skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't forget about the imaginary communists attacking US cities, justifying the use of a federal paramilitary to "restore order" (along with wasting tons of scarce PPE that could have instead gone to hospitals). In light of that, any claim of Trump respecting federalism/states rights is ridiculous.

A vote for Biden was definitely a vote for the military industrial complex American empire status quo. But a vote for Trump wasn't an effective vote against that status quo, in the reality outside of his promise-everything chameleon con.

The US is a Schelling point of no political will. If we want to disassemble the status quo, we're going to have to do it through the long and hard way of agorism. Any quicker way creates a power vacuum that is too lucrative to not fill, as illustrated by this last round.
Hey, Geoff from Gitpod here. I agree! Check out https://gitpod.io/blog/workshops-as-code
Youtube with a ridiculous number of ad-blockers.
"People in Los Angeles Are Getting Rid Of Their Cars" is a headline meant to generate clicks, posted with no context, statistics, or discussion.

Are you a vegan? Hypothetically, how many people have to die due to the greenhouse gasses emitted due to your meat consumption? Have you ever served somebody an egg that didn't have a fully cooked yolk? Do you consume any single-use plastics? Do you use a compost toilet?

We could go on and on.
Yes. There are some long answers to this, but yeah. I had heard about the annoying notch on newer iPhones for years. I have an iPhone 13 now. I have never noticed the notch. Looking up right now is probably the first time I’ve noticed it while using the phone.
Would this case have been won or lost if Terra Vision had patented in another G-7 country and the case had been heard under the law of that country?
My personal opinion is that it will be better to provide seamless support for C rather than compile to C as has been done by C++ and D. D language even goes further by performing CTFE for the latest ImportC feature.

Check this Pascal to D transcompilation talk in DConf 2019 [1]. It will be great if similarly R language can be transcompiled to D since the effort has been futile so far to write a better and modern compiler for R [2].

https://youtu.be/HvunD0ZJqiA

[1] DConf 2019 - Transcompilation into D:

http://dconf.org/2019/talks/veelo.html

https://youtu.be/HvunD0ZJqiA

[2] Why R? 2020 Keynote - Jan Vitek - How I Learned to Love Failing at Compiling R:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdD0nHbcyk4
no it doesnt, you must have misread the benchmark scores.
Brendan Eich has personal political views. How would you say those manifest in Brave?
On Windows, you could pull essentially the same trick by putting the start menu at the top.

I mean, in Windows 10. Not 11 because they half-ass rebuilt it, heh.
Right? I don't like soda and if/when I go in for some, its some fancy smancy bottled brand.

But A&W from the tap at an A&W? Its like.. fluffy?

And with vanilla icecream, maybe after a long hike or backpacking trip?
> At one point we came relatively close to using a nuke to deal with a hacking attempt

Do you have a source on this? Sounds like an interesting read
The whole of the PNW is not a city or specially designated hiking trail, and 99% of where you could go in the region was not accessible by bus routes.
This is completely unsubstantiated. In 2020, Tesla had about 1/4 of the EV market and 1/6 if you count plug-in hybrids. This is big but not overwhelming considering they were the first to market with a serious product.

I have not seen any recent market share for 2021 but given onslaught of new products from every legacy car maker, I see no reason to believe they are falling behind. If anything, they are catching up.

https://insideevs.com/news/486325/world-top-ev-automotive-gr...
Can you show me a country with a very low gdp per capita and a high standard of living?
You have made this and similar claims over and over again on HN, but you seem much more interested in making such claims than in supporting them, and your response when challenged has mostly been just to reiterate your statements that hydrogen fuel cells are better (for energy storage in cars) than batteries, or are inevitably going to replace batteries.

It reads more like advertising than like actual discussion.

What evidence is there that should lead us to expect hydrogen fuel cells to win over batteries, given (1) their currently much much higher costs, (2) their lower efficiency in turning electricity at the power station into kinetic energy of the car, (3) the currently much greater complexity of mechanisms required for a fuel-cell-based vehicle?
Wow that's stupid, I didn't look that closely. So it's really a 5x perf/watt improvement. I assume it will be the same deal for this, around 5-6x perf/watt improvement. Which does make more sense, FP16 should already be pretty well optimized on GPUs today so 30x would be a huge stretch or else require specific fixed function units.
That runs close to a distinction without a difference.
Ryzen mobile chips are also SOCs.
Elon is a weird guy. Big whoop.

What's wrong with being a clown? My guess is that his critics are just angry that Elon doesn't feel as constrained by societal norms as they do. And that video is hilarious in its journalistic superficiality. When Elon uses the number 420, it's a joke. It doesn't matter if 99.999% of people who read it see no humour in it, it's still clearly identifiable as Elon humour. The fact that this wasn't pointed out is just sad.

Even if it wasn't a joke, tweets like that have no effect on long term stock price. (Though it could be argued that the pathetic howling of indignation around them has a very slight medium-term effect.) The only people who "lose out" as a result of tweets like that are day traders and market speculators—people who make their money off the value created by others, adding literally zero value to the economy.
In this case, both are using the same CPU core designs and are on the same node.

However, they are following the notion of "don't change everything at once".
Trump announces plans to launch new social media platform called TRUTH Social
Waiting for IBM to sue GRUB for using their copyrighted number 0xAA55
I bought a car early this year and for a few reasons couldn’t consider a full EV so I ended up with a Prius prime.

I’m hoping this car lasts maybe a decade. I have my eyes on Tesla now but I do wonder if it will be just as appealing in 10 years
Canvas + WebGL
Ask HN: Where Are the SEOs?
My company has been looking to hire a lead SEO for MONTHS now but it's been incredibly difficult to even find candidates for the pipeline. I'm close to the point of bringing on a technical recruiter but - for obvious reasons - have kept that option as a last resort. Does anyone have any suggestions that have worked for them in the past to find and hire these folks?
Ford is going to have bad margins on f150. It’s going to require bigger packs and have less range.
YouTube Music, mostly because it comes with YouTube premium and that's a small price to pay for reliable no ads on all devices.
Disease was still very much the deciding factor. The europeans had an advantage in technology, but not a staggering one. Cortez's forces were successfully defeated by the Aztecs on more than one occasion, and it was only after disease wiped out a large portion of Tenochtitlan's population and a protracted siege that Cortez and his allies could wear down their defenses enough to seize the city. When Pizarro entered Peru, the area had already been severely depopulated by disease and civil war, the civil war itself being kicked off by the death of both the Emperor and his heir dying of small pox. He convinced the winner of that civil war to visit him unarmed and then captured him and masscred his retinue, and used his hostage to get the Inca generals to stand down. When the Incas eventually rebelled, they too were successful in the field against the spanish - Manco Inca managed to wipe out 4 relief columns sent to break his Siege of Cuzco. Guerilla tactics were common but Manco also defeated the Spanish in open battles, such as the Battle of Ollantaytambo. While Manco was ultimately unsuccessful in seizing control of Cuzco, the Spanish likewise were unable to defeat him, and his Neo-Inca state survived for decades.
Hmmm. Wonderfully vague. Suppose I'd need to dig into the source to figure it out.

To be fair, now that I think about it I suppose some deoptimizations make sense (e.g., preventing replacement of loops).

Thanks for pointing me to that article!
> If you had the opportunity to save someone's life without any monetary reward, you would do it, right?

There are some people who think like this[1], but this is very much not a mainstream consensus. At the margin, "lives" in the general sense (not "lives of people close to you" or "lives in your country") cost about $5,000 to save. A marginal cost of $5,000 to save someone's life does not say to me "society highly values all human lives".

COVID vaccine distribution might well come in under that $5,000 / person mark -- looking at the data I see that neither Ethiopia nor Nigeria[2] has even received enough vaccine doses to vaccinate everyone over 65. So it seems plausible that fixing supply constraints could result in saving a few hundred thousand lives worldwide. As such, it might be worth it for some effective altruists to pitch in a couple of billion dollars to buy the rights from Moderna, if that would actually lead to a large enough supply increase to justify the expense.

What I don't think makes sense is trying to change the legal landscape after the fact to obtain a bunch of vaccine doses off of Moderna's research without compensating them for it. When there's a pandemic, we want vaccines. Setting a precedent that you can't make money solving a pandemic would be a really, really bad idea. We want the opposite precedent, because we want lots of people trying the next time something like this happens -- as such, the options on the table should be "buy a bunch of doses" or "buy out the rights to make your own, and the consultants who have the domain knowledge to make it happen, at a price which makes the prior research worthwhile in expectation", rather than "try to avoid paying enough to make the research worthwhile in order to save a couple billion dollars when responding to a pandemic that cost tens of trillions".

[1] https://www.givewell.org/
[2] as far as I can tell, every other country that reports such things has received enough doses, though that doesn't necessarily mean they used those doses on the people at highest risk
What's in the BZSt?
ImageOptim was a favorite of mine. They have a standalone mac app and a webservice. It combines several of these tools into a single GUI.
The golden age for genomics has been “ahead” since 1990.

It’s still ahead. We just don’t know which decade will yield the eureka.

Voyages of discovery are like that.
same here, pretty funny that they kind of messed up the marketing of this again.
Yes, CadQuery: https://cadquery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro.html

Think OpenSCAD but based on a proper BREP kernel, so you can express something closer to actual curved surfaces instead of just rasterized approximations.
> it's said people in Los Angeles love their cars

doesn't need a survey or study. Are you disputing the perception that Los Angeles is a car-centric city?

> Are you a vegan?

Yes.
This is the ideal case, but that assumes a public health system people can trust.
FCC Official calls for ban on DJI drones
Apple changed my life twice.

First they introduced me to structured and functional way of thinking about designing UI (with old MacOS X HIG). Practically gave start of my career with this.

And in the last several years in series of decisions they forced me to completely revision my view of what hardware and software I use for my personal and professional computing.

The power of industrial design is still with them (almost tempted me to fall again in the rabbit hole with the new MacBook Pro), happily for me they are run by marketing and never ending expansion, not by product people, and as a result regularly they produce utter crap - mouse with charging port under the body, faulty laptop keyboards, the thrash can, and now the notch. So I dodged "the bullet".:)

On a more different level of thought, we as consumers rarely take a moment to think about the implications of creating a monopolistic monsters and how this relates to our future as a professionals or individuals.

DMCA will never be reformed with balance in mind.
More likely will be transformed towards version 2 with more power for the corporations.
> it will never work because crime on American public transport is rampant.

Are you sure? I’ve never had that impression across years of transit, bus and rail, in Pittsburgh and Boston.

I think the biggest barrier is a chicken and egg problem: it’s hard to motivate transit expansion without dense housing and it’s hard to motivate denser housing except along existing transit corridors
I didn't make any claim.
If anybody out there is dismayed by the rise of Electron for UI, crap like this is why that came about.
Through nearly a foot of solid clay bricks, you can't hear anything. My neighbours across the road with a window facing towards them are more audible than my neighbours next door.

I think US homes are usually timber, so they might not block sound so well.
> People need to be taught how to use power tools responsibly & judiciously.

I would have agreed with you long ago. But decades of experience with it shows that:

1. Everyone agrees with that. And then they create a mess. They are generally unable to see the mess. One cannot learn without experiencing failure, and when one cannot see the failure, one cannot learn.

2. Some features are far more susceptible to this than others. Macros are pretty much at the top of that list. Other abominations are nutberger operator overloads, like overloading << to mean input (or is it output? I can never remember, and don't care, either).

There are many things in D meant to block or discourage these kinds of choices. I regularly get pushback on them. All I can say is "I understand exactly where you're coming from, and why you believe I'm wrong. But you haven't been living with this for that long, and will just have to trust me."

3. These also come about from my discussions with managers of programming teams and the problems they have to deal with.
> We're talking about a population in the millions to 10s of millions that just faded away.

Okay, this is just plain false. The Classical Maya collapse could be compared to the Fall of Rome or the end of the Han dynasty (although perhaps I should use Tang instead for historical proximity). That is to say, the Maya didn't disappear. Completely the opposite--the Classical Maya collapse is actually reflected in the rise of the Yucatec and other lowland Mayan city centers, notably Chichen Itza, which would itself decline a few hundred years later, before the city of Mayapan rose to prominence, again declining again a hundred-ish years later. Mayan city states remained independent and following Mayan cultural and religious practices even after the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs, with the last Mayan kingdom falling only in 1697. Even then, while no longer independent, Mayan culture still persists to this day.

There are civilizations that are hard to trace. What happened to the people of, say, Cahokia or Teotihuacan are still a mystery to this day. But the Maya are absolutely not one of those.
Those include massive subsidies by the government.
Thanks for sharing the examples, certainly an interesting read.

However, I don't think interest in the Viking archeology from the last 2,000 years can be written off in the same vein.
I mean, people don't really buy not-domestic for the sake of it, they buy non-big-3 cars because the big 3 have a terrible reputation for quality control and reliability.
It's a combination of cleanliness, social responsibility, and police presence true but I've also heard what happens when there is a disturbance and it's dealt with quickly either by police or conductors. Someone begging on the train is not tolerated at all. Japanese culture views that as an unacceptable imposition by that individual on the other riders. Western culture tends to shame you in the other direction which is its own whole set of insanity.
Yeah but loading slowly... archive.org to the rescue: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://101.132.96.154/\*

(hn mangles the URL, shortened: https://bit.ly/3aXqwVK)
In my experience, the biggest problems for learning Nix (the language) are the lack of type annotations and the tendency to separate function calls from function arguments. The first time you look in `my-package.nix` you find... a dict of function arguments? I think? What the heck? What function takes these arguments? What function arguments are valid?

So you end up grepping the whole source tree for `"./my-package.nix"` just to see what functions are using it, and you find this construct:

someFunction ./my-package.nix

Which in other languages would be the slightly bizarre

some_function( eval_file( "./my-package.foolang" ) )

So you're pretty sure these are arguments to someFunction, but it's weird that the call to `someFunction` wasn't in the same file, because it makes it hard to know what's going on.

All of this this wouldn't be so unclear if the syntax wasn't visually similar yet semantically different from most languages. The map syntax in particular looks exactly like a block in curly brace imperative languages:

{
foo = "blah";
bar = foo + "blahblah";
}

----

Fortunately, there's work to separate Nix (the tool) from Nix (the language), so that any configuration language can be used to produce derivations. Nickel has been one of the drivers of this push:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nickel-the-nix-language-spin-o...

https://github.com/tweag/nickel/issues/93
Sure, my “this is unnecessarily political” radar might be off. Especially given there is a lot of angst about Trump’s decision to mandate all federal buildings follow Greco-Roman architecture (maybe the only good thing he ever did) so there is a pushback now where anything “conservative” or traditional is bad and modern is good kind of thing. I’m surely overreacting.

But I’d also challenge this notion that buildings built a certain way are conservative in any meaningful sense. And calling them conservative as though that’s an attack on them has a hidden assumption that everything new must be good, which we surely know is not the case. So it’s not really necessary in this context to call the architecture conservative. It wouldn’t be a true description of the architectural style, and it wouldn’t add any interesting perspective to the conversation. Are Boston City Hall and the African American History Museum “liberal” because they are new? And if I commented and said that they were liberal would you seriously not see political undertones?

Anyway, I think if you think about it a bit it makes a lot of sense that we look for symmetry and would find symmetry in our environment more pleasing. Asymmetry could indicate a predator or something not “normal” which must be dealt with.

There is ongoing research, though not much. I’ve enjoyed reading some of Ann Sussman’s work [1] on the topic and I’m sure one can find ways to poke holes in her work. Ultimately I feel like it makes intuitive sense. Hell, why are we intentionally designing houses to be asymmetric and why does that only become prominent now? Relatively speaking.

> I guess you could say anything that is interesting and non-bland is stressful, but that is quite a stretch.

Right which isn’t something I’d say. I also wouldn’t consider American suburban homes or brutalist architecture to be interesting to the eye except in that they are good examples of things you wouldn’t want to do; cheap in the case of American suburbs and psychotic in the case of brutalist.

[1] https://geneticsofdesign.com/
In California they're definitely timber because earthquakes.
It seems to inherit OpenSCAD's biggest limitations, which is that curved surfaces are "rasterized". To make one without perceptible facets, you need to turn the resolution up (which then tanks performance).
I agree with this. Facebook made money hiring non-American workers and now they are being fined (I would highly doubt the money made/saved by hiring immigrant workers was invested to offset any "costs"). So, the money they didn't spend/invest on American on workers goes to the US government and not a penny goes towards actually fixing the situation (educating motivated Americans to be good enough to do said jobs for $X). If educating and hiring Americans to work for American companies was a financial gain they would have done it but instead hiring Americans that had to be educated/trained is seen as a financial liability (What if they don't work out? What if they leave for another company? Etc.). However, in the case of an immigrant the simple fact they can't just switch jobs, you'll make due with $X a month and they have to make things work or it's back to wherever you are from while at the same time they are 100% over qualified is one heck of a financial leverage that any company would take. That's just the simple facts when you have loads of money you want more of it and to make that happen you'll do things like this that ensure more of it flows your way.
I personally disagree with a lot of the changes GTK4 introduces, but I still think it's my favorite way to build quick little native apps on Linux. If you're well-versed in Rust, I really recommend checking out gtk-rs[0], a fantastic little crate with a surprisingly robust GTK implementation. If you're familiar with 'builder' style tools (particularly Glade), your workflow will feel right at home. Plus, memory safety/type safety/good concurrency and all those other awesome Rust freebies you get are super nice for GUI apps.

[0] https://gtk-rs.org/
You made me recall a time when I was broke while in school. I had classmates in neighborhoods like these. I'd take a bus and then hike to their place. But walking there was weird. People that saw you (most buried in their TVs or whatnot) looked at you like something was wrong. Like, what is someone doing _walking_ here (I usually walked fast, so it was clear I was coming and going), since I didn't visit often, they didn't "recognize" me apparently and walking really threw them off or marked me as "stranger" or slight "intruder" as I had not driven in -which was the normal mode.
Language servers for any non JavaScript language? Python, rust, Go, C++, and many more.

Additionally the ability to say.. start a web server and run it? The ability to run the actual generated binaries from any of those other languages?
"Culdesac" sends the opposite message to what most of the Strongtowns crowd believes in: a proper grid where everyone takes their share of the cross-town traffic, instead of selfish suburbia that funnels everyone onto highways.
Last three iOS releases were such that it seemed they got rid of their entire QA division and decided the releases to be tested in production by the public.

15 so far seems better and stable but it’s barely 15. It’s not even 14.1, it is something like 14.05.
The economics of scale trickle down into cost savings for the consumer, even if it is by only a fraction of what the manufacturer saves. There's a reason the id.4 costs about the same as a base Model 3 and you get less of a car for it (not factoring in federal tax credit, which might be returning to Tesla soon anyways).
I'm not experienced with Lisp, but I've heard that as well. A project will essentially invent its own language with the macros, and once the original developers leave nobody else wants to learn those macros, they want to use their macros. And so the project dies.