skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A funny thing (not haha funny) I noticed about this article is that it mentions the demographics of the people being hit by the car, but just makes the "hyper-masculine" assumption about the drivers of the cars. You kind of do that here by using the term "brodozers". This is a kind of implicit bias I think a lot of people just accept as fact, but it could be a dangerous assumption to make. Ford did a survey of truck owners and (apparently) 46% of their respondents were women [0]. Now there are two things you can take from that 46% number depending on your beliefs. If you don't believe it, then you should be concerned: it means the companies that make these trucks are trying to get more people to buy trucks by "de-gendering" them. If you do believe it, then you should be concerned about going after only a subset of the demographic who uses these vehicles. It turns it into an identity issue where you're just targeting the safety of "men driving trucks" and not the overall safety of trucks. The result is ... men continuing to drive their trucks as an identity and just increasing the amount of women driving them as well.

I write this wall of text to say "truck bad because (our conception of what is toxic) masculinity bad" isn't necessarily helpful. Maybe you only meant to mention the safety, but you could have said all the things you've said about safety without making any specific reference to gender (or at least doing so with a reminder to continue to check the demographics). When we talk about these things and genderize them without referencing the true demographics, we open things up for the wrong conversation. The narrative can shift to "less men are driving trucks" (when really it's less men are driving trucks as a percentage of total truck drivers) after Ford rebrands to a gender-inclusive image for trucks. I think it's just more important to focus on the safety aspect and try to turn it from "men driving trucks aggresively" to "less people driving unsafe trucks". Marketing would love for you to just make this an "irresponsible men" thing so they can keep selling unsafe vehicles. This is not to say that men aren't aggressive drivers or don't get into more accidents, just that I want to make that conclusion on my own and not have marketing departments deflect the true cause of these safety issues.

[0]: https://media.ford.com/content/dam/fordmedia/North%20America...
Can you recommend any good ones that already exist?
One key difference is that for Tesla, 500k cars is a huge amount of the total cars it's sold in the last 5 years. More than a third. Has any automaker ever had a recall on such a huge proportion of their cars?
I'm aware of solutions that can help prepare for a backup. I don't think most people should trust themselves to handle backup responsibilities. Speaking as someone locked out of an encrypted disk full of old photos that I carefully wrote down the passphrase to on a piece of paper for safekeeping... Since then lost.
How useful is this when e.g. opening the boxes takes 10x the amount of time? Wouldn't it make more sense to first put robots where the bottleneck is?
A sailboat under power with sails up should fly an inverted black cone (“steaming cone”, “motoring cone”). There’s rules for lighting at night, too.

I wouldn’t know how often sailboats adhere to these rules.
I was surprised to read that they'd both tried and discarded an e-reader due to its lack of resolution: I owned a Kindle ~5 years ago and felt like the 'reading ergonomics' were terrific and have to imagine they're even better now.

If anything, my main complaint was that the process of getting the content I wanted to read on to the thing was the problem: no matter what software or special formatting I used PDFs were rendered terribly and the steps involved in using that 'send an article to your Kindle' really cut into my desire to take an article I saw on my normal computer and read it over there.

I know they've got large, monitor-sized eInk displays now so I think the only thing standing between me and my ideal reader is a more sophisticated way to reformat/reflow PDFs (I vaguely recall Adobe saying they were going to make this a component of their new reader?) and an easy way to 'cast' pages to it that performs the same ad-stripping and reformatting that's mentioned in the article.
Ridiculous. Among others, urban residents who enjoy rural hikes and suburban residents who walk their dogs are all at risk from tick bites. I’ve personally been bitten by ticks more times than I can count, and ditto for my dog.

Edit: and yes I know how to prevent bites, but sometimes when you’re in the US South and hiking on a hot summer day you let your guard down.
Submission Statement: I was browsing Handshake repos on github and noticed a pull request that added sign/verify [1] on the Bob Extension [2] on Github. This piqued my interested, and of course, it was time to hack away again.

The result is applause [3] which lets you post and applaud (sign) your and other people's messages. This website does not require a login or signup because it uses the decentralized Handshake [4] blockchain.

It's open source on github [5] and mixes Web 2 and Web 3 together causing some interesting benefits.

Hope you like it!

[1] https://github.com/kyokan/bob-extension/pull/15

[2] https://github.com/kyokan/bob-extension

[3] https://applause.chat

[4] https://handshake.org/

[5] https://github.com/publiusfederalist
How about we just keep the people?
I'm impressed how quickly folks here are able to arrive at the most certain conclusion that this was staged! While that explanation seems possible (and not unlikely), I keep coming back to Hanlon's Razor:

> Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

The individual seems to have decent skills at YouTube'ing and probably paragliding, but most of the video seems easily explained by him simply being a stupid pilot. Let me spin an alternative narrative and you compare it to the narrative of malicious intent to see whether one is more obviously true than the other.

Amateur pilot YouTuber has invested money in several GoPros. Costs him nothing to mount them all over the airplane for some cool footage on the way. The engine stops midflight. The pilot tries a few things (cut from the video so he doesn't look incompetent to his subscribers), but he hasn't flown in a while and has forgotten what he's supposed to do in this scenario.

"Was there an acronym? ABC: abort, blame, no that's not it. GLO: Glide, Land, Observe?" The tiny plane has no radio so he can't phone a friend for help. Could he land on that stream bed down there? Possibly...

"Dammit, I might be skilled enough to land this, but I have spent a gajillion hours live-streaming my skydives recently and THAT I definitely know how to do."

Pilot grabs the GoPro off the dashboard just like he did on his last 10 skydives and jumps out of the plane. In his panicked state of mind, he doesn't realise that he should pull the chute ASAP and he falls back on his skydiving experience and freefalls for a decent amount of time before thinking to pull the chute.

Like the terrible pilot he is, he didn't spend much time looking at the route of his flight plans and he doesn't know where he is. He has a bag of gear in the plane, so he follows the plane to where it crashes in hopes of getting his water bottle, even though it means he has to land in the brambles. Unsurprisingly, he can't locate his gear but he's able to escape with only some scratches. He barely escaped a death caused by his stupidity, but maybe he can salvage this difficult situation with a well edited YouTube video...

Now some of you might say that this is a just-so story crafted to spin a particular narrative, but how is that different from all the other stories here portraying him as a well-trained pilot and ascribing all sorts of other characteristics to him?

Honestly I won't be surprised whichever direction the FAA investigation comes back, but I am surprised at how certain all the "skeptics" here are of the facts they're able to extract from such a heavily edited video.
That seems naive. The more common something is, the less newsworthy it is
The way to deal with dates is not by having separate fields. It's by having a single value represent the time (in Linux it's time_t). Every other format gets translated to time_t, all processing is done with time_t, and then the time_t gets translated to the desired output format.

Any other scheme is doomed to working 99% of the time, and that last 1% will be impossible to fix.
Isn't this the same factory?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-VzxTDs5eA

On a side note, I don't know why but it feels so satisfying to watch them destroy the iPhone factory. I wish we had that bravery here in the US. You even think about causing any damage and the cops will come and put a bullet in your head or throw in you prison for 10,000 years.
Having friends in Denmark and Norway this might be a Scandinavian thing.
Question (from a regular joe): is the platform used for mRNA vaccines interchangeable ? Same design and fabrication process, but different payloads ? Or do different mRNA material imply different lipid shells ?
Wow. I am having a shocker. Please ignore/delete this one.

Correct link here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29742270
Yes, but they have buses instead, which are just as vulnerable. The bus connections from downtown Tel Aviv or Jerusalem to Ben Gurion airport were absolutely abysmal.
Not necessarily. That could be read as them simply turning off the alerts (ideally, until they figure out and fix the bug).
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>The interchangeable tops seems uninteresting

The interchangeable tops would be whats loaded in the warehouse.

>and the spherical “wheels” don’t seem to deliver any real value over wheels, just more complexity.

They take away a lot of navigational complexity in a warehouse setting where you don't have much space. And they could do exactly the maneuvers necessary in that setting, like bringing a package directly into its designated space, unloading it and then driving out underneath.
When I look at 2019 VS 2001, it looks like it is spreading north... at least for the most eastern states...
True. But given the complexity and also safety considerations for a stationary arm, I'm not envying those having to deal with a mobile one, heh.
Maybe. Maybe it's just that for publications to survive anymore they need as many rage clicks as they need earnest ones. I'm fairly certain there's published evidence that that generates more traffic.

I'd prefer erring on the side of letting people speak, so my problem is less with articles like this and more with the lack of articles saying this is bullshit. I think we have one of these PC freakouts every once in a while and the smart thing to do is just let it pass and let others' outrage help it jump the shark--an unfortunate collective action problem.
That’s what’s in Taco Bell’s meat filling.

Source: https://abcnews.go.com/Business/taco-bell-reveals-mystery-be...
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An unlimited "right to be forgotten" would serve criminals, conmen and crocked politicians perfect.
Dot: The Browser with Privacy at Heart
It's a great proposition. However, I would suggest having it as a prefix rather than postfix of the JOIN expression to reduce implementation side effects and avoid ambiguity between keyword 'FOREIGN' and a table called 'FOREIGN'.

example: FOREIGN LEFT JOIN
It's wild seeing nerds on HN bend over backwards to justify themselves when the truth is that fewer women want to do the job. Not because they aren't capable but because they just don't want to.
That appears to be a 2007 copy of Websters? I'm looking for Chambers. Seems that there isn't an ebook of it, just phone apps.

Discovered that their 13th edition accidently left out ~500 words:

https://chambers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Chambers-M...
I was following this proposal on the -hackers thread, glad to see it getting traction here. I find it really interesting to read that, it'll be even more interesting to see how it plays out longer term. I'd love to see some more progress made with the SQL language / syntax, and having someone in the community actively engaging with the committees seems like a great way forward.
Not something I’ve ever thought about but I think that it could be done via macro,

I have written tsql functions in c# and imagine that other dialects have analogous functionality.

It seems as though the point is to cut down on sql code, it’d also be possible to query the foreign keys and create a data structure that could feed a function for joins.

I haven’t thought out the specifics but think this type of approach would be more practical than changing the sql standard.
With most issues American’s be like, “it is my right to shit in the stream and you can’t stop me with your preference for clean water. Go further up stream if you want clean water.” And pretty soon the whole river is full of shit, or covid, or lead, or CO2, or enormous death vehicles, or whatever, it’s a metaphor.

So yeah, I’d like to force my “preference” of having people cease shitting in the stream. Their actions are not taking place in a vacuum and they’re affecting other people negatively.
It’s not really the same thing though, right? It doesn’t handle instants vs zonedtimes etc.

Even the simplest of future cases is handled poorly by these other libraries. If you want to say that something happens on a certain date in the future (say, a due date), your only option is to use an instant as an approximation (often midnight utc on that day). It works ok, but you’re better to have a proper datatype that represents a day without a time and timezone component (it’s effectively a 50hr ish window). Temporal gives you all that and more.
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/deaths?areaType=nati...
You can check this link[1] which I posted in another reply. There is a story there about Honda recalling 1.4m vehicles. That is right around a full year of sales in the US and exceeds annual sales for the last couple years[2]. That story got one upvote and zero comments when it was posted here last year.

Once again, I am not trying to excuse Tesla for quality issues or say they make as good or a better quality car than any other manufacturer. I am simply pointing out that the name Tesla drives attention and clicks compared to their competitors and that is why you are seeing this story.

[1] - https://hn.algolia.com/?q=recall+honda

[2] - https://www.goodcarbadcar.net/honda-us-sales-figures/
I don't get who you're calling out here. The upvoters? The press? Other car companies for not being as good at generating hype? Who messed up (other than Tesla)?

If you're just raising awareness that HN finds Tesla articles interesting... that's fine I guess.
If we have to hear about it every time Tesla is the best-selling brand for a single month in Estonia or Chile, but we never get to talk about all the other months and places some other brand is the top seller, it follows that we also have to talk about Tesla recalls, even though we never talk about Honda recalls.
not a good idea, constaints are one thing and joins are another thing.
plus I can join on conditions other than =.

the problem that author is trying to solve can be easily solved by a view:

1. Declare a view with all necessary JOINs once

2. select from view only what you need, aggregate what you want

3. Optimizer will throw out unnecessary stuff and optimize query while all JOIN logic will be declared only once and will be hidden inside the view

plus each DBMS has its own flavor of SQL and will have its own query optimizer nuances when dealing with joins, especially nested via CTEs/views/lateral queries,etc.
Consider if you have key logger logs you’d like to profit from. What do you look for? Login credentials is a good idea… which login credentials should you target? Password manager credentials seem like a good idea, since that gives you full login details for anything else else you might want.
I beg to differ. They were awful. The image quality was diabolical --especially on skintones which, let's face it is what most point & shoot cameras will be aimed at. The resolution was risible [324 x 240] and the ergonomics equally bad. The thing was like the bastard offspring of one of those ViewMaster toys.

As if all of that wasn't bad enough; the Quicktakes used a weird proprietary format [some kind of version of PICT, I seem to recall] that even Apple stopped supporting after a few years.

If I sound bitter and twisted it's because, centuries ago, I went on a once in a lifetime trip to Australia and, technology freak that I am, foolishly took a [then] cutting edge QuickTake camera with me, instead of my SLR. In my archives, I now have a folder full of minuscule 320x240 PICT files which I can only open by using something like GraphicConverter [0] and even that can only make sense of about half of them. And, when I do manage to open some of them, the image quality is piss-poor.

[0] https://www.lemkesoft.de/en/products/graphicconverter/
I sometimes use the NightCap app for photos, and it doesn't have that AI bullshit.
Me and my associate wear all the hats.

We are a 2 man team trying to get our product on the market. Our main skills are technical and we're trying to learn (the hard way) the commercial/marketing skills because we funded this out of our pocket and do not have infinite money.
It's much easier to write macros when you don't have to parse anything.
Football legend John Madden’s legacy in tech
And if you want an easy way to download it https://archive.org/details/stackexchange
Why is it a defensible position when vaccinated youth spread COVID at significantly the same rate as unvaccinated youth?
> How does the car cope with zero ground clearance and what seems like no possible suspension travel. Well, perhaps when this solution comes out, the government will have made sure that every square foot of tarmac is perfectly level everywhere in the world.

Can't tell if this is satire.
People can't protest what they don't know about, and this kind of thing isn't talked about at all.
I still use floppies a lot. I know, why? Well there is a lot of hardware from the 80's and 90's that, unlike simple PCs, does not really obsolete.* I know this affects a lot of areas, but mine is synthesizers and samplers. Synths allows you to save sounds you created or banks of sounds, and depending on the synth, possibly other things. Samplers recorded short snippets of digital audio and then allows you to place that sound in a configuration that allowed you to play it like a synthesizer.

Fortunately, most synths no longer really need the floppy since most of what it gets you is easily replaced with MIDI SYSEX, and dump requests. Samplers on the other hand, while many did implement MIDI SDS, dumping digital audio at 31.25kbps is an exercise in boredom. Some of the later samplers have SCSI, so saving off to SD cards is easy (thanks to the SCSI2SD boards) but for some, I still have to save off to floppy.

* While there are newer devices of this type available without the floppy dependancy, each musical instrument is a unique creation with its own sound, so just because there is something new it doesn't mean that new thing is a replacement for the original thing (just as a trumpet isn't a relacement for a violin.)
I think this is a terrible, if understandable, mistake: language designers have the problem of knowing when to stop.

Mr Stroustrup and the C++ committee have, over the last 20+ years, continued to "evolve" C++ from being "C with classes" to C++20, in which classes are almost an historical artifact.

C++11 should have been a minimal cleanup of C++03, and C++14 onwards could have been a new language, with all the old baggage removed.
https://archive.ph/rfVaN
Dupe of ongoing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29741424
Ford simply sells a much wider variety of cars which results in more frequent recalls. The odds of any one recall impacting a ford owner is less, but the odds of any recall impacting them are about the same.

For example in the recent 16 million for airbags vehicle recall across multiple car manufactures only 3 ford models where impacted. https://oharelawfirm.com/blog/massive-car-recall-reveals-pot...
>And it is upvoted through the roof because it is Tesla.

That was my point so we agree.
Actually, they took 20 or 25 years to fail.
Why is it necessary to permanently reserve ~10% of the available screen space to show the name of the app and a GitHub link?
he resembles that youtuber who was dumped by the love of his life...
You're right, it doesn't make sense. People do things that don't make sense.

The president in Don't Look Up didn't think it would topple civilization and kill her personally. They thought the plan to break it up and mine it would work. They took a greedy gamble on the fate of the world and lost.

In so doing, they took for granted all of the amazing technology that we have and disregarded expert opinions.

Likewise with trump, who had worked to dismantle the existing pandemic playbook[0] took for granted how well our medical response would be. He regularly disregarded expert opinions, or simply did not speak with them[1]. He even worked to make it difficult for states to get help, because he lost the vote there[2].

In my opinion, these actions do not make sense, yet they were taken by an actual POTUS.

With that in mind, it's not beyond the realm of possibility that a POTUS would try to leverage the event for political gain, and use it opportunity for personal profit, and that a sizable amount of the population would support it.

And you're right. It makes no sense. It's mind mindbogglingly dumb. Still plausible.

[0] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/obama-team-left-pandemic...

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/23/fauci-says-trump-hasnt-atten...

[2] https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/494807-trump-ask...
I did not say that, I only said it matters that you like doing the work.

If anything, wanting good things and being dissatisfied with what you have is a pre-requisite to having the passion to creating something new. But none of what I am talking about are liquid, they are tangible - you can't have bad money, it's just money.
I hate how much phones lately alters the images. Of course it most of the time makes the images look better, and cameras are a big selling point on a phone.

But I don't like how my photos of people suddenly have a filter applied to the faces, how a picture of leaves during fall have vibrance exaggerated, how the sky looks clearer than it really did.
Might be due to personal preferences, but after having worked on a legacy TOP codebase i must unapologetically say that it sucks.
Those semi-open wheelcases are a safety hazard.
Upside-Down Skyscraper Could Become One of NYC’s Tallest Buildings
I have an aunt/uncle in Germany and when I visited them I'd occasionally take one of their bikes out and bike to my grandparents dacha about two miles away. It's cute and super euro but as soon as it's a little cold or rainy I'm over it.

Of course they still own two cars and drive to work despite it being "only" a 15 minute bike ride. They are both MDs.