skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is correct. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=code...
For people who don't know much about drill bits, but know that steel is harder than titanium, it's a drill coating of titanium nitride or similar according to wikipedia that makes it harder than stainless steel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drill_bit#Coatings
Ok now we're in scam territory, Nikola was clearly a scam and overvalued. But it wasn't anywhere near a trillion dollars.

If the original comment was just exaggerating for effect, then fair enough. I was genuinely curious by the possibility of not only one trillion dollar scam company, but many.
So, only Australians can't troll Australians?
Well, many of the Polish literature classics (e.g. Sienkiewicz's Trilogy) were published piecemeal in newspapers a century and a half ago. The accounts of that say people (adults nonetheless) were super attached to the characters almost as if they were real people [1][2] so I think it's not unreasonable to extrapolate that back to children.

On top of that too many parents just delegate the upbringing to the media, sadly. If you don't, that's great.

[1] https://culture.pl/pl/artykul/jak-polacy-czytali-trylogie

[2] The three novels were based on historical events, but with fictional characters, and written by Sienkiewicz in a time when there was no independent Poland.
I would argue complexity is also the wellspring of corner cases. The more corner cases, the more mercurial- and that isn’t just due to the limitations of our minds.
Responsibility for an outcome is not zero sum. The pharma companies and McKinsey can both be morally responsible. As can Congress, lobbyists, etc.

As somebody who has done consulting, it's perfectly possible to do it in a way that isn't totally amoral like "how to do something / anything while staying within legal fringes" indicates. As an example, read through the IEEE/ACM code of ethics for software engineering: https://ethics.acm.org/code-of-ethics/software-engineering-c...

Big chunks of that are applicable to consulting too. That McKinsey doesn't care is a choice they made, and one we can hold them accountable for.
I have my task bar autohide and haven’t used it in years. Seriously, I never see it. Between cmd+tab and Alfred to launch apps it’s just redundant.
I think it is hilarious that one is expected to do more research to go to Disneyland than I do for a 3-day backpacking hike with my children.
If you make them too small it can lead to counterintuitive slowdowns.
> It's not only because it tries to codify coding as a sum of recipes

It doesn't do anything of the sort. It may try to codify some specific solutions to SOME specific types of problems, in a very narrow OOP'y context, but if "codifying coding as a sum or recipes" is what you took from it there's little wonder it has colored your view, so.
We still have Jolt Cola.
Earth post a super volcano would still be far more habitable than mars, same thing goes for a major impact event, nuclear winter and pretty much anything else that doesn’t turn the atmosphere into a firestorm, boils the oceans and turns all land mass into lava…

And if you get to the point in which you can terraform mars then fixing the earth would be again far easier unless all biomass somehow dies and there is no atmosphere left and earth somehow loses its magnetic field.

At best mars might serve as a temporary lifeboat but even then if you have the technology to sustain life on mars you would be better off building protected habitats on earth.
here's one i like: https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/area-51-and-other-strang...
Seems obvious that a structure present in pretty much ALL humans has some evolved purpose.

If you want to scare yourself, search for "empty nose syndrome" and you'll find horror stories of people feeling like something is horribly wrong after surgeons removed their turbinates (often without telling them, while doing another procedure like deviated septum) ... some even end up committing suicide.

Chesterton's Fence comes to mind:

> The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”
On today’s episode of BBC World Service podcast they interviewed a canadian journalist who flew on one of those flights and she said that they as passangers were not asked to get tested before boarding.

She said she only tested herself since her following flight from AMS mandated it.
I'd rather not have that statement more than 80 char long; that might be a one liner where many things are happening, in case there _is_ value is breaking it up, or maybe the variable names are too long, not helping readability.
Yep, no more headaches if you have no head. Roll safe.

Ultimately no one really uses these touchscreens cause they are ux nonsense. All this work done on redesigns (crap, where is that thing again?) goes straight to the trash, bypassing any criticism.

more data presentation for the consumer

Never heard it as an argument for buying a car. “Why did you choose BMW? Oh, you know that data presentation thing and more on-screen options!” I can’t help but burst out laughing imagining this conversation.

The only reason this happens is that it is a small thing embedded into a big one, and one doesn’t simply turn the big thing down because of a (relatively) minor nuisance. When android or iphone design team break your workflow again, you sigh but don’t throw it away, because it’s still android or iphone and there are no alternatives. These touchscreen teams get ZERO negative feedback except some whining on tech forums.
apparently some air traffic controllers disagree with this story being possible: https://old.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/fbt4rq/la_speed_che...
Unpopular opinion: I disable auto-update and for every piece of software I use, I go over it at least casually, or wait some days depending on how popular it is and the "trust level" in my mind, before first load and before update.
This case in Butte is somewhat better than usual because BP is actually footing the remediation bill.

More typical is having the taxpayers foot the bill, like with the fascinating example of Giant Mine, 5km outside of Yellowknife, the capital of Canada's Northwest Territories. Some 200 kilotonnes of arsenic trioxide were created as byproducts of the mining process, enough arsenic dust to kill off every human and animal on earth. Once the company (and the company that bought the company) that mined the gold went belly up, the government is stuck footing the bill for remediation.

The remediation plan is to indefinitely freeze, using compressors like used for hockey rinks, the arsenic underground. An eternal, ongoing operation, costing >$1bn, costing more in present-day dollars than gold was even extracted from the mine, in order to avoid the arsenic seeping into the groundwater.

Kind of hilarious the implicit bet on a stable society that this remediation plan entails.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Mine
That sounds like a Ford implementation. My cheap aftermarket CarPlay deck works pretty much flawlessly in a 2004 Explorer.
Exactly. And by forcing the internalization of that externality, that forces the market to consider things which lack that externality.

The trick is to enforce it in such a way that it can't be easily dodged via e.g. offshoring.
Except that they are though...You can go run a validator on Eth or Cardano right now.
I’ve got a reMarkable2 and have been using it on and off for a few months now. I was looking for a larger e-reader to replace my broken kindle DX. I use mine exclusively for reading, mostly technical, and not for note taking. I don’t use the pen and I don’t annotate PDFs.

Reading e-pubs tends to be more miss than hit. Often e-pubs will fail to render things like code snippets, diagrams, occasionally whole pages, on the reMarkable. The same epubs work fine everywhere else.

The device works great for PDFs though. Fortunately the publishers I usually buy books from offer multiple formats, and a PDF is always an option. I gave up on wrestling with e-pubs on the device.

I agree that the page turning can be janky. The UI is mediocre, and navigation could be improved quite a bit. Syncing is also not great, but eventually works.

The battery life is excellent though, and the physical design is better than anything else I’ve encountered. It’s the software that sucks.

Overall, I wouldn’t consider purchasing it again. There are alternatives that offer similar capabilities, larger screen sizes, and more. I’d look at those first.
Another option is to build more parks. Spread out the people more.
Pushing the puck/ok button didn’t dismiss it?
We used PyO3 at $work to expose a Rust implementation of a compute-intensive algorithm to an existing Python codebase.

The teammate who did it had been using Rust only for a couple months and none of us had ever used PyO3. He got it done in just a couple days. I consider that an endorsement of the API they've built.

It's heavily macro-based, which does cause some confusion. But if you spend some time with their examples, finding the fast path isn't too tricky.
And English: "six-teen" (six and ten) and "Eight-y-Seven" (eight times ten, plus seven)
Don’t Join a Unicorn, Join a Freakin Griffin
Number of function points is, given implementation language, strongly correlated with lines of code. Lines of code is, in turn, strongly correlated with all other complexity measures.

In other words, function point count is a measure of complexity.
I wonder how much this has to do with humans rarely needing to chew tough food any more (weakening the jaw, causing the mouth to open in sleep)

I had a lot of these problems growing up.
> Based on what I know about humans, the probability this happens approaches 1 as time moves forward.

Yes given infinite time we know humans are extinct. We will not survive the heat death of the universe. But i don't think this truism says much about whether or not creating a self sustaining colony on Mars will increase the longevity of our species.

The chances of some type of existential interplanetary war between Mars and earth is so much lower than than an existential earth war. It's really difficult to wage any type of meaningful war across planets. They're really far apart, and it's really expensive to leave Earth.
Won't this present issues later on? In a couple of years your immune systems won't be properly "trained" anymore. Something like this happened in New Zealand with RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) already: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/08/new-zealand-ch...
That's not a premise -- it's a data-driven conclusion. Lines of code correlates strongly with all other complexity metrics, and is way easier to compute and explain to someone else. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=code...
Natural immunity has become a party line issues, sadly. The CDC also has done its part in shunning studies that confirm that it is at least as effective (when not more) than vaccine induced immunity, and boasting only those specific that confirm their narrative, be it nonseroconversion cases among PCR positive to controversial study with cherry picked cohorts.

Public health policy is hard, I gather, but disingenuous information (disinformation?) is a red line that public authorities should never pass (eg Iraqi WMD)
The main difference is that the top miners don’t stay the top miners. There is constant churn. The top stakers remain the top stakers at virtually no cost, and they will almost always be custodians/financial institutions.

Additionally mining isn’t always profitable. There is financial risk and miners can go bust and take financial risk. Staking is basically always profitable if you don’t misbehave.
The Cynical and Dangerous Weaponization of the “White Supremacist” Label
Have you ever worked at a large corporation like Facebook or Amazon? They have extensive internal A/B testing frameworks that record a wide variety of user metrics for arbitrary control and treatment exposures. It's very easy to set up an A/B test and pretty much necessary for almost all changes. Additionally, employees are expected to have concrete artifacts when they go up for promotion, and A/B test results are often a large part of that.
Not to mention the prevalence of guns. Would you exchange some small arms fire with a few burglars in order to protect someone else’s product?
> I mean, that already failed for LaTeX. To me it's kind of an unwieldy pile of wierd imperative imports

You need to try TeXmacs (which, despite its name, is not based on TeX ;-) ).
www.texmacs.org
>This says nothing about cause and effect however.

It does.

"A significant survival benefit was associated with initiating PA between ages 70 and 78 years (P = .04) and ages 78 and 85 years (P < .001). "
Z library has a button to email/send the ebook to your kindle, so it's done after the first step. You can do that on your phone or kindle itself depending on the model.
It can be done through hardware or routing software, Samsung is great with updates. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.axet.callrecorder...

It’s not default because of other countries. It’s still very viable, I never got a better experience than recently. Look up some roms on XDA for your phone!
Most thieves DGAF that their target knows that they've been broken into. They want to get stuff to sell later, they want to be in and out very quickly, and they tend not to be the smartest people out there, and having lock picks increases your jail time if caught.

When a thief steals, you are going to notice the missing items either way, a broken window doesn't change that much. Apartment dwellers also tend to be poorer, which makes homes the better target in more ways than one. If the lock is too hard, your just getting more bashed in doors or walls instead, or thieves / creeps climbing porches and going in that way, which happened recently in my area. Many porches are windows and often unlocked.

Also many apartments are not steel framed with steel doors. I have a skinny window in the interior wall of mine, and it's a solid wood door on a wood frame. Also you could get a sledge hammer and bash through the drywall. Or bring drills and take out the door that way.

Also having a fancy lock might actually make you more attractive, because the thief casing out your place might recognize it, think you might have more than the typical person and bring the appropriate battery powered tool and cut out the lock.
This seems to be when the AR moment has arrived.
Well, let's not put all Blacks under the same denominator, that sounds a bit racist. As a Slav, I hold no ill will towards them acting in a way that was appropriate for the time period.

That said, I do find it ironic, that we had to remove all mentions of master/slave from our software products, so as to not offend our American customers. Again, I don't mind, but it's funny when you think about it.
Going through the same stuff (31 now), I felt a lot of comfort in reading your post. Thank you.
> Want to change the backlight color for the instrument cluster? Touchscreen is a lot better for that (given a good gui menu system) than holding two buttons at the same time, then holding one, and clicking the other 6 times, waiting 3 seconds, and then clicking through the colors.

Is that actually on a car that you've used? What a horrible design. A few Ford models have a dedicated button for ambient lighting that cycles through the colors, and a knob beside it to adjust the brightness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2TiKCEzQIA
>Why do people incessantly complain about this?

May be because number of those names grows and it's becoming overwhelming?

>"some hypothetical person"

It's not hypothetical person I constantly stumble on strange names and frequently in context where I do not care how it is called as long as I know what function it performs (even approximately). And strange names appear more and more and the main question I have usually: What is it? What it does?.

The same happens with web sites for new products. With all great slogans like "It will improve your productivity" and similar sentences I am not interested to read it's lacking one mention of what it actually does and what it's all about.

Thus the idea to use prefix-Name format in descriptions. What do you think about that idea? Would it improve educational function? Would it be easier to understand then searching for the term?
The Mini has a dedicated button to switch instrument panel colours. Or at least, older models did.
How? Rotate the text 90deg?
I guess it's too much to hope for a general reevaluation of our consumerism. It would be so nice for people to accept that their value is not defined by the things that they own, that the "status" the gain by buying cool stuff and fancy gadgets, cloths, furniture and useless tingle-tangle is not true social recognition but only disguised, misplaced envy. They could maybe come to understand the value of and start to participate in the communities they live in, strengthen the bonds in their neighborhood and discover friendship and companionship therein, discarding the burden of loneliness and reconnect with the people that surround them.

Or it could just be a short lull in our drive towards the cliff of extinction, one last calm before the final end-party of boundless excesses and intoxication.

It's probably the latter.
But fog lights don't really prevent you from crashing. They do not output that much light and unlike your headlights and highbeams, they are not directed, but just scatter light in front of you.

In the UK, it's not legal to have the fog lights on unless your visibility is less than 100 metres in front of you. That's basically the same range as your dipped lights have, and less than five seconds worth of visbility if you're doing 80 km/h.

If your visibility is reduced so much, your best bet against crashing isn't just to scatter some light near the bottom of your front bumper, but to engage the rear fog lights and drop your speed significantly.
SSFL?
Nice, it sounds like a better acronym yeah. More pronounceable and memorable.
I used a reMarkable 2 regularly for a little over six months. It replaced pencil and graph paper for me.

The eInk display and writing feel is top notch. Everything else has plenty of room for improvement. In particular, organizing and reorganizing notes is a real chore. This could be solved by either a brilliant UI on the tablet, or (much more achievably) by a good desktop app that complements the device. Instead the desktop app was just as useless as the native UI, and did not improve during the time I used it.

Eventually, my toddler ran off with the $100 stylus, and I never found it. I went back to pencil and paper, and that is when it hit me: the reMarkable offered me basically nothing. I do not intend to use it again.
The Royal Academy in London was started in a coffeehouse. I’d love to know how much of the Enlightenment and the advances of the modern world relate to coffee.
Dubins Path
I agree too, for me it sort of boils down to don't hate the player, hate the game, and congress are the ones that make the game's rules. The game right now rewards unscrupulous behavior, so it makes sense that successful companies "get away" with doing it. As demonstrated, simply player hating doesn't do much.
So cool an article about synths is at the top of HN.
Exactly. We only restrict society to the point where it's practical. And this is where we run into issues with Covid restrictions. Some arguments sound just like this, that we should lower speed limits to the point where practically no one dies in traffic anymore. Actually this is probably what would happen if we put health officials in charge of traffic policy.
Well, yes, it’s a little crazy. But that’s what it is and has been for a long time.

Think of it this way: I wouldn’t buy a thousand dollar flight and spend the same on hotels to go to Europe without some sort of idea of what I want to do, with my tours and activities that require reservations booked up.
Sure, it's just the number of them is getting bigger. So what do you think about mentioned idea of prefix-Name format in descriptions?
Well yes but if you're unemployed you don't pay a lot. This is what makes it much less of a pressure.
Use Windows Sandboxing which is builtin or have the dev run a VM which only exposes needed ports. Dont make things to complivated…
Well the lawsuits were worth it mainly as a way to create a income stream for the lawyers
Diversity is our strength!

At least it sounded good on paper
I have been quite tempted by the reMarkable2, but reviews like this are the ones that make me think twice.

When I got an iPad Pro in early 2018, I was of course taking all of my notes with it - from meetings, to ideas, to task lists. At some point I went back to paper and the iPad was relegated to ideation. Exporting is not great, in an ideal world there'd be a fast export of PDFs, but I found myself emailing them or Slacking them to myself to share ideas.

The iPad's screen is glossy and gets finger grease onto it, the 1st gen pencil isn't the most natural in the hand. I know you can get matt screen protectors, but I like to use the iPad as a tablet. There's no substitute for paper, but I do find indexing and going back to ideas more challenging.
You've had almost two years now.
> but seems much more unlikely the video game industry would have a case for solitaire.

Based on what? It seems entirely plausible that the developer of a solitaire game could make the exact same argument that Microsoft shipping a free version of solitaire with Windows makes it impossible to complete against them, and therefore (under the same logic applied to OneDrive) solitaire should be banned from Windows in order to ensure a "level playing field".
Dear diary, today hacker news made me tape my mouth shut before sleep.

How am I gonna explain this to my partner? If it stops me from snoring and him from kicking me, that‘s a win for both of us though.
It’s the default on many laptops and is often completely inappropriate
Generation Y buyers are also interested in cars packed with technology, including smartphone integration and touch-screen interfaces, according to the Los Angeles Times. With systems like MyFord Touch and the Tesla Model S’ iPad-like touch-screen center stack, automakers have already started to address this in the market, but most reviewers say there’s lots of room for improvement. In particular, Ford’s MyFord Touch system has been panned for its labyrinthine setup, hard-to-use controls and buggy software.

Let me translate it from journal-ish. They said they’d like fuel data and music in their smartphones because in-car touchscreen ui is utter bullshit.
Barcelona Takes on Airbnb and Short-Term Rentals
Nothing. On sale on BF is just the same price as always except a sticker saying 10% off now. BF has been a joke for a while now.
That is the thing though most remarkable fans say it is for replacing paper notebooks. I dont know of many that talk widely about "other features"

I got the remarkable specifically because it did not have "other features", I have enough distractions and alerts from my phone, I do not need a tablet that get my email, twitter, etc etc. I specifically did not want an iPAD or a full featured Andriod Tablet with Slack, Teams, Email, etc etc etc

I needed something to replace the paper notebooks I carried with me everywhere, it does that job exactly as I wanted
They wouldn’t need to spend money to ‘destroy the blockchain’, just legislate against it. For example, what would happen to the value of crypto-currencies if the US government simply banned them outright for entities within its jurisdiction, and also made it so if any foreign entity touches cryptos they get cut off from the US financial system (similar to how ‘sanctions’ work today). I imagine the destruction would be near total.
You don't. You send a wire to someone who's willing to send you some DAI in return.