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Besides Algol-like syntax, LISP 2 was meant to be compiled, fast and statically typed.
I know of dealerships that had sales drop by 95% in the initial months of the pandemic. What they got wrong was the duration of the drop and that sales would bounce back, rather than simply return to normal after a bit.

Now some dealerships are selling new cars above MSRP, just because supply is so low.
Easy legislative fix

1) Stop hiring ex-Facebook employees. Unless they come clean about the company, they're willingly working at a corporation designed to destroy people. Why would you want people that sacrifice morals for money at your company?

2) Pass legislation requiring that algorithmic / amplified social media displays a "Surgeon General's" warning at the top that can't be dismissed. 12px white on black font: "This product is designed to be emotionally disruptive"

3) Disallow companies from targeting or onboarding children. If kids can have an account, there must be no adds or PII used in analytics or big data. No studying them. No manipulating them.
Have you heard the phrase, "the exception that proves the rule" before?
For those who say "you don't need a helmet on campus," there's a simple science-based way to test your theory:

Look at the stats on brain injuries for bicycle accidents on campus. [1] has anecdotes, but no stats, unfortunately.

You have other bikes to collide with, you have people crossing the path, and yes, there are cars on campus. I've driven there.

[1] https://transportation.stanford.edu/bicycle/learn-about-bike...
Or you know, jogging or biking near a dusty smelly road traffic is gross... People have been wearing masks in that situation since forever (or just pulling their t-shirts over their mouths). Now we just happen to have N95s much more easily available.
Tier 1 suppliers have an incredible amount of influence in that ecosystem, and Tier 1 suppliers have an incentive to not be easily replaceable. That'd be my guess.

I mean, it's an entire MASSIVE industry that's comprised almost entirely of truly commodity technology, and so you get all the perverse outcomes that happen when trying to "differentiate" despite being commodity by inventing ways to be "special" to drive lock-in. Interoperability only really benefits the OEM, and the OEM isn't the only part of the chain.
I think a more descriptive title would be "The Biggest Bitcoin Exchange Hacks" but billions of dollars in lost Bitcoin doesn't care about semantics.
This list fails to include the biggest, most important hack. The one where they stole the BTC ticker:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3h9cq4/its_time_fo...
Don't get me started.
It was the end of the world, the pre-rock & roll cultural landscape doesn't exist anymore.

I mean sure, the music was just one manifestation of the cultural shifts through the late 60s and 70s, but those people complaining about it were broadly right in that it was a real threat to their way of life, if wrong about their most dire and hyperbolic predictions of the consequences.
I think a better frame is we should laugh at people wearing masks on bikes the way we would laugh at people wearing helmets when riding an escalator.

(To be fair, some % of people wearing masks on bikes probably just as so used to it they forgot. But I'm sure many are wearing it out of fear or cultural norms, which is depressing if we're talking about highly educated people.)
Your property? It's the owners property.

And if you really cared about savings hours of life for people working hourly wage, you'd be in favor of increased crackdowns on white collar crime over theft.

More money is stolen from hourly workers in the form of wage theft than from robbery.
If they’re biking around campus, they also don’t need masks.
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It's really easy to over react because of the silicone shortage, but in many cars these chips are replacing physically manufactured parts or significantly increasing efficiency in a way that isn't possible with physical based components.

Electronic fuel injection is a _great_ example. Much of modern fuel efficiency stems from the fact that an engine can accurately control fuel in the cylinder based on a bunch of factors. Not only does this system require physically fewer materials, it uses less gas (in turn saving production effort).
True, and I think there is an appetite for that. Unfortunately that appetite naturally attracts opportunists that will do anything to game the metrics set by the people spending the resources. Not saying that's a reason not to try, but our willingness to spend must be tempered by a careful vetting of anyone willing to be paid.
Some people catalog information every day, so it matters to them for practical reasons. Same with people who rely on those resources being accurately cataloged.
The car market is quite a interesting place nowadays, according to the old lore - the streets would be filled with Tesla killers long ago and Tesla would if possible be bankrupt several times over by now.
-This was the general market sentiment only 3-4 years ago, and had at that time prevailed for quite some time.

With the latest estimated Q3 production numbers for Tesla they will now have a 1 million annualized rate of car production and it will be growing annually at around 50% for many years to come.

(FYI : The numbers came out, real number is 950' annualized.)

I'm sure there is a place for Rivian if they can execute,- I will not argue that the price of Rivian is right, but I would interject that the marketplace is shifting and dramatically so.

The most reasonable argument is that the stock market does not view the automotive incumbents as competitive against new electric car companies and this shows in the valuation.

The old auto companies have not innovated, and now they are being out innovated. Their market share are in free fall and there is a lot of possibility for startups to grab a share of the market.

Here's the latest from Germany;

Translated quote from VW Brand CEO Ralf Brandstätter;

'It is urgently necessary that a new course is set in Wolfsburg. Future competition with Tesla's new Gigafactory will be brutal. The electric car pioneer sets new standards in car production.. ..For example, a Model 3 is built in 10 hours, more than 3 times as fast as a VW ID.3 in Zwickau. This puts Tesla in another dimension in terms of productivity and profitability'

(The ID series of cars were the supposedly Tesla Killers from VW)

From ;

https://www.businessinsider.de/wirtschaft/kampf-gegen-gruenh...

some more context;

https://twitter.com/alex_avoigt/status/1443993103329857549
I know very few people on Twitter. Facebook, on the other hand, is nearly a requirement even to have a social life. I don't use FB, but I definitely miss out on general invitations.

It is strictly not possible to participate in local Burning Man events here in Finland without a Facebook account, for instance. They flat out refuse to promote through any other platform or channel.
There’s nothing trivial about a modern internal combustion engine. The throttle control system is doing quite a bit more work than just opening and closing a physical throttle valve.
People fall off bikes or flip over handle bars and land on their heads without the infra straw man everyday. The simpler conclusion is, if other people are doing it in my group and I don't want to think about it, I'll do it that way too. Wear your helmets to protect all that Stanford learnin.
Yes, engineering is a lot easier. You can look at published statistics on average graduation times and you'll find that engineering PhDs graduate people on time very often while humanities PhDs can struggle.
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Kind of shocking this has been downvoted. I guess it is finally daytime in the US...

These kinds of threads always go downhill around that time
As a software developer, I fully agree with you. Having watched many science teams embrace python due to not having to install the base system, though?

That is, your complaint is what I meant about it not scaling. It is terrible. But the momentum behind it is keeping it going, despite being laughably bad in that area.
Couldn't agree more on async everything. Been building out a market charting and tracking application and boy oh boy has it been the biggest pain in the ass having a good amount of UI rendering be dependent on async calls.

Wish the UI components would just render regardless of whether or not an async call was finished, rather than have to write conditionals for the components to display based on returned promises, populated states/context... I've grown to really hate react these last few months
20 years away.

It's always 20 years away.
The amount this is romanticized seems to correlate with the gender breakdown of the website and the prominence of libertarian impulses.
Are you sure? Just falling over on the bike while stationary (I admit I've managed this before) without being able to partially break your fall. could outright kill you if your head hits the pavement. (An uncontrolled fall from standing height to concrete such as by fainting can kill.) Even if you don't die, head impacts are really bad for the brain.
I fundamentally disagree with Twitter's ideological position. Banning the president, allowing Taliban leaders, it is a censorship extravaganza and the selling point is ecochambered short blips of outrage. What you're pointing out is also true - there is some good stuff on Twitter just like any platform. Most political content on Twitter is horrible, left / right - both.

FB goes against silicon valley's zeitgeist and it gets disproportional hate. IMO, all social media is toxic and it has done more damage to the society than benefited ... but the biases are very much evident in how each service is perceived by the larger tech community. FB also did many eggregious things, no doubt. Election interference, etc.

Meanwhile, Tiktok is HN's darling.

Another thing is Twitter has become de facto channels for official communications of government bodies. How do you access these official channels? With a phone number of course when you try to register an account - which is required. Twitter has destroyed the world by coaslescing social media, outrage tactics, government bodies into one hot boiling soup of toxins.
Well the catastrophic ends of climate change are just that… ends.

Right now we have had effects but it’s all akin to feeling heat, or coughing from smoke but not actually being burned. Also the heat and smoke randomly shifts to other people so it isn’t consistently hurting anyone.

What’s worse is that we either all escape the building together or we all die together. No one can just choose to believe the theory of the unseen flame and get out alive on their own.
I'm pretty sure it's just that they need their mask wherever they're going and it's easier to hop on and hop off with it than stow it away.
It proves this...it was sold as a major accomplishment. It was sold as one of that POTUS' defining moments. And it wasn't any of that. The USA held it up. The USA made sure it had no teeth.

So the talk was "We're so great" the reality is that's BS.
Would it be progressive to stop eating animals?
Something that I don't see mentioned here, but which I believe drives a lot of the controversy around Node, is that it takes an extremely unopinionated approach to web development.

That is, Node.js out of the box is really just a javascript runtime. You need a package to serve html, you need to decide on an application architecture and organizational structure, you need to choose an ORM. You need to make a lot of decisions that other web frameworks like Django or Rails just make for you when you build a project.

The lack of opinionated defaults has some benefits:
- It gives you a ton of flexibility
- It makes it easy to learn the framework, since there's no magic.
- It forces the team to really understand what the application does from first principles, again since there is no magic.

The other side of this coin is that flexibility often leads to architectural chaos, and working with Node can feel very slow, since you're constantly reinventing the wheel.

The reality is that 80% of the things I'm building basically just need some variety of MVC with a reliable and predictable way to connect to a SQL database, and Node doesn't feel like the right tool for that job.
i'd guess adding an abstraction layer (between a general purpose microcontroller and the custom interfaces it needs to support) is likely not worth the added complexity (and bugs), since cars are on development cycles of many years anyway (for the benefit of simpler software development, and the risk reduction of being able to swap out the microcontroller if need be).
I’m not a doctor or scientist but indeed, I could imagine that psychologically obesity is often similar to a drug addiction.

So yes, help similar to alcohol or drug addicts would likely help a lot.

But that’s the thing. For me it’s easy not to shoot heroin or drink 20 beers. For addicts it’s incredibly hard not to. And not for a lack of wanting to quit; they have a disease, maybe they’re on drugs to alleviate the mental pain of issues from their youth or whatever.

And just like anti drug advice isn’t “well stop putting that needle in your arm, simple isn’t it?”, anti obesity advice isn’t “stop putting that cheeseburger in your mouth”.
Biochar is great - you can gassify biomass into a methane-rich energy source to generate electricity and then fertilise soil with the carbonaceous residue. It's the kind of technology that gives me hope for future generations.
> Window controls are safety regulated modules in modern vehicles. They detect the closing force and reverse direction off the required motor torque exceeds av threshold so that you can’t accidentally or intentionally choke someone with the windows. This feature is required by standards bodies and some regulators.

All of this is achieved with a single <$1 part, fixed torque clutch... But who in the world wants to intentionally choke somebody with a power window? This add to the long list of absurd product liability regulations in the spirit of one demanding "do not operate the appliance with your genitals" to be printed on every stove.
not really. Everything they offer, private industry offers a better version of.
Who sends letters? Email is way faster and cheaper
Sending a package? Amazon, ups, or fedex
Need a passport? USPS shouldn't handle this, since they're so incompetent at handling passport applications
Tesla is much better at writing software than most of their competitors. That's how they can adapt so quickly.

They also do a lot more in house than their competitors. That means they can optimize their development processes, and align with chip suppliers across different components. If you have to work with a multitude of suppliers that each ship their own hardware and software, life is a lot more complicated. Changes take years in such an environment. Even a simple thing such as over the air updates to software is still science fiction in a large part of the industry. VW famously struggled with doing that for the ID.3 only managing their first updates fairly recently.

Of course, Tesla is still affected by supply issues as well. They can't switch suppliers every quarter.
We should stop using the term misinformation and call it untruth. This deobfuscates what’s really happening, which is that:

Extreme wealth and power has caused some self-appointed Deciders of Truth to band together and decide that anyone who does not pledge allegiance to anything they decide is true will be cast out of society as much as practically possible.

I remember reading Plato’s The Republic when I was young and coming away with the impression that arriving at the nature of truth was very complicated and nuanced. Apparently these tech CEOs and their buddies in government have decided to simplify everything for us proles.
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No, you misunderstand. In 80 years before or since, these dozen or so ethnically Jewish scientists were literally the only world-leading Hungarian scientists. (Maybe I would add Eotvos and Szenty-Gyorgyi, but that’s about it…)

Given that only 5% of the pre-WW2 population of Hungary was Jewish, the fact that 80% of geniuses were of Jewish parentage is highly unusual, emigration or not.
Why do people flag this? It's light-hearted. It's the weekend, fiddlesticks!
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Hello HN!

I am currently trying to improve the SEO and visibility of my https://get.mymfa.io website but it is particularly hard to find a proper "guide" to get websites to the top of search results and sometimes I even end up reading contradictory information.

What would be the most important personal (and non-obvious) tip you would share if you wanted to get your new side project to reach the top search results?

Thanks a lot in advance for your help!

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But they probably need to wear it both where they are going and where they come from, so why not keep it on? Whereas they don't need a helmet for anything else in the day.
You just have to look at Norway to see that these arguments are pretty baseless.
you'd go to the polling location and vote
online masculinity is so sad and awkward lmao
You could also hit your head after tripping while walking, but people don’t wear helmets on walks. I think the point was that there is a comfortable level of risk people are willing to take. If you remove cars from the equation, then the perceived risk is much lower while biking.
That relies on I/O being written as replaceable units of code and not sprinkled throughout all of the code.
Well it's not like there's a shortage of Stanford students and graduates in the tech industry so this seems like a situation that will resolve itself organically as well as provide an additional implicit hiring filter for no additional charge.
German stats are afaik something like 20% (heavily skewed towards kids)
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These “low-tech” fabs are e.g. in Malaysia and they are often closed due to Covid..
don't forget how the biden administration is kneecapping domestic oil production because of politics
In the particularly hot months I have had to use small piece of cloth under the mask so I can remove it after my commute and not have a humid mask on my face, but that was the only issue I had. Even with the extra cloth I did not have trouble breathing (I specifically try to not exert too much effort when commuting on a bike because the sweat on my back would be a much worse source of discomfort than the mask)
As a starter T4 is heavily optimized for low power consumption on inference tasks. IIRC it doesn’t even require additional power beyond what the PCIe bus can provide but basically useless for training unlike the others.
In all such cases (and there certainly are a few) I decline to participate. Yes, Virginia, it really is just that simple.
I think it is important to point out that the author is describing the graduate student experience in the humanities. If you are reading HN, you are more likely to be looking at a degree in the sciences or engineering.

Some important things to remember:

(1) do not pay for graduate school. Good graduate (not professional) programs offer full support for 5 years, though that may include a teaching requirement.

(2) in the sciences, you will be done with courses in 2 years, perhaps sooner. Most science graduate students make it out in less than 6 years.

(3) many graduate programs have a shortage of students, so you should be able to pick from several labs (you all do rotations the first and possibly second years to get a sense of what different labs/advisors are like). When ranking your choices for graduate school, try to find programs that have several faculty doing research that excites you. You don’t have to pick an advisor before doing a rotation with them, but you do want to pick places with multiple options.

(4) be aware that a PhD program is very different from undergraduate. As a graduate student in the sciences, your goal is to make discoveries. You may take some courses to help you learn how to make discoveries, but mostly it is apprenticeship. You will learn by doing experiments that fail. It is not uncommon for your thesis and publicationsto be based on your last 18 months of work. Making discoveries is hard and unpredictable, but most graduate students graduate.
ECUs are simpler to build than the mechanical components they replaced and do things impossible to do mechanically (given the space and weight limits of a car).

Jadon Cammisa has a great series on this stuff. Here's just one episode on one topic, drive by wire throttle control: https://youtu.be/gKsCHx5NOMM
I bike with my mask on for that reason. As a bonus, it also helps with my allergies. (I do wear a helmet -- as much out of fear of getting hit by a bike on campus as by a car off.)
You might try looking for poor people (which is anyone who's not a millionaire, by parent comment's definition) who have managed to get effective access to the legal system. I'm sure there are millionaires that don't, but that's not a money issue and there's something else going on.
That completely misses the point.

Some developers have some certifications to cover employer liability. You cannot be a software developer for the US federal government without at least a Security+ certification, but this is rare among developers. In most of my giant corporate employers you didn’t need even a bachelors degree.

Regardless of industry or employer you cannot get hired as a help desk IT guy without a laundry list of certifications. It is a night and day difference.
Hey, I made this! Feel free to ask anything.

I released this in 2016. It was a significant undertaking and I burned out pretty hard afterwards. I was operating under a naive "if you build it, they will come" model whereby building a modern-looking website, the community would coalesce around it and contribute to the wiki etc. But my "rallying people behind a cause" skills were insufficient.

One nice contribution: at the time Common Lisp didn't really have an official logo, which I felt was bad for marketing. So my friend made one: https://github.com/LispLang/lisplang.github.io/blob/master/a...

This was decidedly a social rather than technical effort, and social problems are hard to solve.
That sounds like admitting Instagram is just a new culture that's different to yours, rather than an actual problem then.

Personally I think there's tons that's very positive about Instagram, but even if I didn't, it's not for me to dictate how the next generation chooses to communicate and enjoy themselves.
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Its main goal is to create more engagement so Zuck can sell more ads. Turning an AI out with the goal of maximizing engagement creates a machine as you described.
> Given how much programming now consists of "copy, paste,
and modify," enforcing style conventions on Stack Overflow
might do more to improve general coding standards than
anything else we could try.

I'm guessing most of developers use a formatter like black [0] nowadays so that will have less and less impact.

[0]: https://github.com/psf/black