman, which, like so many new vehicles, have decided to install brake lights and signals IN THE BUMPER. My understanding is there's an EU (?) regulation that taillights must be visible when the trunk/hatch is open; eg, for roadside emergencies where you are broken down but are getting things out of the back, your lights must still be visible.

There's a US reg on the subject: lamps on non-fixed parts of vehicles are considered auxiliary, so any of them must be duplicated on a fixed part of the vehicle.

I don't know about EU regs on the subject, I can't remember seeing lights on the bumper aside from rear fogs.

edit: I think it's allowed in the EU as long as the lights are visible as expected, and interestingly brake lights are not covered, however the bumper workaround is also permitted, per Regulation No 48 § 5.18 (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...)

5.18. Rear position lamps, rear direction-indicators and rear retro-reflectors, triangular as well as non-triangular, may be installed on movable components only:

5.18.1. If at all fixed positions of the movable components the lamps on the movable components meet all the position, geometric visibility and photometric requirements for those lamps.

5.18.2. In the case where the functions referred to in paragraph 5.18 are obtained by an assembly of two lamps marked ‘D’ (see paragraph 2.16.1), only one of the lamps needs to meet the position, geometric visibility and photometric requirements for those lamps at all fixed positions of the movable components; or

5.18.3. Where additional lamps for the above functions are fitted and are activated, when the movable component is in any fixed open position, provided that these additional lamps satisfy all the position, geometric visibility and photometric requirements applicable to the lamps installed on the movable component.

5.18.4. In the case where the functions referred to in paragraph 5.18 are obtained by an interdependent lamp system either of the following conditions shall apply:

(a) should the complete interdependent lamp system be mounted on the moving component(s), the requirements of paragraph 5.18.1 shall be satisfied. However, additional lamps for the above functions may be activated, when the movable component is in any fixed open position, provided that these additional lamps satisfy all the position, geometric visibility and photometric requirements applicable to the lamps installed on the movable component; or

(b) should the interdependent lamp system be partly mounted on the fixed component and partly mounted on a movable component, the interdependent lamp(s) specified by the Applicant during the device approval procedure shall meet all the position, outwards geometric visibility and photometric requirements for those lamps, at all fixed positions of the movable component(s). The inwards geometric visibility requirement(s) is(are) deemed to be satisfied if this(these) interdependent lamp(s) still conform(s) to the photometric values prescribed in the field of light distribution for the approval of the device, at all fixed positions of the movable component(s).
Could you explain in detail why you're happy about this?
I'm sure they do, but as a car enthusiast, we're forever frustrated, because the number of people who care is simply miniscule.

I always bought used cars and it's frustrating that, of course, the manufacturers/dealers only care about people buying new.

But now, having bought a new car, I realize they STILL don't care about my opinion, because people who care about the car-like-appliances they buy are in such a minority.

Car dealerships have scads of people lining up to throw money at them for the privilege of having a new car. Look at how various non-enthusiast vehicles become trendy and command huge markups -- eg, the Kia Telluride became the "it" child taxi a few years ago (replacing the Honda CRV) and every self-respecting parent simply HAD to pay thousands over sticker to have the latest status symbol.

Go try to buy a new car and the sales people simply don't seem to care about you wanting a difficult to find color combination from another dealer. They could source one if they wanted to, but they don't. They're catering to the masses who are simply to be allowed to buy a car sitting on the lot. They want to make as much money as possible from each sale; getting a marginal sale to someone who actually cares which option package or color they get simply isn't worth it. There are too few of "us" and too many of "them".

In the US, it's incredibly rare to people actually order a car from the factory the way they want it, because nobody is willing to wait. The buyer accepts that they 'have to' buy whatever is on the lot that day. With most cars, you have very few options you can even select from anyway; they're all bundled in packages of stuff you may or may not care about. To be fair, this is an industry-wide trend; having fewer SKUs, in retail parlance, makes a ton of sense. But I think it's particularly bad in the US.
Those are good points.

Is there any way to have an open source license that protects history?
> There are more cities than that

Sure, but the person I replied to said _large_ city. 125k is definitely not a large city, and having grown up in a similar sized one (~100k) they're poorly served. This is (anecdotally) because those towns and cities used to be small enough to not warrant mass transit, and now that they are people are convinced that it's not worth it because it's slow.
Abstract: "When comparing lifetime abstainers and former drinkers there were no consistent differences in dementia risk."
Is this the reason IBM stopped its Swift on the server endeavors?
> What goes into being a tail light enthusiast?

Watching the Technology Connections video on the subject is probably a good start.
I’ve felt like the guardian has gone downhill in the last few years. I first started paying for it because I believed that they would do the right thing in a post-Snowden world.

Instead, in the last two years major incidents have happened and coverage disappears by the next day. Perhaps this is the result of a poor UI but the tendency towards clickbait rather than holding authority to task - e.g. the UK PPE scandal - has been really disappointing.
That depends entirely on what you consider insane. MacOS for example does so many things that I consider utterly batshit insane, but here we are. Lots of people love it. It's a given that a consumer operating system will do many, many things without direct user input.
Unless I’m misunderstanding the abstract, a key finding is that drinkers who then abstain have an increased risk of dementia. Lifelong abstainers showed no increased risk.

My first thought is that it sounds more like people who made the lifestyle adjustment to quit drinking might have made that adjustment because of declining mental faculties. Whereas people who never make an adjustment (lifelong drinking OR abstaining) just don’t feel the need to change because they aren’t getting dementia.
Why do you think even the pro-democracy forces in China see the US's support of "democrats" as a farce? Why do you think the images in HK of protestors with the US flag were seen as nothing short of treason, even among the liberals of China? The hypocrisy is so obvious, and the naked self-interest too glaring.

The US's foreign policy has set back the cause of democracy and liberalization in China by decades with its underhanded shenanigans. To recieve their support, even moral support, is the kiss of death in China.
“Death” one of 5 ways to lose at Chess, according to PGN standard
I read the paper and I didn't come to that conclusion. Can you explain why you think that?

Here is their stated purpose:

The primary objective of this work has been to bring forth the issue of the growing depletion of editors, especially the experienced editors in Wikipedia.

One may be able to take their data and then determine if certain editors are near the quitting threshold. The data may also reveal operational and environmental conditions that could be changed to limit the loss of experienced editor.
Or between people who try to abstain from alcohol because they feel it will lead them to dementia.
Seems the people building HN already thought of this, just activate noprocrast in your profile settings.

> In my profile, what is noprocrast?

> It's a way to help you prevent yourself from spending too much time on HN. If you turn it on you'll only be allowed to visit the site for maxvisit minutes at a time, with gaps of minaway minutes in between. The defaults are 20 and 180, which would let you view the site for 20 minutes at a time, and then not allow you back in for 3 hours.
Stability. Consistency. Which renewable able to match that without getting Tesla involved.
Programming Scala is one of the best programming books I’ve ever read. Scala never stuck with me, but I’ve gone through the book a couple of times because it’s so well written and enjoyable to read.
> I seem to recall reading amber turn signals are required the EU but not US.

Yes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1lZ9n2bxWA).

The US allows not only red turn signals, but implementing turn signals by flashing brake lights.
> Government authorities typically recommend against the consumption of refined grains.

For a long time in the U.S., this was emphatically not true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_pyramid_(nutrition)#/medi...
My bad it's in origin and available for tinkering nothing else, that was what I was going for.
>All of which would disappear with level 5 self driving.

I think the post was about managing the risk that occurs before level 5 is reached. Assuming that it’s either on the immediate horizon or a foregone conclusion seems to be dismissive of those nascent risks
> "for instance, a bar chart might tell me that so-and-so many widgets were sold during a particular period of time"

Funny, considering that's a core part of Tableau's value proposition.
Did anything useful come out of the "Vault" revelations? I mean for examples improvements in the WWW, PC hardware/software, browsers, etc.
> This is JavaScript package-culture at work.

Node.js ecosystem makes things worse because of package number inflation due to a piss poor standard library (praise DENO).

But this isn't limited to Javascript. It has everything to do with Github as a social platform. Case point, the same petty drama happens in the Go community with frameworks like "Iris" and the vitriol around it. Github is a repo service yes, but also a social platform, that makes or undo careers and there is potential money involved now.
Do you have any data to support this view?

I guess Western societies are quite decent defending and increasing the rights of underrepresented people, given that in the past century (or so), women got the vote, non-Westerners got citizenship (and therefore voting) rights, ...
Slightly off topic, but FWIW the website is also a mess. You’re allowed to read one sentence at a time as they’re interspersed with ads, autoplaying videos and sign-up forms.
So if women voters for the most part have thought that a man is the better candidate there is a problem? Maybe i am just misunderstanding and basing my opinion on how election system works in my country which i think is gender equal - anyone can make a party (obviously you have to be a citizen) as long as you get the minimum amount of party members, you can run in the election and the election itself is based on votes per party + votes for each candidate within that party (+/- system). So if a party gets 5 seats in the parliament, the top most "upvoted" candidates get those seats.
There is nothing preventing women from creating a party which would appease to the women voters and running for election. That is equality. But nowadays it is easier to blame sexism and whatnot if the result is something you don't like (women not voting for the women centric party).
If you're sincerely interested in a thoughtful discussion, you should dial back the smug tone in your posts.
If they’re working, and if there isn’t something obstructing their view, like another vehicle or fog.

Generally it’s best to design vehicle signaling with an assumption that situations are not ideal, just in case.
Any ANSI color library is a very simple thing.

Nano Colors mentioned Colorette in docs, COPYRIGHT and keep origin git history.

If Nano Colors was open about credits, why Colorette’s author should not do the same?
Because it's the speed of light. /s
A tiny correlation appearing in a noisy observational dataset. Best to ignore this.
Systematic misinformation follows from motivated reasoning. MSNBC, CNN and Fox all had plenty of it under Trump. MSNBC basically did to Trump what Fox did to Obama.

Plenty of studies have shown that liberals and conservatives can read the same studies, and both come away thinking the data supported their positions. And they were both wrong. Nuance is dead.
> The problem was that "no drinking" group included people that weren't drinking because of poor health

They've corrected for this. From the abstract:

> Adjusting for additional demographic and clinical covariates, and accounting for competing risk of death, did not substantially affect results.
Server Side Rendering means that your Javascript produces an HTML string that's sent over the wire, like "<div><button></div>". The browser can render this HTML very, very fast, which is why it's desirable for performance. However, the <button> that's sent to the client won't have any Javascript onClick interactivity. That's where "hydration" comes in, React (or whatever) re-runs over the HTML already in the browser, and wires up click handlers, etc. The HTML on the page won't change, but now it will be interactive. The benefit is the user gets to see the HTML much faster.

For some libraries that are very large, like Threejs or a charting library, or any tech that draws to a Canvas which probably can't be SSR'd, it's probably best to detect if you're on the server or the client in your React code (which is usually done by injecting some env variable into your bundle), and render an empty <div> on the server, and when the client hydrates, it will download the large library and create the chart.

For other data, the trick is to create an API that works on both the server and the client. So `getPosts()` on the server will call to your internal API, and when that same function is executed on the client, it calls out to GraphQL. Then you switch out your API client on the server vs client bundle. In this way, your app is "universal," you can do a blocking fetch of posts on the server and render server side HTML, and on the client you can still call `getPosts()` on button clicks or whatever to fetch new posts. And API calls are much faster on your server side because you're in the same VPC, they don't go out over the public internet, and you might not even need TLS for them.

For most SSR apps with hydration, the entire app is downloaded again on the front-end. What I want to see is selective hydration first. For example, you define your entire app in React, and things that don't change, like the header and the footer, are only rendered on the server, and the JS React code is never sent to the client. For things that need interactivity, like dropdowns, the React code is sent to the client only needed for the dropdown to make it interactive. I think selective/partial hydration should be the default behavior for webapps, only deviating if you have things like large JS libraries as mentioned above, or maybe applications that you always keep open in a single tab, like an email client.

These same principles apply to CSS rendering too. CSS should always be extracted to a static stylesheet and sent as a <style> tag. If you have to download JS, parse JS, run JS, and then get a stylesheet injected into the DOM, it's also a bad performance hit. Browsers will always be faster than us at showing vanilla CSS and HTML to users as fast as possible, which is what we want. The most important consideration of CSS libraries is whether or not they can produce static stylesheets. It's mystifying to me that none of the CSS-in-JS libraries mention if they can/can't do this as part of their landing pages. If users have to execute JS before CSS starts styling the page, you've lost the performance game.
Unless they were killed on the battlefield ... this kind of risk seems to have gone down too in developed states, and that is pretty significant. Europe in the first half of the 20th century, with exception of a few lucky countries, was one big war graveyard.
Why is this fact downvoted? I have friends at PGE and they say exactly this.
See jarenmf's comment. Basically the CO2 is catalyzed into Methane using an 'inorganic catalyst', there is this paper[1] which uses a ruthenium catalyst at 400 degrees C to do it.

Then the methane is consumed by some genetically modified bacteria (probably e.coli) first to convert it to an intermediate product, and then with a second organism to convert it into starch.

In the article they talk about genetically modified enzymes and I've actually jumped ahead to the using genetically modified bacteria here[2]. I think that is a safe assumption as a number of bio-reactors do exactly this.

What is somewhat interesting to me is that livestock generates a lot of methane, if you could harvest it and convert it back into starch to feed the livestock you could increase the efficiency of raising livestock farming.

[1] https://phys.org/news/2020-02-method-carbon-dioxide-methane-...

[2] The article hasn't appeared in sci-hub yet :-)
Scaffolding robot for the construction industry
I find Wget is a bit easier for downloads, httpie for APIs. Haven’t really used curl since. It works well but the interface is kinda clumsy.
IT: We are literally serving viruses to our potential customers.

Sales: We cannot change our processes, Bro! I mean Mr. CEO you don't want to lose money do you.

CEO: I like money. IT go see HR for your mandatory teambuilding course for harassment of the sales teams.

Sales: Thanks for taking care of that sir. See ya at the club tonight.
Yep, if the site you're accessing is not on the cloudflare network, they'll see an ip starting with 8.
"Ask HN: Where do you find potential customers to validate your idea / MVP?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26644616 6 months ago

"Ask HN: How do you validate your startup idea when you've no distribution?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28263375 1 month ago

"Ask HN: Does a landing page MVP work?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28068450 2 month ago

Personally I'm skeptical when it comes to landing pages (not even MVP). Maybe over the years I've seen too many.
How exactly is it easier for a government to shut down your solar panels than to stop you from getting highly refined oil products?

Iff you were right, what would stop you from charging your electric car with a diesel generator?
It's called precedent and is also prevalent in the US Justice system
"From glancing through the comments so far..."

I have yet to see a thread relating to gender issues on HN that wasn't dominated by misogynistic comments.
I don't know about everyone else, but where I live (Florida), the same people who preach that COVID was an intentional, weaponized lab leak also argue that it's a hoax, less dangerous to the common flu.

It makes my head hurt.
Why it is a unattributed fork if Colorette is mentioned in docs, COPYRIGHT and origin commits are in history?
There are plenty of resources that demonstrate why those statistics can be misleading. Chief among them, not all miles are created equal. It’s like claiming autopilot in airplanes is significantly safer than ape-controlled aircraft. It’s partly true because apes control the hard parts (takeoff and landing) and leave the more easy parts to software
I wasn't referring to CO2: breaks and tires emit particulates due to wear.
> because of being told by the governments and in schools, that the CIA and co only fight terrorist and evil empires.

That's not their image in the US at all and that's not how formal education about the CIA works in schools in the US. The opposite is closer to the truth.

You're maybe aware of the common American conspiracy theory that JFK was murdered by the CIA? As retribution for the Bay of Pigs, among other things.

Every other Hollywood movie in which they make an appearance has portrayed the CIA as up to no good for decades now, especially when it comes to topics like the war on drugs and terrorism. They're frequently portrayed as duplicitous and incompetent. That's because that's how the culture views them at this point. They do not have a good reputation with the American public.

See: American Made (2017), Kill the Messenger (2014), Syriana (2005), The Siege (1998), The Jason Bourne movies, among many others
Yeah but JC Penny is an investment in retail. Everybody knew deep down that online was the future. Pharmaceutical no clue. Boeing will rise up again, although not a lot.
Even if people look at their own cars they'd assume it's fine in the sense that most countries have regulations that cars need to meet before they can be sold.
I was earning 250$ a month as an average programmer. I was working with some Java, Commute was 40miles everyday. Since I wasn't able to afford an apartment.
I had signed contract with them that I won't quit... yeah 24 year old me was an idiot.
> I've been at my current company for maybe 6 years now, in an engineering role. In that time, the service-oriented code which has [lasted the longest is] AWS lambda functions. We have quite a few Lambda functions (written in Node) that I believe pre-date even my tenure at the company.

Interesting, AWS lambda only launched in November, 2014[0]. So those more-than-six-year-old functions must have been written for a brand new platform.

[0]:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWS_Lambda
I mentioned him in docs, COPYRIGHT and keep the origin history?

I clearly explain the reasons of fork creation and the changes https://github.com/ai/nanocolors/wiki/Colorette-Changes

What “fork rules” did I violate?
Tbh you may have gotten solid utility out of that. And realistically after 3x you would’ve sold anyway (me too)
EVs have a fraction of the brake dust due to regenerative braking. Tyres clearly need work though.
What? Was this ever controversial? The only thing there is the widespread excess of salt in fast food. And meat, the biggest concern is about the environment. Obviously fast food and processed meat should be avoided

And you can clearly see that people in Asian countries, like Thailand, eat diary, meat, salt, eggs, etc.. daily and they don't have obesity or other similar health issues like the west
And the image publisher is one crafty son of a bitch
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Java is not my cup of anything but I do absolutely respect that about it.

I have a long standing semi-shitpost opinion that if faced with a choice of technologies, it's often best to pick the one that's been "declared dead/dying" because that means it's stable and in wide use.
This is an excellent textbook on operating system based on Raspberry Pi:

https://www.arm.com/resources/education/books/operating-syst...