skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Trustless solutions have no place in a world with robust trust, which is most of the developed world and parts of the developing world.

Unless you use a silly spherical cow model of history and risk, the robust trust you are referring to is not rational. Catastrophic breakdowns of society happen far more frequently than people like you assume. Please consider the case made by this essay: https://medium.com/s/story/the-surprisingly-solid-mathematic...

- napkin math indicates that a person living in america at some uniformly random date post colonization would have a little over 1/3 chance of experiencing a revolution or civil war

- Since the fall of Constantinople in 1453, there have been 465 sovereign nations which no longer exist, and that doesn’t even count colonies, secessionist states, or annexed countries. Even if we presume that half of these nation-state transitions were peaceful, which is probably a vast over-estimation, that’s still an average of one violent state transition every 2.43 years.

- In 2010, 8.5 million tourists visited Syria, accounting for 14% of their entire GDP. Eight years later, they have almost half a million dead citizens, and ten million more displaced into Europe. They didn’t see this coming, because if they did, they would have fled sooner.
Even closer Ender's Game than gamifying crowdsourcing driving is if [spoiler alert] the players thought they were only playing a game, not controlling real cars.

(On the off chance that's the actual situation, all my hours of GTA Online griefing mean I probably owe quite a few people an apology. :) )
Apple to Apple Comparison: M1 Max vs. Intel
That could easily be made into a PWA that people could save and view offline. I've been doing this with create-react-app and markdown files (muuuch bulkier solution) but it's an offline docs-like SPA people can click around with interactive examples and shareable links etc. Seems like offline availability was not a priority for other docs-making tools like docosaurus etc (last time I checked)
Surpsied at how red Australia is... although we are trying to lighten our complexion by exporting all that iron ore to China.
A smart system would learn your patterns and eventually be able to predict your arrival, setting a temperature that's further away from ambient and towards some target the more confident it is.

Or a tad bit more risky, you could email it.
> There isn't even any evidence of a driver being caught doing this.

Elsewhere in this very discussion, a driver admitted to doing this. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29670414
How the mighty have fallen...
>I can't help thinking that NPR's silence on this rather fundamental feature of cancer, i.e. the role of environmental carcinogens, is in some way related to the money they take from their advertisers in the fossil fuel / pharmaceutical sector.

I think their "silence" is related to the small proportion of cases linked to environmental contaminants or carcinogens besides alcohol and tobacco. I work with my state's cancer prevention program, and cancer incidence and mortality rates are heavily and undeniably correlated to behaviors and social determinants: alcohol consumption, smoking rates, exercise, access to healthcare, poverty. The only environmental causes worth any money or time are radon gas and sun exposure. In a morbid way, we'd love a localized environmental cause. That'd be easy to fix compared to convincing people to exercise and get colonoscopies.

It's just that "hot spots" are almost always statistical anomalies that occur about as often as expected. Usually in communities near industrial zones, because they're high poverty (so already prone to high incidence), low population (better chance of deviating far from the mean rate), and have been convinced that all unknown chemicals are highly carcinogenic. There are so many of these communities, it would be surprising to not see one or two a year with a very high number of similar cancer diagnoses.

And, please believe me, I have never seen a dime from anyone besides the state government. I've never been told to avoid any topics when combing through data for any patterns. And I have never gotten the sense anyone I work with, especially the epidemiologists who interview communities when a cancer cluster is feared, are on the take. It is incredibly unlikely that major news media, cancer researchers, practicing oncologists, and all public health experts working on cancer are corrupt.
Just read “LaserWriter II” and it was a surprisingly fun read. All about the characters in an old Apple repair shop in the ‘90s. The writing style is really unique, and the nostalgia was high. Discovered it while eavesdropping on someone recommending books in a bookstore.

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/56269270
CA is on the forefront of emissions controls and other environmental stuff. CA repair laws are owned by anti-repair companies like Apple.
Oh wow, thank you for pointing this out! Added a correction here: https://bobbiechen.com/blog/2021/12/21/counting-website-visi...
Anecdotal but Yeelight smart bulbs in my home require 5 turn offs and ons to reset with 2 sec pauses after every press. I reckon the GE bulbs don't actually require 8 sec pauses and it's just suggested to ensure users cross a certain threshold at all times when they are really trying to reset.
Knowing your name and native language is enough to dox you?

BTW, it's "doxed," not "doxxed."
I’m working on a c2c marketplace for airsoft gear [1]. Users can buy and sell their airsoft replica’s, accessories and tools to/from other users by posting a listing to the site.
We hope to accept payments through the platform using Stripe Connect soon. Currently averaging €600,- a month.

[1] https://www.airsoftbazaar.com
I don't know if you're a Californian or not, but what do you think of the car culture there? Particularly as it exists along with all of the regulations that are distinct to the state?

What do you think of the people to whom automobiles are art, pastime, recreation, lifestyle?
Building a website without JS is not hard.
>which are also where your only instruments are located

>I think this is the most important fact to note here.

I think the fact that you are encouraging the "driver" to actively be distracted and not paying attention is a much larger issue than if the speedometer is visible or not. Nobody pays attention to the RPM gauge in automatics. Maybe they look at a fuel gauge, maybe. For a Tesla, the fuel gauge is the battery gauge, so no need for that one either.

Ensuring the "driver" is not paying attention though, that's never a good idea.
You can use total fatalities as the baseline - 18% drop, which includes effects of the massive drunk driving fatalities.
it's not just a linked-list - it's an immutable linked list which has a consensus protocol that does not require a central trusted party to enforce this consensus. This has some value - one should not dismiss it by reduction to absurdio.
Did you read it in the original French, or as a translation? I tried reading the English translation and found it a bit....rough.
API server written in Go talking to PostgreSQL with an in memory cache (Go ttlcache library is awesome) or Redis. Frontend is Mithril/Typescript, uses capacitor for the Android/iOS apps.
Agatha Christie and Nuns Tell a Tale of Alzheimer's (2010)
I play Twenty on an almost daily basis. It's my go-to for quick time killer.
If multiple people need to be monitoring a single vehicle, doesn't that increase the total time investment required? Freeing up the driver's time isn't worth spending an equivalent amount of time by multiple others.

Though, your comment on latency did give me an idea. What if we were to co-locate the person monitoring the system within the car itself? That would free up the driver to do other tasks, and would avoid the latency issue entirely.

Granted, there would be costs associated with having a co-located monitor of the driving, but that's something we can solve by scaling the problem up. Similar to running multiple virtual containers on the same physical host, we can have several virtual cars, each with their own driver, instantiated on the same physical hardware. This setup would only require a single co-located monitor per physical hardware instance, rather than needing a monitor for each virtual system.

Extending this analogy to no-server solutions, there's probably a market for no-car solutions. If I have a sudden need for transit, but don't have a car available, I could rent a virtual car on top of existing physical hardware, without needing to bring my own car.
Hey, my favorite CCP shill, FooBarWidget: What is your official stance on Xi's new chair?
Good christ that tired old chestnut needs to be retired: it adds nothing of value to any conversation.

Here, take a look at the pretty pictures and tell me again that the results of the new laws are just a result of news media hype: a decade later and DD fatalities still down more than 50%.

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/driving-and-transportation...

TLDR: lowering the acceptable BAC level and putting some teeth behind the law radically and permanently changed the DD accident rates in BC. Gosh, such a surprise, that.
The only me stopping me is component, sometimes you just need to reuse certain HTML structure. Currently I'm using custom script to generate HTML from hyperscript-like syntax, it'll probably be better than any native API that enables component, but still wish to see one.
I have to say his writing style is very easy to follow. I tend to get distracted when reading technical text, but this was very easy to stay on track with
I think it's fitting, feels like the right colour for it's uniquely ancient geology.
That's what "and" means
I want to know how much kool-aid you need to drink before you get to inflation is theft.
> Lane keeping assist

I've had lane assist try to slam me into a divider on a highway repeatedly. That definitely falls under the buggy part of the car.
a null Optional will be pretty disappointing
Ok, so you now seem to be conceding they likely didn’t lie or have intent to defraud people at the beginning, in which case we now have no major disagreement about this topic.

The rest of the comment is commentary about the nature of contemporary startups and VC, including some mind-reading into the true motives of everyone who starts a company, not just LendUp. Obviously you’re entitled to your views on this but it’s all rather nebulous narrative that can be invoked any time to try and win a debate when there’s no clear evidence relevant to the specific topic of discussion.

I think I’ve learned all the can be learned here. Thanks for the discussion.
In my experience, big tech leaders are cowards and hide behind “data” to justify whatever actions they’re looking to take. I’ve watched as teams of “tech leaders” wait and massage “the data” until the data fits the narrative they’re trying to push.

I’ll say it again: these are the actions of cowards. I’m ashamed these people are by default charting humanity’s course.
Consider the question: how would a spacefaring civilization travel between stars?

If, like me, you believe that:

1. The speed of light is a hard cosmic light; and

2. The laws of thermodynamics can't be violated.

then you're left with the problem that it will take an awful long time to travel to even the nearest stars, such that it really wouldn't be a journey at all. It would be a way of life.

Anything involving reaction mass seems to be a nonstarter unless you're going to take tens of thousands of years to get anywhere so that leaves two plausible options.

The first is stellar highways. That is you use the energy from a star to propel (and slow down) interstellar vessels. This solves the reaction mass problem. This method almost requires nuclear fusion to be viable however. Many people assume it will be. I'm not saying it won't be but I'm not yet convinced it will be. The problems are massive. Why do you need fusion? Well you probably need waystations between stars and something has to power those.

The second option is... interstellar bodies. I'm talking large comets, asteroids and, of course, rogue planets. You don't need to spend inordinate amounts of energy to accelerate and decelerate them. Obviously you still have to match their velocity when they pass by but that's a lot easier to do with a much smaller object.

A large rocky object with even a modicum of ice will have all you need to house a large population for the journey of tens of thousands of years until it passes by another star.

I really think the first interstellar humans will be hitchhikers on rogue planets.
> Written in pure, raw HTML. Can you feel the energy?

Has several CSS files (one 2.5 Kb) and a 13Kb minified js file (https://www.statcounter.com/counter/counter.js) that does...
something related to user tracking.

I don't get it.
yeah, people/projects are clinging to java 1.8 even though there's been huge improvements in the newest VMs
How was the da Vinci biography? I’d be curious about the accuracy.
This blows my mind. I thought excel had "save as -> html". Whether it does or not, nice work finding this niche
On Linux: xclip.

On Android, using Termux, termux-clipboard.

I alias the commands on any platform to "xc" and "xp" for copy and paste respectively.
In other words, guilty until proven innocent.
Since this hijacks the target anchor, is there a way to still scroll to a part of a page within the section? I think text fragments would work (https://wicg.github.io/scroll-to-text-fragment/#indicating-t...), but they're only supported in Chrome.

Update: maybe element.scrollIntoView()? I'll investigate sometime later
mary gentle's "grunts" is another lovely book in that tradition. not to mention it starts with the Last Battle Between Good and Evil.
Click here to kill everybody.

Number theory step by step.

Anyone tried The Real Anthony Fauci? Looks it's a bestseller of this year everywhere.
So to sum what I'm reading, it's a neat little demonstration of the :target pseudoclass.

But:

- No, the entire website isn't a single HTML file (it's also images and a CSS file)

- So no, you can't download a single file and have it work offline

- And no, this won't work well with screenreaders and other non-standard clients

- And no, this doesn't scale well to larger sites

- And no, this won't be indexed well by search engines

- And no, you don't need this to avoid Javascript navigation (just use multiple HTML files)
SketchyBar: A status bar replacement for macOS written in C
"The charterhouse of parma" by stendhal
What's a good breakdown of the relationship between exercise and the likelihood of cancer? On the extreme end, I'd imagine that if you're very muscular your chance of getting a tumor would increase, simply because your body has more cells, but I'm not sure what effect exercise would have for the average human.
No way! I'm reading it too, on page 116. I read Seveneves a couple years ago and really liked it, so I'm giving this a shot. Seveneves I just couldn't put down, the universe and worldbuilding was really great. I feel like Cryptonomicon is off to a slower start, but hopefully I'll form a more complete opinion as I get through more of it.
Word has gotten around in RV'ing circles that the service is insanely useful. And I'm not much of a marketer.
At least Google gets you a search page, rather than a sign-up prompt.
> Were you worried about a bad trip?

I feel like people need to start talking about bad trips in a more helpful and realistic way. The info I got about put me off to tripping for years. I avoided them until my late 20s, wish i did them sooner.

I think bad trips are mostly just people who mix psychedelics with other drugs (weed is common) and freak out or aren't used to introspection (so is this really bad then?) or use irresponsibly. Like if you take 15 shots of vodka you're going to have a bad time, why is lsd any different? Or if you drink with assholes that ruin your night out why would you trip with them?
PDFs actually have some support for javascript! I don't know any serious use for it and some PDF viewers refuse to support it (ex: Apple's Preview app), but it does exist.
I think you’re overthinking this.

You’re looking at cold start download sizes, but that’s not what people actual see after everything is cached follow the first load.

Google pages load plenty fast on every device I’ve used recently, including some very old android tablets. Most page loads don’t transfer much data at all due to caching. Combined with the high speeds of both browsers and devices today, there wouldn’t be much real change in a highly stripped down Google page relative to what they’re serving up today.
Gmail has a fucking loading screen now. Have I switched? Not yet, but the reason I switched to gmail in the first place was for the minimal, fast interface.
It’s probably your use of the word “normal” as it was more common for multi-page sites to either have a file per page or to use cgi.
Systemd 250 Released
I was enjoying trying out kagi but it served me a page to the effect of "you exceeded your number of searches" and that immediately turned me off of the product. Will that limitation be lifted at some point?

My other feature request is that I still like google maps, and OSM is just not a good replacement. The important feature for me here is: google a place name, click the map square that shows up in the Answer for that place to open it in gmaps. Both kagi and brave search use OSM which is not clickable, this really breaks my UX and alone is enough to make me want to go back to google search. Using !m sometimes seems to work but I think ideal would be a "which maps provider would you like" feature which just lets a user choose.
This is probably my favorite nonfiction book of all time. I've found nothing else like it. I always suggest everyone in our field read it.
Community around software, or community as in a discussion platform?

For software: find users who benefit by its use and champion them. Forums, mailing lists, and recognition help in that.

Find an existing community, either with a communications challenge or which might want to benefit by use of a commnications platform.

Usenet leveraged off universities.

BBS leveraged off hobbyists.

Early online services (notably AOL) leveraged off military families on oversees deployments.

Slashdot leveraged off of the open source / Linux movement which was underserved by existing publishing platforms.

Facebook leveraged off of universities again, starting with the most selective (Harvard, Ivys, selective-admission, ...).

HN leverages off the YC community.

Story I recently ran across of a dating app was that it was used in conjunction with a few Hollywood events as a cohort-seeding formation.
"Book of the Long Sun" by Gene Wolfe.
Thanks for this - I've been using it for a while for my and my parents' personal domains and it's been pretty much flawless!
Not really a lie, if your browser has the "reader mode" button.
False. Poetry implements it’s own dependency resolver. It does not use pip’s resolver. For most packages this is fine. For a couple packages it’s resolver does not work. Pytorch is one major ml library that is incompatible with poetry as poetry has a non-standard interpretation of local package version tags.

https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/4231

Is one issue. If you even transitively depend on pytorch poetry will break and you will need hacks to make it work or just give up.
A Mind At Play was fantastic. :)
> I imagine it's more about avoiding the ticket & punishment rather than avoiding endangering lives on the road.

I wonder about that.

We always hear the trope about the drunk driver usually not dying because they're "relaxed," but being relaxed isn't going to do jack when you smash into an overpass at highway speeds or dump your car over a cliff.

Keep telling everyone that drunk driving is dangerous and they're easily going to infer that it's dangerous for themselves. And then which is more of a deterrent, a nasty fine, or death?
This from the same company who disables youtube dislikes? Talk about excuses.
I do not know if that was COVID - never tested positive, but the symptoms were like nothing before and the timing was suspicious - May 2020.

It started with nasty tickling in the throat and couple of days later my voice become extremely hoarse and soft. No sore throat, no other symptoms at this point. Did not take a test because it was not typical for COVID. Managed to get ENT appointment only 3 weeks later. By that time I did the test and it came back negative. ENT diagnosed paralysis of the right vocal cord due to the loss of function of the nerve (no visible damage on the vocal fold itself). 3 typical reasons for this are nerve damage during surgery- did not have it, malignant or benign mass pressing against the nerve - excluded by CT, and nerve damage as result of the inflammation from the viral infection, which was given to me as a diagnosis by exclusion.

The mobility of the vocal cord and voice returned after 2.5 months over a course of a week. Roughly in the middle of it I lost the sense of smell and taste completely- just for a single day.
>If your eyes aren't on the road, you aren't driving.

>I have zero sympathy for any of the edge cases people tend to bring up except checking your speed.

You're saying the speedometer is the only instrument that needs to be scanned regularly?

I would've said that the speedometer really isn't needed - if you go with traffic and don't hang out in the passing lane, you're never going to get in trouble.

It's a lot more important to me to know if I've lost oil pressure or am overheating.

And if the HVAC controls are unnecessary to mess with while driving, they are still not an "edge case". Nor is the radio.
Sorry, link fixed. As the abstract points out, the idea of race as a social construct, as of 2007, was a minority viewpoint amongst those biologists and anthropologists that Morning interviewed. This is despite sociologists at the time frequently claiming that scientists as a whole saw race as a social construct:

"Contrary to sociologists' expectations, racial constructionism is revealed to be a minority viewpoint."

This supports the theory that the "the science says race is a social construct" started primarily with sociologists, who naturally see everything through the lens of social constructionism, and falsely attributed this belief to the harder sciences, to create an appeal to scientific authority for the viewpoint. Fast forward to today, where this view is now the official position of the scientific establishment as a whole, despite it being a minority position just 15 years ago.

Not seeing how you can't see how the paper supports my position, that this opinion is a result of social pressure to conform with an ideology, and not objective science. Claiming "scientists see race as a social construct" is exactly the kind of social pressure tactic that would be used to bring other scientists into the mold. No one wants to be seen as contradicting a conclusion of the scientific establishment, especially one that superficially, would appear to promote a more equitable world.

>>I still have no idea how you see the state fitting in here.

This victimhood ideology, that contains within it the idea that racial is a social construct used to perpetuate oppression, rationalizes a set of government policies and laws, e.g. civil rights law, that empowers special interests, and thus ties their economic interests to the perpetuation of these government interventions.

Thus this ideology is aggressively pushed by those whose interests are dependent on left-wing-ideology motivated state intervention. See the websites/social-media-pages of the labor unions for the New York Times and Washington Post for just a quick sample:

https://nytimesguild.org/

https://twitter.com/postguild

Sociology majors, incidentally, tend to work in government-funded institutions (e.g. as guidance counselors, social workers, etc), or in professions that largely arose as a result of government intervention (e.g. anti-discrimination lawyers, human resource representatives), etc.