skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The book, The Innovator's Dilemma, totally changed how I view situations like this. Logically it makes sense that Ford or GM could use their existing resources to build a electric car factory, and use their existing dealerships to sell those cars under their existing brand.

But in reality those existing assets are why GM and Ford cannot catch up. Dealerships make money on services and maintenance. They don't want to sell an Electric that will never need much maintenance. Trying to convert a factory that was designed for ICE cars isn't as easy as building a new factory. And the union employees that have specialized in ICE parts do not want to switch over to Electric. So GM will end up delaying plans so long that they will not be able to compete on price due to Tesla's existing economies of scale.

It was obvious in 2012 that Tesla was a threat to ICE, GM and Ford have done very little since then to catch up.
The problem isn’t that doing this stuff is impossible. It obviously is - databases work well. The problem is the point of interoperability between applications in Unix is the file. It’s not the database - applications don’t pass data to each other via Postgres. The pass data with files. And that means if you want multiple programs (eg, a 3D modelling program and git) to share information, the way they do so is by the modelling program saving flat files and git reading them (and diffing them). That just isn’t very good.

We can work around this on a per application basis. My code editor could output all the changes to a custom SQLite database. But then it won’t work with all the other tools on the system. I can't use grep or awk. I can't use git properly. We end up with isolated bundles bits that can't easily be used together.

Doing that goes against platform conventions. It’s not the Unix way. So people don’t do it. And as a result, for interoperability reasons applications don't save their data to databases. They use flat files, hope nothing gets corrupted and discard data about changes. The reason isn’t technical. It’s because conforming your software to the platform convention is what people want. I want to be able to just copy my data to a usb key without thinking about postgres's data format and extraction tools.

There's a parallel in programming. Languages define common types - like strings. But they don’t need to. Rust could leave the String implementation details to 3rd party crates. The problem is if they do that, libraries wouldn’t be able to share strings easily with each other because they might each be using a different string data type. So standard APIs would probably avoid strings whenever they can. This is the problem we have on Unix. There’s no interoperable, platform-standard way to store changes on disk. So all the apps I use don’t. When git needs change feeds, it’s forced to use diff-match-patch instead. But it’s not as good: You don’t get real-time feeds. And it doesn’t work properly with non-text data. Conflicts are unavoidable. And patches are non canonical.

You’re right - we can solve all this on a per application basis. I don’t want individual apps to have their own hand rolled data silos and their own crappy git replacements. I want a platform where those tools work with any kind of data. Even with apps that haven’t been written yet. That’s the Unix way. I love the filesystem. I just think that after decades of experience we can do it better.
I've also contemplated this, and the conclusion I've reached is that YC expects the problem you're solving to be so painful that will people will put up with a shitty version.

It doesn't matter that it's 2021 and things have gotten more polished. If it's a painful enough problem people will put up with a shitty solution at first.
> "Tier 2" (Boston, LA, Seattle, Toronto)

> "Tier 1" cities (London, NY, SFBA).

This makes absolutely no sense.
Remember that HN isn't representative of tech, and commenters aren't representative of readers. It's great that you speak up, and that you do it reasonably and respectfully.
https://socketsite.com/archives/2021/10/rents-in-san-francis...

Still 16% below pre-pandemic levels.
That may be your viewpoint but browsers have historically always taken the other viewpoint. Take HTML parsing for example. You can miss closing tags and a ton of other stuff, and it'll all work on a best-effort basis.

The browsers job is to do the best it can, that's what users want. No one would use a browser that breaks at the smallest tiniest error in the source code.
Oh woops I'll admit I didn't read that far down the wikipedia entry.
Background App Refresh was added in 2019. How did that more than half a decade pass in two years? You're right though, iOS is not as terrible as it used to be. For many years, Apple crippled other background sync services relative to its own, and it continues to cripple other services relative to its own on iOS.

All the other privacy-invading criticisms remain, making iOS an awful choice for privacy.

I still don't know why you're comparing iOS to Google. As I've already explained, that is the wrong comparison. I can use my own services on Android. Apple is planning to scan photos in iCloud (and already does in mail) and only hasn't because their services are still so basic, so it is just as bad as Google in that respect but only temporarily better due to incompetence. My own server does not scan and review photos and never will.
The gzipped size is probably the correct metric to care about, right? Virtually all browsers will support that.

Sure, Discord could do a bit better, but it's not correct to knock them here for costing their users 285KB.
Advanced CSP and CST Technologies to Share $33M US Doe Funding
Using HN for political flamewar will get you banned here. No more of this, please.

Edit: and please don't use HN for political or ideological battle generally.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
These points are getting tired. It feels like people who pay attention to Tesla pay attention to no other cars.

* Nearly every manufacturer has an Autopilot equivalent that is as good or better.

* Superchargers will be open to all EVs. There is massive investment in charging networks. They should not be proprietary anyways if we truly want EV adoption.

* F-150 has been the best selling vehicle for years. As far as vehicles go, it doesn't need to be a status symbol to sell.

* Lots of cars are smooth, luxurious and fast. This has been a solved problem for years.
Just because the SKU is fairly recent doesn't mean the tech inside is. That 9880H is using Skylake cores which first hit the market in 2015 and is fabricated using a refined version of the 14 nm process which first used for Broadwell in 2014.
Right, it seems London at 101 and Toronto at 92 USD pull down the averages of both those groups significantly.
It's separated out, any investor can see it clear as day. Hell if financial influencers on youtube go through these things you can sure bet that Wall Street is well aware and they would not be able to manipulate Wall Street's forecasts via this method.
Ah it's so common for me that I've totally abandoned using Latin letters in my first/last name long time ago (and I recommend the same for you ;))
There was just an announcement of major delays in production and availability relating to the supply chain problems going on. More generally, I'm skeptical that it's advisable to continue administering vaccines which target the spike protein of the original Wuhan strain.
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> management basically said it's not worth reporting because nothing is going to be done.

Just call the police directly.

> She was out of school working casual shifts for 5 years before getting a temporary position, and longer after to get the permanent job

Sounds like there's too much nurses on the market if that's what the job market looks like.
Anecdotal: I lived in Austin back in 2015-2017, moved to the Bay and worked for 3 years, then moved back to Austin as soon as the pandemic let me go remote. Recently transferred officially to a team in Austin so I can stay here forever, my TC is 3.5x what it was when I worked here back in 2017.

I have one coworker who also did this.
So this checks out with my small sample size.
Yeah but the bad guys need to perfect all the time to avoid law enforcement and going to jail. Unless you are state backed that is.
Would have liked to see more color analysis, like a graph showing the number of distinct colours per icon.
Unicode really wasn't practical at all back then. Unless your entire system end-to-end was built internally, you'd have to interact with some non-unicode software. There was also no agreement on a common UTF-8 encoding, and other unicode encodings were all broken anyway.

Names have been spoken and hand-written since forever yet somehow computers aren't good at that so we all tolerate converting them to printed-looking text. Nobody cares, it doesn't matter.
Ctrl-F, didn't mention BOSL2

https://github.com/revarbat/BOSL2
There were norse settlments all over the place - Russia, Normandy, Lower and Central Germany, England (the Danelaw was a thing for a while), Ireland and, famously, Byzantium.

For settling uninhabited locales you've got Shetland, Mann, the Isles, Iceland and some seasonal settlements on Greenland.
Bah IntelliJ is a pig. It's worth it, but it's a pig.
How can you control for education when education itself has changed?
React Native is your best bet.

Examples:

- https://github.com/devhubapp/devhub

- https://github.com/mmazzarolo/react-native-universal-monorep...

RN desktop support is weak. But your mobile apps will work quite differently to your desktop apps anyway. And you probably want something that can run on the web too. So for desktop you just put your web app in Electron.

The difference between mobile and web will mean having to implement different routing and components, but you can share a lot of code.

Flutter is the new kid on the block.
The single-core performance of Intel CPUs has only increased by about 10% per generation, so that checks out.
The short answer is that it is not C++. The longer answer can be derived by looking at the list of language features used, in a representative Rust or C++ hash library, that C lacks. We may guess that a few of those are not strictly necessary. Still, the list is quite long.

Ultimately, the answer is that C is not designed for abstraction, expressing things that should occur at compile time, but rather just to map closely to instructions that machines that existed in the 1970s offered. It does that. Its offerings for compile-time behavior amount to, mostly, the preprocessor, which understands nothing at all of language semantics, never mind types.

Oddly, Rust's macro language also doesn't know from types.
In my experience, never. You are considered the bug, not their system.
Just use archive.is - https://archive.md/BenNg
M1 Max 32 + 64GB.
The trailing manufacturers aren’t building EVs primarily to be environmentally friendly. They are trying to compete for revenue of the growing market.

And also self driving does allow for resource efficiency, which is environmentally friendly. Self driving cars have the potential to drive closer, making better use of limited road surface area and reducing traffic (which reduces emissions of other cars in the same jam). It also allows for fewer cars to serve more passengers.
The Environmental Impacts of SpaceX's Oil and Gas Gambit
As the article hinted at the simple answer is Car Dependency. Suburbs are regulated and built to accommodate cars now and not people.

The topic is explored thouroughly on the 'Not Just Bikes' youtube channel. https://www.youtube.com/c/NotJustBikes
which uses information from urban planning group 'Strong Towns' https://www.strongtowns.org/.
But what will Google do if users end up banning the majority of websites with Google Ads and/or analytics?

The reason Google doesn't fight SEO spam (and just generally annoying/obnoxious behavior such as paywalls) more aggressively is because it doesn't want to bite the hand that feeds - all these spammy sites have ads or analytics that benefit Google.
There's a massive qualitative difference here. If you're making something that is touted to be a breakthrough technology, you need to be actually doing it!

It is well-established from the history of hardware and software engineering that crashing bugs and glitches can be removed from a system through basic engineering. No one looks at a device that has some error messages and occasional crashes and says "Those crashes and errors are probably impossible to fix".

Theranos claimed to be doing a thing which everyone else in the field said was physically impossible (or at least physically impractical without an enormous nanotech breakthrough). Pretending that you're doing that thing, without actually having ever really done it, is indeed fraud.
Maybe there is a genius in the statement “640K is all the memory anybody would ever need on a computer” in that it would be harder to fuck up something much smaller and simpler.

https://www.wired.com/1997/01/did-gates-really-say-640k-is-e...
It’s odd to me to place this as a “conservative” preference. In what way is this conservative? And why is that meaningful?

Anyway - there is growing evidence of “objective truths” in architecture and design. Namely work tracking things like heart rate, eye movement, etc. Findings are indicating that asymmetrical houses or imposing skyscrapers are actually stressful to humans. The fist being stressful because you naturally look for symmetry (notice how you see faces in certain things?) and most “modern” architecture was created by people who lived through World War 1 and 2 and created houses that were asymmetrical and in some cases even shaped like bunkers if you are inclined to spot it. Skyscrapers create a disconnect not just from their imposing presence (will this fall on me??) but they’re also bad because they remove the human presence from the street and create sterile environments.

Anywhere you look the most desirable neighborhoods and the places where everybody takes pictures of and travel to feature “conservative” housing styles that were almost universally adapted from local building materials and for local weather patterns (white building in the Mediterranean or a-frame cabins) and naturally attract people.

When you search for a city like Amsterdam you get pictures of the beautiful homes on the canals. Nobody travels there for the ghastly glass modern architecture which certainly has never been described as quaint.

We already know how to build homes and walkable towns and neighborhoods. Unfortunately that doesn’t stroke the ego of useless academic architects who are trying to create more and more self-serving, disfigured structures so we get houses that just look ridiculous. Does a car live here or a person? I can’t tell.

And if you’re still confused go look at the Soviet style bunker apartments that look like crap or Boston City Hall building which surprisingly doesn’t cause people to commit suicide on the spot on account of its absolutely hellish design.
> Dare I say and ask: How many spaces is a tab?

I just checked (because I had a hazy memory of this doing something weird): tab characters printed raw to a PTY and looked at in a terminal emulator/tmux/etc., aren't any fixed number of spaces wide.

Rather, a tab, at least when rendered onto a PTY, advances the cursor to the next tabstop — i.e. to the next virtual column that is a multiple of 8.

Which has the dreadful implication that, to handle column prediction when there could ever be tabs in the input, you actually need to fully model the rendering behavior of a PTY.

And don't get me started on predicting the width of text printed raw containing ANSI escape codes!

The fact that libncurses works at all, while dealing with all of this, is a never-ending source of amazement to me.
Hired doesn't account for total compensation, also assuming their data is somewhat limited from employer side.

Compensation has definitely been increasing overall within tech from our observations.
The trick with holes is to make your negative geometry penetrate past the surface. Meeting exactly on the surface will be too glitchey otherwise with the fast floating-point approximation.

Fillets and chamfers though, yeah. The lack of those drives me away. As Quinn (Blondihacks) says: "Chamfers are what separate us from the animals.", and as This Old Tony says: "When it comes to chamfers, you don't want to cut corners." (And if you don't know who I am quoting, you clearly don't waste enough time watching machinists on Youtube.)
That's the M1. Yes, those numbers are superb for something that's competing with integrated graphics.

M1 Pro and M1 Max will be legit gaming GPUs.
After many years of excitement over electric cars I finally got to ride in a Tesla. The suspension was horrible and made me sick, I felt every bump. Unless they make a dramatic change I’d never buy one.
> The Model 3/Y itself is a smooth, luxurious and fast ride.

They're not luxurious though, even though the price is quite steep.

Tesla cars may be way better EVs than the competition but I'd really suggest anyone thinking a Tesla is luxurious to go and sit in a Porsche Taycan (which, btw, is not that much more pricey than a Model S).
> I can only think of one settlement the Vikings set up in Gaul

Are you calling Normandy one settlement? As they certainly spent most of the Viking age colonizing from Iceland to Sicily.
I suppose time will tell. If Tesla's insurance product becomes popular (in states/jurisdictions where it's offered), that would imply that big insurance companies are not pricing competitively.
Do you have a link for that levels.fyi post? I couldn't find it on their site.
Sorry but where's the equality in this?
The Economics of Running CSP as a Capacity Resource in the 100% Renewable Future
There is something to the hype. I have no idea why but I was not doing well at all with 16GB on my Dell XPS on Linux but I'm going perfectly fine with the M1 with a few GB left over.
Yes. None of those break the rules. I guess you can address whatever you want because at the end of the day (post), it's clear that you're not actually going to moderate appropriately and are just trying to generate an echo chamber.

That's cool though. It's your website, not ours. You're free to censor whatever you want.

My statements are accurate though. You won't be able to censor that out.

Edit: Since you seem to miss a lot of actual inappropriate material, I've flagged it for you. Hope you can learn from my experience.
Referring to the Politico article based on the anonymous source? Not sure about that; Novavax immediately put out a release today that they are still on target to submit for approval in various countries yet this year.

Agreed, I'm not sure of the value of continuing to target the original virus, but it sounds like Novavax offers decent protection against known variants also.

More interestingly, their vaccine directly exposes you to the spike protein, rather than telling your body to fabricate it.
This seems to only consider salaries, which means it's basically meaningless. Personally speaking, 2/3 of my take-home pay is RSUs, and that number has risen much faster than my salary.
DuckDuckGo as a TTY
Yet another NVM alternative is FNM, which is very fast. I'm surprised there are so many others!
This is not a problem if you're transparent about what you're doing. If you say, the AI/ML will do this, but we're still perfecting the algorithm so we have humans assist it right now. No problem.
With Slots and JS Commands LiveView has almost everything now to be able to convert Bootstrap, Bulma or especially Tailwind UI into a really fantastic Phoenix/LiveView component library. Probably won't even require AlpineJS...

Although I think 'Declarative Assigns' from the roadmap (already in Surface UI) would make everything a bit nicer, it's not needed.

The Tailwind UI license will unfortunately prevent peoples implementations of that from being shared though.
Nope, no sense at all. Similarly, DC is listed as Tier 3 despite higher salaries than Tier 2 Toronto and major investment from Amazon, Google, and other big tech firms.
Bringing in a COW is standard course when you have a large number of people in one place, even in 2007.
This is a good point.

On Windows, a notch in the same place would be very noticeable.

On Mac OS, you'll likely have nothing in that part of the screen most of the time anyway.

Apple makes bad engineering tradeoffs all of the time, but I'm not convinced that this is one of them. Most people will just be glad to have a bit more vertical real estate to work with.
Generally you are correct, a work unrealized is mostly a question of might have been. This is probably more special than most, as it isn't a hidden work. Instead we are seeing changes made to emphasize a different aspect of the sitters. It is also interesting because of the dual nature of the pair: hated tax collectors and beloved scientist who fundamentally
created modern chemistry.

The changes like removing an ornate hat from the lady and emphasizing the scholarly work of Lavosie are interesting as they show the concerns an aristocratic couple had about their public image on the eve of the French revolution.
It's all a one sided propoganda game.

What percentage of people simply saying no because of this is the proper amount of pushback?
So if I’m parsing this properly, this whole thing is just an illogical overreaction of perception and not reality?
Because the Hired data is nonsense that does not reflect total compensation.
Weren't many of the vaccines that America donated actually AstraZenica? IIRC the US bought 100m and they never got FDA approval, so we just gave them away.

There's a difference between "making" or "shipping" a vaccine and "donating."
For sure any red team needs a blue game if only from other red teams. Red team is still advantaged in this regard by blue team’s relatively lit up profile.
I hope it's clear enough that I'm not disparaging US comedy. There's plenty of it I enjoy.

I think a key point I started making but didn't really conclude is that British comedies stay with me; I can quote them, accidentally fall into their characters like an eccentric myself, enjoy them without re-watching them. Monty Python; Fawlty Towers; Reggie Perrin; The Office; Green Wing; Dad's Army; et alia.

I think the closest I can come to that sort of absent enjoyment with US TV comedy is to imagine April Ludgate's (Parks & Recreation) face in reaction to something.

Maybe it's partly that US comedy veers more visual & slapstick? Certainly not all of it, there's very little in general, I commented on that in a recent thread on Airplane!, but that too is American of course. Though I'm not sure how well Fawlty Towers would work audio-only.