skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Used e-bikes are also available, and cheaper.

I'm comparing new cars to new e-bikes and, sure, in both cases you can get something "pretty good" for ≈half the average new {e-bike,car} price. Some people will get something "very good" for 2x the average!

From what I can tell the research supporting the $40k average (or, alternatively, $800/mo) seems reasonable:

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/average-new-car-price-202...
https://www.motor1.com/news/370609/average-american-monthly-...

Definitely something I want to hash out and cite more though.
> All of those models scored Good on the driver side small overlap test, indicating that when Honda increased the safety on the driver's side to score Good on the driver's side test, they didn't apply the same changes to the passenger side.

This is an especially concerning observation for Honda. I'm curious if there's any more detail on this or if there's a plausible reason aside from gaming the benchmarks (e.g., the positioning of firewall-forward components might naturally favor small-overlap protection on the driver's side, or a steering-wheel mounted airbag would naturally perform better than dash-mounted).
There's a reason human nature is to criticize and focus on flaws - that's how progress is made.

Great achievements speak for themselves. In most cases, people readily adopt proven new practices or inventions, flock to groundbreaking ideas, and celebrate those who produce them.

Meanwhile, they will happily stay silent about uncomfortable truths. Who dares pipe up about the charismatic but incompetent colleague? The successful boss who skims a little off the top? The beloved politician who touches female staff? Etc. Mistakes and wrongdoing have a way of hiding in plain sight.

Yes, people are complicated. It's better when folks point out the complexity, instead of sticking to the sanitized version.
Anecdotally I've noticed that nearly all progress bars on major apps/sites are fake these days. Instagram and Facebook also have "progress indicators" (usually used for uploads) that just show asymptotic progress regardless of whether anything is happening.

I know it's a minor issue because rendering an accurate progress bar is a hard problem, but in my view this is just another example of how behavioralism leads to a generalized erosion of trust in the interfaces and technologies people use. It may be true that, in an A/B test, users who see the fake progress bar are happier or more patient. But at some point, people are going to realize they're being lied to, and they're going to wonder what else you're lying to them about.

This is why I think the stories of "[$App] listens to your conversations" / "[$App] charges you extra when your phone battery is low" etc. remain so persistent, even when there's sometimes little or no evidence to back them up. If designers have decided that a little psychological manipulation is okay, why wouldn't they be manipulating us elsewhere too?
Some anecdotes as someone who lived near one of these locations growing up (fortunately about 30 mi away)

1) Every now and then, our entire town would smell terrible, presumably from the winds carrying the emissions to us

2) A friend who moved here during my high school had to move away since his whole family suffered from asthma and it was made much noticeably worse here

3) Heard a couple huge explosions during my lifetime from these refineries sadly.
Strange considering other OEMs bundle it for the same cost as Linux.

Framework's loss or they just don't consider it important?
On the playback/viewing side many VRML viewers were browser plugins. The idea being you might navigate from a web page to a VRML space or embed a 3D object in a web page. These were (as I remember) very sluggish and crash prone which took down the whole browser. Even dedicated VRML browsers weren't all that great.

I don't remember any without awful skeuomorphic buttons and view borders. Their navigation UIs also tended to be terrible. Most I ever tried aped 3D modeling apps using the mouse (a workstation mouse with three buttons) to fly through a scene. But with the typical PC mouse having two buttons (and a Mac with one) you had to use modifier keys to switch between fly and "look". VRML supported world gravity (intensity and a normal) so a viewer program could just navigate like a FPS game but I don't remember any that did.

Another issue I remember but may have just been my PC, because WRL files don't embed any linked content they've got to go fetch every resource referenced like on a web page. On my systems at least this led to a lot of pop-in as I moved through scenes, even locally. On dialup it's was a thousand times worse.

So modulo actual hardware performance, or lack thereof, you had poorly performing software with very alien feeling UI. While that is more than 20 years of time between me trying VRML and now those are things that stand out to me. Maybe none of these problems existed if you were blasting around on an SGI O2 workstation or knew just the right software to use. I had neither so I just stumbled around playing with stuff.
A little bit in the same vein, I'm a big fan of the "rich, broke, or dead" retirement calculator - in addition to telling you the odds your money will run out by age X, it includes the odds you'll be dead by then. I feel like it helps me put my retirement savings in a bit better perspective, as someone who also doesn't want to work in a corporate job until I die.

https://engaging-data.com/will-money-last-retire-early/

An important caveat: the probabilities are based on historical back-testing, and the degree to which the past accurately predicts the future is difficult to estimate.
>Removing downvotes from SO seems like it would be a net good. Instead of downvoting, people could be more encouraged to post better and more correct solutions.

and way more spam, no thanks.
Thank you! Hope they find it useful. :-)
That's actually a good point. On the other hand, not all languages use IMEs. Mine just uses the AltGr modifier key, but is otherwise just a standard QWERTY layout without any features.
I'm not trying to say an EV will change anyone's life. It's just a little bit better than an ICE car in every way except road trips.
keep on hacking brother :)
Overly aggresive is right! I don't know if this is genius or deranged! I'm leaning towards genius and stealing the idea.

By the way: what's your beef with en dashes? I mean, if it was "everything should be 'HYPHEN-MINUS' (U+002D)", then fine, but why specifically en dashes and not em dashes?
Yes, my notes are just a massive log file. I use it as a scratchpad whenever I do something.
Weird because this is the exact opposite of everything I hear from most developers I know.

I personally also worked with React Native for a while, and sure, you can write native extensions for everything, but the biggest complaint is how fickle it is when it comes to upgrading, package management, mind boggling errors related to the metro bundler, etc.

I.E. It's great when it works and you have something simple, but things broke so often compared to native development when you had to do anything complex. And the performance characteristics weren't very great on top of this.

I haven't done React Native in a bit more than a year but from people I talk to not much has changed, and most people I talk to who were all in on React Native mention to use Flutter instead nowadays if you really want cross platform UI.
Yes RTG’s are by far more common but there have actually been real nuclear reactors in space. That said cooling during the day is a real though solvable problem.
When these things pop up again for the umpteenth time I just refer people to the classic text on the subject.

Fred Brooks essay "No Silver Bullet"

http://worrydream.com/refs/Brooks-NoSilverBullet.pdf
Indeed, yet they are hopeless against proper rain and snow, but I guess some people are masochistic.

I am used to Scandinavian, German and Swiss winter.

Cycling with rain or snowstorm, only when no other option is available.
How and why we built Masked Email with JMAP – an open API standard
https://www.nanofab.utah.edu/assets/svn/__svn__/equipment/pu...

Unit weighs 1,300 kg!
The volatiles analyzer on ISS works against a short list of known compounds. For anything else you just get a generic warning and have to rely on earth labs to figure out what's going on.

You can't subsist on MREs for five years. Here's a cite for you about the space food problem: https://academic.oup.com/jn/article/150/9/2242/5870322

However fast your imaginary rocket goes, you have to wait 26 months for the planets to align so you can use it.
A big complaint for the first dish was that the cable was hardwired in, which made snaking it through walls, etc. hard to do. I wonder if this updates that.
Amazon is famous for under levering in their hiring process but this...
And I'm older than Google. If you want some hilarity, newlines are allowed in filenames as well (\n, \r, \r\n). Try getting bash to handle that! (It's possible, though annoying. try redirecting to `while read line` in addition to xargs -print0 hackery)
Obviously sarcasm Obviously
Perhaps, but drunk bike riders cause about as much mayhem as two drunk people fighting in a bar. Whereas drunk drivers are capable of easily killing someone without malice.

I write this as someone who has both been hit by a drunk bike rider and unintentionally hurt in a bar fight that wasn’t even involving me.
Daily Caffeine Intake Induces Concentration and reduce human gray matter volume
The thing is, people had. The majority of the conversation was yourself arguing that their decision is wrong because "America". At times it felt like there was little appreciation from your part that this isn't an American company and their target demographic is going to be much wider than just America.
The index as a data structure is really starting to show its age, especially as developers adapt Git to monorepo scale. It's really fast for repositories up to a certain size, but big tech organizations grow exponentially, and start to suffer performance issues. At some point, you can't afford to use a data structure that scales with the size of the repo, and have to switch to one that scales with the size of the user's change.

I spent a good chunk of time working around the lack of sparse indexes in libgit2, which produced speedups on the order of 500x for certain operations, because reading and writing the entire index is unnecessary for most users of a monorepo: https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/issues/6036. I'm excited to see sparse indexes make their way into Git proper.

Shameless plug: I'm working on improving monorepo-scale Git tooling at https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless, such as with in-memory rebases: https://blog.waleedkhan.name/in-memory-rebases/. Try it out if you work in a Git monorepo.
Early On-Demand Music Streaming Required Lots of Nickels
Ask HN: What do you use for programmatic drawing?
When you need to write some program that calculates and shows something quick you probably write some console program in whatever language.

But what do you personally do, when you need a quick program that needs to draw some arbitrary graphics?

What languages and libraries do you use to draw something quick to see it, save it or animate it without a hassle?
The most popular programming environment on the planet is Microsoft Excel, a no-code product.

I think a lot of developers are very anti-no-code because they know, as any rational person does, that any no-code solution flexible enough to do everything will look pretty much just like programming. But no-code shouldn't be a 'do everything' solution, it should be a 'do a lot of things more easily' solution. No-code, to me, means tools designed to bridge the gap between non-programmers and programmers and allow individuals to access computing at levels that are comfortable for them while on-ramping them towards more and more programming as their needs increase. This is what personal computing is all about.
Discord is pausing its NFT plans after backlash
Science is overwhelming on the side of whole-food, plant-based diets as the better choice for long-term health. This is covered in books like "How Not to Die" and "Own Your Health".

The study linked here agrees-- more fruits and vegetables is correlated with lower dementia.
The second brain is emerging out of this. I keep these notes as a sibling project to all the software projects I'm interacting with.

When shooting my shotgun for finding more references, what I've done/know/questioned about a piece of code shows up too.
I was disappointed that Joplin (https://joplinapp.org/) wasn't included in the app list.

Having used both Evernote and OneNote, I've found Joplin to be a better choice, especially when I'm bouncing between platforms. It doesn't lock you to a particular ecosystem or cloud service, and the open source app is free for use.

For what it's worth, I'm not affiliated with Joplin, I'm just a user.
Level 3 e-bikes in the US can do 20 mph on throttle alone and 28 mph with assist.
>To me the lesson of Google is early profitability gives you immense leverage with VCs.

But Google didn't have profits in June 1999. They were hoping for VCs Mike Moritz @ Sequoia and John Doerr @ KPCB to bring them revenue because those 2 partners were on the boards of AOL and Yahoo. They wanted to try and sell their tech to those companies. (They eventually did do deals with both of them.)

Later interviews with angel Ron Conway and Sequoia said Larry's slidedeck for investment didn't have a revenue plan.

The "leverage" that Larry & Sergei had was that their search engine worked better than competitors such as AltaVista and Yahoo.

EDIT reply to: >But it's on record that Google had $220,000 in revenue in 1999.

But did they have that revenue before June 1999? Maybe everybody's memory is fuzzy but in the books and recollections from interviews of that time period, Google didn't have meaningful revenue so it wasn't a point of leverage. But another leverage they had besides the best-in-class search engine was that angel Ron Conway was willing to quickly assemble a consortium of investors in a few days to bypass Sequoia & KPCB. It was that threat of VCs losing the the deal was what finally got them to pull the trigger. Until then, those 2 VCs were sitting on their hands for weeks. Google's 1999 revenue was never brought up as leverage. Do you have insider information that contradicts that?

>Revenue and early profitability is good thing for founders but not VCs.

100% agree about the principle in general -- but I don't think Google situation in 1999 is a case study of that.
> when people now see articles like this and read 'cancer-causing' they'll think 'like Starbucks coffee, so I'm happy with that risk - not a problem'.

Well, I can think of multiple site guidelines I see violated here too.

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

Really, it'd be a compliment to call your comments facile. This article has as an opening graphic a stark juxtaposition of harsh industry and children attending school, which it then proceeds to discuss pretty thoroughly. It is difficult to believe you think the discussion there is about risks analogous to drinking a cup of coffee.
IDK it doesn't feel brave to me to say stuff like "there are two sexes". It just feels like trolling, or being tone deaf at best. You're not a martyr if that leads to you loosing your job, you're just stupid.
Yeah, I'm not normally a conspiracy theorist, but it's hard to resist that conclusion, given the facts (as is the gist of my other replies above). Well, it's either a conspiracy or a fuckup - or more likely a combination of the two, with different answers for different people in the chain, like you say.
I think an executive has commented before that is not going to happen. Things can change though.

If I were Vercel, absolutely would not sell either. They aren't like "Netlify" and positioned to be truly the goat of serverless.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineapple_Fund
Hah not the first time crypto millionaires have been quite charitable.
This is a really cool idea. This has always been my biggest beef with single file components. It never occurred to me that you could do this with Vue. Thanks for the tip
I think it's more like self preservation
The ultimate "low code" experience I had was back in the 1990s with Delphi. You drag and drop your form elements, get everything just right. Next you hook up your event handlers and type in a few lines of code to do the actual work.

It was the best I've ever seen balance of managing complexity, yet letting you write code when you needed to.

The C++ version was nowhere near as god, it generated a ton of templates and things that just weren't necessary in Pascal.

Since then everything is expected to work across the internet, through a web browser, web server, etc. It'll never be as simple and effective as it was.
For sure, Jeff Bezos who is the world richest man has said many times that he wants his legacy to be:

"World oldest man"

It never stops, for sure in the back of his mind he has the goal of delaying death as much as he possibly can (for obvious reasons) and on top of that it means more time to achieve goals that he has in mind (which will inevitably be measured monetarily)
Interesting article, and those are some fantastic infographics and associated embedded video clips.

ProPublica knows how to present data.
Note that if you’re building a framework with the intent of using Linux avoid the “vpro” variant of the Intel wireless adapter:

https://community.frame.work/t/using-the-ax210-with-linux-on...

Last I checked with every recommended config tweak you still lose ~3% battery per hour of suspend, which really adds up and is extremely annoying.

We’ve been asking framework to include a notice referencing this issue when configuring but as of the last time I checked they haven’t.
Office plants can't absorb 1kg of CO2 per day
Where does this value of only a few can be genius’ come from? Anyone with an exceptional gift, be it intelligence or creativity, is a genius. Using your genius to make a great lasting impact is something only a few will accomplish, but it doesn’t cheapen their accomplishments to call others genius.
Ford until literally a few months ago believed that they could buy all required batteries on the open market. Literally their CEO was in 2020 claiming the market would just provide unlimited batteries.

Their new CEO came in and realized the insanity and they are now copying what Tesla did in 2014.

GM at least copied what Tesla did in 2014 in 2019 and they now have their own factory being finished right now.

You can't just make a bunch of cars and say 'this low volume car proves X/Y'. These cars need supply chains.

Ford own battery factories (with a partner) will not produce cells for multiple years and until then they have to buy very limited open supply that is heavily contested.

In comparison Tesla is building its own cells literally in the same building as the Cybertruck. They are vertically integrating into cathode and anode production as well.

> F-150 Lightning has the potential to leave the Cybertruck stillborn

Delusional. Look at their own projections for F-150 Lighting sales. Both Ford and Tesla will sell every truck they can produce, that is not really questionable.

There is LITERALLY 0 chance Ford can produce enough to cover demand.

Tesla will be in a position to produce far more Cybertrucks, they literally have battery production in the same building and they have been working on battery supply chain for a decade. They are by far the largest consumer of lithium batteries on the planet.

Cybertruck will outsell F-150 for a long time.
They are interesting to the interested. Like «any other ... labeling».
I honestly belive a 2-3 week lockdown would have slowed down the spread if we didn't have bunch of idiots doing their best to not comply.

Someone did a computer simulation of this, showing that just 1-2% running around and spreding the virus was enough to undo the effects.

So here we are now, almost 2 years later and the family business you pretend to protect have lost costumers, their business and maybe also few family members. Things would have gone so much better if we didn't have these "freedom lovers" dragging their feet, damaging the economy and in the end filling up ICU beds while waiting for their Herman Cardon award.
I love Godot! I really find it pleasant to work with. It was designed decades after Unreal and Unity so it is much cleaner conceptually. Although admittedly less fully featured and less optimized in some places like physics.

As engineers, people on this forum should support open source alternatives for game engines. So much AR / VR software is going to depend on this. I don't care if it is Godot, LJGL, Resy or what have you, we should get behind it.
If your common cause is a 200A electrical fault, no number of spare 100A fuses will help you.
Would you hammer your toe in moderation?

There really some things where the less you have, you the better.
It's weird hearing the audio so clear while video is ASCII. What would be the audio equivalent of ASCII video?
I really enjoyed this article. I will assume that logs are being sent to a dedicated GCP project.

Can you shorten the retention of logs and traces in Stackdriver? If so, that would be amazing and make this practical for all dev use.
> I ended up spending a lot of time thinking about the structure instead of actually thinking about the content.

This is why wikis, which I originally thought were just the best things ever, seem to become useless over time.

The Mac application Quiver [1] introduced me to the idea of categories, which can contain one layer of sub-category, and either categories or sub-categories can contain articles, which contain text. A really simple tree.

This extremely simple structure is just enough to (A) contain everything I've thrown at it and (B) know where to look for something. And, you can make links from one article to another for when a cross-reference is good to have (but I do it very rarely).

I now use Obsidian [2] which is more modern, not Mac only, as well as being much simpler to use than Quiver, using simple markdown.

[1] https://happenapps.com

[2] https://obsidian.md
The glut of capital (too many investor dollars chasing too few opportunities) has changed the balance of power quite a bit since.
Really meaningless study. The question is, who created the woke (far left) agenda? It is the college educated who manufacture the ideologies for both sides. So it comes from higher ed, there's really no denying that fact. Once the ideas are created they are then spread via media (MSM and Twitter) and schools of education. In the public sphere, they are taken up by all who are inclined to believe the message. It's not like college is a barrier to being exposed to woke messaging.
I can’t wait until they offer amd ryzen and come in a 15-16 inch form factor… no really I can’t wait, I ordered a framework yesterday tehehe

If it’s good and I want to continue with it as my daily I’ll keep supporting them when the bigger ryznier laptops ship too.
>The ultimate "low code" experience I had was back in the 1990s with Delphi. You drag and drop your form elements, get everything just right. Next you hook up your event handlers and type in a few lines of code to do the actual work.

Today I was thinking about Visual Basic 6, which worked more or less the same way.

I wonder what similar alternatives we have today? Gambas? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambas
What many corporations try to do is downplay the risk or flat out deny, and pay a fool's wages because the locals don't know they're slowly getting poisoned. Ignorance is great for business because it increases profit margins.