skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yay, more injections of experimental vaccines!
Funny you should mention the DMCA. The Library of Congress is uniquely empowered by the DMCA to grant exceptions to it. So if there are any cases where the law is deemed to be a barrier to this effort then the LOC can grant themselves and their colleagues an exemption.
Good explanation of why a milder more contagious variant is bad news : https://twitter.com/AdamJKucharski/status/134356742510788198...
You should look up the new Mercedes system. If you haven’t heard about it it only functions up to like 37 mph, but it’s level three self driving. The kind where the driver doesn’t have to monitor it. So where it can work (map freeways) it can completely take over in slow traffic. Pretty impressive.

I agree with you about the 5+ years thing. Ford released an EV that they basically never advertised and got swamped with orders. They announced the next one and got even MORE swamped because it was the F150. They’ve had to delay the introduction of at least two more EV models just to try and keep up with demand for the first two.

My understanding is VW has been doing extremely well with the ID.4. I know there is heavy interest in the Kia Niro and the Cadillac Lyriq and of course the new Hummer.

Other newcomers like Rivian and Lucid are pulling a lot of eyes/orders.

Tesla owned the EV segment because outside the Volt/Bolt/Leaf there was nothing else. Certainly those aren’t equivalent to the S/X/Y or even 3.

But the question is, can Tesla improve faster than the rest of the entire automotive industry can move to EVs. I doubt it.

In some ways this feels like a double disruption. Tesla came along and disrupted car manufacturing I proving that EVs could work and were even popular/desirable. They also proved online car buying could be quite successful.

But I think they will now be disrupted by the companies they tried to replace. I just don’t see how they can hold off every single major car company in the world. They may have the most efficient cars (from my understanding) and they’ve obviously got the whole over the air update thing figured out. But they don’t make enough models to cover everyone’s taste and they still have some real manufacturing/customer service issues that they could have grown a out of by now if they had wanted to. I feel like they may have spread themselves much too thin, and lost their chance at king of the hill because of it.

In my mind they’ll never be a VW or Toyota sized car manufacturer in the long term. But will they be as big as Audi? Or just a Jaguar? Or gone like Pontiac?

Don’t know. Bankruptcy? Merger? Acquisition? Exit the consumer market? Will be interesting to watch.
or they like and appreciate it more than the wealth part

the great thing about expensive watches is that nobody notices or recognizes them, in favor of fawning or expressing disdain over the medium tier brand that they heard in a rap song
That is the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_function, which is pretty close to exponential growth followed by logarithmic saturation.
> and not see open drug use, drug dealing, homelessness and crime.

One of these is not like the others.
The key difference between tailwind and something like Pico is the semantics. Tailwind (AFAIK) totally divorces semantics and styles, so you as the dev have to apply everything. Pico aims to use as much of the HTML's semantics as possible, so you have to apply less yourself.

Personally, I love the semantic value of a well-structured HTML document, but both approaches definitely have their advantages.
Allodial title is one specific kind of title structure. It’s not the only form of ownership, as the phrase structure “X title” implies.

Having to pay taxes on your property invalidates the nature of property no more than paying income tax invalidates the nature of income.
> I think the point of GP is that one can seek change, but seek it slowly and carefully.

This sounds like a position that a conservative would take, because it paints them as eminently reasonable (and progressives, by comparison, must be unreasonable).
> It is getting closer for the end of its life as being too complicated and not well designed project.

X11 is 37 years old. Even taking at face value the rumors of its death, I'd say it was shockingly well designed if it's finally - maybe - starting to hit its limits.
Nice job author :-)

> You secretly guess that the group is sustained by a minority of true believers who make up critical mass for a larger group of people you, but you never talk about this and neither does anyone else. When you have kids, you feel weird about explaining your thoughts about all this to them, but you don’t parrot back what the religion says when you’re talking about the meaning of life either.

Bahaha. Maybe author doesn't know that these people (like them) make up the outer candy coating to many a cult. They aren't super committed, but they can't really rule out the core truth possibilities. So they stick around, and their don't-push, don't-pull style kind of encourages others to stay in a loose orbit like themselves. (To outsiders they are definitely cultists; to core insiders they are seen as weak; I've been in cult leadership)

To me, here's a, maybe _the_ big issue with people in this profile: They believe in being open-minded and actively avoid being closed minded. So they end up with this kind of question of vacillation on their hands. But IMO their problem is not best framed as avoidance of closed mindedness, it's better framed as a problem in developing and testing new, fresh alternatives. So they end up stuck in a troubling, secret dichotomy like that. Stay OR go...A OR B. There is no C, no D, and no, they don't really think about, or plan for that issue often enough. So many times the best options are found down in C-Z territory.

Just my experience. Thoughtful post, I enjoyed it.
University of Florida student Tasered at Kerry forum (2007)
> The guy didn't pay $60k to only use the skin while playing CS, he bought it as a piece of esports history.

That's where you lose me. This is what I'll never understand about NFTs. What does that even mean to own a part of esports history? There's nothing to own. Why do you feel the need to own something? What are you going to do with it if you don't use it in game? What could you do besides say "I own this URL that points to a model". Not trying to be rude but this is one of the main reasons why NFTs baffle me.
They're just not really needed now that their core features are provided by other parts of the stack. Variables are stable in CSS itself now, modularisation is done as part of DOM management with React etc, and composition is either done in code with JS or provided by something like CSS modules 'composes' property.

You can still use a preprocessor like SASS with that stuff, but it's just another layer of complexity for not a whole lot of value outside of familiarity.
Oh.
And and at one moment in my career, I had to jump into serious web dev ;(

But it was just after the death of IE ;) [Call me lucky]

My 2 cents:
widespread adoption is not synonym with long term perenity.
> > So don't pay the engineers that built the product and continue to maintain it?
Saas isn't the only way to pay people.

> Saas isn't the only way to pay people.

> It kind of is if you have a product that people expect updates for, or you have to have very high prices, or a secondary source of income.

> > most software is living and breathing and requires continual investment
Is it though? or is this broadly another side effect of value extraction focused engineering? I'm quite happy to buy a new version if it makes my life notably easier. CS2 is broadly a better experience than CC, etc. etc.

But are you happy to pay for better architecture that doesn't have shiny new features? Or support for new X (depending on the product this could be image formats, it could be architectures)? etc

To be clear I am not saying I want subscription based software, but I understand the business argument for it.
> dumping old stock by "donating" it to developing nations

A primary complaint is that “rich nations” hoard vaccines. doesn’t this exacerbate this?
And yet someone did it. So either someone took the lowball or they paid up in the end.
> This exactly is the point. Wouldn’t it be nice to just use apps without extra steps? It would make Linux better for non-experts.

non-experts won't use desktop linux regardless, give me back my power tools
There is a slider beneath each icon that controls speed (light grey rabbit silhouette to the left of slider clued me in because "fast as a rabbit").

Yes this is great.
Paying Open Source Programmers
There's a book called Who Owns the World? by Kevin Cahill. I haven't read it (I read his earlier Who Owns Britain?) though I did hear him talking about it on the radio a while back, and he said that the only place in the world he'd found where you really could own your own land, was America. The Queen, technically, owns all of the UK, Canada, and Australia. She is or was also the largest or one of the largest landowners in Manhattan.

I could be wrong in my recollections, I really should read the book. The one about Britain certainly was fascinating.

Still, on the law in question, I wouldn't be surprised if the (common) law upholds the right simply because it's never been challenged or re-legislated.
There is a reason very robust software is written in C: no exceptions means you think about normal errors all the time and reason about what the difference bwtween an error openjng the file and an wrror writing the file. Sqlite, linux, cpython, all bullet proof and all C. The lack of exceptions more than makes up for memory unsafety issues.
My wife does something similar to me all the time. If she knows that I’m uncertain about a fact, she’ll feign a kind of mistaken certainty in the (true) fact to bait me into taking a bet against it. Then I lose the bet.

Same thing in politics - If you know the other side is uncertain about a position that you have high confidence in, stake your position and then politicize it so the other side is forced to either concede or stake their claim to the weaker position.
'You know what actually decimates the working class?'

Is that theory or do you work a blue collar job?

I was in a work truck as 'critical infrastructure' and lived it. The company owners got richer AT HOME while we kept working. And then some layoffs after the pandemic forgivable loan calendar window expired.

I caught the 'rona earlier this year. I have a Dr. letter saying so. Now white collar woke-from-home wants me to keep them 'safe' by wearing a cloth mask and getting jabbed.

No. I no longer consent. Go fix your own machines.
Okay so dumb misunderstanding whatever, am I alone in being ONE HUNDRED PERCENT ready to trade ill-gotten lucre in exchange for bootleg MACROSOFT WANDOWS branded streetwear
Round 2 of Log4j ransomware incoming.
Sounds like a firing squad to me
I think the thing, to me, is that semver is very useful where these things are purely mechanical. This (at least usually) applies to libraries. Semver enables things like lockfiles as used by ruby bundler and later cargo and various other things. But not all systems are upgraded in mechanical ways, and not all 'breaks' are purely mechanical.

This is why you can't really use semver (usefully) for everything. What's a "breaking change" in a word processor?

Languages aren't used like word processors, but they also aren't exactly used like libraries either. People get stuck on language versions for different reasons than why they get stuck on library versions.

At any rate I think in practice I think languages that are trying to hew to semver concepts like this just wind up with a 'fake major version'. Since Rust, for eg., might never go to 2.x the 1. in front of 54 is really just academic. That's the "real" major version as far as anyone needs to know.

A lot of the arguments in this thread seem to be kinda tautological. There's no law that says they have to use semver, nor is there a law that says semver can't be imperfect. "Semver is semver because semver says so" is not a compelling argument.
I could see this being extremely useful for weekend projects where you just need to build a UI for something.

Any recommendation for a lightweight and complementary JavaScript library? Validate forms, XHR wrapper, etc. without the bulk of jQuery.
Masks are nowhere near as effective as vaccines.
To address the problem you mention, uint_fast8_t and co exist. It is at least 8 bits big, but whatever type is fastest that fits that requirement. So on an 8-bit system it is a uint8_t. on a 32-bit ARM is is a uint32_t. there is also uint_fast16_t and so on...
Yet the flu vaccine isn’t required and social pressured, and also isn’t experimental at all. So probably a huge difference right?

How many times has someone lost their job to not getting the flu vaccine?
> You can enact policy based completely on Truth (e.g., Trust the Science)

Is this a joke or a real statement of your epistemic model?
I became an atheist when I was 14 years old and I was forced to attend confirmation. I asked questions repeatedly about simple obvious things such as dinosaurs and how did they get on that ark, what about kangaroos did that ark get all the away to Australia, lots of obvious questions. I was kicked out of confirmation for asking too many questions.

My Father thought it was hilarious at the time, then my parents divorced and he, who joked about how stupid religion is, then married his second wife who was evangelical, suddenly, he was a believer. Interesting, here is a person who, jokeed about how religion was for people with weak minds, suddenly becomes a true believer.

My conclusion, from this and a lot of other examples I could bored everyone with, people "believe" when it benefits them, financially, socially, emotionally, sexually, etc.
Anyone not participating isn't slack. Not unless they come back in and it doesn't seem to be happening. I think a lot of people who were close to retirement were pushed over by both fear of death and a crazy bull market fluffing up their 401Ks
I agree with that, but still it's sometimes worthwhile to have a few dull knives around as well as backup. I mean, Hubble isn't huge; it's a 2.4 meter aperture. Building and launching something equivalent shouldn't be that big a deal these days, especially if you can launch a couple different versions with slightly different capabilities rather than trying to build one space telescope that tries to do everything well.
And I prefer stuff end-to-end encrypted when sharing stuff with others, as I don't want anyone else to snoop in.
you posted this, why...?
Terms can change during negotiations, it's not like they changed the terms after an arrangement was agreed to.
Copyright law is what you're after.

Patent law doesn't care about how you get to the same thing - independent invention does not work as a defense.

IANAL, I'm a random on HN, if you take this as legal advice I don't know what to tell you :D
Not sure if you want to change programs, but I use telegram to screen share, not sure if wayland supports it. Can you screen capture with a video card? I don't know if you plan to stay on it.
What else would you have it do? If you use any other terminal's TERM value, you'd better implement it perfectly or you're going to create compatibility bugs, and for bonus points you can't do anything the original couldn't do (see sibling comment about sixel, etc.)
Wrong. Legally speaking the State is your superior landlord. “Property tax” is legally a rent you pay to the state. The federal income tax is an entirely different creature, created by the 16th amendment. It’s completely incomparable legally.

Title held in allod is subject to no superior landlord. That means it can’t be taxed or liened or otherwise legally encumbered.

Edit:

> And the fact that the state has a superior title in extremely limited circumstances doesn't make it a landlord.

Nah[1].

[1] https://www.cga.ct.gov/2005/rpt/2005-r-0560.htm
What level of testing would make these vaccines non experimental in your mind, and what other vaccine do you know that has had that level of rigour applied? I'm genuinely curious
Ask HN: Eight Months in and this job is unbearable
So I started a job 8 months ago as a senior data scientist.

So far, it's been horrible. I'm not learning, not allowed to use R/Python, am forced to use Excel, am micromanaged, etc.

I have plenty of savings (10+ years worth).

Just wondered how most of you would approach this situation.

1. Suck it up

2. quit now

3. keep working and quit in a few months

4. other
My kids are tremendously disappointed that the Minecraft server is not coming back up in the near future.
> There's maybe 10 qualified people on earth to make a cycle-accurate GBA BIOS, and they offer 20k for exclusive work for 10 months ?

Turns out they only needed one, and got it done.
Envelope math:

$0.25 to produce the same number of words as Shakespeare.
The ways the human brain can find to bridge two things that seem contradictory to someone outside that experience are numerous. It can be as easy as simply not applying scientific processes to something inherently unscientific. Sometimes there's a lot of unchecked confirmation bias in finding proof of faith.
Nobody is making that argument. It's about what the language/libraries guide you to naturally.
I mean that's one specific example, but I get what he's saying. I'm super verbal and I used to do problem sets in college with a friend that obviously had much better visuospatial abilities than me. >75% of the time he'd be the one that really figured out the question. But then we'd go home to write up our solutions and I'd get consistently full letter grade higher marks on what was essentially the same work. He was just doing a way worse job of putting his own work into words.

Of course it depends on the circumstances how much explaining yourself matters, but in a lot of real life situations it is a good skill to have.
If 'You' is a goverment in a country with socialised healthcare, you want your population as healthy as possible to keep costs down. Preventative care (vaccines) is much cheaper.
Because you don't have to click, and you can drag over a longer distance. With your approach, you are limited by how much you can pivot your wrist around your fixed thumb.

I personally don't like this and very much prefer the "tap-hold with a small delay" for my dragging needs. I'm very happy to see this has been implemented on Linux, too.
This vulnerability is like PFAS, it's going to be around forever. log4j is in so many things, things no one might think would have it. Probably a ton of old stuff people don't think to update or can (thinking consumer routers).
Tupper's self-referential formula visually represents itself when graphed
China is the country forcing small states to cut ties with Taiwan.

And don't even think about saying it is not forcing them, because I have lived in two such countries in Central America where Taiwan was a hefty money donor.
Enabling them all and watching them bounce is actually a satisfying and peaceful experience. Love the purple chimpanzee.
I think a shorter way to summarize this could be "intellectual property is not property".

The arguments he makes work because IP is essentially an imaginary concept and so doesn't have the same concerns about freeloaders and exploitation that real property does.

I think this has been reflected in the real market, even if people still cling to the concept of IP. Business models for most companies now are not "pay me money for the privilege of running code or listening to music" but "pay me for wide accessibility to the code or music or whatever". I have a spotify subscription because it let's me access all that music anywhere and the value is in not having to lug mp3s around with me. I have an office 365 subscription because I can access my email and share my documents in a bunch of ways. I could use libreoffice if I just wanted an editor.

There is no IP involved in these services, and as time goes on I think the concept will become increasingly rare, because the world has figured out what DHH is saying, IP is not a real concept and not worth paying for in and of itself
I used Zepto once for a weekend project without jQuery and it did what I needed very well. Though these days I would also check in with e.g. plain JS (way better support than when jQuery started) and projects like htmx at the other end of the "well but I need an app, but want to go light" direction.

Seems there are some more ideas here: https://www.technotification.com/2019/06/5-lightweight-jquer...
It is a problem of going from an open-loop to a closed-loop (feedback) system. The CEO's speech affects the outcome. "We're in trouble here" might be the output of an objective assessment of the situation. But coming from the CEO it is now also an input into the situation that changes the assessment (CEO has lost faith! Panic!).
The original loan is fixed, other than the -1% interest which is basically a loan paydown gift. They pay back the nominal they borrowed.

They are getting paid for risk-free paper shuffling.
Grab might ride the bull on bourses in 2022
I think OP means even slower than the slowest setting. To be actually useful it should be more believable.
Not saying it's not ok, just want to know the poster's motivation for the share, especially if there's nothing new etc
vanilla javascript has improved a lot these years. however I've found that alpinejs is small & nice if you need better syntax for interactivity
> And that's not something you do thanks to try/catch. You just handle the error where it's meaningful to handle it.

And it is always most meaningful to handle it immediately, so what's the point of introducing a application-wide goto jump, amid Dijkstra's warnings that doing so is harmful when you're just going to catch right away anyway?

> The happy path of "make a request" is that there is no network error.

If there is a network error, you're still happy. It is not like you screwed up as a programmer. What is there to be unhappy about? The network error input to your function is very much expected and part of the "happy path" as much as any other input to your application.

> if there is an unexpected network failure, let it crash

Network failures are never unexpected. It would be exceptional to never experience a network failure.

> How do you check which errors you want to handle and which one you want to propagate with just a string describing your error?

Why would your errors be strings? When errors are just plain old values like any other it is true that you could resort to using strings to represent errors, but it would be quite unidiomatic to do so. Kind of like how you can overload exceptions to handle errors, but just because you can does not mean you should.
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Any boring, generic framework site is usually only one absolute-positioned div away from being super unique... :-)
I can only imagine how this came to be: some ultra important type took a meeting without muting notifications. And the builder decided to parody it.

Honestly love this.
I never agreed for Federal Reserve to shovel free money to euro banks.

When does the working class become a side in the equation of the purpose and value of stable money?
Yay, fewer people dying of preventable diseases!
Nuke sneakers would be kinda cool actually. Maybe Nake - proud sponsors of this year's Olympics streakers!
Yes, broadly speaking. That is the principle of herd immunity. We managed to eradicate smallpox with mandatory vaccination programs without all this political fuss.