skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My opinion:

How to solve travel for cars: build roads

How to solve self-driving for cars: build digitaly aware roads

You can’t make self-driving work with a pure black box model. Neural nets need to be able to explain why they work. Currently they can’t do that well enough.
They do have three neighborhoods of ~30 houses, each with their own governance. They scale it by adding additional neighborhoods, not by increasing the sizes of the existing neighborhoods.
It’s probably that bad because of news articles calling it out
Yes, and you can usually disable from the device itself. However, deleting the app isn't possible.
Correct on the latter.

GFM (Github-flavored Markdown) - "In 2017, GitHub released a formal specification of their GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM) that is based on CommonMark." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown)

Microsoft acquired Github in 2018.
Yeah, honestly, I was super interested when I saw the title and read the article, but when I saw both of the videos (the steak cutting one and the nail one), I thought "Are they trying to use these demos to convince people of the inferiority of the wooden products?"

In the steak cutting one, the way one little edge piece is cut off looks like a plastic butterknife could have done just as well. Your description of the nail driving one was spot on - that video was downright embarrassing.
Which half is that? The half that continued to wear masks after the CDC said it wasn't necessary? Or the half the refuses to wear masks when the CDC says it is necessary?

Neither side are actually listening to the CDC, both sides just do whatever they want, and attempt to justify it by pointing to the CDC.
I'm working on social software at the moment, and when I explain it to potential users, they seem to love the concept (which gives me confidence), but truthfully I don't know if will live up to expectations. I've found it best to downplay any potential success in my own mind so that I'm not disappointed if it doesn't take off. I hope your launch goes well; your comments are always insightful and glad to have someone of your experience around the traps.
I was thinking the same thing, but that engineer should have a really short investigation as to why it's happening.

Access logs often include the HTTP Referer header, which would make it easy to see that all the traffic is coming from Hacker News.

Even so, if I were the one to submit the URL to Hacker News, I'd probably make the URL path something like /showing_404_page_to_Hacker_News so it's impossible for someone reading the access logs to wonder what's going on.
Unless there's catastrophic flooding, it has to be good.
We can discuss all that at the retro.
See also:

https://bewelcome.org

https://www.trustroots.org

https://openhospitality.network/
Has he denounced it yet?
Two people traveling 30 mph in a 10 by 50 foot rectangle have a throughput of 116 people per minute. If that same 10 by 50 rectangle holds 100 pedestrians walking at 3 mph, it will have a throughout of 528 people per minute which is 5 times better, But because they are only going at 3 miles per hour, it will take them 2 hours to walk 6 miles instead of 12 minutes, which is a factor of 10 loss of efficiency. Thus the loss in terms of throughput is more than offset by the gain in terms of time saved. Then when you add other factors such as protection from weather and ability to carry heavy things, you understand why streets have vehicles in them instead of just relying on pedestrians. Only in those situations where time has no value or distances are very short is the pedestrian option more efficient than the vehicle option.
There is a book called Three Felonies A Day with the same premise. I have not personally read it so I cannot vouch for its accuracy. That being said, this is what the description for the book says:

> The average professional in this country wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner, and then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committed several federal crimes that day. Why? The answer lies in the very nature of modern federal criminal laws, which have exploded in number but also become impossibly broad and vague. In Three Felonies a Day, Harvey A. Silverglate reveals how federal criminal laws have become dangerously disconnected from the English common law tradition and how prosecutors can pin arguable federal crimes on any one of us, for even the most seemingly innocuous behavior. The volume of federal crimes in recent decades has increased well beyond the statute books and into the morass of the Code of Federal Regulations, handing federal prosecutors an additional trove of vague and exceedingly complex and technical prohibitions to stick on their hapless targets. The dangers spelled out in Three Felonies a Day do not apply solely to “white collar criminals,” state and local politicians, and professionals. No social class or profession is safe from this troubling form of social control by the executive branch, and nothing less than the integrity of our constitutional democracy hangs in the balance.

https://www.amazon.ca/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/...
According to Algolia it’s spelled right on HN about two thirds of the time (370 vs 170 results.) Not bad for that word!
...I'm reading that there were 16 fatalities in southern Manhattan so far this year? That's admittedly much lower than I expected, but more than three. Am I reading the data incorrectly? https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/traffic_data/...

And that's only the people who died, not all the people who were permanently handicapped.

Edit: https://vzv.nyc/ is cool. It looks like we are in fact better at keeping people alive than I realized, but cars still lead to an awful lot of serious injuries.
Hunting Big Game in the Theory of Numbers (1932)
https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/31/targeted-ads-offer-little-...
Probably the most time efficient way to do it tbh.
Mandatory 10-digit dialing in 82 area codes in 36 states begins October 24, 2021
Another article about it: https://www.ktvu.com/news/callers-in-35-states-will-need-to-...

This isn't Verizon-specific.
53 bits.

If this seems strange to anyone, it comes from the fact that all numbers in JS [1] are represented as double-precision floating point values. The bit format for doubles is a sign bit, 11 bits for the exponent, and 52 bits for the fraction.

When storing integers in floats, you use an exponent of 1, and then stuff the integer into the fraction and sign bits.

[1] I think bigint is a thing now?
There is a "human cannabinoid system"... it's called the endocannabinoid system (ECS); and THC and CBD interact with it to produce their effects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocannabinoid_system
I wonder how they measure that. At least where I am, there has been steady medium rain since yesterday, but no drenching cloudbursts or powerful winds.
But that is not actually what happens in the cities like SF. The lowest tiers of housing are not affordable. The worst apartment I've ever lived in my life (including Soviet-built flats) was in SF - a crappy 1906 victorian (or whatever you call these ugly hovels SF is full of) subdivided into 6 units; drafty, not updated in ages, no dishwasher or laundry, etc. It was also the 2nd or 3rd most expensive rental per sqft in my life (the only other ones were also in SFBA). I took it because I didn't even realize apartments SO crappy can exist, e.g. I didn't realize there was no dishwasher until after moving in... and the whole neighborhood was like that. Normally, that would all be "lower tier" housing. In SF, it was $3k/mo in 2014 and rented to either techies, or roommates (sometimes 2 unrelated people per bedroom). If someone built luxury towers in the same neighborhood, the techies would have moved there and actually made the lower tier of housing somewhat cheaper for others.
Argon fluoride laser could lead to practical fusion reactors
That doesn't "fly" in the sense of climbing above a thin layer of air created by blowing air into a chamber under you. The picture in the ad hints that 3 1-foot diameter pads would provide sufficient "lift"; seems unlikely. Depends on how much pressure the source can provide but you need to lift not just the rider but the vehicle on just a few psi pressure. That class of vehicle is known as a hovercraft:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hovercraft
The official Python Docs equals to a 2000 pages book
The start of a solution is to remove the USSC-created fiction of government immunity. A few money judgments against individuals and they will all shape up.

Note that a private person doesn't have their civil lawsuit attorney file a motion to dismiss because of immunity. Giving government bad actors immunity causes behaviors that are harmful. Black Lives Matter would do well to look at this, if they are interested in the causes of government misconduct.
This reminds me of the bloodwood from the Malazan Book of the Fallen[1], which is arguably the greatest Canadian fantasy epic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malazan_Book_of_the_Fallen
If the drought is still ongoing this will surely end it at least for everywhere north of San Jose. Idk if it will be enough for them to catch up to where they should be for rainfall.
Show HN: Online editor to create animated SVG
Learning Zig by reading its standard library source has worked for me. The source files also include quite self explanatory tests that compensate for incomplete documentation on main Zig website.
I think one way to narrow down to something relatively unique is to look for the Ven diagram of skills and interests. If you layer enough, there's bound to be some areas where relatively few people how the knowledge and passion to pursue. It's no guarantee you'll make money, but it at least helps identify areas you can stand out.
That's a cool projection that I had never heard of. One thing it's also going to do is mess up the cardinal directions. E.g. in North America, north will be to the left. Might make things slightly confusing when you're trying to recreate stuff.
Depends on the person. For many people, living in a City is super lonely, despite having many many people around. At least the "neighborhoods" in this community seem to be quite tightly knit, so people actually know each other.

I haven't spoken to my nextdoor neighbor in months besides saying hello.

As for activities, they seem to have some there, if those are the kind of things you're into. If not, then sure, its probably not for you and living in any village or small town wouldn't be for you. Its definitely not for everyone, for sure.

Personally, while I love the peacefulness of the countryside (I grew up there) and love to visit, I prefer a city lifestyle. My ideal setup, at my current point in life, would be to live outside a small city with a ~30min bus ride to the center. Of course, I haven't actually found such a place :)
Tesla gives Full Self-Driving to a new users then takes it away after bugs
I'm still convinced that C made the wrong decision to have abs(int) return signed int. Returning unsigned int would've been more semantically accurate, as well as eliminating a source of UB. At least Rust has unsigned_abs() now.
Start by disarming the police.
'Individuals and groups' It's not that.. It's just Capital and it's always been Capital.
But you can't drive anywhere close to 30 mph in a crowded city center. A cyclist can probably move more quickly than a car.
Nice. Is there going to be a part 3 of your series?
> marketing depts rarely get it right.

Depends on whether you feel selling people stuff they don’t need is ‘not right’.
It probably was not nearly as good 20~ years ago as it is today unfortunately
JavaScript stores all numbers as 64-bit floating points, so precision is limited to 53 bits (52 stored plus an implied leading 1).

There are, of course, edge cases. For example, despite the fact that numbers are floats, you can still perform bit operations on them. For these operations, the numbers are implicitly converted to 32-bit ints.

JavaScript also has Typed Arrays, so you can have an array of 32-bit unsigned ints. But not a u32 itself.
It would also be a bug to force people to associate closely with people they do not wish to, for whatever reason.
A communal group differs from an open civic group in that people wish to live more intimately with each other than in other collectives. Its a privilege to be in the group not a right. It would also not be straightforward to determine whether particular rejections significantly involved conscious or unconscious prejudices. Not straightforward at all, yet the groups actions may be scrutinized, judged unlawful and prosecuted when appropriate by other authorities - but that is a different thing from confining it to remove the possibility of it acting unlawfully.
Give it a try maybe.
A different take: read unit tests for the standard library.

That shows you call sequences in context, rather than just getting lost in the code.
Is this survival or creative mode?

How does it deal with spherical topology while keeping the 1m^3 block size?
I'd personally like it for Angular component files as well. I imagine there are several types of files that would benefit from being nested.
Oddly though, at least anecdotally these are often the same people who harbor conspiracy theories about both governments and large corporations. A lot of these "holistic" products seem to capitalize on appeals to being an alternative to approved or widely accepted treatments. You could even say that the people who rely on crystals for medical purposes believe that everyone else is gullible and they're not. That's the sales pitch, even though the thing is sold at Walmart. So... hm. Hard to deprogram that, I guess.
I’m amazed this is still a problem, it makes it hard to treat python seriously
Streaming from the UK or or Canada or elsewhere sure seems like the internet has borders.
Interestingly, only one comment [1] in one thread from all the ones 'dang pulled up [2] mentions Carl (his son) at all. Despite the article calling out that Richard Feynman's involvement with the Connection Machine was to follow along w/ Carl's involvement:

> I got to know Richard through his son. I was a graduate student at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab and Carl was one of the undergraduates helping me with my thesis project.

Also of note is that Thinking Machines is where the Long Now and Internet Archive folks had worked together (see the "group photo" from [3]).

Definitely a unique group of folks came out of Thinking Machines!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8683903

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28982737

[3] https://blog.archive.org/2021/07/21/reflections-as-the-inter...
iMessage can run over data, right? It sounds like the bugs exploited here were iMessage and WhatsApp holes, not weird mystery-baseband flaws (which are harder to patch but only ever affect a fraction of the phones you want to sell the ability to compromise). So similar Android exploits would just go right through the hotspot and compromise the Android device that does everything.

The only way out of this mess is actually correct code on actually correct hardware. Maybe you have to run Linux and Android at the top to run existing apps, but somewhere below there you need a supervisor that makes security guarantees that are actually true. You can't just port a monolithic C kernel onto hardware that's struggling to be faster than the competition and call it good.

Journalists need to buy communications equipment that doesn't come with that "NO WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE" line in the EULA. Sadly, it is not for sale.
README or INSTALL (no extension) files should be plain text, folded at 72 columns. You should assume the people actually trying to build your software are working in a shell in a terminal and using less(1) or maybe vi or some other text editor to read the README file.

Even markdown is too much, though it's tolerable if named README.md so I at least can know to run it through a filter.

Including icons, emojis, animations in such a file is right out.
Of course not. It just gets more to the point of the original article. Whilst publishing and upstreaming driver source code for Linux is awesome, it's still only a half-measure in the overall picture of things being truly open, and we should try to demand more from hardware manufacturers. But we don't really have much sway in those regards, and it's disappointing as an OS-enthusiast, and a Haiku developer.
This huge increase in hits is accounted for by the “Behavioral economics” explanation: “The influence of psychological factors caused you to act in a manner that would not be expected of a purely rational actor.”
That's the difference between people who read, and those who don't. On the flip side, I don't know how to pronounce some of the words that I know how to spell, so when I read I sub-vocalize them incorrectly. There's no need to separately learn pronunciation in my native Russian - it's phonetic, with very few, minor deviations. Nor is there a need to learn spelling - it is governed by very few simple rules.
>ideas that, when well executed

I think this is part of the issue. Unlike the GP, I think the expectation is often both difficult and sometimes expensive. Often ideas seem bad only because they were executed poorly; good execution acts as a type of filter.
If you keep verbal communication in mind when picking a domain it’s fine. Get a five character one and it’s five syllables instead of gmails two.

Doing the thing where you try to sign up to services using servicename@yourdomain.com confuses people though. I stopped doing that after having to explain to people I receive emails to any address sent to my domain a few times.

I could see using uncommon top level domains being a problem as well.
This was a great read, I love all great Feynman stories. This quote really stood out for me

>Because even when Richard didn't understand, he always seemed to understand better than the rest of us. And whatever he understood, he could make others understand as well. Richard made people feel like a child does, when a grown-up first treats him as an adult. He was never afraid of telling the truth, and however foolish your question was, he never made you feel like a fool.
Thanks.

I think that the general Quality of the app will be phenomenal. I spend a great deal of time “polishing the fenders.” This is stuff like making sure that popovers are pixel-perfect, Dark Mode is supported, it’s localizable and accessible, and has various fast animations for “flourish,” etc.

We know the target demographic well, and all indications are, that it will be well-received.

But I don’t think it has much monetary potential, which I feel is fine. We’re a nonprofit, anyway. It will be funny, because a free app will have a level of refinement that leaves many money-making apps in a cloud of dust.

Time will tell. More will be revealed…
I wonder why the rotors are positioned so low. Should a propeller get fractured, the splinters would hit the pilot's chest and neck.

OTOH putting the propellers above would change the shape and thus the aesthetics seriously.
FWIW, I fit that definition, and I’m fine with the “extremist” label.

From where I stand it points out that the mainstream opinion is far from mine, but doesn’t imply which is more rational/correct.
This is an HK part, not a K part, so TDP should be more like 65W.

That being said, have to take wcftech with a big grain of salt.
Previous discussion on same story (but different article): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28967958
> use a sim card bought with cash

Varies by country I’m sure, but I was surprised how difficult it was to buy a SIM in Indonesia and Malaysia without an ID. Even little shops wanted an ID or passport number to type in to activate it.
Yeah. I’ve worked with developers with varying degrees of interest in the overall user problem, but that level of interest has never been less than “some”, and usually they fight just as hard as designers and product managers for solutions that truly solve the user’s problems.
Are you pretty analytical? Could it be that each time hits slightly different, and your mind loves those deltas more than the cumulative effect?
Wow.. I hadn't heard of that. Interesting read. They had such a cavalier attitude about nuclear power back then.

A reactor (intended for low security areas!) running on highly enriched uranium, protected by effectively a single control rod that had to be raised by hand to get it connected.. What could go wrong.

Still, the Soviets were worse at early nuclear craziness with their Rorsats. The reactor cores of several of those are still orbiting our planet today and will come down in the far future! One crashed on Canada due to a failure and polluted a luckily sparsely populated area.
For anyone outside Canada or not familiar with south-eastern Canada, New Brunswick has been having some troubles. They have rising covid cases and deaths while neighbouring provinces (I live in the region) show falling cases.

This should be investigated at the federal level. If it's a danger to people in the three neighbouring provinces and one US state it should be aggressively researched.
would be interesting to hear about the 'big unsolved problems' in fintech as of 2021.
Kamala Harris got her political cachet by fixing California's voting system. It is, today, quite difficult for a crooked elections official to produce a fraudulent election result in California. That was not the case before Harris, when California was all-in on wholly electronic voting, with deeply unreliable voting machines.

Unfortunately, Alabama and Louisiana bought the surplus machines. We may hope they have since been retired.
Laws are for the poorly connected.

But you'll get more internet virtue points phrasing it your way.
> The swindle with FLOC was pretty obviously tied in this, but people still went in circles discussing whether it's private or not, and downvoting those who said FLOC is a trap.

The brigading on HN in particular seems extremely obvious when it comes to Google related articles.
lol this advice might not apply as much to Scala. All the CanBuildFrom stuff was overwhelming to look at the first time, and a lot of things in the stdlib are implemented in a way that’s not idiomatic in app-level Scala. They’ve simplified things a bit and made it better since I was baffled by it all long ago though.
Quiet man, these fucking bootlickers will start understanding its all just a big protection racket if you keep making sense like this!
You can tell by reading this that Lehmer really loved number theory, and especially his favoured problem of factorization. The last paragraph especially is closer to an ode to mathematics than a progress report for the stated problem; I only wish such whimsy was more common today in 'technical' fields like math (Berlekamp, Conway, and Guy come to mind)
> The half that continued to wear masks after the CDC said it wasn't necessary?

If you posed the question I presume the CDC would say that it's not necessary to wear hats. I don't think it's a reasonable conclusion to then say that everyone wearing hats distrusts the CDC.
Fork Freshness: Project lifespans in the Ruby ecosystem
Isn't the exact thing Kiwami Japan did on his YouTube channel a few years ago?

https://youtu.be/kKH63_r0OCA