skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't seen that number before, and seems somewhat spun having looked closely at both cars. The most commonly cited metric in EV circles is Bjørn Nyland's "banana box" test[1]. Both cars held 9 boxes in the back in a standard configuration, but the Y went up to 26 with the seats folded vs. 25 in the VW. And the Y has a frunk which holds another, where the ID.4 skipped that feature (somewhat inexplicably).

The Tesla is also just a somewhat larger car, to the tune of 8cm of width and 17 in length. It's definitely "bigger" for basically all reasonable consumer use cases. I'm sure there's something that fits in it that won't in the Tesla.

[1] So-named because, well, it's obvious. Nyland is probably the single best source for EV comparisons out there Definitely a must-follow youtube channel if you're into this stuff.
What is the benefit of "no-code"?

The benefit of using code is that you have to know what you are doing. Having experienced what happens when people build data driven systems out of building blocks, with out a thorough understanding of what they are doing (brittle, failing is strange ways under load, general unreliability and low quality) I am suspicious
Hi there, CockroachDB dev here. We've supported spatial features from PostGIS since 20.2 - you can get started here https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/spatial-data.html! Of course, there's bits and pieces we've missed but if there's something you're missing in particular you can let me know here or through a GitHub issue.
I didn't know that

I think he had abstraction, logic, understanding, learning, reasoning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving pinned down,

I doubt the ability of planning would have mattered too much

the key areas that I would personally say are important are logic, abstraction, critical thinking, problem solving and creativity the rest are important and can seriously help but are nice to haves
Ooh I forgot the language had those!

I still feel like this trick has it's place though, as an example take a look at where I stole this trick from, by matklad [0] and tell me what you think :)

[0] https://github.com/rust-analyzer/rowan/blob/d2c7843858da9d9e...
> What's a good (practical, repeatable, reasonable) way to determine fairness?

If, by magic, these OSS components you use disappeared: How much would it cost to build them?

I'm not taking a stance here, I'm just interested.
> And I'm not counting GitLab, it's worse in almost every way. And is very slow.

Hate to be that person, but GitLab is better than GitHub at everything. UX is different in some places, and it's an entirely subjective question which one is better ( i prefer GitLab but to each their own), but in terms of features it isn't even close - GitLab absolutely blows GitHub out of the water, even with Microsoft's incredible investment and recent deluge of announcements. In terms of speed i think GitLab is slower while doing some things, but it's not ( at least for me) painful like Jira Cloud is.
One glaring example is climate change issues. For example, the democrats are not pushing to raise the federal gas tax.
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I think Congress makes its own rules up there, no?

One of my Senators is pushing for an end to trading of individual stocks: https://www.npr.org/2021/09/22/1039565467/many-believe-its-t...
> Being even a little clever—and that's the best I can claim—is living life on easy mode. It's so great. Once I realized that the other people in the room weren't not-saying the obvious thing because they'd already dismissed it for some reason I couldn't see, but because it wasn't obvious to them, it was like I unlocked a superpower.

The thing is - I don't agree with Paul Graham at all. Sure, there might be a genetic component to being 'smart', but I doubt it means that people are just born with a better "CPU". Maybe they are 0.1% better overall.

Rather, I don't think we can properly control variables(ethically). If your parents are 'smart', they will do 'smart' things. They will give you the attention you need. They will give you a balanced diet. They will buy you books. They will teach you difficult concepts. You'll see them studying or otherwise getting invested in their careers and, as kids, we mimic what you see. Over time, you develop 'smart' habits, and you exercise your brain.

You'll also accumulate all sorts of 'patterns', that let you quickly see those things that aren't 'obvious' to everyone else. They are obvious to you, probably because you have seen something similar before, even in a different context. The more 'patterns' you have, the quicker you can spot them, and you can tie things together faster if you are not focusing on learning entirely new things at the same time.

Even if you had nothing of the sort growing up, by just trying to engage your brain while doing most of your tasks, you are far ahead of most people. What people tend to do is, whenever they find something that worked, even if only once, they will stick with that solution, for every situation. They don't normally ask themselves if the resolution is still appropriate for the situation in hand. Keep this as a background process, and you do have a superpower.
https://www.andersoneconomicgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/202...

The actual study.
The E Prime bible reads better than other versions: https://www.generalsemantics.org/the-general-semantics-learn...
Yes, it’s called: any comment section on the Internet.
I've dealt with 5 different databases this week. Is it SHOW CREATE TABLE blah, DESC TABLE blah, DESC blah, sp_help blah, \d blah? Is this the database that supports CROSS JOIN? What exactly can I do with aggregate functions and a GROUP BY in this database again?
> You use exceptions to clean up resources even when there are no errors?

exception handling mechanisms (try/except/finally) are idiomatic for that in languages with them (try/finally, particularly, because it assures cleanup whether or not an unhandled exception occurred); defer offers equivalent power with slightly different structure; you don't need both for any purpose either will do.
(post author)

You do a great job summarizing some of the benefits of ClickHouse we mentioned in the post, including the vectorized engine!

That said, I'm not sure I'd refer to PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB engine architecture as resembling IE6 JS support. Obviously YMMV, but every release of PG and TimescaleDB bring new advancements to query optimizations for the architecture they are designed for, which was the focus of the post.

I'm personally still impressed, after 20+ years of working with SQL, relational databases, when any optimization engine can use statistics to find the "best" plan among (potentially) thousands in a few ms. Maybe I'm too easily impressed. :-D
I think your POV and personal bias has blinded you to a more complete picture of what is going on. I wish you the best of luck and I hope you have a democracy in 10 years. Much like I hope the USA is still one as well :)
Being vulgar is a function of there being women present. Get a group of exclusively young men together and the tone and talk will become very, very though, very, very quickly.

But if we want to avoid dealing with assholes, lets have excellent block tools. There might be issues with trolls on Signal, but I have never meet any because I only interact with my family.
Additionally, if you click the timestamp of a comment, you can “favorite” the individual comment!
China bans Boston Celtics games after ‘brutal dictator’ tweet
FWIW, Sentry employee here, I promise nobody here ever planned to present this figure as a means of manipulating readers into thinking we donated millions.

The original blog post draft originally had $150,000 in the title, but when the receipts came back and we realized that we "saved" 11 cents, someone jokingly updated the title and we thought it was a cutesy change. That's it.
Knowing the operations and being able to do them, say on paper, is important. In my teens I worked as a cashier, I was able to calculate change in my head - pretty straight forward and no one dies if I get it wrong. If I need to do something more complicated, or where a wrong answer would have a bad outcome, then I want to be sure I'm getting it right by using a machine to help me.

I'm talking about knowing the math and recognizing that I'm human.
That’s not how I view my marriage, though I readily admit that there are a wide range of views.

I see marriage not as a transaction, but as a promise. I promised to love and support my wife, unconditionally. It’s not “if you do this, I’ll do that in return” - it’s “I promise to do this, regardless of your future actions”.
They're both good and much better than old-school banks like SVB / FRB etc. Brex also offers charge cards which Mercury doesn't (not sure if they have debit cards) so Brex has a broader set of things to offer.

Satchel a SaaS buying-guide (kinda like Wirecutter for startups) wrote an in-depth guide here https://satchel.com/store-of-money/#recommendations and recommends Brex Cash.
> Imagine you had a choice between being really smart but discovering nothing new, and being less smart but discovering lots of new ideas. Surely you'd take the latter.

Not sure if that Semmelweis guy would agree (had the idea that washing your hands between handling corpses and delivering babies is a good idea, everyone else at the time disagreed and he died in an asylum). Didn't Tesla also die penniless and alone?

Maybe you'll be well remembered by history, but what a life! I wonder how many people had lots of new genius ideas but took the "safe" option...
Yeah, but even the polarization of education is still somewhat conspiratorial right? My grandmother believes that "public schools are liberal indoctrination camps" and that all education is effectively a plot against conservatives to turn kids into atheists.

While schools definitely do have a lefty-bent, the idea that it's some hyper-organized society designed to destroy the conservative parties in America is absurd to anyone who isn't predisposed to conspiratorial thinking.
Most people don't care, they just want a site that works. It's useful because Notion itself is WYSIWYG where whatever you type is what shows up, much more flexible than something like WordPress.
Ask HN: Where has this propulsion been tried?
Take a tennis racket and lay strips of paper across it with the tops of the paper attached to the strings by the top by tape and allowed free movement in one direction. The strips of paper are reminiscent of Venetian blinds. With the paper facing down towards the earth stroking the tennis racket towards the earth makes the blinds fully closed and it acts upon the air. When stroking upwards there is nearly no resistance. So it acts a bit like a valve. If you hold the racket parallel to the earth and drop it, the racket will deflect as it falls depending on it's orientation. You can feel the wind in one stroke pattern vs 180 degrees. Rapid motion up and down would give you a basic ornithopter configuration. Has anyone done this before?

Powered flight using gas could be as simple as a double ended piston that runs a 2 stroke cycle. The linkages are simply attached to the cylinder through a fulcrum. The engine power strokes whenever the piston reaches near the ends. The thrust stroke would need to be many times more violent than the return stroke thanks to the valve nature of the wing. Turbo chargers can be used to increase air intake pressure. The wings sweep 20 degrees yaw and roll giving pilots fine grained control on thrust from the four wings.

Estimating the lift force:

If the wing has a fan at the ends that has a 1 meter arc and an overall area of 4.5 square meters if the wings beat at a rate of 30 down strokes per second we can know the force developed with:

1/2 * 30x1 (speed and stroke) * 30x1 (speed and stroke) * 4.5 (wing area) * 1.2 (kg/m3) = 2430 newtons x 0.101972 kilos per newton = 248 kilograms x 4 wings = 992 kg or 2186.99 pounds.

I'm not sure if this scheme is better in anyway than helicoptors for fuel or any other practical matter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3R8xsFSUrs
Writing well is underrated. Too many people think they do it well. Kind of like Dutch people and their command of the English language.
The oil industry collapses and there isn’t sufficient alternative capacity, while at the same time the climate firewalls are broken. What an incredibly perfect storm.
That's a similar premise to the Roman notion of bread and circuses. Given the when for this that you provided, there was apparently a book in 1996 that describes the 20/80 society. The term "tittytainment" was, per wiktionary, coined by Brzezinski, but he was not in any kind of public office in the 1990s, he held the National Security Advisor position in the 70s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Global_Trap
I suggest learning more about these western values, where they came from, why, and how long they have been around. I think you will be surprised and find a very enjoyable rabbit hole. One spoiler: most things people consider an inseparable part of their culture (any culture, not just western) are a few generations old at best, and are usually borrowed from another culture.
You can also coke iron with carbon from plastic.
It's still not super great. But it does reuse plastics which don't get recycled enough.
> We have "big data". We have (brittle and rather poor) "pattern recognition". We have (very limited) "simulate a conversation".

Yes, yes, yes, exactly.

> We have NO artificial intelligent systems, for any sensible definition of "intelligent". None. ZERO.

Yes, though -- what are some of your sensible definitions of intelligence?

> But we do not even know what "intelligence" really means!

...oh. I mean, you're not wrong, we don't know. But then how can you argue that AI isn't "intelligent"?

What if human "intelligence" really just is pattern recognition too? With maybe some theory of mind, executive function, and "reasoning" -- Mike complains machines can't do thinking in the sense of "high level" reasoning, though one could argue they just don't have enough training data here.

And everything else is emergent?

Then we're maybe not as super far off.

I'm reminded of the Arthur C. Clarke quote [0]:

> If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/remembering-sir-a...
Problem is we need an Appstore with enforcing rules nowadays to protect ourselves from greedy ruthless software makers. Just look at Windows - and ecosystem where Software mostly is installed outside of an Appstore. What major players in the Industry do now (Big players like Adobe but also other smaller shops) would have been considered malware/adware some 10 years ago. Stuff like uploading personal data, contents of your Download folder, contacts information etc.

Even on Linux you can see that this "moderation" is beneficial. No software will land in the repositories that spy on the users, and its uncommon to install software outside those repos that ship with your distro.
From this Bloomberg article back in June:
"The company has fewer than 20 prototypes in circulation around the world, Blania said. A prototype orb costs about $5,000 to make, but the price will decline steeply as the company refines the process, he said." [1]

Seems a rather expensive piece of kit to ship around the world.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-29/sam-altma...
Well there are lots of people out there that don't know how to or don't want to host a site on their own. and maybe they don't know how to code. So this would be a good option for them. Seeing lots of people like this for my current customers.
> Monads however, seem to be this purely abstract mathematical concept that comes from CS-as-a-math-discipline

Well, if they were, all those people wouldn't be trying to understand them.

They are applied on Haskell (and Javascript, Rust, C#... but they are way more visible on Haskell). Write some Haskell and you will get them.
From that description It sounds like the Orbs are inherently trusted components of the system, i.e. if you can get your hands on one (and their cryptographic certificates), or even remotely access one (through some vulnerability) then you could create as many "unique" identifiers as you want, without necessarily taking any picture.

If that is so, how are you supposed to trust that in the thousands of Orbs necessary for this to scale, none of them have had their certificates compromised (either through physical or remote access) and that the currency is not being inflated at will (i.e. value is being stolen from current holders of the currency)?
I think you missed a point. It is not about passing on a trait to your children but about passing on an idea to anyone else. In this context selective pressures apply as information spreads across individuals
> The simplest solution is not only to do away with DST, but to adopt a single universal time.

The 2015 article "So You Want to Abolish Time Zones" gets regularly discussed on HN:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8902765

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26416337
Your proposing a testable hypotheses which has been disproven through studies of the adopted and especially twins. Intelligence and genetics are strongly linked, most obviously via negatives like Down syndrome but that’s far from the only influence.

One of many examples: https://resources.corwin.com/sites/default/files/handout_18....
Might be related to the way modern art is ugly by design. Since it became easy to create beautiful things at scale, the "art" appreciation scene moved into ugly stuff, because only sophisticated art experts can appreciate the stuff, thus separating themselves from the common rubble.
I'm not at all arguing for centralised app stores - the Linux way is great, with default one(s) preconfigured, and you are free to add extra ones you trust/want.
Bowler – Safe code refactoring for modern Python
AP, Chainlink to bring trusted data onto leading blockchains
"When they came for Communists, I wasn't concerned, because I'm not a Communist."
> I've read some of his texts on politics which were not very good, but I guess he was better at physics.

You know, Einstein was famous for his works in physics and was hailed as a world genius by his contemporaries? His insights into other topics might not have been ground breaking, but it is hard to argue about it with for physics.

Edit: The thing is, judging his intelligence based on his writings about politics is like judging the intelligence of famous politicians by how well they write about physics. People who aren't experts at a field will always look like idiots when they write about it and are still learning about it.
(post author and Timescaler)

What do you mean by "migrating old data"? Don't want to make assumptions before answering further.
Yes, using a laptop for over 10 hours on battery is not for people who do any serious work needing a pro laptop - what is in the professional circle called a workstation. Glad you understand. Note apple's stated hours: 11 hours while browsing the internet, and 17 hours for watching videos. If this is your use case, you are not the target market for a workstation. Apple sells "pro" laptops like Kia sells racing cars.
My variation on this theme has been "Willingness to be Curious".
The thing is that those repos will only be shared among the users, hence the most important repos does not benefit from distribution since only a fragment of users have access to the most important repos.

Most distributed systems use server and client agents. That would solve a lot of things.
If you downvote, you must write what is wrong with that statement.
Google launches a bug bounty program for Android Enterprise
Reducing anonymity is the solution to easier advertising and targeting, and convincing investors that your users and growth are organic and not bot-related. The "minimizing online abuse" aspect has always been PR.
Social Login vs Password
good point, the study does not do fixed time intervals and tests all participants. Skimming the literature I've seen likelihoods reported of being covid positive and having no symptoms between 13% and 45% (and evidence that says they don't infect vs some that says they do..)

> But we're not shutting society down every year for flu, are we?

I'm sorry, but have you seen hospitals being overwhelmed by the flu as they are by covid on the same scale? I admit I'm biased here because a friend of mine is an ECMO specialist and he has seen nothing like this before.

I don't see the case you describe as unlikely. Unless I'm misinterpreting efficacy, even with everyone vaccinated today, 2+ million people could still get covid in taiwan, assuming the same rate of transmission etc.
However if the efficacy was overestimated, maybe due to time and less potential exposures to covid, I don't think we would see a complete restoration in efficacy after a booster was given?

Personally I think 70% overall as more likely and at least in my social bubble there are no expectations about a "sterilizing immunity". It mainly boils down to "less likely to die / be hospitalized and better protect those that are vulnerable". But I get that some outlets spread the expectation of absolute immunity, I believed that might happen when I first heard of a 90+ efficacy.. Fauci and Drosten at least have started to manage expectations in that regard, that most vaccinated people will eventually get covid, which should further boost their immunity.
Thanks for this! Really interesting.
As I understand it the STOCK Act hasn't been revoked, but members of Congress regularly ignore it and have never been punished for doing so: https://www.npr.org/2021/09/22/1039287987/outside-ethics-gro...
Citation? This contradicts everything I’ve seen on the matter.
Thank you for doing that.

I try to do the same. :)
Well, sometimes it is a good idea.

If the people getting kicked out, are being kicked out for completely legal behavior, that isn't disrupting the datacenter service, then it very much could be a good idea.

To stick with this bar analogy for way to long, if there were a bar in the 1950s that served black people who weren't allowed into the "regular" bars, I could see that being a good business, in some areas.
It's not cheap though, all the bloody carvers get it. Not that any wood is cheap at the moment.

I think they might have just been highlighting basswood because it's so soft —softer than many softwoods— and so the outcome shows a much bigger improvement.

Show me pine/spruce, poplar and oak.
AKA an energy trap, see: https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/10/the-energy-trap/
Me too. The problem is that it ran on 68020 and 68030 processors with token ring and distributed filesystem. I would love to see an emulated system. Also the clock bug does not help.
that's an anecdote. there's lots, but there are not enough such anecdotes to change national election results.
Considering ChromeOS and Android's success, and the fact that Windows 10 and Windows 11 include Linux VMs, it's fair to say Linux on the desktop has had some decent success, albeit somewhat indirectly. The generational switch to Windows 11 will probably only help with that, and IMHO Linux has never been easier on a desktop than today.
In that it's one electron from it (like Silicon)? Magnesium is 2.2x stronger, 1.08x harder, and 2.05x more costly, 0.65x as thermally conductive and, 0.64x as dense. Think I'm missing your similarity metric
I get it I'll not push my website so hard and just ask for advise on security or thoughts on subjects, that actually are interesting. Share it only to get feedback not to get views. Again new here good day kind human.